The price of Family over People = Kanimozi in jail

The much awaited news has come. Kanimozi is behind the bars.  

Karunanidhi has reacted that his feelings are that of a father. The cause of the problem is that he has always seen himself as a father and as a family man in his role as the head of the State. His reaction reminds of some incidents from Tamil’s history. 

One is the story of Manu neethi Chozan.  When he came to know that his son had killed a calf by riding his chariot on it, he did the same thing to his son as a matter of justice. He ran his chariot over his son and killed him as a duty bound king who has to deliver justice to his subjects including the 4 legged animals. He did not show  his personal feelings as a father when his son was found to have committed a wrong. That king was said to have delivered that judgment to his son in Thiruvarur where Karunanidhi won the elections about a week ago. 

Karunanidhi is not a Manu neethi chozan – while in power or without power, because the only neethi he has followed is nenjukku neethi for the sake of his kith and kin. Such a person has poisoned the minds of Tamils for nearly half a century. It is time that people / his supporters realize the inner nature of Karunanidhi and leave him. 

We can expect the common man to dump him, but we can not expect the Congress party to do that. They are doomed to sink along with Karunanidhi. So be it. 

Another incident is that of Velir king Aay Andiran. 

The poet praises him that he is not an ‘aravilai vaNigan’ (அறவிலை வணிகன்). 

It means that he will not bargain on dharma, that is, he will not do a thing thinking that it will get him good returns or punya. He used to do things just for the sake of doing them as king and not expecting personal gains for him. Such kings had ruled the Tamil lands, where a Karunanidhi did not even spare the language of Tamil. Even his contribution to the growth of Tamil was aimed with a gain for himself.

Yet another incident is that of an explanation on how the Tamil kings divided their time between Dharma, artha and kaama (அறம், பொருள், இன்பம்). 

They spent their first part of their day on dharma, meeting the people who came to them  for help etc., the 2^nd part of the day was spent of State affairs and on raising the income for the country. The 3^rd part of their day was spent on personal life. Therefore, says the poet, they can go to the king during the time  he will be doing dharma so that they do not have to wait to get an audience with him.  

Here we had Karunanidhi dividing his time between two wives, dividing his meals between two homes with the result the officials  will know where to go at what part of the day!! Such was the disgusting routine of this person who ruled Tamils for a quarter century. 

Karunanidhi is an anathema for anything that stands for Tamil’s name and fame. 

In the similar vein of what he said, I feel like telling that my feelings are that of a Tamil who has some idea about how our ancestors have had a fine time under the rulership of ancient Tamil kings but cheated by this man who exploited anything and everything of Tamil, Tamil people and their pride.

Tamil history has got a ruler -for the first time perhaps –who was not at all qualified to rule the Tamil people. Let him continue his journey as a father first and last. Before closing, I cannot help thinking that as a father also he cheated his daughter. He disowned her when someone at the time of her birth raised the question whether he was her father. 

But now he has returned to her.

Daddy returns!

Imported voting machines can’t be trusted: CEC

Forward from Dr S.Kalyanaraman.

This is the most effective admission by CEC that Indian EVMs also cannot be trusted because the microprocessors of EVM Control units are manufactured outside India (USA and Japan) and the programs embedded in these microprocessors are also processed outside India. Such programs cannot be read even by ECI, ECIL or BEL experts or ECI expert committees. 

So, the solution, Mr. Quraishi, is to ban the use of Indian EVMs (until India gains indigenous competence to make microprocessors and burn-in embedded programs in such microprocessors) and for SC to declare use of Indian EVMs unconstitutional. 

It is good at times to look into the mole in one's own eye.

kalyanaraman

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 http://www.financialexpress.com/news/imported-voting-machines-cant-be-trusted-cec/788552/#

Imported voting machines can't be trusted: CEC

by
Nistula Hebbar
Posted online: 2011-05-11 01:38:34+05:30

New YorkAfter the revolution in Tahrir Square, Egyptian authorities consulted India's Election Commission for help in conducting parliamentary polls in the country, only to get cautious advice from chief election commissioner (CEC) SY Quraishi. He asked his Egyptian counterpart to not import electronic voting machines (EVMs) from anywhere and get these manufactured domestically. Imported machines, however faultless they are, could be deemed suspect, he warned.

"The validity of any election lies in the fairness of the process, if the machine is imported from somewhere, there is always a possibility that the election will be questioned as being rigged through the machines," he said, in an interview to FE. The recent campaign against the use of EVMs in Indian elections, Quraishi said, hinges on the chip, "which is manufactured outside the country and is therefore supposed to be suspect".

"I was very clear that our process was very fair, but the indigenisation of manufacturing would make their elections invulnerable to such charges. I told anti-EVM campaigners as well, set up units which manufacture the chip in India, and we'll talk," he added.

While the Egyptians may take a call on whether or not to adhere to Quraishi's advice, the CEC, at the end of a long season of conducting assembly polls in four states and one Union territory, said that the road to electoral reforms in India itself is a long and bumpy road. "Its been 18 years and counting," he said.

"The last set of meetings that we had on electoral reforms, where everything from paid news to criminality in politics and the role of money power was discussed, was in October. After that, we are still waiting for the political class to make up its mind on which way they want to go," he said.

Among the suggestions made by the CEC was the exclusion of those accused of heinous crimes from standing for elections as a way to check criminality in politics as well as transparency about political donors, and cheque payments for electoral expenses in order to curb the use of black money in elections.

