Let law be the judge on rapists, 

not power-hungry politicians

My thoughts on Quota Goondas trying to fish in the troubled waters following the aftermath of Delhi gangrape of a 23-year-old girl. 

The gangrape of the Delhi girl has unleashed a clamor to “hang the rapists” from innocent youths who are too shocked and angry that such a brutal and unthinkable incident occurred in a debased Congress-ruled burg which also happens to be the capital of India. Though what happened to the Delhi girl is utterly shocking and no words are enough to condemn it and which can easily be counted as the rarest of rare case the issue is not as simple as it sounds.  We have surfeit of laws to tackle rapists and hang them if need be. What is worrying is that the craven political class, I fear, could see a sinister opportunity to unite among themselves to keep India as its permanent fiefdom in nailing one more nail in India’s divided social fabric coffin to fetch a few additional marginal votes. See the way they did repeatedly in giving quotas for the asking to eradicate backwardness when the Dalit rich are getting fatter. By passing a law “death to a rapist (maybe on suspicion)” politicians can secure their future in further compartmentalizing people of India into irreconcilable groups of men and women who are to be always at loggerheads. This could set the trend of political discourse and blackmail to settle scores in whatever way the dominant ruling rogues deem it fit.  This is Machiavelli at its worst and only Congress has the gumption to resort to such degraded vulgar thinking.

Yes, rape usually occurs when a man imposes himself on a woman without her consent, by force or when she is under aged (statutory rape). Does this mean women cannot turn rapist when they can turn into women dadas as seen from Mayawati incident when she makes her slaves dance to her tune, especially the chief one who has shown an excellent elasticity of spine in kowtowing? India's moral fibre is in a completely weakened state today and it is puerile to think that woman are more honest and decent than men. It depends on the individual character and not on the class. Let us not make the same quota mistake here too as we term the rich Dalits poor and shower them with more benefits !

Certainly it cannot be denied that like degrading the people of India into eternal backwardness as symbolized by quotas there is a move over the past decade or so to bring women domination in all spheres of life by looking down upon men. Women’s rule after eons of men’s domination may not be a bad idea after all provided it has purity of thought and a sense of well-being for the country. But the way Indian politics has hurtled to its divide-and-rule nadir — and the way our male PM is told to behave by a woman without he being allowed to exert his trappings of power — all point to a dangerous, diabolical trend that can have far reaching consequences for all of us, both men and women.

My fear is that a strong, blanket anti-rape law in a troubled society such as ours will weaken our resolve to see the truth, stop lies from being spread and will allow the traitor politician to secure a hold over the beggared classes of India.

Already there are many horrible true life stories about draconian laws that women have begun using lately against men and as statistics shows innumerable men are already ruined and many have turned destitute. I am referring in particular to pro-women draconian law Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005 (PWDVA 2005) and 498(A) (mental and physical harassment of a married woman). There are still innumerable draconian laws such as IPC 406, 306, 304B, Cr Pc 125, Section 24 of Hindu Marriage Act etc that have brought untold miseries to husbands and their close relatives at the hands of law and law enforcing authorities. Anybody can verify the statistics if they take the pain to go through it and see how women easily get away even after it becomes clear that the woman had foisted a false case. The men then have no right to punish the women who had foisted false cases. This is the law as it stands in India today !

The Supreme Court itself has termed the anti-men’s laws as legal terrorism and totally unconstitutional especially the Section 498 (A) of the Indian Penal Code. “The rise in the number of cases registered under Section 498 (A) shows that the act has not been serving its purpose. It’s more used for settling scores than to protect women,” the Supreme Court had observed. The flaw in the Protection of Women Against Domestic Violence Act is that it is not gender neutral and heavily tilted towards women. How can that be with justice being blind in one eye?

The laws as they exist today have many loopholes exploited as they are by unscrupulous women and their families. As per existing data on an average of 22,000 divorce cases are being filed every year in metropolitan cities which is alarming to say the least.

That is not all. What is worrisome is that ignorant are harassed unduly when the PI of a police station registers 498A against the accused whimsically. A PI is supposed to take nod from the DCP before he acts. But that usually doesn't happen when the accused is from lower strata of society. Even if someone dares to question the PI on the law he is browbeaten into submission as experience shows.

