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.

The freeloading press continually highlights, what it calls, subsidies on petroleum products. We are told how the Oil Minister, Mr. Deora is fighting to decontrol prices of petrol and diesel at pumps so as to reduce gigantic deficits being piled up by Indian oil companies. That all these are total lies is proven by the fact that petrol costs almost double in India compared to the US where prices are completely free to reflect international prices. So how is it possible that our bleeding heart government is helping us with subsidies and yet we pay double of rich yankees? Of course, what the press never says is that oil is heavily taxed so the so called subsidy is a complete lie. In this year's budget the Finance Minister has further increased taxes on petrol which will probably increase pump prices by another Rs. 3. Apart from the inflationary cost this will do nothing to improve finances of oil companies. The government owns major parts of these companies so will lose out on dividends if they run losses. However all the companies, Indian Oil, BPCL, HPCL and ONGC have minority shareholders who will lose dividends and also because stock prices are declining. By getting its money from taxes and foregoing dividends government is looting minority shareholders. Sir Conrad Black is serving a long prison sentence for similarly using Hollinger International money for private luxury. Unfortunately politicians in India are above the law and citizens have no power to hold them to account. It remains to be seen if the minority shareholders have the guts to sue the government and force it to deregulate petrol prices. Only then will the lies be exposed.

M.F. Hussein, a painter of Indian origin, has accepted Qatari citizenship because their are multiple cases filed against him in Indian courts. They were filed by Hindu activists aggrieved by the painting of a naked picture of Goddess Saraswati by Hussein. As usual the freeloading press is distorting the debate by saying that it is all about freedom of expression with vicious abuse aimed at Hindus. We are being painted as ' Hindu Taliban ' thus playing into the hands of all those who think that they will go to heaven by killing Hindu kafirs. Mr. Hussein could have painted any number of naked women but he deliberately chose the Goddess. His aim must have been to provoke and thus get a very high price by selling the painting to the highest bidder. He had put the painting up in an exhibition showing his intentions. If a man bought the painting and used it for sexual fantasies would Mr. Hussein be able to stop him? Thus if the same painting had been executed by a Hindu it would still have been objectionable. We are repeatedly told of how much how much he loves India, his love of all religions and about his knowledge of Hiduism. In that case he could have converted to Hinduism but he chose the citizenship of a Muslim country showing that he is a Muslim fanatic. He could have made it clear that he has no intention of selling the painting and bequeathed it to a Hindu temple so that it would not be defiled after his death. This he chose not to do clearly intending to sell the painting to the highest bidder. The Goddess is above stupid actions by stupid men. His painting cannot insult the Goddess but definitely insults Hindus.

A chart comparing changing values of properties between some cities in India makes fascinating reading. This chart gives a comparison of prices between 2007, first and second halves of 2008 and the first half of 2009. Seems that property prices gained the maximum in Kolkata inspite of all the trouble in Nandigram and the relocation of the Nano car plant to Gujarat. Many industrial projects were cancelled or postponed on seeing the troubles faced by Tata. The property prices went up 14% in the first half of 2008, gaining a total of 40% in the whole of 2008. By June 2009 prices had gained a total of 59% compared to 2007. Why were property prices going up even though industries were pulling out of Bengal and there was a worldwide recession? It may be because general elections were held in May 2009 and people could see that the Commies were going to lose. So people decided to consolidate and hide their black money. Property is the easiest and the safest place to invest black money which maybe why prices have jumped. Yesterday the annual budget was presented with the usual hoopla and freeloading journalists are predicting India to achieve double digit growth rates in the next few years. The black economy in India is equal to or more than the official GDP and if growth reaches double digits then inflation should reach triple digits. If rents of commercial properties are higher in Mumbai than in Manhattan then there must be something majorly wrong somewhere. Can an economy built on the quicksand of black money survive? If we can invent the famous rope trick, why not.

Seems that Toyota has still not been able to understand what caused the sudden acceleration in their cars which resisted all attempts by the driver to stop the car. The brake problems turn out to have been a glitch in the programming which can be corrected in half an hour by reprogramming but they are still trying to work out the accelerator problem according to the testimony in front of Congress. For us, of the older generation, it is like a case of ' I told you so.' Computers are not to be trusted. Software problems are common and a computer often crashes for no accountable reason. There numerous malicious people creating viruses, malware, worms for no reason other than to cause pain to others. In Toyota's case is it possible that someone inserted a virus in the programs controlling accelerators and brakes. Say a disgruntled employee with a grudge against the company or the parts supplier. Or a person employed by a competitor who stands to gain by the fall in sales of Toyota cars. Or even a deviant who is thrilled by pictures of crashed cars. Could the glitch have been caused by electromagnetic radiation from a cell phone tower or even the owner's cell phone. One could argue that all cars today have such components and no other company has experienced problems so far. It may be because no one has been able to work out how to alter programs in cars until now but now that one person has learnt how to do it he could pass it along to others. Much like hackers do. Let us hope that it is just some dirt on the chip and nothing more serious.

In India when a politician, civil servant or a wealthy person commits a crime the ensuing events take the same course every time. The case is handed over to an investigating agency with great fanfare. If an officer actually makes any progress he is transferred, often with a promotion, as has happened in the Madhu Koda case where Ujjwal Chaudhary of the Income Tax Directorate has been transferred to Patna just as he was getting close to politicians with links to hawala criminals. This has been stopped for now by a Public Interest Appeal to the High Court. Often the investigating officers take years without any progress and the case is closed as in Bofors and Rathore cases. At other times the length of time taken for the investigation is used by the culprit to either bribe or threaten witnesses to change their testimonies as happened in the BMW case and the case against Bhagat. Unfortunately Ramalinga Raju of Satyam fame cannot be protected by these tried and tested methods because he made a full confession in public. However even though Bernie Madoff, who also confessed, is already serving a sentence of 150 years Raju is allowed to play badminton in jail while the investigation drags on. Even by Indian standards the non bailable warrant against Sajjan Kumar is a macabre joke. Mr. Kumar has been accused of orchestrating the massacre of sikhs after the shooting of Mrs. Indira Gandhi in 1984, yes 1984. He was on the Congress ticket for last year's elections but had to stand down because of an outcry. With Congress governments in both Delhi and the centre what hope is there that he will be found guilty. Stop the lies. At least save our money.

After recalling millions of vehicles for accelerator and brake problems Toyota may face criminal charges in the US. We have not heard of any recall of Toyota cars in India. And why should there be? Indians are dispensable, right? A few years ago Nokia batteries in certain models of their cell phones were catching fire. We were told to register online and replacement batteries would come by post. They never did. We had to visit Nokia dealers repeatedly and were told that they had run out of supplies. Possibly they were selling the new batteries in the open market and hoped that after wasting so much time and effort people would just give up. Politicians or civil servants were nowhere to be seen. Foreign banks regularly bully and gouge customers. If you cancel your credit card your instructions will be ignored and you will be sent a replacement card against your explicit instructions. Even if you send the new card back they will send you bills for renewal with threats of being blacklisted if you refuse to pay. Foreign banks regularly employ thugs to repossess vehicles with physical violence if the owners have missed paying one instalment of their loans. Price Waterhouse Cooper faced no charges as the auditors of Satyam even though Raju had been looting the company for years. In the US another accounting firm Andersons was liquidated because it failed to spot irregularities at Enron. It is farcical to celebrate Independence and Republic days with marches and a show of missiles when politicians and senior civil servants are ready to polish the white man's shoes. It is this servility that allows China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, anyone to attack us.

