TIME is MOVING FORWARD WHILE INDIA is BEING PUSHED BACKWARD –
MANTRI JI –‘YOU ARE INSULTING ALL INDIANS BY MAKING A LAW FOR SOME THING WHICH COMES NATURALLY TO ALL INDIANS’
AND THOSE OPPOSING THE LAW ARE ALSO INSULTING THE SENTIMENTS OF ALL INDIANS.
VANDE MATRAM
I miss ………..
AND YOU KNOW WHY I MISS ALL THIS?
Because it forces me to think that In India I enjoyed QUALITY LIFE when the advancements were not there !!!
As a small Kid, after Dinner I enjoyed my ‘ Hawamahal’ on the radio and went off to sleep. Remember that introduction music before the programme! And the excitement!
There was no television BUT people were more aware….there was no Mobile phone BUT people were more communicative….. there was a very poor transport system BUT people reached distant places in time….there was less money BUT more relatives were related….. there were no air-conditioners BUT we slept on the terrace like Dead …….. TODAY I miss my street Cricket and that broken Chair which was my wicket.
There was no 24 hour- every day stuff – every thing went off the air by 11 in the night.
Interestingly – the last thing falling in the ear was ‘Jan Gana Mana Adhinayak ……’ and no body questioned.
After each film show in all theatres ‘Jan Gana Mana Adhinayak ……’ was played and no body questioned.
ALL adults and ALL children could sing Jan Gana Mana, Vande Matram, Sare Jahan Se Acha, ……. And many more from the heart because these were in the air and in the ears.
I don’t miss all this because I don’t want to grow BUT because I DON’T WANT INDIA TO GROW IN THE WRONG DIRECTION
Why is it that ---
Our mental capabilities are detoriating each year instead of developing?
We seem to be concentrating too much on ‘Software’ development while our ‘Hard disc’ seems to be in serious trouble!
What innovative ideas people get in this country – to keep the flame of hatred & disputes burning?
Could any body ever imagine (right through the century of the 1900) that in the year 2006 people in India will make an issue out of ‘the close to heart ‘Vande Matram’?
Even the most intelligent of that lot – could not have been able to think of the use of ‘Vande Matram’ to disconnect Hindus & Muslims.
BUT THE FOOLS have done it in 2006.
Today if you give a pen & paper to people at random – 98% of them will not be able to write down our National Anthem or Vande Matram correctly and I have kept 2% margin for my wishful thinking!
And MEDIA – Is it a debate able subject?
If the life has become too tough. If the competition in the market has become unbear able? If there are no more too many good stories & bytes available? --- Please make your channel 12X7 instead 24X7 --- make it ABHI tak instead of AAZ tak--- make it STAR plain instead of STAR plus ---- but for God’s sake decide in Principle that you will never Air such issues and you will Never show to the people the FACES of the people debating on issues of this kind.
The National Flag is a CONNECT between you, me and every thing which is Indian.
The National Anthem is a CONNECT between you, me and every thing which is Indian.
Vande Matram and the likes are a CONNECT between all who are Indians -- love India --- fight for India.
These are not the properties of the RSS or the BJP or the CONGRESS party or any organization or Religion – THIS IS THE PROPERTY OF INDIA and BELONGS TO ALL INDIANS AND TO ONLY THOSE WHO ARE INDIANS.
Saturday, September 02, 2006
Monday, August 28, 2006
AZADI BACHAO - STOP THE DRAMA
THE IRONY OF BEING AZAD
Recently, I came across statements and leaflets printed and distributed by some so called Azadi Bachao Andolan office & Jan Sangharsh samiti.
I had heard of -- Bijlee bachao… paisa bachao….. pani bachao…Aloo bachao…Baingan bachao……
But never heard of AZADI bachao! What a Pity that today our Azadi has been classified as a commodity by some who claim to be the warriors of Azadi in our country.
One wonders how such people can Bachao Azadi when they do not even understand the meaning of THE WORD AZADI .
Our Azadi actually becomes very unsafe if such PEOPLE are permitted to become the self appointed protectors of Azadi.
It is MY Azadi which gives me strength to raise my voice against such self proclaimed protectors of MY Azadi.
Azadi is not a commodity ….it is system….it is an experience……it is a feeling
Azadi is to be used and is not a safe vault item.
My Azadi is my Fundamental Rights which Azad Hindustan gives me and this is for what Mahatma Gandhi, Bhagat Singh, Netaji Bose and all the freedom fighters fought for and attained for our countrymen.
My freedom of speech, my right to vote……. my freedom of religion etc. etc. is my Azadi.
It is in A WAY good that those who struggled for our Azadi and are not around today to see the revised DISTORTED definition of Azadi .
It is good that they are not around to see how fragile the Azadi is projected today by the so called Azadi Bachao Andolankaris if it can be threatened by products like Pepsi & Coke & Colgate & Pizza hut & Nestle & BY EVERY THING WHICH IS MULTINATIONAL.
In one of the leaflets it was mentioned that these Andolankaris want to free India from Western Culture. Interesting!
In today’s time there is no eastern culture and no western culture. What one follows is one’s culture. One follows what makes him happy & comfortable & is acceptable in the society where he wants HIM-SELF to be accepted.
Incidentally ---
is it in our Indian Culture to mislead people?
Is it in our culture to eat our meals sitting on the floor only?
Is it in our culture to force our likes & dislikes on others?
Will we become more cultured if we stop wearing Jeans pant/western dress?
Will it make us more cultured if we do away with internationally acclaimed Products / Technologies /Advancements?
Will eating Pizza make us Uncultured? While eating Roti Dal makes us more cultured?
It is not what we eat or drink or wear which makes us cultured.
It is the values which we give to our children that will ensure a CULTURED India.
How can we all in India continue to become silent spectators when a few people with personal political desires try to change the definition of a SACRED word like ANDOLAN ?
An ANDOLAN directed against a specific product or a specific Brand or a specific company is actually putting the word ANDOLAN to shame.
ANDOLAN is a crusade against a concept, a Philosophy or a system.
