Inidia's misfortune. Sardar Patel wanted total exchange of populations. Gandhi stopped it. Gen. Cariappa wanted 24 hours to rid Kashmir of infiltrators. Nehru chose to go to the UN instead. Our forces, fighting with inferior equipment and at great sacrifice, managed to reach the banks of Ichogil canal from where they could see the lights of Lahore. Lal Bahadur Shastri returned everything for nothing. Indian forces had 95000 Paki soldiers as prisoners in Bangladesh. Indira Gandhi returned all of them for nothing in return. Israel wanted to bomb nuclear installations in Pakistan to preempt the manufacture of nuclear weapons. Rajiv Gandhi denied them refuelling facilities. Since this Congress government came to power we have seen increased rail links with the Pakis, increased number of Pakis coming into India and then disappearing and regular attacks by illegal Bangladeshis with no effort being made to get rid of the trash. So what is our most exalted Prime Minister going to do after the slaughter in Mumbai. He is going to TALK to the Paki Prime Minister. I hope he takes along a nice Pashmina shawl as present when he travels in his luxury aircraft. The Pakis must be wetting themselves with laughter.

India is the only country in the world where the majority is regularly abused and vilified in the press. To emphasise their so called 'secular' credentials the Congress and the commies regularly abuse Hindus who make up about 80% of the population. About a few weeks ago the Anti Terrorist Squad ( ATS ) arrested a colonel in the army and a Hindu 'priestess' for having planted bombs in Malegaon in the past. Since then the papers have been full of 'Hindu terrorism' with regular leaks about how the accused have confessed to their crimes. If they are found guilty in court, which is not certain, then they deserve to hang but to use them to equate Hindus with Al Qaeda is putrid garbage masquarading as journalism. A few states such as MP, Delhi and Chattisgarh are holding elections so it is perhaps not surprising that the free loading press went all out to pour venom on the VHP and RSS and tried to tarnish the BJP by association. Even this morning while the slaughter in Mumbai is still going on the Times of India editorial sanctimoniously says that 'terrorism has no religion' thereby trying to lessen the enormity of the crime. Maybe not. All religions forbid taking of life. Only one religion rewards filthy perverted murderers with eternal paradise and 72 virgins. It is called Jihad. Perhaps the Congress and its supporting press can explain to the families of the dead why terrorism has jumped under its misrule.

The US economy shrank by 0.5% last month. The UK, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan are officially in recession. Australia is teetering. The OECD forecast was gloomy, predicting severe downturn and slow recovery for European countries. Of the BRIC countries China is seeing large scale factory shutdowns with rising unemployment and the possibility of social unrest. So it is pumping in over $500 billion into infrastructure projects to pump prime its economy. The outlook for Brazil is pessimistic and a severe recession is being predicted. Russia is struggling because of the sudden sharp fall in commodity prices. It would find it difficult to cut oil production along with OPEC because that would cut its foreign earnings still further. What of the I in BRIC. According to politicians everything is fine and growth will be over 8%. Meanwhile the textile sector has already lost half a million jobs and will lose another half mill. The diamond polishing industry has lost a million jobs already and other industries like auto ancillaries are likely to follow suit. The free loading press repeats every rubbish that lying politicians put out like brain dead parrots. With elections coming how long will they hide the fact that the emperor has no clothes.

Applied for a BSNL ( a sarkari phone company in India ) landline and was told that it will be available in a couple of days. Time was when you had to wait between five to eight years for a telephone. Even today the application form comes with a page for nominating your connection to someone in case of your demise. Much like nominating your bank account or provident fund. That is how precious a phone connection in India used to be just 15 years ago. Then the Americans started threatening us because their phone companies were having to pay exorbitant connection charges for calls made by the million or so expats living in the US. That forced the politicians to open up the market and today even sarkari fellows are promising a connection in two days. Not only that it is accompanied by a broad smile showing all the paan stained teeth. A small proof that competition improves service. However not all utilities are open to competition and private monopoly is a million times worse than a sarkari one. For instance water supplies were privatised in the UK. Today the service is very poor, some 20% of water is wasted because of no maintenance and bills have gone up astronomically hurting the poor. Foreign companies do not care about wasting water which is a precious national resource and there can be no competition because there is only one system of pipes. The British government had to renationalise Railtrack because of poor service. Enron managed to crook millions. Therefore, developing countries must never sign upto wholesale privatisation of utilities at the WTO.