In a brutally honest confession Tiger Woods has said that his infidelity was because he thought that with so much money and fame he was ' entitled '. Sense of entitlement is probably responsible for most of the deaths in today's world. Americans refuse any reduction in CO2 production because they are entitled. The British, with US protection, are set to plunder the oil and gas reserves in the seas around the Falkland Islands which belong to Argentina. Because they are entitled. In India criminal politicians can fly with any number of companions and family at tax payers' expense. Chief ministers of states buy luxury aircraft and helicopters while farmers commit suicide. One senior IAS officer in Chattisgarh, B. L. Agrawal has been found to possess over Rs. 930 million in assets. Politicians refuse to entertain any possibility of term limits because they cannot maintain their lifestyles without plundering the exchequer for life. Not just the politician but his murderous children, wife, mistress, whore, all are allotted constituencies so that everyone can enjoy in the pillage. They are all entitled. Manu Sharma is entitled to shoot Jessica Lall dead for refusing to serve him a drink because, as the son of a politician, he has been entitled from birth. Rathore is able to justify tormenting Ruchika's family until the girl commits suicide because, as the chief of police, he was entitled to molest a 14 year old girl. The support and protection he received from his colleagues, superiors and politicians proves that they all supported the notion of entitlement. We, the people, pay with our money, properties and lives.

Seems that everyone from President Obama to my neighbourhood tea stall owner is impressed with the double digit growth of China's economy for the last two decades. Nothing seems to be able to put the brakes on this runaway growth which grew over 10% even in 2009 when the rest of the world was trying to stop the headlong plunge into depression. However political correctness prevents anyone from saying one of the main underlying cause of this growth and it is China's population control. Chinese leaders enforced a one child per family rule since the early 1990s and this has reduced the number of mouths to feed. It is perfectly logical that if the number of poor people declines poverty will decline in parallel. Also having just one child decreases expenses on children, allows both parents time to work and increase consumption helping the economy further. To be sure it was enforced brutally and the preference for boys has meant widespread murder of girl babies with a highly skewed population. However the same thing happens in India where ultrasound is used to determine sex of the unborn child and female fetuses then aborted especially in the north. No one in India talks about uncontrolled population growth especially in the BIMARU states. The talk is of uplifting the poor and the demographic dividend when majority of young people are unemployable because of poor education and lack of knowledge english. Surely no country in the world, no matter how rich, can go on feeding an infinite number of people. However for politicians vast numbers of illiterate naked hungry aam aadmi means easy votes. You feed them some garbage about caste, promise free rice and bingo, you are a big daddy. No food, no water, no education, no electricity and no hope.

While the freeloading keeps repeating in glowing terms how the economy is growing at 7.2% and may reach 8% growth nest fiscal it seems that the government is mulling possibilities of going back to the old system of everyone owning a ration card. In the past every Indian owned a ration card which could buy you substantard rice or wheat and sugar at rates much lower than the open market. The grains were of such poor quality that only the most desperate would avail of their grain rations. However everyone took their quota of sugar every week because you cold strain out bits of glass after the sugar was dissolved. Ration shop owners sold stocks at very high profits in the open market and adulterated the rest to make up the weight. Apparently the criminal politicians have woken up to the fact that 50% of children are underweight and 75% of women are anaemic so the thinking is that everyone should be provided with subsidised food. Food subsidy will rise from Rs. 524.9 billion to Rs. 1368.3 billion, a rise of Rs. 844 billion. At the same time the government is determined to increase indirect taxes, VAT and service tax, from 10% to 12% which was the rate before the financial collapse in 2008. The growth in the economy was only due to the cut in tax rates and increasing indirect taxes at a time when interest rates are also going up will reduce consumption and hurt growth. Also true inflation as measured by the cost of living will jump but, of course, the government only measures the wholesale index which hides the pain. It is the same old plan. Increase poverty by increasing taxes and then dole out alms. It is the tried and tested method for the Congress to win votes but the press would never tell you so.

On February, 8 a two bench Supreme Court heard the appeal of Mulla and others against the death penalty for murdering five people, including one woman, in cold blood about 14 years ago. The victims were working on fields when these men came armed and demanded that they be paid Rs. 10000. Being poor agricultural workers the victims had no money so one person was sent back to the village to bring the money but the villagers could not raise the sum. So the accused took the victims with them, slit their throats and left them to die. The trial court sentenced the four accused to death and the High Court upheld the sentence. The Supreme Court reduced the sentence to that of life. In a long reasoned judgement the judges held that the death penalty should be awarded only for the rarest of the rare cases where special reasons existed for such punishment. While accepting the murder was in cold blood the judges gave reasons for mitigation which included age of the defendants, family, length of incarceration already suffered and poverty. The judges held that a criminal who commits a crime due to economic backwardness is most likely to reform. Not once did the judges mention the victims or their families and what they suffered. These were also desperately poor people who could not raise a lousy Rs. 10000 to save their lives and were murdered while working hard to provide for themselves and their children. What effect the death of a parent will have on the children is hard to imagine. Regarding the length of a life sentence the judges said that it is upto the respective state government to suspend, remit or commute sentences which is chilling. That explains why Manu Sharma, convicted murderer and son of a Haryana politician, was allowed out on bail in the middle of his sentence. Seems that the entire justice system is falling over with sympathy for killers. The victims meanwhile cry out for justice. What a tragic joke.

Lots of learned opinions about the perilous state of the Greek economy. After being elected into office the new government discovered that the deficit is 12.5%, double of what was being thought. Appears that the previous government had fudged its accounts to hide the real extent of the trouble the country was in. Now Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain have been dubbed PIGS as opposed to the BRIC countries of the developing world. Greece's problems are being compounded by the common currency, the Euro which binds different countries with totally different economies into a straitjacket. If Greece had its own separate currency it could have run a bigger deficit, devalued its currency to improve competitiveness and taken IMF help to restructure. Tied to the Euro it is committed to keeping its deficit below 3% and cannot make monetary policy independently. Other countries in the euro zone are in some trouble themselves and reluctant to help. Greece has been told to increase taxes and cut public spending to decrease its deficit, precisely the things it must not do if it is to decrease its pain. People will suffer terribly through no fault of theirs. Taxes and unemployment will rise, benefits and pensions will be tightened and poverty will increase. No wonder the people are furious and are resorting to strikes to protest government policies. However this government is hamstrung and can do nothing. So people should unite to demand punishment for the previous government which brought them to this state. Politicians always get away with crimes. Time to demand a stop.

As I have been saying for years it was always about plundering natural resources around the Falkland Islands. That is why successive British prime minsters have crawled in humble servitude to US presidents. Turns out that there are an estimated 60 billion barrels of oil in the seas around the islands and Britain is going to start digging. Of course they will share the booty with the Americans. This will be the biggest anglosaxon robbery in history. In the first war for the Falkland Islands the Argentinians were thrashed because the US supported Britain and the USSR, as it was then, did not support Galtieri's junta because it was considered right wing. It was a monumental error on par with the sale of Alaska to the US. Now is the golden moment to set things right. Argentina should take the islands back by force which it is entitled to do. Britain is already upto its neck in Afghanistan and, its economy being in the gutter, is in no position to resist. The US is similarly involved in two wars and is also in economic trouble. Russia should help Argentina, which is now a democratic country, with the latest arms and aircraft. This will be nice payback for the US supplying arms to the east european countries to encircle Russia. Of course, the US and Britain will use the illegitimate UN Security Council to try and censure Argentina but Russia can always exercise its veto as the US does to protect Israel. The US and UK can retaliate by refusing to buy Argentinian beef or soya but will soon be begging for oil. If Ms. Kirchner has the guts and times it right she could go down in history as the ultimate hero of Argentina. After all what is sauce for the goose is sauce......