As the last phase of the drawn-out West Bengal polls ends, Quraishi says that the peaceful elections in all four states and one Union territory has justified is often criticised timetable. "Although I don't know why people criticised us, the only people who have been punished by the schedule is the staff of the Election Commission," he said.

The new Secretariat and the tax payer’s money.

Barely within a day of Jayalalithaa assuming office, the detractors have started finding fault with her decision to discard the new Secretariat.

This decision of hers is not new or sudden.

She has been telling that all along and also mentioned it in her election manifesto.

If people had voted for her, it means that they have known her stance and accepted it. That is why the authorities in the government had started readying the St George’s on their own volition even as  the election trends were coming to be known.

Most of the money spent by the government is tax-payer’s money.

The detractors must have told this to Karunanidhi when he started the work.

That building was initially planned for 200 crores, but who stretched it to a whooping 1200 crores?

Where was Veeramani, Vaiko and others at that time when Karunanidhi was making it as though a Mukesh Ambani is building his house by his own funds?

Why so much extravaganza and costly fittings for a place that is going to discuss how to provide the next meals to the common man by the representatives of the common man?

The horrific thing is that the structure was gold plated for decoration while millions of women in Tamilnadu can not even think of minimum gold ornaments around their neck and hands. 

Think of the first order signed by Jayalaithaa.

It was to provide 4 grams of gold to the poor girls at the time of marriage.

Gold has such usage in all the families in our State whereas Karunanidhi has no second thought on pouring people’s money for gold plating of the structure.

Can any ordinary woman in Tamilnadu relish the sight of that golden decoration which otherwise could have gone to them in some forms of utility?

Karunanidhi may compare this gold plating with the gold plating done on temple gopurams, but such works are done with devotee’s contribution.

Here the money spent on the Secretariat with all the features of a 5-star hotel could have become more meaningful if spent on the needs of the people.

With that enormous money – which now stands at 1200 crores,

power generation could have been hiked and

many industries could have been saved in the last 2 years of Karunanidhi’s rule.

But Karunanidhi went about his way with the sole aim of wishing to see that he gets a name through that. 

Karunanidhi 'supervises' gold plating work:-

http://tiptik.in/play-hi/hwNSnqFfZfk.html

The detractors of Jayalalithaa can not think all these.

They have only one agenda – oppose Jayalalithaa blindly and support Karunanidhi for whatever he does.

The problem with the structure is that Karunanidhi did not seek a consensus on building the new Secretariat.  

Public memory is not short and we know how Karunanidhi’s thirst for name and fame made him thwart the efforts by Jayalalithaa in her previous tenure to build a new Secretariat building.

All her earlier attempts to expand the Secretariat at St Georges were thwarted by the DMK with the help of its ministers at the Centre, solely to deny her a name in history. After coming to power, DMK renamed many structures constructed by Jayalalithaa but our detractors and the media turned a Nelson’s eye to them.

One example where the common man is forced to shell out money due to Karunanidhi’s  thirst fro name is the Koyembedu bus stand (CMBT) originally  inaugurated by Jayalalithaa.

It is the biggest one in Asia.

After coming to power, Karunanidhi engraved his name on it by shifting its entrance to another part of the bus stand.

Because of this, the people have to go half a kilometer extra,

for which the autowallahs coolly charge extra money 20 rupees plus.

Where are Veeramani, Vaiko and others?

Why is the common man made to pay extra money to enter the bus stand through the gate that was shifted just to show Karunanidhi’s name engraved there?

Thousands of people are going to CMBT carrying their luggage in the autos.

Just calculate how much money has been taken out from common man in all these years for an act done to satisfy Karunanidhi’s ego.

Veeramani or Vaiko do not bother about this loss to common man.

That is why they are where they are now!

Not only that, Karunanidhi’ government turned the Koyembedu bus stand into a dump yard.

The bus stand that is the biggest one in Asia was treated callously by Karunanidhi government by dumping the garbage.

No magazine, no reporter, no politician raised a whimper about it.

Probably they do not know about it.

After all the bus stand is meant for common man.

How could we expect these detractors to have gone there in their lifetime to board the buses?

These people would not consider such a treatment to the vital facility of the common man as wastage of public money,

but would jump up to find fault for not using the new Secretariat.

Their grouse is that the Secretariat was built with tax-payer’s money.

Is it right to waste it by not using it?

I agree with them.

It is not right to waste tax payer’s money.

That money can be realized manifold by selling it or leasing it.

One suggestion is that all government offices can be shifted there.

On my part I would say sell it through auction.

Until now 1200 crores have been spent.

More money is needed to finish it, which will take 6 more months for completion.

If Karunanidhi loves it very much, let him buy it.

He is not like Lord Rama who left everything and went to the forest and ‘dared’ to build a bridge across the sea without proper educational qualification.

But Karunanidhi is a different person.

He has all the money to buy the State.

And he was more qualified than the German experts and

built the structure by himself brick by brick.

He has all the money to buy it also.

If he does not, we have umpteen number of billionaires to buy it.

It could fetch nothing less than 10,000 crores if auctioned.

That is public money.

Let that money be used for power projects or other projects which will directly reach the people.

I want public opinion to be built on these lines so that any more spending on that building must be stopped and money is made from the building to benefit the common man directly.

I have another reason to say this.

Karunanidhi has a proven record of a Bhasmasura. 

He demolished the DMK.

He poured enormous money on the building only to become unusable for the purpose he envisaged.

He could not sit there as Chief Minister.

He could not make his son sit there as Chief Minister.

For such a huge expenditure of public money,

no Vaastu or muhurtha principle was followed to ensure its success.

