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ज्योतिष की सार्थकता: क्या यमलोक सिर्फ एक परिकल्पना है?
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- गरूड पुराण की कथा में एक जगह वर्णित है कि उस लोक(यमलोक) में बारहों सूर्य ऐसे तपतें हैं, जैसे प्रलय के अंत में अग्नि रूप में तपते हैं।अब क्या ये संभव नंही हो सकता कि सचमुच उस लोक(या ग्रह, जो भी आप कह लें) पर 12 सूर्य हों। अब इस विचार को तो स्वयं विज्ञान भी मान कर चल रहा है कि इस सृ्ष्टि में अनेक सौरमण्डल(सूर्य) मौजूद हैं।तो क्या ये नहीं हो सकता कि जिस प्रकार हमारे सौरमंडल में एक सूर्य चमक रहा है, उसी प्रकार वहां के सौरमंडल में 12 सूर्य चमकते हो।
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
ज्योतिष की सार्थकता: क्या यमलोक सिर्फ एक परिकल्पना है?
India Retold: TARUN TEJPAL: EXTRA GOD AND THE DEVIL
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- In perhaps a first for Indian journalists - and that is saying a lot considering the lot we have - Tarun J Tejpal, editor of Tehelka, has crossed
every possible red line that separates journalism and political sycophancy.
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Now you know why this angel of morality and ethics and values and integrity lay silent for the five years that the Congress was in power. Now you know why no sting operation that could taint the government in any manner was done by Tehelka. - Why was everyone quiet for five years while DMK ministers were allegedly looting their ministries openly? Why the noise after the elections? It does not take great imagination to understand that the media brought all the muck into public glare only to embarrass the DMK and pressure it to give up its demands for all these lucrative ministries again! Poor Congressmen couldn't be made to suffer for another five years in "dry" ministries, could they?
- Saving Sonia is more important than saving India.
- Who can forget the recent Pink Chaddi campaign launched by one of Tejpal's reporters to bring the Congress back on track in Karnataka? I will not be surprised if that sting on Varun Gandhi was also done by Tejpal, to literally force Muslims into the arms of the Congress in UP.
- Doing sting operations is a costly and time consuming affair, particularly if they are aimed at getting stunning political rewards for your political masters. Many, many stings have to be done before you get the kind of dramatic result that you are looking for in just one of them.
- No prizes for guessing where the huge funding and possibly more could have come from, for long years.
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India Retold: BJP: THIS TIME IT IS DIFFERENT
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Maggi sauces continue to remain popular with that "It's different" line, thanks to some great ads starring Javed Jaffery, backed by great sauces that retain their edge in quality and taste over the many copycat products that have hit the market since. -
These days, the BJP is being called "a party with differences", "a party no different", "a different kind of BJP", "the party with no difference", "still a party with a difference" etc. - the PM-who-is-no-longer-even-in-the-waiting-list. He too is now blaming the use of wrong ingredients in an out of date product for the dismal performance. He has conveniently forgotten that he had focused mostly on how bad the other sauce was, and not how good and "different" his was. People already knew how bad the other one was; they wanted to hear how much better BJP's "different" offering was in real terms; what they got instead was the smug mug of the mazboot CEO everywhere, doing little more than running his competent and compelling competitor down.
- Ideas are coming in thick and fast. Some are suggesting that the party should revert to the original tomato sauce formula that the Congress is sticking to, while others are warning that it should not even think of dumping the "different" base that is its USP. As always, there are those who advise a broad cautious middle path by suggesting that while the base should not be thrown away, its proportion should be so reduced that only those with the most sensitive of tongues can detect its taste, and those who are allergic to it do not get any reaction and be put off for ever.
- Why instead can't he and others see that powerful scientists working on product development in their R&D Headquarters in Nagpur and centres elsewhere still dress like the British and some of their subjects used to over a century ago? With that dress code, how can the mindset change, and a contemporary product conceived, much less produced? Can't they see that the Congress - smart guys - did away with a separate R&D Wing altogether in 1948, the moment Gandhi died?
- With nothing "different" left, life will become boring once again. Till someone inevitably puts together a political "Nirma" to take on the might of "Surf"; the cycle will then begin again.
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Headscarves and Headlines
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Headscarves and Headlines
- Headscarves and Headlines
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- The Times of India is essentially stoking violence. For days on end now, the paper has been bloviating about the French president's comments. Today's headline takes the cake. If head coverings are really so beneficial for women, why don't they petition the Rajmata or Yuvraj to make it mandatory? Alternately, suppose a VHP leader had talked about virtues of modest clothing, would we see similar articles?
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In none of the articles does the TOI state facts necessary to put the matter in perspective. For instance, the fact that even Turkey bans headscarves in public places was not mentioned.
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Did affirmative action result in 26/11 Police failures?
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Did affirmative action result in 26/11 Police failures?
- Did affirmative action result in 26/11 Police failures?
- A two-member committee that investigated the police response to the 26/11 terror attacks has singled out then Mumbai police commissioner Hasan Gafoor for his complete failure to provide leadership in the hour of crisis.
- The committee, however, said Gafoor completely failed to implement the standard operation procedures laid down in the Bombay Police Manual in letter and spirit. Through much of the attack, Gafoor stationed himself at one spot near the Oberoi and asked crime branch chief Rakesh Maria to take charge of the control room. Gafoor did not show qualities of leadership, the panel said. Above all, Gafoor's attitude created an impression among subordinates that they were not part of the high-level police team tackling terror.
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