About a week ago a ransom of $ 1.5 million was paid to secure the release of Indian sailors seized by pirates off the Somali coast. These bandits are making tens of millions of dollars in ransom with which to buy ever more sophisticated arms, boats and communication equipments. There may come a time when they become too strong and sophisticated for any navy in the world to handle. Greatly satisfying was the news yesterday that an Indian warship has sunk a pirate mother ship, the first of its kind. May she sink many more of these filthy murderers. What is astounding is the reaction of the western governments. They are making pathetic excuses to do nothing. The area is to vast, there are not enough warships to patrol such a vast area, the pirates are using very fast boats to get out of range and such stupid excuses which would make a child blush. The Americans have AWACS and the British have Nimrods. A couple of these reconaissance planes can scan a enormous area of the ocean. Once a mother ship is located attack with helicopter gunships or a warship and blow her the hell out of the water. Blockade the Somali coast and shoot at anything that moves on the water. Boats are generally left out of the water line and so can be taken out by helicopters. The shipping companies can easily bear some of the cost as they will save on high risk insurance, ransom payment and waste of time in going round the Cape of Good Hope. To do nothing and let murdering bandits rule the seas is criminally stupid.

Homosexuals in the US are protesting against Proposition 8 banning marriage between gays. There are two lies put out by those who support homosexuality. 1. It is about deep love between to persons of the same sex. It is not. It is about sex. After all you love your mother but you do not have sex with her. 2. Male and female homosexuality are the same. They are not. Two females cannot have sex because there can be no penetration. At best they can stimulate each other. Between males there can be penetration but one will end up with faeces on his organ. Apart from being smelly and revolting, 50% by weight of human faeces consists of bacteria, some of which are very pathogenic. Surely no normal, sane man will want to smear his private parts with faecal matter. This is nothing to do with religion or morality but is to do with human anatomy and how we are built. I have no objection to two adults doing anything behind closed doors but I do object to fellows calling press conferences to announce that they are homosexual just as I consider people revealing their most intimate secrets to Oprah Winfrey to be disgusting. Whatever the arguments homosexuality between men is grossly abnormal.

In my post of the 7th of November I wrote about Hindi being imposed on Indians by the Nehru government to which a reader has said that Nehru wanted to introduce 'Hindistani', whatever that is, but was contstrained by political compulsions. The reader must be young and is having to rely on cold facts of history but I was in school at the time and can assure him that Nehru was an emperor. He had total control and could and did whatever he liked without let or hindrance. He handed over Berubari, a village in West Bengal, to Pakistan in return of which the Pakis have repeatedly attacked us and continue terrorism to this day. He refused the offer of a seat on the UN Security Council preferring to give to China which has been the biggest enemy of India. To this day the Chinese occupy over 50000 square miles of Indian territory and are demanding Arunachal Pradesh. He claimed to be non aligned but cosied up to the Soviets against the free world. He built a licence/permit raj, so corrupt that you needed an official permit to buy a bag of cement. He was educated in England but was blind to the fact that education is compulsory till the age of sixteen in the UK. History can give you facts and statistics but cannot show the extent of trust that the people had in Nehru, a trust which he betrayed. When he died his ashes were scattered all over the country prompting Ram Manohar Lohia to remark that he had 'cash for his family, ash for the country and gas for the world.' History.

