Today's big lie - inflation is less than 5%. Very conveniently they publish only the wholesale price index completely ignoring the Extortion Factor. This is known as the Service Tax. Started at 8%, it went up to 10% and is now 12% with 3% education cess. More other cesses are being planned and the tax is being extended so that every one will come under its net. For instance with the price of air fuel rising airlines are adding a fuel surcharge. Service tax is being put on this surcharge. Now you may think that oil is a commodity but for the blood suckers definitions are irrelevant. This year my chartered accountant charged me Rs. 1000 more because he has been put under Service Tax. So I have paid Service Tax to pay my income tax. Perverted or what?
I have a suggestion for the blood suckers. Put Service Tax on crematoriums and blood transfusions so that as more people die and are cremated the blood suckerscan really clean up and take their fat, ugly wives and brutish, drug taking children for shopping to Europe and the US.
The blood suckers think that the middle class is too scattered and disparate to challenge them but we can hit them where it hurts and that is by refusing to pay this tax. We cannot refuse to pay income tax because then they can harass us but we can refuse to spend our hard earned money.
We should cut down our perchases to only essential items and postpone purchase of things like fridges, cars, washing machines until the blood suckers relent. No matter where we are we can cut the taxes we pay. Hit the blood suckers I say.

If you observe little children playing you will often hear a child say, 'if you hit me I will not play with you.' That was the response of the Indian govt. to the Mumbai blasts. 'We will not hold anymore peace talks with Pakistan.' The lying Generals and the murderous Jihadis must have cracked up laughing. Why are we impotent? Recently Mr. Jaswant Singh has written in his autobiography that he knows of a spy in Mr. Narasimha Rao's office but will not disclose his name. Imagine if this had happened in any other country. There would have been an outcry in the media, police would have interrogated Mr. Singh and he would have been put in jail until he revealed the person who would then have been investigated and jailed for a very long time. Countries such as the UK which have abolished the death penalty for crime still retain it for traitors. Here we have a circus of the stupid. No sharam, no izzat. Why is this possible? Through the years politicians and civil servants have been bribed by foreigners. Bofors, the submarine deal, oil for food and many that we do not know about. Once you have been bought you have to obey your masters for ever. This is why inspite of having a million strong army and spending billions on arms we are impotent. China still occupies at least 50000 square miles of Indian land, Pakis send bombers at their whim, even insignificant Bangladeshis keep shooting our troops dead. Hard disks disappear from computers of Intelligence services so that our enemies know exactly what is going on but the govt. is going to change the Right to Information Act so that the citizens are kept ignorant. The only thing that matters is to win the next election so that the blood sucking can go on.
India is dying slowly.

If you observe little children playing you will often hear a child say, 'if you hit me I will not play with you.' That was the response of the Indian govt. to the Mumbai blasts. 'We will not hold anymore peace talks with Pakistan.' The lying Generals and the murderous Jihadis must have cracked up laughing. Why are we impotent? Recently Mr. Jaswant Singh has written in his autobiography that he knows of a spy in Mr. Narasimha Rao's office but will not disclose his name. Imagine if this had happened in any other country. There would have been an outcry in the media, police would have interrogated Mr. Singh and he would have been put in jail until he revealed the person who would then have been investigated and jailed for a very long time. Countries such as the UK which have abolished the death penalty for crime still retain it for traitors. Here we have a circus of the stupid. No sharam, no izzat. Why is this possible? Through the years politicians and civil servants have been bribed by foreigners. Bofors, the submarine deal, oil for food and many that we do not know about. Once you have been bought you have to obey your masters for ever. This is why inspite of having a million strong army and spending billions on arms we are impotent. China still occupies at least 50000 square miles of Indian land, Pakis send bombers at their whim, even insignificant Bangladeshis keep shooting our troops dead. Hard disks disappear from computers of Intelligence services so that our enemies know exactly what is going on but the govt. is going to change the Right to Information Act so that the citizens are kept ignorant. The only thing that matters is to win the next election so that the blood sucking can go on.
India is dying slowly.

Thankyou Moonlight. I do not know how old you are but I am over 50 and have been reading newspapers for over 40 years and over the years have seen criminals and scum take over the entire political and civil service. My life has no value as I have already mentioned and noone listens to anything I say. Unfortunately free press is a myth as our journalists are just happy to perpetuate the lies told by the politicians. Two reasons for this. One is fear. Can you imagine writing the truth in Bihar, UP or Tamil Nadu. At best you will be beaten up, at worst killed. This has already happened. I think there is a way around this and that is collaboration between different papers. For instance if a reporter has proof about corruption in Bihar he will quietly pass on his story to a paper in say Kerala where it will be printed in the local press and if sufficient noise is made will be picked up by national news media.
The second reason for our tame press is greed. The Press Club in Delhi gets liquor at Army Canteen rates, they are given freebees by ministers and get to travel free with the ministers on foreign junkets. These bribes at the taxpayres expense makes them partners in crime and reluctant to take on politicians. All the scoundrels shown up by the Tahalka expose are living comfortably but the owner was bankrupted by the then government by bringing a string if false cases through agencies like the CBI paid for by our money. Not a single journalist had the guts or the character to stand up against this perversion.
Frustrated by the constant lies I am using this medium to unburden my soul.

