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Latest Quotes and Terms on Financial Crunch !!!


1. The  US has made a new weapon that destroys people but keeps the building standing,. Its called the stock market - Jay Leno

2. Do you have any idea how cheap stocks are ?? Wall Street is now being called Wal Mart Street  Jay Leno

3. The difference between a pigeon and a  London investment banker . The pigeon can still make a deposit on a BMW

4. What's the difference between a guy who lost everything in  Las Vegas and an investment banker ?  A tie

5. The problem with investment bank balance sheet is that on the left side nothing's right and on the right side nothing's left.

6. I want to warn people from Nigeria who might be watching our show, if you get any e mails from  Washington asking for money, it's a scam. Don't fall for it - Jay Leno

7. Bush was asked about the credit crunch. He said it was his favourite candy bar - Jay Leno

8. The rescue bill was about 450 pages. President Bush's copy is even thicker. They had to include pictures  Jay Leno

9. President Bush's response was to meet some small business owners in San Antonio last week. The small business owners are General Motors, General Electric and Century 21. - Jay Leno

10. What worries me most about the credit crunch, is that if one of my cheques is returned stamped 'insufficient   funds'.  I  won't know whether that refers to mine or the bank's.

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CEO --Chief Embezzlement Officer.
 
CFO -- Corporate Fraud Officer.
 
BULL MARKET -- A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.
 
BEAR MARKET -- A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife gets no jewelry.
 
VALUE INVESTING -- The art of buying low and selling lower.
 
P/E RATIO -- The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market keeps crashing.
 
BROKER -- What my broker has made me.
 
STANDARD & POOR -- Your life in a nutshell.
 
STOCK ANALYST -- Idiot who just downgraded your stock.
 
STOCK SPLIT -- When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets equally between themselves.
 
FINANCIAL PLANNER -- A guy whose phone has been disconnected.
 
MARKET CORRECTION -- The day after you buy stocks.
CASH FLOW-- The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet.
 
YAHOO -- What you yell after selling it to some poor sucker for $240 per share.
 
WINDOWS -- What you jump out of when you're the sucker who bought Yahoo @ $240 per share.
 
INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR -- Past year investor who's now locked up in a nuthouse.
 
PROFIT -- An archaic word no longer in use.
 


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13 May 2008

IPL aur Match Fixer


Kis kis ko kharidun main, sab ke sab Bike hue hain,

Retirement ke baad aaj bhi IPL main tike hue hain,

Baal jhad gaye, daant gir gaye par gaya na inka josh,

IPL main paise kamane ko sab ke sab hain madhosh

 

"Matthew Hayden" Madrasi hain, kabhi dhyaan nahi aaya,

"Gilcrist", "Gibbs" ko Hyderabad main dekh kar sar chakraya,

"Akshay Kumar" ji "Firozshah Kotla" main Rassi par Fisle,

Devdas "Shahrukh khan" bhi aakhirkar Bangali hi Nikle

 

Kis player pe dao lagaun main, bada Confusion hai bhai,

"Preity Zinta" ne Smile ke zarie "Yuvraj" se six lagayi,

Cheer Leader's ke kapdo ne kiya "Afridi" ko Distract,

Hasina dekh kar bhul gaye wo "Murlitharan" ka spin attack

 

Iska bhi samjh nahi aata ki aakhir public hai kis oor,

Local team ke harne par bhi machate hain khoob shor,

Kisi ko bhi pata nahi kaun hai is team ka khiladi,

"Katrina Kaif" dekhne aayi hai Banglore ki junta saari

 

"Harbhajan" ne josh main aakar "Srishanth" ko diya chanta,

"Lalit Modi" ne "Preity" impression ke liye "Bhajji" ko danta,

Match ke beach main "Eden Gardens" ki lights ho gaye Gull,

Actually ticket bechte "Shahrukh" gaye the bulbs check karna bhul

 

"Lalit Modi" ne kaha "Kapil" ki ICL hai Paise kamane ka zariya,

Jabki BCCI ki IPL to sirf hai ek Promotion of Cricket badhiya,

"Mukesh Ambani" ki "Mumbai Indians" hi hai ek team Hindustani,

Jaise baaki sab franchizy teams hain Chini, Japani ya Pakistani

 

