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Roshni Issue 74: November 2014
Roshni Issue 74: November 2014
Roshni Issue 74: November 2014
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LUCKY SON
Once there was a farmer. He had two
teenage sons. This farmer had just
inherited some of money from his
brother's recent death. He couldn't
decide which son he could send to
college, since he could only afford to
send one.
This farmer also had two ducks.
These ducks were retarded. They
were only two ducks on the farm that
weren't normal. He told his sons that
whoever could get the most money for
the duck would go to college.
The sons went out in attempt to collect
as much money as they could. The
first son was walking down the street
when he passed a man working in the
yard. The man asked him if the duck
was for sale, for the man loved the
taste of ducks. He offered the son 10
dollars for his duck. The son decided
this was very good, so he took it. He
decided his brother wouldn't be able
to get close to his success.
The second son was walkingand
thinking about what to do with the
duck when it broke the leash. The
duck ran out into the street and was hit
by a car. The lady that hit it jumped
from her car and started apologizing
profusely. The son insisted it was ok,
but the lady said she would pay for the
duck. She was in a hurry, so she gave
him 25 dollars and sped off.
When the sons got home, the farmer
asked the first son what he got. He
proudly displayed the 10 dollars. The
farmer was impressed. He asked the
second son the same thing.
"That's nothing. I got 25 dollars for
nothing."
A police officer pulls over a driver and informs him that he has just won
$5,000 in a safety competition, all because he is wearing his seat belt.
"What are you going to do with the prize money?" the officer asks.
The man responds, "I guess I'll go to driving school and get my license."
His wife says, "Officer, don't listen to him. He's a smart aleck when he's
drunk."
The guy in the back seat pops up out from under the blanket and says, "I
knew we wouldn't get far in this stolen car."
Just then a knock comes from the trunk and a voice calls out, "Are we over
the border yet?
PRIVATE BABY
Q: Which part of the military do babies
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A: The infantry.
HOSTAGE SITUATION
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$20 million and threaten to release
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RELIGION
Asrar At-Tanzil
SECRETS OF REVELATION:
Alif, Lam, Mim. Allah-SWT ! There
is no Ilaaha but He-SWT the Almighty,
the Wise.
Surah AI-Baqarah ended with the
prayer for victory and sway over the
non-believers. This Surah discusses
the nature of dealings and
interactions with them, as if the same
topic is being carried further.
To begin with, the difference between
a believer and a non-believer is
explained. Those believing in Unity
and the Divine Attributes are the
believers and those who repudiate
these are the non-believers. In other
words, mankind is divided into two
groups of people in this world, namely
the believers and the non-believers.
This division along ideological lines
can also be termed as two nations
theory. The believers are essentially a
single entity whereas disbelief has
further sub-divisions but basically all
non-believers constitute a single
nation.
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missiles," he added.
As a matter of fact, a response to my
question was given recently by I.smail
Demir, undersecretary of the
Undersecretariat for the Defense
Industry (SSM), the country's stateowned main body for arms
acquisition. It was confusing, but at
the same hinted that the scenario was
being put in place for Turkey to
eliminate China from the project.
Demir revealed that the SSM has also
been talking to Eurosam, not for TLoramids but for the acquisition of a
longer-range missile that involves
different layers of defense, although
he did not elaborate further. He did,
however, add that the SSM is
continuing talks with China for the TLoramids project.
Despite my persistent questions,
Demir has fallen short of elaborating
further on what exactly he meant,
since up until now we know about only
one such project, namely, TLoramids. But now Demir is talking
about the existence of a separate
project for the development of longerrange, advanced missiles that he said
Ankara has been talking to Eurosam
about.
Turkish defense industry sources
confirmed to me that in addition to TLoramids the SSM has developed
another project for more advanced
missiles.
This new SSM project is being kept
confidential, but could be conducted
in addition to T-Loramids.
However, a Western defense source
in Ankara told me that they thought it
highly likely that Turkey would instead
abandon the T-Loramids project and
re place i t wit h t he new codevelopment project.
The SSM will probably open a new
tender, perhaps before the end of
2014, for the new co-development
project. China is expected to be
invited to participate in this tender,
too.
It now appears that by developing a
new, longer range, more advanced
missile project, Ankara will avoid
looking like it is backing down on the
T-Loramids project with China in the
face of NATO pressure. But this new
project is also intended to facilitate
Ankara's plans to abandon the
Chinese system during a new tender.
n November 4, 1972, we
adopted the Constitution of
the People's Republic of
Bangladesh.
Each year, November 4 passes
unnoticed, uncelebrated. However
much the constitution cuts across the
political divide as a statement of
enduring values, we have failed to
grasp its significance and also failed
to dedicate the day as Constitution
Day. It is a pity to find this date
disappearing from our consciousness
and conspicuously missing in the list
of designated national days.
Our inadequacy in comprehending
the significance of this date in our civil
life prevents us from according it a
national status like other nations (in
the US, Constitution Day is an official
holiday). Beyond our commitment to
republicanism, the importance of
Constitution Day is vividly focused
when viewed against our national
track record, which had been defiled
by military takeovers. Should the
government headed by Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina dedicate
November 4 as Constitution Day, it
cert ai nl y w oul d be a ro bust
articulation of our commitment to
constitutionalism. This date so
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Sorry but I just dont feel like working
so please try and understand? Or
You know, we all should have the
option not to work some days, dont
you agree? Anyway in order to save
my already ruined prestige, I just
chose to nod in agreement and
offered my apologies for my poor
performance and promised to get
back to my routine self.
