Lalit And Vyapam: Time Waste "Scams"

It is a media dynamic. They think they built Modi up, and now they will spend a year breaking him down. That is how they sell newspapers. It is a low, cheap way to do business. Lalit And Vyapam: Time Waste Scams. I still don't know what the accusations are in the two "scams." That Chouhan guy is an excellent Chief Minister. Why would he resign? The media wants these individuals to resign more than the Congress does. Because if someone resigns, that is news. Man bit dog. That will sell newspapers. न्यूज़ चैनल्स के पास २४ घंटे के लिए खबरे नहीं मिल रहे तो सिर्फ १२ घंटे चलाओ, लोगों को आराम से सोने दो।

This is why Larry Page, the CEO of Google, basically just avoids media people. He feels like he operates in a very different domain from what the media people are interested in. The media people are interested in fights, even where none exist. They want drama from small fights. Whereas Larry Page wants to think about true innovation, about what he calls "moonshot projects."

मैंने अभी तक व्यापम के बारे में एक भी आर्टिकल नहीं पढ़ी। क्यों टाइम waste करूँ अपना? अरे यार मीडिया वालों, there are plenty of genuine stories. Both the land bill and the labor bill are controversial. उसके बारे लिखो। I would love to read detailed viewpoints of those who oppose those bills. I want to know what their detailed reasons are. So it is not like I am a blind Modi supporter.

First of all, no, you did not build Modi. The Indian voters elected him. Second, you can't break him. The Indian people will have the option to unelect him in 2019. तो आप बीच में क्या नौटंकी कर रहे हो? Very likely he will stay in power for 20 years. So what are you going to do? Build him up and break him down every other year? तब तक में सोशल मीडिया आप को चबा के खा जाएगी। उसके बारे में लिखो।

अब मेरे को पता चला नेपाल में #GoHomeIndiaMedia और उसी समय भारत में #DoNotComeBackIndiaMedia क्यों ट्रेंड करने लगी।

Viewpoint: Britain must pay reparations to India

At the beginning of the 18th Century, India's share of the world economy was 23%, as large as all of Europe put together. By the time the British departed India, it had dropped to less than 4%. The reason was simple: India was governed for the benefit of Britain. Britain's rise for 200 years was financed by its depredations in India. By the end of the 19th Century, India was Britain's biggest cash-cow, the world's biggest purchaser of British exports and the source of highly paid employment for British civil servants - all at India's own expense. We literally paid for our own oppression.......

As Britain ruthlessly exploited India, between 15 and 29 million Indians died tragically unnecessary deaths from starvation.

...... The last large-scale famine to take place in India was under British rule; none has taken place since, since free democracies don't let their people starve to death. ..... upholding iniquity through institutionalised racism. ....... No Indian in the colonial era was ever allowed to feel British; he was always a subject, never a citizen. ...... no effort was made to ensure that supply matched demand for mass transport. ..... the Indian Railways were a big British colonial scam. .... British shareholders made absurd amounts of money by investing in the railways, where the government guaranteed extravagant returns on capital, paid for by Indian taxes...... Thanks to British rapacity, a mile of Indian railways cost double that of a mile in Canada and Australia........ "private enterprise at public risk". Private British enterprise, public Indian risk. ..... British aid, which is far from the amounts a reparation debate would throw up, is only a fraction of India's fertiliser subsidy to farmers ...... the banishing of the last Mughal emperor on a bullock cart to Burma....... India contributed more soldiers to British forces fighting the First World War than Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa combined. ...... Two and a half million Indians also fought for British forces in the Second World War

How Nitish Lost Momentum

The Next Chief Minister Of Bihar?
Sushil Modi
Janakpur Patna Kolkata Industrial Corridor
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सुशील मोदी क्या कह रहे हैं?
बिहार के उभरते चेहरे
Bihar Is Now 55-45

English: Bihar Districts (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Upto coining the phrase Bihar@2025, he had it. Laloo had just come around. And his momentum was reflected in the in-fighting that had started in the BJP camp.

But then. Nitish has made no effort to elaborate on Bihar@2025. What is it? What is the roadmap? What is the vision? Just one word will not do. He might have organized a conclave, called in top minds in Bihar to pontificate. वैसे ही announce कर के छोड़ दिया। पुल का उदघाटन कर दिया, पुल बनाया नहीं।

Also, Laloo has gone to his old ways by haggling on what seats he should get. He wants to get most of the Yadav-Muslim seats. Whereas a good point to start would have been to let Nitish have 100 of the 112 seats he already has in his dicky.

Right now it is advantage BJP: 55-45.

The biggest mistake Nitish made was he took Advani's bait. When Advani warned of a possible "emergency," Nitish plunged head in and took a bite. That act is not Bihar@2025. A Bihar@2025 vision statement is one that makes peace with Narendra Modi being at the helm in Delhi, not because he is the better candidate, that is irrelevant, but because he is the choice of the people of Bihar. लोकतंत्र का मैंडेट है। जनता जनार्दन होती है। अगर आज नरेन्द्र मोदी दिल्ली में बैठे हैं तो बिहारियों का सबसे बड़ा योगदान है। उत्तर प्रदेश was a low hanging fruit, Bihar was the real battle in 2014.