Kya ajeeb circus hai yeh, kya hai yeh Tamasha

Foreign players par hi hai kyon tiki sabki asha,

Indian players kab IPL main apna khel dikhyenge,

Kab Dada aur Dravid bhi T20 main century banenge

 

Kab aenge "Sachin" apni Mumbai team ko bachane,

Kab honge "Laxman" Hyderabad ke captain sayane,

Kab hogi Janta ke dilon main teams ke prati loyalty,

Kab hum "Match Fixers" kharid payenge Players ki Royalty


4 Jul 2007

Funny ways to stop those telemarketing calls

Funny ways to stop those telemarketing calls

1. After the telemarketer finishes speaking, ask him/her to marry you.

2. Tell the telemarketer you are busy at the moment, and ask him/her, if he/she will give you his/her home phone number so you can call him/her back.

3. Ask them to repeat everything they say, several times.

4. Tell them it is dinner time, BUT ask if they would please hold. Put them on your speaker phone while you continue to eat at your leisure. Smack your food loudly and continue with your dinner conversation.

5. Tell them that all business goes through your agent, and hand the phone to your five year old child.

6. Tell them you are hard of hearing and that they need to speak up.... louder...louder. ..louder!

7. Tell them to speak very slowly because you want to write every word down.

8. If they start out with, "How are you today?", say "I'm so glad you asked, because no one these days seems to care, and I have all these problems.... ......... "

9. Cry out in surprise, "Helen, is that you? I've been hoping you'd call! How is the family?" When they insist they are not Helen, tell them to stop joking. This works especially well if the telemarketer is really MALE.

10. Tell the ICICI call center guy to call on your Office number.- and give him the HSBC
call center number.

25 May 2007

Resume Tips for Technology Professionals




With increasing numbers of job seekers competing for the most desirable technical jobs, your resume needs to be better than the rest to get noticed.


Technical Summary

Effective technical resumes clearly show the candidate's technical skills -- a hiring manager shouldn't have to go fishing for this information. An excellent way to include technical knowledge is to add a Technical Summary or Technical Expertise section to your resume. Break the section into subcategories so the reader can quickly scan through your knowledge of programs and applications. Possible categories include technical certifications, hardware, operating systems, networking/protocols, office productivity, programming/languages, Web applications and database applications. Only list programs/applications that you could confidently discuss in an interview.


Career Summary

Many hiring managers say they are searching for candidates who offer more than technical credentials. Soft skills such as interpersonal communications, ability to work collaboratively and commitment to achieving corporate goals are just as desirable. In other words, your resume needs a personality. The reader shouldn't only be impressed by your technical qualifications, but should find you to be likeable and well suited for the team. You can highlight some of these skills in a Career Summary section.


Focus on Technological Results

Technical candidates usually make one of two critical errors on their resumes -- either the document is excessively long with excruciating detail on every assignment ever completed, or too short with hardly any descriptions at all. There needs to be some middle ground -- the resume should be succinct yet effectively showcase your achievements.


What to Include

For each position held, give a brief synopsis of the scope of your responsibility. Then show how your performance benefited the company. Give examples of how past initiatives led to positive outcomes such as enhanced efficiency, faster time-to-market, monetary savings, etc.

Accomplishments are most powerful when they are measurable, so include actual performance figures whenever possible. Focus on your most impressive technical projects/accomplishments. What types of challenges did you face? What did you do to overcome the challenges? How did your performance improve the organization's bottom line?

For contract work, provide a bulleted list of your top projects, indicating the company (or type of company if confidential), reason for hiring you, scope of your project, your specific approach to the project, challenges/obstacles faced, work performed and benefits to the company.

If you are new to the field and concerned about a lack of experience, consider offering free or low-cost technical services to charitable organizations, friends, family or local businesses. This allows you to hone your craft and show related work or volunteer experience on your resume. Also, pursue as much training as possible to get up to speed. Entry-level candidates should focus on their potential in the field, ability to quickly learn challenging concepts and motivation to succeed in the industry.


Keywords

The best keywords for your resume depend on your job target and experience. Specific programs and applications are often used as keywords, which is another reason why a Technical Summary is a good idea. To determine the best keywords for your industry, examine job postings on Monster and see which credentials and skills are used frequently; these are potential keywords that should be incorporated into your resume.