He then told me casually that there
were several cases of students from
different institutions who had been
caught cheating. According to him,
those students had hired people to do
analysis/writing for them. He said that
consequences of such actions were
very serious and it could cost the
student his or her degree. As we have
been working together for almost
three years and given the fact that we
meet on a regular basis and he knows
how precisely I usually discuss all
details of my work, I knew he was not
questioning my integrity, and he also
reassured me that he was very
confident of my academic honesty
despite of my recent glitches, and that
I would be able to catch up depending
entirely on myself and on his
guidance. This incident brought back
memories of my Ph.D. upgrade report
submission when the plagiarism
detection system detected selfplagiarism in my report. Although the
plagiarism detected was from a
previous work done by myself and not
in a novel part of my work (it was in the
research context), nevertheless, the
issue was taken very seriously and I
was told that more grand issues have
very ugly consequences and that
plagiarism is a very serious academic
offense.
The truth is that although plagiarism
from previous submitted work is now
easily detected, thanks to advanced
plagiarism detection systems, but
discovering the cases of students
hiring other people to do the work for
them is a big challenge. The ugly truth
is that some of those students are
never caught and then they return to
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government on the December 2013
result or invite defections or reduce
the overall figure to 63 to give it a
majority. BJP was in power at the
Centre, with the ultimate power over
Delhis fate.
Jung became their most obedient civil
servant. He seemed to enjoy the
windfall that he would reign.
Keeping Assemblies in suspension so
that the Centres favourite party could
assume power was very much a
legacy from the Indira Gandhi-era. In
Nehrus time, there was one
suspension in 1951 (Punjab).
Between 1967-77, sixteen
Assemblies were kept suspended to
encourage defection and government
formation. In only four were they
subsequently dissolved.
Administration
The Bhagwan Sahay Committee
(1972), Sarkaria Commission (1988)
and Constitution Commission (2005)
deprecated this. Shanti Bhushan was
t h e l a w m in i st er w h e n n i ne
Assemblies were dissolved in 1977.
Mrs Gandhi returned the compliment
in 1980. The Emergency provision for
all states (Article 356) was amended
in 1978 to put some discipline on
Presidents Rule to one year, with
other safeguards. Before that,
Nagaland was under the Presidents
Rule for two years, eight months and
three days.
But the provisions that re-established
Delhi as a National Capital Region in
1991 had special Emergency
provisions (Article 239AB), which
allowed the Emergency Rule for
such periods and subject to such
conditions as may be specified.
Such a rule could be for constitutional
failure or the proper administration of
the National Capital Territory if
necessary or expedient to do so".
These are draconian provisions an
invitation to the opportunist, and
ambitious. We are dealing here with
an opportunist BJP and an ambitious
L-G. The period between dissolution
and elections should not be more than
six months, although the Supreme
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Kuldip Nayar
Commissioner at London, the
stringency of money had made New
Delhi to write to its envoys to raise
money from Indians settled abroad. I
also made a fervent appeal to the
people of Indian origin. But I was
su rp r i se d w h en t h e G e rm an
ambassador told me that the Indians
had so much money deposited in the
Swiss banks that they could easily
finance many five-year plans.
In
any case, the government has now
names of foreign account holders.
They were reportedly received many
months ago when the Congress
government headed by Manmohan
Singh was that helm of affairs.
Because of political considerations, it
took no action against anyone.
Even Prime Minister Narendra Modi,
who promised to book the guilty in 100
days of his regime, has begun action
only after seven months of coming to
power. The Singh government sat
over the names which were received
during its regime. Why no action was
taken has not been explained by the
Congress spokespersons. The
uncomfortable questions are never
answered. The disclosure of names is
in the same category.
The Modi government too has sacred
cows. It has preferred to name some
companies in the corporate sector to
others. The three names announced
from the corporate sector are
probably of those companies which
the Modi government has not been
able to milch. Also, the concentration
on the corporate sector is meant to
divert the peoples attention from the
political world.
The effort is to convince the society
that the illicit money is the doing of the
corporate sector. This may be true
because the money spent on
elections, running into thousands of
crores of rupees comes from the
corporate sector. But this is the black
money, earned through the illicit
means. The politicians, whether in or
out of power, have to bear the guilt.
They look to the other side than when
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perhaps.
perhaps. But on the whole it is in
questionable taste and gives the
impression that Pakistan and India for
all their claims of representing ancient
civilisations are caught up in some
juvenile game. The stamping of feet is
far too pronounced. Its not even
impressive in any athletic sense
because, if you take a closer look,
when the guards raise their legs they
cant keep their backs straightthey
slightly bend at the knees.
Watch the marching in Tiananmen
Square on Revolution Day: even as
soldiers of all the services, including
women, raise their legs in a
goosestep, waists are held tight and
backs are absolutely straight. At the
time of the changing of the guard in
Red Square in front of the Kremlin,
soldiers of the presidential guard (if I
am not mistaken, from the
Preobrazhensky Regiment, founded
by Peter the Great) raise their legs
hi gh a s th ey mar ch, al most
impossibly high as it seems to me, but
their backs are straight.
We have been cursed with the British
style of marching, legs moving just a
bit while the arms are swung
shoulder-high. When you fling about
the arms too much the poise and
balance of the body are affected. In
ballet, in synchronised gymnastics, in
ice skating, the movement of the arms
is an embellishment but the elegance
of the whole comes from the
movement of the legs. In the British
style of marching the backside is
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Ayaz Amir
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