India's Revolutionary Icons who followed the paths of The Buddha

India's Revolutionary Icons who followed the paths of  The Buddha
It all began with Buddha... and these are some of the great Torch Bearer's of Buddha's Dhamma.... This Blog is a Scholarly Blog created to provide insights into the life, services and Social contributions of some of the Greatest of Indian Scholars, Humanitarians, Saints and social activists about whom the vested interests and Rotten Indian media do not write. Nor there is a State or center policies to restore and protect the stunning stories of these great men and woman...let me walk you through the greatness..!!

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Father of Nation of India Dr.Bheemarao Ambedkar

The first Law Minister of India and the Father of Indian Constitution Bheemrao Ramji Ambedkar (Dr.B.R.Ambedkar)spoke, wrote and demonstrated quite extensively and comprehensively than any other known living or dead humans of India as to how treacherous, dangerous this so called Indian hindu society and it's deadly cultures that spread discrimination and bigotry between each of thousands of heterogeneous groups. To find a way to bring them all these "heterogeneous mess of India", and to put them in single order to lead a happy, free and prosperous life, to make them behave like humans and to treat fellow humans DrAmbedkar crafted this finest of the fine Constitution that even Americans refer to it when they are in crisis. Ofcourse, Dr.Ambedkar was an American Scholar and Columbia Doctorate, he did learn lots about humanity and freedom while he was in America, but he also studied American Constitution, so a well learned scholar and genius DrAmbedkar fathered the Indian constitution in real sense, he is the Father of Modern India, while SakyaMuni Buddha was the Father of ancient and all time Father of India. Here is the dedication to the Father of India: http://fatherofnationi.blogspot.com/

Friday, December 30, 2011

The Battle of Bhima Koregaon

The Battle of Bhima Koregaon is the Ground breaking War between good humans and barbaric brhamins that only 500 of the Untouchable Mahars defeated the 30000 strong army. It is a symbol of Dalit pride, and a symbol of Human Rights Principles.

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Do the Americans and Westerner's Really Know who is the Real Gandhi? & his divine Masks?

Mr.Pramod Kureelji is tearing down the real face of gandhi during his recent visit to America. In the following interview, Kureelji presents the truth that only about 1%, the top 1% of the population of India to whom gandhi belongs and who time and again manipulated the whole nation and the social system. As much it is true, but also true is there are some among the 99% are rabid hindus, casteists who will die to keep the gandhi's name uphled because they never in their whole life made any effort to study and learn the background of real gandhi, it is a cult.
The bottom line here is times are changing, for the first time our Upper house representatives started voicing against this bigotry known as gandhi, yes gandhi is a bigot and gandhism is a bigotry, the grandest of all Indian bigotry, good work has begun to expose these mania.
Video from Facebook posting of Vaishali Ingle-Gholap
BSP MP Pramod kureelji exposing Gandhi in United States ! Hats off !!!
http://vimeo.com/31286061

IN INDIA, GANDHI IS HERO ONLY TO INDIA’S 1%: PRAMOD KUREEL, MEMBER OF UPPER HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT from Hall Powell on Vimeo.

Friday, November 4, 2011

Access To Insight- Readings in Theravada Buddhism, The Most Scholarly Website of Our time!!

Access to Insight: Readings in Theravada BuddhismGreat Scholars regard and respect the works of people behind the site "Accesstoinsight.org", the greatest scholarly online work on Buddhism or any religion for that matter, this is it. John Bullitt, who is behind this groundbreaking online work on Theravada Buddhism humbly accepts that it is not just him but there are so many people, monks, scholars and Theravada experts are behind this works, but I have to say John has done a tremendous job.

Like how I admire the works of erstwhile Ven Walpola Rahula's Book "What the Buddha Taught", along the lines, accesstoinsight.org is beyond doubt strikingly scholarly, knowledgeable, uptodate and as it is as Buddha would have told his story of life, mind and death to this world. Every Buddhist must go to this site, and most importantly, there is no such Theravada reference material as good as accesstoinsight, you are the Most Scholarly website of our time.

Saturday, September 24, 2011

I never called him Mahatma in my Whole Life, he does not deserve and he is not.

Mahatma Who?, he is not Mahatma, I never called him Mahatma in my whole Life
Dr.Ambedkar in this BBC interviews furious about the betrayal of gandhi to scheduled castes and the vision of Dr.Ambedkar to bridge the gap between hindus and scheduled caste from the deadly caste discrimination.
Dr.Ambedkar roars, I refused to call him Mahatma, I never in my life called him Mahatma, he does not deserve, not even in the morality point of view. He is not Mahatma, you see
I went to meet him, as an Opponent, I was not one of his devotee's so I can see him clearly and because I had my own views about him and his agenda, he opened up his fangs, his dressing and outside look is a great Deception that his devotee's could not see...


Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Impeach Jayalalitha and bring no confidence Motion for Killing 7 Dalits, a Deliberate State Terrorism!

