About 39 ordinary commuters were killed in the suicide attacks on the Moscow underground. Russians are bad people and deserve to be killed including 3,4,5 years old children in a school in Beslan. Anyway they could be orthodox Christians. Buddhists in southern Thailand need to die and as for the Hindus in India they deserve it especially for being kafirs . Oh yes, the Jews are so bad that Israel needs to be wiped off the map. Nubian muslims are black and so they must die in Darfour. Little girls in Afghanistan are extremely bad for wanting to go to school and become human instead of marrying and breeding like sows with udders. Anglosaxons in Britain and the US are very bad for resisting wholesale massacres so they need to die to make them see reason. People in Somalia, Iraq, Indonesia and anywhere must be committing sins so large numbers need to die. Terrified of the Chinese but with so many bad people to kill all over the world where is the time? After all as we keep saying all the time " Islam is a religion of peace." If anyone disagrees then he must die because he must be bad. Jihad all the way and 72 virgins waiting oh so eagerly.

The Australians are shocked by the long sentences passed on Rio Tinto executives charged with taking bribes and industrial espionage in China. Rio Tinto has reacted by sacking all four men and has reaffirmed its intention of continuing to supply raw materials to China. These men were arrested after the Australian government blocked a Chinese firm from a taking over Rio Tinto and Australian mining companies refused to supply China at the lower price demanded by the Chinese. This is clearly revenge for the loss of face suffered by the Chinese. Face is very important to the Chinese because they know that they are uncivilised barbarians. Inventing paper or gunpowder and a double digit economic growth do not prove that a people are civilised. A country ruled by a bunch of ruthless thugs, without rule of law, sacrificing its children to the greed of industrialists and destroying the world's biodiversity by eating every creature is a country of uncivilised savages. The mystery is why did the four plead guilty to the charge of accepting bribes. Did the Chinese promise them token punishment and then break their word? Had they fought all charges they would have exposed the Chinese legal system as the farce that it is. Instead by pleading guilty to one charge they had no defence against the more serious charge of industrial espionage. China's growth is dependent on regular supply of raw materials and Australian companies could easily cause major problems by stopping all exports to China. By surrendering to Chinese bullying Australia is showing that it can be bought. India should use this knowledge when demanding safety of our students in Australia.

The state owned telecom company BSNL is likely to lose Rs. 36.41 billion this fiscal. Since independence this company had monopoly rights all over India except Delhi and Mumbai which are served by another state company, MTNL. With the opening of the telecom sector to private companies BSNL is unable to compete because of its culture of poor service and low productivity. I have a BSNL broadband connection. After many phone calls I agreed to television content over their broadband connection and paid a deposit. However, their set top box did not match the modem supplied by them and they refunded the deposit. It did not occur to them to change the modem to a compatible one. Meanwhile another state owned company Air India is postponing the payment of March salaries to April 7 because they are bankrupt. Again it is overmanned, the workers are unproductive, there is huge corruption and the unions know that they can blackmail the government because politicians are terrified of job losses. However, Air India is not alone in financial difficulties. Most airlines in India have huge accumulated losses. This is because of sky high taxes on airlines and aircraft fuel. The situation is similar to that of oil companies which are accumulating losses because the government will not allow them to sell petrol at market prices choosing to levy nearly 100% taxes instead. Thus the people of India continue to be looted by criminal politicians and thieving uncivil servants. Mother India is having her life blood sucked out by parasites. Nothing she can do.

The Supreme Court, in all its wisdom, has allowed 4% reservation for muslims in government jobs and educational institutions. Meanwhile in UP Ms Mayawati has forced reservation on private institutions. So now there is reservation for Schedule Castes, Schedule Tribes, muslims, OBC or Other Backward Classes and maybe some others that I do not know about. It is gradually becoming a crime to be born an upper caste in India. For example any one of these people can abuse an upper caste person but if that person abuses back then he will receive extra punishment for caste abuse even though he may never have mentioned anything about caste. Today to be born an upper caste is to face a life of discrimination in education, in employment and even in justice. This is apparently in retaliation for ill treatment of lower castes in the past centuries. The politicians are criminal scum but surely the Supreme Court has heard of the dictum that two wrongs do not a right make. Is it any wonder that there is armed insurrection in at least 160 districts in the country which is around 25% of the total. These Naxals, as they are called, are being led by middle class, upper caste educated people. The Home Minister keeps saying that Naxals are the biggest threat to the country but surely, being a lawyer, he should understand that he will never control the threat unless injustice is eradicated. If upper castes feel victimised they will retaliate and they will be very dangerous.

