918 If Pinarayi Vijayan and CPM Kerala are killing RSS Workers, Center can order CBI Investigation and punish guilty.

Rule of Law has not yet completely died in India, though rot has set in. Both Central and State Governments, the Society have to work out to bring back "Rule of Law" to central stage. Trigger for this ybdonkey's view is the video in circulation in social media, about a reward of Rs. 1 crore (Rs. 10 million) announced by Shri Chandravat, RSS Pramukh at Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, to anyone who beheads Mr. Pinarayi Vijayan, Chief Minister of Kerala State. This video is available on internet abundantly. Here is one link, which I have come across: Click here to go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zboOokjPye0, and see the video.. When yb-donkey-this-blogger viewed this youtube video, he felt that Mr. Chandravat, the Ujjain RSS Pramukh, who spoke on the mike, HAS all the characteristic traits of a speaker (oratorial style, body language, waving hands, modulation of language, selection of words etc. etc.) needed to become, Prime Minister of India, someday. Of course, in addition to oratorial skills and capabilities, he must also have manipulating and manoeuvre-ing abilities to handle persons, groups, committees, people and situations.

A news report on this subject can be read at DeccanChronicle.com: Click here to see and study the news at Deccan Chronicle.com.

yb-donkey's personal views not intended to be imposed on others

If Mr. Pinarayi Vijayan has managed to kill 300 workers, the matter should be of great seriousness, deserving National Attention. But, Mr. Chandravat has chosen a wrong method, to draw attention of the Nation to the alleged murders. The Organ of RSS, - BJP is in power at Centre, If the matter is brought by RSS leaders to the attention of the Prime Minister, Home Minister, they might/could have ordered an investigation by CBI, and prosecution of the guilty in Specially established CBI Courts. If, Mr. Chandravat is emotionally disturbed about the killings he can explore the following options:
*Mr. Chandravat can approach RSS Nagpur Headquarters, with a request to take up at National Level.
*Mr. Chandravat can file a police complaint at Ujjain itself under various sections of IPC.
*Approach High Court of Madhya Pradesh / Kerala with a writ under Article 226 of Constitution.
*If his Article 226 Writ fails in High Courts, he can approach Supreme Court of India, under Article 32 of Constitutioin.
There is no need to raise the issue of Godhra killings, and retributive Gujarat Mayhem.
There is no need to call for killing 300,000 people (See the video).

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806 (Part 1 of two parts 2) Conflicts between English and INdia's Native languages; Crossword Puzzle No. ybcw 006

Mr. Aakar Patel and Mr. Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay are two journalists, who seem to have direct contacts with Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. Shri Mukhopadhyay wrote a biography of Shri Narendra Modi, titled : "Narendra Modi: The Man". Right now, the book is very popular. We have to wait and see, whether it will stand the test of time. DeccanChronicle.Com has published some of his articles on the rule of Shri Narendra Modi. We shall try to cover some of them, when we get time.

OUR IMMEDIATE TRIGGER

Shri Aakar Patel is another important author, who writes quite often in Deccan Chronicle.com, both electronic edition, and the print edition. On 4th Sept. 2016, we can see an article by him titled: "ENGLISH VS MOTHER-TONGUE A TOUGH QUESTION", just beside the Edit Page in the Print Edition.

Click to go to : http://www.deccanchronicle.com/opinion/op-ed/040916/english-vs-mother-tongue-a-tough-question.html

This article mainly dealt with two things. 1. R.S.S. Gujarat, objecting to English Medium teaching in Gujarat Schools. 2. Lack of interest in students of Madhya Pradesh to join Hindi Medium Engineering Course. Let us see some of his views as published in Deccan Chronicle:--

"...The question “which language India’s children should be schooled in?” is not an easy one to answer. Some years ago, when he was still chief minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi told me what his solution was to this problem, and I will tell you what he said. ..."

"...In Gujarat, the RSS has blocked teaching of English in government schools till Class 5, by when it is too late. Mr Modi’s solution, which he explained to me, was to have some subjects taught in Gujarati and others in English. If I remember it right, he was considering maths and science in English and history and geography in Gujarati. I thought it was an elegant solution though I do not know if he was not ultimately able to implement it, under RSS pressure. ..."

"...The question of language in schooling has been debated from before Independence. Rabindranath Tagore and Gandhi were of the view that schooling should be in the mother tongue. Tagore in particular felt that India’s children would not be able to develop their artistic talent and sensibility if they were schooled in a foreign language. Gandhi had, I think, more patriotic reasons for taking the same line. ..."

