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Tripura Times, Agartala, Wednesday, April 17, 2013 2
TRIPURA TIMES
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, VOL.50, ISSUE NO-174
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are
punished unless they kill in large numbers and to
the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire
EDITORIAL
G B Hospital;
ìA Gehenna of
Killersî
Proved to be in an absurd notion
that filled into the notorious and fatal acts
regarding successive untimely and
uncared deaths of prematured, nay, quite
young patients, often, go unknown and
uninvestigated by the police less than the
hospital administration involving
ìefficientî doctors and nurses, being in
privy, as alleged in most of the cases since
the hospitalís inception.
What does one suggest the patients
should do? In the cases that bear
suggestive clues of ignorance or cavalier
disregard or unwanted complexities that
instigate the medics to get themselves
involved in unwanted business risking the
lives of the patients ~ a process canít
further be allowed to continue as
wishfulfilment of mad desires; had there
been strictures to thwart such irregularities
at their embryonic stage then such massive
and wider damage could have been
avoided.
An underhand criminality ever after
the mortal act the ëcarcassí of certificates
(bed tickets. Postmortem reports) that
might bear the telltale story of the ësecrecy
and colours of the vistims, hope to get
some ëjusticeí on the cause of sudden
shocking ëdamageí done to the bereaved
family. Rupa chakraborty (25) and Taju
Minha (35), being the burning example to
be victimized as negligent and criminal
deaths by the doctors and nurses attended
them, have so far not been provided with
even reasonable comments as to how such
ëblunderí taking place. The answers of
such pathetic scenes so gapingly
wounded with immediate outrageous
ëconductsí just the people of the city have
been seeing and equally seething under
mistrust notion and opinions against the
doctors and the ëwould beí in the near
future, when these ëscionsí will rule the
roost in the stateís health-care system ~
or are digging our own grave with such
butchers in the sacred name of so-called
doctors.
So dangers are quite afoot, itís time,
the administration were at its grips,
otherwise, the day is not far, where the
own Frankenstein monsters are forming
to grow to swallow their masters.
MESSAGE
THE WINE OF HEAVEN
Whatever be thy love
bother it not,
be adhered,
serve with care and interest
to nurture and exalt
the Love
and suffer elatedly
to do so,
be thou complacementó
so shall thy love be transparent
with heavenly shower,
drink thatóthe wine of heaven
and enjoy.
Sri Sri†Thakur†Anukulchandra
Nitish is wrong in singling out
Modi. All of BJP is communalÖ.
Prashant Panday
Nitish Kumar has spoken.
And he has stuck to his
script. Clearly hinting
(though not naming) that
Modi is unacceptable to
him as the NDA PM
candidate, he has made his
partyís alliance with the
BJP hinge on this one
single point. But is he being
fair in singling Modi out like
this? Is it his point that
anyone else from the BJP is
acceptable as PM, but not
Modi? If his argument is
one of secularism, then I am
sorry but no one from the
BJP qualifies to be his
partner.
Take Advani, the one that
Nitish hinted might be
acceptable when he said
that the NDA had fought
under him in 2009. But how
can Nitish forget Advaniís
role in the BJPís megatreachery of the century
(even bigger than the postGodhra riots), the
demolition of the Babri
Masjid. It was Advani,
wasnít it, who started it all
off with his 1990 yath ratra.
With his exhortations to his
cohorts days and hours
before they went and did
what they had already
premeditated to do ñ bring
down a centuries old
monument? How is Advani
different from the Taliban
leadership which ordered
the Bamiyan Buddhist
statues in Afghanistan to
be destroyed?
And what about the
others? Murli Manohar
Joshi, one of the longest
serving party MPs of the
party, also was right there,
in Ayodhya, urging his
followers to have no
second thoughts about
ìrighting the wrongs of
historyî.
And what about Arun
Jaitley, who is the biggest
force backing the Muslim
baiter Narendra Modi?
What kind of comfort
would it give Nitish if Arun
Jaitley became the PM; if
he felt obliged to either
bring in Modi as the Home
Minister or something or
keep condoning his deeds
as CM of Gujarat ñ back
then in 2002 and now (when
he continues to keep the
Muslims out of the
mainstream)?
What about Sushma Swaraj,
who is nothing but a part
of the opposition-to-Modi
camp in the BJP, and is
otherwise a backer of
Advani for PM? Advani
and Swaraj are two sides of
the same coin, she backing
him for PMship, the he
backing her for party
presidentship.