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Upliftthem is the Most Vehement and Strongest critic of most dalit politicians of India, especially my own state of Tamil Nadu Dalit Politicians.
No where else you will see or read online or offline of such strong criticism. However, that is going to change, as a reality check on Dalit Politicians particularly Thol Thirumavalavan and others following the 9/11 Parakamudi police atrocity that was unleashed by the present JJ govt on dalits, Uplifthem's view took a slight change on dalit politicians based on the ongoing activities. Today after watching the following presentation of Thol, there is a Sea Change in Thol Thirumavalavan's Direction of his Dalit Politics, Upliftthem is inclined to Change the attitude towards Dalit Politicians and I am making this argument read or heard Openly on the Blog. This is a Public appreciation as well as praise the works they have been upto following the "Tamil Nadu Police Atrocity on Dalits"* though the dalit politicians have lots to do and long way to get real appreciation, any such positive change has to be acknowledged?). Good work Thol, (so do your partner Paswan, all the way came down to Tamil Nadu to record his voice against dalit abuse) keep up the good work. Do not STOP until Jayalalitha is accountable for the 7 lives of Dalits in Paramakudi.
Tamil Nadu Police's atrocity is a direct result of a impotent, inefficient, casteist and Racist Jayalalitha, the most barbarbaric Indian leaders of all just below Narendran Modi of Gujarat and L.K Advani of BJP party. India has been destroyed by this type of goons in the name of hindutva Politics. The september 11 killing of 7 dalits by the Tamil Nadu Police is a Open and deliberatly planned murder of innocent civilians and this is simply not possible without the direct involvement of Ammaa/Selvi barbaric Jayalalitha. The world must listen to an account given by VCK Leader and Member of Parliment Thol Thirvumavalan. It is a honest and painful account of the state sponsered Terrorism of Tamil Nadu.

Friday, September 16, 2011

அசுரன்: பசும்பொன் முத்துராமலிங்கத் தேவர் என்ற ஜாதி வெறியன்

அசுரன்: பசும்பொன் முத்துராமலிங்கத் தேவர் என்ற ஜாதி வெறியன்: chided

Initially Posted at Upliftthem Blog:
A Casteist and a Terrorist known as Pasumpon Muthuramlinga Thevar:

The following Post from a Blogger Asuran breaks down the real background and facts about the notorious killing spree of Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar, a southern Tamil Nadu backward community caste man, the caste and the people are one of the southern India's upholders of Varnashrama and hindu pathology, the Caste System.

This guy Thevar is revered and celebrated almost like some kind of a godly personality only by his community people and the vested interest Tamil Nadu Politicians to get Thevar's vote. But, the Thevar community itself is without doubt and without exception one of the Most Dangerous racists of India. Both Muthuramalingam and his Thugs been involved in unaccountable and unimaginable number of killing in the Ramanathapuram district of Tamil Nadu during early 1950s. It is not too late even now for the judiciary and honest people to dig out all the crimes Thevar's been doing and punish them for the crimes against Humanity.

The Blogger wrote it in local Tamil language, when I get a chance I will translate to its entirety but for now those who can read Tamil language, here I am posting the brief story with link for my readers and the world to see.

பசும்பொன் முத்துராமலிங்கத் தேவர் என்ற ஜாதி வெறியன்

பசும்பொன் முத்துராமலிங்கத் தேவர் என்ற ஜாதி வெறியன் -இந்துத்துவத்துக்கு விளக்குப் பிடித்த திருமகன்
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தேவரின் காலடி மண்ணை எடுத்துக் கும்பிடும் கோடானு கோடி பாசாங்குவாதிகளின் காதில், தேவர் பற்றிய அவ்வளவாய் சொல்லப்படாத விசயங்களைப் போட்டு வைப்பதே இந்தக் கட்டுரையின் நோக்கம்.

முதலில் காமராஜர் குறித்து, முத்துராமலிங்கத் தேவர் உதிர்த்த பொன்முத்துக்களைப் பார்ப்போமா?

Thursday, September 15, 2011

INDIA's Shame..!!

