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The New Testament Book ‘REVELATION’, Chapter 18 gives full account of sudden, unexpected Fall of Evil Empire. Beijing’s Doom is Near – Just A Stone’s Throw Away.
Beijing’s doom is near – Just a stone’s throw away
Doom Dooma Doomsayer hints at Mao Zedong’s downfall
I say, “Mao Zedong Lives” for his Occupation of Tibet survives apart from his Single-Party governance of China that he has put in place shaping lives of millions of people.
I am a witness to his failure in 1971 when he failed to attack India to abort the Liberation of Bangladesh War. He was too busy plotting the murder of his Defence Secretary and purging top-ranking officials of People’s Liberation Army. I am a witness to his success in Vietnam War when he outmaneuvered Nixon-Kissinger who deserve equal credit for their Vietnam treason.
Mao Zedong Lives. Red China is still in Tibet. At this moment, China’s Communist Party appears to be invincible. However, I visualize Mao Zedong as the Queen of Babylon whose downfall is revealed in The New Testament Book REVELATION, Chapter 18, Verses 1-24. Mao Zedong’s Evil Red Empire awaits the Fate of Babylon revealed by Prophet John.
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SPECIAL FRONTIER FORCE vs THE EVIL RED EMPIRE: MAO ZEDONG or MAO TSE-TUNG PROCLAIMS THE FOUNDING OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA IN PEKING (BEIJING) ON OCTOBER 01, 1949. THIS NATION IS FOUNDED ON THE IDEOLOGY OF COMMUNISM FOLLOWING “RED REVOLUTION.” THIS RED CHINA IS AN EVIL EMPIRE FROM ITS BIRTH .
China’s Biggest History “What-If”: If Mao Zedong Died in 1949
Robert Farley
September 23, 2016
For thirty-seven years, Mao Zedong occupied a singular position atop the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), governing organization of the world’s largest country. For over a dozen years, Mao had led the CCP through wilderness (literally), fighting off factional opponents, the armies of Chiang Kai Shek, and the invading forces of the Empire of Japan. In the next decades, Mao would put a deep imprint on the politics and history of China, rarely for the good.
Modern scholarship on the history of the CCP has demonstrated that Mao rarely, if ever, had complete control over the Party machinery. He struggled through his entire tenure against competitors, both bureaucratic and ideological. Many of the decisions Mao made had strong support from the rest of the CCP, and emerged more from consensus that from authoritarian diktat. Nevertheless, the CCP and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) bore the special imprint of Mao’s ideological conviction and genius for infighting.
What if Mao had died in 1949, shortly after the declaration of the existence of the People’s Republic of China? How might China’s domestic and foreign policy have fared in the absence of the Great Helmsman?
Ideology and Factionalism:
For better or worse, Mao Zedong supplied a strong ideological foundation for the existence of the CCP, and for its provision of single-party control over the PRC. This melded a modified form of Marxist economic doctrine with Soviet state Leninism, leavened by a strong dose of anti-colonial thought. This ideological foundation, and the cult of personality that the CCP established around Mao, helped provide unity for the party and the state throughout the PRC’s early years, allowing it to weather such crises as the Korean War, the ongoing challenge of the survival of Chiang Kai Shek’s regime on Taiwan, and the Sino-Soviet Split. It also helped drive crises, including the Great Leap Forward, the aforementioned split with the USSR and the Cultural Revolution.
But Mao Zedong was far from the only important figure in the CCP in 1949. The struggle against Chiang and the Japanese had given many prominent commanders and administrators the chance to prove their worth. Other major political players in 1949 included Peng Dehuai, senior PLA commander; Liu Shaoqi, a key theorist and administrator; Zhou Enlai, Mao’s long-time right-hand man; Lin Biao, another senior commander and close confidant of Mao; Zhu De, founder of the PLA; Gao Gang, Bo Yibo, and Chen Yun, chief economic administrators; Deng Xiaoping, protégé of Liu Shaoqi, and Yang Shangkun, military and political leader during the Revolution.
Mao’s prominence among this group played an important role in stifling infighting; he could command sufficient legitimacy inside and outside the party that the other major players remained in check. It is unlikely that any other figure in the PRC could have provided the same degree of prestige and ideological heft. This would have made it difficult, at least in the early going, to pursue a “cult of personality” state-building strategy.
In Mao’s absence, the factions that formed around these prominent figures (and others) might have descended into open combat with one another. As is often the case with revolutionary insurgencies, the Chinese Communist Party was riven with factionalism even as it took power in Beijing in 1949. Different components of the People’s Liberation Army had fought entirely different wars, in different areas, with different tactics and organizational structures.
Powerbrokers within the CCP commanded the allegiance of portions of the PLA, which provided them with security from factional conflict. Without Mao to keep them in check, the PLA itself might have become embroiled in political infighting. Moreover, the USSR (which had substantial influence in the 1950s) might have decided to support one faction or another, leading to even more fighting.
Domestic Policy:
Mao Zedong was the primary driver behind the Great Leap Forward, a project designed to spur industrialization but that instead resulted in massive famine. Mao wasn’t alone; much of the rest of the CCP supported, or at least acquiesced, in the project. However, Mao’s idiosyncratic views on expertise, and his faith in the power of the peasantry, made the Great Leap much worse than it otherwise might have been. In the end, millions died in a campaign that Liu Shaoqi himself declared resulted from “70% human error.” The Great Leap also resulted in the purging of Peng Dehuai (critic of Mao), and the sidelining of Mao from the day-to-day domestic decision-making process. Under the guidance of Liu Shaoqi or similar figure, China would likely not have embarked on such a risky, dangerous course towards modernization, and millions might have lived.