Mahatma Gandhi started the Swaraj Andolan with a clear concept
---- India for Indians to be ruled by Indians ----
This was an Andolan against the foreign oppressor who were British at that time. Had they been French or German it would have been an Andolan against them since the Andolan was not against the British but against the Foreign Ruler.
Andolan as dipicted by the Azadi Bachao Andolankaris today looks like they are participating in Brand wars in a competitive Commercial Market.
Statements like don’t use Colgate toothpaste instead use Lal Dant Manjan !
Is our Azadi really threatened by Colgate Toothpaste? Or are these people working as sales agents of some other product of some other company?
Why do we forget that we still have to attain Azadi from Berojgari (unemployement), we still have to come out of the clutches of Garibi (poverty), All Children in our country still have to attain Shiksha (education) and above all my country-men have still to learn to react to such selfish and misleading Andolankaris.
It is the prime duty of all educated Indians to ensure that our school Children and the not so educated are not mislead and used by these so called Andolankaris to attain political mileage.
Andolankaris please let peace prevail here; please don’t try to take us for a ride since no ride is free. It costs the country time and money when the Police and administrative machinery is diverted from any other work (surely more progressive).
Don’t force the like minded Hindustanis of this already Azad country to pick up an ANDOLAN against the out dated techniques & theories adopted by such persons to become ‘A some one’ in Indian Netagari scenario.
Recently, I came across statements and leaflets printed and distributed by some so called Azadi Bachao Andolan office & Jan Sangharsh samiti.
I had heard of -- Bijlee bachao… paisa bachao….. pani bachao…Aloo bachao…Baingan bachao……
But never heard of AZADI bachao! What a Pity that today our Azadi has been classified as a commodity by some who claim to be the warriors of Azadi in our country.
One wonders how such people can Bachao Azadi when they do not even understand the meaning of THE WORD AZADI .
Our Azadi actually becomes very unsafe if such PEOPLE are permitted to become the self appointed protectors of Azadi.
It is MY Azadi which gives me strength to raise my voice against such self proclaimed protectors of MY Azadi.
Azadi is not a commodity ….it is system….it is an experience……it is a feeling
Azadi is to be used and is not a safe vault item.
My Azadi is my Fundamental Rights which Azad Hindustan gives me and this is for what Mahatma Gandhi, Bhagat Singh, Netaji Bose and all the freedom fighters fought for and attained for our countrymen.
My freedom of speech, my right to vote……. my freedom of religion etc. etc. is my Azadi.
It is in A WAY good that those who struggled for our Azadi and are not around today to see the revised DISTORTED definition of Azadi .
It is good that they are not around to see how fragile the Azadi is projected today by the so called Azadi Bachao Andolankaris if it can be threatened by products like Pepsi & Coke & Colgate & Pizza hut & Nestle & BY EVERY THING WHICH IS MULTINATIONAL.
In one of the leaflets it was mentioned that these Andolankaris want to free India from Western Culture. Interesting!
In today’s time there is no eastern culture and no western culture. What one follows is one’s culture. One follows what makes him happy & comfortable & is acceptable in the society where he wants HIM-SELF to be accepted.
Incidentally ---
is it in our Indian Culture to mislead people?
Is it in our culture to eat our meals sitting on the floor only?
Is it in our culture to force our likes & dislikes on others?
Will we become more cultured if we stop wearing Jeans pant/western dress?
Will it make us more cultured if we do away with internationally acclaimed Products / Technologies /Advancements?
Will eating Pizza make us Uncultured? While eating Roti Dal makes us more cultured?
It is not what we eat or drink or wear which makes us cultured.
It is the values which we give to our children that will ensure a CULTURED India.
How can we all in India continue to become silent spectators when a few people with personal political desires try to change the definition of a SACRED word like ANDOLAN ?
An ANDOLAN directed against a specific product or a specific Brand or a specific company is actually putting the word ANDOLAN to shame.
ANDOLAN is a crusade against a concept, a Philosophy or a system.
Mahatma Gandhi started the Swaraj Andolan with a clear concept
---- India for Indians to be ruled by Indians ----
This was an Andolan against the foreign oppressor who were British at that time. Had they been French or German it would have been an Andolan against them since the Andolan was not against the British but against the Foreign Ruler.
Andolan as dipicted by the Azadi Bachao Andolankaris today looks like they are participating in Brand wars in a competitive Commercial Market.
Statements like don’t use Colgate toothpaste instead use Lal Dant Manjan !
Is our Azadi really threatened by Colgate Toothpaste? Or are these people working as sales agents of some other product of some other company?
Why do we forget that we still have to attain Azadi from Berojgari (unemployement), we still have to come out of the clutches of Garibi (poverty), All Children in our country still have to attain Shiksha (education) and above all my country-men have still to learn to react to such selfish and misleading Andolankaris.
It is the prime duty of all educated Indians to ensure that our school Children and the not so educated are not mislead and used by these so called Andolankaris to attain political mileage.
Andolankaris please let peace prevail here; please don’t try to take us for a ride since no ride is free. It costs the country time and money when the Police and administrative machinery is diverted from any other work (surely more progressive).
Don’t force the like minded Hindustanis of this already Azad country to pick up an ANDOLAN against the out dated techniques & theories adopted by such persons to become ‘A some one’ in Indian Netagari scenario.
Sunday, August 27, 2006
This is the -
The Great International Conspiracy
TARGET :TO WEAKEN INDIA ECONOMICALLY
TO INCREASE UNEMPLOYEMENT
TO DE-MOTIVATE FOREIGN INVESTORS
PARTICIPANTS:SOME EXTERNAL AGENCIES & THEIR INDIAN AGENTS
STRATEGY:TO ATTACK LARGE EMPLOYEMENT GENERATING UNITS .
DRAMA SITE : MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES OPERATING IN INDIA
The unfolding of the Web pages tells a very upsetting story of an international conspiracy, specially designed to retard the economic growth of India so that India once again becomes dependent on other nations.
The following pages will show how a conspiracy is thatched to pull down the Industrial advancement of India so that international Investors are scared off from investing in India.
This is a well planned conspiracy to ‘HIT ONE & INJURE MANY’ and
The conspirators know that closure of a single plant of Coca-Cola or Pepsi renders, directly/ indirectly, a very large number of youth unemployed and this will not only create unemployment & unemployment related problems for the government but will also make the poverty stricken & frustrated youth power available for exploitation.