6 Apr 2007

THE COLLEGE DAYS

Just as I was about to retire,

Just as I was to extinguish the fire,
A thought flashed into my mind,
That I was to leave my college days behind.

Those were the days of fun and frolic,
Those were the days of gifts and gossip,
Those were the days of bunking the classes,
Those were the days of "cheering" with tea glasses.

Days of bowing down before seniors in first year,
Days of fearing EDC and NT the next year,
Days of running behind Profs for internals in third year,
Days of preparing for MBA and Campus the last year.

Now, these days will never come by,
Now, we'll never do "Assignment ki Chapayee",
Now, in the canteen, we'll never have samosa and tea,
Now, in the gathering, we'll never dance to the rhythm of beats.

No "hyaaa…t" screaming in the class,
No aero plane flying towards the dais,
No linking of girl's name with that of a boy,
No fresher parties full of "masti" and joy.

But these days have taught us to take pride,
And also to take success and failure in our stride,
They have brought out our hidden talent,
They have taught us to be independent.

There are so many memories to take away home,
There are so many friends that I am not alone,
There are so many contacts in my "INBOX"
There are so many messages on "Sign-off".

The extra tuitions, the Internship training,
The "Industrial" tour, the canteen chatting,
The VII SEM seminar transparency,
The VIII SEM project: FACTS and FANTASY.

The Exam form, the Express coffee,
The Result day, the Class party,
The writing on the desk, the writing on the wall,
The cheating in exams, fearing one and all.

All these "yaadein" are there forever,
All the GFs-BFs, may there love be forever,
The DOSTS and YAARS may change NEVER,
Remember the movie we saw together!

So, Just as I was about to retire,
Just as I was to extinguish the fire,
Another thought flashed into my mind,
That this part of the tape will never "REWIND".

21 Feb 2007

Unsung RSS heroes of partition days-3

'There is no doubt that the RSS has served the Hindu society in times of crisis. In riot-torn areas where their help was needed, the youths of the Sangh protected the women and the children and did a lot for them. No one can doubt that the R.S.S. provided succour and safety to Hindus in times of difficulty.'
- Sardar Patel to Sri Guruji Golwalkar on 11 August, 1948.
In both West and East Pakistan, the Congress government and the Congress party had left the Hindus to the tender mercies of the Muslim League and the blood-thirsty Pakistani Army and police on the eve of Partition. Many of the local Congress leaders in these areas rushed back to Delhi from distant places like Karachi, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Lahore in the West and Dacca, Chittagong in the East, catching the first flight. In those turbulent times, only the Swayamsevaks of the Sangh came forward without any concern for their own families and risked everything to protect the fellow Hindus. Dare, Do and Die became the working slogan for all the Swayamsevaks of the RSS. This message was given to them by Sri Guruji Golwalkar, Sar Sanghchalak of the RSS.
Rao Bahadur Badri Das Devan
Prant Sanghchalak, Punjab
a forgotten RSS hero of 1947.
When the Muslim League declared the 'Direct Action Day' in August 1946, it became very clear that that party under Jinnah was already in a state of preparedness and combat readiness to wage war on a large scale against Hindus in India as a whole. And in the Punjab in particular the Muslim League had succeeded in gathering a private Army of its own to which training was imparted in fighting, stabbing and assault. Arms were collected and demobilised Muslim personnel of the Indian Army were freely enlisted in the Muslim League Army. This Army which was created in a small way in 1938, continued to expand and grow year after year, better equipped and trained. It had two famous organisations; one was the 'Muslim League Volunteer Corps' which was parallel to the Congress Seva Dal and the second was 'The Muslim National Guards'. As the then English Chief Secretary of the Punjab wrote in 1946: 'Every town with any Muslim population has a large proportion of its Muslim inhabitants who could only be counted as Riff-Raff, and who very often with the connivance of the black sheep among the Muslim elements in the police force, live on crime. Such unprincipled elements are the favourite recruiting ground for the Muslim League Volunteer Corps.'

The Muslim National Guards was a private Army of Marauders, Murderers and Gangsters. Though this private army did not owe any formal allegiance to the Muslim League, yet it had the same flag as that of the Muslim League. The Muslim National Guards were the secret arm of the Muslim League. Its membership was secret and it had its own centres and headquarters.