His choice of inauguration time of the New Secretariat shows that

any assembly session  (the purpose for which it is built) can not go smoothly and

there would be always disputes.

For a building that is meant for devising ways and means for the welfare of the people, this natal chart of the building shows unsatisfactory trends.

Just look at the inauguration muhurtha of the complex.

March 13, 2010,

5-00PM

The lagna is Leo hemmed between malefics (papa karthari).

The lagna lord is in 8^th in the bhava chart.

The yoga karaka Mars is in debility in Rasi, bhava and the Shodasamsa (D-16)

(Note: Even if a planet is in debility in rasi, its position in Navamsa can nullify the debility if it is exalted or in a friendly sign in Navamsa. But that is not all. We have to see the Shodasamsa (D-16) also. The Shodasamsa position finally determines the way the debilitated planet of the rasi will behave. The debilitated Mars continues to be in debility in Shodasamsa.)

Similarly the 7^th lord, Saturn which was in retrogression in the 2^nd at the time of inauguration, has gone into debility in the 4^th house in the Shodasamsa.

The Building can not have smooth functioning between the opposite parties.

For mundane purposes, the 11^th house and its lord stand for Parliament and Assembly or the seat of people’s representation. The 11^th house is Gemini with Ketu occupying it and Saturn casting its 10^th aspect on it. The 11^th lord Mercury is combust. It is in the 8^th in debility in the bhava chart and in the 12^th along with karaka for government (Sun) in the 12^th in the Navamsa. It is aspected by debilitated Mars and Saturn in D-16.

The structure can not become the seat of Assembly

The dasa running right from inception also happens to be that of debilitated Mars.

In the bhava chart, Mercury, the 2^nd and 11^th lord debilitates but is redeemed by the 10^th lord Venus. Venus as lord of 3^rd and 10^th is in exaltation in the 8^th , but joins Rahu in the 5^th in Navamsa aspected by bhaadak Mars (For the fixed lagna of Leo, the 9^th lord mars is the Bhaadak) and joins the debilitated Mars in the 7^th in Shodasamsa.

The star lords of moon and the current dasa are debilitated in Shodasamsa. The sub cuspal lords of the 1^st, 9^th and 10^th houses also are in debility or weak in D-16. Though the 3^rd lord has exalted in the 8^th, it is in the asterism of Saturn which is in the 6^th from moon in Navamsa aspected by the baadak lord Mars and is in debility in D-16. No session done in this structure can be smooth or beneficial for the public.

From moon, the 4^th lord Venus is exalted in the 2^nd and from lagna the Venus as 10^th lord is exalted in the 8^th. In all probability, the structure can bring money. The ideal solution is to stop spending more on it for its completion and instead raise money by selling it. Or raise money by renting it. 

Introducing new blog as an alternative.

Regular readers are aware that blogspot goes off suddenly, creating worries whether such disappearances are deliberately done. So as a safety measure, an alternative blog has been created in wordpress.com under the caption, "Jayasreesaranathan's Blog" (http://jayasreesaranathan.wordpress.com/)
My name is there in the title to facilitate easy remembrance of the blog's name and for easy search. Not a case of self indulgence.

I will be posting simultaneously the same articles in this blogspot and in the wordpress. The link to this blog is given in the sidebar.

Public Consultation on Jan Lokpal Bill is open for the general public..

Public Consultation on Jan Lokpal Bill is open for the general public:-
http://www.lokpalbillconsultation.org/
 

The drafting of the Jan Lokpal bill, which is to be finalized by June 30th, 2011, is underway. You can play your part in this historic moment by giving your invaluable comments/suggestions about the different provisions in the draft of the Jan Lokpal bill which will make it the effective, accountable and independent anti-corruption body that India needs right now. Otherwise, it will remain a law which exists only on paper and has no impact on the ground. Please provide your comments as detailed below:

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Blogger became inaccessible again.

Blogger became inaccessible today and this time we could not even log into blogger. The tech-team working on issues related to internet was informed of this and they have posted their opinion on the current status. It seems there is something fishy about the way free speech through blogging community is being checked. I am starting another blog in wordpress and will be posting the link to it. I will be posting the same material in both. I am circulating this mail to my contacts in press and others. We wish that the current establishment at Delhi is not venturing into stuffs that strangulate freedom of speech.

Given below is the observation by the tech-team on the current development which however was solved  as it is seen that I am able to post this mail.

Jayasree

https://tljind.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/blogger-domain-inaccessible-again/

Blogger Domain Inaccessible Again

Blogspot sub domain was recently blocked in India for analysing the central monitoring system of India. Although the central monitoring system of India needs parliamentary oversight, yet India has been deliberately ignoring this aspect.

Jayasree Saranathan has reported that Blogger is not accessible once again. However, the sub domain Blogspot is still accessible but the account holder cannot log in. Even the Blogger status is not mentioning about any scheduled maintenance or other reason for this outage. However, the Help Forum of Google is carrying a note of scheduled maintenance. Google or Blogger is not going to answer to the cause of this outage as it did last time or it would give an excuse of scheduled maintenance once more.

Google has been censoring critical web posts regarding Aadhar project of India and unique identification authority of India (UIDAI) for the past two or more years. Further, it has also temporarily filtered some of our posts questioning the practice of World Bank to grant unaccountable loans to countries like India.

Blogger/Blogspot is one of the most popular Blogging platforms and this may cause trouble as well. To avoid any technical difficulties, website blocking by government, Internet censorship exercise, etc, a Blogger must also open a mirror site on a different platform like WordPress. This way you can keep on sharing your valuable views with the community in an uninterrupted manner.