It is very interesting to note that the same people who are REQUESTING for DONATIONS in US DOLLARS on the web from all over the world are the ones who oppose multinational companies and corporate globalization.
It is interesting to note that most of the names mentioned in the web-site have got themselves crowned with foreign awards. Some have even taken foreign Degrees and travel to foreign lands often.
It is worth noting that those planning the conspiracy are neither experts on WATER nor are they experts on POLLUTION nor do they have an in-depth knowledge about ENVIRONMENT.
They are only experts in playing with EMOTIONS of the masses.
Gradually, it is becoming crystal clear that the US Dollars collected internationally will be used to put to risk the peace and security at various places in India.
In order to ensure the arrival of more installments of Dollars in future, the pictures of the agitations organized by this fund are posted on the web.
SEE FOR YOUR SELF- www.indiaresource.org and make your own judgement as to how what we see on the surface is different from the under currents.
The Great International Conspiracy
TARGET :TO WEAKEN INDIA ECONOMICALLY
TO INCREASE UNEMPLOYEMENT
TO DE-MOTIVATE FOREIGN INVESTORS
PARTICIPANTS:SOME EXTERNAL AGENCIES & THEIR INDIAN AGENTS
STRATEGY:TO ATTACK LARGE EMPLOYEMENT GENERATING UNITS .
DRAMA SITE : MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES OPERATING IN INDIA
The unfolding of the Web pages tells a very upsetting story of an international conspiracy, specially designed to retard the economic growth of India so that India once again becomes dependent on other nations.
The following pages will show how a conspiracy is thatched to pull down the Industrial advancement of India so that international Investors are scared off from investing in India.
This is a well planned conspiracy to ‘HIT ONE & INJURE MANY’ and
The conspirators know that closure of a single plant of Coca-Cola or Pepsi renders, directly/ indirectly, a very large number of youth unemployed and this will not only create unemployment & unemployment related problems for the government but will also make the poverty stricken & frustrated youth power available for exploitation.
It is very interesting to note that the same people who are REQUESTING for DONATIONS in US DOLLARS on the web from all over the world are the ones who oppose multinational companies and corporate globalization.
It is interesting to note that most of the names mentioned in the web-site have got themselves crowned with foreign awards. Some have even taken foreign Degrees and travel to foreign lands often.
It is worth noting that those planning the conspiracy are neither experts on WATER nor are they experts on POLLUTION nor do they have an in-depth knowledge about ENVIRONMENT.
They are only experts in playing with EMOTIONS of the masses.
Gradually, it is becoming crystal clear that the US Dollars collected internationally will be used to put to risk the peace and security at various places in India.
In order to ensure the arrival of more installments of Dollars in future, the pictures of the agitations organized by this fund are posted on the web.
SEE FOR YOUR SELF- www.indiaresource.org and make your own judgement as to how what we see on the surface is different from the under currents.
Thursday, August 03, 2006
SUNITA NARAIN
SUNITA NARAIN – Is the venom targeted?
Please tell me what should I eat and what should I drink.
Please tell the nation the list of items which are free from pesticides or contain acceptable levels of pesticides.
JUST DON’T END YOUR GAME on multinational soft drinks.
If you have tested some BAD you must have tested some GOOD too. Please open your secret box of the GOOD THINGS!
ONLY GOD KNOWS what makes THE QUEEN OF press conferences so sure that India is a country of BAFFOONS.
Pepsi has pesticide levels which are higher then the accepted levels O.K.
BUT
Has she tested the Pesticide levels in the normal tap water which comes in the house of Ram Lal in Dariba Kalan or in the School at Sarai Kale Khan or at Sirajuddin’s house in Sheik Sarai.?
Has she tested the water from the hand pump outside the old Delhi Railway station for pesticide levels? From here some one or the other is drinking water every now and then.
NO she has NOT AND YES she WILL NOT
CAUSE THE FACT IS THAT FOR HER THE LIFE OF Ram Lal, The school children, Sirajuddin and the unknown traveler is not important.
SHE IS NOT FIGHTING FOR ANY BODY
SHE DOES NOT CARE FOR ANYBODY
SHE IS JUST PUBLICITY HUNGRY
THE CENTRE FOR SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT HAS ALL TESTING FACILITIES AVAILABLE WITH THEM.
RIGHT!
HONESTLY DID THEY TEST ONLY PEPSI & COKE?
IF YES THEN WHY SO?
SOME SPECIAL PERSONAL AGENDA?
SOME ENEMOSITY?
IF SO WHY SHOULD WE TRUST THEIR RESULTS?
IF NO
WHAT OTHER PRODUCTS WERE TESTED?
WHAT ARE THE RESULTS?
HAVE THEY TESTED STANDARD SOLUTION
OF SUGAR FROM EACH FACTORY IN UTTAR PRADESH AND MAHARASHTRA FOR PESTICIDE CONTENTS?
THEY SHOULD BECAUSE THIS IS A HOUSEHOLD ITEM AND FIXING STANDARD FOR THIS ITEM IS MORE IMPORTANT THEN THE SOFT DRINKS!
Have they tested the milk samples?
Have they tested the bottled water?
HAVE THEY EVER TESTED THEIR OWN OFFICE TAP WATER ?
REALLY THESE PEOPLE HAVE MADE MY COUNTRY A BIG JOKE
Please tell me what should I eat and what should I drink.
Please tell the nation the list of items which are free from pesticides or contain acceptable levels of pesticides.
JUST DON’T END YOUR GAME on multinational soft drinks.
If you have tested some BAD you must have tested some GOOD too. Please open your secret box of the GOOD THINGS!
ONLY GOD KNOWS what makes THE QUEEN OF press conferences so sure that India is a country of BAFFOONS.
Pepsi has pesticide levels which are higher then the accepted levels O.K.
BUT
Has she tested the Pesticide levels in the normal tap water which comes in the house of Ram Lal in Dariba Kalan or in the School at Sarai Kale Khan or at Sirajuddin’s house in Sheik Sarai.?