"...The second news story connected to this was from Bhopal’s Atal Behari Vajpayee Hindi Vishwavidyalaya. This Hindi-only university is struggling to attract students for its courses. A report said that this was particularly true for the engineering course. The students’ apprehensions were that they would not get jobs with such a degree. And they also were worried about taking a course taught where the engineering terms would be newly-coined Hindi words replacing basic English engineering terms they were already familiar with. Because of this only a dozen students have applied for the 90 seats that are available in Nagar (Civil), Vaidyut (Electrical) and Yantrik (Mechanical) streams this year. ..."

ybrao-a-donkey's humble views:

About the elegant solution suggested by Mr. Narendra Modi (teaching history/geography in Regional language, Mathes and sciences in English)

From 1962-63 to 1966-67, I studied at a "Multipurpose Higher Secondary School" from IX Standard to XII Standard. During the period, I received education in History, Civics, Economics and Geography, through the Medium of Regional Language. Mathes and Sciences were taught in English. As far as Mathes and Sciences were concerned my shifting from Regional Language (VIII std.) to English Medium (IX Std.), though caused some intial problems, ultimately I could adjust to the English Medium, over the period of four years, without any private tuitions in Teachers' Homes. The Mathes, Physics, Chemistry, Botany, and Zoology learned by me during the period, helped me to understand the growth and progress of knowledge in this world.

Lesson from this experience: Better to start very early in English Medium. As my elementary education was in chaos and a pellmell, I started learning English alphabets only in VI Standard, and learned some basic vocabulary of English in VI-to-VII Standards. Changing the Medium in IX Standard, education during that particular year became a hard task, but there was no alternative.

About Economics, when I joined in B. Com. Course later in an Evening College, I had to start afresh for understanding the Curves and Graphs, Economic Theories from Samuelson Economics, and other Standard Economics Text Books.

Fortunately (in my personal views), the people of Residual Andhra Pradesh have accepted the harsh realities, that English is the only way through which they can communicate with the outside world. Hindi too is important, particularly when a person has to sell some goods and services to North India. In Marketing, using the buyers' language is very important.

ENGLISH CROSS-WORD PUZZLE NO. ybcw 006

Here is our Sixth English CrossWord Puzzle No. ybcw 006. To make the puzzle simpler, as an experiment, we have further reduced, the No. of Cells in the Grid to 9 x 9 letters. This time, after plotting the words in the Cells, we have 12 clues across, and 12 clues down. This setup seems to be neither too light, nor too heavy, to build and study English vocabulary.

CLUES
Across

1 A jet engine in which a turbine is used to drive a propeller. (9)
8 Weird, wild, arousing fright. (5)
9 hurdles (9)
12 Underwater Robotic Intelligent System. (4)
13 Small barrels. (4)
14 Distressed. (3)
15 1/100 of a Hectare. (3)
16 Assert, state, allege. (4)
18 Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome. (4)
19 Occasions which have not happened. (9)
21 Babyname, to mean 'God of Forests'. (5)
22 Temporarily stopped. (9)
Down
1 Tens of hundreds. (9)
2 Dwellers. (9)
3 Wagers. (4)
4 Babyname to mean 'light'. (3)
5 Gather. (4)
6 Gained the skills again. (9)
7 Endowed with, owned. (9)
10 Bold. (5)
11 A bird of Nycticorax family. (5)
17 Gather a harvest. (4)
18 Short for the State of Pennsylvania. (4)
20 Compete with one another. (3)

ANSWERS
Across

1 turboprop (9)
8 eerie (5)
9 obstacles (9)
12 Uris (4)
13 kegs (4)
14 sad (3)
15 are (3)
16 aver (4)
18 Pres (4)
19 nonevents (9)
21 Taine (5)
22 suspended (9)
Down
1 thousands (9)
2 residents (9)
3 bets (4)
4 Ora (3)
5 pick (4)
6 Relearned. (9)
7 Possessed. (9)
10 Bravo. (5)
11 Egret. (5)
17 Reap. (4)
18 Penn. (4)
20 To vie. (3)

To continue. सशेष. ఇంకా ఉంది.

804 English CrossWord Puzzle No. 4, and some rants about India

YB Crossword Puzzle No. ybcw 004 बैवी क्रास् वर्ड पजिल नं. ००४, వైబీ క్రాస్ వర్డ్ పజిల్ నం. 004

This is our fourth crossword puzzle. As usual, we have obtained the grid, and the vocabulary using the qxw package in Linux, and then exported both the blank, and solved images to png files. Then, we have combined both the blank and solved images into a gif animation file, having a loop-over interval of 20000 milli seconds (20 seconds). That means, solution will be visible after 20 seconds, and revolve at an interval of 20 sec.

ACROSS
1. Layers (6).
7. Controlling lever, usually operated with a foot (5).
11. Too early (8).
12. Exist (2).
13. Laboratory in short (3).
14. Travelling Allowance (2).
15. Lecherous looks (5).
17. Worship leader of a mosque (4).
18. Respectable, Venerable (3).
21. High and elevated in Arabic. An Arabic name.(3).
22. Short for trade mark(2).
23. Gaseous state of intestines (7).
26. light fawn color, resembling the color of unbleached linen (4).
28. Babyname, meaning noble, champion (5).
30. Babyname, to mean 'clear', 'famous' (5).
31. Study hurriedly before examination (4).
32. Journals (7).
35. Emergency Room, in U.S. (2).
37. Unit of Energy (3).
38. Bitumen (3).
40. A green vegetable (4).
42. French babyname, to mean 'dear one', 'darling' (5).
44. Alcoholics Anonymous (2).
46. Short for linear (3).
47. Not she (2).
48. Teetotaler (9).
50. A planetoid. A Canadian Goddess (5).
52. buries in a bed, incorporates in some hardware/software (6).

