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Thursday, February 17, 2011

[ALOCHONA] BRAIN DAMAGING HABITS

 

BRAIN DAMAGING HABITS  





1. No Breakfast
 
People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level. This leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing brain degeneration.
 

2 . Overeating=2 0

It causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power.
 

3. Smoking
 
It causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease.
 

4. High Sugar consumption
 
Too much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing malnutrition and may interfere with brain development.
 

5. Air Pollution
 
The brain is the largest oxygen consumer in our 20 body. Inhaling polluted air decreases the supply of oxygen to the brain, bringing about a decrease in brain efficiency.
 

6 . Sleep Deprivation
 
Sleep allows our brain to rest.. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain cells..
 

7. Head covered while sleeping
 
Sleeping with the head covered increases the concentration of carbon dioxide and decrease concentration of oxygen that may lead to brain damaging effects.
 

8. Working your brain during illness
 
Working hard or studying with sickness may lead to a decrease in effectiveness of the brain as well as damage the brain.
 

9. Lacking in stimulating thoughts
 
Thinking is the best way to train our brain, lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause brain shrinkage.
 

10. Talking Rarely
 
Intellectual conversations will promote the efficiency of the brain
 

The main causes of liver damage are:
 



1. Sleeping too late and waking up too late are main cause.
 

2. Not urinating in the morning.
 

3 . Too much eating.
 

4. Skipping breakfast.
 

5. Consuming too much medication.
 

6. Consuming too much preservatives, additives, food coloring, and artificial sweetener.
 

7. Consuming unhealthy cooking oil.
 
As much as possible reduce cooking oil use when frying, which includes even the best cooking oils like olive oil. Do not consume fried foods when you are tired, except if the body is20very fit.
 

8. Consuming raw (overly done) foods also add to the burden of liver.
 
Veggies should be eaten raw or cooked 3-5 parts. Fried veggies should be finished in one sitting, do not store.
 

We should prevent this without necessarily spending more. We just have to adopt a good daily lifestyle and eating habits. Maintaining good eating habits and time condition are very important for our bodies to absorb and get rid of unnecessary chemicals according to 'schedule.'
 

The top five cancer-causing foods are:
 


1.. Hot Dogs
 

 

Because they are high in nitrates, the Cancer Prevention Coalition advises that children eat no more than 12 hot dogs a month. If you can't live without hot dogs, buy those made without sodium nitrate.
 

2.. Processed meats and Bacon
 

   

Also high in the same sodium nitrates found in hot dogs, bacon, and other processed meats raise the risk of heart disease. The saturated fat in bacon also contributes to cancer.
 

3. Doughnuts
 



Doughnuts are cancer-causing double trouble.. First, they are made with white flour, sugar, and hydrogenated oils, then fried at high temperatures. Doughnuts, says Adams , may be the worst food you can possibly eat to raise your risk of cancer.
 

4. French fries
 



Like doughnuts, French fries are made with hydrogenated oils and then fried at high temperatures. They also contain cancer- causing acryl amides which occur during the frying process. They should be called cancer fries, not French fries, said Adams .
 

5. Chips, crackers, and cookies
 

       

All are usually made with white flour and sugar. Even the ones whose labels claim to be free of trans-fats generally contain small amounts of trans-fats.
 

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Prayer practice of majority Bangladeshis
 
 
 



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[ALOCHONA] Huge support for Yunus

Huge support for Yunus

Former Irish president Mary Robinson has joined the development
partners, prominent personalities and corporations in vowing to
protect Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus from "politically orchestrated"
attacks.

As many as 50 charities and public figures, including James
Wolfensohn, former World Bank president, Jagdish Sharan Verma, former
Chief Justice of India, and Yeardley Smith, a French born American
actress, on Wednesday said Yunus and Grameen Bank have fallen victim
to a campaign of misinformation, according to a statement of Friends
of Grameen.

Formed on February 11, 2011, Friends of Grameen is a voluntary
association that aims to promote microcredit and social business,
especially the microcredit activities of Grameen Bank and its
affiliates.

Mary Robinson, also former United Nations high commissioner for human
rights, chairs the honorary committee while Maria Nowak, president of
pioneering French microfinance institution ADIE, heads the executive
committee.

Prof Yunus, who shared the Nobel Prize with Grameen Bank in 2006, has
been targeted with increasingly aggressive attacks by the government
as well as his opponents following a Norwegian documentary, released
in December last accusing him and the bank of malpractice.

Grameen Bank denied all the allegations saying the issue had been
amicably settled between the bank and the Norwegian government, one of
its main donors, over a decade ago.

"We are deeply concerned by the ongoing attacks against Professor
Yunus and Grameen Bank, that are politically orchestrated," said
Robinson in the statement.

She said while some micro lenders have become lucrative commercial
enterprises, Yunus and Grameen Bank follow a sustainable model -- with
very transparent and reasonable interest rates -- making the borrowers
owners of the bank.

Grameen Bank lends its clients at 20 percent interest rate, one of the
lowest in Bangladesh where the industry averages between 20 and 30
percent with some charging as high as 45 percent interest rate.

"Because of the importance of such a role model, our duty is to
protect the integrity of Professor Yunus and the independence of
Grameen Bank," said Robinson.

The statement comes after Finance Minister AMA Muhith called for Yunus
to step aside from his position in the bank until the government's
three-month-long probe finishes.

In December last, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina accused the Nobel
laureate of treating Grameen Bank as his "personal property" and
claimed the group was "sucking blood from the poor".

There are about 1,200 micro lending organisations in Bangladesh,
catering to over 3 crore clients, who do not have access to formal
banking.

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[ALOCHONA] MFA stops subscribing Holiday

MFA stops subscribing Holiday

Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has cancelled its
subscription of the Holiday, the long-serving political weekly of the
country since last week. The foreign ministry used to send the copies
of the Holiday along with other newspapers and periodicals to its
missions abroad.

The concerned officials of the foreign ministry, when contacted,
said it is a 'temporary' measure as the ministry was rearranging the
system of subscribing newspapers. Previously, the ministry used to
subscribe newspapers and periodicals on its own but now it has
introduced a system of procuring requisition from Bangladesh missions
abroad before doing so.

"As a temporary arrangement, we have stopped subscribing the
weeklies and periodicals", said the concerned Director General.
However, on inquiry, it was found that the concerned section was
subscribing other newspapers including weeklies with the exception of
the Holiday.

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[ALOCHONA] The Dr Aafia Siddiqui Case

There is no new turn. Its just propagation of falsehood. A Fabrication from JehaaDi Conspiracy Theory Mill. Anybody can tape a voice and claim this is an Official of Government unless you provide name of that Official and that Official confirms this is his voice.