Has she tested the water from the hand pump outside the old Delhi Railway station for pesticide levels? From here some one or the other is drinking water every now and then.
NO she has NOT AND YES she WILL NOT
CAUSE THE FACT IS THAT FOR HER THE LIFE OF Ram Lal, The school children, Sirajuddin and the unknown traveler is not important.
SHE IS NOT FIGHTING FOR ANY BODY
SHE DOES NOT CARE FOR ANYBODY
SHE IS JUST PUBLICITY HUNGRY
THE CENTRE FOR SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT HAS ALL TESTING FACILITIES AVAILABLE WITH THEM.
RIGHT!
HONESTLY DID THEY TEST ONLY PEPSI & COKE?
IF YES THEN WHY SO?
SOME SPECIAL PERSONAL AGENDA?
SOME ENEMOSITY?
IF SO WHY SHOULD WE TRUST THEIR RESULTS?
IF NO
WHAT OTHER PRODUCTS WERE TESTED?
WHAT ARE THE RESULTS?
HAVE THEY TESTED STANDARD SOLUTION
OF SUGAR FROM EACH FACTORY IN UTTAR PRADESH AND MAHARASHTRA FOR PESTICIDE CONTENTS?
THEY SHOULD BECAUSE THIS IS A HOUSEHOLD ITEM AND FIXING STANDARD FOR THIS ITEM IS MORE IMPORTANT THEN THE SOFT DRINKS!
Have they tested the milk samples?
Have they tested the bottled water?
HAVE THEY EVER TESTED THEIR OWN OFFICE TAP WATER ?
REALLY THESE PEOPLE HAVE MADE MY COUNTRY A BIG JOKE
Monday, July 10, 2006
DON'T CHEAT MY COUNTRYMEN
While surfing through the net late one night, I was looking for the resources which make India so rich culturally as well as economically.
To my horror I came to a site www.India resource.org and as I went through the entire text, I realised the existance of this NEW BUSINESS and decided that I must take this up ..... wake up as many of my country men as possible. We should not let this happen in our name.
This is a shame.
How can a Person of Indian origing ask for and collect donations in US Dollars at an US address and then divert these funds for agitations in India?
If this person had fair intentions and is a India well wisher, Why did he not use the collected funds for providing books to the poor students, towards medical facilities for the poor .... for the hundred thousand areas which still require help in the country?
One more thing which came to my mind is that this person is collecting funds in our name! so do we not have the right to ask him to spell out his year wise collection amounts (which he calls donation) and precise year wise expenditure details?
How can we be sure that these kind of collected donations do not get into the wrong hands and finally end up in purchase of weapons?
This Guy probbably thinks that India does not have Laws, Police and Judiciary .... Hence he starts this NEW BUSINESS by first appointing himself as a social COP followed by becoming a donation collector.
GREAT! ......... NO investment... ONLY inflow.... CONTROL out flow ....... have FUN ..... Become famous (on the internet) ........ Become RICH (without working).
A lottle more effort and I realised that within India, in the current times, there is an army of individuals who are highly qualified (some from IITs) but have opted to do this NEW BUSINESS.
We shall take up these individuals one by one.
I wish to start a national debate on this issue as I do not want our children to IMAGINE a problem... CREATE HYPE ....... EARN MONEY.
While writing this my heart weeps for those people who fought for the freedom of India and in the process were beaten and bashed by the police, were pushed into jails, were sent to "Kala Pani" and many were even executed. These freedom fighters only had one vision - To free India from the British Rule.
Interestingly these freedom Fighters did not even have an Idea about this NEW BUSINESS.
They could never have imagined that the struggle for freedom, struggle for the down trodden, struggle for the underprivilaged ....... struggle for......... can be made into an occupation from which Name can be established... Fame can be earned ..... and above all, easy money can be made.
See the fantastic New Kind Of Business of Amit Srivastava
WELCOME ABOARD
To my horror I came to a site www.India resource.org and as I went through the entire text, I realised the existance of this NEW BUSINESS and decided that I must take this up ..... wake up as many of my country men as possible. We should not let this happen in our name.
This is a shame.
How can a Person of Indian origing ask for and collect donations in US Dollars at an US address and then divert these funds for agitations in India?
If this person had fair intentions and is a India well wisher, Why did he not use the collected funds for providing books to the poor students, towards medical facilities for the poor .... for the hundred thousand areas which still require help in the country?
One more thing which came to my mind is that this person is collecting funds in our name! so do we not have the right to ask him to spell out his year wise collection amounts (which he calls donation) and precise year wise expenditure details?
How can we be sure that these kind of collected donations do not get into the wrong hands and finally end up in purchase of weapons?
This Guy probbably thinks that India does not have Laws, Police and Judiciary .... Hence he starts this NEW BUSINESS by first appointing himself as a social COP followed by becoming a donation collector.
GREAT! ......... NO investment... ONLY inflow.... CONTROL out flow ....... have FUN ..... Become famous (on the internet) ........ Become RICH (without working).
A lottle more effort and I realised that within India, in the current times, there is an army of individuals who are highly qualified (some from IITs) but have opted to do this NEW BUSINESS.
We shall take up these individuals one by one.
I wish to start a national debate on this issue as I do not want our children to IMAGINE a problem... CREATE HYPE ....... EARN MONEY.
While writing this my heart weeps for those people who fought for the freedom of India and in the process were beaten and bashed by the police, were pushed into jails, were sent to "Kala Pani" and many were even executed. These freedom fighters only had one vision - To free India from the British Rule.
Interestingly these freedom Fighters did not even have an Idea about this NEW BUSINESS.
They could never have imagined that the struggle for freedom, struggle for the down trodden, struggle for the underprivilaged ....... struggle for......... can be made into an occupation from which Name can be established... Fame can be earned ..... and above all, easy money can be made.
See the fantastic New Kind Of Business of Amit Srivastava
WELCOME ABOARD
Sunday, June 04, 2006
THE CHAMPION --- SANDEEP PANDEY
PEOPLE HAVE PROVED US RIGHT IN SEPTEMBER!!
