Whatever you think about India’s new PM, BJP favorite, Narendra Modi, he’s already done a few things to make supporters pleased and detractors less skeptical:
1. Modi has launched a national cleanliness drive to end the shameful public health nightmare of open defecation in India.
This was a cause dear to Mahatma Gandhi. And on this blog, as well, I’ve written often that the scandal of Indian public hygiene should be the number one priority in India, not arms races:
“Cleaning House,” Alternet, 2004 (also published at Himal, South Asia)
Interview with D. Murali at Whackonomics, The Hindu (March 2008):
“Public sanitation is India’s number one problem. We have the hubris to consider ourselves a fledgling superpower on the basis of the accomplishments of the professional classes and some nuclear weapons.
But we can’t seem to keep our streets free from filth. When we show enough respect for each other to clean up after ourselves and make our cities liveable, we will have accomplished several things at once.
We will have recovered our self-respect, we will have given dignity to even the “lowest” manual labor, and we will have eliminated the cause of many of our most widespread diseases. Beauty is as vital to the soul as food is to the body. Without it, we subsist, but we do not have a culture.
Because it despises physical work and the body, Indian society overvalues intellectual work, leaving not enough people to create those un-intellectual, unglamorous, petty businesses that create jobs and drive real economic growth.
So, for me, our first area of focus should be acquiring the self-confidence and humility to criticize and correct this area of darkness in our society.”
2. Modi has rightly snubbed the grand-standing US Attorney Preet Bharara (Democrat).
3. Modi has quickly resolved the confusion around the long-term visa facilities offered to overseas Indians, by declaring that the PIO card will be a permanent life-long visa that does not require yearly police registration.
Hooray!
Khatam ho gaya babudom?
Well, let’s wait and see….but so far, so good.
This DELETED blog is up and running again somehow. Congratulations Lila Rajiva ,running dog or is it DELETED of white nationalists, neo Confederates and other creepos. Keep believing you are not doing their bidding if it helps you sleep at night with those assorted cretins to keep you warm.
Much like the once level headed Joe Sobran who had he lived longer had to be put down as a mad dog. Ditto for Buchanan who froths at the mouth rather speak these days.
These are the people you think will give a rats ass about Indians in Wall Street?
Looks you are well on your way to dementia yourself already. Enjoy you steady stream of Ajit Vadakayil feeds and his brilliant theories DELETED.
Enjoy
Please keep your insults in better shape.
I’m flattered to be on the same side as Joe Sobran. Buchanan not so much.
I’m somewhat a fan of Judaic thought, as my innumerable references to the Torah and Zohar prove.
It’s the gaggle of hissing neo-con and liberal geese in New York and DC that I cannot stand….with excellent reason.
So I am actually anti-Euro-Khazar-supremacism.
And proud of it.
As for white nationalists, I also quote black nationalists (Malcolm X and many others).
Does that make me a Neo-confederate-Afro-centrist?
Besides, the confederacy had much more going for it than enters your pea-sized brain.
Among other things it was infiltrated by the Rothschild cabal.
If you spent as much time thinking as in jerking your knee, you might learn something.
But then again, the grape-vine is probably right and you’re a hasbara troll.
ysv_rao,
This is to inform you that I have deleted your other comments.
This blog is for those who can think, not for thought-police-trainees and enemies of Christianity.
If you cannot tell the difference between objecting to megalomaniac kleptocrat mass-murderers on one hand and racist bigotry on the other, then you are indeed brain-washed by the ruling class and this blog is not for you.
I write for for those who have got beyond soiling their diapers the minute they hear something controversial, blunt, or new.
If the ruling-class is mainly Euro-Khazar in origin, that is a fact to be controverted, not a dog-whistle, whatever you insinuate by that term.
The latest genetic research confirms 20% Khazar ancestry and the rest mixed Middle East and Caucasian among Ashkenazim.
Do you hate Khazars? What do you have against them?
Please take your fights with
Ajit Vadakayil to his blog. You both seem to love gutter language.