And what about all the
ìsister organizationsî of
the BJP? The RSS ñ which
not only spews venom
against the minorities, but
also against the lower
castes, especially the
dalits? Hope Nitish doesnít
forget why the RSS was
first set up ñ as a counter
to Ambedkarís dalit push in
the 1920s. If Nitish believes
that the only problem with
the BJP is its communal
credentials, surely he is not
serious? Surely he knows
just how much the BJP
loathes the lower castes,
and vice versa?
Leave RSS, what about the
more brazenly branded
Vishwa Hindu Parishad and
Bajrang Dal and the Durga
Vahini? These
organizations donít even
try to hide behind the fig
leaf of ìdevelopmentî as
Modi does, or ìjanataî as
the BJP does. They are
clear in their agenda ñ they
are pro-Hindu parties
(mostly pro-Brahmin), and
they will push for India
declaring itself a Hindu
country. Can Nitish forget
how Dara Singh ñ a
Bajrang Dal worker ñ
ruthlessly massacred
Graham Staines, the
Australian missionary
working for the upliftment
of the under-privileged in
Orissa? Or Praveen Togadia
of the VHP whose antiminority rhetoric can only
be bested by an Uma
Bharati?
Will Nitish also forget that
BJP governments all over
the country are silently
pushing the Hindu agenda?
That saraswati Vandana and
yoga are being used as
cultural tools to spread the
color of saffron? That
during the NDA rule, in
which Nitish himself was a
party, the education
department (Ministry of
HRD) under Murli Manohar
Joshi had all but changed
the text books to reflect the
glory of Hinduism and show
the Mughal rule in a
prejudiced manner?
Or will not consider the kind
of ìpermanentî allies the
BJP has? The Shiromani
Akali Dal, whose very
formation is on communal
lines. Or the Shiv Sena,
which in addition to having
a Marathi agenda also has
a strong anti-Muslim one?
Does Nitish see the JD(U)
in this company?
So Nitish is being canny in
singling Modi out? If he is
serious about his partyís
secular credentials, he
should never have joined
hands with the BJP. The
reality is different it appears.
Nitish signed up with the
BJP to keep Laloo out. It
was near-term political
compulsions, not any longterm considerations, that
brought Nitish into the
grasp of the BJP. The 17 year
old relationship has been
largely driven by near term
compulsions. Today, it is
again near term
compulsions that are
making Nitish attack Modi.
Nitish realizes he is on a
slippery slope in Bihar. His
2nd†term has been anything
but satisfactory. There are
no jobs in Bihar; electricity
is a problem; and even his
own partymen (refer
Indian Express stories of
the last two days) agree
that corruption is a big
issue. Today, to win in
Bihar, Nitish needs the
Muslim votes like never
before. Today, the BJP
itself has become a
problem for Nitish.
Nitishís identification of
Modi as the fount of
communalism is just a
clever politicianís way to
balance his ìloyalty to the
N D A î w h i l e b e i n g
opposed to communal
issues.
Modi is suffering the wrath
of Nitish only because he
is the loudest of all the
loud mouths in the BJP.
Modi brags all the time;
and has ìearnedî the
#feku tag†(#Feku or
sapnon ka saudagar).
Yesterdayís TOI brings
out more about this habit
of his. Modiís ability to
gas is profound; his
ability to conceal
unpleasant facts about his
state even more so. But
heís now getting exposed.
Stories about the drought
in Gujarat; and his
governmentís mishandling
are only now coming out
months after similar
stories came out about
Maharashtra. Modi is a
victim of his own ìgas
bagî quality. Heís easy to
attack. Thatís what Nitish
is doing. Even though ñ
and the BJP should be
clear about this ñ Nitish is
actually attacking all of the
BJP.
The real truth†is that
Nitish is trying to be
clever by singling out
Modi, when in fact she
should have the guts to
tick off the entire BJP. Such
clever attempts at wooing
the Muslim crowd will not
succeed. Todayís world is
vastly different than what
it was ten years backÖ.
The Caracas Conspiracy and
how to subvert democracy
Shobhan Saxena
Something very sinister is brewing in Caracas, the capital
of Venezuela. The way the opposition candidate Henrique
Capriles Radonski, who lost the election to acting
president Nicolas Maduro on Sunday, is talking it seems
he has a plan up his sleeve. Not ready†to accept the
election result ó 50.6% votes for Maduro and 49.1% for
him ó Capriles is now calling the president-elect
ìillegitimateî, demanding a ìvote by voteî †recount and
vowing to ìfight to the finishî. With the Organisation of
American States now throwing its weight behind Caprilesí
demand for ìvote by voteî recount, it seems a conspiracy
is being executed in Caracas. The aim is to rob Maduro ó
and millions of his poor supporters ó of the election.