SANDEEP PANDEY - MARK OUR WORDS 'HINDUSTAN JAAG RAHA HAI'
WE POSTED THIS ARTICLE IN JUNE
Before we take on this highly qualified, High flying 'NEW BUSINESS' man who takes people for granted, who takes people for a ride - not just in Lucknow or Varanasi or Delhi or Mumbai but also in far off lands of U.S.A and Europe.
Lets see what others have to say for him.
What one Donor has to say --- Directly from the web
Open letter to Dr. Sandeep Pandey
... Excellent article. Sandeep Pandey was also reported to have been found with a lot of anarchist propaganda literature ... by an unknown user) Rating. Sandeep Pandey is touring the USA now ...www.india-forum.com/articles/46/1/Open-letter-to-Dr.-Sandeep-Pandey
Open letter to Dr. Sandeep Pandey
- Anonymous Former AID donor.
I am not a rich person by any standards. But like most Indians, I was (and still am) concerned about the plight of the millions in India further down on the economic scale. When I first came to the US for grad school, my earnings were by no means substantial, but I felt that it was important to contribute towards India’s development and did not think twice about foregoing my own comforts. Like many of my colleagues and friends, I decided that rather than complain about the problems facing India, I would try to do something about them. I volunteered my time and donated a part of my earnings to local charity organizations including AID and ASHA, two of the most active organizations on campus that I believed were doing development work in India. Although I no longer contribute to these organizations, I am distressed to hear reports that AID has been diverting funds for other purposes, including funding fundamentalist and political groups in India.[1] There is more to be said about these groups and their activities, but that is not the focus of this article.
Dr. Sandeep Pandey probably needs no introduction. The founder of the US-based ASHA for Education (ASHA), Dr. Pandey moved back to India in the 90s to take up social work full-time. He is the recipient of the Magsaysay Award and has traveled far and wide throughout India as well as the US, campaigning for various causes that he supports and helping raise funds for organizations that he supports, which include the Association for India’s Development (AID) and ASHA. He is also prominent on the lecture circuit in the US and is currently on one such tour, speaking at various AID and ASHA chapters, among other engagements, including one in the Bay Area. It was listening to people like Dr. Pandey and reading about organizations like AID and ASHA that motivated me to start thinking about my fellow citizens back home and got me interested in volunteer work.
Dr. Sandeep Pandey, to whom my questions are addressed, is considered by many to be a true Gandhian devoted to the Mahatma’s ideals of peaceful co-existence and non-violent struggle.
In the past few years, I have been disturbed by reports of Dr. Pandey’s association with terrorist groups and shady organizations. I have been disturbed to note that ASHA and AID have been sharing the stage with obscurantist Muslim organizations in the US and fundamentalist left-wing groups in India. I am distressed to hear reports that these organizations have been diverting funds. Much of this has been under the guise of promoting “secularism,” although strangely, ASHA and AID rarely work with Hindu organizations in India, even though Hindus form more than 80 percent of Indian population.
As a past donor to ASHA and AID, two organizations that Dr. Pandey works with, I would like to take this opportunity to ask him some questions. I have observed that most volunteers of ASHA and AID are decent people, truly interested in the development of India and the upliftment of its poor and downtrodden. But I also know that several of them share my concerns and have questions similar to mine. Several donors to these organizations have also expressed similar sentiments. I am sure all of them would also like to hear Dr. Pandey’s answers.
1. Dr. Pandey, who is sponsoring your present tour of the USA? How much expenditure does it incur? Don’t you think that the money spent on this tour could have been better used to help poor people in India instead?
2. Dr. Pandey, you participated in a meeting honoring Naxalites who have murdered law enforcement officers and civilians.[2] CPI-ML, which organized the meet, has also announced in its publication that you attended the meet and called for revolutionary fronts like CPI-ML to unite.[3] You claim to be a Gandhian. Could you please explain how a Gandhian could support Naxalite terrorist organizations?
3. Dr. Pandey, CPI-ML, whose conference you attended, calls for armed revolution and for raising an army.[4] Is it not hypocrisy to claim that you are a Gandhian but still attend CPI-ML conferences that call for armed revolution?[5] How does the violent and fundamentalist ideology of groups like CPI-ML fit into your self-professed Gandhian ideals? Do you wear one mask in front of American donors and volunteers and another in front of violent CPI-ML activists?
4. Dr. Pandey, many ASHA donors and volunteers live in America and some are even US citizens. You have called America "the biggest evil power on earth”[6] and "the biggest terrorist state."[7] If so, why do you and ASHA, which you founded, raise funds from the USA?
5. Dr. Pandey, while you have no qualms about calling a democratic state like America terrorist, you have never used such words for real terrorists like the Al Qaeda and Taliban. In fact, you turned into an apologist for Al Qaeda in an interview you gave to a Muslim newspaper in the aftermath of the 9/11 massacre. Even though it had been proven that it was Al Qaeda terrorists who carried out the attacks you claimed that nobody knew who perpetrated the crime.[8] Could you please explain why you chose to whitewash a terrorist crime but didn’t take side with American victims?
6. Dr. Pandey, in the same interview, you also expressed support for Kashmiri separatism. But you have never expressed your support for and sympathies with Kashmiri Pandits, who are victims of Islamic terrorism. The entire Kashmiri Pandit community of more than 700,000 was ethnically cleansed from Kashmir and nearly 400,000 of them languish in refugee camps. Why did you not ever support the victims but instead supported the oppressors?
7. Dr. Pandey, the newspaper mentioned above has sympathized with the Taliban.[9] Do you agree with their Taliban sympathies? If not, why would a person like you, who calls himself a Gandhian, disseminate his views through such media channels, implicitly giving them credibility?
8. Dr. Pandey, recently you wrote an opinion editorial for Al Jazeerah, where you demanded the release of an alleged Muslim criminal charged with abducting a woman.[10] Would you please explain why you opted to associate with a media outlet that has openly expressed anti-Semitic hatred and has been credibly accused of being connected to terrorist groups including Al Qaeda? Al Jazeerah has no circulation in India. Yet you chose it among several possible venues to publish your opinion on an issue concerning an alleged petty criminal from India. And perhaps even more surprisingly, Al Jazeerah published your piece. Which audience were you appealing to? What is your connection with Al Jazeerah?
