tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64994029081722018182024-03-13T08:28:00.299+05:30Da Eternal Rebelकि शब्दों से सुनो, बंदूक की ध्वनि निकलती है,
कलम स्याही नहीं, बारूद के अक्षर उगलती है !Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499402908172201818.post-83473811275991182072012-01-13T01:44:00.003+05:302012-01-13T01:44:31.512+05:30Jinhe Naaz hai Hind par wo kahan the ?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Excuse me if this is overly kiddish, when I wrote this, was just 15 years old.</div>
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To Neha once again, from an old notebook, a letter which was never sent; just digitalizing it, afterall this is my last loveletter... </div>
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Finally one post in my blog for myself. </div>
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Please पढने से पहले फाड़ना मत! हर बार मैं यही कहता हूँ की ये मेरी आखिरी चिट्ठी है लेकिन क्या करूँ, कंट्रोल ही नहीं होता. वैसे इसे तुम मेरा confession भी समझ सकती हो. बहुत कुछ ऐसा है जो मैं clarify करना चाहता था लेकिन अब तुम्हारा सामना करने की हिम्मत खो चूका हूँ. अब मुझे तुमसे कोई जवाब भी नहीं चाहिए. बस मेरी situation को समझने की कोशिश करना. </div>
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तुम मुझे भले ही सड़क छाप रोड रोमिओ समझो लेकिन अगर मेरा यकीन मानो तो 21 मई 1997 से पहले मैं इन सब लफड़ों से दूर ही रहता था. मैं वैसा भी नहीं हूँ जो मुश्किल से दो मिनट की बहुत ही फोर्मल बातचित को कुछ और समझ लूँ. तुम्हारी और मेरी ऊस मुलाकात के दो दिन पहले मैंने तुममे कुछ देखा था, वो कुछ क्या था मैं न कभी समझ पाया और न ही कभी समझ पाऊंगा. अब तुम ये उम्मीद तो मत रखना कि मैं तुम्हे कभी भूल पाऊंगा. तुम मेरा पहला और आखिरी पागलपन हो... </div>
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मैंने तुम्हारे साथ जिस तरीके से behave किया है उसके लिए मैं अपने आप को कभी नहीं माफ़ कर सकूँगा. लेकिन मेरा इरादा कभी भी बुरा नहीं था. मैं तुम्हे सिर्फ प्यार ही नहीं करता था, लगभग पूजा करता था. Angel थी तुम मेरी, बेदाग़ और innocent. काश किसी और के through मुझे "समझाने" कि जगह तुम खुद एक आखिरी बार बात कर लेती. </div>
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कभी कभी जब अपने बारे में सोचता हूँ तो बड़ा अजीब सा लगता है. दो साल पहले मैं क्या था और आज क्या हो गया हूँ... लेकिन मुझे सुधरने का मौका ही किसने दिया? तुम्हारी एक हाँ से मेरी ज़िन्दगी बदल जाती, वापिस लौट सकता था... अपनी सारी ज़िन्दगी को किसी की एक हाँ या ना पे छोड़ देना बहुत बड़ा दांव होता है और मैं ये हार चूका हूँ. भगवान् ना करे कि तुम्हे कभी पता चले कि ज़िन्दगी कि सबसे बड़ी बाज़ी हारने का अहसास कैसा होता है.</div>
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लगता है मेरा confession जरुरत से ज्यादा लम्बा हो गया. अगर तुमने इसे पढ़ा है तो thanks a lot ! शायद तुम दिल्ली जा रही हो, मैं भी बहुत दूर जा रहा हूँ. औरों कि तरह कभी IIT कि फ़िक्र नहीं की अब नयी शुरुआत करनी है. बहुत परेशान किया है मैंने, हो सके तो माफ़ कर देना. So stay happy. And believe me, this time its really my last letter. I love you.. </div>
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Whoa ! It feels weird to read this after 12 years! Wonder where she is, wonder where those days have gone when love used to be innocent.. and complicated. </div>
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A lot of hungaama is happening in the name of Kashmir again. There are voices from within India which say we should donate Kashmir to the Kashmiris because they are more of a liability than an asset to us and doing this will be democratically right bringing us eternal peace. Sounds fine to me, just that I have a few questions about this proposal. They are:<br /> </div>
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<b>1.</b> If we make this donation, what part of Jammu and Kashmir will be donated? Will it be the whole of Jammu and Kashmir or just the Kashmir Valley? If it is just the Kashmir Valley, sounds digestable, but what if they want the whole of Jammu and Kashmir as the donation? Being the intolerant majority they are, what is the gurantee that they will not treat Jammu and Laddakh in the same way as they treated the Kashmiri Pundits in 1990, the treatment in this case being ethnic cleansing. So if we remove Indian Forces and Administration from Kashmir for the peace thingie, will the whole purpose not be defeated at the hands of the new genocide that will start?<br /><br /><b>2.</b> On what grounds do we give Kashmir? On the basis of Kashmiriyat? How is Kashmiriyat incompatible with India? Further, if it is because of Kashmiriyat, will they gurantee that the Kashmiri Pandits will be able to return back to their homes and will be protected? I doubt. So whats the second excuse? Islam? Well how can a secular nation concede territory on the basis of religion? If that happens, will it not take away from the Muslims living in the "remaining India", the moral right to stay in the nation anymore? That will be a great injustice to the Muslims of India, will it not be? Further, if it happens in the name of religion, will it not start the Balkanization of India? <br /><br /><b>3.</b> More than 400 soldiers were killed in the Kargil War alone. I persume they died to defend Kashmir from the invading enemies. And when we talk of donating Kashmir, soaked with the blood of our soldiers, who are we going to donate it to ? To those swines (with due apologies to dogs who are atleast loyal to the hands that feed them) who pelt stones, abuse India and burn the Tri color in the steets of Sri Nagar on Friday afternoons even if something trivial happens in far away Netherlands? Where is our self respect? <br /><br /><br />Finally, it was mentioned that Kashmir is like a limb rotten with gangrene and should be amputated. With due respect I must say that Head is not a limb. <br /><br />With that, I rest my case...</div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499402908172201818.post-19467995926648458202011-10-10T00:32:00.000+05:302011-10-10T09:45:42.635+05:30Thus spake George Bernard Shaw<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
1. The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.<br />
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2. We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. <br />
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3. I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer. <br />
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9. You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. <br />
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12. The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. <br />
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13. The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499402908172201818.post-6472230354715319202011-10-02T22:47:00.002+05:302011-10-02T23:23:57.186+05:30This is for you Didu<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is about my grandmother. She is 80 years old and has seen the ups and downs of life from a small village near Chittagong, Bangladesh to another small village in the hinterlands of Bihar. Now she lives in Patna with my masi. So today I was at their place talking with her. Suddenly I asked her if she remembered Surya Sen. My masi hearing this, laughed and said grandma even forgets their names sometimes, how could she remember someone who died 70 years back. </div>
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So I asked again. And Grandma says, "Oh yes I do! I remember Master Surya Sen, Kalpana Dutta and all of them!" Shocked I asked if she had seen them, to this she said yes she had actually met them because she was part of a group of girls who sang a welcome song for them when they came at the Congress President's office at Chittagong. She explain how was Surya Sen dressed and how beautiful Kalpana Dutta looked. Then came the biggest shock; she sang the whole song!</div>
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Surya Sen and most of his motely group of revolutionaries died in early 1930s. Now most Indians do not even know what happened in Chittagong on 18th April 1930. Here is one lady who remembers them all even if she doesn't remember the names of her own daughters. This generation will fade away soon, giving way to the Gen Xs and Ys who do not know and just do not care..</div>
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Masterda, this small post is for you, and for my grandparents. I worship you and am proud of them, very proud! </div>
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<i>For the uninitiated, you can read about Suryasen <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surya_Sen">here</a></b> , Kalpana Dutta <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalpana_Datta">here</a></b> and Chittagong revolt <b><a href="http://www.bhavans.info/heritage/suryasen.asp">here</a></b></i>. </div>
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Long back in the 1960s, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, riding on the groundbreaking slogan of "Garibi Hataao", became the Prime Minister of India. It will never be established how much "Garibi" was removed in those decades of the "Hindu rate of growth" but Garibi Hataao" remained the flagship of the elcetoral battle formation
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Today's government is headed by an Economist, with another economist as the Home Minister and a Political Science Graduate as the Finance Minister! No wonder both the Home Policy and the Economic Policy look screwed up to a great extent. After the Anna debacle, the government could actally sense the Trust deficit that has been built up between the rulers and those who make them the rulers. </div>
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Maybe in this moment of difficult, the government rememberd that golden slogan of the 1960s coined by Mrs. Gandhi Senior. <i>"If the talisman could work then, why would it not work now? "</i> - someone must have thought. And hence they decided to give it a try. </div>
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So what does this new slogan translate to? In one masterstroke, the esteemed policymakers of India have eradicated most of the poverty of the nation. How? Well, if you live in a city and you earn more than Rs 32 .00(yes 32!) a day, you are rich; and if its a village, then just Rs 25.00 is enough to shower you with the blessings of Goddess Lakshmi !!! </div>
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The public understood 6 months back that our government is a joke, but this new thing makes them a downright PJ ! </div>
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I remember an excellent blog post by Shubham a few days back in his <a href="http://abuginmymind.wordpress.com/"><b>blog</b></a>. That a new reality show should be started. 32 ka dum. In this show, ask all these members of the planning commission to survive on Rs 32 per day for a month. The Neta who lives till the end will be declared the winner. How good will it be?</div>
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"I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I mean simply those who speak an Aryan language… in that sense, and in that sense only, do I say that even the blackest Hindus represent an earlier stage of Aryan speech and thought than the fairest Scandinavians...To me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar."</blockquote>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499402908172201818.post-1470984368206665172011-08-22T22:24:00.001+05:302011-08-22T22:25:03.039+05:30Thank you Visitor !<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">10000 visits</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Viva La Revolucion !!!</span></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499402908172201818.post-27095655698003653762011-08-20T23:24:00.002+05:302011-08-22T23:29:15.172+05:30The Indian Jasmine ...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fnDTUiuOux4/TlKK8_P7tVI/AAAAAAAAHrA/CVSVGLyAcIc/s1600/Anna+055.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fnDTUiuOux4/TlKK8_P7tVI/AAAAAAAAHrA/CVSVGLyAcIc/s400/Anna+055.jpg" width="233" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I will not forget this man who I saw during the ongoing agitation for Jan Lokpal in Chennai. He was a quiet old man who had come there to support Anna Hazaare. He never uttered a word unlike others who were raising slogans or singing patriotic songs, instead he just sat in a corner with this peaceful look of his and fasted. There was something in his simple face which attracted me immensely. I will always remember him as my version of the face of the revolution by Anna Hazaare - an ordinary common man with the simple resolve to bring a change, quietly....</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">As Anna sits through the 5th day of his fast and thousands of his followers and fans all over India march in different sort of protests, there are many voices which call Jan Lokpal impractical, Anna a blackmailer and this whole thing a tamasha. They say its undemocratic to protest and fast and the only the parliament should be supreme. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">To such voices, I want to convey that its not the parliament in the Democracy which is Supreme but We, the people, are the ones who are supreme. If we can make the lawmakers, there is no reason why we cannot decide on a law by ourselves, especially if this law, like the RTI, has a direct conflict of interest with the parliament which is supposed to protect the Democracy and instead thrives on Mobocracy. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Further, leave Jan Lokpal alone; its not even about Lokpal. This protest is the collective show of the middle finger to the corrupt, shameless and servile government of India by the people of India. This is the outburst of anger of the average common man who sees his nation getting looted with glee by the corrupt politicians and all the government agencies entrusted with protecting his interests, siding with the rich and mighty instead. So those who dismiss this as a tamasha, are either being myopic, or elitists - frowning at the masses taking matters in their own hand, or just plain ignorant. They fail to see this agitation for what it is - the Indian, Gandhian, Jasmine. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499402908172201818.post-12339976966198514542011-08-11T21:23:00.001+05:302011-08-11T21:23:38.815+05:30Chidiya naal jebaaz ladaawa ...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AQer9cGXjQc/TkP6gqjfMeI/AAAAAAAAHpI/nlQiA7oZQKs/s1600/sikhs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AQer9cGXjQc/TkP6gqjfMeI/AAAAAAAAHpI/nlQiA7oZQKs/s400/sikhs.