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Giga Democides against Hindus and the Dhimmitude of Harvard University

G.P. Srinivasan

Hindu Voice, Vol.10, Issue No.10, January 2012, Page 18.

The first Jihad came to India exactly 1299 years ago merely four years after the last day of prophet Mohamed on earth. Mohammed Bin Kasim invaded Sind in 712 AD. Denying Islam’s destructive role in Indian history is similar to the attempts made by some European writers who deny the Nazi Holocaust history and the role of European negationists who applaud Hitler’s reign and deny its horrors. Indian negationists eulogize Islamic rule and deny its billion fold murders and the catastrophe it wrought in Indian Social Cultural, Economic, Political and religious life. This article exposes the Giga Democides, carried out against Hindus, for 1324 years, by successive Islamic & Christian Governments.

According to a recent definition, Democide = Death by Government; or Successive governments; hostile to people whom they rule. The extermination of people is carried out over very long periods over large populations, over large areas, to the point of their total annihilation of the entire population.

The WTC 9/11 and after: The United States of America faced Jihad in its own soil for the first time only on September 11, 2001. Based on the long 1300 years of Hindu experience in facing jihads, the WTC attacks will not be last one on American soil. Take for example Somanatha Temple on the Gujarat coast of India. It was a major Hindu Pilgrim center. The destruction of Somanatha Temple is the case in point and should well serve as benchmark for the study of Islamic iconoclasm in India and the lessons it holds for America. The Somanatha was the WTC of India located on the western tip of India.

Perhaps it would do some good to America and World, if Mr. Obama educates himself on Islam, especially after his Cairo address in June 2009.

THE SACK OF SOMANATH (417 HIJRI 1026 CE)

It is indeed noticeable that after Somanatha expedition (417 Hijri1026 CE), a deed fired the imagination of the Islamic world, caliphal-Quadir Billah himself celebrated the victory with great éclat. He sent Muhammad Bin Kasim a very complimentary letter giving him the title Kahf-Ud-Daula WA-al- Islam, and formerly called him as the ruler of India. The world has not largely heard about these atrocities. Somanatha was rebuilt repeatedly four times in the following centuries, when the Hindus could get some peace. Over the centuries to the horror of Hindus every time it was rebuilt, it was destroyed by Islamic hordes. Only after Indian independence in 1947 could Hindus think of rebuilding it. With the leadership of Home Minister Sardar Patel – called as the Iron man of India – a man of strong resolve – could the Temple be rebuilt and was inaugurated in 1954 as the symbol of Indian National pride. But the compulsive Hindu hater Jawaharlal Nehru did not attend the inaugural function.

Timor Lang said: “My objective of coming to Hindustan has been to accomplish two things. The first was to war with the infidels, the enemies of Mohammedan religion; and by religious warfare to acquire some claim to reward in life to come. The other aim was that the army of Islam might gain something by plundering the wealth and valuables of the infidels: plunder in war is lawful as their mother’s milk to mussalman’s who war for their faith. He killed 100000 Hindus in one day. An estimated 60 to 100 million Hindus perished in the last 1300 years in Islamic Jihads”.

“Negationism in India – Concealing the Record of Islam” by Dr. Koenraad Elst demonstrates that there exists a ‘prohibition’ of criticism of Islam and a denial of its ‘historic crimes against humanity’ that amounts to censorship, comparing it to Denial of Holocaust by Hitler and Nazis. ‘Holocaust-Deniers’ in Europe often keep all evidence out of view or deny the existence of such evidence. They are severely dealt by the State Laws. Many historians and Nazi sympathizers who attempted to white wash Nazi history have landed in jail. (Incidentally Dr. Sugatha Bose, Dr. Michael Witzel belongs to the Negationists school of Historians.) When one compares, the sheer number of Hindu Victims far exceeds that of Jews to Nazi Genocide.

Historians of the Aligarh school (e.g. Irfan Habib) or Indian Marxists (e.g. Romila Thapar, R.C. Sharma, Harbans Mukhia, Champakalakshmi, Pande) have resorted to heavy distortions and history rewriting.

It is only very recently Romila Thapar accepted and retracted with regret the colonial Aryan invasion theory. It would have seen a natural death several decades in advance had it not been for the scaffoldings erected by Stalinist historians of JNU and therefore, in 1982 the National Council of Educational Research and Training issued a directive for the rewriting of schoolbooks.

Looking back into the History, documenting the Genocides committed in India could be daunting task, but not impossible and by using regression analysis one could arrive at figures, unpleasant: the victims could run into hundreds of millions, if not billions.

According to Bangladeshi author Tasleema Nasreen in 1941, the Muslims were 70.3 Percent of the Bangladeshi population, while Hindus were 28.3 percent. In 1951, the Muslims were 76.9 % and Hindus were 22.0 percent. In 1961, the Muslims were 80.4 percent, Hindus 18.5 percent. In 1974, there were 85.4 percent Muslims and 12.1 percent Hindus. In 1991, the Muslims were 87.4 percent and the Hindus 12.6 percent.

What do we understand from this? That every year the number of Muslims is increasing, while that of the Hindus decreasing. What is happening to the Hindus? Where are they going? If the government insists that they are not migrating, then how will they explain away the figures of the census? Do you have the latest about the new census? Apparently Hindus and Muslims will not be counted separately. Because Hindus are dwindling so rapidly they may as well be clubbed with the Muslims, instead of being considered a separate entity (26 Lajja p.189, penguin 1993.)

Prof. K.S. Lal suggests a calculation in his book Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, which estimates that between the years 1000 AD and 1500 AD the population of Hindus decreased by 80 million.

Now keeping in tune with the Islamic philosophy of Jihad that says land belongs to Allah, the Muslims in India are claiming the destroyed property of Infidels, with the Power of Gulf money. By that logic of Muslims even the WTC towers I & II belong to Allah and therefore, Muslims the natural heirs.

Far away from the deserts of Middle East, in South India, the World famous Srirangam Temple, with the official HQ of Sri Vaishnavism had borne the brunt waves of Islamic onslaught. For centuries it was under attack and then recovered. 12000 Hindus were beheaded.

The tales of sack of Srirangam cannot be complete without the mention of the sacrifice of the temple courtesan. Unable to bear the harassment of the devotees by the Muslims, she enticed the Muslim chief, took him up a temple tower in the east, and in the pretext of showing him a famous icon and a hidden treasure trove from there, she pushed him down and killed him. Scared that she will be tortured by the Muslims as a result of her deed, she threw herself also down.

Tippu, the son of Haider Ali, invaded the Carnatic in 1790 C.E. with his mammoth army, causing considerable havoc and destruction. He stationed his army in the temple for 6 days, and demanded 100000 gold pieces for his army from the temple authorities. The demand was refused, at which the Sultan turned wild. Fortunately however, Tippu had to flee for his own safety before he could wreak his vengeance upon the temple.

Hindus must quickly unite, and tackle the menace in a war footing before they become exiled in their own land. Hindus have no place to go, but jump into the oceans. Please refer to the attacks on Hindu Students in summer 2009 in Australia and Canada, and the sack of Dr.Subramanian Swamy from Harvard in the winter of 2011 must be seen as a punishment for attempting to unite Hindus against Saudi Wahabism + Pakistani + ISI + home grown Islamic Jihads against Hindus in India. The door shown to Dr.Subramanian Swami by Harvard should be seen as arm twisting tactic by Saudi money bags against Hindu resistance to continued Islamic Jihads, against Hindus which Drew Gilpin Faust, a Historian herself, (the President, Harvard University), has failed to see in the Historic Context, in which Dr. Swamy wrote that article.

Dr Faust instead of applying her brain, did not invite Dr. Swami for an explanation, but surrendered to the powerful Islamic and right wing Indian Christian lobby there. Two right wing Indian, born again Christian Students, Umang Kumar and Sanjay Pinto, studying in Harvard, generated the petition against Swamy, without taking into account the Islamic terror that took place the previous day in Bombay.

This shows how Indian minorities abroad are insensitive against attack on Hindus by Islamic Terror and how they care a damn against the killing of majority Hindus in India, by Minority Muslims. This also shows how Minority Christians, well entrenched as they are in India are networked abroad, work in close with Imperial Americans.

With the death of 25 Pakistani Soldiers in the NATO, drone attack in Nov 2011, and all time low relations with Pakistan, and the US exiting Paki airbase, it is time for Hindus to take up the issue of Dr. Swamy with Harvard and also with the state Department. Some professors of Harvard have a record of writing porno stuff against Hindus. This must be made into a dossier and complaints must be made against them in India and USA.

The fiscal income of the university in the year 2010 was 3.7 billion, and expenditure was 3.7 billion, (something is terribly wrong). The US economy is in doldrums and indebted to China heavily, and sources tell that Harvard University has been receiving funds from Saudi Arabia for its Islamic centre. Is the Harvard bending over backwards to accommodate Islamic interests?

INDIAN COMMUNISTS: MASTERS OF DECEIT

INDIAN COMMUNISTS: MASTERS OF DECEIT
Dr.Babu Suseelan, Babu Suseelan via yahoogroups.com

The communist and Muslim fundamentalist nexus in India has been growing for some years and it has reached a major threatening force in Kerala and West Bengal. The communist party in Kerala and West Bengal works day and night in collusion with Jihadi terrorists for the ultimate destruction of Hindu society. The party has created a core group of terrorists to attack Hindu cultural institutions, spiritual leaders, destroy Hindu temples and tear apart the social fabric. The hard-core terrorist group is small, compact, and highly mobile that can strike quickly with great furry. The select group of fanatics are constantly whipped into a state of frenzied enthusiasm with anti-Hindu rhetoric and thought control. Each day for the fanatic group is a day for attack, and preparation and dress rehearsal for the day when they hope to come to power and wipe out Hindus from their own country. Every opportunity is used for infiltration, sabotage, murder, loot, intimidation penetration and subversion.

The communists also recruit pseudo secularists to serve in their front organizations. The value of fellow travelers and sympathizers lies in their status in society. They serve as behind the scene manipulators and misdirect innocent Hindus from their cultural ethos. They serve for communist front organizations such as Minority Rights Groups, Human Rights Watch, Civil Liberty Committees and Women’s league. By allowing them to be used as tools, fellow travelers and communist sympathizers have immeasurably advanced communist-jihadi anti Hindu agenda. They have a powerful influence in the “thought-molding” field. These fellow travelers can be seen as teachers, scriptwriters, news reporters, and news analysts. These fellow travelers exert considerable influence in Kerala and west Bengal in destroying Hindu society thereby injuring the nation. The success of their mission depends on capturing Hindu strongholds from within. To this end they employ a variety of techniques. They have long followed the practice of making full use of Hindu tolerance and pluralism. These fanatics use full use of free speech, agitation, free press and assembly. They also use illegal methods, such as underground operations, terrorism, selective killing and espionage.

Influenced by the communist-Jihadi thought control system, several innocent Hindus have been swept in to their tight net. These Hindu victims see only the exterior or false face of communism and Jihad. They are slow in understanding the terror, injustice and slavery perpetuated by the Jihadi-communist group. Time after time in almost unbelievable fashion, these deceived pseudo secular Hindus somehow or other under the influence of thought control, do their dirty work.

How can we, as Hindus protect their religious heritage, cultural tradition, value system and society from the communist-jihadi nexus?
First, Hindus should not fall for “fronts”. Second, Hindus should not allow Jihadi, communists, pseudo secularists to disarm and confuse innocent Hindus. Hindus should to be assertive, proud of their sacred heritage and learn to spot fellow travelers and isolate them.
Finally, practice Hindu rituals, preserve spiritual tradition, protect Hindu temples and promote Hindu unity. Hindus should use their political might to further the Hindu political power and Hindu way of life and not to allow Jihadis and communists to steal it from Hindus.

Denmark Experience

Denmark Experience

From: Satish Oberoi oberoi50@yahoo.com

Hi All,

Many of us must be having personal knowledge of what the Congress did in Assam and the North East- they allowed large scale settlement of Bangladeshies in exclusive and large shanties and then made laws to regularise these , all in the name of vote bank and democracy ( Yeah. Some neta even talked of the need to shed the milk of human kindness ! ). No one cares a damn about the national interest, as long as he remains in power to loot the people and the nation. And then , hand over the rest for his progeny to claim as his / her own . And then shout ” JAI HO…”!.Read the Danish experience on trans- national immigration.

