Marichjhanpi Remembered after THREE Full Decades to Get the Refugee Vote Bank and the MAA Kali, Aboriginal Goddess Made Aryan and Invoked to Kill the Asuras, READY to Take Over Bengal with Thirsty Brahminical Vengeance!

Marichjhanpi Remembered after THREE Full Decades to Get the Refugee Vote Bank and the MAA Kali, Aboriginal Goddess Made Aryan and Invoked to Kill the Asuras, READY to Take Over Bengal with Thirsty Brahminical Vengeance!

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Marichjhanpi Remembered after THREE Full Decades to Get the Refugee Vote Bank and the MAA Kali, Aboriginal Goddess Made Aryan and Invoked to Kill the Asuras, READY to Take Over Bengal with Thirsty Brahminical Vengeance!

Defending central government's decision to hike tax rates, De Facto Prime Minister Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in Kolkata on Friday opined that the move was aimed at reducing the widening fiscal deficit of the national economy. After formal signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) pertaining to the beautification the Kolkata riverfront in cooperation with the Indian Railways Pranab noted that the distribution of money allocated for developmental activities by the central government to the states was not being properly utilized and channeled.Pranab Babu decontrolled Fuel Prices to GIFT Away THREE Years rigging Holiday for Private companies, specifically RELIANCE. Kolkata Print has Highlighted PHOTO Reports of MAMATA PRANANB Alliance with the PARIVARTAN Hype once again.

Anand Bazar Group is Never Known to have any sympathy with the SC OBC Refugees and Excluded Communities in Brahaminical Manusmriti Hegemony. It is best known as the self styled Mouth Piece of Bengali Brahaminical Nationality which has Systematically not only ousted the Aboriginal Indigenous Bengali SC OBC Communities EJECTED out of East Bengal in ARRANGED Partitition of India to get hold Power for BRAHMIN Bania Raj, out of Bengali Geopolitics and History, but it is the strongest supporter of SOVEREIGN Market, Economic Reforms, India Incs governance, Murder of Indian Republic and its Constitution, Ethnc Cleansing, Foreign Capital Inflow, Brahaminical supremacy in every sphere of LIFE.

But the PRINT as Projected the Best in Bengali, ANANDA Bazaar Patrikahas Published an Edit page devoted to MARICHJHANPI. Earlier another Toilet print Times Of India, the Loudspeaker of Extra Constitutional Elements and Super slaves and India Incs Ruling India published Pages after pages devoted to Marichjhanpi Genocide. Understandablly, this Campaign is NOTHING to do with the sorry Plight of Refugees, Sc, OBC and ST and Minorities in the Homeland of Scientific Untouchability and Renaissance of Manusmriti and Colonialism! The Campaign is meant to UNDERMINE whatsoever MARXIST Vote Bank existing as yet to ENSURE the Matua Mamata hold on Power to Rule the Brahaminical Bengal as an INVOKED Mother Kali to ANNIHILATE the Excluded communities, the Negroid Offsprings of the killed Dravidian ASURAS! Mamata PRANAB allaince is taking over supremacy just becuse the Marxist Genocide Gestapo did used the Excluded Communities as BONDED Bases of VOTE Bank. PRANAB has been INSTRUMENTAL to deprive the Refugees of CITIZENSHIP , Civic Rights and Human Rights, Mother Tongue and Reservation. Matua Mamata is known to favour the MATUA Descidents turned Brahaminical and has done some works to beautify the Matua headquarter in Thakur Nagar to win back the support f the SC first Family headed by Bina Pani Mata. Whereas the Left Front Government has announced a State award on the name of Matua heads Harichand and Guruchand Thakur so late at the verge of defeat. The Marxist did commit the Marichjhanpi Genocide, it is TRUTH. But the Brahamins leading Congress as well as RSS did the Original Crime since Partition to make the life of the Refugees turn HOLOCAUST in itself. The Marxists led by Buddha allied with Adwani led RSS and Pranab led Congress to launch Nationwide Deportation Drive against the Bengali Refugees scattered all over the Country. It is also TRUE that COMBINED BUDDHA PRANAB ADWANI is the UNIFIED ALCHEMIST of all round DESTRUCTION of Indian Black Untouchables which invented the latest formula of CARBON MNO OXIDE with Combined projects of Land acquisition, Citizenship amendment, FDI, Taxation, Bail Out, NGO Government Partnership, Unique Identity Number ADHAAR Project, Disinvestment, Retail and Realty Boom, SEZ Drive, well supported by the CO Opted SC, OBC, ST, Muslim, Dravid leaders like Mayawati, Mulayam, Lalu. Shibu, Nitish, Paswan, Sharad Yadav, Pawar, Vasundhara,Shushil Modi, Bhijabal, Munde,Bainsla, Tikait, Sharad Joshi, UMA, Jogi, Ajit, AKALI Leadres, Muslim leaders, Karunanidhi and Jai Lalita. But Mamata as much as the Marxist and Cong and RSS Brahmins have OVERLAPPED everyone to betray the EXCLUDED Communities in Mayawati ways just to capture the Writers Building projecting the HUMAN Face of economic Ethnic Cleansing with a REBEL Posture. She is quiet Silent on the Present Day Danadkaranya Refugees stranded in Maoist CORPORATE Cross Fire and targetted for Deportation by no other than the CONG TMC Face of Brahaminical alliance PRANAB, the Brahamins who begins his day with CHAND PATH to invoke the KILLER Goddess of original Ethnic cleansing ARYAN!

I am now 52. I am a diabetic Patient who may not afford Health care. My Job is not Secure. All avenues of my EXPRESSION and Income, survival have been closed meanwhile. Perhaps, i may not live to prove my point. But who ever read any of the Interactive cha pters of my Novel AMERIKA  Se Savdhan  published during 1995 to 2000 may review what eventually we Face now!

I have lost yet another teeth eight months ago as I lost two right in 1994. I am Diabetic since 1999. The Doctor has advised me to adopt INSULIN. As my wife Sabita is ailing right from we get married and has already undergone Open Heart surgery in 1995 and she is on Insulin, our Medical Bill is rocketing High and I may not dare to adopt INSULIN Immediately. My so is unemployed and we live in a rented house. it led me to neglect the Tooth loss despite Sabita continued to consult a Dentist. Last Night, while I was on my PC to write up, I felt acute pain and by passed it with a dose of Combi Flam. The pain returned today afresh and I could hardly go through the Morning Newspapers and could not sit on computer at home. Eventually I had to consult the Dentist. The Amoxocilline Potassium Clavulante Tablets costed RS Forty a piece . I had to get rid of the teeth immediately which is inflicted with Intense INFECTION having an impact on my Eyes.Now, I have to normalise the Sugar. It is a picture of my Health nowadays. I may not Continue long to prove my points but hope and expect my friends and readers to continue the Resistance!I am writing these lines as the Pain is recycled once again!


So mush so is being published and written SYMPATHETIC with the MARICHJHANPI Refugees, but neither CIVIL Society including the Iconic SANHATI and NAGARIK MANCH, Human rights Orgs including PDR and UPCL, Intelligentsia led by Mahashwet Devi, Politician led by Pranab and Mamata, Media led by the ANANDA Group nor the outgoing Marxist and Leftists are ever known to Voice the demands of the SC OBC and Muslim Refugees in last SIX decades. They remain silent on the Plight of Present day DANDAKARNYA Tamil and Bengal refugees but cry in full Volume against the GENOCIDE done THREE Decades before on which they remained SILENT throughout THREE Full Decades and even now they have DONE Nothing to help Justice and Equality. Rather they tend to defend the CRIMINALS as all the Genocide Masters are the latest ICONS of the PARIVARTAN brigade including AMIYO Samanta of Mraichjhanpi Fame, RUNU Guha Niyogi and Subrtao Mukherjee as Siddhartha Shankar Roy, the master minds of the Genocide during the Thundering spring. SS Roy is also responsible for EMERGENCY and SIKH Genocide consultation for Mrs Indira Gandhi. Ashok Mitra, the First Finance Minister of Leftist Bengal who spoke NEVER against the Marichjhanpi Genocide. Sunil Gango and Barun Sengupta who reported Marichjhanpi Genocide so Human but NEVER did say anything in public. Rachhpal Singh and Sultan Singh. Debbrata Bandopadhyaya and each and every one FED by the Marxist Hegemony all thorouhout PRE Nandigram Marxist regime and crossed the FENCE to get ROLLED on TMC UPA Pay Roll! Each and everyone had been SILENT on the Plight of Refugees for Six decades and they are Silent even now. Mamata has no stance on OBC headcount as half of the Bengal Population is OBC and most betrayed, deprived, she has no stance on the Citizenship of Refugees,she has NEVER come to RESCUE to our People anywhere in India despite being the ICON at the Centre an playing Bengal Brand Mayawati since 1994.

Ananado Bazaar Patrika reviewed two books on Dandakarany Refugees today including one on Marichjhanpi genocide which is published by GANGCHIL and edited by Madhumoy Pal.The book consists an ARTICLE justifying the Genocide written by no one else but by the Great AMIYO Kumar Samanto who is regular Columnist in the Paribaratan Mouth piece Bangla Statesman! Mind you, ANANDO Publishers Published the most hateble book written by RUNU Guho Niyogi, AAMI SADA KALO AAMI Justifying the Genocide in SIDDHARTHA regime which head been serialised in ANANDA group periodical DESH, best known for SOFT Hard Metro centred Bengali Brahaminical PORN  and hate campign authored by the BRAHAMINS only!

Just remember the JP Movement in seventies in which our generation was involved Neck Deep in North India and which ultimately helped Countrywide Non Cong Regime for the First Time! It also helped the Left Front to come in Power in 1977. It was a AMERICANISED Pro American Movement in India following Soviet Model of Development for the first time. It was the beginning of Free Market Democracy and Global Hindutva Zionsit, corporate Imperialism and the virtual as well as ultimate Strategic Realliance led by United States of America and Israel. It could not Finish the Regime of either Emergency or the Zionist Dynasty. Rather it killed the Agrarian Movement and Trade Unions for ever. Just see the leaders thrown up by the Movement who have Proved themselves as the best masters of Genocide Culture, Graft, Hypocricy, Scandals, Swiss Bank Accounts, Kick backs, Opportunism and Corporate Colonial Slavery with all round Betrayal.

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Editorial MUSLIMS KICK OUT MARXISTS BUT GET FOOLED BY A FEMALE MONSTER Blood-thirsty "Calcutta Kali" gets ready to take over Bengal : Big victory for Bhadralok That our Manuwadi marxists and maoists are more dangerous blood-suckers has been the consistent stand of Dalit Voice. Our time-tested thesis is once again proved in the latest W. Bengal civic elections in which the mere 8% Brahminical Bhadralok controlling the Bengali marxists party was thrown into the Bay of Bengal. Good news. If you want to see what the record 33-year-old unbroken, murderous manuwadi marxist rule did to Dalits, Muslims, OBCs, please go to Calcutta — reduced to one big stinking slum. The people — simply reduced to mere skin and bone — live like worms. The worst sufferers are the Muslims who form about 30% of the state population. Jump from frying pan into fire: If you want to see the real face of Brahminism, parading as Hinduism, go to Calcutta. Even its most fashionable area around Park Street has become a stinking slum. But look at what the unthinking Bahujan victims of the manuwadi marxists did? They jumped from frying pan into the burning fire — lit by the notorious "Calcutta Kali" — eccentric, unpredictable and 150% Brahmin. She uses the crumpled cotton sari, and lives in a slum-like locality to hide her crores. The new female face of the vulture in disguise has deceived the innocent Bahujans. The Bengali Brahmins groomed, nurtured and painstakingly built up the monstrous Mamata Banerji to take control of Bengal and she will suck the last remaining drops of blood of the Bahujans and will rule for another 20 years. Marxists cheated Muslims: Marxists may boast "they ensured social peace" between Hindus and Muslims. But who wants this peace of the graveyard ? Marxists cheated Muslims. We understand their total disenchantment with the Manuwadi marxists. This is fully understandable. Muslims form about 30% of the state population and in the eastern part they go up to 40%. The heartless and less than 8% Brahminical Bhadralok controlling the CPM, hated the Muslims. Brahminism and Islam are like serpent and mongoose. From centuries the two were daggers drawn. When the Brahmins could not defeat the Bengali Muslims, they finally managed to kick them out by partitioning Bengal itself by creating Bangladesh. The Brahmins and Muslims are blood-enemies. How did the Muslim mongoose forget its historical enemy and sleep with the serpent? One-woman dictatorship: For committing this yet another mistake the Muslims will be again punished. In their anger against marxists they have jumped from frying pan into the very Mamata fire. If the marxists are leading a coalition of Left parties in Bengal, Mamata's will be a one-woman dictatorship. Please don't forget that the "Calcutta Kali" is also a Brahmin plus a Kali who loves to drink blood. The Muslim love for Mamata will be short lived. When will the Dalits, OBCs and Muslims of Bengal — victims of Brahminism from centuries — start thinking? We are deeply worried. Brahmins rejoice: But the micro-minority Bhadralok (Brahmin, Baidya, Kayasth) are silently rejoicing that they could find a young woman, a ruthless rabble rouser, capable of bulldozing the over 90% slaves and ensuring the continuity of the Brahminical rule. Chitpavans learnt from Bhadralok: If you want to see how Brahminism is having its naked dance, please go to Calcutta. The Chitpavan Brahmin ancestors of Nathuram Godse — killer of the "Father of the nation" — went to Calcutta to study how to suck the blood of the Bahujans — painlessly and that too without the victims being aware of it. Unthinking Muslims: The CPM politburo admitted in Delhi on June 5, 2010 that the Muslims, "who loved CPM", did not vote for the party in the latest Calcutta and other civic elections in Bengal. Why? Because the Brahmin-controlled CPM proved to be worse than the openly anti-Muslim RSS-BJP Hindu terrorist parties. The Bengali Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya is a notorious Brahmin who hated the Muslims. Female monster: When we recently inaugurated a big Dalit-Muslim conference in Howrah, a suburb of Calcutta, we could gauge the anger of the thinking Muslims against the Manuwadi marxists. Every time we criticised the CPM, there was a burst of clapping. But what did these same Muslims do now? The Manuwadi marxists merely sucked the blood of the Muslims but the "Calcutta Kali" will eat them live. The Bahujans of Calcutta and Bengal in general may be happy that they could wipe-out the marxist menace. But in the process they will be embracing a more horrible female monster. Over 95% of the Bengali Muslims are Dalit converts. (Dr. Abdul Momin Chaudhary, Buddhism in South Asia, LISA, London. Copies availble with Dalit Voice. Rs.300). These are historical facts. But even after getting defeated every time and a portion of them kicked out of India (into Bangladesh), the Bengali Muslims have not learnt any lesson. Dalit-Muslim unity: Their salvation lies in joining their blood brother Dalits. We have said this in all our speeches in Calcutta and both the parties have agreed with our solution. As our elder brothers endowed with a rich religion, it is for the Bengali Muslims, once the rulers of undivided Bengal, to re-assert themselves by joining with Dalits, particularly the Namasudras. Lack of media of our own: Yes, we do admit our weakness. We have no powerful media of our own to propagate the Dalit-Muslim unity magic formula. The Brahminical enemy is doing its best to keep the non-Hindu Dalits as Hindu and slave. But it is for the ideologically richer Muslims — with Quran as their guide — to embrace the Dalits. (See p.28). "Butcher of Bengal": If there was one single person, who fully used marxism to strengthen Brahminism in Bengal and reduce Dalits and Muslims into dirt poor, the credit goes to Jyoti Basu who died in Calcutta on Jan.17, 2010 (DV Feb.16, 2010 p.9: "Jyoti Basu as butcher of Bengal"). When the slaves heaved a sigh of relief on his death, then came the purest and the cruelest of the Bengali Brahmin, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya. The stage is now set for the rise of the blood-drinking "Calcutta Kali". When will the slaves of India wake up? DV Edit May 1, 2010: "Wanted caste wars to finish fake marxists: Bengali Bhadralok took communism to fight Muslims". "Brahmin worry over caste wars". DV March 1, 2010 p.26: "Butcher of Bengal as darling of Bhadralok". DV Feb.16, 2010 p.9: "Jyoti Basu butchered Bengali Dalits & established Bhadralok dictatorship" DV Oct.1, 2009 p.21: "Why marxists target only Muslim-dominated Bengal & Kerala"? DV June 1, 2008 p.23: "Mere 3% Brahmins rule in the name of Marxism: Dalit-Muslim unity can destroy Bengal Brahminical hegemony".

