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22 01 /03/2019 NEWS LITERATURE POLITICS FASHION ART & CULTURE KIDS RELIGION FILMS www.samajweekly.com Hate filled warmongering must stop As the reports of the Indian Air Force preemptive strike on the Jaish-e- Mohammad terror camps inside Pakistan territory came, there was a sense of gratitude for ordinary Indian who felt that the terror camps must be destroyed at all cost but the media and those who want to use these bombing to raise the political climate in their favor have taken up charge and now in full flow as if it is they who did this act. Political reactions were as per their policies and with much maturity. All complimented our forces for their act of bravery but the prime minister and BJP leaders went on claiming as if it BJP’s victory. It is the same people who during the Uttarakhand tragedy or attack on Taj did not give credit to the government but made every effort to suggest that the government was different than the army and forces. Today, all the political parties across the spectrum have supported the Strike which is a good sign and BJP and its leaders must desist from taking credit of these claims. Secondly, these issues are of utmost importance and therefore it is important to leave the army and the Indian diplomacy to deal with the issue and not convert into another hate propaganda back home. India must remain united facing this as attempt will be there to create divisions. The biggest casualty during the ‘war time’ is truth particularly when media become part of the propaganda machinery of the governing class. India and Pakistan media are competing with each other in who can stoop low to the level of ridiculousness. We are not even allowing the army and the requisite Ministry to handle it. After the Pulwama, we felt proud of the way CRPF officers send their categorical message to the country that their Jawans did not die to create religious polarisation and hatred in the country. I can say that the Ministry of External Affairs Press briefing too was mature and balanced. Of course, the claims and figures mentioned are only as per the ‘information’ received. The best part was when the Foreign Secretary Mr Vijay Gokhle spoke in a fairly measured way about ‘India’s ‘non-military preemptive strike’ which clearly mean that for India it was not a war against Pakistan but specific target of ‘eliminating’ the terrorists camps and outfits. Now, it is another matter whether those Cairo, At least 20 people were killed and more than 40 injured when a fire erupted inside the main railway station in Egypt’s capital Cairo on Wednesday. The blaze broke out after a train crash in the station. Dozens of ambulances and firefighters rushed to the scene, state-run Nile TV reported. TV photographs showed clouds of black smoke billowing out from the main building camps, terrorists, hatemongers or Jehadis have been killed and whether the threat to common Indians from these terror outfits have now finished. Frankly, it was not a press-conference but a statement of India’s position after crossing the LoC or International Border. Now the ‘entertainment’ channels are reporting from ‘sources’ that over 300 terrorists were killed including Yousuf Azhar, brother in law of Masood Azhar, the chief of Jaish-e-Mohammad. The point is how do our news reporters come to the conclusion about the deaths and the individual when the entire operation was carried out in night and just confined to bombing of a particular target without any ground operations ? Why the media cant keep quiet when the military establishment has not spoken about these things. The problem is that war or military can be used for short term process to bring thing to a certain level but ultimately we all have to resort to political process. India and Pakistan can not absolve themselves from the political process as there is no other option. There are however, people, both the sides who think of eliminating or deleting communities and countries from the world map. Added with idiotic fulmination and 20 killed in Cairo railway station fire in the station. Train movements to and from Cairo were suspended, Xinhua news agency reported. Eyewitnesses at a hospital said the corpses were completely burned. hateful jingoism being played by the corporate sponsored TV channels who celebrate these stories of war when people want peace, During the war the level of rhetoric grows and all this is highly patriarchical, talks of machosim and create a false narrative of your ‘strength’. The biggest understanding of this is that what Pakistan is facing today because of the fanatic Islamic groups who are extra-state actors and who think they are the law unto themselves with army actively backing them. It is these fanatics whose shout is more visible than the common person in the street who wish friendly relations with India. The danger of extra-state actors destroying democratic and constitutional values in India is equally powerful. We should be more worried because whatever formed of democracy was here, it By Vidya Bhushan Rawat social and