Bala

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SALUTE to   Denmark   .. This could very well happen here on our Continent….
Susan MacAllen is a contributing editor for (FamilySecurityMatters.org) Salute the Danish Flag – it’s a Symbol of   Western Freedom By Susan MacAllen
In 1978-9 I was living and studying in Denmark   . But in 1978 – even in Copenhagen, one didn’t see Muslim immigrants.
The Danish population embraced visitors, celebrated the exotic, and went out of its way to protect each of its citizens. It was proud of its new brand of socialist liberalism one in development since the conservatives had lost power in 1929 – a system where no worker had to struggle to survive, where one ultimately could count upon the state as in, perhaps, no other western nation at the time.

The rest of Europe saw the Scandinavians as free-thinking, progressive and infinitely generous in their welfare policies. Denmark boasted low crime rates, devotion to the environment, a superior educational system and a history of humanitarianism.

Denmark was also most generous in its immigration policies – it offered the best welcome in Europe to the new immigrant: generous welfare payments from first arrival plus additional perks in transportation, housing and education. It was determined to set a world example for inclusiveness and multiculturalism. How could it have predicted that one day in 2005 a series of political cartoons in a newspaper would spark violence that would leave dozens dead in the streets -all because its commitment to multiculturalism would come back to bite?

By the 1990’s the growing urban Muslim population was obvious – and its unwillingness to integrate into Danish society was obvious. Years of immigrants had settled into Muslim-exclusive enclaves.

As the Muslim leadership became more vocal about what they considered the decadence of Denmark’s liberal way of life, the Danes – once so welcoming – began to feel slighted. Many Danes had begun to see Islam as incompatible with their long-standing values: belief in personal liberty and free speech, in equality for women, in tolerance for other ethnic groups, and a deep pride in Danish heritage and history.
An article by Daniel Pipes and Lars Hedegaard, in which they forecasted, accurately, that the growing immigrant problem in Denmark would explode. In the article they reported:

‘Muslim immigrants constitute 5 percent of the population but consume upwards of 40 percent of the welfare spending.’ ‘Muslims are only 4 percent of Denmark’s 5..4 million people but make up a majority of the country’s convicted rapists, an especially combustible issue given that practically all the female victims are non-Muslim. Similar, if lesser, disproportions are found in other crimes.’

‘Over time, as Muslim immigrants increase in numbers, they wish less to mix with the indigenous population. A recent survey finds that only 5 percent of young Muslim immigrants would readily marry a Dane.’ ‘Forced marriages – promising a newborn daughter in Denmark to a male cousin in the home country, then compelling her to marry him, sometimes on pain of death – are one problem’

‘Muslim leaders openly declare their goal of introducing Islamic law once Denmark’s Muslim population grows large enough – a not-that-remote prospect. If present trends persist, one sociologist estimates, every third inhabitant of Denmark in 40 years will be Muslim.’

It is easy to understand why a growing number of Danes would feel that Muslim immigrants show little respect for Danish values and laws. An example is the phenomenon common to other European countries and Canada: some Muslims in Denmark who opted to leave the Muslim faith have been murdered in the name of Islam, while others hide in fear for their lives. Jews are also threatened and harassed openly by Muslim leaders in Denmark, a country where once Christian citizens worked to smuggle out nearly all of their 7,000 Jews by night to Sweden – before the Nazis could invade. I think of my Danish friend Elsa – who. as a teenager. Had dreaded crossing the street to the bakery every morning under the eyes of occupying Nazi soldiers – and I wonder what she would say today.

In 2001, Denmark elected the most conservative government in some 70 years– one that had some decidedly non-generous ideas about liberal unfettered immigration. Today Denmark has the strictest immigration policies in Europe . ( Its effort to protect itself has been met with accusations of ‘racism’ by liberal media across Europe – even as other governments struggle to right the social problems wrought by years of too-lax immigration.)

If you wish to become Danish, you must attend three years of language classes. You must pass a test on Denmark’s history, culture, and a Danish language test .

Then, you must live in Denmark for 7 years before applying for citizenship.
You must demonstrate intent to work, and have a job waiting. If you wish to bring a spouse into Denmark, you must both be over 24 years of age, and you won’t find it so easy anymore to move your friends and family to Denmark with you.

You will not be allowed to build a mosque in Copenhagen. Although your children have a choice of some 30 Arabic culture and language schools in Denmark, they will be strongly encouraged to assimilate to Danish society in ways that past immigrants weren’t.

In 2006, the Danish minister for employment, Claus Hjort Frederiksen, spoke publicly of the burden of Muslim immigrants on the Danish welfare system, and it was horrifying:

the government’s welfare committee had calculated that if immigration from Third World countries were blocked, 75 percent of the cuts needed to sustain the huge welfare system in coming decades would be unnecessary. In other words, the welfare system, as it existed, was being exploited by immigrants to the point of eventually bankrupting the government. ‘We are simply forced to adopt a new policy on immigration’.
‘The calculations of the welfare committee are terrifying and show how unsuccessful the integration of immigrants has been up to now,’ he said.

A large thorn in the side of Denmark’s imams is the Minister of Immigration and Integration, Rikke Hvilshoj.. She makes no bones about the new policy toward immigration,

‘The number of foreigners coming to the country makes a difference,’ Hvilshoj says, ‘There is an inverse correlation between how many come here and how well we can receive the foreigners that come.’

And on Muslim immigrants needing to demonstrate a willingness to blend in,

‘In my view, Denmark should be a country with room for different cultures and religions. Some values, however, are more important than others. We refuse to question democracy, equal rights, and freedom of speech.’

Hvilshoj has paid a price for her show of backbone.. Perhaps to test her resolve, the leading radical imam in Denmark, Ahmed Abdel Rahman Abu Laban, demanded that the government pay blood money to the family of a Muslim who was murdered in a suburb of Copenhagen, stating that the family’s thirst for revenge could be thwarted for money.. When Hvilshoj dismissed his demand, he argued that in Muslim culture the payment of retribution money was common, to which Hvilshoj replied that what is done in a Muslim country is not necessarily what is done in Denmark. The Muslim reply came soon after: her house was torched while she, her husband and children slept. All managed to escape unharmed, but she and her family were moved to a secret location and she and other ministers were assigned bodyguards for the first time – in a country where such murderous violence was once so scarce..

Her government has slid to the right, and her borders have tightened. Many believe that what happens in the next decade will determine whether Denmark survives as a bastion of good living, humane thinking and social responsibility, or whether it becomes a nation at civil war with supporters of Sharia law.

And meanwhile, Canadians clamor for stricter immigration policies, and demand an end to state welfare programs that allow many immigrants to live on the public dole. As we in Canada look at the enclaves of Muslims amongst us, and see those who enter our shores too easily, dare live on our taxes, yet refuse to embrace our culture, respect our traditions, participate in our legal system, obey our laws, speak our language, appreciate our history .. We would do well to look to Denmark, and say a prayer for her future and for our own.

21 REASONS for being VEGETERIAN

21 REASONS for being VEGETERIAN

From: mukta garg mgarg20@yahoo.com

Vegetarianism is the fastest growing trend in the developed world. Here are 21 reasons why you should think about turning green too.

Avoiding meat is one of the best and simplest ways to cut down your fat consumption. Modern farm animals are deliberately fattened up to increase profits. Eating fatty meat increases your chances of having a heart attack or developing cancer.

Every minute of every working day, thousands of animals are killed in slaughter-houses. Pain and misery are common. In the US alone, 500,000 animals are killed for meat every hour.

There are millions of cases of food poisoning recorded every year. The vast majority are caused by eating meat.

Meat contains absolutely nothing – no proteins, vitamins or minerals – that the human body cannot obtain perfectly happily from a vegetarian diet.

African countries – where millions are starving to death – export grain to the developed world so that animals can be fattened for our dining tables.
‘Meat’ can include the tail, head, feet, rectum and spinal cord of an animal.
A sausage can contain ground up intestines. How can anyone be sure that the intestines are empty when they are ground up? Do you really want to eat the content of a pig’s intestines?
If we eat the plants we grow instead of feeding them to animals, the world’s food shortage will disappear virtually overnight. Remember that 100 acres of land will produce enough beef for 20 people but enough wheat to feed 240 people.
Every day, tens of millions of one-day-old male chicks are killed because they will not be able to lay eggs. There are no rules about how this mass slaughter takes place. Some are crushed or suffocated to death. Many are used for fertiliser or fed to other animals.

Animals who die for your dinner table die alone, in terror, in sadness and in pain. The killing is merciless and inhumane.

It’s must easier to become (and stay) slim if you are a vegetarian. (By ‘slim’, I do not mean ‘abnormally slender’ or ‘underweight’ but rather, an absense of excess weight!)

Half the rainforests in the world have been destroyed to clear ground to graze cattle to make beefburgers. The burning of the forests contributes 20% of all green-house gases. Roughtly 1,000 species a year become extinct because of the destruction of the rainforests. Approximately 60 million people a year die of starvation. All those lives could be saved because those people could eat grain used to fatten cattle and other farm animals – if Americans ate 10% less meat.

The world’s fresh water shortage is being made worse by animal farming. And meat producers are the biggest polluters of water. It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce one pound of meat. If the US meat industry wasn’t supported by the taxpayer paying a large proportion of its water costs, then hamburger meat would cost $35 a pound.

If you eat meat, you are consuming hormones that were fed to the animals. No one knows what effect those hormones will have on your health. In some parts of the world, as many as one on four hamburgers contain growth hormones that were originally given to cattle.

The following diseases are commoner among meat eaters: anaemia, appendicitis, arthritis, breast cancer, cancer of the colon, cancer of the prostrate, constipation, diabetes, gallstones, gout, high blood pressure, indigestion, obesity, piles, strokes and varicose veins. Lifelong vegetarians visit hospital 22% less often than meat eaters and for shorter stays. Vegetarians have a 20% lower blood cholestrol level than meat eaters and this reduces heart attack and cancer risks considerably.

Some farmers use tranquillisers to keep animals calm. Other routinely use antibiotics to starve off infection. When you eat meat you are eating those drugs. In America, 55% of all antibiotics are fed to animals and the percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin went up from 14% in 1960 to 91% in 1988.
In a lifetime, the average meat eater will consumer 36 pigs, 36 sheep and 750 chickens and turkeys. Do you want that much carnage on your conscience?

Animals suffer from pain and fear just as much as you do. How would you like to spend your last hours locked in a truck, packed into a cage with hundreds of other terrified animal and then cruelly pushed into a blood soaked death chamber. Anyone who eats meat condones and supports the way animals are treated.

Animals which are a year old are often far more rational – and capable of logical thought – than six week old babies. Pigs and sheep are far more intelligent than small children. Eating dead animals is barbaric.

Vegetarians are fitter than meat eaters. many of the world’s most successful athletes are vegetarian.

Last genetic nail driven into the AMT-Aryan-Dravidian divide coffin

From: S. Kalyanaraman kalyan97@gmail.com

Indian diversity. Last genetic nail driven into the AMT-Aryan-Dravidian divide coffin: (Metspalu, Gyaneshwer Chaubey et al, AJHG, Dec. 2011)

Genetic study finds no evidence for Aryan Migration Theory–On the contrary, South Indians migrated to north and South Asians migrated into Eurasia

What geneticists consider a landmark paper has just been published in a highly reputed scientific journal, American Journal of Human Genetics, authored by an international group of geneticists including Metspalu, Gyaneshwer Chaubey, Chandana Basu Mallick (Evolutionary Biology Group in Tartu, Estonia), Ramasamy Pitchappan (Chettinad Academy of Research and Education, Chennai), Lalji Singh, and Kumarasamy Thangaraj (CCMB, Hyderabad). The study is titled: Shared and Unique Components of Human Population Structure and Genome-Wide Signals of Positive Selection in South Asia, The American Journal of Human Genetics (2011), doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2011.11.010

The study is comprehensive, unlike previous studies of human genome and is unique, because it focuses on large number of populations in South Asia, and India, a region which harbours one of the highest levels of genetic diversity in Eurasia and currently accounts for one sixth of human population in the world.

