Filing criticisms as reports

We have pointed out so often on Chindu how reporters take the liberty to criticize news or think on behalf of the reader. This is deliberate and is driven by political loyalties.

The Hindu : Opinion / News Analysis : To each, his own tinted glasses

If that was the response from a reader to an imagined slight to the Empire, on more solid ground were those who protested against a report on President Abdul Kalam, saying he had resorted to a “new format” to convey his willingness to enter the presidential fray. There was neither a communiqué nor a statement by an official spokesman, but only an oral statement. That, according to the special correspondent, was a “clever and new format that permits the option of denial at a later stage.” Arvind B., a student at NIT, Tiruchirapalli, took umbrage at this conclusion which he saw as “an unwarranted attempt at thinking for readers” who can think for themselves whether it is a clever idea or not. “Please stick to reporting, at least on Page 1,” he said. Dr. K. John Mammen of Thiruvananthapuram found it “irreverent, charitably incorrect.” The Hindu has been critical of Mr. Kalam, but that is the editorial writer̵ 7;s prerogative, which a reporter cannot assume.

Higher education in India is myth

The Hindu : Opinion / Leader Page Articles : St. Stephen’s: education and social conscience

It needs to be stated unapologetically that the Christian engagement with the educational empowerment of India, hugely in excess of its numerical strength and economic resources, flows naturally from the genius of the biblical faith.

There it goes into the drain - all the talk about equality and merit-based society. Those who do not believe in the bible are condemned to be illiterate. What a bigot we have got to join our bigot N.Ram.

Jesus came to “preach the good news to the poor” and to “set the captives free.” His stated goal was that all people (not just the elite) must have “life in its fullness.” God, according to Jesus, is in solidarity with the oppressed and the suffering; and being in solidarity with them is the essence of being ‘poor in the spirit,’ which, according to the Beatitudes, is the secret of blessedness.

Its now time for some Christian prayers. Amen.

It is in its vision, priorities, and purposes, and not in the syllabi, that education becomes Christian. This may seem like ‘modified communalism’ to the custodians of class and caste privilege, but those who get intimidated by this discourse become irrelevant to Christian education. Writ large over the teachings of Jesus is the ever-challenging insight that the pursuit of profit will perforce result in the denial of the poor and the forfeiture of the contextual relevance of Christian education.

Valson Thampu is unapologetic once again, when he states that his idea is to impart Christian education not the scientifically and methodically evolved syllabi. This resonates with his earlier stated belief that only the ones who know the bible are educated. So Valson Thampu is trying to enforce certain religious orthodoxy in the college, much like the rigidity associated with madrassa education. Imagine St.Stephens turning into a Christian madrassa. The major beneficiary of this would be the fathers, who get to have all the fun with the boys.

It should be about the mythology of higher education in this country...

You can't argue with someone who holds this view about education. Shall we say, "christian education"?

Easy answers from N.Ram

The Hindu : Opinion / Editorials : Hard questions from Glasgow

Among other things, communal conflict within India and the state’s poor record of dealing with it have provided recruits to terror groups like the Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad, and Harkat ul-Jihad Islami.

Terrorism in India has been traced back to communal conflicts. An extraordinary display of intelligence from Comrade Ram has helped us identify the root cause of terrorism. No, no, stop there. Do not ask why communal conflicts occur in India. It is not appropriate to mention the word "muslim" here but Gujarat may fit nicely into Ram's theory. And you can always blame the government, of course.

Still the question remains: just what made three upper middle class
Indian men who received privileged education participate in acts of
terrorism against a society that nurtured them?

I am dying with curiosity to know the truth.

From the evidence so far available, anger against the war in Iraq seems
to have motivated the authors of the car-bomb operations.

Yes, that is it - the Iraq war. It prompted these well-educated Indians to go to Britain and bomb innocents. Very convincing.

If the profile of past terror cells is a guide, cultural alienation and experiences of racism may also have played a role.

This exemplary brilliance from Comrade Ram is blinding. These elitists faced cultural alienation but the cause of such alienation, which could have been due to their beliefs or ideologies, is not mentioned. And that political bomb called racism. By now, Ram has blamed the Indian and British governments for the Glasgow incident. What else?

It will be facile, however, to attribute the actions of the cell to primal anger against the murderous war in Iraq.

Ram backtracks a little. It is not Iraq war although he earlier identified it as the root cause.

While anger against the U.S. and the United Kingdom is indeed widespread, the car bomb is not its dominant mode of expression.

It is not even against the foreign policies of USA and UK. At this point, I am left with Indian and British governments on the list.

Western media reports often attribute Al Qaeda actions to “Muslim
rage,” a misleading term that obscures the fact that the overwhelming
majority of believers unequivocally reject the world view of Osama bin
Laden’s organisation.

There is no "Muslim rage", N.Ram affirms. Whereas the Telegraph poll shows that one in four Muslims sympathises with motives of terrorists. In absolute terms, about 1,00,000 muslims who, if not prepared to carry out terrorist acts, are ready to support those who do. Given a chance, N.Ram would call it the revolution of the proletariat and justify it.

Instead they embraced a far-right vision of Islam that is anathema to most Muslims.

The facts fly in the face of it. But N.Ram braves it on.

Democracy, the Indian experience teaches us, is not a deus ex machina that will prevent individuals from turning to religion-based extremism, be it of the Islamist, Sikh or Hindu variety.

Finally here it comes. Those bloody fascist Hindoos.
N.Ram never directly laid the blame on this terror attack on Islamist extremism. So why is he trying to justify it by evaluating it against some other form of extremism.

Weakening Al Qaeda’s ideology by demonstrating that democracy works is a more durable solution.

N.Ram earlier concludes that, from the Indian experience, Democracy will not prevent people from turning to religion-based extremism. Two sentences later, he says that the solution to terrorism is democracy.

the west will have to work at building inclusive societies free from Islamophobia - and India should look hard at its own, flawed record in nourishing and defending secularism

N.Ram has earlier reduced the problem to British and Indian governments. Now he reiterates that the solution is for Britain to tackle Islamophobia and India to promote secularism. It is an established fact that in the Indian context, secularism means promoting muslim interests. In the British context, tackling Islamophobia means promoting muslim interests. This apologist of Islamic terrorism is asking countries to put muslim interests above national interests.

N.Ram's affinity to Islam is perfectly understandable when you consider that both communism and Islam demand trans-national loyalties. In this sermonizing editorial N.Ram has braved overwhelming facts to condone Islamists. The Islamists will, after achieving their set objectives of domination, will dispose off such "useful idiots" with utter disdain and in the "halal" way. As you can see, no Islamic country has a communist party. Good riddance, I would say.

Manufacture of history

Funny how Chindu is going about creating its own version of history much like those "eminent historians".

The Hindu : National : Nandigram violence: Jyoti Basu’s poser

Veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu on Friday wondered whether Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was aware that nearly 2,000 supporters of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) were still unable to return home in the Nandigram area, months after the violence there.

N.Ram campaigns for CPM

I know this is not new but here you can see N.Ram attending a politically motivated function and lecturing about the non-existent and fabricated dimension to Nandigram. CPM is trying to project itself as a victim. They are taking a leaf from the christists, who perpetrate genocide and project themselves as the victims.

The Hindu : National : Insight into missing dimension of Nandigram

“The film captures the complex situation and makes a powerfully successful attempt to fill some good part of the gap. What is shocking is the manufacture of consent for the indictment of the Left Government in West Bengal and demonisation of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and the CPI(M). All kinds of people landed there without any thought about the implications of what they were doing. There was just one-sided grief, completely ignoring the plight of 3,500 people who were forced to become internal refugees,” Mr. Ram said.

The Acorn » Mr Ram does a hatchet job on the Dalai Lama

Wonderful dissection by Acorn.

Mr Ram does a hatchet job on the Dalai Lama

A thank you note to his Chinese hosts

Periodic indoctrination (and re-education for recalcitrants) is in the scheme of things in countries ruled by Communist parties. Reading his attack on the Dalai Lama in The Hindu yesterday, it looks like N Ram has just returned from one in China. The Dalai Lama’s principal fault, according to Mr Ram, is that he is seeking independence for Tibet.




Dissect the article and Mr Ram’s biases become apparent:

while the Tibetan Buddhist doctrine of reincarnation belongs to the mystical-religious realm and asks a lot from 21st century believers, the Dalai Lama’s approach even to rebirth is decidedly ideological-political.

Twenty-first century believers are asked to believe in a lot of things: the relevance of communism, or socialism with Chinese characteristics, China’s “peaceful rise” or for that matter, The Hindu being India’s ‘national newspaper’.