9. Dr. Pandey, you have participated in several conferences and meetings organized by ASHA and AID in support of Muslim victims of the Gujarat riots. AID and ASHA have never organized any meeting, seminar, conference, or campaign in support of Hindu victims anywhere, but several other groups have organized such events in solidarity with victims of Islamic terrorism in Kashmir. Why have you never participated in or even expressed your support for such events? Do you think Hindu victims do not deserve sympathy? Would you urge ASHA and AID to make amends and sponsor events to express support for the Hindu victims of Islamic terrorism in Kashmir and Bangladesh?
10. Dr. Pandey, as mentioned above, ASHA and AID have never sponsored an event in support of Hindu victims of terrorism and ethnic cleansing. But they have sponsored extremely sectarian events in association with groups such as the Indian Muslim Council USA (IMC-USA).[11] One of the key speakers in one such convention was Mohammad Ahmadullah Siddiqi who founded the banned Islamic terrorist organization, Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).[12] Would you be willing to publicly state that ASHA and AID should not associate with such organizations?
11. Dr. Pandey, would you be willing to ask ASHA and AID to co-sponsor events with Hindu organizations like the Ramakrishna Mission, Sathya Sai Organization, and ISKCON Bangalore which do exceptional charitable work all over India and serves poor people everywhere without regard to religion, caste, or language?
12. Dr. Pandey, last but not the least, do you unequivocally and without reservation denounce Communist and Islamic terrorism? Will you publicly denounce Communist and Islamic terrorist organizations?
13. Dr. Pandey, during the tsunami fund raiser, AID channeled funds through the Democratic youth Federation of India (DYFI), the youth wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which has been implicated for fomenting violence.[13] The AID website also reported this. However, when the news became public, and people started to express reservation over AID’s funding of communist outfits like DYFI, AID started removing the references to the diversion from its website.[14] Do you think what AID did was ethical? Would you publicly condemn AID for diverting charity funds to outfits that engage in violence?
Politicians mouth vacuous platitudes and resort to high-pitched rhetoric when confronted with difficult questions that raise specific and serious concerns. I hope Dr. Pandey will provide honest and direct answers to all these questions, and not evade them like a politician who has something to hide. He should do so, if not for my sake, at least for the sake of volunteers and donors who are concerned about where their time, dedication, and hard-earned money are going.
Most importantly, please do not repeat your evasive reply that had you been a Communist, Magsaysay Foundation would not have conferred the award on you. These awards do not negate such associations. After all, you would agree that Yasser Arafat won the Nobel Prize for peace despite his track record as the leader of dreaded terrorist groups. Please answer the questions honestly and directly so that the volunteers and donors of ASHA and AID could evaluate you.
Yours truly,
A former donor
[Name withheld because of security concerns, and given the track record of terrorist groups which Dr. Pandey has been associated with].
What the other has to say ---- directly from the web
Shadow Warrior: Sandeep Pandey's ratha-yatra: where's the money going?
... dear all, Sandeep Pandey is short of funds by about 5 lakhs and ... 6350919, e-mail: piler@cyber.net.pk. > Sandeep Pandey, NAPM, A-893, Indira Nagar, Lucknow-226016, U.P ...rajeev2004.blogspot.com/.../03/sandeep-pandeys-ratha-yatra-wheres.html
It Says ---
'As regards to this another Paki-boot-licking effort by Kuldeep Nayar clone Sandeep Pandey, who's taking ISI appeasing to new heights,I hope there's a counter-yatra by Kashmiri Pandits in Delhi.And it should be flagged off by a young graduate from NDA.People like Sandeep Pandey & Arundati Roy, who are celebrities, enjoying their 5-Star lifestyles, that NDA graduate of 21 years, who's all setto go to the heights of Siachen & fight the Musharaf-ISI trained terrorist, is the only answer.These insects who are making us weak internally are our real enemies.'
.........And I thought ASHA was a bit better than throwing our hard earned money at the Sandeep Pandey types.If it is really that bad, people like me prob'ly should strike 'em off our donations list. Currently they are trying to get attention from the local hindu temple where I live.A sort of "certification" of all these NGO's by knowledgeable & persuasive guys like Rajeev would be a good ideas for us "dumb sheep" who look at the clean cut faces of some desi student who approaches us, gives us the sales patter, & takes our money "all for a worthy cause"....
.....Check out this mail where he solicits funds. He needs Rs. 1 lakh for fuel (for 2 vehicles) and this is just for the indian leg of the march.The distance between Delhi and Wagah is approximately 450 kilometres.So the round trip is 900 kilometres and for two vehicles it works outto the amount of fuel needed for 1800 kilometres. Even at a poor rate of 10 kilometres to the litre, you need just Rs 7200 (assuming 40rupees per litre) Guess where the remaining 92,800 goes! That is 92.8% overheads< >From: akhila raman To: <>Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 23:29:34 -0800 (PST)Subject: [foil] URGENT: Funds for 23rd Peace March! dear all,Sandeep Pandey is short of funds by about 5 lakhs and the Peace March starts March 23rd! Could you please forward to your elists and help towards this effort?address to mail checks is enclosed in the end.thanks, akhila---
asha wrote:> dear akhila,> the preparations for the march are in final stages.> also, see if you can raise some funds from other sources. we have received a> commitment of about rs. 3.5 lakhs till now. the budget is attached atthe> bottom of this message.> sandeep
Budget For Sandeep Pandey's yatra
Poster and Publicity Material (in 4 languages - Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu and English) Rs. 2,00,000
Fuel for 2 vehicles Rs. 1,00,000
Travel (Indian leg of the march) Rs. 2,50,000
Telephone/ Fax/ E-mail Rs. 50,000
Inaugral Programme Rs. 1,00,000
Material with yatra (microphone, solar light) Rs. 30,000
Miscellaneous Rs. 1,00,000
TOTAL Rs. 8,30,000
SEE AND READ THIS:
Document: Sandeep Pandey's views on Kashmir (external link to Milli Gazette, archived )Excerpt:
'Government should become more serious about the peace process in Kashmir and involve all the voices of Kashmir, however militant they might be. It is after all their land. It is neither Indian nor Pakistani land'
And Onother has to say this ....... directly from the web
PUBLICOPINIONFORUM
Sandeep Pandey – Naxal terrorist in a blue funk
PUBLIC. OPINION. FORUM. Sandeep Pandey – Naxal terrorist in a blue funk ... Sandeep Pandey is a man of many parts, all of them skin-deep and each one of them ... the State in India'. Sandeep Pandey has so far picked only those ...www.vigilonline.com/news/plain_speak/ps_view.asp?plainSpeakId=92 - 29k -