Mr. Arun Kumar, Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal University feels that the black economy in India is around 50% of the GDP amounting to around $500 billion. Black money is generated by fake products, smuggling, pirated goods, gambling, prostitution, bribery and other underhand activities. If all the black money was to be declared the government could collect Rs. 7500 billion in taxes. These are all criminal activities and must be carried out surreptitiously limiting their scope. Perhaps the main generators of black money are small businesses, neighborhood shops and property transactions. The government has tried to bring shops and small businesses into the tax net by offering to exonerate them if they paid nominal taxes of Rs. 1500 per year but no one has done so this far. The reason is the total mistrust of government officials. These people believe, perhaps rightly, that once they enter the government trap they will become victims of arbitrary demands for taxes and will end up paying bribes for life. Because of exorbitant stamp and registration charges people usually show half the sale value of properties. Property dealers collect 2% from both buyers and sellers. Deals in excess of Rs. 100 million are common netting a dealer Rs. 4 million in fees. All this is collected in cash so no dealer ever pays tax. One dealer has installed a note counting machine,as found in banks, to count the sheer volume of notes. A lot of this money goes to politicians as payoff which makes them immune to prosecution. Thus the Indian economy is built on the mother of all bubbles and when this bursts the crash will resound for years to come.

Britain must be very happy. India became independent in 1947 and Israel in 1948. Whether Mountbatten or

Balfour the formula for both countries was the same. India had east and west Pakistan on either side while Israel has the West Bank and the Gaza strip. India has been weak and has allowed a fanatic terrorist state to become strong while Israel has been strong and has, for the most part, kept Palestinians under check. Israel's strength lies in its military prowess and the support of the US where it has the most powerful lobby group in the world. Britain, which unfairly struts the world stage as the slave country of the US, has never liked it. The announcement of 1600 new buildings in East Jerusalem during Vice President Biden's visit has resulted in great tension between the US and Israel. The Palestinians have been quick to take advantage and refused to attend Proximity talks unless settlements are stopped and Netanyahu was badly snubbed by President Obama. The US keeps harping on a two state solution to the conflict as if a viable Palestinian state will stop attacks on Israel. Like Hezbollah Hamas is an outreach of Iran and will never settle for a peaceful Jewish state. In fact if Palestine becomes an independent country it will have sovereign rights to import weapons. Even now Iran is supplying weapons to Hamas in Gaza through tunnels from Egypt. An unchecked Palestine will be a million times more dangerous. The only solution that may guarantee safety for Israel is to make Palestine a UN protectorate with permissions to have small arms for policing. Two state solution has resulted in death for Indians and will kill Israel.

The US seems to be perennially debating the ethics of abortion. Abortion is wrong. Whether the baby is sentient at an early stage of pregnancy or able to feel pain is beside the point. This is the old argument about whether animals, fish or insects feel pain. Taking of any life is wrong. However real life is not always that simple. Sometimes a woman may be so desperate that she is has no other avenue except abortion. Let us take a single mother with one child who has become pregnant because she was drunk or forced or plain stupid. She can hardly take care of one child and can in no way take care of another. In desperation she wants an abortion to be able to be a good mother to the child she already has. Antiabortion fanatics want to abolish abortion whatever the circumstances and are ready to kill for their cause. Their mistake is that they think that a human baby's development ends with the end of pregnancy. Not so. Unlike animals who are miniature adults at birth human children are completely undeveloped and do not become similar to adults till around the age of 18 to 20 years. Therefore it is not enough to seek to protect a baby until it is born but this protection must be extended until such time that the child is independent. Which means that antiabortion groups should pay the mother for all the expenses that the child will need. If the mother is unable to work having to look after a new baby and a previous child then they should pay for the whole family. If you feel so strongly about saving babies then pay for their safety. Put your money where your mouth is.