As for grounds for selecting his reincarnation, the decision is entirely the current Dalai Lama’s. What grounds he uses—and no succession is free from politics—is his business. A reasonable conclusion to make is that the Dalai Lama is a political leader. Why should that be wrong?

Historical records show that the institution of the Dalai Lama as an ‘incarnate’ politico-religious supremo — recognised and empowered by the Chinese central government — began in the middle of the 17th century,

Notice the clever use of the word ‘central’ instead of ‘imperial’. There was no ‘central’ government in China in the 17th century—there was an imperial one. Empires—Chinese ones especially—operate quite differently from ‘central’ governments. Going by Mr Ram’s definition, much of continental South East Asia and Korea must belong to China.

Even if we were to accept Mr Ram’s version of history, it is possible to construct a legal argument that challenges the People’s Republic’s claim to Tibet. Since the Chinese empire was succeeded by the Republic of China, currently based in Taiwan, it is Taipei that should do the recognition business.

This problematical side is a function of the interplay of a host of subjective and objective factors. They are the Dalai Lama’s religious charisma combined with the iconic international status of Tibetan Buddhism; his long-lastingness and tenacity; his alignment with colonial interests and western powers and the ideological-political purposes he has served over half a century; his considerable wealth and global investments, and resources mobilised from the Tibetan diaspora in various countries; the grievous cultural and human damage done in Tibet, as in the rest of China, during the decade of the ‘Cultural Revolution’ (1966-1976); the nature of the ‘independence for Tibet’ movement that has rallied round the person and office of the Dalai Lama and follows anything but the Buddhist ‘Middle Way’; the links and synergies he has established with Hollywood, the media, legislators, and other influential constituencies in the west; and, most troubling from a progressive Indian standpoint, the reality of a continuing Indian base of operations for the ‘Tibetan government-in-exile.’

Shorn of the verbosity, Mr Ram is saying that the rich, subborn old man is supported by democracies, is popular with the West and refuses to die.

If he were just a pre-eminent religious leader, there would be no problem in accommodating him within the constitutional framework that guarantees religious freedom to all citizens and regional autonomy to ethnic minorities in extensive parts of a giant country.

Note: the giant country he’s talking about is China.

Equally important, he has repeatedly spoken of ‘six million Tibetans.’ He has falsely accused China of rendering Tibetans, through a state-sponsored policy of population transfer and Hanisation, into a ‘minority’ in their own land. The plain truth, borne out by official censuses and easily verifiable by foreign observers and experts, is that Tibetans constitute more than 92 per cent of the population of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR).

This would require the reader to either be very credulous, or make a trip to Tibet to do a headcount, permission for which is likely to be denied.

The Dalai Lama has even accused the Chinese socialist state of unleashing a ‘holocaust’ and exterminating more than a million Tibetans.

Anyone who saw that video of Chinese soldiers gunning down fleeing Tibetans recently should have little trouble accepting that the Dalai Lama’s accusation might have a grain of truth. Way back in 1959, the International Council of Jurists noted there was a ‘prima facie case of genocide’ in Tibet. The Dalai Lama’s accusations are substantiated by this list of books, from various authors. The only defence Mr Ram can cite would come from those official censuses again.

If the 14th Dalai Lama has his way, a single ‘de-Hanised’ administrative unit, which will be formed by breaking up four Chinese provinces, will appropriate one-fourth of China’s territory — instead of the one-eighth covered by TAR.

The fact that Mr Ram conveniently ignores is that the four Chinese provinces were created by absorbing the erstwhile Tibetan provinces, and that they were “integrated” through a programme of deliberate transmigration.

There have been other political provocations under the guise of exercising traditional religious authority. On May 14, 1995, in a pre-emptive bid, the Dalai Lama in exile in India ‘recognised’ the boy Gendhun Choekyi Nyima, sight unseen of course, as the 11th Panchen Lama. However, in December 1995, the Chinese central government, going by centuries-old custom and tradition that empower it to recognise and appoint both the Dalai and the Panchen Lama, approved the enthronement of Gyaltsen Norbu as the 11th Panchen Erdeni.

When the ‘central’ government appoints someone, it is going by ‘centuries-old’ custom, but when the Dalai Lama does so, it is a ‘pre-emptive’ move and a provocation under the ‘guise of exercising religious authority’. Here Mr Ram contradicts himself: if he and his principals in Beijing believe that the Lamas are religious leaders, then the ‘central’ government should have no business in appointing them. So they cannot simultaneously accuse the Dalai Lama of being a political leader and also deny him the right to carry out his religious imprimatur.

In an era of China’s unprecedented economic growth, inclusive and nuanced socio-political and cultural policies…

You shouldn’t read this sentence without having someone trained in the Heimlich manoeuvre standing by.

Neena Vyas's anonymous sources

Those anonymous sources once again.

The Hindu : National : Court rejection embarrasses BJP

Many senior BJP leaders who do not want to be quoted admit that this kind of campaign has become counter-productive.

Selective reporting on CIA documents

While the first thing to hit the headlines on most other newspapers after CIA declassified official records was CPM's role in 1962 war and Nehru's stupidity, it never made it to CBCNN  as a worthy article. Almost a week later, CBCNN  finds material about America's frustration about India; it turns it into a prominent article with glorious colour photos.

The net result after reading on CBCNN about the CIA documents: The reader is
1. uneducated about the contents
2. develops a prejudiced view due to selective reporting
3. completely unaware of CPM's seditious role in 1962 war
4. force fed certain myths about Nehru and the dynasty
5. develops an unwarranted antagonism against the USA.

In essence, CBCNN only serves certain political purpose by prostituting journalism.

The Hindu : National : U.S. pleaded with China to ‘menace’ India: book

CPM defines morality

This interview of Bardhan with Karan Thapan on Devils advocate demonstrates how bankrupt the CPM party is.

IBNLive.com > 'I take no responsibility for what Pratibha does' : devils advocate, karan thapar, A B Bardhan, Webcast

A B Bardhan: Our moral authority is demonstrated in the fact that we insisted that no communal person or belonging to a communal party, to the RSS and the BJP should be nominated.

Karan Thapar: So you can have a potentially corrupt
person, instead you can have a woman who stands for forcible
sterilisation, or have an orthodox woman who believes in spirits.

Technorati Tags: hypocrisy

Missing sacred facts on Chindu

Socal, thanks for the link. The "allegations" against Pratibha Patil are not presented in entireity. Neena Vyas wrote an article on it with the sole intention to discredit BJP and selectively pick loopholes. The established facts -- which raise considerable questions on her integrity -- have been conviniently ommitted.

Another example is CPM's lead role in Singur murder is an established fact but it turned up as "allegations" on Chindu.

Or how about the CIA report documenting CPM's active role in plotting against India during the 1962 Chinese invasion.

Have I not been documenting these "facts" and "allegations" on Chindu. The pattern is fairly obvious, isn't it. Inconvenient "facts" are conveniently ignored or turned into "allegations". When it is an allegation against the Hindus or BJP, it turns into a "sacred fact".
Call it ethical journalism, Chindu style.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Chindu on UC Banerjee report preaching sanctimoniously- "Facts are Sacred"
http://www.hindu.com/2006/03/07/stories/2006030703141000.htm

Facts nowhere to be seen in Pratibha Patil case. Apparently it is all allegations.

Posted by socal to The Chindu at June 30, 2007 5:14 PM

CBCNN proactively delays and discredits CIA report on Chinese aggression

The Hindu : International / India & World : China rejects CIA reports on Sino-Indian war

China on Friday dismissed as “groundless” the contents of the reported declassified CIA documents on events leading up to the 1962 Sino-Indian war and went on to claim that “positive progress” was made on the vexed boundary negotiations between the countries.

Firstly, it is an issue of national importance to India. CBCNN does not report this incident thus far when it should have been providing a comprehensive coverage of the issue. And when it does, it presents us the Chinese viewpoint. This is the reason why this rag is called the Chennai-Based Chinese National Newspaper.

On the India-China border war, CIA analysts suggested that Beijing
and its then premier Zhou Enlai “deceived” his Indian counterpart,
Jawaharlal Nehru and India through procrastination and dissembling,
media reports from Washington said.

At the same time, the spokesman was eloquent on the current state
of bilateral ties, including the border issue. China-India Strategic
Cooperative Partnership enjoyed consistent development with fruitful
cooperation in various fields, he told PTI here.