The unit commander of the Muslim National Guards was known as 'SALAR,' over whom were higher officers, but all functioning secretly and with such instructions as would make them formidable in rioting against unarmed non-Muslim populations. Akhtar Hussain, Chief Secretary to the Punjab Government reported to the Governor of Punjab that the number of Muslim League National Guards in the province at that time exceeded 49,000. Thus the seeds of global Islamic terrorism in the 2nd half of the 20th century were sown in the districts of Rawalpindi and Campbellpore in Western Punjab (now in Pakistan) in the months preceding the Partition of India.

Thus, for the creation of a Muslim Nation, Jinnah and the Muslim League inculcated in the Muslims of India a creed of intolerance, arrogance and hatred. This trend of Islamic terrorism which was set in motion before India's independence and soon after partition, has been accentuated and aggravated in post-independent India under the benign umbrella of Nehru-sponsored Hindu-baiting pseudo-secularism and has touched new heights today.

Shri Khanchand Gopaldas with Shri Guruji, Shri Vasantrao, Shri Hansraj Gupta
and others on reaching Delhi after his release from jail in Pakistan.

To go back to the soul-stirring midnight of 14/15 August, 1947. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru had just sat down for dinner. His daughter Indira and a guest Padmaja Naidu were with him. Suddenly the phone in the study rang. Somebody from Lahore was on the line and he had terrible news to give. The water supply of all Hindu, Sikh localities in the old city of Lahore had been cut by the Muslim marauders. People were dying of thirst in the unbearable heat. If any woman or child ventured out of her house to beg for a pail of water, she or it was killed on the spot. More than one dozen localities of the city was on fire and the fire was getting out of control. The helpless and terrified voice on the phone was too much for Pandit Nehru. He came out and crumbled into a chair. His face went pale and he covered it with his hands. Then with eyes full of tears he looked at Indira and Padmaja Naidu and muttered in a low, gruff tone: 'How am I going to talk tonight? How am I going to pretend there is joy in my heart for India's independence when I know, our beautiful Lahore is burning?' I am quoting this from Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre.

Two hours later on that day, Pandit Nehru made his famous Tryst with Destiny speech. He made no reference to the atrocities that were being let loose against the Hindus and other non-Muslims in West and East Pakistan at that time. For three days on 14, 15 and 16 August, Delhi gave itself up to unrestrained rejoicing. On all these three days, endless speeches were made by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr. Rajendra Prasad and the new Governor General Lord Mountbatten and functions and feasts were held. Not one of these so-called tall leaders had any word of sympathy or comfort for those unfortunate refugees who were on their way to India and who were getting attacked by the Muslims.

When such bumptious oral humbug was being dished out by the Congress Leaders in New Delhi, the Swayamsevaks of the RSS, under the inspiring leadership and clear and categorical instructions from Sri Guruji Golwalkar, Sar Sanghchalak of the RSS, were working round the clock in the riot-torn areas of West and East Pakistan to protect the fellow Hindus and other non-Muslims against the murderous attacks of Muslims. To help the refugees flowing into India as sudden flash floods, the Swayamsevaks opened up Relief Centres and Medical Centres in towns like Amristar, Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur, Jallandar, Ludiana, Karnal, Sonpet, Gurgaon and New Delhi. They provided food and shelter to lakhs of displaced fellow-countrymen for months together.

A N Bali, in his moving book Now It Can Be Told, gives an elevating account of the role Sri Guruji and the Swayamsevaks of the RSS played in those dark days: 'Non-violence and the advice given by Suchetha Kriplani, Mahatma Gandhi and Rajendra Prasad and Nehru to stay put where they were with the firm trust in God could only be given from a safe distance. Who else came to the rescue of the besieged people at this stage, but a band of young selfless Hindus, popularly known as the RSS?... 'When the situation on the eve of partition became very serious and law and order utterly broke down or it would be more correct to say, was now used only to suppress the Hindus and the Sikhs, several members of the RSS showed their proficiency in the use of fire weapons. It almost became a tit for tat. These RSS young men were the first to come to the help of the stricken Hindus and were the last to leave their places for safety in the East Punjab. I could name several Congress leaders of note in the various districts of Punjab who openly solicited the help of the RSS even for their own protection and the protection of their kith and kin. No request for help from any quarter was refused and there are cases which came to our notice, where the Muslim women and children were safely escorted out of the Hindu Mohallas and sent to Muslim League refugee centres in Lahore by the RSS men. 'Their discipline, their physical fitness and their selflessness in the face of dangers came to the rescue of the people in the Punjab when the whole province was burning.'