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Indian Muslims: Problems And Voting Pattern
By Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer
24 June, 2010
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Recent election results of Municipal Corporation of Kolkata and other Municipalities in West Bengal were shocking for the Left Front. Of course there are very complex reasons for Left Front loosing its grip over voters of West Bengal. Experts and academics will analyse these results over a period of time. One of the important factors, as admitted by some Left Front leaders also, has been the loss of Muslim votes.
Before the Left Front came to power in West Bengal, it was communally very sensitive state and number of riots had been taking place since, of course, 1947. The Congress Government, for reasons not to be anlaysed here, never showed determination to put down these riots in which Muslims greatly suffered. The Communists had always been sympathetic to minorities and were against communal divide and, much more, against communal violence.
When they came to power in West Bengal they put a stop to communal violence and in past 30 years West Bengal did not see any major outburst of communal violence. The priority of West Bengal Muslims during this period was their security and they preferred to vote for Left Front for this very reason. Also, land distribution brought benefit to a section of Muslims in certain areas and this section was also won over by the Left Front.
Then what went wrong and what alienated West Bengal Muslims from the Left Front? Some reasons are of course common to all people of West Bengal and some are specific to Muslims. We will deal here with these specific problems to understand the Muslim electoral behavior. Both in Bihar as well as in West Bengal one pattern emerges that to begin with minorities' top priority is security in view of recurring communal violence.
Bihar has very similar case. Bihar too witnessed great deal of communal violence until 1990. But when Lalu Prasad used MY (Muslim-Yadav) formula for winning elections he too showed determination to put a stop to communal violence in Bihar and for 15 years that he lasted in power, he did not allow Bihar to witness communal frenzy. But after 15 years Muslims deserted him and voted for Nitish Kumar. Lalu Prasad was de-throned.
In both the states security did not remain top priority as security was ensured but apart from security Muslims have problem of grinding poverty and unemployment. After experiencing security, they want problem of poverty, illiteracy and unemployment to be addressed and that comes to be prioritized. Same thing happened to an extent with Mulayamsingh Yadav in U.P. too. He too came to power in U.P. on 'MY' formula but Muslims deserted him when he gave major chunk of jobs to Yadavs and left Muslims high and dry. Muslims switched their vote to Mayawati but she too is disappointing them. One has to see what happens in the next election in U.P.
West Bengal has about 28% Muslim population. It is a big chunk of population with concentration in certain areas like Murshidabad and this big chunk of votes cannot be ignored by any party which aspires to come to power. It is unfortunate that Left Front did not pay adequate attention to economic problems of Muslims and that became a cause of alienation.
The Sacchar Committee data showed that Muslims in West Bengal were far behind, of all other things, even in government jobs and other indicators. The average literacy level among West Bengal Muslims was found to be 57.5 per cent as against national average among them of 65 per cent. It is interesting to note that in Kerala which is also often ruled by Left, though not always, the literacy percentage is 89.4, quite high. And in U.P. and Bihar it is 47.8 and 42 respectively. Thus Bihar is of course far worse in this respect.
Incidence poverty among Muslims in West Bengal has reduced from 53 per cent in 1987 to 44 in 2004 as compared to Kerala from 56 to 31 percent in 1987 and 2004 respectively. And in U.P. and Bihar it was found to be 43 and 57 per cent in 2004. Thus Bihar is again worse. In Government employment Muslims were found to be just 4 per cent in West Bengal which is quite low.
But then West Bengal Government acted fast and gave 10 per cent reservation to Muslims in Bengal. However, it seems it did not have much impact in the present Municipal elections on Muslim voters. May be it will take time to sink among Muslims to create political impact. Also, what happened in Singur and Nandigram some Muslims also lost their land and Jamiat al-Ulama also had joined in protests. Thus Muslims lost faith in the left and switched their votes to Mamta Banerjee.
Now it is a big question whether Mamta will be able to deliver at all. Mulayam Singh and Lalu Prasad did not go beyond providing security and hence Muslims left them too. But it appears, Mamta too may not prove any better as she has no ideological commitment at all. She is quite mercurial and also she had, in search for power, joined hands with BJP and was part of NDA. She left NDA, among other things, to woo Muslim voters.
One lesson which politicians must learn is that now minority votes, especially Muslim votes cannot be taken for granted by any political party or alliance. When there was no alternative to the Congress up to late eighties, it (Congress) not only became complacent but often manipulated communal sentiments and even local congress leaders joined hands with communal outfits benefiting two ways: by seeking subtle support of such communal organizations (Mrs. Gandhi even sought support of VHP and RSS in early eighties) and also made Muslims feel only Congress is the secular alternative and were forced to support it.
However, this reality changed since nineties and many regional caste outfits after implementation of Mandal Commission Report appeared on the scene and Muslims found other parties to vote for in U.P., Bihar and some other states. That is why the Congress lost power at the Centre and could come to power in 2004 only by forming UPA. Now the left which has always championed minority cause is facing the same situation in West Bengal. Trinamool Congress is wooing Muslim voters as an alternative to the Left Front.
Our political culture, though democratic, is still not all inclusive. Political power and fruits of economic development are monopolized by upper caste Hindus, on one hand, and, a trickle is passed on to OBCs which support some political parties. Minorities like Muslims are left high and dry.
Democracy has no meaning if minorities are not secure and also do not get proper share in economic development in proportion to their population. The Muslims in India are a largest minority, around 15 crore (150 million) and yet are far from being in happy position. Sacchar Committee has shown, through formidable statistical data that they are slipping below dalits.
Now that a modern educated middle class is emerging among Muslims, it is acutely conscious of this reality and would not sit back with folded hands and watch the situation helplessly. Though yet, it is not as influential as the traditional ulama but it cannot be marginalized either. It is articulate and is becoming active. It is, what is more interesting, challenging the traditional religious leadership even on religious issue.
And if modernizations of madrasas, as some middle class Muslims are demanding, goes through it will have far greater impact on Muslim politics and voting behaviour in India. On one hand we have process of globalization and liberalization which tries to marginalize the poor and the weak which include Muslims who are at the bottom. But, and it is important to note, it also increases awareness of their rights through use of modern technology and makes them better organized political force.
Even madrasas these days are using modern technology like computers, creating their websites and discussions are raging on various minority issues which tremendously boosts not only information but also political awareness. Many madrasa graduates are now opting for university courses and imbibing values of modern secular education developing better outlook on democratic and political rights.
Thus our attitude towards minority problems has to change. Indian Muslims have all the advantages of secular democratic culture and cannot be manipulated by traditional religious leaders as in most of the Islamic countries. To the contrary, traditional Muslim leadership can no longer take Muslims for granted. Though India has more Muslims than even in Pakistan yet religious orthodoxy and sectarianism is not as strong as in Pakistan.
Islam, in India, has very different image and Muslims are not involved in any international terroristic activities. In India the Jami'at al-Ulama-i-Hind organized, among Muslims, huge demonstrations against terroristic attacks and even Jamat-e-Islami-Hind also had to accept secular values and is now even thinking of joining democratic political processes which its founder once had declared haram in Islam.
Thus, if secular forces realize involvement of and all inclusive approach to political and developmental processes it would tremendously boost India's progress. Muslims, like others, can provide great human resources which still lie dormant because of poverty and illiteracy and exclusivistic policies.
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The Bengali Brahmins are those Brahmins who traditionally reside in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, currently comprising the Indian state of West Bengal, Tripura, Assam and Bangladesh. When the British left India in 1947, carving out separate nations (see partition), a number of families moved from Bangladesh to be within the borders of the newly defined Republic of India, and continued to migrate for several decades thereafter.

Bengali Brahmins are generally better educated than the average Hindu, and a number of prominent figures of India belong to this community. They had leanings toward Shaktism and Tantra . They make a claim of being pure Aryans. Vārendra, for instance, meant rain-maker magicians^[1]. Historically, they have been the standard bearers of Madhyadeshiya (the historic-cultural region of the upper Ganga-Yamuna doab which was the seat of Panch-Gauda brahmins) Indo-Aryan culture in Bengal. Panch-Gauda and Panch-Dravida are two chief divisions of Brahmins, as per the śloka from Rājatarangini of Kalhaṇa / Kalhana:

कर्णाटकाश्च तैलङ्गा द्राविडा महाराष्ट्रकाः , गुर्जराश्चेति पञ्चैव द्राविडा विन्ध्यदक्षिणे ||

सारस्वताः कान्यकुब्जा गौडा उत्कलमैथिलाः, पञ्चगौडा इति ख्याता विन्ध्स्योत्तरवासिनः ||

Meaning :(The-) Karnātakas, Tailangas, Dravidas, Mahārāshtrakās and Gurjaras; these five(-types who-) live south of Vindhya (- mountains) are (called-) "five Dravidas" (- brahmins); (whereas-) Sārasvatas, Kānyakubjas, Gaudas, Utkalas, and Maithilas, who live north of Vindhya (- mountains) are known as "five Gaudas" (-brahmins)^[2].

Dorilāl Śarmā says that the 'Five Gaudas' mentioned above were settled in region around Indus (Sārasvata brahmins), Kannauj and its territories (Kānyakubja brahmins), Mithila (Maithil Brahmins)and Orissa (Utkala Brahmins); the fifth branch Gauda brahmins settleed in the remaining areas north of Vindhya mountains ,in two distinct regions (1)Haryana and adjacent districts of Rajasthan and western Uttar Pradesh, and (2) northern Kosala around ancient Śrāvasti; he quotes Matsya Purana (chapter-12, śloka 30) in which Śrāvasti is said to be seat of Gauda brahmins ^[3]. According to this view, South Bihar, Bengal, Assam, etc were not inhabited by any of the brahmins mentioned by Kalhana. Hence, at the time of Kalhana, Bengali brahmins had not emerged as a distinct branch of Panch-Gauda. But all Bengali brahmins are descendants of Panch-Gauda, excepting some Dākṣiṇātyas Vaidikas who came from South India originally but are now part and parcel of Bengali brahmins ^[4]. Gauda meant the region from western Uttar Pradesh to Rajasthan, but it was also used for Bengal in mediaeval age. Entire North India was also called Gauda country, which is the reason why five north Indian branches have received the common name Panch-Gauda ^[5].

In the 19th and 20th national convention of Kanyakubja Brahmins by Kanyakubja Mahati Sabha, in 1926 and 1927 respectively, it reiterated Bhumihar Brahmins to be Kanyakubja Brahmins and appealed for unity among Kanyakubja Brahmins whose different branches included Sanadhya, Pahadi, Jujhoutia, Saryupareen, Chattisgadhi, Bhumihar and different Bengali Brahmins.^[6]

Contents [hide] 1 History 1.1 Traditional accounts 2 Divisions among Bengali Brahmins 2.1 Rādhi 2.2 Vārendra 2.3 Vaidikas 2.4 Saptaśati 2.5 Others 3 Genetics 4 Impact of British occupation 5 Naming conventions 6 List of Bengali Brahmin Gotras 7 Notable Bengali Brahmins 7.1 Pre-1947 7.2 Post-1947 8 Notes 9 See also 10 References

[edit] History

It is claimed that large scale migration of Brahmins from Kanyakubja region occurred during Pala and Sena periods. However historical evidence attests significant presence of Brahmins in Bengal since the Maurya period. The Jain Acharya Bhadrabahu, regarded to be the preceptor of Chandragupta Maurya is said to have been born in Brahmin family of Pundravardhana ( or Puṇḍra , the region north of Ganges and west of Brahmaputra in Bengal, later known as Vārendra). A copper-plate grant from the Gupta period found in the vicinity of Somapura mentions a Brahmin donating land to a Jain vihara at Vatagohali. Such evidences suggest Puṇḍra or Vārendra and regions west of Bhagirathi (called Radha in ancient age) to be seats of brahmins from ancient times; Rādhi and Varendra are still chief branches of Bengali brahmins settled in these regions ^[7]..

The three main divisions among Bengali brahmins are  :

• Rādhi from Radh (region south-west of Ganga).
• Varendra, from Vārendra region (North-East) or Puṇḍra.
• Vaidika (migrants, originally experts of Vedic knowledge).

[edit] Traditional accounts

The traditional accounts of the origin are given in texts termed Kulagranthas (e.g., Kuladīpīkā), composed around the 17th century. They mention a ruler named Ādiśūra who invited five Brahmins from Kanyakubja ^[8], so that he could conduct a yajña, because he could not find Vedic experts locally. Traditional texts mention that Ādiśūra was ancestor of Ballāl Sena from maternal side and five brahmins had been invited in AD 1077 ^[9].

Historians have located a ruler named Ādiśūra ruling in north Bihar, but not in Bengal ^{[citation needed]}. But Ballāl Sena and his predecessors ruled over both Bengal and Mithila (i.e., North Bihar). It is unlikely that the brahmins from Kānyakubja may have been invited to Mithila for performing a yajña, because Mithila was a strong base of brahmins since Vedic age ^[10].

Another account mentions a king Shyamal Varma who invited five Brahmins from Kānyakubja who became the progenitors of the Vaidika Brahmins. A third account refers to five brahmins being the ancestors of Vārendra brahmins as well. From similarity of titles (e.g., upādhyāya), the first account is most probable.

Kulin Brahmins are those Brahmins in Bengal who can trace themselves to the five families of Kanauj (Kanyakubja), Uttar Pradesh who migrated to Bengal. The five families were of the five different gotras (Shandilya, Bharadwaj, Kashyap, Vatsya and Swavarna). They are widely believed to be at the apex of Bengal's caste hierarchy.

The kulin families are further divided into two sections:

Barendra : Belonging to those families who settled at the north or north east region of Ganges or Padma river. Rarhi : Belonging to those families who settled at the south or southwest region of Ganges or Padma river.

[edit] Divisions among Bengali Brahmins

The three main divisions of Bengali Brahmins are

• (1) Rādhi from Radh , modern West Bengal south of Ganges.
• (2) Varendra, from Varendra region (North-East)
• (3) Vaidika

Other minor divisions are :

• (4) Saptaśati
• (5) Pirāli
• (6) Patita

It is believed that the Brahmins of Bengal adapted kulinism from a similar hierarchical system used by the Brahmins of Mithilā, although Kānyakubja and more especially Saryupāriya were also highly scrupulous. The five original Brahmins belonged to five gotras : Śāndilya, Kāśyapa, Vatsa, Bhārdvāja, Sāvarṇa ^[11].

Both Brahmins and Kayasthas in Bengal have followed a system that ranks the clans hierarchically. The Kulinas formed the higher ranking clans.

[edit] Rādhi

Rādhi (also Rāṭhi in some old texts) is the major branch of Bengali brahmins . The descendants of these five Pancyājñika brahmins were hierarchically organised into three categories :

(1) Kulin comprised the most noble brahmins among these, who possessed all the nine qualities fixed by Ballāl Sena (nine qualities or "navadhā lula lakṣanam" were :āchāra, vinaya, vidyā, pratiṣṭhā, tirtha, darśana, karma, niṣṭhā, śreṣṭha-vritti, tapa, dāna) ^[12].

(2)Śrotriya is the second rank among the descendants of these five brahmins because they were deft in Vedic knowledge but were considered to be somewhat inferior to the Kulina brahmins (possessing 8 out of 9 noble qualities).

(3)Vamśaja is the third rank which was a result of kulinas marrying outside kulinas ^[12].

Major titles adopted by the high Rādhi brahmins :

• Mukhopādhyāya and its adaptation Mukherjee a Kulin brahmin
• Bandopādhyāya and its adaptation Banerjee a Kulin brahmin
• Chattopādhyāya and its adaptation Chatterjee a Kulin brahmin
• Bhattāchārya and its adaptation Bhattacharya/ Bhattacharjee a Kulin brahmin
• Gangopādhyāya and its adaptation Ganguli / Ganguly a Kulin brahmin

Jāti-Bhāṣkar mentions that those who were given grants along the Ganges by Ballāl Sena were called Gangopādhyāya (literally 'the Vedic teachers in the regions around the Ganges')^[13].

Mukhopādhyāya means chief Vedic teacher. Bandopādhyāya is a Sanskritized form of 'Banodha + upādhyāya' , Banodha being the ancient name of Raebareli-Unnāva whence their ancestors had come from ^[14].

Bhattāchārya meant 'expert of Vedic rituals'. This was an honorary title awarded to a Rādhi or Vārendra brahmin who excelled in spiritual and vedic matters. The Bhattāchārya's are generally referred to as the Hindu Priests in Bengal.

[edit] Vārendra

These brahmins also claim descent from five original brahmins, although four out of five names are different, and they are also hierarchically organised into three groups :

(1) Śri Kulin comprising Bāgchi, Chākrāborty (Chākrāvārti), Lāhiri, Māitra, Bhāduri, Sānyal, etc.

(2) Śrotriya have Nanda, Bhato Shāstri, Karanja, Laduli, Navasi, etc.

(3) Kaṣṭa Kulin compride of 85 gains (villages given in grant by Sena kings).

Another intermediate order is called Kāpa(originally Kulin but negligent in duty) which is between first two.

Other famous titles of Bengali Kulin brahmins are Bhattāchārya, Majumdāra, Rāi, Choudhary, Roy Chowdhury, Jovādāra, Mishra,etc. There were many big landlords among Vārendra and Rādhi brahmins alike, bearing titles such as Roy and Roy Chowdhury. While Bhattāchārya literally meant 'experts of Vedic rituals', the Rāi/Roy, Choudhary and Roy Chowdhury were administrative titles, conferred not only on the Brahmin landlords, Rajas and/or zamindars, but also to landlords from other castes who owned and administered vast landed properties. Whereas titles, such the Dasguptas and Senguptas belong to the Vaidyas.