The sidelining of Mao after the Great Leap Forward helped set the stage for the next great upheaval. The Cultural Revolution did not spring fully formed from the mind of Mao Zedong, but he did drive most of its main elements, and the ideological brew it created benefitted Mao at the expense of his competitors. Mao fueled the sense of ideological resentment among a younger generation of Chinese students in order to break the back of the parts of the CCP that opposed him and that, in the early 1960s, had worked hard to sideline him. The impact was dreadful in nearly every way imaginable; millions died, Chinese state capacity atrophied, science and innovation slowed, and the PRC withdrew from the international community. While some of the underlying tensions in China would have existed even without Mao, he played a key role in activating those tensions, and creating a political disaster of epic proportions. Without Mao, China might not have lost an entire decade of economic, social, and technical progress.
Foreign Relations:
The PRC stood in precarious position in the wake of its declaration. The Republic of China, led by Chiang Kai Shek, remained in existence on Formosa, with the United States acting as apparent security guarantor. The Soviet Union offered ideological, military, and economic support, but at the price of full alignment. For a decade, the PRC took this deal. The Soviets supplied support for Chinese military operations in Korea, and helped lay the foundation for the PRC’s military-industrial complex. The Soviets also helped jumpstart China’s nuclear weapons program.
In 1956, Nikita Khrushchev’s turn against Stalin’s cult of personality cut hard into Mao’s own ideological foundation. Tensions increased as China and the USSR pursued divergent approaches to confrontation with the West; Mao preferred taking risks, while Khrushchev wanted to play it safe. Mao had managed to maintain control over the greater part of the foreign policy apparatus of the PRC, giving him ample space to carry out a feud with the USSR. While other voices within China also resented the Soviets, Mao’s ideological convictions, along with his special role at the top of the CCP, helped poison Sino-Soviet relations and bring about a dramatic split between the two countries.
Ten years later, Mao would override many of the rest of the senior leadership (Lin Biao, longtime confidant, died under suspicious circumstances) to seek an opening with the United States. This decision, which permanently detached China from the increasingly moribund USSR and paved the way for opening the PRC’s economy and society, remains Mao’s most meaningful positive contribution to China’s success. Without Mao, the PRC might have pursued Lin Biao’s preferred policy of re-engaging with the Soviet Union.
Parting Thoughts:
China would have struggled to emerge from civil war and its agrarian roots regardless of who guided the ship of state. The establishment of the cult of personality around Mao undoubtedly helped prevent some nasty conflicts between the leaders of the CCP, and assured a degree of unity against foreign foes. But it also gave Mao Zedong, a man with a special talent for human misery, the ability to guide the destinies of hundreds of millions of people for several decades.
ROBERT FARLEY, a frequent contributor to TNI, is author of The Battleship Book. He serves as a Senior Lecturer at the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky. His work includes military doctrine, national security, and maritime affairs. He blogs at Lawyers, Guns and Money and Information Dissemination and The Diplomat.
Image: The portrait of Mao Zedong at the Tiananmen Gate. Wikimedia
BHARAT DARSHAN – INDIA’S WAR ON TERROR. OFFENSE IS BEST DEFENSE.
Bharat Darshan – India’s War on Terror. The Best Defense is Good Offense.
Indian people in their long history of peaceful existence tolerated foreign conquests and have not retaliated against foreign invaders fighting simply defensive battles to save their lives and kingdoms.
Terror Attacks changed the concept of Warfare. To address the challenge posed by Terror Attacks, I advocate the Maxim of ‘The Best Defense is Good Offense’.
On September 29, 2016, the Indian government informed the international community, both through diplomatic channels and the media, that it’s Army had carried out action against Pakistani terrorists who had assembled in small groups on the Pak-controlled side of its border in Kashmir, and had plans to enter India to carry out terror activities. According to the Indian Army statement, ‘significant casualties’ were inflicted on the terrorists. The message that came out was loud and clear – that India would no longer allow Pakistan to fuel cross-border terrorism. This proactive operation, carried out on Pak-controlled territory, was probably a first by India, and was a response to the two attacks by terror groups on Indian defence establishments earlier this year – the Pathankot Air base in January and the Uri Army camp in September. Both these establishments are located near the Indian border with Pakistan, and the attacks were carried out by Pak-based terror groups who had sneaked across the border into India.
The Pak government’s response to India’s statement was on expected lines. A spokesman of the Pak military described India’s announcement as “totally baseless and a complete lie”, adding that “the notion of surgical strikes linked to alleged terrorist bases is an illusion being deliberately generated by India to create false effects”. Pakistan has instead preferred to label the incident as a routine exchange of fire, in which it lost two soldiers, with another nine being wounded. For long, Pakistan has denied that anti-India terror groups and camps are operating in Pak-administered Kashmir, or other parts of the country. Hence it was unlikely that the Pak government would acknowledge that the Indian Army had neutralised some of these terror bases, whose very existence it has always denied.
Activities of Pak terror groups, usually supported by the country’s security establishment, have been extensively reported in the international media, over the last few years. The close association of the Pak defence establishment with the Afghan Taliban and Haqqani network is also well-known, and the European Union has listed some of these Pak-based terror groups, including the Hizbul Mujahideen, on its terror list.
While earlier, groups like the Lashkar-e-Taiba or Jaish-e-Muhammad were seen as a threat to Indian assets and as operating only in South Asia, over the recent past, we have witnessed the alarming growth of Pak-linked terror modules in Europe and other parts of the world. The close proximity between the Pak security establishment and extremist / terror groups has also given rise to a situation where organisations propagating Islamic militancy in Pakistan enjoy de-facto State patronage, including in their call to Pakistani youth to participate in the ‘global jihad’. Evidence of this is available in the blatant manner in which UN-proscribed individuals and organisations are permitted to threaten attacks against the Western world in public meetings in different parts of Pakistan. This radicalisation is also evident in arrests worldwide, including in the European Union, of Pak youth for their involvement in terror activities. Examples are the arrest of Mohd Usman Ghani by the Austrian police for his links to the Paris terror attack in November 2015, the arrest of 18 Pak nationals by the Italian security agencies in 2015 for their association with international terrorism, and of 3 Pakistani nationals by the Spanish police in July 2016 for spreading jihadist ideology.