Against all this background, it should be clear that under the exalted leadership of Sri Guruji, all the Swayamsevaks of the RSS rose to supreme heights in the months preceding and after independence on 15 August, 1947 and naturally the people looked upon the Swayamsevaks as the ultimate saviours of the people. They showed unparalleled courage and capacity in saving many families. During those days, whenever Sri Guruji visited the RSS relief camps, the refugees prostrated themselves before him and declared with great passion: 'Indeed but for you, Sri Guruji, and the RSS we and our women and children would never have been saved. You and your Swayamsevaks have put us all in perpetual debt which can never be redeemed.'

Unsung RSS heroes of partition days-2

'Had RSS not been there, the genocide of Hindus in Punjab would have been far more than that which took place.'
- Smt Leelatai, w/o. Gen Shankarrao Thorak.

On 3 June, 1947, the British government announced its plan of partition of India. A special meeting of the AICC met in Delhi on 14-15 June, 1947 to pass the resolution on the acceptance of the Mountbatten Plan of Partition announced on 3 June. At this meeting there were only two prominent voices of protest against the Plan of Partition. Chothram Gidwani from Sind bitterly criticised the resolution as a total and abject surrender to the blackmailing tactics of violence resorted to by the Muslim League under Jinnah. Among the top-most Congress leadership it was Babu Purushothamdas Tandon who firmly stood out against the resolution till the very end. In a voice charged with emotion he said:

Shri Madhavrao
Muleyji, heroic RSS
Pranth Pracharak
in Punjab in 1947.
'The Resolution is a counsel of weakness and despair. The Nehru government has been unnerved by the terror tactics of the Muslim League and acceptance of Partition would be an act of betrayal and surrender. Let us rather suffer the continuation of the British Rule a little longer than sacrifice our cherished goal of United India. Let us gird up our loins to fight, if need be both the British and the Muslim League, and safeguard the integrity of the country.'

The loud applause which greeted Tandon's speech gave a note of warning to the Congress leadership. The dying embers of faith in the hearts of Congress members had been stoked and the fate of the Resolution hung in the balance. It was at this crucial moment that Gandhiji intervened effectively and got the Partition Resolution passed by the AICC. Gandhiji spoke out his heart in despair when he said: 'If at this stage, the AICC were to reject Congress Working Committee's decision to accept the Mountbatten Partition Plan, what the world think of it? The consequences of rejection will entail the finding of a new set of leaders who will have to constitute the new Working Committee and also be capable of running the government. Maintaining peace in the country is very essential at the present juncture. Congress has been all along opposed to Pakistan; and I too have steadfastly opposed it. Yet, I have now to urge for its acceptance. Sometimes certain decisions however unpalatable have to be taken.'

The curtain was thus drawn on the final act of the tragic drama of Partition, with the supreme representative body of the nation, the Congress, capitulating on the most basic and vital issue of national unity and integrity.

Even after accepting the June 3rd Plan of Partition in general terms, Jinnah tenaciously pursued his objective to the last detail. The blinking and the blustering Congress under the effete and almost feminine leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru sheepishly accepted Lord Mountbatten as the Governor General of India. Jinnah was no fool. He kept everybody guessing. It was fully one month later, on 2 July, 1947, that he intimated to the Viceroy that he himself would be the Governor General of Pakistan. At the same time, he had desired that Mountbatten would stay on as India's Governor General. Jinnah had cleverly and patently sidetracked the express provision in the V P Menon Formula to which he had agreed, of having a common Governor General for both the Dominions. By this cleverly diplomatic act, Jinnah scored a double advantage. On the one hand, he was left unfettered to pursue all his future manoeuvring against India, while at the same time India was put under the restraining hand of a third party from England. The fact that Jinnah and Attlee and even Churchill had sent special messages to Mountbatten to remain as India's Governor General only confirmed the advantages that were likely to accrue to Pakistan and Britain by this arrangement.

