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du of chennai has been the toast of china for an article purported to have beenwritten by him refuting the allegations levelled by the dalai lama and his supporters regarding the events of march in lhasa the chineseauthorities have been gratified by what they see as his vigorous articulation of the version of the events as put out by them 2 a report on shri ram s article disseminated by the state owned hsinhua news agency of china is annexed it is learnt that this has beentranslated into the tibetan and uighur languages and copies distributed in all the monasteries and educational institutions in thetibetan inhabited areas of china it has also been made required reading in the patriotic re education classess for tibetans being organisedby the chinese authorities in the meanwhile the chinese authorities have reduced the duration of the stay of the olympic torch in tibetfrom three to one day the torch will be in lhasa on june 21 instead of june 19 3 the dissemination of shri ram s article is unlikely to have any impact on the tibetans and uighurs nor will it have much of an impact oninternational opinion on the recent events in tibet because shri ram s policy of see no evil hear no evil and speak no evil with regard tochina is well known right across the world his popularity in china is confined to the chinese ruling circles 4 after writing this article i showed this to a number of indian friends while a majority agreed that this deserved to be written anddisseminated some asked why do this since it could reflect on the credibility of a great institution of chennai 5 after carefully considering their advice i concluded that this needed to be written in the interest of the indian people and the lovablepeople of tibet it will be moral cowardice to remain silent when the editor of a highly respected paper of chennai uses his access to itscolumns to demonise the dalai lama and the tibetans just as beijing is in the habit of doing 6 as you move around chennai you see thousands of advertisements inviting you to buy the hindu when you see those advertisements think of shri ram and his writings in support of the chinese and in demonisation of the dalai lama and the tibetans and ask yourself thequestion does such a newspaper deserve my continued support the choice is yours link 1 comment filed under comrade circus freedom of speech information international communism liberal extremists media national security june 18 2008 9 03 am dude where goes my tax money how would you feel if your hard earned money is taken away and redistributed to the mostly political activists or favored constituencies of the respective parties in the name of the poor or blown on some minister s foreign jaunt or better still into the black hole of hair brained schemes like the nregs and for the purpose of sending more and more rich or middle class obc kids to the iits iims and other institutes of higher learning while myself who has by now paid a good amount in tax money since the last 4 years cannot rely on the government to provide proper services in return i have to drive on pathetic roads put up with unreliable and erratic power supply pathetic public transport drains that overflow at the first burst of monsoon and added to that the country sorely lacks an efficient public health care system primary education system and so on and so forth india will reform much faster and things will change for the better much more sooner if only more and more indians demand accountability from the government for how it is spending their hard earned money it collects as taxes narendra modi should be commended for being the first person to demand such accountability i completely agree with him that the government should be held accountable for how it spends the taxes it collects from the people should the brightest student in a class be forced to dumb down to accommodate the dullard the essence of democracy prevents indian politicians from giving honest answers to such questions ever since equitable growth and inclusive development became consensual buzzwords india s policy framework has been geared to target the last person in the last row on paper this sounds noble but the reality is less appetising in the guise of giving a leg up to the needy we have punished enterprise rewarded criminality indulged mediocrity and brutalised the vulnerable the incredible india of smiling peasants and the fab india kitted woman prancing about on a rural employment guarantee picnic a la the ads during the ipl telecasts exist entirely in the imagination of demented propagandists the mindless attachment to failed mantras has blunted the politicians capacity for innovative thinking this may be a reason why modi s plea to the centre to let gujarat enjoy complete fiscal independence for one year has been met with incomprehension or drawn a hysterical response including the silly assertion that he be charged with sedition the chief minister s demand that revenues from gujarat be largely spent on gujarat is a radical departure from existing federal norms at present the centre collects the lion s share of all major taxes including income tax and customs and excise duties leaving the states with the crumbs from stamp duties irrigation cess tax on liquor and vat on consumer sales a percentage of the central revenues are ploughed back to the states under the finance commission s guidelines but the returns are never proportionate additionally the planning commission doles out the capital expenditure on approved schemes the present system was centred on two principles the government in new delhi should be a redistributive centre and development should be centrally planned and not left to the market the system worked without major hiccups as long as the centre played the role of a neutral arbiter and until the public sector occupied the commanding heights of the economy both assumptions are no longer valid while the market economy has ushered rivalry between states for private investments fiercely competitive politics has forced ruling dispensations to be more responsive to voters at the same time the growing mismatch between those who pay taxes and those who benefit from government expenditure has produced strains in places as far removed as darjeeling and mumbai there is a feeling that revenues generated in the region are inadequately ploughed back and that the present system favours the inefficient likewise there is dismay over the culture of non accountability that governs grandiose schemes such as the loan waiver and the nregs some people it would seem pay their hard earned money in taxes while a small privileged minority squanders and loots it recklessly most important the system is not geared to apportioning accountability for expenditure a politician in say jharkhand doesn t give a damn for fiscal rectitude because he knows that the funds at his disposal have actually emanated from somewhere else in saying that gujarat