Every INDIAN must Read this, and when you have done Reading, Please Tell the WORLD that you are Ashamed, as Indian you must be Ashamed, the Caste Indians Must be Ashamed of them, their families and their Generations...!
One man forces and punishes other man for talking on the cell phone, or riding a bicycle, or wearing a Chapel or sandal, Or No rooms or homes for Dalits, No hair cut for Dalits, Tea or coffee in a coconut shell or some garbage tumblers?...
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Caste hindus"THE LIST"
[a Report by 150 Human Rights group, dalit groups, by Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Education Front] 
==================================================================== Untouchability Declassified
Discrimination is a dynamic industry in India. A survey recorded an astonishing 80-odd practices of untouchability—new, bizarre, vintage. BY Pallavi Polanki EMAIL AUTHOR(S)Not allowed to keep male dogs. (Why? They might breed with female dogs from upper caste neighbourhoods.)
»Separate work timings under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.
»Refusal to rent houses to Dalits in certain neighbourhoods in urban areas. (Reported in Madurai, Tamil Nadu’s second largest city.)
»No door delivery by postmen; postal department prevented from hiring Dalit postmen.
»No access to the common crematorium, burial grounds.
»Prevented from having their clothes washed or ironed, or assigned separate cupboards at the laundry for clothes of Dalits.
»Refusal by barbers to cut their hair, or separate chairs for Dalits.
»Separate ration shops, or queues, or timings for Dalits.
»Offered tea in coconut shells which they can drink only by squatting on the ground.
»Prevented from renting private marriage halls, public address systems.
»Forced to cut out portion of the name that suggests respect (Madaswamy will be called Mada, Muniyaswamy Muniya).
»Attacked if they call any caste Hindu as annan (brother).
»Erecting walls (as was seen in Uthappuram) to deny Dalits access to common places.
»Elderly members of the Dalit community addressed by children of the dominant caste as poda, vada (denoting lack of respect).
»No access to temples, public streets, public taps (separate timings to collect water), public tanks, temples.
»Sapparam (temple car) not driven through areas where Dalits reside.
»Not allowed to participate in pookkuzhi (a ritual of walking on fire) during festivals.
»Two, in some cases four, tumbler system in tea-shops, one set for Dalits and categories within them, another for caste Hindus.
»Separate neighbourhoods for Dalits in villages.
»Preventing the opening of milk dairy near Dalit neighbourhoods.
»Dalit (Arunthathiyar) students compelled to clean bathrooms in schools.
»Opposition to hiring Dalit cooks in mid-day meal school kitchens.
»Engaging Dalits, Arunthathiyars especially, in conservancy work.
»Dalit workers to bring their own food-plates while others need not.
»Boycotting meetings held by Dalit Panchayat presidents.
»Preventing the opening of panchayat office buildings in Dalit areas.
NOT ALLOWED TO...
»Wear shoes or chappals
»Wear polyester dhotis
»Ride bicycles or travel in bullock carts
»Sit under bus shelters at village bus stops
»Wear a cloth headgear or carry a towel over the shoulder (as is the local practice)
»Sport a thin moustache
»Sit on benches in hotels and tea stalls
»Burst crackers during festivals
»Rear cattle
»Sing or speak at village functions or participate in auctions
»Dine with caste Hindus
OBLIGATED TO
»Offer goats gratis to descendants of past andais (landlords in the feudal age) during festivals
»Carry dead bodies
»Work in crematoriums and at burial grounds
»Sound the parai ( drums)
»Carry message of death to people of the dominant caste (to be paid only bus fare, food only if offered)
ATROCITIES ON DALITS
»Forced to eat faeces.
»Urinating into the mouth.
»Murdered if elected as Panchayat President against the wishes of the dominant caste.
»Sexual assault on Dalit women.
»Burning alive if a Dalit fights for rights.
»Setting fire to Dalit huts.
»Tied to a tree and beaten up.
»Killing all dogs in a Dalit area if a dog of the Dalit area bites a dog that belongs to an upper caste community.
»Obstructing the common passage (if won through struggle) with mortar, grindstone and washing utensils there.
»Killing by poisoning one who inter-marries.
»Ostracising those Dalits who raise their voice for human rights.
»Attacking Dalits if they insist on using community halls.
»Making Dalits prostrate before members of the dominant caste and imposing fines on them.
»Refusal by the state administration to enforce access to burial grounds.
»Harassment and brutal attacks on Dalits by the police for fighting for their rights.
»Dalits driven away by the police for trying to enter temples

Sunday, August 14, 2011

DMKs Karunanidhi, Stalin & Congress's Sonya, How Much they have in Swiz Banks?

Madam Jayalalitha must look at this List of Karunanidhi's family, three of the MKs family member listed and who knows how many of them have money in Swiz, but Stalin 10500 Crore rupees, Kalanidhimarana 15000 crores, Mu Karunanidhi 35000 crores.




Where did they get so much money?, Karuninidhi's family is not known for wealth, or business or inheritance of a collasol amount put together in MKs family alone, it is almost One Lakh Crores (about two Billion US dollar equivalent)....
If you accumulate only these names, then calculate in US Dollar then, it will come down to --
TOP FIVE 
1.     INDIA | $1,456 BILLION |
2.     RUSSIA | $470 BILLION |
3.     U.K. | $390 BILLION |
4.     UKRAINE | $100 BILLION |
5.     CHINA | $96 BILLION |  
(Source: News papers and fromjs_ramteke@yahoo.co.in via yahoogroups.co.uk)

Monday, May 2, 2011

Death of Young, Bright Students in Leading Indian Universities and Institutions due to Caste Discrimination and Rights abuse by Academic Chiefs, Professors and Administrators!!

