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In MUMBAI Upper Caste girl gang rape case, Muslim convict photos are published in media;
In DELHI Upper Caste girl gang rape case, Lower Caste convict photos are published in media;
But in DABRA Lower Caste Untouchable Dalit girl gang rape case, Upper Caste convict photos are NOT published in media;
http://tehelka.com/violation-i...

Caste system is worse than terrorism.
What makes you think your parents/your children/your women/your houses/your properties are safe from sections of society whom you've abused for thousands of years?
http://tehelka.com/karnataka-how-a-government-job-spelt-doom-for-37-dalit-families/

Casteism is taught in schools from 6th class itself in India.
http://www.greatandhra.com/viewnews.php?id=30817&cat=10&scat=25
http://tehelka.com/karnataka-how-a-government-job-spelt-doom-for-37-dalit-families/
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/90-per-cent-of-people-vote-on-caste-lines-Katju/articleshow/18117893.cms
http://www.firstpost.com/india/wont-eat-in-vessels-cleaned-by-dalit-woman-say-children-in-gujarat-school-615541.html

If you really want to help them, please write to http://petitions.whitehouse.gov/ and http://pmindia.nic.in/feedback.php seeking Independent Nation for 300 million India's Untouchable People as per Congressman Trent Franks House Concurrent Resolution 139.
http://rediff.com/news/2007/may/03touch.htm
http://www.change.org/petitions/independent-nation-for-300-million-india-s-untouchables

India is an uncivilized nation for your girl child.
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/india-is-fourth-most-dangerous-place-in-the-world-for-women-poll/1/141639.html
1. Every 22 minutes a rape.
2. The conviction rate is below 25%.
3. Police refuse to register victim's complaint.
4. Insane politicians are saying gang-rape is consensual sex.
5. Rapist family members visit victim's house to show off their caste=hegemony.
http://ncrb.gov.in/CD-CII2011/cii-2011/Chapters.htm
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main54.asp?filename=Ne061012Dalit.asp
http://www.firstpost.com/india/a-rape-every-22-mins-what-makes-us-so-complacent-489080.html

India has also had an active thorium research program for several years. They happen to have the the second or third largest deposits of thorium sands in the world - some of it's actually the beach! :)

There is a project proposed to build a canal several miles from one of the best deposits to a deepwater port location, however this canal has some resistance on both cultural and environmental grounds.

I get the impression from various reading that most of India's work has been on a solid thorium-based reactor, rather than the molten salt method. This article is from October, but the Indians have been working since at least 2007, as I have seen some blogs from back then by folks who want to prevent export of this resource. If I read this article correctly, India's work on LFTR was one of the factors behind the deal with the US (the "so-called 123 Agreement") signed in 2007, allowing India some slack on nuclear fuel, materials and equipment, despite not being a signatory of the non-proliferation treaty.

Again if I read things right, India has at least one, maybe two reactors in operation that presently use solid Thorium as part of the fuel. They also have a successful design for a thorium based fast breeder reactor - but my personal issue with that is its ability to make U-233 which is a potential bomb material. See also this.

India has also had an active thorium research program for several years. They happen to have the the second or third largest deposits of thorium sands in the world - some of it's actually the beach! :)

There is a project proposed to build a canal several miles from one of the best deposits to a deepwater port location, however this canal has some resistance on both cultural and environmental grounds.

I get the impression from various reading that most of India's work has been on a solid thorium-based reactor, rather than the molten salt method. This article is from October, but the Indians have been working since at least 2007, as I have seen some blogs from back then by folks who want to prevent export of this resource. If I read this article correctly, India's work on LFTR was one of the factors behind the deal with the US (the "so-called 123 Agreement") signed in 2007, allowing India some slack on nuclear fuel, materials and equipment, despite not being a signatory of the non-proliferation treaty.

Again if I read things right, India has at least one, maybe two reactors in operation that presently use solid Thorium as part of the fuel. They also have a successful design for a thorium based fast breeder reactor - but my personal issue with that is its ability to make U-233 which is a potential bomb material. See also this.

Here is an alternate link since it appears the original site has been emptied.

Manik Saha was killed in Bangladesh.

Indian Media has repeatedly showed a propensity for tameness. A prominent recent counterexample is the sensationalist tehelka who had to reinvent themselves after a brutual clampdown by the NDA government, in reaction to a defense exposé. More on the tehelka controversy by a prominent Indian journalist, Vir Sanghvi.

This was the govt. led by a prominent leader who complained about the press' complaisance during the 1975-77 emergency of Indira Gandhi - the immortal remark - "When they were asked to bend, they crawled!" So true of the press in relation even to the NDA govt.

We need to look at this as seen from outside of the USA.

In this column in the Indian Online Magazine Tehelka, Swami Agnivesh warns the West that it would be dangerous to attempt a global, unilateral regime of the sort envisaged by the World Trade Organisation without a corresponding willingness to give up its parochial mindset. As he notes 'the Western commitment to equality remains suspect to the rest of us because they have not upheld this, in any real sense, in dealing with our societies. In its transactions with non-Western societies, the West has operated on the privileges and profits of inequality."

He warns the West that it would be dangerous to attempt a global, unilateral regime of the sort envisaged by the World Trade Organisation without a corresponding willingness to give up its parochial mindset.

The whole article is insightful, but rather unsettling to a usian who has never been out of country.

The idea that somehow the USA is better than everyone elsemight even have some truth in it, but too often it breeds a certain contempt and disrect.

In a similar area, look at Microsoft. They argue they have the best in the world, but this does not always promote respect from users of other technologies.

And so it is probably for the better that the US does not become the equivalent of Microsoft in the nations of earth.

We need to look at this as seen from outside of the USA.

In this column in the Indian Online Magazine Tehelka, Swami Agnivesh warns the West that it would be dangerous to attempt a global, unilateral regime of the sort envisaged by the World Trade Organisation without a corresponding willingness to give up its parochial mindset. As he notes 'the Western commitment to equality remains suspect to the rest of us because they have not upheld this, in any real sense, in dealing with our societies. In its transactions with non-Western societies, the West has operated on the privileges and profits of inequality."

He warns the West that it would be dangerous to attempt a global, unilateral regime of the sort envisaged by the World Trade Organisation without a corresponding willingness to give up its parochial mindset.

The whole article is insightful, but rather unsettling to a usian who has never been out of country.

The idea that somehow the USA is better than everyone elsemight even have some truth in it, but too often it breeds a certain contempt and disrect.

In a similar area, look at Microsoft. They argue they have the best in the world, but this does not always promote respect from users of other technologies.

And so it is probably for the better that the US does not become the equivalent of Microsoft in the nations of earth.

It is possible for web-based startups to succeed over traditional mass media. In India, for example, the extremely popular rediff is not controlled by the traditional newspaper houses (it came from an advertising agency, I think) and more recently, an upstart called tehelka has been making big news, mainly on corruption exposes.

What's needed is intelligent marketing, good content for a broad-spectrum audience with the occasional "scoop" to retain audience interest, and high-quality presentation. The same things as for traditional print media or TV. Nothing new here.