Over the last few years, the EU has experienced a large number of casualties caused by terror attacks, and there is every likelihood that we will continue to face an increasing number of threats from jihadist groups and individuals, in the near future. This rising threat calls for an effective response by us, to groups and states that sponsor terror, and support to states that are dealing with such threats. The need of the hour, therefore, is for the international community to stand together and cooperate in the common fight against terrorism.
India’s cross-border action against terrorists on its borders with Pakistan should be commended and supported by the international community. India has clearly indicated that these attacks were not against the Pakistani state, but focussed against terror groups that threatened peace and stability in the region. India deserves global support in its fight against terror emanating from Pakistan, for if left unchecked, these individuals and groups would be attacking Europe and the West, soon. It is also important for the European Union to maintain pressure on Pakistan to eliminate the terror networks that operate within its borders. The time has come for the world to act decisively against terrorism and ensure that no terror group is assured of a secure haven in any part of the world.
– Ryszard Czarnecki, Vice President, European Parliament
Bharat Darshan – India’s War on Terror – In Kashmir, Offense is Best Defense.
Bharat Darshan – India’s War on Terror. To Defend Kashmir from Terror Attacks, Offense is Best Defense.
BHARAT DARSHAN – INDIA’S WAR ON TERROR OFFENSE IS BEST DEFENSE.
Bharat Darshan – India’s War on Terror. Offense is the Best Defense.
SPIRITUALITY SCIENCE – DEATH PRECEDES LIFE. THE RESURRECTION OF LAZARUS FROM DEATH. BOOK OF JOHN, CHAPTER 11.
The Phenomenon of Life demands Operation of Death as a condition that precedes Life. All living things live by consuming Life; consuming other living things or products made by other living things. Science called Ecology describes movement of Matter and Energy in Ecological Systems. Nutrient Cycles are operated by mechanism called Death and Decomposition without which Life is simply impossible. Life is never an isolated Individualistic experience; rather Life is experienced in a Biotic or Biological Community in which certain lifeforms take birth while others die all the time.
Man has Subjective and Objective Experience of the fact or reality of his existence. For example, man has experience of his Body Weight or Mass and he can verify it by using Weighing Scale. Body Weight or Mass is physical experience and it is not a product of thought or imagination.
SPIRITUALITY SCIENCE – DEATH PRECEDES LIFE. MAN’S EXPERIENCE OF HIS LIVING CONDITION. On bhavanajagat.com
THE PHENOMENON OF PROGRAMMED CELLULAR DEATH
SPIRITUALITY SCIENCE – DEATH PRECEDES LIFE. CREATION OF LIFE INVOLVES USE OF CREATIVE MECHANISM OF DEATH AND DYING. On bhavanajagat.wordpress.com
Study of Science called Embryology will help to know the Phenomenon of Programmed Cellular Death that shapes physical appearance of Newborn baby during Growth and Development in mother’s womb. To ensure birth of normal, healthy newborn baby the intervention of Programmed Cellular Death is important. The Function called Biogeneration involves use of Creative Mechanism of Death and Dying. Without Death, Life cannot be shaped.
Spirituality Science – Death Precedes Life. The Phenomenon of Apoptosis or Programmed Cell Death.Spirituality Science – Death Precedes Life. Death Shapes Life During Growth and Development.Spirituality Science – Death Precedes Life. During Growth and Development, Life is shaped by Cell Death called Programmed Cell Death.Spirituality Science – Death Precedes Life. Human Organism exists as Biotic or Biological Community of Trillions of Individual, Independent Cells in which some Members die while others are born everyday.On wholedude.com
Man understands the process called Living by Study of the process called Dying. Throughout man’s lifetime, millions of Red Blood Cells take birth and die every single day. Man is a Created Being, for the mechanism called Dying and Death are Creative Mechanisms which involve guided, sequential, purposeful, and goal-oriented actions. Both living and dying functions involve the same kind of Oxidation-Reduction or Redox Chemical Reactions.
SURVIVAL AFTER DEATH – RESURRECTION – AFTERLIFE
MAN LEADS TRANSIENT, CONDITIONED, MORTAL EXISTENCE. BUT, SOMETHINGS ENDURE, FAITH, HOPE, AND LOVE. 1 CORINTHIANS 13:13. Image by Janetateher.
As per Laws of Conservation of Mass, Energy, and Momentum, certain ‘Values’ are always conserved in all Natural Processes. Matter is neither created nor destroyed. Birth and Death are operated by Unchanging Principle of Natural Law of Conservation which describes values that are always conserved while ‘Things in Nature Change’ under the influence of Time. Living things exist not on account of their physical or mental work. Life exists if, and only if Fundamental Force called LOVE sustains the making, breaking, and repairing of Molecules of Life. After Death of man, Three things endure; these are 1. Faith in LORD God Creator, 2. Hope in God’s Promise of Afterlife or Everlasting Life, and 3. God’s Unconditioned Love that goes Beyond Good and Evil. For man is a Created Being, man always survives in the Memory of his Creator who is Unborn, Uncreated, Eternal and Everlasting.
LOVE IS FUNDAMENTAL FORCE:
Spirituality Science – Death Precedes Life. Physiology of Living Functions such as Diet and Nutrition are Preceded by Death and Dying Process of Decay and Decomposition that make Nutrients available.On bhavanajagat.com
Physiology of Living Functions such as Diet and Nutrition are preceded by Death and Dying Functions of Decay and Decomposition that make Nutrients available.What is the name of the “FORCE” that keeps living matter, living substance, or living material in a constant condition of movement often called Cytoplasmic Streaming?
Spirituality Science – Death Precedes Life. Fundamental Force called LOVE keeps Living Substance in Constant Motion while Life and Death operate Cyclical Events.On bhavanajagat.comSpirituality Science – Death Precedes Life. Establishment of New Living Things includes use of Creative Mechanism called Apoptosis or Programmed Cell Death.
Life and Death are Chemical Reactions involving exchange of Matter and Energy. Love is Fundamental Force that transforms Inanimate Matter into Animate or Living Matter and its Decay or Decomposition to continue the Cyclical Flow of Biomolecules of Life.
