Comments on: Pragati: June 2008 http://www.sandeepweb.com/2008/06/03/pragati-june-2008/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:56:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: B Shantanu http://www.sandeepweb.com/2008/06/03/pragati-june-2008/#comment-243365 B Shantanu Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:21:08 +0000 http://www.sandeepweb.com/2008/06/03/pragati-june-2008/#comment-243365 Sandeep: I loved your conclusion: "<b>Intellectual defense of terror is deadlier than the actual act.</b> Well said. In this context, some of your readers will find this post interesting: http://satyameva-jayate.org/2008/06/03/missing-t-word/ Sandeep: I loved your conclusion:

“Intellectual defense of terror is deadlier than the actual act.

Well said.

In this context, some of your readers will find this post interesting:

http://satyameva-jayate.org/2008/06/03/missing-t-word/

]]> By: Jagmohan Singh Khurmi http://www.sandeepweb.com/2008/06/03/pragati-june-2008/#comment-242811 Jagmohan Singh Khurmi Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:42:18 +0000 http://www.sandeepweb.com/2008/06/03/pragati-june-2008/#comment-242811 The continuity of these havocs breaking on us may have silent support at international level. It is a known fact that there is a strong anti-India lobby in the west run by communist elements, lavishly funded by petro-riyals. But we can hardly blame the outsiders when one of our top journalists proclaims : <i> …Four years later, Mrs Gandhi’s assassins Satwant Singh and Kehar Singh paid the penalty for their crime by being hanged to death in Tihar jail.Twenty years later, the killers of 10,000 Sikhs remain unpunished. The conclusion is clear: in secular India there is one law for the Hindu majority, another for Muslims, Christians and Sikhs who are in minority </i> Khushwant Singh should be restrained from such dangerous emotional rehotric The continuity of these havocs breaking on us may have silent support at international level. It is a known fact that there is a strong anti-India lobby in the west run by communist elements, lavishly funded by petro-riyals. But we can hardly blame the outsiders when one of our top journalists proclaims :

…Four years later, Mrs Gandhi’s assassins Satwant Singh and Kehar Singh paid the penalty for their crime by being hanged to death in Tihar jail.Twenty years later, the killers of 10,000 Sikhs remain unpunished. The conclusion is clear: in secular India there is one law for the Hindu majority, another for Muslims, Christians and Sikhs who are in minority

Khushwant Singh should be restrained from such dangerous emotional rehotric

]]> By: » Getting human rights right | Pragati http://www.sandeepweb.com/2008/06/03/pragati-june-2008/#comment-242726 » Getting human rights right | Pragati Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:38:15 +0000 http://www.sandeepweb.com/2008/06/03/pragati-june-2008/#comment-242726 [...] Given the frequency and boldness of attacks on Indian territory, it is time to rethink priorities. Intellectual defence of terrorism is deadlier than the actual act. [More »] SALIL TRIPATHI: Human rights folks will be unreasonable, everywhere, to restrain the state. This is not to defend them, but to explain where they come from. The moment they become “solution providers” they have to begin modifying the message and make it more context-specific. Once they do that, the moral sharpness of their message—that the victim is most important (and they sometimes exalt victims to a holy status)—is lost. This is not to judge victims or human rights groups. [...] [...] Given the frequency and boldness of attacks on Indian territory, it is time to rethink priorities. Intellectual defence of terrorism is deadlier than the actual act. [More »] SALIL TRIPATHI: Human rights folks will be unreasonable, everywhere, to restrain the state. This is not to defend them, but to explain where they come from. The moment they become “solution providers” they have to begin modifying the message and make it more context-specific. Once they do that, the moral sharpness of their message—that the victim is most important (and they sometimes exalt victims to a holy status)—is lost. This is not to judge victims or human rights groups. [...]

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