Even before the result was out on Sunday night, Capriles
had started crying foul.†
It looks like a conspiracy because Venezuelaís high-tech
electoral system is considered the most advanced in the
world. Former†US president Jimmy Carter, who goes to
Venezuela as an observer in all elections, has called it the
ìbest voting system in the worldî. There is no room for
error in this system, and recounting canít change the
result.†
On Sunday, as polling was taking place in Venezuela and
later the votes were being counted, a set of independent
election observers were blogging live on the website of
Centre for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR), a
Washington-based think-tank whose Advisory Board
includes Nobel Laureate economists Robert Solow and
Joseph Stiglitz; and Richard Freeman, professor of
economics at Harvard University. This is what an election
monitor blogged on the CEPRís website: ì8:23 PM ó
Now watching the citizen audit at Fermin Toro, a high
school in Caracas. There were 12 voting stations and the
turnout was 73.3%. [4,773 out of a possible 6,465 voted].
After reading off all of the ballots and putting them in
stacks they are counting each stack and comparing them
with the number on the tape. 9:26 PM - The count matched
perfectly. î
Citizen audit of voting? Have you ever heard of something
so transparent anywhere in the world? In Venezuela, after
they cast their ballot on an electronic voting machine, the
voters get a receipt which they put in a box. These ballots
are then audited by independent monitors and citizen
groups. This system has been appreciated by all. ìThe
Venezuelan electoral system is the†most automated in the
world, because it can be audited and verified at every
stage,î said Jennifer McCoy, director of the Carter Centerís
Americas Program, when she visited Venezuela during
the elections last year.
Another report on the same website by an informal election
monitor had this to say about polling in Venezuela: ìThere
are 10 of†us in Caracas from the US doing some informal
observations of the election process here. Today we
visited several polling places. At the last one, we were
actually invited in to witness the voting process. At every
site, we saw a very efficient process and no problems
were reported, other than the need to replace one faulty
machine. This is actually the third election process they
have had in this country in the past year, so the process
is moving along very well. People talk about how quickly
they got through the lines and how smoothly things went.î
ì What we saw when we were invited in was a model of
transparency, with many checks and balances to assure
integrity. People must show identification, their serial
number is then entered into a digitial device and their
photo comes up, then they give a thumb print to verify
their identity again. They then proceed to vote
electronically, receiving a paper receipt which they check
and deposit in a box for later auditing. They then sign
out, give a thumb print next to their signature, and dip
their pinky finger in a vial of indelible ink to assure that
they canít vote again. All of this is facilitated by randomly
chosen registered voters and witnessed by
representatives of the political parties. There is an audit
of 55% of the voting tables to check the paper receipts
against the electronic returns,î wrote the American
election monitor. †
Compare this system with Americaís, where in the year
2000 black voters were turned aways from polling booths
in Florida and George W Bush became the president
despite losing the popular vote to Al Gore; or for that
matter with Indiaís, where the voter has to live in
suspense about the result for weeks after pressing a
button on an electronic machine. Forget audit, in Indiaís
stone-age voting system, there is not even a record of
who voted for whom and where.†
But if despite such a foolproof system in place, Capriles
is raging like a bull and hoping to change the result in
the recount, there has†to be a reason behind this
madness. The reason for his confidence is the backing
he is getting from the western capitals and their media.
This was wonderfully exposed by Corey Robin, the
American author of ëThe Reactionary Mind:
Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Paliní. †In a
glimpse of what the US media coverage of the election
results is likely to look like, Robin compared the New
York Timesí treatment of Venezuelaís election with George
Bushís similarly close victory over Kerry in the 2004 US
elections. ìIn November 2004, 50.7% of the American
population voted for George W. Bush; 48.3% voted for
John Kerry. The headline in the New York Times read:
ìAfter a Tense Night, Bush Spends the Day Basking in
Victoryî, wrote Robin on his blog on Sunday.