--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
>
> The Siddiqui Case
> *A New Turn as Lawyers Release Explosive, Secretly Recorded Tape*
>
> By VICTORIA BRITTAIN
>
> In 2003 an MIT-educated expert in children's learning patterns, Dr Aafia
> Siddiqui, disappeared with her three children in Pakistan. Was she, as the
> Americans said, an Al Qaeda operative who in 2008 emerged after five years
> undercover, carrying a handbag full of chemicals and plans for major terror
> attacks in the US, and then attempted to shoot US soldiers? Or was she, as
> her family, and most people in Pakistan have always maintained, seized by
> Pakistani agents for reasons unknown?
>
> Now new evidence of the kidnapping of Dr Siddiqui prises open part of one of
> the most shocking of the myriad individual stories of injustice in the war
> on terror. It also underlines the recklessness and perfidy of a key United
> States' partner in the war on terror, which carries its own threat of
> explosion.
>
> Dr Siddiqui was sentenced in a New York court last year to 86 years for
> attempted murder of US soldiers in Afghanistan. Her mysterious five-year
> disappearance before that, her reappearance in Afghanistan in 2008, her
> subsequent trial in the US, and the confusion surrounding all these events,
> have made Dr Siddiqui's a symbolic case in much of the Muslim world. Now a
> senior law enforcement officer has claimed to have been involved personally
> on the day she was seized, with her three children, by Pakistani police
> agents in Karachi in March 2003 and handed over to the Pakistani
> intelligence agency, the ISI.
>
> The FBI put out a "wanted for questioning" alert for Dr Siddiqui just before
> she disappeared. She was later high on the US wanted list, with the US
> claiming that she was living undercover as an Al Qaeda agent. She was a
> "clear and present danger to the US", the then-U.S. Attorney General John
> Ashcroft said in 2004. For all these years the Pakistani government
> repeatedly denied holding her, and after her arrest in Afghanistan in 2008
> spent $2 million on US lawyers for her trial. After her conviction, the
> Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, committed himself to work for
> her return from a US prison. Dr Siddiqui had become, "the daughter of the
> nation" and the centre of a popular cause he could not afford to ignore.
>
> The new evidence, on a secretly recorded audio tape, is a potential
> earthquake in the chronically unstable political situation in Pakistan,
> where rage against the US runs deep and wide, especially as civilian
> casualties mount with the use of drone aircraft. Already the case of Aafia
> Siddiqui has periodically brought tens of thousands of people out on the
> streets in the last two and a half years in protest at what has been done to
> her by the United States' military and legal systems since she reemerged, in
> US custody and seriously wounded, in 2008. The Pakistani media have always
> claimed that the ISI was responsible for her disappearance and that the
> Americans were involved too. The tape reopens the whole question, not just
> of Dr Siddiqui, but of the corroding effect of the US alliance with
> Pakistan's military and intelligence elite in a war on terror which has had
> so many Pakistani victims. The ISI has run its own agendas, hand in glove
> with various US officials at various periods, ever since the war against the
> Soviets in Afghanistan, and then becoming godfathers of various Afghan
> factions tearing that country apart. There are plenty of astute Pakistani
> journalists with the language skills to use this tape to the utmost to
> embarrass their own security services and the government.
>
> For the US too there are questions to answer about the extensive cover-up of
> what happened to Dr Siddiqui and her three children - two of whom are US
> citizens, and appear to have spent five traumatized years separated from
> their mother and from each other, in various prisons. It is scarcely
> credible that high officials in the Bush and Obama administrations over the
> years were unaware of what their troublesome allies in Pakistan had done
> with her and her children.
>
> On April 21 2003, a "senior U.S. law enforcement official" told Lisa Myers
> of *NBC Nightly News* that Siddiqui was in Pakistani custody. The same
> source retracted the statement the next day without explanation. "At the
> time," Myers told *Harpers Magazine*, "we thought there was a possibility
> perhaps he'd spoken out of turn."
>
> According to the Associated Press, "[t]wo federal law enforcement officials,
> speaking on condition of anonymity, initially said 31-year-old Aafia
> Siddiqui recently was taken into custody by Pakistani authorities." But
> later, "the U.S. officials amended their earlier statements, saying new
> information from the Pakistani government made it `doubtful' she was in
> custody."
>
> An FBI spokesperson also formally denied that the agency had any knowledge
> of Dr. Siddiqui's whereabouts, stating that the FBI was not aware that she
> was in any nation's custody.
>
> Dr Siddiqui's mother was visited by an unknown man a few hours after her
> disappearance and warned to keep her mouth shut if she ever wanted to see
> her daughter and grandchildren again. In 2003, in a closed hearing when the
> FBI had subpoenaed some documents from Dr Siddiqui's sister, an FBI official
> confirmed to her family that she was alive and well, but would answer no
> questions on her whereabouts.
>
> The new audio evidence was secretly taped in a social situation last year;
> children can be heard in the background. It was given, unsolicited, to one
> of the many lawyers involved in Dr Siddiqui's case in the US. The source,
> whose identity has been protected, told lawyers at the International Justice
> Network that he had made the tape after a social evening when he had heard
> shocking things about Pakistani counter terrorism, about the fabrication of
> evidence, and about Dr Siddiqui's disappearance, discussed casually by a
> senior official. He felt outraged and returned for a second evening with a
> recorder and got some of the previous discussion repeated. "If it can help
> anyone I had to do it," he said to the IJN Executive Director Tina Foster
> who has represented Dr Siddiqui's family since January 2010. IJN are
> experienced hands in war on terror cases. They represent a number of
> prisoners in Bagram air base prison in Afghanistan, some of them rendered
> from Abu Ghraib, Dubai and Thailand by the CIA, as well as several
> disappeared people in Pakistan.)
>
> The witness is a Pakistani/American and he has been extensively interviewed
> by IJN's lawyers who tell me they are entirely confident of the tape's
> authenticity, the source's account and thus the identity of the prime
> subject.* *
>
> IJN's source says he was introduced by a mutual friend whose home he was
> visiting, to a man he identified to lawyers at International Justice Network
> as Imran Shaukat, the Superintendent of Police for Sindh province.
>
> A full report, and the four hour tape, in Urdu, Punjabi and English, is
> being released by the International Justice Network in the United States at
> 6am EDT Monday*, *and can be * *accessed here <http://ijnetwork.org/> and,
> here <https://sites.google.com/a/ijnetwork.org/dr-aafia-siddiqui-report/>with
> the permission of the witness. Portions of the tape concerning Dr
> Siddiqui were made available to this reporter and were independently
> translated for this article. As of midnight Sunday, EDT, this excerpt can be
> listened to here <http://ijnetwork.org/report/IJNetworkTape.WAV>.
>
> Mr Shaukat (who is voice 2 on the tape) says, "I am stationed in Karachi. I
> head the counter terrorism department for Sindh province."
>
> In the key passage in the tape for the Siddiqui case he is asked by:
>
> Voice 1 (who is the witness) "Did you arrest her?"
>
> V 2. "Yes, I arrested her. She wore glasses and a veil….. When she was
> caught she was travelling to Islamabad….She was hobnobbing with clerics. …..
>
> V 1 " So what happened after the arrest. Did ISI ask for her custody?"
>
> V 2 "Yes, we gave her to ISI"
>
> V 1 "ISI or something else?"
>
> V 2 "ISI, so we gave her to them."
>
> Mr Shaukat also describes her as "stick thin" and "a psycho", and, elsewhere
> as "not a handler, a minor facilitator" – presumably for Al Qaeda - and he
> mentions a connection to Osama Bin Laden. Asked then why couldn't she help
> them get Bin Laden, he replies, "Well, they are not fools. They wouldn't
> inform her of their forwarding address." And he says too about the children,
> "we took them with us. They were American nationals, children are American
> nationals, they were all born there."
>
> There is some discussion on the tape about the return of her daughter,
> Maryam. (Two unidentified voices are also heard.)
>
> V1: Oh, another thing. They found her daughter yesterday.
>
> V2: She's home already.
>
> V1: Yes, she's home. She speaks English only. She was in the
> prison. She is seven or eight years old. And she only speaks English.
>
> UM1: Eight years old?
>
> V1: Yeah. Children were in prison and they spoke to them in American
> English.
>
> UM1: Is she home?
>
> V1: Yeah. They got her home.
>
> V2: They were actually, I.
>
> V1: Really?
>
> V2: It's five or six months.
>
> UM2: Is she in Karachi?
>
> V1: She got home today, yesterday.
>
> V2: Well, it goes back to before I came here.
>
> V1: I read the news just yesterday, today. Maybe, in the
> night.
>
> V2: It's two or three-months old.
>
> All that has been reported in the public domain to date is that Maryam was
> returned a day or two before the recording. But, according to the childrens'
> lawyer, Tina Foster, Mr Shaukat's description is consistent with how Maryam
> was repatriated to Pakistan.
>
> Elsewhere in the tape Imran Shaukat talks about how the Pakistani police and
> ISI work to "disappear" or to use people they have taken into custody.
