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Lord Tebbit,Conservative Minister

Lord Tebbit was a minister in Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's cabinet.I was reading his interview in Financial Times and was impressed. His wife was disabled permanently after 1984 IRA attack and he takes care of her for the last 25 yrs of his 53 yrs of marriage.He wakes up twice every night to turn her over to avoid bed sores. He takes his marriage vows seriously. " I take the view that you never know ,do you,when you say those words,'For better or worse,in sickness or health '.You do not know what the future holds." He is not one of those politically correct types who says forget , forgive and healing nonsense even when one should not. He refused to participate in BBC 4 programme to take part in healing " having no taste for the modern appetite to massage away the atrocities of the past with an oily love-in and apologia." He sees this type of British attitude as symptomatic of the weakness,decadence and lack of resolve in modern Society. He is an old time conservative of Thatcher era and does not like present Conservative leader David Cameron for steering Conservative Party to the middle. I disagree with his staunch stay as it is conservatism.That is no win programme.Principles are important on core ideas,but as the society changes, one should adopt as Blair did to Labor Party. I watch David Cameron every week and he is impressive and would love to see him as the Prime Minister of Britain after next elections.
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Indian investments created 4149 jobs in UK during 2008-2009 and is the second highest foreign job creator.

Delhi high court ruling of Gay sex

Delhi High Court ruling decriminalizing gaysex is not to my liking,neither do I want the police break the bed rooms of adults and drag them into jail cells.I remember going to a concert long time ago in the Central Park,New York and people booing gay guys walking around.Now it is no big deal in New York.That is what I do not want to happen in India.Let us keep the way things are and not to encourage gay life style.It is not just another life style and not like a man and woman relationship.Man and woman relationship has more meaning than physical pleasure.

Lunch with Financial Times:

Every Friday,when I pick up The Financial Times, I look for who would be at Lunch with The Financial Times( Regular column in the weekend Financial times). It is kinda reality TV. It is elaborate,intimate and very interesting. I may put aside the whole paper if I do not have the time,but I would religiously read that.The recent Lunch guest was the principle conductor and artistic director of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle. He was in the South of France for a concert. They were talking about Germans and British.According to him,"Germans have an understanding of history and cannot allow themselves to forget it".British tabloids caricature Germans as humourless.English are self -deprecating,looking down on themselves,insular but flexible.Germans are very Deutsch- we know better. Germans are never frightnened to tell what they think unlike British. "German sounds are so clear and articulated but it is not allusive".Germans take irony as sarcasm. English are indecisive,but after making a decision,they they will go through with it,but Germans are like to be decisive, and then change their mind. "Germnas are most emotional people on the planet. The necessity for rules and strictness is a way of dealing with an enormously powerful impulse". German precision also comes from that emotion to avoid chaos.English culture is of inhibition and restraint whereas German culture is emotional.Very intersting of people and cultures.

IRAN

MY HEART AND MIND IS WITH IRANIAN PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY WITH YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE RISKING THEIR LIVES TO FIGHT THE REGIME.THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE SO MUCH AHEAD OF THEM. I PRAY TO GOD THERE WOULD BE NO LOSS OF LIFE.MY BEST WISHES TO THEM ALL. GOD BLESS THEM.

Sad Plight of Sri lankan Tamils

Thousands of Tamilians were killed since January and about 300,000 Tamils were kept in refugee camps in Vavuniya district.They were kept behind barbed wire and guarded by soldiers.Sri Lankan Government restricted access to international relief agencies. A son from Canada that went to see his mother and relatives could not get access to them in a refugee camp and returned back to Canada.Ban Ki-moon appealed for unhindered access to refugee camps. But Mr.Rajapaksa, President of Sri Lanka, did not respond.He might have won a military victory but he would create more militants if he continues this ill treatment of innocent Tamilians.Tamil civilians suffered from both Tamil Tigers and Sri Lankan Government. He can not create a harmonious society in Sri Lanka with his hard line policy against Tamil civilians.This type of attitude from Sinhalese majority created Tamil Tigers and they can not suppress the minority for ever with discrimination and ill treatment of innocent people.
Western Governments and international organizations are demanding more access to refugee camps and even trying to influence IMF from providing millions of dollars to Sri Lankan Government.But India, the regional power ,is doing little to force SriLankan Government to give access to refugee camps.It wants a permanent seat in the Security Council,rightfully so. But its silence about what is happening in Myanmar and Sri lanka is shameful and disgraceful.It has to stand up for something more than its political interests all the time.
Prime Minister Dr.Man Mohan Singh,Mr Clean, has stated that his government is embarrassed over unnecessary prosecution of Italian Ottavio Quattrocchi and its effect on India from International community for ill treating foreigners.Who is is he trying to fool? Who Is Mr.Quattrocchi? His patron and benefactor, Sonia Gandhi's Friend and Prime suspect in Bofor's scandle in which Sonia Gandhi's family was implicated. But international community do not see India's cowardly policy in Sri Lanka and Myanmar.

