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July 27, 2008
The Nuke Deal (or No Deal)?
In my last post I talked about the trust vote. In this post however, I try to focus on why is there a deal being done. Remember I do not represent any party and the views in the post are completely mine.
Now, The Nuke Deal, 123 agreement has had it’s share of criticism, people are asking questions if it means power or something else?
The question people are really asking are :-
1. Does India really have a shortage of the Nuclear Fuel, Uranium?
Answer : That’s actually wrongly put, Uranium is not the only nuclear fuel used in nuclear reactors. Other stuff like Thorium are also used. India has however been designing fast reactors based on thorium as fuel requiring very less uranium as the start up fuel. India has 0.8% of world uranium reserves that’s around 78,000 tones of that metal. Isn’t that enough? Yes it kinda is to generate electricity for India needs. India has also been able to built the FTBR (Fast Thorium Breeder Reactor) which can work wonders. Although this technology is still not implemented, people are quite sure that this process will work. This reactor basically breeds Uranium and Plutonium. Thus, we can double our capacity every 15-20 years, theoretically.
2. Does India have shortage of nuclear fuel [Uranium] and its technology to reprocess?
Answer : The development of FTBR, which not only breeds plutonium [Which can be used as input] but also breeds uranium. It is also called twin core reactor for its unique design. These all inputs prove that indeed we do have the technology to process and re-process nuclear fuels.
3. Is re-processing so important that without it we can’t prosper?
Answer : Hell to the yes, we need reprocessing of fuel to breed it and enhance our overall potential to generate power or electricity, whatever we use it for. This was in fact India’s three step program to achieve independency in nuclear power
4. Now the big(gest) question : What’s the purpose of this Indo-US deal then?
Answer : Today the world is not the correct representation of its constituents. The NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) and CTBT (Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty) do not treat responsible countries with a different attitude rather it favors only specific countries. No country can undo the process of the NPT or the CTBT. So basically to gain backdoor entry into nuclear club, this nuke deal is being done.
Being said that, I would further say this is not the only reason. In case of India, it gives it an opportunity to legitimize the nuclear weaponisation of the country. It also provides an opportunity to override the international rules for non-nuclear country as per the NPT. India has its own nuclear weapons programme. I earlier did say that our Uranium reserves are enough for power generation, but these very same reserves are also needed for the weapons programme. If they are used for weapons, we will not be able to re-process them. If this deal goes through, we can use the indigenous nuclear fuel for our weapons programme and use imported fuel for our power generation.
My reaction is quite obvious I guess, I kinda do support the Nuke Deal and I do expect the educated people to understand why. Heck, we can’t have a person who can’t even talk in English be the Prime Minister of our country nor can we have a extreme Hindu man becoming our PM, he’ll fuck the minorities up. The Muslims were rumored to be against the N-deal [WTF?] Omar Abdullah actually cleared that up in his speech on the day of the trust vote, it happens to be one of the best speeches made that day. Anyway this deal might be good for country and it might be bad, whatever it is, it’s gonna go through. So why don’t we just hope that it’s something good and that finally the government has started thinking about the common man? Even though that’s quite unlikely. I also don’t think that the government should hide the text of the N-deal. One of the people I discuss politics with actually went ahead and said there should have a public voting on this issue. I guess if they did have a public voting it would have wasted time that this government and the Bush administration didn’t have. Anyway now we’ll see some reforms which the Left didn’t approve of being made, so I guess that’s a good thing.
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July 9, 2008
The Amarnath Land-Row: Explained
On July 6th, about 50 Kashmiri Pandits, protesting the revocation of the land allotment to the Amarnath shrine board, were detained on Sunday after they barged into Water Resources Minister Saifuddin Soz’s home in New Delhi. Kashmiri Pandits gathered at Jantar Mantar to voice their anger against the Jammu and Kashmir government’s decision to revoke the land transfer order.