Seems that Mercedes Benz has decided to open retail network in towns smaller than metro cities in India because BMW sold more cars last year than them. Mercedes cars cost Rs. 20 million which is $ 400,000 about three fourths of which will be tax. Only the very wealthy will buy these cars and these people are anything but stupid. Still I wonder why they are willing to pay so much money to the government in the form of tax when they will get only grief in return. Road surfaces get washed out after just one heavy rain and cars scrape their undersides as they fall into huge potholes. Villagers build high speed bumps on so called highways because speeding cars disturb their children defaecating by the roadside. If somebody hits your car you can do nothing to him. Their are no traffic police or highway patrol. Most police are busy guarding criminal politicians and useless, parasitic kleptocrats. The rest just hang around at police stations and will promptly arrest the owner of Mercedes on trumped up charges because he can afford much more in bribes than the other fellow. Insurance is mandatory which allows insurance companies to gouge customers. You may have been paying insurance for years but will lose your entire no claim bonus if you make even a small claim. So the insurance company may actually take twice the amount it spends which is criminal but there is no recourse. A complaint to the Ombudsman will go unanswered because he is a sarkari fellow and does nothing for his exorbitant salary. My advice - buy a car made in India and pay as little tax to the criminals as possible.

Bt brinjal, as genetically modified aubergine is known in India, has been stopped by the minister in charge for the time being. He should ban it forever. Bt cotton was a disaster. The seeds were expensive and the pesticide marketed by the same company was very expensive causing the farmers to take loans in the expectations of bumper crops and profits. Unfortunately the cotton plants may have been resistant to boll weevil but were not resistant to fungus so yields were poor. In any event cotton is a commodity and if every country has a bumper crop the price crashes. Lots of farmers committed suicide. Now we are being asked to cultivate a food plant. As usual the freeloading press is not discussing the major concern and that is whether Monsanto, a US company should be controlling food production int the country. Since Monsanto has the patent it will have monopoly rights thus having a stranglehold on aubergine production. These plants are modified not to produce seeds, the so called terminator technology which was invented by the defence department of the US government. So every year farmers will have to buy seeds from the company. In the long term natural varieties of the plant will die out and the only aubergine available will be from Monsanto. The US is just testing the resolve of the Indian people. Once we give in we will forced to take all food items from Monsanto including wheat and rice. That day India will become a slave country of the US. Not only should we refuse to allow any foreign company control of food production but we should pass a law making it an act of war punishable by hanging. For once our politicians should show some spine.

Lot of froth in newspapers regarding Valentine's Day. Freeloading journalists take great delight in mocking people who see this day as an afront to Indian values. What puzzles me is what is love in today's world. Time was when men would fight duels to the death to protect a woman's honour. Not today. Love has become a four letter word with the same significance as other four letter words. Witness the booming sales of the ' morning after ' pill in India. It is available over the counter and women are using it freely. One anonymous single woman in Delhi claimed to have taken it three times in the past one month. Apart from the danger of diseases no one knows what damage these powerful hormones might be doing to her body. Men, as usual, love Valentine's day. Rs. 100 for a card and Rs. 100 for some roses and you have the girl in bed. Cheaper than any woman hanging around a roadside dhaba. Notice how alcoholics ply you with drinks and drug addicts offer to pay for the first injection of drugs? Women's sexuality seems to be along the same course. Women who have been around and are in a lot of little black books are the most vocal about sexual liberation of women. Unfortunately life always has one big caveat and that is the word ' but '. Women are more educated today and are earning big bucks which is very good but in trying to be the same as men they are only providing cheap entertainment for men. That is surely not the way to win the battle of the sexes.

The Congress party controls both the state government in Delhi and the central one and both are situated in the same city, New Delhi. Both governments are desperate to raise more money. At the centre because of the fiscal deficit which is likely to increase next fiscal and in the city because of the coming Commonwealth games. The lies are raining down on us. We are told that Delhi has too many cars and congestion charges, like the one in London, should be levied on cars coming in from outside the city. To emphasize, the freeloading press trumpets the fact that more than one hundred thousand cars were sold last month which makes a million and a half in the entire year. China sold more than fourteen million last year. London probably has ten times as many cars as Delhi and much better public transport. Problem is that collecting charges will cause even worse jams than now.The central government wants to raise prices of petrol and diesel at the pump so the freeloading press keeps on repeating that fuel subsidies must be removed. The fact is that petrol in the US is still around Rs. 30 a litre with taxes whereas we are already paying Rs. 50, all of which is tax. So there is no subsidy on petrol. However increasing fuel prices will make food inflation, already running at 18%, soar and hit the aam aadmi which the Congress is sworn to protect. So where does all the money raised in sky high taxes go? A quick look at neighbouring Haryana gives the answer. Here the civil servants from the electricity department have gone to Brazil during carnival time to study their transmission engineering. Lies cost money. Sadly the people pay.

Rajapeksa is following the time tested path towards dictatorship. First he uses his armed forces to decimate the Tamil Tigers. All captured and surrendering Tamil Tigers are carefully executed and a great Sinhala victory proclaimed. There is much rejoicing but he wants to hog all the kudos so he decides to fire his army chief who won the victory. Fonseca then stands against Rajapeksa in the presidential elections held recently and is soundly beaten, whether by fair means or foul we do not know. After all the Sri Lankans are still worshiping their hero so he faces no opposition. However the international community is accusing him of war crimes in indiscriminate shelling of ordinary Tamils and murder of unarmed Tamil Tigers. Despite his bravado he is scared of facing a situation like Omar Bashir of Sudan wherein he is branded a criminal and an international warrant is issued for his arrest. So he has to remove the man who has first hand knowledge of all the crimes committed on the Tamil people. Fonseca has been arrested and even before any trial we are told that he will be sent to jail for five years. Unfortunately memories of victims do not fade so easily and Rajapeksa will have to face elections again. To escape justice he will have to find ways to stay president for life. Perhaps he could ask Robert Mugabe how it is done.

Further to my last posting our most revered and esteemed Defence Minister has said that India will go ahead with talks with the Pakis inspite of the fact that infiltrations of terrorists across from Pakistan has increased recently. This is the man who is responsible for the defence of the country and he is quite comfortable with Paki terrorists as he is with Chinese cockroaches infiltrating across our borders. This inspite of the fact that the Paki foreign minister said a few days back that India has come on bended knees for resumption of talks. The Pakis know that the Congress is in power and has been doing ' bhai bhai ' with our enemies for over 60 years. They not only turn the other cheek but bend over in complete servility when ordered to do so by their white masters in the west. This time the US has ordered our government to make peace with Pakistan and our most respected elected
politicians have obliged. We remember that Bofors is a Swedish company and Quattrochi is Italian. We remember that Chandraswami and Narasimha Rao were in New York, US of A when Adnan Khashoggi got pally. Apparently big Q's son is offering his services for setting up business contacts in India and well he might. When you accept envelopes from the whites they surely keep records and you are sold for life. So if our policies are crafted in Washington or Brussels we should be thankful that they are not being crafted in Beijing. Perhaps the blackmailers have a bigger weapon. Is it true that someone is a poof and they know it. Wonder who it can be?