List of Dalit students who committed suicide in the last four years in India’s premier institutions

[This work was carried out by some of the past victims of caste abuse in the colleges and INSTITUTIONS  the list is posted here on my blog to bring attention to the issue that these people are fighting.......Credit for the work goes to those who behind the work...].
APRIL 25, 2011
by thedeathofmerit
Amazon.com
Here is the list of the Dalit students who have committed suicide in last four years. This is by no means an exhaustive list but covers only those cases which we were able to document and where parents and relatives have raised their voices and had accused the institutions of caste discrimination against their children that led to their suicides.
We are sure that the actual numbers of Dalit students committing suicide in country’s premier institutions in last four years will be much higher.
• M. Shrikant, final year, B.Tech, IIT Bombay, 1st Jan 07
• Ajay S. Chandra, integrated PhD, Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc), Bangalore – 26 Aug, 07
• Jaspreet Singh, final year MBBS, Government Medical College, Chandigarh, 27 Jan 08.
• Senthil Kumar, PHD, School of Physics, University of Hyderabad – 23 Feb 08
 Prashant Kureel, first year, B.Tech, IIT Kanpur, 19 April, 08
• G. Suman, final year, M.Tech, IIT Kanpur, 2nd Jan, 09
• Ankita Veghda, first year, BSc Nursing, Singhi Institute of Nursing, Ahmedabad, 20 April, 09
• D Syam Kumar, first year B.Tech, Sarojini Institute of Engineering and Technology, Vijayawada, 13 Aug, 09
• S. Amravathi, national level young woman boxer, Centre of Excellence, Sports Authority of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, 4th Nov, 09
• Bandi Anusha, B.Com final year, Villa Mary College, Hyderabad, 5th Nov, 09
• Pushpanjali Poorty, first year, MBA, Visvesvaraiah Technological University, Bangalore, 30th Jan, 10
• Sushil Kumar Chaudhary, final year MBBS, Chattrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University (formerly KGMC), Lucknow, 31 Jan, 10.
• Balmukund Bharti, final year MBBS, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, 3rd March, 10
• JK Ramesh, second year, BSc, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, 1st July, 10
• Madhuri Sale, final year B.Tech, IIT Kanpur, 17th November, 10
• G. Varalakshmi, B.Tech first year, Vignan Engineering College, Hyderabad, 30 Jan, 2011
• Manish Kumar, IIIrd Year B.Tech, IIT Roorkee, 13 Feb, 11
• Linesh Mohan Gawle, PhD, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, 16 April, 11

Monday, April 25, 2011

Top Indian Institutes "The Mecca" of Caste Discrimination, Killer Professors!

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Indian Universities and Institutions such as All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc), Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) and National Institute of Immunology, are few of the dozen so called elite and top educational centers in India, but they are also the "Sleeping Cell of Caste practices" by hindu terrorists disguised as Professors, deans, directors?.
 Most of the faculties, professors, chairman, vice chancellors and staff are all occupied by caste believing hindus or others who possess the same caste virulence in their mind set. It get's terribly murky as you go further into these higher education system of India, it is totally run by hindu terrorists who will not let any Outcastes (-those who do not believe in hindu system or hindus caste system) to become chiefs of departments, some exceptions might be noticed here and there, but to the most part India's higher education is the Meca of hindu terrorists who torment the innocent and poor students from Sc/St and other marginalized communities of India.

The foundation of Slavery is inbuild in hindu society so do the caste system, a discriminatory and barbaric belief system that has been plagued India for centuries and thousands of years is totally alive and in practice in every corner of India. This is exactly why Dr.Ambedkar, the Father of constitution and first law minister of India put together some of the greatest affirmative policies, the Reservation in education, jobs, judiciaries and in politics so that a well deserved opportunity is given to those who have been victimized and sabotaged by the hindus caste system, but in all respect, the Indian constitution on such affirmative policies been hacked by the people in Power by not implementing as per the law, which lead to weakness, fragile and loop holes such as not filling the reserved jobs, not promoting Sc/St's and not appointing them in higher jobs and so on. In the absence of equal and balanced faculties, Deans and V.Cs in Universities, the loop holes became a unattended territory left to brahmins and casteists of India to take the power in their hands uncontrolled and unmonitored, they abuse the whole system. On the top of the abuse list of India Professors and academicians is the abuse of Sc/St students. The list abuse reported can run through pages some thing like "you will never become a Doctor", "I will see to that you fail in all your exams", "you will never get your Doctorate (PhD)", I will suspend you, you will be removed from college or class so on and so forth. In addition to abuse by words, abusing students by letters, complaints and police charges are  too common, this puts the already vulnerable dalit students into so miserable condition, they have been crippled of any thinking at all. The result is committing suicide. This has been happening in all the higher educational institutions, but in the recent years, the numbers are shocking and perplexing to even think as to what goes on in Indian Institutions.

