submit journalistic work
on asia for =Oz= award
of 10,000 dollars!
By Kulamarva Balakrishna
Vienna,Tuesday,February 5,2008: Any one
candidate for 10,000 dollar award for the
best journalism work in English for the year 2007?
Here is an opportunity announcement routed by
the South Asia Journalists Association, Columbia
Universtiy, for only original journalists not copy
cats or pirates. I write this because Indians are
the worst intellectual property thieves. I know
this having been a victim of these plagiarists.
They have many languages you can not go on
tracing all of them even with search engines!
Text of offer:
Hi all,
Asia Society is currently seeking nominations
for our "Oz prize".(It is new =Oz=, the old one
being notorious sex maniacs mag of old) Its a
$10,000 cash award given for the best piece of
journalism (in print or online) on Asia. Stories
must have appeared in English during calendar
year 2007. Details are below--feel free to share
with anyone you think interested and do feel free
to contact me with questions.
Best,
Elaine
Elaine Merguerian | Associate Director,
Communications | Asia Society | 725 Park Avenue
| New York, NY | 10021 | t 212-327-9313 |
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ASIA SOCIETY SEEKING NOMINATIONS FOR ANNUAL
OSBORN ELLIOTT PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE
IN JOURNALISM ON ASIA
February 5, 2008-The Asia Society is pleased to
announce that it is now seeking nominations for the
Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on
Asia. The $10,000 prize is awarded annually to a
writer who has produced the best example of journalism
about Asia in print or online during the calendar year.
Criteria for the prize include consideration for
the impact of the work, its originality, creativity,
depth of research and educational value in informing
the public about Asia. The next winner of the "Oz Prize,"
whose work was produced during the 2007 calendar
year, will be announced at a special program at the
Asia Society in New York City this spring.The Osborn
Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on
Asia honors legendary journalist and author Osborn
Elliott, former editor-in-chief of Newsweek, who set
new standards for reporting and editing and became
one of the earliest practitioners of "civic journalism"
-the deliberate focusing of the journalistic enterprise
on urgent issues of public policy. Previous winners
include Evan Osnos of the Chicago Tribune (2007),
Barbara Demick of the Los Angeles Times and
Matthew McAllester of Newsday (2006), Philip P. Pan
of The Washington Post (2005), John Pomfret of
The Washington Post (2004) and Elisabeth Rosenthal
of The New York Times (2003). An independent
jury of distinguished writers, award-winning journalists
and Asia-hands, chaired by Norman Pearlstine, Senior
Advisor on Telecommunications & Media for The Carlyle
Group, will review nominations for the prize from
both media organizations and journalists.
Eligibility:
* A submission can consist of a single article,
a series of articles around a single theme or a body
of work including various themes.
* For the purposes of this award, "Asia" is termed
as defined by the Asia Society, comprising of countries
from Iran eastward up and including Australia and
New Zealand. It does not include the Arab Middle East.
* While applications from non-US publications will
be considered, the work must have been published in
English.
* All nominations or direct applications are limited
to one per organization or journalist.
Submissions Requirements:
* Name of journalist being nominated.
* Complete contact information: mailing address,
email and telephone number.
* The name, telephone number and email of the
nominee's editor (self-nominees should inform their
editors that we may contact about your submission).
* A photograph or headshot of journalist for use at
public announcement of the winner (image may be
submitted as a print photograph or as a 300dpi image
on disk in tiff or jpeg format).
* 16 copies of the body of journalistic work to
be considered.
All submissions must be complete and received by
Friday, March 14, 2008. Please submit all materials
by mail. Electronic and fax submissions will not be
accepted. Submissions should be directed to:
Deanna Lee
Vice President, Communications
Asia Society
725 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021 (end)
Tuesday, 5 February 2008
Monday, 4 February 2008
raj thackery
thackery santanacha satya nash kele mathurawale
By Kulamarva Balakrishna
Vienna,Tuesday,February 5,2008: He Raj Thackery koop mandook ahe.
Raj Thackery is a frog, in Salman Rushdie language Meinduck bachcha,
against Bachchan!That happy Bachchan, who got Aishvarya as daughter
in law to worship at home.Jaya worships her because Aishvarya makes
her shy and girly son Abhishek pregnant. Bunt girl,is a queen on her own
right, of inheritance and achivements.Abhishek? Amitabha Bachchan
Corporation Limited´s single trade mark (TM) product, no share Dalal
Street value.Charming Idli Dosa beauty,not Maharashtrian dhoti woman
or kerchief langoti Koli Bombay Duck female.Phan,Where is Ahmitahbh´s
Maharashtra loyalty?Why he did not go for a Mirchi Chudmini Kolhapure?
As pallangtod? Love maker I mean.No wonder Raj Thokare is angry Bachchan
did not show his Maharashtra loyalty and selected a Tamasha dancer from
Parel.Jaya,the socialist MP should act in Parel Thamasha theater to prove
her loyalty and earn royalty herself.Eat mirchiwale Kollapuri curry and dance
Parelwale Tamasha dance.That is southern frog.Calls for rains in the Mithi
river flowing towards closed Mahim Creek when Powai lake overflows.
Mhanjhe mithi koyi halvayee nahee re, yeh mithi nadee per keechad bharle
ahe.When it rains cats and dogs the Thackery meinducks make huge noise.
All get freightened. Chatrapathi Prabodhanbaccha Thokeray boat leke
Bombay phierega, Shivaji Parkvar Bhashan chalu rakhega.Iska garjan
sunke the whole of Maharashtra ani India darpok banega dar pok pork
nahee re.
Raj Bachcha Thackery
Kaka Balhyasaheb Dawood Chatrapathi
Pockeray is unforgiving of his gawd.
