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Cry, the Beloved Country

Harsh Mander April 4, 2002

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#226 Posted by nasah on April 18, 2002 9:06:00 pm
Butcher of Gujarat

by Sanjay Trehan



wipe that grin off your smug face

you wolf in white

how can you look people in the eye

after you presided over the rape

of innocent girls on threshold of puberty

you voyeur you depraved

your moralising is not just out of place

it`s corruption of the soul

you underbelly of evil

how can you face yourself in the mirror

after the dying look of that thirteen year old girl

brutalised by three men in shorts

before being cut to pieces and then burned

to erase the `evidence`

there shouldn`t be a blotch, of course, on the holy

name of the religion you practise

the reign of the dark empire has descended

on what was once india`s pride

the situation is normal your court jesters say

ha

it`s sad you don`t know what shame is

forget the remorse it`s your crowning glory

the jewel in your crown

the babus with beatific smiles

have come up with a solution

let`s do a deal with those burned raped and reviled

let them press no charges

and you shall let them return

only to get raped and brutalised again

perversion is addictive

does india have no conscience?

it`s a moment of glory

for naipaul`s area of darkness

while people bleed

students fear to go to schools

politicians drink

bloody marys in safari suits

and do damage control over press conferences

with foreign scribes in air-conditioned rooms

diseases break out in relief camps

who cares it`s the indian way

it`s brisk business for the butcher of gujarat

now scavengers are busy counting

votes in shrouds

god have a heart.(HT)



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#225 Posted by tahmed321 on April 18, 2002 9:06:00 pm
Lajwanti #213 Sorry for no harassment. Please find explanation as provided in earlier post to Subroto: as explained, to qualify for harassment, you must have big ego (small ego not easy to puncture), OR must be good india-pakistan or hindu-muslim mudslinging athlete. Please practice on one of the above and re-apply six months from now. Thank you.

PS: Private tutorials available from urstruly, Ali1, harimau, arjun and others.



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#224 Posted by nasah on April 18, 2002 9:06:00 pm
Prem, Shammi:

The rising hue and cry coming from every corner of India for the ouster of that -- Neanderthal Narendre/Miserable Modi -- is a sign that the secular health of the country is not damaged beyond repair.



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#223 Posted by rsaxena on April 18, 2002 9:06:00 pm
re: shrinker

{{Hah! I wish...}}

don`t lie...it wasn`t too long ago when you were boasting about owning jaguars...



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#222 Posted by shammi on April 18, 2002 9:06:00 pm
`...The Opposition parties are demanding only the removal of Chief Minister Narendra Modi. But that is not enough. The Modi government should be dismissed and President`s rule should be promulgated in the state. Many ministers in the Modi government are deeply involved in the genocide...`

http://www.tehelka.com/channels/commentary/2002/apr/17/com041702gujrat.htm



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#221 Posted by shammi on April 18, 2002 9:06:00 pm
`The chorus for Modi`s ouster gets louder, both within the BJP and from the NDA allies...The PM has managed to convey the impression that he would love to sack Modi in half a minute, but is hamstrung by party hardliners...Party insiders believe that Shanta Kumar would not have spoken (against Narendra Modi) without the PM’s permission...`

http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20020422&fname=Gujarat&sid=1



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#220 Posted by shammi on April 18, 2002 2:49:09 pm
India today is suffering from a moral poverty which is blinding some to the point that they are unable to distinguish between right and wrong. Here is an article that puts things in perspective for the leadership of the BJP that has not not found the large-heartedness to do something meaningful for the riot affected in Gujarat:

An open letter to the prime minister from a former union minister (ARIF MOHAMMED KHAN) who resigned from the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) today in protest against its decision to form a govt. with BJP in UP.

http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20020417&fname=arif&sid=1



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#219 Posted by shammi on April 18, 2002 2:49:09 pm
Re: Nasah #218

Not only must Modi go, but so must his party from power. The most effective way would be to hand them a humiliating electoral defeat. Along with removal from power, all those who abetted riots, and willingly served as executioners should be booked under POTA and put away. If this does not happen, then we will have proven that we are barbarians.



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#218 Posted by ylh on April 18, 2002 2:49:09 pm


Yo Fawad...

isn`t beej`s site like awesome?



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#217 Posted by shammi on April 18, 2002 2:49:09 pm
Barbarians in our midst:

`Muslim Women Brutalized (Reuters)`

http://in.news.yahoo.com/020418/64/1lx6r.html



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#216 Posted by Prem on April 18, 2002 2:49:09 pm
re: nasah # 218

From the look of it, that SOB is not going anywhere. It is going to be a hard and long fight against this virus of communalism. BJP will probably keep Gujarat for now, but it will pay a price nationally.



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#215 Posted by shankar on April 18, 2002 2:49:09 pm
Saxena,

{{...shrinker is a very wealthy man...remember when loudly announced his his multiple jaguars....he has no use for $1M...}}

Hah! I wish...



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#214 Posted by nasah on April 18, 2002 2:30:22 am
Narendra Modi must go



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#213 Posted by tahmed321 on April 18, 2002 2:30:22 am
Subroto #211 Your protest at the lack of stalking and laughing at your expense has been noted. Here is the response: The stalking is ever-present, let me assure you: you write concisely and extremely well, and so I do check out your post whenever I spot one. However, you make it unnecessary to have some fun at the expense of your posts since your posts are intentionally funny already, and one can get a good laugh the way you intended without having to poke fun. Even if one tried to poke fun at your posts, it would be damned difficult: there is no bombast or hot air in your posts that is begging to be pricked, no oversized ego standing in line to be punctured, no moronic claims of national or religious needing a rejection.

Hope this excuse will cause you to withdraw your request for a court order to provide equal opportunity harassment.



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#212 Posted by semipreciousme on April 18, 2002 2:30:22 am
fawad79

“ps can anyone tell me the age limit for AKU and a website for private medical institutions in pakistan ?”

…i don’t think there’s an age limit for aku….but you can check it out at their website…aku.edu…as for private med. institutions, i don’t know if there’s one website per se....they`re just too man….maybe you can use google..



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#211 Posted by hobbyty on April 18, 2002 2:30:22 am
Fawad

I`m confused on this matter of ``socialist`` - as well - why of all things socialist? yes, people need food, but look at who is producing more food, USSR never produced as much food as America, neither does China nor India.

Is it just food or do have more detailed reasons?



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