The study analysed human genetic variation on a sample of 1310 individuals that belong to 112 populations, using new genome-wide data contains more than 600,000 single nucleotide polymorphic sites among 142 samples from 30 ethnic groups of India. The most important scientific findings of the study are:

• South Asian genetic diversity is 2nd in the world, next only to Africa, mainly due to long periods of indigenous development of lineages and with complex population structure where one can see the different caste and tribal populations.

• Two genetic components among Indians are observed: one is restricted to India and explains 50% genetic ancestry of Indian populations , while, the second which spread to West Asia and Caucasus region. Technically called “haplotype diversity”, it is a measure of the origin of the genetic component. The component which spread beyond India has significantly higher haplotype diversity in India than in any other part of world. This is clear proof that this genetic component originated in India and then spread to West Asia and Caucasus. The distribution of two genetic components among Indians clearly indicates that the Aryan-Dravidian division is a myth, Indian population landscape is clearly governed by geography.

• A remarkable finding is that the origin of these components in India is much older than 3500 years which clearly refutes Aryan Invasion theory of the type enunciated by Max Mueller ! The study also found that haplotypic diversity of this ancestry component is much greater than in Europe and the Near East (Iraq, Iran, Middle East) thus pointing to an older age of the component and/or long-term higher effective population size (that is, indigenous evolution of people).

• Haplotype diversity associated with dark green ancestry is greatest in the south of the Indian subcontinent, indicating that the alleles underlying it most likely arose there and spread northwards.

• The study refutes Aryan migrations into India suggested by the German orientalist Max Muller that ca. 3,500 years ago a dramatic migration of Indo-European speakers from Central Asia shaping contemporary South Asian populations, introduction of the Indo-European language family and the caste system in India. A few past studies on mtDNA and Y-chromosome variation have interpreted their results in favor of the hypothesis, whereas others have found no genetic evidence to support it. The present study notes that any migration from Central Asia to South Asia should have introduced readily apparent signals of East Asian ancestry into India. The study finds that this ancestry component is absent from the region. The study, therefore, concludes that if such at all such a dispersal ever took place, it should have occurred 12,500 years ago. On the contrary, there is evidence for East Asian ancestry component reaching Central Asia at a later period.

• India has one of the world’s fastest growing incidence of type 2 diabetes as well as a sizeable number of cases of the metabolic syndrome, both of which have been linked to recent rapid urbanization. The study points to a possible genetic reasons and recommends further researches on four genes – DOKS, MSTN, CLOCK, PPARA – implicated in lipid metabolism and etiology of type 2 diabetes.

Kalyanaraman
Dec. 9, 2011

Shared and Unique Components of Human Population Structure and Genome-Wide Signals of Positive Selection in South Asia
Mait Metspalu1, 2, 13, , , Irene Gallego Romero3, 13, 14, Bayazit Yunusbayev1, 4, 13, Gyaneshwer Chaubey1, Chandana Basu Mallick1, 2, Georgi Hudjashov1, 2, Mari Nelis5, 6, Reedik Mägi7, 8, Ene Metspalu2, Maido Remm7, Ramasamy Pitchappan9, Lalji Singh10, 11, Kumarasamy Thangaraj10, Richard Villems1, 2, 12 and Toomas Kivisild1, 2, 3

1 Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, 51010 Tartu, Estonia
2 Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, 51010 Tartu, Estonia
3 Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK
4 Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, 450054 Ufa, Russia
5 Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu and Estonian Biocentre, 51010 Tartu, Estonia
6 Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
7 Department of Bioinformatics, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, 51010 Tartu, Estonia
8 Genetic and Genomic Epidemiology Unit, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK
9 Chettinad Academy of Research and Education, Chettinad Health City, Chennai 603 103, India
10 Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad 500 007, India
11 Banaras Hindu University,Varanasi 221 005, India
12 Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia

Corresponding author

13 These authors contributed equally to this work

14 Present address: Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, 920 E 58th Street, CLSC 317, Chicago, IL 60637, USA

Abstract
South Asia harbors one of the highest levels genetic diversity in Eurasia, which could be interpreted as a result of its long-term large effective population size and of admixture during its complex demographic history. In contrast to Pakistani populations, populations of Indian origin have been underrepresented in previous genomic scans of positive selection and population structure. Here we report data for more than 600,000 SNP markers genotyped in 142 samples from 30 ethnic groups in India. Combining our results with other available genome-wide data, we show that Indian populations are characterized by two major ancestry components, one of which is spread at comparable frequency and haplotype diversity in populations of South and West Asia and the Caucasus. The second component is more restricted to South Asia and accounts for more than 50% of the ancestry in Indian populations. Haplotype diversity associated with these South Asian ancestry components is significantly higher than that of the components dominating the West Eurasian ancestry palette. Modeling of the observed haplotype diversities suggests that both Indian ancestry components are older than the purported Indo-Aryan invasion 3,500 YBP. Consistent with the results of pairwise genetic distances among world regions, Indians share more ancestry signals with West than with East Eurasians. However, compared to Pakistani populations, a higher proportion of their genes show regionally specific signals of high haplotype homozygosity. Among such candidates of positive selection in India are MSTN and DOK5, both of which have potential implications in lipid metabolism and the etiology of type 2 diabetes.

http://www.cell.com/AJHG/abstract/S0002-9297(11)00488-5

Free pdf download full text: http://download.cell.com/AJHG/pdf/PIIS0002929711004885.pdf

Full text with large figures: http://www.cell.com/AJHG/fulltext/S0002-9297(11)00488-5?large_figure=true

Indian Diversity, genetic study (Metspalu, Gyaneshwer Chaubey et al, AJHG Dec. 9, 2011)Kalyanaraman

वालमार्ट और भारत का खुदरा बाज़ार

From: Haresh Patani [mailto:hareshpatani@yahoo.com]
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Subject: वालमार्ट और भारत का खुदरा बाज़ार

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वालमार्ट और भारत का खुदरा बाज़ार

भारत की अर्थव्यवस्था का अध्ययन जब आप करेंगे तो पाएंगे कि हमारी अर्थव्यवस्था जो है उसका 80% unorganised sector में चलती है और 20% अर्थव्यवस्था ही organised है | हमारी जो बड़ी-बड़ी कंपनियां, प्राइवेट और पब्लिक सेक्टर में हैं वो इस 20% हिस्से में हैं और 80% हिस्सा unorganised सेक्टर में हैं, जैसे छोटे उद्योग, मंझोले उद्योग, कृषि क्षेत्र, फुटपाथ की दुकाने, किराना दुकाने, परचून की दुकाने (General Store) | फूटपाथ पर हमारे यहाँ बाज़ार लगते हैं, दिल्ली में चले जाइये, दिल्ली की दुकानों में, मौलों में जितना समान बिकता है उससे ज्यादा दिल्ली के फुटपाथों पर बिकता है, मुंबई चले जाइये, कोलकाता चले जाइये, चेन्नई चले जाइये, बंगलौर चले जाइये, हैदराबाद चले जाइये, हर बड़े शहर में आपको ऐसे बाजार मिल जायेंगे और कितना सुन्दर बाजार है ये , कोई बिल्डिंग नहीं, कोई स्ट्रक्चर नहीं, कोई ए.सी. नहीं, establishment का खर्चा शुन्य | हजारों करोड़ का बाज़ार हैं ये और ये इतना व्यवस्थित और इतना सुन्दर बाज़ार क्यों लगता है, क्योंकि मौसम की मेहरबानी है हमारे देश के ऊपर | मौसम हमारे यहाँ इतना अनुकूल है कि हमको मालूम है कि बारिस के मौसम में ही बारिस आएगी, सर्दी के दिनों में ही सर्दी होगी, गर्मी के दिनों में ही गर्मी होगी, इसलिए ये बाजार लगता है और सजता है | और दूसरी बात कि भारत में जीवन को चलाने के लिए जितनी जरूरत की चीजे होती हैं वो हर समान हर जगह होती है | Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) के दस्तावेज मेरे पास हैं और उनके अनुसार भारत में 14785 वस्तुएं होती हैं | ये भारत की सभी राज्यों में एक समान होती हैं और भारत के उन शहरों या गाँव को बाहर से केवल नमक मांगना पड़ता है, बाकी हर जरूरत की चीज उसी राज्य में हो जाती हैं | यूरोप और अमेरिका में चूकी मौसम की अनुकूलता नहीं है, साल में नौ महीने ठण्ड पड़ती है और उनके यहाँ कभी भी बारिस हो जाती है और बर्फ भी बहुत पड़ती है, धुप का दर्शन तो साल में 300 दिन होता ही नहीं है | इसके अलावा उनके कृषि क्षेत्र में कुछ होता नहीं है, कुल मिला के दो ही चीजें होती हैं, आलू और प्याज और थोडा बहुत गेंहू, हाँ अमेरिका, यूरोप से थोडा बेहतर है, थोडा सा | वहां कुछ चीजें यूरोप से ज्यादा हो जाती है बाकी उसका भी वही हाल है | तो अपनी इन कमियों को पूरा करने के लिए उन्हें बाहर से वस्तुओं का आयात करना पड़ता है | तो उनकी ये समस्या है, जीवन चलाने के लिए चाहिए तो सब कुछ लेकिन होता कुछ भी नहीं तो बाहर से जो समान आते हैं उनको centralised कर के उनको रखना पड़ता है ताकि लोग आ के उसे खरीद सके, इसलिए उनको बड़े बड़े शौपिंग माल्स की जरूरत पड़ती है और उनके शौपिंग माल्स भारत के माल्स की तरह नहीं हैं, उनके और हमारे शौपिंग माल्स में जमीन आसमान का अंतर है | उनके शौपिंग माल्स में मोटर कार से ले के सुई-धागे तक मिल जायेंगे आपको | और अगर ये एक जगह ना मिले तो उनकी जिंदगी चलनी मुश्किल है | तो उनका unorganised sector इतना बड़ा नहीं है, मौसम की अनुकूलता नहीं है, सब कुछ सब जगह नहीं होता, सब बाहर से मांगना पड़ता है तो उन्होंने बड़े-बड़े Departmental Store बनाये हैं, वालमार्ट आया, केयरफॉर आया, टेस्को आया | ये बाहर से समान मंगाते और उसे redistribute करते हैं | उनकी मजबूरी को हमारे यहाँ ख़ुशी-ख़ुशी लाया जा रहा है और हमारा राजा कह रहा है कि वालमार्ट को भारत में आना चाहिए , बड़े बड़े departmental store खुलने चाहिए, रिटेल मार्केटिंग में विदेशी निवेश होना चाहिए | कैबिनेट की मंजूरी भी मिल गयी है और सरकार उसको वापस लेने को तैयार नहीं है | अदूरदर्शी राजा से उम्मीद भी क्या की जा सकती है |

वालमार्ट के समर्थक लोग अलग-अलग न्यूज़ चैनलों पर सरकारी भोपू बन के तर्क दे रहे हैं, तर्क क्या हैं कि जब ये कंपनियां आएँगी तो ये किसानों से सीधा अनाज खरीदेंगे, किसानों को लाभ होगा, बिचौलिए ख़त्म हो जायेंगे, उपभोक्ताओं को भी फायदा होगा, रोजगार के अवसर बढ़ेंगे और अक्सर इस देश के पढ़े लिखे लोग हैं वो इस बात को मानते हैं कि ये ठीक रास्ता है, WTO पर जब हमारे सरकार ने हस्ताक्षर किया था तब भी यही कहा था, यही तर्क दिए गए थे | वालमार्ट इतनी बड़ी कंपनी है कि उसकी सालाना आय 48 देशों की GDP से ज्यादे है, वालमार्ट का total turnover है वो 400 बिलियन डॉलर का है जो कि भारत के अन्दर जितने व्यापार है उसके बराबर है, एक कंपनी का ये हाल है | वालमार्ट अमेरिका की कंपनी है और उनको अपने देश में एक disclosure statement देनी होती है, और अपने disclosure statement में वालमार्ट ने कहा है कि पिछले पाँच साल में उसने भारत के अन्दर 70 करोड़ रूपये खर्च किया है, खर्च क्यों किया है ? तो भारतीयों को educate करने के लिए, समझाने के लिए | मतलब आप समझे कि नहीं ? ये जो टेलीविजन पर और अख़बारों में भोंपू लोग बैठे हैं उन जैसे लोगों के लिए, और सरकार को educate नहीं करेगी तो उसका प्रोपोजल तो पास होगा ही नहीं तो | बाकी कंपनियों का खर्च कितना है ये मालूम नहीं है क्योंकि उनका disclosure statement नहीं आया है | और देखिये सरकार का पेंडुलम घिसक के इनके पक्ष में आ गया है, इसीलिए देखिये, सरकार कैसे अकड़ के बोल रही है कि “ये वापस नहीं होगा” |