We would come up with more detailed analysis subsequently, if required. Meanwhile kindly protest against the illegal and unconstitutional websites blocking powers of Indian government and the e-police state that India has become.


 Updated on 15-05-2011
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/blogger-is-back.html

Blogger is back

5/13/2011 10:33:00 AM

(Cross-posted from the Blogger Buzz blog)

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The Voter had the last laugh in Tamilnadu!

The verdict in Tamilnadu is anything but quite satisfactory for the majority number of voters spread across the state. I for one was happy on another count also - that my astrological prediction on Karunanidhi's fall did materialise. This is perhaps one prediction that I was anxious that it must materialise, mainly because the fall of MK means a lot from many angles.

First of all it reaffirmed the age old dictum that Dharma will assert itself later than never. It also showed that our people are not so mean as to be lured to vote for cash.  "சோற்றாலடித்த பிண்டம்" is MK's popular dialogue whenever people had voted him out. Now people have shown that they are not "நோட்டால் அடித்த பிண்டம்" by defying the nasty bribe culture of MK and his party.

Every news channel is showing some discussion on what had gone wrong with the DMK and the pollsters. What they have missed is why the voters did not reveal their mind in the exit poll. Headlines Today telecast their Exit poll on 28^th April itself violating the rule of the EC and declared that the dalits had voted for the DMK combine. That was the clue. That they didn't vote en masse for the DMK means that they feared for their life if they revealed the truth.

The fear factor and insecurity was there in different sections of the people for different reasons. The reprisal by the local DMK thugs is a very real factor that affected common man on the road – whatever be his job. From a local flower vendor who earns a few hundred rupees to an affluent trader in a city, there had been an element of intimidation felt by the people. Everyone was suffocating for some reason by the high handedness of the DMK men. I think probably the only job these thugs did not touch was garbage clearing! Otherwise the DMK men were omnipresent in every field and in every nook and corner of the State.

What the DMK had been gloating over as 'organizational strength' is in fact a well knit mafia of DMK thugs everywhere in the State. Those sitting in the comforts of home and office may not be aware of it. But the vast majority of common man has had some experience with the local DMK thugs.  The people who had been given cash for votes know very well that they would be 'punished' by the DMK thugs if they revealed to whom they voted. The dalits had been the most exploited ones by MK yet they have learnt better survival instincts. The way they have fooled the pollsters is really ingenious. I salute them for resisting the temptation and also for playing cool and clever. Atleast from now onwards let no one take them for granted, let no one exploit them by whatever means.

Coming to the reason for the state-wide mood against the DMK, though there are several factors, the foremost factor in my opinion is that the people had been irked by the way the dignity and name of Tamils was tarnished by A.Raja, MK and his men at the national level, The people of Tamilnadu do not approve of the ways of DMK that looted nation's money. They also saw for sure that the Congress would not take action seriously against the DMK.  It was left to the voter to give the verdict on the national shame that the DMK heaped on Tamils as such. And this is the punishment they had given to the DMK.

At the end of the day, I am filled with pride about my fellow Tamils and the power of democracy. Our thanks go to the Election Commission for the way they induced confidence in the voters to vote according to their conscience, Mr J. Gopi Krishnan who exposed the 2G scam, Dr Swamy who took it to the courts and Ms Jayalalithaa who chipped in at the right time paving way for the removal for A.Raja from the Ministry.

We were waiting for this momentous day today which Cho Ramaswamy expected with a final dialogue of 'AAAA.. Raajaaaa' by Karunanidhi.

There is a slight change in that.

Karuna will be wailing aaaa.. Raajaaththiiii as Kanimozhi is going to be the first among others to face the axe for his misdeeds.

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Related posts:-

 My assessment on poll outcome

Heavy polling in TN – what does it convey?

Written in August 2010

Jayalalithaa or Karunanidhi – for whom Rajinikanth told the story in the Endhiran audio release?

Written October 2010.

Don't underestimate Jayalalithaa!

 

Posted before the polling day

Will Karunanidhi come back? (astrological analysis)

 

Jayalaithaa leads in Exit poll - (Rediff news)

http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-tn-assembly-exit-poll/20110510.htm

  Rediff.com  »  News » Exit poll: DMK routed, Left loses Kerala, Bengal

     

As the final phase of polling concluded in West Bengal on Tuesday, 
all eyes are now on May 13 when the fate of five chief ministers 
and their opponents are decided.

Exit polls, conducted by CVB News-C-Voter, suggest that Tamil Nadu 
is set to have a new chief minister in the form of 
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief J Jayalalithaa.

The polls indicate that the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 
and its allies will lose a mammoth six per cent of its vote share 
(as compared to the last assembly election) while the AIADMK 
and its allies stands stands to gain over 
four per cent of the vote share this year.

 Rediff.com  »  News » Exit poll: DMK routed, Left loses Kerala, Bengal

Did corruption cases rock DMK chances?

Last updated on: May 10, 2011 17:34 IST

 

















Along with its allies, 
the AIADMK tally in the 234-member assembly 
is expected to be between 168 to 176 seats.

The DMK and its allies are expected to garner 
between 54-62 seats.

Surely, the corruption scandals that the DMK party is 
facing took its toll on the party's prospects in the election.

Rediff.com  »  News » Exit poll: DMK routed, Left loses Kerala, Bengal

EVM tampering aided by mobile phones??

