Rogue economicTimes editor questions NRI’s patriotism

To know what this editorial says read the article   Turn away some of that NRI money

The article makes no sense and at best reflects the lack of understanding of market dynamics of buying and selling dollars in the open market through various schemes. How such an idiot could become an editor that too for a reputed economictimes paper is beyond my understanding.

Every exporter/importer including some government agencies involve some hedging to fend of currency fluctuations. At times, they short rupee and at some other times they short foreign currency. Do you call such activity unpatriotic?

I am interested in seeing this idiot who came up with this theory on economictimes.indiatimes.com
NRIs have been sending money from decades which actually filled the plates of government that helped them to import goods into the country. Sending dollars to India is not of a recent phenomenon. There will be flood of dollars in coming months due to low interest rates in US and how is this editor going to stop that is still unknown. Government on one hand is seeking cheap money and economictimes editorial staff is roguish and is resorting to jingoism without any purpose.

Filed under: Finance India, India blogs, Indian Bloggers, india wired , economictimes, NRI money, turn away nri money

Foort Wood incident explains confused state of mind of majority of Muslims.

Hasan’s act at a Military base in Texas will surely put many Muslims career in jeopardy in United States and outside. I hope not, but that is a reality that is unstoppable.

If Hasan is on US payroll and if he saw a conflict of interest between his duties as US military employee and as a true devotee of Islam, then he should have simply resigned from the job and join the Mosque. But, wait a minute, If he resigned who would pay his bills and who would give him and his family members food? Definitely not the local mosque and definitely not the Allah. These bastards want to enjoy the fruits of democracy, freedom and richness of other cultures but at the same time want to pursue a double life as a true Muslim too. If he was not allowed to resign, then he should not have joined the army in first place.

But wait a minute, Islam says that you cannot work for for-profit organizations and also arguably says that you cannot fight against muslims. It also says that you cannot cooperate with jews and Christians etc. That leaves very few places for Muslims to pursue their career and growth. These unwritten rules and tenets will isolate Muslims more to a point that they all need an Island to themselves to breathe and practise religion.

 

Who would trust fellow Muslims in their offices now? It is the Mosque that is breeding ground of terrorism. If cleric was not able to clear the confused mind of Hasan, then who should have done that?

Islam as a religion is good in books, but what is bad is its interpretation that is imbibed in the minds of millions that can dangerously affect Islam’s future.
Its time for the Clerics  to rethink on how to build a future version of this abused religion.

Destruction of Dollar value and Electric cars can stop the abuse of Islam. OPEC countries and many other Muslim oil producing countries have huge reserves of Dollars. It is these dollars that are sitting idle and spreading evil version of Islam. Dollars destruction would definitely put a brake on that. Electric cars would definitely push all Muslim countries to begging as they didn’t diversify at all all these years. They will then know how to co-exist and work hard.

Give all Muslims a big chunk of earth with no connectivity to the rest of the cultures and religion. Let them survive, breath and practise religion as they wish. Let us see, what will happen to them after 25 years. They will swim and runaway to the mighty shores of development, freedom of the rest of the world as there is no meaning to practising Religion in all its purity. Lol

Good luck to all my Muslim friends and this article  is no offence to them.
Thanks
Sri

Filed under: Finance India, India blogs, Indian Bloggers, india wired , fort, fort wood, hasan, islam, jihad, texas, texas military base

Jagan as CM of Andhra Pradesh?

On what basis is Jagan qualified to be Chief Minister? The current mess in Andhra Pradesh congress is the creation of YSR. He made sure that no one gets elected to Assembly on congress ticket who can challenge him.  He carefully selected toothless leaders and also gave them free rein to loot the state. He implemented schemes for poor only with the tax payers money, but didn’t work hard to increase the tax revenue of the state to help sustain the social schemes he introduced.

All the Ministers and MLAs who are rallying for his candidature should bow their heads in shame for the utter irresponsible behavior. This display of immaturity is only going to hurt congress in future.

Challenge to Jagan:  Accept Presidentship of Andhra Pradesh congress unit and ride it through next assembly elections. Show us your maturity, leadership qualities and above all management skills. Running a newspaper with tax payers money is not business acumen.

Your silence on this issue is mischievous at best and sinister.

God save telugu people from rudderless congress party.

Filed under: Finance India, India blogs, Indian Bloggers, india wired , A.P, Andhra, Andhra Pradesh, AP, jagan, jagan as CM, Jagan as CM campaign, YSR

1998 Nuclear fusion tests VS Political & Scientific fusion

Today’s Political and Scientific community’s clash over 1998 nuclear tests has yielded more energy in units of kiltons than the actual nuclear tests.

Everybody be it Missile man Azad or Scientific adviser to Government Kakodkar or scientists are making vague claims of success or failures. Taxpayers need more vivid explanation and answers about past and future tests.

