The exploitive west and fatal Islam

The western world which lived in ignorance for almost 1400 years and finally manage to stole the vast knowledge hidden in our scriptures and holy books and used them to their benefit.

Renaissance which catalyzed the industrial revolution started the journey of colonism which was nothing but an organsied form of exploitations in the name of trade. They brought the gift of economic misery with which colonial countries are even reeling today. These buggers are exploting the world even today by forming multinational organizations and big institution like WTO and others. Among the most cunning slogan “we want our world safe “they ensure that their world is safe. Life has value there in there world. While for us it’s all about the mercy on the riches who are directing our world. In last 10 years more than 10000 lives have been lost here but they have been able to save their people from such terror attacks which are largely directed by one religious group of this world in the name of Jihad. This fucking Jihad is mother fucks of all fucks cursing our nation in the last 10 years. There cannot be any other example of extreme inhuman conducted on this earth by people in the name of religion.

The Middle East and the followers of Islam are not correcting themselves and retrospecting their fundamentals of their life. Rather they are becoming so aggressive and insane. Somehow the western world has exploited them but we are becoming the soft target of these jihadis. Oil and peace was looted by the Americans but we are being hit every year. We never invaded them first but they still consider us to be invader. We have been looted for last 2400 years by Magolids, Arabs and Persian races ruthlessly in ancient time and more then 4 times in recent 50 years but we are still considered as invaders destroying the peace and sovereignty of the Islamic world. While we house the largest no of Muslims in our country living with peace and harmony for centuries we are baled to be disrespecting their religion. Their religion emerged in 610 AD and ironically they claim their religion to be the most supreme religion higher above all the religion of world. We fought the greatest battle of Mahabharata 4000 years back under the aegis of Allah sitting on the chariot of the greatest warrior Arjuna and giving the most sacred form of knowledge and preaching to the human kind which is unquestionable till date and has got answers to any kind of spiritual questions addressed in this world. No other religious epic and books till date are produced in the world which can even come at the bottom of the sacred and divine book called Gita. We still don’t proclaim ourselves to be the supreme religion of the humankind. Allah we respect you as much as Krishna but beg you to educate your followers to be rational and tolerant. Teach them the lesson of birth control and sticking to vegetarian food now. Only these 2 practice can stop the biological disaster through which the followers of Islam. The world cannot accommodate them any more now. The ecological balance has been disturbed so badly now that any time the nature can wipe out the entire mankind. If the world can’t abide by the doctrine of vegetarianism then hey Allah and Krishna please legitimate the butchering of humans. Fuck off with the reasoning that if we don’t eat animals their population will increase. There are herbivore animals like lion and tigers to keep a track on the population of animals.

We humans are ignoring the biggest challenge of the modern time. Restoring the nature and the ecological balance is the only way to keep this earth green. The humanity today battle ling with more bigger threats then religious code of conduct which has rotten over time.

The obsessed Indian Pigs

The obsessed Indian pigs are so busy watching the celebrity shows and all other kind of possible craps on this earth. Thanks to a developing India blessed with the grace of the super tom lady Sonia jee , the most eligible choclatey boy ,and their life long disciples and blind followers. The country is seeing the best of best that can be showcased in a country where billions are hungry and illiterate. In last 10 years the country has seen the Internet and mobile revolution. While the rest of the world is growing at a meger rate of 1-2 %, we blessed with the spiritual babas , super economist and set of ultra qualified professional are growing at the rate 8-10%. And thanks to the ever ignited youth of this country fuelled by MTV channel and funky movies and super hot shows like big boss and many other hot soaps by the tv godess ekta kapoor, we are strong headed and ready to transform the nation. We are so broadminded and open that now we can do anything. There is no limit to life. It has become real big size. Big boss has transformed our viewing habits with its paid TRP campaigns which is not sparing any person on this earth. It’s spreading like plague.

God bless this country and the cynic people of this nation who have become so self obsessed and worthless creeps crawling like leeches. The same glorious country where legends and thinkers shaped it into the world’s most thoughtful and vibrant nation is now sucking the western world and the media blindly.

Americanism

USA is just one of the nation among the 193 recognised nations worldwide. The amount of popularity which this nation has got in almost all the major areas is known to all of us. People on earth are not able to complete their sentence without including the name of USA. This is unfortunately one of the dirtiest things that have ever happened on this planet. I am not a pessimist person who is showing pessimism to USA. Rather I would catagorize myself into very few informed global citizen who knows how to appreciate the good thing and condem any bad thing belonging to any nation. I am really surprised why the nations and people have accepted USA as their MIRROR? The world was suffering from the plague of imperialism in the 18^TH century and now the world is suffering from the most destructive, extremely spread able and fatal disease named AMERICANISM. I wish some one could release a vaccine to combat AMERICANISM. Don’t laugh at me dear.. Try to understand the gravity of the issue. I always believe in facts and figure and here goes the facts to let you know about the intensity of the disease called AMERICANISM

1.Income inequality= .426 (year 1994)

Source of data: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, Series P60

Interpretation of this data: (0.0 = perfect equality, 1.0 = one person has all the income)

So a figure of .42 means almost 50% of the people have all the income. So the remaining 50% are the poor people. 

India also have got economic disparity but we are rated as a poor country while USA in spite of 50% of population in disparity is the worlds most reputed country

2. Poverty = 15.1(1993  )

Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, P-60 series.

While the entire world might be assuming that USA must be having least poverty.

3.Crime

• Nearly 2.2 million inmates were held in state and federal prisons or country and municipal jails in the US by the end of 2005, the largest in the world. About three percent of the US adult population, or one in every 32 adults, were in the nation's prisons and jails or on probation or parole.

4.Violation of human rights:

Amnesty International: Violation of the Rights of Foreign Nationals Under Sentence of Death

AI INDEX: AMR 51/01/98 (Published in 1998)

To read the complete article on web click

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=580&scid=

More than 60 foreign citizens representing 22 nationalities are under sentence of death in the United States of America (USA). In virtually every case, the arresting authorities failed to notify detained foreigners of their right to communicate with their consular representatives. As a consequence, foreign nationals confronted by an unfamiliar legal system were tried and sentenced to death without the benefit of the crucial support from the authorities of their native countries. Since 1993, the United States has executed at least 5 foreign nationals, including citizens of the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Cuba.