Rudranarasimham Rebbapragada Ann Arbor, MI 48104-4162 USA
“Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.” Albert Einstein, The World As I See It
The statements attributed to Buddhism or Christianity need to be verified after physical contact with members who identify themselves as Buddhists or Christians. For example, I claim that I host ‘The Living Tibetan Spirits’ in my consciousness. I make my claim for I am in physical contact with those Tibetan Spirits. My claim is unrelated to Gautama Buddha’s belief or lack of belief in Soul or Spirit. However, Tibetans have institutionalized the belief in reincarnation of Spirits and the Dalai Lama is living example of that cultural practice.
Christians may use the term “RESURRECTION” but it simply describes the phenomenon called Reincarnation. Either both terms are correct or both are wrong. To verify it, man has to know if he has Soul or Spirit while he lives. If man has Soul or Spirit, its presence can be detected by functions it performs. To verify Soul or Spirit associated with living body, man has to account for the fact or reality of his physical existence in Natural World.
Spirituality Science – Death Precedes Life. God’s Promise of Everlasting Life demands Death of Jesus and His Resurrection From Death.
I am born at my maternal grandparent’s home in Mylapore, Madras. As per legend, Apostle Thomas, popularly known as ‘Doubting Thomas’, one of the Twelve Disciples of Jesus Christ lived in Madras and was buried about a block away from my place of birth. Thomas claimed that he physically verified the fact of Christ’s Resurrection from Death. There is no Resurrection if Reincarnation is theoretically incorrect.
BHARAT DARSHAN – BLESSINGS OF DEVOTION WITH PATIENCE FROM SHIRDI SAI BABA
On Wednesday, September 28, 2016, I am happy to share Blessings of Devotion with Patience From Shirdi Sai Baba.
OM SRI SAINATHAAYA NAMAH
SHIRDI BABA INCARNATED ON THIS DAY,178 YEARS AGO (28TH SEPT 1838) IN THE VILLAGE “PATHRI”, PARBHANI DISTRICT, MAHARASHTRA. HE LEFT HIS MORTAL COIL ON 15TH OCT 1918 (VIJAYADASHAMI DAY) IN SHIRDI AFTER LIVING THERE FOR SIXTY LONG YEARS,IN A DILAPIDATED MASJID (DWAARAKAAMAI).
HIS MAIN MANTRA FOR HIS DEVOTEES,IS “SHRADDHA” AND “SABURI” SHRADDHA MEANS UNWAVERING FAITH IN GOD,FAITH IN HIS PROTECTIVE POWER. SABURI MEANS PATIENCE IN FACING DAY TO DAY EVENTS IN LIFE WITHOUT ANY AGITATION AND LOOSING COURAGE AND HOPE.
MAY THE COMPASSIONATE LORD OF SHIRDI PROMOTE IN US “SHRADDHA” AND “SABURI” IN BOUNTIFUL MEASURE,SO THAT LIFE WILL BE FILLED WITH BLISS (DIVYAANANDA) AND MAKE OUR LIFE MEANINGFUL (SAARTHAKA).
Rudranarasimham Rebbapragada
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 48104 – 4162. BHAVANAJAGAT.ORG
BHARAT DARSHAN – TERRORIST ATTACK IN URI SECTOR, KASHMIR
Bharat Darshan – Terrorist Attack in Uri Sector, Kashmir.
I am pleased to share unconfirmed news story with my readers that India may be willing to take retaliatory action to avenge Terrorist Attack on September 18, in Uri Sector, Kashmir. Indian Army lost twenty men when a group of about ten infiltrators entered India to launch their cowardly attack. All the enemy attackers were killed.
The Spirits of Special Frontier Force, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 899 likes · 7 talking about this.
This Story is not Confirmed by Indian Army. Others are not able to verify its accuracy.
Uri Avenged: Daring Cross Operation by Indian Army, 20 Terrorists Executed
By Admin
September 21, 2016
Bharat Darshan – Terrorist Attack in Uri Sector, Kashmir.
One of the biggest crises that Modi government has faced ever since it formed the government is the Uri Attack. A nation of 1.25 billion awaits judgement with baited breath. And it becomes extremely important for Modi as he was quite critical of Manmohan Singh’s defense policies in his electoral speeches. Well looks like there is some good news at last. As Pakistani PM takes the center-stage to rant about international intervention in Kashmir and the alleged human rights violation in Kashmir valley, there comes a welcome news.
According to a report by The Quint – At least 20 terrorists have been neutralised in a daring cross-LoC operation by the Indian Army in response to the Uri attack.
As per The Quint “Two units of the elite 2 Paras consisting of 18-20 soldiers flew across the LoC (Line of Control) in the Uri sector in military helicopters and allegedly carried out an operation that executed at least 20 suspected terrorists across three terror camps in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK). Military sources revealed to The Quint, which confirmed this information from two other independent sources, that the operation happened during the intervening hours of 20 September and 21 September.
This news is going to bring a lot of respite to people who were waiting for revenge. Narendra Modi did promise that the evildoers will be brought to justice and looks like he meant business when he said that. But this shouldn’t satiate us. We should be looking for a long lasting solution. More surgical strikes and such cross border pursuits cannot be ruled out. Manak Gupta:
Bharat Darshan – Terrorist Attack in Uri Sector, Kashmir.
Bharat Darshan – Terrorist Attack in Uri Sector, Kashmir.
Bharat Darshan – Terrorist Attack in Uri Sector, Kashmir. 20 Indian Army Soldiers Killed in Militant Attack At Army Base in Jammu And Kashmir’s Uri Sector.
Bharat Darshan – Terrorist Attack at Lachipora in Uri Sector of Jammu And Kashmir on September 18 .
Bharat Darshan – Terrorist Attack at Lachipora, Uri Sector. Weapons and ammunition captured after killing ten militants.
Bharat Darshan – Terrorist Attack in Uri Sector, Kashmir on September 18.