It was the derelection of duty by this
gawd of Maharashtra to tell his wife to
take her pill that caused aunt
Prabodhanavati bhagavati mhmanjhe
bhosdiche stop breathing.Mhane thee
svargavas karlee.Mathoshree lund
khanjaree ahmchee. Ata me kayi sangoom
tumhala Mathura Bhojpuri Bhelpuri
Uttara Bharatiyanhaa? Tee mustee ahe
langoti makad chchap ahe.Charbee charbee
panda log bhains doodhwale mathuravale.
Sagalhe annadata Jamshyd Tatane kele.
Tyanna amantranavar sagalhe
Uttarabharatiya log ithe Mumbai madhe
alhe kamkaravyala.Reclamation karle, ani Bombay bharle Chowpatty,
tak Maharaneecha necklace banlee.Kamchor Bevdu Marathi mawali
poranna batata poha usal bhajee Zoabawadivar khayala diyele.Sab
bekar ghati mawali loganche Vasunaka addevar gap shap marayala
usalhbhajee khayala.Ahe ahmi Ghasitaram Kotwalyancha mulhe,
mhanjhe santan.Mathura dairy band kara, usal pauchi dandha kara.
Marathi ghati koop mandookanchya gand mara,marathi imaan rakha.
Ahmi Shivsenachi bagh ahe, bagh mhane jackle ree budhdhu samajhe?(end)
By Kulamarva Balakrishna
Vienna,Tuesday,February 5,2008: He Raj Thackery koop mandook ahe.
Raj Thackery is a frog, in Salman Rushdie language Meinduck bachcha,
against Bachchan!That happy Bachchan, who got Aishvarya as daughter
in law to worship at home.Jaya worships her because Aishvarya makes
her shy and girly son Abhishek pregnant. Bunt girl,is a queen on her own
right, of inheritance and achivements.Abhishek? Amitabha Bachchan
Corporation Limited´s single trade mark (TM) product, no share Dalal
Street value.Charming Idli Dosa beauty,not Maharashtrian dhoti woman
or kerchief langoti Koli Bombay Duck female.Phan,Where is Ahmitahbh´s
Maharashtra loyalty?Why he did not go for a Mirchi Chudmini Kolhapure?
As pallangtod? Love maker I mean.No wonder Raj Thokare is angry Bachchan
did not show his Maharashtra loyalty and selected a Tamasha dancer from
Parel.Jaya,the socialist MP should act in Parel Thamasha theater to prove
her loyalty and earn royalty herself.Eat mirchiwale Kollapuri curry and dance
Parelwale Tamasha dance.That is southern frog.Calls for rains in the Mithi
river flowing towards closed Mahim Creek when Powai lake overflows.
Mhanjhe mithi koyi halvayee nahee re, yeh mithi nadee per keechad bharle
ahe.When it rains cats and dogs the Thackery meinducks make huge noise.
All get freightened. Chatrapathi Prabodhanbaccha Thokeray boat leke
Bombay phierega, Shivaji Parkvar Bhashan chalu rakhega.Iska garjan
sunke the whole of Maharashtra ani India darpok banega dar pok pork
nahee re.
Raj Bachcha Thackery
Kaka Balhyasaheb Dawood ChatrapathiPockeray is unforgiving of his gawd.
It was the derelection of duty by this
gawd of Maharashtra to tell his wife to
take her pill that caused aunt
Prabodhanavati bhagavati mhmanjhe
bhosdiche stop breathing.Mhane thee
svargavas karlee.Mathoshree lund
khanjaree ahmchee. Ata me kayi sangoom
tumhala Mathura Bhojpuri Bhelpuri
Uttara Bharatiyanhaa? Tee mustee ahe
langoti makad chchap ahe.Charbee charbee
panda log bhains doodhwale mathuravale.
Sagalhe annadata Jamshyd Tatane kele.
Tyanna amantranavar sagalhe
Uttarabharatiya log ithe Mumbai madhe
alhe kamkaravyala.Reclamation karle, ani Bombay bharle Chowpatty,
tak Maharaneecha necklace banlee.Kamchor Bevdu Marathi mawali
poranna batata poha usal bhajee Zoabawadivar khayala diyele.Sab
bekar ghati mawali loganche Vasunaka addevar gap shap marayala
usalhbhajee khayala.Ahe ahmi Ghasitaram Kotwalyancha mulhe,
mhanjhe santan.Mathura dairy band kara, usal pauchi dandha kara.
Marathi ghati koop mandookanchya gand mara,marathi imaan rakha.
Ahmi Shivsenachi bagh ahe, bagh mhane jackle ree budhdhu samajhe?(end)
relax sania
India´s pride & honor
By Kulamarva Balakrishna
Vienna,Monday,February 4,2008: I welcome, if
it is true Sania Mirza would keep out of the
Bangalore open in March.Our pride Sania,hold
your head high,just as you kept the national
tricolor flying internationally.Let the langoti
monkeys feel ashamed of their mean behavior
by putting Indian judiciary to a silly test.You
are not guilty of any crime.Just the same as
we, thinking Indians are,mother India would
be proud of you always.Indian courts, I am aware
are used to issue summons by corrupt means
against the Union President himself,not long
ago.The cost of that summons was no more than
Rs.40,000!These were no doubt put up by match
fixing langoti monkeys.(end)
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By Kulamarva Balakrishna
Vienna,Monday,February 4,2008: I welcome, if
it is true Sania Mirza would keep out of the
Bangalore open in March.Our pride Sania,hold
your head high,just as you kept the national
tricolor flying internationally.Let the langoti
monkeys feel ashamed of their mean behavior
by putting Indian judiciary to a silly test.You
are not guilty of any crime.Just the same as
we, thinking Indians are,mother India would
be proud of you always.Indian courts, I am aware
are used to issue summons by corrupt means
against the Union President himself,not long
ago.The cost of that summons was no more than
Rs.40,000!These were no doubt put up by match
fixing langoti monkeys.(end)
hans koecheler
in human terms
By Kulamarva Balakrishna
Vienna,Monday,February 2,2008:About
Reagan trial at Brussels and Reagan´s attack
on Muammar Qaddafi,which I mentioned as
I wrote paying tribute to the late Russi Karanjia,
I want to make it clear, there is no evidence on
record that the Libyan leader was indeed
behind the International Progress Organization
of Prof.Dr.Hans Koechler,which held the public
trial of President Ronald Reagan at Brussels on
September 28-30,1984.It was President Reagan´s
intelligence that suspected or created the ghost of
Muammar AQaddafi.If George Bush and his cronies
can be accounted for 933 lies,his Republican grand
father Reagan in White House was no less innovative.
