Author: जयकृष्णः | ജയകൃഷ്ണൻ

Tsunami shakes up the Govt.

If there were warning systems in place, many lives could have been saved. But then it takes a disaster of this magnitutde to realize how far we are behind in terms of technology or even common sense. But now the cog wheels of the bureaucracy are moving

The government on Monday decided to install seafloor pressure-recording system in the Indian Ocean to be forewarned about tsunamis and to prevent the recurrence of the catastrophe witnessed on Sunday.
The pressure-recording system, which will be imported from the US, will also strengthen the country’s cyclone warning system, considering the fact that 25 per cent of the world’s cyclones are recorded in the Bay of Bengal, Minister of State for Science and Technology Kapil Sibal told reporters in New Delhi.
The new system will be linked to existing devices called data buoys, which record sea surface parametres, he said after a meeting with the officials of his ministry.
“If the country had had such an alert system in place, then we could have warned the coastal areas of the imminent danger and prevented the loss of life,” he said.
The government has also decided to join a network of 26 countries that warn each other about changes in sea pressure and the possibility of the onset of high tidal waves caused by earthquakes under sea, Sibal said. [India to import system that detects tsunamis]

It's not RAW

While Pakistan wants India to withdraw troops from Jammu and Kashmir and work according to the wishes of the people, it is not doing those things in its Balochistan province. The Army is building cantonments in the province much against the wishes of the people there. As usual every disturbance in Balochistan is blamed on RAW, India’s external Intelligence Agency. But actual Balochis are calling the media and owning responsibility for the murders happening there.

Gunmen attacked a military vehicle in Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan province on Saturday, killing four paramilitary troops, a security official said.
“The vehicle was attacked in the early hours. They used rockets and also ambushed the vehicle,” Malik said. “Four soldiers were killed and four were wounded.”
The vehicle was returning from a routine security patrol.
A spokesman for the Baluch National Army (BNA), who identified himself as Doda Khan, telephoned several media offices in Quetta, claiming that the attack was in response to the government plans to build three military cantonments in the province. [Gunmen Kill Four Soldiers in Southwestern Pakistan]

Meeting Ravikiran

Yesterday was a productive day as we found solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. By we I mean me and Ravikiran. Though he had made fun of Mallus many times I decided to meet him here in the Bay Area where he was visiting. But instead of giving me his phone number at the motel, he gave his fax number. I let it slide as well, afterall he gave me the GMail invite.
Though I was scared that he would knock me out with his PJs he turned out to be quite a affable person. We talked about blogs, A Roy, Nehru, and MadMan (I don’t remember exactly how Madhu came into this discussion). We also discussed the dangers of Communism, solutions on eradicating poverty and bringing world peace. Furthur discussions on this matter will be conducted at a Foregin Secretary level.
Ravikiran is now on his way back to India, where the challenging task of deleting spam comments on his blog awaits him.

Some words of advice

The Information Minister of the Congress government in Andhara Pradesh state, Mohammad Ali Shabber, Monday said that 150 million Indian Muslims feel that Pakistan is following a wrong policy on Kashmir as Islam does not allow any kind of violence.
The Muslim minister said: “You Pakistanis need to understand that despite certain instances of communal violence here, we the Muslims are otherwise quite safe in our own worship places in a Hindu-dominated society. On the other hand, Pakistani Muslims are killing each other in their mosques in the name of Islam, Shiaism and Sunniism.”
Talking to a group of visiting Pakistani journalists, the minister said the Indian Muslims were enjoying fruits of secularism and democracy. Without mincing any words, he said Pakistanis need to realise that the Indian Muslims strongly support New Delhi over Kashmir and want the Pakistani government and public to stop interfering in Indian held Kashmir. This, he said, was in the best interest of everybody. [Indian Muslims back Delhi on Kashmir, claims minister]

Ouch! That should hurt a lot. The appropriate response from the other side would be to call Mohammad Ali Shabber a Hindu stooge.

Spreading ideology through mass murder

Throughout the world, we see that wherever socialists took power, genocide followed. In the USSR, up to 30 million people were murdered by Communists. Tens of millions were slaughtered in China. Two million in Vietnam. A million and a half in Cambodia. Up to three and a half million people in North Korea. In Afghanistan upon Communist take-over, at least 12,000 people were killed in Kabul alone in the first few months.
The reason why genocides occur under a socialist form of economics is very simple. For one, politicians have total power over the masses. They can tell you where to live, what to buy

Communist Terrorists

Just days before the RJD-sponsored rally in Patna on December 23, CPI-Maoist naxalites on Sunday night blew up a small railway bridge between Karmandiha and Sasaram, 96 km from Gaya, in Mughalsarai division of ECR.
Maoists, who were prevented from holding a rally in Patna, have threatened to disturb RJD rally by targeting railways, among other things. The RJD has booked 18 special trains to ferry party supporters to Patna from different parts of the state.
Sources said that over two dozen armed naxalites reached the spot around 1 am and blew up the bridge. “It could have been fatal had they blasted the bridge half-an-hour earlier when the Howrah-New Delhi Rajdhani Express crossed the bridge,” a railway official said. [Maoists blast rail bridge to disrupt rally]

The Communist contribution to the development of India.

Richard Boucher – Washington Bob

Richard Boucher, the State Dept spokesman will even put Baghdad Bob to shame. He is known to make insensitive statements. Now that Pakistani all-in-one CEO Musharraf has decided to stay on as the Army Chief, the State Dept had no official condemntation of it. Isn’t it the policy of the current administration to promote democracy in Islamic countries ? Isn’t that why we invaded Iraq ?
But Richard Boucher, the Washington Bob said that United States will continue to promote democracy in Pakistan, by rewarding the dictator with money and arms.

Coins from Kashmir

Ancient coins belonging to the era of Hindu kings Harsha and Kalsha have been unearthed by some labourers during construction work at Watnar near Kokernag in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir.
An earthen urn containing the copper coins weighing 16.3 kgs and dating back to at least 10 centuries were found by the labourers a few days back when they were working on the plinth for construction of a religious school, the Department of Archaeology, Archives and Museums (AAM) said here today.
Describing them as “priceless”, an AAM spokesman told reporters, “the coins are of Hindu period and were in vogue during the reign of Harsha and Kalsha.” The urn was handed over by the labourers to Deputy Commissioner Ananantag who handed them over to the department. The department did not give the actual number of coins in the urn but said research would be conducted to decipher the language inscribed on them as also to find out the exact age. [Ancient coins unearthed in J-K]

Harsha who ruled from 1089-1111 AD started as a noble king, but later as he ran into financial troubles, he started destroying temples for gold. He even had an office for the destruction of gods.