Jinnah also turned down the eminently statesmanlike suggestion of Ismay, Chief of Mountbatten's Staff, that 'both the new governments should have an instrument on which they could rely in the early days of their nationhood and that the Indian Army as at present constituted is ideal for their purpose.' But Jinnah would not accept power on 14 August, 1947 'unless he had an army of appropriate strength and predominantly Muslim composition under his control.' This insistence of Jinnah, again, as subsequent events have shown, was in accordance with his future designs against India in general and Hindus in Pakistan in particular.
Between the date of announcement of Partition on 3 June, 1947 and 15 August, 1947, only 72 days were left for carrying out the stupendous task of division of the vast country. The problems to be faced were many and intricate: Division of the Army and Police, deciding the rival claims of assets and liabilities, demarcation of boundary, and last but not the least, the resulting colossal human problem of rehabilitation of refugees. What made Lord Mountbatten, a seasoned commander and a diplomat, come to take this clearly perilous post? Though the time lag, in the original proposal by the British government for the completion of the Partition scheme for the transfer of power was up to June, 1948, Lord Mountbatten advanced the date of transfer of power by more than 10 months and announced the date as August 15, 1947.

Leonard Mosley indicates the clue to the real motives behind Mountbatten's decision: 'Having proved to his own satisfaction that the Indians were largely paper tigers when confronted by the right kind of bluff, the Viceroy gathered his British staff around him and told them to rush through the details of the Draft Scheme for Independence without delay. The idea was to jostle a settlement through before either the Congress or the Muslim League had too much time to think about it, and before any really effective opposition to the Partition of the country had time to develop.'

The people's trust in the Congress party in the whole of Northern India was completely betrayed by the snap decision taken by the Congress to accept the Partition Plan of 3 June, 1947. Mistake after mistake was committed by Lord Mountbatten:

Sri Guruji Golwalkar
i) Partition of India announced in May, 1947 with no plans for dividing its Army until June 1947, with only six weeks to go to the deadline.

ii) Partition of India announced in May, 1947, but the Radcliffe Boundary Commission to decide the boundaries along which the two new States were to be divided was not appointed till the end of June 1947.

iii) Partition of India announced in May, 1947 and independence on 15 August, 1947 with contempt for the common people of India as a whole, who were desperate to know the boundary details were deliberately kept in ignorance of which country they belong to until two days after independence.

Mountbatten's decision to withhold the publication of the Radcliffe Boundary Commission Award till 17 August, 1947 led to all the post-partition disasters. As Leonard Mosley, who is unsparing in his criticism of Lord Mountbatten, rightly observes: 'A prior government report would have given millions of Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims a chance to pack their bags and leave from the respective countries.'

Sri Guruji, Sar Sanghchalak of the RSS, was expressing himself against the Partition right from the first day on which Jinnah declared his intention to create a Muslim nation of Pakistan. When the Partition Plan of 3 June, 1947 was announced by the British government, Sri Guruji gave directions to thousands of Sangh Swayamsevaks to act as a protective shield to the Hindus and directed them to instil among the people a sense of security and indomitable courage. The Swayamsevaks were instructed to go back immediately to their places and arrange for the transit into India of the Hindu brothers and sisters and mothers with their life and honour in tact. They were directed to stay steadfast until the very last Hindu was evacuated and sent over to Bharat. Many of the RSS workers who were sent back to areas then in West Pakistan and East Pakistan, were never to be seen again. They gave their lives and all for the protection of their Hindu brothers, sisters and mothers.

On account of the initiative taken by Sri Guruji, the Punjab Relief Committee was set up. Pranth Pracharak of the RSS Sri Madhav Rao Muley Ji and his band of selfless Swayamsevaks created a new chapter of heroism and sacrifice in the history of Punjab and India.

In those dark and tragic days after 3 June, 1947, the Sangh Swayamsevaks proved to be the only ray of hope of succour and survival. Many books and articles on Partition have paid great tributes to the sense of duty, patriotism and valour displayed by the Swayamsevaks of the RSS in those days and how they laid down their lives for the sake of the safety and honour of Hindu men and women. It was mainly due to the security provided by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh that many Congress leaders themselves were able to reach India safely from different parts of Pakistan. Sri Guruji provided outstanding leadership in those critical days guiding and encouraging all the Swayamsevaks of the Sangh working in the riot-torn areas of West and East Pakistan.

