Thursday 3 December 2015

चेन्नई में आफत की बरसात, हर तरफ कोहराम


बाढ़ से बेहाल चेन्नई का हवाई जायजा लेने के बाद प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी ने तमिलनाडु को केंद्र की ओर से 1000 करोड़ की मदद का ऐलान किया है. सरकार की यह मदद पहले से दी गई 940 करोड़ की सहायता से अलग है. हवाई सर्वेक्षण के लिए चेन्नई पहुंचे प्रधानमंत्री ने मुख्यमंत्री जयललिता से भी मुलाकात की.

Govt of India stands by the people of Tamil Nadu in hour of need: PM Modi #ChennaiFloods pic.twitter.com/PXsz9i9XO7
— ANI (@ANI_news) December 3, 2015
चेन्नई में INS Adyar पर मुख्यमंत्री से मुलाकात के दौरान पीएम मोदी ने कहा कि केंद्र सरकार संकट की इस घड़ी में तमिलनाडु की जनता के साथ है. बाढ़ और बारिश के कारण राज्य में अभी तक 269 लोगों की मौत हो चुकी है.



48 घंटों में भारी बारिश की संभावना
दूसरी ओर मौसम विभाग का कहना है सुबह से भले ही बारिश की रफ्तार में कमी आई है, लेकिन यह कहना गलत होगा कि चेन्नई से खतरा टल गया है. मौसम विभाग ने अगले 48 घंटों में भारी बारिश की आशंका जाहिर की है. मौसम विभाग के डीजी एलएस राठौड़ ने कहा, 'पुडुचेरी और नागापत्तनम में भारी बारिश हो रही है. सुबह से हल्की बारिश हुई है, लेकिन अभी यह नहीं कहा जा सकता है कि चेन्नई से खतरा टल गया है. बल्कि‍ केंद्रीय तमिलनाडु में हालात और गंभीर हो सकते हैं. चेन्नई के पास एक कम दबाव का क्षेत्र बना हुआ है, जो लगभग ठहर सा गया है, इसलिए तमिलनाडु के तटीय इलाकों में अभी भारी बारिश होने की संभावना है.'

There is light rainfall since morning, coastal areas badly hit-LS Rathore,MeT Dept #ChennaiFloods pic.twitter.com/Hoznvd3dlc
— ANI (@ANI_news) December 3, 2015
डीजी राठौड़ ने आगे कहा कि मौसम प्रणाली तेज हो गई है और अभी भारी बारिश के लिए बहुत अधिक नमी है. उन्होंने बताया कि चेन्नई में एक अक्टूबर से अभी तक 1558.9 मिलीमीटर बारिश हुई है. मौसम विभाग के आकलन के मुताबिक, दक्षि‍ण आंध्र प्रदेश में भी अगले 24 घंटे में भारी बारिश की संभावना है. इसके अलावा 6 और 7 दिसंबर को केरल में भी जोरदार बारिश हो सकती है.

राहत और बचाव कार्य
चेन्नई में सेना और एनडीआरएफ की टीम युद्ध स्तर पर राहत और बचाव कार्य में जुटी हुई है. करीब 100 नावों के जरिए लोगों को घरों से निकाला जा रहा है. वायुसेना ने भी चेन्नई का हवाई सर्वेक्षण करना शुरू कर दिया है. शहरी विकास मंत्री वेंकैया नायडू ने कहा कि इस पूरे मामले पर गृह सचिव निगरानी रख रहे हैं और तमिलनाडु सरकार को हरसंभव मदद करने का आश्वासन दिया गया है.
चेन्नई में 40 फीसदी से ज्यादा फोन कनेक्शन काम नहीं कर रहे हैं. शहर में बिजली गुल होने और पानी की समस्या के कारण लोगों का जीवन मुहाल है. रेल मंत्रालय की तरफ से बाढ़ प्रभावित इलाकों में खाने के पैकेट बांटे गए हैं. मंत्रालय ने प्लेटफॉर्म का शेल्टर होम के तौर पर इस्तेमाल का सुझाव दिया है. चेन्नई एयरपोर्ट की हालत अब भी जस की तस बनी हुई है. रनवे सहित पूरे एयरपोर्ट पर पानी भरा है. एयरपोर्ट से 700 यात्रियों को निकालने की मुहिम अभी जारी है. यात्रियों को एयरफोर्स के विमान से हैदराबाद ले जाया जा रहा है.

