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title="Tuesday">T</th> <th abbr="Wednesday" scope="col" title="Wednesday">W</th> <th abbr="Thursday" scope="col" title="Thursday">T</th> <th abbr="Friday" scope="col" title="Friday">F</th> <th abbr="Saturday" scope="col" title="Saturday">S</th> <th abbr="Sunday" scope="col" title="Sunday">S</th> </tr> </thead> <tfoot> <tr> <td abbr="April" colspan="3" id="prev"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/04/" title="View posts for April 2006">« Apr</a></td> <td class="pad"> </td> <td colspan="3" id="next" class="pad"> </td> </tr> </tfoot> <tbody> <tr><td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/01/" title="Movie Review: Escape from Alcatraz">1</a></td><td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/02/" title="See What We can Do, Iran鈥檚 Nut Returns, Sandhya Jain on the California Textbook Controversy, Neeti Shataka: On More Fools">2</a></td><td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/03/" title="Baroda Burning, Free For Now">3</a></td><td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/04/" title="Hindu-Baiting New York Times">4</a></td><td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/05/" title="A Station of Mind and Memories">5</a></td><td>6</td><td id="today">7</td> </tr> <tr> <td>8</td><td>9</td><td>10</td><td>11</td><td>12</td><td>13</td><td>14</td> </tr> <tr> <td>15</td><td>16</td><td>17</td><td>18</td><td>19</td><td>20</td><td>21</td> </tr> <tr> <td>22</td><td>23</td><td>24</td><td>25</td><td>26</td><td>27</td><td>28</td> </tr> <tr> <td>29</td><td>30</td><td>31</td> <td class="pad" colspan="4"> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <div id="content"> <div class="date">May 5, 2006</div> <h1 id="post-579"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/05/a-station-of-mind-and-memories/" rel="bookmark" title="A Station of Mind and Memories">A Station of Mind and Memories</a></h1> <div class="storycontent"> <p>Malleswaram Railway Station is not merely a railway station: it is a station of mind and memories, of childlike wide-eyed wonder, of teenage meandering, adult and eld nostalgia. It is the stuff memoirs are made of.<br/> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426im_/http://www.sandeepweb.com/wp/wp-content/MvmSignBoard.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="8"/><br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/05/a-station-of-mind-and-memories/#more-579">(more…)</a> </p> </div> <div class="feedback"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/05/a-station-of-mind-and-memories/#comments">Comments (4)</a><div class="meta">Filed under: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/general/" title="View all posts in General" rel="category tag">General</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/society-culture/" title="View all posts in Society & Culture" rel="category tag">Society & Culture</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/chronicling-the-city/" title="View all posts in Chronicling the City" rel="category tag">Chronicling the City</a> by — Sandeep @ 11:24 am</div> </div>  <div class="date">May 4, 2006</div> <h1 id="post-578"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/04/hindu-baiting-new-york-times/" rel="bookmark" title="Hindu-Baiting New York Times">Hindu-Baiting New York Times</a></h1> <div class="storycontent"> <p>I rarely read the NYT and when I opened it more out of curiosity than anything else, what do I see <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/03/movies/03wate.html?hp&ex=1146715200&en=1adb2c18ae41f7c2&ei=5094&partner=homepage" target="_blank">splashed on the front page <strike>today</strike> yesterday</a>?</p> <blockquote><p><b>Film Ignites the Wrath of Hindu Fundamentalists</b><br/> India has made headlines as an emerging superpower, a land of high-tech multimillionaires and a vast new market for American goods. But there is another India too, and it is not just the one of villages and ox carts that has always been best known in the West.</p> <p>Lisa Ray plays a widow forced into prostitution in Deepa Mehta’s “Water,” about the degradation of Hindu widows in India in the 1930’s. The film has sparked protests. </p> <p>This is the disturbing India of the Hindu widow, a woman traditionally shunned as bad luck and forced to live in destitution on the edge of society. Her husband’s death is considered her fault, and she has to shave her head, shun hot food and sweets and never remarry. In the pre-independence India of the 1930’s, the tradition applied even to child brides of 5 or 6 who had been betrothed for the future by their families but had never laid eyes on their husbands.