India, a Nehru family Corporation

Haiti, a small ,poor country in Americas has one thing that is proud of which India ,a sub-continent can not even dream of . It has been an Independent country since 1804 while India was a colony of a tiny Island country,Britain. Columbia,Venezuela,Elsalvador and other small South American countries defeated their European aggressors and bacame Independent countries while Indians happily ,some colloborating with their foreign oppressors ,playing along with their racist masters.Lots of people were happy to become babus and run erands for their British masters.It has been the way India was and probably is. Some great leaders came along ,fought and gained independence at last.Nehru family members were among them.After Independence,Nehru ran the country until 1964,then came Indira Gandhi,Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi. Sonia Gandhi took over the family corporation and running the country. She hired Mr.Manmohan Singh to run the country until her son becomes palatable for Indians to become dynastic sucessor to his father,grand mother and great great grand father.Recent elections is the first step to that end.What a great people!!!!!

If I were Indian.........

If I were Indian,I would vote for Bharatiya Janata Party to make Mr.L.K.Advani, the PrimeMinister,the same way I would vote for David Cameron of British Conservative Party, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, President Alvaro Uribe of Columbia.Another reason is, I am never a monarchist, and Congress Party is nothing but a Nehru family Fiefdom. Whatever Nehru family did to India during the freedom struggle,India gave back to that family more than it deserves. Congress Party politicians mostly are a bunch of sycophants with no philosophy or principles.These politicians are dependent on Nehru family for their survival and that family use these people to run the country.Bharatiya Janta Party is a national conservative party.It ran the country before and did as efficiently as possible in a big diverse country as a member of coalition.India is great because of its diversity and no party can discriminate a major minority and survive.Leftist liberal media day in and day out call it a communal party,anti-Muslim and anti-minority.BJP actions in Government proved that it is a responsible national party.But there is too much false propaganda against it.

Gypsies or Roma in Eastern Europe

"As economic Turmoil Mounts,So Do Deadly Attacks on Hungary's Gypsies" is a headline in New York Times.It did not surprise me as I read a lot about the plight of Romas in Eastern Europe.I did not read or hear much about them when I was in India.After I came here,I saw them here and there, and wondered about their appearance. They look like Indian and read that they moved from somewhere in Rajasthan to Europe long time ago. Romas are one of the groups that face discrimination as a group.They are concentrated mostly in Hungary,Slovakia,Czech Republic,and Romania.Their economic situation is horrible.They do low end jobs and in some countries live in separate enclaves.They are being treated as outcasts.Their houses are firebombed,burned and they are shot at. According to this news report,these attacks in Hungary may have been carried out by police officers and military personnel.Eastern Europeans experienced so much oppression during communist rule and I thought that they are more tolerant to other groups.I met people from Hungary,Slovakia,Czech Republic and Romania.They are very friendly and wonderful people.They date and marry other people from different back grounds.But when it comes to Romas,their attitude is quiet different.These people think that Romas depend on public welfare funds and do petty criminals acts.Some of that may be true,but discriminating all the Romas ,instead of finding solutions,do not change the situation.

