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4 <strong>December</strong> 2017 UNITED KINGDOM www.theasianindependent.co.uk Words of Victory from the Victory Coach? All about money "You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it." Tennessee Williams One of the most important skills for any person to be victorious in life is to learn Money Consciousness. In fact, I daresay you ought to be taught this in schools. This is most fundamental learning in today's times. Haven't you heard of stories where the rich and famous are dying alone and destitute with no one to care and no funds to bank on? It's scary and sad. Money is fast becoming the oxygen of life. Who doesn't want money? Everyone. Charities need it as much as capitalists. Money consciousness. It is not obsessing about being rich as such, but being inthe awareness of how money affects your life and the financial implications it has in your life. And, itall germinates in the mind. You have to first decide what do you want. If you are focussing on being a money magnet, you're doing it all wrong. Money has no relevant ferromagnetism.We do not attract money.We can, however create wealth. Therein lies the difference.The concept of attracting money is passive, stagnant, and limited. On the contrary, creating wealth is unlimited and active. Without money consciousness, building wealth can be quite difficult, elusive and perhaps erratic. There is no other way. Think of people who win lotteries. Most winners of ASIAN FOOTBALL LEGEND SHINGARA SINGH One of the most known Asian Football Club in the country, FC Khalsa Leicester, whose home ground is at Judgemeadow Community College, celebrated their recent promotion to the Premier Division of Leicestershire Senior League with a Dinner Dance and awarded one of their former players Shingara Singh " SHANNY " with the 1st ever LEGEND TROPHY to recognise his achievements in Asian and Local football on Saturday 18 November at 'The Venue', Gwendolin Road, Leicester. The special award was presented by the Chief Guest Deputy Mayor of Leicester City Council Piara Singh Clair who congratulated the club for returning to the Premier League and was also full of praise of FC Khalsa's amazing other achievements and was pleased to be invited among his friends. In his prime Shingara Singh "Shanny" was one of the best around and thrilled fans with his his wing play and goals. The packed hall of over 400 people gave Shanny a standing ovation that lasted 10 minutes. He arrived in Leicester from the land of five rivers Punjab, India just after the 1966 World Cup, lived on Mere Road opposite the Spinney Hill Park. Shingara Singh said parents did not have much money in those days so our father got us Author - Farzana Suri lotteries throw away their newfound money within a year. Why? Because without money consciousness, wealth hardly stays around. Money consciousness and wealth creation starts within. It is,simply evidenced outside. But, how can you become a money conscious person? To be conscious about money is to ask yourself in any situation that involves a financial obligation, these questions? 1. Do I really want to do this or are there other things I would rather spend the money I have on? 2. Is this a smart spending decision? DO NOT focus, solely on the immediate cost. Take into account the long-term expenses associated with your choice. Get a one football with which we played whenever possible. One ball got so many kids playing. Started playing for the Moat Boys School team and went to play for Sapna, East Park, Invincibles, Carabean Club, and New Parks in the early 70s " We played against Shingara Singh of Leicester many times. He was a very good winger who had absolutely no friends during the game yet everyone was his friend when the match finished. Such a nice person. Loads of Congratulations from all of us"....Sarabjit Singh Garcha, ex - First Team Coach, Hounslow FC. Shingara Singh commented " I feel very good and honoured to be presented with the 1st Legend Trophy by FC Khalsa Leicester whom I enjoyed playing for. It makes you extra happy and proud when others associated with the great game of football like players and supporters think of you as a legend. I would like to thank my first Manager Mr. Nirmal Singh Ji for his dedicated encouragement and support. My best game was at the first Derby Summer Tournament against the local Punjab United Derby who were one of the best teams at the time. We had three players sent off and were losing 2 - 0. Just like the Leicester City that won the Premier League in 2016 we never gave up. I scored a goal, won a penalty which made it 2-2. After this there was going to be one winner and we got another goal in normal time to reach the final which we also won against Bedford despite having a weakened team as the sent off players in the semi final could not play in the final. Kids should play football and other outdoor games which will keep them fit and healthy as well as out of trouble. " handle on how much that particular action will cost. That's