Dalit Freedom Network

This post is about an organization that claims to do good work, but it has many not believable facts making me write strongly against it. I have no personal anguish against the real dalits nor the real Christian missionaries, but this article portrays my anguish against the fakies in this world of deception! People who feel offended by any real religion/caste discussions are advised not to read the article.

Quoted from the DFN website

"The Dalit Freedom Network partners with the Dalits in their quest for religious freedom, social justice, and human rights by mobilizing human, informational, and financial resources.

We at the Dalit Freedom Network value the contributions of others who have gone before us, and through those efforts made the world a better place. Therefore, we seek to carry forward the legacy of William Wilberforce who worked for the abolition of slavery and the reformation of society; the legacy of William Carey who worked for the abolition of Sati, the practice of burning widows on the funeral pyre of their husbands; the legacy of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and Mahatma Phule who pioneered the movement for the abolition of caste and the Dalit quest for freedom and dignity; the legacy of Mother Teresa who showed God’s love in word and deed to the sick and dying; and to follow the command of Jesus Christ who called us to be ‘the salt of the earth’ and ‘the light of the world’."

Sounds good?

DFN claims to do the "good things" for the dalits and its intention is to abolish the caste system. Of course it is a benevolent idea to help the downtrodden, but, a few questions arise in my mind, for I have been a skeptic of such "social z or NGOs" who claim to do good work.

The only proof of authenticity is the ECFA (Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability), which is (quoted from the ECFA website) "an accreditation agency dedicated to helping Christian ministries earn the public’s trust".

Why aren't there any other affiliations, memberships, approvals appearing on the website???

Why should the NGO show only the ECFA membership seal and not bother about any Indian certification agencies?? ECFA guarantees that the money is used for good purpose (according to their rules and regulations).

Quoted from their best practices website, the very first 'Standard' says "Every member organization shall subscribe to a written statement of faith clearly affirming its commitment to the evangelical Christian faith ".

So, by their own standards, it seems like ECFA and members of ECFA are committed to Christian Evangelism!

Caste system, Dalits, SC/ST are all the 'tags' that are used by the political parties to garner votes from the most gullible vote bank, because of which I strongly feel that DFN is in India to mislead the people.

The donors may assume that the donations go to the actual dalit projects (its good if this really happens), but there is a clause clearly stating that "if" for any reason the funds collected are in excess, it will be used for other projects.

A full scale critique would require a complete (on the ground) investigation, but with the limited amount of sources of information, its not fair to blame the organisation on no grounds. This last few lines may sound contradicting when compared to the rest of the article, hence its up to the reader's intelligence/prejudices/suspicions to agree/disagree with suspicion pointed out over here.

Will update this article after further pondering :)

THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM

Having read the Bourne series, its nice to see the third part of the trilogy finally taking shape on screen.

The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy were great to read and also watch (although the movie and the novel were not having the exact same story).

After Watching the movie:

Movie is amzing with slick action sequences, gripping story and the tempo never goes down. The typical Bourne movie that seems to be the best among the trilogy.

1 thing that you may notice in the movie is that the cops car, Audis and the VW Touregs that are involved in the action sequences seem to have a special config where the airbags never seem to work even after the car falls from the 2nd or the 3rd level of the building :)

Gmail Fools Day!

On April 1st '07 Gmail team embarks on a great trick.

Whats the trick?

You'll get all that you have in Gmail on printed paper!

and what more?

Photo attachments are printed on high-quality, glossy photo paper, and secured to your Gmail Paper with a paper clip.


Delivery free to your doorstep within 2-3 days! (most of the free shipping things arrive in 7-9 days :)


And here is the bonanza for those wanting to utilize this offer to the (no) limit:

Gmail Paper is made out of 96% post-consumer organic soybean sputum, and thus, actually helps the environment. For every Gmail Paper we produce, the environment gets incrementally healthier.


It couldn't get any better than this :)


I was a bait for a few moments , especially when Google says about free postage:

"The cost of postage is offset with the help of relevant, targeted, unobtrusive advertisements, which will appear on the back of your Gmail Paper prints in red, bold, 36 pt Helvetica. No pop-ups, no flashy animations—these are physically impossible in the paper medium."


And the testimonials are too good!

“I've always felt uneasy about the whole internet thing. With the help of Gmail Paper, now I'm taking matters back into my own hands, literally.”

Kevin S., CEO AdventaStar Inc.

I wish google had put in a lil bit more effort in creating a fake webpage of this fake company and the CEO, which would make their april fools day campaign more effective :P



I am sure that the soya bean sputum idea must have been inspired by some wanna be Calvin (& Hobbes)


Happy fooling!

Happy April Fools Day!!!



PS: Gmail was announced on 1st April 2004, which many didn't believe it to be true, including the several techie websites!