कहा जा रहा है कि इससे अपव्यय कम होगा। यह भी कहा गया है कि इससे रोजगार बढ़ेंगे और किसानों को उनकी फसल की बेहतर कीमत मिल सकेगी। हालांकि ये तर्क संदेहास्पद हैं और सूक्ष्म परीक्षण पर शायद ही खरे उतर पाएं। इस विवाद से परे यह पूछा जाना चाहिए कि ऐसे मल्टी-ब्रांड रिटेल क्या उत्पादक (चाहे किसान हों या निर्माता) से उपभोक्ता के बीच होने वाले वितरण-मूल्य को कम करेगा? मार्केटिंग की भाषा में इसे ‘चैनल कॉस्ट’ कहा जाता है। आम आदमी की भाषा में यह परिवहन/ संग्रह/ वित्तीय प्रबंधन/ विक्रय पर होने वाला वह खर्च है, जो उत्पादन बिंदु और उपभोक्ता को की गई अंतिम बिक्री के बीच किया जाता है। यह आर्थिक कार्यकुशलता का मुख्य मापदंड है, जिस पर हमें गौर करना चाहिए। यह सवाल ही तय करेगा कि मल्टी-ब्रांड रिटेल में एफडीआई न्यायोचित है या नहीं। भारत की थोक और खुदरा व्यापार व्यवस्था की तुलना में वालमार्ट और टेस्को जैसे मल्टी-ब्रांड रिटेलर्स उपभोक्ता को मिलने वाले मूल्य में तत्काल काफी बढ़ोतरी कर देंगे। इस बात को साबित करने के लिए हमारे पास कई प्रमाण हैं। उपलब्ध तथ्यों और तुलनात्मक अध्ययन से इसे आसानी से दिखाया जा सकता है। मूल्यों में होने वाली वृद्धि का यह प्रतिशत छोटा नहीं है। भारत के थोक और खुदरा व्यापार में होने वाले ‘मार्क-अप्स’ (क्रय-मूल्य और विक्रय-मूल्य के बीच का अंतर) की तुलना में, मल्टी-ब्रांड रिटेल में ‘मार्क-अप्स’ की गुंजाइश दो गुना से लेकर नौ गुना तक होती है। यह ‘मार्क-अप्स’ उनकी व्यापार-संरचना में निहित होता है, जिसका भुगतान पश्चिमी देशों में आम उपभोक्ता अपनी रोजमर्रा की खरीद में करते हैं। आइए जरा रोजमर्रा के काम में आने वाले पदार्थो के ऐसे चार वर्गों के ‘चैनल कॉस्ट’ या खर्च की तुलना करें, जो मल्टी-ब्रांड रिटेल के जरिये उपलब्ध होंगे।
पहला वर्ग है उपभोक्ता वस्तुओं का- इस मामले में भारत में वितरक व थोक व्यापारी का मार्जिन चार से आठ प्रतिशत के बीच होता है, और खुदरा व्यापारी का मार्जिन होता है आठ प्रतिशत से 14 प्रतिशत तक। यह मार्जिन उत्पादन मूल्य पर जोड़ा जाता है। कंपनी की उत्पादन क्षमता, बाजार पर उसकी पकड़, माल की किस्म आदि पर मार्जिन का प्रतिशत निर्भर करता है। इसलिए भारत में वितरण श्रृंखला के ऊपर आने वाली कुल ‘चैनल कॉस्ट’ 12 से 22 प्रतिशत के मध्य होती है। अमेरिका और यूरोप में ‘सेफवेज’, ‘क्रोगेर्स’ और ‘टेस्को’ जैसी कंपनियां इस श्रेणी के पदार्थो के बुनियादी मूल्य पर माल की किस्म, मात्र, मांग और उपलब्धता को देखते हुए तकरीबन 40 प्रतिशत का ‘मार्क-अप्स’ लगाती हैं। यह चैनल ‘मार्क-अप्स’ भारतीय चैनल/ रिटेल कीमतों की तुलना में दो से तीन गुना ज्यादा है। इन कंपनियों द्वारा ग्राहकों को लुभाने के लिए समय-समय पर घोषित ‘सेल’ और ‘लॉस लीडर प्रोमोशन’ से हमें गुमराह नहीं होना चाहिए। दूसरा वर्ग है वस्त्र का- भारत के कपड़ा व्यवसाय में संयुक्त रूप से थोक व खुदरा का मार्जिन, मिल कीमत के ऊपर 35 से 40 प्रतिशत के बीच होता है। रेडीमेड कपड़ों के व्यवसाय में किसी ब्रांडेड रिटेल दुकान का मार्जिन शायद ही कभी लागत के 30 प्रतिशत से ज्यादा होता है। अब जरा इसकी तुलना ‘मेसीस’ या ‘मार्क्स ऐंड स्पेंसर’ स्टोर से करते हैं। ये रिटेलर अक्सर कपड़ों के खरीद मूल्य पर दो से 4.5 गुना ‘मार्क-अप‘ लगाते हैं। उसके बाद वे 15 से 30 प्रतिशत की छूट ‘सेल’ ऑफर पर देते हैं। ‘सेल’ पर मिलने वाली कीमत के बावजूद इन रिटेलर्स द्वारा लगाया ‘मार्क-अप’ कम-से-कम दो गुना अधिक होता है। इसीलिए नियमत: उनके ‘मार्क-अप्स’ भारतीय रिटेलर्स की तुलना में पांच से नौ गुना ज्यादा होते हैं। तीसरा, दवा और चिकित्सा सामग्री- भारत में दवा की दुकानें और औषधि-विक्रेता एक व्यापारिक संस्था के रूप में काफी व्यवस्थित हैं, पर सप्लाई साइड बिखरा पड़ा है, जिससे उन्हें रिटेल में बेहतर मार्जिन मिल जाता है। बावजूद इसके, भारत में एक रिटेल दवा विक्रेता का मार्जिन 20 प्रतिशत तक होता है। इसमें अगर हम वितरक, थोक व्यापारी का 10 प्रतिशत मार्जिन और सीएंडएफ एजेंट का चार प्रतिशत जोड़ दें, तो कुल ‘चैनल कॉस्ट’ लागत का 34 प्रतिशत बनती है। अब इसकी तुलना अमेरिका के ‘वालग्रीन‘ या ‘सीवीएस’ या फिर ब्रिटेन के ‘बूट्स’ से कीजिए। ये रिटेलर्स चिकित्सा-सामग्रियों और दवाइयों के दामों में दो या तीन गुना ‘मार्क-अप’ कर देते हैं और फिर कुछ मद पर ‘सेल’ ऑफर चला देते हैं। जहां तक ‘चैनल कॉस्ट’ का सवाल है, भारतीय दवा-विक्रेताओं की तुलना में इन बड़े रिटेलर्स की कीमतों में कम-से-कम छह गुना का ‘मार्क-अप’ रहता है। चौथा है, किचनवेयर- भारतीय ‘चैनल कॉस्ट’ या खर्च इस श्रेणी में कम है। भारत में प्रेशर कुकर, कुकवेयर में वितरक, रिटेलर का संयुक्त मार्जिन 30 प्रतिशत से कम है, जिसमें से रिटेलर सिर्फ 10 से 15 प्रतिशत ही रखता है। इसी श्रेणी के उत्पादों के लिए ‘वालमार्ट’, ‘ब्लूमगडेल्स’ और ‘सीयर्स’ जैसे रिटेलर्स अमेरिका में लागत खर्च पर नियमत: 100 से 200 प्रतिशत का ‘मार्क-अप’ करते हैं। यहां तक कि ‘सेल’ पर भी कम-से-कम भारत के मुकाबले चैनल मूल्यों में पांच गुना का ‘मार्क-अप’ रहता है। ये सभी साक्ष्य दर्शाते हैं कि वर्षों में विकसित हुई भारतीय वितरण व्यवस्था, विश्व में सबसे सक्षम और किफायती है। माना कि हमारे बाजार यूरोप, अमेरिका व जापान के ‘मॉल्स’ की तरह लुभावने नहीं, परंतु आम घरेलू महिलाओं के लिए वे बेहद उपयोगी हैं, और कम कमाई व ज्यादा महंगाई के बुरे वक्त में उनका बखूबी साथ निभाते हैं। रिटेल में प्रत्यक्ष विदेशी निवेश का प्रस्ताव इस संतुलन को बिगाड़ देगा। आपूर्ति श्रृंखला में निवेश और ‘बैकएंड लॉजिस्टिक्स’ की बातें सिर्फ ‘चैनल कॉस्ट’ के मुख्य विषय से ध्यान हटाने के लिए हैं। उद्योगों और विदेशी सरकारों के दबाव में आए बगैर हमारी सरकारी कमेटी को अपना पूरा ध्यान इस बात पर केंद्रित करना चाहिए कि हमारे देश के नागरिकों, उपभोक्ताओं के हित में क्या है। हमारे बाजार बेहद सक्षम हैं और लाखों छोटे व्यापारियों और उद्यमियों के हित से जुड़कर चलते हैं। इसमें हस्तक्षेप कर हमें मल्टी-ब्रांड रिटेल के पश्चिमी मायाजाल में नहीं फंसना चाहिए।

