India beats USA and China in FDI - another feather in Modi and BJP's hat

http://time.com/4055183/india-fdi-greenfield-top-rank-u-s-china/#4055183/india-fdi-greenfield-top-rank-u-s-china/

India has now overtaken traditional economic powerhouses like US and China and become the top global destination for foreign direct investment in greenfield projects.

This is yet another feather in the BJP governments hat, under the capable setwardship of our honourable Prime Minister, Narendra Modi - a testament to the excellent work done by Narendra Modi in just over a year and a major achievement, one which sadly has been given very little coverage in Indian newspapers.

If the BJP government could achieve so much in just over a year, just imagine where our country would have been had they (or the erstwhile Jan Sangh) ruled the country since independence.


 

Selective outrage over killings in the name of religion

A couple of days back, a muslim man was killed by a mob for allegedly eating beef. The incident occured not far from the capital and has generated a lot of media attention, with the usual suspects using this as an excuse to claim that religious discrimination and communal violence has increased multifold since the BJP formed government.

Whilst the killing of this person (or any other innocent person) is of course wrong, we need to ask why the media selectively covers such news items and also why there is outrage only when a muslim is attacked/ killed and collective silence when hindus are the affected community.

To highlight this, i will share a couple of examples:
1. The world over, we have seen numerous instances when muslims have killed people for buring the kuran or 'insulting' islam (drawing cartons, criticising islam etc). There has been no outrage about this and most muslims in fact even justify the killings (there were many posts defending the recent Charlie Hebdo killings).
2. There have been numerous instances in pakistan where minorities have been falsely accused of insulting islam and lynched by mobs.
3. Even in India, there have been numerous instances where muslims have started riots, killed hindus and the government then imposes martial law and deploys paramilitary forces, which ensures that there isnt any retaliatory violence. After sometime, the situation calms down and things resume as before; untill the next riots when the same cycle is repeated. Why isnt there any widespread condemnation of the repeated violence committed by muslims?
4. Another point about the media coverage is that usually when muslims start violence, the media usually balances the reporting by suggesting (sometimes wrongly) that both parties were equally culpable and highlighting previous instances of hindus attacking muslims - all in an effort to underplay muslim aggression and demonstrate that hindus are equally violent. However in cases where Hindus kill even one person, the whole stance changes to portraying muslims as victims of unbridled hindu aggression.


While we should not justify violent actions committed by anyone, we do need to call out and expose the intellectual hypocrisy and ideological double standards, whereunder numerous instances of minority aggression are swept under the carpet (and dismissed as minor/ routine incidents) but even an isolated instance of hindus resorting to violence is blown out of proportion and depicted as being part of a wider pattern of state sponsored progroms and hindu atrocities against minorities (when in reality it is the other way round).

As intelligent and thinking individuals, we need to question why this is so.

Difference between the cases of Yakub Memon and Sadhavi Pradnya

A couple of months earlier when Yakub Memon was hanged, there was outrage amongst a large section of self proclaimed liberal intellectuals and pseudo seculars.
A couple of them had sought to draw parallels between yakub memon and Sadhavi Pradnya, in a blatant attempt to deliberately confuse issues and wrongly portray that minorities are being victimised in BJP led India. These terrorist supporters had resorted to lies, falsehood and manipulation of facts to make a case for defending yakub memon, where none existed,


I have mentioned below a few reasons why the comparison is completely invalid and such charges of bias against minorities groundless:
1. Yakun memon was guilty of conspiring to conduct terrorist activities against India and attack the country, with the intent of killing hindus.
Sadhavi Pradnya has not been found guilty; forget being found guilty, even a chargesheet has not been filed against her even though she has been in jail for 6 or 7 years now.
2. There was plenty of evidence against yakub memon, basis which the court had sentenced him to death.
In Sadhavi Pradnya's case, there doesn't seem to be any evidence at all, because even a chargesheet has not been filed in the last 6-7 years.
3. While Yakub memon was in jail, the judicial process was followed very thoroughly and he was permitted all the legal recourses that are the right of any accused in a democracy. Even his mercy petitions were duly considered each time he made them. His conviction was based on facts and solid evidence of his complicity in the terror attacks.
In Sadhavi Pradnya's case, there are only allegations. She has been in jail for 6-7 years now and her trial has not even started simply because there is no evidence or proof to file a chargesheet against her.


Considering all the above points, it is obvious that the comparison is a fallacious one and made by terrorist supporters, whose allegations are motivated by religious hatred rather than being based on facts and proof.


As ordinary but loyal and patriotic Indian citizens, it is our duty to keep ourselves aware of such cases, so as to be able to recognise the devious designs of terrorist supporters who stay in our country but whose loyalties lie elsewhere and ensure that continue to support the BJP government in its fight against terrorism.

Indict Muslims who wed off minor girls: Gujarat high court

An excellent case of judicial activism for the greater common good and ensure protection of the rights of the most vulnerable class of society - who have been denied basic rights by their religion and do not find recourse in law.


In a supposedly modern society, which is also the world's largest democracy and claims to be committed ensuring women's and children's rights, it is sad to see regressive traditions being carried on to this day.