But what happens after the present law being mulled over is passed and the men are, say, rounded up on suspicion and sometimes led to their gallows? Certainly nothing can be done about it as even the courts will wash their hands away as they have done in case of invidious and treacherous quotas. Repeal or amending the law too will be out of question as it would require 2/3rd majority in Parliament which will be hard to come by and the damage that it will do will be as permanent as the quotas that has divided India into two permanent vertical halves— the quota class and the non-quota class.

Let us now come to the basic truth. Does rape mean, as is commonly understood, only the woman being the victim? The truth is that women raping men are rarely heard in India, though there are rising cases in foreign countries such as in the USA.

Rape can be used by men against women, and women against men though men on average are stronger than women. However, victimizing others is often not about physical strength but about the will and desire to dominate or manipulate others. This desire is a human trait, not just a male one. In addition, men are penalized with jail or worse if they use physical strength to hurt women while the contrary has not been heard of.  

Interestingly a BBC report last year had said that Zimbabwean police arrested three women after a year of investigation on rape charges. The report said the police believed that there was a nationwide syndicate of women raping men, possibly to use their semen for use in rituals that claim to make people wealthy.

Even the PC American Bar Association admits on its website on domestic violence that 7.6% of men were raped or physically assaulted by a current or former spouse, cohabiting partner, or dating partner/acquaintance. According to the National Clearinghouse on Family Violence in Canada:

In a study of male victims, 60% reported being abused by females (Johnson and Shrier, 1987). The same rate was found in a sample of college students (Fritz et al., l 981). In other studies of male university and college students, rates of female perpetration were found at levels as high as 72% to 82% (Fromuth and Burkhart, 1987, 1989; Seidner and Calhoun, 1984). Bell et al. (1981) found that 27% of males were abused by females. In some of these types of studies, females represent as much as 50% of sexual abusers (Risin and Koss, 1987). Knopp and Lackey (1987) found that 51% of victims of female sexual abusers were male.  

There are one-track minded women activists in India like Flavia Agnes, a Mumbai-based lawyer, who debunks offhand that women can ever rape men. "To presume that women can rape men is rather outrageous," Agnes had told a TOI reporter adding "While women can sexually harass men, they can't sexually assault them. There have been no such cases anywhere."  

Fair enough. But what happens if it happens in future? Is Agnes willing to give a guarantee to the contrary?

Instead of being seized by the mob lynch mentality let us stand up for the rights of boys and men just as we are now doing for girls and women who are abused by those of the opposite gender. Can rape be okay just because the victim is male and the woman is the accuser? Let us not walk into the political trap that is being sprung on the lines of eternal quota-divide.

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Quotas & Secularism 2 mortal enemies of Modi

Totally secularised and quotaised Bihar CM Nitish Kumar once got the big end of the stick from Modi. "See what he (Nitish) has done to Bihar by creating more pockets of backwardness like MBCs," Modi said expressing his disgust. But unfortunately the whole secular Indian political lot, including some from the Delhi BJPwallahs, were standing thick and thin with Nitish. This is what happens when a Constitution proviso for temporary quotas is used to degrade the very Constitution in pursuit of bloody votes.

Every Indian is crying for a politician who has the spine and patriotism to make India a super power. A super power that can challenge China by exhibiting its self-respect by unifying the nation through brotherhood and development. The country badly needs leadership and determination to create jobs so that people's welfare become the foremost aspect of running and sustaining the democracy, a democracy that is floundering on the shoals of quotas. Instead the treacherous political lot is more intent on degrading the small yet last vestiges of meritocracy in the higher echelons of Indian bureaucracy through promotional quotas.

For the Indians who wish to see a strong and glorified India - which is still a pipe dream -  an avatar like Narendra Modi is godsend. He is the only man among the India's craven political lot who seems to have risen above invidious caste and religious political discourse. This message is clear to Modi's masters in Delhi who in turn eye him suspiciously without realising that if BJP has to be saved in 2014 it is only Modi who can do that commendable feat.