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}">A Sikh stands guard while Muslims pray in the Holy Month of Ramzaan in UK..... Small things in life which make us feel good...</span></span></h6></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499402908172201818.post-87371563108678873782011-08-08T01:39:00.001+05:302011-08-08T01:46:30.180+05:30I am with Anna Hazaare .. what about you?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">Anna Hazare may be flawed, but so is the whole system. To a government which frowns at citizens protesting against the rampant corruption, this is the time to show the big middle finger of the Indian Public. To those who are laughing off the support for Anna Hazaare as yet another fad of the Indian youth which doesn't know which way to go, its our call - "Lead us against the fight against corruption if you have it in you!"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">What is there which is in the blood of Egyptians, Libyans, Jordenians, Syrians and all those brave men and women from the Arab? Why can't we stand and unite to bring down a corrpt government which has and can do no good? Why can't we start a revolution?</div><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/RZNKSF3FHpk" width="425"></iframe></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499402908172201818.post-59359886832983842842011-07-24T11:49:00.006+05:302011-07-24T12:49:41.590+05:30Have we judged the revolt of 1857 failrly ?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l3qpGm-IMNg/TivBlXaaZ2I/AAAAAAAAHnM/eTKh2LzqIFE/s1600/war-of-independence-1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 236px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l3qpGm-IMNg/TivBlXaaZ2I/AAAAAAAAHnM/eTKh2LzqIFE/s400/war-of-independence-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5632808606641055586" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />The revolt of 1857 is often called a revolt of the sepoys for petty reasons like greased cartidges, a mutiny without a clear sense of purpose, an effort immature in its ambitions and ambigious in character. In my humble opinion, the time has come to when we dissect such beliefs and theories and make up our mind on the true character of the revolt.<br /><br />The next few paragraphs are the exerpts from a proclamation made by the Grandson of Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Jafar after the 'liberation' of Azamgarh. This may shed some light on what the rebels actually wanted to achieve through their 'Great Revolt'.<br /><br />-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />"The poople of India are keenly aware of the tyranny and oppression of the English. I, the grandson of Bahadur Shah, have come here to declare that we will rid India of the English and will liberate the poor people who are groaning under their iron rule. I present this proclamation, to all the people of India, so that they can understand the politics that the Badshahi Government will enact. This will bring reform and freedom to the people in the following five key areas.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1. Taxation</span><br /><br />India has been reeling from the heavy taxation the British have imposed on all the landed people of India, who in return tax the rest. I commit to lower the taxes, to preserve the dignity and honour of the people.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2. Trade and Commerce</span><br /><br />The English Government has monopolized the trade of all the fine and valuable goods that India manufactures. Products such as textiles, indigo and other articles that India has exported in the past are now a complete monopoly of the English. This leaves only the trade of trifles to the people, and even in this, they are not without their share of profits by means of high customs, stamps, and bureaucracy that is entrenched in limiting freedom in trade.<br /><br />My government will abolish these fraudulent practices and open the trade of every article, without exception, both by land and water, to all Indian merchants. The Government will support this trade with steam-vessels and steam-carriages for their merchandise. Merchants with little or no capital of their own shall have access to capital at lower costs with the assistance of the government treasury as necessary.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">3. Public Servants </span><br /><br />Today, Indian officials in the British Government have a limited scope for growth - the highest level they can reach is that of a Subedar with a salary of no more than Rs 60 or 70 per month. All the Officers under the government will have starting salaries of Rs 200 to rs 300 per month with the promise of reaching higher levels in public service. Understandably, if they cannot publicly proclaim their support to ny government today - I ask them to help nt government indeirectly and help assist us to free India from the British.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">4. Industry</span><br /><br />The British economic policies have thrown India's skilled workforce into a life of poverty. From weavers to cotton dressers, from carpenters to blacksmiths to shoemakers have all lost their livelihood under this oppressive rule of the British. Support us in this effort and help us to enjoy the fruits of our labor and economic freedom for eternal prosperity.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">5. Personal Freedom</span><br />The British have imposed and forced Christianity upon us - Hindus and the Muslims alike. I urge the guardians of both faiths to join me in this effort to rid India of the British and create a nation that freely practices its faith and its culture.<br /><br />---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The nature of any plan is evident from the dream behind it. Looking at what this young man from Delhi dreamt for an India post the British, is it fair to say that the revolt of 1857 was just a sepoy mutiny with no national character of its own and no ideology? Was it an attempt to deny the leadership of the revolt, the true status that they deserved?<br /><br />Time we give the First War of Indian Independece, its due and know it for what it truely was - a revolution as good as the ones in France before and Russia later on...<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Reference:</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >1. Parag Tope, Operation Red Lotus, ISBN 978-81-291-1562-1, Rupa & Co.<br />2. Ainslee T. Embree, 1857 in India: Mutiny or War of Independence, p.1, D.C Heath and Company, Boston, 1963</span><br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499402908172201818.post-11531123605828705172011-06-28T19:04:00.006+05:302011-06-28T20:25:48.113+05:30Bharat Bhaagya Vidhaata?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AUSzPHsOczE/TgnaJAulcFI/AAAAAAAAHiU/h5otrYzjqNg/s1600/Britishindia1855.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 328px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AUSzPHsOczE/TgnaJAulcFI/AAAAAAAAHiU/h5otrYzjqNg/s400/Britishindia1855.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623265458097844306" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The belief that the British were instrumental in building a nation called India is often a result of looking at the concept of Nationalism from a Western Point of view and failing to look at the nebulous nature of the eternal entity that has been India. Unlike the modern nation states of Europe which took form in the 18th century, India was always a different setup. The current attempt of unification of Europe had already matured in India and China a millennium ago. Whether empires expanded or shrank, or their names changed with time, the concept of a common and unique identity which distinguishes an Indian with an Afghan, Turk or European was always there, this difference of character was the nation which India strived for.<br /><br />When it comes to political freedom, India had an enviable track record of a free nation which continued from 3000 BC to 1100 AD when some Northern kingdoms were subjugated by foreign invaders. Even if the Northern states were under the foreign rule, the rule of outsiders was never a bed of roses, the people resisted the foreign rule tooth and nail and there was never a period when some part was not up in rebellion. All this time, while the North was reeling under foreign invasions and occupation, the South not only remained free but also flourished. Barring a few exceptions, throughout the period, India was able to protect its ports, towns, trade centers and most importantly culture and free spirit.<br /><br />As the Mughal Empire breathed its last, the Marathas rose in prominence and knit India from Arcot to Attuck in a common thread, ruling as a proxy for the Mughal Emperor whose diktats ran not far from the boundaries of Delhi. They were almost at the verge of becoming the greatest force India had seen in centuries when their young empire was dealt a death blow first by Ahmad Shah Abdali and then the British. The real change appeared with the arrival of White pirate turned traders. Even as the Marathas were reeling under the impact of the Third battle of Panipat, the British started stealing their territories sometimes by military might and most often by hook and crook.<br /><br />The 19th century saw the decline of a great nation as never witnessed before. Like cancer, the British ate away in the economy, polity and culture of the country and made sure that even though they were to be driven off by the end of 1946, the scars they had left on the nation would continue to bleed for the decades to come. To understand the mentality that praises the British for contributing towards India, one would have to look at the analogy of a house owner who has been robbed of the last article he had in house. Now since the robber was so loaded with the goods, he had to leave his dagger in the house; and the robbed is happy that he atleast has a new dagger.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499402908172201818.post-18999428066997836532011-04-06T23:09:00.001+05:302011-04-08T13:03:43.258+05:30Total Revolution around the corner ?? Can we see?<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">It was just another afternoon in 1974, the only difference being the electric discontent flowing through the mammoth gathering of people assembled at the Gandhi Maidan of Patna. After a few speakers had talked and left, a fragile 70 year old man comes on the stage. He throws a challenge to the regime:</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> <span style="font-style: italic;"> “Do raah samay ke rath ka gharghar naad suno, </span></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" > Simhasan khaali karo ki janata aati hai !"</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Give way; listen to the roar of the chariot of time</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Vacate the throne, here comes the public!</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">This was the starting of the Bihar Movement, what later came to be known as the “Total Revolution”. The Indian youth which was in need of a pillar of inspiration to rally around came out in full force and gave a befitting reply to the bunch of corrupt sycophants who used to believe that Indira was India. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Today in 2011, another 73 year old man stands up and challenges the remnants of the same regime, more corrupt and immoral than ever. Does the youth of India today has the guts to support Anna Hazare as they supported Jayprakash Narayan two generations back? Or does our patriotism starts and ends with Cricket only?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I wonder …</span><br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499402908172201818.post-83927628568330310242011-03-27T10:28:00.003+05:302011-03-27T10:33:59.334+05:30A belated note for the people in Japan<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gu8POtKwiHI/TY7ExXUEQSI/AAAAAAAAHcM/xo2FjOUixPk/s1600/japan-earthquake-pics-3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gu8POtKwiHI/TY7ExXUEQSI/AAAAAAAAHcM/xo2FjOUixPk/s400/japan-earthquake-pics-3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5588620539964178722" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The recent triple tragedies in Japan have been an eye opener of a sort. On one hand, they have shown the might of nature and how powerless we are against it and on the other hand, it has shown how iron willpower can stand between even the strongest forces of nature and complete annihilation. The way they have reacted to the calamity, their grit, discipline and sacrifice in the face of endless trauma boundaries on Superhuman. Think of those workers, who volunteered to stay back in the doomed nuclear reactor, think of people working calmly to help each other in spite of their own personal tragedies, think of a nation all determined to rebuild itself all over again. No mad wailing, no chest beating.. they are dignified even in their defeat against the nature. They are almost an inspiration. In their misery and devastation, a humble Japanese stands taller than most...</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499402908172201818.post-60676227851604518782010-12-19T12:56:00.001+05:302011-04-09T22:26:45.578+05:30बहुसंख्यक होने का अर्थ - नरेंद्र कोहली<div style="text-align: justify;"><span>पादरी</span> <span>के</span> <span>घरपर</span> <span>बहुत</span> <span>भीड़</span> <span>देख</span>, <span>रामलुभाया</span> <span>घबराया।</span> <span>कहीं</span> <span>कोई</span> <span>दुर्घटना</span> <span>तो</span> <span>नहीं</span> <span>हो</span> <span>गई</span>? <span>पड़ौसी</span> <span>की</span> <span>चिंता</span> <span>के</span> <span>कारण</span> <span>वह</span> <span>घर</span> <span>बैठा</span> <span>नहीं</span> <span>रह</span> <span>सका।</span> <span>भागा</span> <span>हुआ</span> <span>उसके</span> <span>घर</span> <span>चला</span> <span>गया।</span><br />"<span>क्या</span> <span>हुआ</span> <span>भाई</span>?" <span>उसने</span> <span>पादरी</span> <span>से</span> <span>पूछा</span>, <span>वह</span> <span>उसे</span> <span>फादर</span> <span>नहीं</span>, <span>भाई</span> <span>ही</span> <span>कहता</span> <span>था।</span><br />"<span>अत्याचार</span> <span>हो</span> <span>रहा</span> <span>है</span> <span>हम</span> <span>पर</span> <span>इस</span> <span>देश</span> <span>में।</span>" <span>पादरी</span> <span>चिल्लाया</span>, "<span>हम</span> <span>इसे</span> <span>सहन</span> <span>नहीं</span> <span>करेंगे।</span>"<br />"<span>हम</span> <span>इसे</span> <span>सहन</span> <span>नहीं</span> <span>करेंगे।</span>" <span>उपस्थित</span> <span>लोगों</span> <span>ने</span> <span>चिल्लाकर</span> <span>कहा।