In 1969, the USA ratified the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, a multilateral treaty regulating the functions of consulates in at least 144 nations. Article 36 of the Vienna Convention requires the local authorities to promptly inform arrested foreigners of their right to consular assistance. At the request of the detainee, the authorities must notify the consulate of the arrest and permit consular access to the detained national.

Guys this article is written before WTC . So please don’t argue that these steps might have taken as measure to combat terrorism. None of these 60 foreigners were terrorist.

Now lets discuss the Hegemonic Role played by the USA In the world

The below mentioned is the result of the PIPA poll conducted by organization in USA

The title of the poll

Do you agree that the USA is playing the role of world policemen more than it should?

80% OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AGREE IN 2004 AND 76% IN 2006.

The entire world whose presence and absence has been controlled by the remote of America should pledge by learning all the above facts that the old rule “mighty rules” still prevails and if at all any citizen belonging to any nation ever wants to challenge USA then they will have to strengthen their own country by actively taking part into various nation building activities. So friend lets pledge by our mother land that we will respect it and will do every bit to rise our nation to new height of excellence.

Science is a beautiful mission

Adapted from President APJ Abdul Kalam’s addresses to the 14th Children’s Science Congress at Majitar, Sikkim on December 27, 2006, and the 25th convocation of the National Institute of Design at Ahmedabad on January 5, 2005

The youth of our country, which represents 50 per cent of our population, has challenging scientific missions full of opportunities to make India competitive in the globalised world. The youth should have an aim in life, acquire knowledge and sweat, and not be afraid of problems. Some of the missions are as follows.
It is said that the ozone layer, which regulates sun radiation and cosmic radiation on earth, is in the process of dilution. Atmospheric research is a big field and the mission is to lead to a livable atmosphere for sustainable quality of human life for generations to come. The human genome project has led to the discovery of about 30,000 genes amongst us. But the bigger scientific challenge for our youth in this globalised world is how to characterise every gene. This field is called Proteomics.
The next challenge is that current mainstream physics concepts require a “Theory of Everything”, to unify all fundamental interactions of nature, which are usually considered to be four in number: gravity, strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force and electromagnetic force. It is said that the results of the unified theory could lead to man knowing how he was born. It is estimated that our sun has a life of 10 billion years, half of which is already over. There are, however, many possibilities that may emerge, such as human migration to other planets in other solar systems, where life may be possible. I visualise manned missions to the moon and Mars in the near future. Therefore our astro scientists have challenges in this field too. ISRO now has plans for unmanned spacecraft exploration of the moon starting with Chandrayan-I in 2008. There is a proposal emerging for manned space missions in low earth orbit by 2014. Space technology can play a major role in realisation of the nation’s goals in education, health, natural resources survey and infrastructural planning.
The Tata Institute of Fundamental research (TIFR) has built the largest radio telescope in the world in a rural area near Pune. They have played a major role in discovering the binary millisecond pulsar. The Indian Astronomical Observatory, set up atop Mt Saraswati, 4,500 metres above mean sea level at Hanle, south eastern Ladakh, is the highest observatory in the world. The galaxy is giving plenty of opportunities for our young scientists to make discoveries and there are numerous areas of scientific research which will benefit humanity as a whole.
Healthcare is an area where our young scientists can work and contribute. Innovation and creativity should remove the pain of the people. We have to discover preventive vaccines for diseases like HIV-AIDS, malaria and cardiac diseases. Thus there are so many scientific challenges before the youth. The question is: only a prepared mind can discover. A prepared mind comes out of accumulated knowledge, possesses will power and ability to defeat problems and succeed.
Our country, at the end of 20th century, witnessed four great scientific events. In the 1950s, India was in a ship-to-mouth condition for foodgrains. The vision of political leaders like Shri C Subramanian and scientific leaders like Dr MS Swaminathan led to the First Green Revolution enabling India to produce over 200 million tonnes of foodgrain through the use of high-yield variety seeds.
Dr Varghese Kurien, through the milk co-operative movement, led India to become the largest producer of milk. Homi Bhabha established the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, leading to nuclear science and research.
Nanotubes, atoms, jatropha
Today India has 14 reactors producing nearly 4000 mw electrical power and the Department of Atomic Energy targets 50,000 mw of power by 2030.
Prof Vikram Sarabhai’s space vision has enabled India to acquire the capability to design, develop, build and launch any type of satellite from Indian soil. Similarly, Prof Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar created multiple CSIR laboratories in various disciplines for developing and transferring technology to Indian industry, including drugs for many tropical diseases. Simultaneously, Dr Kothari was on the mission of creating a chain of DRDO laboratories for promoting self-reliance in critical technologies and strategic systems. Recently, youth power has led to a revolution in ICT and pharma where industry has started producing internationally competitive drugs from new molecules. This culture must spread to other scientific and industrial tasks.
Energy Independence
On 14th August 2005, in my Independence Day eve address to the nation, I spoke about Energy Independence. What is the solution?
I have suggested a possible solution for our country for making maximum use of solar power, nuclear power and bio-fuel instead of fossil fuels and make the country energy independent by 2030. Some of the scientific and technological challenges of these areas are given below:
Carbon Nano Tube (CNT) based solar cells for higher efficiency: The low efficiency of conventional photovoltaic (PV) cells has restricted the use of solar cells for large power generation application. Recent research has shown that the alignment of the CNT with the polymer composites substrate is the key issue and this aligned CNT-based PV cells would give very high efficiency in photovoltaic conversion. In this process, researchers could achieve an efficiency of about 50% at the laboratory scale. Our scientists have to take up this challenge and come up with the development of CNT-based PV cell with an efficiency of at least 50% within the next three years so that it can go into commercial production within five years. Solar power generation using high efficiency CNT based solar power photovoltaic cells will be highly competitive, compared to other forms of energy generation systems.
Nuclear Energy: Nuclear power generation has been given a thrust by the use of uranium-based fuel. However, to meet the increased needs of nuclear power generation, it is essential to pursue the development of nuclear power using Thorium, reserves which are higher in the country. Technology development has to be accelerated for Thorium-based reactors. Thorium is a non-fissile material. For conversion of Thorium and maximising its utilisation, development of Fast Breeder Reactor has been rightly taken up.
Use of Biofuel: We have to realise production of 60 million tonnes of bio-diesel per annum by 2030 (this would be 20% of anticipated oil consumption in 2030). This has to be realised through intensive research for improving productivity of Jatropha plant seeds, mastering extraction and esterification technology and finding remunerative bi-products, which is a challenge for life science scientists.
Conclusion
Science and technology will be an important ingredient to transform India into a developed nation before 2020 as well as making it competitive in a globalised world. Our youth, numbering 300 million persons, should develop the curiosity, knowledge, core competence, determination, perseverance and the courage to invent new phenomena in science and technology leading to pathbreaking discoveries.