DOWN
1. Break up (5).
2. Bound, confine, limit (7).
3. Biblical name. Short for Rebecca, to mean Fourth (4).
4. Morning (2).
5. Response to tit (3).
6. India-Pakisthan border, near Wagha (5).
7. A State in a country (8).
8. A clinical test to measure brain waves, Electro Encephalo Graph (3).
9. Second son of Adam and Eve (4).
10. Ulcerative boil and skin eruption (6
18. Wished-for child (5).
19. Rigorous Imprisonment (2).
20. Editor (2).
23. Solo song (4).
24. Two million city in Brazil (4).
25. body severed from its head (5).
27. Beg. (5).
29. American INdian(7).
30. People of Czech Republic (6).
33. Los Angeles (2).
34. Angry (5).
36. Tirade (4).
43. Royal Australian Navy (3).
45. Purpose (3).

yb's MUSINGS

A Nation or a Province / Prefecture / State / County which wastes its resources can never prosper.

Most States in India are extremely impoverished, where people can never LIVE nor can DIE. It is an existence of bondage, misery, starvation and suffering. Yet, people in India never feel sad about their deprivation.

Mr. Nara Chandra Babu Naidu, the Chief Minister of Residual Andhra Pradesh, in India, has last month spent nearly Rs. 25 billion (Rs. 2,500 crore), on a River Water Festival called 'krishNa pushkarAlu', a twelve year bathing ritual in the River Krishna. Though some of the amount was spent on Public Works on the River Banks, such as for restoring ghats (rows of stairs), etc. , much of the amount was wasted. A rich country like Australia, Canada, Denmark or Norway-Sweden, does it, we need not grudge.

To understand the condition of poor in India, one or two examples of August 2016 will serve as a live demonstration:

A tribal person in Kalahandi District of Orissa had to carry the deadbody of his wife on his shoulders for 10 kms., as he could not get an ambulance from Hospital in a nearby Odisa town to his village. click to go to http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/odisha-denied-a-mortuary-van-man-carries-wife-s-body-on-shoulders/story-iCPpMsKueZIdINW2ONZDjN.html

A father in Madhya Pradesh took his pregnant daughter on a bicycle carrier for 10 kms. to admit her in a hospital. Click to go to http://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/300816/no-ambulance-father-cycles-pregnant-daughter-to-hospital-in-madhya-pradesh.html

Residual Andhra Pradesh does not lag behind in this type of live examples. Mostly, they do not get reported, because Media in Andhra Pradesh are engaged in blowing trumpets to the Ruling Party, with a hope that the Government will allocate them a few thousand yards/few acres of land in Andhra Pradesh Capital Region. There is an exception, Sakshi TV Channel, and Sakshi Telugu Daily. But, they are on the other extremity. Their promoters themselves are facing CBI Investigation for massive corruption.

According to News Reports Residual Andhra Pradesh State Government has sought permission of Government of India , for seeking a World Bank Loan of Rs. 7,000 crore (Rs. 70 billion or nearly $1.2 billion). But it appears that the Central Government has permitted Govt. of A.P., to apply only for Rs. 3,500 crore ($600 million).

Mr. Narendra Modi's Generosity to Vietnam

During his recent visit to Vietnam, the Prime Minister of India, Mr. Narendra Modi is reported to have offered a loan of $500 million to Vietnam, as a friendly gesture. Vietnam has long back parted away from the path of Communism. Its citizens, a la the Citizens of India, have developed / are getting trained in Western habits of Conspicuous Consumption, such as eating MCDowels Foods, as if they are fed up with local foods.

Had Mr. Narendra Modi given this $500 million to Residual Andhra Pradesh, and carefully monitored the proper end use of funds, by opening an escrow account with Reserve Bank of India, to be operated jointly by the Central and State Governments, there will not have been, any need for Andhra Pradesh to run to World Bank.

India and China seem to be suffering from a misconception that Nations can be tempted to join their bandwagon by offering loans. China and India seem to be competing with one another. China's situation is different. India's situation is different. India does not have a strong BOT, BOP. India is not a strong Nation in Exports of Goods. It has already fallen in a foreign investment trap (just like external debt trap). It is temporarily enjoying peace of mind, owing to depressed crude prices. Once the OPEC countries resolve their disputes and start curtailing Oil production, and the Oil pricees firm up, India will again run into difficulties.

TAIL PIECE धुम केतु తోక చుక్క

Our Rev. Chandra Babu Naidu has allocated 200 acres at a nominal rate in Amaravati, the New Capital Region of Andhra Pradesh, to a University of Tamilnadu, by name "SRM University", for an ostensible purpose of setting up their Campus in the New Capital Region. Nobody knows, what were the hidden considerations which went into the deal. Now, one Shri Pacha Muttu, the Promoter of that SRM University is facing probe in Tamil Nadu for collecting nearly a billion Rupees promising Medical Seats.

To continue. सशेष. ఇంకా ఉంది.