Feminism in India and TOI
People always get leaders they deserve. We deserve Manmohan Singh and Pratibha Patil. Bihar deserves Nitin Yadav as it did deserve Lalu. We also deserve Bal Thackaray. If Bal Thackaray can weild some power, that is probably because there are some people who support him. India deserves Naxals because there are people supporting Naxals. Naxals are not just few thousand armed bandits looting government. Naxals are few thousand armed bandits supported by local people! If local people wanted, NAxals/maoists would be no where.
The devil was talking to his friends when they noticed a man walking along a road. They watched him pass and saw that he bent down to pick something up.
Few can disagree that young minds need education in humanism and civics, rather than in jihad. Children at an impressionable age need to be educated in the unifying, inclusive and irrefutable principles of humanity and respect for all, rather than the divisive, exclusionist and controversial concepts of jihad and crusade.
This is not a bashing thread.
People should not afraid of the goverments, governments should be afraid of the people.
History was created in Nepal on Monday night when King Gyanendra conceded the demand of the people to restore democracy. Jubilant Nepalese are celebrating the victory by greeting each other. Nepal Congress leader G P Koirala will lead the new government.
Indian Ambassador S S Mukherjee told the visiting media just a few hours before the victory, "I am humbled by the Nepalese who have spoken so abundantly in favour of democracy."
"It is the first successful non-violent movement of the 21st century in South Asia, which will set an example for the world," said a lawyer Gopal Chintan, one of the supporters of the movement.
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His magnificent example of personal sacrifice and dedication in the face of oppression was one of his many legacies to our country and to the world. He showed us that it was necessary to brave imprisonment if truth and justice were to triumph over evil.
http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/20060124.htm
It finally came to a vote in November 2004. That's probably the most important vote that the U.N. ever took. The vote came out 174 to 1. The U.S. voted against it. Two countries abstained: Israel and Britain.
* The non-nuclear states agreed not to develop nuclear weapons and the nuclear states agreed that they would eliminate nuclear weapons. Have they done it? None of them have done it. And the U.S. isn't believed. The U.S. simply says -those under Bush for the first time - it says the provisions of the treaty don't apply to us. Well, O.K. if the nuclear states are not going to live up to their side of the bargain, then the non-nuclear states are not going to do it, either.
* The U.S. is for the moment dominating the world by force. I mean, in the dimension of violence the United States is unparalleled. I mean, it has about half of the total world military spending; it's far more advanced in things like space, which is the next dimension of military warfare. The U.S. has about 95% of the expenses and in fact, is the only country that is trying to keep space for military purposes
John Adams, the first vice president and second president of the United States wrote in a letter to his wife, Abigail Adams, in 1780 :