India and Israel, both victims of terrorist attacks but what different response. While Israel is defending itself by going after its enemies our' Great Leaders' ring their hands in helpless stupidity. Some even try to make political points on opponents while blood and tears flow uninhibited. A million strong army, billions of dollars worth of hardware controlled by a selfish, emasculated and clueless bunch. What a glorious advertisement for 5000 years of civilisation. A Paki retired general has written that the Indian government has been warned that any attack on Pakistan by any nation will be answered by a nuclear attack on India. And we have been cowed by this rubbish. Tell the Pakis that any attack on India will mean total annihilation of that stinking country and also give them a list of their home addresses and tell them where the first bombs would fall. But we cannot even answer Bangladesh. I was at the border in 1971 when the Bangladesh war was on. The Mukti Bahini is a myth. They were a malnourished, uneducated mob armed with 303 rifles they could hardly carry. The whole war was fought by Indian commandoes who would go across at night and beat the hell out of the Pakis. Now the Bangladeshis regularly shoot across the border or kidnap and torture BSF personnel. Any other nation would have bombed the ingratitude out of these wretches but instead we invite their Prime Minister for a red carpet wellcome. Time has come for us to make friends with Israel, send our troops to help them and invite them to teach us how to obliterate our enemies.

'Sharam and Izzat' , these words have no real english equivalents. Sharam is an amalgam of shyness, shame, self respect and an inability to do anything dihonourable. Izzat is honour, respect, dignity and face combined and more precious than life itself. These are the two qualities that give value to a person and stop him or her from any action that would result in loss of izzat and lead to sharam. Unfortunately politicians and civil servants have long lost these. Ministers or secretaries arrested for heinous crimes actually smile and wave when they are entering the police vehicle. They are not just criminal but beggars as well. Members of parliament routinely vote for increased perks with no opposition while people may be dying of hunger. We see undeserving people occupying bungalows worth hundreds of crores when they are not in office and have to be thrown out by the supreme court often with unpaid utility bills worth hundreds of thousands unpaid. When the supreme court is wasting time in acting as a bailif where is the time for more important cases. Thus Priyanka Gandhi occupies a government bungalow when she and her husband are not politicians, civil servants or diplomats.And who authorised the bungalow? It was the BJP when the party was in power. Clearly a case of quid pro quo. Since the Congress has come to power it has been increasing taxes with obscene hurry to make up for the few years that they were not in office and hence could not get their cut. Service tax rate has been increased, an education cess is added to the tax and all kinds of services have been added to the list. So what have they done with all this money. They are buying seven luxury jets for ministers at a cost of millions of dollars without a peep from the oppostion or their comrades, the Communists.

India Dying may seem strange name to choose when all we keep hearing is that India is shining, infotech industry is growing exponentially and the US is actually wanting to make us their nuclear partner. Also I am not some sort of antinational who only sees the negative in everything. Thing is I do not exist.
This is not something to do with Maya and the Ultimate Reality stuff but about me as a citizen of India. I do exist in the sense that I have a body, practice as a Consultant Physician, own a car, possess a driving licence, a PAN card and a passport and pay taxes but still do not exist in that I have no rights, even the right to life.
I pay road tax but drive on broken roads, pay property tax but receive no water, pay income tax but am treated with contempt by the politicians and civil servants. I may be killed by any criminal politician or his son and the murderer will walk around without any worry. Jessica Lall, Shivani Bhatnagar and Madhumati come immediately to mind.Three young ladies killed without any mercy and the killers are still free. Not skulking in some hovel, afraid to go out in case they are caught but living free in society, enjoying life and laughing at the teeth gnashing grief of their families. Any thieving police constable may shoot me dead and burn my body claiming that I was
a terrorist. My family would not be given my ashes to carry out my feneral. Indeed I am lower than a cow in importance. If any VIP were to kill a cow there will be a riot and he will have to appologise and compensate but killing me will be like swatting a fly. I am not alone in this. The great majority of citizens, like me, also do not exist. We go through our lives accepting insults and humiliation on a daily basis as our fate. Small wonder people are taking up arms against the state. The state is the enemy.