Hooray to Miss California

I can not write enough of how much I admire Miss California for her strength,character and personality.Ms. Carrie Prejean,Miss California, answered at the Miss USA pageant held on Sunday in Las Vegas to a question from one of the Judges that the marriage is between a man and a woman.The gay judge who asked the question called her a bitch and showed what an intolerant creature he is.Miss California showed class on talk shows and he showed on his blog what a small,intolerant and nasty creature he is.Gay marriage has become a holy cow and a litmus test to judge a man's openmindedness in Gay and leftist liberal circles.It is like calling a person a racist and antisemite. This small group is intimidating the majority of people in America from expressing their beliefs. It is politically incorrect to oppose gay marriage.Marriage has been a union between a man and woman for centuries and should remain so for all the time to come.

Hero worship

Journalists rose up and clapped President Obama after his News Conference in London.Women in France were so Happy to reach and touch him. One lucky woman even got a chance to kiss his cheek.Europeans are thrilled that Mr.Obama is American President.God! It looks like Messiah has come and all our earthly problems would be solved soon.Would it be wonderful if he is the President of Europe! Four years ago, he was an unknown state Senator in Illinois,before that he was a community organizer in Chicago.Then he became a Senator,not any legislative achivements because he was on the road all the time,after becoming Senator,running for Presidency. He is a great communicator. He did not run anything and hope he would learn to be a reasonably good executive and help America get out of this economic mess we are in.But hero worshipping like God is silly,ridiculous and stupid.
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"Brit masses mourn working-class princess" is a headline in one of the New York news papers referring to Jade Goody, a foul mouthed, brash and uneducated woman that became famous after appearing in a reality show "Big Brother" and for her racist remarks to actress Shilpa Shetty. I am sorry she got cancer,died at an early age ,leaving two young kids.It is sad. But making it as mass national mourning!!!!!! Goodness Gracious!

WAR on INDIA

Yesterday at 2pm, I read a news item on CNBC website about some attack on Bombay.I thought that it was another left behind bag bomb attack.No,it is not when I watched on CNN and Indian TV channels on the web. Indeed it is not. Could not be more angry and upset with the Indian Government and security agencies. How could this happen? How could this be repeated so many times and so long? How could this be? How could? Unimaginable! totally.Terrorists come in boats , take over 5 star hotels, Railway station and kill innocent people. Maharastra Government should resign.Then what? Sonia Government would do anything? Cannot.we have seen it,how totally incompetent,inept at dealing with this total war waged by terrorists on innocent Indians.India Today was right when it called Indian government Impotent. May be worse.Thank God,Bush is our president and kept America Safe after 09/11. All those leftist liberals who hated Bush all this time hopefully not in those five star hotels in Mumbai or those leftist liberal phony secularists in India.

Nov 4,2008 American Election

The best thing about Nov 4 election would be that it would be over on that day.No more polls to read,no more analysis of polls,no more ads,no more talk of who is up ,who is down and who will win and by how much.I am sick of this for so long.As a Republican, I was for Romney,but McCain won the primary.Like most Republicans,I would vote for him.Probably ,on Nov 5,Obama would be celebrating the election victory.The world may not come to an end,but that would be a very disappointing day, more so because Republican party would loose more seats in the Senate and the House.It would be devastating if the Democratic Party gets 60 seats in the senate- fill buster proof.How could be people so dumb to think that the present economic situation is all Republican fault. Even moderate Republicans like Norm Coleman and Elizabeth Dole are in a tough fight.We give too much credit to the intelligence of American Voters.How dumb some are could be seen on Jay Leno interviews on the street. Dumb,dumb and dumb.Thousands of people are going to Obama rallies.Don't they have any thing better to do?Some times people behave like a mob.The guy is not qualified to be a President of America.I guess democracy is the worst form of Government ,but there is none better as Churchill said.So for four more years ,we have to live under democratic rule.
Colin Powell endorsed Obama recently on Obama Network,NBC. I never understood what is so great about him.His patrons were Republicans. They were the ones who gave him all those high power jobs.He thinks too much of himself. Without them, he would not have gotten those jobs.
McCain used to love the press.They treated him high before because he used to put his finger in the Republicans' eye a lot.He used to think that they loved him.But they loved him because of their hatred for Republicans.Now they are treating him like any other Republican,because they found their Messiah in Obama. Hope he learned his lesson and if he does not win,he would behave like a loyal Republican in the Senate.
Another silly fellow is this Huckbee guy from Arkansas. He got a talk show on Fox , instead of helping McCain with his supporters like Romney,he is making money .He was one of the Presidential contenders.How selfish guy he is?No party loyalty,nothing.Hope he would never run for any political office as a Republican.