Unconditional surrender. India has offered to restart talks with Pakistan even though the Pakis have done nothing to arrest the planners of the Mumbai attacks. They have lied, stalled, evaded and even threatened India but we are going to hold talks with them anyway. I had suspected something was afoot when the freeloading journalists of leading english dailies started a campaign on how to love Pakis from the beginning of the year. Then came the completely false outcry over the rejection of Paki cricket players by the owners of IPL franchises. Lies came thick and fast on how the Pakis were snubbed completely ignoring the fact that the owners of the various teams had every right to spend their money as they chose without having to explain their actions. Couple of days ago a conference was held in London where it was agreed that talks should be held with ' good ' taliban as a preparation for the withdrawal of NATO and US troops from Afghanistan. India was thanked politely for the hundreds of millions of dollars we have spent in the reconstruction effort in Afghanistan and then told to push off. Our concerns that securing Afghanistan will leave the taliban and LeT free to send terrorists into India was met with a shrug. After all lives of white people are more important than our lives. Apparently the Americans exerted pressure on our government to make friends with the Pakis so that the Pakis can divert more troops to the western front. As usual our government caved in. I would dearly love to know what it is that the whites have on our politicians that they can blackmail them at will. Whatever it is we did NOT gain independence in 1947.

Sir Terry Pratchet, the British author has offered himself as a case for the study of assisted suicide because he has the earliest signs of Alzheimer's disease. Read a couple of his books many years ago and found them to be strange but funny. Debate has been going on about assisted suicide or euthanasia for more than two decades and as yet no consensus has emerged on whether it should be made legal. And rightly so. It is legal in a few countries but not in others so, for example, the British have been going to Switzerland to be able to end their lives. This is not just an enormously emotional subject but a legal minefield because the scope for abuse is unlimited. If a person has left a genuine ' living will ' stating the conditions under which they would like a premature end to their lives it is one thing but very often it is only when a person is discovered with an incurable condition that they decide that they need assistance to die. Is it really because of intolerable suffering or is it because of depression or because the person does not want to be a burden on loved ones or because relatives are suggesting this course to get their hands on property or maybe because of subtle changes in the brain due to the primary illness who is to decide? As a physician I have no idea as to how assisted suicide can be made into law while protecting the very vulnerable terminally ill person. One thing I know for sure is that no doctor should ever be involved in this. Our job must always be to serve the patient and not play God. Would I want my life to be terminated if I have terminal cancer or Alzheimer's? Absolutely.

The situation in Mumbai is getting complicated. First we had the Shiv Sena wanting Biharis to get out. Then we had the present Congress government in Maharashtra saying that anyone applying for a new license to drive taxis in Mumbai must be proficient in Marathi. Now Rahul Gandhi has stirred things up nicely by saying that during the attacks on Mumbai in 2008 commandos from Bihar and UP fought to save Mumbai. The Shiv Sena have riposted by saying that it was an insult to all Marathis because many brave marathi officers had died fighting the terrorists. There is some resentment against Hindi in India. Many people feel that Hindi has been made the official language of India to give undue advantage to the Hindiwallahs who are looked down upon because of their tendency to have large numbers of children even today. Hindiwallahs are not asked learn to any other Indian language but others have to learn Hindi because central government work is done in that language. Also Hindi politicians like Lalu Prasad and Mayawati never talk about improving the conditions of other states. In fact when Lalu was the Railway Minister all he did was increase rail services and jobs in Bihar. So it is very hypocritical for Hindiwallahs to talk about India for all Indians. Reminds me of a story told to me by a Tamil doctor working in Saudi Arabia. He came to Mumbai and got into a taxi but then could not communicate. The doctor knew only Tamil and English while the taxi driver knew only Hindi and Marathi. After struggling for a few minutes the doctor said in exasperation, kalam arabi ( speak arabic ) ? And the driver said, aiwa ( yes ).

In the past few months every detail of all the affairs of Tiger Woods have been given wide coverage. Numerous women are claiming to have had sex with him and providing details to journalists. There are certain aspects of human behaviour which should be intensely private for instance what one does in the bedroom or the bathroom. Revealing such intimate details shows how low class and cruel people are, low class because they it is very, very cheap to jump into bed with a married man and cruel because such details are bound to hurt his wife and children when they grow up to understand. A few days back came the details of John Terry's affair with the then girl friend of his team mate. Terry was already married and this woman was in a relationship with another man. Now, apparently, she is preparing to reveal details to some tabloid for a large sum of money, thus twisting the knife into Terry's wife and her ex boyfriend. Making money from sex is prostitution, yet feminists who are outraged about honest prostitutes have nothing to say about this sly method. It is not just adults who are hurt by this disgusting behaviour but children probably more so. If they get divorced we will be given every detail of how one partner tries to get as much money out of the other. For most people marriage has become an entertaining activity, a party where you are the centre of attention and get to dress up in fancy clothes and wear a diamond ring. No wonder people of same sex also want to join the party. The time has probably come to stop marriages. People may just live together with compulsory prenuptuals laid down by law taking into account the interests of any children that may have been born. At least we could get rid of the lawyers.

As expected Tony Blair most emphatically had no regrets in invading Iraq and being responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands. Neither did Milosevic or Saddam or Mengele or Eichman and a host of others but that did not make them any less criminals. Neither does it alter the fact that Tony Blair is most definitely a war criminal. The British could make out a case against him as a traitor for having handed the sovereignty of the country to the US by being the unapologetic poodle of George W. Bush. When asked about whether he had prepared for the post war phase he said, If we had known then what we know now we would have done things differently. So a further charge can be added to the list, that of being stupidly cavalier. As Prime Minister of a country with a permanent Security Council seat he should have known that Iraq would fall apart if Saddam Hussein was removed. This is a country with 60% Shias and 20% Kurds being ruled by the 20% Sunni population. He did not know that Iran will play hardball when Ahmad Chalabi was probably their agent. He did not know that the Kurds would want independence based on the oil income from the wells around Arbil and that Turkey would never allow that. It is only because Turkey still has faint hopes of joining the European Union that it has not attacked northern Iraq. Mr. Blair was quite wrong when he mentioned Hans Blix for support. Mr Blix consistently and firmly said that Iraq had no WMDs. The British are masters of whitewash and the report of this enquiry will no doubt exonerate Tony Blair. This would be the time for the families of dead Iraqis to go to the International Criminal Court to ask for an arrest warrant.