More children killed in China, this time by toxic vaccines. Children were killed last year by melamine mixed in milk powder. This was done to increase its nitrogen content and give the impression of high protein. Three very low ranking persons were sentenced to death. The factory owners and officials escaped. Children were killed in the earthquake in Shinxiang a couple of years ago when schools and nurseries collapsed although buildings housing party offices withstood the earthquake. Protesting parents were beaten up and threatened into silence. Then there was lead in toys. How many children were affected in that one escapes me. Children have been dying of chemical poisoning from factory effluents in various parts. Now, it seems, that tuberculosis and hepatitis vaccines have resulted in the death of at least four children. Chen Tao'an, a former director of information at the Shanxi disease control center, said that he has seen batches of vaccines dumped out in the sun or kept in hot rooms at the Beijing Huawei Biomedical company. He reported these lapses at least thirty times but was ignored. As expected these reports were denied by local officials. The whistleblower may end up in jail. The brutal regime of thugs that runs China depends on runaway growth of the economy and military threats against all its neighbors. It is directly dangerous for its own people and potentially very dangerous for other countries because it may start a war to divert attention if things get tough domestically. Other countries are beginning to object to its trade and currency manipulations. If its economy falters China may implode. I pray that happens.

Congratulations to President Obama. Although a gasbag he has pulled off a remarkable victory by getting the House of Representatives to pass the Senate version of the Healthcare bill this morning. However his joy seems likely to be shortlived because going by current polls the Democrats are likely to suffer heavy casualties in November. If that happens he will become a lame duck for the rest of his term which may not be a bad thing. Seems that the US is now preparing a civilian nuclear deal with Pakistan. This is a failed state parts of which are controlled by some of the most dangerous murderers on the planet. There is the army which probably controls the nuclear weapons. The ISI, a state within a state, runs terrorist organisations like the LeT and supports the Taliban which is killing US and NATO soldiers in Afghanistan. There are an assortment of Islamic fanatics and warlords with bands of heavily armed psychos ready to kill or die at any time. For them anything including women, children, schools, hospitals even mosques are legitimate targets. A lot of these are independent entities making money from the opium trade and, as is happening in Mexico where American consular officials were killed recently, will oppose any form of government control because it will interfere with their trade. It was Pakistan that supplied the bomb making knowledge to Iran which will soon become a nuclear weapon state. Obama thinks that by running away from Iraq and Afghanistan he will save the US. He should remember that 9/11 was planned and set up in Pakistan and the Islamic bomb could well come to the US.

His Holiness, the Pope has expressed ' sincere regrets ' for the acts of paedophile priests. He says that the systematic cover up of these ' sinful and criminal acts ' for decades is a ' painful situation .' However, he does not call abuse of little children by people sworn to follow God's word an ' evil ' but he did call yoga an evil because it is connected with Hinduism. Strange are the perceptions of good and evil of these one God fellows. Hindus who do not convert anyone, either by force, abduction or money, are evil because we have many Gods some of which are even female in form. Unfortunately Hindus are under attack from all sides in the one country that they are a majority, that is in India. A man has been arrested and had his bail denied for having printed a picture of Jesus with a can of beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other. Not a peep or a word from our so called free press yet there was a deluge of garbage about ' freedom of expression ' and ' democracy ' when Hussein, a muslim, paints a naked picture of the Goddess Sarawati for sale. So why is the press so ferocious in its attacks on Hindus? It is because our journalists are a bunch of shameless freeloading beggars and their master is the Congress party. The Congress claims to be secular but actually it practices a policy of divide and rule so as to cling on to power by any means. The largest opposition party is the BJP so the press acts as rottweilers for the Congress by constantly abusing Hindus aiming to harm the BJP by deflating its base. Acting as agents for the Congress by distorting news the press is probably the greatest enemy of the Indian people.

The freeloading press is at it again. Lots of articles about the American/Pakistani terrorist Headley who has pleaded guilty to terror attacks so as to avoid the death penalty. As usual the press is taking the discussion on the wrong track choosing to blame the Americans for not cooperating with India's request to question Headley whereas India had given full access to FBI investigators who wanted to question Kasab the Pakistani captured during the Mumbai attacks. That Americans arrogantly assert their superiority over citizens of other countries has been documented many times. They maintained sanctions against Vietnam, a country they had attacked without provocation, for 25 years because they wanted information about MIAs or dead soldiers. For them dead Americans who engaged in criminal acts of slaughter are more precious than living Asians. That is because they are militarily strong and supported by white slave countries like the UK and Australia. However, it is our fault for being weak. Even after repeated attacks by terrorists from Pakistan we beg for talks with that country. We have proof of direct involvement of Pakistani army officers, Pakistani Foreign Minister sneers that India is begging for talks on bended knees, Indian interests are being completely ignored in Afghanistan but we hold back because America orders us to do so. Noriega, President of Panama was kidnapped by American soldiers, served prison in the US and was then extradited to France but Headley will not be extradited to India. What the press should ask is what hold the Americans have on our politicians. But they will not. After all freeloaders can only obey orders.