</span><br />"<span>अत्याचार</span> <span>तो</span> <span>कभी</span> <span>सहन</span> <span>नहीं</span> <span>करना</span> <span>चाहिए।</span>" <span>रामलुभाया</span> <span>उससे</span> <span>सहमत</span> <span>हो</span> <span>गया</span>, " <span>मैं</span> <span>इस</span> <span>लड़ाई</span> <span>में</span> <span>तुम्हारे</span> <span>साथ</span> <span>हूँ।</span>"<br />"<span>तो</span> <span>बताओ।</span> <span>उड़ीसा</span> <span>में</span> <span>उन</span> <span>लोगों</span> <span>को</span> <span>फिर</span> <span>से</span> <span>हिंदू</span> <span>क्यों</span> <span>बनाया</span> <span>गया</span>?"<br />"<span>किन</span> <span>लोगों</span> <span>को</span>?" <span>रामलुभाया</span> <span>ने</span> <span>पूछा।</span><br />"<span>जिन्हें</span> <span>हमने</span> <span>पिछले</span> <span>सप्ताह</span> <span>ईसाई</span> <span>बनाया</span> <span>था।</span>"<br />"<span>क्या</span> <span>हिंदू</span> <span>और</span> <span>ईसाई</span> <span>बनाए</span> <span>जाते</span> <span>हैं</span>?" <span>रामलुभाया</span> <span>कुछ</span> <span>चकित</span> <span>होकर</span> <span>बोला</span>, "<span>मैं</span> <span>तो</span> <span>समझता</span> <span>था</span> <span>लोग</span> <span>अपनी</span> <span>आस्था</span> <span>के</span> <span>अनुसार</span> <span>हिंदू</span> <span>और</span> <span>ईसाई</span> <span>होते</span> <span>हैं।</span>"<br />"<span>रहने</span> <span>दो</span> <span>अपनी</span> <span>यह</span> <span>बकवास।</span>" <span>पादरी</span> <span>रुष्ट</span> <span>होकर</span> <span>बोला</span>, "<span>हम</span> <span>उनकी</span> <span>आस्था</span> <span>के</span> <span>बदलने</span> <span>की</span> <span>प्रतीक्षा</span> <span>करते</span> <span>तो</span> <span>वे</span> <span>क़यामत</span> <span>तक</span> <span>हिंदू</span> <span>ही</span> <span>बने</span> <span>रहते।</span>"<br />"<span>तो</span> <span>तुम्हारी</span> <span>क्या</span> <span>क्षति</span> <span>हो</span> <span>जाती</span>?" <span>रामलुभायाने</span> <span>पूछा</span>, "<span>धर्म</span> <span>तो</span> <span>अपने</span> <span>आत्मिक</span> <span>विकास</span> <span>के</span> <span>लिए</span> <span>होता</span> <span>है।</span> <span>तुम</span> <span>अपना</span> <span>विकास</span> <span>करो</span>. . ."<br />"<span>हम</span> <span>अपना</span> <span>विकास</span> <span>ही</span> <span>तो</span> <span>कर</span> <span>रहे</span> <span>हैं।</span>" <span>पादरी</span> <span>बोला</span>, "<span>जितनी</span> <span>अधिक</span> <span>संख्या</span> <span>में</span> <span>हम</span> <span>हिंदुओं</span> <span>को</span> <span>ईसाई</span> <span>बनाएँगे।</span> <span>ईसा</span> <span>मसीह</span> <span>हमसे</span> <span>उतने</span> <span>ही</span> <span>प्रसन्न</span> <span>होंगे।</span>"<br />"<span>ईसा</span> <span>मसीह</span> <span>के</span> <span>विषय</span> <span>में</span> <span>तो</span> <span>मैं</span> <span>नहीं</span> <span>जानता</span>, <span>पर</span> <span>पोप</span> <span>अवश्य</span> <span>प्रसन्न</span> <span>होंगे।</span>"<br />"<span>हाँ</span>! " <span>पादरी</span> <span>बोला</span>, "<span>यह</span> <span>देश</span> <span>जितना</span> <span>ईसाई</span> <span>होता</span> <span>जाएगा</span>, <span>उतना</span> <span>ही</span> <span>यूरोप</span> <span>और</span> <span>अमरीका</span> <span>के</span> <span>ईसाई</span> <span>देशों</span> <span>का</span> <span>गुलाम</span> <span>होता</span> <span>जाएगा।</span> <span>हमारी</span> <span>सत्ता</span> <span>बढ़ती</span> <span>जाएगी।</span>. . ." <span>पादरी</span> <span>प्रसन्न</span> <span>था।</span><br />"<span>पर</span> <span>जब</span> <span>लोगों</span> <span>की</span> <span>आस्था</span> <span>नहीं</span> <span>बदलती</span> <span>तो</span> <span>तुम</span> <span>उनको</span> <span>ईसाई</span> <span>कैसे</span> <span>बना</span> <span>लेते</span> <span>हो</span>?"<br />"<span>वे</span> <span>अस्वस्थ</span> <span>होते</span> <span>हैं।</span> <span>उन्हें</span> <span>ज्वर</span> <span>होता</span> <span>है।</span> <span>हम</span> <span>उन</span> <span>रोगों</span> <span>की</span> <span>औषधियों</span> <span>को</span> <span>पानी</span> <span>में</span> <span>घोलकर</span> <span>उन्हें</span> <span>ईसा</span> <span>के</span> <span>चरणामृत</span> <span>के</span> <span>रूप</span> <span>में</span> <span>पिला</span> <span>देते</span> <span>हैं।</span> <span>उनका</span> <span>ज्वर</span> <span>उतर</span> <span>जाता</span> <span>है</span> <span>और</span> <span>हम</span> <span>उनको</span> <span>ईसाई</span> <span>होने</span> <span>का</span> <span>ज्वर</span> <span>चढ़ा</span> <span>देते</span> <span>हैं।</span> <span>नहीं</span> <span>मानते</span> <span>तो</span> <span>उन्हें</span> <span>ईसा</span> <span>मसीह</span> <span>के</span> <span>क्रोध</span> <span>से</span> <span>ज्वर</span> <span>लौटा</span> <span>लाने</span> <span>का</span> <span>भय</span> <span>दिखाते</span> <span>हैं।</span>"<br />"<span>पर</span> <span>यह</span> <span>तो</span> <span>झूठ</span> <span>है।</span> <span>पाप</span> <span>है।</span> <span>तुम</span> <span>धर्म</span> <span>के</span> <span>नाम</span> <span>पर</span> <span>लोगों</span> <span>को</span> <span>धोखा</span> <span>दे</span> <span>रहे</span> <span>हो।</span>"<br />"<span>मुझे</span> <span>तुमसे</span> <span>वादविवाद</span> <span>नहीं</span> <span>करना</span> <span>है।</span>" <span>पादरी</span> <span>बोला</span>, "<span>मेरा</span> <span>तो</span> <span>पूछना</span> <span>है</span> <span>कि</span> <span>उन</span> <span>लोगों</span> <span>को</span> <span>फिर</span> <span>से</span> <span>हिंदू</span> <span>क्यों</span> <span>बनाया</span> <span>जा</span> <span>रहा</span> <span>है</span> ? <span>इस</span> <span>प्रकार</span> <span>धर्म</span> <span>परिवर्तन</span> <span>का</span> <span>अधिकार</span> <span>किसी</span> <span>को</span> <span>नहीं</span> <span>दिया</span> <span>जा</span> <span>सकता।</span>"<br />"<span>तो</span> <span>तुमको</span> <span>किसने</span> <span>यह</span> <span>अधिकार</span> <span>दिया</span> <span>कि</span> <span>तुम</span> <span>भोले</span>-<span>भाले</span> <span>हिंदुओं</span> <span>को</span> <span>धोखे</span> <span>से</span> <span>ईसाई</span> <span>बनाओ</span>?" <span>रामलुभाया</span> <span>ने</span> <span>पूछा।</span><br />"<span>इस</span> <span>देश</span> <span>में</span> <span>धर्म</span> <span>परिवर्तन</span> <span>का</span> <span>अधिकार</span> <span>है।</span> <span>इसीलिए</span> <span>हमने</span> <span>उन्हें</span> <span>ईसाई</span> <span>बनाया।</span>" <span>पादरी</span> <span>बोला।</span><br />"<span>इस</span> <span>देश</span> <span>में</span> <span>धर्म</span> <span>परिवर्तन</span> <span>का</span> <span>अधिकार</span> <span>है</span>, <span>इसीलिए</span> <span>वे</span> <span>लोग</span> <span>पुन</span>: <span>हिंदू</span> <span>हो</span> <span>गए</span>, <span>जो</span> <span>वे</span> <span>सदा</span> <span>से</span> <span>थे।</span>"<br />"<span>पर</span> <span>यह</span> <span>अधिकार</span> <span>न</span> <span>तो</span> <span>उनको</span> <span>है</span>, <span>जो</span> <span>हिंदू</span> <span>हो</span> <span>गए</span>, <span>और</span> <span>न</span> <span>उनको</span> <span>है</span>, <span>जिन्होंने</span> <span>उन्हें</span> <span>हिंदू</span> <span>बनाया।</span>"<br />"<span>क्यों</span>?" <span>रामलुभाया</span> <span>स्तब्ध</span> <span>रह</span> <span>गया</span>, "<span>जो</span> <span>अधिकार</span> <span>विदेश</span> <span>से</span> <span>आकर</span> <span>भी</span> <span>तुमको</span> <span>है</span>, <span>वह</span> <span>इस</span> <span>देश</span> <span>के</span> <span>नागरिकों</span> <span>को</span> <span>क्यों</span> <span>नहीं</span> <span>है</span>?"<br />"<span>क्योंकि</span> <span>धर्म</span> <span>परिवर्तन</span> <span>का</span> <span>अर्थ</span> <span>है</span> <span>हिंदू</span> <span>से</span> <span>ईसाई</span> <span>बनना।</span> <span>हिंदू</span> <span>से</span> <span>मुसलमान</span> <span>बनना।</span>" <span>पादरी</span> <span>बोला</span>, "<span>हिंदुओं</span> <span>को</span> <span>यह</span> <span>अधिकार</span> <span>किसने</span> <span>दे</span> <span>दिया</span> <span>कि</span> <span>वे</span> <span>अपने</span> <span>धर्म</span> <span>की</span> <span>रक्षा</span> <span>करें</span>?"<br />"<span>जो</span> <span>अधिकार</span> <span>ईसाइयों</span> <span>को</span> <span>है</span>, <span>वह</span> <span>हिंदुओं</span> <span>को</span> <span>क्यों</span> <span>नहीं</span> <span>है</span>?"<br />"<span>क्योंकि</span> <span>वे</span> <span>बहुसंख्यक</span> <span>हैं।</span>" <span>पादरी</span> <span>बोला।</span><br />"<span>तो</span> <span>लोकतंत्र</span> <span>तो</span> <span>बहुमत</span> <span>से</span> <span>ही</span> <span>चलता</span> <span>है।</span> <span>यह</span> <span>कैसे</span> <span>संभव</span> <span>है</span> <span>कि</span> <span>बहुसंख्यक</span> <span>लोगों</span> <span>को</span> <span>वह</span> <span>अधिकार</span> <span>भी</span> <span>न</span> <span>हो</span>, <span>जो</span> <span>उस</span> <span>देश</span> <span>के</span> <span>अल्पसंख्यकों</span> <span>को</span> <span>प्राप्त</span> <span>हैं</span>?"<br />"<span>वह</span> <span>जहाँ</span> <span>होता</span> <span>होगा</span>, <span>होता</span> <span>होगा।</span>" <span>पादरी</span> <span>बाला</span>, "<span>इस</span> <span>देश</span> <span>में</span> <span>तो</span> <span>बहुसंख्यक</span> <span>का</span> <span>अर्थ</span> <span>है</span>, <span>जिसे</span> <span>कोई</span> <span>अधिकार</span> <span>न</span> <span>हो।</span>"</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499402908172201818.post-88302623846020697432010-10-31T02:02:00.005+05:302010-11-11T17:06:41.309+05:30Kashmir ... some random thoughts ...<div style="text-align: justify;">Heard a biatch's rambles on how the "Bhookhe-nange Hindustan" needs azadi from Kashmir as much as Kashmir needs azadi from India...<br /><br />The first question that came in my mind was- What Azadi???<br /><br />On what grounds does J&K want azadi?<br /><br />What percentage of J&K is Kashmir?<br /><br />Do Laddakh and Jammu want Azadi too ?<br /><br />Why do some people love secularism when they are in minority but want Nizam-E-Mustafa when they are in a majority?<br /><br />If Kashmir wants Azadi on the basis of the so called Kashmiriyat, then let them resettle the Kashmiri Pundits first, if they want azaadi on the basis of religion then it is much better to cull them like swine!!!<br /><br />Kashmir did not do a favor to India by acceding to it. It was saved by India when its lands were looted, farms and homes burnt and honour raped by the very same people who are deemed as the saviors of Kashmir today by the namakharaam Hurriyat waalas. Once in, you are in for ever. By allowing Kashmir to secede we simply cannot start the Balkanization of India. All these talks of freedom of speech, democracy and all sound sweet coming from the coffee table intelligencia, at the end if the nation is not there, nothing will remain. So when supporting those morons in the name of freedom of expression; stop for a second and think about the soldier standing guard in the wilderness of Siachin. One day he should not turn around to find that there is no nation to back him.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499402908172201818.post-77766465759656120462010-09-05T22:10:00.010+05:302011-10-19T00:42:43.468+05:30Do not insult the colour Saffron, Mr Chidu!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Dear Chidu,<br />
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I understand very well that being born in the "Royal family of Chettinad", you have not been exposed to the colour Saffron (sacrifice) much and things came to you quite easily in life. I have been quite amused by the way you have been colour coding things related to terrorism of late. Take for example, the latest term coined by you- Saffron terror. Understandably the print and visual media went gaga over this new term and the euphoria has hardly died till now.<br />
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Have you ever noticed what an Oxymoron you have given birth to? Being a moron yourself, you must be in a better position to understand this than me, right? What exactly is "Saffron terror"? How can the colour Saffron which signifies valour, sacrifice and unquestioned nationalism since ages in India, be termed as terrorist? Or are you trying to imply that the Sangh Parivar has exclusive rights over the colour? People are too soft when they are in majority in India right? That is why you can go on talking crap, expecting them to take everything with a large pinch of salt? How convenient!<br />
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Not going into the merits of your claims about the link between Sangh and some freak terrorist attacks, I want to ask you just one thing. Do you have the guts to colour code global terrorism further and come up with another term like- say "Green Terror"? Can you Chidu? Can you really do that?<br />
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I know you will not do that. Your masters in 10 Janpath and elsewhere will not allow that. Further, you are not courageous enough to invite the wrath of the "Seculars" by uttering anything about the "Green Terror".<br />
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Anyway, I discount even that. Why not look into one more shade of terror which is 100 times more potent than the colour you have strong fetish for these days? Please do something about the "Red Terror" which threatens to take over a major chunk of our country. Our CRPF and Police jawans are not that expendable as you are making them to be, and you cannot just leave it to the states to fight this kind of terror.<br />
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The present Tri-colour to which all Indians, except some namakharaams in Lal Chawk, bow to has the colour Saffron on it as the top most one. When you insult the colour saffron, you are insulting the valour of Maharan Pratap, the jauhar and saka of the Rajputs, the sacrifice of the Gurus and the flag of Chattrapati Shivaji. Do not mess with our heritage with your brand of politics! Otherwise you will cease to command any respect left by now.<br />
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So Chidu, please wake up, smell a kappa coffee and deliver! Open your eyes and see where the real threat is coming from. And till then, please do not insult the colour saffron just for the sake of drawing attention away from your incompetence.<br />
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Regrads<br />
Rebel</div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499402908172201818.post-278198963518689842010-08-20T23:16:00.006+05:302011-10-19T00:43:00.968+05:30Do they really want to protect the Wistleblowers?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-family: ";">"Any person who makes any disclosure which was false to his knowledge or reckless or malicious, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend up to three years and also to fine which may extend up to fifty thousand rupees."