P. S. Agarwal, owner of the chain of stores, Haldiram selling Indian confectionery has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a fast track court in Kolkata for having hired four men to kill one Pramod Sharma. Sharma had set up a tea stall outside two buildings owned by Agarwal in central Kolkata. Agarwal wanted to convert the buildings into shopping malls with food outlets and managed to pay off everyone in these buildings to move away but Sharma refused. To remove him Agarwal filed a case in civil court but like all cases it has been stuck there for years. Unable to buy him off or get relief from the court Agarwal sent his goons to shoot Sharma. Sharma managed to escape and mounted a campaign to bring Agarwal to justice in which he has been successful. What is not clear is whether the tea stall was a registered shop and therefore legal. What is for certain is that he would not have been paying any sort of tax. This case typifies the mess of Indian society. 1. By pleading poverty any person can occupy any land and cannot be touched because politicians will protect him. 2. Had the civil court given its judgement things would probably not have gone so far. Had Agarwal lost he would just have had to pay much more to settle. Thus our criminal justice system is not only full of criminals it forces law abiding citizens to become criminals. 3. Agarwal picked a bunch of idiots to shoot Sharma. Had they killed him it would have been easy to bribe the police and the widow and he would have saved himself a heap of trouble. So the lesson is that if you want a hit spend more and get professionals. Better still conduct an IQ test before recruiting them. The fellow in the BMW case got just two years for killing seven but Agarwal gets ten years for shooting a fellow in the leg. Incredible India.

The Reserve Bank of India, RBI has been forced to raise by 50 basis points the Cash Reserve Ratio, CRR or the money banks have to keep in reserve or in government bonds. This is in an effort to bring down lending and tame inflation. With food inflation running at over 17% and general inflation at around 8% this may be a stopgap measure before the bank is forced to increase interest rates which will hit economic growth. The government and industrialists are against such a move but the RBI may have no choice. The government wants growth to continue because that increases tax collections which, with the fiscal deficit at over 6%, they need desperately to balance the books. The government is very proud of having averted recession and achieved growth last year when the rest of the world was down. This was achieved by injection of money into the economy by almost doubling the salaries of undeserving kleptocrats, by forgiving bank loans taken by farmers and by doling out cash to farmers in the NREGA scheme. Indirect taxes were reduced to stimulate consumption. The government cannot take back money thrown at kleptocrats and farmers so they are desperate to increase taxes. If they do that it will add to the cost of goods and services and inflation will spike. The RBI will then be forced to increase interest rates. Misusing public funds for winning elections may seem sweet in the short term but may cause serious indigestion later.

Sitting 10000 miles away President Obama's State of the Union speech was impressive indeed. Last week promised to fight and he came out swinging. He started by laying the blame for the present mess on the Bush/Cheney combine. He laid out his plans for the future on education, small businesses, college loans, child allowance and healthcare. He challenged the Republicans to expose all lobbyists and who they are contacting on a single website. He really threw down the gauntlet, rather he shoved it down Republican throats, when he said to leave all pettiness aside and not to oppose every bill. He squarely put the responsibility of governance on their shoulders by saying that the opposition has a duty towards the people and not just scoring points with a view to reelection. While the Democrats cheered lustily the Republicans sat glumly giving the impression of a bunch school bullies being lectured to by the headmaster. Whether this speech alone will improve the prospects of the Democrats in November remains to be seen but if Mr. Obama follows up with strong pressure on the Republicans in public he could cause an upset or two. However, over the last year I have the impression that Mr. Obama reacts after a lag period. Perhaps it is his nature to ponder deeply and take every opinion before making up his mind but it gives the impression of indecision, almost as if his thyroid is not at hundred percent. Waiting five days before sending troops to Haiti was a terrible waste of time and lives. If you are going to help these people why wait for so many to die before making up your mind? Still, today was his day. Sarah did you get it?

Today we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the day our country became a republic. Politicians of all hues will stand on podiums across the land as army units, police and school children march past. Stirring speeches will be delivered promising jam today for the aam aadmi. As always the truth will remain hidden in the fog of rhetoric. The truth is that to be able to stand on a podiums elections have to be won. Which means guns and sackfuls of black money. Which means only criminal scum can win. To win elections promises of free electricity, cheap rice, more reservation for the undeserving and such have to be made. Such promises are only effective if you have an army of half naked, hungry aam aadmi with swarms of dirty malnourished children to feed. Which means it is in the interest of the criminal politician to keep the aam aadmi hungry and naked. Which in turn allows huge taxes to be levied on the middle class to keep them in check. Huge taxes mean huge amounts of money for the criminal politicians and kleptocrats to award themselves all kinds of goodies such as cheap housing, free travel, five star hotels and unlimited opportunities of raking in bribes. What an irony that democracy in India depends on keeping people uneducated and poor while China, which is a ruthless oligarchy, has to maintain a scorching growth rate to keep its people in material comfort so that they do not challenge the Party. Unfortunately a freeloading selfish press helps in the reinforcing these lies. May God help and protect my India.

Seems that black students, who constitute 70% of students, at South Philadelphia High School have been assaulting students of Asian origin who make up around 18% of the school. Asian students have said that the blacks routinely throw food at them, beat, punch and kick them and abuse them racially. At least 50 students were attacked of which 30 were injured prompting Asian students to go on a week long strike. It would be interesting to know how many blacks are in the Philadelphia school district board to know why complaints of Asian students were systematically ignored. Blacks are very quick to accuse others of racism but are no less racists themselves. A look at Africa shows how intolerant blacks are towards others they see as different. Tutsis and Hutus kill each other. Tribes belonging to Kibaki and Odinga in Kenya killed each other after last year's elections. Mugabe of Shona tribe massacred the Ndebeles. Black muslim Arabs in Sudan have cleansed and massacred black muslim Nubians in Darfour. Muslims and christians are killing each other in Nigeria. Blacks voted en masse for Mr. Obama only because he is black. You would check the credentials of a man applying for a janitor's post and this is the highest office in the land. No wonder the whites are holding tea parties now.

One Mr. Omprakash Valmiki, a dalit writer, has said, ' Being called a Hindu is like a gaali ( abuse ) to me.' Raw hatred indeed. What made brahmins an upper caste? They did themselves. What made kshatriyas a martial caste? They did themselves. Why are dalits still dalits 63 years after independence? Because they wish to be. Having a Schedule Caste, SC or Schedule Tribe, ST certificate is like a winning lottery ticket. Students with abysmal marks just walk into elite educational institutions. Useless undeserving people get cushy government jobs with automatic promotions not because of the quality of their work but only because they are dalits. Gujjars are fighting pitched battles to be classed as ST. One lady has gone all the way to Bombay High Court to maintain her SC status even though married to an upper caste man. Mr. Omprakash, you may call it whatever you wish, I call it begging. Unlike you I am proud to be a Hindu. My family were penniless refugees from what is now Bangladesh and I can tell how much my parents struggled to bring us up. They did not beg. If your people want respect tell them to withdraw their outstretched hands, stand up straight, look us in the eye and say,' WE ARE EQUAL.' You will find that suddenly all differences will disappear. Mr. Omprakash, do you have the guts or will you continue to stew in your hate brought on by self pity?

Journalists of the english press in India seem very well educated but such is their belief in their superior knowledge that they tend to pontificate about every subject as though everyone else is an idiot. Such has been the reaction to the IPL, a T20 cricket tournament organised by the BCCI every year in which teams are assembled by buying players in an auction resulting in teams with players of diverse countries. The teams are owned by wealthy individuals, industrialists and Bollywood actors. This year Pakistani players were invited to submit their names but were not bid for. The conceited journalists are of the opinion that the Pakis have been slighted and that it was wrong. This is at a time when India is being warned of increased threats of terrorist attacks from Pakistan. Pakistani government is on record as stating that if Pakistan is attacked by any country, not just India, it will use nuclear weapons on India. Why then should we allow Pakis to make money from the Indian public. Also since the teams are owned by individuals surely they have a right to spend their own money any which way they choose without having to give any explanations for their choice. Unfortunately these freeloading journalists, in their efforts to please their political masters, are not only wrong but guilty of treachery as well.