This dangerous trend is unfolding much more spectacularly in the ALL India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. In this Sleeping Cell of hindu terrorism, there are separate hostels for Sc/St students, separate dorm rooms or separate wings in a Building. Recently, more shocking incidents of casteist medical students burning Dr.Ambedkar's books and writings been discovered recorded in a CD. The details are simply beyond imagination, there is a huge gang of Professors, doctors, faculties, deans and directors of AIIMs been systematically involved in cornering Dalit students, harrasing them still they are drop dead. That's how some of the medical students in AIIMs been found dead by suicide?.
The following video is made by the Insight Foundation, a new, fledgling Dalit voluntary organization dedicated to highlight the plights of dalit students across India, they have been waiting to release these video's for a while due to an ongoing court cases but as usual, the Indian court system and the judges, justices being casteists, nothing seems to be moving along to find justice to the victims, they realized to bring it to the public. I warn you that it is quite disturbing, sad and very painful watch those parents and kins of the dead express their great loss in their families. It is terrifying and intolerable agony caused by the hindu terrorists in the Academia of Indian Institutions. Watch and do something about it..!



Thursday, April 14, 2011

April 14, Dr.Ambedkar's Day, the greatest day in Indian History

Great Scholar, Scholars & Humanitarians

Great Scholar, Scholars & Humanitarians





We remember, respect and upheld the Works, Services and Values of Bheemarao Ramji Ambedkar and his teaching, the Father of Modern India and the Greatest Humanitarian of this 21st Century.

There is no parallel in India to this man Dr.Ambedkar, who stood for the Righteousness, for the right cause and for the right people. Unlike any Indian of this century, most of them are tainted, sexual weirdo's, corrupted, frauds and thieves, rapists and destroyed India's values, but Dr.Ambedkar stood Tall as the most Honest and wholesome man with impeccable human record, human values and dignity, he upheld Buddha's teachings before his Death. He is the Real India and his people are the Real Indians. Dr.Ambedkar did not just work for a section or part of the society, he brought the heterogeneous mess of India into One Under the Constitution of India.

Know Dr.Ambedkar, Know India
Know Buddha, Know Life

Without Buddha and Dr.Ambedkar, India would be a totally devastated & utterly 100% Corrupt Nation.



On this April 14 the Great Day of "Father of Modern India Dr.B.R.Ambedkar",
Let the World Know and Celebrate a Real Hero of Humanity

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Anna Hazare or Hazardous Anna?, What is common between Anna, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar & Baba RamDev, They are all Casteists?

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Behind the upsurge of the anti corruption activities of Anna Hazare, there is a Right wing agenda inbuild that includes the casteist Swamis of India Baba Ramdev and Sri Sri Ravishankar, what better combination has to appear together for us to grasp the gravity of this Right wing casteists agenda, Anna is a casteist and a racist who is throwing up the caste shit all over India, so that they can spread and extend the varnashrama sabotage further into next millennium. Professor Ram Puniyani explains in details what is the big deal about this so called anti corruption Upsurge, is it about corruption or something else....! ( the following article is copied from a email sent by the author)
Anna Hazare and Anti Corruption Upsurge

Ram Puniyani

The nation has witnessed a huge spectacle from a section of visible population with Anna Hazare’s fast for getting the Jan Lok Pal bill being drafted and implemented. His fast unto death was an event in which not only we witnessed the ‘Tsunami of Sentiments’ but was also used by media to create an atmosphere as if it a ‘second freedom struggle’. While one can see that the dissatisfaction of the people from the system was overflowing, one also registered that this is a response to the massive corruption scams which have been unearthed during last few years. While Government succumbed to the mass pressure and the media projection, the whole episode also raised many a questions about the message which the fasting and Jantar mantar protest gave.

In the whole event, the backdrop was provided by Hindu imagery of India as Bharat mata, a Goddess. One hoped that such issues needing of worldly grounding can have icons like Gandhi as the central projection. Gandhi as the central backdrop of the movement would not only have given a correct moral message but also had been equally welcoming to all the citizens of the country irrespective of their religion. Gandhi as the backdrop would also have reminded the leaders that corruption cannot be isolated from other political dynamics which is leading to gross injustices to the poor and marginalized of the society.

Unfortunately the criticism of elected leaders and the doubting of the democratic system itself were taken to the cynical extremes. People writing on their hands that ‘Mera Neta Chor Hai’ (My leader is a thief) was one such example where the attempt to denigrate the elected representative along with the electoral process could be discerned. One concedes that there are serious flaws in the electoral system, the money power, muscle power and Corporate influence, but to paint all the leaders in the same brush shows the warped understanding of a section of leadership of Jantar Mantar movement. At the same time all the voters were insulted by stating that people cast their vote just for the goodies they get in advance as if these goodies are the core deciding points of election. Surely our electoral system needs serious reforms but this type of projection also needs to be seriously questioned. 

Then we have the issues of leadership of the whole event. We saw Anna Hazare as the Supreme commander with associates like Baba Ramdev trying to moralize the nation in the politics which is not so hidden by now. Baba Ramdev is a partisan of a particular type of politics which bases itself on religion and Baba in the clothes of a yogi is playing the role, which does not promotes democratic values. Baba was accompanied by RSS leader Ram Madhav. Sri Sri Ravishnker was also there. Both these Godmen are for the construction of grand Ram Tmeple at Ayodhya, and that should be enough to tell us their political leanings. Others in the core committee surely have more objectivity but one does not know as to how much influence they could exercise on the tilt being given by Annaji, Ramdev, Ravishanker and Company.

