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Comment on FAQ on Electrical Power by DissinkJews

DissinkJews — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:18:33 +0000

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Comment on A precise solution to the current Sri Lanka – Tamil problem by Nagarajan

Nagarajan — Wed, 20 May 2009 06:53:37 +0000

As per my previous comment dated 25th January 2009, LTTE has been dissimated, though it took longer than I expected. This has only extended the sufferings of the civilian Tamilian population. Prabhakaran’s end is signalled as LTTE’s end. But there cannot be any gaurantee as of now if a ‘Kripakaran’ will not emerge as a similar leader of Lankan Tamils heading another ‘Tamil Eelam Liberation Lions (TELL)’ to fight one more war of 25 years. It all depends on whether Rajapakse is serious about his promise of devolution of equal rights and self governance to Tamils. Even if he is serious, my fear is the Buddhist Sinhalese fanatics will not allow him to move forward. There will be attempts to settle majority sinhalese community in all Tamil dominated areas to alter the demogarphy. The resitance movement will again be fanned by these moves and it may well snowball into a separatist movement.
Regarding international Pressure: As one defence analyst said, Sri Lanka will be under much heavier pressure from those who assisted him in the war – China, Iran, Libya and Pakistan. No, India is not in this group, because India’s assistance was only as a revenge against Prabhakaran. Sri Lanka just used India, just as they used Rajiv Gandhi, earlier. India will not apply any pressure on Srilankan Govt, definetlely not in favour of Srilankan Tamils there, because (Rajiv)’Ghandi’ clan still considers them as their enemies. Western Countries and the UN may bring in some pressure on humanitarian grounds and human-rights areas, with some limited success.
One retired General of IPKF, a tamilian, said “No, I am not too happy about the death of Prabhakaran. I was ordered to engage him when I was in IPKF, but we had a Srilankan accord in place at that time. But now Srilankan Tamils have nobody to talk for them as seriously as Prabhakaran. Tamils will continue to feel insecure, to feel neglected and to feel ignored”.
We can only pray for poor Tamils of Sri Lanka

Comment on A precise solution to the current Sri Lanka – Tamil problem by Sri

Sri — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:42:36 +0000

I am curious to know your current views on what will happen next. Will the hopes of Sri Lankan Tamils see the light of day? Will the Sinhalese govt. be moved by international pressure into make a realistic effort towards reconciliation/resolution? Some people fear that like Tibet, the Sinhalese govt may ’settle’ Sinhalese populations into former Tamil-dominated areas (which are anyway ravaged and evacuated for most part) leading to a gradual dilution of Tamils in the country.

Comment on Decay of Spiritual Values in India by Nagarajan

Nagarajan — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:33:03 +0000

I am delighted to see Guruji Sri Sri’s advise on spritual values in politics and othr human affairs and wish to reproduce the same here.

Sri Sri responds to Advani’s letter
14th April, 2009
Bangalore, India

In appreciation of Advani’s letter, His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has said that religious and spiritual leaders are in touch with the grass-root populace on a daily basis and it is wise to take their advice on things concerning people. It is only spiritual and religious leaders who can put a check on corruption and criminalization of politics. Sri Sri has lauded Advani’s move to bring back 74 lakh crore rupees of Indian black money from Swiss banks.

The role of spiritual leaders in track-two diplomacy with India’s neighboring countries cannot be under-estimated. They can help ease tense relations between countries and during times of disaster can mobilise volunteers for relief work. It is time the voice of religious and spiritual leaders is heard. Sri Sri particularly appreciated Advani’s initiative to include leaders of all faiths to keep the secular & spiritual character of our country intact.

Hope the pseudo secularists listen.

Comment on Ramanujan, The greatest ever Indian mathematician. by Nagarajan

Nagarajan — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:39:49 +0000

fromProf. K. Ramachandra
to
Nagarajan LV

dateWed, Aug 13, 2008 at 1:01 PM
subjectRe: Ramanujan’s Equation, Proof and Derivation
mailed-bymath.tifrbng.res.in

Dear Dr.Nagarajan,
The numerical result at the end suggests the generalisation in the beginning.
All the results of Ramanujan are very nice and these results are also nice.
Please convey my regards to Professor Narasimha.
With regards,
K.Ramachandra.