> According to Amina Masood Janjua at Defence for Human Rights, there are
> currently about 500 people who have disappeared in Pakistan as part of the
> "war on terror" – this does not include Sindhi and Balochi separatists.
> Part of the audio describes the doctoring or manufacturing of documents,
> creating false identities, using body doubles, with reference to various
> terrorist attacks, including Mumbai. "This is a game of double dealing,
> direct them right and exit left," Mr Shaukat says at one point.
>
> Such details are an explanation of the extraordinary litany of contradictory
> stories about Dr Siddiqui, including curious reported sightings by family
> members, that were launched into the public domain over the five years after
> her disappearance. In this John Le Carre world of ruthless manipulation of
> the vulnerable it is impossible to know how, or whether, she could have been
> used in counter terrorism's goal at the time of finding Osama Bin Laden and
> other Al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan.
>
> From other sources it has been established that Dr Siddiqui was separated
> from her children for the five years of her ordeal, and that the two older
> children, born in 1996 and 1998*, *were not together, but in separate
> prisons, and that the third child, Suleman who was six months old on the day
> of the disappearance, probably died then.
>
> For nearly eight years now, manufactured confusion has surrounded the
> disappearance and the subsequent whereabouts of Dr Siddiqui and her three
> children.
>
> The confusion only deepened with the second section of the story, which was
> her mysterious reappearance in 2008 in Afghanistan, and the bizarre
> circumstances of her being seriously wounded by two shots to the stomach by
> a US soldier. John Kiriakou, a retired CIA officer with extensive
> background in Al Qaeda- related work told ABC News, "I don't think we've
> captured anybody as important and as well connected as she since 2003. We
> knew that she had been planning, or at least involved in the planning of, a
> wide variety of different operations." Such statements set the tone for the
> Western media on her return under arrest to the US.
>
> Her subsequent trial in New York, ending with the 86 year sentence, is the
> third section, when, extraordinarily, Al Qaeda and terrorism were not made
> part of the case against her which was narrowly focussed on the alleged
> attempted murder incident.
>
> Dr Siddiqui's background was an unexceptional one of a highly educated young
> woman from a privileged, professional family, some of them settled in the US
> and most of them educated in the West. She spent a decade studying at
> universities in Texas, and at MIT - where she graduated in biology *summa
> cum laude* - and at Brandeis, where she took a PHD in cognitive
> neuroscience. She specialized in the science of how children learn, and in
> addition had a class teaching dyslexic children. Besides her academic work
> she lived a busy life in the Muslim community in Boston, attending cake
> sales and auctions to raise money for Muslim refugees in the Bosnian war.
> She was married to a doctor from Pakistan in a classic arranged ceremony
> conducted by phone. The couple had two children.
>
> Life in Boston soured when her marriage began to break down. There are
> reports from her professors in Boston that they saw her with bruises on her
> face. And her husband, Dr Amjad Khan, told *Harpers Magazine* reporter Petra
> Bartosiewicz in 2008 that his wife had once had to go to hospital after he
> threw a bottle at her. There are photographs of her with a deep cut across
> her face. She returned home to Pakistan in late 2001. In a brief
> reconciliation back in the US a few months later she became pregnant with
> her third child. On August 15, 2002, after an incident in which witnesses
> claim that Dr Khan pushed him, Dr. Siddiqui's father collapsed and died of a
> heart attack. A few days later, while Dr. Siddiqui was still pregnant with
> their youngest child, Suleman, Amjad Khan separated from her and immediately
> married again. Dr Khan gave custody of the children to Dr Siddiqui on
> condition they received an exclusively Islamic education
>
> Dr Khan came under FBI suspicion in May 2002 for various items purchased by
> him on the internet when the couple were living in Boston. He said they were
> for big game hunting, and he was not arrested, but both he and his wife had
> come under suspicion.
>
> In March, 2003, a global alert went out with both of them wanted for
> questioning by the FBI. A few weeks after Aafia Siddiqui disappeared, her
> husband had a four-hour interview with US and Pakistani agents, and US
> suspicions of Dr Khan were dropped. About two months later Dr Khan
> travelled to Saudi Arabia for some time.
>
> Dr Khan told *Harpers Magazine* – "The Intelligence factory – how America
> makes its enemies disappear <http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/11/0082719>",
> by CounterPunch contributor Petra Bartosiewicz - that his "contacts in the
> agencies" informed him then that Siddiqui had gone underground. He went on
> to say that he had no idea where his children were —a claim he would later
> contradict. He also told *Harpers* that he and his driver saw Siddiqui in a
> taxi in Karachi in 2005. But they did not follow her. After her arrest in
> 2008 Mr Khan told a reporter from the Pakistani daily *News* that he thought
> his former wife was an "extremist" and that of course she had been on the
> run. After Ms Bartosiewicz left Pakistan, she had an email from Dr Khan
> saying that he had received "confidential good news" from the ISI that
> Mariam and Suleman were "alive and well" with their aunt Fowzia. (In fact at
> that point one was in prison and the other was dead.)
>
> Dr Siddiqui's disappearance in March 2003 came amid a feverish whirl of
> arrests and disappearances in Pakistan, including Khaled Sheikh Mohammad,
> who has claimed to have been the master mind of 9/11, and many other Al
> Qaeda related attacks, and has been named as the killer of US journalist
> Daniel Pearl in 2002. Khaled Sheikh Mohammad was important enough to the
> Americans to be water-boarded 183 times. Shortly after Dr Siddiqui's
> disappearance, Khaled Sheikh Mohammad's nephew, Ammar Baluchi, was arrested
> in connection with 9/11. The two men were taken to Guantanamo Bay, then to
> various CIA-run secret prisons known as "black sites" for torture, before
> being returned to Guantanamo Bay.
>
> US officials then had Dr Siddiqui on an Al Qaeda "wanted" list and linked
> her to Baluchi, claiming he was her second husband. Her family, and other
> sources in Pakistan have denied the marriage, but it remains probably the
> most repeated detail about her and the one that has given her an indelible
> image as a terrorist. This was not the only lurid story about her – she was
> also alleged in a UN report to have been a courier of blood diamonds from
> Liberia for Al Qaeda with a sighting reported there in June, 2001. Her
> lawyer, Elaine Sharp stated that Dr Siddiqui had been in Boston at that time
> and she could prove it. That story died away, but the further damage to her
> reputation was done.
>
> For five years nothing sure was in the public domain about what happened to
> her and the children, though the rumours grew, turning her into a tragic
> martyr for many, or a poster for Al Qaeda ruthlessness for others . Several
> former detainees at the Bagram prison in Afghanistan claimed to have seen
> her there, while US officials quoted in Wilileaks denied she had been.
>
> A senior Pakistani journalist, Najeed Ahmed, followed the story for five
> years and reported witness testimony of someone who claimed to have been
> part of the arresting team, which he said was a joint operation with the
> FBI. (Mr Ahmed made a public statement about his research in 2009, but died
> the next day, reportedly of a heart attack.)
>
> In mid-July 2008 Pakistanti lawyers filed a *habeas corpus* for Dr Siddiqui
> in Islamabad. And within days, in Act 2 of the drama, Aafia Siddiqui
> reappeared, in Ghazni, in Afghanistan, allegedly carrying in her handbag
> chemicals, instructions for making biological weapons, and plans for
> terrorist strikes with mass casualties in the US. She was then involved in a
> shooting incident in a police station in Ghazni in which she was badly
> wounded by a US soldier. It is uncontested that she was seated behind a
> curtain in a small room, where, according to the US soldiers, one of them
> put down his gun and she came from behind the curtain, seized it and
> attempted to shoot. She says she merely looked round the curtain. None of
> the soldiers or FBI personnel present were hurt, but she was hospitalized
> with two shots in her abdomen and brought under arrest to the US.
>
> Act 3 was her trial in New York for attempted murder of soldiers and FBI
> agents with an M4 rifle, picked up from the floor near a US soldier. There
> were no charges of terrorism or Al Qaeda links.
>
> Dr Siddiqui had a tangle of high-flying legal teams, several of whom were
> not on good terms. Her first court appointed lawyer, Liz Fink, a famous New
> York political lawyer, withdrew, and the second team appointed by the court,
> was headed by Dawn Cardi, an expert in matrimonial and family law. The
> lawyers funded by the Pakistani government were led by Linda Moreno, an
> attorney with successful experiences in two high profile war on terror
> related cases, those of Professor Sami Al-Arian and Ghassan Elashi, and who
> is a Guantanamo Bay defence lawyer with security clearance. Ms Moreno is
> also known for earlier political work as one of the lawyers for the American
> Indian Movement leader Leonard Peltier. Her team included Charles Swift,
> formerly a military defender of Guantanamo detainees who made a reputation
> as a critic of the Military Commission system, and Elaine Sharp.
>
> Even the narrow grounds of the case on the shooting was full of curiosities
