Recently freed Nobel Laureate aung San Suu Kyi starts a new website for the National League For Democracy nldburma.org.
The website is still under construction although a few videos have been uploaded.
Aung San is rebuilding her party and her social work is very much on.
The supporters of Aung San did a fundraiser by selling traditional clothes, t-shirts and Aung San's paintings and collected 11000 US dollars in two days, the money will be used to help the families of political prisoners in Burma and fund social programs of NLD.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
Winds of Change in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen
By Manuwant Choudhary
Winds of change sweep the middle east...it started with Tunisia..moves to Egypt and perhaps even protests can be seen in Yemen.
The United States under George Bush wanted to export democracy to the Middle East but what we now witness is that the Americans don't know where to look and whom to support - an ally `dictator' or the freedom loving people of Egypt.
Egypts President Hosni Mubarak has dismissed his government but like all dictators he does not yet see the writing on the wall and talks about protecting his people.
The people want him to go.
The people want a better Egypt.
They want freedom.
This revolution is not Islamic. It is for freedom.
Thats why the Egyptian government blocks twitter and facebook.
Democracy and freedom will come to that region as you can see the courage with which the youth face police brickbats and teargas and even armoured vehicles don't scare them anymore.
They have nothing to lose, except their chains.
Will this also spread to India?
Well, India could also see some agitations as corruption and the governments role in dealing with it comes under a cloud.
India's Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and his government need to act fast to address growing concerns if they want a stable and prosperous India.
It just takes an incident to push a country towards chaos or freedom, whicever you may choose to call it.
Winds of change sweep the middle east...it started with Tunisia..moves to Egypt and perhaps even protests can be seen in Yemen.
The United States under George Bush wanted to export democracy to the Middle East but what we now witness is that the Americans don't know where to look and whom to support - an ally `dictator' or the freedom loving people of Egypt.
Egypts President Hosni Mubarak has dismissed his government but like all dictators he does not yet see the writing on the wall and talks about protecting his people.
The people want him to go.
The people want a better Egypt.
They want freedom.
This revolution is not Islamic. It is for freedom.
Thats why the Egyptian government blocks twitter and facebook.
Democracy and freedom will come to that region as you can see the courage with which the youth face police brickbats and teargas and even armoured vehicles don't scare them anymore.
They have nothing to lose, except their chains.
Will this also spread to India?
Well, India could also see some agitations as corruption and the governments role in dealing with it comes under a cloud.
India's Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and his government need to act fast to address growing concerns if they want a stable and prosperous India.
It just takes an incident to push a country towards chaos or freedom, whicever you may choose to call it.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
India's New Fight Against Corruption
By Manuwant Choudhary
A march against corruption in New Delhi on January 30 led by Swami Agnivesh, Baba Ram dev, Kiran Bedi, Anna Hazare to make India's government accountable and stop corruption.
Swami Agnivesh says India must bring back all the Indian money stashed away in Swiss banks...he tells NDTV anchor Vinod Dua that the only way to bring back the black money of tax defaulters is by citizens stoppping to pay taxes to the Indian government.
He says the money in Swiss accounts is equivalent to 9 years of all taxes collected by the Indian government and all its states - if the money is brought back India can have a 9 year tax holiday.
Anti-corruption movements in India have been popular in the past and governments have also changed yet corruption has always increased.
Not just oil mafia..in everything you do you pay money...even if you want a gun licence.
The only way to reduce corruption is by reducing the role of governments, but this motely crowd of anti-corruption movement will always want more regulation, more government being fed on socialism all their lives.
It is only Rajaji's Swatantra formula that can bring corruption to its minimum but India's social and religious leaders don't understand economics and the root cause of corruption.
Yet, the public mood in India is getting hotter and the anti-corruption movement could spread across India and there could be more civil unrest on the streets in months to come.
A march against corruption in New Delhi on January 30 led by Swami Agnivesh, Baba Ram dev, Kiran Bedi, Anna Hazare to make India's government accountable and stop corruption.
Swami Agnivesh says India must bring back all the Indian money stashed away in Swiss banks...he tells NDTV anchor Vinod Dua that the only way to bring back the black money of tax defaulters is by citizens stoppping to pay taxes to the Indian government.