</p></blockquote> <p>“Hindu Fundamentalists” indeed. I won’t go over the columnist’s irresponsible usage of terminology about a phenomenon she has not understood: I’ve done it elsewhere. So, first things first.<br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/04/hindu-baiting-new-york-times/#more-578">(more…)</a> </p> </div> <div class="feedback"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/04/hindu-baiting-new-york-times/#comments">Comments (11)</a><div class="meta">Filed under: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/pseudo-secularism-hall-of-shame/" title="View all posts in Pseudo Secularism Hall of Shame" rel="category tag">Pseudo Secularism Hall of Shame</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/society-culture/" title="View all posts in Society & Culture" rel="category tag">Society & Culture</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/indian-politics/" title="View all posts in Indian Politics" rel="category tag">Indian Politics</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/media-watch/" title="View all posts in Media Watch" rel="category tag">Media Watch</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/international-politics/" title="View all posts in International Politics" rel="category tag">International Politics</a> by — Sandeep @ 2:18 pm</div> </div>  <div class="date">May 3, 2006</div> <h1 id="post-577"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/03/baroda-burning/" rel="bookmark" title="Baroda Burning">Baroda Burning</a></h1> <div class="storycontent"> <p>One harmless, well-meaning governmental move to ramp up the infrastructure has steadily matured into a grave political battle fought with the secular media as an important ally. Here’s the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.dailypioneer.com/indexn12.asp?main_variable=EDITS&file_name=edit1%2Etxt&counter_img=1" target="_blank">Pioneer edit</a> on the escalating violence in Baroda.</p> <blockquote><p><b>Vadodara violence</b></p> <p>The Pioneer Edit Desk</p> <p>Wages of vote-bank politics —- Monday’s violence in Vadodara over the demolition of a Sufi dargah deserves more than passing attention. The fact that it left four persons dead and 21 injured is certainly one reason for this. More important, however, is the question whether there should have been any violence at all. The dargah, which was that of a Sufi Saint Rashiuddin Chishti, had to be demolished for an important road-widening project. Notice, according to Mr RK Pathak, Commissioner of the Vadodara Municipal Corporation, had been given to the trustees for its removal but no response was received. According to the Mayor, Mr Sunil Solanki, three meetings had been held with representatives of the minority community to persuade them to shift the dargah and land had been offered. There would have been no violence and police firing had the offer been accepted. The question arises whether there could be any justification for the refusal to shift the structure.</p></blockquote> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/03/baroda-burning/#more-577">(more…)</a> </p> </div> <div class="feedback"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/03/baroda-burning/#comments">Comments (9)</a><div class="meta">Filed under: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/pseudo-secularism-hall-of-shame/" title="View all posts in Pseudo Secularism Hall of Shame" rel="category tag">Pseudo Secularism Hall of Shame</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/commentary/" title="View all posts in Commentary" rel="category tag">Commentary</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/indian-politics/" title="View all posts in Indian Politics" rel="category tag">Indian Politics</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/media-watch/" title="View all posts in Media Watch" rel="category tag">Media Watch</a> by — Sandeep @ 5:13 pm</div> </div>  <div class="date"></div> <h1 id="post-576"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/03/free-for-now/" rel="bookmark" title="Free For Now">Free For Now</a></h1> <div class="storycontent"> <p>The UPA government has exposed itself as being an utter failure so often that it is fast becoming habitual. One wonders, nay, one is certain that this isn’t the last of their harebrained–and dangerously selfish–schemes devised in the name of uplifting the poor, helping the minorities–which always means pandering to the Muslim votebank–and ensuring “social justice,” which is the subject of this post.