He had in fact sent a mole to the tribunal precincts who
was thrown out after he created a scene there.
Besides,there was an incident of ransacking Russi´s
room in the Hotel where the tribunal was held.
Russi Karanjia´s suitcase was stolen.I reported
the incident in Blitz.
As a media monitoring man, I should help here to
evaluate the =western free press= humbug.Anticipating
they could care less for the event, Prof.Dr.Koechler
had invited free press himself.Of course the
=western official free press= in which club,Newsweek
is included, found the news not worthy of public
readership.The International Progress Organization,
I understand was compelled to advertise the
conclusion of the trial in the pages of Newsweek,
the Washington Post sibling.
As for terrorism, it showed its real face first
when the Bandung conference was held in
the fifties. It was initiated jointly by Jawahar Lal
Nehru, Bang Sukarno,Josip Broz Tito and Gamal
Abdel Naser.Chinese Prime Minister Chau en Lai
was an invitee. He was to fly Air-India from Peking
to Jakarta.Krishna Menon, then India´s High
Commisioner in London got intelligence input
that the flight was to be killed.At his advice then it
was arranged Chau en Lai takes a different flight
but the scheduled flight was to remain.It did
and the Air-India liner exploded mid air to fall
off Sarwak in the Indian Ocean.The Indian crew
swam a gruelling 25 or more kilometer away ashore
for survival.Again,unidentified terrorists cut short
the life of the great scientist Homi Bhabha and
fellow passengers of Air-India from Beirut to
Zurich by placing an explosive devise on the
flight at Beirut in 1966. The wreckage of the
liner was discovered on the snow clad Mont
Blanc-Chamonix alps some 25 years later.
None of the two incidents were caused by
any freedom fighters.They were indeed the
methodology of fighting the freedom fighters
by the =west=.No Islam was involved then
as well.Later, as the colonialists found they could
converge their interests with that of corrupted
Islam by Wahabites, who joined hands
to fight humanity.The Wahabites dumped the
mother of Islam, Khadija bint Khuwaylid
in garbage bins,locked the panties of their
mothers,wives,sisters,daughters and daughters
in law in the name of Virtue but in pursuit of
savage manly vices, thus unleashing suicidal
terrorism on human space in association with
dollar mongers of George Bush hues.
Recently I learned they began smuggling,
abducting,and where legal importing female
slaves from all parts of the globe including the
United States for one sided senseless sexual
pleasure of savage men by the forced genital
mutilation of the women victims!A profit making
black business comparable to that of black
liquid gold trade.
I leave it to professional accountants to calculate
the moneys involved by way of human lives in
conflicts,their salaries,international murder industry
products,damage to environment and finally the
loss to human happiness caused by only Presidents
Reagan and Senior & Junior Bushes,just three
unworthies.Double Clinton plus Obama need to
team up to undo the harm already done.(end)
arun gandhi
controversy perspective
By Kulamarva Balakrishna
Vienna,Monday,February 4,2008:Mr.Anup
Shah´s following message in response to my
defense of Mr.Arun Gandhi.That Arun Gandhi
is the grandson of the Mahatma is beside
the point,excepting it has a sentimental value.
Other wise we all are inheritors of Gandhi legacy,
as the Mahatma was speaking for Tolstoy!The
Mahatma had lived for the world of humanity,Jews
included. Arun was just echoing that to the best of
his ability.We can not find fault with Arun.
Mr.Anup Shah directed me to the Swede Mr.Jan Oberg´s
posting of January 30 (Mahatma assassination day)
on his transnational org site.
I reproduce the whole text in full for the benefit of my
readers.Jan hails from the near ideal State of the world
we live today.It is Sweden of the late Olof Palme, who
was assassinated as he went to a cinema unguarded
as every one else.Who killed him remains mystery.
Among the suspects South African resident
Jewish interests are included.Before that statesmanly
Prime Minister, Alfred Nobel, the founder of Nobel
Organization was also was a Swede with global vision.
Great people leading the human advance.
I must acknowledge, the man who gave me shelter
in Austria,in 1976 of Indian Total Revolution and
Total emergency days,Dr.Bruno Kreisky, who
was of Jewish origin and who fought Hitler from
the underground until he landed finally in Sweden
and safety during the fag end of the war years, only to return
later to Austrian politics and lead the country for more
than ten years as its Chancellor,working for the lasting peace
between Palestinians and Israelis.The lasting peace remains
ellusive even though the Palestinians were willing to listen
to Dr.Kreisky.But not Israelis. They needed peace of their
trade mark (TM). Dr.Kreisky was not proud he was a born
Jew.He was proud he grew up in Jawahar Lal Nehru School
of Fabian Socialist Thoughts.This he mentioned to me every
time I met him.His elder brother was an orthodox Jew.
He emigrated to Israel. As long as the elder Kreisky
lived, his younger brother Dr.Bruno Kreisky sent
him monthly a substantial amount as living allowance.
He had stood by his brother as well without giving up
humanity.