President Obama wants to fight the might of the big banks who were responsible for the deep recession of last year. For one year he has done nothing allowing the thugs, racists and airheads of the other side to set the tone of the debate. He has not closed Guantanamo, he has not got rid of the military tribunals, he has not passed his healthcare plan, he has made no advance in the middle east, he has not made Pakistan any safer and, crucially, he has not held Bush responsible for the financial mess that exploded. The result has been the loss of the senate seat in Massachusettes which had been held by the Kennedys for 56 years. Now it looks that the Democrats are going to lose control of both the House and the Senate later this year. At the same time the right wing Supreme Court has removed the ceiling on ' political contributions ' by corporates meaning unlimited capacity to buy lawmakers. This will allow banks to use their mega profits for ' lobbying ' which means bribing lawmakers. So now he wants to fight. Madeleine Albright would approve. She was always challenging men on the size of their cojones, probably because hers were bigger. Now is the chance for Mr. Obama to prove that he measures up.

A leading english daily, which is a Congress party mouthpiece, has been running a campaign on loving Pakistanis. It continues to make the point that Indians should embrace ordinary Pakis as brothers and all animosity will disappear. This is what the Congress has been doing for 63 years since independence and we can see how many brothers it has gained us. To the north China. Nehru was ecstatic about Panchsheel and hindi-chini bhai bhai. China occupies 50000 sq miles of Indian territory and is threatening continuously. Also Nepal. It has a communist government which is supplying arms to Naxals. To the east Burma. A failed state run by vicious baboons in uniform surviving with Chinese help. Also Bangladesh. Indira Gandhi helped make it independent. Now it is a staging post of Paki terrorists as well as its own HuJi brand. To the south Sri Lanka. Rajiv Gandhi sent a peace keeping force. Many died. Now Rajapakse is allowing China to build a naval base to attack India. To the west Pakistan. Another failed state which is the biggest exporter of terrorism. Six decades of appeasement and grovelling and surrounded by enemies who want to wipe us off the map. Israel, on the other hand, takes two eyes for the loss of one and is respected throughout. Egypt and Jordan has peace treaties with it. India is weak because of enemies within and freeloading press to whitewash their sins.

A surgeon is south Mumbai has been asked by a consumer court to pay Rs. 100000 plus Rs. 1000 cost to a patient who was operated on for piles. After the operation he developed pain and swelling around the anus and had to go to another surgeon to set things right. Admittedly it is not pleasant to have pain in the anus. You cannot sit and cannot ask for sympathy because it is embarassing to discuss. So Rathore, who as the Director General of police molested a 14 year old girl and then hounded the family forcing her to kill herself, is fined Rs. 1000 while a pain in the anus is valued at Rs. 101000. The anus is therefore 1000 times more valuable than a teenage girl. Incredible India indeed. Is it any wonder that Union Carbide thought they were paying too much when they dished out an insulting $ 500 million for killing over 20000 outright and tens of thousands therafter in a slow lingering death. If 50000 have died till now it values each person at $ 10000 or Rs. 450000, just 4.5 times the value of a man's anus. Sometimes a man's life has no value at all as when he is murdered by a politician who is then let off because his support is necessary for the ruling party and who then becomes the chief minister of a state. No wonder the Australians are puzzled by the fuss in the Indian press about Indians being systematically beaten and killed in Australia in racist attacks.

Eight days from the earthquake in Haiti and we still have wall to wall coverage on BBC and CNN. Seems that every broken building has one reporter crawling around in search of a battered corpse to show to an audience morbidly fascinated with blood and suffering. Much like a crowd gathers to gawp at an accident where a person is bleeding to death but does nothing to help. Often the news is prefaced by, ' the following pictures may be disturbing ' calculated to attract the ghouls excited by pictures of people reduced to begging for water and resorting to looting to stay alive. Anything to increase eyeballs and profits from commercials. The question that comes to mind is that if these voyeuristic reporters can fly in with all their gear and can find transport to roam around wherever they please without seemingly being hindered by lack of infrastructure then why are aid people unable to land at the airport and no aid is reaching the vulnerable. The most sickening is when they glorify a survivor being pulled out alive by their countrymen and the touching gratitude expressed by the victim. Twice a victim because of being buried alive by the earthquake and because of the shameless exploitation of the vulnerability of the person. I understand that Dr. Sanjay Gupta of the CNN has operated on a 12 year old girl with a head injury and she survived. How much will they milk the poor child?

While on an Air India flight Ustad Amjad Ali Khan's sarod ( a string instrument played in India ) was broken. As is usual in India Air India claimed that the instrument was broken before the flight. The Ustad's son Amaan said, ' Had something like this happened to me I would've killed the culprit. ' His brother Ayaan said, ' One has to literally throw an instrument to reduce it to pieces.' Quite. Thing is that no Indian will be surprised by this incident. Air India is a sarkari company and one gets battered by any contact with any sarkari fellow. Citizens are treated with greater respect than foreigners in every country of the world, including police states like Saudi Arabia and China, except in India where citizens are humiliated at every turn. This is the only country where we have to go through immigration when you return from abroad. With sarkari fellows setting the standard of callous insensitivity it is no surprise that private and foreign companies treat customers like refuse ( remember Union Carbide ). Banks, insurance companies or manufacturing companies all operate on the principle of denial. I think that our famous management institutes train students on how to keep cool, to continue to deny any responsibility and to keep goading the customer with a mysterious law called ' company policy ' until the customer loses his cool. Then they say,' sir you are shouting so I have nothing further to say.' Victory. If you are a white foreigner then they bow and scrape much like our ministers. Sixtytwo years and we are still not independent and will never be until Indians are numero uno in their own country.

Google's intent of pulling out of China because of hackers attacking mails of human rights campaigners is equivalent to throwing a shoe in the face of the Chinese government. Being uncivilised barbarians the Chinese are very conscious of loss of ' face ' and there cannot be a bigger loss of face than an american company indicating that they are indeed barbarians with no respect for their own people. This is not some empty name calling. When a Chinese mining company failed in its bid to acquire the Australian mining giant Rio Tinto the Chinese arrested some Rio Tinto executives on charges of industrial eapionage and are still holding them. This is the action of a street thug. If I cannot get what I want I will smash your face in. Recently 40 workers at Korba in Chhattisgarh, India died when a chimney they were building for a Chinese company, SEPCO collapsed. Three Chinese engineers have been arrested for shoddy work and rightly so because so many people died. So China has arrested 21 Indian diamond merchants in Shenzen on palpably false charges of smuggling and are holding them without allowing Indian consular officials to assist in their defence. Unfortunately the world only sees opportunity of making money in China. Google has put the spotlight on what barbaric savages they are. Thank you Google.

