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VS Jones
when prejudice hinders progress
by VS Jones on Apr 14, 2009 11:18 AM  | Hide replies

Rajeev's article is reflective of the mindset which sees promise(as in the case of Tharoor) but cannot grasp it because of prejudice or ignorance.

Some basic Bible reading will help him to define who a Christian is and not thereby brand the LTTE and Maoists as Christians.

When a lie borne out of prejudice is repeated several times, it becomes accepted as the truth. Columnists should not commit that error.

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Deepak MA
Re: when prejudice hinders progress
by Deepak MA on Apr 14, 2009 11:51 AM
Well Jones, lets accept the nexus between many rogue christian elements and the Maoists and the likes... they are working with the policy of you scratch mine and I will scratch your back.

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Rajan Shah
Re: when prejudice hinders progress
by Rajan Shah on Apr 14, 2009 11:35 AM
Jonesy boy, talking of lies, do your lot still consider Hindus as stone worshiping heathens who will never achieve salvation.

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R Tyagi
Re: when prejudice hinders progress
by R Tyagi on Apr 14, 2009 11:52 AM
It is not prejudice or ignorance on Rajeev's part. May be perhaps on yours.

Christ is not same as Christians, nor is Bible same as Christ or Christians.

No God perpetuates hatred. But followers can.

So, perhaps your interpretation of article has a prejudice where you consider that every Christian is an equal and abiding follower, which considering human nature is among the most unlikely to be truth.

Re-read without prejudice and article may start to make sense to you.

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vox populi
Re: when prejudice hinders progress
by vox populi on Apr 14, 2009 11:27 AM
truth always hurts--LTTE is achristian organisation supported by european countries like norway--christians funded maoists in orissa to kill laxmichand-so stop preaching and pretending to be virtous.

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Sam M
You deleted my post Rajeev
by Sam M on Apr 14, 2009 11:14 AM  | Hide replies

YOu should have guts to answer that !

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Sam M
Re: You deleted my post Rajeev
by Sam M on Apr 14, 2009 11:16 AM
Most of the article is an Indirect praising of self .I can tell you what is your dilemma .You are a Pro BJP and probably an upper cast but also want to see Shashi tharoor wins may be due to similar caste feeling or personal grounds as you said .If Tharoor had been an BJP candidate then you would not be having such a dilemma .Good that Tharoor choose congress I also support him .It because he may have experience in such fields where a common Mallu cant even think about .We need people out of well (Kerala) to understand Kerala through a third eye. I wish to see the down fall of Communist

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Deepak MA
Re: Re: You deleted my post Rajeev
by Deepak MA on Apr 14, 2009 11:54 AM
Sam, when someone speaks for Hindu rights, why do you get agitated? Are Hindus cows for you guys to milk and then finally devour??

What makes you say that mallus have not made it in life... successive high post close to the PMO was run by a mallu and many a times screwed it up as well. And shed the anti-BJP thing... be a little more positve.

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afzal aziz
RSS / VHP / BJP article- Balatant lie!!!!!
by afzal aziz on Apr 14, 2009 11:10 AM  | Hide replies

The person Rajeev Srinivasan who claims to be an intellectual is very much pro -vhp and that is his problem with Shasi and of course with congress.

The theft in a temple done some local thieves was reported in the Malayala Monorama in the front page as the top headline. The Hindu newspaper also reported it.

So Rajeev Srinivasan is blatantly lying just to corner some Hindu sentiments.

How come a theft in temple becomes communal?????

If the thieves are found out to be non-Hindus, then people like Rajeev Srinivasan will shout at the top of the voice it was ISI / pak / Vatican behind it. That is their culture!!!!!!!







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Deepak MA
Re: RSS / VHP / BJP article- Balatant lie!!!!!
by Deepak MA on Apr 14, 2009 11:55 AM
So Christians and Muslims are finally united eh? After converting the Hindus, they will train their eyes on you. Be pragmatic and dont get carried away!

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ashish sahu
Re: RSS / VHP / BJP article- Balatant lie!!!!!
by ashish sahu on Apr 14, 2009 11:30 AM
Wake up my freind.....
congress is using Divide and Rule policy.
they are using minorities only for vote-bank........
if someone talks for hindus its communalism and someone talks for minorities is secularism....
Congress is a real shi*t

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Sebastian
Shashi Tharoor
by Sebastian on Apr 14, 2009 11:02 AM  | Hide replies

Come on my friend,Rajeev.It is high time that educated and qualified people like Shashi and Capt.Gopinath get into Indian politics and do their bit clean up the mess.It is tough..but that is the only way to grow prosper and lead the world. If you can't enter and do your bit,please stop advising others!