Interview with Sam Bahadur Manek Shaw

'Jawaharlal, do you want Kashmir,or do you want to give it away?'
Sam Manekshaw, the first field marshal in the Indian army, was at the ringside of events when Independent India was being formed. Then a colonel, he was chosen to accompany V P Menon on his historic mission to Kashmir. This is his version of that journey and its aftermath, as recorded in an interview with Prem Shankar Jha.
At about 2.30 in the afternoon, General Sir Roy Bucher walked into my room and said, 'Eh, you, go and pick up your toothbrush. You are going to Srinagar with V P Menon. The flight will take off at about 4 o'clock'. I said, 'why me, sir?'
'Because we are worried about the military situation. V P Menon is going there to get the accession from the Maharaja and Mahajan.' I flew in with V P Menon in a Dakota. Wing Commander Dewan, who was then squadron leader Dewan, was also there. But his job did not have anything to with assessing the military situation. He was sent by the Air Force because it was the Air Force which was flying us in.'
Since I was in the Directorate of Military Operations, and was responsible for current operations all over India, West Frontier, the Punjab, and elsewhere, I knew what the situation in Kashmir was. I knew that the tribesmen had come in - initially only the tribesmen - supported by the Pakistanis.
Fortunately for us, and for Kashmir, they were busy raiding, raping all along. In Baramulla they killed Colonel D O T Dykes. Dykes and I were of the same seniority. We did our first year's attachment with the Royal Scots in Lahore, way back in 1934-5. Tom went to the Sikh regiment. I went to the Frontier Force regiment. We'd lost contact with each other. He'd become a lieutenant colonel. I'd become a full colonel.
Tom and his wife were holidaying in Baramulla when the tribesmen killed them.
The Maharaja's forces were 50 per cent Muslim and 50 per cent Dogra.
The Muslim elements had revolted and joined the Pakistani forces. This was the broad military situation. The tribesmen were believed to be about 7 to 9 kilometers from Srinagar. I was sent into get the precise military situation. The army knew that if we had to send soldiers, we would have to fly them in. Therefore, a few days before, we had made arrangements for aircraft and for soldiers to be ready.
But we couldn't fly them in until the state of Kashmir had acceded to India. From the political side, Sardar Patel and V P Menon had been dealing with Mahajan and the Maharaja, and the idea was that V.P Menon would get the Accession, I would bring back the military appreciation and report to the government. The troops were already at the airport, ready to be flown in. Air Chief Marshall Elmhurst was the air chief and he had made arrangements for the aircraft from civil and military sources.
Anyway, we were flown in. We went to Srinagar. We went to the palace. I have never seen such disorganisation in my life. The Maharaja was running about from one room to the other. I have never seen so much jewellery in my life --- pearl necklaces, ruby things, lying in one room; packing here, there, everywhere. There was a convoy of vehicles.
The Maharaja was coming out of one room, and going into another saying, 'Alright, if India doesn't help, I will go and join my troops and fight (it) out'.
I couldn't restrain myself, and said, 'That will raise their morale sir'. Eventually, I also got the military situation from everybody around us, asking what the hell was happening, and discovered that the tribesmen were about seven or nine kilometres from what was then that horrible little airfield.
V P Menon was in the meantime discussing with Mahajan and the Maharaja. Eventually the Maharaja signed the accession papers and we flew back in the Dakota late at night. There were no night facilities, and the people who were helping us to fly back, to light the airfield, were Sheikh Abdullah, Kasimsahib, Sadiqsahib, Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed, D P Dhar with pine torches, and we flew back to Delhi. I can't remember the exact time. It must have been 3 o'clock or 4 o'clock in the morning.
(On arriving at Delhi) the first thing I did was to go and report to Sir Roy Bucher. He said, 'Eh, you, go and shave and clean up. There is a cabinet meeting at 9 o'clock. I will pick you up and take you there.' So I went home, shaved, dressed, etc. and Roy Bucher picked me up, and we went to the cabinet meeting.
The cabinet meeting was presided by Mountbatten. There was Jawaharlal Nehru, there was Sardar Patel, there was Sardar Baldev Singh. There were other ministers whom I did not know and did not want to know, because I had nothing to do with them. Sardar Baldev Singh I knew because he was the minister for defence, and I knew Sardar Patel, because Patel would insist that V P Menon take me with him to the various states.
Almost every morning the Sardar would sent for V P, H M Patel and myself. While Maniben (Patel's daughter and de facto secretary) would sit cross-legged with a Parker fountain pen taking notes, Patel would say, 'V P, I want Baroda. Take him with you.' I was the bogeyman. So I got to know the Sardar very well.
At the morning meeting he handed over the (Accession) thing. Mountbatten turned around and said, ' come on Manekji (He called me Manekji instead of Manekshaw), what is the military situation?' I gave him the military situation, and told him that unless we flew in troops immediately, we would have lost Srinagar, because going by road would take days, and once the tribesmen got to the airport and Srinagar, we couldn't fly troops in. Everything was ready at the airport.
As usual Nehru talked about the United Nations, Russia, Africa, God almighty, everybody, until Sardar Patel lost his temper. He said, 'Jawaharlal, do you want Kashmir, or do you want to give it away'. He (Nehru) said,' Of course, I want Kashmir (emphasis in original). Then he (Patel) said 'Please give your orders'. And before he could say anything Sardar Patel turned to me and said, 'You have got your orders'.
I walked out, and we started flying in troops at about 11 o'clock or 12 o'clock. I think it was the Sikh regiment under Ranjit Rai that was the first lot to be flown in. And then we continued flying troops in. That is all I know about what happened. Then all the fighting took place. I became a brigadier, and became director of military operations and also if you will see the first signal to be signed ordering the cease-fire on 1 January (1949) had been signed by Colonel Manekshaw on behalf of C-in-C India, General Sir Roy Bucher. That must be lying in the Military Operations Directorate.
You went in on the afternoon of the 25th. When you got to Srinagar, were you actually present when the Maharaja signed the Instrument of Accession?
I was in the palace when V P Menon, Mahajan, and the Maharaja were discussing the subject. The Maharaja was running from one room to another.....I did not see the Maharaja signing it, nor did I see Mahajan. All I do know is that V P Menon turned around and said, 'Sam we've got the Accession.'
He said that to you.
Yes, yes he turned around to me, and so we flew back.
And you were actually present the next morning when V P Menon handed this over during that.....
(Interrupting) I was at the cabinet meeting presided over by Mountbatten when it was handed over....we'd got the Accession. I can't understand why anyone said that the thing was signed in Jammu, because we never went to Jammu.
Was it the cabinet meeting, or was it the defence committee of the cabinet?
No, it was a meeting with Mountbatten presiding, with Vallabhbhai Patel, Baldev Singh...
Nehru, of course.
There were other ministers too; I can't recall.....
That was the defence committee. Otherwise, there would have been a much larger group. Sir Roy Bucher was there too?
Yes, yes, Sir Roy took me there.
Was the Maharaja, in your presence, demurring from signing, was he laying down conditions. Was V P Menon saying 'look you've got to bring Abdullah into the Cabinet first....'
That I honestly can't tell you. All that I can say is that the Maharaja was ... he was not in his full senses. He was running about saying I will fight there. Unless the Indian army comes in, my own forces will fight'; that sort of rubbish was going on. All that V P Menon was telling him was that we cannot send forces in unless the accession takes place. Then he signed it. That is all I can tell you about the actual signing.
And you were present the next morning when the Instrument was handed over to Mountbatten?
Yes.
You have said that the first lot of troops were flown in around noon.
Immediately (emphasis in original) after the cabinet meeting. We went to Srinagar I think on the 25th. I can't tell you the dates. We came back on the 26th in the early morning, and the same day we started to fly troops in. And the Pakistanis only came in when we started throwing the tribesmen out. It is only then that the Pakistani regular troops came in. I think it was General Akbar Khan, who was married to Begum Shah Nawaz's daughter; can't remember her name, dammit, I used to know them so well in Lahore. I think he organised the tribesmen coming in.

