Veer Savarkar

• Veer Savarkar

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  • Oh Motherland,
    Sacrifice for you is like life!
    Living without you is death!!
    - Veer Savarkar, the ideal form of Warrior energy

    26th Feb: HJS salutes Maha patriot Veer Savarkar on His Memorial Day!

    HJS has undertaken a campaign to get
    approval from the INDIAN government for a
    Memorial to Veer Savarkar in France.

    Shame on Bharat's Selfish political parties who have
    forgotten the sacrifice of Veer Savarkar !

  

  • Veer Savarkar - A legend

    • The first political leader to daringly set 'Absolute Political Independence' as Bharat's goal.
    • The first Bharatiya political leader to courageously conduct a bonfire of foreign-made clothes.
    • The first Bharatiya to organise a revolutionary movement for Bharat's Independence at an international level.
    • The first graduate, whose degree was withdrawn by an Bharatiya University for striving for Bharat's Independence.
    • The first political prisoner in the world who was sentenced to life-imprisonment twice, a sentence unparalleled in the history of the British Empire.
  • Jay Hindu Rashtra!

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The Illegals: Mumbai's Bangladeshis: Rediff.com India News

• The Illegals: Mumbai's Bangladeshis: Rediff.com India News

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  According to Ramesh Bagwe, Minister of State for Home, their number in Maharashtra [ Images ] could be 3.5 lakh but when he talked to the media last week, he did not explain how this number was arrived at. There never has been a survey to determine that.

  • Then there is the number put out by Kirit Somaiya, former MP known for being a number cruncher, there are as many as 16 lakh in Mumbai Metropolitan Region, ten lakh of lakh of them within Mumbai municipal limits.

  • Once here, they pretend to be from West Bengal and claim to be domestic migrants so to say and assert their right to live here. The truth is that Maharashtra officials when asked to deport them find it hard to distinguish them from Bangladeshis though there are nuances which differentiate one from the other.

  • Why are the numbers so big now? There are several reasons.

    One reason is that when, especially after the 1992-93 riots the exercise of locating and deporting them, especially from Mumbai continued, civil society protested. The protests were on the 'secular' platform, the logic being that since most were Muslims, they ought not to be sent packing. The argument was not that they were poor so one needed to be nice to them. The point missed was that even if on that count, they needed to come as refugees, not by stealth and pretend to be Indian citizens.

  • Mahesh Vijapurkar is a senior journalist and commentator

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Raman's strategic analysis: HIT, BUT STEALTHILY

• Raman's strategic analysis: HIT, BUT STEALTHILY

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  • B.Raman
  • Direct military action against a State-sponsor of terrorism waging a proxy war against us by using terrorism through surrogates as a low-cost weapon without the direct involvement of its Armed Forces would be counter-productive and messy.
    
    
    While there could be no doubt about India's ultimate success in a military conflict, the final cost of the conflict would further retard India's economic development.
    
    
  • When terrorism is used by a State as a low-cost weapon to achieve its strategic objective, what works against it is the ability and the determination of the victim State to hurt the interests of the State-sponsor in order to make it a high-cost weapon for the wielder.
    
    
    State-sponsored terrorism withers away when the villain State is made to realise that it will have to pay a heavy price for its sponsorship.
  • The need of the hour is a counter proxy war doctrine incorporating its political, diplomatic, economic and covert components and its implementation in a determined and consistent manner. The results would not come dramatically, but slowly and almost imperceptibly.

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VivekaJyoti: The root of all movements to break India are ultimately found in denying the religious and cultural unity of the Indian people

• VivekaJyoti: The root of all movements to break India are ultimately found in denying the religious and cultural unity of the Indian people

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  • Our reading of history certainly does not support Hindu rashtra as a religious concept that means it is only for those people who are currently called `Hindus' as a religious term. Classically, Hindu has been a civilizational, not a religious term, nor is it exclusive. `Hinduism' is different from Abrahmic religion in this regard.
    
    Surprising enough, even the article in Encarta on nationhood recognizes that:
    
    “India is a nation in which the Hindu religion served as the cohesive traditional element in uniting peoples of various races, religions and languages.”

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Raman's strategic analysis: ARE BIN LADEN & ZAWAHIRI IN KARACHI?

• Raman's strategic analysis: ARE BIN LADEN & ZAWAHIRI IN KARACHI?

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  • B.RAMAN
  • However, the recent arrest of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the supposed No. 2 of the Afghan Taliban, and some middle-level leaders of the organisation, in Karachi have lent credibility to the allegations of the MQM. Sources in Mr.Altaf Hussain's organisation are now alleging that not only leaders of the Afghan Taliban, but also many absconding elements of Al Qaeda, including Osama bin Laden, and his No.2 Ayman al-Zawahiri, have shifted to Karachi from North Waziristan to escape the intensified Drone (unmanned planes) attacks by the USA's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and that they have been given shelter by their Pashtun sympathisers in Karachi. They further allege that the Pakistani authorities and some of the political leaders are aware of this.
  • He expressed his grave concern over the information that Abu Riyan al Zarqawi, also known as Abu Musa, reportedly told the security agencies that Osama bin Laden and Mulla Omar were in Pakistan and that just a month ago he met them personally

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