SLICK SAAKASHVILI

Georgia President Mikheil Saakashvili is too slick for his own good. He thought that he could just swallow South Ossetia and get over with it while the world is watching Olympics.It turned out to be a pipe dream.Hundreds of innocent civilians died, large parts of Tskhinvali,the capital of South Ossetia was destroyed,thousands of people became homeless only because of Mr.Saakashvili's aggression.He received what he deserved,and he is doing disservice to the people of Georgia.May be it would be good for him and for his country if he advance his future plans and find a job as a professor of law at Columbia University and leave the people of Georgia for good.

Tavleen Singh,Indian express columnist

Mrs.Tavleen singh wrote a column in The Indian express exhorting the real leadership of Mr.Manmohan singh and criticizing Mr.Advani for lack of leadership. I am a great admirer of Mrs.Tavleen Singh and have been reading her columns for more than 15 years. She writes columns with lots of common sense, after hard work and great reporting. This column is totally disappointing and She could have done better,I mean much better.
In her zeal to promote Mr.Manmohan Singh, she sold herself short. She is worried that these MPs who showed the bundles of money that they say was received as bribe disgraced the "temple of democracy"-that is Lok Sabha.It is not these MPs that digraced the democracy,but it is the Congress party and its new ally that disgraced India. Let us not close our eyes and think that all the world is blind. She writes that one of the MPs took bribe before.What that has to do with what happened now.May be he did and that is why these leaders came with bundle of money to bribe him as he is easy to bribe.May be he is a changed man and wanted to expose these bribers! what about the other 2MPs? She says that that money did not look like one crore? Is it Ok if that bribe was few lakhs ,not one crore? She says that "the Video evidence was not conclusive.Let CNN-IBN show it ,and let people decide it. She was moved to tears when Mr.Singh said that he did not have drinking water supply,no electricity,hospital or roads. After Mr.Rahul Gandhi's great Grand father,grand mother and father's rule,that is about 40 yrs of congress rule, there are lots of poor Sashikalas in India that did not have drinking water,electricity,hospital and roads. Everybody,in India and all over the world, knows who is real leader, and who is runnimg the country from behind the curtain.Let us not try to fool the world. Indian express could have done a favour by not publishing that column.

PRIYA HAJI

I received the Motivation Show programme that would be held in Chicago in Sep . I was reading about different programmes and speakers. There I found an Indian name-PRIYA HAJI. I rarely see Indian names in this type of events.I was curious and googled her name .What an Impressive person she is . She is the daughter of Indian Immigrants.She helped her father start a free health clinic when she was a teenager in Texas.Then she founded "Free at last" ,a non profit organization that helps addicts and ex-convicts.Then she went to business school in California,travelled in developing countries, and started with another Indian " World of Good" to create a market for art objects these women create. She is 38 . I am sure that she would do great and wonderful things for humanity.

Europen Angels and Serbian devils

Slovania did not start breaking up of Yugoslavakia,Croats did not collaborate with Germans and kill thousands and thousands of Serbs,Croats did not try to push Serbians out of theirpart of the country, they did not kill any Serbians Bosniadid not declare itself independent,Bosnia can declare the way it likes, But Bosnian serbs should not be an independent country or unite with Serbia, Foreign mercenaries did not join the fight in Bosnia, Bosnian Muslims did not commit any atrocities,Serbians some how landed in angelic Europe where there was no world war 1, No world war 2,France,Portugal,spain,Belgium and UK did not occupy African and Asian,latin American countries and did not ill treat the locals.Germany did not do any harm to anybody,never and ever.Somehow serbians fell from nowhere into this Holy land,Europe.