What if Modi was not there as the CM when Godhra carnage took place? Wouldn't the carnage been swept under the carpet with the Congress' sense of perverted secularism prevailing in this accursed country? Nehru made a grievous blunder for his self-interest to keep the Congress in the saddle of power by bringing in secularism which means Muslims are a separate lot different from Hindus and no religious barricades can be enforced on them by the Constitution that in a way infringes on the very spirit of a modern Constitution. Worse it was made to believe that Muslims will never kill unless in retaliation let alone burn a train carrying innocent men, women and children. This was like the propaganda of Nehruvian socialists that a communist country will never attack any country unless to defend itself. Nehruvian secularism can easily be turned into fraud as his progenies have clearly demonstrated in demonising Modi who has worked hard to bring Gujarat to a level of prosperity without allowing the state from slipping into backwardness at the altar of quota politics.

Nehru's secularism is indeed a curse for India. It has created a fertile ground for Fifth Columnists to plan second dismemberment of India. Worse it has led the Congress to unite non-patriotic forces to help the dynasty to flourish and plunder the exchequer with impunity. Modi has seen to it all but his party chief morons who rule Delhi office are siding with the treacherous Congress which is bent upon setting the Maya cat among the nationalist pigeons by bringing in promotion quotas undermining the very basic structure of the Constitution. Congress is knowingly playing mischief with the Constitution by amending its basic structure through the 117th amendment. And Arun Jaitley is playing second fiddle to the Congress to rope in Dalit votes. Does this moron think Dalit votes will come pouring by shedding crocodile tears for the Dalit poor when it is the Dalit rich who will corner all the benefits? Is there any cure for this madness?

Modi knows it very well the way headless BJP is malfunctioning. There was clear indication that BJP sultans were not happy to give full credit to Modi's for his brilliant victory a third time. Seshadri Chari who is the pseudo spokesperson of the BJP gave sufficient hint that the victory was more of the Gujarat BJP rather than Modi.

Modi is definitely at the crossroads of India's destiny. If Indians can grab him making him the prime minister then there is some ray of hope. But the Congress Machiavellis are too strong to give way given their vast resources in both men and money. Will a decadent India, with its vast swathe of man-made poverty, rise above petty quota consideration in experiencing the joy of Narendra Modi as the PM? Sadly, only time will tell.

How Prophetic Churchill was !!!

 

 

1. TATAs took 100 years to become billionaires, Ambanis took 50 years(after utilizing all its resources), whereas Robert Vadra took less than 10 years to become fastest multi billionaire.
2. All newspapers are scared to discuss the story of Robert Vadra because of severe threat from Sonia Gandhi and Congress govt.
3. After Robert Vadra got married with Priyanka Gandhi, Robert's father committed suicide under mysterious circumstances, his brother found dead in his Delhi residence and his sister found dead in mysterious car accident. These reports were not published in any Indian media.
4. He is having stakes in Malls in premier locations of India, he is having stakes in DLF IPL, and DLF itself. He was involved in CWG corruption - DLF was responsible for development of Commonwealth games, and Kalmadi gave favouritism to DLS because of Robert Vadra's direct interest and business partnership with DLF.
5. Robert Vadra owns many Hilton Hotels including Hilton Gardens New Delhi
6. Robert Vadra's association with Kolkata Knight Ryders has never been reported by Indian media
7. He has 20% ownership in Unitech, Biggest beneficiaryownership of 2G Scam. Because of Robert's involvement in this scam, there are concerns that investigation would never reach decisive conclusion 

8. He owns prime property in India specially commercial hubs, and taxi business but for Air Taxi. He owns few private planes as well.
9. He has direct link with Italian businessman Quatrochi.

10. The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security has created a record of sorts by according special privilege to Robert Vadra, which entails him to walk in and out of any Indian airports without being subject to any security check. Only the President of India , Vice-President and a handful of other top dignitaries were accorded this rare distinction.

As a concerned citizen, I would like to know from the Government as to what was the special quality in Mr. Vadra that merited this rare Honor. The government has no right to go in for such largess that concerns with the security of the general public just for pleasing the son-in-law of Sonia Gandhi.