As per a WHO-Unicef report 1.1 billion people in the world defaecate in the open of which an overwhelming majority of 638 million are Indians. Why are people so dirt poor that they cannot afford a hole in the ground with some sacking around it for privacy? Because they are illiterate and continue to produce children without any regard to how they are going to feed, clothe or educate them. Politicians are forever telling us what to do but why do they never tell the poor to control childbirth? Because these people can then be classified as BPL or Below the Poverty Line and given cheap grains from ration shops. So what is wrong in feeding the poor? In a report a vigilance committee appointed by the Supreme Court says that the entire system has collapsed is some states. In others licenses for ration shops are available for bribes, rations may be delayed for months, grains are sold for profit in the black market or are sold for prices higher than set by the government. Naturally there is collusion between kleptocrats, transporters and shop owners. Since grand larceny requires a chain of command local politicians must be at the top of the food chain. So what are the gains of unchecked population growth? It provides unlimited cheap labor for the unorganised sector, mainly construction and small scale industries, where the black money is generated. It also gives the politicians an excuse to increase taxes without limit. Why do they want to impoverish people by crippling taxes? So as to buy luxury planes and helicopters for their own use and to keep the people grateful for inadequate, rotting rations. Incredible India.

One James Rickards, former general counsel of the hedge fund, Long Term Capital Management has said that China has the ' greatest bubble in history.' Apparently the Chinese central bank's balance sheet resembles that of a hedge fund, buying dollars and short selling the yuan. Mr. Rickards should know what he is talking about because I seem to remember that LTCM nearly collapsed and had to be rescued by the Fed under Alan Greenspan. Every pundit of economics is critical of China keeping its currency artificially low and buying American securities. This transfers cheap wealth to the US encouraging excessive spending. This, apparently, was the main reason that the markets collapsed in the US. There are strident calls in the US calling on China to revalue its currency which has been pegged to the dollar at around 6.9 for the last three years. Some congressmen are asking for China to be named a ' currency manipulator ' so that extra tariffs can be imposed on its exports to the US. Name calling is likely to play into Chinese hands.The Chinese will act very offended, say that it is an attack on its sovereignty and impose tit for tat tariffs. Many countries will support China and see it as a victim of US, the bully. Instead of name calling the US government should politely inform China that just as the Chinese insist on the right to set the exchange rate of the yuan the US has the right to set the exchange rate of the dollar and set it at whatever level they want. This will have the same effect of making Chinese goods expensive and help the balance of payment. The Chinese will squeal but let them. Unfortunately the US administration is scared of the Wal Marts of the world.

Two men were arrested last weekend in Mumbai planning to set fire to the office of the oil company ONGC. They are said to have been in communication with a certain ' chacha ' or uncle in Pakistan. Police reckon that this uncle is a fellow named Abdul Bashir Khan who escaped to Pakistan in 1993 before he could be arrested for his part in the Mumbai bomb blasts. He is said to be staying in a bungalow belonging to the noted criminal Dawood Ibrahim who lives in Pakistan under the protection of the ISI, the intelligence service. Thus the Pakistan government is protecting an international criminal who is masterminding terrorist attacks in India. Yet today we are told that India is going to hold more talks with Pakistan. This, to me, is completely inexplicable. This is a country whose sole reason for survival is the destruction of India and yet we continue to sweet talk. India does NOT need Pakistan. We should wipe the country from our consciousness completely. Cut of all contacts. No diplomacy, no travel, no telephone communication, no sport unless in international event like the Olympics, no cultural exchange and no trade. Pakis do not exist. Lay landmines along the border so heavily that not even a rat can cross. This will stop terrorists coming in and local bastards from escaping. Prepare a sudden strike capability close to the border and make it crystal clear that any attack will receive a devastating response. Then forget the bastards exist and carry on with life. Sadly as long as the Congress exist so will the Pakis and we will continue to die.