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</span></i><span style="font-family: ";">This is a very interesting provision in the proposed Whistle Blower legislation which the government is trying to introduce.
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<br />What exactly do they mean when they say "<i>false to his knowledge or reckless or malicious?"</i>
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<br />Who is going to decide if a particular voice raised by a Whistle blower was malicious in nature? How exactly will it be made sure that this decision is transparent and unbiased?
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<br />Imagine a lone person standing against a corporation or the government. What are the odds that he will be able to prove himself in a system which abets and thrives on corruption? Given the way investigations and enforcement happens in this country, the way files go missing when an RTI is filed, there is little hope that any claim will ever be proved. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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So what will be the result? You stand up against the system, the system will go all out to prove your comments false and "malicious" and at the end,<i> </i>you will end up in jail for three years; and Rs 50000 poorer. There goes the Whistle blowing down the drain. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ";">There is no limit to how shameless can the people in power get to suppress the voice against corruption in this country. It seems that merely killing the RTI activists and other <a href="http://eternalrebel.blogspot.com/2009/07/death-of-another-whistle-blower-and-we.html">whistleblowers</a> was not enough, now they want to break the will of the conscious too. This single provision will be enough to discourage anyone who wants to blow the whistle, and he will remain safe as long as long as he refrains from raising his voice. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ";">This reminds me of a few lines by Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, he becomes so relevant as far as the rot in the Indian system is concerned:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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जहाँ पालते हों अनीति-पद्धति
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को सत्ताधारी,
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जहाँ सुत्रधर हों समाज के
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अन्यायी, अविचारी;
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नीतियुक्त प्रस्ताव सन्धि के
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जहाँ न आदर पायें;
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जहाँ सत्य कहनेवालों के
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सीस उतारे जायें;
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499402908172201818.post-51185890639083760802010-07-24T00:05:00.011+05:302010-07-25T17:56:33.158+05:30Utopia- the drama of a massacre<div style="text-align: justify;">Not so long ago, in a remote corner of this planet, was a Utopia- the perfect society. Everything about the place was almost perfect, the people, the ethical government, the prosperity and the green-ness. It was a new habitat and the people had made all efforts to showcase their place as the epitome of perfection to the outside world, and the effort showed.<br /><br />But, as with any other place, Utopia too had a small problem. Long before the city was built, there used to be a hamlet of poor outcasts in that place. They continued to live around the area and could be seen living on the pavements of the glittering city.<br /><br />The sight of these poor amongst all the prosperity of Utopia brought different responses from the Utopians. There were three kinds of people, those who felt pity at the poor and used to feed and cloth them, there were many who were indifferent. And then there were a third class of people for whom the very presence of these god forsaken people was an eye sore. Incidently, this third catagory for people was the most vocal and demands were increasingly being raised to get Utopia rid of the pavement dwellers. They started putting more and more pressure on the government to act.<br /><br />So what did the 'ethical' government do? Well, nobody actually knows for sure. But one fine morning, the Utopians woke up to find that the poor had simply vanished from the streets. And people were just clueless as to what happened to them. But slowly disturbing information started getting leaked from within the establishment. It was said on the fateful night before, the poor were all herded together, taken to an unknown location and gassed to death; as making arrangements for their rehabilitation was too much of a chore.<br /><br />This infuriated some people and they started pestering the government to come up with an answer. At first, the government simply chose to ignore the questions; but when the protests became louder, after a prolonged silence, the government came up with an answer. The response was that, to ensure the percieved general well being of the Utopians, the government hired a private agency to 'take care of the poor'. Surprisingly, the government claimed complete ignorance on to how was that 'taking care of' activity carried out by that agency. The President of Utopia said in a public gathering that he would look into the issue. Needless to say, the issue was soon forgotten.<br /><br />Incidently, much before the Government came up with this answer, the activists started getting veiled threats to fall in line or face the consequences. There were people who were happy to see the 'eye sores' gone and they started accusing the activists of needless rabble rousing. Some of them who were getting undue benifits from the establishment were concerned that any messing up with the establishment will mess up their comforts. The indifferent ones were simply surprised as to why so much importance was being given to such a petty issue.<br /><br />The unexpected backlash from the Government and fellow Utopians, shocked and silenced the activists. They conceded defeat sensing that it was a lost cause and no matter how much they protested, nothing was going to happen. Slowly, they too got assimiliated in the main stream of Utopia.<br /><br />So today, Utopia is finally perfect at last, The Establishment is happy and so are the people, Foreign dignitaries are being given a walk through to showcase how a perfect city should be run. The Elite are happy for getting rid of the eye sores. No one actually cares anymore...<br /><br />... And they say that some unmarked graves outside the boundaries of Utopia have been forgotten too ...<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499402908172201818.post-79780548435514520852010-07-08T02:28:00.001+05:302010-07-08T02:30:19.047+05:30What after the Naxals are all gone ?<div style="text-align: justify;">This is a question which has been coming in my mind again and again. The Naxals who have turned into Maoists, are being percieved as the biggest threat to India's security.<br /><br />What will happen after they are finally crushed? So who will speak for the landless and the tribal once we succeed in crushing the Naxals, which I am sure we will do one day. Naxals have been the only way the poor and deprived of India voiced their grievances. Much more than any so called pro-poor party. How will a tribal voice his anger on his jungle being snatched away by land mafia and mountains being razed for mining?<br /><br />Have we really prepared an alternative? Or will we allow India to be hegemony of Politicians-Businessmen-Police ?<br /><br />--To be continued... --<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499402908172201818.post-68606633569341202292010-06-18T19:56:00.007+05:302010-07-25T18:10:48.965+05:30Being a Bihari...<div style="text-align: justify;">Sometime back I was with a school friend, going up to his flat in a happening suburb of Pune. Suddenly out of nowhere, he mused, "Bihari parents are the most unfortunate ones .When we were kids and needed them, they spent their everything trying to make us what we are today Now ,when we have become what we are today and they are the ones who need us in their old age , they are destined to live alone. Because they are caught in the fix between joining their children in the big unknown and sometimes unfriendly cities and the trauma of being uprooted from their homeland, which is the only place they can call- home."<br /><br />Very recently I have come to realize the full impact of his statement, and the pain behind it; the pain of being a part of the moneyorder economy, where migranting to greener pastures is the only way one can hope to earn money and dignity. This is the penalty we have to pay for letting a Pol Potish regime stay for 15 years whose only aim was to fill its coffers without caring for development, order and prosperity. For 15 years, they sucked our blood shamelessly and we were equally shameless in our impassive tolerance. Hope we realize how dearly we have paid for that blunder.<br /><br />Two years back, I was appearing for an MBA interview for <a href="http://www.imt.edu/">IMT Gaziabad</a> and the interviewer asked me, "As soon as you said that you are from Bihar, I got a very bad taste in my mouth. Why?"<br /><br />Why?<br /><br />That lady got a bad taste in her mouth just because she had a lad from a poor, god forsaken state sitting across the table trying to reason with her? Or was it just plain contempt which a privilaged has for the non-privilaged? I am waiting for the day when the likes of her will be paid in kind, when we rise to such heights that they cannot do anything but stare in awe.<br /><br />Now when I go back home, I can see that we have a Chief Minster who is trying hard to change things for better. He cannot do it all alone, he needs our unwavering support. Why not give him another mandate so that he can finish the work he started five years back?<br /><br />This is a message to my brethren back home. Elections are round the corner and the forces which plunged our state into darkness for decades have started rising their heads again. Make sure that you choose for better. Do not let Bihar down by being a mute spectator again.<br /><br />समर शेष है, नहीं पाप का भागी केवल व्याध<br />जो तटस्थ हैं समय लिखेगा, उनका भी अपराध !<br /><br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499402908172201818.post-29448543612475977262010-06-09T15:01:00.004+05:302010-06-09T18:52:56.165+05:30तुम नक्सली बन जाना<div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>क्योंकि</span> <span>तुम</span> <span>इन्हें</span> <span>गोली</span> <span>मार</span> <span>कर</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>अपनी</span> <span>भड़ास</span> <span>निकाल</span> <span>सकोगे</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>और</span> <span>अगर</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>तुम</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>तथाकथित</span> <span>निर्दोष</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>आवाम</span> <span>को</span> <span>मार</span> <span>भी</span> <span>बैठे</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>तो</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>मीडिया</span></span> </div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>तुम्हे</span> <span>सर</span> <span>माथे</span> <span>बिठा</span> <span>लेगा</span></span> </div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>तुम</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>भोपाल</span> <span>के</span> <span>गैस</span> <span>पीड़ितों</span> <span>की</span> <span>तरह</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>नक्सलियों</span> <span>और</span> <span>डकैतों</span> <span>को</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>जन्म</span> <span>देने</span> <span>वाली</span> <span>व्यवस्था</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>की</span> <span>चौखट</span> <span>पर</span> <span>इंतेजार</span> <span>मत</span> <span>करना</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>तुम</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>इनकी</span> <span>नाक</span> <span>में</span> <span>दम</span> <span>कर</span> <span>देना</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>इनके</span> <span>कच्छे</span> <span>उतार</span> <span>देना</span></span> </div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>इनके</span> <span>सफ़ेद</span> <span>कुरते</span> <span>को</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>इतना</span> <span>खीचना</span> <span>के</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>ये</span> <span>हराम</span> <span>खोर</span> <span>राजनीतिज्ञ</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>जहा</span> <span>जाए</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>नंगे</span> <span>ही</span> <span>नजर</span> <span>आये</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>हेडली</span> <span>से</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>उसके</span> <span>आकाओं</span> <span>का</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>पता</span> <span>पूछने</span> <span>चले</span> <span>थे</span> <span>ये</span></span> </div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>नपुंसकों</span> <span>के</span> <span>वंशज</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>वहा</span> <span>बैठे</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>पूरे</span> <span>विश्व</span> <span>में</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>अपनी</span> <span>ठिठोली</span> <span>करवा</span> <span>रहे</span> <span>है</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>अरे</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>तुमसे</span> <span>अच्छी</span> <span>कूटनीति</span> <span>तो</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>इजराएल</span> <span>और</span> <span>पाकिस्तान</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>जानते</span> <span>है</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>जाने</span> <span>कब</span></span> </div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>हमारा</span> <span>सब्र</span> <span>टूटेगा</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>जाने</span> <span>कब</span> <span>हम</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>नींद</span> <span>से</span> <span>जागेंगे</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>बहुराष्ट्रीय</span> <span>कंपनियों</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>और</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>हथियार</span> <span>के</span> <span>दलालों</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>के</span> <span>हाथ</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>बिक</span> <span>चुका</span> <span>देश</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>अब</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>सचमुच</span></span> </div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>सोने</span> <span>की</span> <span>चिड़िया</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>बन</span> <span>गया</span> <span>है</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>अपनो</span> <span>के</span> <span>तिरस्कार</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>उपेक्षा</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>और</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>कुपोषण</span> <span>के</span> <span>चलते</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>भारत</span> <span>रूपी</span> <span>वन</span> <span>में</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>हर</span> <span>कोई</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>बहेलिया</span> <span>बन</span> <span>गया</span> <span>है</span></span> </div><div> <span