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- Overwhelming public support for Anna Hazare [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/unitedhindufront/t/659b0987854b6d75
- Export surge or return of black money?-Virendra Parekh-26 August
2011 [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/unitedhindufront/t/dabbbfcab42827f2
- Rakhi --- Promise to Protect the Indian Motherland [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/unitedhindufront/t/bcdb91c31b0debfa
- My crime was - I am a Hindu! [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/unitedhindufront/t/969c0ea3aacb9ec2
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Topic: Overwhelming public support for Anna Hazare
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/unitedhindufront/t/659b0987854b6d75
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From: United Hindu Front <unitedhindufront@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 26 02:33PM -0700
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/unitedhindufront/msg/92f379552e01d191
A public opinion poll in the Capital has indicated an overwhelming
support for social activist Anna Hazare, with 68 per cent of the
respondents saying that his efforts would help in introduction of a
strong Lokpal Bill in Parliament.
The survey, conducted by the Delhi-based Shyam Vyas MARC, covered
responses from 616 people, mostly college students, in different parts
of the city to gauge public expectations, views and perceptions
regarding Anna Hazare's movement and government action.
A question whether Anna will finally be able to make a dent and reduce
corruption, evoked a mixed response. While 44 per cent of the
respondents supported him, 48 per cent were uncertain about the
outcome.
However, the respondents agreed unanimously that Anna was receiving
massive public support because the common man was fed up with
corruption at all levels.
According to the poll, 96 per cent respondents felt that the powerful
can get away with anything and the government was breeding a culture
of non-accountability, 88 per cent said the government was apathetic
to public grievances and 84 per cent expressed frustration over
unfulfilled promises by politicians.
In all, 84 per cent respondents said they believed that Anna was
getting support because he was perceived as a good human being. A
whopping 92 per cent was of the opinion that the Prime Minister should
have intervened to prevent Anna's arrest and his being sent to Tihar
Central Jail.
"The decision to arrest Anna, according to 88 per cent respondents,
was made by senior Ministers, while 12 per cent believed it was the
Prime Minister himself who gave the go-ahead. Only 4 per cent believed
that Delhi Police took the decision on their own."
All the respondents questioned the sincerity of the senior Union
Ministers who had negotiated with Team Anna, while 92 per cent
believed that the international media attention over the entire
sequence of events had adversely dented the country's image.
All the respondents knew Anna Hazare and about his initiative to bring
a strong Lokpal Bill. They were aware of him having undertaken a fast
and having been arrested and put in Tihar Jail.
"A whopping 96 per cent of the respondents stated that they approved
of Anna Hazare's initiative. The rest were either uncertain or
disapproved of it," said the survey report.
On the handling of the situation by the Prime Minister and his
Ministers, 84 per cent disapproved of it, whereas 16 per cent were
uncertain.
"In all, 84 per cent respondents believed that Anna has managed to
galvanise public opinion on corruption as never before in recent
times. Sixteen per cent were uncertain, while no one was in
disagreement."
A huge 92 per cent of the respondents believed that Anna and his
efforts have shown the Central Government in poor light and on the
side of the corrupt. Only 8 per cent were uncertain. Eighty per cent
believed that the damage to the ruling party and coalition was huge
and even the Prime Minister's image had taken a hit.
In all, 88 per cent of respondents were of the opinion that Anna's
efforts have given hope to the common man that corruption can be
removed.
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Topic: Export surge or return of black money?-Virendra Parekh-26 August 2011
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/unitedhindufront/t/dabbbfcab42827f2
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From: "Sandhya Jain " <sandhya206@bol.net.in>
Date: Aug 26 07:08AM +0530
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/unitedhindufront/msg/8873c3b6c804bd90
http://www.vijayvaani.com/FrmPublicDisplayArticle.aspx?id=1933
Export surge or return of black money?
Virendra Parekh
26 August 2011
Is India's export performance too good to be true? Has the world
suddenly become enamoured of Indian merchandise? Or is the illicit
wealth stashed abroad by unscrupulous Indians coming back as export
proceeds?
Undeniably, India's export performance in recent months has been
nothing short of spectacular. In July, exports grew by a whopping 81.5
per cent year-on-year to reach $29.30 billion. Total merchandise
exports during April-July stood at $108.3 billion, registering a
growth of 54 per cent. In the year ended March 2011, as the economy
recovered from the impact of the global financial crisis, India's
exports grew a record 37.6 percent to $246 billion.
Frankly, these numbers are puzzling. The world economy has hardly been
in great shape, and, till recently, the exchange rate had appreciated
very sharply, particularly in real terms, over the last two years.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had some time ago identified global demand
and the exchange rate level as the two most important drivers of
export growth. And this stands to reason: most of India's exports
consist of non-differentiated goods which are principally traded on
the basis of comparative advantage in prices in the invoicing
currency. These prices in turn depend on the exchange rate.
In March, the government admitted that merchandise import data were
underestimated owing to a technical glitch. Could a similar error, but
in the opposite direction, have occurred in the exports data?