it. And, yes, it's okay to spend now and then on those frills. However, a check and balance attitude can go a long way. Last year, I noticed I spent more money on buying clothes I either don't wear or don't fit me!Almost INR 3 lacs! Watch where you spend. Has it helped you grow or your money grow? Focus on creating value Do not focus on attracting or getting money. Create value in the world and watch how wealth follows you around like a besotted puppy. Keep asking the right questions. Because how you think affects what you think. How do you create value to become invaluable? Wake up each morning asking yourself these questions: 1. What can I help with? 2. How can I add more value to more people in less amount of time? With amoney conscious lifestyle,watch your financial decisions improving and your bank account growing. Don't pine for money. Romance her, respectfully! Wish you victory in managing your money! Trump wrong to share far-right videos: British PM’s office London, It was wrong for US President Donald Trump to retweet videos posted by farright group Britain First, Downing Street has said. Trump shared three posts by the group’s deputy leader, including unverified footage purporting to show Muslims committing crimes. British Prime Minister Theresa May’s spokesman said Britain First used “hateful narratives which peddle lies and stoke tensions”, BBC reported on Wednesday. Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn called the retweets “abhorrent” and “dangerous”. Britain First was founded in 2011 by former members of the far-right British National Party (BNP). The group has grabbed attention on social media with controversial posts about what it deems “the Islamification of the UK”. It has previously put up members to run in European elections and by-elections on anti-immigration and antiabortion policies, but has yet to secure any seats. The first tweet, from deputy leader Jayda Fransen, claims to show a Muslim migrant attacking a man on crutches. This was followed by two more videos of people Ms Fransen claims to be Muslim. White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said May and other world leaders knew the videos highlighted “real threats that we have to talk about”. “Whether it’s a real video, the threat is real,” she a d d e d . However,Trump’s tweets — shared with his 43.6 million followers — prompted a wave of criticism in the UK. Corbyn tweeted: “I hope our government will condemn far-right retweets by Donald Trump. They are abhorrent, dangerous and a threat to our society.” Veteran Tory MP Nicholas Soames said Trump had finally proved he is “wholly unsuited” to the role of president. Meanwhile, fellow Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi has written a letter to Trump urging him to delete the retweets Speaking in the Commons, Labour MP David Lammy accused Mr Trump of “promoting a fascist, racist, extremist hate group”.
www.theasianindependent.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM <strong>December</strong> 2017 5 Is media becoming a threat to democracy ? I had long left watching the PR agents on the TV studios discussing nationalism or pushing the particular agendas of their political parties. It is over 5 years that I stopped buying newspapers or magazines. I do go through the news through my twitter handle as well as some other forwarded material but that too I am quite selective. In the morning, I go through the important tweets that i follow including some of them coming from prestigious dailies internationally as well as nationally. The new web news-portals are doing far better work than the çhaudhuries’ of our so called mainstream media. In the past, when I used to read a whole bunch of papers and magazine, I only read them for getting news. One news in 5 different dailies would be presented in different ways. During the Babari Masjid demolition period, I found that the owners of the biggest dailies and news conglomerate did a balancing act. Most of the owners had group of publications in English and Hindi. Some of them went to the other languages too. So, one publication was dedicated to promoting Hindutva while other would be chasing them out. But it was basically a division of work between Hindutva brahmins versus socialist brahmins. A Padgaonker would write against BJP while a Vidya Niwas Mishra, sitting in Navbharat Times would be giving them sermons of greatness. And it was not the story of the Times. All the major newspaper houses were doing that. All of them had two commonality of ideas. One, to portray Hindu Dharma as the greatest of the world, most liberal and second all of them happened to be opposing Mandal Commission recommendations and hated reservations. Some of them had open hatred while others had concealed hatred for reservation. There was other combination. Arun Shourie in the Indian Express and Prabhash Joshi in Jansatta. Both had mastery over their languages. While Shourie was a hard core anti Mandal who used VP Singh and later started abusing him, Joshi remain his friend yet condemn his