NY Times India Ink and Breaking India

October 2013
EU Passes "Resolution" on Caste-Based Discrimination! (NYT Article)
Arun shares a link and comments:
Pls see this article in the NY Times:

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I'm shocked that this has "passed" as a resolution to link casteism (caste discrimination) as a "human rights" violation! This is exactly what Rajiv Malhotra said is happening in Breaking India.

The author Rikke Nohrlind is a leader of a "Dalit Solidarity Network" - a group explained in 'Breaking India'!"

Aditya notes: "Rikke Nohrlind seems to have a misunderstanding of Hinduism when she says: "While in South Asia caste discrimination has its roots in Hindu philosophy and religion and is sanctioned by the religion..."

Maria adds:
"... This topic is specially dangerous because, unless one opposes with base, everybody would be initially with such a "generous" organization which seems to support the helpless. Thanks to our eyes-opener, we can know and let others know what is behind all of this."

Tattva notes:
"It may be pertinent to mention that India Ink at NYT is edited by one Basharat Peer, a Kashmiri Muslim, who has on public forums spouted pro-separatist and anti-India stands. Not too long ago there appeared a placed blog over at NYT India Ink on the Mujaffarnagar riots which sought to reverse the truth of armed Muslims attacking HIndus returning from the Jat Mahapanchayat by claiming it was vice versa. Such audacity.

In general, NYT is hostile to Hindu interests and HInduism. Does no one recall the sorry piece on Ganesha festival or the motivated piece on Narendra Modi?

Make no mistake, this will only get worse unless things change in India..."

(here's a rebuttal to the aforementioned Ganesha article. The Modi article is covered in the 'Digestion' post on Onam earlier this month. The rebuttal to that article is available in this thread).

RMF Summary: Week of February 28-March 6, 2011

March 1

New video uploaded: Swami Dayananda Saraswati's address at Chennai book launch This is the link to Swami Dayananda Saraswati's 45 minute talk, which we have edited for YouTube into 2 parts totaling under 30 mins. His insights into the main issues examined by the book is remarkable. March 2 India's Think Tanks (422) second to US??!! I just googled Think Tanks India. and a TOI article (below) says India has the second largest number of think tanks in the world after the United States. March 2 Fw: [saja-disc] J-ETHICS/INDIA: Sunday Times on Paid News in Indian Media This link is relevant to Rajiv's comments on media persons seeking payment for news.  March 3 Breaking India Book Introduction at Madurai ConvenerMadurai Readers'Club  Flat A,GF,Anmol Bougainvillaea, 106-107 PT Rajan Road, Madurai 625014 March 4 How to read this book fast Rajiv Malhotra: The first reaction when someone gets the book [Breaking India] is about its size. It is 660 pages and that can overwhelm many. So here's advice on how to deal with it in modules. For a quick read in 2 hours, one should read chapter 1, then read the first few pages of each chapter which give an overview with the help of a flow diagram. The various boxes in the overview diagram are summarized in a para each, right at the beginning of the chapter. This way one can get through the whole book fast with a good idea on the various themes. Once you have done this, each chapter is pretty much stand alone and you can jump straight to the ones you like... March 6 Appendix C of the book: Parallel developments in Africa It was indeed a wake up call to read the analogy given with Africa in Appendix C of the book. If Joseph Conrad's stories on "the dark continent" weren't enough... March 6 True significance of 'Paul Harrison' award given to Binayak Sen I was amused when about 10 years ago, I came across the Dalitstan web-site. Some of the stuff on the web-site was so crude that I thought it was a joke. Now I..