No, says Mr. K T Chacko, director of Indian Institute of Foreign
trade. Export data released by the Directorate General of Commercial
Intelligence and Statistics, he points out, are based on shipping
bills submitted by exporters to port authorities and customs stations
across the country. Since exporters are entitled to duty
reimbursements under various export promotion schemes, they
subsequently file bank statements of receipt of export proceeds for
claiming such benefits. There is no incentive for any official agency
to inflate or deflate the export data.
Still, what explains the unprecedented growth in exports? The surge is
attributed to phenomenal performance by engineering products, bullion
and petroleum products. India, we are told, has reduced its dependence
on traditional export markets such as Europe and US, and focused on
some promising markets in Asia, Africa and Latin America. This
diversification of export basket and export markets, we are told, has
paid off.
If there were any doubts about the genuineness of export numbers and
plausibility of official explanations for them, these were confined to
some of the local economists and some sections within the Reserve Bank
of India.
But now they have come in question from an important class of
stakeholders: foreign investors. Wealthy foreign investors, hedge
funds and institutions ask FIIs to handle their money. They also
purchase participatory notes – an instrument that allows them to trade
in Indian stocks – from FIIs and foreign brokerages. Besides the great
consumption story that enabled India to weather the crisis in 2008,
these investors have been drawn by India's robust export figures.
These investors are now asking their India portfolio managers and
India economists with MNC banks, on whom they rely for advice and
research reports to buy shares, whether the recent export data are to
be trusted in the face of some glaring anomalies.
Interestingly, for the first time, value of exports (FOB or free on
board) from India is higher than value of world imports (which
includes cost, insurance and freight). Logically, exports should be a
little lower than reported import numbers at the buyers' end which
include insurance and freight.
Then again, monthly trade statistics from IMF indicate that other
countries' numbers on import from India do not match with the commerce
ministry's numbers on exports from India. For example, in India's
trade data, exports to Indonesia, Pakistan, China, South Africa, Iran
reportedly grew by close to 100 per cent in the three months prior to
January 2011. But numbers from most of these countries on imports from
India do not show a corresponding growth. Also, Chinese data of
imports from India show that growth is almost nil in the past eight
months, with a dip in May 2011.
Jefferies, a global securities and investment banking group, has
pointed out in a recent strategy note that export acceleration is not
reflected in shipment data. Also, the reports say that production
statistics from industries like auto and iron & steel do not justify
the high export growth in these sectors. "Eight months is a long
enough period for these numbers to not be counted as statistical
oddities" the note says, adding that "there is no statistical
beneficial low base effect in exports currently". "Right or not,
export data needs inspection," the note contends.
There is another explanation, difficult to prove but quite plausible.
Unscrupulous politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen, who have
stashed their illicit wealth abroad, are bringing some of it back to
the country in the name of exports. Quite a few of them have helpful
outfits functioning abroad. This mode of repatriation of secret wealth
not only launders money, but also earns export incentives as bonus.
Here is a related bit of information. The agreement signed with
Switzerland for sharing banking information on demand is likely to
come into force by September. The government has received information
about Indians having accounts in Swiss banks and is taking appropriate
action to bring back funds stashed abroad. Deposits of Indians in
Swiss banks have shown a steady decline over the years and had more
than halved to Rs. 9,295 crore last year from about Rs. 23,373 crore
in 2006, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said quoting Swiss
National Bank data.
Indeed, what is happening in exports and Swiss bank accounts may be
part of a larger development. As is known, there are a couple of
dozens of states which happily act as safe havens for tax evaders of
the world. Indians who have secreted away their unaccounted (mostly
ill-gotten) wealth in these places are a worried lot. The anonymity
and security of their vaults can no longer be taken for granted. The
repeated promises and assurances from the government of impending
action to detect these accounts and take appropriate action are
actually a wake up call for the corrupt.
In the circumstances, it makes eminent sense at least to shift the
money to a safer place. It would be even better if the money can be
laundered and brought back to India, repatriation becomes an
attractive option. Exports are just one of the routes for the
home-bound money. It is this money which has set gold on fire, which
has sent owned homes beyond the reach of the middle class and is
fuelling speculation in all commodities including food grains, edible
oils and sugar.
Large chunks of illicit wealth stashed away by unscrupulous Indians
are already returning home. That is bigger news than the surge in
exports.
