To Moderator(s), Vinnomot
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
There are in total two posts which I want to put. This, and another. Please consider them.
-- Nigel J. Shaughnessy
Tuesday 18th March 2008
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NCII 2007: COMMENTS ON SOME SPEAKERS' POINTS
The National Convention on Independent India 2007 was held on Sunday 16th December 2007 at Le Meridien Hotel, Pune. Invitees and speakers included Abdul Kalam, Ram Jethmalani, Vijay Bhatkar, and many others. Here are my points with reference to some points raised by the speakers:
(1) In the convention, Ram Jethmalani said that the 123-Treaty/ Hyde Act has given tribute to India and praised the democracy of India in both houses of the USA assembly. I have three points on this:
1.(a) I say: Why should a country like USA, who is doing nothing for the horrors that take place in Africa, Iraq, and South America (among others), take such an interest in the progress and development of India? Think, friends, think. USA surely has an ulterior motive.
1.(b) I say: Only a small portion of India's power would be utilised as nuclear energy (just about 8%). We would build nuclear plants whose waste we cannot throw away. Also, in order to maintain the plants we will be forced to buy from the USA so many products, parts, etc. By the 123 Treaty, USA wants to gradually control India.
1.(c) On India's democracy, I say: The democracy in India is a fake democracy, as India's maverick ex-bureaucrat Arun Bhatia has rightly pointed out repeatedly. You can talk against Bush, against Stalin, against Hitler. But can any one of us oppose, challenge or question even a local corporator of, let us say, Poona or Bombay? Try it, friends, and then you will see how democratic India is.
(2) In the convention, Ram Jethmalani said we have lost our moral courage because of Russia's support to us on Kashmir. I say: we will lose all our morals and sovereignty (not only courage or moral courage), if we go into the hands of USA by the 123-Treaty.
(3) I say: When Arun Shourie was disinvestment minister, much of the government's useful enterprises and premises were sold off, and that too, for a song. Both Arun Shourie and Manmohan Singh were employees of IMF or World Bank. Also, Manmohan was an RBI governor. From this you can now know why our government property and premises were sold off, and why the whole of India is being sold to the USA by the 123-Treaty.
(4) In the convention, Vijay Bhatkar talked of India's rôle of man on the moon, supercomputers, etc. I say: What is the use of all that if many are starving? How many malls have sprung up, but outside them the poor are still poorer, and the beggars are still beggars.
Regards,
-- Nigel J. Shaughnessy
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