[edit] Vaidikas

These are of two types :

• Dākṣiṇātyas (coming from Orissa & South India originally but now part and parcel of Bengali brahmins.
• Pāschātyas, coming from western and northern India originally but now part of Bengali brahmins.

These were experts of Vaidika knowledge who were invited to Bengal in different ages, later than the original five brahmins from which Rādhi brahmins originated.

[edit] Saptaśati

Before the coming of Five Brahmins, there were 700 houses of brahmins in Bengal, but now they are few. They were less learned than the migrants and therefore were deprived of patronage. Some of them mixed with the immigrants, which explains their decline in relative population. Many Saptaśatis became priests of lower castes and were labelled as Agradāni and grahavipra. Main titles are Arath, Bālkhāvi, Jagāye, Pikhoori, Mulkajoori, Bhagāye, Gāi, etc.

[edit] Others

• Pirāli : literally, boycotted brahmins. Some kulin brahmins mixed with Muslims in eating and other activities and were therefore boycotted by the orthodox sections. Prominent among these were Thākurs, anglicised as Tagores. Thākurs literally meant lords and were big landowners.
• Patita : Some Bengali brahmins were publicly declared to be fallen brahmins.

Chakraborty (Chakravarti) is a title suitable for emperors granted to some Bengali brahmins.

Another peculiar title is Chir Kori or Chir Koḍi.

[edit] Genetics

Bengali Brahmins showed positive results for only three Y-Haplogroups R1a1, R2 and H1. Y-Haplogroups and their respective percentages are shown in the following table.

R1a1	R2	H1
72.22%	22.22%	5.56%

^[15][16]

Haplogroup R1a1, which is the most prevalent haplogroup amongst the Bengali Brahmins, is associated with the spread of the Indo-European culture in Indian sub-continent. A very high percentage of 72.22% among Bengali Brahmins hints at its presence as a founder lineage for this caste group^[17].

[edit] Impact of British occupation

The kulinist system degenerated during the 18-19th century and is no longer popular. The British occupation of Bengal radically transformed the Bengali culture. Bengal has now gone through two century of Christian missionary efforts and a quarter century of a Marxist government in the state of West Bengal. Bengal was divided by the British colonial rulers. Eastern Bengal was a Muslim majority region which resulted in the first partition of Bengal in 1905, and then final partition in 1947. Although the interaction with the British resulting in what is termed the Bengal Renaissance (almost wholly Brahmin) it altered the hold of traditional mainstream Hinduism in the region.

[edit] Naming conventions

Many Bengali Brahmin family names are written in two different ways. For example, Chattopadhyay (compound of village name "Chaṭṭa" and "upādhyāya" denoting "priest, teacher" originally granted with the village named Chaṭṭa) is the Sanskritized form of the local Prakrit word "chaturjye", anglicized to Chatterjee.

Similar analyses may be performed on Mukhurjye/Mukherjee/Mukhopādhyāya and Banurjye/Banerjee/Bandyopādhyāya. Bhattāchārya which is made by two words Bhatta and Achārya which means teacher also called as Bhattāchārjee. Tagore is the anglicized form of Thakur, meaning "lord". Other Bengali Brahmin family names are anglicized in particular ways that have become the standard English spellings over time. Other Bengali Brahmin surnames are Chakraborty, Sanyal, Ghoshal etc.

The most famous Bengali Brahmin family which originally belonged to Calcutta (Kolkata) are the Sabarna Roy Choudhury family, which had transferred the tenancy rights of Sutanuti, Gobindapur and Kolikata to the East India Company at the behest of the Mughal Emperor.

[edit] List of Bengali Brahmin Gotras

The bulk of Bengali Brahmin gotras are:

• Agastya
• Bharadwaja
• Bhargava
• Gautama
• Kashyapa
• Matanga
• Shandilya
• Vatsa
• Viswamitra
• Katyana

Besides the above mentioned, other gotras can also be found at low frequencies within the Bengali Brahmin community.

[edit] Notable Bengali Brahmins

[edit] Pre-1947

• Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486 - 1534), ascetic, founder of Gaudiya Vaishnavism
• Raja Ram Mohan Roy (1772-1833), Hindu reformer and founder of Brahmo Samaj
• Debendranath Tagore (1817-1905) A leading proponent of Brahmo Samaj
• Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820 - 1891) Erudite,Polymath
• Ramakrishna Chattopadhyay (1836-1886) Hindu reformer and spiritual teacher
• Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838-1894), author and one of the founders of Indian nationalism
• Kisari Mohan Ganguli, one and only translator of the Mahabharata to English.
• Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Author of famouls novels like Devdas, Parineeta etc. and one of the most popular Bengali novelist and story-teller
• Sukanta Bhattacharya Poet
• Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), poet, philosopher and nationalist
• Abanindranath Tagore Author, Painter.
• Jatindra Nath Mukherjee (Bagha Jatin) (1879-1915), Freedom Fighter and Revolutionary Leader
• Gadadhar Chattopadhyay (Ramakrishna Paramahansa) (1836-1886), Revered Hindu Religious leader, led Hindu revival
• Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee (1864-1924) Educationist, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta (1906 - 1924),and referred commonly as 'Bengal Tiger'.
• Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876-1938) popular and sometimes controversial bengali novelist.
• Pramankur Atarthy Writer and film director
• Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay (1885-1930) Archaeologist, credited with finding and excavating the Mohenjo‑Daro civilization (Indus Valley Civilization).
• Manabendra Nath Roy (1887-1954), Political thinker and founder of Indian Communism movement
• Dwarkanath Tagore (1794-1846) One of the earliest entrepreneurs from India. Founded the first Indo-British agency house from India, Carr, Tagore and Company.
• Womesh Chandra Bonerjee. Founder of Indian National Congress
• Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay. Novelist, author of 'Pather Panchali'.

[edit] Post-1947

• Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, founder president, Bhartiya Jana Sangh
• Subroto Mukerjee First Air Chief Marshall of Independent India
• Banaphool(Balaichand Mukherjee)
• Kishore Kumar Ganguly , Great Singer, Actor
• Ashok Kumar Ganguly, Actor
• Sitar Player Ravi Shankar
• Mamata Banerjee, mass leader
• Buddhadeb Bhattacharya Chief Minister of West Bengal since 2000.
• Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
• Sunil Gangopadhyay
• Suchitra Bhattacharya
• Bharati Mukherjee
• poet Subhash Mukhopadhyay
• Famous Comedian/Actor Keshto Mukherjee
• actor Joy Mukherjee
• actor Jaya Bhaduri
• actor Soumitra Chatterjee
• actor Uttam Kumar (Arun Kumar Chatterjee)
• actor Victor Banerjee
• film actresses Madhabi Mukherjee
• actressKajol
• Hungryalist Movement Creator Malay Roy Choudhury
• poet Samir Roychoudhury
• actress Rani Mukherjee
• painter Benode Behari Mukherjee
• musician Budhaditya Mukherjee
• music director Hemanta Mukhopadhyay
• singer Amit Kumar
• popular singer Shaan
• singer Shreya Ghoshal
• singer Madhushree
• singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya
• singer Kumar Sanu
• Calcutta's mayor Bikas Ranjan Bhattacharjee
• director Hrishikesh Mukherjee
• director Basu Chatterjee
• director Basu Bhattacharya
• Actor Mithun Chakraborty
• Sitar Player Nikhil Banerjee
• police commissioner Prasun Mukherjee
• tennis player Jaideep Mukherjee
• India's current External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee
• Music Director Bappi Lahiri
• Music Director Pritam Chakraborty
• Sourav Ganguly, former captain of Indian cricket team
• Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize Winning author of "Interpreter of Maladies" and acclaimed novel 'The Namesake'
• Upamanyu Chatterjee, Civil Servant and author of 'English, August'
• Moushumi Chatterjee, Film Actress
• Bibhas Chakraborty, Theatre Practitioner and Cultural Icon
• Mamata Banerjee, Minister of railways
• Somnath Chakraborty : Marine Biologist
• Kanika Bandopadhyay: Famous Rabindrasangeet exponent
• Engineer Pradip Sankar Bhattacharyya

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Vāri+indra, Vāri meant water : cf.A History of Brahmin Clans , page 283.
2. ^ cf. Kalhana's Rajatarangini in reference for English version.
3. ^ (A History of Brahmin Clans, p.41-42)
4. ^ A History of Brahmin Clans, p.288
5. ^ Ādi Gauda Dipikā quoted in A History of Brahmin Clans, p.100
6. ^ Saraswati, Swami Sahajanand (2003). Swami Sahajanand Saraswati Rachnawali in Six volumes (in Volume 1). Delhi: Prakashan Sansthan. pp. 519 (at p 68–69) (Volume 1). ISBN 81-7714-097-3. 
7. ^ cf. History of Brahmin Clans,page 281
8. ^ cf. History of Brahmin Clans,page 281-283
9. ^ cf. History of Brahmin Clans,page 281 : this book quotes Krishna-Charita by Vidyāsāgar for dating.
10. ^ cf. D.D. kosambi, p. 123.
11. ^ cf. History of Brahmin Clans,page 282 : it quotes Kula-dīpīkā, a mediaeval text.
12. ^ ^{a b} Kuladīpīkā quoted in History of Brahmin Clans,page 283
13. ^ Jāti-Bhāṣkar quoted in History of Brahmin Clans,page 285
14. ^ History of Brahmin Clans,page 287
15. ^ Sengupta et al. (2005)
16. ^ Sharma et al. (2009)
17. ^ Sharma et al. (2007)

[edit] See also

• Banerjee
• Chakraborty
• Chatterjee
• Ganguly
• Mukherjee
• Thakur

[edit] References

• Swami Sahajanand Saraswati Rachnawali (Selected works of Swami Sahajanand Saraswati), Prakashan Sansthan, Delhi, 2003.
• Kalhana's Rajatarangini: A Chronicle of the Kings of Kashmir; 3 Volumes > M.A.Stein (translator),(Introduction by Mohammad Ishaq Khan),published by Saujanya Books at Srinagar,2007,(First Edition pub. in 1900),ISBN 81-8339-043-9 / 8183390439.
• A History of Brahmin Clans (Brāhmaṇa Vaṃshõ kā Itihāsa) in Hindi, by Dorilāl Śarmā,published by Rāśtriya Brāhamana Mahāsabhā, Vimal Building, Jamirābād, Mitranagar, Masūdābād,Aligarh-1, 2nd ed-1998. (This Hindi book contains the most exhaustive list of Brahmana gotras and pravaras together their real and mythological histories).
• Jāti-Bhāṣkara by Pt. Jwālā Prasād Misra, published by Khemaraj Shrikrishnadas,(1914).
• An Introduction to the Study of Indian History, by Damodar Dharmanand Kosāmbi, Popular Prakasan,35c Tadeo Road, Popular Press Building, Bombay-400034, First Edition: 1956, Revised Second Edition: 1975.
• Nagendra Nath Basu, Banger Jatiya Itihas (in Bangla), 2 vols, Calcutta, 1321 BS.
• Atul Sur, Banglar Samajik Itihas (Bangla), Calcutta, 1976
• NN Bhattacharyya, Bharatiya Jati Varna Pratha (Bangla), Calcutta, 1987
• RC Majumdar, Vangiya Kulashastra (Bangla), 2nd ed, Calcutta, 1989.
• Sengupta et al. (2005), "Polarity and Temporality of High-Resolution Y-Chromosome Distributions in India Identify Both Indigenous and Exogenous Expansions and Reveal Minor Genetic Influence of Central Asian Pastoralists", Am. J. Hum. Genet. 78 (2): 202–21, doi:10.1086/499411, PMID 16400607, http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1380230 .
• Sharma et al. (2007), "The Autochthonous Origin and a Tribal Link of Indian Brahmins: Evaluation Through Molecular Genetic Markers", THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HUMAN GENETICS 57th Annual Meeting, http://www.ashg.org/genetics/ashg/annmeet/2007/call/abstractbook.pdf 
• Sharma et al. (2009), "The Indian origin of paternal haplogroup R1a1(*)substantiates the autochthonous origin of Brahmins and the caste system", J. Hum.Genet. 54 (1): 47–55, doi:10.1038/jhg.2008.2, PMID: 19158816, http://www.nature.com/jhg/journal/v54/n1/fig_tab/jhg20082t1.html#figure-title 

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Mamata Banerjee মমতা বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়
Minister of Railways Government of India
Incumbent
Assumed office  22 May 2009
Preceded by	Lalu Prasad Yadav
Born	5 January 1955 (1955-01-05) (age 55) Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Nationality	Indian
Political party	All India Trinamool Congress
Residence	New Delhi, India (official) 30B Harish Chatterjee Street, Kolkata, West Bengal (private)
Alma mater	University of Calcutta (B.Ed., M.A.) Jogesh Chandra Choudhury College of Law (LL.B.)
Profession	Advocate Social Worker
Religion	Hinduism
Website	Mamata Banerjee

Mamata Banerjee (Bengali: মমতা বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়, pronounced [mmt̪ʰaː baːneːjeː]; born 5 January 1955) is the leader of the Trinamool Congress and Leader of the Opposition in the state of West Bengal. She is the founder and Chairperson of the party and has been the current Railway Minister of the Republic of India. Mamata is popularly known as "Didi" - the elder sister to all her followers in West Bengal. Her oratory was all about connecting with ordinary people with ordinary dreams. She is noted for her opposition to Special Economic Zones and industrialization in West Bengal at the cost of agriculturalists and laborers.

Contents [hide] 1 Early life and education 2 Political Career with Congress 3 Trinamool Congress 4 As Railway Minister During First Tenure 4.1 After differences with NDA 5 Nandigram 6 Victory in 2009 Indian Parliamentary Election 7 As Railway Minister During Second Tenure 8 2010 Municipality Elections 9 References 10 External links

[edit] Early life and education

Mamata Banerjee was born to Shri Promileswar Banerjee and Smt. Gayetri Banerjee on 5 January 1955, in Calcutta (now Kolkata), West Bengal, India. She grew up from a lower middle-class family and then started her political career with the Congress. And, as a young woman in the 1970s, she quickly rose in the ranks to become the general secretary of the state Mahila Congress (1976-80). She hasn't received a classy upbringing. Her father couldn't send her to an English-medium school. She was a college-going adult in the mid-seventies when politics in Bengal had begun to accommodate the riffraff. Uninhibited, she jumped up on the bonnet of Jaiprakash Narayan's car. Throughout her political life she maintained an austere lifestyle and never spends money on clothes, cosmetics and jewellery and slung a cotton bag on her shoulder. Mamata had another dream and loved the political rostrum and wanted to stand at a height which gave her sense of a pedestal and wanted to address an audience who'd believe her. Not that she carried the genes of a Demosthenes. She has remained single throughout her life.^[1][2]

Later, she attended Calcutta University studying Arts and attaining bachelor's and master's degrees. Her B.Ed. was done from the Sikshayatan College, Calcutta and M.A. from the University of Calcutta respectively. Later, she completed LL.B. from the Jogesh Chandra Choudhury College of Law, Kolkata.^[3]

[edit] Political Career with Congress

She started her political career with Congress(I), and as a young woman in the 1970s, she quickly rose in the ranks of the local Congress group, and remained the General Secretary of Mahila Congress (I), West Bengal, from 1976 to 1980.^[4] In the 1984 general election, she became one of India's youngest parliamentarians ever, beating veteran Communist politician Somnath Chatterjee, from the Jadavpur parliamentary Constituency in West Bengal. She also became the General-Secretary of the All India Youth Congress. Losing her seat in 1989 in an anti-Congress wave, she was back in 1991 general elections, having settled into the Calcutta South constituency. She retained the Kolkata South seat in the 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004 and 2009 general elections.

In the Rao government formed in 1991, Mamata Banerjee was made the Union Minister of State for Human Resources Development, Youth Affairs and Sports, and Women and Child Development. As the sports minister, she announced that she would resign, and protested in a rally at the Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata, against Government's indifference towards her proposal to improve sports in the country(this never happened).^[5] She was discharged of her portfolios in 1993. In April 1996, she alleged that Congress was behaving as a stooge of the CPI-M in West Bengal. She claimed that she was the lone voice of protest and wanted a "clean Congress". At a public rally at Alipore in Kolkata, Mamata Banerjee wrapped a black shawl around her neck and threatened to make a noose with it.^[6] In July 1996, she squatted at the well of Lok Sabha to protest against the hike in petroleum price, though she was a part of the Government. In that very time she clasped the coller of Amar singh, MP of Samajwadi Party, in the well of the parliament. In February 1997, on the day of railway budget presentation in Lok Sabha, Mamata Banerjee threw her shawl at the railway minister Ram Vilas Paswan for ignoring West Bengal and announced her resignation. The speaker, P. A. Sangma, did not accept her resignation and asked her to apologize. Later she came back as Santosh Mohan Deb mediated.

[edit] Trinamool Congress

Flag of Trinamool Congress

In 1997, Mamata Banerjee came out of the Congress Party in West Bengal and established the All India Trinamool Congress. It quickly became the primary opposition to the long-standing Communist government in the state. On 11 December 1998, she controversially held a Samajwadi Party MP, Daroga Prasad Saroj, by the collar and dragged him out of the well of the Lok Sabha to prevent him from protesting against the Women's Reservation bill.^[7]

In 1999, she joined the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government and was allocated the Railways Ministry.