Bharat Darshan – Deadliest Terrorist Attack in Uri Sector, Kashmir on September 18. All enemy attackers Killed.
Bharat Darshan – Terrorist Attack in Uri Sector, Kashmir on September 18. All enemy attackers Killed.
Bharat Darshan – Terrorist Attack at Army Brigade Base in Baramulla’s Uri Sector on September 18.
Bharat Darshan – Terrorist Attack in Uri Sector, Kashmir.
Bharat Darshan – URI, JAMMU AND KASHMIR.
Bharat Darshan – Uri, Kashmir.
Bharat Darshan – Uri Terror Attack on September 18. All enemy attackers Killed.
Bharat Darshan – Uri, Kashmir.
Bharat Darshan – Terror Attack in Uri Sector, Kashmir on September 18. All enemy attackers Killed.
Bharat Darshan – Terror Attack in Uri Sector, Kashmir on September 18. India lost twenty of her brave soldiers.
Bharat Darshan – Terrorist Attack in Uri Sector September 18.
Bharat Darshan – The Blue Stream, Uri, Kashmir with Pir Panjal Range.
Bharat Darshan – Terrorist Attack in Uri Sector, Kashmir on September 18.
Bharat Darshan – Terrorist Attack in Uri Sector, Kashmir on September 18.
Bharat Darshan Uri Sector Terrorist attack in Kashmir.
Bharat Darshan Uri Sector Terrorist Attack.
Bharat Darshan Terrorist Attack in Uri Sector, Kashmir.
PRAYER TO LORD GANESHA – SUCCESS THROUGH OBEDIENCE AND HUMILITY
PRAYER TO LORD GANESHA – SUCCESS THROUGH OBEDIENCE AND HUMILITY.Prayer to Lord Ganesha – Success Through Obedience and Humility.On bhavanajagat.com
Indian Cultural Traditions offer tools for Success in all dimensions of Life including health, education, employment, social status and social relationships. The Formula For Success is simple; perform all tasks making an estimate to take care of negative consequences or outcomes, and plan for roadblocks or obstacles in the planning stage of executing any action. Indians initiate actions seeking Blessings of Lord Ganesha for their desire for Success in Life should not be directed by intellectual pride or arrogant use of physical or material power.
Rudranarasimham Rebbapragada Ann Arbor, MI 48104-4162 USA BHAVANAJAGAT
PRAYER TO LORD GANESHA – SUCCESS THROUGH OBEDIENCE AND HUMILITY.Prayer to Lord Ganesha – Success Through Obedience and HumilityPrayer to Lord Ganesha – Success Through Obedience and HumilityPrayer to Lord Ganesha – Success Through Obedience and HumilityPrayer to Lord Ganesha – Success Through Obedience and HumilityPrayer to Lord Ganesha – Success Through Obedience and Humility
SPECIAL FRONTIER FORCE SUPPORTS PEACE, DEMOCRACY, AND JUSTICE IN BALOCHISTAN
Special Frontier Force Supports Peace, Democracy, and Justice in Balochistan. Indian Prime Minister at Red Fort, New Delhi on August 15, 2016.
Ministry of Defence, Sultanate of Oman hired me to serve in Force Medical Services of Royal Oman Army from January 1984 to July 1986. This military service gave me an excellent opportunity to also serve members of Royal Oman Air Force, and Royal Oman Navy. Oman has a large population of people of Baloch origin apart from numerous Baloch expatriates who serve in Oman’s Armed Forces.
Based upon my intimate understanding of Baloch people and their aspirations to defend their Identity, I gained deep insight about their painful struggle to resist Pakistan’s brutal oppression. On behalf of Special Frontier Force, I extend support for Peace, Democracy, and Justice in Balochistan. I warmly commend Prime Minister Narendra Modi for openly sharing his concerns to secure lasting Peace in Balochistan.
Modi’s Balochistan Barb Highlights Pakistan’s Apathy of Decades
TILAK DEVASHER
Prime Minister Modi’s reference to Balochistan in his Independence Day address from the ramparts of the Red Fort in Delhi has sent Pakistan scurrying for cover. The response so far has been a weak “we told you so”, trying to pin the blame on India for the decade-old insurgency in the province.
That this does not hold water is obvious from Amnesty International’s famous 2008 report – ‘Denying the Undeniable: Enforced disappearances in Pakistan’ – that exposed what Pakistan was doing to its own citizens. More recently, a host of Pakistani commentators from Human Rights activists like Asma Jahangir, Sabeen Mehmud and journalists like Hamid Mir have highlighted the atrocities in Balochistan. Sabeen Mehmud paid for it with her life while Hamid Mir narrowly escaped a similar fate.
Touching a Raw Nerve
Unfortunately, such revelations of massive human rights violations are water off a duck’s back for Pakistan. Secure in the knowledge of its importance to the US in its engagement in Afghanistan and now to China for the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Pakistan has continued with its ‘kill and dump’ policy in Balochistan.
However, PM Modi’s statement is a new ball game for Pakistan. Apart from sporadic mention of Balochistan in the US Congress and in the European Parliament, this is the first time that the head of a government has questioned Pakistan’s treatment of its own people.
What this does is turn the spotlight on Balochistan in a manner like never before; it has touched a raw nerve in Pakistan.
Prime Minister Modi has touched Pakistan’s raw nerve by mentioning Balochistan in his I-Day speech.
Balochistan’s Economic Deprivation
Due to a media blackout, only sporadic details of the eleven-year-old insurgency in the province and the horrendous human rights violations are in the public domain. However, what the Pakistan Army cannot brush under the carpet is the sordid tale of deliberate economic deprivation of the largest province of Pakistan by Punjab that has treated Balochistan as its colony.