> and contradictions: there was no physical evidence on the gun of Dr Siddiqui
> having held it, no bullet casings from it or holes in the walls of the small
> room where it took place, except from the other gun which wounded her.
> Defence counsel made two visits to Afghanistan to get the forensic evidence,
> which could, and should, have got the whole case dismissed. Linda Moreno
> described the defence forensic case as "very compelling, with no physical
> evidence whatsoever that she ever touched the gun….no DNA, no fingerprints,
> no bullets recovered, no bullet holes." The military and FBI witnesses, Ms
> Moreno said, contradicted each other, and under cross-examination even
> contradicted their own earlier stories. She went on to say that "the
> government wanted to scare the jury with stories of her alleged terrorist
> past, and steered away from the actual case."
>
> One key piece of evidence was not in the trial and only emerged from
> Wikileaks, which revealed a Defense Department report that was not released
> by the military, so was unavailable as evidence in Dr Siddiqui's defence.
> The incident report does *not* say Dr Siddiqui fired the gun she is alleged
> to have snatched and fired, merely that she "pointed" it. "Six American
> soldiers took the stand – powerful testimony for a jury. I argued, what
> happened at the front, stays at the front. The Wikileaks document would have
> added to my argument about the dubious credibility of the soldiers," Ms
> Moreno told me.
>
> Dr Siddiqui's relations with her lawyers were impossibly difficult and she
> tried repeatedly to fire them. Most never saw her except in court. Linda
> Moreno told me, "She was clearly damaged – extraordinarily frail, very
> tiny. It broke my heart when Aafia did not trust anyone, me, the other
> lawyers……although I could understand it. She reminded me of American/Indian
> resisters I worked with way back……. her resistance was clearly to the legal
> process and she saw all the attorneys as part of that process."
>
> Against the lawyers' strongest advice, Dr Siddiqui spoke in court herself.
> She said that she had been tortured, and rendered to the US, and that her
> children were also tortured in "the secret prison". The government never
> rebutted these allegations. But she lost the jury, who looked openly
> sceptical. "Sadly, she came over as sometimes arrogant and capricious, and
> sometimes rambling" according to Ms Moreno. Another observer said, "she was
> very articulate, intelligent, well-spoken, and people mistook that for well
> functioning."
>
> With so much confected fear and prejudice against her going back years, a
> media that did not hold back in its characterization of her as Al Qaeda
> Mommy, and the impact of six soldiers testifying against her, a New York
> jury's guilty verdict was probably a foregone conclusion. But Judge Berman's
> sentence that would put her away for life, was not. Ms Moreno described the
> event, "in my 30 years of trials I have never seen anything like what
> happened on sentencing day – the judge walked into court and handed out
> pre-printed power point presentations on how he had come to decide on 86
> years……."
>
> Two veteran lawyers not connected with this case, but with extensive
> experience in other cases related to the war on terror, described the
> sentence, respectively, as "extraordinary", "ridiculous….. outrageous", and
> one described the case as "absolutely full of holes." An appeal is planned.
>
> Meanwhile part of the story of the missing five years is in the heads of two
> of her three children - the two older ones who are US citizens. When they
> emerged – separately - in Pakistan, they were reunited with Dr Siddiqui's
> mother, and her sister , Fowzia, who is a Harvard-trained child psychiatrist
> and neurologist, in Karachi. They have never told their stories, but even
> the little that is known hints at the horror this family has lived through.
>
> The older one, Ahmed, then aged 12, told his aunt that he only met his
> mother the day after she was picked up in Ghazni, and that he did not
> recognize her after five years apart. Fuzzy film footage of them together
> being questioned in a press conference the day after his mother was found,
> has long circulated on the internet. This was the morning before the
> shooting incident.
>
> Ahmed remembers nothing about what happened to him next, only that he was
> visited by a US consular official in Afghanistan who told him that he was a
> US citizen. The official also told him that his brother, Suleman, was dead.
>
> Ahmed remembers being taken out of the taxi where he was with his mother and
> siblings five years before, and remembers, before he lost consciousness,
> seeing the baby, six month old Suleman, lying in the road and bleeding.
> Ahmed, told his aunt that he had been called Ali, and several other
> different names, while he was in custody, and that when he was told his name
> now was Ahmed, he knew that meant he was going to be moved again. She
> initially reported that he was suffering from PTSD and that he needed
> extensive psychological help.
>
> His sister Maryam, reappeared nearly two years later, in April 2010. She
> spoke perfect English with an American accent and no Urdu. She was simply
> dropped off outside the family home in Karachi with a note on a string
> around her neck. At some stage the Afghan prime minister Hamid Karzai was
> contacted by the family for help in getting both children back.
>
> There are very powerful vested interests that have worked to prevent Dr
> Siddiqui from ever giving an account that would be believed of what happened
> to her. The same interests are still at work trying to prevent the two
> children from ever becoming witnesses in this backstory of the war on
> terror. Late last year a kidnap attempt was made on the children, despite
> the family home being guarded by armed Pakistani police 24 hours a day. Two
> men, carrying firearms and holding big sacks, were found behind the door of
> the children's bedroom by their grandmother. The men ran off when she
> screamed, and were driven away by a waiting car nearby, before the police
> guards to the house could catch them.
>
> The release of the tape gives a lever to Pakistani public opinion and
> Pakistani opposition politicians such as Imran Khan, who have long supported
> the family, towards forcing an end to this sinister ordeal, with the return
> home of Dr Siddiqui.
>
> And there is another lever just now. Tina Foster of IJN has written to the
> Interior Minister Mr Rehman Malik, reminding him that in over a year of
> meetings he has been promising to help in Dr Siddiqui's repatriation. The
> letter says that now, when the US is demanding the return of the US
> government employee Raymond Davis, held after a shooting incident in
> Pakistan in which he is alleged to have killed two men, is the government's
> best ever chance to negotiate an exchange. The new threat by some
> congressmen to withhold aid from Pakistan if he is not returned, Hilary
> Clinton cancelling a meeting with Pakistan's foreign minister, and the
> report of possible espionage charges against Davis, ratchet up a pressure
> that could change the prospects for Dr Siddiqui.
>
> Whether Dr Siddiqui will ever be able to tell the full story of what
> happened to her over five years is another question. It is hard to imagine
> making anything close a recovery from such multiple personal and family
> trauma, in which she was isolated from every solid link with her past
> identity. Did the ISI use her, or her identity, on errands to Al Qaeda? "A
> minor facilitator", as the tape calls her? The contradictions in her own
> reported words, such as allegedly telling FBI agents while she was in a
> military hospital shot through the stomach and in restraints, that she was
> indeed married to the notorious Khaled Sheikh Mohammad's nephew Baluchi, are
> manifold, but not any guide to the truth.
>
> In her initial weeks in a US prison in Brooklyn she exhibited deeply
> disturbed behaviour such as saying she was saving her food for her children.
> Her mental state has since deteriorated and is very unpredictable, according
> to lawyer Elaine Sharp who has visited her several times. She is now
> incarcerated in solitary confinement in the Carswell Federal Medical Centre
> at Fort Worth, Texas, the only US prison medical facility for women. She has
> no contact with the outside world. Three of the four prison psychiatrists
> who interviewed her for the court said they believed she was "malingering"
> and that her mental illness was faked. But, given the record of some
> doctors' contribution to government work in the war on terror, it is hard to
> find this persuasive in the face of the known facts of her separation from
> her children in traumatic circumstances, her long isolation, and the
> documented brutal procedures of the ISI in many other cases.
>
> In the US none of the lawyers, doctors, politicians and intelligence agents
> who devised and participated in the horrors done to so many individuals as
> part of the war on terror, have paid any price in public for it. But in this
> case there is the force of public opinion in Pakistan which will demand
> nothing less than public trials of those responsible for ordering Dr
> Siddiqui's kidnapping, as well as those who carried it out, and were part of
> the vast charade that has been played with her over those years.
>
> *Victoria Brittain* is a former associate foreign editor of the Guardian.
> Her books include Hidden Lives, Hidden
> Deaths<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0041V9L5Y/counterpunchmaga>and
> Death
> of Dignity<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0865436363/counterpunchmaga>.
> She has spent much of her working life in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
> She can be reached at victoriacatherine@...
>
> http://www.counterpunch.org/brittain02142011.html
>