लोगों को सुरक्षित निकालने पर जोर दें'
भारी बारिश के कारण ट्रेन सेवाएं भी बुरी तरह प्रभावित हुई हैं. ट्रैक पर पानी जमा होने के कारण ट्रेनेंग रद्द हो रही हैं. तमिलनाडु सरकार ने सेना से अपील की है कि वो लोगों को सुरक्षित निकालने पर जोर दें. सरकार के पास खाने के सामान और दवाइयों की कमी नहीं है.
चेन्नई के हालात पर एयर इंडिया ने मदद का हाथ बढ़ाया है. विमानन कंपनी ने 15 दिसंबर तक चेन्नई जाने वाले टिकटों पर बिना किसी अतिरिक्त चार्ज के आस-पास के शहरों के लिए पहुंचाने का इंतजाम किया है.
गृह मंत्री कहा- हालात बेहद खतरनाक
इन सब के बीच गृह मंत्री राजनाथ सिंह ने लोकसभा में दिए बयान में कहा कि तमिलनाडु में बाढ़ से हालात बेहद खतरनाक हैं. राजनाथ सिंह ने कहा कि बारिश ने 100 वर्षों का रिकॉर्ड तोड़ दिया है, जबकि मौसम विभाग ने अभी और बारिश होने की संभावना जताई है. सिंह ने सदन को जानकारी दी कि अब तक तमिलनाडु में बाढ़ के चलते 269, आंध्र प्रदेश में 54 और पुद्दुचेरी में 2 लोगों की मौत हुई है. उन्होंने बताया कि तमिलनाडु में दवाइयों और खाद्य पदार्थों की कमी की कोई खबर नहीं है. केंद्र ने 110 बोटों के साथ एनडीआरएफ की 30 टीमें भेजी हैं.

टापू जैसी बन गई है चेन्नई'
राजनाथ सिंह ने कहा, 'तमिलनाडु की राजधानी चेन्नई एक टापू जैसी बना गई है और वह शहर सभी राष्ट्रीय राजमार्गों और सड़कों से कट गया है.' गृह मंत्री ने चेन्नई सहित तमिलनाडु, आंध्रप्रदेश एवं ओडिशा आदि में बाढ़ की स्थिति से उत्पन्न हालात पर हुई चर्चा का जवाब देते हुए यह बात कही. उन्होंने कहा, 'हालात इतने खराब हैं कि वहां राहत पहुंचाना भी कठिन हो रहा है और शहर के टेलीफोन और मोबाइल फोन की कनेक्टिविटी भी बहुत अधिक प्रभावित हुई है. बाढ़ के कारण कई जगह बिजली भी काटनी पड़ी है. छह दिसंबर तक के लिए चेन्नई एयरपोर्ट को बंद कर दिया गया है. 50 से ज्यादा ट्रेनों के रूट में बदलाव किया गया है.'
राष्ट्रपति ने जताई संवेदना
राष्ट्रपति प्रणब मुखर्जी ने चेन्नई संकट पर संवेदना जताई है. उन्होंने मृतकों को श्रद्धांजलि दी और कहा कि पूरा देश इस संकट में तमिलनाडु के साथ है. बीजेपी सांसद हेमा मालिनी ने कहा कि वह चेन्नई के हालात से बेहद दुखी हैं. उन्होंने कहा, 'मेरा घर उसी शहर में है. झीलों और तालाबों में अतिक्रमण की वजह से यह दिक्कत आई है. एसपी अध्यक्ष मुलाय सिंह यादव ने चेन्नई संकट को दैवी आपदा बताते हुए कहा कि दैवी आपदा के लिए अलग से विभाग बनाने की जरूरत है.

चेन्नई में बाढ़ की तस्वीरें 







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What is Intolerance ?

'Intolerant India': Is criticism against Modi's BJP justified?

There have been protests against Bollywood star Aamir Khan's comments on intolerance in India
In recent weeks, actors, writers, academics and scientists have expressed concern over growing intolerance in India.
A movement that began with writers returning state awards has spread to scientists, historians and filmmakers. Some 200 academics teaching in India and abroad have issued a joint statement against rising "intolerance and bigotry.
Even Bollywood stars like Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan have spoken on the issue. Opposition politicians have demanded a parliamentary debate on intolerance in the ongoing winter session.
They have cited the killing of rationalists MM Kalburgi and Govind Pansare, as well as the lynching of a man over suspicions he consumed beef, as examples of rising intolerance in the country.
However, many insist that India has suddenly not become intolerant under the Narendra Modi-led BJP government.
Books and films have been banned for as long as we can remember. Writers and artists have been hounded and threatened by political parties and groups across the country.
And as commentator Mukul Kesavan says, the main opposition Congress partydoes not exactly have a stellar record in defending liberal values.
So is India seeing a new form of intolerance driven by majoritarian politics? Or, as analyst TN Ninan says, some of the intolerance is related to the "social churn linked to modernisation" of a complex nation?
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, who teaches in the US and France, is one of India's most distinguished and provocative historians and biographers. I spoke to him on whether he thought India had become intolerant under Mr Modi's watch.
Intolerance in India is not a new thing. So why are we suddenly so outraged and worried about what has been happening after the BJP government came to power last year?
I have not been in India for almost a year. So my impressions come from a distance.
However, it seems that the concerns stem from the fact that the BJP has such a massive majority in parliament, which may seem an occasion for them to impose their agenda in a way they could not in the period 1998-2004 [when the party was previously in power].
People would be less concerned if this was a coalition government.