A few examples will suffice: According to the Economic Survey of Pakistan 2015-2016, as against the national literacy rate of 60 per cent, literacy in Balochistan was only 44 per cent as compared to Punjab where it was 63 per cent. Applying a multidimensional poverty index (combination of the levels of education, health and standard of living), the Oxford Department of International Development showed that in 2012-13, against the national poverty average of 44.2 per cent, 70.6 per cent of the population in Balochistan was poor as compared to 36.6 in Punjab. A study titled ‘Provincial Accounts of Pakistan: Methodology and Estimates 1973–2000’ conducted by the Social Policy and Development Centre (SPDC), Karachi, concluded that Balochistan was regressing further into under-development. According to media reports, while the Human Development Index (HDI) for Lahore is 0.806 for places like Awaran, Qila Abdullah and Jhal Magsi districts in Balochistan, it is 0.467, 0.499 and 0.435 respectively, making them among the worst places to live on earth. Ten districts of Balochistan were worse off than the impoverished regions of Sub-Saharan Africa in terms of their human development ranking. According to the National Nutrition Survey of 2011, sixty-three per cent people of Balochistan were suffering from food insecurity.
Political Marginalisation
Thus, despite the province being extremely rich in mineral wealth that is extracted and used in other parts of Pakistan like Sui Gas, the Baloch have had to suffer economic deprivation. They are marginalised politically too since there are hardly any Baloch in the government and especially in the armed forces. Not surprisingly, Baloch have come to see insurgency as the last option to defend their homeland against the predatory colonisation by the Punjabi-dominated civil and military governments in Islamabad.
As Ghaus Bux Bizenjo told the Kalat State Assembly on 12 December 1947:
We can survive without Pakistan. We can prosper outside Pakistan. But the question is what Pakistan would be without us ? … If Pakistan wants to treat us as a sovereign people, we are ready to extend the hand of friendship and cooperation. If Pakistan does not agree to do so… and if we are forced to accept this fate [merger with Pakistan] then every Baloch son will sacrifice his life in defence of his national freedom.
PM Modi’s statement would be a wake-up call for Punjab itself where knowledge about the situation in Balochistan is abysmal. A BBC Urdu survey in 2010 in Lahore found absolute ignorance about Balochistan.
In 2011, a documentary filmmaker found not only were Lahore is blissfully unaware of the developments in Balochistan, most could not name even a single city or town of the province. In 2015, none of the students of a private university knew who Mama Qadeer was, even though the Baloch activist was leading a long march from Quetta to Islamabad protesting about ‘missing persons’.
Pathetic Conditions of the Baloch
Punjab apart, what PM Modi has done is drawn the attention of the world to the pathetic conditions of the Baloch, on the continuing insurgency and on the ‘missing persons’ and ‘enforced disappearances’ policies of the Pakistan Army. It is this element of international attention that has been lacking in the Baloch nationalist struggle. Pakistan would now find it impossible to keep a lid on the deprivation of the Baloch.
Such a focus would embarrass Pakistan vis a vis the Chinese and their flagship China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the centre-piece of which is Gwadar in Balochistan. Announced with much fanfare in April 2015 during the visit of President Xi Jinping, several of the ‘early harvest’ projects are languishing and in danger of being delayed or closed down. The Chinese would certainly look askance at such attention on the adverse living conditions in Balochistan. If anything, coupled with the delay in implementation of the projects, such a focus would give the Chinese a lot to think about.
India Should Stick to its Stand
However, a lot of responsibility now falls on India. Having recognised the miseries of the Baloch and offered them a ray of hope, India will now have to stay the course. Accusations by Pakistan of India supporting the insurgency can and should be expected but should not deter India from continuing the moral support to the Baloch. Exposing Pakistan’s brutalities in the province and the deprivation of the province cannot be called interference in the internal affairs of Pakistan.
(The author retired as Special Secretary in the Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India. He can be reached at @tilakdevasher1)
Bharat Darshan – Salutations to Calendula Marigold – India’s Symbol of Remembrance Day to Honor India’s War Dead.
I warmly share the feelings of Ian Cardozo to recognize Marigold flower as Symbol of India’s Remembrance Day to pay our respectful tribute to all soldiers who sacrificed their lives defending our Nation since the day of its birth on August 15, 1947.
Bharat Darshan – Salutations to Marigold Flower, India’s Symbol of Remembrance Day to Honor India’s War Dead.
REMEMBRANCE DAY – REMEMBERING INDIA’S WAR DEAD
Would be grateful if you could send this attached article and poem on Remembrance Day and the Marigold to your list of persons and veterans who are in receipt of your e-mails.
Thanks.
Ian Cardozo
Remembrance Day – Remembering India’s War Dead
Soldiers die every day in the line of duty – in the jungles of the North East, in the icy wastes of Ladakh and Siachen, fighting terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir and in a myriad other death-defying scenarios. Sometimes when the death is dramatic, it makes news – most often they die in quiet oblivion. Either way, they are soon forgotten, except by the families in whose homes the lights went out when they lost a father, son or brother.
What is important however is to realise that the ultimate sacrifice made by soldiers yesterday, today and tomorrow needs to be remembered
Next year will make seventy years since the 1947-48 Indo-Pak war, and we as yet, do not have a proper war memorial for all who have died in all the wars and counter-terrorist and counter-insurgency operations that we have fought since independence. Families of dead soldiers have been waiting patiently for the war memorial so that they can pray at the site for their loved ones who made the supreme sacrifice. In the meantime many of these families have themselves passed away having waited all these years in vain. The Indian soldier has been told that the memorial is in the pipeline and that this project will be completed in five years time. When did the countdown of five years start and when will it finish? A promise is a promise only if it has a deadline!
In the meanwhile, veterans of the armed forces feel that something ought to be done till then. They have voiced the need for a Remembrance Day and a symbol to remember India’s ‘Unknown Soldier’. The West has the poppy as its symbol of remembrance. Indian veterans feel that no flower could be more meaningful as a symbol of remembrance for the war dead of India than the marigold. They suggest that a day could be nominated as ‘Remembrance Day’ and the marigold as the symbol of remembrance. The poem below encapsulates their sentiments.
Ian Cardozo, 28 March 2016
The Marigold
In Remembrance Our Marigold, this simple flower In many ways it meets the hour of valiant soldiers who in combat die And to their Maker skywards fly.