Sandeep Pandey – Naxal terrorist in a blue funk
Sandeep Pandey is a man of many parts, all of them skin-deep and each one of them carefully and calculatedly crafted to feed his gargantuan appetite for Mammon. American greenback Mammon, that is. He walks, he talks, he writes, he protests – for his version of ‘peace’, against Indian nukes, for Kashmiri and other terrorists, for the terrorist state of Pakistan, against Coca Cola, against Hindus and their nationalism, for the poor destitute children of India who don’t go to school - which fact this Indian, this IIT graduate confesses in an interview to the Milli Gazette, he came to know late in his life, only during his years in the US from a book published by MIT in 1991 titled ‘The Child and the State in India’. Sandeep Pandey has so far picked only those issues for his money-making activism which will keep him in media limelight, and those issues which for the most part resonate like music in the US government establishment, that’s for sure; all except Coca Cola. Only the Coca Cola bit is a dead give away about the colour of skin-deep Sandeep’s ideology. Skin-deep San-deep’s activism is intentionally anti-Hindu and anti-Hindu nation which is why the US, and its client states were willingly deceived into patronizing the man with awards, media attention, with talking tours in foreign universities and with the Magsaysay; but dear Sandeep’s activism, far from leaning ideologically towards the West is inclined steeply towards the Left to which fact the US establishment is perhaps only now beginning to open its eyes. As I said, each one of these many parts of Sandeep Pandey is intended secondarily to make money from anti-national disruptive activism. While these are well crafted money-making parts, the money-making is incidental to their primary role as false hair on the face to disguise him. Sandeep Pandey the pseudo educationist, the pseudo social activist, the pseudo peace activist, the pseudo anti-nuke activist – all of these pseudo beards disguise from public gaze Sandeep Pandey the committed and vocal supporter of Marxist-Leninist Naxalite terrorism. And skin-deep Sandeep is mortally afraid the false beard may fall off and that his Naxal proclivities may come under the US State Department scanner. Now why should that put dear Sandeep Pandey into a blue funk? Thereby hangs a tale – this tale in fact...........Sandeep Pandey’s ASHA raising close to four million dollars from inside the US is no small indicator of the Left rising from the dead. The other big indicators are the mammoth anti-WTO demonstrations in Seattle, the anti-war protests by millions of Americans who took to the streets following the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the anti-IMF and World Bank protestors growing by the year, the mammoth annual gathering of NGOs and other activists at the World Social Forum ............It is these fears which compels skin-deep Sandeep to go to great lengths to keep his pseudo beard on his chin – to keep his Left, and worse, his Naxal leanings a secret from the US government. The possibility of adverse media attention and the possibility of the US immigration doing to him what they did to another Indian Leftist, Ramachandra Guha, which will put paid to his luxurious five star activism bankrolled by American dollars must be giving dear Sandeep sleepless nights......... Sandeep Pandey’s communist nexus begins to unravel itself when, within months of accepting the Magsaysay award in 2002, he announces to the world that he will be returning the money component of the award worth 50,000 US$ because, he says, having called the US a terrorist state he cannot very well be receiving money from any American organization. It is obvious now that the communists used Sandeep Pandey and the Magsaysay award to deliver their first punch at the ‘imperialist’ US and the Ford Foundation. Needless to say dear Sandeep could afford to sniff at 50,000$ because he was making more than a couple of million dollars with his false beards in the US............ Hindu nationalists understand that both American imperialism and Communist-International have chosen India as their battle ground and that Hindu nationalism presents the biggest threat ideologically and physically to their hegemonic, homogenizing agenda. Sandeep Pandey represents one face of this twin threat to Hindu nationalism. Unmasking him and his like is in Hindu interest and will be the first step to get both monsters to vacate this land and choose another battle ground elsewhere.
Radha Rajan
14th October, 2005.
This is from another person ...... directly from the web
Sandeep Pandey's Naxal connections – Raju Rajagopal ko gussa kyon aata hai?
PUBLIC. OPINION. FORUM. Sandeep Pandey's Naxal connections – Raju Rajagopal ko gussa kyon aata hai? ... this mail confirming my theory that Sandeep Pandey and his partners and supporters are ... of his close association (?) partnership (?) with Sandeep Pandey. Both responses are extremely ...www.vigilonline.com/news/plain_speak/ps_view.asp?
Significantly, response to the Vigil Plainspeak comes from two persons – one an office-bearer in ASHA and the other from the individual who created yet another profitable US based NGO and who is now afraid that some mud, in fact a lot of mud will stick to him because of his close association (?) partnership (?) with Sandeep Pandey. Both responses are extremely interesting in that neither the ASHA office-bearer nor dear Raju Rajagopal have been able to deny dear Pandey’s Naxal connections which have been attested to by the CPI (ML) itself. ( http://www.cpiml.org/liberation/year_2003/january/feature.htm ) Even dear Sandeep Pandey couldn’t deny his connections and so he too was pushed into lying to his supporters. (http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~sudhakar/asha/weblog/sandeep.txt) Now neither this office-bearer of ASHA Netika Raval nor the co-ordinator of Promise Of India, Raju Rajagopal can deny the truth of Sandeep’s connections to Naxal terrorists or their own guilt by association with dear Sandeep and so they resort to beating around the bush. Please read their response all of you and see them playing ring-a-ring-a-rosy with the truth. They don’t even make the attempt to touch the issue of Sandeep’s Naxal connections. And because these two persons take us all to be idiots let me give you all another URL – this time a news report which testifies to the illustrious company that Sandeep Pandey keeps. http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/nov/15naxal.htm And dear Raju Rajagopal whose Promise Of India is supported and welcomed precisely by these same persons, now has to defend not only his association with dear Sandeep but also with these ‘internationally recognized and applauded’ eminent defenders of human rights and peace activists who assemble at the Seventh Congress of the CPI (ML) to ‘honour’ the memory of slain Maoist/Naxal terrorists because they think slain Maoist/Naxal terrorists are noble martyrs!
more to follow.........