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[ALOCHONA] Passionate Bangladesh provides perfect opening

According this account it was a great opening minus yawn inducing politician speeches.


Passionate Bangladesh provides perfect opening
For a sport that has a bad history with opening ceremonies, nothing could have been more welcome than the sheer enthusiasm and passion with which Bangladesh had put together its show
Sidharth Monga at the Bangabandhu Stadium
February 17, 2011
ESPN CRICINFO
http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc_cricket_worldcup2011/content/current/story/501499.html

Sidharth Monga is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo

Those who were not at the Bangabandhu National Stadium will never know just how successful and moving the opening ceremony of the 2011 World Cup was. Those who saw it on TV would have cringed at Sonu Nigam crooning an English inspirational song, Bryan Adams of all people being the top draw, recordings of Shankar-Ehsan-Loy's unremarkable theme song playing on loop, and the politicians inducing yawns with their speeches.

Those who were here, though, saw, heard and felt the heartbeat of Bangladesh cricket. What happened inside the stadium, sold out by 25,000 people welcoming the World Cup with open arms, was only a minor part of it. There were 25,000 other fans - and this is a conservative estimate, mind you - outside the stadium, with no hope or intention of getting in, partying away to their own rhythm of vuvuzelas, carrying Bangladesh flags about 50 feet in length, celebrating the World Cup.