Anna Hazare, in the centre of the whole event also projected his pro right wing politics by praising Narendra Modi. One learns that Annaji has worked in his village in an authoritarian way, keeping the caste and gender hierarchical notions intact in Ralegaon Siddhi. His praise for Modi does let the cat out of the bag. Narendra Modi has successfully created and image of honest administrator but those who know the state better like Malika Sarabhai, Chunibhai Viadya, Rohit Prajapati and Trupti Shah have pointed out that in Gujarat the villages are suffering the rot, poverty levels are abysmal, people are migrating to cities in large numbers and their lands are being given to the coterie of Industrialists who are in the good books of Modi. Lakhs of villagers are yet to get the compensation for the land which has been taken away from them. The very definition of corruption needs to be looked at while talking of Gujarat, as Industrialists are plundering with
both the hands and state exchequer is the major victim of Modi’s policies. Instances of this abound, the massive subsidy to Nano being one major example. 

Same Narendra Modi not only refused to appoint the Lokayukta in his state and there are multiple unadvertised scams which are away from the media glare. There are criminal accusations against this person who has been called as the Nero by the Supreme Court, and who is authoritarian to the core. With such a role played by Modi in the Gujarat carnage, with blood on his hands, if someone can praise his work, it is not out of naivety, and it is part of the political agenda of that person. Same Anna Hazare had praised Raj Thackeray, the architect of violence in the name of language. As per Annaji, Raj Thackeray’s ideas are correct but violence should not be resorted to, forgetting that violence is a just an outcome of these political formulations which Modi and Thackerays have.

The massive mobilization and channelization of middle class angst is at one level indicator of the deeper levels of frustration in the system. In this whole upsurge there was a spontaneous expression of dissatisfaction and also a planned mobilization all across to take advantage of the situation to enhance the politics of those who have rode on the wave of section of society mobilized earlier also. One recalls that Jaya Prakash Naryan’s movement was much more broad based still it came to be controlled by the RSS, and its Swayamsevak Nanaji Deshmukh became the central person. The JP movement, irrespective of its noble intentions gave respectability to the organization, whose member had killed Father of the nation, and which till that time was looked down upon. Same way V.P.Singh’s tirade against corruption was swept away by the politics of those who were out to demolish Babri Masjid. Sitting on the waves of anti Corruption movement, both time RSS and
its political progeny became stronger to the extent of becoming the second largest party in the country.

Ironically in the whole episode while the ruling party and politicians as such were being humiliated the other component of the corruption phenomenon, the Corporate World and the industrial houses were really the beneficiaries of the way anti corruption drive was projected. Corporate World got exonerated by default, of all their crimes of getting around their ways through corrupt route. During earlier decades when the economy was controlled by state, the so called license-permit raj, it was said that corruption is due to state control of economy. Now with globalized economic scenario, the corruption has gone up to unimaginable levels, and the role of Industrial Houses as being the equal party to the game remains hidden from the scene.

Corruption is the big scourge to the system. We do need to look beyond the leaders and parties to realize that Corruption is primarily due to lack of transparency of the system, lack of accountability of the elected representatives and the very nature of our economic system and injustices inbuilt in the social system. While one lauds the tremendous response to the anti corruption movement, one can just hope that the sectarianism of Anna Hazare should be totally bypassed and the religious tilt of the imagers should be done away with. One hopes that while working on the Lok Pal Bill, the collective leadership of the movement will take note of these points to ensure that this movement does not meet the fate of two similar earlier one’s and that Right wing divisive forces are kept at bay.

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Issues in Secular Politics
II April 2011
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We remember, respect and upheld the Works, Services and Values of Bheemarao Ramji Ambedkar and his teaching, the Father of Modern India and the Greatest Humanitarian of this 21st Century.

There is no parallel in India to this man Dr.Ambedkar, who stood for the Righteousness, for the right cause and for the right people. Unlike any Indian of this century, most of them are tainted, sexual weirdo's, corrupted, frauds and thieves, rapists and destroyed India's values, but Dr.Ambedkar stood Tall as the most Honest and wholesome man with impeccable human record, human values and dignity, he upheld Buddha's teachings before his Death. He is the Real India and his people are the Real Indians. Dr.Ambedkar did not just work for a section or part of the society, he brought the heterogeneous mess of India into One Under the Constitution of India.

Know Dr.Ambedkar, Know India
Know Buddha, Know Life

Without Buddha and Dr.Ambedkar, India would be a totally devastated & utterly 100% Corrupt Nation.