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Sandeep Pandey's CLONE
We wait for you at jago_hindustani@yahoo.co.in
Our search engines have been working hard on Sandeep Pandey and the likes since it is of utmost importance --specially in the National interest - that the INTENTIONS - the MODUS OPERANDI - the FUNDING and the EXTENT TO WHICH THEY CAN HURT THE FABRIC OF INDIA needs to be EVALUATED & EXPOSED ---------------Sooner the Better.
In the process our team stumbled and we thought there were a lot of BOULDERS in the path but soon realised that actually they were CLONES put up by Sandeep Pandey to achieve his ambitious ambitions and in the process the Clones are also having a BALL in terms of 'lots of money for nothing'.
We picked up one such clone in the outskirts of Varanasi some where near Bhikari Pur - Calls himself -MASTER NAND LAL.
We had heard of Dr., Er., Mr.,Mrs. as prefixes but here we realised that this person NAND LAL appropriately uses the word MASTER before his name as he appeared to be a master operator and a MASTER FOLLOWER OF HIS MASTER, Mr. Sandeep Pandey.
Nand Lal was an unknown-entity (both financially & politically) till a few years back but for his arrival under the wings of Mr.Sandeep Pandey.
SEE THE IRONY - The hard earned money which the people donate to Asha with every good intention of it being invested in Education is smartly diverted by Sandeep Pandey year after year into the hands of the likes of Nand Lal and what does Nand Lal do with it - MAKES A HUGE MANSION FOR HIS RESIDENCE, PUTS UP A SMALL (EYE WASH ) SCHOOL, STARTS HIS OWN TENT HOUSE BUSINESS .....ETC. ETC.
BENEFIT TO SANDEEP PANDEY - Uses Nanad Lal as a regular station in that area for LAUNCHING anti Multinational company programme of Mr. Pandey (incidently Sandeep Pandey gets most of his funds from America and the part of this booty which goes to Nand Lal is also American money).
We heard from the local residents that 'This anti multinational company' programme is to black mail the companies and extract monetary benefits or news paper coverage (till such time) till the time the company relents.
Reward - Apart from lots of money and cheap publicity it is local talk that Mr. Sandeep Pandey has even recommended the name of Nand Lal for the Megasaysay Award (though confering this award to Sandeep was itself a big enough mistake) as such acts help in the ALL ROUND development of the CLONE .
We invite any body and every body to visit location, meet Nand Lal and find out the story of his growth & funding from year 2000 to 2006 and realise for themselves WHY IT IS BETTER TO BE A CLONE of Sandeep Pandey RATHER THEN BEING - ONES OWN SELF.
Think where our nation is heading and why is it heading in that direction.
KAUN HAI JO LOKTANTRA KA MAJAK UDA RAHA HAI ?
KAUN HAI JO DANVEERON KO CHUNA LAGA RAHA HAI ?
KAUN HAI JO GALAT ADDRESS BATA RAHA HAI ?
Hindustan ko Bachana Hai to is KADI ko TODO.
Our search engines have been working hard on Sandeep Pandey and the likes since it is of utmost importance --specially in the National interest - that the INTENTIONS - the MODUS OPERANDI - the FUNDING and the EXTENT TO WHICH THEY CAN HURT THE FABRIC OF INDIA needs to be EVALUATED & EXPOSED ---------------Sooner the Better.
In the process our team stumbled and we thought there were a lot of BOULDERS in the path but soon realised that actually they were CLONES put up by Sandeep Pandey to achieve his ambitious ambitions and in the process the Clones are also having a BALL in terms of 'lots of money for nothing'.
We picked up one such clone in the outskirts of Varanasi some where near Bhikari Pur - Calls himself -MASTER NAND LAL.
We had heard of Dr., Er., Mr.,Mrs. as prefixes but here we realised that this person NAND LAL appropriately uses the word MASTER before his name as he appeared to be a master operator and a MASTER FOLLOWER OF HIS MASTER, Mr. Sandeep Pandey.
Nand Lal was an unknown-entity (both financially & politically) till a few years back but for his arrival under the wings of Mr.Sandeep Pandey.
SEE THE IRONY - The hard earned money which the people donate to Asha with every good intention of it being invested in Education is smartly diverted by Sandeep Pandey year after year into the hands of the likes of Nand Lal and what does Nand Lal do with it - MAKES A HUGE MANSION FOR HIS RESIDENCE, PUTS UP A SMALL (EYE WASH ) SCHOOL, STARTS HIS OWN TENT HOUSE BUSINESS .....ETC. ETC.
BENEFIT TO SANDEEP PANDEY - Uses Nanad Lal as a regular station in that area for LAUNCHING anti Multinational company programme of Mr. Pandey (incidently Sandeep Pandey gets most of his funds from America and the part of this booty which goes to Nand Lal is also American money).
We heard from the local residents that 'This anti multinational company' programme is to black mail the companies and extract monetary benefits or news paper coverage (till such time) till the time the company relents.
Reward - Apart from lots of money and cheap publicity it is local talk that Mr. Sandeep Pandey has even recommended the name of Nand Lal for the Megasaysay Award (though confering this award to Sandeep was itself a big enough mistake) as such acts help in the ALL ROUND development of the CLONE .
We invite any body and every body to visit location, meet Nand Lal and find out the story of his growth & funding from year 2000 to 2006 and realise for themselves WHY IT IS BETTER TO BE A CLONE of Sandeep Pandey RATHER THEN BEING - ONES OWN SELF.
Think where our nation is heading and why is it heading in that direction.
KAUN HAI JO LOKTANTRA KA MAJAK UDA RAHA HAI ?
KAUN HAI JO DANVEERON KO CHUNA LAGA RAHA HAI ?
KAUN HAI JO GALAT ADDRESS BATA RAHA HAI ?
Hindustan ko Bachana Hai to is KADI ko TODO.
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