style="font-size:130%;"><span>हो</span> <span>सकता</span> <span>है</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>हमें</span> <span>भी</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>कलम</span> <span>छोड़</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>हथियार</span> <span>उठाने</span> <span>पड़ेंगे</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>तबकी</span> <span>तैय्यारी</span> <span>रखना</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>हमें</span> <span>भी</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>धरती</span> <span>का</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>कर्ज</span> <span>चुकाना</span> <span>होगा</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>तब</span> <span>की</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>तैय्यारी</span> <span>रखना</span></span> </div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>बहुत</span> <span>लिख</span> <span>चुके</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>ड्राइंग</span> <span>रूम</span> <span>में</span> <span>बैठ</span> <span>कर</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>काफी</span>, <span>चाय</span> , <span>दारु</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>पीते</span> <span>हुवे</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>एक</span> <span>शाल</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>और</span> <span>श्रीफल</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>के</span> <span>लोभ</span> <span>में</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>कब</span> <span>तक</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>सड़</span> <span>चुकी</span> <span>सत्ता</span> <span>को</span></span> </div><div> <span style="font-size:130%;"><span>ढांकते</span> <span>रहोगे</span></span> </div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>कब</span> <span>तक</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>कुत्तों</span> , <span>गधों</span> <span>और</span> <span>सुवरों</span> <span>के</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>प्रसंस्ती</span> <span>वाचते</span> <span>रहोगे</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>तुम्हारे</span> <span>पास</span> <span>एक</span> <span>स्कूटर</span> <span>तो</span> <span>होगा</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>आज</span> <span>फिर</span> <span>तेल</span> <span>महँगा</span> <span>होगा</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>कल</span> <span>गेहूं</span> <span>के</span> <span>दाम</span> <span>बढ़ेंगे</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>परसों</span> <span>कपड़ा</span> <span>भी</span> <span>नहीं</span> <span>रहेगा</span></span> </div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>सर</span> <span>पर</span> <span>छत</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>की</span> <span>तो</span> <span>आस</span> <span>भी</span> <span>मत</span> <span>रखना</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>साँसों</span> <span>का</span> <span>भी</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>हिसाब</span> <span>ले</span> <span>लिया</span> <span>जाएगा</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>और</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>आने</span> <span>वाले</span> <span>वक्त</span> <span>में</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>जीने</span> <span>का</span> <span>भी</span> <span>टेक्स</span></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>ले</span> <span>लिया</span> <span>जाएगा</span><br /><br />==<br /><br />This poem is written by Tarun and is available on <a href="http://bharhaas.blogspot.com/2010/06/blog-post_7424.html">Bharhaas</a><br />This poem is not in support of the Naxal murders but against this rotten system which breeds them...<br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499402908172201818.post-75506822249139673892010-04-26T01:22:00.005+05:302010-05-09T00:27:04.489+05:30Satan's own brigade<div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">"Ilahi ...! Bhej de Mahmood koi ...!"<br />"Waiting ...! For Ghaznavi !!!"<br /><br />You may wonder who are these sinister people who want Mahmud of Gazni to come back and ravage India once again. Well they are not foreigners but our own people. They are SIMI - Students Islamic Movement of India.<br /><br />Why has SIMI emerged as one of the most feared organizations posing a thread to India's security and stability? Lets have a look:<br /><br />Origin of SIMI:<br />Established on 25th April 1977 in Aligarh, the headquarters of SIMI used to be in Jakir Nagar, New Delhi. In its 32 years of existance, SIMI has gathered some 1 million members, some 500 of which are hardcore 'Ansars'.<br /><br />Organization:<br />Ansar : Regular Student members - 500<br />Ikqwan : Related members - 100,000<br />Aiwan : Supporters - 10,00,000<br /><br />Ideology :<br /><br /></span></div><ul style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">"No compromise on Babri masjid, we will build the mosque again"<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">"Jehad is our only way and martyrdom the only aim."</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">"Osama Bin Laden - Islam's Gazi (warrior) and exterminator of Kafirs (Non believers)"</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">"Vande Maataram is a direct attack in Islam and singing it is shameful"</span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> - Shahid Badar Falahi<br /> President, SIMI<br /></span></div><ul style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">"We don't have any respect for Nehru and Gandhi ... Osama is really great"</span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> - Safdar Nagauri<br /><br />SIMI works by exploiting the feeling of insecurity among the muslims of India. It claims that muslims are exploited everywhere in India and a 'Jehad' is necessary to save Islam in the country. The ideals of SIMI include Osama Bin Laden, Masud Azhar and the militants in Kashmir. SIMI has very close relationship with Hizbul-Mujahiddin, LeT and Al Quaida. It gets a lot of funds from the World Assembly of Youth, Riyadh and International Islamic Fedaration of Student's organization.<br /><br />Shaheen Force, the outfit’s wing for schoolchildren, seeks to "protect the children from present-day misguidance and vices" and keeps them "under the shade of Islamic culture". The outfit also has a wing that aims to channelise the talent of girls for the Islamist cause.<br /><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >SIMI is also reportedly involved in a continuous recruitment drive for the HuJI-B in Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur, Allahabad, Kanpur, Lucknow, Ambedkar Nagar, Aligarh, Azamgarh, Sonauli, Ferozabad and Hathras areas. Further, SIMI cadres, sources indicate, are involved in the safe transportation of explosives and creation of channels for funds and securing safe houses for the HuJI-B cadres.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >Groups of SIMI sympathizers reportedly exist in several places in the Gulf States. Jamayyatul Ansar, an organisation of SIMI activists comprising expatriate Indian Muslims, reportedly operates in Saudi Arabia.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >Several Islamist fundamentalist organisations in India are allegedly controlled by former SIMI cadres. Prominent among them are the Kerala-based National Democratic Front and Islamic Youth Centre (IYC), and the Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam (TMMK) in Tamil Nadu. </span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >According to official sources, in the year 1993 following the arrest of a Sikh terrorist, it was revealed that SIMI cadres, Sikh and Kashmiri terrorists, had been brought together by the ISI through the Jamaat-e-Islami in Pakistan to carry out subversive activities.<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Incidents<br /><br />2009<br /><br /> *<br /><br /> July 20: The Maharashtra Police arrested four SIMI militants from Mana village in the Akola District. The cadres were arrested while trying to flee in an Indica car, before they were intercepted. After receiving an initial tip off from intelligence inputs, the Police neutralized a secret SIMI meeting, which was taking place with 35 cadres present at the meeting. However, the Police managed to arrest only four of them while the others managed to escape.<br /> *<br /><br /> June 12: June 12: A militant of the outlawed SIMI, Abu Bashar, who was implicated by the Gujarat Police for the July 26, 2008 Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts, is reported to have confessed about the presence of training camps in the coastal areas.<br /> *<br /><br /> February 27: Two suspected SIMI cadres, identified as Shibili and Hafeez Hussain, who were arrested for reportedly attending a secret training camp held by the outfit in 2007, were remanded to a 15-day judicial custody. About 40 cases were pending against the duo in various parts of the country, including in Gujarat, Indore in Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Malegaon in Maharashtra. Nearly 40 SIMI cadres had participated in the camp for about three days, the Police mentioned, adding that till date, ten cadres were arrested in this connection.<br /> *<br /><br /> February 9: A SIMI cadre, identified as Amil Parvesh, a native of Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh, who was arrested by the Kerala Police from Indore in Madhya Pradesh in connection with his suspected role in the training camp of the outfit held in the Vagamon hills, was remanded by the Kanjirapally First Class Magistrate Court in Kottayam to 15 days Police custody.<br /><br />2008<br /><br /> *<br /><br /> December 27: A trial court in Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh convicted nine cadres of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) to two years imprisonment and imposed a fine of INR 500 on each for promoting communal hatred. Police had arrested them in July 2006 for their alleged links with the SIMI and booked them under various sections of the India Penal Code, mostly dealing with treason.<br /> *<br /><br /> December 20: The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) arrested a SIMI cadre, identified as Amir Talha from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh, from platform number three at Nagpur station. One .32mm pistol and five bullets were recovered from his possession. Talha is the son of Amir Rashidi Madni, who heads an ulema council in Azamgarh, and is also believed to have been arrested in connection with SIMI activities in the past. Talha, who was reportedly in close touch with the Indian Mujahideen (IM) that executed the serial blasts in New Delhi on September 13, was produced before a Nagpur court and has been remanded in Police custody till January 3, 2009.<br /> *<br /><br /> November 10: Gujrat Police said that the Madhya Pradesh Police have arrested the main conspirators of the July 26 Ahmedabad serial blasts, identified as Qayamuddin Kapadia, from an unspecified place in Madhya Pradesh. Qayamuddin Kapadia allegedly planted cycle bombs in the Ahmedabad as well as bombs in different parts of Surat and was also responsible for purchase of cycles on which the bombs were planted and kept in different parts of the city, said Joint Commissioner of Police of Ahmedabad city crime branch, Ashish Bhatia. He was also an expert in using explosives, and reportedly present during various SIMI terror training camps in Waghamon in Kerala and Halol near Vadodara and was instrumental in training the participants.<br /> *<br /><br /> October 23: An unidentified SIMI cadre was arrested from the Nagda District of Madhya Pradesh in connection with the July 26 serial blasts in Ahmedabad, Gujarat Police said on October 24, reports The Hindu.<br /> *<br /><br /> October 21: A special squad of the Thrissur District Police arrested two SIMI cadres from Kodungallur. The two cadres, identified as Nisar and Asghar, reportedly participated in a SIMI camp at Panayikulam on August 15, 2006.<br /> *<br /><br /> October 14: The special investigation team looking into the case relating to "clandestine meeting of activists of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI)" at Panayikulam in the Ernakulam District on August 15, 2006, has taken one more person, Nissar of Idukki, into custody. Nissar was among the 13 persons who were let off after the Police stopped the meeting and arrested five persons.<br /> *<br /><br /> October 13: The Supreme Court ruled that the Union Government's plea against a tribunal's ruling lifting the ban on the Students Islamic Movement of India will be heard by a larger bench of the Court, even as the ban is to continue. The bench of Justice S.B. Sinha and Justice Cyriac Joseph referred the matter to Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan saying the Government's suit be listed before "an appropriate and larger bench". The bench also said the ban on SIMI would continue till further orders.<br /> *<br /><br /> October 6: Kerala Police arrested two persons for their suspected links with the SIMI. Abdul Hakeem (22) from Azheekal in Guruvayur and Shameer (29) from Karukapadathu in Thrissur were arrested on information that the duo attended a clandestine meeting of SIMI activists at Panayikulam on August 15, 2006. The Police had taken 18 persons into custody. Five of them were arrested and the others released for lack of evidence. Shibili and Ansar, who were among those arrested from Panayikulam and later released on bail, were again arrested from Indore in Madhya Pradesh with firearms in their possession. They were produced before the Paravoor Judicial First Class Magistrate who remanded them to judicial custody till October 21.<br /> *<br /><br /> September 27: The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) in Nagpur arrested a SIMI cadre in the IODC colony of Washim. Mohammed Khaleel Mohammed Ismail Chauhan (32) was working for SIMI since year 2000 and was based in Khandwa (Madhya Pradesh). He had taken shelter at his younger brother Aqueel Mohammed Ismail Yusuf Chauhan''s (also a SIMI cadre) place in IODC colony. Police sources said that Aqueel was involved in spreading communal violence in small cities. Khaleel has four offences of rioting and forgery registered against him in Khandwa.<br /> *<br /><br /> September 25: A SIMI cadre was arrested in connection with the serial blasts in Bangalore on July 25. Police said that Mohammad Samee Bagewadi alias Mohammad Samee attended most of the important camps organised by SIMI at Castle Rock near Hubli in Karnataka, Vagamon in Kerala and other places and also underwent training in these camps. Bagewadi, a resident of Bijapur, was allegedly influenced by SIMI''s ideology, and was closely associated with its leaders such as Safdar Hussain Nagori, Hafeez Hussain alias Adnan, Shibly, Tauqeer, Shahbaaz, Abu Bashar and others, Police sources said.<br /> *<br /><br /> September 24: Mumbai Police arrested five suspected members of the Indian Mujahideen. While Afzal Mutalib Usmani (32) was arrested from Uttar Pradesh, Mohammed Saddik Shaikh (31), Mohammed Arif Shaikh (38), Mohammed Zakir Shaikh (28) and Mohammed Ansar Shaikh were arrested from their Mumbai residences on September 23-night. All the accused, originally from Azamgarh District in Uttar Pradesh, have worked with the banned SIMI, Joint Commissioner (Crime), Rakesh Maria, told journalists. "They broke away from SIMI to form the radical group of Indian Mujahideen. Saddik was one of the co-founders of the outfit along with Atiq, killed in the Delhi encounter, and Roshan Khan, who is yet to be traced. The Police are on the lookout for Khan", Maria added. The Police have booked the arrested terrorists under the Explosives Act, Arms Act, various sections of the Indian Penal Code and for criminal conspiracy. The recovered items from the arrested terrorists include 10 kilograms of gelatin or ammonium nitrate, 15 detonators, eight kilograms of ball bearings, four fully active electronic circuits, one sub-machine carbine, two .38 revolvers and 30 cartridges of 9 mm carbine and eight cartridges of .38 revolver.