It is like this. Laloo was doing excellent as Railway Minister but he had very few MPs. That is when he started saying how he wants to be PM and all. And Rahul Gandhi got rid of him. You don't become PM with 10 MPs, or 20. You have to self-assess, or Rahul is going to do it for you.

अभी नीतिश opposition लीडर बनने के रास्ते पर चल रहे हैं। सुमो का पलड़ा भारी पड़ गया है।

Grand coalition in Bihar has failed, says BJP

He said that JD(U) leader and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s slogan, “Barta Bihar, fir ayenge Nitish”, will now turn into “Darta bihar, ab nahin Nitish”.

Janata Parivar a Damp Squib: Amit Shah After BJP's Win in Bihar Legislative Council Elections

Mr Shah said, "The countdown to BJP's victory in Bihar has started today. The BJP-led NDA has won 13 out of 24 seats while it earlier held only five seats. There was a lot of hype around Janata Parivar in Bihar but people have proved that it is a damp squib."

BJP Deals Blow to Nitish-Lalu in Legislative Council Elections Months Ahead of Bihar Polls

As the BJP celebrated, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said, "This was not an election where the common people vote. It was a council election. If the BJP wants to be so happy about it, let them be. They anyway like to live in this fantasy world." ..... "This is not a semi-final to the assembly elections," said a spokesperson of his Janata Dal United. ..... Elected members of the assembly and local bodies like panchayats vote in the legislative council elections. ...... The JDU, which has won five of the alliance's 10 seats, reportedly assesses that Lalu Yadav, who has won four, has not been successful in transferring his votes to the alliance. That will be nagging worry as the assembly elections approach.

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Advani's Ghost And Nitish

English: cropped photograph of L K Advani with Hillary Clinton outside his residence. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Today, what L.K. Advani has said — that he is not confident that the Emergency cannot return — is not without reason.

Let's start with the fact that there is absolutely no chance of the emergency being imposed again.

So why did Advani warn of it? He was trying to get attention. News mein aana tho unko. Ek saal se news mein nahin aaye the. Suna suna sa lag raha tha. And maybe he never made peace with the fact that Modi, not Advani, became Prime Minister. Which is weird. Advani as the BJP PM candidate would have likely seen a Third Front government, possibly under Mulayam, who would have promptly taken India down from the Manmohan Singh rate of growth to the old Hindu rate of growth.

I worry for Nitish. You can't not respect the people's mandate. The people of Bihar gave a clear mandate to Modi last year. That is why Modi is in power in Delhi. Minus Bihar that would not have been possible. And that mandate lasts five years. So Nitish should not be second guessing the people of Bihar.

If Nitish does not get to fight the 100 seats his party already has right now, and Laloo wakes up the old jhagada like there was before he "drank poison" and settled on Nitish as CM candidate, and if Narendra Modi decides to give two full weeks to Bihar right before the elections, Nitish is toast.

Kya Advani Advani kar rahe hain? Is he not the mastermind of the Babri Mosque demolition?

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Lalit Modi Who?

English: Image of Narendra Modi at the World Economic Forum in India (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

My first thought was, if you are attacking both Sushma Swaraj and Vijayaraje Scindia at the same time, it has got to be a sexist attack. And if the attacks are coming from both inside the party and outside, then confirmed, this is a sexist attack.

Then they drag Narendra Modi in. That is how media gathers eyeballs. You build someone up. Then you break them down. You get eyeballs both ways.

I don't have time to be reading sludge. This is going to be the first article I read on the topic.

Return of the scandals: Where does PM Narendra Modi go from here?

No one quite expected the country to transform suddenly and shake off the legacy of the past. But there was a widespread expectation that since Modi was 'clean' and 'strong' - as opposed to Manmohan Singh who was 'clean' but 'weak', the government would remain clean. This is what the PM capitalised on when he said the absence of scams was a sign 'ache din' had arrived during the first anniversary celebrations. ....... Irrespective of the rhetoric, both Congress and BJP have been closely enmeshed with capital. Democratic politics as we practice, needs money. Elections are expensive business. Politicians accumulate wealth which they invest in businesses, or outsource to certain businessmen to manage. Businessmen hope they have backed the right horses and when the time comes, they can reap rewards for their investment. This is not specific to India, but has been an established fact across the world. Quid pro quo exists. ......... The question is if political systems are able to institute a degree of transparency (for instance, make public all the funding that is received or have state funding for parties in elections); regulation (for instance, restrict the amount of funding; keep close track of transactions; legalise lobbying); reduce the extent of discretionary decision making in government; and have strong avoidance of conflict of interest laws..........To give credit where its due, the Modi sarkar has recognised that it is in natural resource allocation that discretion and crony capitalism is most acute - they have made an effort to correct this partly through cleaner spectrum and coal allocations. But there are a range of other sectors where discretion is rampant. Cricket is an obvious example where a deeply unhealthy relationship exists between politics as money and glamour - the PM himself is a part of this nexus as a former president of the Gujarat Cricket Association. The line between encouraging a business friendly environment (a stated goal of this government) and between encouraging select, friendly businessmen is a thin one. And BJP, like its predecessors, under the garb of the former, does not shy away from doing the latter.

Narendra Modi goes from 7.5% to 10% --- that is where.

So I read the article. I still don't know what the accusation is. Time waste kar diya.

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