Exciting conspiracy theories continue to buzz in my head. First, a fact - Israelis are not stupid. So announcing the building of 1600 new houses in East Jerusalem while Vice President, Joe Biden was officially visiting the country was no accident. Prime Minster, Netanyahu claims to have been blindsided by the right wing Shaas Party but does not deny the statement. So why would Israel choose to insult its closest ally and donor so blatantly? This is no throwing of shoes by a lone journalist but a deliberate insult to the Obama government. Is it because the Israeli government sees the Obama administration as accepting Iran developing nuclear weapons so long as it does not support the Taliban in Afghanistan? That would be an existential threat to Israel. Perhaps Israel would like the Republicans to win big in the November elections so that Obama is hamstrung and then defeated two years later. Israel has been claiming that Iran will be able to develop nuclear warheads in one year's time. Recent reports that Pakistan supplied Iran with centrifuges and drawings of nuclear weapons makes Ahmadinejad a liar in his claims that Iran will never develop nuclear weapons.Israel would like to attack Iran's nuclear facilities as a last resort and would like the support of the US task force based in the Gulf an may want to show Obama as weak. Such a strategy is certainly risky but if the Chinese can send a junior official to shout at Obama in Copenhagen then why can Israel not build houses? If they succeed in removing this Paki lover then good for India I say.

The Medical Council of India has published a list of punishments to be meted out to any doctor accepting any form of gift from pharmaceutical companies. This is like giving aspirin for fever without treating the underlying pneumonia. There are hundreds of pharmaceutical companies in India and a new one opens everyday. A new company surveys the market and finds out which drugs generate the maximum prescriptions and then comes to the market with those same drugs in different brand names. Some drugs are sold under fifty brand names. Obviously it is impossible to remember so many brands so an individual doctor sticks to one or two. To increase sales companies resort to giving gifts ranging from pens to cars and pays for doctors to attend conferences, usually held in scenic resorts. Banning doctors from receiving gifts without reducing the total number of drug companies will solve nothing. Companies will simply deliver the gifts to the doctor's residence or give cash. There seems to be daily assaults on the medical profession. Forcing doctors to serve in rural areas, criminalising gifts and setting up courses to turn out more quacks. There are no such strictures on lawyers who do not turn up for hearings, bribe witnesses, cause riots in courts and are preventing the entry of foreign law firms. Laws are formulated by lawyers and civil servants and passed by politicians. At least doctors do not create diseases but these three groups of people are a disease afflicting the nation yet we can do nothing to punish them. So why are they so vindictive? Is it because people still respect doctors and despise them as gutter slime?

There is so much froth in newspapers about reservations for women in the Parliament that one is in danger of drowning. Every two penny freeloading journalist has an opinion running into many inches. However, there is unanimous agreement on two points, 1. Reservation has been a spectacular success for the dalits because they are demanding even more of it so it must be a good thing even though evidence shows that only a few have been able to corner all the benefits. The demand is so high because reservation makes it easy for dalits to get government jobs of which there are uncounted millions. No study has been done as to the productivity and level of service rendered by these unfit people and since dalits are the most in need of government services they suffer the most. The hatred between castes has only increased because of this perceived injustice by upper castes. 2. Men are the only reason for the suffering of women. India being a patriarchal society women are so tortured that they are forced to murder their own girl babies and burn other women for dowries. By that argument Eichman was not responsible for killing Jews because he was forced by Hitler. Truth is women do not like or trust other women. If they did more women would automatically be elected to Parliament and Hilary Clinton would be the President of the US instead of a Paki loving gasbag. All these reservations are to divide society into little tribes who are warring with each other and easy mislead at election times. The only thing that will get rid of inequality is universal education but that would be dangerous for criminal politicians. Hence all the froth.

Seems that the government is spending Rs. 37.26 billion for buying twelve, yes twelve helicopters for VVIPs or Very Very Important Persons as criminal politicians like to call themselves. This explains why the talk is always of increasing taxes and finding new ways to levy service tax and VAT. Six months ago a return ticket to Vienna from Delhi by a foreign airline cost Rs. 33298 of which the actual ticket cost Rs. 16640, taxes Rs. 11200, Fees Rs. 1300 and Charges Rs. 4158. Thus the total tax and unspecified fees and charges came to Rs. 16658 which was more than the the cost of the ticket. Domestic airlines are forbidden from revealing the breakdown but the tax element is even higher. One economist argued in the Sunday paper that increased taxes on petrol and diesel do not cause inflation because people adjust by spending less on other products which brings down their prices. That has always been the policy of the Congress. Burden the people with crippling taxes in the name of the aam aadmi thus creating more poverty and finding the excuse to increase taxes even more. The poor, in whose name this crime is perpetrated, do not realise that it is because of these taxes they remain in the cattle class and are unable to afford the luxury of flying. Now add in an inflation rate of around 17% and it is easy to see why people have to beg. This is where politicians and kleptocrats dole out cheap rice, free electricity and other goodies which makes the people ever so grateful. Thus the people remain aam while the criminals are khas by contrast with the exchequer at their disposal. Incredible India indeed.