On this April 14 the Great Day of "Father of Modern India Dr.B.R.Ambedkar",
Let the World Know and Celebrate a Real Hero of Humanity

Monday, April 4, 2011

I WAS GANDHI’S BOYFRIEND by Paul Rudnick

AS GANDHI’S BOYFRIEND

by Paul RudnickAPRIL 11, 2011

According to a new biography by Joseph Lelyveld, the love of Mahatma Gandhi’s life was a German-Jewish bodybuilder named Hermann Kallenbach. “Your portrait (the only one) stands on my mantelpiece in my bedroom,” Gandhi wrote to Kallenbach. “The mantelpiece is opposite to the bed.”

KOCHI, India—Gandhi is still so revered in India that a book about him that few Indians have read and that hasn’t even been published in this country has been banned in one state and may yet be banned nationwide.
—The Times
I know that some people still don’t buy that Gandhi was gay, but let me tell you, from experience, Gandhi liked guys. I first met him when he came to see my ice show in Nepal, which was called “Holiday on Dirt.” Gandhi came backstage and he told me, “I very much enjoyed watching you pretend to ice-skate, in your tight pants.” I asked him, “Um, so why are you wearing a diaper?” And he explained that his outfit was a traditional Indian dhoti, and I said, “Well, you look like the New Year’s baby.” And he said, “You are so handsome when you are not speaking.”
Then he told me about how he made the fabric for his dhoti himself, on his spinning wheel and hand loom, and I said, “Whoa, are you, like, a Native American lesbian?” And he said, “I will tell you over dinner.”
Full Piece at the following Link:
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2011/04/11/110411sh_shouts_rudnick#ixzz1IYCsV2H4
Paul Rudnick: “I Was Gandhi’s Boyfriend”: newyorker.com

Saturday, April 2, 2011

INDIA- Bans Freedom of Speech & Rights to tell the Truth to the Public

Modi the Ultimate undemocratic Politician of India bans gandhi book in Gujarat.
In the aftermath of a Wall Street Journal Book Review of a recent "gandhi" book written by the former New York Times Editor and Pulitzer Prize Winner Joseph Lelyveld, casteists Indians invaded WSJ commentary page with obnoxious and undemocratic comments made against the author of the book without even having the slightest idea that they are spewing venom against the authour who himself was a gandhian biographer who has done tremendous work on gandhi. Yet another spectacular display of Indians ignorance can be read at the commentary page on WSJ.

It is the reviewer Andrew Roberts who dissected out the book and gandhi's life, who presented several pathological life styles and failures of the great soul, or is it a great soul?. There are lots of facts about gandhi has been buried alive by Indians, especially casteist Indians as well as the state that portrays gandhi as some kind of a demi-god or the representative of the nation of India, while so many great men and woman who fought for India's freedom and nation building leaders are long forgotten and trashed by the same procrastinators of India.

Most ironic of the Indians behavior is to ban or hurt someone who give them messages, they will kill the messenger once and for all, it is the tradition of thousands of years of attitudes of Indians. As the author claims in this "Hindu Daily News", not a single person had any opportunity to even look at the Book, let alone reading it.

This is the heights of a society that every heresay can lead to ban a book, arrest a person or put an innocent in Jail, there is no law and there is no rights, ofcourse there is no freedom in India. Any time there is a book or movie or some critical analysis of hindu religious books or figures or people like gandhi, the immediate reaction of the state and the people is to Ban, Ban...Ban....the Most Undemocratic and utterly Pathological mindset never seen in any other nation, is India. Oh it is gandhi's India you see, the truth will set Free was the "mantra" gandhi used to dupe the people, actually, the Truth about gandhi is beating him so hard, several decades after his death, the truth still haunts gandhi and his procrastinators. 


UPA government not to ban book on GandhijiSmita GuptaAuthor's condemnationCondemning the idea of a ban, Mr. Lelyveld was quoted earlier this week as saying, “In a country that calls itself a democracy, it is shameful to ban a book that no one has read, including the people who are doing the banning. They should at least make an effort to see the pages that they think offend them before they take such an extreme step.”
Giving strength to the line now taken by the UPA government is the fact that intellectuals and relatives of Mahatma Gandhi have opposed a ban, saying that it would not be a “democratic response.”
The Gandhi none of us knew
by Rev. Irene Monroe
Bay Windows Contributor
Wednesday Mar 30, 2011


It has been not quite a century since Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was assassinated in January 1948 at the age of 78 in New Delhi, India. The bevy of hagiographies written about him is now being replaced with truth-telling biographies about the Gandhi nobody knew.

The most recent one is titled Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India by Joseph Lelyveld.

And according to Lelyvard, Gandhi the pacifist was a wife-beater, denied sex to his wife for decades, was purported to be a "celibate" living life as an ascetic, but actually was a pedophile who ritualized sleeping naked with underage girls in order to test "the ferocity of his sexual desires," and at one point left his wife for a male lover.

BY PAM LOBLEY, NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM,  NOW THAT'S FUNNY
Joseph Lelyveld, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, has new book out about Mahatma Gandhi. In the book, he hints at a homosexual relationship between Gandhi and a German man, Herman Kallenbach.The book, Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India, has been banned in a western state of India. Other parts of India are considering the ban as well.