<br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/03/free-for-now/#more-576">(more…)</a> </p> </div> <div class="feedback"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/03/free-for-now/#comments">Comments (0)</a><div class="meta">Filed under: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/commentary/" title="View all posts in Commentary" rel="category tag">Commentary</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/society-culture/" title="View all posts in Society & Culture" rel="category tag">Society & Culture</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/indian-politics/" title="View all posts in Indian Politics" rel="category tag">Indian Politics</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/war-on-communism/" title="View all posts in War on Communism" rel="category tag">War on Communism</a> by — Sandeep @ 6:56 am</div> </div>  <div class="date">May 2, 2006</div> <h1 id="post-574"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/02/neeti-shataka-on-more-fools/" rel="bookmark" title="Neeti Shataka: On More Fools">Neeti Shataka: On More Fools</a></h1> <div class="storycontent"> <p><i>Shakyo Vaaraitum Jalena Hutabhukhchhatrena Sooryaataapo|<br/> Naagendronishitaankushenasamadodandena Gogardabhau||<br/> Vyaadhirbheshajasamgrahaisccha Vividhairmantraprayogairvisham Sarvasya|<br/> Aushadhamasti Shaastravihitam Moorkhasya Naasti Aushadham||</i><br/> One can put out fire dousing it with water,<br/> Ward off the scorching sun with an umbrella,<br/> Tame a rutted elephant goading it with a sharp hook,<br/> Herd unruly cattle with a stick,<br/> Cure disease with medicine,<br/> Ward off poison with mantras for every known<br/> Evil has a cure save for that<br/> Of an imbecile.</p> <p><i>Saahitya Sangeeta Kalaaviheenah|<br/> Saakshaatpashuh Pucchhavishaanaheenah||<br/> Trinam Na Khaadannapi Jeevamaanastadbhaagadeyam|<br/> Paramam Pashoonaam||</i><br/> He that is Ignorant of<br/> Literature, Music and Art is<br/> Truly a tailless and hornless Beast<br/> Accustomed to live without grass<br/> Truly are cattle blessed for<br/> He affords them the free use of their natural food.</p> <p><i>Yeshaam na Vidyaa Na Tapo Na Daanam|<br/> Jnaanam Na Sheelam Na Guno Na Dharmah||<br/> Te Martyaloke Bhuvi Bharabhootaa|<br/> Manushyaroopena Mrugaascharanti||</i><br/> Those with<br/> Neither learning nor devotion<br/> Nor charity nor spiritual knowledge<br/> Nor conduct nor morality<br/> Nor religious faith<br/> Are but burden to Mother Earth<br/> Frivolling around in this mortal world<br/> Like wild deer in human form. </p> </div> <div class="feedback"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/02/neeti-shataka-on-more-fools/#comments">Comments (1)</a><div class="meta">Filed under: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/indian-philosophy/" title="View all posts in Indian Philosophy" rel="category tag">Indian Philosophy</a> by — Sandeep @ 8:54 pm</div> </div>  <div class="date"></div> <h1 id="post-573"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/02/sandhya-jain-on-the-california-textbook-controversy/" rel="bookmark" title="Sandhya Jain on the California Textbook Controversy">Sandhya Jain on the California Textbook Controversy</a></h1> <div class="storycontent"> <p>Sandhya Jain <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.dailypioneer.com/indexn12.asp?main_variable=EDITS&file_name=edit3%2Etxt&counter_img=3" target="_blank">writes in the <i>Pioneer</i></a> about the ongoing textbook controversy in California, which has sadly escaped the attention of Hindus in India.</p> <blockquote><p><b>Biblicists target Hindus</b></p> <p>Sandhya Jain</p> <p>Unknown to most Indians, the raging controversy over the California school textbooks being challenged by Hindu American parents is rooted in the staunch commitment of certain academics to the Biblical version of Creation. Herr Michael Witzel, whose professional reputation is linked to the Aryan Invasion Theory, which derives from a Biblical perspective, denies the decisive scientific evidence to the contrary. </p></blockquote> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/02/sandhya-jain-on-the-california-textbook-controversy/#more-573">(more…)</a> </p> </div> <div class="feedback"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/02/sandhya-jain-on-the-california-textbook-controversy/#comments">Comments (0)</a><div class="meta">Filed under: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/pseudo-secularism-hall-of-shame/" title="View all posts in Pseudo Secularism Hall of Shame" rel="category tag">Pseudo Secularism Hall of Shame</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/society-culture/" title="View all posts in Society & Culture" rel="category