CBCNN says CIA "suggested", when CIA emphatically stated that Beijing deceived India. The CBCNN obviously cannot afford to upset its bosses. CBCNN then goes on to balance CIA's "allegations" with China's vain talk. Wonderful. Now that the gullible readers are convinced that the CIA report is utter rubbish, CBCNN quotes selectively from the report. Why do we still thin CBCNN reports anything of national concern to its readers?

CBCNN acts as political partner of Congress

The Hindu : National : Booklet on Pratibha Patil outlandish: Congress

“The desperation of the BJP is reflected in the concoction, cocktail of falsehood, half-truths and selective quotations which they are giving to mislead the nation. There are many examples… 20 per of the it [contents in the booklet] is from the Reserve Bank of India report and 80 per cent is a reproduction from a petition by employees of the Pratibha Mahila Cooperative Bank [in Maharashtra],” party spokesman Abhishek Singhvi said here.

As pointed out umpteen number of times, anyone speaking against BJP is quoted verbatim, even if it is falsifications.

What apparent value does this article server

... apart from discrediting the BJP? Most newspapers would not pass this article for publication. The only place where this kind of article gets published is the local college journals, which work with a single-pointed agenda. What a fall for the Chindu. But then again, when you think about it, the Chindu operates with a single-pointed agenda: oppose Hindus.

The Hindu : National : Sushma Swaraj switches roles

Spokesperson for NDA or Shekhawat?

Over the last two weeks she has changed her hat three times, leaving the media confused.

A BJP leader said wryly: “I only wish Advaniji could have effectively issued an appeal to all NDA constituents to support Shekhawatji.”

That unnamed BJP source surfaces again.

Communist double-speak

The Hindu : National : Support to Shekhawat shows “utter bankruptcy” of the Opposition: Brinda

On the claim made by the UPA-Left Presidential nominee, Pratibha Patil, that she experienced “divine premonitions,” she said such views “should remain in the personal realm and should not influence public office.”

This luxury was not accorded to Shivraj Patil. Hypocrites, the communists.
What cost Shivraj Patil Prez post : President election, Pratibha Patil, Shivraj Patil, UPA : IBNLive.com : CNN-IBN

Patil's devotion to controversial godman Sai Baba also reportedly came in the way. "Such open display of obeisance to a godman from a man who would be President is unacceptable," a Left leader has gone on record as saying.

Welcome back, Karat

We at Chindu absolutely adore you and have been missing you. Singur and Nandigram have made the climate hot and you needed a vacation badly. We have forgotten the CPM pogrom by now.

The Hindu : National : Support to Shekhawat shows “utter bankruptcy” of the Opposition: Brinda

Speaking to reporters here on Thursday, Ms. Karat said support for a candidate whose Government in Rajasthan was dismissed for spreading communalism showed the “utter bankruptcy” of the Opposition.

However, CPM can support a government which over-saw the destruction of Babri Masjid or actively indulged in the Sikh pogrom.

“How can they support a candidate who has been right through with the RSS?”

Yeah, the bloody Hindus.

"Special Correspondent" makes an "error" to discredit BJP

As we have seen yesterday too, this reporter is deliberately mixing news with personal opinions and discrediting the BJP's views with counter interjections. But this "editorial error" below is shocking. This "error" communicates exactly the opposite of what Arun Shourie wanted to say in the pamphlet. I am inclined to believe it is deliberate as it fits into the theory of this "Special Correspondent".

The Hindu : National : BJP: It’s not mudslinging

The pamphlet quotes from a lengthy memorandum by the bank’s union suggesting that Ms. Patil was not on the board of directors or the chairperson when the bank was liquidated.

Do exactly what China is doing : Yechury

Can it get any more explicit than this? (sic)

The Hindu : International / India & World : India-China relationship a big stabiliser, says Yechury

We keep telling our Government that we must learn from China. ... ‘Do exactly what China is doing.’

Chindu suppressing CPM's role in Singur murder

The Hindu : National : Singur killing: suspect brought to Kolkata

A CPM cadre has been arrested by CBI for Singur killing. Chindu hides
the fact that he is the most visible face of CPM in Singur. Chindu
blames Mamta
for accusing CPM. And then it praises Buddhadeb for his
integrity in punishing the guilty. Contrast this report to Telegraph's.

The Telegraph - Calcutta : Frontpage



Technorati Tags: Communist voice

My rant

I am beginning to think, what gives an editor the right to indulge in deliberate falsifications. While there are some kind of checks on the four pillars of our democracy, the fifth columnists get away with almost anything. Is there any way to rein them in.

I have been writing against this nonsense peddled as "ethical journalism" for almost an year now. I also know that a lot of people have been complaining about Chindu. The Chindu in turn knows it is not getting any popular. The question remains, why is it getting more belligerent. The bias is not subtle but visible even to a blind man. Worse, the bias has manifested into hatred, like most neo-semitic religions. This only portends disaster.

Some might think that a good way to deal with this propaganda machine is to hit where it hurts the most -- economically : stop subscribing to the Chindu. But I doubt that will make any difference considering that China is sitting on a 1.2 trillion war chest. Do we as a society allow ourselves and our future generations to be indoctrinated by an ideology that has wiped out a 100 million people from the face of this earth? And do we as a nation allow an extremist, violent cult -- which has been steadfast in opposing our national interests -- to dictate the course of this nation?

The communists have never been in a better position, what with sharing power with Congress, while raising a hue and cry against all and sundry. A good example is how they overpowered sustained campaigning against Nandigram pogrom with political din. The non-PM and his invertebrate government do not have any control on the communists and their mouthpieces. It is hard to imagine that this government would do anything to counter this "spin machine". I can only pray we are more careful while electing our governments.

As a society, we are letting ourselves to be dictated by the political non-issues. We are willing to fight for "backwardness" and the associated reservation "gains" but fail to acknowledge serious issues like basic necessities and infrastructure. It only shows how vulnerable we are to political machinations. We need a course correction.

Quite a few readers of Chindu say that they are disappointed with the excessive coverage of CPM but patronise Chindu for its "journalistic ethics". It left me speechless. Are we peoples afraid to confront a wrong, after all those centuries of subjugation? I think it is important that at an individual level we all speak up against these "propaganda machines". This also improves the collective consiensce of our society.

There is one language these bunch of "progressive intellectuals" understand very well - violence. It is a good deterrent. Look at how the Chindu crawls when asked to bend before the mohammadens.

N.Ram's diatribe

We have known N.Ram's hate-filled agenda for long enough. So instead of debating this article, I shall list down the adjectives used by N.Ram against the BJP:

The Hindu : Opinion / Editorials : BJP’s bluster

the best spin machine in the political business
belligerent approach to the Presidential election
emerged from it even worse than expected
the party ran the most vainglorious campaign
instinctively aggressive BJP
The less said about the quality of the BJP’s presidential campaign, the better
The party has lurched from one unprincipled position to another
finally reverting shrilly to Mr. Shekhawat
This stratagem has failed ignominiously

And then, there are some misinterpretations tailored to his theory:

projecting an outright victory in the 2007 State contest but also claiming top honours in the 2009 general election
The basis of this confidence? Eight mayoral seats won earlier in a municipal election

This whole article only reminds me of the fall from the great editorial standards that were once the hallmark of this newspaper.

Crazy about China

The Hindu : Opinion / News Analysis : Crazy about English in China

But despite the enormous effort this staggering figure represents, the country’s English skills or rather the lack of them remain an Achilles heel when it comes to China’s projection of itself as a major global player.

I sense an element of disappointment by Pallavi Aiyar and Chindu that the Chinese can not pick up English easily.

CBCNN goes wild cheering almost drowning out his next catchphrase. “I will make China better and stronger,” Mr. Li screams, “I will make Chinese people feel proud.”

Good job, CBCNN. This effort will be recognized in your next appraisal.

CPM's election pitch

This does not look like an article but sounds more like an election speech, where the politician wades through various unrelated topics.

The Hindu : National : It’s improper camouflage, says CPI(M)

This was necessary since Mr. Shekhawat’s Government [he was Rajasthan Chief Minister then] was dismissed by the Centre in 1992 following the pulling down of the Babri Masjid and for its extending help in the demolition by sending “kar sevaks.”

What is Karat's objection to Shekawat? Shekawat was the Governor when Rajasthan Government was dismissed. So what? What is the connection? Defies all logic. You need to be brain-dead to become a communist.

Unnamed BJP sources praise Congress

Anonymous senior leaders of BJP came to CBCNN headquarters in Chennai and confessed that Congress is the only hope for the women of India. This sounds more like wishful thinking than news reporting. The pattern is fairly obvious to anyone who has read CBCNN for long: BJP articles are filled with anonymous sources or reporter's opinions.