Aside, I want to you all know there was a girl of
Jewish origin.Her name was Anne Frank.She perished
under Hitler´s hate crusade.Her diary,written
ever since she was thirteen years old until she
perished two years later after being grabbed by the
SS is a best seller for all to read.Her identity was
not evidently a Jewish one.She was human female
child entering womanhood.
I present you Mr.Shah and you are free to derive your own
conclusions.Mr.Anup Shah of Global Issues:
Text:
By Jan Oberg
Two countries in the world have developed a media and propaganda power to transform every criticism of their policies into a sentiment of being victimised as a nation - the United States and Israel. Think tanks, media, blog monitors etc will come out saying that we are just “anti-American” and “anti-semite” the moment we criticise their wars, weapons – including nuclear weapons - and their occupations.
I for one have criticised the foreign policies of, say, Denmark or Sweden, but I have never been accused of being anti-Danish or anti-Swedish. These countries don’t have such opportunistic self-victimizing justification as legitimising force under-lying their policies. And they don’t have the propaganda machinery needed to influence world public opinion.
There are many reasons why these two countries (Israel and the U.S.-kb) tell us that we are racist rather than react matter-of-factly to what we say. One is that they are both super powers, the US worldwide. Israel is the only superpower in the Middle East with its 200-300 nuclear weapons and occupation policies since 1967 which is perceived as threatening by everyone else in the region and thus serve as major peace prevention.
Arun Gandhi was born in South Africa in 1934 and is the fifth grandson of Mohandas K. Gandhi. More important, he is co-founder and, until a few days ago, president of the M K Gandhi Institute of Nonviolence at the University of Rochester in New York. “Until a few days ago” I write because he has felt forced by the circles operating the opinion-manipulating system mentioned above to hand in his resignation from the institute that he co-founded in 1991.
The reason is this column of his in the Washington Post’s On Faith blog “Jewish Identity Can’t Depend on Violence”
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/arun_gandhi/2008/01/jewish_identity_in_the_past.html
Read it yourself and you’ll see that his message is about reaching out to your enemy and his urging the Jewish people will have peace, not violence, as an integral part of their identity.
Then read also his express and very precise apology for what could be perceived as a careless formulation. He it is:
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/arun_gandhi/2008/01/my_apology_for_my_poorly_worde.html
Should this very decent apology not be accepted by the offended people? No, they go the whole way no forgiveness there! If you bother, browse the attacking comments on that blog, including the university’s President Seligman – in about the same intellectual calibre as President Bollinger at Columbia when he introduced Iranian President Ahmedinejad.
Then compare for a moment with the ways the Serb as a people and Muslims as a whole have been demonized for years virtually without much lifting of eyebrows in the democratic West. Freedom of the press includes the freedom to demonize ad libitum – and it is being repeated these very days about Iran – and Serbs who don’t understand that it is in their own best interest to give away Kosovo, their civilisation’s cradle. (I do agree hundred per cent on this appreciation of events by Jan-kb.)
It’s time to look up! The Israeli-US lobby – so well described by Uri Avneri in his review of the most solid analysis of this lobby – will keep on bombing any criticism of the arrogant exceptionalist policies of their countries.
http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/46438
See also former CIA analyst Ray McGovern’s article on the Israel-US lobby's fear-based influence:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18514.htm
Three things we can do
1. Read more about Arun Gandhi. TFF Board member Vicky Samantha Rossi has travelled with him in India and did this interview with him last year:
http://www.transnational.org/Columns_Rossi/ArunGandhi.html
There is also this one about the scandal, from Associated Press
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Jan26/0,4670,GandhiPeaceCenter,00.html
2. You may then want to send a supportive e-mail to Arun Gandhi at arun@totalnonviolence.org
3. Finally let’s keep on speaking the larger truth about the Middle East, including the aspects we are not supposed to discuss. Some messengers will be silenced or even killed, but if we are more and more telling it in a balanced way - who knows? - diversity, free media and peace may become a reality one day in the – perhaps distant – future.
Empires, super power status and arrogance won’t last forever. Neither will the suppression of truth.
Ahimsa! =Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah= -Buddha Shakyamuni
Jan =
Thanks Jan. This world is meant to last even with exclusive clubs of all kinds.
Your level of discussion and debate is what desirable.
Kulamarva Balakrishna
(end)
Arun Gandhi thanks for solidarity:
Thank you for sending me the articles of support. They mean a lot to me.
Keep well and keep in touch. -- Arun
By Kulamarva Balakrishna
Vienna,Monday,February 4,2008:Mr.Anup
Shah´s following message in response to my
defense of Mr.Arun Gandhi.That Arun Gandhi
is the grandson of the Mahatma is beside
the point,excepting it has a sentimental value.
Other wise we all are inheritors of Gandhi legacy,
as the Mahatma was speaking for Tolstoy!The
Mahatma had lived for the world of humanity,Jews
included. Arun was just echoing that to the best of
his ability.We can not find fault with Arun.
Mr.Anup Shah directed me to the Swede Mr.Jan Oberg´s
posting of January 30 (Mahatma assassination day)
on his transnational org site.
I reproduce the whole text in full for the benefit of my
readers.Jan hails from the near ideal State of the world
we live today.It is Sweden of the late Olof Palme, who
was assassinated as he went to a cinema unguarded
as every one else.Who killed him remains mystery.
Among the suspects South African resident
Jewish interests are included.Before that statesmanly
Prime Minister, Alfred Nobel, the founder of Nobel
Organization was also was a Swede with global vision.
Great people leading the human advance.