Most other religions have evolved over the past few decades and are now at a stage where a lot of discriminatory practices have been forsaken. But in this case, the fear of violence and compulsions of minority votebank politics had ensured that no action was taken in cases where minor girls were married off.


It is good to see that under the BJP government, all religions are treated equally and no one is given special treatment on religious grounds, which has created an atmosphere where such societal ills and regressive traditions are being curbed.


May we see more of such judicial activism, leading a clean-up not just in the case of Islamic traditions but also in Hindusim and Christianity.


The link to the article is - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Indict-Muslims-who-wed-off-minor-girls-Gujarat-high-court/articleshow/49097522.cms

Modi is the best leader with best policies since independence - says Rupert Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch has now gone on record saying that Indian PM Narendra Modi is the best leader India has had since independence.


It is very heartening to see that the good work and extra ordinary efforts to develop the nation that has been put in by the BJP government, under the capable leadership of Narendra Modi) is now being acknowledged even by people outside India.


The sad part is that pseudo seculars and minority vote banks still refuse to accept that Mode and the BJP are doing a great job and are best suited to rule the country and instead resort to lies and paltering with facts to mislead ordinary Indians into believing that the BJP isn't doing a good job.


Praise from neutral observers and great businessmen like Rupert Murdoch goes a long way into defeating the viciously negative misinformation campaign that congress and its pseudo secular allies in the media have launched against the BJP and Narendra Modi.


Link to the article - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Best-leader-with-best-policies-since-independence-media-honcho-Rupert-Murdoch-tweets/articleshow/49100300.cms

Pakistan lost 1965 war with India

The 1965 Indo-Pak war ended with a negotiated ceasefire, leaving the Pakistani leadership with plenty of space to manipulate facts and manoeuvre public opinion into deluding themselves that they had won the war.
The fact of the matter is that despite of element of surprise and the advantage afforded by making the first strike, equipped with the latest state of the art weapons and heavy artillery (supplied gratis by America), pakistan still couldn't not defeat India conclusively; and rather found itself in the rather embarrassing situation of having lost almost thrice the territory they managed to capture (and had it not been for the timely ceasefire, their territorial, personnel and material losses would have been considerably higher).


The advantages pakistan enjoyed were further compounded by corresponding weaknesses in India's ability to wage a war, most notable amongst these being:
1. India was still recovering from a humiliating defeat in the 1962 Sino-Indian war.
2. India was in the process of overhauling its military equipment and hardware and training officers and soldiers
3. Indian infantry and air force were still stuck with older  varieties of tanks and planes, handing pakistan a straight advantage (by virtue of pakistan possessing American supplied sabre aircraft and patton tanks)
4. India had to first negate and then overcome the element of surprise, in a war they were unprepared and ill-equipped for.
5. Indian political leadership was not the most decisive, bold or even realistic (best exemplified by Nehru and his 'I have instructed the Indian army to throw them out' remark on the Chinese intrusions in the 1962 war) 


In spite of all the above, pakistan still claimed victory and their history textbooks teach children of the 'glorious victory', which the general public, in their deluded, celebrates every year (rather like a rat which has had to run to its hole but still believes it has bested the cat).


Now, a Pakistani scholar has at last accepted reality and urged his fellow pakistanis to accept facts and face the truth, rather than fooling themselves into believing that victory was theirs.


This honest Pakistani gentleman has accepted that pakistan lost the war - an assertion which is backed by most neutral accounts of the war, all of whom concur that pakistan was completely on the backfoot in the final stages of the war and that they were struggling to hold on to their territory, for which they had to take assistance from China and open backdoor diplomatic channels to request the americans to pressurise India for a ceasefire (failing which pakistans defeat would have been certain and total).


For those who are interested, the link to the article is given below (note also that this link of from an UAE newspaper, which ceteris paribus would be inclined to support the Pakistani viewpoint).


http://gulfnews.com/news/asia/pakistan/pakistan-lost-terribly-in-the-1965-war-with-india-1.1578642


A final note - this proves that the BJP government was justified in recently celebrating the 50th anniversary of the war to mark a great victory, contrary to claims by certain 'liberal intellectuals' that the war was a stalemate.

Presstitutes - the latest example showcasing their lack of ethics and neutrality

Further to the article shared in a blog yesterday - on Gujarat being the most business friendly state as per a World Bank study - imagine my surprise when I found that the article was nowhere to be found in the websites of TOI and Indian Express. What should have been front page news has been relegated not just to the second or third pages but right back to the anonymous sections of their websites.
Deccan Herald is even worse. Their headline is about Karnataka being amongst the laggards in terms of business friendliness, with the bit about BJP topping mentioned as a one line side note in small print.


Our so called 'mainstream' newspapers are blatantly displaying how they play to their vested interests and downplay any good news about the BJP government and its work; while at the same time not stopping shy of manipulating facts to show the government in negative light - all pretensions to fair, unbiased and investigative journalism be damned.


No wonder General V.K Singh referred to them as presstitutes, which is an apt description given how these newspapers forsake journalistic ethics and sell their integrity and character for money and shamelessly support the Congress/ pseudo secular agenda.


The credibility of these newspapers was always questionable at best and has in recent times reached a new nadir.


The country and the majority of its peace loving and law abiding citizens might be enjoying acche din but for Indian journalism, it is sad days indeed.