At today's meeting, the EC, Mr Praveen Kumar has said that cell phones will be allowed to be used by the poll observers and others in the counting centres. I wonder whether it is a right decision. I am even tempted to ask if there is any foul play behind that decision. The mobile phones were not allowed at the time of voting. Why do they allow it at the time of counting? We often come across information on how mobile phones can be used to unlock the cars and such other electronically controlled items. How can we check if some one uses such technology for select EVMs to favour of select candidates?

The credibility of using the EVMs is highly suspect in our country. With the Congress in the Centre, we do  not believe that they would not indulge in any manipulation of EVMs. There is strong suspicion among the public that EVMs were manipulated in the last Lok Sabha elections. The change of election results of P.Chidambaram is still fresh in our memory. The various ways that they could have manipulated the EVMs in select constituencies has been widely publicized in the net.
Read this;- EVM hackers can steal ballots


Today there is every scope to believe that the Congress in the Centre is up with an 'action plan' to win the election in TN.
The reasons are circumstantial at present.

(1) Tamilnadu is a crucial State because of 2G Scam, If Karuna gets implicated, it means days are not far off for Sonia to get implicated.Everyone knows that it is for this reason the Congress is sticking to Karuna.So somehow their alliance has to win.

(2) Karuna did his best by distributing money to the voters to manipulate them to vote for the DMK.  The Congress is tech-savvy that it can use technology to tamper EVMs to help its candidates to win.

(3) Everyone knows that Congress will get a drubbing in this poll. It is for telling this openly in public, S,Ve. Sekar was suspended. But wonder of wonders, the Headlines Today came out with a post poll prediction that the combine will win. It was telecast on 2 days but no action was taken against that TV for violating the EC's code. It looks obvious that the telecast was made at the instructions of the Centre and the EC was to remain as a mute spectator. Why should they have telecast it? They wanted to create an image that the Congress combine is going to win in TN. When the results come out on the same lines, through EVM tampering, no one would blame the EVMs, as they would be thinking that it is how the people had voted. Like me, thousands of people  would have worked out the calculations but still we are not able to get the numbers for them. The numbers can come only if Congress makes a decent mark of 30 to 40 seats. The ground reality is that there is absolutely no scope for that.

(4) This gives rise to the suspicion whether the Congress is planning to manipulate its numbers through EVM tampering. If the election results give more seats to the Congress, then there can be no doubt that they have 'played' with technology.

Under these circumstances, I strongly believe that allowing mobile phones in the close vicinity of EVM machines, is highly suspect. I wish the political parties and others connected with the process of elections object to the use of them near the EVMs.

The Election Commission did a commendable job in curbing movement of money for so many days, but at the last minute they lost control of the situation. As a result 1000s of crores of  money flowed just before the elections,. Similarly, with all the toughness in controlling malpractices, we seem to be heading for a time at the crucial hour when EVM tampering can change the entire  result. The one whose victory is suspect by EVM manipulation is now at the helm at the Home Ministry. Can we trust him that he will not do a repeat of it in 2 dozen seats where the Congress is contesting?

Being the daughter of Karunanidhi certainly helps!

The developments in the Patiala Court today on the bail application of Kanimozhi shattered the hopes of millions of people, particularly those residing in Tamilnadu that Justice will be done in the 2G Spectrum case. It is said that it is not enough that Justice is done, but it is necessary that Justice must be seen to be done. The postponement of the order on Kanimozhi's bail application to the 14th of May raises the worry whether Justice can be seen to be done in the 2G case. For, the date of judgment on the bail application falling just after the date of election- results in TN raises questions in the minds of ordinary folks like me whether Judiciary in this case is insulated against the tricks of those in power. Any other date would not have raised this doubt. But this date certainly creates doubts in the minds of people. Justice O.P. Saini must have taken this (declaration of election results in TN) into consideration and avoided a situation that raises questions on the credibility of the Justice System.

It is everyone's knowledge that the 2G case is one where those in power in the Centre and in Tamilnadu have a huge stake and have worked over the board to bury it somehow. It is because of this, the judges who initially heard this case made every conceivable method to discourage any delay or derailment of this case and made it known that no power on earth can play with the fair trail of this case. Their pronouncements created hope in the minds of the people that we started to have faith in the Highest Court. When the CBI issued the charge sheet on Kanimozhi after the elections were over, we thought that this is after all the way the CBI is known to work, but pinned our hopes on the Judiciary that it would not create any semblance of lack of Justice being done. But by reserving the order on the bail application to the 14^th, an impression has been created that something is happening behind the screen. 

It is said that Justice delayed is Justice denied. In this case, the delay in pronouncing the order in the bail applications might lead to denial of Justice to the people. The CBI was perceived to have committed one such delay. If only the CBI had included Kanimozhi's name in the first charge sheet, the voter reaction would have been something but by delaying to add her name, it actually amounted to cheating the people from knowing the truth about her and the issues around the charge. A similar scenario is likely to unfold by not pronouncing judgment immediately on the bail application. The date of the pronouncement raises avoidable questions.

I wish this aberration is corrected and the Judge reconsiders his decision on the date of passing the order. Let not an impression be created that being the daughter of Karunanidhi really helps – not only for her own self but also for her party in helping to keep in tact the alliance partners.

Season of birth has an impact on man.

The following article published in Livescience makes curious reading as it says that the season of the year in which you are born does have a bearing on your health and longevity and some other factors. This is already stated in astrology according to which even the ayana, the month, the thithi and the star of the day have an influence on a person in addition to the season of birth. A combined reading gives a picture of the nature of the person and the vulnerabilities. Some of the age old customs related to baby birth and tending the baby in the formative months are proved right when we go through this article.

