Eye On Media

Now that the Congress administration has opened FDI in retail without any due diligence some columnists in the media have taken strong ideological positions regarding FDI in retail without actually giving any reasons as to why.  Walmart has been criticized roundly in US for its business practices. Walmart customers like Walmarts rock bottom prices not bothering to think what that does to the local small business and Walmart suppliers.

Chief ministers and former chief ministers like Jayalalitha, Mayavati, N.Modi, Mamta B, BJP and AP former CM CB Naidu are opposing FDI in retail. There is good reason as to why several popular, local and state level leaders in India are opposing FDI in retail, they have pulse of the of the people and they are elected unlike the appointed honchos at the top of UPA.

Big box retailers  especially Walmart squeeze suppliers bone dry. In US the suppliers could not meet Walmarts procurement prices without shipping their manufacturing to countries like China. Doing so enabled China to master manufacturing know how and expertise. This massive transfer of technology helped China become the manufacturing powerhouse and also a net exporter. US has become a debtor nation from a creditor nation.  Having the worlds reserve currency Dollar, helps US at least in short run. Can India afford to import manufactured goods at the expense of local manufacturing? India with its weak laws and without anti dumping or anti trust laws is going to be a free for all. As it is India's oil import bill in 2010 was nearly 76 billion dollars, can we afford to import more stuff that can be made here?

Congress govt is bombarding the news papers with advts about how FDI will help farmers. This is a cruel joke, the producers, farmers/manufacturers do not benefit from big box retailers. The end retailer gets higher percentage of the proceeds than the producer. The producers(farmers) benefit it they have direct access to the retail market and multiple retailers rather than three or four big suppliers.

Several nations like Germany, France, Japan, S.Korea  restrict big box retailers. There is no reason for India not to do the same, since it is in the interests of its people.

So much for the Aman Ki Asha. Also we have delusions of being a world power.

"India Today’s web edition, which has a story on the brutality, says “It is suspected that militants killed the jawans from the 20 Kumaon Regiment, beheaded the duo and reportedly retained their heads as war trophies.” The journal says, “A senior Army official, requesting anonymity, disclosed that the two men of Kumaon Regiment were killed and their heads were chopped off. Their bodies were also mutilated.” Such was the mutilation that the families of the soldiers were requested not to lift the shrouds covering their bodies. Quoting Army officials, the report identifies the two martyrs as Havildar Jaipal Singh Adhikari and Lance Naik Devender Singh. A third jawan, from 19 Rajput Regiment, was shot dead. His name has not been disclosed. The fallen soldiers were cremated on Wednesday at their native villages in Pithoragarh and Haldwani districts of Uttarakhand. But for the report in India Today, India would have remained ignorant of this horror story."

 http://www.dailypioneer.com/358899/The-Birkin-effect-Our-jawans-are-beheaded.html
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http://www.dailypioneer.com/359064/Beheaded-jawans-cremated-in-a-hurry.html

"Some reports claim that infiltrators caught hold of two soldiers of the Kumaon Regiment, beheaded them and took away their heads as war trophies before badly mutilating the bodies.

Army says the bodies were mutilated in a fierce gunfight in Farkian Gali sector of Kupwara on July 30.

Defence spokesman claims that four infiltrators were also shot down while they tried to escape into Pakistan; their bodies were spotted on the other side of the LoC but they could not be retrieved by the Army.

Dwarahat MLA Pushpesh Tripathi, who was present during the cremation, told The Pioneer that the ‘body’ which was brought in the casket did not even have limbs."

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http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/story/jammu-and-kashmir-militants-behead-two-jawans-retain-their-heads/1/147238.html

A state police officer, who was present at the cremation of Devender Singh, confirmed that the bodies were badly mutilated and not shown to relatives. The Army authorities informed that the heads were blown away during the fierce encounter, he said.
Lance Naik Devender Singh's uncle also admitted that the bodies weren't shown to the family members, and so did a 20 Kumaon regiment official. Militants fired rocket propelled grenades at the jawans, killing them on spot and blowing off their heads, the official said.
He, however, refused to share details of the encounter. Lt Col J. S. Brar, the official spokesperson, HQ 15 Corps wasn't available for comments.

A wannabe Knight Templar kills 70+ people in Norway because he is angry with Muslim immigrants and his Norwegian elite. And some in the Indian media go apoplectic and start blaming the Hindutva crowd and wonder out loud if this might happen here. The trial balloon was floated by Praveen Swamy in `The Hindu` and duly picked up by `CNN-IBN` and a day later by `Indian Express`. There is no explanation as to how the two are even remotely related. Looking at the facts on ground where scores of Hindus die every year in terrorist related incidents perpetuated by Jihadists this piece of opinion is malicious. There is no evidence of Hindus committing such macabre violence, however this same author did not worry when Hindus were ethnically cleansed out of Kashmir.


As if on cue CNN-IBN in its report says:
   
   "The 32-year-old Breivik devotes a significant portion of his rambling 1,500-page manifesto posted online shortly before the massacre to the rise of the Indian nationalist movement."

    "The PCCTS, Knights Templar, he said supported the Sanatana Dharma movements and Indian nationalists in general."

The problem with this report is that Breivik did talk about Hindus but Hindus are not his primary or tertiary concern. He spoke primarily about Christians and his ramble about Hindus is NOT 'significant' by any  means.  In fact he spoke about Christians 2218 times, crusades 110 times, Gandhi 6 times, Hindu Nationalism or Hindutva 2 times and Pope 90 times.


So it is absolutely not true that "Breivik devotes a significant portion of his rambling" manifesto on 'Hindu Nationalism".

Not to be left behind IE chimes in claiming
"His endorsement of Hindutva-inspired terror, with lengthy quotations from RSS ideologues, has certainly caused great discomfiture to the Sangh Parivar"

It conveniently did not mention that Breivik quoted Gandhi, Locke, John Adams and mentioned Pope 110 times. Eventually after all the insinuations to cover its back, it also mentioned:
 "Breivik’s manifesto does not discredit India’s mainstream right any more than it does Vladimir Putin or the Daily Mail columnists he quotes" 

If anything the ELM response to this terror attack in Norway shows Media Skullduggery in India.

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/norwegian-killers-manifesto-supports-hindutva/170496-3.html
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article2290619.ece#comments
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/hitting-home/823310/