Desicritics Comments on Multiple Bomb Blasts in Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Comment by AnArch

Fri, 1 Aug 2008 10:20:45 EDT

It's just you,

Comment by Sanjay

Fri, 1 Aug 2008 09:09:39 EDT

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Comment by Rohan

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:46:52 EDT

CS, i don't really need to be! You are doing a pretty good job of it, mate. Instead of always trying to speak for other people (Self confessed this and that) and yourself you'd appear in better light if you just gave your opinion on things. But as it is such honesty is not forthcoming from you. All i see is nervous rantings of a failed commie. So you can continue to humour us all.

Comment by Rohan

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:45:10 EDT

CS, i don't really need to be! You are doing a pretty good job of it, mate. Instead of always trying to speak for other people (Self confessed this and that) and yourself you'd appear in better light if you just gave your opinion on things. But as it is such honesty is forthcoming from you. All i see is nervous rantings of a failed commie. So you can continue to humour us all.

Comment by commonsense

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:08:58 EDT

Rohan # 74: Have you thought of being the court jester yourself?? A self-confessed pluralist anti-commie DEMOCRAT like you, complaining the CPM gets ELECTED for thirty years without a break? As for the government having NO role in development, pick up a simple book on Korea, Singapore etc. for starters. Or even Japan. Heard of something called MITI in Japan? This whole dichotomy of total state vs. no state for development is good kool-aid stuff, but real societies do not come in either or versions. All a question of balance, yes, pluralist, democratic balance.

Comment by Rohan

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:59:57 EDT

CS, You are being evasive again. When India faces Maoists naxals and complete moral bankruptcy of the left they hardly stand for a pluralistic society. They and the Congress party are only oppurtunists who oppose eachothers policies but join hands after the election to keep the BJP out of power. What they think of the BJP is irrelevant if the BJP gets the majority mandate of the people. Unless the left and UPA become truly secular they will not get any sympathy from me. I will not fall for their psy-ops.All socialistic policies have given us in the last 60 years is an inefficient bureaucracy ,red tapism and corruption of the worst kind. The little development that has happened through the private sector in India is inspite of the Govt and not because of it.

Comment by commonsense

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:39:45 EDT

Rohan, Lot of the policies of the welfare state, socialized medicare common in much of Western Europe and Canada and many other non-communist countries represent exactly the what I'm talking about. Even Singapore, hardly a communist country, has socialized housing. Taking on relevant and workable socialist ideas and junking the utopian crap. You would be able to see it as such if you did not trade in manichean dichtomies of commies vs. anti-commies.

Comment by Rohan

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:38:19 EDT

CS, totalitarian communists talking of taking all pluralist ideas on board is an oxymoron in itself. If communists took peoples ideas on board there would be no Gulags and Tianenmen Square massacres. I don't need lessons in plurality from Communists and that too Indian communists who are just stooges for foreign powers with no commitment toward Indians. They use their rights to weaken the Democracy. The Indian communists who let crores of Bangladeshis into India commit the worst crime against the Indian poor. Whose jobs are lost or become underpaid when the population increases for no reason through illegal immigration? Thats how they've stayed in power in WB for 30 years by issuing ration cards to the illegals in return for votes.

Comment by commonsense

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:26:02 EDT

MS: ""If you feel identifying the enemy and their associates is not a productive way of approaching the rpoblem, why don'mt you produce more productive ways on how to eliminate jehaids and their associates?"' Man Singh, as I said earlier, convene a maha-sammelan to which everyone is invited. Serve them pakoras laced with a special ingredient that induces virulent diahhorea but ONLY in jehadis and them commies. In a few minutes all the jihadis and commies will be swimming in their on shit. Next step: pull them out with especially designed poles and hooks, then, as Ledzius advises us, arrange for a mass "extra judcial execution" mela. Don't forget to invite all the non-jihadis and anti-commies to witness this tamasha. Problem solved. No angst, no unnecessary hand-wringing. Easy as 1-2-3. Commonsensical, no complications. Just like your villagers and dacoits formula. Any questions?

Comment by Ruvy

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:57:34 EDT

identifying the people who are pro-Jehadis is very much needed. There is an old journalist's trick - follow the money and see where it leads. If it leads to Saudi or to the Moslem Brotherhood, and I'm sure it does, I want a percentage.

Comment by temporal

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:21:30 EDT

the whole world is trying to find ways to eliminate terrorism and is frustrated by the "invisible" enemy...reams are written on causes, and how to identify and prevent...but so far nothing seems to curb its growth...power...heavy and disproportionate display of power is also unable to curb it...this is the conundrum the world faces Bottom line is how to eliminate terror and protect death and destruction of innocent people by jahdis.

Comment by Man Singh

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:21:03 EDT

#67 "commie vs. anticommie, is not a very productive way of approaching the issue." Yes identifying the people who are pro-Jehadis is very much needed. Pro jehadi and anti jehadi division is the foundation of success in fight against jehad. If you feel identifying the enemy and their associates is not a productive way of approaching the rpoblem, why don'mt you produce more productive ways on how to eliminate jehaids and their associates? If you are exhausted of ideas then avaialable ideas are simply the best untill beter ideas are in place. Bottom line is how to eliminate terror and protect death and destruction of innocent people by jahdis.