Five days have passed since the earthquake hit Haiti on tuesday but no aid has yet reached the ground. The facile excuse being trotted out is that there is no infrastructure. Of course there is no blasted infrastructure because whatever there was has been flattened by the earthquake. Seems that rescue teams have had to go back because they could not land at the airport and whatever aid that has reached is still sitting on the tarmac and nothing so far has reached the people. If the will had been really strong aid could have been flown into the Dominican Republic next door and then taken in by road. Astonishingly americans have only just begun to arrive with President Obama promising every kind of help. Does he think people buried under tons of rubble in the heat of the southern hemisphere summer will wait patiently until the great americans arrive with some water and bandaid. Upto 200000 are feared to have died. However Haitians should mind. People died of thirst in New Orleans too after hurricane Katrina when infrastructure was no problem. All that hype about ' change ' but there is no difference between Bush and Obama - a moron and a gasbag.

Promising socialism Hugo Chavez won his first term in office. He nationalised the oil industry, brought free medical care and education for the poor and survived a coup. Oil prices were very high which paid for his give aways to the poor and he won a second term comfortably. To remain popular he did not tell the truth and that was that the state could not pay for free goodies unless the poor had fewer children. In a Catholic country that would not have gone down very well. Now the oil price has fallen and he is unable to tackle a rising population with high expectations that he has generated. Crime rates have soared and inflation is threatening to get out of hand. He has devalued the currency at a differential rate which means one rate for medicines and essentials and another for white goods. Floating on a sea of oil he has to resort to rolling power cuts because he has not improved infrastructure choosing to waste his time in abusing the US and wasting money in buying arms to resist an imagined US invasion. To irritate the US he chose to consort with Ahmadinejad and the Chinese and blamed every problem on them. Time is coming when he has to find a friend who will give him refuge as his country implodes. Trouble is no one likes a loud mouth buffoon.

Poor innocent children. Born in a dirt poor country, living in shanties and now suddenly crushed by a massive earthquake. Recent history of Haiti is beyond belief. Crushed by decades of evil wrought by Papa Doc Duvalier who used voodoo and the dreaded Ton Ton Macoute to brutalise the population. His son Baby Doc did not have the same panache and did a runner with whatever cash he could lay his hands on and is now living in France. Since then not much has gone right for this pitiful country. In 2008 at least four hurricanes battered the country and the people are yet to recover from its effects and now this. Of all the natural disasters earthquake is the worst and the most frightening. In a volacanic erruption a pyroclastic flow kills in seconds. It may take a few minutes to die to die of drowning in a tsunami but in an earthquake a person lies trapped under chunks of concrete for days of agony until life slowly drains away. Apparently Port au Prince had more than a million children. Who knows how many have died a painful death not knowing why they were chosen for this cursed life. It is the poor who produce large numbers of children into chronic deprivation and untimely death. The religions encourage the poor to breed ever more in a race to increase followers promising an afterlife of gold but causing lifelong misery in this one. Is it an omen that the cathedral burnt down?

Indian hockey players, preparing for the World Cup, went on strike demanding that they be paid Rs. 450,000 to represent the country. They were offered a derisory and insulting Rs. 25000 by one Mr. Mattoo ( who is he? ) and told them to choose between money and playing for the country. This Mr. Mattoo ( where has he come from? ) closed the training camp and told the players to push off. Meanwhile the boxing team for the forthcoming Commonwealth Games were brought to their accommodations in Delhi to find no beds or food. Indian boxers are only a few of our athletes who win medals at Olympics despite the criminal treatment they receive. So where does all the money that we pay in taxes go? To give useless, parasitic, undeserving uncivil servants 80% pay rise and for criminal politicians to buy fancy aircrafts for themselves. Sports bodies in India are controlled by fellows from these two groups who use sports budgets to travel with their slimy families to various parts of the world while our athletes are treated as dirt. Criminal beggars have no sharam or izzat. Therefore they always win.

The UK government has banned Islam4UK, an Islamic organisation led by one Anjem Chaudary. They vehemently object to the war in Afghanistan and accuse British troops of killing innocent civilians and children. British soldiers killed in Afghanistan are flown home to Wootton Bassett where residents turn out to honour the dead. Islam4UK were apparently planning a march through that town protesting against the killing of muslims. They have denied that they were intending to carry two hundred empty coffins. On hearing of the ban Anjem Chaudary accused the British government of dictatorship and said that he intended to carry on with his activities. He said that he had to continue to pray and spread sharia. ' This is something I must do, and ultimately I will pay whatever price I need to for my belief,' he said. That is great news. Ship him off to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran or any one of the Islamic states in the world and we shall see his devotion to his cause. After all the people of these countries are also fervent believers and should afford him a great welcome. Maybe down the centuries he will be remembered as the great believer who bore his welcome without uttering a sound.

Large parts of Europe lie frozen under tons of snow. Snow has been falling on and off for over one week now and forecasts are predicting more in the next couple of days. In some places they are running out of salt and grit to keep the major roads free of snow and ice. In the UK people are scared that gas supplies will run low and since most heating is done by gas homes will become unbearable. While this is going on in the northern hemisphere it is raining in the south where it is summer. Landslides have killed people in Columbia and floods have inundated parts of Peru. It is entirely possible that the reverse will happen in June/July when there will be summer in the north and winter in the south. Hysterical reporters are using words like unprecedented and unforeseen in news reports. Unprecedented may be but why unforeseen? School children know that 75% of the earth's surface is covered by water so it stands to reason that even a slight rise in temperature will cause evaporation of millions of tons of water from the surface of the oceans. This will eventually come down as rain or snow given weather conditions. As the earth gets warmer we can expect this to become a regular event. This brings the disaster in Copenhagen into sharp focus.

Priests twist religion to suit their interests rather than those of the people. Among Hindus large numbers have converted to other religions because of the treatment they have received. The Catholic church has been rocked by revelations of priests sexually assaulting little children and then being protected by those higher up. Two bishops resigned in Ireland recently for protecting such priests. Ordinary people in the world today are terrified of suicide bombers. In Saudi Arabia one bomber tried to kill Prince Naif by hiding a bomb in his rectum which killed him. Just recently Mutallab tried to explode a bomb in his underwear but failed. These bombers are promised martyrdom and eternal paradise for their efforts. What noone tells them is that on judgement day they will be resurrected exactly as they are buried today and missing parts will not regenerate. They may well be applauded as martyrs and be sent to paradise but with vital organs missing they will not be able to enjoy the full potential of the place. Imagine spending an eternity with 72 luscious virgins and all you can do is offer them dates. Surely the height of frustration.

Inspite of the recession in developed countries last year India achieved a growth of around 8% and is forecast to grow by more than 7% next fiscal. Property prices continue to be in the stratosphere. Apparently an apartment on the 100th floor at the Burj Khalifa Building in Dubai is priced at Rs. 38000 per sq. ft. but apartments in Vasant Vihar in Delhi are Rs. 45000 per sq. ft. while in Nariman Point, Mumbai rates vary between Rs. 90000 to 100000 per sq. ft. Food inflation is still around 20% and prices of everyday items keep going up. The other way of looking at it is that the Indian rupee is buying much less today than it did a year ago which means that the rupee has devalued. Indeed this used to be the story in the past when the rupee kept losing value very year. In 1990 the rupee was 15 to the American dollar dropping to around 50 to the dollar last year. Today it is 45.799 to the dollar. So if the rupee is buying ever less how is its value going up? True, the dollar has lost value against major currencies but inflation in the US is probably less than 2% so it still has some buying power. Perhaps economists will be able to explain how this miracle has come about.