[edit] As Railway Minister During First Tenure

In 2000, Mamata Banerjee presented her first Railway Budget. In it she fulfilled many of her promises to her home state West Bengal.^[8] She introduced a new biweekly New Delhi-Sealdah Rajdhani Express train and four express trains connecting various parts of West Bengal, namely the Howrah-Purulia Express, Sealdah-New Jalpaiguri Express, Shalimar-Bankura Express and the Sealdah-Amritsar Superfast Express (weekly).^[8] She also increased the frequency of the Pune-Howrah Azad Hind Express and extension of at least three express train services. Work on the Digha-Howrah Express service also hastened during her brief tenure.^[9]

She started non-stop trains called Duronto Express; from one major station to another, without any stops in between. Fully Air Conditioned Chair Car Trains called Yuva Express were also started in her tenure.

She also focused on developing tourism, enabling the Darjeeling-Himalayan section with two additional locomotives and proposing the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited. She also commented that India should play a pivotal role in the Trans-Asian Railway and that rail links between Bangladesh and Nepal would be reintroduced. In all, she introduced 19 new trains for the 2000–2001 fiscal year.^[9]

[edit] After differences with NDA

In early 2001, after making allegations against the BJP, she walked out of the NDA cabinet and allied with the Congress Party for West Bengal's 2001 elections, amidst speculation that the move could unseat the Communist government. She returned to the cabinet in January 2004, holding the Ministry of Coal and Mines portfolios until the 2004 Elections, in which she was the only Trinamool Congress member to win a Parliament seat from West Bengal.

On 20 October 2005, she protested against the industrialization policy of the Buddhadev Bhattacharya government in West Bengal. Benny Santoso, CEO of the Indonesia-based Salim Group had pledged a large investment to West Bengal, and the West Bengal government had given him farmland in Howrah, sparking protest. Despite soaking rain, Mamata and other Trinamool Congress members stood in front of the Taj Hotel where Santoso had arrived, shut out by the police. Later, she and supporters followed Santoso's convoy. A planned "black flag" protest was avoided, when the government had Santoso arrive 3 hours ahead of schedule.^[10][11]

Mamata Banerjee suffered further setbacks in 2005, when her party lost control of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation and the sitting Mayor defected from her party. In 2006, the Trinamool Congress was defeated in West Bengal's Assembly Elections, losing more than half of its sitting members.

On 4 August 2006, she hurled her resignation paper at the deputy speaker Charanjit Singh Atwal in Lok Sabha. The provocation was the speaker's (Somnath Catterjee) rejection of her adjournment motion on illegal infiltration by Bangladeshi's in West Bengal. The motion was turned down by the speaker on the ground that it was not in proper format.^[12][13].

In November 2006, Mamata Banerjee was forcibly stopped on her way to Singur for a rally against a proposed Tata Motors car project. Mamata reached the West Bengal assembly and protested at the venue. She addressed a press conference at the assembly and announced a 12-hour shutdown by her party on Friday.^[14] The Trinamul Congress MLAs protested by damaging furniture and microphones in the West Bengal Assembly.^{[15] [14]} A major strike was called on 14 December 2006.

Now in parliament election 2009 where TMC was with alliance with UPA and people of WestBengal acted majorly against the Left front and elected Congress-TMC alliance in 26 seats, which made Mamata Banerjee again the Indian Railway Minister for next 5 years.

In the 2010 Municipal Elections in West Bengal, TMC won KOLKATA CORPORATION in a margin of 62 seats.Also won Bidhan Nagar Corporation in 16-9 seats margin.

[edit] Nandigram

Main article: Nandigram violence

The West Bengal government wanted to start a chemical hub in the Nandigram area for employment generation. The Haldia Development authority headed by Mr. Laxman Seth hosted a notice giving the idea of land acquisition in Nandigram.^[16][17] Trinamool Congress started a blockade. The Chief minister demanded the notice be torn off.^[18] On 14 March the cops stared firing and killed 14 villagers, when cops were sent to remove the blockade of around 6 months by Mamata Banerjee's violent movement there. Her party agitated local people to stand against authority.^[19] Many common people were homeless due to this political carnage.^[20] A large number of Intellectuals protested on the streets and this incident gave birth of a new movement to ouster the left from government headed by the CPI(M).^[21][22][23] Mamata Banerjee wrote letters to the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil to stop the violence allegedly promoted by CPI(M) in Nandigram.^[24][25][26] Agitation in Nandigram has subsided, after the State Govt. shelved the proposed chemical hub project. Mamata Banerjee gained a huge political benefit from all this.^[27]

[edit] Victory in 2009 Indian Parliamentary Election

Trinamool congress performed well in the 2009 parliamentary election, bagging 19 MP seats, among them 5 women (including her), reiterating her faith in the Women's Reservation Bill. It's allies Congress and SUCI also got 6 and 1 MP seats respectively. This is the best performance by any opposition party in West Bengal since the start of the left regime. Till date the congress victory of 16 seats in 1984, by the sympathy vote after the death of Mrs. Indira Gandhi, was considered the best opposition show.

[edit] As Railway Minister During Second Tenure

In 2009, Mamata Banerjee became Railway Minister for the second time. After becoming railway minister for the second time, Mamata Banerjee declared many new initiatives in the Railway Budget 2009. She decided to develop about 50 stations as world class stations with international level facilities. These will be developed, through innovative financing and in Public Private Partnership mode. Besides, she also declared railway's decision to develop more 375 stations as Adarsh(Ideal) Stations. She also announced the construction of Multi-functional Complexes in station premises for providing rail users facilities like shopping, food stalls and restaurants, book stalls, PCO/STD/ISD/Fax booths, medicine & variety stores, budget hotels, underground parking etc. She announced that this complexes will be built in Public-Private Partnership. Besides, she also decided to set up Scholarships for higher education of girl children of group D staff for promoting their economic independence. She proposed to open seven Nursing Colleges on Railway land.^[28] She also introduced some new concept of Trains like "Duranta", "Yuva" in budget. Now "Duranta" is the fastest train service in India.^[29] To relieve women passengers during rush hour,Mamata started Ladies Special Train on 19 July between Bandel and Howrah.^[30] Later, some more Ladies Special has been introduced by her, e.g. Kalyani-Sealdah, Panvel-Mumabi CST.^[31]

Mamata Banerjee flagged off the Duronto Express – a non-stop train, fastest train of India between Sealdah and New Delhi on 18 September.^[32] Super fast Duronto Express train between Chennai and New Delhi was introduced on 21 September. She also took steps to spread railway in terror hit regions of Kashmir. Anantnag-Qadigund Railway line was inaugurated in October.^[33]

On 7 February 2010, Banerjee will start as many as nineteen new train services.^[34] Due to repeated sexual harassment and/or sexual assault of India's women commuters, eight trains will be designated as women-only.^[35]

[edit] 2010 Municipality Elections

Mamata Banerjee showed an outstanding performance in the civic elections. Her party single handedly won 95 out of 141 wards in Kolkata, 16 out of 25 in Saltlake and many others in districts. Left has its worst performance ever and signs are visible of a change in regime in 2011 State Assembly election.

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"THE CITIZENSHIP AMENDMENT ACT-2003 IS A CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT THE EN MASSE HOMICIDE OF MULNIVASIES IN GENERAL AND MIGRATARY BENGALEES OF EAST BENGAL IN PARTICULAR SETTLED PERMANENTLY IN VARIOUS PLACES AND PARTS OF INDIA".
Addressing the last session of the 1st day of the 22nd National Convention held at Agra, Mr. Waman Meshram says that the subject designed for this session is very important in view of Nationwide Movement. The citizenship Amendment Act. 2003 alternatively as long as this Act remains applicable which has deprived the migratory Bengalis from their rights for citizenship, their problem could not be/would not be sorted out and solved until and unless it is seen to combine with the movement of our great dignitaries and personalities of Bengolies and linking it with the prospective to revive it in the form shape thereof as the Nationwide Movement. These two enter-linked subjects have been designed to discuss and debate there on.
The subject is extremely serious. We will have to go in deep about the events surrounded this matter. It is historical fact that in 1946 the elections of assemblies were being conducted. Gandhi and Congress both were not in favor that Baba Saheb should have an opportunity to represent on behalf of the untouchables of India and even widely declared that not only door even windows were closed for his entry into the constituent Assembly. In Maharastra at was difficult for Baba Saheb to stand and be elected to the constituent Assembly. In such hard situation then prevalent, Mr. Jogendra Nath Mandal assured Baba Sahab to make him elected to the constituent Assembly. Though Mr. Jogendra Nath Mandal was the candidate yet he sacrificed his interest and managed to have elected Baba Saheb to the constituent assembly even in spite of the fact that the Bengal Region was populated in majority by Muslims who were politically in rule these prevailing there circumstances were tangible. Mr. Jogendra Nath Mandal who represented Khulna, Jassor, Borisal and Faridpur and by other colleges as there was 70% population of our people of Mulnivasies, made the base for Babasaheb to be elected and succeeded in his efforts. Hopes of Gandhi and his congress shattered. Babasaheb was made to represent us in the constituent Assembly. This was due to the conscious efforts and foresightedness of Mr. Jogendra Nath Mandal.

Imaginatively many facts emerged out of the circle of events. Had Babasaheb been not managed to have been elected to constituent assembly, he would have not been recognised as the representative of the oppressed and exploited communities. It was a crusade against our enemies Gandhi and congress. Congress under compulsion had to compromise with Babasaheb. It could be sensed an extremely situation. Hopes of Babasaheb could have crumbled, would have no opportunity to represent us and offered the chairmanship to construct the constitution of India. It is justly presumed that played a significant role to strengthen us legally and constitutionally. It would not be exaggeration to say that we the Mulnivasi of the country have been saved from the social slavery by our Bengali Brothers.
Situation so prevailed in the past was the pre thought conspiracy to commit genocide. No we are in a position to stand and struggle for constitutional rights we all Mulnivasies need compulsorily and constitutionally to realize the sense of unity in disparity.

It is this quite understandable that our respected leader Mr. Jogendra Nath Mandal served the humanity played extremely important role faced the tactful conspiracy of Gandhi Nehru and Rajendra Prasad who were deeply shocked. So these congress people gave the East Bengal, where 70% population was of our people, in Partition of India. It was the then law of the British Parliament that the division of India would be made on the basis of population. The basis of division of India was the majority of Muslims and non-Muslims. The basis was percentage formula, surprisingly the East Bengal was having the 70% population of Mulnivasi, was parted with to form the East Pakistan. This was retaliations. Our migratory 3 crores Bengali had become and have been still becoming the victim of the discrimination of the Brahaminical click, who in retaliation agreed to hand over the abundantly inhabited area of the East Bengal to Muslim, where they were in minority. Thus the East Pakistan created and our brothers migrated from the East Bengal had become the victim of atrocities.

Now the time has come to think over our problem especially the migratory Bengali who were never allowed to settled in the West Bengal after the partitions by the Brahaminically dominated Government there. This was due to the fact that had they been allowed to resettle in the West Bengal areas there would have emerged political establishment there. The three crores migrated Bengali would have emerged a political force menace to the communist Brahaminical Government. These migratory Bengali brothers were compelled to settle in other parts and places of the country. Where they have been living in the precarious condition without having the constitutional rights, specially the right to citizenship scattered and spread our Bangali brothers have been facing the of starvation and recination contrarily non-Muslim who migrated from West Pakistan-Punjab Sindh and other parts thereof, were resettled loans and places were provided to them who are more prosperous in comparison to the migratory Bengali brothers. Even the properties left by these people had non-been exchanged and transferred till today these migratory Bengali Brothers have been living in the poor condition in the West Bangal and even other states of the country. This was due to reason that our great leaders of Bengal managed to send by election Bababaheb to the constituent assembly of the country where the proved the heavy weight to others representatives of the Congress. Babasaheb could control the Constituent Assembly due to his deep knowledge and wisdom.

Further Mr. Meshram gave an example saying that one of our representative from Maharashtra state Barrister Jaykar was asked to speak on the objection Regulation placed by Mr. Neheru in the Parliament. Barrister Jayakar was discouraged created hue and cry and ridiculed by raising loud voice and beating the tables. Barrister Jayakar was so disgusted and depressed and he resigned from the membership of the constituent Assembly and there after he never turned to participate in the proceedings. Congress also pre-planned to discourage Babasaheb by displaying the unprecedented behavior as done with Barrister Jayakar.

Babasaheb surprised to note to provide the early opportunity to speak, nevertheless being unprepared Babasaheb delivered his speech in the Parliament as requested by Dr. Rajendra Prasad. Babasaheb was so impressive and to the point that it was appreciated with beating to tables. The cassette of this speech is available in record. This speech was informative and valuable. Babasaheb being the chairman of the Drafting Committee of the constitution faced situation individually with the courage and devotion. The provisions inserted in the frame-work constitute by Babasaheb was document. It was rather a "Constitutional Revolution. He successfully drafted the constitutional provision and did away with the supremacy of the Brahaminical rule.
Broadly speaking the supremacy in the constituent Assembly of Babasaheb who drafted the constitution, was his prime role. Socio-academic scenario changed, awareness among us spread. Our people had and have the opportunities for all round development. Forest flourished by virtue of our labor and wisdom. Citizenship conferred upon us. Brahamin click was perplexed and remained persistently perturbed. This conspired act of all Brahimin clicks- of Congress-BJP and Communists brought this black act, specifically to deprived the migratory Bengali mulnivasi from their rights of citizenship. Plans were conspired to desert, destabilize and destroy them. Support of media was taken detrimentally. It was started to say and publish that the migratory Bengali are intruder traitor and the danger to the people of India. How it could be said. The Brahaminical click was not to accept them as the Indian personnel due to the political reasons. Their huge assembly in India would have jeopardized their means of living, their existence and identity. In the given circumstance then prevalent, it can conveniently be taken note thereof that disunited migratory Bengali become so desperate that they could hardly raise their voice against their miseries. Stranded this class of destitute Bengali was thrown on the mercy of the Govt. machinery controlled and run by at the state of West Bengal and at Centre the citizenship amendment act was passed so cleverly and cautiously that even today most of us are not aware about its pros and cons. In fact Babasaheb had to be nominated as the Chairman of the Drafting Committee as a result of condition imposed by the British Rulers in India. It was done so under compulsion and compromise. Babasaheb was exclusively a great problem for Gandhi, Congress and its leaders. Whatever Babasaheb had done by drafting the constitution, left a significant reflection. This is for our information and understanding, Babasaheb was the architect. Provisions inserted in the constitution are master pieces which could be termed as a constitutional Revolution, rule of Brahaminical tradition and socio-religious sanction made to merge in duets.
Babasaheb being the chairman of the Drafting Committee and nominee of the oppressed people was a great danger to the Congress. Our people of the undivided Bengal elected Babasaheb to represent in the Constituent Assembly of India. The irritated Congress click divided the Bengal into two parts East Bengal and West Bengal. East Bengal was given to Pakistan though it was deeply populated by SC ST and OBC. The division was against the policy whereby it was provisioned that only those areas of Bengal inhabited by 70% of the untouchable and touchable oppressed communities would be handed over to India. But due to the part was played by Brahamins and tactfully agreed to partition like this as they knew that their supremacy was at stake and danger to their existence. The partition of the Bengal posed multiple problems to our people who became refugee. No shelter was provided, compelled to settle in forest and remote areas and forced to settle in other states so that they may not have the opportunity to live together.

It was sensed by the communist Brahamins to deprive the migratory Bengalis from their right to citizenship and hence these Brahaminical click of CPM, Congress and BJP came together and the citizenship amendment Act 2003 was in acted. All migratory Bangalis mostly Non-Muslim were declared publicly as intruder and traitor. Had these migratory become Muslim, why they would apply their surname as Biswas, Malik, Sarkar and Mandal. This reflects they are not Muslims the matter is not of the Muslim intruder. It is the matter of migratory SC, ST and other like backward classes.

Mr. Meshram further states. I deeply studied the matter explore and analyze the situation problems of our Bengali migratory brothers. I chalked out the special plan to cope with our brother's problems so computationally created by Brahaminical forces. The counter plan made to make aware our Bengali Brothers about their hidden problems and it was divulged that BAMCEF to is their organization for their safety and cause. This was done to mingle with us. We are also brothers and stand in support and for their safety. Brahaminical click knew the matter hidden behind the act, our people are not aware that the matter is serious for our maintained and existence.
Under phases of the counter plan a conference on 18 and 19 Sept., 2005 on national level was managed to hold at Nagpur to highlight the pros and cons of the Act. Before this convention, the Bureaucrat Machinery acting under the instruction of the Brahanimical click stopped the implementation of Act. Migratory people of Bengal were perplexed of being ousted and were under horror. This conference which simply discussed the problem of the migratory Bengali showed the fruitful results. Atrocities on them stopped. Administrative machinery stopped the implementation of provisions of the Act. Most of us think differently BAMCEF Act strategically with the planned way. But the Govt. of India always have the capacity to sense the public protest due to the political reasons and from the intelligent machinery. The Act is still in existence. Only its implementation has been restrected. But our problem is to abrogate the Act in to. Our Bengali brothers should appropriately know their problem is our problem and the same persists. A tight vegil there on is always required. So to keep matter alive. I know the character of the enemy who will never sit silent. Like wise we should also active and alert owing to this reason this subject was made for the wide and comprehensive discussions.