The reception for the World Cup on the streets of Dhaka was the closest cricket can get to a football World Cup. There was no giant screen outside for them, the music could hardly be heard there, there was obviously no alcohol to keep them going, but they danced and made merry, choreographing their own moves. There was not an inch of space in about a kilometre's radius of the Bangabandhu Stadium. Nigam, Adams, Mustafa Kamal (the BCB chief) might as well have not turned up. The crowd either side of the stadium wall couldn't care less.

There were journalists at the ceremony who have covered cricket World Cups, Olympics, Asian Games, even football World Cups, and they swore they have never seen anything like this before. For a sport that has a bad history with opening ceremonies, nothing could have been more welcome. It didn't need the Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to declare the World Cup open. The World Cup was open when at 2am last night, thousands were dancing on the streets, signing the best-wishes bat, and tens of cars went round and round the Bangabandhu Stadium. And when similar scenes were taking place at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur, which didn't even have anything to do with the opening ceremony.

And to say that the 50-over format is supposed to be dying. Not in the subcontinent, not in Bangladesh by a long shot. However, like with the good old ODIs, the opening ceremony had its middle overs. Nigam followed up his Celine Dion act from the recently-held Filmfare Awards back home in India with a self-composed song titled Rise Up For Glory, which showed that his great voice needs to be rescued, from himself. The politicians took about half an hour of valuable time, and were on the verge of inviting a streaker. The crowd mimicked and made fun of one of them, another speaker gave two different figures for Bangladesh's population in half a minute, and ICC chief Sharad Pawar tried to speak Bangla but no one could make out a word of what he said.

In the bigger picture, though, all those were minor irritants. There were some very nice touches to the ceremony. Local artists performing before the main function started was one such; getting popular, almost legendary singers, Mumtaz, Sabina Yasmin and Runa Laila, to share the stage was another, as was the crowd going crazy at the first sound of Bollywood music in an overstretched celebration of India.

Then there was the laser show involving the towering 24-storey Bangladesh Development Bank Building . On a long white curtain, a cricket pitch was projected. From the top floor, men tied on harnesses came down. Two batsmen, bowler, keeper, slip, umpire, cover, midwicket were all there. One man was pulled up suggesting a bowler running in to bowl. The ball was a laser pointer. In one over of "aerial cricket", they showed a forward-defensive, an lbw appeal, a scrambled single and overthrows, a play-and-a-miss, and a boundary.

The best, and the most unforgettable, moment was when all the captains were brought in on cycle rickshaws. One captain on each rickshaw, with a young boy sitting beside him, waving to the crowd, and the crowd responding generously. They came out alphabetically, Australia first, with one exception - Bangladesh were saved for the last, and more importantly Shakib-Al-Hasan for the very last. Few present at the Bangabandhu Stadium will ever forget the applause that Shakib walked out to.

Put the applause for the other 13 captains together - and they were not stingy with any of them - but it paled in comparison. That noise was enough to know what the World Cup meant to the country. In that moment, the traffic jams, the poor singing, the long speeches didn't matter. Over to Shakib's team now to make sure the party goes on deep into the tournament. The people deserve it.

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Re: [ALOCHONA] Fwd: JURONJIT DA Pls do not remove "Faith on ALLAH" form our constitution

Dear Alochok,

Good point and post. I could not remember if the Medina charter had "Bismillah" or not. I thought it did. The pact of hudaibiya did not have it [ Actually it was removed after the Meccan opposed to it!]. Help me out here. Are you sure you are talking about Medina charter or Hudaibiya peace treaty?

I checked couple of sources both said "Bismillah" was in the Madina charter.

As I mentioned before, it really does not matter to me if it was there or not. Since we had it for a while, I do not see any logical reason to remove it. In Bangladesh very people pay attention to our rights or constitution. It is there to show "Foreign donors" that we have one!

We only honor constitution when we follow it and honor it. Neither big political parties gives a hoot about what is good for average people of Bangladesh. This important topic has been reduced to an academic debate. Let us see who wins.....

Shalom.



-----Original Message-----
From: Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com>
To: Alochona Alochona <alochona@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thu, Feb 17, 2011 11:26 am
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] Fwd: JURONJIT DA Pls do not remove "Faith on ALLAH" form our constitution

 
              Those whose "faith" in Almighty Allah depends on destroying and mocking the  Constitution of a democracy are the worst betrayer of faith in Allah, the ideals of His message (the holy Qur'an) and the idealism of His messenger, Muhammad (pbuh). In their pretension of "faith" they are committing Kufr, so they are the true Kafirs.

                There is strong interdiction in the Qur'an against using or invoking Allah's name in acts of falsification, and in this case, betraying the trust of millions of people.
 
                  There is also the sunnah -- the idealism of the Prophet -- 'amal-e-tawatur-- which means the acts performed by Rasool-e-karim (pbuh) and that have been followed over the ages without break.  Our beloved Prophet did not put 'bismillah' on the Madina Charter because he respected the sentiments of people of other faiths.   As Islam became a global religion, despite the bad name and lies spread by the West against Islam, a Muslim ruler never mistreated subjects belonging to other religions.
 
                 Any idiot, blinded by communalism, who thinks India is a land of Hindus only, is without a speck of doubt, a paid chamcha of the BJP and the Sangh Parivar. India's Hindu fanaticism is a negative model for us to take heed.  We want to have a better Constitution than the one India has.  No political party based on religion. Period.
 
                    Peace be on earth on Eid-e-Miladunnanbi.
 
                            Farida Majid
 
               

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Subject: [ALOCHONA] Fwd: JURONJIT DA Pls do not remove "Faith on ALLAH" form our constitution

 


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Dear Aminul

You have rightly  said Quote  :But suronjit Da should mind it that it is not the last perliament.:Unquote
The people Bangladesh knows when n where to do what since they do not have iota of faith on the crooked politicians who serve the interest of their master beyond thew border n feel proud destroying thy nation n country.






Dear all,
mr suronjit sen gupta is the key person to change or ammend the constitution of Bangladesh.
The  main objective of  india or pro indians in Bangladesh is to remove 'Faith on Almighty Allah "from the constitution.
They have many Khairul n Kamrul for that.






RE: [ALOCHONA] Fwd: JURONJIT DA Pls do not remove "Faith on ALLAH" form our constitution



Farida
You should go to court if the mighty Jatio sangsad with 3/4 of majority do not fix the 'Bismillah' phenomenon. Do you thing they will do it?
Shahadat Suhrawardy
 


To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
From: farida_majid@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:19:40 -0500
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] Fwd: JURONJIT DA Pls do not remove "Faith on ALLAH" form our constitution

 
              Those whose "faith" in Almighty Allah depends on destroying and mocking the  Constitution of a democracy are the worst betrayer of faith in Allah, the ideals of His message (the holy Qur'an) and the idealism of His messenger, Muhammad (pbuh). In their pretension of "faith" they are committing Kufr, so they are the true Kafirs.

                There is strong interdiction in the Qur'an against using or invoking Allah's name in acts of falsification, and in this case, betraying the trust of millions of people.
 