Couple of days ago one Egyptian soldier was shot dead by Palestinians at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza. The confrontation arose because Egypt is building a steel wall along the border with American assistance to stop smuggling between Egypt and Gaza. The Palestinians dig deep tunnels under the border and use them to smuggle in food, fuel and other necessities and also arms and parts to make rockets to fire indiscriminately into Israel. This led to the bombing of Gaza by the Israelis in 2008. Hamas, which controls Gaza, is a thuggish terrorist organisation and insists it has a right to kill Israelis. Hamas is not satisfied with controlling just Gaza but wants to control the West Bank as well. To accomplish its aims Hamas thugs regularly kill and beat up Fatah members who are also Palestinians. Hamas leaders are furious that Egypt, an Arab country, is building this wall which will stop their illegal activities but no country can allow its territory to be abused without asserting control. Moreover Hamas is controlled by Iran which is an even bigger threat for Arabs. Unless Arabs have the courage to take on Hamas and Hezbollah they could find themselves being overrun by Shia Iran. This may well have been the first shot in that war.

Mr. Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa took a fifth wife yesterday and was seen to be performing a Zulu dance. Apparently this is all normal in Zulu land but Mr. Zuma is no ordinary Zulu. From the bottom of the African continent he should look up and all he will see is poverty, HIV/AIDs, armed conflict, famine, illiteracy, rape of women, teenage pragnancies, uncontrolled diseases like malaria, river blindness, sleeping sickness and on and on and on. About 25% of men in his own country confess to raping at least once. Hundreds of thousands of people are surviving on food aid all across black Africa. Marrying more than once may be acceptable in his society and he surely has the money to feed all his wives and children but other african men do not. It is common for men to desert a wife with six to ten children and take another wife. This leaves the first woman destititute with no way of bringing up her children. The children grow up uneducated and will do anything to survive. This leads to all the other ills affecting the continent. Idi Amin, Bokassa, Mobutu Sese Seko and many other African leaders thought that their position gave them the right to enjoy pleasures of the flesh. Today they are seen as stupid buffoons. Mr. Zuma, you may know how to dance and marry but can you govern?

Nobel prize winning economist, Josef Stiglitz has said that economists were at fault for the financial crisis that happened last year. He thinks that old theories that markets behave rationally and have a self correcting mechanism is wrong. ' Homeowners, investors and probably financial executives showed marked irrationalities and may have bought into their own false arguments.' Everyone seemed to believe that house prices will go up forever. Mr. Stiglitz believes that this is the window of opportunity to build new economic theories. Nobel prize winner he may be but Mr. Stiglitz is dead wrong. He should understand that around 95% of people have IQs of between 100 and 110 and will thus behave as a herd, that is without individual reasoning. If he goes back to the dot com bubble he will find many financial wizzards solemnly opining that that was a goldilocks economy and would not fail. In India people believe even now that house prices and the stock market will go up indefinitely, never mind that 95% of people cannot afford houses at the present rates. You talk to anyone and he will be totally convinced that the price of his house will go up and up. If you ask to what level, a million, 10 million or a billion he will suddenly become confused. Unless Mr. Stiglitz can magically change the human brain boom and bust will continue.

Rathore molests Ruchika, then 14 years old. When she files a complaint she is thrown out of the Lawn Tennis Association of which Rathore is the president. She is thrown out of school. Her brother, also a teenager, is picked up by the police on false charges of car theft and beaten up. The Girhotra family is threatened. After three years of this torture Ruchika swallows poison and departs. Rathore is promoted to Director General of Police, Haryana and receives a President's medal. What makes Rathore treat the Girhotra's as insects to be crushed underfoot? Why is it his right to molest 14 year old Ruchika and get enraged when she complains? What makes it so easy for him to use the men under him to carry out criminal intimidation of the Girhotra's until a child is forced to kill herself? The reason is that Rathore rose up the ranks exactly because he is a perverted monster. As a junior officer in the police he must have protected his seniors and covered up their perversions. He was rewarded for his loyalty by being promoted. As he rose up the ranks he must have provided the same service to politicians. Thus he used his rank and power to try and crush the Girhotras expecting his friends to protect him. What is terrifying is that they did and he corrupted so many men under him. In our system only he criminal pimps get promoted to the top positions and get honoured in the process.

Seems that one in three teaching positions at the prestigious IITs, IISc and Schools of Planning and Architecture are lying vacant. The IITs lack 1284 teachers with Bombay IIT lacking 222. Not surprising when our HRD minister very proudly announced last year that salaries for IIT teachers will not be increased. Three reserved category students who were terminated for failing their exams at IIT moved the Supreme Court which reinstated them and asked IIT teachers to give them extra tuition. So more work without any money. Yet in 2008 the government accepted doubling of salaries for millions of totally useless parasitic kleptocrats. Ever since the Congress occupied the centre six years ago it has single mindedly undermined all the centres of excellence set up by Nehru. The strike at AIIMS over increased reservation seats was ruthlessly crushed. Faculties at IITs are being forced to take reservation candidates. Lately there has been daily assaults on the medical profession with the announcement of degraded medical training for rural people. Seems that the politicians, kleptocrats, police and lawyers have realised that the truth is out and they are despised as the gutter slime they are. So they have decided to bring everyone down to their level. What better way than to destroy education.

If you meet a kafir man try to convert him. If he refuses, kill him. If you meet a kafir woman try to convert her. If she refuses, marry her ( in other words rape her ). If you think you have the right to kill others because they so not agree with you surely they have the right to kill you first in self defence. Yesterday a Somali man attacked the house of Mr. Kurt Westergard and wanted to kill him for having drawn cartoons of the prophet Mohammad. The cartoons were withdrawn and the newspaper apologised. That should have been the end of the matter but clearly for some it is not. Some years ago a Dutch producer was stabbed to death years after having made a movie about Islam. What is this religion that claims the right to kill if you do not agree with it? If your God is so weak that he cannot defend himself then, surely, he is no God. Look around the world map and you will find trouble in every region where there are more than a hundred muslims. They slaughter Jews, Christians, Hindus and each other in thousands everyday. They attack planes with innocent civilians, schools, hospitals, market places, religious places with a savage desire to kill, kill, kill. No one, no matter how young, how weak or how innocent is exempt from this savagery. Yet we are told everyday that Islam is a religion of peace.

Today is the start of the new year, some say a new decade. Indians have a long list for desires but the strongest desire is for truth. For too long criminal politicians and kleptocrats have been lying to us assisted by a craven, freeloading press. Stop saying Indians and Pakistanis are the same. We are not. We do not support jihad and the first use of nuclear weapons no matter who attacks our country. Stop attacking Hindus using the contemptuous term ' Hindutva ' without also enumerating the attacks we have been enduring for centuries. Surely we have a right to self defence. Stop saying we are a low tax country when, in fact, we pay the highest taxes without any services. Income tax starts at Rs. 150,000 while in UK it starts at 7000 pounds per annum. Stop saying that petrol is subsidised when it is taxed at over 100%. Stop talking about the aam aadmi as helpless victims. The poor breed to exploit their own children for more money. The aam aadmi wants to be khas and criminal politicians will never let that happen because they will lose their ' vote bank .' Finally stop the hypocritical reverence for the tricolor when you rape Bharat Mata every day. The motto of the nation of India is ' satyamewa jayate ' or truth always triumphs. That, sadly, is the biggest lie of all.