<br /> *<br /><br /> September 13: 30 persons were killed and 100 more injured in a series of five bomb blasts in the busy market places of national capital New Delhi, reports. The first explosion took place at Karol Bagh at 6.10 pm. The next explosion took place at 6.35 pm near the Metro Station at Barakhamba Road. Five minutes later, another explosion took place at the Central Park in Cannaught Place. Two more explosions took place in the M-block market of the Greater Kailash area at 6.30 pm and 6.40 pm. Initial investigations revealed that the improvised explosive devices were configured using ammonium nitrate. Four live bombs were recovered and diffused. While one bomb was found outside the Regal Cinema in Cannaught Place, two more bombs were diffused in the Central Park at Cannaught Place and at India Gate. In an e-mail to the media, the Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the explosions.<br /> *<br /><br /> September 11: The Supreme Court further extended its interim order continuing the ban on SIMI till the 2nd week of October, 2008. This is the second time the apex court has extended the ban. The Union Government had filed a petition challenging the decision of a Special Tribunal to lift curbs imposed on the organisation. The Court has asked the Centre to place before it the synopsis of arguments and other documents in support of its stand to ban SIMI. The ruling came after the Government petitioned for more time for probe.<br /> *<br /><br /> September 7: Two youths, identified as Mohammad Sohail and Azam, detained in Jodhpur were arrested by the SIT on charges of involvement in the May 13, 2008 Jaipur serial blasts case. During investigation, it was found that both had links with the banned SIMI and the main accused of the Jaipur serial blasts, including Sajid, Karimudeen and Taukir. They had allegedly arranged hotel rooms for the meetings of Sajid and his accomplices. The SIT sources claimed, "Sajid and his associates like Taukir, Karimudeen and others had visited Jodhpur many times and generated funds from there. It was found that Sohail and Azam had also gathered Zakat (charity) for them". With these two arrests, the total number of people arrested in connection with the Jaipur serial blasts went up to 14.<br /> *<br /><br /> September 4: Four suspected cadres of the SIMI were arrested in connection with the July 26 Ahmedabad bomb blasts from Ahmedabad and Bhuj towns. An Ahmedabad police spokesman said that while Naved Kadri, Aiyyaz Sayed and Zaved Ahmed were arrested from Ahmedabad, Abbas Asmeja was arrested from Bhuj. The arrests took place following confessions made by the 10 main accused SIMI cadres. Aiyyaz was among those who had actually placed some of the bombs. Naved Kadri was present at the final planning meeting held in Juhapura. Zaved Ahmed had procured a gas cylinder from Kalupur area, which was used in the car bomb placed at the trauma centre in the civil hospital. Asmeja had secured a house, under a false name on behalf of the SIMI, under rehabilitation projects for the people hit by the 2001 Kutch earthquake. The house was sold recently to part-finance the blasts.<br /> *<br /><br /> September 1: The Hyderabad Police arrested a person identified as Jaber from the Hyderabad city for suspected links with the SIMI. Hyderabad City Commissioner of Police B. Prasada Rao said, "Jaber has been arrested for his alleged links with the banned SIMI and sharing material with SIMI head Safdar Nagori." Jaber, son of Moulana Naseeruddin, is a Hyderabad resident. Naseeruddin is an accused in the assassination of former Gujarat Home Minister Haren Pandya and is now in Sabarmati jail in Gujarat.<br /> *<br /><br /> August 26: Gujarat Police arrested Tanveer Pathan alias Sameer, a suspected SIMI member, from the Mira road area in Mumbai for his alleged involvement in the planting of bombs in Surat. Police sources said Pathan's name was revealed during the interrogation of Sajid Mansuri, an accused arrested in connection with the Ahmedabad serial blasts case. An unidentified police officer told, "Pathan was in touch with several SIMI activists in Pune and we passed on this information to the Gujarat Police. After Pathan's name emerged in the investigation, a team from the Gujarat Police arrived in Mumbai. With the help of the ATS, the Gujarat team caught Pathan."<br /> *<br /><br /> August 25: The Supreme Court extended its stay of a tribunal order quashing the Union Government’s February 7, 2008 notification, which banned the SIMI by six weeks. A bench, consisting of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justice P. Sathasivam, said, "The matter is important. We are ready to hear it. What we are concerned [with] are the documents and records relevant on the date of the ban notification."<br /> *<br /><br /> August 23: The 'Indian Mujahideen', which had claimed responsibility for the recent serial explosions in Gujarat, sent a mail to TV channels with photographs of cars claimed to have been used in the attacks on two hospitals in Ahmedabad. Claiming that not a single Indian Mujahideen cadre involved in the blasts have been arrested so far the outfit threatened to widen the arc of its attacks. "The Indian Mujahideen on its full authority declares that by the Grace of Allah not even a single mujahid from our ranks who played even a minute role in the blasts, have been arrested to date. We are completely safe", the mail said.<br /> *<br /><br /> August 21: The Anti-terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Mumbai Police arrested Feroz Mehboob Pathan (32), a suspected to SIMI member and part of the recently neutralised sleeper module of the outfit, from the Ghorpade Peth area of Pune. Two others were detained but not arrested.<br /> *<br /><br /> August 20: The Union Government filed a fresh affidavit in the Supreme Court, citing the involvement of SIMI cadres in the July 26 serial bomb blasts in Ahmedabad in Gujarat. In its affidavit, the Government said investigations revealed that the accused in the bomb blasts in Ahmedabad and Surat on July 26 were members of the SIMI. Annexing the depositions made by witnesses, the Government further said intelligence sources and secret surveillance by the police made it clear that the accused had nexus with international terrorist outfits. Further, these persons were persistently involved in more than one offence or other unlawful activities and the nature of activities indulged in by the outfit would show secessionist tendencies and the potential damage to the secular fabric of society.<br /><br /> Replying to the debate in the Uttar Pradesh State Legislative Assembly on terrorist activities and the role of the SIMI in the recent serial bomb blasts, the State Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Lalji Verma, said that since 2003 no activity of SIMI has been witnessed in Uttar Pradesh. He further said between 1998 and 2003, 65 cases had been registered against SIMI activists in the State. Rejecting the charge of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that the UP police and its security and intelligence agencies were inefficient in containing the menace, Minister Verma said the security and intelligence units in 34 sensitive districts and on the State’s border have been upgraded.<br /><br /> Following leads given by arrested SIMI cadre Usman Agarbattiwala, the Ahmedabad Crime Branch recovered two pistols, a pipe bomb, balloons and 19 CDs and DVDs containing speeches of Osama bin Laden and other Al Qaeda leaders, laptops and hard drives from different places in the city. Usman Agarbattiwala was one of the ten SIMI members arrested for their alleged involvement in the Ahmedabad blasts.<br /> *<br /><br /> August 19: A team of the Gujarat Anti Terrorism Squad arrested dentist Mohammed Salim Honali (31) from Bijapur in Karnataka. Honali used to work with the MA Rangoonwala College of Dental Sciences and Research Centre at the Azam Campus in Pune till May 2008 before he was laid off. ATS officials suspect that Honali not only had a significant role in the July 26, 2008 Ahmedabad blasts but was also brainwashing other youth to bring them into the radical fold. ATS officials said jihadi literature was recovered from all four suspects.<br /> *<br /><br /> August 17: Three persons were arrested in Bharuch in Gujarat for renting a house to the SIMI activist Sajid Mansuri, who allegedly played a key role in the July 26 Ahmedabad serial blasts. Mansuri had taken the house on rent from Saeed Hayat at Lukman society in Bharuch. Hayat had the power of attorney over the house that belonged to a London-based non-resident Indian. Two persons, Yusuf Patel and Maqbul Patel, had recommended the name of Sajid Mansuri to Saeed Hayat.<br /><br /> Police in Indore in Madhya Pradesh arrested a suspected SIMI activist in connection with the serial blasts in Ahmedabad on July 26. The arrest followed a tip off provided by the Gujarat Police. Nine persons arrested by the Gujarat Police on August 16 for their alleged involvement in the blasts had disclosed that the explosives used in the blasts were sent from Madhya Pradesh.<br /><br /> Police sources in Gujarat claimed that SIMI leader Abul Bashar Qasmi who was arrested from Uttar Pradesh on August 16 for his involvement in the serial blasts in Ahmedabad has "confessed" to his and his team’s involvement in the terror attack. According to Abhay Chudasma, Joint Commissioner, Ahmedabad Crime Branch police, Qasmi also confirmed the role of Sajid Mansuri, another arrested senior SIMI member in the blasts. "We are questioning him on the details of other locals involved in the terror attack", Chudasma said. Police also suspected Qasmi and Sajid’s involvement in the Jaipur blasts. "We are still questioning Qasmi on the Jaipur link", Chudasma added. The police said Qasmi had taken over charge of the SIMI national network after the arrest of its leader Safdar Nagori and his brother Karimuddin Nagori in Indore in Madhya Pradesh in March. Safdar and Karimuddin had originally planned the execution of the Ahmedabad blasts and to carry out bombings in Surat too.<br /> *<br /><br /> August 16: The Gujarat Police announced the arrest of SIMI leader Abul Bashar Qasmi, who allegedly was the mastermind behind the July 26 Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts. Gujarat Director-General of Police P.C. Pandey said Qasmi was arrested from a village in Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh (UP) by a joint team of the UP and Gujarat Police. The Gujarat police also said with this arrest they had unravelled the conspiracy that led to the bombings. Before Qasmi’s arrest, nine SIMI cadres were arrested from Ahmedabad and Vadodara. "We now have the entire details of how and where the plans for the Ahmedabad blasts were chalked out, who were the people involved and how the entire plan was operationalised," the DGP said. He also claimed that the same group was involved in planting bombs in Surat.<br /> *<br /><br /> August 14: A SIMI activist was arrested in Bharuch in Gujarat in connection with the serial blasts in Ahmedabad on July 26. The arrested SIMI cadre Mohammad Sajid Mansori is suspected to have been part of the conspiracy to carry out the nine blasts across the Gujarat capital.<br /> *<br /><br /> August 8: The All India Minority Front said it had evidence that the SIMI had links with terror outfits in Pakistan. The Front national president S.M. Asif told reporters, "We have evidence of SIMI's links with Pakistani terror outfits and are ready to provide it to the central government provided we are assured security." "We have spoken to various Muslim people who have proof in this regard but they fear for their lives", he added. He further said, "We want SIMI should be banned and punished. The minorities in the country are opposed to all sorts of militancy. Even then Muslims suffer whenever there is any terror attack in the country."<br /> *<br /><br /> August 6: The Supreme Court stayed the order by the Special Tribunal quashing the Union Government's February 7, 2008 notification declaring the SIMI an unlawful organisation. A Bench of the Supreme Court stayed the order on a mention made by Additional Solicitor-General Gopal Subramaniam about the Union Government filing a special leave petition against the lifting of the ban. The Bench, consisting of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justice A.K. Mathur, ordered notice to the SIMI seeking its response in three weeks.<br /><br /> The MHA asked the Uttar Pradesh Government to send details of the criminal cases pending against the SIMI and its activists. Police headquarters in State capital Lucknow said that it has received a letter in this regard. The Office of the Director General of Police (DGP) has, consequently, started compiling the details of the recent cases against the SIMI.<br /> *<br /><br /> August 5: The Anti-Terrorist Cell (ATC) attached to the Belgaum district Police Department in Karnataka arrested three suspected SIMI cadres. They were identified as Naveed Khaji and Ansar Nizami, both from Malmaruti area, and Sadiq Mulla of Azad Nagar. The arrest took place on the basis of information given by suspected SIMI cadres Tanveer Mulla and Iqbal Jakati, who were arrested recently. With the arrest of these three, the number of arrested suspected SIMI activists in the district rose to 11.<br /><br /> A specially-designated tribunal lifted the ban imposed by the Union Government on the activities of the SIMI. Justice Geeta Mittal of the Delhi High Court, who headed the tribunal, held that there was no new evidence submitted by the Government against the SIMI to justify the extension of the ban. A senior law officer said that the Government only came out with the evidence of the Malegaon blasts in Maharashtra in 2006 to show the complicity of the organisation in unlawful activities which was not sufficient to come out with the notification to ban it.<br /> *<br /><br /> August 2: Immigration officials at the Mumbai International Airport detained a passenger in connection with a blast in the Judicial Magistrate First Class court in Hubli in Karnataka in May 2008. The passenger Iqbal Shaukat Ali is alleged to be a SIMI activist. A resident of Belgaum in Karnataka, Ali had fled to Sharjah soon after his name emerged as one of the major suspects in the blast. Subsequently, he was remanded to four days of police custody.<br /> *<br /><br /> July 27: The Ahmedabad Joint Police Commissioner Asish Bhatia said an activist of the banned SIMI, Abdul Halim, who was wanted in connection with the 2002 Gujarat riots, was arrested during the combing operation in the city following the July 26 serial explosions in Ahmedabad (Gujarat).<br /><br /> *<br /><br /> July 15: Police arrested Mohammed Muqeemuddin Yaser, a former SIMI member, from his residence in the Saidabad area of Hyderabad, capital of Andhra Pradesh. Yaser, who is a MBA student, is also the eldest son of Maulana Naseeruddin, the founder president of Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz-e-Shaan-e-Islam (TTSI) and is presently lodged at the Sabarmati jail in Ahmedabad for his alleged role in the assassination of the former Gujarat home minister Haren Pandya. Yaser’s younger brother Raziuddin Naser, a suspect in the twin blast cases in Hyderabad in August 2007, was arrested by the Karnataka Police in January 2008 for planning terrorist attacks in Karnataka and Goa. SIT sources said "Yaser was an active member of SIMI. Now, he along with some other former SIMI activists of the city has formed a group which downloads jihadi material and religious killing videos from the internet and distributes disks to extremist religious groups in the country."<br /> *<br /><br /> June 8: Supporting continuation of the ban on the SIMI, the Karnataka Government in its affidavit submitted to the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Tribunal contended that some of the SIMI members had been in contact with militant outfits. The Tribunal, set up by the Union Government to review the ban on SIMI concluded its two-day sitting on June 8 in Bangalore.<br /> *<br /><br /> June 1: The Kerala Government represented its case in favour of continuing the proscription on the SIMI. The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Tribunal appointed by the Union Government to review the ban on SIMI began a two-day sitting in capital Trivandrum. Representing the State Government, Inspector General of Police (Internal Security), N. C. Asthana, filed an affidavit before the tribunal stating that the SIMI was still carrying out unlawful activities in Kerala and hence the ban imposed on it shall be continued.