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Bharathi
Re: Shashi Tharoor
by Bharathi on Apr 14, 2009 11:17 AM
converted sebastian - the problem is your complex when facts are exposed here. Whos is theresa? is she a saint..go learn abt narayana guru and chattambi swamigal and re-convert to ur ancestral faith, dear.

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Sam M
Re: I dont undertsand what is your delima
by Sam M on Apr 14, 2009 11:05 AM
Also Mr Rajeev don’t put communal breed at least in Kerala .Kerala has known for its secular image .Here we don’t fight in the name of religion. We may have differences in the on caste basis but not in religion basis .Even though I am a Hindu I still Christanity in kerla is the one which has opened door to education .And Muslims ,they are the Business Community of Kerala and they opened doors for GUlF as Hindus we should be thankful to these two religions .What ever may happen out side Kerala Whether in Sri Lanka ,Palestine or Kashmir That is not our problem .And Please dont try to impart your world knowledge to the common man on the road Its disgusting .

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vijaya kumar
Congress is th most dangerous communal party in India
by vijaya kumar on Apr 14, 2009 10:51 AM  | Hide replies

Congress people killed more than 5000 sikhs in Delhi and other parts of India, nobody got punished. Congress people/its minority cell burned karsewkas including women and children in the train at Godhra led to violence in Gujarat. Christian fundamentalists (supporters of congress) hired Maoists and killed Swamji and their associates in Kandamal led to violence in Orissa. Congress people/its minority cell involved in almost all riots and killings happened in India after Independence. Kashmiri pundits are thrown out of Kashmir and staying in other parts of India as refugees. Congress questioned even the existence of God Shriramji and bent to destroy Ram Sethu. Afzal guru is enjoying picnic in the so called jail. Congress has created many mini pakistan and mini Bangladesh in India by giving voting rights and citizen ships to Bangladeshi and pakis and they are now vote banks of congress. Congress and communists are ruling Kerala by taking support of aninational and Islamic fundamentalists parties like Muslim League and PDP.Congress is the most dangerous communal party in India. Congress made India a pakistan in making. Main achievement of congress for the last 55 years is poor become poorest and rich become richest.

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Johncy John
Re: Congress is th most dangerous communal party in India
by Johncy John on Apr 14, 2009 11:06 AM
Brother, Sorry to tell that you know nothing and like other political leaders you see only bad things in others. Please do not forget every party had an oppurtunity to form government in the past years. Still everyone is fighting poverty. My personal opinion congress is one the right party who can take India forward.

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Ratnesh Kumar
Re: Re: Congress is th most dangerous communal party in India
by Ratnesh Kumar on Apr 14, 2009 11:49 AM
I think you see more bad/sin in others, it applies more to you. Congress certainly has been taking India forward for decades and it always keeps scope to take India further forward.
Congress is like those old time Jamindars who just suck others keep them rotting, so that they can rule them.

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vox populi
Re: Re: Congress is th most dangerous communal party in India
by vox populi on Apr 14, 2009 11:29 AM
your name reflects your communal mindset and you people have the temerity to call us communal.

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vijaya kumar
Re: Re: Re: Congress is th most dangerous communal party in India
by vijaya kumar on Apr 14, 2009 12:49 PM
vox
truth is always bitter.

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ashish sahu
Re: Re: Congress is th most dangerous communal party in India
by ashish sahu on Apr 14, 2009 11:33 AM
i guess u are a real dumb.....
congress is using minorities only for vote-bank....
Just check how many blasts in last yr alone...instead of giving importance to security....they are pointing on Varun's hate speech and kandahar episode....real fool still feels that congress is rite party......
pity for u guys!!!!

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Deepak MA
Re: Re: Congress is th most dangerous communal party in India
by Deepak MA on Apr 14, 2009 11:56 AM
You are entitled to your opinion. The basis for that is too obvious.

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vijaya kumar
Re: Re: Congress is th most dangerous communal party in India
by vijaya kumar on Apr 14, 2009 11:41 AM
Johncy john,
In my opinion now there is only fake congress and Gandhi's available. congress dead in 1947. After that it was Nehru & family pvt. Ltd.Now it is sonia & Co. They are least bothered about poor people or India. They want only to continue their dynastic rule by hook and or by crook.