What you said about the Sikhs being moved on the 26th, immediately after the Letter of Accession was given, is not known. The story is that the first Indian troops were moved on the 27th - that they left at the crack of dawn, maybe even earlier, and that they arrived in Srinagar at 9 am. General Sen, who wrote a book about it, said that they were surprised to find troops of the Patiala regiment (state forces) already there. Did you find, when you went to Srinagar that in fact at some point earlier on, perhaps even before 15 August, the Maharaja of Patiala had agreed to send a battalion of his troops to Kashmir.

If that had happened, I would have known. No. There were no soldiers of either the Indian or Patiala forces which had gone in earlier.

Then is it possible that the troops that General Sen referred to were the ones who had gone in on the 26th?

No, that was the First Sikh Light In....Sikh Battalion, that was sent with Ranjit Rai. That was sent on the 26th. The same day we'd had the cabinet committee meeting, the defence committee meeting or whatever. I remember getting out of that meeting and making arrangements. Bogey Sen went in later. Poor old Ranjit was killed. He and I were from the same batch - the first batch at the Indian Military Academy.

In his book, The Great Divide, H V Hodson, who wrote it after being given access to Mountbatten's personal papers, doesn't specifically say that the Instrument was presented to the defence committee at its morning meeting. But he does say that after you had given your appreciation of the military situation in the morning, discussion went on about, well, we should send in the troops but should we accept the Accession or not. Which implies that the letter of Accession had already been given but the cabinet (committee) was still in two minds about whether it should be accepted, or whether the Maharaja should be told, well, we are sending in troops to support you, but we are not going to accept the accession just now. In the evening, apparently, the decision was taken that we will accept the accession but with the proviso about the reference to the wishes of the people which eventually went into the letter that Mountbatten wrote.

Now is it possible that although you made the arrangement to send the troops, the actual fly in took place on the 27th.

(Thinks) No they were sent in the same day. And I think you would be able to verify that from air force records because we didn't have all that many aircraft, and had to get them from the civilian airlines. They had all been got ready.
Excerpted from Kashmir 1947, Rival Versions of History, by Prem Shankar Jha, Oxford University Press, 1996

Dichotomy between merit and social justice

Dear friend I would request you all to address any social issue which has a very large impact on the Indian society only after studying the various dimension of the issue. We need to be very judicious as well while interpreting the facts. Below are my opinion on reservation.

Summary: Unless everyone in the society are given equal opportunities and every citizen of this country has not improved economically, educationally and physically we cant dream of a prosper India. Because of corruption and opportunist’s politics entire purpose of developmental policies are becoming failure. Without compromising the quality and integrity of the candidate every citizen of this country should be given equal opportunities taking into consideration the interest of the nation in mind.

Reservation was originated with good intention however this policy now is very blind and ineffective . We need to reformulate almost all our policies including the reservation policy as it has been almost 61 years old. The problem and the status of the society have drastically changed in India. With In 61 years we have moved way ahead from where we started.

So the following reservation policy needs immediate revisions in the light of the changes that Indian society has made over the years.

1. I am of the view that reservation should exist for deserving people- no doubt, but no compromise on quality of education. Unless they score percentage which shows that they are capable and prove their urge to learn things, they should be barred from reservation.

2) Once they got benefited, they should be eliminated from reservation pool in order to ensure other deserving people got the route cleared for their turn of benefits.

3) Caste alone should not alone be the criterion and economic considerations along with the caste should be taken into consideration.

4) If caste remains as the factor for deciding the reservation then those sections of the forward caste whose economic condition is at par with those backward castes then these sections of forward caste should also be extended reservation.

The facts about reservation in India

A percentage of seats are reserved in the public sector units, union and state civil services, union and state government departments and in all public and private educational institutions, except in the religious/ linguistic minority educational institutions, for the socially and educationally backward classes of citizens or the Scheduled Castes and Tribes who were inadequately represented in these services and institutions. The reservation policy is extended for the SC and STs in representing the Parliament of India & state legislative assemblies. Reservation is also offered based on other parameters like religion, state of domicile, etc. The central government of India reserves 27% of government jobs and proposes to do similarly in higher education, but certain Indian states like Tamil Nadu, which currently reserves 69% seats, have followed caste-based reservations since 1921.

In 2006, Indian education minister Arjun Singh announced extension of reservation benefits to the "Other Backward Castes" (OBCs) in central government educational institutions.

Reservation is not based on only the caste. It is based on several other factors which are listed below..