आपने पढ़ा कि किस तरह पश्चिमी देशों में बड़े मल्टी-ब्रांड रिटेलर्स, जैसे वालमार्ट, टेस्को और कार्रेफौर अपने सभी उत्पादों के दाम में कम से कम दोगुना ‘मार्क-अप’ करते हैं और भारत के रिटेल/होलसेल ‘मार्क-अप्स’ की तुलना में यह नौगुना से भी अधिक तक चला जाता है। सारांश यह है कि चैनल की सक्षमता इस बात से तय होनी चाहिए कि ‘मार्क-अप्स’ (जो दुकान चलाने के खर्च और चैनल द्वारा कमाए गए मुनाफे का कुल योग है) के साथ आम उपभोक्ता को कितना मूल्य अदा करना पड़ेगा। इसी मापदंड के आधार पर मैंने यह निष्कर्ष निकाला था कि थोक विक्रेता, वितरक, स्टॉकिस्ट और खुदरा विक्रेता से बनी भारतीय वितरण श्रंखला दुनिया में सबसे सक्षम और किफायती है।
ऐसा कैसे संभव है? मैं जानता हूं कि आप में से ऐसे लोग भी होंगे, जो इस निष्कर्ष को मानने से इनकार करेंगे। उनसे मेरा अनुरोध है कि वे जरा पश्चिमी व भारतीय खुदरा बाजार के स्वरूप के गणितीय तर्क की गहराई से पड़ताल करें। जिस किसी ने भी व्यावसायिक कार्यप्रणाली एवं नियमों को देखा-समझा है, वे बाजार की इस हकीकत से जरूर वाकिफ होंगे कि बाजार जितना ही संघटित होता है, वह उपभोक्ता को चयन का कम अधिकार देता है, और रिटेलर द्वारा उतना ही अधिक ‘मार्क-अप’ करने व कीमतों में वृद्धि करने की गुंजाइश रहती है। इसके उलट बाजार जितना बिखरा होता है और उपभोक्ता को चयन का अधिक विकल्प मिलता है, ‘मार्क-अप’ उतना ही कम होता जाता है, क्योंकि रिटेलर्स को प्रतिस्पर्धा व व्यापार में बने रहने के लिए कम से कम मूल्य रखने पड़ते हैं।
जब बड़े मल्टी-ब्रांड रिटेल बाजार में प्रवेश करते हैं, तो उनकी रणनीति प्रतिस्पर्धा को खत्म करने और बाजार पर अपनी मजबूत पकड़ बनाने की होती है। दो उदाहरणों पर गौर कीजिए। अमेरिका में रिटेल बाजार का आकार (खाद्य सेवा और ऑटोमोटिव को छोड़कर) वर्ष 2009 में तीन ट्रीलियन डॉलर आंका गया था। वालमार्ट ने 10 प्रतिशत की बाजार हिस्सेदारी (मार्केट शेयर) के साथ 300 से भी अधिक बिलियन डॉलर का कारोबार किया था। जाहिर है, लंबे समय में अजिर्त ऐसी संघटित शक्ति का इस्तेमाल आपूर्तिकर्ता या वितरक से कम कीमत पर चीजें खरीदने और उपभोक्ता को अधिक ‘मार्क-अप्स’ के साथ बेचने के लिए किया जाता है। वालमार्ट का उद्देश्य दूसरे रिटेलर्स से ज्यादा किफायती बनना है, पर उसका मुख्य लक्ष्य अपने शेयरधारकों को अधिकतम लाभ पहुंचाना है। (जिन लोगों को वालमार्ट के बारे में जानने की रुचि हो, वे बिल क्विन्न की किताब ‘How Walmart is Destroying America and the World ’ पढ़ सकते हैं) ब्रिटेन में इसी से मिलता-जुलता उदाहरण टेस्को का है। पिछले वर्ष इस कंपनी ने 61 बिलियन पाउंड (यानी 99 बिलियन अमेरिकी डॉलर) का व्यापार किया था, और विकीपीडिया के अनुसार, ब्रिटेन किराना दुकान बाजार में इसकी हिस्सेदारी (मार्केट शेयर) 30 प्रतिशत है। इस स्तर का एकाधिकार रिटेल की दुनिया में अनोखा है और टेस्को को आपूर्तिकर्ता व उपभोक्ता, दोनों के ऊपर असाधारण शक्ति प्रदान कर देता है। ब्रिटेन में किराने का सामान खरीदने वालों के लिए घर के समीप ज्यादा से ज्यादा दो या तीन रिटेलर (टेस्को, सैन्सबरी या शायद अल्डी) का विकल्प होता है। इसका अर्थ है कि प्रोमोशनल ऑफर के बावजूद निर्धारित कीमतों में अधिमूल्य (प्रीमियम) शामिल रहता है और उपभोक्ता की खरीदारी पर रिटेलर की पकड़ मजबूत बनी रहती है। उत्पादक के ऊपर भी उनकी जबर्दस्त पकड़ होती है। अब इसकी तुलना जरा भारत से कीजिए। हमारे पड़ोस में दर्जनों छोटे रिटेलर्स होते हैं, जिनमें हमारे रुपये को पाने की होड़ लगी रहती है। यहां जबर्दस्त प्रतिस्पर्धा है। लिहाजा, ‘मार्क-अप्स’ व कीमतें मजबूरन कम रहती हैं। हमारी बाजार संरचना लगभग परिपूर्ण है, जिसमें हजारों उत्पादक लाखों रिटेलर्स को माल उपलब्ध कराते हैं, जो आगे करोड़ों उपभोक्ताओं को अपनी सेवाएं देते हैं। बाजार में किसी के पास सचमुच इतना असर या जोर नहीं कि वह अधिक ‘मार्क-अप्स’ लगा सके। यह जमीन से जुड़ी सच्चाई है, जो लाखों छोटे व्यवसायों की उद्यमशीलता और ऊर्जा से पैदा हुई है। इसके संगठन में सरकार ने कोई भूमिका नहीं निभाई है। यदि बड़े मल्टी-ब्रांड रिटेल को भारत में प्रवेश की अनुमति दी जाती है, तो उसका बुरा परिणाम होगा। किसी इलाके में एक विशाल रिटेल स्टोर का उद्घाटन धूमधाम के साथ किया जाएगा। फिर बहुत सारे ‘प्रोमोशनल ऑफर’ दिए जाएंगे और कई जरूरी सामान अनेक दिनों तक मूल कीमत से भी कम में बेचे जाएंगे। (वालमार्ट की भाषा में इसे ‘स्टॉम्प द कॉम्प’ कहा जाता है, जिसका अर्थ होता है प्रतिस्पर्धा को मिटा देना)। जाहिर है, इस छूट से आकर्षित होकर लोग भारी संख्या में वहां उमड़ पड़ेंगे। ऐसे में, छोटे रिटेलर व्यापार-घाटे को बहुत समय तक नहीं उठा पाएंगे। इस झटके की वजह से उनमें से ज्यादातर दुकानें बंद हो जाएंगी। ऐसा निरपवाद रूप से हर जगह हुआ है। प्रतिस्पर्धा पूरी तरह ध्वस्त हो जाने पर आपूर्तिकर्ताओं व उपभोक्ताओं पर बड़े रिटेलर की पकड़ कस जाती है। उसके बाद बाजार पर नियंत्रण करके वे अधिकतम मुनाफे के लिए धीरे-धीरे ‘मार्क-अप्स’ बढ़ाते जाते हैं। ऐसे में, आखिर क्यों भारत सरकार के प्रमुख वित्तीय सलाहकार के नेतृत्व में बनी कमिटी ने मल्टी-ब्रांड रिटेल में एफडीआई की सिफारिश की है? फिर निवेश के लिए सुझाए गए कुछ मानदंड भी काफी दुरूह हैं। उदाहरण के लिए, कमिटी ने न्यूनतम एफडीआई निवेश 100 मिलियन अमेरिकी डॉलर तय किया है। यह ओलंपिक में किसी हेवीवेट लिफ्टर को 10 किलोग्राम वजन उठाने के लिए कहने जैसा है। मैं उन वरिष्ठ बुद्धिजीवियों की कद्र करता हूं, जिन्होंने इस पहलू पर गौर किया है। मैं यह सलाह देने का साहस अवश्य करूंगा कि इस संबंध में बनी नीति का लक्ष्य देश की विशाल आबादी का हित होना चाहिए। नीति-निर्धारकों को पश्चिमी देशों की सरकारों को खुश करने की जल्दबाजी नहीं दिखानी चाहिए, जो भारतीय रिटेल बाजार को खुलवाने के लिए निरंतर दबाव बना रहे हैं। मल्टी-ब्रांड रिटेल में प्रत्यक्ष विदेशी निवेश की अनुमति भारतीय खुदरा क्षेत्र व उन करोड़ों परिवारों का अहित करेगा, जो अपने गुजारे के लिए संघर्ष कर रहे हैं। वर्ष 2008 में आई विश्वव्यापी आर्थिक मंदी से भारत बच गया, क्योंकि बैंकिंग उद्योग जगत जोखिम से अनजान था। ठीक वैसी ही स्थिति रिटेल में है। हमें भारत में पश्चिमी रिटेल की बीमारू संरचना को लाने का प्रयास नहीं करना चाहिए, जो भारतीय उपभोक्ताओं को आने वाले समय में अपना गुलाम बना लेगी।

ये बाते हमारे सरकार के लोगों, विभिन्न समाचार चैनलों और अख़बारों में बैठे भोपुओं और नपुंशक विपक्ष को समझ में नहीं आ रहा है, विपक्ष तो नूरा कुश्ती लड़ रहा है सरकार के साथ, नूरा कुश्ती आप समझते हैं न, मतलब दिखावे के लिए हल्ला मचाते हैं | वास्तव में ये भारत देश की सरकार अब भारतीयों की सरकार नहीं रही बल्कि विदेशी कंपनियों की दलाल हो गयी है और हो भी क्यों नहीं, जब इस देश का प्रधानमंत्री, वित्तमंत्री, गृहमंत्री और तमाम मंत्री अमेरिका बनवा रहा है तो इनसे उम्मीद भी क्या की जा सकती है | ये भारत के लोगों का ख्याल थोड़े ही करेंगे, इन्हें तो अमरीकी हित की ज्यादा चिता है |

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Dharma and Religion

We need to be clear on a few issues. Dharma is not religion. Dharma is about truth ‘Satya’ and spiritual discipline ‘Yoga.’ Religions, like Christianity, are about social control, not spirituality. The response against Conversion needs be multi-level. To begin with we need to know what Christianity is all about. – Mohan Gupta mgupta@rogers.com

Truth and Christianity

Tilak B. Shrestha, Ph.D.

tilakbs@hotmail.com

Satyam eva jayate – Truth always triumphs.

Socrates – unexamined truth is not really truth.

Nepalese proverbs:

Dhateko kura, kate pani mildaina. Artha ni bartha, Gobinda gai.

Mero goru ko barhai takka. Khai na pai, chhala topi lai.

[I had the dubious honor of meeting a few Nepalese missionaries claiming to be theology scholars. This article is in response to our conversation on Christianity. Please feel free to make any comments and to forward it to interested friends.]

I respect all the people and all the religions. I also expect respect to be mutual. However, the missionaries come with a simple proposition, “Brother, your God is no God, only my God is God. Sister, all Christians go to heaven, no matter how evil. Brother, everybody else goes to hell, no matter how virtuous. Sister, all your ancestors have gone to hell. Brother, if you want to go to heaven, you better believe and do whatever I tell you.” Should not a person with any intelligence and integrity ask, “How come?” Wayne Johnson, Pastor of First Baptist Church, Orlando, Florida, 1988, writes, “Hinduism of India, yoga, meditation, psychological therapy and self-help are the lies first told by the serpent in the Garden of Eden.” The Southern Baptist Church published booklets condemning Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Native African religions in 1999. Should not somebody stand up and yell, “He you, Emperor, you have no cloth?” We Nepalese are poor, so what? Is poverty of mind or money? When I was studying in Florida, I was challenged many times over by all kinds of Christian activists – Southern Baptists, Catholics, Mormons, Evangelists, Presbyterians, Seventh day Adventists and Ninth day Ciphers as well. They made me curios enough to read about Christianity. If anybody tries to preach over me now, I do tell them real truth about Christianity. Truth is antidote to these aberrations. I am a student of science, not of theology. I have only passing interest in religion. However, I have not met any bright theologian yet. I wonder why? I think it is because only in theology the ridiculous doctrines are defended. Only in theology, the theories are not created out of facts, but facts are twisted to fit the theories. Only in theology the doctrines, not the truth, are sacrosanct. Please do point out any errors in objective facts and logic used here. I remain grateful.

I do assume that everybody is interested about truth in general; and theologians in the truth about Christianity in particular. I expect theologians to have a general knowledge about all the religions and Dharmas. I also expect scholars to be intellectually honest, to make opinion according to the facts and to have respect for the truth. I also expect theologians coming from Nepal to know something about Buddha Dharma and Hinduism in general. If you have all the time to read Bible, but have no time to read our own. Is it because of some deep seated psychological inferiority complex? You even did not read Bible objectively. Otherwise you would know both the stories that Jesus was born in Bethlehem are demonstrably lies.

What Christianity is all about? Jesus taught to love our neighbors and even enemies. I do appreciate Jesus, and his teachings of universal love. That precisely Christianity is not about. Suppose there was a Jew who heard Jesus ‘a Jewish Rabbi’ preaching and practiced loving neighbors and enemies. Then according to Jesus and all the right-thinking people he will go to heaven. However, according to Christianity he will go to hell. True or not? Be honest.

According to Christianity only way to heaven is to ‘believe’ that ‘Jesus is Christ’, or else you stand condemned. Here is the defining doctrine of Christianity:

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Acts 4:12 Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.

Timothy 2:5 For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus

John 3:16-18 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. Whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. But he who does not believe is condemned already.