The Hindu : Front Page : 33% BJP posts for women

Senior party leaders said the Congress had a woman president in Sonia Gandhi. In post-Independence India, Indira Gandhi was party president and Prime Minister. Now, the Congress had taken the lead in attempting to give India its first woman President.

Is this an article or opinion?

If Neena Vyas is reporting on an event, why is she analyzing and presenting her opinions? Why don't "Journalism 101" principles apply when reporting BJP-related events?



The Hindu : National : BJP’s battle cry: prepare for 2009 Lok Sabha elections

But for this to happen the party leadership is acutely aware that it needs to put its house in order: discipline is not what it should be; the cadre-based party has all but disappeared turning the BJP into a mass-based organisation, and with that change have come many ills; the party needs to refurbish its image that took a beating when its MP Babubhai Patel was caught in the human trafficking case; and finally, most importantly, the BJP needs to expand the National Democratic Alliance by wooing and inducting new allies.

Buddhadeb's resignation, anybody?

The Hindu : Front Page : Gujjar meeting seeks Raje’s resignation

A Gujjar “mahapanchayat,” held in Pushkar in Ajmer district of Rajasthan on Sunday, sought the resignation of Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje on moral grounds for the death of 24 persons in police firing during the community’s recent agitation for Scheduled Tribe status.





“If the central leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party fails to read the writing on the wall and does not act and refuses to respond to our demand it would have to pay a heavy price,” a resolution said.

CBCNN waiting for the next political drama

If I am not mistaken, this was the same issue for which Modi was blamed and CBCNN jumped up in glee.



The Hindu : Front Page : Gujarat boy found

Its ridiculously boring on CBCNN -- CPM always makes the headlines

The Hindu : Front Page : RSS, BJP desperate: CPI (M)

In a statement here, the former Prime Minister, H.D. Deve Gowda, lamented the manner in which the UPA, the NDA and the Third Front conducted themselves to trifle with the highest constitutional post. The Presidential election ought to be a “celebration of our nationhood,” he said.



Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechury said a “measure of desperation in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-Bharatiya Janata Party camp” was forcing it to resort to “unfounded allegations” against Ms. Patil. That the “proactive slander machinery” of the RSS-BJP had sprung into action “was only natural.”

Allegations by CPM on the BJP become eternal truths on CBCNN and hence grab the headlines.

Karat wants agitations nationwide

The Hindu : National : Replicate West Bengal model at Centre, says Karat

Through joint struggles and agitations we have to work …” Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Prakash Karat said

And Karat wants these struggles and agitations replicated nationwide. We must be stupid to "elect" communists, who believe in "One man, One vote, One time".

CPI general secretary A.B. Bardhan too felt it was time for West Bengal to industrialise and conceded that the Government did make some mistakes. He, however, said the Left Front has to learn from the mistakes and move ahead since it had reached the maximum growth on the basis of agriculture. “During one phase there was de-industrialisation in West Bengal, now it is time to industrialise,” he said adding that Kolkata and its surrounds was ranked second after Mumbai for having industries five decades ago.

What is the West Bengal model by the way? Does Bardhan drop any hints above? Whatever it is, the Left itself wants to run away from it. But they want to export this model to rest of India.

Left supports Industries, FDI in West Bengal

But they oppose it in rest of India. The charade continues...



The Hindu : Opinion / News Analysis : We want consensus, not confrontation, on industrialisation: Buddhadeb

Questions like whether or not we need industry, foreign investment, arise. Traditional Left parties just can’t cope with the situation. But what I feel is that they will gradually understand the need for modern industries.

Special Correspondent for the Godhra "tamasha"

CBCNN joins Mukul Sinha in grilling D.B.Talati, while most newspapers have been content to publish the PTI report.



The Hindu : Front Page : Godhra carnage: forensic expert grilled

CBCNN highlights only anti-Modi sentiments

These anti-Modi voices hardly have any relevance in Gujarat politics. But CBCNN is only interested in propaganda. Ever wonder why the journalists are condescendingly looked down upon in Gujarat?



The Hindu : National : Surat kidnapping generates anti-Modi sentiments

Kid gloves when it is Congress

No radical judgments passed on Congress. After all, Congress is only doing what it knows best. But the blame is put on the "Centre" and the CBI. Congress and the Dynasty have been proven "not guilty". Allegations on BJP's involvement in this issue need to be investigated thoroughly. The Left played a crucial role in resolving the Q issue.



All hail Left.



The Hindu : Opinion / Editorials : Bailing out `Q' once again

Clearly, the Centre seems prepared to go to any length to protect the man referred to as `Q' in former Bofors chief Martin Ardbo's diary and linked to the illegal payoffs made by the Swedish arms manufacturer through a shadowy company called A.E. Services. The CBI must appeal against the verdict in the Supreme Court of Argentina after ensuring it does its paper work — this time thoroughly and honestly.

All evidence against CPM is "allegations"

CBCNN proves conclusively that CPM is innocent by calling all claims as allegations. When it comes to BUPC, CPM  allegations become proof. Double standards? No, ethical communist journalism.



The Hindu : National : Violence continues in Nandigram

Journalists were allegedly fired at in Kejuri. More than 25 rounds were fired and bombs hurled from a brick kiln. Police said this was done allegedly by CPI(M) cadres from a brick kiln from where 10 persons with sophisticated firearms were arrested after the March 14 police firing in which 14 persons were killed.

Wonderful contrast

The communist rag over-emphasizes the Socialist gains. Thanks to the pointer by the anonymous poster:



The Hindu : Front Page : Surprise win for Socialists



French Conservatives Win; Socialists Make Gains - New York Times

A pliant media

The communist CBCNN gives prominent coverage to any criticism of BJP. Here the entire text is presented verbatim.



The Hindu : Front Page : NDA won't back Pratibha

Criticising the BJP, ...

The fly on the axle of a bullock cart wheel

Left is in a self-congratulatory mood. CBCNN, as its mouthpiece, does an incredible job of Leftist propaganda. Reminds me of a story. A fly sitting on the wheel of a bullock cart thinks it is the one powering the vehicle.



The Hindu : Front Page : Pratibha Patil is UPA-Left Presidential candidate

For 48 hours, it was eyeball to eyeball between the Congress and the Left parties, and Sonia Gandhi blinked first. Faced with the Left opposition to Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil's candidature, the Congress proposed Rajasthan Governor Pratibha Devisingh Patil as the United Progressive Alliance's nominee for President.

The turnaround came when Dr. Singh and Ms. Gandhi invited the Left leaders for consultations.

Mr. Raja suggested that they look for a woman candidate, an idea that was instantly picked up by ...

I find it funny that the Congress managers have to emphasise the importance of Non-PM.

Congress managers emphasised that Dr. Singh played a major role in choosing a name that was agreeable to the Left parties.

Left is the winner in Presidential polls : CBCNN

Karat states the obvious and congratulates himself. CBCNN applauds him as the kingpin.



The Hindu : Front Page : Left to consult DMK, others on choice

The Left parties had said the candidate must be a political person with impeccable secular credentials and a fine understanding of the Constitution to maintain a balance among the executive, the legislature and the judiciary, and one who could win the contest with ease.




The criteria set out by the Left parties found "wide acceptance," he said

No blame game

The victims' woes are reported. No judgments passed on the sacrosanct congress government or the "secular" railway minister. However, such reporting style is not applicable to BJP and Gujarat.



The Hindu : National : Mumbai train blasts victims feel let down

Mosques and terrorism

CBCNN says with authority that terrorist organizations recruit their cadre from Mosques. But lets not forget, Islam is the religion of peace.



The Hindu : Opinion / News Analysis : A jihad in new clothes

It could be significant, in this context, that the Al-Qaeda fil' al-Hind video was handed out outside an Ahl-e-Hadis mosque, for the Lashkar has drawn much of its cadre from the neoconservative religious grouping.

Hindu view is not plural : The Anti-Hindu

The Hindu : Friday Review Bangalore / Miscellany : Masks of untruth

These tendencies indicate a gradual movement towards right wing conservatism shaped by a systematic convergence of certain political and economic forces that annihilate democratic consciousness.

Right wing is anti-democratic. This from a Left winger, who believes in Communism and not Democracy. Bloody hypocrites.

The full text of Ananthamurthy’s speech makes it clear that a thinker/creative writer was probing into the worldview of another writer, transcending personal prejudices.