I must acknowledge, the man who gave me shelter
in Austria,in 1976 of Indian Total Revolution and
Total emergency days,Dr.Bruno Kreisky, who
was of Jewish origin and who fought Hitler from
the underground until he landed finally in Sweden
and safety during the fag end of the war years, only to return
later to Austrian politics and lead the country for more
than ten years as its Chancellor,working for the lasting peace
between Palestinians and Israelis.The lasting peace remains
ellusive even though the Palestinians were willing to listen
to Dr.Kreisky.But not Israelis. They needed peace of their
trade mark (TM). Dr.Kreisky was not proud he was a born
Jew.He was proud he grew up in Jawahar Lal Nehru School
of Fabian Socialist Thoughts.This he mentioned to me every
time I met him.His elder brother was an orthodox Jew.
He emigrated to Israel. As long as the elder Kreisky
lived, his younger brother Dr.Bruno Kreisky sent
him monthly a substantial amount as living allowance.
He had stood by his brother as well without giving up
humanity.
Aside, I want to you all know there was a girl of
Jewish origin.Her name was Anne Frank.She perished
under Hitler´s hate crusade.Her diary,written
ever since she was thirteen years old until she
perished two years later after being grabbed by the
SS is a best seller for all to read.Her identity was
not evidently a Jewish one.She was human female
child entering womanhood.
I present you Mr.Shah and you are free to derive your own
conclusions.Mr.Anup Shah of Global Issues:
Text:
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Hi,
Arun Gandhi
That whole incident was unfortunate...
Judging by Arun Gandhi's typical actions, words and writings from earlier, I
am sure he didn't mean his comments to come out that way (though he did
unfortunately write them like that). I believe that often on forums and
emails, it is very easy to try and write briefly and quickly and thus
shortening sentences and making points which might sometimes not get
justified etc is all too common. What then often happens is that those words
are taken as face value, sometimes out of context, or sometimes as a mistake
just in that moment for which consequences occur -- in this case the uproar
from the Jewish community and Gandhi's subsequent resignation from that
institute...)
As an aside, last year I was asked to contribute a chapter to an anti-war
book, which is coming out very, very soon. Arun Gandhi also contributed a
chapter to it. I will probably post a link or something to it once it is
published.
Thanks.
--------
Regards,
Anup Shah
Mr.Anup Shah later guided me to Mr.Jan Oberg.
Hi,regarding Arun Gandhi,I just came across this
from Jan Oberg of Sweden who is often quite good.
It is a bit short but hope that is of interest to you.
Anup Shah.
The following is Mr.Jan Oberg´s posting dated
January 28,2008: Text:
On Ahimsa & super powers!
Arun Gandhi
That whole incident was unfortunate...
Judging by Arun Gandhi's typical actions, words and writings from earlier, I
am sure he didn't mean his comments to come out that way (though he did
unfortunately write them like that). I believe that often on forums and
emails, it is very easy to try and write briefly and quickly and thus
shortening sentences and making points which might sometimes not get
justified etc is all too common. What then often happens is that those words
are taken as face value, sometimes out of context, or sometimes as a mistake
just in that moment for which consequences occur -- in this case the uproar
from the Jewish community and Gandhi's subsequent resignation from that
institute...)
As an aside, last year I was asked to contribute a chapter to an anti-war
book, which is coming out very, very soon. Arun Gandhi also contributed a
chapter to it. I will probably post a link or something to it once it is
published.
Thanks.
--------
Regards,
Anup Shah
Mr.Anup Shah later guided me to Mr.Jan Oberg.
Hi,regarding Arun Gandhi,I just came across this
from Jan Oberg of Sweden who is often quite good.
It is a bit short but hope that is of interest to you.
Anup Shah.
The following is Mr.Jan Oberg´s posting dated
January 28,2008: Text:
On Ahimsa & super powers!
By Jan Oberg
-
Jan Oberg oberg@transnational.org
Two countries in the world have developed a media and propaganda power to transform every criticism of their policies into a sentiment of being victimised as a nation - the United States and Israel. Think tanks, media, blog monitors etc will come out saying that we are just “anti-American” and “anti-semite” the moment we criticise their wars, weapons – including nuclear weapons - and their occupations.
I for one have criticised the foreign policies of, say, Denmark or Sweden, but I have never been accused of being anti-Danish or anti-Swedish. These countries don’t have such opportunistic self-victimizing justification as legitimising force under-lying their policies. And they don’t have the propaganda machinery needed to influence world public opinion.
There are many reasons why these two countries (Israel and the U.S.-kb) tell us that we are racist rather than react matter-of-factly to what we say. One is that they are both super powers, the US worldwide. Israel is the only superpower in the Middle East with its 200-300 nuclear weapons and occupation policies since 1967 which is perceived as threatening by everyone else in the region and thus serve as major peace prevention.
Arun Gandhi was born in South Africa in 1934 and is the fifth grandson of Mohandas K. Gandhi. More important, he is co-founder and, until a few days ago, president of the M K Gandhi Institute of Nonviolence at the University of Rochester in New York. “Until a few days ago” I write because he has felt forced by the circles operating the opinion-manipulating system mentioned above to hand in his resignation from the institute that he co-founded in 1991.
The reason is this column of his in the Washington Post’s On Faith blog “Jewish Identity Can’t Depend on Violence”
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/arun_gandhi/2008/01/jewish_identity_in_the_past.html
Read it yourself and you’ll see that his message is about reaching out to your enemy and his urging the Jewish people will have peace, not violence, as an integral part of their identity.
Then read also his express and very precise apology for what could be perceived as a careless formulation. He it is:
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/arun_gandhi/2008/01/my_apology_for_my_poorly_worde.html
Should this very decent apology not be accepted by the offended people? No, they go the whole way no forgiveness there! If you bother, browse the attacking comments on that blog, including the university’s President Seligman – in about the same intellectual calibre as President Bollinger at Columbia when he introduced Iranian President Ahmedinejad.