We all should understand that so long as Act is in existence, our calamity will remain in existence. Our people may the made victim every now and then due to this Act as the Govt. machinery has the force to apply on us. Action under Act now stands still but our Bangali brothers have been not conferred the right to citizenship till now. UNO has the law there about that not a single man can live without the right of citizenship right. I was apprised of by Justice Sawant there about. It follows that citizenship is the birth right and cannot be snatched away. It is the matter of the human right none could be deprived to exercise it. The constitution has also provided safeguards therefore our Bengali brothers who have reported their presence in this convention should not understand, that their problem stand wiped out due to the brake on the implementation of Act. Our enemy may have the alternative strategy for this application we will have our own strategy to cope with the problem. The strategy is that we will have to link our action plan and strategy with the movement launched by Great Peoples of the Bengal. Specifically Guru Chand Gauri Chand launched the movement for this cause and purpose which was followed by Mr. Jogendra Nath Mandal. This movement should be revived linking it with this nation wide movement.

The action plan for the revival of the movement is to trace out our Bengali Brothers scattered and settled in various states of the country to aware them and make them join us, make them part of the organization. Units branch and camps would managed for them who are more than 2 corers in India. Among them there are 2 lakes medical practioners who have to doing the Chandsi-Dawakhana and Ayurvedic dispensary and small hospitals all over the country. Agra has also such dispensaries in many numbers. Economic condition of such Bengali even being not the citizen of India we will make the social network for them through out the country. It will and may develop the human resources and financial resources in a large number in coming times.

This problem of the right to citizenship has brought for us the great opportunity to lay the foundation of the socio-eco. force. Calamities are always the test to judge our strength and to seek justice against injustice. I am solidly thinking to make the strategy which should be brought home to all of us. Wherever you happen to come across such Chandsi medical practitioners, contact and make them aware about this long standing perplexity and problem as they are our people. I say that our workers should make them aware about the identity and existence of BAMCEF which is for them and for their security. We should have made up mind to support them and are not separate from us. This prime necessity in the society we belong to. In every area stage and steps in every district tehsil and township is indispensable to establish our mutual recognition. This will produce human energy and power to launch the nationwide movement for which we have the commitment and socio-moral obligation. After the partition and the formation of Pakistan many people migrated from Sindh and Punjab, who were made to settle here and are in prosperity. One of them a Sindhi Lai Krishan Advani came, became the great leader and has been dreaming to be the Prime Minister of the country, like were I. K. Gujral a refugee from the Punjab had been the Prime Minister of the country. Jyoti Basu has been Chief Minister of the West Bengal. Likewise the present Chief Minister of the state of West Bengal is Buddha Dev Bhattacharya. These both are refugees migrated from the East Pakistan! Contrarely our Bengali Mulnivasi brothers are made to chide dust, brought in the vicinity of starvation and renunation. The grave loss could be anticipated that our migrated Bengali being our kith and kens compelled to remain aloof and distinct from their brothers living in the country. This fact needs the wide publicity and propaganda.

Further I will also tell something more in this context. When I toured to the West Bengal, I met some SC's, ST's and OBC migrated persons who told me they are Hindus. I told them that those who have made laws, do not recognize you as Hindu, you are simply refugees and hence you have no right to be called the citizens of India. Brahamin click of CPM, Congress and BJP who conspired and enacted the Citizenship Amendment Act 2003 which passed during the NDA regime. Brahmin is Brahmin first whether it is Congress BJP or CPM. It means that their identity and interest are of the prime phenomenon. In the Durban conference on the creamy layer discussion all the Brahmin participants irrespective of their parties united. Brahmin is a Brahmin. He is neither Communist nor Socialist, Gandhivadi, Sanatani or Progressive. We have noted from the Durban conference held in South Africa and the enactment of the citizenship Amendment Act 2003. Had he been Gandhivadi, he would have not assassinated Gandhi. We should have attention on there facts.

Broadly speaking it is the necessity of the time to make all migrated Bengali Brothers, especially Chandsi Mediocrities in the fold of the organization.
They can also become the part and partial of our organization where is their future in all walks of life social, political, economic and cultural. We have developed the concept of Mulnivasi for the unanimity of purpose and the of action. We have designed a casteless society a society for the welfare of the poor, a society for the oppressed and neglected.

I remind you that this is risky affair. Our enemy propagates through media and print media publicly and widely concealing the rality that the migrated Bengali brothers are traitor and to sabotage the country. This is being propagated openly but fact is this that they (Brahamins) are not the aboriginal Indians. They are not the Mulnivasi of our land and our country.

In the conference that if these migratory Bengali are allot accepted as the citizen of India, the matter would take violent and serious change in the future. BAMCEF is going to take it its own problem. Nevertheless this migratory Bengali problem is our joint problem and vicariously be handled. I remind you that Babasaheb election managed to facilitate the entry in the constituent Assembly was boom for all of us. This was and could be possible due to the sense and dedicated efforts of our Great Bengali Dignitaries. Side by side BAMCEF promise and take the commitment that we would take issue to the UNO and raise it before the international human rights commission situated at Geneva. We are at more to make the documentation there on to stand a struggle for this purpose.

In the end, I sincerely expect that all delegates participated in the 22nd national Convention go to the field propagate about this burning problem and stand by these oppressed and neglected migratory Bengali brothers and take their cooperation. We are proceeding to build up the nationwide movement. With this I take leave.
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Curfew in Kashmir enters fourth day

Srinagar continued to wear a deserted look on Friday as paramilitary forces, along with the Army personnel,were on guard on the fourth day of the curfew.

Meanwhile,the spokesperson of the CRPF,Manas Ranjan,requested citizens to abide by the law and not believe in rumours spread to incite the anti-India sentiments of the people.

Civilians were warned not to go outdoors as soldiers quickly downed shutters of shops that opened early on Thursday to enable people to buy necessities. Authorities also closed schools and colleges after separatists appealed to students to hold protests.

Raj Thackeray fumes over boundary issue

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray Friday accused the central government of betraying the state over the border row with Karnataka and said Marathi leaders in Delhi did not pursue the case effectively.

Speaking to mediapersons here after addressing a party meet, Thackeray said that leaders from the state had 'betrayed' the people of Maharashtra.

'Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar is lost in cricket, he is in the dark about the boundary row. Two (former) railway ministers from the state (Madhu Dandavate and Ram Naik) hardly did anything for the people of their state. Other leaders from the state are cowed down by central leaders,' Thackeray said.

In an affadavit to the Supreme Court Thursday, the central government dismissed Maharashtra's claim to 814 villages in Belgaum, Gulbarga, Karwar and Bidar districts of Karnataka that have mostly Marathi speakers.

Taking a swipe at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Thackeray said the present party president, Nitin Gadkari, is a Maharrashtrian. 'Then whey is he silent on the boundary issue?'

Thackeray also sought to know why the Shiv Sena did not raise the issue when the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) ruled India 1998-2004.

'The Maharashtra-Karnataka boundary issue should have been settled once and for all during the NDA regime. Why was it not done?'

Alleging that the state had always got a raw deal, Thackeray said: 'Be it the boundary issue, railways, or water-sharing issue with other states, injustice has always been meted out to Maharashtra.'

In its affidavit, the central government told the apex court that just because most people in the border districts speak Marathi was not ground enough for the areas to be appended to Maharashtra.

Gadkari refuses to apologise over Afzal Guru 'son-in-law' remark

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari said Friday that he would not apologize for his remark that Parliament attack case convict Afzal Guru was a "son-in-law" of the Congress party.

"I have said nothing wrong. I am sticking to my stand and so there is no need (to apologize)," Gadkari said when asked by a reporter here that the Congress had sought an apology for his comment.

He alleged that the government was sitting on the file relating to execution of Guru for the last four years.

"I have not made a wrong statement. They (Congress) should rather give a reply as to why they are not executing the orders of the Supreme Court," he said.

During the course of addressing a rally, Gadkari had asked on Thursday, "Is Afzal Guru a son-in-law of the Congress and why is he being given special treatment?"

The Congress said Gadkari had lost his mind and that he needed serious help.

"The remark smacks of obscenity, obnoxiousness and obtuseness," Congress spokesman Manish Tiwari said in New Delhi.

Tiwari further said, "It is very obvious that the esteemed president of the BJP has lost it completely. The BJP should take pity on him and deposit him into a psychiatric facility. The man needs serious help."

66 pc women faced sexual harassment last year: Survey
Two out of three women in Delhi have suffered sexual harassment at least 2-5 times in the last year. This was revealed in a joint survey report released by NGO Jagori, United Nations Development Fund for Women and UN Habitat.

The survey 'Safe Cities Baseline Survey- Delhi 2010' gathered and analysed information about the nature and forms of gender based violence and harassment faced by women, the role of governing agencies and the police in safeguarding women's rights and societal perceptions and attitudes towards sexual harassment. It had a total sample of 5010 people. This survey is the first of its kind and is unique for including the perceptions and experiences of men regarding the issue. It looked at harassment of women in Delhi , highlighting concerns relating to public spaces in the city.

More than 80 per cent of the respondents reported incidents of verbal harassment, with 45 per cent women reporting incidents of stalking. Women claimed to suffer maximum harassment in the marketplace followed closely by metro stations and areas around schools and colleges. Roadsides and public transport are places where women are most vulnerable to harassment. The survey found school and college students to be most vulnerable to harassment, though women across all categories face harassment.

The main reasons for sexual harassment identified by the survey include lack of gender friendly and functional infrastructure such as adequate lighting, side walks and safe public toilets; open usage of alcohol and drugs by men; and the lack of effective and visible police presence. 54 per cent of women reported feeling unsafe and vulnerable in crowded public transport and bus stops.

Female respondents expressed a dismal lack of confidence in the police to curb harassment, with only 0.8 per cent reporting such incidents to the authorities. The vast majority responded to harassment by confronting the perpetrator themselves or by seeking help from family and friends. The lack of faith in the police extended across all occupational groups.

The report on the findings of the survey included a number of recommendations like improving public infrastructure such as streetlights,sidewalks and privacy of public women's toilets; publicising the use of helplines, deploying policemen and sensitising the public.

Helplines are: 23317002/004, 23411091.

Statement on the fast worsening situation in Kashmir

As concerned Indian citizens some of whom played a role in solving the Amarnath-related crisis two years back, we are seriously worried at the fast deteriorating situation in the Valley of Kashmir which has witnessed the senseless killing of over two dozen innocent youth by the security forces in as many days. The army has now been directly deployed in many areas of the Valley in a shameful attempt to cover up for the utter political failure of both the central and state governments. This is evident in both the Omar Abdullah government's inability to handle the situation and the central government's lack of ideas and initiatives. The Prime Minister's recent visit to the Valley only underlined the visionless policy of protecting the status quo at any cost.

With all emphasis at our command, we urge the central government to at once send the army back to the barracks and out of all inhabited areas in the Valley, release all arrested political leaders, activists and protesters, repeal the black AFPSA which has allowed the army to kill with impunity, and urgently start a real dialogue with both the stakeholders in the Valley as well as with Pakistan to solve this vexed issue once and for all. We believe the situation in Kashmir demands a political, not a military, solution. We hope the UPA-II will not leave this issue burning for another generation to solve it.

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Time says sorry to Indian-Americans

A humour column that appeared in the July 5 edition of Time magazine sparked outrage and allegations of racism among the Indian-American community, prompting the article's author, Joel Stein, and the magazine to issue embarrassed public apologies.
The article, titled "My Own Private India" was meant to be a funny description of how an influx of Indian immigrants has transformed Stein's hometown of Edison, New Jersey.
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Nearly a third of Edison's population is of Indian descent. But Stein's jokes - which include riffs on the spiciness of Indian food, large Indian families, hate crimes that occurred in the 1980s against Indian-Americans, and India's poverty - prompted furious petitions and letters from Indian-Americans.
The magazine ran an apology on the same day, saying, "[The article] was in no way intended to cause offense." Stein wrote in the original article: "When I was a kid, a few engineers and doctors from Gujarat moved to Edison... For a while, we assumed all Indians were geniuses.... In the 1980s, the doctors and engineers brought over their merchant cousins... In the 1990s, the not-as-brilliant merchants brought their even-less-bright cousins, and we started to understand why India is so damn poor."
But his most controversial joke took aim at Dotbusters, thugs who perpetrated violent hate crimes against Indian Americans in Edison in the 1980's. Stein wrote, "My townsfolk started calling the new Edisonians' dot heads.'... In retrospect, I question just how good our schools were if 'dot heads' was the best racist insult we could come up with for a group of people whose gods have multiple arms and an elephant nose."
The advocacy group South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) launched an online petition asking the editors of Time to organise a panel discussing the article's impact and to dedicate a special space in the magazine's upcoming edition to response from the Indian-American community.
Hollywood actor Kal Penn shot off a column in the online magazine The Huffington Post, in which he slammed Stein's article for using cliche jokes.
Click here to read Kal Penn's column
In an addendum dated July 2, Stein wrote, "I was trying to explain how, as someone who believes immigration has enriched American life ... I was shocked I could feel a tiny bit uncomfortable with my changing town when I went to visit it."

Nirupama Rao talks with Dalai Lama

Dharamsala, July 10 (IANS) A week after National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon visited Beijing, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao held closed-door talks with the Dalai Lama here Saturday, with a Tibetan official saying 'issues of common interest' were discussed.
The talks at the official palace of the Tibetan spiritual leader lasted about 90 minutes, said an official.
'At the closed-door meeting, high-ranking officials of the government-in-exile including its prime minister Samdhong Rinpoche participated,' added the official.
Tenzin Taklha, joint secretary in the Dalai Lama's office, told IANS: 'Issues of common interest were discussed at the meeting.' He did not elaborate.
Rao flew into Dharamsala around 2.15 p.m. and headed straight to the headquarters of the Tibetan government-in-exile, which is not recognised by any country. Her flight was late by an hour.
At the airport, Rao refused to take questions from media persons.
Officials of the external affairs ministry in New Delhi refused to comment on the meeting and the purpose of Rao's visit.
The timing of the meeting between the Dalai Lama and Rao, a former ambsassador to China, comes days after Menon visited the Chinese capital as the prime minister's special envoy and met the Chinese leadership.
Rao's meeting with the Dalai Lama comes amid China's nuclear deal with Pakistan. There are other areas of differences between the two countries, which fought a war over their border dispute in 1962.
While no one from the Indian government or the Dalai Lama's office was willing to comment on the meeting, China experts say there could be a larger message behind it.
'Whenever there is a perception of China crossing the red lines of core sovereignty-related issues, we react to it by activating the Tibet card,' Srikanth Kondapalli, a China expert at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, told IANS.
'This is part of shadow boxing. It's a way of signalling to Beijing India's displeasure over some recent issues like (China's decision to issue) separate visas for Kashmiris,' he added.
A source in the Dalai Lama's office said earlier that Rao would discuss issues relating to Tibetan exiles with the Nobel Laureate.
India follows one-China policy and recognizes Tibet as a part of China.
The Dalai Lama, who believes in the 'middle-path' policy that demands greater autonomy for the Tibetans, is viewed by the Chinese as a 'traitor' who is bent on splitting Tibet from China.
Some 140,000 Tibetans now live in exile, over 100,000 of them in different parts of India. Over six million Tibetans live in Tibet.

Bhopal gas tragedy a shameful event: Kamal Nath

New Delhi, Jul 10 (PTI) Terming the Bhopal gas tragedy as a "shameful event", Union Minister Kamal Nath today stressed on the need of rising above political lines and concentrate on remedial measures. "It was a shameful event because it happened.
And for all these years whether polity or governance was at fault.
neglect, dereliction and lack of understanding which makes it very shameful," he said addressing a seminar on the world''s worst industrial disaster.
Reacting to the charges made by Madhya Pradesh Minister for Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Babulal Gaur that the UPA government has ignored survivors of the tragedy, Nath said the blame game would not help, though it can go on for ever. "What is appropriate should be done.
It is crucial.
Babulal Gaur can blame me and I can blame him.
We have to rise above this.
and take steps -- legal, punitive issues.
," he said adding the toxic waste has to be removed from the site. Gaur spoke before him at the seminar "Justice to Bhopal: Too Little Too Late.
" Stressing on the need to pre-empt similar accidents, he said the Centre and state governments should be able to deal with consequences of such tragedies. "Bhopal is a signal for both the government of India and state governments.
we have to institutionally strengthen the state governments and the government of India needs to bring in legislations," the Union Transport and Highways Minister said. Referring to the water contamination around the defunct Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, he said it could lead to a fresh disaster of "similar proportions".
He said those responsible for the biggest man-made tragedy in the world should be punished. "Who is that somebody? Who is responsible should be hauled up and punished," he said.
Kamal Nath said while he respected the decisions of the judiciary, he has "not read such a judgement.
I don''t comment on a Supreme Court judgement".
He said a curative petition in the apex court can "undo the neglect and dereliction of the last 25 years." He said it would also be a "tribute" to those who have suffered from the incident.
Slamming some MNCs, he said they indulge in "dirty work" by dumping toxic waste in developing countries. He said as an Environment Minister he had worked towards checking the practice and introduced the concept of impact assessment.
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Remembering Marichjhapi Massacre, 1979

   
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Thousands of Dalit refugees were killed by the West Bengal government, in one of the biggest human rights violation in post independent India. Due to the conspiratorial silence of the Bengali civil society not much is know to outsiders.