This is the crux of the problem. To hold a belief, whether it is true or not, does lead to nowhere. What happens if you believe two plus two is ‘four’ or ‘seven’? Nothing really. You do not go to heaven or hell by believing ‘this’ or ‘that.’ As a scholar, how do you connect the belief ‘Jesus is Christ’ with sins being forgiven and going to heaven? This absurd Christian fundamental doctrine leads to the conclusion that all your good and honorable non-Christian parents and all your ancestors have gone to hell. True or not? I do not think so, nor should you. Believing a fact is relevant only and to the extent the fact is used in making a decision. For example, if you buy a ten-dollar worth of item believing you have same amount of money, then you will be embarrassed, nonchalant, or happy if you really have nine, ten or eleven dollars. If you are playing tennis then believing in ten dollars is irrelevant. God created and loves all of us regardless of our color, race, gender, nationality and religion. Good guys go to heaven and bad guys go to hell – a simple metaphor. You go to heaven by practicing ‘good heart inside’ and ‘good deed outside.’ The mantra ‘be good, do good’ leads to heaven. Being a Jew, a Christian, a Hindu, a Buddhist, a Muslim or an Atheist makes no difference. Anyway, on what basis do you believe the Christian doctrines? What facts and reason do you base upon? Because, ‘believing’ is not a voluntary act. Look at a dog and see if you could believe it a cat, then a camel. By the way, Jesus is evidently not the Christ.

Jesus paid for our sin? Not really, it is a pure wishful thinking. What a delusion and attempt at irresponsibility. A sin cannot be transferred. A crime cannot be paid by somebody else, much less before the event. It leads to the absurd conclusion that you can do any crime you want to. It is already paid for by Jesus. What if we forget to commit crime? See if you can transfer your headache or a bad school grade to Jesus. See if you can talk police into keeping your retired father-in-law in prison now and you doing commensurate crime later. Consider the Biblical doctrine of scapegoats paying for other’s crime. Imagine a prison full of goats and sheep doing time in lieu of other convicts. It is such a mind-boggling absurdity. Christianity offers only a false sense of security and wishful escapism. The natural or divine law is each of us has to face the consequences of our own deeds, both bitter and sweet.

Jesus was sacrificed for our sin? As a theologian perhaps you can explain it properly. Who sacrificed Jesus? To whom? Does God demand sacrifice of a lamb or his own son to forgive us? Or God sacrificed his own son for us? To whom? Cannot God forgive us without the stunt of sacrificing his own son? What happens to all the humanity before Jesus, or the multitudes of non-Christian people? Do you think torture and murder of a lamb or a person a good idea? How does that please God? How does it serve any purpose? How does such sacrifice result in forgiving sin? Is not taking a life another ethical crime? How a crime will pay for another crime? Be honest.

Jesus died and resurrected? Not really. Jesus resurrected proving he is God. He is God therefore he was able to resurrect. What a classical tautology or the circular argument. How can God die? Is not immortality the hallmark of God? God sustains the whole world. God is beyond birth and death. If God dies then the whole world will cease to exist. Will it not? His disciples saw him crucified and later he visited them. If they were of normal intelligence, first question they would have asked Jesus would have been, “How did you survive?” However, they assumed he died and resurrected. It merely means they were not so bright after all. Given their circumstances and educational level that may be understandable. How about us? Are not we primary school graduates? Take the one half of the tautology that Jesus resurrected because he is God. So far it is plausible. However, Christianity states ‘whoever believes so will also resurrect.’ You do not have to be a God to resurrect, but mere believing ‘Jesus’s resurrection’ suffice. Try this: Whoever believes Jimmy Carter was President, is also a President. What about resurrection? According to Christianity, all and only Christians will come back alive with all his or her body restored to original form, and live forever. Suppose there is a fat, bald and old Christian. Perhaps he does not want to live like that for eternity. Perhaps he wants to be a gorgeous and sexy woman. Do you want him to condemn for eternity to be a fat, bald, old and married to a cross-eyed woman? Can you imagine poor Hitler living for eternity with shame and embarrassment hanging on his face for losing the war, if not for commencing?

What kind of heaven Christianity envisage without Socrates, Pythagoras, Einstein, Gandhi, Buddha, your parents and friends; but with Hitler and Mussolini? Personally, I wish to achieve salvation that is beyond birth and death. However, the important issue is ‘births and deaths are natural events’, ordained by God in this world. Resurrection is merely a wishful thinking without any basis.

Another Christian doctrine is so-called the ‘Original sin’. I think if a person commits crime then only he or she should be punished, not any other innocent people. However, according to Christianity, Adam committed the crime of eating the apple of knowledge, therefore we all are born in sin and will go to hell. You may rest assured babies are not criminals and we are all born pure. It violates the most fundamental principle of justice. Which, even a dog understands. For example, if two of us were walking together and I happen to kick a stray dog. Then the dog will try to bite me, not you. Because the dog understands that I am guilty and you are innocent.

This doctrine is the product of Paul’s manipulation of a sensible Greek mythology ‘Adam and Eve being the parent of all humanity’, that is we are all one family ‘Bashundhaiva Kutumbakam’, to a nonsensical guilt trap. Why is eating ‘Apple’ of knowledge a sin? Rather eating ‘Orange’ of ignorance is. Do not we all go to school? Believe me, God wants us to be educated and wise.

Thus, Christianity fits the swindling ‘the good cop and the bad cop’ model. A strong man comes in with a dumb story but with a big threat. Then another man comes along to help you out of the threat. The weak-minded person is relieved from the threat and is obliged to the second. Here comes the strong man Adam and the Original Sin, that you are guilty and born in sin. Then the other man comes to help which is the Jesus who pays for it. All of sudden you are obliged to Jesus. Truth is a person cannot be punished for another’s crime. Neither we are responsible for Adam’s sin, nor can Jesus pay for our sins. Such swindling technique works only on weak-minded fools. Is it about seeking truth or spirituality? None whatsoever.

The doctrines of the ‘original sin’ and the ‘scapegoat’ get even better. Bigger the crime, larger the sacrifice. From a lamb it goes all the way to an elephant, a whale, a man, and ultimately God. To pay for the ‘original sin’, not only you need Jesus, but he also has to be unblemished or sinless. According to the Bible the original sin is transmitted from father to children. The ancient Jews consider the father as the giver of seed or life, and the mother merely an incubator. Thus, Jewish lineage comes strictly from the father, and the mother is irrelevant. They also thought sex to be inherently bad. Thus, children born normally are impure. Therefore, the doctrine of the ‘immaculate conception’ is important to satisfy both conditions of purity. The baby Jesus does not have human father, and Mary is still virgin. Matter of fact, she remains virgin even after having a number of children with Joseph. However, the doctrine is contrary to another Biblical requirement that the Christ has to be the direct descendant of King David. Some theologians even tried to circulate the seven dollars bill that Mary is the descendant of David, not acceptable to Jewish custom. Contradictions and irrationalities are not problems for the Church as long as people believe them. However, the progress in human knowledge brought another problem. In the nineteenth century, even the enemies of Galileo realized that the mother not only provides nutrition but also provides life equal to the father. In that case Jesus is still impure through his mother side. To avoid such predicament, the Roman Catholic Church in 1854 stated as article of faith that Mary had been conceived without the original sin that affects all humanity. To emphasize Mary’s purity and non-affliction from the original sin, Pope Pius XII in 1950 declared that at her death Mary’s body and soul both went to heaven. However, the humble and inconvenient question remains, “How did Pope find out, and why not earlier?” This is a classic case of incoherent doctrine inventing facts. By the way, the ‘article of faith’ means to believe without thinking or questioning.

The myth that God dies and comes back alive is a recurrent theme in many of the old-world religions. Egypt has the story of ‘Osiris’, in Greece ‘Dionysis’, in Asia Minor ‘Attis’, in Syria ‘Adonis’, in Italy ‘Bacchus’ and in Persia ‘Mithra’. These myths are centuries older than Christianity. Thus, Christian myth is not an original but a poor plagiarism. Once Christianity has the political and military hold of the Europe it wiped out the other religions. The genocide of Pagan Europeans, destruction of old European religions, arts, literatures, philosophies, books are the hideous and yet ignored history of Europe. This is how Christianity paid for the tolerance of pre-Christian Europe. Today’s European descendants can only look at the ‘ruins’ of their glorious past. A Pagan philosopher Celsus, 2nd century AD, criticized Christians for trying to pass Jesus’ story as original when in fact it is a poor copy of Pagan myths, “Why Pagan story is myth and Christian story is true? Nothing is unusual about Christian belief, except that it excludes larger truth of God.” In response to such criticism, Church came with the doctrine of ‘Diabolical mimicry.’ Theologians like Justin Martyr and Tertullian, 2nd century AD, explain, “Devil knew about Jesus’ life before it happened. To confuse people, he created all the other myths long before Jesus was born.” Did somebody ask how they came to know? Perhaps Devil told them so. Christianity stands on these kinds of arguments.

Yet another Biblical doctrine is about the covenant between God and Jewish tribe. Do you think we human beings are equal to God to have a legal contract? It is as comical as having legal paper signed between a man and a horse. How do you enforce the contract if God renegades? In which court? One of the covenants stipulates that Jewish tribe will obey Mosaic code and the God will make the tribe always victorious in battles. Is it historically true? How about Diasporas? Do you think only concern of God is to look after one tribe and beat on others? Are we Jews? How about we Nepalese? If there is a war between Jews and us, which side you will be and which side God will be? Obviously so called covenant is a ploy to militarize Jewish tribe. It is not about seeking truth or spiritual practices. By the way, anybody can approach God through simple love.

These facts may be interesting to theologians and lay people alike. The relevant references are given below.

Jesus’ biological father is a Roman soldier named ‘Panthera.’

When Jesus was growing up people used to make joke about his parentage. It led him to develop a mild form of psychological disorder called ‘paraphrenia’, which makes him very sensitive toward poor, exploited and down trodden.

When he was about 13 years old, he followed the ancient Silk Road and went to India. He studied in many places including Benaras and Leh Monastery, Kashmir. He became a well-known scholar trained mostly in Buddha Dharma and other Hindu traditions. He was important enough to be mentioned in the ‘Rajtarangini’, a royal chronicle of Kashmir Kings. His way of addressing God as ‘Father’ is directly from the ‘Dwaita – duel’ tradition of Hindus. For example – ‘Tomeva Maata, Cha Pita tomeva. Thou art mother, and thou art father.’ Jews address God as ‘Lord.’ His statement ‘Kingdom within’ is directly from ‘Adwaita – non-duel’ tradition of the inner meditation. These concepts are quite foreign to Jews and they took them merely as parables.

When he was of late twenties he came back to Israel, a well-educated and charismatic Rabbi. He was also a Jewish nationalist and opposed Roman occupation. He also claimed to be the ‘Christ’, as understood by Jewish people then. He did not claim to have come to establish a new religion, nor biological-son of God, nor to take away other’s sin. They are the wishful thinking added later.

He was able to start an armed rebellion against Romans, albeit a minor one. Romans crucified him for that rebellion, a standard Roman punishment.

He was on cross, only for a few hours and survived. You may check with your physician friends if nailing in wrists, not palms, for a few hours will result in death or not.

He met his disciples and told them that he will escape to India and return for them later.

He returned to India, married, had children and died of old age. He was buried in Shrinagar, Kashmir. The temple built on his burial site exists even today. There are people who claim to be his descendant even today.

His disciples, all of them practicing Jews, vainly waited for his return. Current Christianity has nothing to do either with Jesus or his disciples.

Present Christianity, with all the absurd wishful doctrines, is the brainchild of Paul, who never met Jesus. And matter of fact, Jesus’ disciples including his brother James accused him of telling lies.
The Christian theme that Jesus came to take away others sin is neither taught by Judaism, nor by Jesus. It is the doctrine of Mithraism, where Lord Mithra pays for and forgives the sins of his believers. This copy and concoction of Paul is what you call Christianity today.

What is spirituality? It is about search for the truth and practices of improving ones inner values. Believing ‘Jesus is Christ or not’ is irrelevant, for that matter neither believing ‘Fat Buddha’ is. By believing so, what profound truth you came to know? How did it improve your spiritual values? Whether ‘Jesus is Christ or not’ is important only to the Jews. If he was really Christ, then they were obliged to obey and fight for him as a God appointed King towards liberation of Israel. It is a political issue. We are Nepalese. Is it our problem? Do not we have our own problems? ‘Khai na pai, Chhala topi lai.’