Describing Bhyrappa as a “debator” and not a great “creative writer in any other world view would have been called a personal attack. But this critic on the radical leftist rag calls it "a creative vision of life which cannot endorse reductionist rightist views of history".

Without any slight on Bhyrappa’s integrity, a serious reader would see in his works a reductionist view of society/history, that, in cultural terms is a narrow “hindu” position. Such a “hindu” view is monolithic and not an open engagement with the plural and contesting Indian philosophical traditions. This view becomes aggressively militant/fascist when it intertwines with history, particularly when dealing with historical phases when the “hindu” position was dominated by an “alien” religious/political power.

What is wrong in presenting a "hindu" position? Why is not acceptable? Why is it a reductionist view? It is another viewpoint and an extremely important one because the majority are still Hindus. Does not Bhyrappa have the artistic freedom to present from a certain viewpoint? Why is CBCNN not upholding his artistic freedom?



Isn't it outrageous to say that the plural and contesting philosophical traditions is "Indian" and not "hindu" view? Besides, I thought the "hindu" view is anything but monolithic. The "hindu" view is nothing if not plural. The "hindu" view is to rationalize and question everything. It is exactly the opposite of the "semitic" view, where blind faith overrules. Not for the marxists, though. They hate anything "hindu".



Is the critic, Manu, objecting to "hindu" view of history? If he is afraid of aggressive militant response, then Manu should object to such response and not to Bhyrappa's work.

Moreover, there are other extremely profound books on Indian Philosophy/Islam which Bhyrappa is not even aware of.

What is the purpose of this statement? Bhyrappa will accept this statement, I am sure. But let me ask this critic the same question: Is he/she aware of all the extremely profound books on Indian Philosophy/Islam? Even the most erudite person would not answer this question with an emphatic "yes". Is this critic trying to pass a judgment on Bhyrappa that he is an ignorant person?

“Aavarana” unilaterally validates Bhyrappa’s reductionism. It is precisely this that Ananthamurthy categorises as a “debator’s view”. As he says, a great creative work goes beyond the writer’s consciously held worldview which Bhyrappa fails to achieve. The attack against Ananthamurthy is an open manifestation of the might of right wing conservative forces that turn to history to engender emotions of hatred and revenge – especially against Islam and Muslims.

This critic is trying to provide a political context to a literary debate. There is history and Bhyrappa is providing the truth. Why do we have to shy away from truth just because this radical marxist thinks it has some political context. Emotions of hatred and revenge - especially against Islam and Muslims: this is a literary debate, godamnit. Dont mix it with religion and politics.

The emergence of a work like “Aavarana” is not an isolated fact. Behind its arrival is a collective consciousness that, in the name of history, philosophy and religion, legitimises the oppression and tyranny of the consumerist middle class which believes in the economic order of capitalism. The popularity of Bhyrappa’s works can be related to the desires of the middle class with all its consumerist notions of spirituality and culture that every now and then, needs to rewrite history to posit an enemy.

Ah, finally the socialist objections to a literary novel. Capitalism is oppressive and tyrannical.

Those who value Justice and Equality must contextualise Ananthamurthy’s criticism of Bhyrappa and not interpret it as the personal comments of a writer about another. If Bhyrappa truly desires to seek truth, he needs to go beyond the bloody mire of history. Writers would do well to listen to voices of sanity of fellow writers rather than lend their ears to shouts of a crowd driven by thirst for revenge.

Manu is trying desperately to provide a context to Ananthamurthy's ad hominem attacks. Unfortunately, there exists none. URA called Bhyrappa a "debater" instead of criticizing his works.

And this guy Manu is turning out to be a disaster. He is saying that we should not seek truth in history. Why this marxist whitewash of history? Why can't we face up to the Islamic oppression in India? The conditioned marxist mind is afraid. Of what?



I encourage you to look at the interview of Dr.Bhyrappa by churmuri.com

CBCNN hails Singur compensation

... and blames the opposition. What's news?



The Hindu : National : Singur compensation highest in India: Basu

Maoists target Chinese economy

China is the largest consumer of Indian iron ore exports. Way to go, Maoists.



The Hindu : National : Maoists attack NMDC facility in Chhattisgarh

The damage to the belt would affect exports and transportation of iron ore from Bailadila for at least 10 days,

The headline says it all

CBCNN is putting words into Modi's mouth. Modi criticized Sonia as any leader would criticize opposition. But he never said blamed Sonia for "all ills of nation". On the contrary, CBCNN is projecting Modi as an extremist and blaming him for all ills of nation.



CBCNN is an extremist, radical, leftist rag campaigning against BJP, trying to fill its coffers with "secular" money and "leftist" doles. Talk of ethics...



The Hindu : National : Modi blames Sonia for all ills of nation

Modi blames Sonia for all ills of nation

China is the answer to fusion problem

CBCNN is out with its usual hyperboles about China.



The Hindu : Opinion / News Analysis : A fusion solution to the energy problem

China is not alone in its fusion ambitions. India and South Korea are also both currently working on next generation tokamaks.

But CBCNN will come out with detailed reports of only the Chinese activities.

In China, it is clear that over and above the pure research value of fusion there is a strong nationalistic element to the country's desire to invest in science and hence achieve pre-eminence in cutting-edge scientific research. A large Chinese national flag proudly sits atop EAST, serving to underscore this point.

Is this not true of India, or any other country for that matter?

The resultant gap in fusion research is being filled by Asian countries such as China and India

But CBCNN reserves all its praise for China.

China better than India : N.Ram

What else can you expect from a paid mercenary of China.



The Hindu : Opinion / Editorials : Deploying reserves imaginatively

China has six times India's reserves and the rate of accretion is faster than India's. Equally relevant is that China has been much better prepared to diversify its investment strategy.

Chindu berates BJP for opposing competitive politics

The Hindu : National : Quota plea for minorities is competitive politics: BJP



While BJP has consistently been opposing competitive caste/religion politics, all other parties have been involved in blatant appeasement. But N.Ram has reserved all castigation for BJP. The Leftists are driven by a single point agenda of "hatred towards anything Hindu".

The honest-est PM ever

The Third Front accuses him; all Left parties accuse him of acting in US interests; the BJP accuses him; the Congressmen disregard him as non-PM. But when it comes to making an argument against BJP, the Chindu flashes the "honest-est PM ever" card. One thing is for sure, Chindu is not the most honest paper on earth.



The Hindu : National : New front rejects 123 agreement

"It indicates a serious dereliction of duty by the Prime Minister who is sworn to protect the country's sovereign rights and prerogatives in this and other areas. It shows Dr. Manmohan Singh as someone willing to do right by the United States, not by India,"

All is well in the land of peace

The CPM mouthpiece is in a self-congratulatory mood. It appreciates the good efforts of CPM in restoring peace to Singur and Nandigram. As usual, all the trouble is due to Mamta.



The Hindu : National : Basu briefs Buddhadeb on talks with Mamata

CBCNN rejoices Castro's tele-interview

Communism is a trans-national political movement, which demands loyalty over the home country. It is a neo-semitic religion.

CBCNN rejoices Chinese and Cuban success over India's for this reason.



The Hindu : International : Castro appears in TV interview

Nothing new -- N.Ram blames BJP

In N.Ram's world view, it is only the BJP which is practicing such politics and only the BJP needs to abstain from caste politics.



The Hindu : Opinion / Editorials : Beyond the temporary truce

Clearly, Ms. Raje's rash election promise of conferring ST status on the Gujjars has returned to haunt her. Her experience should serve as a lesson on the dangers in recklessly playing the caste card in order to woo voters.



If the Meenas feel threatened by the Gujjars eating into their ST pie,
the latter are aggrieved by the Vajpayee government's decision to
reclassify Jats as Other Backward Classes — a state of affairs that
points to the danger of encouraging competitive caste politics.

Chindu creating another "spontaneous combustion" Benarjee report

Gujarat is going for elections soon. CBCNN is upping its campaign against BJP. Here it is trying to wildly waving the  NC Saxena report, just as Laloo used the Benarjee report on Godhra for Bihar elections.



The Hindu : National : Life miserable in Gujarat relief colonies: court panel

CBCNN lauds China

The Hindu : International : China unveils action plan to address climate change

China's national strategy on global warming is the first such national programme announced by a developing country.

You thought China achieved a major breakthrough. It just came out with another set of intentions, which, as we have so often seen, mean very little in terms of action; actually, nothing.

The 62-page document released by the National
Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China's economic planning
agency, is more of a broad outline of the country's policy intentions
rather than a detailed roadmap of specific targets.