Sanjay Subrahmanyam is one of India's most distinguished
historians
Further, the current federal government speaks consistently with (at least) two voices.
One is more reasonable, reassuring and tolerant; the other more strident and aggressive.
This ingrained, almost structural, duplicity is being constantly refined as a strategy of "good cop, bad cop". It would seem natural to worry that this will become a pattern for the five years of this government.
Do you believe India has actually become more intolerant? Isn't it the case that Congress and many other non-BJP state governments don't have a leg to stand on, insofar as liberal values are concerned?
It is not a question of "India", but of the upper echelons of the political class and their attitudes.
It is true that "liberal values" have always been fragile in independent India. The BJP is not alone in the matter of attacking them. Few parties actually incarnate any real political liberalism.
But should that make the BJP immune to criticism?

Mr Modi says he is committed to 'work for the welfare of people of all sections and religion'
If I am being robbed by two pickpockets, is that any consolation? If the only criticism of the current political climate was politically motivated, and came from political parties with a murky past of their own (like the Congress), it would not be so much of an issue.
But it comes from many members of civil society who feel threatened, and when they protest in a non-violent way, they are told brutally to leave the country and go elsewhere. That is the crude language of majoritarianism. It is being felt in many institutions. My friends in the universities are also feeling it more and more.
So how different is that intolerance with this one under the BJP regime? Are we panicking too much?
There are certainly reasons for concern when a certain type of intimidation and bullying becomes a part of the normal language of public discourse.
The BJP is not the only group to do this, but they are the ones with the power in many parts of India.
If I lived in Pakistan, my concern would be with the Salafis; if I lived in France, it would be with the Front National, who also use a majoritarian language to say "either become French on my terms, or face the consequences".
This needs to be protested, just as the 1975 Emergency needed to be resisted, orNandigram [killings] needed to be protested. Why should we make an exception for the BJP's bullying?
How tolerant has India been as a civilisation?
As a historical space, India has been no more or less virtuous than any other part of the world.
Why do we also need to claim that we are better than everybody else? It is precisely because we are not, that we need to examine our own present as well as our past with a critical eye.
The student of Indian history finds no lack of violence of all sorts in the Indian past, whether based on religion, caste, colour, xenophobia, or political jockeying.
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Friday 27 November 2015

Narendra Modi Biography

Narendra Modi is best known for rising from humble beginnings to become prime minister of India.

Synopsis

Narendra Modi grew up poor in northern India, the son of a street merchant. He entered politics as a youth and quickly rose through the ranks of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a Hindu nationalist political party. In 2002, he was alleged to be responsible for the deaths of more than 1,000 Muslims during civil unrest, but he was later exonerated. In 2014 he was elected prime minister of India.

Early Life

Narendra Modi was born in the small town of Vadnagar, in northern Gujarat, India. His father was a street merchant who struggled to support the family. Young Narendra and his brother sold tea near a bus terminal to help out. Though an average students in school, Modi spent hours in the library and was known as a strong debater. In his early teens, he joined Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the student wing of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist political party. 

A Life Dedicated to Politics

Modi married at 18 but spent little time with his bride and eventually ended the marriage. He dedicated his life to politics in Gujarat, joining the RSS in 1971. During the 1975-77 political crisis, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency, banning political organizations such as the RSS. Modi went underground and wrote a book, Sangharsh ma Gujarat(Gujarat in Emergency), which chronicles his experiences as a political fugitive. In 1978, Modi graduated from Delhi University with a degree in political science and completed his master’s work at Gujarat University in 1983.
In 1987, Narendra Modi joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which stood for Hindu nationalism. His rise through the ranks was rapid, as he wisely chose mentors to further his career. He promoted privatization of businesses, small government and Hindu values. In 1995, Modi was elected BJP national secretary, a position from which he successfully helped settle internal leadership disputes, paving the way for BJP election victories in 1998.

