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Teaching Science Badly – and Well
Posted by parthaab Mar 1, 2007 08:32 pm


Teaching in the subcontinent is oriented towards biased versions of history, language and religion.

The phobia towards teaching science is amply evident, and deplorable. This must be corrected.

The Dreaded Phone Call
Posted by parthaab Mar 1, 2007 08:28 pm

Sorry to hear about your dads passing away.

The probablity of infection spreading from the knee to the brain is lesser than strokes from blood clots as a result of lack of medical prophylaxis for this.

In either case, your doctor could have plenty of explaining to do.

Why Have This Train At All?
Posted by parthaab Feb 23, 2007 09:31 pm


RELIGION IS WRONG
May the truth dawn on us all


Why Have This Train At All?
Posted by parthaab Feb 22, 2007 10:01 pm


RELIGION IS WRONG


Why Have This Train At All?
Posted by parthaab Feb 21, 2007 03:26 am



RELIGION IS WRONG




Religious Tourism
Posted by parthaab Feb 19, 2007 07:56 am



RELIGION IS WRONG




Pataudi’s Plight : The game of religious stereo typing
Posted by parthaab Feb 14, 2007 08:30 pm




RELIGION HAS OUTLIVED ITS UTILITY


NEED WE REPEAT?







Absent in the Spring
Posted by parthaab Feb 7, 2007 08:23 pm


RELIGION IS WRONG




Last Gasp of the Imperial Misadventure
Posted by parthaab Jan 31, 2007 07:03 pm
Re: # 153

Wah!

Mein Hindu banoo`n ga nah Musalmaan banoo`n ga
Insaan ki aulad hoon` insaan banoo`n ga

I could frame that on my wall. How I wish more people could read that.
Last Gasp of the Imperial Misadventure
Posted by parthaab Jan 29, 2007 08:30 pm
http://www.ndtv.com/topstories/showtopstory.asp?slug=Officials+suspended+over+Gorakhpur+clash&id=21297&category=National
Last Gasp of the Imperial Misadventure
Posted by parthaab Jan 29, 2007 08:27 pm
Re: # 140

A flaw in your argument is the assumption that internal security is not the primary ingredient to peace.

If that were the case, then in India at least, in the absence of internal security, there would have been massacres on a large scale on religious, casteist and linguistic lines. This would have happened even in the USA.

Certainly compounded by biased media and revenge mode.

Internal security is the key to peace.
Last Gasp of the Imperial Misadventure
Posted by parthaab Jan 29, 2007 08:22 pm
Re: # 118,

Dr. Gill, It would be rather a simplistic and naive person to accept wholesale, the current media propaganda that Bush initially had only good intentions for Iraq.

If that were the case, he would nt have needed an excuse like WMD to attack the country. Saddam was by and large doing nothing on the international level, having been weakened considerably by economic sanctions. Iraq was already sufferring, but due to his dads sanctions.

The whole world knew that Bush was on the look out for a muslim nation for revenge on the 9/11 attacks, and Saddam, as a `dictator` fitted the media bill. And that a war would cripple the country and eventually divide it on sectarian lines, after an ethnic blood bath, in the absence of any internal security and warring factions. This, the whole world knew BEFORE even the WMD were claimed by Powell.

How could the CIA have possibly not known what the whole world knew before the attack?

Last Gasp of the Imperial Misadventure
Posted by parthaab Jan 28, 2007 09:36 am
Re: # 114, freethinker, You say `` “The justification for invading Iraq was due to the following five reasons “attributed to three senior advisers (Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz) and to President Bush:

•To clean up the mess left by the first Bush administration when, in 1991, it let Saddam Hussein consolidate power and slaughter opponents after the first U.S. – Iraq war;
•To improve Israel’s strategic position by eliminating a large hostile military;
•To create an Arab democracy that could serve as a model to other friendly Arab states now threatened with internal dissent, notably Egypt and Saudi Arabia;
•To permit withdrawal of U.S. forces from Saudi Arabia (after twelve years), where they were stationed to counter the Iraqi military and were a source of anti-Americanism threatening to the regime;
•To create another friendly source of oil for the U.S. market and reduce dependency upon oil from Saudi Arabia, which might suffer overthrow someday.”




Does nt that appear to you that the neo-cons are in fact very friendly to the middle east people, if indeed that was the reason for the Iraqi invasion?

Shall I dare say then, that they and their intentions, then, were thouroughly misunderstood?

So was the dismantling of internal security in Iraq not well thought of in advance?
Was the propaganda about WMDs merely a diversionary tactic?
Is the institution of a dictatorship there totally unintended?
Lastly, the killing of thousands of hundreds, merely collateral damage?


Dont you see the flaw in the propaganda about the `real` intentions of the neo-cons?




Last Gasp of the Imperial Misadventure
Posted by parthaab Jan 23, 2007 08:11 pm

The media has been portraying Iraq as a disaster. This is just to confuse muslims into thinking that America is neutral by nature, when in fact it is cunning and aggressive. Just like WMDs, this is another myth propagated by the western media.

The Iraqi fiasco, however depressing for Iraq fans, is going EXACTLY according to the plans laid by the neocons to destroy internal security, encouraging factional divisions and a pliable government which will allow the oil to be stolen under legal cover.



It is Never OK to Hit a Woman
Posted by parthaab Jan 18, 2007 07:54 pm
Re: # 6

http://www.mynation.net/mynews/



498a is anti human rights for the accused because :

1. It enables violation of the privacy, sanctity and the dignity of the innocent families, and throws the very existence of Indian families to the vultures in the police force, criminals in the society and at the mercy of the lawyers and the inefficiencies of the court system in India.

2. It makes the accuser the prosecutor, the judge and the jury all rolled into one.

3. It makes all the families subject to destruction on the whims and fancies of criminals (girl and her families who want to get rich).

4. It has no safeguards for the innocent.

5. It facilitates elder and child abuse by the accusers without any fear of punishment.

6. It lays down no automatic punishments for the UN-scrupulous accuser(s), even after it is proved that the accused persons were innocent and the complaints were fraudulent.

7. It rewards frauds and cheats for using the law.

8. It provides monetary inducements for corruption, falsehoods, revenge, blackmail and extortion; therefore an invitation to the increasing crimes in India.

9. It is a monster and menace, created by the law; and does not belong in any civilised and democratic society as it smells like fascism.

10. The guilty who make frivolous and scandalous complaints or start false prosecutions get off Scott free at the cost and expense of the public exchequer

This law, therefore, must go lock stock and barrel, and replaced by a law that punishes only the guilty appropriate to their crime.

Otherwise, marriage may soon become a curio item from the past.


It is Never OK to Hit a Woman
Posted by parthaab Jan 18, 2007 07:36 am
Re: # 4, nasah,

See this link for a mans perspective :

http://mynation.net/blog/?PHPSESSID=33f31924622a0a495ba8aa33be060094
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