• Gender (around 30% of seats are reserved for females in many institutions).
• Religion based
• State of domiciles
• Undergraduate colleges
• Sons/Daughters/Grandsons/Grand daughters of Freedom Fighters.
• Physically handicapped.
• Sports personalities.
• Non-Resident Indians (NRIs).
• Candidates sponsored by various organisations.
• Those who have served in the armed forces (ex-serviceman quota).
• Dependants of armed forces personnel killed in action.
• Repatriates.
• Those born from inter-caste marriages.
• Widows and deserted women.

My question: Those who wish to abolish reservation want to abolish on which of the ABOVE factors?

Reason behind starting the reservation.

Reservations are intended to increase the social diversity in campuses and workplaces by lowering the entry criteria for certain identifiable groups that are grossly under-represented in proportion to their numbers in the general population. Caste is the most used criteria to identify under-represented groups. However there are other identifiable criteria for under-representation -- gender (women are under represented), state of domicile (North Eastern States, as Bihar and Uttar Pradesh are under-represented), rural people, etc.

The underlying theory is that the under-representation of the identifiable groups is a legacy of the Indian caste system. After India gained independence, the Constitution of India listed some erstwhile groups as Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST). The framers of the Constitution believed that, due to the caste system, SCs and the STs were historically oppressed and denied respect and equal opportunity in Indian society and were thus under-represented in nation-building activities. The Constitution laid down 15% and 7.5% of vacancies to government aided educational institutes and for jobs in the government/public sector, as reserved quota for the SC and ST candidates respectively for a period of five years, after which the situation was to be reviewed. This period was routinely extended by the following governments and the Indian Parliament, and no revisions were undertaken for the fear of losing votes

Those who are panic because of the reservation should know that fact

The Supreme Court ruling that reservations cannot exceed 50% (which it judged would violate equal access guaranteed by the Constitution) has put a cap on reservations. However, there are state laws that exceed this 50% limit and these are under litigation in the Supreme Court. For example, the caste-based reservation fraction stands at 69% and is applicable to about 87% of the population in the state of Tamil Nadu

Argument by those who demand reservation

1.There remains overwhelming dominance of upper castes in higher and especially professional education. To prove the fact the data has been provided

source: National Sample Survey by GOI

Table 1 shows the percentage of graduates in the population aged 20 years or above in different castes and communities in rural and urban India. Only a little more than 1 per cent of Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled Castes, and Muslims are graduates in rural India, while the figure for Hindu upper castes is four to five times higher at over 5 per cent. The real inequalities are in urban India, where the SCs in particular, but also Muslims, OBCs, and STs are way behind the forward communities and castes with a quarter or more of their population being graduates. Another way of looking at it is that STs, SCs, Muslims, and OBCs are always below the national average while the other communities and especially Hindu upper castes are well above this average in both rural and urban India.

Table 2

Table 2 shows the share of different castes and communities in the national pool of graduates as compared to their share of the total population aged 20 years or more. In other words, the table tells us which groups have a higher than proportionate (or lower than proportionate) share of graduates. Once again, with the exception of rural Hindu OBCs and urban STs, the same groups are severely under-represented while the Hindu upper castes, Other Religions (Jains, Parsis, Buddhists, etc.), and Christians are significantly over-represented among graduates. Thus the Hindu upper castes' share of graduates is twice their share in the population aged 20 or above in rural India, and one-and-a-half times their share in the population aged 20 or above in urban India. Compare this, for example, to urban SCs and Muslims, whose share of graduates is only 30 per cent and 39 per cent respectively of their share in the 20 and above population.

2. An upper caste monopoly over higher education — still remains effective despite the apparent abolition of caste. From this perspective, the status quo is an unjust one requiring state intervention on behalf of disadvantaged sections who are unable to force entry under the current rules of the game. More extreme views of this kind may go on to assert that merit is merely an upper caste conjuring trick designed to keep out the lower castes. It is their confidence in having monopolised the educational system and its prerequisites that sustains the upper caste demand to consider only merit and not caste.

3.How is it that, roughly speaking, one quarter of our population supplies three quarters of our elite professionals?

4.If the upper caste view needs an unexamined notion of merit that ignores the social mechanisms that bring it into existence, the lower caste or pro-reservation view appears to require that merit be emptied of all its content.

5. In a situation marked by absurd levels of "hyper-selectivity" — 300,000 aspirants competing for 4000 IIT seats, for example — merit gets reduced to rank in an examination. As educationists know only too well, the examination is a blunt instrument. It is good only for making broad distinctions in levels of ability; it cannot tell us whether a person scoring 85 per cent would definitely make a better engineer or doctor than somebody scoring 80 per cent or 75 per cent or even 70 per cent. Such fetishised notions of merit have nothing to do with any genuine differences in ability. The caste composition of higher education could well be changed without any sacrifice of merit simply by instituting a lottery among all candidates of broadly similar levels of ability — say, the top 15 or 25 per cent of a large applicant pool.

Argument by those who are against reservation

1. The upper castes claim that their preponderance is due solely to their superior merit, and that there is nothing to be done about this situation since merit should indeed be the sole criterion in determining access to higher education.

2. Any attempt to change the status quo of the current data about reservation can only result in "the murder of merit."

3. It is now beyond doubt that arguments for the genetic or natural inferiority of social groups are unacceptable

Conclusion: There is apparent dichotomy between merit and social justice in higher education. How do we transcend this dilemma? Is there a way forward where both merit and social justice can be given their due?

Courtesy: http://www.hindu.com/2006/05/22/stories/2006052202261100.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservation_in_India

People Who Influenced The World by Peter Murray

Recently I came across a work which is worth reading.In this book the writer profiles sixty individuals who most influenced the past 100 years. The name of these 60 indivisuals are

Mahatma Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King, Frank Sinatra, Mother Teresa, Jacqueline Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Bill Gates, Walt Disney, Edwin Hubble, Henry Ford, Albert Einstein, Elvis Presley, Christiaan Barnard, Fidel Castro, Jonas E. Salk , Mao Tse Tung, Adolf Hitler, Jesse Owens, The Wright Brothers, Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, Harry Houdini, Steven Spielberg, Dalai Lama, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sigmund Freud, The Beatles, Pelè, Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Mikhael Gorbachev, Muammar Qaddafi, Anwar Sadat, Pope John Paul 11, Margaret Thatcher, Richard Nixon, Al Capone, Yasser Arafat, Idi Amin, Frank McNamara, Nelson Mandela, Diana Princess of Wales, Coco Chanel, Pablo Picasso, Anne Frank, Estee Lauder, F.W. de Klerk, Lord Carnarvon, Andy Warhol, Jesse Jackson, Jacques Cousteau, Edmund Hillary, Ray Kroc, William Boeing, Desmond Tutu, Richard Branson, David Suzuki and Aung San Suu Kyi.