I wish this too like GMAIL, was a reality.
:)




click here for the clarification from google regarding the paper mail :)

हिंदी पोस्टिंग कि परीक्षा

कृपया ध्यान दीजिए, आपकी ट्रेन कुछ ही मंटो में जाने वाली है,


ही ही ही ही ।


धन्यवाद आपकी समय के लिए बहोत बहोत शुक्रिया :)

कुछ ही दिनों में आप अर्थपूर्ण हिंदी पोस्ट्स देख सकते है।

तब तक खुदा फीस।

बाई बाई

ऎन्जॉय माडी :)


ये परीक्षा अभी ब स्टेज मे है (बोले थो बीटा स्टेज में :)

इस कारण से, आपको बहोत बकवास पड़ना पड़ेगा।


कुछ ही दिनों हम हिंदी भाषा कि कुछ असलीयत और गलत फैमियोंका फरमाइश करेंगे हम (मेरा दोस्त कहता हे कि, "में" बोलना एगोइस्टिक हे और "हम" बोलना सही तरीका है, और इसी वजह के कारण एक अच्चा दोस्त होने के नाथे हमे उनकी बाथ माननी पडी :)

हमारी हिंदी भाषा कि गलतियों के बारे मे मुफ़्त महसूस (feel free :) होके निस्संकोचित हमे बताइयेगा।





हिंदी भाषा और उससे जुडी हुई गलत फैमिया

अक्सर कहा जाता है कि हिंदी भारत का राष्ट्र भासा है, परंतु उत्तर भारत के वासियोंके यही कल्पना होती हे। अगर हम इस बात को किसी हिंदी बोलनेवाले को कहे तो उनसे ये सच्चाई नही सह जाती है। जब उन्हें सबूत दिखाते है तो शुरू हो जाते है कि भारत में लोग सबसे ज्यादा हिंदी मे बात करते है और इस वजह से हिंदी को राष्ट्र भाषा मानना पड़ेगा।

भारत में २२ (22) राष्ट्र भाषायें है। इसका सबूत इस वेबसाइट में हे।

http://india.gov.in/knowindia/india_at_a_glance.php

There are 22 National Languages have been recognized by the Constitution of India, of which Hindi is the Official Union Language. Besides these, there are 844 different dialects that are practiced in various parts of the Country.


This information is hosted on National Informatics Centre (nic) server, and I find this info to be the most trustworthy of all.


हमे हिंदी से कोई ताल्लुख नही है, मगर असलियत को इस तरह छुपाना गलत बात है।

Paul David Hewson thinks the way I do (probably a little different)

For those who don't know about Paul David Hewson, click here. Bono is out to eradicate or at least try to remove poverty from African countries and believes that eliminating poverty will eliminate other social ills, especially terrorism. Although I not having such big aims of eradicating poverty from Africa, I believe the poverty is among the root causes of social ills. For more info on why this point holds true, spare some time and go through this link, watch this video.

As the clock ticks, the world moves on, so will all the earthlings who have the opportunity to move along with the world। But there are a lot of unlucky ones in this planet, who are devoid of any such opportunities, lending them susceptible to terrorism, not at the receiving end, but quite the opposite. The poor countries are the reservoirs of prospective terrorist interns, lured by the offers that none of them has ever dreamt of, these people take to such activities.

Bono asks people to donate for such countries, where governments dont have money to buy the medicines or provide proper health care, thus reducing the chances of donor's near and dear one's threat to life due to terrorism.

My viewpoint is not only restricted to the African countries, but also India, where there are thousands of young energetic capable young people who are jobless. These people are often targeted by the fanatical political/religious organisations for executing their Plans of Action, often leading to the violence/riots/carnage at many places. Which leads me to an another conclusion that, just throwing money at the poor makes no difference to the poverty in the country. Its similar to feeding a hungry man with a fish every day. Instead, people who are bothered about the hungry, should put in sincere efforts in teaching that hungry man how to fish, which would keep the that man well fed throughout his life (provided you don't leave him in the middle of a desert :>)

There are a lot of NGOs doing such a work of teaching the art of fishing, which theoretically should have given positive results by now. But the problem lies in the fact that even after the hungry have been taught to fish, the complete eco system for fishing is not available. In most of the developing countries, like India, corruption plays a major role in hampering the ecosystem for fishing. Either there is no water to fish, or there is no fishing rod , or good population of fish in the pond (each of these are analogous to effects of corruption in life).

With corruption reaching the poor man from every possible avenue, its imperative for the poor to accept these corrupt practices as kind of de facto practices, which makes it easy for the corrupt political leaders to continue their shoddy work. The corrupt system is self sufficient and it ensures that its ecosystem stays alive and healthy. Due to corruption, population is not under control, which in turn leads to illiteracy (since the Indian government lacks the desire to educate its citizens) which results in large scale unemployment. This is the main reason for aimless youth to take to violent acts of crime, especially participating in riots that are nothing but an eyewash by the political and religious fanatic groups to the gullible public.


So, its not enough to find a path to the material wealth, but also find a way to maintain that wealth while trying to help eradicate poverty/illiteracy.

PS: This article is still incomplete, will be completed soon, along with some fine tuning to the whole article.