So, what are Bible and its prophets? Contrary to the claims, Bible is not a scripture, nor the prophets divinely inspired individuals. Actually, Bible is a subjective political history of Jewish people and prophets are their community\political leaders. They are interesting historical documents but not spiritual works. A scripture is about universal principles and spiritual practices. History of how Jewish tribe got into bondage, their freedom, in turn how they massacred Canaanites and took over their land is interesting but does not qualify as a spiritual treaty. Merely spicing up the text by sprinkling a handful of words ‘God’ does not change the inherent characteristics. A prophet is judged by the content of his message, not by his claims. Please do compare these two statements: a. Newton is a great scientist because his theories are proven correct, and b. I believe Newton is a great scientist therefore I believe whatever he says. First is about the way of ‘Apple’, and second is about ‘Orange.’

A prophet may walk down the hill or come out of a cave and claim that he was told by God to tell you what God wants. Did you wonder why is it a mountain or a cave but not a rest room? Why there are fires, thunders, lightening on the side? They are dramatic effects to avoid simple questions. It is the trick in trade of all magicians, kings, dictators and professional wrestlers. If God really talked to the prophet, good for him, but not good enough for me. He may have heard God directly, but for me it is only hear say. I am sure God is perfectly capable of telling me directly. Prophet hood is nothing more than hood winking gullible people to be controlled by the Prophet. It can be easily recognized by the so-called divine statements coming out of the prophet. They are nothing but political assertions given the circumstances. For example, according to Moses God tells, “I am your God, helped you out of Egyptian bondage, gave Canaan land to you, worship only me, do not worship other Gods, else I am jealous.” May we ask how they got into Egyptian bondage in the first place? Is this God only of Jews, not of Egyptian? God forbid, if the God is also of Hittites, Amorites, and Canaanites et al. According to Bible, God says, “You shall annihilate them – Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, Jebusites ….“ According to so-called divine urging Jews went and massacred all the Canaanites and took over their land. Is this how divine gift is given? Can God be in competition against other Gods and be jealous? Moses is a great Jewish leader, no doubt; but not a spiritual Mahatma. Given the circumstance, Moses has done the wonderful job of keeping discipline and leading the desperate Jewish tribe. But spade is a spade. The scenario is perfectly explainable if considered that God did not create Moses, rather Moses created God. Moses led Jews out of Egyptian bondage, engineered massacre and takeover of Canaan land. He wants full control of Jews and would not like them to listen to others. Otherwise he is jealous.

There is an anecdote of an amateur singer trying to impress a music teacher. The teacher commented, “You really sing well. All you need to do is improve on the rhythm and the melody.” Christianity is a great religion, with problems of being false and dangerous. Consider the definitions: superstition – believing without facts, and brain washing – believing against facts. Christianity is merely a brain washing system by promoting wishful thinking. The danger of Christianity is that it does not allow people to do critical analysis. To be led by nose-rings looks good only on bullocks. To be led by bridles looks good only on horses. To parrot what was told to you or stated in Bible without any critical examination does not look good on intellectuals like you. Remember Socrates, “Unexamined truth is not truth.” If it is able to delude scholars like you, think of its devastating effect on the superstitious masses. Here are a few issues typically posed by missionaries for your meditation.

Iqbal the anti-Vedic

Mohammad Iqbal’s “Hindustan Hamara” is the National Song of Pakistan

Written by: Dipak Basu
March 14th, 2011 |

Mohammad Iqbal and Communalism in modern India: Iqbal’s Hindustan is the Mughal India as Dar-Ul-Islam – We are Muslims and the whole world is our homeland.

Iqbal was the greatest political thinker of the Muslims in British India. Although he was described as a Sufi, his doctrine went counter to the quietism and acceptance preached by traditional Sufism. Iqbal’s philosophy was a rather militant doctrine of action, of fight to achieve an ideal placed before man, and this ideal was of that of a primitive Islam, which in Iqbal’s opinion was preached by the Prophet

He was one of the earliest proponent of the ‘Two Nation Theory’ after Syed Ahmed Khan, the founder of the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College, now Aligarh Muslim University. One of the most prominent leaders of the All India Muslim League, Muhammad Iqbal encouraged the creation of a “state in northwestern India for Muslims” under the British rule. In his Presidential Address at the All-India Muslim League Session at Allahabad in 1930, he suggested that for the healthy development of Islam in South-Asia, it was essential to have a separate Muslim state at least in the Muslim majority regions of the north-west of British India. Later on, in his correspondence with Muhammad Ali Jinnah, he included the Muslim majority areas in the north-east also in his proposed separate nation for the Muslims.

Iqbal, just like Jinnah, has three phases in his life. He has started as a nationalist, then he became a staunch loyalist of the British Raj, ultimately he became the philosopher-creator of Pakistan. The early phase was characterised by three categories of poems – (i) Ghazals and lyrics (e. g, Gul-i-Pashmurdah); (ii) romanticist and nature poems (e.g “The Himalayas”, “Kashmir” and “On the Bank of Ravi”) and (iii) patriotic and nationalistic poems. To this last category belongs poems like Hindustan Hamara, Hindustani Bachoon Ka Qaumi Geet, Naya Shiwala, and Taswir-i-Dard. Unfortunately those in India promote Iqbal forgot to read the poems in full, where he had glorified the Muslim conquests in general.

After his return from Britain and Europe, Iqbal later has transformed himself. While he was in jail in 1932, Mahatma Gandhi decided that Iqbal had become anti-nationalist. After going through an account of Iqbal’s speech to the Muslim League published in the newspaper, Mahatma Gandhi commented: “Other Muslims too share Iqbal’s anti-nationalism; only they do not give expression to their sentiments. The poet now disowns his song Hindustan Hamara”. However, Gandhi never knew that ‘Hindustan’ of Iqbal is a pan-Muslim concept, alien to Gandhi’s concept of India.

Iqbal was against secularism and was a fanatical Muslim. In his book, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, he expressed fears that secularism would weaken the spiritual foundations of Muslim society. India’s Hindu-majority population would destroy Muslim heritage, culture and political influence.

In a letter to Jinnah on 21 June 1937, Iqbal wrote: “Why should not the Muslims of north-west India and Bengal be considered as nations entitled to self-determination just as other nations in India and outside India are”? Iqbal approved the concept of Aurangzeb that “the strength of Islam in India depended not on the goodwill of its inhabitants but on the strength of the ruling Muslims”. Aurangzeb, according to Iqbal, was the “first exponent of Muslim nationalism in the Indian sub-continent”.

Tarana-e-Milli, written by Iqbal, reveals his mindset. “China and Arabia are ours. India is ours .We are Muslims and the whole world is our homeland. We have grown up in the shadow of swords. Our mascot is the crescent shaped dagger. Our prayer calls have reverberated in the valleys of the west. The force of our flow could not be stopped by anyone”.

Iqbal’s ‘Hindustan’ has nothing to do with India, but it is a mythical land for the Muslims. He evolved a synthetic concept of ‘Muslim’ nationalism, which should be according to Iqbal, a multi-nationalism within Islam. He had promoted that concept of communalism in a message to the Central Khilafat Committee, Bombay, on March 10, 1922.

Iqbal wrote, “Communalism is its higher aspect, is indispensable to the formation of a harmonious whole in a country like India. The units of Indian society are not territorial as in European countries. ….The principle of European democracy cannot be applied to India without recognizing the fact of communal groups. The Muslim demand for the creation of a Muslim India within (British) India is, therefore, perfectly justified.” Initially Iqbal sought a Muslim province with the British India, as he was then a loyal servant of the British Empire. Later, when it was clear after 1935 reform, that the British would give India a kind of self-rule sooner or later, Iqbal demanded a separate state.

Iqbal considered the Koran not only as a book of religion in the traditional sense, but also a source of foundational principles upon which the infrastructure of any organization must be built as a coherent system of life. In his Rumuz-e-Bekhudi (Hints of Selflessness), Iqbal seeks to prove the Islamic way of life is the best code of conduct for a nation’s viability.

In Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam he wrote: “I confess to be a pan-Islamist. The mission for which, Islam came into this world will ultimately be fulfilled, the world will ultimately be purged of infidelity and the worship of false gods, and the true soul of Islam will be triumphant. This is the kind of pan-Islamicism that I preach”. “Islam as a religion has no country”. In his zeal to promote the unity of the Muslims, he has no hesitation to falsify the world history, when he wrote, “The history of Islam tells us that the expansion of Islam as a religion is in no way related to the political power of its followers”; and again “that Islam gained its greatest and most lasting missionary triumphs in times and places in which its political power has been weakest, as in South India and Eastern Bengal.” Karl Marx in his book ‘Notes on Indian History’ would have seriously disagreed with Iqbal for this concocted history, when Marx has described in detail the destruction of Vijaya Nagar in South India by the Muslim invaders and the Muslim invasion of Bengal.

Iqbal did supported Muslim conquests by various means. He writes to Miss Farquharson: “The Jews also have no right over Palestine. They had bid farewell to Palestine willingly long before its occupation by Arabs.” [Miss Farquharson was the President of the National League of England. Iqbal’s letters dated July 30 and September 30, 1937 respectively, regarding Palestine, are included in Iqbal Namah (Makatib I Iqbal) Vol. 1, pp. 446-50]

About the Jews he wrote:

“The usurious Jews are waiting since long

To whose deceit the prowess of the tiger is no match

The West is bound to fall by itself like a ripe fruit

Let us see in whose lap the West falls”

About the Muslim conquest of Spain, Iqbal wrote in his poem A Ia mosquée de Cordoue:

“Oh! Holy Mosque of CórdobaOnly in a true Muslim’s heart”

Shrine for all lovers of art
Pearl of the one true faith
Sanctifying Andalusia’s soil

Like Holy Mecca itself
Such a glorious beauty
Will be found on earth

[The so-called Holy Mosque of Cordoba was created by demolishing a massive Christian Cathedral, when most parts of Spain was occupied in 711 by the Muslims of Morocco. Later in 1236, Córdoba was liberated by King Ferdinand III, who had turned it back into a Christian church.]

The common Muslim idea that ‘“ We came to Hindustan and we ruled’ is reflected in Iqbal’s poem ‘Sare Jahase Acha’, where he wrote:

“Our caravan landed on the banks of your Ganges”,

That indicates Muslim conquest of India. Iqbal’s Hindustan is the Mughal India as Dar-Ul-Islam, where Muslims were the rulers, and Hindus were subjugated.

Iqbal also wrote his Shikwah in sorrowful remembrance of the failure of the Muslim invasion in India, when he mourned that the invincible armada of the Muslims, that had swept over so many seas and rivers, met its watery grave in the Ganges. Iqbal wept over the defeat of Islam in India and elsewhere in the past, and looked forward to a re-conquest. He wrote:

“Qahar to yeh hai ke kafir ko mile Hur-o-qusur

Aur bichaare Muslmaan ko faqt vada i Hur . . .”

“The shameful thing is that Kafirs enjoy Houries in this life

But Poor Muslims have only a promise of Houries in after life”

His two poems Shikwa (complaint) and Jawab-I-Shikwah (Reply to the Complaint) are about the Muslim revivalists in India who were for the separation from India in both spirit and political rehabilitation to his proposed Pakistan. These poems are in the form of a complaint before Allah, about the adverse circumstances in which the Indian Muslims had fallen, and the sequel, given the remedies prescribed by God for Muslim upliftments.

Mysticism and Iqbal:

Iqbal in Pakistan is being propagated as a mystic poet. In India he is propagated as a Sufi. Both of these ideas are wrong. As Iqbal did his PhD in Persian Philosophy in the University of Munich, Iqbal’s so-called mysticism was heavily influenced by two German philosophers, Emile Durkheim and Friedrich Nietzsche, both of whom are considered to be the philosopher of the Nazism.

Nietzsche was in turn influenced by the Persian philosopher Zorathrustra. Nietzsche’s thought was that of a Superman or the Übermensch. In his book, ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’, Nietzsche wrote, “ “The Overman is the meaning of the earth. Man is a rope, tied between beast and Overman, he is a bridge and not an end.”