human rights activist is better than any military or dictatorial regime. We all now who are the forces taking law in their hand and hitting people at their will. Democracy there was always fragile and under control of the military but we London : Silicon Valley billionaire Michael Moritz and his wife Harriet Heyman's charitable foundation 'Crankstart' will be the new supporter of the Booker Prize, its trustees announced on Thursday. The announcement came a month after the Man Group said it was ending its sponsorship of the prestigious award for literary fiction. The new arrangement will begin on June 1 after the 2019 Man Booker International Prize winner announcement, which will also mark the conclusion of 18 years of sponsorship by Man Group, the Booker Prize Foundation said. Thereafter, the original prize will once again be known as The Booker Prize, while the prize for literature in translation will become The International Booker Prize. "We are thrilled that The Booker Prizes have found such marvellous philanthropic supporters in Crankstart, whose founders share our vision and values. With its support, we look forward to developing initiatives for The Booker to reach new audiences of every generation and background around the world," Helena Kennedy, Chair of the Trustees of the Booker Prize Foundation said in a statement. She said that with Crankstart's backing, they will be able to continue the charitable activities of the Booker Prize Foundation. She said the foundation will work with the National Literacy Trust in prisons, and with Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), one of the cant have the same in India. Our forces have shown extremely professional approach on the issue of being non political but for the last few years we are witnessing the political leadership trying to reap political benefit of a military action. The soldiers die for the country and the politicians want to benefit politically. Geopolitical war games are difficult to understand. It is surprising that India did not speak anything about the suicide attack on Iranian Revolutionary Guards in which 27 of these guards were killed and the Iranian Defence Minister blamed Pakistan based militant groups. Why India remain quiet to this issue and did not attempt to find a common thread of Pakistani support for these extra state actors. It is also strange that we were more than eager to blame the Saudis who did not even bother to make a statement of condemnation of Pulwama killing. Was India’s decision of ignoring Iran was because of the fear of Americans who want to isolate Iran ? Where is the independent foreign policy ? Even Afghanistan has blamed Pakistan based Jehadi groups trying to destablise their government but it is surprising we do not have any common strategy with these countries. At the time when the President UK's leading sight loss charities, to make the shortlist accessible to blind and partially sighted readers, as well as in universities around the UK. Crankstart was established by Michael Moritz and Harriet Heyman in 2000 to support "the forgotten, the dispossessed, the unfortunate, the oppressed and causes where some help makes all the difference". "Neither of us can imagine a day where we don't spend time reading a book. The Booker Prizes are ways of spreading the word about the insights, discoveries, pleasures and joy that spring from great fiction," said Moritz, a British venture capitalist and author, born in Wales. Crankstart has been organising and supporting scholarship funds Donald Trump and his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Un are meeting in Vietnam which gives a new hope to the world that ultimately nations will have to speak to each other and take a clear stand against forces which have state patronage to destablise their neighbors. Each country today has a problem points and they need to resolve them through creating better circumstances and building confidence among people. India has said that it did the ‘non military preemptive strike’ on Pakistan because there were specific intelligence inputs that Jaish had planned to carry more suicide attacks in India. Should we think now that we will not have any further escalation. Will Pakistan keep quiet or respond ? Will they act against the terror groups ? Saying that it does not exists when they raise open threat is basically a blatant lie and will justify Indian action given the situation world over when nation states have to take care of their people and protect them. The only thing is whether threat to people at large will be reduced or end ? I think ,It is time for all of us to stop these jingoism and let the forces and the diplomats handle the issue. We are not afraid of government taking a decision to protect people but our problem is the fanatics back home trying to wage a war against our own people simply because we may not follow their political ideologies. The thing is simple that armed forces will protect us and may win us a war but our biggest threat is from the jingoism and hatred being spread on silver screen by the totally