Who says Indian Media isn't biased?

I am taking the liberty to post Shadow Warrior's post below. Let us see how our favourite CBCNN fared in this. It stood along with NDTV in terms of the numbers.



The Hindu : Front Page : One lakh people convert to Buddhism



But it beat NDTV comprehensively by giving the most amount of space possible, almost thrice as much as the NDTV. And those photos and detailed coverage deserve a special mention. In fact, I would recommend that CBCNN be awarded with the prize for "the most biased media".



Shadow Warrior: ROTFL: Who says Indian Media isn't biased?



may 31, 2007



i say the indian media is also might entertaining. will the right number of buddhists please stand up?



since
the media are making up things, any number will do. this is why these
guys are such a good fit with cedric '2000' prakash, william 'i deal in
what *could* have happened, not what happened. that's left to lesser
mortals' dalrymple, et al.



in their defence, though, most of them are innumerate, anyway.



---------- Forwarded message ----------

From: Sanjeev

Date: May 31, 2007 12:15 AM

Subject: Who says Indian Media isn't biased?

To:

Here
are some reports on the number of people who were part of "big"
conversion program in Mumbai; Makes you wonder, if even 1st class math
is a required for becoming a journalist in India.

 

NDTV link

It was the biggest mass conversion in recent history as over one lakh Hindu tribals converted to Budhism in Mumbai on Sunday.



Unlike
Dalits who converted before, this time a majority of those who
converted were from castes which are lower in hierarchy than Dalits.



Those
who converted include nomadic and denotified communities who had
travelled from distant Marathwada, Vidharbha and even Karnataka and
Andhra Pradesh.



The Republican Party of India organised the conversion ceremony.

Reuters link

 MUMBAI (Reuters) - About 50,000
Indian low-caste Hindus and nomadic tribespeople converted to Buddhism
before a vast crowd on Sunday in the hope of escaping the rigidity of
the ancient Hindu caste system and finding a life of dignity.

 

Associated Press link

MUMBAI, India: About 2,000
low-caste Hindu Indians bowed before orange-robed monks and recited
prayers as they converted to Buddhism in a mass ceremony Sunday that
they said would bring them dignity in a society that considers them
"untouchables."

 

BBC Link

"We estimate that close to 5,000 Dalits
have chosen the path towards Buddhism by the end of the day," said
Shravan Gaikwad, representative of the Samatha Sainik Dal, a Dalit
group.

Gandhi's smash hit roadshow

The Chindu has started campaigning for Congress.



The Hindu : National : Modi Government scuttling pro-farmer programmes of Centre, says Sonia

The huge crowd that gathered in this small town in north Gujarat is certain to ring the warning bell to the BJP leadership, considering that the State Assembly elections are slated for later this year. It was Ms. Gandhi's third public meeting in the State since January. She received mammoth response from people in the tribal rally in Devgadh-Baria and the youth rally in Porbandar.

SABHA has brilliantly demonstrated what these smash-hit road shows mean.



Rahul Gandhi's Roadshow a Smash Hit!



According to a report on Rediff, Rahul Gandhi's roadshow in Uttar Pradesh was a huge success.



Rahul's campaign helped party: Congress



Congress leaders rubbished claims by detractors that the Gandhi family magic failed to deliver.



Here are the numbers to substantiate the claims that Rahul Gandhi is indeed a brilliant strategist.



Congress(I) before the roadshow: 25 seats

Congress(I) after the roadshow: 22 seats!

CPM's politics of hatred

Be it Presidential polls, CPM is driven by hatred towards BJP. Its policy has always been "nothing to do with Hindus".



The Hindu : National : Basu against `communal party' candidate

He[Jyoti Basu] added: "The last time because of the Bharatiya Janata Party putting up a candidate for President we did not support him.

Don't blame China : CBCNN

CBCNN refused to inform its readers that an IAS officer from Arunachal Pradesh was refused visa by China. But it keeps talking elaborately about the peaceful intentions of China. This is why it is called the Chinese National Newspaper.



The Hindu : International / India & World : Don't bring differences to the fore: China

The Hindu : International / India & World : India and China to hold defence dialogue soon

Violent protestors "just demanding" : CBCNN

It is instructive to compare the coverage by CBCNN on Nandigram and this issue. Inspite of strong evidence of mishandling by CPM, CBCNN completely absolved  CPM and put the blame on "Opposition". In this case of reservation for Gujjars, the State leadership has little to do with it because the authority lies with the Center. But CBCNN goes beyond its journalistic stipulation and passes a verdict to "embarrass" BJP.



The Hindu : National : An embarrassment to BJP leadership

Tuesday's firing in Dausa, which claimed 13 lives, has caused an embarrassment to the Bharatiya Janata Party's leadership as the protesting Gujjars were just demanding implementation of a promise made during the 2003 Rajasthan Assembly elections.

The Hindu : National : An embarrassment to BJP leadership

Tuesday's firing in Dausa, which claimed 13 lives, has caused an embarrassment to the Bharatiya Janata Party's leadership as the protesting Gujjars were just demanding implementation of a promise made during the 2003 Rajasthan Assembly elections.

Fwd: 'Revisiting Tienanmen' (Calcutta, June 3, 2007)

On June 4, 1989, hundreds of peaceful democracy activists were massacred
by the Chinese Government at Tienanmen, Beijing, China. The Tienanmen
Massacre became one of the most atrocious attack on democracy and human
rights in the modern era.

On June 3, 2007, Friends of Tibet (Calcutta) is organising an
interactive-session where we will revisit Tienanmen and the massacre of
that fateful day. The session will be followed by the screening of the
documentary film: "Tienanmen: Gateway to Heavenly Peace." Please join and
share your views with us.

Venue: Chitrakoot Art Gallery, 55 Gariahat Road (Near Ballygaunje Phari),
Calcutta 700 019, West Bengal. Date and time: June 3, 2007 at 4pm

To know more about the event, email: friendsoftibet.calcutta@gmail.com

...
Friends of Tibet, PO Box: 16674, Bombay 400050, India.
...
Friends of Tibet is a global movement to keep alive the issue of Tibet
through direct action. Our activities are aimed at ending China's
occupation of Tibet and the suffering of the Tibetan people. Friends of
Tibet supports the continued struggle of the Tibetan people for
independence. To know more, visit: www.friendsoftibet.org
...

Brinda is the saviour and Chindu her worshipper

The Hindu : National : Tribals' land rights subverted: Brinda Karat

How much of CPM can you take?

While most newspapers cover events, CBCNN covers one party : CPI(M).



The Hindu : Front Page : Achuthanandan, Pinarayi Vijayan suspended

The Hindu : Front Page : CPI(M) Polit Bureau action a strong message

The Hindu : Front Page : Text of the Polit Bureau resolution

The Hindu : National : Stop repression against land movement: Karat

The Hindu : National : State clearly the status of 123 agreement: CPI (M)

The Hindu : National : CPI(M) to explore all options to select suitable Presidential candidate

CPM is a powerful body : CBCNN

Call it self-praise.



The Hindu : Front Page : Achuthanandan, Pinarayi Vijayan suspended

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Saturday decided to suspend V.S. Achuthanandan and Pinarayi Vijayan from the membership of that powerful body.

Congress obligated to rule India : Khare

The Hindu : Opinion / Leader Page Articles : A party's need for renewal and three options

But a few days later party president Sonia Gandhi and her son and heir
apparent Rahul Gandhi were both reported to have attributed the
disappointing result to "organisational weaknesses." Rather obvious.

Khare blames it on "organisational weakness" and absolves the Dynasty. Khare is one helluva boot-licker.

The question is how does a 122-year-old organisation re-design itself?

Wrong. The question is why re-design a party which is well past its expiry date? I am not kidding. You can hear it from Khare himself. I have listed the Khare-isms below. The inferences are fairly obvious.



1. The Congress, despite all its democratic trappings, has become a closed
shop, with an unfair and undeserved advantage accruing to the
practitioners and beneficiaries of the status quo.



2. That promising initiative was killed slowly by the status quoist party
managers in collusion with the state leaders. Perhaps the prospect of a
truly open and genuine electoral process was too disquieting for
everyone at the top of the Congress hierarchy. i.e. Congress does not have open and genuine electoral process.



3. If a party does not keep itself consciously open to the new voices and
new forces, it courts stagnation and dysfunctionality. Somehow the
Congress has managed to achieve precisely this.