Why all those idiots who are shouting now were silent all these years? What right does Former president Azad has to validate the tests?

Kakodkar is a pure political person. There is no basis for us to take his word at its face value. He initially didn’t support Indo US civil nuclear pact and sided with BJP. However, he later retracted and started supporting the deal. We are still not clear about his U turn.

BJP needs to come out and explain the need to go nuclear in 1998 in a rush.

Credibility less scientific community is questioning the credibility of 1998 tests and our nuclear deterrence.  I has a taxpayer ask and also seek the credibility of our nuclear establishment first before anything else. How come you are raring your heads now after a decade? Your salaries are being paid by us and not the political outfit that runs the government. You should be working for us and not for NDA or UPA.

Filed under: India blogs, Indian Bloggers, india wired , 1998, 1998 nuclear fusion, 1998 nuclear tests, fizzle

Chandrayaan-I mission failure and ISRO’s bad attitude

It is quiet unusual for a premier organization like ISRO to speak like an immature kid when faced with a failure. Rather than admit it on the face and ask for an apology from taxpayers, the chairperson went on saying the following which reflects very poorly on his professional ethics and work attitude.

1. Even though Chadrayaan – I died a premature death, we achieved 95% of the goals.
2. US and Europe were also satisfied with the results.

To Honorable chairperson of ISRO : If you have achieved 95% of the goals within few months of launch, why did you plan for 2 year research programe with Chadrayaan – I? Why waste taxpayers money? Why do you need a certificate from US and Europe to pat on your back?
In all this failure, where did you speak to the tax payers on Chandrayaan’s mission?

You have not taken us into confidence in your mission and are now seeking refuge by making stupid statements. Come out clean and boldly accept that its was an error on your teams part and go on with Chandrayaan – II. Moon mission is not new and there is no rocket science in it. US, RUSSIA have accomplished them years ago and you can collaborate with them to reduce failure rate. The recent failure which is related to estimating moon’s temperature is trivial and this doesn’t bode well or instill confidence in us about your future endeavors.

Filed under: Finance India, India blogs, Indian Bloggers, india wired , chandrayaan, chandrayaan - I, chandrayaan - II, ISRO, Madhavan, Moon's temperature, raising moon's orbit

Scrap the law that says Child labor is crime.

Obviously abuse of any kind especially child abuse should be punishable. So, Urvashi should be punished for abusing the 10 year old. This issue should be treated as a child abuse and should not be mixed up with Child labor issue as the two are different issues and are very complex to deal with. Even though urvashi committed 2 crimes under existing laws, we should not be screaming about child labor as there are many who break this law. There are many construction companies who employ child labors. There are many kids employed by film industry and film fraternity. It would be very easy to catch many child labor offenders and our jails won’t be enough to fill them up.

Until the following is achieved

1. Compulsory education to all children below 14 years and a monthly remuneration to the poor families who send their kids to schools.
2. Banning begging by children below 14 years
3. Rigorous punishment for employing children.

Unless the above conditions are met  and few more holes that i may not list  here are covered by the government, we cannot put in a law that bans Child labor. It is very easy to make a law, but to create an environment where there is an incentive for children under 14 coming from poor families to go to school is difficult. Otherwise, these kids who by virtue of law are put out of workl force and hence  may end up begging or resort to crime without work.

Zoya Akhtar says we need strong laws to prevent Child labor. But how can she be blind to Child artists (especially reality shows based on children) in film industry? That is also considered Child labor. How can she remain blind to many under aged children working directly and or indirectly for film industry? These are something closer to her profession and she should look there rather than echoing a well known position on Child Labor.

We can sort of agree on a middle ground to help under aged children in the interim. Anyone who employs children should also take care of their education. It is sort of adoption and creating a good environment for the kids in return for help from them.

Government should create evening schools and colleges for such children. This is one such solution that makes sense for countries like India.

Farah Khan has a point that there are two sides to this issue.

Let us not create laws that are meaningless. Let us look at the Indian context of this problem rather than echo a position that suits Western countries. There will be other fallouts in reaction to banning child labor that will be impossible to deal with in India. Let us plug other fallouts of which i listed few.

Filed under: India blogs, Indian Bloggers, child abuse, child labor, india wired , child abuse, child labor, farah khan, suchitra, urvashi, zoya akhtar

True colors of Advani are slowly cropping up

Advani (yes, i deliberately omitted ‘ji’) is not only opportunistic (recollect the indo-US civil nuclear deal),  very weak (remember Jinnah comments and return from Pakistan), but is also a liar.

He brazenly lied twice and in Jaswanth Singh’s own words, he completely knew of flying terrorists to Kandahar and also he is the one who stopped action against murderer modi.

To protect Party, Advani has undermined the country and its secular credentials. Rightly and justifiably people rejected the BJP party.