The book is a nice read about the people who in some way, have helped create our world.

WORLD HISTORY FACTS ABOUT INDIA

These facts were recently published in a German magazine, which deals with history facts about India.

1. India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.

2. India invented the Number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

3. The world's first University was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects... The University of Nalanda built in the 4 th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.

4. According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software.

5. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.

6. Although western media portray modern images of India as poverty striken and underdeveloped through political corruption, India was once the richest empire on earth.

7. The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The very word "Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. (Course of a Boat)

8. The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is now known as the Pythagorean Theorem. British scholars have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan's works dates to the 6th Century which is long before the European mathematicians.

9. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India . Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11 th Century; the largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Indians used numbers as big as 1053.

10. According to the Gemmological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world.

11. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Professor Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.

12. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.

13. Chess was invented in India .

14. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, cataract, fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient India

15. When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilisation).

16. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC

Calculation of the total duration of forign rule on Indian Soil

Throughout its history the Indian subcontinent has been frequently subject to invasion, from all part of the world and specially forms the North-West by Central Asian nomadic tribes and the Persian Empire.

Will Durant argued in his 1935 book "The Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage" (page 459):
“ The Mohammedan conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. The Islamic historians and scholars have recorded with great glee and pride the slaughters of Hindus, forced conversions, abduction of Hindu women and children to slave markets and the destruction of temples carried out by the warriors of Islam during 800 AD to 1700 AD. Millions of Hindus were converted to Islam by sword during this period. Dear Don’t you think that the Islamic invasion was also a foreign attack on India.
So 300 years of British rule+900 year of Islamic ruler=1200 years of foreign rule.
Now consider this
518 BC: Darius I of Persia (present Iran) invades Indus Valley.
326 BC: Alexander the Great of Greece invades, but fails to conquer, Northern India. His soldier’s mutiny. He leaves India the same year. Greeks who remain in India intermarry with Indians
So don’t you think the conquest of a major part of Indian soil and then brutal rape or majority of our women by the Alexander’s Soldier, we lost our independence right from 326 BC.

So that comes to be

326+1947= 2373 if the consider the Alexander Conquest, However if I consider the Darius I of

Persia conquest then it becomes
518+1947=2465

And the details according to the race who ruled us are follows.

Rules by Central Asian nomadic tribes =2165 years

Rules by European imperialists = 300 years..

What a glorious history....

humble chronology of the world's oldest living civilization and largest modern-day democracy.

Here is the humble chronology of the world's oldest living civilization and largest modern-day democracy.

Pre Harrapan age

• Rig Vedic Age - 7000-4000 BC

Early Rigvedic Age : 7000-5000 BC

Late Rigvedic Age : 5000-3750 BC

End of Rig Vedic Age : 3750 BC

• End of Ramayana-Mahabharata Period - : 3000 BC

Harrapan age

• Development of Saraswati-Indus Civilization :3000-2200 BC

• Decline of Indus and Saraswati Civilization : 2200-1900 BC

Post Harrapan Age

Period of chaos and migration : 2000-1500 BC

Period of evolution of syncretic Hindu culture : 1400-250 BC

The sages, kings, outside invaders and inside reformers who contributed during this period.

900 BC: Earliest records of the holy city of Varanasi (one of the world's oldest living cities) on the sacred river Ganga.

850 BC: The Chinese are using the 28-nakshatra zodiac called Shiu, adapted from the Hindu jyotisha system. ca -800: Later Upanishads are recorded.

800 BC: Later smriti, secondary Hindu scripture, is composed, elaborated and developed during next 1,000 years.

776 BC: First Olympic Games are held in Greece.

700 BC: Life of Zoroaster of Persia, founder of Zoroastrianism. His holy book, Zend Avesta, contains many verses from the Rig and Atharva Veda. His strong distinctions between good and evil set the dualistic tone of God and devil which distinguishes all later Western religions.

700 BC: Early Smartism emerges from the syncretic Vedic brahminical (priestly caste) tradition. It flourishes today as a liberal sect alongside Saiva, Vaishnava and Shakta sects.

623-543 BC: Life of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, born in Uttar Pradesh in a princely Shakya Saivite family. (Date by Sri Lankan Buddhists. Indian scholars say -563-483. Mahayanists of China and Japan prefer -566-486 or later.)

599-527 BC: Lifetime of Mahavira Vardhamana, 24th Tirthankara and revered renaissance Jain master. His teachings stress strict codes of vegetarianism, asceticism and nonviolence. (Some date his life 40 years later. )

518 BC: Darius I of Persia (present Iran) invades Indus Valley. This Zoroastrian king shows tolerance for local religions.

450 BC: Athenian philosopher Socrates flourishes (ca -470-400).

428-348 BC: Lifetime of Plato, Athenian disciple of Socrates. This great philosopher founds Athens Academy in -387.

326 BC: Alexander the Great of Greece invades, but fails to conquer, Northern India. His soldier’s mutiny. He leaves India the same year. Greeks who remain in India intermarry with Indians. Interchanges of philosophy influence both civilizations. Greek sculpture impacts Hindu styles. Bactria kingdoms later enhance Greek influence.

273 BC: Ashoka (-273-232 reign), greatest Mauryan Emperor, grandson of Chandragupta, is coronated. Repudiating conquest throgh violence after his brutal invasion of Kalinga, 260 bce, he converts to Buddhism. Excels at public works and sends diplomatic peace missions to Persia, Syria, Egypt, North Africa and Crete, and Buddhist missions to Sri Lanka, China and other Southeast Asian countries. Under his influence, Buddhism becomes a world power. His work and teachings are preserved in Rock and Pillar Edicts (e.g., lion capital of the pillar at Sarnath, present-day India's national emblem).

58 BC: Vikrama Samvat Era Hindu calendar begins.

10 BC: Western Calendar Begins.

4 BC: Jesus of Nazareth, founder of Christianity, is born in Bethlehem (current Biblical scholarship).

Which one you prefer.Beauty or brain?