Turkey has recalled its ambassador to Sweden following a vote by the Swedish parliament describing the killing of Armenians during the First World War as genocide. France did the same last year and a Congressional committee in the US did it last week. Turkey wants to enter the European Union but has an Islamist government so France and Germany are reluctant to admit Turkey as a member for fear of introducing an Islamic trojan horse inside Christian Europe. The army is intensely secular and toppled the previous Islamic party but Prime Minister Erdogan has been extremely clever not to push the army too hard. Instead he has resorted to small incremental gains for his party at the expense of the army. First there was objection to Mr. Gul being elected president but Mr. Erdogan stood firm and Mr. Gul was elected. Then he passed a law withdrawing objections to women students wearing the scarf in colleges if they so wanted. Recently there have been allegations of an attempted coup against the government and senior retired army officers have been arrested. So far no senior serving officer has been charged. Every time the army has yielded its power and image have suffered a decline making the Islamists stronger. Meanwhile Turkey's accession talks with the EU are not due to start until 2015 and Turkey has been forced to recognise Greek Cyprus, although with conditions. With US forces withdrawing from Iraq Kurds in the north of the country will be angling for independent Kurdistan helped by oil money. Are all these events connected? Who knows but it sure is interesting.

India gained independence from the British in 1947 while Israel gained independence, also from the British, in 1948. India fought three wars with Pakistan which we won at the cost of many young lives. After every victory we returned territory gained by the heroics of martyred soldiers without anything in return. Israel, on the other hand, kept all captured territory and bargained some for long standing binding peace accords. Israel returned the Sinai to Egypt for a peace treaty which has held to this day and neutralised Egypt among its Arab enemies. It also signed an accord with Jordan prompting Jordan to give up any claim to the West Bank which it has left to the Palestinians. Israel continues to sit on the Golan Heights because Syria refuses to give the security guarantees that it seeks and also because of Syria's proximity to Iran and its murderous proxy, the Hezbollah. It is also refusing any discussion on Jerusalem. Indeed Israel is building more settlements in east Jerusalem even as Joe Biden is visiting the country. So what has Israel lost? Nothing. Instead, it has gained respect and Arab countries are so terrified of a nuclear armed Iran the one can easily envisage a war with Israel and Arabs on the same side. India on the other hand is held in contempt and threatened on every side. Since there is no respect or fear of punishment Pakis continue to send in terrorists and China threatens every day. Even beggarly Nepal supports the Naxals with arms. Israel bombed nuclear facilities in Iraq and Syria while Rajiv Gandhi was scared to do the same to the Pakis. Everyone respects a country with 3 million people and spits on one with a billion.

At a recruitment centre for police constables in Mumbai one person was killed and at least eleven others were injured in a stampede. One hundred thousand application forms had been distributed for recruiting 3600 police constables, the lowest rank in the force. Around 40000 aspirants had gathered at Kalina police grounds to submit their applications when people at the back started pushing forward crushing those at the front. Why would so many apply for a job which is poorly paid, has long working hours in very bad conditions and is despised by the public. The reason is that most are not applying for salaries but the opportunities for taking bribes and becoming rich quickly. A minuscule number would be idealistic and actually have dreams of serving the community but this idealism will quickly evaporate in the harsh reality of life. They will be asked to stand in the hot sun for hours to protect criminal politicians, the very people they should be arresting. They will be asked to risk their lives to arrest terrorists who will then be freed by the courts. They will be asked by their senior officers to cover up crimes committed by the rich and powerful. Senior officers, the Rathores of this world, will expect them to hound a teenage girl into committing suicide after molesting her. They may even be slapped by any filthy two bit politician. Some years back the daughter of the Rustic Bandit slapped a policeman in Mumbai for some imagined slight without any punishment. Politicians pass laws which are written by kleptocrats. They have no interest in an effective and honorable police. So young men risk their lives just to get bribes. Great.