Skewed policies to blame for diesel hike

Monday, 17 September 2012 16:06

The weighted average price of Indian crude imports was approximately US$ 22 a barrel in 2001-02. A decade later in 2011-12 this was well in excess of US$ 110 – a 400% increase! Put differently, the US$ had significantly depreciated against crude oil – a fact that is lost on most debating the diesel price rise. That is not all. The Rupee was approximately Rs 48 to a US$ in 2001-02. Over the decade it has depreciated by close to 12%. Put pithily, the Indian consumer faces a double whammy when it comes to the diesel price increase – a massive depreciation of the US$ against crude oil and on top of it, a depreciation of the Rupee against the Dollar. Hence, in Rupee terms crude has increased close to 500% in the past decade. Nevertheless, the price of diesel to consumers in Chennai has increased from approximately Rs 20 in 2001-02 to a shade lower than Rs 50 now – an increase of a "whopping" 150%. Despite such massive hike in prices, the fact remains that it has mercifully not kept pace with the international prices of crude expressed in Rupee terms. Consequently, diesel has been substantially subsidised in domestic markets. The net effect – the subsidy only on account of diesel works out to Rs 29,000 crores for the first quarter ending June 2012 (well in excess of Rs 100,000 crores for the entire year). Surely, one will agree that this is becoming an unworkable proposition. It may not be out of place to mention that we allowed subsidised diesel to fuel our SUVs for our rich, when in fact we should have used this money for funding education, health and infrastructure. One way out was possibly to cut the excise duty (ED). But there is a catch – the ED on diesel works out to a mere Rs 2.06 per litre leaving very little headroom to manoeuvre. Let us also not forget that the petroleum sector is the largest revenue earner for the central government. Hence, any cut in ED could possibly be counter-productive. The increase in international price of crude is the outcome of the weakness of US$. One way out of the imbroglio is to facilitate Rupee appreciation against US$ to counter the US$ depreciation against crude oil. Inexplicably, Indian policy framers have been wedded to a weak Rupee without exploring any alternatives. And that is the crux of the issue. But a weak Rupee has its upsides. It encourages exports and some of us are beneficiaries of this policy. Secondly, it favours foreign investments into India. Marginal depreciation of the Rupee over the decade was a huge deterrent for foreign investors to exit India. Having entered when the Rupee was 45 to a US$, who would like to exit when the Rupee is 55? That implies a neat loss of Rs 10 for every dollar invested in India, irrespective of the profit or loss made by such investment. That is how, by a planned devaluation of the Rupee, RBI has protected the Indian stock markets. A government that often measures its performance through stock market indices is bound to genuflect in front of foreign investors. Higher diesel price is an outcome of such skewed economic policies where the government exists by the Sensex, for the Sensex and of the Sensex. In the process, if the common man has to pay a higher price for diesel to protect stock markets, the thinking in the government seems to be "so be it." http://www.deccanchronicle.com/editorial/op-ed/skewed-policies-blame-diesel-hike-045

