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November 14, 2007 22:46 IST
On the eve of the winter session of Parliament, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [Images] met Bharatiya Janata Party patriarch Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Wednesday night and discussed the Indo-US nuclear deal on which the saffron party has hardened its stand by demanding a renegotiation.
Dr Singh drove to the former prime minister's 6A, Krishna Menon Marg residence in the evening and held deliberations on the current political situation.
Leader of the Opposition Lal Kishenchand Advani was also present during the meeting.
"In the course of the meeting, they discussed current political issues, including the nuclear deal," Prime Minister's Office spokesman Sanjaya Baru said.
The prime minister's initiative to meet Vajpayee assumes significance as BJP had last week demanded the deal's renegotiations saying the agreement in its present form compromised India's long-term strategic programme.
The BJP stand, finalised at a meeting of senior party leaders on November 7, had scotched speculation that the saffron party was ready to cast aside its opposition to the deal following a series of meetings US Ambassador to India David C Mulford had with party top brass, including its president Rajnath Singh and Advani.
With the nuclear deal set to be one of the main issues in the brief session of Parliament beginning Thursday, the government is aiming to mould a political consensus on it.
Dr Singh conveyed good wishes for Deepavali to Vajpayee and also enquired about his health.
The 82-year-old Vajpayee has been keeping unwell for the past few months.
He was admitted to the All India Insititute of Medical Sciences recently where he underwent treatment for a week.

K.Venugopal

A Parliament resolution can save the nuclear deal

The BJP should support the nuclear deal if the Congress is willing to join the BJP in passing a resolution in Parliament that no deal between India and another nation, howsoever worded and interpreted, shall be allowed to transgress India's sovereignty. By this resolution it would be clear that no power on earth shall be able to cap India's nuclear capability and independent foreign policy.

Is it necessary to pray?

Is it necessary to pray? Is the supreme power such a power that it would act only if we pray to it? Wouldn't the supreme power know our entire circumstances and wouldn't it guide us accordingly? If it is a question of ego and prayers are about destroying our ego, it is unlikely. We are more likely to be cured of our ego when the slings and arrows of misfortune are fired at us by our circumstances. No, I do not think prayers are necessary unless those prayers are our poetic celebration of the divine. What is required is the understanding that all our problems are due to our restless mind and the only solution is to make our mind restful.

[Posted at Yahoo Group]

Mahatma Gandhi divided India on caste lines: Mayawati

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Saturday, October 27, 200719:09 IST
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Chandigarh: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today caused a flutter by saying that Mahatma Gandhi had divided the nation on caste lines whereas Dalit leader B.R. Ambedkar had strived to unite all sections of society.
Addressing a meet-the-press programme at the Chandigarh Press Club on her maiden visit to the city as chief minister, Mayawati minced no words to say that the father of the nation, who is credited for leading India's non-violent struggle to end the British rule in the country, had divided the country.
"It was him (Gandhi) who gave the name Harijan to people from lower castes and weaker sections of society. He divided Indian society into two categories - the weaker sections and upper castes," the chief minister said.
"It was Ambedkar who tried to unite all sections of society. I don't want to undermine Gandhi's contribution to the freedom struggle but that also led to the division of Indian society," Mayawati asserted.
She said her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) would continue with its ideology to bring the weaker and neglected sections of society to the forefront and also to unite all categories - from weaker sections to religious minorities to upper castes - through its social engineering process.
Mayawati said the BSP, which this year romped home to power with a clear majority in the Uttar Pradesh assembly, would expand its base and try its social engineering campaign of uniting various sections of society in other states and at the centre.
"As and when the occasion arises and my party workers want me to take control (of power) in Delhi, I must tell you, I will not disappoint them," Mayawati said with a big smile on her face when asked about her prime ministerial ambitions.

K.Venugopal - Mumbai on 10/27/2007 9:07:53 PM

It is Mayawati who is a caste leader. Mahatma Gandhi divided the nation when he acquiesced to Islamic communalism. However, at a time when the so-called lower castes were looked down upon by the so-called upper castes, Mahatma Gandhi saw God (Hari) in them also and called them Harijans (God's people) to wipe off the stigma against them. But Hari is of Hindu connotation. Thus calling them Harijans is opposed by those who are anti-Hindus. Ambedkar had ridiculed Rama. And today Mayawati wants to install statutes of Periyar, another person who excelled in insulting Rama and all Hinduism. However, Ambedkar eventually saw merit in the larger Hindu culture and refused to convert outside it. Mayawati's mentor Kanshiram proffered a toilet to a mandir at Ramjanmabhumi, which gives a clue of what Mayawati herself thinks about Ram. Till the only truly nationalist party in India, the BJP, gets its act together, fissiparous caste and communal politics will seem to be gaining the upper hand.

P.V.Hamza

I first met P.V. Hamza when I popped into his shop Peevee Stores in Cherpalcherry way back in 1970. I wanted to buy a bottle of brylcreem so that with the bill I could enter a contest. He was game enough to give me a bill for a large bottle though I only bought a small bottle, in order that I may enter the contest in style. That's P.V. Hamza, ever the sport, ever understanding and ever in the know of how to influence folks. From that time on I never failed to turn up at his shop to say hello to him till I left for the Gulf in 1975. Fom then on our contact became rare and far between. I last met him in May 07 when I went to his house, the one you see in this map. A gorgeous house indeed but not surprising if you consider the personality behind it. If he had shown a keen interest in politics, I am sure he would have become a minister. He is man of great calibre.

[Wrote in Wikimap entry.]

Tranaam and Paritranaam

The differentiation of "tranaam" and "paritranaam" in this blog is sheer genius. The avtaar does not just protect us from an impending evil, He protects us completely. Which means, He also makes us aware of the relevance of evil in the scheme of things. That is to say, He leaves us capable of handling evil ourselves in future. If it was just tranaam, we would be dead without the avtaar. But because the avtaar performed the magic of paritranaam, we have now become empowered to handle evil by merely reliving the personality of the avtaar from our memories. This is why an avtaar needs to come only "yuge yuge", from age to age. In between, his memories are sufficient. Therefore it is our duty to pass on the memories (culture) of the avtaar to our succeeding generations. Seen in this light, the activities of Hindutva is sacred activity.

[Posted in Jayaraman's blog]

My concept of God

Venu said...
I do not deny the existence of God. Only, I do not accept that God is something that is separate from us. It is what we are, in essence. If we posit a God separate from and outside us, it is only as a matter of convenience to grasp the idea of Godhood. But eventually we would have to realize that we have within us the power of the ultimate and we would have to awaken to the divinity that we are. Believing is not enough, we have to realize. The Semitic religions have done the greatest harm in stunning man’s spiritual search into mere believe. Actually, except for the Advaitic teaching, all religions are at the level of idol worship. In the Hindu tradition alone the seeker is encouraged beyond idols. To both Christianity and Islam it is blasphemy to go beyond idols. Which is particularly ironic in the case of Islam because it claims to be dead against idol worship.

[Posted in reply to a blog comment on my blog.]

Karunanidhi crosses the Lakshman Rekha

While the Hindu culture accepts the right of anyone to hold any sort of views regarding religion, the very basis of this right being sustained is the respect for other's beliefs. While Karunanidhi was within his right to have questioned the existence of Rama, he has crossed the Lakshman Rekha by mocking at other's beliefs by asking from which engineering college Ram graduated.

[posted at MSN]