The Gulbarg Massacre and Alleged Complicity

In February 2002, while Modi served as chief minister of Gujarat, a commuter train was attacked, allegedly by Muslims. In retaliation, an attack was carried out on the Muslim neighborhood of Gulbarg. Violence spread, and Modi imposed a curfew granting police shoot-to-kill orders. After peace was restored, Modi’s government was criticized for the harsh crackdown, and he was accused of allowing the killings of more than 1,000 Muslims. After two investigations contradicted one other, the Indian Supreme Court concluded there was no evidence Modi was at fault.
Narendra Modi was reelected chief minister of Gujarat in 2007 and 2012. Through those campaigns, Modi's hard-line Hinduism softened and he spoke more about economic growth. He is credited with bringing prosperity and development to Gujarat and is seen as a corrupt-free and efficient administrator. However, some say he has done little to alleviate poverty and improve living standards. 

Elected Prime Minister

In June 2013, Modi was selected to head the BJP’s 2014 election campaign to the Lok Sabha (the lower house of India’s parliament), while a grassroots campaign was already in place to elect him prime minister. Modi campaigned hard, portraying himself as a pragmatic candidate capable of turning around India’s economy. In May 2014, he and his party were victorious, taking 282 of the 534 seats in the Lok Sabha. The victory marked a crushing defeat to the Indian National Congress, which had controlled Indian politics for most of the previous 60 years, and sent a message that India’s citizens were behind an agenda of radical change.
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Vasudev Kutumbakam

In India and the Ministry of Tourism launched a campaign to promote Incredible India as a tourist destination in 2002.[3] The phrase "Incredible India" was adopted as a slogan by the ministry. Before 2002, the Indian government regularly formulated policies and prepared pamphlets and brochures for the promotion of tourism, however, it did not support tourism in a concerted fashion. However, in 2002, the tourism ministry made a conscious effort to bring in more professionalism in its attempts to promote tourism. It formulated an integrated communication strategy with the aim of promoting India as a destination of choice for the discerning traveler. The tourism ministry engaged the services of advertising and marketing firm Ogilvy & Mather (India) (O&M) to create a new campaign to increase ourist inflows into the country.
The campaign projected India as an attractive tourist destination by showcasing different aspects of Indian culture and history like yoga, spirituality, etc. The campaign was conducted globally and received appreciation from tourism industry observers and travelers alike. However, the campaign also came in for criticism from some quarters. Some observers felt that it had failed to cover several aspects of India which would have been attractive to the average tourist

In 2009, minister of tourism, Kumari Selja unveiled plans to extend the Incredible India campaign to the domestic tourism sector as well. USD 12 million out of a total budget of USD 200 million was allocated in 2009 for the purpose of promoting domestic tourism.
In 2008, the Ministry of Tourism launched a campaign targeted at the local population to educate them regarding good behaviour and etiquette when dealing with foreign tourists. Indian actor Aamir Khan was commissioned to endorse the campaign which was titled 'Atithidevo Bhava', Sanskrit for 'Guests are like God'. Atithidevo Bhava aimed at creating awareness about the effects of tourism and sensitizing the local population about preservation of India's heritage, culture, cleanliness and hospitality. It also attempted to re-instil a sense of responsibility towards tourists and reinforce the confidence of foreign tourists towards India as a preferred holiday destination. The concept was designed to complement the ‘Incredible India’ Campaign.

In 2008, the Ministry of Tourism launched a campaign targeted at the local population to educate them regarding good behaviour and etiquette when dealing with foreign tourists. Indian actor Aamir Khan was commissioned to endorse the campaign which was titled 'Atithidevo Bhava', Sanskrit for 'Guests are like God'. Atithidevo Bhava aimed at creating awareness about the effects of tourism and sensitizing the local population about preservation of India's heritage, culture, cleanliness and hospitality. It also attempted to re-instil a sense of responsibility towards tourists and reinforce the confidence of foreign tourists towards India as a preferred holiday destination. The concept was designed to complement the ‘Incredible India’ Campaign

Impact on Indian tourism[edit]


Maharajas' Express, a train which travels the famous Indian sites. The train was launched by IRCTC.
According to spending data released by Visa Asia Pacific 4 in March 2006, India has emerged as the fastest-growing market in the Asia-Pacific in terms of international tourist spending. The data revealed that international tourists spent US$372 million in India in the fourth quarter (October–December) of 2005, 25% more than in the fourth quarter of 2004. China, which came second in the region, was successful in making international tourists fork out US$784 million in Q4 2005, a growth of 23% over its Q4 2004 figures. The tourist spending figures for India would have pleased the Indian tourism ministry, which had been targeting the high-end market through its long-running 'Incredible India' communication campaign


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