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The fervent patriotism and soaring idealism of the distinguished members of the recently formed NATIONAL ALERT GROUP (NAG) have to be congratulated by all the peace-loving Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis, Buddhists and other citizens of India for having issued a statement condemning the irresponsible ministerial conduct of two of the senior ministers of the Union Cabinet, Union HRD Minister Arjun Singh and Union Minorities Minister A R Antulay, at a Cabinet Meeting presided over by our voluntarily non-playing, ever-blind and ever-dumb Prime Minister. These two shameful ministers with a proven track record of integrity and moral character excelling even that of Mahatma Gandhi in today's Sonia Congress's secular sense had stated that 'certain Hindu groups normally faked terrorist attacks and blamed them routinely on peace-loving and compassionate Muslims'. Both of them had made vitriolic comments on the alleged involvement of the RSS and some Hindu organisations in some of these blasts. They were expressing their 'secular' views on the recent Mumbai blasts at that Cabinet Meeting. The whole nation owes a debt of gratitude to Sharad Pawar for having warned these two irresponsible cabinet colleagues then and there for trivialising a serious matter of life and death for the nation as a whole.

Minion bugle boys of minority vote bank politics of the Congress Party like Arjun Singh and Antulay today may have virulent hatreds for the Hindus in general and the RSS in particular. They seem to be blissfully unaware of the fact that they are very mortal despite their secular ignorance of their own insignificance in the never receding tide of history and the ruthless march of time. Despite the best attempts of the Congress government at the Centre under Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru from 1947 to 1964, Indira Gandhi from 1966 to 1977 and 1980 to 1984, Rajiv Gandhi from 1984 to 1989 and Narasimha Rao from 1991 to 1996, to ban and crush the RSS, it has grown into a mighty banyan tree embracing the whole of India from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and from Rann of Kutch to Arunachal Pradesh.

A few months ago the BBC had come out with a TV programme in which they had announced to the world that the RSS is the biggest voluntary non-Governmental social welfare organization in the whole world. On reading this, I have no doubt, Arjun Singh would persuade the Prime Minister to depute Antulay, Union Minister for Minorities Welfare, immediately to England for persuading the British Government to suitably admonish the BBC for having come out with such a communal, saffronized, pro-Hindutva and anti-Islamic programme!

This year the nation is celebrating the centenary year of Sri Guruji, the Second Sar Sanghchalak of the RSS. After a life-time of saintly, sacred, selfless and ceaseless service for the advancement of Sanatana Dharma, the glory of Bharat Mata and victory of Bharat without losing sight of the ultimate ideal of achieving Akhand Bharat, Sri Guruji passed away in 1973. Like Swami Vivekananda, he embodied the spirit of India. Unlike Arjun Singh, Antulay, Ram Vilas Paswan, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Mulayam Singh Yadav, he had no personal axe to grind and in the pursuit of his chosen ideals, languor was not in his heart, base lust was not in his body, weakness was not in his word, weariness was not on his brow. At any rate, the political message of pseudo-secularism and the mercenary message of minority appeasement were not on his lips. All the peace-loving citizens of India expect all our political leaders in these dastardly decadent days to emulate Sri Guruji's example of dedicated life.

The greatest migration in human history took place at the time of Indian partition when two nations were born on August 14/15, 1947. Tens of thousands of Hindus, Sikhs, Christians and other non-Muslims were brutally murdered on their way to India, in areas of West Punjab which became Pakistan and in areas of undivided Bengal which became East Pakistan. The Cabinet Mission Plan proposals of 1946 were accepted by the Congress party and rejected by the Muslim League under Jinnah at the extraordinary meeting of The Council of the All India Muslim League in Bombay on 27 June, 1946. Jinnah declared with Islamic clarity: What we have done today is the most heroic act in our history. Never have we in the whole history of the League done anything except by constitutional methods. But now we are forced into a new position. Today, we bid goodbye to constitutional methods. .. Today we have forged a pistol and are in a position to use it. I call it 'Direct Action'. Direct Action means any action against the Law. We mean every word of it. We do not believe in equivocation. Then he quoted the Persian Poet Firdausi, in these words: 'If you seek peace, we do not want war. But if you want war, we will accept it unhesitatingly'. Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar, later a member of the Pakistan Government, declared: 'Pakistan can be achieved through shedding blood of ourselves, and if need be, and if opportunity arose, by shedding blood of others. Muslims are no believers in Ahimsa'