tag">Society & Culture</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/weblogs/" title="View all posts in Weblogs" rel="category tag">Weblogs</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/international-politics/" title="View all posts in International Politics" rel="category tag">International Politics</a> by — Sandeep @ 5:45 pm</div> </div>  <div class="date"></div> <h1 id="post-572"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/02/irans-nut-returns/" rel="bookmark" title="Iran鈥檚 Nut Returns">Iran’s Nut Returns</a></h1> <div class="storycontent"> <p>Via <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.danielpipes.org/article/3258" title="The Mystical Menace of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad" target="_blank">Daniel’s Pipes’ blog</a> we get to hear of the Iranian dictator’s <strike>latest bout of delusion</strike> divine visions.</p> <blockquote><p>Thanks to the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a new word has entered the political vocabulary: mahdaviat.</p> <p>Not surprisingly, it’s a technical religious term. Mahdaviat derives from mahdi, Arabic for “rightly-guided one,” a major figure in Islamic eschatology. He is, explains the Encyclopaedia of Islam, “the restorer of religion and justice who will rule before the end of the world.” The concept originated in the earliest years of Islam and, over time, became particularly identified with the Shi‘ite branch. Whereas “it never became an essential part of Sunni religious doctrine,” continues the encyclopedia, “Belief in the coming of the Mahdi of the Family of the Prophet became a central aspect of the faith in radical Shi‘ism,” where it is also known as the return of the Twelfth Imam.</p> <p>Mahdaviat means “belief in and efforts to prepare for the Mahdi.”</p></blockquote> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/02/irans-nut-returns/#more-572">(more…)</a> </p> </div> <div class="feedback"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/02/irans-nut-returns/#comments">Comments (0)</a><div class="meta">Filed under: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/terrorism-pakistan/" title="View all posts in Terrorism & Pakistan" rel="category tag">Terrorism & Pakistan</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/weblogs/" title="View all posts in Weblogs" rel="category tag">Weblogs</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/international-politics/" title="View all posts in International Politics" rel="category tag">International Politics</a> by — Sandeep @ 5:35 pm</div> </div>  <div class="date"></div> <h1 id="post-571"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/02/see-what-we-can-do/" rel="bookmark" title="See What We can Do">See What We can Do</a></h1> <div class="storycontent"> <p>The “peace process” is in one word, bunkum. There can be no peace process and no Kashmir-conflict-resolution without Pakistan first changing its bully mindset. Pakistan, no matter which dictator rules it, cannot simply afford to let go of Kashmir. So it stands to reason that there is no peace process to start with. When official announcements of “peace process” originates from Pakistan it is merely a smokescreen and when it (repeatedly) comes from home, it is at best an act of habitual cowardice.</p> <p>The latest demonstration of this fact is <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1511865.cms" title="Bloodbath in J&K: Lashkar-e-Taiba Massacres 32 Hindus: TOI " target="_blank">yesterday’s cowardly terrorist attack</a>. </p> <blockquote><p>In a desperate bid to derail a fledgling peace process, terrorists struck with a numbing carnage two days before a round-table conference on the Kashmir issue was to start. At the end of J&K’s bloodiest massacre in three years, the toll stood at 32 dead, including a six-year-old, and about a dozen wounded. Late on Sunday evening, a group of 6-10 heavily-armed Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists, some in army combat fatigues, pulled out Hindu villagers from their homes in scattered hamlets in Doda and shot them. They stormed into homes in Kulhand and herded terrified residents of two hamlets in Kulhand area into village headmen’s homes, saying there was an important announcement. Then they mowed them down with a hail of bullets.