For example, avoidance of intercourse in the month of Adi is a custom in Hindu society. This averts the birth of the baby in the month of Chiththirai (April- May). This article says that those born in April have a high risk of getting – of all the diseases, the most dreaded Leukemia!

The article also says the differences noted in summer and winter months. As per astrology, birth in certain seasons cause proneness to certain imbalances in dhatu. The birth in the four months of varsha and sharad ruthu are prone to get cold related diseases (aavani – purattaasi) and gastric troubles (Aippasi – Kaarthigai).

The other issues are related to temperament, habits and characteristics which are unique for each of the seasons. Similarly the birth in a particular ayana also has an impact on temperament and heath related issues. The study seems to concur on that also.

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http://www.livescience.com/13958-birth-month-health-effects.html

 

Season of Birth May Affect the Rest of Your Life

by

 

Jennifer Welsh,

 

LiveScience Staff Writer

Date: 01 May 2011

Time: 04:25 PM ET

 

The season in which you are born may affect everything from your eyesight to your eating habits and overall health later in life, according to a blossoming field of research. The latest study shows that spring babies are more likely to suffer from anorexia nervosa as adults.

 

"We found an excess of anorexia births in the spring months compared to the general population," said study researcher Lahiru Handunnetthi, of the Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics. "The idea is that there is some sort of risk factor that varies seasonally with anorexia."

 

The researchers found that eight out of every 100 people born between March and June had anorexia compared with 7 percent of those without anorexia. This is a 15 percent increase in risk for those born during these spring months.

 

Influential environments

Previous studies have found similar links between spring births and various disorders, including schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis and even Type 1 diabetes. It's possible these diseases are linked to some environmental influence during gestation or the first few months of life, though researchers aren't sure what that could be.

The leading candidates including vitamin D levels, infections that come and go seasonally, changes in nutrition, and even possibly weather fluctuations, Handunnetthi told LiveScience.

 

These changing environmental factors seem to influence a wide array of conditions:

• A study from 2003 published in the Journal of Nutrition showed that African-American babies born in the summer and fall were smaller than those born at other times. Also, babies of African-American and Puerto Rican decent gained less weight in their first four months if they were born in the fall.
• Babies born in the fall have a 9.5 percent risk of having food allergies, up from 5 percent for babies born in June and July. Those babies born in November or December were also three times more likely to suffer from eczema and wheezing. That study was published in 2010 in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
• Moderate and severe nearsightedness, or the inability to see well at long distances, is highest for babies born in the summer months, suggests research published in April 2008 in the journal Ophthalmology.
• Birth month might even affect your biological clock, a mouse study published in 2010 in the journal Nature Neuroscience showed. Mice born in the winter were less able to adapt to a summer light cycle, which could be related to the increased risk of mental health disorders in humans born in the winter, the researchers speculated.
• Leukemia has also been linked to being born in the spring, with a peak in April.

 

Common causes?

Birth month has even been linked to longevity, which could be because of these other adverse health effects. Studies in Austria and Denmark have found that those born in the fall live longer than people born in the spring.

 

"When we look at diseases we need to identify the risk factor that led to them," Handunnetthi said. "In general, risk factors could be environmental or genetic. Genetic risk factors you are born with and can't really change. If you identify environmental factors you can mediate them to carry out prevention studies."

 

These environmental causes are still unclear, though some of these birth-month effects may be related. "Perhaps a risk factor is playing a part that is common to all these conditions but we don't know that yet," Handunnetthi said.

 

Why no action against the DMK for cash -for -votes?

Everyone from the CEC to the common man agrees that money was given in the TN elections to bribe the voters to vote for the DMK. On the very day after the polls were over, Mr Qureshi told in a Television interview that Tamilnadu was a difficult State in conducting the polls. Every one knows what he meant by that. While the estimates on the money varied, here is a write up by Mr KN Bhat, the Supreme Court Lawyer that money to the tune of 5000 crores to 10,000 crores was distributed to the voters. The writer wonders why no action was taken to nullify this. He quotes precedence to show how this could have been avoided. Finally he wonders whether 'coalition ' compulsions' discouraged Mr Qureshi from taking firm action to curb money power.

 

 

I am happy to read this write up as this is probably the only write up that has come up making a bold statement questioning the role of the governments in power in intimidating the voters with cash to vote for them.

With so many proofs for cash for votes, why is that no one challenged the DMK – Congress in the courts?

Should not the parties be banned from election in a constituency if found bribing voters with cash? 

If the DMK wins in this election - which everyone knows can happen only if the cash has worked- does it not mean a defeat for democracy?

Why no court is taking cognizance of this serious issue and initiate action immediately?

 

 

The DMK can not claim innocence that it did not bribe the voters. The DMK Chief has been filing cases almost everyday against someone for allegedly tarnishing the image of the DMK in the run up to the polls. But the real blow to its image is in the accusation of bribing voters with cash which everyone from the EC to the common man has said and keep saying. The DMK's political rivals have said that in the public so many times. Why is Karunanidhi not filing defamation cases against them for this charge on cash for votes? 

 

 

The kind of intimidation potential that the DMK wields is evident from the way that no one is able to gauge to which party the people have voted.

Information from an intelligence wing of a party says that the people are not saying to whom they have voted.

The same voter tells 3 different answers, each time he is approached by different people asking him to whom he had voted.

People do not want to say for fear of reprisal by the DMK if that party comes to know that they had not voted for the money given.