From ancient times, this favourite bloom Has commemorated ‘womb to tomb’ Of life and death in equal measure And other moments we all treasure
But in time of war, this flower has shed Her fragrant petals to mourn her dead For those who fought for you and me And sacrificed their destiny.
So pause a moment all that care And offer up in silent prayer This sacred flower for a soldier’s death To remember, lest we soon forget Ian Cardozo, 28 March, 2016
Bharat Darshan – Salutations to Marigold Flower, India’s Symbol of Remembrance Day to Honor India’s War Dead.
Bharat Darshan – Salutations to Marigold Flower, India’s Symbol of Remembrance Day to Honor India’s War Dead. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at India Gate, New Delhi.
Bharat Darshan – Salutations to Marigold Flower, India’s Symbol of Remembrance Day to Honor India’s War Dead. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, India Gate, New Delhi.
Bharat Darshan – Salutations to Marigold Flower, India’s Symbol of Remembrance Day to Honor India’s War Dead. India Gate, New Delhi.
BHARAT DARSHAN – INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION – STATUS OF HARAPPAN MAN
Bharat Darshan – Indus Valley Civilization – Status of Harappan Man as compared to Anatomically Modern Man. There is no continuity between Harappan Man and Vedic Era Indian who communicated using Sanskrit Language. Do they represent the same Hominin species?
Before rewriting Indian History with reference to timeline of Indus Valley Civilization, I would like to ascertain status of Harappan Man who used Mohenjo Daro – Harappan Script unlike Vedic Era Man who used Devanagari alphabet of Sanskrit Language. Do they represent the same Hominin species? The status cannot be ascertained by study of tools used by Harappan Man. It has to be determined by skeletal features, particularly Skull of Harappan Man as compared to Skull of Anatomically Modern Man called Homo sapiens sapiens. Harappan Man may belong to unknown archaic Homo sapiens species which suddenly disappeared while population of Homo sapiens sapiens started expanding in all continents. The decline of Indus Valley Civilization may have to be accounted as extinction of unknown Hominin species called Harappan Man.
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SPIRITUALITY SCIENCE – THE ORIGIN OF MANHuman Civilization can be described as the Civilization of Dialogue and the conversation continues from one generation to the next as if man is not a perish…
The problem of origin of man has to be studied along with problem of origin of language. Most human languages are about 6,000 years old.
Indus era 8,000 years old, not 5,500; ended because of weaker monsoon
JHIMI MUKHERJEE PANDEY TNN May 29, 2016, 01.37 AM IST
A painting on Indus Valley civilization.( TOI photo by Sanjay Hadkar)
KOLKATA: It may be time to rewrite history textbooks. Scientists from IIT-Kharagpur and Archaeological Survey of India(ASI) have uncovered evidence that the Indus Valley Civilization is at least 8,000 years old, and not 5,500 years old, taking root well before the Egyptian (7000 BC to 3000 BC) and Mesopotamian (6500 BC to 3100 BC) civilizations. What’s more, the researchers have found evidence of a pre-Harappan civilization that existed for at least 1,000 years before this.
The discovery, published in the prestigious ‘Nature’ journal on May 25, may force a global rethink on the timelines of the so-called ‘cradles of civilization’. The scientists believe they also know why the civilization ended about 3,000 years ago — climate change.
“We have recovered perhaps the oldest pottery from the civilization. We used a technique called ‘optically stimulated luminescence’ to date pottery shards of the Early Mature Harappan time to nearly 6,000 years ago and the cultural levels of pre-Harappan Hakra phase as far back as 8,000 years,” said Anindya Sarkar, head of the department of geology and geophysics at IIT-Kgp.
The team had actually set out to prove that the civilization proliferated to other Indian sites like Bhirrana and Rakhigarrhi in Haryana, apart from the known locations of Harappa and Mohenjo Daro in Pakistan and Lothal, Dholavira and Kalibangan in India. They took their dig to an unexplored site, Bhirrana — and ended up unearthing something much bigger. The excavation also yielded large quantities of animal remains like bones, teeth, horn cores of cow, goat, deer and antelope, which were put through Carbon 14 analysis to decipher antiquity and the climatic conditions in which the civilization flourished, said Arati Deshpande Mukherjee of Deccan College, which helped analyse the finds along with Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
The researchers believe that the Indus Valley Civilization spread over a vast expanse of India — stretching to the banks of the now “lost” Saraswati river or the Ghaggar-Hakra river – but this has not been studied enough because what we know so far is based on British excavations. “At the excavation sites, we saw preservation of all cultural levels right from the pre-Indus Valley Civilization phase (9000-8000 BC) through what we have categorised as Early Harappan (8000 – 7000 BC) to the Mature Harappan times,” said Sarkar.
While the earlier phases were represented by pastoral and early village farming communities, the mature Harappan settlements were highly urbanised with organised cities, and a much developed material and craft culture. They also had regular trade with Arabia and Mesopotamia. The Late Harappan phase witnessed large-scale de-urbanisation, drop in population, abandonment of established settlements, lack of basic amenities, violence and even the disappearance of the Harappan script, the researchers say.
“We analysed the oxygen isotope composition in the bone and tooth phosphates of these remains to unravel the climate pattern. The oxygen isotope in mammal bones and teeth preserve the signature of ancient meteoric water and in turn the intensity of monsoon rainfall. Our study shows that the pre-Harappan humans started inhabiting this area along the Ghaggar-Hakra rivers in a climate that was favourable for human settlement and agriculture. The monsoon was much stronger between 9000 years and 7000 years from now and probably fed these rivers making them mightier with vast floodplains,” explained Deshpande Mukherjee.
Indus Valley evolved even as monsoon declined
The researchers believe that the Indus Valley Civilization spread over a vast expanse of India — stretching to the banks of the now “lost” Saraswati river or the Ghaggar-Hakra river — but this has not been studied enough because what we know so far is based on British excavations. “At the excavation sites, we saw preservation of all cultural levels right from the pre-Indus Valley Civilisation phase (9,000-8,000 years ago) through what we have categorised as Early Harappan (8,000-7,000 years ago) to the Mature Harappan times,” said Sarkar.