corrupted media which has taken the role of dividing people and creating war hysteria. We have trust in the maturity of our forces but zero trust on these loudspeakers who have no sense of accountability and responsibility towards the people. We hope good sense will prevail and diplomatic efforts will made to isolate the terror outfits and hatemongers not only nationally but also internationally so that we can wage a decisive war against poverty, superstition, discrimination and illiteracy as defeating them only will make us a great nation and a big power. Vidya Bhushan Rawat is a social and human rights activist. He blogs at www.manukhsi.blogspot.com twitter @freetohumanity Email: vbrawat@gmail.com BILLIONAIRE TO FUND THE BOOKER PRIZE for students from low-income households at the University of Oxford and the University of Chicago, among others. The 50,000 pound award is among the most coveted literary honours and apart from the global recognition that the winning novels gets, the Prize also boosts its sales manifold. In the week following the 2017 winner announcement, for instance, the sales of 'Lincoln in the Bardo' by George Saunders increased by 1,227 per cent. Its list of winners includes many of the giants of the last five decades, from Salman Rushdie to Margaret Atwood, Iris Murdoch to J.M. Coetzee. The prize has also recognised many authors early in their careers, including Eleanor Catton, Aravind Adiga and Ben Okri.
www.samajweekly.com New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed arrest of Amrapali Group Chairman and Managing Director Anil Kumar Sharma as well as two other directors, Shiv Priya and Ajay Kumar, by the Delhi Police's Economic Offences Wing (EOW) in an alleged criminal case involving cheating. The division bench of Justice Arun Mishra and Justice Uday Umesh Lalit also allowed the EOW to interrogate Sharma and the two directors. It also ordered attachment of properties belonging to Sharma, including his bungalow in south Delhi, and two others. On the application by the Deputy Commissioner, EOW, seeking permission to arrest and take into custody NEWS LITERATURE POLITICS FASHION ART & CULTURE KIDS RELIGION FILMS Sharma, Shiv Priya and Kumar, the court said, "We make it clear that the Delhi Police is free to arrest/take into custody any or all the other Directors of Amrapali group of companies. Any order passed by this court in this case shall not come in their way to do so." Also noting that the three are presently in custody of Uttar Pradesh Police, the court directed Delhi Police to "investigate the entire gamut of the scenario of the various projects, as projected in this case and various orders passed and investigate the entire matter. Prima facie, we find that the case requires serious investigation in the facts projected by the Directors, CFO and the statutory auditors". It further ordered the EOW to investigate the role of Anil Mittal, the statutory auditor and Chander Wadhwa, the CFO, as well. "Police may interrogate them and find out their criminality, if any, in the matter." The court also ordered that its various order sheets as well as the affidavits of Wadhwa and Mittal and Directors of Amrapali Group indicating the operational methods of diversion of funds and creation of companies be also furnished to the Deputy Commissioner, EOW. The court has asked forensic auditors to complete by March 22 audit of the group's accounts for alleged diversion of the home-buyers' money. Sharma, Priya and Kumar are in the custody of UP Police since October 9, following a Supreme Court order after they failed to hand over all documents 01 /03/2019 SC allows arrest of Amrapali Group CMD in cheating case Trump-Kim summit breaks down over sanctions Hanoi : A summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jongun ended on Thursday with no agreement after Washington refused Pyongyang's demands for economic sanctions relief. Addressing reporters in the Vietnamese capital after the twoday summit with Kim was abruptly cut short earlier than planned, Trump said that he walked away from signing a denuclearization deal with the North Korean leader after they failed to reach an agreement for economic sanctions on Pyongyang to be lifted. "It was about the sanctions. Basically they wanted sanctions lifted in their entirety and we couldn't do that... We had to walk away. "We had to walk away from that particular suggestion of completely lifting the economic sanctions on North Korea", Trump said, adding that neither he nor Secretary of State Mike Pompeo "felt it was appropriate to sign an agreement". "We had papers ready to be signed, but it wasn't appropriate. I wanted to do it right, rather than fast," Trump said. According to the US leader, Kim said he was willing to dismantle the Yongbyon complex -- the development and testing facility at the heart of North Korea's nuclear programme -- but wanted all sanctions on North Korea lifted in exchange, something the US was not prepared to do. He added that no plans had been made for a third summit with the regime leader. Although no deal was signed, Trump