                  There is also the sunnah -- the idealism of the Prophet -- 'amal-e-tawatur-- which means the acts performed by Rasool-e-karim (pbuh) and that have been followed over the ages without break.  Our beloved Prophet did not put 'bismillah' on the Madina Charter because he respected the sentiments of people of other faiths.   As Islam became a global religion, despite the bad name and lies spread by the West against Islam, a Muslim ruler never mistreated subjects belonging to other religions.
 
                 Any idiot, blinded by communalism, who thinks India is a land of Hindus only, is without a speck of doubt, a paid chamcha of the BJP and the Sangh Parivar. India's Hindu fanaticism is a negative model for us to take heed.  We want to have a better Constitution than the one India has.  No political party based on religion. Period.
 
                    Peace be on earth on Eid-e-Miladunnanbi.
 
                            Farida Majid
 
               

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Subject: [ALOCHONA] Fwd: JURONJIT DA Pls do not remove "Faith on ALLAH" form our constitution

 


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Dear Aminul

You have rightly  said Quote  :But suronjit Da should mind it that it is not the last perliament.:Unquote
The people Bangladesh knows when n where to do what since they do not have iota of faith on the crooked politicians who serve the interest of their master beyond thew border n feel proud destroying thy nation n country.





Dear all,
mr suronjit sen gupta is the key person to change or ammend the constitution of Bangladesh.
The  main objective of  india or pro indians in Bangladesh is to remove 'Faith on Almighty Allah "from the constitution.
They have many Khairul n Kamrul for that.








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[ALOCHONA] India Waits For Its Mubarak Moment

India Waits For Its Mubarak Moment

By Vidya Bhushan Rawat

After the 18th day protest Egyptian despot Husni Mubarak was forced to
leave. Ofcourse, he ensured everything for him. Perhaps, he might have
seen the writing on the wall but was just arranging like his bank
accounts, financial deals and other things. As I write this, report of
Swiss Bank freezing his accounts and British Government also willing
to follow the same, would not be providing a great future to him. More
importantly, the Egyptian people have owned this revolution which is
truly being claimed 21st centuries French Revolution. That is why as
an armed forces commander, Mubarak might have survived several
attempts on his life and was a tough fighter but this fight became his
waterloo and he had to leave Cairo. Like any other dictator or power
politicians of today, he had enough time to wait for his people's
patience in the hope that they would return their home and he would
again lord over them proved false. Hence his efforts to frighten
people with tanks or with flying jet over their heads could not break
the conviction of the people who were unanimous in one point agenda
that if Egypt has to survive as a dignified nation then Mubarak has to
go.

Clearly, Mubarak was still weighing on his threat of an Islamic take
over if he steps down. We all know most of these ruling lords in the
Middle East have the blessings of western government and serving their
interest. The only thing they have to pretend is wear a secular cap
and do anything that violates the fundamental rights of the people.
You have to look secular to kill your own people. These despots knew
the weakness of the western governments and hence used the very frame
work so that they can get huge arms and funds. It was like made for
each other syndrome. Today, we all may decry Mubarak and call him a
villain but as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair mentioned in
an interview yesterday that Mubarak brought stability to Egypt and was
the key western ally in bringing stability in the region. One can
clearly understand what does he meant by stability, clearly good
relations with Israel is called stability by the western world.

The army has taken over in Egypt. It has suspended the constitution
and dismissed the Ministry as well as the Parliament till the next
government take over. Mubarak is still in Sharm-el-Sheikh and is
calculating his future plans. There are however, reports that he might
escape to Saudi Arabia or elsewhere which are heaven for all the
despots. Mubarak also knows well that he can not live in the West as
it will target him and his wealth. Though it clear that life would be
tough for him and the pressure on Egyptian army would be under
tremendous pressure from its people to show result and hand over the
country to a democratic government.

After Mubarak's departure, Egyptians thronged the street, celebrated
whole night but they also knew it well that the time ahead was more
crucial and tougher. It is easier to fight against an enemy but the
situation does not remain the same all the time. After Mubarak's
departure they have to take things in their hands and do it otherwise
they can not blame on others. Hence, we saw people came in large
number to clean the streets and do the menial work like construction
and wall cleaning and were joined by the families. It is called
ownership of a revolution and one can find very few examples like this
when people still wanting to know what next. They do not end up with
waiting for a messiah. The biggest danger in such revolution is the
control of a few who may not have the same ideas as people and they
mould people's opinion according to their fancies and political
ideologies. For people who suffered with tyrants, the most important
thing is how to get dignity of work, right to make free political
choices and freedom of expression and thought. Of-course, right to
work will not work unless the employment situation changes and
corruption is fought with.

Most of our friends are discussing here in India as can a revolution
be possible in India which is suffering more than Egypt does. Many of
us think that at least Egypt does not suffer from chronic hunger and
poverty that is clearly visible in India. They did not put their
people on sale for years. They did not suffer from the brutality of
caste system and untouchability as we suffer here for the past three
thousand years. Yet, we are called a democracy and hailed as world's
'biggest' democracy.

The Americans, British and other give our example to the world as how
India survived and is progressing with 9% growth. They give our
examples how India had a 'Muslim' president, 'Sikh' prime minister,
'Dalit' women as Lok Sabha speaker and now, a 'woman' as President of
India, a 'Dalit' Chief Justice of India and so on. All, these,
according to them, show, how India has graduated from a British colony
to a vibrant 'plural' and 'multi cultural' democracy. So, India does
not need a change as what will people need after getting 'so-much' of
freedom. We all know how British Prime Minister David Cameroon has
admitted failure of 'multiculturalism' in their own country because
rather than strengthening the cause it seems a license to every one to
defend their 'deeds' in the name. India is worst off as here the
ruling elite is much crafty and best suited to use these 'modern'
terms. Hence 'secularism' is suited to help them retain in power in a
very similar way as the rhetoric of Hindu Nationalism. The rise of
Dalit assertion is growingly becoming victim of same brahmanical
syndrome. Rather then providing an alternative module, it wants to ape
them and use them to demolish their structure. The fact is it has
become a tool in their structure. That is why despite Uttar-Pradesh
and Tamilnadu experiences might seem to give community an identity and
make 'Indian' 'democracy' vibrant but does not help people at the
village whose daily struggle for dignity and life continues and where
an administration is ready to make everything 'comfortable' and
'beautiful' for the 'most powerful' person of the states even at the
cost of the poor who might hail from the same castes which these
leaders belong to. Yet, no tears are shed for the poor as we are
dividing our energy between our leaders and hope that leaders will
change India.