Mandal Act. Both of them would interact with their readers. Arun Shourie was dismissed unceremoniously by Ramnath Goenka when he wrote a nasty piece against VP Singh which the Express owner felt was against the policy of the paper. Shourie slowly made his way to Hindutva camp abusing all the seculars and minorities. His third class work on Ambedkar became a talk of town among the middle class casteist Hindus who jumped on his anti reservation rhetorics. Not many people knew that the first ever book that Shourie published was a kind of critique of Gita and Hinduism itself but he perhaps has disown that. I don’t know whether the copies are available but later he became an unabashed fan of brahmanical Hindutva. Prabhash Joshi became You can’t think of them coming anywhere close to Times, Guardian or The New York Times. Of Course, the loudmouths may claim them the best and biggest champions of nationalism but we don’t need to respond to them as they have openly exposed themselves and the ideology underneath which reflect in their venomously cooked up stories spreading poison of hatred and conflict just for attaining farcical TRPs. the champion of the secular brigade who considered that Hindus can not be represented by the Sangh Parivar. His viewpoint was clear that the Sanghi brahmins cannot represent the secular-socialist brahmins but Joshi was arrogantly proud of his brahmin faith. He would quote copiously from those texts. Joshi was the ‘progressive’ editor who supported the Sati and felt that it was the highest tradition of sacrifice of the Indian woman. Once Prabhash Joshi wrote an article in Jansatta : Jaat pe mat jaao meri baat pe aao’, where he responded in details the accusation of being castiests. I wrote a letter regarding that as an editor he will have the last laugh. He can interact, write and unilaterally be selective. I told him that all his arguments can be countered very easily but I respected him because I loved his language. He personally wrote and send me a handwritten letter giving in details why he felt pained because people charge him with being casteist but then the facts remain. I did not enter into an argument but in his later stage he perhaps was more visible in the social movements on economic issues as most of the time they are afraid of caste issues because of their uncomfort. Today, our media is doing the same. The media war is a reality today. I wrote about it long back when Times Now unleashed a campaign against the screening of a documentary made by a British documentary maker and was supposed to be broadcasted at the NDTV. So, the corporate houses are jumping into it as profit is the main motive. As I said, we have a Mirror Now, started by Times Houses and it is taking political position in contrast to Timesnow. The woman who is main anchor speak absolutely like Arnab Goswami, perhaps his student with only difference is that she is taking on the Hindutva fringe too. I don’t know this is her ideological position or a guidelines by the Jains of Times of India. So journalists whose job was to give us unbiased news have now become news themselves. Vidya Bhushan Rawat And most of them have their followers or Bhakts who quote them like Gita, Quran and Bible. Whether pro and anti, we are victims of the new world order that work on branding so we have a few brands in each segments. Many Brahmins, Banias and a few of them from the others to get fixated into their scheme of things. Some are raising the issue of Hindu pride and suggesting why can’t we do it while others are championing the cause of ‘secularism” but in these two dividing lines and their followers, there is no space for the segments who are victims of both these high class sawarna perception. There is no space for an alternative vision and thought. If somebody is secular and want to discuss about Ambedkar, the panelists are the same on their identity lines. This fixing will not help as media has lost its credibility. Whether you pretend to be secular or non, most of you don’t want diverse voices in your newsrooms. The recent CARAVAN- Express spat is another point. The story of Judge Loya’s suspicious death was reported very boldly by Caravan magazine. None of the ‘mainstream’ media picked it up but suddenly an Express story tried to debunk the entire issue of ‘suspicion’. It picked holes in the Caravan story but embarrassingly got stuck into those holes itself. So far the Express has not bothered to answer those questions which have been raised. This is the second biggest fiasco that the Express has done in recent years. The first one was Shekhar Gupta’s so called ”scoop’ of General V K Singh and army attempted coup several years back. The Express neither regretted nor challenged those who questioned. Some time, in their attempt to look different these things comes up. While we appreciate Express’s investigative journalism and stories and definitely among these crowd they stood apart but we must not depend on them too much. People have found their ways out. We know ultimately all these newspapers