This is not strange as we saw even Rajinikanth fumbling before Karunanidhi.

Though he was caught on camera showing to whom he voted, he was forced to 'give an explanation' for that to Karunanidhi.

When Rajinikanth himself can not say openly without fear, how can the poor man who had been bribed be expected to say to whom he had voted?

It is catch 22 situation for these voters. If the DMK loses, they will face the wrath of the party goons. If the DMK wins, all the people will face another round of mis-governance. It is better that some concrete action is taken against the DMK sooner.

 

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http://www.deccanchronicle.com/editorial/dc-comment/sleepless-booth-550

Sleepless at the booth

By

K.N. Bhat

( K.N. Bhat is a senior advocate in the Supreme Court of India and former additional solicitor-general of India. He can be contacted at knbhat1@gmail.com )

"Seventeen-hundred complaints by the Election Commission (EC) — estimated Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000 crores of unaccounted money distributed among voters in addition to freebies like laptops and colour television." This is the summary of electioneering 2011 in Tamil Nadu. The money and the TV sets were all distributed after the election process commenced and before the voting took place. Do our laws tolerate this situation?

Freedom to choose a candidate or party is at the heart of elections. In the words of Sir Winston Churchill, "At the bottom of all tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into a little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper — no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point". Now no paper and pencil are needed in India — only the pressing of a button of the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) is involved. But does the voter have the freedom to choose a button?

World over in every country where elections are part of the political process there are laws to ensure that a voter's freedom to mark that little piece of paper is not affected by external influences like threats or inducements. In India, the Representation of the People's Act, 1951, and the rules thereunder, govern the conduct of elections to the Legislatures of the states and the Centre. This law also provides for challenging the validity of an election before a designated court if the victory was allegedly through violation of the laws.

One of the grounds for questioning an election is that the returned candidate is guilty of "corrupt practice". Section 123 catalogues a long list of "corrupt practices". On proof of commission of any of them, an election shall not only be set aside but the elected candidate can be debarred from contesting any election for a period of up to six years from the date of the verdict of the court. The law is awesome.

The first among the list of corrupt practices in Section 123 is "bribery". The expression is defined in the widest possible terms to include any gift, offer or promise by a candidate or his/her agent of any gratification, with the object of inducing a person to stand or not to stand as, or (to withdraw or not to withdraw) from being a candidate at an election, or an elector to vote or refrain from voting at an election. The provision covers much more — suffice to say that offering money to voters or distributing gifts among them is plain bribery, which is the first in the list of corrupt practices that are fatal to the election.

Additionally, the Indian Penal Code provides for a separate chapter of offences — chapter IX-A Ss 171 A to F — relating to elections. These provisions make both giving and accepting of bribe in connection with an election an offence punishable with imprisonment for a term that may extend to one year or fine or both. If the bribery is merely of offering food and drink, the offence is "treating" and the punishment can only be fine.

Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Qureshi recently confessed publicly that he and his commission had sleepless nights on account of the grotesque situation in Tamil Nadu; may be on account of this the commission was sleeping through the day, facilitating robbery of electoral values. During their nightly insomnia they could have usefully refreshed their acquaintance with the exposition of Article 324 of the Constitution in Mohinder Singh Gill's case in 1978 (M.S. Gill was a candidate from Ferozepure parliamentary constituency) by Justice Krishna Iyer of Supreme Court in the following immortal words: "Article 324, in our view, operates in areas left unoccupied by legislation and the words 'superintendence, direction and control', as well as 'conduct of all elections', are the broadest terms. Myriad maybes, too mystic to be precisely presaged, may call for prompt action to reach the goal of free and fair election. It has been argued that this will create a constitutional despot beyond the pale of accountability; a Frankenstein's monster who may manipulate the system into elected despotism — instances of such phenomena are the tears of history. To that the retort may be that the judicial branch, at the appropriate stage, can call the bluff, quash the action and bring order into the process..."

Gill's case arose out of an order of the Election Commission cancelling a parliamentary election because of large-scale violence and destruction of ballot papers during counting. This decision was upheld in the name of "free and fair election" — a phrase not used in the Constitution nor in the laws. This declared law — not enacted one — has grown like a banyan tree protecting areas that were not in view. The Model Code of Conduct that pervades the entire gamut of elections was born out of the power and duty to ensure free and fair elections. Under this the media has been successfully prevented from indulging in publishing exit polls or pre-poll predictions — a restriction on the fundamental right of expression. The EC is empowered to transfer or even suspend any civil servant of any rank during the election process. The powers of the EC are amazingly limitless and expanding to meet the "myriad maybes" and "to reach the goal of free and fair election".

In Tamil Nadu, when political parties were openly indulging in massive bribery, the EC could have selectively cancelled the polls and ordered re-poll after a few days when the effect of the bribe would have diminished. Repeat the course if the evil recurs. With EVMs in operation — unlike during the ballot paper era — postponing elections is easy. In the name of free and fair elections, T.N. Seshan had cancelled or postponed elections many times over, with the result that in 1995, the Bihar elections stretched from January to April. Mr Seshan was successful in upsetting the electioneering budget of Lalu Prasad Yadav. James Lyngdoh refused to conduct elections in Gujarat on the due date in 2002 to neutralise Narendra Modi's design to hide the odium of riots behind electoral success. And his order prevailed.

Unfortunately for Mr Qureshi — unlike in the Bihar or Gujarat of the past — in Tamil Nadu "coalition compulsion" was in play; any interruption would not be amusing to those who matter. He should look at his predecessor M.S. Gill and learn.

