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A new year brings not only happiness, it makes us happy with a hope to fulfill our dreamz or a new beginning of our life. So, a new year is very special to everyone.
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tahiya hote pavan nahin pani, tahiya srishti kown utpati;
tahiya hote kali nahin phula, tahiya hote garbh nahi mula;
tahiya hote vidya nahin Veda, tahiya hote shabd nahin swada;
tahiya hote pind nahin basu,
nahin dhar dharni na pavan akasu;
tahiya hote guru nahin chela, gamya agamya na panth duhela.
Sakhi: avigati ki gati ka kahown, jake gawn na thawn
gun bihuna pekhana, ka kahi lijai nawn
In that state there is no air or water, and no creation or creator; There is no bud or flower, and no fetus or semen; There is no education or Vedas, and no word or taste; There is no body or settlement, and no earth, air or space; There is no guru or disciple, and no easy or difficult path.
Sakhi: That state is very strange. I cannot explain it. It has no village or resting place. That state is without gunas (qualities). What name can on give it?
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Chaap Tilak
Chhap tilak sab cheeni ray mosay naina milaikay
Chhap tilak sab cheeni ray mosay naina milaikay
Prem bhatee ka madhva pilaikay
Matvali kar leeni ray mosay naina milaikay
Gori gori bayyan, hari hari churiyan
Bayyan pakar dhar leeni ray mosay naina milaikay
Bal bal jaaon mein toray rang rajwa
Apni see kar leeni ray mosay naina milaikay
Khusrau Nijaam kay bal bal jayyiye
Mohay Suhaagan keeni ray mosay naina milaikay
Chhap tilak sab cheeni ray mosay naina milaikay
Translation
You've taken away my looks, my identity, by just a glance.
By making me drink the wine of love-potion,
You've intoxicated me by just a glance;
My fair, delicate wrists with green bangles in them,
Have been held tightly by you with just a glance.
I give my life to you, Oh my cloth-dyer,
You've dyed me in yourself, by just a glance.
I give my whole life to you Oh, Nijam,
You've made me your bride, by just a glance.
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Never leave a job unfinished, unless you are unable to finish it.
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You take anything you fear and cannot understand and make it an object of hate. So much easier to hate and destroy than to seek to understand.
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Mainak Dhar (Alice in Deadland (Alice in Deadland, #1))
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Why are you behaving like this? You know how much I love you β¦ and I
believe you love me as much, so why are you avoiding me?
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I don't know when I'll able to knock in the door of her mind. But I believe in my love, enthusiasm and passion. Someday dream may come true.
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The moment I close my eyes, I see you and sleep vanishes. Iβm awake the entire night, revisiting our
memories together. The night seems to stretch on forever.
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I love you so much. Our love is eternal.
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I fight for the freedom that we all have as human beings. The freedom to live the way we want,the freedom to choose our leaders,the freedom my father and hundreds of others have died to protect.
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I don't want to force my mind to love someone else or adjust with someone whom I
never can give my true love. #Life Of Love - Film
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Love is something that
is beyond us. We can't anticipate
love. When, where and with whom we
fall in love is coincidental and
wonderful for the same reason.
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Life is full of beautiful moments. Live your life to the fullest. And do what you
love. #LIFE OF LOVE
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A creative person will never die... he or she will be alive in his or her work.
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It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling. Bertrand Russell.
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Stillness fell upon them, as weighty as a promise. The two of them walked in silence, along the still,
moonlit landscape, and through the drowsing trees.
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You must remember that no one can hurt you, use you or take advantage of you unless you allow it.
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Man had proven to be the most jealous of lovers, preferring to destroy the Earth rather than give her up.
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Better dead than undead.
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Success come only through high ambition, good guidance, strong will, determining and effort.
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Love is something that is beyond us. We can't anticipate love. When, where and with whom we fall in love is coincidental and wonderful for the same reason.
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I want to spend my life with you...
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As Netaji, Boseβs two initial contributions to the idea of modern India were a national slogan and a national anthem. His political opponents at home were compelled to accept them years later.