</p></blockquote> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/02/see-what-we-can-do/#more-571">(more…)</a> </p> </div> <div class="feedback"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/02/see-what-we-can-do/#comments">Comments (1)</a><div class="meta">Filed under: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/commentary/" title="View all posts in Commentary" rel="category tag">Commentary</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/terrorism-pakistan/" title="View all posts in Terrorism & Pakistan" rel="category tag">Terrorism & Pakistan</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/weblogs/" title="View all posts in Weblogs" rel="category tag">Weblogs</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/indian-politics/" title="View all posts in Indian Politics" rel="category tag">Indian Politics</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/international-politics/" title="View all posts in International Politics" rel="category tag">International Politics</a> by — Sandeep @ 9:56 am</div> </div>  <div class="date">May 1, 2006</div> <h1 id="post-570"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/01/movie-review-escape-from-alcatraz/" rel="bookmark" title="Movie Review: Escape from Alcatraz">Movie Review: Escape from Alcatraz</a></h1> <div class="storycontent"> <p>Pity Hollywood doesn’t make movies like these any more. I am an incurable admirer of the Old: movies, music, and books. </p> <p><i><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/630531036X/qid=1146426905/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-1970013-0403941?s=dvd&v=glance&n=130" target="_blank">Escape from Alcatraz</a></i> is a classic on the lines of <i>Guns of Navarone</i>, a gripping drama based on a (non-fiction) book of the same name by Campbell Bruce. The plot is anyone’s guess: the successful escape of three convicts from the infamous prison at the Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay. Among others, the prison was made famous for housing such legendary criminals as Al Capone and “Birdman” Stroud.<br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/01/movie-review-escape-from-alcatraz/#more-570">(more…)</a> </p> </div> <div class="feedback"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/05/01/movie-review-escape-from-alcatraz/#comments">Comments (0)</a><div class="meta">Filed under: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/films/" title="View all posts in Films" rel="category tag">Films</a> by — Sandeep @ 2:19 am</div> </div>  <div class="date">April 27, 2006</div> <h1 id="post-569"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/04/27/the-ant-and-the-grasshopper/" rel="bookmark" title="The Ant and the Grasshopper">The Ant and the Grasshopper</a></h1> <div class="storycontent"> <p><i>The Pioneer</i> carries a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.dailypioneer.com/indexn12.asp?main_variable=front%5Fpage&file_name=story2%2Etxt&counter_img=2" target="_blank">chilling account</a> of what Mao’s terrorists are up to.</p> <blockquote><p><b>Army, weapons, funds, Maoists have ‘em all<br/> </b><br/> Navin Upadhyay | New Delhi</p> <p>In the dense jungles and remote hills of India, hundreds of hardcore Maoists are undergoing tough training in the art of guerrilla warfare. Equipped with sophisticated weapons, these men have been indoctrinated to wage a war against the nation, a protracted war that they hope to win in the next 30 to 40 years. </p> <p>In the vanguard of the Maoist army is the hardcore People’s Guerrilla Army (PGA) with an estimated strength of 8000 cadres spread mainly across - Bihar, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Maharashtra and West Bengal. The PGA is responsible for carrying out all daring strikes, including setting up ambush against the police and para military forces, snatching their weapons, eliminating ‘enemies’, and letting loose a reign of terror.</p></blockquote> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/04/27/the-ant-and-the-grasshopper/#more-569">(more…)</a> </p> </div> <div class="feedback"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/2006/04/27/the-ant-and-the-grasshopper/#comments">Comments (1)</a><div class="meta">Filed under: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/indian-politics/" title="View all posts in Indian Politics" rel="category tag">Indian Politics</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/category/war-on-communism/" title="View all posts in War on Communism" rel="category tag">War on Communism</a> by — Sandeep @ 2:56 pm</div> </div>  <div class="center">  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/page/2/">Next »</a></div> </div> <div id="footer"> <p> | Copyright © 2006 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.sandeepweb.com/">Seriously Sandeep.</a> | Theme by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060506205426/http://www.gfxedit.com/"><strong>GFX</strong>edit.com</a> |</p> </div></div> </body> </html>