Special Correspondent
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: P. Parameswaran, director of Bharateeya Vichara Kendram, has called for a social boycott of a book on Mahatma Gandhi written by Joseph Lelyveld.


WESTERN BUDDHISTS TO LEARN FROM AMERICAN JEWS By PPLakshmanJi

I read with great interest "A Challenge to Buddhism" by Ven.Bhikkhu Bodhi that I was fortunate to read on the internet. 
We all know and revere Bhikkhu Bodhi. His talks and writings are always inspiring and  provocative. His distress evident in the above-mentioned article will be shared by all those who read it.
Of late we have been hearing a lot about the expression  "Engaged Buddhism". I find the expression mostly among the Mahayanists rather than among the Therawadis in the Western world. Mahayanists also use the expression "Humanistic Buddhism". To everyone who is not a Buddhist, it simply means Applied Buddhism or practical Budhism.
There has been  challenges to Buddhism in all eras. To my mind, there is no greater solution, no enduring remedy to the challenges in any era than the creation of Buddha's disciples known as Arhants who would advice and give lead to people to solve their problems as and when they arise, regardless of color, race, creed or nation. Whatever the problems - social problems like injustice or natural catastrophies like earthquake or global problems like climate change 
-  the cutting edges of weapons in Buddhist armory to counter them always lay in individuals in the first instance, and subsequently in their organizations, with or without the support of governments. Therawada Buddhism which I am more familiar with has had a monastic order in place since Buddha'.s time where trained monks are turned out in large numbers, year after year, in Therawada countries -  Sri Lanka, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia.  Many of the trained monastics become bodhisatvas (seekers of enlightenment), few if any become fully enlightened worthy ones known as arhants who are worthy to advice and lead. Finding arhants is like mining for diamonds.
Many of the social service organizations, Buddhist or other,  fail because of the absence of arhants, the fully enlightened ones, to lead them. The fully enlightened arhants emerge out of the multitudes of monks, worthy to advice and worthy to lead..  
 
There have been a plethora of institutions with long histories of social service like the CARE, the American Peace Core, Red Cross, YMCAs, and many others. Bhikkhu Bodhi has mentioned American Jewish World Service (AJWS) which is relatively a new organization like the Islamic Relief USA and others, all of which "aiming to alleviate suffering, hunger, illiteracy and disease, worldwide". On the other hand,  organizations with limited goals also take birth like the Armenian Relief Society with its limited goal of serving the humanitarian needs of the Armenian people worldwide, who still suffer from the effects of its underreported holocaust of early 20th century. I wonder what make AJWS exceptional. 

Has AJWS  tested its declared objective of social service on the soils of Israel's next door neighbors or in the  Arab sector inside Israel itself?  Some material on the internet gave me the impression that AJWS perhaps took birth out of cognitive dissonance among American Jews suffering from psychological conflicts between incompatible beliefs and attitudes.  
The highly efficient style of working of organizations like AJWS backed by media support can make favourable impression of them even if they do not have enlightened leaders and violate one or more of the five precepts that the Buddhists always practise in all their endeavours.
Social service is the objective of most organizations, but they have besides social service something which make them distinct. For instance, the U.S. after taking thousands of lives in Japan with their nuclear armory seek to create a better image of the U.S.with its Peace Core volunteers, YMCAs seek to spread Christian messages behind their altruism,  what if AJWS seeks to show Jewish presence in world service, no matter that the Jews are only 0.2 percent of a world population of 7 billion.   
 
I wish to draw the attention of my readers to an organization which I had in  mind when I wrote earlier in this piece about arhants and searching for them like mining for diamonds. 
The organization is called Fo Guang Shan (FGS), which means literally "Buddha's Light Mountain", and its organizer is Master Venerable Hsing Yun, born in mainland China in 1927. Master Venrable Hsing Yun founded FGS in 1967 in a remote quiet area in the hills of  Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan. It is a Mahayana Buddhist order promoting Humanistic Budddhism, a modern Chinese philosophy. Humanistic Buddhism aims to make Buddhism relevant in the world and in the people's lives and hearts. It is a monastic order and not a theoretical school of thought per se.
In May 1997, Hsing Yun got the gates of FGS closed to the general public in order to give a cloistered atmosphere to the temple residents.
But, following the plea of the public headed by the President of Taiwan, FGS reopened the gates in December 2000. In the last 40 years since its inception, FGS has been remarkably successful in extending its services beyond Taiwan,  setting up temples and organizations in 173 countries and encompassing more than 3,500 monastics. FGS also created an affiliate in 1992, Buddha's  Light International Association (BLIA),  
which has now over 100 chapters in the world.  The monastic order represented by Fo Guang Shan and Buddha's Light International Association has now over a milliom followers worldwide. It has been said  "In Master Venerable Hsing Yun, Buddhism has found a reformer, an innovator and an educator. Under his strong  leadership, Buddhism has extended beyond traditional temple life to integrate and further enrich the modern city dwellers."
 
 P.P.Lakshman
December 18, 2008
 
 

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