Then compare for a moment with the ways the Serb as a people and Muslims as a whole have been demonized for years virtually without much lifting of eyebrows in the democratic West. Freedom of the press includes the freedom to demonize ad libitum – and it is being repeated these very days about Iran – and Serbs who don’t understand that it is in their own best interest to give away Kosovo, their civilisation’s cradle. (I do agree hundred per cent on this appreciation of events by Jan-kb.)
It’s time to look up! The Israeli-US lobby – so well described by Uri Avneri in his review of the most solid analysis of this lobby – will keep on bombing any criticism of the arrogant exceptionalist policies of their countries.
http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/46438
See also former CIA analyst Ray McGovern’s article on the Israel-US lobby's fear-based influence:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18514.htm
Three things we can do
1. Read more about Arun Gandhi. TFF Board member Vicky Samantha Rossi has travelled with him in India and did this interview with him last year:
http://www.transnational.org/Columns_Rossi/ArunGandhi.html
There is also this one about the scandal, from Associated Press
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Jan26/0,4670,GandhiPeaceCenter,00.html
2. You may then want to send a supportive e-mail to Arun Gandhi at arun@totalnonviolence.org
3. Finally let’s keep on speaking the larger truth about the Middle East, including the aspects we are not supposed to discuss. Some messengers will be silenced or even killed, but if we are more and more telling it in a balanced way - who knows? - diversity, free media and peace may become a reality one day in the – perhaps distant – future.
Empires, super power status and arrogance won’t last forever. Neither will the suppression of truth.
Ahimsa! =Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah= -Buddha Shakyamuni
Jan =
Thanks Jan. This world is meant to last even with exclusive clubs of all kinds.
Your level of discussion and debate is what desirable.
Kulamarva Balakrishna
(end)
Arun Gandhi thanks for solidarity:
Thank you for sending me the articles of support. They mean a lot to me.
Keep well and keep in touch. -- Arun
Saturday, 2 February 2008
sensationalism
bombay´s
tabloid guru
By Kulamarva Balakrishna
Vienna,Saturday,February 2,2008: Sense is
the basis of sensationalism. I am sad to
learn the passing away of Russi Karanjia,who
always made sense, may be because of that
was called =sensationalist=,some took it to mean
yellow,others trumpeting,yet others human,
others believed just like the name Blitz everything
involved is in campaigning.If my friend,late Abid
Razvi worked as the General Secretary of Blitz
National Forum, Russi went all out for Krishna
Menon.Later, he stood behind Rajni Patel, the
man who survived the old Telangana March of
the left communists.Great jurist A.S.R.Chari and
Dilshad Chari of the Indo-Soviet Cultural Society
became husband and wife,through the Telangana
route.When I wrote about the =tantras= he had
special place for the article,which got more than
500 responses within a week.That was in 1970.
When I began to edit and publish my
Hi young people´s newspaper he was a great
moral booster. It was because of Russi Karanjia,
I was able to expose the dubious =savings
chit funds= known as =non banking financial
intermediaries= cheating small savers,which
culminated in the Reserve Bank initiating private
banks to run saving´s drive more organized way.
Their method of operation was simple.A few
persons joined hands to register a private limited
company with an imaginary Rs.million authorized
capital.But the paid up shares would be no more
than a hundred rupees!However this did not
prevent the con men collecting monthly saving
deposits from unorganized private savors.
The deposit canvassers got interest in the form
of commissions.The depositors got after a
lot of hassles some 75 per cent of their savings
as term loans at high interest rates.The rest of
the cash went for luxury living and private investment
of individual promoters.The late Mr.Vipin Acharya,
a chartered accountant from Ahmedabad helped
in putting this at perspective after Mr.Anis Hussain,
the younnger brother of my friend Akhil Hussain,
who was then working as Manager of the Reserve
Bank at Ahmadabad, where most of the Chit fund
cum savings companies were registered gave me
a hint to take the help of a chartered accountant.
By exposing the racket Karanjia´s so called
=yellow= Blitz saved millions of future small saver
victims.Although we pushed for the intervention
of by the Reserve Bank, finance sharks found
their ways to grab deposits at as high as 21
percent interest rates.A fifteen percent commission
and operational costs added, the sharks were
indeed helping themselves of the cash saved by
small people living under sub human conditions.
Even though most of them have been forced to
account or fold up, even today there must be
some operators undisturbed! In the business
text books the practice is clubbed together on
=pyramids=!
Besides, in tabloid journalism =human interest=
plays the singular central role.Russi Karanjia
was aware of this.In U.K. just some fifty years
before Blitz Tabloid journalism had made an
expressway for the media the late Cecil King
of the Daily Mirror leading the way.It was he
who coined a slogan, =publish and be
damned=.In order to show the tricks and move
up circulation chart, Mr.King once invited
the daily´s young female readers to participate
in an experiment.The newspaper offered them
supply chicken eggs, the volunteering young
women were asked to keep them warm between
their breasts until the eggs hatched! It was clear
there was no possibility of success but it did
generate interest to boost the circulation of the
tabloid to four million copies.It was keeping
this in mind Russi Karanjia once challenged
Yogi Lakshman Sandra Rao of Bangalore
to walk on water, if he claimed the powers
when the public watched the feat. Taraporewala
Swimming pool on the Narimanpoint was booked
for the show. Bombay was full of excitement.
Blitz National Forum sold tickets for the event.
Several thousand strong audience of invitees
and paying entertainment hungry crowd gathered
in bated breath to see the yogic feat. Yogi Rao
removed his dhoti clad in a swimming trunk
came before the crowd, bowed the public and
prayed all in solemnity.Then he stepped into the
depths of the pool.The fooled audience laughed
all the same.Yogi Rao successfully made his
point as well that yoga was not meant for miracle
making.