The late Harappan phase witnessed large-scale de-urbanisation, drop in population, abandonment of established settlements, violence and even the disappearance of the Harappan script, the researchers say. The study revealed that monsoon started weakening 7,000 years ago but, surprisingly, the civilization did not disappear.The Indus Valley people were very resolute and flexible and continued to evolve even in the face of declining monsoon. The people shifted their crop patterns from large-grained cereals like wheat and barley during the early part of intensified monsoon to drought-resistant species like rice in the latter part. As the yield diminished, the organised large storage system of the Mature Harappan period gave way to more individual household-based crop processing and storage systems that acted as a catalyst for the de-urbanisation of the civilization rather than an abrupt collapse, they say.
Bharat Darshan – Indus Valley Civilization – Status of Harappan Man as compared to Anatomically Modern Man.Do they represent the same Hominin species?
Bharat Darshan – Indus Valley Civilization – Status of Harappan Man as compared to Anatomically Modern Man. Do they represent the same Hominin species?
Bharat Darshan – Indus Valley Civilization – Status of Harappan Man as compared to Anatomically Modern Man. Do they represent the same Hominin species?
Bharat Darshan – Indus Valley Civilization – Status of Harappan Man as compared to Anatomically Modern Man. Do they represent the same Hominin species?
Bharat Darshan – Indus Valley Civilization – Status of Harappan Man as compared to Anatomically Modern Man. Do they represent the same Hominin species?
Bharat Darshan – Indus Valley Civilization – Status of Harappan Man as compared to Anatomically Modern Man. Do they represent the same Hominin species?
Bharat Darshan – Indus Valley Civilization – Status of Harappan Man. Excavations at Rakhi Garhi. Language and Identity of Hominin species. Devanagari vs Mohenjo Daro – Harappan Script.
Bharat Darshan – Indus Valley Civilization – Status of Harappan Man. Excavations at Rakhi Garhi, Haryana. Language and Identity of Hominin species. Devanagari vs Mohenjo Daro – Harappan Script.
Bharat Darshan – Indus Valley Civilization – Status of Harappan Man. Excavations at Rakhi Garhi, Haryana. Language and Identity of Hominin species. Devanagari vs Mohenjo Daro – Harappan Script.
Bharat Darshan – Indus Valley Civilization – Status of Harappan Man. Excavations at Rakhi Garhi, Haryana. Language and Identity of Hominin species. Devanagari vs Mohenjo Daro – Harappan Script.
Bharat Darshan – Indus Valley Civilization – Status of Harappan Man. Excavations at Rakhi Garhi, Haryana. Language and Identity of Hominin species. Devanagari vs Mohenjo Daro – Harappan Script.
Bharat Darshan – Indus Valley Civilization – Status of Harappan Man. Excavations in Rakhi Garhi, Haryana. Language and Identity of Hominin species. Devanagari vs Mohenjo Daro – Harappan Script.
Bharat Darshan – Indus Valley Civilization – Status of Harappan Man. Excavations at Rakhi Garhi. Language and Identity of Hominin species. Devanagari vs Mohenjo Daro – Harappan Script.
Bharat Darshan – Indus Valley Civilization – Status of Harappan Man. Language and Identity of Hominin species. Devanagari vs Mohenjo Daro – Harappan Script.
Bharat Darshan – Indus Valley Civilization – Status of Harappan Man. Language and Identity of Hominin species. Devanagari vs Mohenjo Daro – Harappan Script.
Bharat Darshan – Indus Valley Civilization – Status of Harappan Man. Rakhi Garhi Harappan Site, Haryana, India. Language and Identity of Hominin species. Devanagari vs Mohenjo Daro – Harappan Script.
Bharat Darshan – Indus Valley Civilization – Status of Harappan Man. Rakhi Garhi Excavations. 5000-years-old skeletons and artefacts discovered. Language and Identity of Hominin species. Devanagari vs Mohenjo Daro – Harappan Script.
Bharat Darshan – Indus Valley Civilization – Status of Harappan Man. Language and Identity of Hominin species. Devanagari vs Mohenjo Daro – Harappa Script.
Bharat Darshan – Indus Valley Civilization – Status of Harappan Man. Language and Identity of Hominin species. Excavations at Rakhi Garhi, 5,000-years-old skeleton. Devanagari vs Mohenjo Daro – Harappan Script.
Bharat Darshan – Indus Valley Civilization – Status of Harappan Man. Language and Identity of Hominin species. Devanagari vs Mohenjo Daro – Harappan Script.
Bharat Darshan – Indus Valley Civilization – Status of Harappan Man. Language and Identity of Hominin species. Devanagari vs Mohenjo Daro – Harappan Script.
Bharat Darshan – Indus Valley Civilization – Status of Mohenjo Daro – Harappan Man. Language and Identity of Hominin species. Devanagari vs Mohenjo Daro – Harappan Script.
Bharat Darshan – Indus Valley Civilization – Status of Harappan Man. Language and Identity of Hominin species. Seals from Mohenjo Daro. Devanagari vs Mohenjo Daro – Harappan Script.
Bharat Darshan – Indus Valley Civilization – Status of Harappan Man. Language and Identity of Hominin species. Devanagari vs Mohenjo Daro – Harappan Script.
Bharat Darshan – Indus Valley Civilization – Status of Harappan Man. Language and Identity of Hominin species. Devanagari vs Mohenjo Daro – Harappan Script.
Bharat Darshan – Indus Valley Civilization – Status of Harappan Man. Language and Identity of Hominin species. Devanagari vs Mohenjo Daro – Harappan Script.
Bharat Darshan – Indus Valley Civilization – Status of Harappan Man. Language and Identity of Hominin species. Devanagari vs Harappan and Mohenjo Daro Script.
A painting on Indus Valley civilization.( TOI photo by Sanjay Hadkar)