Friends this question is really very interesting. Beauty and brains are 2 most important element of our life and we cant compromise with any one of these. I am extremely optimistic person and believe that beauty and brain can exists in abundance.

While beauty is almost as subjective as love, it's something that you can explore and discover in yourself over time.There are a few broad characteristics that most people seem to agree on:

* Health is beautiful

* Character is beautiful.

All of us can be beautiful if groomed properly and by taking care for our health and hygiene.

• If we feeling particularly unattractive, try listening to a song that will get us dancing. When we get that adrenaline rush and that goofy grin on our face, people notice. Our happiness will be contagious and people will want to be around us. This opens opportunities for people to get to know us, so they will see not only our outside beauty, but also our inner beauty. And inner beauty is far more attractive than just looks alone.

The same applies with the brain. God gave the same gray material to all of us. The sharpness of the brain entirely depends upon the how much we use our head. If any one interested to know how to sharpen your mind then please read a very interesting book "use your head" by Tony Buzan. This books clearly states that we humans are not even able to use 2% of our brain.

Those who are interested to know about this book can click the link given below

http://www.happychild.org.uk/acc/tpr/bkr/0498usyh.htm

So I conclude that all those who think that there mind is not sharp don't even use 1% of the brain.

We prefer something when we are forced or want to make a choice between 2 things,one of which may not be available. But already told you that both beauty and brains are available in abundances.

I will prefer to have both beauty and brain.

The death controversy of the greatest son of mother India

Today India will again forget the 111^th Birthday of greatest son of mother India. Guess Who?

He is the same man who gave the call to the nation

“Give Me Blood! I Promise You Freedom!!

There is a case for Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose that no Indian can ignore.

Even after passing 62 years of the controversy, India still has no epitaph for the man who almost brought freedom to its doorstep in 1945.

The controversy is Did Netaji die in an air crash on August 18, 1945?

The summary of the events in Netaji Subhas Chandra’s life

1897: Born on January 23 in Cuttack, Orissa, to Prabhabati and Janakinath Bose. Janakinath, an advocate, was the first non-official Chairman of the Cuttack Municipality and a government pleader and public prosecutor.

1902: Enrolls in the Baptist Mission School.

1902 - 1913: Subhas as a teenager comes under the influence of the teachings of Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekanada.

1913: Passes high school examination. Comes second in examination for entrance to Calcutta University, which at that time included almost the entire north India and the eastern provinces of undivided India.

1914: Joins Presidency College, Calcutta, with philosophy as the major subject.

1916: Suspended from Presidency College for going on strike against manhandling of students by an English professor. Appeals to the university for permission to study in some other college, but is refused. Takes to social service, organises youth for physical, intellectual and moral advancement and campaigns against untouchability.

1917: Gets admission in Scottish Church College, Calcutta.

1919: Sails for England after passing the B A examination with first class honours, to appear for the Indian Civil Service (ICS) examination and also to take the Tripos in Moral Philosophy at the Cambridge University.

1920: Joins Cambridge University and appears for the ICS Examination in August. Ranks fourth among the successful candidates. Following a secret information, British authorities reduce his rank to fourth on suspicion that he might resign from the ICS. Examination result would have ranked him first but his marks are reduced in the viva.

1920-1945: Several incident happened in Netaji's life which has not been compiled properly.

1945: On August 25, 1945 the Indian newspapers broke the news that Netaji had died in a freak plane crash in Taipei (then Taihoku) on August 18th.

The crash

The aircraft that crashed was a heavy bomber (Model 97-2-Sally) belonging to the Japanese.

The plane took off from the Saigon Aerodrome around 5.30 p.m. on August 17, 1945 and had stopped over in Tourane, where Bose and his party stayed overnight at the Morim Hotel.

To take off from the Saigon Aerodrome, the plane had to taxi down the entire runway before becoming airborne; an indication that the plane was overloaded. In fact, before the takeoff from Tourane, "co-pilot Major Takizawa, Major Kono and other Indian and Japanese officers had insisted on their offloading 12 machine guns and some ammunition. This lightened the load by 600 kg".

The plane took off at 5.30 am, the following morning. Before reaching Taipeh, the crew was told that the Russians, who had declared war on Japan, were moving into Manchuria, and closing on Dairen. It became imperative for the crew to reach there as quickly as possible.

The plane arrived at the Taipei Aerodrome around noon in perfect weather. In the two hours rest there, the crew refuelled the plane and also took a light lunch of sandwiches and bananas.

Before taking off again, the pilot, Major Kono, and Capt Nakamura, who was the Maintenance Officer of the Airbase, ran a quick check on the plane. Though Major Kono found a defect with the left engine, he overlooked it and confirmed its worthiness. Thereafter, all the passengers took their seats again in the same seating order as before.

Then, the plane taxied to one end of the 890 metre long runway. (Heavy bombers usually are airborne when they are halfway down the runway. However, in this case, the plane did not leave the ground even after it had travelled three-fourth of the runway.) The plane took off and made a steep ascent when a loud explosion was heard and the plane tilted to the left. The propeller and the port engine fell out and the plane dived to the ground approximately 10 to 20 metres from the boundary of the aerodrome and caught fire on hitting the ground.


AFTER THE CRASH

In the late afternoon of August 18, 1945, twelve persons with burns were wheeled into Nanmon Military Hospital, Taihoku, Taipei, shortly after a message reached the duty doctor that a Japanese bomber carrying them had crashed at a nearby aerodrome.

One of the victims, a well-built Indian, had burns all over his body, heart and face, and he was in a critical condition. The Medical Officer at the hospital, Capt T Yoshini, was told that the man was Indian leader "Chandra Bose", who along with his adjutant Col Habibur Rehman and 11 Japanese officers were on a flight to an undisclosed destination.

Dr Yoshini had at the time Dr T Tusuruta and another doctor to assist him, besides a dozen Japanese and Formosan nurses. Dr Tusuruta bandaged the Indian leader, while Capt Yoshini gave him four shots of vita-camphor and two injections of digitamine to stabilize his heart. Capt Yoshini also gave him three intravenous injections of Ringer-solution of 500 cc each to prevent infection.

The treatment was initially given in the dressing room, and later, Bose was moved to ward No. 2 for further treatment. Bose and Col Rehman were in the same ward. Towards 5 p.m., Bose was given a blood transfusion to relieve the pressure on his heart. The blood was taken from a Japanese soldier in the Nanmon Army Hospital.