4.
The Congress' signature tune has been its history and its claim to inclusiveness. However, the claim now holds only on paper;



5. But in practice the party has increasingly cultivated a massive internal organisational dishonesty



6. in district after district the Congress is presumed to have enrolled
many times more members than the votes it gets in an Assembly election. i.e. It is possible that the Congress members themselves don't vote for the party.



7. Congress has cultivated bogusness.

This cultivated bogusness suits everyone. Subversion begins at the AICC
level, and the name of the game becomes the manipulation of the roster
of Pradesh Returning Officer (PRO). And since everybody knows — from
the very top to the block level — that the electoral process had become
an elaborate charade, no leader is able to command genuine respect,
either of the party workers or of the average voter.



8. Even if it does not help the country, the dynasty must rule India, says Khare. Notwithstanding the disapproval of the proponents of middle
class-centric political correctness, the family option is not a totally
unhelpful strategy.



9. the Congress is no longer the omnipotent political force in the country



10. These other players have come to enjoy their autonomy and see no reason to pay any homage to a declining dynasty.



11. Ms. Gandhi has to overcome her present preference for compromise and
accommodation with the old, tired, and defeated "senior leaders" who
dominate the Cabinet and the Congress Working Committee.



12. It is time to bring about a different organisational culture, based on
capacity and performance instead of an excessive reliance on age,
seniority, and past services.



13.
A geriatric overload is definitely hampering the party's electoral footwork.



14. It also prevents the party from rediscovering the usefulness of the accountability principle.



15. Nor does it allow an effective taming of egos and overweening
ambitions, invariably pursued at the expense of collective goals and
objective.



16. Sadly, the present Congress lacks even this minimum degree of ideological and personal coherence.

Karat this, Karat that

Makes me wonder if Karat is the only one who has any opinion in India. And this Karat seems to have an opinion on anything and everything in India. CBCNN has shown a penchant for promoting only its own.



The Hindu : Front Page : Karat: Centre did not heed counsel on prices

Another NGO report hits headlines on CBCNN

We have seen how all these NGOs with a political agenda churn out reports. CBCNN does not miss a single one of those.

The Hindu : Front Page : Justice eludes Gujarat victims: Amnesty

In its report for 2007 on `World human rights' released here on Wednesday, Amnesty said: "Justice continued to evade most victims and survivors of the 2002 violence in Gujarat, in which thousands of Muslims were attacked and more than 2,000 were killed.

Lies by repeated assertion. The communists propagated this myth of "thousands of muslims" and that number 2000 just got stuck. Now, Amnesty joins the fray.

On J&K, Amnesty said, "Politically motivated violence slightly decreased, but torture, deaths in custody, enforced disappearances and extra-judicial executions continued to be reported.

Surprisingly, in J&K, the Hindus do not deserve any mention. The police are blamed for custody deaths. Afterall, the terrorists are muslims.

Two CPM reports on Dera

CPM issues a press release, which was duly reported in CBCNN. And then, CBCNN in turn filed a report using the press release to impress CPM. A case of " you scratch my back, I scratch yours"?



The Hindu : National : Bandh call unfortunate: CPI (M)



The Hindu : Front Page : Intervention by religious bodies worries CPI (M)

CPM practising aparthied

CPM has invited, for talks on Nandigram, all parties including the insignificant ones like All India Forward Bloc, but excluded only BJP. A clear case of blind hatred over decency. CPM has demonstrated several times now that its political ambition is "defeat BJP".



The Hindu : National : BJP not invited for talks on Nandigram

All major political parties in West Bengal except the Bharatiya Janata Party have been invited to an all-party meeting here on Thursday to determine ways to restore peace at Nandigram.

CPM Press(Chindu) release

CPM issues a press release to the Chinese newspaper. Unfortunately, all these Chinese outposts are in India.



CPM indulges in its favourite past-time : BJP Bashing.



The Hindu : Front Page : Intervention by religious bodies worries CPI (M)

``It [the Akali Dal-BJP Government] must firmly discharge its constitutional obligations to maintain peace and protect the rights of all communities,'' the statement said.

China-India ties maturing: CBCNN

CBCNN hails the maturing ties between India and China. It refuses to mention any of the Chinese aggression on India.



The Hindu : Front Page : J.J. Singh visits China

Communists say no to SEZ

The same communists killed poor, unarmed farmers for the sake of SEZs in Bengal. The never-ending charade of communist vain talk...



The Hindu : Front Page : Left should review UPA performance: CPI

While farmers' suicides continued, the special economic zones (SEZs) allowed big businesses to grab land and indulge in real estate speculation. "While everyone agrees that industrialisation based on agricultural advance is necessary, SEZs are neither inevitable nor necessary as vehicles for industrial growth."

Fiction writers in CBCNN blame the police

The victim is a Muslim. So, the fiction writers at CBCNN are working overtime. Isn't it interesting to note that the father lists important reasons why his son won't target Mecca Masjid:

1. It is a Muslim place of worship

2. His father goes there for prayers.



The order in which they are listed is very instructive.





The Hindu : Front Page : `My son may be killed any time'

How can Shahed kill people of his religion?





It urged the Government to suspend DGP M.A. Basith for the "police
excesses" committed in the name of controlling the violence after the
blast.

Leftist cries

Goes to show that the Left is a non-entity even when it is sharing power.



The Hindu : Front Page : Left wants new pension scheme put on hold

The leaders said they failed to understand how the Finance Minister had cleared this step when he was fully aware of "our strong and continuing objections."

Nepotism in Chindu

All in the family.



The Hindu : Front Page : Vidya Ram tops class at Columbia University's journalism school

Ms. Ram is the daughter of N. Ram, Editor-in-Chief, The Hindu, who is an alumnus of the Columbia University journalism school.

CBCNN hides China's aggression

More of that peaceful China stuff. It did not mention about China's encroachment of large parts in Arunachal Pradesh.



The Hindu : International / India & World : No confrontation with China, says Antony

Babri Masjid built over an Indic structure

So, we hear it from the communists. But the careful circumlocution is noteworthy.



The Hindu : Opinion / Leader Page Articles : Cultures & vultures: wake-up call from Vadodara

As with the early Christian churches in Europe, which were built over hundreds of pagan shrines of Sun worshippers, archaeological evidence shows that at the site where the Sangh Parivar demolished the Babri Masjid, there might have been a Buddhist stupa, which in turn was built over the sacred shrines of earlier ethnographic, indigenous, tribal, or proto-Indic communities.

Ramayana is a fairy tale

Such articles invariably get space in The anti-Hindu. This article is a good indication of the hatred these communists have towards Hinduism. Disgusting.



The Hindu : Opinion / Leader Page Articles : Cultures & vultures: wake-up call from Vadodara

Isn't it strange that the fundoos are offended by Husain's surrealistic representation of Sita riding on Hanuman's tail, but can applaud the Alice in Wonderland fairytale the BJP's deputy leader in the Lok Sabha, Rajnath Singh, solemnly narrated in the Lok Sabha? The learned parliamentarian said that the solid underwater rocks in the Indian Ocean provided ample proof that the Ram Sethu bridge, over which Hanuman crossed from India to Lanka, was constructed by his army of brilliant monkey engineers, thousands of years ago during the Ramayana period.

CBCNN campaigns for artistic freedom

Makes me wonder why protests in India against Danish cartoons did not deserve such condemnation. Why does CBCNN think artistic freedom is relevant only when the victim is Hindu?



The Hindu : International / India & World : Academics protest bid to muzzle artistic freedom

Why another report on same incident?

The contents are very similar between the two reports. Clearly Dr.Sen is no saint. He was cuddling up with the Maoists. CBCNN is fighting against law and order in the name of NGOs.



The Hindu : National : Activist groups condemn PUCL leader's arrest



The Hindu : National : Sen's arrest an example of repression by Chhattisgarh Government, says PUCL

Fighting against naxals is a dangerous trend: CBCNN

The Leftist NGOs are always ready to speak their mind against any opposition to naxal terrorism. CBCNN always gives prominent coverage to such lunatic fringe elements.



The Hindu : National : Sen's arrest an example of repression by Chhattisgarh Government, says PUCL

Alleging that fake encounters in the past two years have claimed the lives of 155 people in Chhattisgarh, members of the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) on Thursday accused the State Government of subjecting Adivasis to atrocities under the garb of Salwa Judum — a people's movement against terrorism and naxalism initiated by the Government in June 2005.

Blame it on Capitalism

Brinda Karat erroneously blames privatization for the current dismal food security scenario. This is just a case of using a pet theory to explain everything on earth.