The capacity of north Indians not to learn anything never ceases to mystify me. They may be from very rich families, may have degrees from highly respected colleges and may have traveled abroad to many parts of the world but they learn nothing. When abroad they curb their nature and try to stay within the law but as soon as their feet touch Indian soil they are back to their aggressive, selfish and dirty ways. They do not learn how to drive properly in lanes, how to park so as not to block access to other vehicles, not to blow their horns without reason, not to throw garbage on to roads, not to use loud speakers at any time, not to block traffic during weddings, not to dig up roads and leave them without repair, not to leave mounds of detritus from construction on roads for days and not to resort to filthy abuse if anyone objects to their behavior however politely. Seems that Delhi has been found to be the best city in India on account of its infrastructure, education and such like. Important though these parameters are the most important component of any city is its people and people in Delhi are probably the most repulsive. They are compulsive liars, show offs and extremely aggressive. The women are no better and will resort to filthy abuse at the slightest imagined provocation. They are totally inconsiderate and worship money to the extent that they will lie, betray even kill for any small profit. Perhaps the worst trait is to harass people for no gain. If you ask directions to an address in Delhi be certain that you will be deliberately sent in the wrong direction. If this is the best city in India then what are the others like?

In the beginning there was man and there was woman. Man went out to work and woman stayed at home and cooked and cleaned and brought up children. Women were exceeding cross and complained incessantly that it was man's world and they had all the fun. Then a group of women stopped shaving their armpits and called themselves ' Feminists.' And they set up great clamor to be the same as men which they called ' Women's Liberation.' So it came about that women went out to work and had many partners which was called ' Sexual Liberation.' As more women worked men found unemployment and stayed at home to cook and clean and bring up children. And they found the change exceeding difficult and women exulted. Soon more and more men stayed at home and women worked. Being of playful nature man wanted to play and one who they called Reve Mobs invented iRobot which did all house work while men played golf, watched football and played with children. And men said to women, ' Darling, if you love me you will buy me the latest iRobot which can clean the bathroom.' And men played some more. And one woman who they called Tigress Toots was pictured with toy boy and everyone laughed and labeled her a ' love rat.' And the judge gave custody of children and big alimony to man. And women were exceeding cross and said,' It is man's world. They have all the fun and we do all the work.' And some women started to shave their armpits and were called ' Neo Feminists.' And they set up great clamor to be same as man and their wish was granted. And lo, man went out to work and women stayed at home and .....

At the Chilcot enquiry, Sir John Chilcot opined that things in Iraq are immeasurably better now than they were. Compared to what? In the seventies Indians used to work in Iraq as they in Dubai today. They say that it was a beautiful modern country with world class infrastructure, free education, free healthcare, night clubs and educated women without burqa. Saddam was enticed into attacking Kuwait and in the reprisal that followed much of the infrastructure was deliberately destroyed. In the following decade the US and UK maintained no fly zones in the north and south of the country preventing Iraq from bringing in supplies for reconstruction. The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown said in reply that when Saddam was removed the whole country was in ruins. And why pray was that? It was because of an abomination called " Oil for Food Program " in which select countries plundered Iraq's natural resources and made Iraqis beg for food, medicines and essentials. At least a million people have died in the lost decade and even today children are being born with horrific congenital defects because of depleted uranium used in the munitions. Yet Kuwait, which was always a part of Iraq, was created by the British when forced to withdraw from Mesopotamia just as they divided India and Palestine. If Tibet is a part of China then Kuwait is surely a part of Iraq. However, greed overcame reason and Saddam was removed in an illegal war to loot all the oil. It failed spectacularly and the criminals are having to run with tails between their legs. Where, I wonder, is the honey trap called April Glaspie?

In a first for India, Tata Teleservices has announced that it will compensate customers for failing to meet pre determined levels of service standards. The company has identified five areas where it promises to pay back customers if pre-set levels of service are not met. In another first Tata Docomo, a cell phone service provider, started charging customers per second instead of per minute thus reducing phone bills. It is a real pity that Tata Sky which provides television channels Direct To Home, or DTH, via satellite is still ripping off customers by a pernicious practice called " bundling " in which unpopular channels are packaged with popular ones and the customer charged for the entire package. The customer is not given the option of choosing individual channels according to viewing preference. This has the effect of concealing the number of viewers actively opting to pay for watching certain channels. If the real numbers become common knowledge advertisers will pull all commercials from these channels. To entice viewers these channels will be forced to drop viewership charges and thus will suffer a fall in profits. By bundling them with popular channels the DTH companies disguise viewer numbers and help foreign companies rob Indian customers. E mails to Tata Sky are met with insulting answers such as, the company cannot do anything until the Telecom Regulator, TRAI comes out with guidelines. Indians have a faith in the integrity of Tata companies. It is unfortunate that the management of Tata Sky is so backward compared to Tata Teleservices.