From The Heart Of A Muslim

From The Heart Of A Muslim By Tawfik Hamid"I am a Muslim by faith, a Christian by spirit, a Jew by heart, and above all I am a human being." ~ Dr. Tawfik Hamid.Dr. Hamid is an Egyptian scholar and author of the article. The world needs more people like him---ones who have the courage to face-up to reality. I was born a Muslim and lived all my life as a follower of Islam.  After the barbaric terrorist attacks done by the hands of my fellow Muslims everywhere on this globe, and after the too many violent acts by Islamists in many parts of the world, I feel responsible as a Muslim and as a human being to speak out and tell the truth to protect the world and Muslims as well from a coming catastrophe and war of civilizations. I have to admit that our current Islamic teaching creates violence and hatred toward non-Muslims. We Muslims are the ones who need to change. Until now we have accepted polygamy, the beating of women by men, and killing those who convert from Islam to other religions. We have never had a clear and strong stand against the concept of slavery or wars, to spread our religion and to subjugate others to Islam and force them to pay a humiliating tax called jizia. We ask others to respect our religion while all the time we curse non-Muslims loudly (in Arabic) in our Friday prayers in the mosques. What message do we convey to our children when we call the Jews "descendants of the pigs and monkeys"? [Yet, both Arabs and Jews are descendants of Ibrahim (Abraham)!] Is this a message of love and peace, or a message of hate? I have been into [Christian] churches and [Jewish] synagogues where they were praying for Muslims. While all the time, we curse them, and teach our generations to call them "infidels", and to hate them. We immediately jump in a 'knee jerk reflex' to defend Prophet Mohammad when someone accuses him of being a pedophile while, at the same time, we are proud with the story in our Islamic books that he married a young girl seven years old [Aisha]when he was above 50 years old. I am sad to say that many, if not most of us, rejoiced in happiness after September 11th and after many other terror attacks. Muslims denounce these attacks to look good in front of the media, but we condone the Islamic terrorists and sympathise with their cause. Until now our 'reputable' top religious authorities have never issued a fatwa or religious statement to proclaim Bin Laden as an apostate, while an author, like Rushdie, was declared an apostate who should be killed according to Islamic Shari'a law just for writing a book criticizing Islam. Muslims demonstrated to get more religious rights as we did in France to stop the ban on the hijab (head scarf), while we did not demonstrate with such passion and in such numbers against the terrorist murders. It is our abs olute silence against the terrorists that gives the energy to these terrorists to continue doing their evil acts. We Muslims need to stop blaming our problems on others or on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. As a matter of honesty, Israel is the only light of democracy, civilization, and human rights in the whole Middle East. We kicked out the Jews with no compensation or mercy from most of the Arab countries to make them "Jews-free countries" while Israel accepted more than a million Arabs to live there, have their own nationality, and enjoy their rights as human beings. In Israel, women cannot be beaten legally by men, and any person can change his/her belief system with no fear of being killed by the Islamic law of 'apostasy,' while in our Islamic world people do not enjoy any of these rights. I agree that the 'Palestinians' suffer, but they suffer because of their corrupt leaders and not because of Israel.  It is not common to see Arabs who live in Israel leaving to live in the Arab world. On the other hand, we used to see thousands of Palestinians going to work with happiness in Israel, its 'enemy.' If Israel treats Arabs badly as some people claim, surely we would have seen the opposite happening. We Muslims need to admit our problems and face them. Only then we can treat them and start a new era to live in harmony with human mankind. Our religious leaders have to show a clear and very strong stand against polygamy, pedophilia, slavery, killing those who convert from Islam to other religions, beating of women by men, and declaring wars on non-Muslims to spread Islam. Then, and only then, do we have the right to ask others to respect our religion. The time has come to stop our hypocrisy and say it openly: 'We Muslims have to change.'

Last bugle by Congress Quota Goondas

UPA Congress goondas having read the writing on the wall and now they have no illusions that they will be thrown out lock, stock and barrel in 2014 for cheating the people of India. As is the practice of these goondas, they will go drowning but not before further damaging the delicate fabric of India’s social unity. Hum dub chuke sanam tumhe bhi sath leke dubenge! seems their theme song! And what came as coup de grace was the Promotion quotas! It is too disgusting for me to write further in expressing my anger and disgust.

Anti-national quota scums must be rejoicing for their coup in bringing an esoteric promotion quotas bill through amendment to the backward Constitution—essentially to blunt a Supreme Court decision against such quotas. It will certainly act as a red-herring to multifarious scams in which the UPA goondas are involved. More scams are in offing after the whopping coal scam of Rs 1,86,000 crore !!!

Congress goondas are assaulting the ethos of India with quota after quota. What is forgotten in this turmoil is the original sinner who is called Mahatma Gandhi and who is the father of the quotas. Many do  not know about what exactly is the Poona Pact.

The untouchables were forced to sign the Poona Pact that brought the communal award of a fixed quota of seats to be elected by separate electorate of untouchables and to be filled by persons belonging to the untouchables. How were they forced to sign? It was by the coercive fast of treacherous Gandhi !

Dr. Ambedkar, to his credit, denounced the fast the very next day saying “The untouchables were sad. They had every reason to be sad.” Ambedkar kept denouncing it till the end of his life in 1956. He denounced it in private discussions, public meetings, relevant writings, in fact on all the occasions that demanded denunciation.