Iqbal has interpreted the basic element in Nietzsche’s idea , the “will to power” (der Wille zur Macht), as the basis for understanding human behavior. The natural condition of life and the struggle to survive are less important than the desire to expand one’s power. Iqbal has a critical view of mysticism. He believes that life is activity, and a person having communication with God cannot be a passive individual. A human being, coming in touch with the Supreme Being gets illuminated. He becomes a moving spirit in the society. It seems that such an individual is having a burning fire within him and he is part of God’s activity in this world.

Iqbal urges for the restoration of the Caliphate, and seeks that mobilization of the spirit which would make it:

“To once again establish,

The foundation Khilafah in the world,

You must bring from somewhere,

The mettle of your ancestors.”

“Out of the seclusion of the desert of Hejaz,

The Guide of the Time is to come.

And from this far, far away valley,

The Caravan is to make its appearance.”

[in Khidr-e-Waqt]

Iqbal has translated a number of poems of the Turkish poet Ziya Gokalp, pseudonym of Mehmed Ziya, who had promoted the Pan-Turkic Muslim Empire, from China to Europe, the dream of Iqbal. Ziya used the writings of Dukheim to repudiate secularism as a disuniting factor and proposed religion as a uniting force–all concepts found in Iqbal‘s Reconstruction of Islamic Thought (“Aik ho Muslim haram kee pasbani keh liyeh, Neel keh sahil seh ta ba khak e Kashghar”).

Iqbal claimed that his writings were influenced by ‘Surah e Nafas’ of the Koran, but in reality it reflects the views of Ziya who had translated the works of Émile Durkheim. Both Iqbal and Ziya concluded that Western ‘liberalism’, as a social system, was inferior to ‘solidarism’, because ‘liberalism’ encouraged ‘individualism’, which in turn diminished the integrity of the state. For Iqbal, religion is a mean to unify a population socially, and the life of the group was more important than the life of the individual.

Iqbal has rejected Sufism by saying in his book The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam that, “The rise and growth of ascetic Sufism… was developed under the influences of a non-Islamic character, a purely speculative side. The spirit of total other-worldliness in Sufism obscured men’s vision of a very important aspect of Islam as a social polity” (p21, p 221). Khalid Alavi has observed, “For Iqbal, Sufism is an activity and a “source of inspiration; but the unworthy occupants of spiritual seats have destroyed its image and spoiled its usefulness”. Iqbal accepted mystic experience or inner experience of the Sufis as a source of knowledge, but he has pointed out that The Koran declares that there are other two sources of knowledge, history and nature, which Sufism does not acknowledges. Thus, it is wrong to say that Iqbal was a Sufi poet, as Iqbal did not appreciated the Sufi idea of universal love and existence of ‘The God’ in every creature, which had their origins in Hindu Bhakti movement of Sri Chaitannya and Ramanuj with its ultimate expression in Rabindranath Tagore. For Iqbal, “Sufi orders ….caused disintegration of the social cohesiveness of the Muslim community”.

Conclusion:

Iqbal was against both democracy and secularism. The Muslim communalism in the British India had its origin in the fear of the Muslim of a democratic system with the majority rule, where Muslims would be a permanent minority, and in a romantic concept of the history of the Muslim conquests in Eurasia and North Africa, that had glorified anti-Hindu sentiments.

Iqbal has promoted that “Utopian intellectualization of the Muslims minority complex”, as Nadeem Paracha wrote in The Dawn on 24 Jan, 2010. To Iqbal, Indian nationalism that propagated a joint Hindu-Muslim struggle against the British, was contrary to the concept of a united Muslim Ummah, spanning from Morocco to Indonesia. After a meeting with Egyptian and Palestinian Arab leaders in 1946, Mohammad Ali Jinnah has repeated the idea of Iqbal, “If a Hindu empire is achieved, it will mean the end of Islam in India, and even in other Muslim countries.”

Iqbal feared the exploitation of the Muslims in a Hindu-dominated future India, and as a result, promoted separatism among the Muslims. He said, in his 1930 speech for the creation of Pakistan, that “The Muslim demand ……is actuated by a genuine desire for free development which is practically impossible under the type of unitary government contemplated by the nationalist Hindu politicians with a view to secure permanent communal dominance in the whole of India.”

To achieve that dream he was prepared to go at any length when he wrote, “khanjar hilal ka ho qaumi nishan hamara”. He also said in his speech in 1930 in Allahabad, “India is a continent of human groups belonging to different races, speaking different languages and professing different religions. …. To base a constitution on the conception of a homogeneous India …. is to prepare for a civil war”.

Islam, according to Iqbal, is a complete way of life. No other path is acceptable to God. So, in the absence of an Islamic polity, it is difficult for the Muslims to lead their lives entirely in accordance with the rules of Islam, which apply to social affairs as much as they do to personal affairs. Muslim’s duty must be to work to establish an Islamic dispensation in the lands where they live so that they can lead their lives fully in accordance with Islam and its laws.

Iqbal’s book in English, the Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, expressed fears that not only would secularism weaken the spiritual foundations of Islam and Muslim society, but that India’s Hindu-majority population would crowd out Muslim heritage, culture and political influence. He thus became the first politician to articulate the Two-Nation Theory — that Muslims form a distinct nation and thus deserve political independence from other communities of India. Thus, it is a great shame that Indians, without reading Iqbal’s writings, accepted the poem Hindustan Hamara, which is the National Song of Pakistan, as the most popular national song of India. It demonstrate that the campaign of the Aligarh school, to rewrite Indian history to glorify the Muslim invaders as social reformers, is highly successful due to the continuous support of a group of pro-Pakistani historians in India and their Western followers along with the assorted journalists in English language newspapers both in India and in the Anglo-American world. For them, both Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Mohammad Iqbal are the symbols of secularism and Hindi-Muslim unity, although they are the creator of Pakistan, due to which millions of people of all religions were butchered, and million more have lost all their livelihood.

Written by Dipak Basu

I am now Professor in International Economics in Nagasaki University Japan. I did my PhD on model building for development planning in the University of Birmingham, UK. I was then Research Officer in Department of Applied Economics in Cambridge University and Lecturer in the Institute of Agricultural Economics in Oxford University. I have published 8 books and more than 70 papers in academic journals on economics.

Source: Naresh Khanna via yahoogroups.com

US President pardoning turkey?

Letter to the US President Mr. Obama

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Dear Honorable President Mr. Obama: Namaste

(NAMASTE is the greatest salutation for souls to recognize that they are the “spiritual sparks” embodied in the material bodies: The meaning of this Sanskrit Word that you are an infinitesimal atomic soul and I am also an infinitesimal atomic soul — both part and parcel of the Infinite Soul – The Supreme Personality of Godhead, therefore, I humbly bow down to you with respect. Thank you. Please read the Gyan (The Knowledge) which is the Absolute Answer for bringing harmony and the ultimate peace.)

The question arises, what did the innocent defenseless, helpless Turkey do that he needed to be pardoned by the President of the United States of America on a big show of compassion for Thanksgiving Turkey day? For no apparent reasons of Turkey’s any mistake, yet he is pardoned but for what reasons? No wonder, Christian Inquisition was arresting scientists, astronomers, mathematicians, philosophers and for no apparent reasons were ordered to be killed or burned alive or banished or put into house arrest. By the orders of Popes many scientists were killed and or burned alive, including Bruno, Latimar and others for no apparent mistakes. After 367 years later, Pope Paul admitted that Roman Catholic Church was wrong about Galileo: “Vatican City (AP) – Pope John Paul II said on Monday the Roman Catholic Church erred in condemning astronomer Galileo in 1633 for saying the Earth was not the canter of the universe.”

Later, the Catholic Church finds that they were mistaken – why don’t they give up their arrogance and surrender submissively on to the Lotus Feet of Great Hindu Masters who have seen the Absolute Truth where there is nothing but perfections and they don’t have to go back to correct the mistakes. What did they do? The Vatican misled the believers in total darkness for 367 years until Pope Paul II revised his statement to show the Inquisition was wrong – but in their terrible mistake and ignorance, millions were killed, burned, raped throughout the planet. For the top most ignorance they call it the religion. Are they not following the same top most Ignorance today? The effects are very serious on all living beings and the eco-system of our planet earth – it is making very difficult to sustain. Examples are live: Mass starvation and death in Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Ghana and many countries are slowly getting affected.

To impose Christian methods, based upon all sorts of inhuman treatment, the cruelest Christian King Justinian killed all other philosopher and great scientists of wisdom from Spain & Europe and thus came the end of Great Philosopher Averroes, a Jew by birth, who had followed the foot steps of his master Plato.

Plato taught the meaning of the immortality of the soul and he taught that the soul reincarnate the other bodies after death. Plato said – “Immoral behavior is The Symptom of a Diseased Soul.” In his school ‘Academy,’ he taught the Vedic Principles of self-control, logic and transmigration of soul. ‘Academy’ started some 2,383 years ago and later was closed by Justinian who taught they were teaching paganism. The fools listed the greatest science and philosophies of our very existence as “Paganism.” Did the fools yet realize that how much damage have they done by mass butchering the non-guilty for no apparent reasons? If they do realize, they must not continue to push the nonsense (the top most Ignorance) through the throats of our children. If they have not realized to this date, they must be put into the “Schools of Self Realization” where they understand and realize the Universal Make Up and the science behind the BODY, MIND and Soul. If you truly want to correct the understanding between the guilty and non-guilty, you must invite thousand of great masters from India to teach our children “The Science of Consciousness,” so we can get rid of crime. Is statistics of crime not all time high? Last week, one of the USA televisions reported the following figures on Afro-Americans: 33% complete high schools; 5% are in colleges; 36% are in penitentiaries. Are you getting the message? When the society is trained by lies, deceit, hate, arrogance, anger, harsh methods, the repercussions turn very serious?

Naturally, pardon means that you are accepting in conscious state of mind that the Turkey is a life that comes from life, not a stone. Please read our reason, logic, love, compassion, feeling and analogy with open mind and courage for the safety of all.

Thank you.

Sincerely

Joe Martin, Cultural Bridges Act 2002

This knowledge has been culled down from the writings of our Master Acharya Charan Das Ji Maharaj – He had written many books of wisdom, in the last 40 years, without any prejudices for the ultimate benefits of souls. If you truly want to go to the Real Home Vakhunt, spiritual planets, then you must definitely take the following steps into immediate consideration and also to revive the fallen situations.

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Source: savarkar vinayak via yahoogroups.com

Nature does not pardon those who kill for fun or food. – skanda987

वन्दे मातरम् – Sing it as the national anthem of Bhaarat

वन्दे मातरम्

सुजलाम्। सुफलाम्।

मलयज शीतलाम्

सस्य श्यामलाम्।

मातरम्

वन्दे मातरम्

शुभ्र ज्योत् स् ना

पुलकित यामिनीम्

फुल्ल कुसुमित

द्रुमदल शोभिनीम्

सुहासिनीम्।

सुमधुर भासिनीम्

सुखदाम् वरदाम्

मातरम्

वन्दे मातरम्

vande maataram

sujalaam. suphalaam.

malayaja shItalaam

sasya shyaamalaam.

maataram

vande maataram

shubhra jyot s naa

pulakita yaaminiim

phulla kusumita

drumadala shobhiniim

suhaasiniim.

sumadhura bhaasiniim

sukhadaam varadaam

maataram

vande maataram

I request the Bhaaratiyas to use this song as the national anthem. The current anthem – jana gana mana – was composed in December 1911, precisely at the time of the Coronation Durbar of British King George V, and is in praise of the King and not God. This is clearer from its translation. Its translation has these lines: “Thou art the ruler of the minds of all people, Dispenser of India’s destiny. Thy name rouses the hearts of Punjab, Sindh, Gujarat and Maratha, Of the Dravida and Orissa and Bengal; It echoes in the hills of the Vindhyas and Himalayas, mingles in the music of Jamuna and Ganges and is chanted by the waves of the Indian Sea. They pray for thy blessings and sing thy praise. The saving of all people waits in thy hand, Thou dispenser of India’s destiny. Victory forever.