To understand India, we will have to analyse the minds of India's
ruling caste structure and how it has created such ghettoes which
helps it retain its domination. Brahmanism, India is biggest disease
does not survive because of Brahmins only. It is a contiguous disease
and fast spreading across the spectrum. The forces which were supposed
to demolish it are today suffering from it and hence the fight against
the brahmanical democracy in India remained unsuccessful so far. The
best part of the brahmanical strategy is to divide people in the
layers of identities so we think these identities help us but at the
end it helps the brahmanical minds. It is these identities which they
befool people world over. All these Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian,
Dalit leaders we mention represent the people just because of their
birth. One can easily ask a question as how many of the community's
people really feel for them. Brahmanism worked through these symbolic
gestures. Now the monster of other identities is threatening the very
basic of the identity we created. So, every where, these upper caste
thugs now create multiple identities among Dalits-Bahujans-Adivasis.
Because of lack of communication among the communities and any further
initiative, smaller contradictions of our village lives are becoming
the big one. For political purposes, these contradictions are being
used by each one of us as in 'democracy', it's the umber game. If
Mushhahars, Balmikis, Doms, Kols, Banzaras, Kanjars, Khatiqes, have no
number then damn care for them. They don't exist. Do not approach
them. This has resulted in the biggest caste conflict in the region
which may not look violent but which threatens to destroy the basic
preamble of Dalit movement in India. Just keeping away from these
issues and not speaking on them will not help that at the ground
level. It is true about other communities in each states whether
Andhra or Kerala, Tamilnadu or Maharastra. Any voices of dissent or
assertion from these communities are fiercely blamed to be fed by the
'opposition' camp or agent of the 'upper castes', despite known fact
that all the political parties of Dalit-Bahujan communities have
compromised on the basic principles of Baba Saheb Ambedkar and EVR
Periyar.

The Egyptian tyrant's brutalities forced his own country men and his
own co-religionists to throw him away from their land but can it
happen here in India. Can we speak against our own tyrants who do not
have time to see the problems of people? Can we speak against our
brahmanical democratic tyrants who are using democratic way to grab
power yet have no time for people? Democracy has boosted the morale of
the powerful anti democrats in the country. There can be nothing
better than making the powerful more powerful and the poor more
marginalized. The violence by the powerful unleashed against their own
people is not debated. Instead, we are divided in groups of political
identities. Hence, when the question of our rights violation comes, it
is deafening silence and according to our suitability. How will there
be a revolution when we are critiquing according to our convenience.
Our political parties are divided between individuals and their
families. We like to abuse others while are highly intolerant about
our own selves. We do not want to hear anything about our political
leaders. I do not call the differences between different groups
'ideological' as it has no face value in India. Your ideology is your
caste in this country and those who were supposed to demolish it also
use it for their own tiny purpose and hence getting defeated every
moment. They may say that they are demolishing Brahmanism but fact is
they are becoming the extension of Brahmanism and nothing more. Often
a slogan is raised as how our 85% population is victimized by the
brahmanical oppression and how we want these 85% should be united. Is
it possible? If yes, then what attempts have been made? Is the
discrimination of these the same? Is it true? Leave alone the 85%, 17%
Scheduled Castes are not the same and every where new questions and
identities are emerging. Can we be happy with such a situation when
the oppressed people have been put to fight against each others? The
issue of quota with in quota will finish whatever coming together of
the Dalits. We all know how these brahmanical thugs have cheated and
betrayed the Dalit-Bahujan-Adivasis of India. But the issue is now
much bigger than mere quota. The cultural changes have not taken place
and majority of us despite claiming Ambedkarite still follow the same
brahmanical values. Just by saying that you do not like Hindu Gods
does not mean you have become Ambedkarite as it is one of the toughest
things to be. One has to be courageous and deeply committed to the
cause and believing in sacrificing for the sake of the community. One
who believe there is no 'third party' intervention in our life and we
are the makers of our world. An Ambedkarite is the one who can not
live in the past and victim hood all the time but has to provide
alternative of this disgusting module. Yes, for that caste identities
will not work, its annihilation is the precondition. Caste is a
brahmanical game and will never strengthen the coming together of
Dalit-Bahujan. It is destroying their coming togetherness and
ultimately strengthening the neo Brahmins and their brahmanical
backers.

The divisions are happening because we are just obsessed with identity
politics and ideology has some where taken a back stage. If you are an
Ambedkarite, you can not really compromise with brahmanical, casteist,
communalist and corporatised anti women thugs of our society where
individual is supreme and has right to dissent.

A 21st century India can only grow and develop on these wider
principles of Equality, Liberty and Fraternity. It needs a cultural
renaissance which Ambedkar could have done had he lived several years
more. The later generations have not only compromised with his basic
principles but completely drifted away from the communities he aspired
to work. With out a cultural revolution, Indian democracy will be just
identity politics which is most suitable to the brahmanical agenda in
India. Unless, we go in the communities and raise the issue of their
common concern, the threat to their livelihood, the looting of their
land and resources, more political participation and representation in
power, in assemblies and parliament, nothing is going to change. In
Egypt, people rose up against the despot for a common cause. They
wanted a good life for themselves and can not be happy with the palace
of Mubarak. Can we really fight a common cause in India ? Well, Indian
democracy is the biggest threat to its poor. It betrayed them from the
very beginning. It created dumb leaders. It legitimized killing of
people in Delhi in 1984 and Gujarat in 2002. It legitimized commercial
land grabbing by the corporate. It does not allow a revolution. It is
creating rebels. People want justice. Justice can only come when the
political parties take up the cause. At the moment they are unanimous
in two things. One to destroy and demolish any dissent to their
activities and secondly in acquiring wealth and living a high life.
Well, we will only fight that our leader is better corrupt then yours
but that will not solve the problem.

Our political class continues to make mistake. Political leaders have
gained through exploiting all shorts of issues but hopefully the
silent revolution started by Ambedkar will ultimately wake us all
against notoriety of the political class. The Adivasi revolt or the
Dalit assertions are part of revolt against Indian structure.
Hopefully, the backward communities, the farmers, the agrarian
workers, all will wake up and join hand to demolish this brahmanical
supremacy. Remember, annihilation of caste is annihilation of
Brahmanism and Hindutva. Are we ready for it? There was one Mubarak
against whom all Egyptian had one opinion that they must get rid of
him, it worked and brought them together. Here in 'democratic' India
we have worst than Mubarak and they exist in each caste and political
sphere that a common man is confused. If I participate in somebody
else's movement, what will happen to 'my' leader? And hence there
seems to be no common ground between those who are oppressed or who
aspire to fight. In the politics of Jugad, they just feel 'enemy's
enemy is a friend ignoring the grave new reality that caste forces are
more than powerful as ever and most of the leaders we idolize are
accessed by our enemies more than us. My friends are writing
everything accept the important one as how to bring together these
victims of brahmanical deception. Is there any magical wand to resolve
this crisis? There is everything for a revolution here but there are
so many Mubaraks in our society that it looks difficult that India
will have its 'Mubarak' day soon as it would the elimination of
varnashram dharma and none seems to be interested in its annihilation
as those we believe fighting against it have got their own world in it
and therefore denying us the Mubarak day.

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