Got up leisurely around a half past 6, went through the chores and was ready on time. Along with Aji and Prince, I'd gone for tea outside the collectorate compound and brought in tea for the other two. We left for our local office to review its activities and I was impressed with the young lady, Jayadevi, a BCom graduate who swept the floor clean of the dust that had accumulated over the weekend!
A quick flit to a local stationery store to collect materials for the forthcoming training programme had taken up the entire forenoon. Lunch followed by a run through our strategy of this afternoon's meeting with the Collector, Vira Raghava Rao, preceded our meeting.
The meeting began at 1700 hrs and I was impressed by his dynamism and resoluteness. We told him that we would look up the piece of land that he'd offered. Nagarajan, the officer-in-charge, accompanied us to the site and we could make out that he was not interested in helping us.
The land seemed to be occupied and we made a beeline to the Collectorate.
.........contd
Prize and Prejudice
Francis Sejersted, rhe chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in the 1990s, said without mincing words : "The Prize.....is not only for past achievement.....the Committee also takes the possible positive effects of its choices into account......Awarding a Peace Prize is, to put it bluntly, a political act".
In fact, in a rare moment of candour, the Nobel Academy questioned its own competency : "Is a committee that is constituted only by members of the political establishment in one small West European nation really capable of assessing who - in the whole world, in the preceding year - has done the most for peace? Is it not likely that their decisions will be marked by ethnocentricity or by some kind of ideological bias?"
Tools for subversion
India has always been a target of the West's propaganda apparatus. In 2014, when child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi was awarded the peace prize, author Sankrant Sanu wrote in Niti Central : "The verdict is still out on Satyarthi and the Nobel on whether he is a hero manufactured by Western institutions for their own interests or a simple, unassuming human rights worker. Given the pattern of funds.....and relationships with evangelical organisations such as World Vision, we should take our newly minted hero with a grain of salt".
Malala, who was jointly awarded the prize with Satyarthi, could have been a credible voice against the ongoing radicalisation of her country's society by the Pakistan Army and the Islamist parties. Instead she has kept up a steady stream of tweets against India while not saying a word against the killings and mass disappearances of Pashtuns, Balochs, Sindhis, Waziristanis and Swatis in Pakistan.
In Mar 2019, Malala travelled to Japan "to meet with young women and girls who are challenging the country's long-standing patriarchy". In Tokyo, she called on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and said, "I hope that he can use his G-20 presidency to help my sisters in Japan......reach their full potential because the world works better when the girls go to school".
Only a fool would believe Japanese women need advice on patriarchy from a hijab wearing Pakistani.
Her constant tweets on Kashmir have exposed her true intentions as a front for the Pakistan Army, says Canada-based journalist and TV anchor Tahir Aslam Gora. "The girl who was shot in the head by the Taliban has become the voice of the jehadi Taliban, Kashmiri militants and ISI.
Gora argues Malala's transformation started soon after she got the Nobel. That's when she decided to use her celebrity status to advance the agenda of the Pakistani establishment by cherry picking facts. "The aim of the Malala Foundation is to talk about issues facing young girls around the worldbut she never talks about home. She has never spoken about the forced conversion of Hindu girls in Pakistan".
Tailpiece.
Based on our feedback, the collector has offered us five acres of barren land elsewhere and between Maman, Dr. Kamalasanan Pillai and me, we decided to work our way through to convert the barren land into a piece of rich, cultivable land within the shortest possible time. We return on the 10 Dec to see the formal inauguration of the land's conversion to prosperity!
We set off from Ramanathapuram by a half past 10, after dinner. We were on our way to Tuticorin, through rains, at many places.
A quick flit to a local stationery store to collect materials for the forthcoming training programme had taken up the entire forenoon. Lunch followed by a run through our strategy of this afternoon's meeting with the Collector, Vira Raghava Rao, preceded our meeting.
The meeting began at 1700 hrs and I was impressed by his dynamism and resoluteness. We told him that we would look up the piece of land that he'd offered. Nagarajan, the officer-in-charge, accompanied us to the site and we could make out that he was not interested in helping us.
The land seemed to be occupied and we made a beeline to the Collectorate.
.........contd
Prize and Prejudice
Francis Sejersted, rhe chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in the 1990s, said without mincing words : "The Prize.....is not only for past achievement.....the Committee also takes the possible positive effects of its choices into account......Awarding a Peace Prize is, to put it bluntly, a political act".
In fact, in a rare moment of candour, the Nobel Academy questioned its own competency : "Is a committee that is constituted only by members of the political establishment in one small West European nation really capable of assessing who - in the whole world, in the preceding year - has done the most for peace? Is it not likely that their decisions will be marked by ethnocentricity or by some kind of ideological bias?"
Tools for subversion
India has always been a target of the West's propaganda apparatus. In 2014, when child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi was awarded the peace prize, author Sankrant Sanu wrote in Niti Central : "The verdict is still out on Satyarthi and the Nobel on whether he is a hero manufactured by Western institutions for their own interests or a simple, unassuming human rights worker. Given the pattern of funds.....and relationships with evangelical organisations such as World Vision, we should take our newly minted hero with a grain of salt".
Malala, who was jointly awarded the prize with Satyarthi, could have been a credible voice against the ongoing radicalisation of her country's society by the Pakistan Army and the Islamist parties. Instead she has kept up a steady stream of tweets against India while not saying a word against the killings and mass disappearances of Pashtuns, Balochs, Sindhis, Waziristanis and Swatis in Pakistan.
In Mar 2019, Malala travelled to Japan "to meet with young women and girls who are challenging the country's long-standing patriarchy". In Tokyo, she called on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and said, "I hope that he can use his G-20 presidency to help my sisters in Japan......reach their full potential because the world works better when the girls go to school".
Only a fool would believe Japanese women need advice on patriarchy from a hijab wearing Pakistani.
Her constant tweets on Kashmir have exposed her true intentions as a front for the Pakistan Army, says Canada-based journalist and TV anchor Tahir Aslam Gora. "The girl who was shot in the head by the Taliban has become the voice of the jehadi Taliban, Kashmiri militants and ISI.
Gora argues Malala's transformation started soon after she got the Nobel. That's when she decided to use her celebrity status to advance the agenda of the Pakistani establishment by cherry picking facts. "The aim of the Malala Foundation is to talk about issues facing young girls around the worldbut she never talks about home. She has never spoken about the forced conversion of Hindu girls in Pakistan".
Tailpiece.
Based on our feedback, the collector has offered us five acres of barren land elsewhere and between Maman, Dr. Kamalasanan Pillai and me, we decided to work our way through to convert the barren land into a piece of rich, cultivable land within the shortest possible time. We return on the 10 Dec to see the formal inauguration of the land's conversion to prosperity!
We set off from Ramanathapuram by a half past 10, after dinner. We were on our way to Tuticorin, through rains, at many places.
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