<br /> *<br /><br /> May 27: Police arrested a SIMI cadre, identified as Nasir Liyaqat Ali Patel, from Belgaum for allegedly spreading messages of hatred. Police also recovered the hard disc from his computer.<br /> *<br /><br /> May 17: The special investigative team conducted raids across the State targeting activists of the SIMI. A SIMI cadre, Mohammad Shajid, was detained for questioning. Raids were conducted at Jaipur, Ajmer, Fatehpur, Godhpur, Tonk and Sikar on the basis of Intelligence inputs. A senior police officer said, "Raids were conducted, but it seems most of the activists have gone underground fearing arrests."<br /> *<br /><br /> May 8: Three suspected SIMI activists were arrested from the New Housing Board colony area of Morena in Madhya Pradesh. Fake currency worth INR 80,000 and four mobile phones were recovered from them. Police sources said that one of the arrested Naajmia belongs to Kayamganj in Uttar Pradesh, while the other two, Pappu alias Sudhir Jadaun and Rajbir Gurjar, were from Morena.<br /><br /> *<br /><br /> April 23: The Union Minister of State for Home, Sriprakash Jaiswal, in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha (upper house of Parliament) said that despite the ban, the SIMI has been carrying out its activities clandestinely including holding of organizational meetings and circulation of literature. The Minister said that more than 70 male SIMI cadres have been arrested during the last one year as per reports from Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi and Karnataka. No foreign national is among those arrested, he said. The Minister added that activities of the SIMI have been noticed in Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.<br /> *<br /><br /> April 22: The Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Sriprakash Jaiswal, replying to questions in the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) said that the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) has links with terrorist groups, including the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT). He said that the links have been revealed in investigations into a number of cases. The minister further said that 181 SIMI cadres have been arrested in various States since 2006 and arms, ammunition, incriminating literature and other items were recovered from them. Of them, 128 were arrested in Madhya Pradesh.<br /> *<br /><br /> April 10: The Mumbai Police arrested two SIMI cadres from the Thane district. The duo, identified as Irshad Salim Khan and Israr Ahmed Abdul Hamid Tailor, are believed to be close to the arrested secretary-general of the outfit, Safdar Nagori. Khan is a civil engineer by profession and was the former president of the outfit while Israr Ahmed is a computer professional. Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Rakesh Maria said, "Both are wanted in a case registered under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act here on July 28, 2006, in which train blasts accused Ehtesham Siddqui was earlier arrested."<br /><br /> The Madhya Pradesh Police arrested a SIMI cadre from the Rishala area of Indore city. The arrested cadre, identified as Hafiz Yusuf, has been an active worker of the outfit and played a significant role in collecting funds for the outfit, police sources said. He was working in a mobile shop in Indore.<br /> *<br /><br /> April 7: Six SIMI cadres were arrested by the Madhya Pradesh police. While five SIMI cadres were arrested from Guna, a suspected SIMI cadre, identified as Naved Irfan was arrested in Indore’s Muslim- dominated Khajrana area for allegedly indulging in illegal activities and aiding anti-national elements, a senior police officer said.<br /><br /> The Jabalpur Police in Madhya Pradesh announced a reward of INR 5,000 to those who help trace two absconding SIMI activists Mohammad Ali and Mohammad Shakil.<br /> *<br /><br /> April 5: Three SIMI activists were arrested from Narsinghgarh town in the Rajgarh district. The Rajgarh Superintendent of Police D. K. Arya said that the SIMI cadres, identified as Irfan, Faizal and Shakir, were arrested on charges of aiding anti-national elements and indulging in illegal activities. An unspecified quantity of objectionable material, video cassettes and CDs were recovered from the house where the arrests occurred.<br /> *<br /><br /> April 4: Three persons, including a woman, were arrested for allegedly renting their premises to SIMI leaders in Indore and Khargone. A house in the Shyam Nagar locality of Indore was rented to SIMI's Andhra Pradesh unit chief Qamaruddin Nagori from where police arrested top 13 leaders of the outfit on March 27. The house rented to the SIMI by Gaffar Khan Bakerywale was registered in the name of his daughter-in-law Shahnaz Bi. Police arrested both Khan and Shahnaz for not providing information to the police about giving their house on rent.<br /><br /> Separately, in Khargone, another person, identified as Shahzad Hussein, was arrested for allegedly providing his farmhouse to the SIMI for running training camps.<br /> *<br /><br /> April 2: Madhya Pradesh Police neutralised a SIMI training camp in Choral, a popular holiday spot, 35-kilometres from the State capital Bhopal. Police claimed that interrogation of the 13 arrested SIMI cadres led to the information on the existence of the camp. The Superintendent of Police Chanchal Shekhar told, "We were told the camp trained SIMI activists from Jharkhand, Kerala, Karnataka and a few other states. Each training camp would train around 20 SIMI members. We have information of five such camps in the past one-and-half years, which would mean about a hundred SIMI activists trained in Choral." He said that the trainees were made to climb the surrounding mountains and swim across the river daily. The police also found evidence of a firing range and exploded bits of petrol bombs.<br /><br /> Separately, Police recovered 122 super-explosive gelatine sticks, 100 detonators and switchboards buried underground in the Gawali village under Balwara police station area of Khargaon district.<br /> *<br /><br /> April 1: The Assam Government told the Legislative Assembly that SIMI was active in Assam, but clarified that no member of the group had been arrested so far in the State. "While the Government had banned SIMI in 2001, there is information that the group is still active in Assam," Minister Rockybul Hussain told the Assembly.<br /> *<br /><br /> March 31: A team of Madhya Pradesh Police arrested seven SIMI cadres from an unspecified location. The investigators interrogating the 13 SIMI leaders arrested in Indore on March 27 claimed that the banned outfit were planning to kill top leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), including the Leader of Opposition L. K. Advani, and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The investigators further claimed that the SIMI was even running training camps for militants to carry out terrorist attacks in the country.<br /> *<br /><br /> March 27: 13 SIMI leaders, including the outfit’s General Secretary Safdar Nagori and his brother Kamruddin Nagori, were arrested following several raids in Indore by the Madhya Pradesh Police. Police described the arrested persons as active members of the outfit hailing from Kerala, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. The arrested persons included SIMI’s Karnataka unit chief Hafiz Hussain and Shivli, who is the mainstay of the group’s operations in Kerala. Pistols, cartridges, nine mobile phones, INR 45,000 in cash, 15 masks, 22 pairs of surgical gloves and surgical instruments, SIMI literature were recovered from the arrested persons.<br /><br /> Police raided the house of SIMI leader Shiblyin a village in Kottayam district. Two computers were recovered from the houses of Shibli and his brother, Shaduli.<br /> *<br /><br /> March 18: The Union Minister of State for Home, Sriprakash Jaiswal, said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha (lower house of parliament) that the SIMI and its associates were planning to commit serial blasts and other serious offences in the country. "While there was no present input indicating any specific plans of SIMI to attack important installation, ...One arrested person disclosed that he along with his SIMI associates were planning to commit serial blasts and other serious offences," Jaiswal said.<br /> *<br /><br /> March 11: A former Bihar unit chief of the SIMI, Arif Abrar, who had surrendered before a lower court in Nagpur in January 2008, was reportedly granted bail by the 10th Ad hoc Sessions Judge. Abrar who was lodged in the Nagpur central jail after police interrogation is expected to be released shortly. Defence lawyer A.M. Rizway stated that court found no incriminating evidence against him.<br /> *<br /><br /> February 21: The Corps of Detectives arrested a software engineer for suspected links with the banned SIMI from Guruappanapalya under Mico Layout police station limits in Bangalore, capital of Karnataka. However, four of his alleged accomplices escaped during the police operation. Yahya Khan is a native of Kerala and was working in a leading multinational information technology company in the city and he was reportedly under watch by the Bangalore Police for the past few days. Police sources said that the arrest followed information given by Mohammad Asif, a final-year MBBS student, and another SIMI activist, who was arrested in Hubli recently.<br /> *<br /><br /> February 12: The Corps of Detectives, which is investigating a terrorist module unearthed by the Davangere police in Karnataka, arrested an electrician from Dharwad for his alleged links with the banned SIMI. The arrested identified as Shakeel, a resident of Koppadakeri in the Dharwad district, had helped the SIMI activists to hold two meetings, one near the Mastansab Darga on Saudatti Road and the other at the Halligere forests on Haliyal Road in Hubli in November 2007. Shakeel reportedly participated in these meetings where some 25 SIMI activists from Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Kerala allegedly discussed plans to carry out acts of sabotage. These activists had held another meeting near Dandeli in May 2007.<br /> *<br /><br /> February 12: Firoz Sanadi, the former deputy mayor of Belgaum city in Karnataka, and nine medical students were detained for alleged links with the SIMI and suspected militant Mohammed Asif who is in police custody.<br /><br /> Former Bihar unit chief of the SIMI, Dr Abrar Arif, who had surrendered before the Nagpur court recently, was sent to jail after he was produced before the lower court 2 by Sadar police.<br /> *<br /><br /> February 10: The Islamic Students Association (ISA) is functioning transparently and it has no links with the banned SIMI, said ISA ad-hoc committee secretary E K Noufal in Kozhikode in Kerala.<br /> *<br /><br /> February 7: The Union Government decided to continue the ban on the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) for another two years. "The decision to re-impose the ban for two years has been taken in view of the fact that the group continues to indulge in unlawful activities," said the home ministry spokesperson Onkar Kedia.<br /> *<br /><br /> February 6: Police arrested four activists of the Islamic Students Association (ISA), while trying to stick wall posters in the early hours at Edavamgal near Bekal in the Kasargod district of Kerala. The four activists of the newly-floated ISA, which seemed to be a front organisation of the banned SIMI, said the police.<br /> *<br /><br /> January 31: Mohammad Abrar Arif Mohammad Kasim, a key SIMI leader, surrendered before a court in Nagpur after remaining at large for 18 months.<br /> *<br /><br /> January 22: A report in The Hindu stated that the SIMI is believed to be operating under the cover of at least 12 organisations in Kerala. SIMI organisers periodically change the name of their front organisations to shake off police surveillance. Intelligence officials believe that SIMI activists in Kerala had developed links with the Lashkar-e-Toiba in 2006. They said that SIMI activists are operating under the cover of religious study centres, rural development and research centres and institutions for developing "personal effectiveness." Some of these organisations were spreading "extremist religious ideals" among a section of impressionable youth by acting as "counselling and guidance centres working for behavioural change". In the past 10 years, the police have registered 17 cases against suspected SIMI activists.<br /><br />2007<br /><br /> *<br /><br /> October 23: Daily News & Analysis reported that the role of a splinter group of the SIMI is being examined by the internal security agencies for its alleged linkages with some rural non-government organisations (NGOs) in Maharashtra. An unidentified intelligence official said cadres belonging to the SIMI splinter, Tehereek Taifooz Sher-e-Islam, could have established linkages with a section of Muslim functionaries in these NGOs. Central intelligence agencies and the State Intelligence Department reportedly have been investigating the way these NGOs are managed.<br /> *<br /><br /> September 6: The Supreme Court asked the SIMI to serve a fresh notice to the government on its plea for transferring the petition relating to the ban imposed on the organisation from the Delhi High Court to the apex court. SIMI had sought transfer of the petition filed by it in the High Court challenging the ban imposed in September 2003 for its alleged anti-national activities. Two other petitions filed by SIMI challenging the ban in September 2001 and February 2006 are pending in the apex court and hence it has sought transfer of the 2003 petition so that all the three petitions could be decided by the apex court.<br /> *<br /><br /> July 5: Four persons, including two Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) militants, were convicted by a court in New Delhi for possessing explosives and conspiring to wage war against the country. The other two persons, held guilty under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Explosive Substances Act, are members of the outlawed Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). Gulzar Ahmed Wani and Mohiuddin, the HM militants from Baramulla in Jammu and Kashmir, and Feroz Rafi and Mumtaz, the SIMI activists from Uttar Pradesh, were arrested at New Delhi Railway Station on July 30, 2001. Police had then seized a huge haul of RDX, grenades, launchers, detonators and other explosives from them. The Hizb militants had reportedly come to Delhi to deliver the explosives to the SIMI activists. With their arrest, police had claimed to have solved six bomb blast cases, including the 2001 Sena Bhavan blast. However, the court on February 23 acquitted them in all these cases for lack of evidence.<br /><br /> Times Now reported that the SIMI has stepped up efforts to strengthen its base in the northeastern region along the India-Myanmar border. SIMI has been trying to tie up with Manipur-based outfits and especially the Peoples' United Liberation Front (PULF), an organization of indigenous Muslims of Manipur called Pangals. The report further indicated that SIMI's presence in the north-eastern region could pose a grave threat since several jihadi outfits with similar ideologies are already active on both sides of the border.<br /> *<br /><br /> March 9: Police in Patna (Bihar) arrested Mohd Haseeb Raza, an activist of the SIMI, from his Phulwari residence. Police sources said that Raza was the state secretary of the outfit and was wanted in a case lodged in 2001 as a prime accused for planning subversive activities in the country.