and channels have their own interests and they can’t go beyond a limit. During the UPA period too, media, had an understanding not to target a few individuals which included the PM, Chidambaram, Manmohan Rahul, Sonia, Arun Jaitley, Sharad Pawar, Naveen Patnaik and all those who were in power to get their thing done. Media may look divided on ‘secularism-communalism’ issue but on broader issues of economic liberalisation, they remain the same. Almost, all of them, have been speaking for it and singing jai ho for the opening up of our economy and selling of the public sector and handing them to private corporations. All these ópinionmakers” remain highly anti Dalit and casteism as can be reflected in the nature of people they have in their newsrooms and the mindset which hate the issue of Dalit Bahujan identity and their issues of fair representation in all walks of our lives. The only way is now that people should take the best and leave the worst. Look for news and not the views. Verify news from various ways and focus on developing our own. Today, they hate social media, call it uncontrolled and want it to be regularised but are our channels better. They have become trolls themselves and teaching hatred and contempt for the opponents. When we are in a position to do on our own, they want to close. Indian mainstream media can not even match the great warriors in Sri Lanka and Pakistan who are courageously taking a bold stand against the misdeeds of their government and publishing people’s stories. You can’t think of them coming anywhere close to Times, Guardian or The New York Times. Of Course, the loudmouths may claim them the Today, our media is doing the same. The media war is a reality today. I wrote about it long back when Times Now unleashed a campaign against the screening of a documentary made by a British documentary maker and was supposed to be broadcasted at the NDTV. So, the corporate houses are jumping into it as profit is the main motive. As I said, we have a Mirror Now, started by Times Houses and it is taking political position in contrast to Timesnow. The woman who is main anchor speak absolutely like Arnab Goswami, perhaps his student with only difference is that she is taking on the Hindutva fringe too. I don’t know this is her ideological position or a guidelines by the Jains of Times of India. best and biggest champions of nationalism but we don’t need to respond to them as they have openly exposed themselves and the ideology underneath which reflect in their venomously cooked up stories spreading poison of hatred and conflict just for attaining farcical TRPs. Their high decibel sound bites have created thousands of semi literate bunch of goons who don’t know the repercussions of their act towards integrity and unity of the country. Newsmedia therefore, has become the biggest obstacle in our free and fair choices. Rather than defending the rights of the people, it has become the lapdog of those in power and defending their misdeeds with planting stories, defaming the opponents, killing and defaming civil society and human rights movements and therefore who else can we blame for the degradation except this mainstream media whose acts have now become a threat to democracy. UK MP abused online for not opposing Johal’s arrest LONDON: A Sikh MP in the UK has been abused and targeted with threats of violence from furious trolls who think he was not speaking enough on issues related to the community, according to a media report. Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, who became Labour’s MP for Slough in June, was accused of ignoring the plight of a British Sikh man who was arrested during his visit to India. But Dhesi vowed to continue working for the whole public “regardless of background, colour or creed” rather than focussing on just one community, The Sun reported. The abuse came after Dhesi won the right to speak at prime minister’s questions and used the slot to ask about a rail link in his local area. Trolls said he should have asked about Jagtar Singh Johal, a UK-based non-resident Indian who has been arrested by Punjab Police for his alleged role in targeted killing of Hindu right-wing leaders, the report said. One troll wrote to the MP saying: “...A Sikh British citizen is being tortured in Punjab and you’re worried about rail. You have no response to that. You need a slap upside your head you fake Sikh!” Dhesi reacted with fury and pointed out that he has repeatedly worked on Johal’s case. “It’s hard enough serving as an MP without having to face constant abuse from various quarters (whether that’s the farright/extremists/others who feel that I’m only interested in ‘my community’s issues’, or those from within my ‘own’ community who feel I don’t do enough),” he wrote on Facebook. “When people resort to abuse, they are actually doing a disservice to their own cause. I will do what I genuinely feel is right. I am not merely a Sikh MP/representative speaking solely on Sikh issues,” Dhesi added.
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