In 1979 I wrote from Vienna a short =believe it or
not= story about a man,who worked for Hitler as his
direct deputy in the middle east marrying a Moraccan
cousin of Iraqi Prime Minister of 1941,who
offered to invest some eight billion dollars on
any project with a minimum capital of 60 million
dollars, Karanjia was delighted since even the
Travel Corporation of India was looking for funds
to build a hotel in Sri Lanka.But their requirement
was no more than 20 million! We were inundated
with requests for donations even though my address
or Hitler´s surviving deputy´s (he lives in Vienna, in
his late eighties), were unknown to Blitz readers,
letters reached us all the same.The proud Hitler´s
deputy has since published the first part of his
autobiography to reveal that the second world war
wealth was derived running brothels and drug
trade as the behind line operative anti British
forces in the middle east was entirely self
supporting.He had trained during Hitler´s time itself
Algerian freedom fighters against French occupation.
Even after the end of the war he paid retirement
benefits to several thousand Arab anti-imperialist
volunteers, who had worked with him.He has
made public a post Hitler German diplomatic
directing the Arab volunteers to go to him for
their retirement benefits!
Then I had an opportunitiy to have lunch with Russi
as he attended the Qadafi sponsored tribunal
for the public trial of President Ronald Reagan,
at Brussels September 28-30,1984 with American
War College legal luminaries participating, along
with a couple of Nobel Peace Prize winners, like
George Wald, and Sean McBride, Nato General Nino
Pasti,former U.S.Attorney General Ramsey Clark,
among others.Ronald Reagan was convicted there
on several counts for substituting force for international
rule of law in his war against Grenanda, and Nicaragua,
where he supported anti-Sandinista contras.
It was in retribution to this trial of 1984 Orwellian
double speak President Ronald Reagan sent missiles
across the Gulf of Sirte on to Qadafi´s tent to kill
his adopted son!
Russi Karanjia was awake to the American
anti-war Underground Press.The movement
initiator and founder of the Village Voice,
John Wilcock of course wrote for Blitz as a
guest.It was Russi who suggested my name
to the Max Mueller Bhavan´s Dr.Heimo Rau
as one who could speak about the heart of
anti war Hippie Movement that changed
America.He supported Captain Colabawala
and his Whisper weekly especially engaged
in reporting Commander Nanavati´s trial
for Prem Ahuja´s murder as intruding paramour
of his wife Sylvia Nanavati in detail as its
sole goal.I know Russi Karanjia was not well and
bed ridden for many years.Friend Olga Tellis
was concerned and took interest in taking
care of him.He was an unpretentiously human
journalist Bombay could be proud of.(end)
By Kulamarva Balakrishna
Vienna,Saturday,February 2,2008: Sense is
the basis of sensationalism. I am sad to
learn the passing away of Russi Karanjia,who
always made sense, may be because of that
was called =sensationalist=,some took it to mean
yellow,others trumpeting,yet others human,
others believed just like the name Blitz everything
involved is in campaigning.If my friend,late Abid
Razvi worked as the General Secretary of Blitz
National Forum, Russi went all out for Krishna
Menon.Later, he stood behind Rajni Patel, the
man who survived the old Telangana March of
the left communists.Great jurist A.S.R.Chari and
Dilshad Chari of the Indo-Soviet Cultural Society
became husband and wife,through the Telangana
route.When I wrote about the =tantras= he had
special place for the article,which got more than
500 responses within a week.That was in 1970.
When I began to edit and publish my
Hi young people´s newspaper he was a great
moral booster. It was because of Russi Karanjia,
I was able to expose the dubious =savings
chit funds= known as =non banking financial
intermediaries= cheating small savers,which
culminated in the Reserve Bank initiating private
banks to run saving´s drive more organized way.
Their method of operation was simple.A few
persons joined hands to register a private limited
company with an imaginary Rs.million authorized
capital.But the paid up shares would be no more
than a hundred rupees!However this did not
prevent the con men collecting monthly saving
deposits from unorganized private savors.
The deposit canvassers got interest in the form
of commissions.The depositors got after a
lot of hassles some 75 per cent of their savings
as term loans at high interest rates.The rest of
the cash went for luxury living and private investment
of individual promoters.The late Mr.Vipin Acharya,
a chartered accountant from Ahmedabad helped
in putting this at perspective after Mr.Anis Hussain,
the younnger brother of my friend Akhil Hussain,
who was then working as Manager of the Reserve
Bank at Ahmadabad, where most of the Chit fund
cum savings companies were registered gave me
a hint to take the help of a chartered accountant.
By exposing the racket Karanjia´s so called
=yellow= Blitz saved millions of future small saver
victims.Although we pushed for the intervention
of by the Reserve Bank, finance sharks found
their ways to grab deposits at as high as 21
percent interest rates.A fifteen percent commission
and operational costs added, the sharks were
indeed helping themselves of the cash saved by
small people living under sub human conditions.
Even though most of them have been forced to
account or fold up, even today there must be
some operators undisturbed! In the business
text books the practice is clubbed together on
=pyramids=!
Besides, in tabloid journalism =human interest=
plays the singular central role.Russi Karanjia
was aware of this.In U.K. just some fifty years
before Blitz Tabloid journalism had made an
expressway for the media the late Cecil King
of the Daily Mirror leading the way.It was he
who coined a slogan, =publish and be
damned=.In order to show the tricks and move
up circulation chart, Mr.King once invited
the daily´s young female readers to participate
in an experiment.The newspaper offered them
supply chicken eggs, the volunteering young
women were asked to keep them warm between
their breasts until the eggs hatched! It was clear
there was no possibility of success but it did
generate interest to boost the circulation of the
tabloid to four million copies.It was keeping
this in mind Russi Karanjia once challenged
Yogi Lakshman Sandra Rao of Bangalore
to walk on water, if he claimed the powers
when the public watched the feat. Taraporewala
Swimming pool on the Narimanpoint was booked
for the show. Bombay was full of excitement.
Blitz National Forum sold tickets for the event.