Seems that multinational Indian companies are going to need government bailout to the tune of some $ 10 billion. Hindalco needs Rs. 154 billion, Reliance needs Rs. 67 billion, Tata Steel Rs. 55 billion and Bharti Telecom Rs. 20 billion and so on. Nice mixture of metal, manufacturing and service companies. Commercial vehicle sales are down. In september Tata's sales are down 22%, Ashok Leyland down 26% while Eicher is down 38%. In october Eicher sales are down 55%. Auto sector sales are down 14% and auto companies are delaying payments to their parts suppliers by upto 100 days. Event the festival season of Diwali failed to perk up sales of cars and two wheelers. This will have a knock effect on suppliers of parts down to steel and plastics industries. Assocham reckons that 25% of jobs may be lost but had to withdraw that claim after severe mauling from politicians and civil servants. Inflation continues at around 12% and the rupee is flirting around 50 to the dollar and may sink if the RBI reduces interest rates further. The only silver lining is that oil has fallen to $ 56 per barrel because of fears of global recession which is not good. In desperation to win the coming general elections the criminal politicians may try for some very risky short term measure which may damage the economy still further. We can only pray that they fail.

Yesterday three Indonesian Bali bombers were shot dead for their crime in which over 80 Australians died. The only Khmer Rouge leader to be put on trial is there because he killed a British journalist. Yesterday the US government received $ 500 million from Libya as compensation for the Lockerbie victims to be distributed to relatives. However we have not heard anything about the civilian aircraft full of Iranians deliberately blown up over the Gulf by a US Navy ship. French social workers arrested in Chad for trying to kidnap scores of children with living parents had to be freed under pressure from Nicolas Sarkozy. US forces have been executing civilians, raping and bombing indiscrimantely in both Iraq and Afghanistan with British and Australian support. Yet the US insists on complete immunity for its soldiers while demanding Bosnian Serb leaders be put on trial. Seems to me that whites can kill thousands of Africans or Asians with impunity but woe betide anyone who would dare to touch a white skin. Any form of violence is unacceptable and no matter who gets killed it is an immense loss but as long as this monstrous conspiracy persists there can never be any peace in this world. Obama, are you listening?

The freeloading journalists are frothing in their mouths in their attempts to vilify Raj Thackeray of the Shiv Sena for his hounding of North Indians working in Mumbai. Certainly what Thackeray is doing is a disgusting and cynical ploy to whip up some sort of perverted Marathi pride to increase his political power base. What the freeloading press conveniently choose to forget is that this kind of politics was started right at the beginning by our first Prime Minister, Jawarharlal Nehru. Being more English than Indian he chose to divide the country along linguistic, caste and regional lines. He instituted Hindi as the national language without any consultation thus alienating the South. This gave birth to regional parties such as the DMK and TDP fragmenting and polarising the people of the country. Today children with other mother tongues are required to learn Hindi but Hindiwallahs are not required to learn any other language which is grossly unfair. Anti Hindi sentiments have caused many deaths in Assam where locals see Hindi speakers as aliens. Surely if any language deserves to be the national language it is Sanskrit which is the mother language for all Indian languages. Every child would thus learn Sanskrit, English and mother tongue making education equitable. Also knowledge of Sanskrit would enable people to conduct their own religious ceremonies thus erasing the difference between Brahmins and all other castes. However this would be anathema to our criminal politicians who will not be able to occupy reserved seats in colleges and employment. Do we really deserve this garbage?

Congratulations to Obama for having won the elections. The hard part begins only now. John Bolton, the previous US representative at the UN, said on BBC that since the Democrats have won all three, the President, the Senate and the House, they will have no excuses for failure. The Republicans will regroup and focus all their attention on Obama. They will conserve their ammo and wait for a chink and then go in with all their guns blazing. If Obama succeeds he will have improved the lot of the African Americans for ever but if he fails then there will be no black President for the next hundred years. Since his father was from Kenya he should look at Africa and see all the things that he should not do. Africa is full of leaders who came to power promising change and better times ahead but have sadly turned out to be despots like Mugabe or buffoons like Idi Amin. Perhaps he would be better off looking at the whites to emulate. We can only hope that Sarah Palin is around for a long time to come. A little bit of oomph is always welcome.