Now what the problem seems to be is that the Central government had allotted a certain amount of land for the ‘yatris’ of Amarnath, a holy place for Hindu’s. However the state government revoked the land transfer order. The Congress spokesperson said that they had temporarily allotted land and not ‘transferred’ it.
Anyway, there was a bandh held by the B.J.P [Bhartiye Janta Party] in all the states of India. The Bandh even affected the capital and the financial capital of the country. One person was also killed during violent protests in Indore on the day of the ‘India bandh’
This soon became a matter of religion and more than 60 people have died so far. The Governor of J&K [Azad] resigned soon after that because he ‘couldn’t handle the situation’ Making the already weakened government to be sad about something else too.
Even though the yatris and the government of J&K said that the ‘yatra’ was going on ’smoothly’ the ‘Hindu’ parties refused to believe it and went on with a bandh. Which caused, the life in Jammu and Kashmir came to a standstill for quite a while.
Now the questions most of the people ask are why was the land ‘taken back’ from the yatris? Now I can’t answer that nor can Google [atm]
The Amarnath yatra is taken by thousands of yatris every year and there have been no/poor facilities for them since the start. So why the sudden need for facilities? Okay, fine lame question, but the yatri has been going on since a long time and the Kashmiri Muslims have always supported the yatra. Now why this? The Kashmiri Muslims, on their blog make it a point to focus on the fact that they think the land should be given to the Shrine board, hell every educated Muslim is probably thinking the same thing now. And I agree with them but sadly the people don’t run the government even in a democracy.
The yatra has now, however been resumed and as India limps back once again from communal violence, we at The Drunk Santa, feel the need to tell you that riots and violence and politics won’t solve anything in our country.
A extremist Hindu wants to murder every Muslim man out there -An extremist Muslim wants to do something similar. We’re not America nor are we the United Kingdom, we are the worlds largest democracy in the world, and it’s time for us to grow up, we are however also quite famous for communal politics. And no, we are not telling you to be Gandhi. We are trying to tell you that if this keeps happening, it’s not gonna just affect the Indian political party leaders or the family of the people who die on the streets, but it’ll affect us all, it’ll affect our society.
So what do we do? We blog about it and write it in our diary, hoping that the government would listen to the people for once. While the government focuses more on how-they-will-survive-the-nuclear test, we the people suffer and witness bad communal politics.
Posted by Pwnster on
May 24, 2008
Illegal Indians
The story that has gripped the nation, the blasts which have been given less importance then the IPL matches. We, at The Drunk Santa, cover it exclusively. Out tag being “If it becomes news, it’ll be on The Drunk Santa.” Yeah news can be more difficult to read and ‘create’ then Mughal-e-Azam’s dialogues. One has to be dramatic and look serious even when you’re laughing like shit inside.
So let’s get to the jaw-gripping story, 5 people from Bangladesh have been arrested, as they are the suspects of the more then a week old bomb blasts in Jaipur, Rajasthan.
Those 5 Bangladeshis have all government papers, which prove that they are Indian (According to NDTV.) So, they are basically illegal Indians if I am not wrong.
Now see, we follow in the footsteps of our favorite developed nation also known on TDS as ‘big brother’, like them we arrest people on the basis of their community, if a bunch of people from Bangladesh were connected to the blast that doesn’t mean every Bangladeshi is a terrorist.
I am not saying that they are not in anyway related to the blasts, maybe they are, but arresting them on the fact they are Bangladeshis ‘ain’t kool dawg’. Either they are Indians or they are illegal migrants from Bangladesh who just by the by happen to have all documents which can prove that they are Indians.
Sure we can blame our highly corrupted officers but we can and will blame the Bangladeshi government, as they cannot take care of their own people, and I speak here on behalf of all Youngistaanies in Hindustan XD. And then their people come here and do ‘things’ by ‘things’ I mean stuff like the ‘OMG-like-very-scary’ bomb blasts and prostitution, yes well according to another NDTV report most of the prostitutes in India are from Bangladesh.