He says the money in Swiss accounts is equivalent to 9 years of all taxes collected by the Indian government and all its states - if the money is brought back India can have a 9 year tax holiday.
Anti-corruption movements in India have been popular in the past and governments have also changed yet corruption has always increased.
Not just oil mafia..in everything you do you pay money...even if you want a gun licence.
The only way to reduce corruption is by reducing the role of governments, but this motely crowd of anti-corruption movement will always want more regulation, more government being fed on socialism all their lives.
It is only Rajaji's Swatantra formula that can bring corruption to its minimum but India's social and religious leaders don't understand economics and the root cause of corruption.
Yet, the public mood in India is getting hotter and the anti-corruption movement could spread across India and there could be more civil unrest on the streets in months to come.
Jaipal Reddy You Are Bluffing
By Manuwant Choudhary
India's Oil Minister Jaipal Reddy addresses a press meet after a high level meeting to tackle adulteration.
His high level meet was with publc sector oil companies who have given 25 lakh rupees to the kin of Mr. yeshwant Sonawane.
He now talks of re-introducing the marker system.
But admits that kerosene tankers don't even have a lock on them when they leave oil depots.
Its also surprising that while oil companies open lakhs of new retail outlets and kisan seva kendra's for petrol and diesel there is not even a oil dispenor for kerosene.
Jaipal Reddy is bluffing India and protecting the corruption of government owned oil companies.
India's Oil Minister Jaipal Reddy addresses a press meet after a high level meeting to tackle adulteration.
His high level meet was with publc sector oil companies who have given 25 lakh rupees to the kin of Mr. yeshwant Sonawane.
He now talks of re-introducing the marker system.
But admits that kerosene tankers don't even have a lock on them when they leave oil depots.
Its also surprising that while oil companies open lakhs of new retail outlets and kisan seva kendra's for petrol and diesel there is not even a oil dispenor for kerosene.
Jaipal Reddy is bluffing India and protecting the corruption of government owned oil companies.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
A Burning Republic
By Manuwant Choudhary
I know politicians would not like to remember the eve of India's Republic Day but television footage of a burning additional collector Shri Yeshwant Sonawane in Mahrashtra is shocking - he was burnt alive simply because he was preventing oil pilferage.
Who did it?
The Oil Mafia.
Are the oil mafia private individuals only?
No. The oil mafia includes private individuals, government officials, oil company officials, politicians and governments.
Ever wondered why there was a fire in Jaipur Oil Depot, or just sometime ago in Bombay !
The inquiry reports are guarded secrets.
Kerosene at subsidized rates almost always go into the wrong hands - they are even smuggled out of the country.
Who pays?
The taxpayers. The poor never get kerosene.
This Republic Day we should pause and think whether we have really entrusted our great country into safe hands.
Not just Shri Sonawane, they burn India.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
WHAT IS RAREST OF RARE CASE IF COLD MUDER ISN'T?
By Manuwant Choudhary
Dara Singh should have been hanged to death.
But he got a life imprisonment and the Orissa High Court judges supported a lifer and said the criminality of Dara Singh did not fall into the rarest of rare category.
The judges said he only wanted to `teach a lesson to those who convert others.'
Just to remind you Dara Singh is the Bajrang Dal activist who torched a vehicle of Graham Staines and his two sons as they slept kiling them all.
So I wonder what is a `Rarest of Rare Case'?
The riots in Bombay? The riots in Gujarat?
No.
Even the Supreme Court is harsh on Teesta Setalvad simply because she wrote a letter on the Gujarat riots to the United Nations Human Rights Organisation.
Surely the Supreme Court should have shouted at India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for taking the Kashmir issue to the United Nations.
We would not have the BJP activists forcing their way into Kashmir simply to hoist our Indian flag by force. Kashmiris don't feel like hoisting a tricolour.
I wonder if the BJPs program will make Kashmiris feel more Indian?
Just wonder whatever happened to our `Basic Structure of our Constitution'.....Secularism?
In India liberals are not allowed to have their own political parties.
Property Rights are not guaranteed either.
And now the Orissa High Court judgement shows even Secularism is just a sham.
For our courts only perhaps Ajmal Kasab falls into the `rarest of rare case'.
I am not for capital punishment yet it hurts to see how pests get away with murder.
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