The Muslim League Bengal Government under Suhrawardy declared August 16, 1946 to be a public holiday throughout Bengal, to celebrate the 'Direct Action Day'. The Bengal Police, mostly Muslim in personnel, if not actually in complicity, were definitely indifferent to the murder, loot and arson of the Hindus going on around them in Calcutta City. Such a horrible carnage had not been heard of in the preceding half a century. The Muslim mobs consisting of people who mostly wore the uniforms of the 'Muslim National Guards' carried the Muslim League Flag, burnt, massacred, looted and raped, shouting the slogans: Dena hoga Pakistan; Pakistan kayam karo, etc.

The Statesman of Calcutta wrote: The Muslim League Ministry hesitated whether a little rioting would not after all be good and so nothing effective was done to summon the military and to quell rioting, which could not be done by the demoralized police force, over-weighed by its Muslim personnel.

What shocked the conscience of India even more than Calcutta, was the large-scale murder, loot, arson, rape and abduction and forced marriage of Hindu women in the Novakali district of Eastern Bengal in October, 1946. The Muslim League had triumphed in its evil designs and the Congress Party under Gandhi, Nehru and Patel had failed to protect the Hindus of India.

The history of the period from August 16, 1946 to the end of 1947 is a chequerboard of cataclysmic events. It is a story of unprecedented uprooting of masses of humanity on a gigantic scale, and of the cruellest possible massacres by fiends in human form. It is the history of the height of Jihadi madness unleashed by the Muslim League and of our national political leadership's shameful, disgraceful and unending perpetual submission to the machinations and blackmailing of the Muslim League. To quote the beautiful words of Manik Chandra Vajpayee and Sridhar Paradkar in their landmark book 'Partition-Days: The Fiery Saga of RSS': This period also has a brighter side to it. It was in this period that Bharat became independent, even if at the cost of partition and our Tricolour proudly replaced the Union Jack. This period also wrote the black history of the unforgivable betrayal of the people by self-seeking and cowardly Indian politicians, and on the other hand, it recounted in glowing terms, the heroic and inspiring stories of how workers of patriotic organizations like the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) showed exceptional courage and discipline and laid their ling on the line to protect and serve the society. This period also glows with the flames of Jauhar committed by innumerable daughters of Bharat Mata to protect their honour and the integrity of their bodies against Muslim marauders.

The magnificent role played by the Swayamsevaks of the R.S.S. during those dark days has been overlooked by the mafia of mass media in India after independence. The anti-Hindu and anti-Sanatana Dharma Congress governments after independence have tried to treat all the Hindus of India as Kafirs or infidels fit enough only to be kept in a state of bonded labour and all the time used as fodder for serving the narrow political interests of a single family in India, i.e. the Nehru clan.

The acts of heroism, the deeds of self-sacrifice, the saga of splendid self-abnegation and above all the splendid story of the unmatched record of the RSS volunteers in safely conducting the non-Muslim refugees from both West and East Pakistan immediately after partition to different places in Northern India have all been beautifully documented in their great book 'Partition-Days: The fiery Saga of RSS' by Manik Chandra Vajpayee and Sridhar Paradkar. The great deeds of these Swayamsevaks will continue to gleam and glow through the gloom of the coming Ages. To conclude in the inspiring words of General Cariappa: 'RSS is my heart's work. My dear young men, don't be disturbed by uncharitable comments of interested persons. Look ahead! Go ahead! The country is standing in need of your services'. Long after Arjun Singh and Antulay are forgotten and put into the dust bin of history, the name of Gen. Cariappa will continue to shine like a polestar for Ages to come.

1 Feb 2007

National Geographic Photo




This is a picture taken directly above these camels in the desert at sunset.

It is considered one of the best pictures of the year.

Look closely, the camels are the little white lines in the picture.

The black you see are just the shadows!!

28 Jan 2007

God's Creation


A man said to his wife one day, "I don't know how you
can be so stupid and beautiful all at the same time.

The wife responded, "Allow me to explain.  God made me
beautiful so you would be attracted to me; God made me
stupid so I would be attracted to you!

18 Jan 2007

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