http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MuktoChinta/Discussion forum for the progressives.Abu Ghraib and 1971- (Found July 8, 2008 ) The only Pakistani journalist who was able to write about the atrocities in East Pakistan was the late Tony Mescrehnas, but not for the Pakistani newspaper he worked for in Karachi but the Sunday Times in London. He was denounced as a traitor. He told me in London years later, I was the only Pakistani patriot in 1971. It is 33 years since that chapter of shame closed with the breakup of the country, but to this day, no Pakistani writer or journalist has had the decency to transcribe a full and..http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MuktoChinta/message/10808 India -- Second chance at childhood- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Runaways, abandoned, neglected children on the streets face a range of dangers and abuse. NIMI KURIAN looks at what is being done to empower these children.http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MuktoChinta/message/10830 Mayhems in Sudan- (Found July 8, 2008 ) United Nations called the escalating conflict in Darfur as "one of the world's most neglected humanitarian crises".http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MuktoChinta/message/10794 On Abu Ghraib- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Do you remember how the Operation Clean Heart morphed into an Operation Heart Attack Do you remember how our shameless parliament shamefully exonerated those killer thugs by enacting a lawhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/MuktoChinta/message/10796 The Islamic century- (Found July 8, 2008 ) "...The Cairo-based writer Max Rodenbeck who writes for the Economist on Middle East issues, recently contributed a critical appraisal of nine recent books on Islam for the respected journal, The New York Review of Books. Some of what he wrote deserves a wider audience, especially in Muslim countries such as ours, so that what is at issue is clearly understood and the wrongs and rights of the current debate can be intelligently and unemotionally appreciated...."http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MuktoChinta/message/10823 The occupiers dilemma- (Found July 8, 2008 ) In a fable The Lion, the Fox, and the Beasts, written by the 5th century BC Greek writer Aesop, the lion asks why the fox did not pay him a visit to his cave. I beg your Majesty's pardon, replied the fox, but I noticed the track of the animals that have already come to you, and while I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. The moral of the story, according to Aesop: it is easier to get into the enemys toils than out again.http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MuktoChinta/message/10891 The Ugly Face of Power- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Every once in a while, ordinary voters get a chance to peek behind the curtain that hides the real face of power. Such a moment happened last weekend, during an interview with the secretary of state, Colin Powell, on America's most watched Sunday political talk show, Meet the Press.http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MuktoChinta/message/10905 Imperialist oppression rocking the Middle East- (Found July 8, 2008 ) In the last few days the masses in many parts of the Middle East have been pouring out onto the streets in protest against the ongoing murder of civilians in Iraq and Gaza. The masses have been coming out emboldened by the feeling that the killing machine of the occupying armies in Iraq and Gaza can be defeated.http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MuktoChinta/message/10930 U.S. Troops Raid Chalabi's Headquarters in Baghdad- (Found July 8, 2008 ) It could very well be the desire for power that had led Chalabi and ilk like him to pursue lie infested tactics in drawing Americans to the Iraq war, however, what does it tell about the Bush administration How come they were so gullible that they had overlooked his scam filled past and now all of a sudden the good man is becoming an evil manhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/MuktoChinta/message/10892 A Celebration of Women's Freedom!- (Found July 8, 2008 ) On various forums where I read modern, educated adult men contend that, according to THEIR little gods women should cover this and wear that, and of course the whole nonsense with chastity as godly mandated for unmarried women, specifically, which ought to be more their choice than anything mandated, I become acerbic and offer those men as much a tongue-lashing as can be mustered within a respectable frame of communication. Those unevolved men truly irritate me.http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MuktoChinta/message/10893 |