Below are the excerpts from an article, 'Refugee Resettlement in Forest Reserves: West Bengal Policy Reversal and the Marichjapi Massacre' written by Ross Mallick, published in The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 58, No. 1 (Feb. 1999).

The events leading up to the refugee massacre revealed a trail of communal and class conflict that had its roots many
In the colonial period, the East Bengal Namasudra movement had been one of the most powerful and politically mobilized Untouchable movements in India and in alliance with the more numerous Muslims, had kept the Bengal Congress Party in opposition from the 1920s. The exclusion of high-caste Hindus from power led to the Hindu elite and eventually the Congress Party pressing for partition of the province at independence, so that at least the western half would return to their control.
With the partition of India it was the upper-caste landed elite who were the most threatened by their tenants and who had the wherewithal in education and assets to migrate to India. Even those not as well off had the connections to make a fairly rapid adjustment in India.
The first waves of refugees were traditional upper caste elite. Those who lacked town houses and property in India squatted on public and private land in Calcutta and other areas, and resisted all attempts to evict them. The failure of the Congress government to grant them squatters' ownership and its attempts at eviction provided the Communist opposition with a ready following among the refugees, who gradually came to be organized by Communist-front organizations. Faced with this resistance and the public sympathy they generated among their relatives and caste members, the Congress government acquiesced in the illegal occupations.
Later refugees came from the lower classes, which lacked the means to survive on their own and became dependent on government relief. Lacking the family and caste connections of the previous middleclass refugees, they had to accept the government policy of dispersing them to other states, on the claim that there was insufficient vacant land available in West Bengal.
However, the land the Untouchable refugees were settled on in other states were forests in the traditional territory of Tribal peoples, who resented this occupation. The crops and agricultural works of the refugees were periodically destroyed or harvested by Tribal peoples. While the upper-caste squatters were getting their colonies legalized and services provided, the Untouchables became exiled to other states where they faced often hostile local populations.
In this period the Left-dominated opposition took up the case of the Untouchable refugees and demanded the government settle to them within their native Bengal rather than scatter them across India on the lands of other peoples. The sites mentioned in West Bengal for resettlement were either the Sundarbans area of the Ganges delta or vacant land scattered in various places throughout the state.
In 1977, the CPI (M) led Left Front defeated Congress in the assembly elections and formed government in West Bengal. Having sold their belongings to pay for the trip, 15,000 refugee families left Dandakaranya only to discover that Left Front policy had changed now that the coalition was in power, and many refugees were arrested and returned to the resettlement camps. The remaining refugees managed to slip through police cordons, reaching their objective of Marichjhapi island, where settlement began.
The state government was not disposed to tolerate such settlement, stating that the refugees were "in unauthorized occupation of Marichjhapi which is a part of the Sundarbans Government Reserve Forest violating thereby the Forest Acts".
When persuasion failed to make the refugees abandon their settlement, the Left Front West Bengal government started, on January 26, 1979, an economic blockade of the settlement with thirty police launches. The community was tear-gassed, huts were razed, and fisheries and tube wells were destroyed, in an attempt to deprive refugees of food and water. At least several hundred men, women, and children were said to have been killed in the operation and their bodies dumped in the river.
"Out of the 14,388 families who deserted [for West Bengal], 10,260 families returned to their previous places … and the remaining 4,128 families perished in transit, died of starvation, exhaustion, and many were killed in Kashipur, Kumirmari, and Marichjhapi by police firings" (Biswas 1982, 19).
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The Morichjhanpi massacre: When tigers became citizens, refugees "tiger-food"

                              
The massacre in Marichjhapi, which took place under CPIM rule in Bengal between January 26 and May 16, 1979, has few parallels in the history of independent India. It holds fair comparison with the Jalianwala Bag massacre perpetrated by the British. The level of police brutality was horrific. The entire island of refugees was put under economic blockade from January, after the Left had come to power the previous year promising to champion the cause of the refugees. The blockade first starved out the population, and then the killings began.
Excerpts from West Bengal Policy Reversal and the Marichjhapi Massacre by Ross Mallick, Journal of Asian Studies, Vol 58, No. 1 (Feb 1999), pp. 104-125:
When police action failed to persuade the refugees to leave, the State Government ordered the forcible evacuation of the refugees, which took place between May 14 to May 16, 1979. The men were first separated from the women. Most of the young men were arrested and sent to the jails and the police began to rape the helpless young women at random. At least several hundred men, women, and children were said to have been killed in the operation and their bodies dumped in the river.
Photographs were published in Anandabazaar Patrika and the Opposition members in the State Assembly staged a walkout in protest. Prime Minister Desai, wishing to maintain the support of the Communists for his government, decided not to pursue the matter.
4,128 families perished in transit, died of starvation, exhaustion, and many were killed in Kashipur, Kumirmari, and Marichjhapi by police firings. The CPIM congratulated its participant members on their successful operation at Marichjhapi and made their refugee policy reversal explicit by stating that "there was no possibility of giving shelter to these large number of refugeesunder any circumstances in the State".
In a final twist to the episode, the CPIM settled its own supporters in Marichjhapi, occupying and utilizing the facilities left behind by the evicted refugees. The issues of the environment and the Forest Act were forgotten.
The subsequent silence in the Bengali academic community about what so many knew had happened at Marichjhapi is indicative of the intellectual dominance of certain perspectives and the acquiescence of this intellectual elite in the abuses.
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Shame at Singur
By Udayan Namboodiri

The killing fields lay on an island on the muddy river. The police was efficient enough to seal off the place with motor boats. Journalists could only hear the gunshots and cries of people from a distance.

The communists of Bengal nurse a lot of apologists for their crimes. When, under pressure from statistical evidence, they are forced to admit to the fact that under Left Front rule the state has had more people died of political clashes than the combined total of all victims of communal riots since 1947, they are quick to say: ?But we are better than Gujarat.?

Now, after what happened in Singur on November 30 and December 1, Gujarat, even if one accepts the media propaganda as true, was a teddy bear picnic. Nothing comparable to the organised mass brutality carried out by men in uniform has been seen in the recent history of India. The West Bengal police, which in reality is the uniformed wing of the CPI(M) because everyone in the force up to the rank of sub-inspector is a member of the Marxists? police front, fell upon thousands of innocent villagers and carried out mayhem.

TV grabs showed how the Marxist police shouted provocatively at the women who showed black flags to the work gangs employed by the government to fence the farmlands which it intends handing over to Tata Motors to build their car factory. Men holding rubber-bullet firing guns hurled abuses at the villagers in the distance while simultaneously firing at them. This kind of blood-thirst has rarely been displayed by a police force. It goes to show how unprofessional the Bengal force has been rendered after three decades of intensive politicisation.

The marauders not only fired from guns, they combed villages in the project area looking for any signs of life. Like Stalin-era Cheka agents, they went from hut to hut beating up even old people and children. In one TV grab, a child of barely five was seen being dragged even as it bawled in terror. Many women complained of being hit on their private parts by truncheons. This is a familiar way of inflicting double humiliation, repeated in Bengal quite often. In May this year, soon after election results were declared, the women of Shyamnagar block in Howrah district were similarly punished for voting against the CPI(M). In that case too, the victims were too ashamed to give ?proof? of the atrocities committed on them by the communist police.

There may be arguments that, after all, there were no deaths?therefore ?no story?. In the TV age, there is scarcely any scope for that. The Gurgaon incident of July 2005, in which Haryana Police attracted media flak for giving communist marauders the stick, was roundly condemned even though the provocation came from the Reds who earlier brutally assaulted a Deputy Superintendent of Police. This time, the only way in which the desperately poor, marginal farmers of Hooghly could have instigated the CPI(M) was by reminding the ?aam aadmi?s party? of their original, pro-poor slogans. Nothing enrages a communist more than a reminder of the ?revolution? he has himself forgotten. This is a fact admitted by ex-communists everywhere. They simply see ?red? when they see poor people. In Bengal, the ?Langol jar jomi tar? ( a Bengali variant of ?Jiski lathi uski bhains? or ownership lies in occupation) slogan of the 1960s is too recent in the collective memory for the communists to wish away. Therefore the zeal is not only towards gifting the Tatas a plum, 1,000 acre and make huge commissions in the process. It is all about forcing the ?short memory syndrome? on to the collective psyche.

Only one parallel from the past can be found to match this barbarism. And that lies neither in Gujarat, nor in Moradabad or the countless other places where communal riots have been witnessed. It happened in Bengal. In February 1979, hundreds of people were massacred by the communist police in Marichjhapi near the Sunderbans. Nobody knows the true death toll even today. The execution of the plan to liquidate the refugees was carried out in a fashion which closely resembles the Singur operation. Much like what we see in Singur today, back then too journalists and opposition political leaders were dis-allowed from entering the vicinity of the zone selected for the operation. In 1979 there were no TV crews and therefore the rate of media intrusiveness was much lower. Moreover, the killing fields lay on an island on the muddy river. The police was efficient enough to seal off the place with motor boats. Journalists could only hear the gunshots and cries of people from a distance.

Marichjhapi still figures in academic discourse as an example of Marxist deceit. In 1977, Bengali refugees from the erstwhile East Pakistan, who had been promised permanent plots and a life of respectability in countless communist election manifestos in West Bengal before 1977, genuinely believed their misery had ended in 1977. A Minister in the first Jyoti Basu government called Ram Chatterjee actually went to Dandakaranya forest in Madhya Pradesh where they had been living for a decade or so and lured them back. But after they reached Bengal, they realised the Marxist Government had no plans for them. They had no choice but head for uninhabited parts and scrounge out an existence on the islands in the Sunderbans.

Finally, the sight of the hopeless refugees living without food and water amid their own excreta on muddy islands attracted global attention. The Central government, which was then headed by Morarji Desai, offered the ?friendly? regime in Calcutta a face-saver. The Centre offered to transport the poor intruders back to Madhya Pradesh. But the Marxists were fearful of the political fallout. They owed their rise to power to the refugees, had promised them the moon, even prevented them from taking up residence in alternative locations offered by the Centre on the Andaman Islands when it was still sparsely populated. Now, in 1979, it was case of a vote-bank paying diminishing returns. So, Marxist government in emulation of the man closest to its heart, Joseph Stalin, ordered a massacre.

The Marichjhapi massacre has been ?forgotten? in Bengal because the Marxists were very successful in making the intellectuals of that state into prostitutes after petty jobs and government housing plots. The issue was kept alive till well in the 1980s by a few old socialist leaders. In 2004, the well-known Indian writer of English prose, Amitav Ghosh, mentioned it in his seminal novel on the hard lives led by the mud people of Sunderbans, Hungry Tides. He recorded how the memory of Marichjhapi massacre is still kept alive in popular folklore. How many were killed? ?Thousands? was the answer.

The huge movement built up over Singur by Trinamool Congress leader, Mamata Banerjee, has captured the national imagination. Even though the leading TV channels of Delhi always find an excuse to downplay its significance, it is a matter of great embarrassment to Leftist ideologues to see Medha Patkar and Arundhati Roy, their two icons, join the crusade against the Tata-Marxist combine. Patkar, who was repeatedly prevented from approaching Singur, openly said at one point: ?There was more democracy even under the British.?

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Alok Rai
Ghosh's new novel - The Hungry Tide - has a sharp, "modern" opening. One of the two "outsiders" on the Dhakuria commuter platform, Kanai Dutt, media executive with "the true connoisseur's ability to both praise and appraise women" and only intermittently single, is somewhat reluctantly on his way to see his aunt Nilima, who lives somewhere in the middle of the Sunderbans.

Ghosh presents themes that are there not only in the present of his narrative but which bleed into the present we are reading his work in.

He notices the other "outsider", Piya, the once-Bengali researcher, she of the "neatly composed androgyny", who is on her way to the Sunderbans in order to pursue her research into the habits and habitats of the river dolphin, the Orcaella. Ghosh efficiently conspires to get the two chatting, explaining to each other their purposes for being in what is, on the face of it, an unlikely place for both of them. Ah well, Love in the Delta, so to speak!

The threat of this opening is, mercifully, soon belied - the two take off in their separate directions, and while we get a curiously staccato narration - cut to one, cut to the other - of what they do, and inevitably, of the pasts that play through their present doings, they do not actually meet again until the middle of the book. By which time, of course, our readerly plate is piled high with themes and resonances and the threat of casual romance looms small indeed.

It is a pleasure to see Ghosh getting into the spacious narrative style that is his forte. It enables him to deploy his gift for leisurely, thoughtful exposition. Once in a while, I must confess, the narrative device of having one character say to another - "since you asked, let me tell you" - did seem a little overused, but on the whole, it seemed an acceptable concession to the narrative pretext that enables Ghosh to get so many different themes and people to inhabit the same mind-space.

Perhaps the most important of these is worked, ironically, through the figure of a character who has died several years before the novel opens - Nilima's husband, Nirmal. It is the discovery of his papers - sealed, to be delivered to his nephew Kanai - which is the immediate cause for Kanai to be making this visit at all.

Nirmal's notebook, spliced in bite-sized instalments in between the alternate glimpses of Kanai's and Piya's separate but converging trajectories, is being written against an embattled and encroaching present in which it will be too late for words anyway, on the eve of the Marichjhapi massacre; it concerns people and themes that are not only there in the present of the narration, in which Kanai reads it, but haemorrhage also, as in the "argument" between utopias and liberalism, or that between human needs and environmental concerns, into the present in which we are reading the work.

In writing about "the tide country", Ghosh seems to have found the perfect landscape, one that "says" almost everything that he has been writing about for so long and with such eloquence. Thus, a translated fragment from Nirmal's Bangla notebook-letter reads:

"... interposed between the sea and the plains of Bengal, lies an immense archipelago of islands ... the trailing threads of India's fabric, the ragged fringe of her sari, the anchal that follows her, half-wetted by the sea. ... The rivers' channels are spread cross the land like a fine-mesh net, creating a terrain where the boundaries between land and water are always mutating, always unpredictable. Some of these channels are mighty waterways, others are no more than two or three kilometres long and only a few hundred metres across. Yet, each of these channels is a 'river' in its own right, each possessed of its own strangely evocative name.... There are no borders here to divide fresh water from salt, river from sea. ..

The currents are so powerful as to reshape the islands almost daily - some days the water tears away entire promontories and peninsulas; at other times it throws up new shelves and sandbanks where there were none before...."

Dreams come easy in this magic land. And part of what is at play in Nirmal's notebook is the contrast between the original utopian impulse that prompted the initial "colonial" settlements of the Sunderbans by Daniel Hamilton in the 1920s, and the subaltern-utopian motivation that underlay the appropriation of Marichjhapi island by doubly displaced Bangladeshis in 1979. Hamilton's is a sort of "Nehruvian" ambition, to make a place where people would shed their atavistic baggage of custom and prejudice and avail of the blessings of modernity.

Nature and bureaucracy - also a kind of Nature? - grind that into the mud, because of course there is little dust in the Sunderbans. Marichjhapi island was settled, briefly, by desperate refugees from the resettlement colony of Dandakaranya. The heroic and ineluctable community of these doubly-distressed Dalits was of little avail against the guns of the "leftist" government of Kolkata, deployed in defence of the "environment" but also, it is strongly implied, against subaltern presumption. Dreams are soon dead, too - in this nightmare land. Nirmal's quondam-leftist yearning for heroic, revolutionary transformation is contrasted with Nilima's modest "liberal" ambition to "make a few little things a little better in one small place... after all these years, it has amounted to something: it's helped people; it's made a few people's lives a little better. But that was never enough for Nirmal..."

The abstract contrast between utopia and liberalism is enacted, naturally, at the level of the their fraught domestic lives. Similarly, the tension between the ecological-environmental position as against the needs of the human beings who must, just as naturally, seek to survive in that hostile environment is dramatised in the wordless and doomed passion of Piya and her illiterate boatman Fokir.

Piya's final return to Nilima's hospital and to Lusibari with another research grant to study her beloved river-dolphins does not - indeed, cannot - represent a resolution of the fundamental existential and ideological tensions that the novel embodies. It merely signifies her mature recognition of the smudged provisionality in which we must live. Meanwhile.

It is interesting to ask whether and in what ways Ghosh addresses (or eludes) the problems of audience and register that are an inescapable part of writing the Indian English novel. Thus, the question of "audience" is central to the kind of "explanation " that is deemed necessary by the writer. One wonders, for instance, what is the function of the italicised "native" items - chhata, sarkar? To the Indian reader, these will appear merely gratuitous, exotic spice inserted to reassure Western readers that what they are encountering is a safe blend of the familiar and the unfamiliar. I am not sure that there is any really satisfactory solution to the problem, other than the "arrogant" self-confidence of the American writer, who eschews all explanation.He addresses a sufficient audience at home, and people who find American realities unfamiliar can walk that extra mile.I wonder if this cultural process is in turn affected by the larger econo-military enterprise whereby American "realities" are themselves, mutatis mutandi and even as we speak, being converted into the facts of globalized life.