ìThe NY Times News Analysis read as follows: It was
not a landslide, or a re-alignment, or even a seismic
shock. But it was decisive, and it is impossible to read
President Bushís re-election with larger Republican
majorities in both houses of Congress as anything other
than the clearest confirmation yet that this is a centerright country ñ divided yes, but with an undisputed
majority united behind his leadership...î
Then Robin goes on to analyse NYTís treatment of the
Venezuelan election. ìTonight, 50.6% of the Venezuelan
population voted for Chavezís successor Nicolas
Maduro; 49.1% voted for his opponent Henrique
Capriles. The Times headline this time: ëMaduro
Narrowly Wins Venezuelan Presidencyí. And hereís how
the article begins: ìNicol·s Maduro, the acting president
and handpicked political heir to Hugo Ch·vez, narrowly
won election to serve the remainder of Mr. Ch·vezís sixyear term as president of Venezuela, officials said late
Sunday...î
ASTRO TODAY
Aries: Donít be surprised if you are the centre
of someone specialís attention. A potential love
interest may set their sights on you and you
may not even realize it. Pay attention, Aries,
because this may be your opportunity to find
a long term lover. You may need to adjust to a different
way of living, but it only takes time and an open mind to
get used to something new.
Taurus: It would serve you well to remember
that you get out of life what you put in. That
being said you cannot underestimate or forget
the power of a positive attitude. If you
approach a situation with a pessimistic attitude
chances are you arenít going to give your best energy
and wonít get the results you desire. Life is full of
challenges and pleasures and itís up to you to navigate
the issues to enjoy the fun. Uplift your attitude, Taurus,
and watch how pleasing the results are.
Gemini: You have a seemingly magic way of
getting things done with the utmost quality.
Those around you have grown accustomed to
your standards, yet are still unaware of how
you achieve the results you do. For this reason
it can appear as though you have to supply very little
effort to do a job well, which of course you know isnít
the case. Continue doing what you do, Gemini, and those
of influence can elevate you to a superior position.
Cancer: You like to pursue your goals with
tenacity, Cancer, but this very admirable trait
doesnít come without responsibility. It is
necessary for you to know your role or station
in life and at work so you can avoid stepping
on someone elseís toes. You fit in somewhere just as
everyone does and it is important to stay in your lane
and take the appropriate actions until your position
changes.
Leo: As generous as you are, Leo, it is a real
treat for this generosity to be returned. When
you find someone who makes it their business
to go out of their way for you it is important to
show them you recognize and appreciate their
effort. Some people just take without a thought of giving
back and others are willing to do whatever it takes to
make you smile. Those are the people you need to spend
your time with and energy on.
Virgo: When it comes to financial business,
Virgo, write everything down. You are
meticulous when it comes to official affairs and
know how to document everything. This habit
will come in handy when you deal with a fiscal
arrangement right now. The more detailed you can be in
your description of the arrangement and the
expectations of each party involved, the less a risk you
have of confusion later on.
Libra: If someone wants to change you, Libra,
then it is safe to say they do not love you in
the way you need to be loved. If you love
someone, you love who they are and donít
desire to change them. If someone wants to
change you it may be time to look at exchanging them
for someone who will appreciate your characteristics
even the annoying ones. All relationships require
compromise, but you cannot compromise on who you
are. Be proud of who you are and find someone who
loves you just as much as they should.
Scorpio: When it comes to work right now you
are urged to keep your emotions under wraps.
The tension has been building between you
and another and if youíre not careful you can
explode. If you lose control of your emotions,
Scorpio, you lose your bargaining power and that is
something you donít want to do. Walk away, take a break
or do whatever it is you have to do to stay calm and not
lose your cool. Remember, Scorpio, you have a much
better chance of getting your way if you stay calm.
Sagittarius: If you go out and about to
socialize with friends it is important to show
the real you. You never know who is around
and watching and you donít want to give
anyone a false impression. You are usually
pretty frank and have no problem showing who you are
and this is no time to start putting up a front. If you do
meet someone interesting you can judge if they like the
real you or not from the start.
Capricorn: When it comes to a family situation
it will be important for you to listen before you
speak. Youíll want to get a solid understanding
of how the other people are feeling about the
circumstances before you make any judgments
about what you want to do. There is no use getting
upset or involved in a battle of egos as neither of these
actions will solve the problem. Stay calm and rational
while you listen and try to understand the other peopleís
feelings. Then, try to make a logical decision about how
to proceed.
Aquarius: The last place you want to be right
now, Aquarius, is stuck in the past. Whether
you believe it or not everything happens for a
reason and your job is to learn from the past,
not live in it. Take the lesson you need with
you and go about building your future. Focus your
energy on all the positive strides youíve made since a
past misstep and continue making plans to improve your
life.
Pisces: If there are overdue administrative
tasks you need to handle it would be smart to
do so now. The longer you leave things undone
the quicker they pile up and your agenda
shows no signs of slowing. You must maintain
control of your affairs and ensure your responsibilities
are handled. It is imperative for you to stay on top of the
everyday agenda items that ensure your life runs
smoothly.
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