<br /> *<br /><br /> February 15: The Supreme Court described the proscribed Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) as a "secessionist movement". A bench of Justice S. B. Sinha and Markandeya Katju observed while dealing with the Special Leave Petition filed by the SIMI challenging the ban imposed on it, "You are a secessionist movement. You have not stopped your activities." The Bench refused to agree with the submissions put forth by Kamini Jaiswal, counsel for the SIMI, that there was no evidence to link SIMI to any anti-national activity after 2003. In the petition, the SIMI had challenged the judgment of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act Tribunal headed by Justice B. N. Chaturvedi of the Delhi High Court, which confirmed the ban imposed on the organisation by the Union Government on February 8, 2006.<br /> *<br /><br /> January 22: Police have beefed up security in the Cuttack city amidst intelligence reports indicating that the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) cadres are planning to orchestrate a terrorist attack during the India-West Indies one-day Cricket Match at the Barabati Stadium on January 24.<br /><br />2006<br /><br /> *<br /><br /> December 21: The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of the Maharashtra Police filed the charge sheet in the September 8 Malegaon serial blasts case. The charge sheet stated that nine SIMI cadres had hatched and executed the conspiracy with the help of two Pakistani nationals in the textile town to "infuriate the entire Muslim community and trigger communal riots’’. 40 persons died and 312 were injured in four blasts.<br /> *<br /><br /> December 4: The Uttar Pradesh Government said that it had not received any direction from the Union Government to proscribe the SIMI. In a written reply to a question in the State Legislative Assembly, Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav said that no instructions had been received from the Centre to ban SIMI. The State Government had recently successfully moved an application in a district court in Baharaich seeking withdrawal of cases against SIMI chief Shahid Badar Falah.<br /> *<br /><br /> November 7: According to IANS, the SIMI is contemplating changing its name to evade attention it receives for its association with the terrorists. Quoting unidentified sources, the report said that SIMI may emerge under a new name such as Teharik-e-Millat or Awaz-e-Sura, with a view to expand its activities in Madhya Pradesh.<br /> *<br /><br /> November 5: Six SIMI cadres are arrested in Indore. Police said that the six had met a detained senior SIMI operative, Imran Ansari, at a local restaurant while he was being escorted for a court hearing on November 1.<br /> *<br /><br /> October 30: Maharashtra Police arrests Noorul Hooda Shamshul Hooda, a SIMI activist, in connection with the Malegaon serial bomb blasts of September 8, 2006.<br /> *<br /><br /> October 8: A suspected SIMI cadre, Nurullah Samsudoha, is arrested from the Jaffar Nagar area of Malegaon town in Maharashtra.<br /> *<br /><br /> September 6: The Bahraich District court in Uttar Pradesh grants permission to withdraw a treason case against the banned SIMI chief Shahid Badar Falah and 11 other members of the outfit.<br /> *<br /><br /> August 23: Two suspects in the October 2005 Delhi serial bomb blasts are remanded to the custody of Mumbai Police till August 28 by a local court in Mumbai. Firoz Abdul Latif Ghaswala and Mohammed Ali Chippa, who were lodged in a jail in Delhi, were brought to Mumbai on August 23 and produced before a local court. Both, suspected to be linked to the SIMI, have allegedly visited Pakistan clandestinely to undergo training in arms and explosives handling at the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) camps.<br /><br /> Speaking in the State Legislative Assembly, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav ruled out the involvement of the Students Islamic Movement of India in recent terrorist attacks in the State.<br /> *<br /><br /> August 22: Faizal Ataur Rehman Sheikh, allegedly Lashkar-e-Toiba’s Mumbai chief, and younger brother Muzamil, a software programmer, were booked in the Bandra blast case and remanded to police custody till September 4. In its remand plea, the Anti-Terrorist Squad said the brothers were active members of the proscribed SIMI and had been to Pakistan for military training.<br /> *<br /><br /> August 18: SIMI activists, Waqar Baig Yusuf Baig and Jitaullah Rehman Mehmood Khan, are arrested from Kazipur in the textile township of Hinganghat in Wardha district of Maharashtra.<br /> *<br /><br /> August 16: Five suspected SIMI activists, identified as Saduli, Abdul Aziz, Shammi, all from Kottayam district, and Anzar and Nizammudin, both from Aluva, arrested in Kerala.<br /> *<br /><br /> August 15: Kerala Police arrested 18 suspected SIMI activists from Binamipuram in the Kochi district.<br /> *<br /><br /> August 13: Two SIMI activists, Irfan Sayeed and Najib Bakali, are arrested by Mumbai Police personnel investigating the July 11 blasts.<br /> *<br /><br /> August 8: Three SIMI cadres, Shakil Warsi, Shakir Ahmed Nasi and Mohammad Rehan Khan, are arrested in connection with the July 11 Mumbai serial blasts from Nagpur in Maharashtra.<br /> *<br /><br /> August 7: The tribunal, constituted to examine the ban imposed on SIMI by the Union Government, holds it "legal and valid”.<br /> *<br /><br /> July 29: SIMI activist, Ehtashan Siddiqui, is arrested from his Mira Road residence on the outskirts of Mumbai for alleged links to the 7/11 blasts.<br /> *<br /><br /> July 21: Bhopal Police arrests a SIMI activist, Imran, wanted in two cases, one registered at Surat in the State of Gujarat and the other at Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh. He is said to be an organising SIMI activities at the national level.<br /> *<br /><br /> July 13: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav says in Lucknow that the SIMI is not active in the State and there is no evidence of its involvement in any unlawful activity during his regime. He further said that as far as its existence in Uttar Pradesh is concerned, it will be improper to initiate action without evidence.<br /> *<br /><br /> July 6: The Supreme Court upheld the ban on the SIMI rejecting a petition that claimed that the organisation had not been found to engage in any terrorist activities.<br /> *<br /><br /> June 2: According to the Government of Kerala, the SIMI is operating under the cover of at least 12 organisations in the State. At least two organizations linked to the SIMI are operating in the capital city of Thiruvananthapuram.<br /> *<br /><br /> April 25: Mohammad Aamir, the chief of SIMI's Uttar Pradesh State unit and the prime accused in the Kanpur riots of March 16, 2006, surrenders before a metropolitan magistrate in Kanpur.<br /> *<br /><br /> April 21: The Union Government declares the SIMI an unlawful association under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. It also constitutes a Tribunal, comprising Justice B.N. Chaturvedi of the Delhi High Court, for adjudicating whether or not there is sufficient cause for declaring SIMI as an unlawful association.<br /><br />2005<br /><br /> *<br /><br /> July 11: Police in Uttar Pradesh arrest six persons, including four of a family, from Faizabad in connection with the July 5-attack on the disputed complex in Ayodhya. The arrested family members were associated with the banned Students Islamic Movement of India, according to official sources.<br /> *<br /><br /> June 11: All eight accused in the Ghatkopar blast case, allegedly cadres of the SIMI, are acquitted by a POTA court in Mumbai due to lack of evidence.<br /> *<br /><br /> March 8: Delhi Police arrests a SIMI member, Mohammad Iftikar Ehsan Malick, from Dehradun, the capital city of Uttaranchal.<br /><br />2004<br /><br /> *<br /><br /> November 1: Maulana Nasiruddin, president of the Tahaffuz Shari'at-e Islam (Protection of Islamic Sharia) and allegedly linked to the SIMI, is arrested from Hyderabad in connection with his suspected links to the murder former Gujarat Home Minister Haren Pandya.<br /><br />2003<br /><br /> *<br /><br /> November 11: A court in New Delhi acquits SIMI president Shahid Badar Falah in a case of sedition, which was filed against him in September 2001.<br /> *<br /><br /> September 12: Five persons, including two SIMI activists, are arrested for the removal of railway sleeper clips from the tracks in Kumardubi-Barakar section in West Bengal.<br /> *<br /><br /> July 21: POTA court in New Delhi sentences two SIMI activists to a five-year imprisonment under POTA for their membership of the proscribed organization and seven years imprisonment for sedition.<br /> * July 16: A POTA Court in Delhi convicts two SIMI activists for their active involvement with the banned outfit.<br /><br /> * May 26: Mumbai Police arrest two suspected activists of the SIMI in the Ghatkopar bomb blast case and remand them to police custody till June 5.<br /><br /> * May 14: Mumbai Police arrest three persons from Padgah village and foil a plan that envisaged a series of explosions in Mumbai and Kerala, which was allegedly hatched by the SIMI and Lashkar-e-Toiba. The accused were identified as Muzzamal Ansari, Mohammed Nadir Palob and Arif Hussain.<br /><br /> * May 11: Mumbai Police detains SIMI activist Anwar Ali, a lecturer of the National Defence Academy in Khadakvasla, Maharashtra, for his suspected involvement in the March 13-Mulund train bomb explosion case.<br /><br /> * May 3: Mumbai Police arrests six SIMI activists with links to the LeT and also seizes lethal chemicals and some arms and ammunition from their possession.<br /><br /> * April 25: Mumbai Police arrests two suspected SIMI activists for their alleged involvement in the March 13-Mulund-bomb blast case from the Padgha village of Thane district.<br /><br /> * April 21: Mumbai Police arrests Ghulam Akbar Khotal, an alleged SIMI activist from Ratnagiri in Maharashtra, in connection with March 13 Mulund blast.<br /><br /> * April 10: Saquib Nachan, a SIMI activist, surrenders before the Mumbai High Court. He is subsequently arrested by the Mumbai Police and booked under POTA for his alleged involvement in the Mulund blast. Saquib was arrested from Gujarat in October 1992 under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA) for his subversive activities and sentenced to life imprisonment, which was later commuted to 10 years by the Supreme Court. He was released from the Sabarmati jail in April 2001.<br /><br /> * March 12: Noman Badar alias Falahi, one of the top leaders of SIMI, is brought on transit remand to Delhi from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. A case against him is pending in a Court in Delhi for his involvement in unlawful activities, including publishing objectionable using inflammatory language.<br /><br /> * February 24: Police arrest two persons allegedly connected with the SIMI at Rabodi in Thane District of Maharashtra and seize incriminating documents from their possession.<br /><br /> * January 29: Mumbai Police suspects the LeT and SIMI for the twin blasts near Vile Parle railway station in Mumbai on January 27 and January 28. United Arab Emirates (UAE) based LeT terrorist Abu Hamza is suspected to be the masterminded behind the first explosion, in which a women was killed and 25 more injured.<br /><br /> * January 27: Uttar Pradesh Police arrests three SIMI activists from Lucknow and recover certain incriminating documents from them.<br /><br /> * January 26: Dubai authorities deport Mohammed Altaf, an activist of the SIMI and main accused in the December 2, 2002, bomb blast at Ghatkopar.<br /><br /> * January 9: Madhya Pradesh Police arrests Bhopal district unit former president of the SIMI Khalid Naeem. He was later released on bail.<br /><br /> * January 3: Mumbai Police invokes POTA against four SIMI activists–– Abdul Mattin, Sayed Khwaja, Muzzamil Ahmed and Zahir Shaikh––for allegedly setting off a blast inside a bus in Ghatkopar on December 2, 2002, in which three persons were killed.<br /><br />2002<br /><br /> * December 21: A Delhi court discharges SIMI leader Mohammed Javed Iqbal in a sedition and unlawful activities case and also drops sedition charges against its president Shahid Badar and three others. While discharging Iqbal, the court granted bail to Badar and four others in the case. The court also dropped sedition charge against Badar in another case and granted him bail on a personal bond of Rs 5,000 and one surety.<br /><br /> * October 7: Supreme Court issues notices to Union Government and eight States on a petition filed by the SIMI challenging the Union Home Ministry's order declaring the organization as unlawful and the subsequent order of a Tribunal upholding the same. States to which notices were issued are: Kerala, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh.<br /><br /> * May 27: Two SIMI activists are arrested in Delhi.<br /><br /> * May 5: Uttar Pradesh unit SIMI chief Noman Badar is arrested in Lucknow.<br /><br /> * March 18: SIMI activist Hasib Raja is arrested in Kolkata, West Bengal, and half a kilogram of RDX is seized from him. He was allegedly planning to blow up the Howrah Bridge.<br /><br /> * January 28: Police arrest eight SIMI activists from Vadodara in Gujarat.<br /><br />2001<br /><br /> * December 28: Police in Surat, Gujarat, arrest 123 persons for their alleged links with SIMI and also recover certain incriminating documents from their possession.<br /><br /> * October 24: Maharashtra Police files charge sheet in a Jalgaon Court against 11 SIMI activists arrested for suspected terrorist activities.<br /><br /> * October 8: Police arrest the Tamil Nadu State vice-president of SIMI, Abdul Qudoos, from Madurai.<br /><br /> * October 5: Maharashtra Police arrest three SIMI activists from Ahmednagar.<br /><br /> * October 1: Police arrest nine SIMI activists in Madhya Pradesh and one in Delhi.<br /><br /> * September 29: After the ban on SIMI, the Police arrest another 122 of its cadres across the country.<br /><br /> * September 28: Delhi Police seals SIMI headquarters at Zakir Nagar and arrests four senior members of the organisation, including its national president Dr Shahid Badr Falah. Shahid Badr was subsequently charged with sedition and inciting communal disharmony in Uttar Pradesh.<br /><br /> * September 27: Union Government imposes a ban on the SIMI under section 3(1) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. Following the ban, 241 SIMI activists were arrested across the country and authorities seal many of its regional offices.<br /><br /> * September 21: Uttar Pradesh Police arrests three SIMI activists in Bahraich for alleged anti-India activities. Five more SIMI cadres were arrested in the same town a day earlier.<br /><br /> * August 8: The Uttar Pradesh Police says SIMI activists arrested in Kanpur earlier have revealed that the ISI had asked one of its agents to supply explosive material for subversive activities in northern India.<br /><br /> * August 6: Police in Kanpur register cases against 12 SIMI activists on charges of waging war and sedition.<br /><br /> * May 9: Police arrest 13 SIMI activists, including zonal President Irshad Khan, in Kurla and Vikhroli in Maharashtra for allegedly possessing weapons and several incriminating documents.<br /><br /> * April 10: Ilyas Gausn, main accused in the Pune communal violence, surrenders before a judicial magistrate in the city.<br /><br /> * March 16: Six persons, including an Additional District Magistrate, are killed in a clash between SIMI activists and police in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.<br /><br /> * March 11: Police arrest Sajid Sundke, city unit chief of SIMI, and four of his associates in Pune for their suspected involvement in the communal riots in Ganj Peth and Ghorpade Peth areas of the city.<br /><br />2000<br /><br /> * March 12: Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Chhagan Bhujbal, discloses in the State Legislative Assembly that Pakistan-based underworld don Chhota Shakeel, in league with the SIMI, is inciting communal riots in some parts of the State.<br /><br /> * August 15: Uttar Pradesh Police arrest Mohammad Aquil, a former student of Aligarh Muslim University and an active SIMI member, in connection with a bomb blast in the Sabarmati Express train near Faizabad.<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1