Initially, Bose seemed to respond to the treatment. He remained conscious and even asked for water occasionally. To communicate better with the hospital staff, an interpreter, Juichi Nakamura, was sent for to assist him. (Bose and Col Rehman had known Nakamura as he was their interpreter on several occasions, during their stop over in Taipei on their trips between Southeast Asia and Japan.

About 7.30 p.m., Dr Tusuruta noticed that Bose's pulse count had dropped. He hurriedly gave Bose injections of vita-camphor and digitamine but his heart and pulse beat kept falling, and he died about 2300 hrs, according to Dr Yoshini's statement recorded by the British in Hong Kong's Stanley Jail on October 19, 1946.

Capt Youshini later wrote Netaji's death certificate: "Writing his name in Japanese (kata kana) as "Chandra Bose" and giving the cause of his death as 'burns of third degree'." (According to a version, the death certificate was written on August 20, 1945, after the Japanese government retracted its decision to send Bose's body to Tokyo.)

At that time, there were seven persons in the room: Dr Yoshini, Dr T Tusuruta, two nurses, Col Habibur Rehman, J Nakamura (interpreter) and a medical orderly (Kazo Mitsui)

Crew and passengers

(According to Japanese accounts)

Pilot W/O Aoyagi ( Third Air Force)

Ass. Pilot Major Takizawa (On transfer to Mainland Japan)

Navigator Sgt Okita

Radio operator N.C.O Tominaga

Gun Operator Unidentified N.C.O

Chief of Staff, Burmese Army Command.Lt Gen Shidei

Staff Officer Lt-Col Sakai

Staff Officer, Japan Air Force Lt-Col Shiro Nonogaki

Staff Officer, Japan Air Force Major Taro Kono

Staff Officer Major Iwao Takahashi

Air Force Engineer Captain Keikichi Arai

INA Chief Subhas Chandra Bose

Adjutant Col Habibur Rehman Khan

Cause of the air crash

There were 13 passengers on board as against the maximum limit of nine, plus their personal effects.

The small size of Taipei Aerodrome made take-off difficult. The presence of tall chimneys of a brick kiln compounded the problem .

Despite what is said to have been Bose's plan to seek asylum in Russia, the Indian leader had to modify his plan after he received the News that Russia had occupied Manchuria. Therefore, he was anxious to reach the destination as quickly as possible.

Even though some engines were found defective before the take off from Saigon, officers ignored them. The mechanical check-up was inadequate.

The pilots were strangers to Taipei Aerodrome, and therefore, failed to judge the length of the runway. (The plane did not lift off until it had run approximately two-thirds down the runway. So, it had to climb steeply.)

The Formosan Army Command was in disarray, and therefore, a full investigation into the causes of the air crash was not conducted. (Moreover, no records were maintained on the engine and other mechanical systems.)

Passengers' fate

Lt Gen Shidei and Pilot Major Takizawa were killed on the spot. Netaji, Pilot W/O Aoyagi and two others died in the hospital

Seven persons named below survived the accident. Lt Col Nonogaki, who was seated in the turret, was thrown out of the plane and landed on the ground unhurt. Lt Col Sakai, Major Takahashi and Capt Arai became senseless when the plane hit the ground, but regained consciousness in time to escape with minor burns and bruises.

Major Kano, who also survived the crash, recollected that as the plane was falling to the ground, the petrol tank got dislodged and fell between Mr Bose and him. The tank blocked Major Kano's view and therefore he could not see Bose. He could, however, spot Lt Gen Shidei. He had a cut at the back of the head.

Major Takizawa hit the steering gear and cut himself on the face and forehead. Warrant Officer Aoyagi had wounds to his chest.

Col Habibur Rehman (Netaji's adjutant): "The plane crashed to the ground and the fore part of the plane split and caught fire. Netaji turned towards Col Rehman and said: "Please get out through the front. There is no way in the rear." They could not get out through the entrance door as it was all blocked and jammed by luggage and other things. So Netaji had to get out through the fire and Col Rehman followed him. Netaji's trousers were on fire and he had burns . He was wearing Khaki drill clothes. Col Rehman had burns on his hands. (He said he burnt his hands while trying to take off Netaji's clothes.) He then rolled Netaji on the ground to put out the fire. By then Netaji was severely burnt.

Navigator Okita: When the plane crashed, his spine was damaged. He had a 40-cm long cut on the back. He was in hospital for some time and was eventually repatriated in September 1947. Ironically, Gen Shidei and Netaji who were occupying the best seats in the plane died and the junior officers occupying the not so safe seats survived the accident.


The loopholes in the various statement made to prove the death of Netaji Subhash Chadra Bose

It is clear that Shah Nawaz Khan and G D Khosla had not looked hard at the testimonies of Col. Habibur Rahman and the Japanese doctor, T Youshini, who supposedly saw Netaji die.

The fact, however, is that Col Rahman, Netaji's adjutant, had made three depositions and thrice he had contradicted himself on specific details. (He was twice interrogated by the Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre (CSDIC) of the Allied Intelligence and he had also appeared before the Shah Nawaz Committee). Dr Youshini's version of events also varied between three depositions he made on the subject.

Furthermore, there was no documentary evidence of a plane crash having taken place at Taihoku on August 18, 1945. Neither was the flight plan and take off chart found nor was any record of the supposed air crash. Besides, the cremation certificate said to be of Netaji, is strangely in the name of Ichiro Okura, a "non-staff member of the Japanese Armed Forces". The birthday of the deceased in the certificate is given as April 9, 1900. Netaji was born on January 23, 18

The date of death in the certificate is given as August 19, 1945. However, Dr Yoshini said Netaji died on the night of August 18. Also, the cause of death is given as "heart-attack". If Dr Yoshini's statement is correct, Netaji could only have died of third degree burns.

There are two charts in the following section that bring out the discrepancies in the accounts of the two witnesses. These discrepancies, besides many other factors which emerged later, led Prime Minister Morarji Desai, on September 3, 1978, to declare: "There are reasonable doubts on the correctness in the two reports. Various important contradictions in the testimony of the witnesses have been noticed.

In the light of those doubts and contradictions and those records, Government finds it difficult to accept that the earlier conclusions are decisive."

(This story has been pieced together from accounts of "eyewitnesses, scholars, researchers and writers" who have reported on the incidents leading up to the fateful flight. That the plot has many holes, is a warning to surfers that there may be more to the Subhas Bose "death episode" than the following story indicates.)

COURTSEY:HINDUSTAN TIMES