U.S .GOVT Brain stroming ON Afghanistan

The U.S government summoned top Afghanistan experts to brainstorm on how to win in Afghanistan. Barnett Rubin ,New York University scholar ,pointed out that the problem is in neighbouring Pakistan where Taliban and Al Queda commanders lurk.Professor Larry Goodson of Army War College said that the British never won.the Russians never won. Mr Rubin is right and Mr.Goodson's defeatist mentality is not much of a help.British and Russians did not win.So what? America could win and hope it will.Otherwise it would be disatrous for American and Western security, India and mainly and most importantly to people of Afghanistan. US government and its allies should repeat what they told to Pakistan after 9/11 that either Pakistan is with us or with Taliban. No playing games and fooling around.It is that simple.

Indian Embassy Attack in Kabul

Kartik Rao-shirtless,towel on one shoulder,sad looking,weeping more in his heart than shows- Amulya ,his sister weeping, holding his mom Malathi on the cover page of India Abroad broke my heart. Kartik performed last rites for his father ,Venkata Rao Vadapalli, in
New Delhi with dignity.Venkat Rao was assassinatedduring suicide attack on Indian Embassy in Kabul by Taliban and other Muslim extremists with the help of ISI,Pakistani Intelligence Agency. If somebody thinksthat Pakistan is not involved in this attack,they are living in a fools paradise.India lost an able diplomat,more than that, Kartik and Amulya lost their loving father and Malathi ,her husband. Their lives turned upside down. Kartik and Amulya must have been looking forward so much for a beautiful life with help,guidance of their father. He is not there anymore to be a part of their lives as they grow up. Hope that they would grow up as a wonderful and successful human beings with the help and guidance of their mother and other well wishers.
What would India do to track down those responsible for this assassination Probably nothing. What did it do after Chattisinghpora,J&K, J&K Assemblyattack, Indian Parliament attack,American Culture Centre in Kolkata,Kaluchak-J&k, Twin blasts- Mumbai,Akshardhan temple attack,makeshift Ram temple-Ayodhya,Jaunpurtrain explosion,Blasts in New Delhi, Attack on the Indian Institute of sciences,Bangalore serialblasts in varanasi,Mumbai train blasts.Indian officials go through motions, catch some low level criminals and move on. Even if they getone or two main criminals,then comes vote bank politics in to effect from politicians.There is no value for the loss of Indian lives. Chalte hai and chalte hai ( Life goes on ) attitude takes over. After 9/11 in America, how many attacks happened in America. NONE. WHY? America changed,changed from Cabinet departments to local police stations. Every American feels the changes in their daily lives from travel,banking and immigration. When it comes to American lives, there is unanimity among all politicians on macrolevel. But not in India. Politicians do nor care. They care about their kith and kin,their positions, power. Why are these attacks repeating again and again?Pakistan caught lots of criminals and deported to America. How come India could not get even one main criminal responsible for Mumbai blasts?

Kosovo

Kosovo was part of Serbia,is part of Serbia and should be part of Serbia.An ethnic minority in a country by becoming majority in a geographical area has no right to declare itself an Independent country.It is against International law and dangerous for peace and stability in the world.An ethnic minority should have all the rights ,privileges and protections to lead a decent,normal life.Some old European countries like Britain,France and Germany are behaving arrogantly.European Union has no right to send police force to Kosovo without permission from UN.Would British allow an ethnic minority like Pakistanis in Birmingham declare itself as a separate country once they become majority there? Would Germany allow Turks in a corner of Germany when they become majority declare themselves separate country?would France allow Africans in Paris suburbs declare themselves as an Independent country? It is not a far fetched idea.Why should it be? These people are no different from Albanians. Whatever problems Albanians had with previous Serbian leaders does not exist now. Serbia is now a democratic country like these old European countries. If this unlawful act allowed to stand, why not Tamils declare themselves a separate country in the north of Sri Lanka,Pathans in Pakistan,Rebel provinces in countries in the old Soviet Union ,Basques in Spain and so on.
As a Republican who voted for President Bush twice, I find some of this administration's foreign policy decisions dumb and stupid.Secretary Rice's statement that Serbia and Kosovo should move on is silly. I wonder what Ms.Rice would say if Mexicans when they become majority in some parts of California,Texas and Arizona declare themselves as independent and want to join Mexico? She would appreciate it if Mexico says to her move on !!