Of course you can find illegal migrants in every country, even an undeveloped country. But it really does matter how the government take on this problem, our government decided to follow Bush-ism and I guess we are not far from the day we are at war with a small country XD. This time I don’t have any pointers for them, not because I can think of any, but because the government is doing oh-so-darn’-well.
Some political party in 2007 had written a letter about the growing problem of illegal migrants in Jaipur, the center replied with a letter saying that they be put in camps and later on we can deal with them, and you just have to say ‘What the F?’ here. (Yes, Wassup Youngistaan on MTV is like OMG-better-then-Roadies)
Anyhoo, I’ll wrap it up here, this news report was sponsored by Tata Sky -isko laga dala toh life jing-alalala.
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Posted by Sumit on
May 16, 2008
Big Religion
Statutory Warning:
This post may contain a lot of religiously offensive material. Well, if you think about it, not really, but there’ll always be the boneheaded. And since we love our audience so much..
Okay, so I went to see Akshardham (Delhi) today. For those of you who don’t know what that is:
“BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham in New Delhi, India, is the world’s largest comprehensive Hindu temple. It measures 356 ft. long, 316 ft. wide and 141 ft. high, covering an area of 86,342 sq. ft. The grand, ancient-style, ornately hand-carved stone temple has been built without structural steel within five years by 11,000 artisans and volunteers. His Holiness Pramukh Swami Maharaj, revered spiritual leader of BAPS, consecrated the temple on 6 November 2005.”
It has its name now in the Guinness Book of World Records too.
Yay for us?
On a personal level, I felt more disturbed than awed by the sight. See what bothers me here is, this is vaguely reminiscent of the times when all progress was chucked out the window and buildings, magnificent ones, were built left right and center. This was the time when dear old Mughal and co. were in the driving seat. The rich were filthy rich and the poor were dying. Enter the British.
When the poor were dying and illiteracy was rampant, when there are regions in this country where art forms along with artisans are dying, when children young and old are sold off and ruthlessly disabled to be used as beggars, when we won’t talk about sex in our houses while we have a huge and an un-talked problem of forced incest and when issues like child education, child labor and diseases like AIDS are mostly ignored; what we need is a huge mandir. Sure. We already went ahead and demolished the Babri Masjid, killing off countless people in the process. Lets have another huge mandir, the Raam Janambhoomi mandir. That’ll help India shine. Oh and while we’re at it lets throw in a few Peace memorials and random parks (which serve no real purpose since they are no where near residential areas) for fun. Yes, what we need is more pointless structures, more money and time being wasted behind parliamentary discussions on “Is the name Bombay Scottish ruining our culture”, more commonwealth “villages” that’ll show how super fu**ing advanced India is and some more random boneheads, who just can’t comprehend what “cosmopolitan” means breaking things and making good people lose money.
Anyway, the coolest part of Akshardham is, its a temple, sure, but its also a mall and an amusement park at the same time; an amusement temple if you will. An IMAX, boat rides, light and sound and an air conditioned food court. It is amazing how God has so subtly been converted into a business plan.
Oh did I hear someone say “Teach children values and culture?” and “If thats what holds their interest why not?”. Why don’t we just package candy with a picture of God on top and a “did you know” underneath? That’d do the job pretty too. And we’ll make a killing on profits too. But no, that is where we cross the line. We can murder in the name of God, we can occupy any land we want (which might belong to some good man who has invested his life’s savings in it) and keep a few random stones and call it a temple, we can damage public property, we can dupe foreigners hell we can purchase some kid, teach him some random “shlokas” and put the bugger on the job. But candy wrappers? Really? Is Santa drunk today?
Moral of the story, culture and the heritage comes first. We are a nation of a billion (minus some) blind people who just refuse to see the past screaming “I’m friggin history, don’t repeat me!”.
And we’re a big country, the homeless will find some railway track to live beside anyway.