The problem of register is, if anything, even trickier. Although Ghosh endows his protagonist Kanai with a particular talent for languages, none of this interest - neither his, nor Ghosh's - is in evidence in the language of The Hungry Tide. After all, English is spoken in a great variety of ways in India, and at least some of these have become culturally framed as absurd and parodic, even though they may not be intended as such by the language users themselves. Thus, the timid rural lad who struggles to express himself in broken English doesn't intend to be comic. He might even, from another perspective, be perceived as the embodiment of a colossal human tragedy, but the writer will have to struggle against the conventional undertow towards caricature.

Then again, there is a whole range of people - millions, hundreds of millions - who use no English at all. Their adequate lives are lived in a bewildering variety of languages and dialects that have - and perhaps can have - no equivalent English registers, except the "Indian English" caricature. The main characters in Ghosh's novel are all English-educated, and can use the language fluently and transparently. All except Fokir, who is tongue-tied and uses the wordless language of sign and gesture. However, the solution of making all one's major characters fluent in English, and reducing minor characters to degrees of silence, is really no solution at all.

Ghosh bypasses this problem altogether by resorting, uniformly, to a neutral, level register of sophistication and nuance that is maintained through the range of characters and through the diverse situations in which they find themselves. Thus, even as Kanai is practically drowning in the slime of the Sunderbans, his thoughts are meticulously grammatical, inflected with relative clauses and poised parentheses. This,. too, is a kind of convention, I suppose. And I am sufficiently fond of Ghosh's authorial voice to not mind the fact that it resonates, Godlike, throughout his fictional universe.

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© Alok Rai. A shorter version of this review appears in the print magazine.

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TSI Blood sport of communists The reds of bengal have once again turned Nandigram into killing fields, raping and murdering fleeing villagers. TSI's Soumya Sinha reports from the terror zone…

*If the state machinery was backing the reds, some retired army personnel were providing strategic inputs for the warfare to the BUPC members. And if the red brigade were acquiring arms from across the state, the BUPC activists were snatching rifles from the policemen on duty. So far there had been no proper figure of the dead and injured. The figure could be anything, from 15 to 50, no one knows, exactly. Some disclosed that the CPI(M) cadres were burning the bodies of their dead comrades on the spot, mainly to destroy evidence. The BUPC members refuted the state government's claims that the upsurge against the CPI(M) in the area was being led by the Maoists. How did the latest round of violence start? Before the armed CPI(M) mob ventured in, the electricity connections were cut off and the entire area plunged into darkness. And in the darkness of that November 4 night, the armed men moved in. Not silently. The air rent with bloodcurdling screams of the invaders and the victims. In Kolkata, the intellectuals, actors, social activists, who once swore by the Left, rose to target the Marxist administration. The Trinamul supremo, Mamata Banerjee, mounted a vicious attack on the Left regime. The red terror, however, was not confined to the villagers of Nandigram, who had after three decades of the Left rule had dared to defy the Marxists. On November 8, as the Left leaning social activist and leader of the Narmada Bachao Andolon, Medha Patkar, tried to reach trouble-prone Nandigram, she and her supporters were punched and roughed up by the CPI(M) goons. An unapologetic CPI(M) high command refused to react. Instead, the CPI(M) general secretary, Prakash Karat, after the two-day Politburo meeting in Delhi said: " Trinamul Congress workers are hand-in-glove with the armed Maoist groups to pursue mischievous plans to keep Nandigram on the boil." This is like George Bush stating that "there are weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq". As Bengal burnt under the CPI(M) rule, Karat declared in Delhi: "Maoists are the biggest threat to national security." However, as Karat held the Maoists responsible for the mayhem, the local and the national dailies came out with screaming headlines – "CPM cadres kill 3 rape 2 in Nandigram." On November 9, the BUPC members admitted two women from Satengabari and Sonachura to Tamluk hospital, who were reportedly repeatedly raped by the CPI(M) men. Earlier the West Bengal governor, Gopal Krishna Gandhi, had described the "recapture" of Nandigram by the CPI(M) functionaries as "unlawful." As the state administration played the fiddle while Nandigram burnt, the governor on November 13, met the former chief minister and veteran CPI(M) leader, Jyoti Basu. Stepping out of Basu's Salt Lake residence, the governor remarked: " I appealed to Jyoti Basu to resume efforts for peace, confidence and security in West Bengal, as he played a great role in restoring confidence earlier."

*It can be mentioned here the exercise to liberate Nandigram and bring under its control had started early this month. So far, the events go on to show that the entire operation was well planned in advance and had the clearance of the party's high command. If Modi stands accused of asking the police to step back, while minorities were being butchered in his state, the Marxist government also apparently asked the security men to look the other way. For days, the CPI(M) "killer squads" kept the area out of bounds for the media. Though the official death toll is said to be four, locals claim that while fleeing they spotted scores of dead bodies littered on the paddy fields. However, before the media or the central forces could reach the spot, the red squads were reportedly burning the bodies. After nearly a week of mayhem, the CRPF finally managed to enter Nandigram on November 13 and started conducting raids. And after the CPI(M) cadres managed to wrest the strongholds of the BUPC in the areas, the central forces set up camps in the interior areas. At the time of writing this report, the news came in that "as the red flags flutter all over, Nandigram limps back to normal." For the CPI(M), this was another victory written in blood after the Marichjhapi massacre in the mid-seventies, when the CPI(M) killer squads went on a rampage killing Bangladeshi refugees. In January 1979, thousands of refugees staying in a Dandakaranya (a government forest reserve) at Marichjhapi in West Bengal were cordoned off by the Left Front government. A few months later, when many had died of starvation, the government set the police and a hired gang of thugs on the people and nearly 200 men were massacared, an RSP leader recalled. Marichjhapi, which could be branded as the first state sponsored terrorism has faded from the memory of Bengal and Bengalis. At that juncture, the CPI(M) killer squad allegedly planned the genocide to wipe out evidence of the refugees (lured by the CPI-M to live in Bengal) eating their own excreta on this muddy island. For the news had attracted global attention and the Union government was about to intervene. From Marichjhapi to Nandigram, its been a long march for the CPI(M). And everytime, the reds looked for victory be it in the islands of the Sunderbans (Dandakaranya), Singur, Nandigram or the assembly elections, violence and terror had been its hammer and sickle. TSI had recently compared Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee with China's visionary leader, Deng Xiaoping. However, with Nandigram, suddenly, the image of Deng is being taken over by that of Adolf Hitler, who once said : "It is not truth that matters, but victory."

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6. Negotiating development: the nuclear episode in the Sundarbans of ...

7. Refugee settlement in forest reserves: West Bengal policy reversal and the Marichjhapi massacre. The Journal of Asian Studies 58, 104-25. Nandy, A. 1988. ...

8. www.anthropologymatters.com/index.php?journal... - Cached

9. Nandigram shows CPM's brutal, savage face - India News - IBNLive

10. 12 Nov 2007 ... Rana:I there any difference between the massacres that have been ... 29 tram cars in 1959 or say Marichjhapi massacre with the latest ones? ...

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13. Dialogues on Justice

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15. by SK Das

16. Ratnangshu Bargi's edited collection on castes, Jagadish Mondal's book on Marichjhapi massacre and M. A. Q Siddiqui's paper on the same published in EPW in ...

17. mcrg.ac.in/Dialogues_on_Justice.pdf

18. Palash chandra Biswas's Blog at BIGADDA

19. Remembering Marichjhapi Massacre Palash Biswas Contact: Palash C Biswas, ..... 29, 2005, Massacre of Dalit Refugees in Marichjhapi Article by Palash Biswas. ...

20. blogs.bigadda.com/pal4868546/2009/10/page/2/ - Similar

21. [GreenYouth] Fwd: The Tragedy of Marichjhapi Recounted

22. 28 May 2010 ... "Your kind attention drawn to planned massacre of innocent refugees at. Marichjhapi, Sundarbans, in your name. Please take realistic stock ...

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24. Indian Holocaust My Father`s Life and Time: Congerss Killing ...

25. 16 Apr 2010 ... Marichjhanpi Massacre, First genocide by the Marxist ... Marichjhapi Massacre Part-III http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08iiBFsA13A ...

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27. www.outlookindia.com | To Cut A Long Story

28. Marichjhapi massacre in 1979 under Jyoti Basu is a genocide of Namasudra, the largest SCs in Bengal. "Thousands" were massacred by police and goons hired by ...

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31. "Bengali, but not Bhadralok" I had initially wanted to write about ...

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33. 6 Sikar, 'Marichjhapi Massacre', p. 23, quoting Jugantar 29/5/1979. 7 The events around Morichjhapi have been developed at greater length in my recently ...

34. www.yale.edu/agrarianstudies/papers/21jalais.pdf

35. <article-title>Legacy of a Divided Nation: India's Muslims since ...

36. Dandakaranya "resettlement" debacle and the Marichjhapi massacre in adjoining Communist Party of India Marxist-governed. West Bengal is the ...

37. www.jstor.org/stable/2672258

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• Train incidents a sabotage bid, says Union Minister of StatePTI - 10:06 PM
• Kozhikode, Jul 10 (PTI) The recent tampering of the braking system of a passenger train and recovery of explosives in another train in Kerala were sabotage attempts and vital clues about perpetrators have been obtained by central intelligence agencies, Union Minister of State for Home Mullappally Ramachandran said today.
• Terrorists kill one in Doda, HM militant arrested in KishtwarPTI - 09:57 PM
• Jammu, July 10 (PTI) Terrorists gunned down a civilian in Doda district while security forces apprehended a militant of Hizbul Mujaheedin (HM) outfit in Kishtwar and recovered arms and ammunition from a militant hideout in Reasi district of the state, a police spokesman said here.
• Jagan needs advice, can wait for CM''s post: RosaiahPTI - 09:53 PM
• Hyderabad, July 10 (PTI) Two days after Y S Jaganmohan Reddy's controversial yatra was launched, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah feels he needs advice, observing that the Congress MP can dream and aspire for the chief minister's post but there is a method to it.
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• Chennai, Jul 10 (PTI) A minor girl hailing from Mumbai was rescued from two child traffickers who have been arrested, Tamil Nadu police said here today. A 22-year-old youth charged Rs 2,000 for the girl from the CB-CID wing of the state police, which had met them posing as customers.
• Army's help needed in fight against Maoists: Raman SinghIANS - 09:48 PM
• Raipur, July 10 (IANS) Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh Saturday reiterated that the army should be used for providing logistics support to the security forces fighting the Maoists.

Politics

• Table bill to check honour killings: Brinda KaratANI - 09:35 PM
• New Delhi, July 10 (ANI): Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Brinda Karat on Saturday demanded that the Central Government should take a firm decision for a separate law on 'honour killings' and table it in the monsoon session of Parliament.
• Curfew re-imposed in parts of KashmirReuters - 08:51 PM
• Authorities on Saturday re-imposed a curfew several hours ahead of schedule in some areas of Kashmir, including parts of the main city Srinagar, in response to protesters attacking security forces with stones, police said.
• Congress workers burn Gadkari's effigyIANS - 08:05 PM
• Ranchi, July 10 (IANS) Congress workers Saturday burnt an effigy of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari over his controversial remark against the party on hanging parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.
• Clear loans, Uttar Pradesh panchayat poll aspirants toldIANS - 07:20 PM
• Agra, July 10 (IANS) Aspirants in the panchayat (village council) elections in Uttar Pradesh later this year will have to clear all dues against loans taken from government agencies, an order issued by the state government says.
• YSR's son attacks Congress leadershipIANS - 07:08 PM
• Hyderabad, July 10 (IANS) Hitting out at the Congress leadership, party MP Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy Saturday alleged that Andhra Pradesh's ministers and legislators were being prevented from joining his yatra.

Features

• Prepare for monsoonsHT - 12:25 PM
• New Delhi, July 10 -- Protect your furniture and home decoratives from damage due to moisture and humidity. Here's how:Vacuum carpets regularly to get rid of the damp and musty smell. Wrap them in polythene sheets to protect from insect infestation. Keep furniture away from the corners.
• Be intimidated no moreHT - 12:25 PM
• New Delhi, July 9 -- Confused about the big, bad, tough world of wine? Want to know what wine pairs best with spaghetti carbonara, or what the indecipherable label on the bottle actually means? All you have to do to find answers to these and more questions is log onto the internet.
• New love policeHT - 12:25 PM
• New Delhi, July 10 -- If you are in love and the threat of 'honour killings' has been giving you sleepless nights, there's finally help at hand - in true comic hero style, there's now someone to champion Cupid's cause.
• Lauki juice dangerous for health?HT - 12:25 PM
• New Delhi, July 09 -- The death of Sushil Kumar Saxena, a city scientist, after consuming lauki and karela juice, prescribed by yoga guru Baba Ramdev to cure diabetes, has led to a raging debate on how safe such traditional remedies really are. Saxena, 59, who had been consuming the homemade juice for four years, died of bottle gourd poisoning on June 23.
• Of broken linesHT - 11:35 AM
• India, July 09 -- If you compare the number of non-fiction comics published with the number of superhero comics, you'll find the former don't even make up half the number. Comic book journalism, despite big names like Joe Sacco, who has extensively covered the ethnic wars in Yugoslavia and the brutalities in Palestine, barely make a ripple in the pond.

Crime

• Crime spurt: 3 die, 2 criticalHT - 01:25 PM
• New Delhi, July 10 -- Delhi witnessed a bloody Friday, with as many as three incidents of crimes taking place in the city in which three people were killed and two were injured.
• Man assaults girlfriend's 50-year-old mother, sisterHT - 01:25 PM
• New Delhi, July 10 -- A married man turned into a vengeful barbarian after he bludgeoned his girlfriend's mother and younger sister because the mother disapproved of their relationship.
• Teacher confesses to raping Khar girlHT - 12:55 PM
• Mumbai, July 10 -- The man who was arrested by the Khar police for raping a 13-year-old girl suffering from learning disability, confessed to the crime, in his statement to the police.
• Woman, six-year-old son stabbed to deathHT - 12:55 PM
• New Delhi, July 10 -- When 36-year-old Pawan Nangia walked back home at 2.45 a.m. on Friday from an office party, he had no idea his world will fall apart around him within seconds.
• Cops to probe negligence of hotel in drowning caseHT - 12:25 PM
• Mumbai, July 10 -- The Sahar police will be investigate the accidental death of Indumati Subramaniam (40), the deputy general manager of Vodafone (Chennai) to find out if there was negligence on part of the hotel authorities.

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Crime spurt: 3 die, 2 critical

HT - 01:25 PM
New Delhi, July 10 -- Delhi witnessed a bloody Friday, with as many as three incidents of crimes taking place in the city in which three people were killed and two were injured.
       