Jaswanth Singh: Thanks for revealing the facts, but why did you keep silient all these years? You would have still covered up these things for Adavni and may even have witnessed this Lal Salaam Advani (remeber Advani took the side of CPI & CPM during no trust motion against UPA w.r.t Indo-US civil nuclear deal. That is why i call him Lal Salaam Advani)) taking oath has PM, had BJP won elections. So, what should we call you?

–sri

Filed under: Finance India, India blogs, Indian Bloggers, india wired , Advani, gujarat carnage 2002, jaswanth, jaswanth singh, kandahar, lal salaam advani, modi

‘My Name is Khan’ Movie Review: Thumbs Down

My Name is Khan is a bollywood movie based on racial profiling of Muslims particularly of Asian descent.  This movie is yet to be released, but with the background of the recent controversy surrounding Shah Rukh Khan at Newark International airport w.r.t his 2 hour ordeal by immigration officials, we can conclude that movie is based on pre conceived notion of bias towards muslims by united states. I can guess that this will be a big budget sub standard movie that is taken solely to en cash on the negative sentiments about US war on terrorism, US immigration systems and rules.

The way Shah Rukh Khan cried foul of racial discrimination because of his last name being Khan explains his level of understanding of the subject. I will not be the one to watch this movie in the first week of its release. This movie at best is as good as his attitude towards immigration official and as good as his understanding of rules and regulations.

Shah Rukh Khan is now on the same scale as Emraan hashimi who has scant respect towards rules and regulations. They do not have patience to understand nor follow procedures to get their ends met, so they take the shortcut of abusing their star status by crying foul in the media who as usually are hungry for any content.

Emraan has no patience to get No Object certificate, so he threatens the residential society of racial discrimination in media.
Shah Rukh Khan does not have patience to answer his questions straight nor he thinks he should be treated on par with other passengers. So he takes the shortcut to the media with a case of Religious profiling.

The same thing happened with former Indian cricket team captain (Azharuddin) who also took shelter of belonging to minority community and cried foul of bias after serving 10+ years as cricketer in Indian squad.
In not so distant past, Kambli another cricketer from minority community cried foul before media of bias again after serving so many years in the India cricket squad. His complain is all about not getting enough number of times a chance to prove his mettle.

I belong to majority community and media has no place for my tears. O lord, give me a chance to be reborn again as minority community member, if i happened to be re-born to  Indian parents.

Filed under: India blogs, Indian Bloggers, VIP, india wired , 3 khans, bias, Khan, movie review, newark international airport, racial discrimination, religious profiling, shah rukh khan, srk, three khans, VIP, vip treatment

Even God is second in line to a VIP: This happens only in India

VIP culture is creating a very bad name to India. Unless Government steps in and issues strong statement and policy change, things will never improve. We will continue to see this over and over forever.

Redefinition: VIP means ‘Very Ignorant Person’.

While Government takes a stand on this issue, India should start issuing VIP cards to all VIPs in India in addition to Diplomatic passports to those who served and or serving  higher up in Government.  VIP cards should be given to all Sportsmen,  Sportswomen,  Bollywood stars, MPs, MLAs etc. The VIP card should strictly specify the following protocol
a) All employees of all Airlines, airports, government offices,  monuments, railway stations and bus stations of any country/state anywhere in the world, upon seeing the VIP card should bow their head to the person showing his/her  VIP card and walk him through a special door to the destination bypassing the commoners.

b) All VIPs should never be made to stand in line or wait for any service anywhere on this planet. They should be the first one to get service, even if God is standing in line.

c) All employees and or common public anywhere on this planet should act as if they know the VIP personally . This VIP should be idolized like a God for 5 minutes and then accompany him to the intended destination.  Showering praises and flowers at his/her feet is also acceptable, but watering his feet is more accepted and welcome.

Government of India should talk to Oxford dictionary officials and get the word ‘chamchagiri’ defined as this is important word to be known and well understood by everyone on this planet, so that they can treat Indian VIPs good enough.

Did i miss anything?

Oh yes i forgot about Bollywood. The term bollywood should be taught to every kid on this planet before alphabets are taught and more importantly, they should have a special chapter on Khans.

Filed under: India blogs, VIP, india wired , Chamchagiri, Indian VIP treatment, Very Ignorant Person, VIP

Fraud by ICMR officials unearthed by Hindustan Times

Dr VM Katoch, director-general of ICMR, and Dr RK Srivastava, director general of health services in the ministry of health and family welfare  and scores of other officials have alleged to have committed fraud missusing our tax money according to HT.

Please follow up the link here

I would request my readers contact the authors and contributors of this report for further updates and also to congratulate them if true.
We need to highlight this alleged fraud to the fullest extent and get to the bottom of this issue.

icmr site: http://icmr.nic.in

Thanks
sri

Filed under: Finance India, ICMR Fraud, India blogs, Indian Bloggers, india wired , Dr RK Srivastava, Dr VM Katoch, ICMR, director general of health services, ministry of health and family welfare, highest medical research body