Comment by commonsense

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:17:40 EDT

Rohan: ""The Indian commies are a disillusioned lot."" Not sure which is better: when the commies were ""illusioned"" or now that they are ""disillusioned""? My illusions: in a pluralist democracy, we need to take on board all workable and semi-workable ideas on and to reject the rest. This is a process that continues forever as we tinker and readjust, in response to larger social change. To come up with a black/white scenario of commie vs. anticommie, is not a very productive way of approaching the issue.

Comment by Sanjay

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:41:18 EDT

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Comment by commonsense

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:10:17 EDT

Man Singh: ""I told you I am to beat back teh dacoits. I did it myself when my village was being terrorised. dacoits were beaten back along with their local associates."" You did? I'm hearing this for the first time...

Comment by Man Singh

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:59:51 EDT

CS #60 I am always for eliminating the furious snakes ready to attack innocent people. I told you I am to beat back teh dacoits. I did it myself when my village was being terrorised. dacoits were beaten back along with their local associates. [eidted]

Comment by Man Singh

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:58:23 EDT

[duplicate]

Comment by Rohan

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:16:53 EDT

The Indian commies are a disillusioned lot. They cannot produce a home grown Marx or a Mao. All they can do is produce parties in their name who worship them. They confess Atheism but worship Marx and Mao. Thus they are Deists of a different kind, although still not capable of thinking on their own. That is why they've not been successful in India inspite of desperate poverty. Their policies are guided by the Chinese who while, themselves turn to privatisation use the Indian commies like "Vibhishan". Ghar kaa Bhedi Lanka Dhaye is just as true today as it was during the time of Rama! The Indian commies thus are just stooges instead of revolutionaries! They stay in power by supporting Islamists and thus oppose the very secularism they are supposed to hold in high esteem. Their cowardice was visible when they sent Taslima Nasreen to a BJP ruled state instead of defending secular principles. The time for them was 1947 when most of India was poor and they could have built the Industrial base of India, and found sympathy for the cause but they were no good then and are completely useless now when communism has failed worldwide and even China and Russia are privatising everything!

Comment by commonsense

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:52:09 EDT

Man Singh: ""now readers can easyly understand why commies support all acts that weaken India, that promote illetracy and povery and attack on civilisational values of any land."" Yes!!! it's all crystal clear now. Thanks! (And I am no longer a monkey either! Sad)

Comment by commonsense

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:51:07 EDT

Man Singh: ""Truth is that all through history, humanity has sufferd not that much due to active bad people but due to `inactive good people'."" True! But where do you fit in? And actively bad person or an inactive good person? More than slightly confused, as usual.

Comment by Man Singh

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:24:22 EDT

Take the garlands of flowers and worship these terrorists. Nice bridges will be build. Truth is that all through history, humanity has sufferd not that much due to active bad people but due to `inactive good people'. This indirect support to terrorists by commies is more dangerous then bombing itself. Justification of crime and compainging to build bridged with criminals in place of punishing them always embomdens the criminals and weakens the innocent people. Enemies of humanity has to be punished even if they are hiding among normal civilians. If people are ready to befool themselves its upto them. laato ke bhoot baato se nahi maante. I have seen how Malaysian Government carried out combing openration against communiost terrorists and eliminated them. Steps they took : 1. Banned communism by Law. 2. carried out special operation againt them and eliminated each and every supporter of terror whereever they were. Result : Malaysia enjoyed peace and prosperity and within 25 years made a respectable place in world community in spite of communla diversity more challenging then India. If we people do want to take practical deciisons and go by emotional idealistic deciisons we'll keep on suffering. CS "Terrorists ill never be non violent" in spite of all efforts of Gandhi to build bridges. Gandhi failed because he tried to make tiger vegetarian. Humanity suffered though. But you being an indirect sumpthiser of terrorists, will never feel the pain of those who suffered in 1947 or any other terror attack. You never come up with argument or methodlogy how to solve the problem. You always use only one weapon: ie ridicule the writer. How long you can befool the people. Engineers prosper with peace and prosperity of the society. More prosperous society is better bussiness Engineers will do. Communist prosper with chaos, war, misery, unrest, illetracy and poverty. More sufferings in society, more communits will breed. now readers can easyly understand why commies support all acts that weaken India, that promote illetracy and povery and attack on civilisational values of any land.

Comment by Sanjay

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:58:23 EDT

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Comment by Sanjay

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:20:32 EDT

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Comment by commonsense

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:26:54 EDT

Friendly Editor to Sanjay: ""[Conjectures sent out to pasture by the friendly editor]"" Oh no! Sanjay ain't no vegetarian. Going by his comments, he seems to be a raving "humanitarian" who eats only fellow humans. He could have been sent out to a mela of misanthropists where they enjoy devouring each other. An automatic end to auto-chutiapa for sure.

Comment by commonsense

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:29:15 EDT

Sanjay: ""Who are you to determine what is a windmill to be tilted at? These are just your subjective opinions."" Objective opinion: No windmills are to be tilted at, unless you fancy yourself to be Don Quixote