should have a greater say in the money it gives to the centre modi is not seeking sops and handouts shorn off its polemical flourish it is a call for a new mindset that treats those who pay for nation building with respect link 2 comments filed under governance india indian politics indian states infrastructure politics social issues june 15 2008 2 24 pm good ol comic book heroes remember indrajal comics amar chitra katha chandamama chacha chaudary and tinkle their characters phantom mandrake flash gordon bahadur shikari shambu suppandi and many others used to rule the roost in the kids entertainment section before the advent of cable tv in the 1990s now there are a dime a dozen cartoon channels running 24 7 to keep the kids occupied but back then these were the ones alongwith superman batman disney donald duck and his nephews mickey mouse goofy pluto and some others i used to have a big store of them but then over time they were all either given away lost or tattered beyond recognition wish i had held onto them because today these have supposedly become collector s items and atleast some of them like ack and tinkle seem to be getting a modern makeover for a return what i and hundreds of others like me are in search of is a brand that was once a household name in comics indrajal aka the adventures of mandrake the magician phantom the ghost who walks sci fi hero flash gordon and homegrown citizen cop bahadur characters that held kids in thrall for decades the kids generations of them have now grown up and the comics have long gone out of print but the magic that phantom and co exercised on their adolescent imaginations continues today an assortment of adults most veering dangerously towards middle and old age continue to seek out indrajal comics from raddi shops in every city the craze for indrajals is keener among the older bunch says deepak a bookseller at matunga adding smugly that the comics always sell at a premium and evidently there s no dearth of takers whenever someone sells a bunch it gets picked up in a day or two among the indrajal lovers a motley bunch of executives housewives scientists journalists civil servants and the like who are part of offline and online comic book communities is 45 year old delhi based vineeth abraham a section officer with the indian government abraham who collects other comics as well he has about 6 000 has almost all the 800 odd issues of indrajal and some 600 phantom comics published by frew australia dr p c sarkar another fan with a background that screams gravitas he s a scientist with the central government also hunts down comics religiously says he in his blog when the publishing houses stopped these publications readers became collectors and suddenly the value of these discarded comics shot up now e bay india is full of these comics selling at atrocious prices some smart chaps have also scanned the comics and sell them in cds from a buyer s market it has become a seller s market link some fan clubs online indrajal comics club the comic project 2 comments filed under media june 15 2008 10 13 am firefox download day mozilla is planning a big splash for its firefox 3 on june 17th by attempting a guinness world record of the largest number of downloads in a single day for any software nobody has yet said what is the current world record but anyway it is a great opportunity to be a footnote in some obscure page of one of the most famous books in history so go ahead and make a pledge right here firefox super tuesday leave a comment filed under general june 15 2008 10 05 am the upa arrangement a very apt comic to show the relationship between the congress president and the prime minister 2 comments filed under general humour indian politics june 12 2008 8 25 am china s new found openness china s new found openness besides tibet two other important stories to watch while gauging beijing s newly discovered bent for openness and transparency are closely tied to the disaster in sichuan the ministry of housing and urban rural development has launched a probe into the disproportionately large number of schoolchildren who were killed when their schools collapsed on them while other nearby buildings withstood the shock of the quake if shoddy construction was involved officials have vowed to punish those responsible angry grieving parents who have lost children are screaming for justice but an honest and full investigation could lead to high places in communist party officialdom in the province its seems likely that so called tofu construction was commonplace in the building of schools and that private contractors colluded with government officials to skimp on essential materials such as steel and concrete and pocket the savings if these corrupt officials are truly brought to book for their malfeasance that would be a major breakthrough in the country s battle against graft but beware the scapegoat this investigation could turn out like a lot of others punishing a few for the widespread practice of many the same is true of the central government s pledge that all local and foreign donations to quake victims which have surpassed 40 billion yuan us 5 8 billion will be strictly accounted for this promise comes after numerous reports on the internet of donated goods intended for quake victims winding up on sale in shops or in the possession of people not affected by the quake venal officials are allegedly selling items such as tents and rice by the truckload if this is true how many of these culprits the latest symbols of china s endemic corruption will pay for their crimes finally of course there are the olympic games and the 30 000 foreign reporters who will descend on the country to cover not just the athletes but also anything else of interest they can find they will want to interview ordinary citizens and ask chinese leaders tough questions about corruption and democratic reform they have been promised great freedom let s see if beijing can deliver on that promise in the end however it will not be until the grand olympic stage is packed away and the eyes of the world have turned elsewhere that any clear sense of china s future as a budding civil society will become clear link 7 comments filed under freedom of speech information international communism prc older posts recent posts thecatapult in r i p field marshal sam manekshaw qadhafi obama suffers from inferiority complex lebanese terrorist bread restaurant b raman calls for a boycott of the chindu dude where goes my tax money good ol comic book heroes firefox download day the upa arrangement china s new found openness categories city comrade circus freedom of speech information general geopolitics governance history humour india india and the world indian foreign policy indian military indian politics indian states indo us relations infrastructure politics international communism international politics just plain weird law order liberal extremists media national 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