In an effort to reduce its budget deficit the Greek government is cutting by 30% three bonus salary payments its civil servants receive at holiday times, cutting pension benefits and withholding pay rises for civil servants. This has, naturally, led to great anger with unions calling for national strikes. It has taken a financial disaster for the Greeks to realise that civil servants are, for the most part, a useless drain on the treasury. In India the government employs hundreds of millions of people in various capacities. There is the administrative service, an immensely powerful and totally corrupt cancer eating away at the heart of the nation. They award themselves huge salaries, have permanent jobs for life, huge pensions, cheap housing and the best thing of all is that they cannot be charged with crime without permission from superiors. This allows them to steal, extort and betray making them hugely wealthy. Then there are teachers, cleaning staff, non medical hospital staff, bank employees, railways, airways, mines, oil companies, electricity production and distribution companies and companies manufacturing anything from electrical to earth movers. All are heavily paid and mostly corrupt. Government teachers earn over Rs. 20000 as compared to Rs. 10000 for teachers in unregistered private schools, yet the poorest of parents strive to send their children to the private schools because government teachers never turn up for work. Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is said have famously remarked that of every rupee spent by the government only 10 paise reach the people. Like cancer these have spread through the veins of the country and, unless destroyed, will kill the nation.

Since becoming president Mr. Obama has lived up to the jibe Nobama in that he has done nothing. Guantanamo is still open. His attempts to try inmates in civilian courts has collapsed. His attempts at bipartisanship resulted in the loss of the seat held by the Kennedys for over 50 years which means that the Democrats cannot now override filibuster in the Senate. The Healthcare plan is probably dead. His plan to set up a body to regulate banks is unlikely to pass. His overtures to Iran have resulted in Iran expediting uranium enrichment and are closer to building a nuclear weapon. His kowtowing to China only resulted in China sending a junior level official to shout at him in Copenhagen, akin to a shoe being thrown a Bush. His middle east peace effort has not prevented Israel's Mossad sending a team to suffocate a senior Hamas official in Dubai. His entire effort in office seems to be geared towards winning a reelection in two years' time. With that in mind he is withdrawing troops from Iraq and wants to start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan. For that to happen he has to fake a victory and he has roped in Pakistan for the charade. In an attempt to bribe the Pakis he is supplying them with 18 F16 planes, 1000 kits to upgrade their bombs into smart bombs, night vision goggles, drones and a lot more military hardware. The Pakis are hardly likely to use these against their own creation, the Taliban. Instead these will be transferred to the border with India and maybe even used against us. So what is the Congress doing? They have recently allowed the Paki Foreign Secretary to come to India for talks. The least these spineless worms can do is to postpone Obama's visit to India scheduled for later in the year. They should privately tell him to push off. But for that you need a spine and be a patriot.

Riots have broken out in Bangalore because a newspaper published a translation of an article by the Bangladeshi author Tasleema Nasreen that women should refuse to wear the burqa even if it is written in the holy book. Mobs have burnt cars and looted shops forcing the police to open fire. The editor of the paper has been charged with spreading communal hatred. It remains to be seen what the lying, freeloading press makes of that. If the past is anything to go by there will be a lot of hand wringing and articles saying that muslims must be hugged and loved no matter what they do. There will be no abuse as directed against Hindus for objecting to M. F. Hussein's painting a naked picture of the Goddess Saraswati and wanting to sell it. The gratuitous insult ' Hindu Taliban ' was used against the people who objected to this gross provocation. Now however there will be only lies and some long dead skeleton from the past, such as Kabir, will be dug up to provide support to the ' peaceful muslim ' idea. The truth is that in any part of the world where there are more than a hundred muslims there is violence. I am sure the Quran or the Prophet never said to kill indiscriminately in the name of Jihad but that is what muslims do. The most dangerous lie is of course that of the ' moderate muslim.' Like the ' moderate Taliban ' it is a complete oxymoron. Even those who do not actively kill other human support the killer with money, refuge or silent consent. There is only one way this scourge will be banished from the earth and that is the ' war of civilisations.' Or else we are all dead.