How about putting off malaysian construction projects ...will give them something to run for!!....their ministers often come to India looking for opportunities...
The article is an excellent documentation of the calculated and well-thought misadventure of the Malaysian Government.The Government of India should give them a fitting reply. As the saying goes "A tit for tat".After all Malay Govt. has not been able to provide any justified reasons for the misdeed.We the Indians stand much ahead of them and they should ackowledge this.They should be punished commercially,strategically,and politically.
Very nice article. Could not agree more with you. This is one more opportunity to use Bal Thackeray's words "to show the world that we are not a bunch of eunuch's".
Folks, this article that i've just read made me think " is it just so easy to be able to write up an article in rediff.com???" You just have to start up with some episode that happens in our Bharat and start gagaa...ing and googooo...ing about UNcomparable events around the globe...AND VOILA YOU HAVE AN ARTICLE FOR REDIFF.COM !!!! LOL.....What strikes me as odd is that this guy (with the saffron pen likely....wink) is so very very much worried about the SKEWNESS of the PICTURE that is projected to the USA than with the HORROR of the REALITY which is threatening to tear apart our good old country. So our guy doesnt mind if his house is burning...he just wants the neighour to think that he is celebrating Diwali....lol What intentions doth rule over the human mind ????????? There WAS a time when MEN wrote with Pens that were mightier than swords...........But now we have LAYMEN whose pen will FETCH the swords....lol Forgive me folks....but that was just a piece of my mind !!!!!!
RE:Can anyone just write up an article in rediff.com ?????? LOL
by Varun Shekhar on Mar 21, 2003 02:42 AM
Actually, Rajeev's article is vastly superior to so much of the biased, unprincipled, turgid, cut'n'paste writing that passes for journalism on India(both in India and abroad). What exactly is objectionable about this article. Rajeev is probing the possible motives for a very nasty incident involving Indian software engineers in Malaysia. People who are not terrorists or illegal immigrants or criminals. Skilled individuals who were invited by the Malaysian government itself to work in the nascent software industry in that country. Rajeev has credibly explained this action as being motivated by Chinese gangster politics or by Islamic fundamentalism. And he has presented a good case. In what way is Rajeev's article inferior to say, Peter Popham, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Satindra Bindra or Praful Bidwai.Because he dares name China and Islamic fundamentalists?
Well written. By nature Chinese are always are bent on pulling their own kind up and pushing others down wherever they are. Being bought up there you get to see lots of this uncivilised behaviour by the so-called educated Chineese who look down on the Indians as a dark coloured race. They do control all the business there and there have been many instances in the past when Indians struggling to come up there make a break to start some busines only to be threatened or murdered by some Chinatown Gangster.
However that was 10 years ago, as you have so rightly said, the entry of IT professionals to Malaysia are in a different category altogether compared to the rubber-tappers and possess much more knowledge than even the money minded Chineese.
It remains to be seen how the indian community there fights this one out. I disagree with the view that fundamentalists are behind this, as I feel that although it is claimed that fundamentalism may be growing, the administration (which is to be praised for this) is still maintaining them at bay.
RE:Protecting their Turf
by Nikhil on Mar 21, 2003 04:56 PM
Steven You seem to miss the point what Rajeev was trying to make. Yes, there were the riots and even Rajeev has condemned those riots in the past. The target was the people who blew up these riots in the western media. Read the tripe that Arundati Roy/Pankaj Mishra and their ilk ahve written. In fact Arundati Roy even wrote that Muslims are denied employment in India and are not even served in restaurants. These are far from the truth. MAybe these writers have their noble intentions. However where is their nobility when Hindus are killed daily in J&K and ethnically cleansed in Bangladesh. When one reads about massacres of muslims in the predominantly islamic world such as Iraq(Kurds and Shias massacred), Pakistan(Shias massacred) and Algeria, one feels that Indian muslims are better off.
RE:Protecting their Turf
by Nikhil on Apr 23, 2003 12:07 PM
You are right about the Govt of Malaysia keeping fundamentalists at bay. However thse may be fanatical police officers acting on their own. As seen by events later (Dy PM apologised-God bless him). Both Ms Veena Sikri and he deserve to be complimented for the way they handled this.
We must improve our record first before beleiving in conspiracy theory against us. We must not allow any unlawful thing to happen. Roits and manhandling a person whatever his relegious belief, is not acceptable in a mature society! India has to be a land of law to get accepted in the world!! UC P