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Comment on Once There Were Rivers by Ma Ganga « OPEN MIND

Ma Ganga « OPEN MIND — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:55:24 +0000

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Comment on Thirukkural – 370 by darashikoh

darashikoh — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:54:23 +0000

Very good posting. Simple but effective. If we all know what are the right desires and what are the wrong desires …………..and how we need to tackle each ….then the world would be a better place.

Another thought is that a right desire ………….when taken to the extreme becomes a wrong desire. There is a fine deal of balancing that needs to be done to prevent from going overboard.

Comment on A precise solution to the current Sri Lanka – Tamil problem by Nagarajan

Nagarajan — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:03:17 +0000

The informed Indian opinion on Srilankan struggle, is divided on the basis of Pro-LTTE and Anti-LTTE. Being Pro-LTTE is considered as anti-Indian by most people. Being anti-LTTE, you must support Sri Lankan army till LTTE is dissimated and even if it means that you must ignore in its entirety the Sri-Lankan Tamils sufferings . Well, something strikes me as unfair in this. I hope I am not branded anti-Indian.
I am an Indian and I am a Tamilian, and I have no problems being both. And neither I have any problem with somebody being a Gujarati Indian or a Marathi Indian.
The not-so-informed Indian opinion is that the Tamils having gone to Sri Lanka as labourers, have no right to ask for anything else, let alone self governance. They might have been there for centuries, so what?. As per this opinion, Obama should not be the president of USA but Sonia Gandhi can become the prime-minister of India.
Now that both India and Sri Lanka together have acheived the defeat of LTTE, let us look forward to restoration of justice to Tamils. May be India has a plan, let us hope.

Comment on Democratic Revolution by rajamani

rajamani — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:09:02 +0000

Dear Sri nagarajan,
What happened to the enquiry on “CASH FOR VOTE”.Congress scuttled the same and Their representative ruled that amar singh &co have done nothing wrong and Mr clean Somnath chatterjee accepts this in toto.
Millions of dollers are kept in Switjerland By Sonia Gandhi and other politicians .Eventhough swiss authorities are ready to release the list of Account holders if the same is requested by indian Govt.Bu sonia & co will not do that for fear of getting exposed.
We tried to project Mr clean Seshan and he also turned out to be a lier.
only a benevolent dictator can save india.
Unfortunately BJP is also in doldrums because of in fighting.
With her Swiss money Sonia will ensure that Rahul willbe PM atleast in 2014 election if not in 2009.
rajamani

Comment on Democratic Revolution by Nagarajan

Nagarajan — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:26:44 +0000

From: Barun Mitra
Subject: Re: Fw: Elections – 2009, A democratic revolution
To: lvnaga@yahoo.com
Date: Friday, January 23, 2009, 3:36 PM

Dear Mr Nagarajan,

Thank you very much for sending me your proposal for a second Independence struggle. I agree that this is much needed, and also that we have to do it. In a democracy, the power is in the hands of the people.
But there are three points.
One, this may be too early, since the general election is around 100 days away. A process like this perhaps needs to start five years before the election, to prepare the ground, and make an actual impact, to take steps beyond symbolism.
Two, While you have listed very eminent people, the question in my mind is whether any such personalities are in a position to actually win a Lok Sabha seat. A reflection of our tragedy
Three, there is no doubt that we need good people, but we also need a cogent and simple set of understandable and effective policies / messages. More so because, unless we can shape the institutions, and change the incentives that make people behave in particular way in a specific environment, the good people we desperately want to support may not have much of a chance, firstly to win, and secondly even if they win to withstand the pressures and either fall in line or leave.

I completely sympathise with your sentiments. And the web site we are trying to build, we will have the kind of information you are seeking about candidate’s assets. In fact you will find, for instance, a former chief minister of Karnataka had by his own declaration experienced an escalation in assets of over 10 times, during 2004 and 2008.

Please do visit http://www.EmpoweringIndia.org

Thanks and best,
Barun