The author is Executive Editor, Corporate India, and lives in Mumbai
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Topic: Rakhi --- Promise to Protect the Indian Motherland
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/unitedhindufront/t/bcdb91c31b0debfa
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From: Hindu Samhati Media <media@hindusamhati.com>
Date: Aug 25 10:33PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/unitedhindufront/msg/90ff89c4da91f6b9
Rakhi --- Promise to Protect the Indian Motherland<http://www.hindusamhati.org/>
*13th August was Rakhi-Bandhan. On 14th August, Secular India was carved up
to appease the Islamist activists to create Islamic Pakistan. And with
Pakistan's birth, the Congress Party gained control of India.*
*
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*15th August is a day of Suffering, Tragedy and Remembrance for us. All of
this was made in practical on 'The Great Calcutta Killing" of 16th August,
1946 via the genocide enacted in Kolkata.*
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*We must not have infamous August 16th occur again on the holy land of
Bengal. In 1905, Gurudeb Rabindranath Tagore initiated Rakhi Bandhan as a
public festival to halt the disection of the Bengali Motherland.*
*
*
*In commemoration of the world renowned poet's 150th birth anniversary, and
of the Holy Rakhi Festival, Hindu Samhati Appeals to all of Hindu Society to
place the Rakhi-Band on the right hand of every Hindu Brother. And by tying
the Sacred Rakhi let us Promise that We Will Protect Mother Bengal and
Mother India.*
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*Hindu Samhati Media
media@hindusamhati.com*
*www.hindusamhati.org*
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Topic: My crime was - I am a Hindu!
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/unitedhindufront/t/969c0ea3aacb9ec2
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From: InterfaithShaadi <interfaithshaadi@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 25 10:42PM -0700
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/unitedhindufront/msg/846cd2909f33809f
*My crime was - I am a Hindu!*
Laxmi* is a young, beautiful and intelligent lady, but she experiences
depression many times. She is questioning why she has to migrate to the USA
and face all hardships in life. She feels pain for her past and current
situation. She does not have any hope for her life but wish her children
will have a better life.
Laxmi was born in Bhutan. In her childhood, her family was forced to migrate
to Nepal. The *m**ain reason* *they were kicked out of their own country was
- they are Hindus!!!* She spent 22 years in a make-shift tent in a camp
along with thousands of other
refugees<http://www.google.com/search?q=bhutanese+refugees&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&prmd=ivnsu&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=x6JVTuifNsrUiALz6eS3CQ&ved=0CD4QsAQ&biw=1335&bih=658>.
Their presence was a burden to the host country but no other country,
including India, was willing to accept these Hindus. Finally, under UN
efforts, recently Laxmi arrived to New Jersey along with 60 other Bhutanese
refugee families.
In refugees' camp in Nepal, Laxmi managed to get a BA degree and also
learned English. However in the USA, she could find only a labor job. The US
government took care of their rent for first 6 months, but now they are on
their own living in a poor neighbourhood. Her father, in only forties, is
willing to work hard but do not know English. Further, he is gradually
loosing his eye sight due to untreated severe blood pressure while in
refugees' camp. Her family is certainly with limited means and in a state of
confusion in their new homeland. However, they are thankful to a few Hindu
volunteers who managed to get them some basic needs. Laxmi is also thankful
to Mira who is guiding her to go for further education and giving her some
hopes for life.
*Name is altered for privacy.
*How I met Laxmi? *It was a time for me to move from New Jersey to San
Francisco for a new job. My huge house was on sale. I realized that I am
suffering from American excesses!! My garage was full with give-away cloths,
appliances and toys, but I don't know where to dump them. I checked with
local *cloth drops* but realized that some of them are remotely linked to
churches. Many friends recommended major non-religious organizations that
will come and pick up cloths from my home, simple. When I inquired, I
learned that some of them simply sell cloths in bulk and use the cash for
their causes. When I search in Google for "Hindu cloth donation," I got many
Catholic Churches hits!! I was *determined to make sure my cloths don't end
up ultimately proselytizing innocent Hindus*. Finally a friend mentioned
about the Bhutanese refugees <http://www.bhutaneserefugees.com/>.
It was a day before my flight to San Francisco and had a big to-do list.
Still the cloths are sitting in my garage. Should I just dump these clothes
at some volunteer's home and increase their work? Finally my guilt feeling
compelled me to drive a long way and hand deliver those give-away to needy
end-users. I was touched by these Bhutanese's hospitality and welcome. I was
sad to see their condition and felt pain to hear of their 22 years of past
ordeal. I hope I made a small difference in their condition. If nothing
else, I realized that I am one of the most blessed people in this World. I
told my wife that I don't have time left to visit a temple before my move,
but glad to meet the God in person.
*How can YOU help?* If you bother to read this far, means you care for needy
in this World. These Bhutanese families could use your help in many
respects. If you wish to donate cloths, please wash, fold, box and deliver
to one of volunteers. These refugees could use your used furniture,
utensils, crib, stroller, toys, children books, pressure cooker and more. If
your time permits, spend an evening with them, teach them computer or drive
them to a temple. If you are a physician, they need medical attention. If
you wish to go further, you may adapt a family.
If you wish to help, please contact *Dr. Tulsi Maharjan* (908-369-4318;
trmaharjan@gmail.com) or *Arun Joshi* (732-820-0170; ArunJoshi212@yahoo.com
).
*About the author:* Dilip Amin, Ph. D. is providing free consultation to
young adults involved in an interfaith relationship at
www.InterfaithShaadi.org <http://www.interfaithshaadi.org/>.
If you cannot walk two steps with these needy Bhutanese Hindus, can you at
least forward this e-mail to your friends to help these innocent Hindus
victims? Hari Om!
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