The Hindu : Opinion / Leader Page Articles : Food economy under the UPA government

n contrast, the Central government is eroding the country's food security by dependence on wheat imports while weakening the PDS through a policy of creeping privatisation. The government has already indicated its decision to go in for imports this year, even as it wilfully weakens the procurement system through promotion of private procurement of foodgrains. This year too big companies such as ITC and Reliance and MNCs such as Cargill have cornered the wheat as they did last year.

For better understanding of how the UPA Government missed the bus, have a look at this article by TVR Shenoy on www.rediff.com



India's stretches out its bowl again for daal-roti

On April 30, the Government of India finally found the time to issue a tender to import one million tonnes of wheat. This is the second year in a row that this happened. Following the experience of 2006, a truly prudent ministry would have moved long before. Now, I fear we are just a bit late.

The benchmark for commodities trading is set in Chicago. At the beginning of April, wheat was trading at US $4.12 a bushel. By April 30, when our economist prime mpinister and his crack team finally realised the danger, the price of wheat had risen to US $4.9555 a bushel.

In other words, the Indian taxpayer has already been hit for millions of dollars.

N.Ram blames Hindu groups for protests against Christ's penis

The Hindu : Opinion / Editorials : Hurt sentiments and moral policing

The charge that Chandramohan's works offended Hindu and Christian religious sentiments makes no sense given the context in which the works were displayed.



under pressure from extreme right wing groups.

For a better perspective on the incident, here is from www.dailypioneer.com, exposing the duplicity of the Left and Chindu.

Among the earliest to protest was the pastor of the Methodist Church in Baroda, Reverend Emmanuel Kant. A group of irate Hindus, led by Niraj Jain, a BJP activist, also marched into the exhibition venue.
After persuasion from the police, the paintings and other works of "art" were taken down and locked up in a room. Despite the anger of Jain and his compatriots, there was no major violence, no damage to university property and Chandra Mohan's creations were left untouched. They are still safe in that room.
The matter would have ended there had not, on May 11, Pannikar triggered another fire. Acting unilaterally and going against the orders of his superiors, he organised an impromptu exhibition of nude paintings under the rubric of "medieval art" and "Indian culture". He refused written orders from the registrar to remove the paintings and insisted on displaying them through the night. This led to Pannikar's suspension.
...on March 2, 2006, the CPI participated with Muslim organisations in a massive rally in Mumbai, protesting against President George W Bush's arrival in India and the Danish cartoons.
A month later, on April 9, 2006, the Hindu approvingly quoted from a recent article in People's Democracy, the CPI(M)'s organ. "It said," reported the Hindu, "that after the Iran issue, the Danish newspaper cartoons on Prophet Mohammed became an international issue, with big protest rallies organised by Muslims in India from February 2006 ... There was genuine anger against the cartoons. All secular parties, including the Congress, had condemned them."

Christian aggression labelled Hindu fundamentalism by CBCNN

The Hindu : National : Vandalism in varsity condemned

Stating
that the attack on a graduate student of M.S. University in Vadodara
was the latest instance of attack on the public right of expression, a
number of artists, politicians and activists on Monday pledged their
support to all beleaguered artists targeted by members of the Sangh
Parivar.

The Hindu : National : "Clear attack on artistic freedom"

# Academic freedom is in peril
# Intolerance of Hindutva forces

What image are these guys protesting against? Lets have a look.




CBCNN is twisting the protest to blame it on Hindutva forces.

Readers question CBCNN's Anti-Hindu bias

The Hindu : Opinion / News Analysis : Concerns that go beyond a spellchecker's

... they(readers) are bound to ask questions, such as: "You have prominently published photographs and report on the attack on a Christian preacher in distant Jaipur ... A series of more heinous attacks were unleashed on innocent gurukkals (temple priests) in Tiruvarur in Tamil Nadu ... . Your newspaper probably found no news value in the incidents." (V. Anantharaman, Bangalore). All forms of religions or casteist intolerance need to be reported and criticised. Omitting some or selective reporting can lead to readers forming their own conclusions, which may not always be warranted.

Fwd: N.Ram's version of "Freedom of expression"

Lessons in (pseudo)secularism:

Secularism 101

In his address to the rally, Narasimhan Ram, the editor in chief of
the English-language daily, The Hindu, said, "The cartoons are a
sacrilege under the name of freedom of expression."

http://www.islamonline.net/English/Views/2006/03/article05.shtml

Secularism 201

There is something terribly amiss about a social order that coerces a
law-abiding 91-year-old artist, India's most celebrated painter, into
leaving the country because of harassment by rank communalists and
moral vigilantes. Surprisingly, instead of upholding the fundamental
right to freedom of expression, some lower courts have been
extraordinarily tolerant in entertaining the vexatious complaints.

http://www.hindu.com/2007/05/08/stories/2007050803400800.htm

Those who successfully complete the above lessons in the course, are
eminently eligible for the award of the degree: B.S.(Secularism)

Lessons, coutesy:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hinducivilization/message/15313

Posted by Anonymous to The Chindu at May 11, 2007 2:46 PM

China blocking Brahmaputra waters good for India : CBCNN

CBCNN explains why electrification of every village in China is beneficial to India. CBCNN urges us to ignore the desertification of North India for the greater good. Hail China!!!


Btw, this article was about some new Ministry's website.

The Hindu : National : No cause for alarm over China's reported plans: Soz

Union Water Resources Minister Saifuddin Soz on Thursday said there was no cause for alarm over reports on China's plans to construct a dam on the Brahmaputra.

CPI objects to stable political system

CPI opposes a stable, two-party system in the best interests of the country, China not India.



The Hindu : Front Page : CPI objects to Kalam's suggestion for two-party system

The President said: "Many challenges need to be responded to: the emergence of multi-party coalitions as a regular form of Government that need to rapidly evolve as a stable, two-party system ... "

Fwd: The case of forged documents

According to Swapan Dasgupta: A reputed newspaper with Communist
sympathies has, in defiance of all journalistic norms, even published
a forged document, purporting to be a CID report, implicating the
Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah.

http://www.dailypioneer.com/indexn12.asp?main_variable=front%5Fpage&file_name=story1%2Etxt&counter_img=1

Now here is what the "reputed newspaper with Communist sympathies" got
to say (in small print, of course):

The 24-page ``Facts of the Case'' was provided to our correspondent by
a privileged source within the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday...

It is now clear, as the Gujarat Government's response published here
points out, that the 24-page document is not the Geetha Johri report.
The Hindu retracts its front-paged assertion that the Johri report
speaks of ``collusion of the State government'' and of the role of Mr.
Amit Shah, Minister of State for Home; and also that it recommends a
CBI enquiry. We deeply regret these serious errors in a story that
drew on documents we relied upon in good faith. We agree that we
should have verified the facts, especially those relating to the
provenance of ``Facts of the Case,'' before publishing the news
stories.

http://www.hindu.com/2007/05/06/stories/2007050603810100.htm

So, folks. It is not the mistake of the reporter (Neena Vyas) or
Comrade-in-Chief. We are led to believe that Chindu was so easily
fooled by a "privileged source within BJP".

A "reputed newspaper" on a self-appointed mission of non-stop daily
pontification and fighting "evil communal forces" (a la Don Quixote),
so easily fooled by a source from the enemy camp!

BTW, does Chindu also have "privileged sources" within other parties
like CPM, so that we can get to hear "Facts of the Case" from
Nandigram?

Posted by Anonymous to The Chindu at May 06, 2007 6:39 AM

Only British colonies can be modern

The "eminent historian", K.N.Panikkar comes out with a discovery that a country can be modern only if it had been ruled by the British.

While being a British colony is not dependence, embracing capitalism is dependence in the name of development.



The Hindu : Opinion / Leader Page Articles : Recalling the legacy of the 1857 Revolt

One thing is certain: it would have saved the country from the "benefits" of colonial modernity. Would it have led to the resurrection of the feudal order as Jawaharlal Nehru feared or would it have enabled an independent path of development towards modernity? No one can be certain. At any rate the anti-colonial legacy of the Revolt is worth recalling, as it was unmistakably a struggle for independence, when the country is steadily but surely slipping into dependence in the name of development.

A terrorist outfit's conference resolutions

The Hindu : National : DYFI for youth policy



The readers urge CBCNN to undertake a similar coverage of conferences
held by other terrorist outfits like LeT, Jaish-e-Mohammed, SFI, etc.

Normal service will resume from tomorrow

Comrades,
Sorry for the long absence. I have been traveling a lot and the internet connection was erratic. Hopefully, I will be able to continue the daily postings from tomorrow.