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mathew jacob
How does rediff let this guy write this?
by mathew jacob on Apr 14, 2009 10:48 AM  | Hide replies

Rediff of late seems to have lost it's very identity, or Rajeev Srinivasan has acquired a majority stake in Rediff. It's surprising Rediff lets someone like Rajeev vent his personal feelings about another person in his columns.Rajeev's exact problem with Shashi is that he's contesting on a Congress ticket;and not a BJP one.From Shashi's candidature as is always the case with Rajeev,he brings in his rabid right wing agenda.Having lived in America for sometime now,I can say this with conviction.The American government is least bothered who runs colleges.To the American Government, religion and politics are distinctly different entities, and so is it to the American citizen.No wonder,Good Friday is not a holiday in America.I've also wondered where all this conversion Rajeev keeps barking about is taking Christianity in India.For eons India's Christian population has been less than 2%.Well, about the rail and road work in Kerala,Rajeev possibly does not know the Golden Quadrilateral project totally avoided Kerala because no Keralite would sacrifice an inch of his land for the Road project.Why blame everyone else for the Keralite's attitude?And, who is preventing Hindus from starting and running colleges may I ask?You only have to drive from Cochin to Bangalore to see the dozens of colleges on either side of the highway in tamilnadu.All of them have names like Vinayaga,Maharaja and so on.I do not know if Vinayaga sounds Christian to Rajeev.Rediff,please.....

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Rajan Shah
Re: How does rediff let this guy write this?
by Rajan Shah on Apr 14, 2009 11:32 AM
Yup, Christianity in India is less then 2%, just as it used to be in Australia, Canada, USA, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Nigeria, South Africa....and many other places, yes it only USED to be 2%.

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Deepak MA
Re: How does rediff let this guy write this?
by Deepak MA on Apr 14, 2009 11:59 AM
Yes 35% of people of India are rabid, Mathew. Will you cull us?? Nobody is as rabid as your vatican ilk. Surviving on rubbish commissioned by Constantine to consolidate his empire, you now find every person who admits to be a Hindu to be rabid! Go on... you will attain salvation... the man whom you prostate to, would be wondering how people who take his name could spew so much hatred and be so ruthlussy cunning and cocky!

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vox populi
Re: How does rediff let this guy write this?
by vox populi on Apr 14, 2009 11:32 AM
mathew jacob-chk rabid christians like the republicans in the US as also barking channels like fox news-then preach ---

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Bharathi
Re: How does rediff let this guy write this?
by Bharathi on Apr 14, 2009 11:27 AM
2%?
frauds like ysr reddy , ambika soni, mass killer jagdish tytler keep hindu names but theu r fanatic x-ians. so if you count the moist numbeders as well, the 'converted' pulayas will make a higher percentage.
Hindus do not have privileges like converted christians when it comes to education institutions. you guys dont have any taxes, but people of this land need to pay taxes. Hindu temples are looted by x-ans, marxists, muslims. basically hindus face aparthied in their own land while x-ians like raphel chennath cries foul. he is a real fascist who wants to seel our country to vatican terrorists

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sg sg
Shashi is a hypocrete
by sg sg on Apr 14, 2009 10:35 AM

What rajeev is said is correct and paints shashi a hypocrete. The senior member of the UN has all the information that he needs to see the facts on the kashmiri refugees and the hindus in pak and bangaldesh, but still chooses to ignore the facts as he wants to say the right (read anti hindu) statements as pe rthe congress who has given him a ticket. I say no amount of higher education then seems to be enough to have a morally correct person fit enough for elections.

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john kannattu
LTTE ON THE BACK FOOT
by john kannattu on Apr 14, 2009 10:19 AM

To say that christian run terrorist organisation is LTTE which is kiiling Hindus is totally false statement. It is a tamilian movement and tamilians hardly care about their religion when it comes to their identity. Now LTTE is actually on the back foot, thousands of tamilians are being killed, due to the wrong doing of LTTE, but we should not distort facts.

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Vivek Heg
Excellent article Rajeev
by Vivek Heg on Apr 14, 2009 09:11 AM

Rajeev, Thanks and please keep hammering the point across repeatedly, because lot of Indians have very thick skull even in this day and age. Its either outright hatred for Hindus or the slave colonial mindset does not allow these Indians to see bigger picture.

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