insisted that his relationship with Kim was "very warm" and that he was optimistic that further progress could be made while highlighting the improvements in their bilateral relationship since the US leader took office two years ago. Trump said his meeting with Kim didn't end contentiously but with "a very friendly walk". "This wasn't a walk away like you get up and walk out," Trump told reporters of the end of the summit. "He has a certain vision, it's not exactly our vision, but it's a lot closer than it was a year ago. Eventually I think we'll get there. With time (the gap) will be bridged at a certain point. But there is a gap", Trump told the media. He added that Kim had promised him that his regime would not resume nuclear weapons tests. "I trust him and take him at his word. I hope that's true." "He (Kim) said the testing will not start, he said he's not gonna do testing of rockets or missiles, or anything to do with nuclear, and all I can tell you is that's what he said." The original White House programme for the day had planned for a "Joint Agreement Signing Ceremony" as well as a working lunch for the two leaders, but expectations were abruptly dashed with the cancellation of both. The summit, the second between the two leaders in less than a year, was held to start the stalled denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, as agreed at their first meeting in Singapore last year. Kim and Trump had met earlier on Thursday at the five-star Metropole hotel in central Hanoi during which the North Korean leader had said that he would not have attended the summit if he did not want to denuclearize. No protocol for captive's return, Kargil only precedent : Ex-diplomat New Delhi : While Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday announced that Wing Commander Varthaman Abhinandan will be released from captivity on Friday, the protocol for such return is confined to the sole incidence of Flight Lieutenant K. Nachiketa (now Group Captain), an Indian Air Force (IAF) officer who was released by Pakistan in 1999 during the Kargil War. Khan said captured IAF pilot Varthaman will be freed as a "goodwill gesture" after New Delhi sought his unconditional, immediate and unharmed release. The 35-year-old Wing Commander was captured by Pakistan on Wednesday after his MiG fell in the Pakistani territory during an aerial dogfight. Before Varthaman, the last Indian officer to be released by Pakistan from its custody was Nachiketa, an MiG pilot, who fell into Pakistan's captivity during the 1999 Kargil War when he ejected himself from his "flamed out" aircraft. Nachiketa was later handed over to then Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan G. Parthasarathy who narrated the procedure that was followed in the pilot's return. Hanoi : US President Donald Trump on Thursday said that he has received "reasonably attractive news" from Pakistan and India and hoped that tensions between the two countries could end. "We have, I think, reasonably attractive news from Pakistan and India. We have been going at it and we have been involved in trying to have them stop and we have some reasonably decent news, hopefully that will be coming to an end," Trump said at a press conference on the sidelines of his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the Vietnamese capital. "It's been going on for a long time for decades and decades. There is a lot of dislike unfortunately, so we have been in the middle trying to help them both out, see if we can get some organisation and some peace. And I think that is probably going to be happening." Trump's remarks at the start of the press conference came in the 23 related to their 46 companies to forensic auditors. The court had ordered the action observing that their act was blatant and deliberate violation and non-compliance of its order. "If they want to live in dignity, then they should hand over all the documents immediately," it said. The trio is restricted to a hotel room in Noida from where they are taken to their offices every day to hand over documents. However, sources said so far they were not arrested. They were only in police custody to ensure compliance of the top court order. The next hearing in the case is on March 26. Got 'reasonably attractive news' from India and Pakistan : Trump midst of escalating tensions after India carried out pre-dawn strikes on a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terror camp in Balakot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and killed a large number of terrorists and their trainers. This was followed by an aerial engagement near the Line of Control (LoC) in which India lost one of its MiG-21s, with the pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman in Pakistani custody. Trump's statement could mark a defusing of tensions between the two nucleararmed neighbours. A tri services media briefing is scheduled in the evening in New Delhi, triggering speculation whether there could be an announcement that the pilot may be handed over to India.
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