 

 

 

 

Osama's death - victory of Jupiter over Mars.

Significant events of the world are a reflection of  the celestial display of planets. Osama's death is indeed one such event when rare display of planetary war was witnessed in the sky. When planets are in close conjunction they are being watched for who is ahead of whom.The planet that lies within 1 degree ahead of the other is usaully said to have won the war. In mundane afairs having a bearing on large number of people over large areas, this planetary war attains importance. The planet which wins the war decides the nature of events.

Here there is a problem of interpretation of which planet to be considered as having won. When a faster planet is coming close to a slower planet and lies within 1 degree of the slower planet, would we consider that the slower planet had won. Or when the faster planet crosses the slower planet, would that be considered as victory for the faster planet, as it will be within 1 degree of the other after crossing it. Such an event was witnessed between Mars and Jupiter in the last few days. On the 2nd of May, Mars was behind Jupiter within 1 degree. On May 3rd, it crosses Jupiter and Jupiter is behind Mars.

From the death of Osama, we come to know for sure that Mars was defeated by Jupiter on 2nd May in the planetray war.  This exactly tallied with Varahamihira's dictum (Brihad samhita - 17- 13) that when Mars suffers defeat in conjunction with Jupiter, the Bahlikas, travelers and persons who live by fire will suffer. The Bahlikas are the Valhlikas which is the name for Arabs in olden texts such as Mahabharatha.

Usually when Mars is in a conjunction, it is only deemed to have won the planetary war when it crosses. In that way, I was expecting some defeat to Madhya desa and princes - which is what a victory for Mars over Jupiter means and expected a fall for the corrupt people of  our country on 3rd May. But Jupiter had its say in the conjunction and won the war over Mars that was reflected in the elimination of the dreaded person from the Bahlika region who caused havoc through the power of arms.

This planetary victory can be assessed by the other clauses of planetary war. The most important of them is that the planet which is in the south will be deemed to have lost before it crosses the planet in the North. Jupiter is in the northern declination and is in its own house. Mars, a warrior planet is also moving close to Jupiter in parallel declination when it crossed. The other clauses state that if the planet in front is brighter than the other, only the brighter one will be deemed to have won. Jupiter won due to its brightness. Usually the dim planets, the retrograde ones and those that travel to the south of the planet in front will lose the war.

For six months until now Jupiter had been reigning supreme in its won house and in the northern declination. Many planets came and crossed Jupiter, but only Jupiter had the last say because all the other planets were to the south of it while they crossed. On the day before election in TN, the retrograde Mercury crossed Jupiter from forward, but it was in the south of Jupiter. I consider the massive turn out at the polling booths as a positive impact of the victory of Jupiter over Mercury going by the above mentioned clauses told by Varahamihira. Such a victory means suffering to thieves and rich men. No need to say who they are in TN politics.

Jupiter's stay in Pisces this time was a gratifying period. The opposition of Saturn and Jupiter also was a time of success story for Justice. The same opposition is not likely to happen for the next 60 years. When it happens, the other conditions such as path of declination, the other planetary impact etc may not as it was this time. I consider this period as a rare one when Justice could have a say inspite of the influence of Kali.

The rare judgment on Ram temple came out in this period, giving scope for redressal of centuries long injustice to Hinduism. The truth of the Godhra train carnage was upheld in this period. The true face of the most corrupt in the Centre and TN came to be seen outwardly. The absurdity of Dravidian politics that was centred around Brahmin baiting and the dalit politics of Karunnaidhi brand stood exposed in this period.

Some more important incidents are in the offing as Jupiter is set to cross over to the next sign and the remaining 2 planets namely Mercury and Venus are to cross it from the southern declination in the next few days - just before the elections results are going to be declared. Let us wait and see how Jupiter wins in these wars.

Coming to Osama death, the celestial indication shows that he is indeed dead and the propaganda in some sections that only a body double of Osama has been killed is unfounded. The likely fall out of his death will not be there on the masses, though only countries of the NW - that is, Pakistan and Afghanistan are likely to feel the 'heat' of the anger. Pisces is the sign indicated for these 2 countries in the Kurma chakra of Varahamihira. Now with the conjunction of planets - both ill and well in the second house to Pisces and Saturn in the 7th indicates domestic trouble in these 2 countries. I don't exclude trouble in Kashmir valley as it comes in Aries - shortly to be treaded many planets.

For the world at large, the recouping of the terror elements to strike their fire power on common man on a scale that could affect globally, will take more than a decade. We can say this with certainty as Saturn is going to reign supreme in its sign of exaltation in Libra shortly. Only when Saturn moves in asterisms starting from Krittika in Aries, the people come under severe threat to life. The WTC carnage occurred when Saturn was traversing Taurus. The previous world wars occurred when a similar transit of Saturn was happening. Even in Ramayana times, King Dasaratha prayed to Saturn to move northward when it was crossing Rohini in Taurus.

The signs to be watched are Aries, Taurus, Leo, Sagittarius and Pisces. If Saturn and Mars cross them in retrogression, a third of mankind, plants, animals and water borne life would suffer. Fortunately, such a transit is not in sight at least for the next 15 years. So those who are apprehensive of a massive attack by the jihadis, can lay assured that whatever the jihadis do, would be localized and in their own regions and the world at large can heave a sigh of relief for some time.


Short life line in Osama's hands:-

The line starting from the side of the hand between thumb and index finger and coming down is the life line. 

In contrast see Obama's long line. Obama is a left hander. His left hand impression matters.