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•             Man assaults girlfriend's 50-year-old mother, sister HT - 01:25 PM
• New Delhi, July 10 -- A married man turned into a vengeful barbarian after he bludgeoned his girlfriend's mother and younger sister because the mother disapproved of their relationship.
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•             BJP, Cong tell each other: Mind your language HT - 01:25 PM
• New Delhi, July 10 -- BJP President Nitin Gadkari did it again on Thursday, using an expression during his speech at Dehradun that had the Congress fuming.
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•             For second time, Sharad Pawar looks to third front HT - 01:25 PM
• New Delhi, July 9 -- Sharad Pawar is at it again. On Friday, his Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) needled the Congress by declaring it would set up a non-Congress Secular Democratic Front (SDF) across different states, all the while remaining part of the UPA at the Centre. Sources said such a front, if successful, could turn into a national level alliance for the 2014 general elections.
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•             K'taka border row: Raj blames state MPs HT - 12:55 PM
• Mumbai, July 10 -- Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray blamed the state politicos for the Centre's stand on the border dispute with Karnataka.
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•             Woman, six-year-old son stabbed to death HT - 12:55 PM
• New Delhi, July 10 -- When 36-year-old Pawan Nangia walked back home at 2.45 a.m. on Friday from an office party, he had no idea his world will fall apart around him within seconds.
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•             Teacher confesses to raping Khar girl HT - 12:55 PM
• Mumbai, July 10 -- The man who was arrested by the Khar police for raping a 13-year-old girl suffering from learning disability, confessed to the crime, in his statement to the police.
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•             GVK wants Thackeray's nod to move Shivaji's statue from international airport HT - 12:25 PM
• Mumbai, July 10 -- Following demonstrations by the Shiv Sena and Congress opposing the relocation of Maratha king Shivaji's statue from the airport premises, the GVK Group that runs the airport wants Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray's permission for this.
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•             Lauki juice dangerous for health? HT - 12:25 PM
• New Delhi, July 09 -- The death of Sushil Kumar Saxena, a city scientist, after consuming lauki and karela juice, prescribed by yoga guru Baba Ramdev to cure diabetes, has led to a raging debate on how safe such traditional remedies really are. Saxena, 59, who had been consuming the homemade juice for four years, died of bottle gourd poisoning on June 23.
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•             Technicians to be questioned in Tardeo suicide case HT - 12:25 PM
• Mumbai, July 10 -- The Tardeo police investigating the suicide case of a 28-year-old diamond firm employee are going to question the technicians who had been working on the terrace when the man jumped from a high-rise building on Wednesday.
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•             Labourer held for raping minor HT - 12:25 PM
• Mumbai, July 10 -- A 22-year-old labourer has been arrested for allegedly raping a minor on two occasions after promising her marriage.
•        
•             Cops to probe negligence of hotel in drowning case HT - 12:25 PM
• Mumbai, July 10 -- The Sahar police will be investigate the accidental death of Indumati Subramaniam (40), the deputy general manager of Vodafone (Chennai) to find out if there was negligence on part of the hotel authorities.
•        
•             Prepare for monsoons HT - 12:25 PM
• New Delhi, July 10 -- Protect your furniture and home decoratives from damage due to moisture and humidity. Here's how:Vacuum carpets regularly to get rid of the damp and musty smell. Wrap them in polythene sheets to protect from insect infestation. Keep furniture away from the corners.
•        
•             Be intimidated no more HT - 12:25 PM
• New Delhi, July 9 -- Confused about the big, bad, tough world of wine? Want to know what wine pairs best with spaghetti carbonara, or what the indecipherable label on the bottle actually means? All you have to do to find answers to these and more questions is log onto the internet.
•        
•             New love police HT - 12:25 PM
• New Delhi, July 10 -- If you are in love and the threat of 'honour killings' has been giving you sleepless nights, there's finally help at hand - in true comic hero style, there's now someone to champion Cupid's cause.
•        
•             Electronically yours HT - 11:35 AM
• India, July 10 -- This is your big electronica party for the weekend. And the best bit about it is that it's not happening in a cramped club but under a huge weather-proof and air-conditioned hangar on NH 8. Then of course there's a good set of DJs including our very own 'EDM evangelist' Nikhil Chinapa, Malaysia's no. 1 Joey G and DJ Mags World no. 50, Marco V.
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•             Calling Bengaluru HT - 11:35 AM
• India, July 10 -- India's 'Silicon Valley' comes to town next week as Delhi plays host to Bengaluru playwright Ram Ganesh Kamatham's city trilogy.
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•             St Stephen wonders HT - 11:35 AM
• India, July 10 -- Some questions are better not asked when you are trying to put a school-going kid to sleep.
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•             Israeli band, bottled beers HT - 11:35 AM
• India, July 10 -- Don't want to watch the most pointless game - Germany versus Uruguay for third place - of the World Cup? Like listening to alternative indie music? If the answer is 'yes' to both, then Nasty Peach's gig tonight may be just up your street.
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•             New territory for trance HT - 11:35 AM
• India, July 10 -- Talamasca, the psy-trance project is back in the capital tonight with 'Now', a solo work of Paris-based Cedric Dassulle, aka DJ Lestat.
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Yale comes calling, writes to HRD min for formal tie-up

FE - 03:17 AM
Nearly two months after the Kapil Sibal-led human resource development (HRD) ministry introduced the long-awaited Foreign Universities Bill in Parliament to remove the roadblocks for foreign varsities coming to India, the first of the ivy league has finally come calling.
       
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•             Congress asks Gadkari to apologise for Afzal remark, BJP calls objection uncivil FE - 03:17 AM
• Stung by BJP president Nitin Gadkari's controversial remark calling Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru the "son-in-law" of the Congress, the ruling party at the Centre on Friday demanded his "social and political boycott".
•        
•             Tax-free status for NBFC infra bonds FE - 03:17 AM
• In order to meet $1-trillion infrastructure spending requirement until 2017-18, the government on Friday allowed private non-banking finance companies and three financial institutions—IFCI, LIC and IDFC—to issue tax-free infrastructure bonds.
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•             MMCRA contenders' list likely to take a month FE - 03:17 AM
• Despite speculations on contenders for the $ 11 billion Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) deal, it could be atleast four more weeks before such a list is finalised.
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•             Centre in favour of national wage floor binding on states FE - 03:17 AM
• Labour minister Mallikarjun Kharge said he favours making it legally obligatory for states to abide by the national floor level of minimum wages prescribed by the Centre.
•        
•             Sasan UMPP: SC seeks Centre's reply on Tata Power plea FE - 03:17 AM
• The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Centre to file its response on Tata Power's plea challenging the government decision that allowed Reliance Power (Rel Power) to divert surplus coal from the 3,960-mw Sasan power project in Madhya Pradesh.
•        
•             Chennai Port plans upgrade to meet growing mkt demand FE - 03:17 AM
• The oldest and the second largest container handling port of the country — Chennai Port — is well connected with major parts of the world and is the gateway port for all cargo.
•        
•             CII, ICFI draw road map for states to fight climate change FE - 03:17 AM
• India came up with a National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) in 2008 which lays out mitigation, adaptation measures and strategic knowledge management to mitigate as well as adapt to challenges posed by changing climate.
•        
•             'Increase in fuel prices likely to push inflation figures by 90 to 120 bps' FE - 03:17 AM
• RBI governor D Subbarao and finance minister Pranab Mukherjee must be keeping their fingers crossed as the country enters a crucial week where two key data points that will decide the trajectory of the policy formulation — headline inflation numbers for June and industrial production figures for May — will be released.
•        
•             Ajmer blast: 2 RSS bosses were in touch with suspect, says CBI FE - 03:17 AM
• The CBI claims that Ashok Varshney and Ashok Beri, two Uttar Pradesh RSS office-bearers who were questioned in connection with the blasts at Mecca Masjid and Ajmer Sharif, admitted that they were in touch with one of the Ajmer blast accused, Devendra Gupta, while he was on the run.
•        
•             Mamata, Pranab share dais, oversee river MoU FE - 03:17 AM
• For the first time after the municipal elections, Congress veteran and finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and Trinamool Congress chief and railway minister Mamata Banerjee shared the dais on Friday, announcing a much-needed initiative to beautify the Hooghly riverfront.
•        
•             Posco, Essar, Cesc sign MoUs to set up training centres FE - 03:17 AM
• POSCO-India, Essar Steel, GMR Energy,CESC Ltd. are among 13 companies which signed MoUs with the Orissa government on Friday to set up Industrial Training Centres (ITCs) in the state.
•        
•             SC stays tribunal order on DVC to refund Rs 3k cr to consumers FE - 03:17 AM
• The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the electricity tribunal's order that directed Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) to refund Rs 3,000 crore excess tariff collected from consumers in West Bengal and Jharkhand.
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•             66 pc women faced sexual harassment last year: Survey FE - Fri, Jul 9
• Two out of three women in Delhi have suffered sexual harassment at least 2-5 times in the last year.
•        
•             Bonus caps stop traders gambling public money FE - Fri, Jul 9
• Sharon Bowles One of the most disturbing aspects of the financial crisis was the extent to which risk was fuelled by hugely disproportionate bonuses.
•        
•             'Padma award for Keshub Mahindra' FE - Fri, Jul 9
• The Congress-NCP government in Maharashtra had recommended the name of industrialist Keshub Mahindra for Padma awards in 2002 despite his being an accused in the Bhopal gas leak case.
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•             Service tax on renting still hazy FE - Fri, Jul 9
• We have taken an office on lease in Delhi. We understand that a stay has been granted by the Delhi High Court on the levy of service tax on renting of immovable property. On that basis, our landlord has not been charging service tax on us. However, because of a recent change in the service tax law, the landlord now asks us to pay service tax even for the past periods.
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•             We, the 116 crore people FE - Fri, Jul 9
• Every year, India adds the population of Australia to its already staggering ranks of 116.1 crore people.
•        
•             Proud to say Sheila is our CM: Top BJP leader FE - Fri, Jul 9
• Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit came in for praise from an unexpected quarter on Thursday when senior Delhi BJP leader Harsh Vardhan hailed her as one of the finest politicians in the Capital.
•        
•             SC upholds Daiichi's Zenotech offer price FE - Fri, Jul 9
• The Supreme Court on Thursday endorsed Japanese drug-maker Daiichi-Sankyo's plea to make an open offer to shareholders of Zenotech Laboratories at a lower price of Rs 113.62 per share, rather than Rs 160 sought by the latter.
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Table honour killings bill this session: Karat

IE - 05:27 PM
Terming the defence of honour killings by some of those in power as "abhorrent", the CPI(M) on Saturday demanded that draft of a comprehensive law to deal with such crimes be tabled in the monsoon session of Parliament.
       
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•             Lack of settlement culture leading to high pendency: CJI IE - 05:27 PM
• Chief Justice of India S H Kapadia on Saturday blamed lack of settlement culture in the country for the rise in pendency of cases and people not preferring out-of-court resolution of disputes.
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•             Army withdrawal to be considered after July 13: Omar IE - 05:27 PM
• Jammu and Kashmir Government will consider the option of withdrawing deployment of the army from the valley after the Martyrs' Day on July 13 and the situation as of now was well under control, state Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on Saturday.
•        
•             House owner to preserve plaque at Tagore's abode in Shillong IE - 05:27 PM
• The plaque at the demolished house where Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore stayed during one of his visits to Shillong will be preserved by the owner.
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•             India to improve quality of judiciary: Moily IE - 03:11 PM
• India would take measures to improve the quality of the judiciary by reforming the legal education system and making the country the most preferred destination for investors by setting up international arbitration courts with a mandate to dispose off any litigation within a year.
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•             Hizb militant arrested and money for terrorists recovered in J-K IE - 02:31 PM
• A Hizbul Mujaheedin militant was arrested and some money meant to be used for alleged terrorist activities recovered from another person by the security forces in Banihal tehsil of Ramban district.
•        
•             Kashmir Pandits criticise J-K govt for not being invited to all party meet IE - 02:31 PM
• Kashmiri Pandits on Saturday criticised Jammu and Kashmir government for ignoring the minority community in the all party meeting convened by it on Monday to discuss the ongoing unrest in the Valley.
•        
•             Curfew relaxed in Kashmir Valley, 20 people arrested IE - 12:23 PM
• Barring Sopore and Pulwama, curfew relaxation continued in the Kashmir Valley on Saturday to allow people to offer special prayers on the occasion of a Muslim festival as police cracked down on stone pelters and arrested 20 people allegedly responsible for instigating mobs.
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•             Bihar bandh on fuel price hike begins IE - 12:23 PM
• The bandh called by the RJD-LJP combine in Bihar to protest fuel price hike today hit normal life in the state with protestors blocking railway tracks and national highways even as authorities took more than 1,000 party activists into preventive custody.
•        
•             Farooq Abdullah meets PC to discuss Kashmir situation IE - 12:23 PM
• Union Minister Farooq Abdullah on Saturday met Home Minister P Chidambaram and discussed the prevailing situation in the Kashmir Valley.
•        
•             Tharoor gone, MEA debuts on Twitter: public diplomacy IE - 05:41 AM
• Shashi Tharoor probably paid the price for tweeting too much when he lost his job as Minister of State for External Affairs, but that doesn't seem to have deterred the MEA from entering Twitter world.
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•             Sangh bosses in UP fixed stay of Ajmer blast suspect who was on the run IE - 05:41 AM
• The CBI claims that Ashok Varshney and Ashok Beri, senior RSS functionaries in Uttar Pradesh who were questioned in connection with the blasts at Mecca Masjid and Ajmer Sharif, have admitted that they were in touch with one of the Ajmer blast accused, Devendra Gupta, while he was on the run.
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•             Cradling body of newborn, man in Srinagar hospital waits for a curfew pass to go home IE - 05:41 AM
• Carrying a dead baby boy in a cardboard box — his sister Shameema had given birth five days ago but the child died last night — Abdul Majid Dar has been pleading for an ambulance, at least a curfew pass, to take the body home to Dangerpora in Sopore.
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•             Vadodara school suspends 6 girls for Facebook abuse IE - 05:41 AM
• A Vadodara school has suspended six students of Classes X and XII for allegedly using abusive language on the social networking site Facebook.
•        
•             Some good news from Valley: Amarnath yatra on smoothly IE - 05:41 AM
• While Kashmir is in midst of a brewing storm with government imposing curfew to put a lid over the anger, the Omar Abdullah government can be complimented with one good effort — the Amarnath yatra is going on smoothly.
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•             Full-blooded wishes on SAD chief's b'day IE - 05:41 AM
• A flurry of advertisements, particularly in the vernacular press, marked the 49th birthday of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Friday, while a few SAD members organised blood donation camps to make the day special for their leader.
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•             Literary events lined up for Marathi author Kulkarni's 88th anniversary IE - 05:41 AM
• To mark the 88th birth anniversary of Marathi author GA Kulkarni, the Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad (MSP) and his relatives will organise a special programme on July 11 at 5.45 pm at SM Joshi Hall, Navi Peth.
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•             South Africa's Semenya cleared, Santhi waits in TN, hopes fading fast IE - 05:41 AM
• A unique connection binds Santhi Soundararajan, 28, of Tamil Nadu to Caster Semenya, a black girl from Limpopo, South Africa, nine years younger than her.
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•             Two dead, 1 hurt in separate mishaps IE - 05:41 AM
• In separate incidents that took place in the area on Friday, two persons lost their lives while another was left seriously injured.
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•             Rail services restored between Ambala and New Delhi IE - 05:41 AM
• After much ado, train services on the New Delhi-Ambala section were restored on Friday. Railway operations in this part of the country had been severely hit by the incessant rainfall in the last three days that led to flooding of tracks, breaches and failure of points and signalling system. On Friday, around seven trains were cancelled and many others were delayed by several hours.
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Keep industry off cultivable farm land: Pawar Times of India - ‎3 hours ago‎ KOLKATA: Food and agriculture minister Sharad Pawar on Saturday said while his ministry is not against industry, it is against acquisition of agricultural land with assured crop yields and irrigation facilities. Addressing the media on the sidelines of ... Sugar sector needs change in levy mechanism: Shree Renuka Moneycontrol.com - ‎5 hours ago‎ Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar believes that the time has come for freeing the sugar sector. In an interview with CNBC-TV18, Narendra Murukumbi, MD, Shree Renuka Sugars gave his perspective on the government's intent. Below is a verbatim transcript. ... Pawar calls for task force to promote hybrid rice Sify - ‎4 hours ago‎ Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar Saturday called for a national task force to promote hybrid rice. 'The proposed task force would finalise the strategies for hybrid rice promotion, with special emphasis on PPP (public-private partnership) mode of seed ... "We will be getting the sowing data till the first week of August and after that we will take a decision on this issue," Mr. Pawar told reporters at a press meet. more by Sharad Pawar - 6 hours ago - The Hindu (10 occurrences) Government may impose import duty on sugar: Pawar The Hindu - ‎6 hours ago‎ PTI Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar flanked by Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee (right) and West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee during a workshop on 'Bringing Green Revolution to Eastern India' in Kolkata on Saturday. ... States should set up EGoM on agriculture: Sharad Pawar Oneindia - ‎2 hours ago‎ Kolkata, July 10 (ANI): Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Friday said the States should set up an Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) under the chairmanship of Chief Ministers to cover all aspects of agriculture. Pawar said Rs 400 crore has ... Bumper crop likely in 2010-11 if monsoon is uniform: Sharad Pawar Daily News & Analysis - ‎4 hours ago‎ PTI Kolkata: Given the sowing trend so far, the country can expect a bumper crop if the monsoon is uniform this year, Union food and agriculture minister Sharad Pawar said today. "Till yesterday, the sowing feedback was encouraging. ... Sugar stocks up sharply after Pawar's statement Economic Times - ‎21 hours ago‎ NEW DELHI: Sugar stocks shot up sharply by 15% Friday in direct reaction to food minister Sharad Pawar's statement here that he total de-regulation of the sector could be considered by the beginning of the new sugar year, depending on sugar production ... Food prices to come down in coming weeks: Pawar Financial Express - ‎22 hours ago‎ New Delhi: India food inflation, which is currently hovering around 12.63%, would come down in the coming weeks, food and agriculture minister Sharad Pawar said on Friday, hoping that good monsoons and increase in acreage would aid foodgrain production ... Low prices, high output to ring in sugar decontrol Financial Express - ‎20 hours ago‎ New Delhi: With the consistent decline in sugar prices since January and expectations of high production in the 2010-11 crop season, the Union food ministry has started the groundwork for decontrolling the sugar sector. ... Bumper crop to tame prices, says Pawar Economic Times - ‎19 hours ago‎ NEW DELHI: Food inflation is likely to be contained soon on the back of projected bumper crop this year, food minister Sharad Pawar said on Thursday. As a result, he said, overall inflation figures too would come down. Speaking on the sidelines of a ... All 56 related articles »

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Sheetal Markam, Suhail Ansari, Adv. Harshwardhan Meshram, Urmila Marko and Niranjan Masram

Beware of A Brahminist Cult

Part III  of the Proposed Copyright-free Awareness Book

Characteristics of a Cult

Secret Services Operate Through Religions and Cults

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Further Decognition Process in Cults

How CIA-Cults Create Mind Controlled Slaves

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How to Protect Yourself, Your Family and Friends From a Cult ?