Posted on July 29, 2008 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
USA has since many years been conspiring to clamp its nuclear policies on India. Now it has got a great collaborator in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Antagonism to communism being their common creed, USA has always used Indian right-wingers to advance its interests in this country. The first organized political platform available [...]
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Posted on July 24, 2008 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
July 22, 2008 is held as the darkest day in Indian democracy.
This day Prime Minister Manmohan Singh won the confidence vote; but the day, instead of being counted as his victory day, is unambiguously held by one and all as the darkest day in Indian democracy.
In the life of India this day [...]
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Posted on July 22, 2008 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh succeeded in arranging “yes” for American interest in nuke trade in India, but democracy deranged in the dirty process of confidence vote that he had to seek after withdrawal of support by the left parties on the nuke deal issue.
Evidently he organized his survival in power as [...]
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Posted on July 22, 2008 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Reply of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the debates on confidence vote has been postponed till 6.30 p.m. as bundles of crores worth currency notes allegedly offered to 3 members of BJP to purchase their support for the government hit the House and rendered it speechless much ahead of scheduled closure of debates. [...]
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Posted on July 20, 2008 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Dear Prime Minister Dr. Singh, please quit. The way you are busy in collecting support to sustain the confidence motion has already ruined peoples’ confidence in you.
Media, both print and electronic, have hit Indians hard with reports of how MPs are being considered as price-tagged commodities whose cost vary from one to [...]
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Posted on July 20, 2008 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
On release of the India-specific safeguards agreement that India Government had kept hidden, even refusing to place it before the UPA-Left panel, a marginal number of pro-imperialism intelligentsia of India and mainstream media have churned out comments criticizing mostly the critics to whom the nuke deal with USA in the form and style [...]
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Posted on July 19, 2008 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
If you want to know as to what extent one can be shameless, look at the Congress and assess.
This party had taken lead to free India from foreign traders and to give democracy to Indians. But this party is now menacingly busy in destroying Indian democracy and to subjugate the country to another [...]
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Posted on July 18, 2008 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
The government on Wednesday ( June 18, 2008 ) ruled out giving to the Left the draft of the India-specific Internatonal Atomic Energy Agency safeguards agreement in connection with the Indo-US nuclear deal, but asserted that all their queries on this subject have been “answered.”
The above is the report of PTI on June [...]
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Posted on July 13, 2008 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
For us to say Orissa is in the grip of dishonest fellows is not new. New for us is that we are not alone. Slowly but steadily many others have started seeing how scoundrels are ruling the roost in Orissa. A sample of this new awakening has hit the police, which, after absorbing [...]
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Posted on July 12, 2008 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
(Continuing discussion on Sri Jagannatha)
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
As everywhere, tribal people of Orissa, marveled by agro-magic, were matriarch in outlook and were worshiping Mother Nature in whom they were seeing the factor of creation. To facilitate permanency of the object of worship they had developed the habit of worshiping wooden logs roughly designing the same in [...]
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