 “There was nothing noble in the fast. It was a foul and filthy act. The fast was not for the benefit of the Untouchables. It was against them and was the worst form of coercion against helpless people to give up the constitutional safeguards of which they had been possessed under the Prime Minister’s Award and agree to live on the mercy of the Hindus. It was a vile and wicked act. How can the untouchables regard such a man as honest and sincere?”

Yet he succumbed to Gandhi’s treachery by enacting quotas for the SCs/STs albeit for only 10 years. Many also don’t know that Indian Constitution was virtually written by one-man army Ambedkar though a seven-member team was formed initially to write it.

Without going deep into the award suffice me to say that neither Ambedkar was happy with the Gandhian largesse nor did he stop abusing Gandhi.  

Gandhi was also responsible for bringing in and supporting Nehru over the head of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel for primeministership. Unlike Nehru Sardar was a statesman and visionary. Nehru had a Muslim tilted bias and insisted on taking control of Kashmir affairs while Sardar was trying to unify the nation. Had Sardar got into it Kashmir cancer would never have festered as it is today. Traitors have become rulers what can one say?

It is interesting to note that Prof Anil Gupta of IIM Ahmedabad had suggested to the then law minister Veerappa Moily not to purvey quotas left, right and centre. He pleaded for expansion of opportunities for first-generation learners to enter the educational system without the need to provide quota crutches. He said coaching to compete for the civil services and a mentoring and tracking system for those who did make the entry would bring a sea change in the way we live and think. Don’t treat the symptoms, he had warned. “The government cannot from time to time introduce reservations. A time comes in its life when it needs to show how really inclusive it is. There are several things the government should be doing in capacity building: invest more money on depressed candidates so that they can compete. But it chooses the easy way out.”

Quota Goondas ignored the suggestion as distributing quotas made them larger than life. This despite the courts consistently holding that there should be quantifiable data showing backwardness of a class and inadequacy of representation to have quotas. Efficiency in administration and a 50 per cent cap on reservations are other benchmarks it follows. But goondas who have land grabbed the Parliament have made it clear that they will hold caste and not class as the benchmark for deprivation.  

Promotion quotas will catapult the anti-national Congress into limelight once again as it will admirably polish off all the evidence in multifarious scams, the latest and not the last being the coal scam worth Rs 1,86,000 crore like they did by the simple expedient of burning all the files related to Adarsh by setting fire to the part of secretariat holding the files. If the goondas can do that so brazenly it is no surprise that they are stooping to new gutter level to bring in promotion quotas when there is already accelerated promotion for SCs/STs since last 50 years. In any Central government office a SC with 7 years experience can become a gazetted officer compared to 20 years of experience by general class.

Goondas have once again opened the Pandora’s Box with a new type of mischievous quotas. Goonda Mulayam is opposing it not because he loves to see a United and prosperous India. He is opposing because OBCs are not included. All he is saying is give more quotas not less. 

Backwardness has become a fashionable disease. Showing off one’s backwardness brings in laurels and elevates the moron who does it to new spiritual levels. Take for example, Parupalli Kashyap who made history at the London Olympics 2012 by reaching the quarters in men’s singles badminton event after defeating Sri Lanka`s Niluka Karunaratne. He showed excellent talent and the way he defeated the Sri Lankan made me think that he will win the gold easily. NO NO. When he faced the Malaysian Lee Chong Wei in the quarterfinals Kashyap was overpowered by the cancer of backwardness and went down tamely to Chong Wei. It was a SHAMELESS display of feeling weak and helpless and instead of getting brickbats the quota goondas heaped praises on his backwardness saying he was the first Indian in the quarters!! His defeat was made to stand on its head as some sort of achievement!

From the day anti-national Congress took over the reins of power after Independence it has indulged in a steady stream of rising corruption now reaching to astronomical proportions. Are quota goondas presuming that promotion quotas can wash away the sins of Congress and its astronomical loot? Had this money been spent on poor there would have been no need to bring in quotas in the first place!

The danger of promotion quotas is not so much as SCs/STs benefitting from it but to the fact that once the girl has been raped she becomes a fair game to all other rapists. Yes, others will demand today or tomorrow and whichever party is at the Centre will have to cave-in to broaden promotion quotas.