Several thousand strong audience of invitees
and paying entertainment hungry crowd gathered
in bated breath to see the yogic feat. Yogi Rao
removed his dhoti clad in a swimming trunk
came before the crowd, bowed the public and
prayed all in solemnity.Then he stepped into the
depths of the pool.The fooled audience laughed
all the same.Yogi Rao successfully made his
point as well that yoga was not meant for miracle
making.
In 1979 I wrote from Vienna a short =believe it or
not= story about a man,who worked for Hitler as his
direct deputy in the middle east marrying a Moraccan
cousin of Iraqi Prime Minister of 1941,who
offered to invest some eight billion dollars on
any project with a minimum capital of 60 million
dollars, Karanjia was delighted since even the
Travel Corporation of India was looking for funds
to build a hotel in Sri Lanka.But their requirement
was no more than 20 million! We were inundated
with requests for donations even though my address
or Hitler´s surviving deputy´s (he lives in Vienna, in
his late eighties), were unknown to Blitz readers,
letters reached us all the same.The proud Hitler´s
deputy has since published the first part of his
autobiography to reveal that the second world war
wealth was derived running brothels and drug
trade as the behind line operative anti British
forces in the middle east was entirely self
supporting.He had trained during Hitler´s time itself
Algerian freedom fighters against French occupation.
Even after the end of the war he paid retirement
benefits to several thousand Arab anti-imperialist
volunteers, who had worked with him.He has
made public a post Hitler German diplomatic
directing the Arab volunteers to go to him for
their retirement benefits!
Then I had an opportunitiy to have lunch with Russi
as he attended the Qadafi sponsored tribunal
for the public trial of President Ronald Reagan,
at Brussels September 28-30,1984 with American
War College legal luminaries participating, along
with a couple of Nobel Peace Prize winners, like
George Wald, and Sean McBride, Nato General Nino
Pasti,former U.S.Attorney General Ramsey Clark,
among others.Ronald Reagan was convicted there
on several counts for substituting force for international
rule of law in his war against Grenanda, and Nicaragua,
where he supported anti-Sandinista contras.
It was in retribution to this trial of 1984 Orwellian
double speak President Ronald Reagan sent missiles
across the Gulf of Sirte on to Qadafi´s tent to kill
his adopted son!
Russi Karanjia was awake to the American
anti-war Underground Press.The movement
initiator and founder of the Village Voice,
John Wilcock of course wrote for Blitz as a
guest.It was Russi who suggested my name
to the Max Mueller Bhavan´s Dr.Heimo Rau
as one who could speak about the heart of
anti war Hippie Movement that changed
America.He supported Captain Colabawala
and his Whisper weekly especially engaged
in reporting Commander Nanavati´s trial
for Prem Ahuja´s murder as intruding paramour
of his wife Sylvia Nanavati in detail as its
sole goal.I know Russi Karanjia was not well and
bed ridden for many years.Friend Olga Tellis
was concerned and took interest in taking
care of him.He was an unpretentiously human
journalist Bombay could be proud of.(end)
suspended brains?
mayavati´s
Mayawati is a Dalit, at the bottom
of the caste system
of the caste system
mareechika
By Kulamarva Balakrishna
Vienna,Sunday,Fberuary 3,2008: In Lucknow
in India close to the Taj Mahal,Agra,is a female
ruler,who wanted to simply make the monument
of Moghal love into a ruin by construction of cheap
shopping centres some years ago, has come
back to power.The poor female known as Mayavati
claims she is loved by Indian poor,who donated her
so much wealth that she could account the billions!
She thinks being a leader involves being
=unaccountable= to any one.By that road, she
wants to traverse higher up to become the ruler
of the one billion plus India.
She has come to the position thanks to the
uninterrupted sub humanization of life for the
lower castes of Indians by the brahmin elite
and their logistic toddies.The place happens to
the centre of India for at least more than two
thousand years.It is the territory where river
ganga flows taking the tributary Yamuna at
Sangam near Allahabad,where once in twelve
years Kumbha Mela jamboori of naked sadhus
takes place. In Saudi language this then is
the state of =holy places= and Mayavati is the
new custodian of these places. By popular will
unlike in Saudi Arabia by the will of gawd!
The commonality between the Saudi custodian
and the custodian of Taj Mahal is their belief
that they are unaccountable.
Now the story begins that this woman Chief
Minister, who is under investigation for her
past misdeeds of corruption,continues accumulate
unaccountable wealth and of course power.
It is in that rash of power,she suspended
some administrative officials of the state
on charges of violating service rules by
expressing their admiration not as officers of
the government but as private persons on a
young public figure,who happens to be the
grandson of Indira Gandhi.
It is a delicate matter.If the officers had bent
themselves to make a personal favour,
or did harm to public interest it is another
matter.In a book some one published these
officials allegedly expressed their admiration
to the young man to face the summary
punishment! The governor has her explanation.
The officials are outraged.A controversy is
on.Mayavati may be in power today. In new
elections she may be washed down by the
ganga confluence into the Bay of Bengal. It
is also possible she will go up to New Delhi
to address the nation from ramparts of the
Red Fort after unfurling the national flag.
In any case she needs to be careful.She can
not avoid acknowledging the contribution
made by Nehru family that opened up chances
for those like her. In other words Mayavati
may be chasing an illusion without being
aware of it.Wild goose is know Sanskrit
as =mrareechika= that is a seeming
oasis promising water for the thirsty.The
word implies an animal sees as sun glows
it as the reflection of water.But without realizing
it could be a mirage, the animal chases the
glow of light.But for one thing I am happy.
A woman like her had the chance to taste
water for the first time in the history of India.
I am proud of India´s achievement to that
extent.But I would be happier if this taste
becomes common for all Indians.Will
Mayavati contribute in the direction would
depend on her achieving her ambitions(end)
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