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It's your life, you can do
whatever you want. But for a
single mistake you may have to
suffer a lot in your life. You'll
never get back same time and same
opportunities again in life once
you miss them. #Life of Love - the film
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I know you would be watching over me all through this journey called life... whenever I look next to me, I feel like you are
here... and a part of you is within me in the form of this child... Love is like the wind... you may not see it... especially in the absence of the other... but you always feel it around...
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Sometimes I feel that it's our
destiny. We met, liked each other
and fell in love before we knew
it!
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You should not doubt someone if you
truly love him/her. #LIFE OF LOVE (Film)
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yet it was vain and stupid to create our own vision of these gods and fight over whose vision was right.
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Love is a divine power..that enlightened me always towards my destination...
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A marriage is a way of accepting love and commitment of a man and woman in front of God, before moving to a new life.
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Life is full of beautiful moments. Live your life to the fullest. And do what you
love.
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I guess itβs true: itβs difficult for men to understand women.
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You never know until you give something your best and keep working at it. Follow your dreams no matter what
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. George Bernard Shaw.
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Indiaβs soul lived in the villages.
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War and peace can be deferred but not kept hanging, especially when the enemy gains strength by leaps and bounds. A hanging issue often develops incurable gangrene.
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I immensely enjoyed James Cameronβs Titanic. I read how a large number of Indians shed copious tears over a fictitious story of a woman not being able to overcome the loss of her love despite decades rolling by. And I fail to understand how the same Indians could never empathise with Emilie Schenkl, who was not at peace even forty years after Bose had disappeared.
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Delhi. The ruins of an old city, markets, monuments, broken mansions, the zigzag of roads, the still
sad times of music past. And rising up from it, her mother, wind in her hair, laughing like a witch.
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Now, sitting among the Biters and getting a glimpse of what battle against humans looked like from their perspective, she began to see things a bit differently. Sure, up close they were formidable with their strength, seeming immunity to pain, and their single-minded dedication to biting human flesh. But in the open like this, against trained soldiers, they were cannon fodder. They could not use weapons, moved slower than humans, and did not seem to have enough intelligence for anything more than the most rudimentary tactics.
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Before he was assassinated in 1948, Gandhiβa senior journalist told meβrebuked Nehru and Patel for not being able to reign in the partition madness and wished that his βother son [Subhas] was here!β Reminded by a Congressman, who had witnesses the dressing down, that Bose was dead and he had himself come to hold that belief, Gandhi shot back: βHeβs in Russiaβ.
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Today, unlocking the room and stepping into its dusty embrace, it struck her β the bareness, the
cobwebs in the corners, the dark squares on the walls where the maps had once hung, the
intricately designed tiles disappeared in filth, the urn-less, roseless emptiness, the laughter that
once was. Sighs everywhere, and echoes, the papery trail of ants through the ancient wood, the still,
suspended sheets of dust, and through it all, those memories, still alive, still alive.
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A courtesan would receive years of training in literature, etiquette, dance and music before she was
allowed to make her first public appearance. Courtesans have played quite a huge role in enriching
our countryβs traditions in music and art, you know. And sexuality β that too was considered an art,
an ancient artβ¦β
What did it mean for the courtesans to have to make themselves available to the colonizer? To lay
their bodies open to sex, to medical inspection, to laws? And all this to keep the military virile and
marching towards the expansion of Empire! What happened to the women afterwards, thatβs what I
want to know! In fact, I donβt think it was very different from slavery in America β Black women
eroticized, abused, discarded. No, the real story must have been far, far worse. Before the British,
after the British.
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I don't know if it is love. Why I want to get intimate with you? Why I want to
be committed to you? Why I want to
be attached to you? It feels like
I don't have any control on what's
happening. I don't know if this is
infatuation or love! #LIFE OF LOVE (FILM)
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When a beautiful woman accompanies
someone, and if she is seated so
close to him, isn't it enough for
him to feel romantic? #LIFE OF LOVE
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Women are very clear and
transparent, anyone can read them,
they don't play 'hide and seek'
like men. #LIFE OF LOVE
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Keep it in mind, every second I
live, is only for you. Every
breath I take has your name on it.
And every moment I spend, is so
that I can be with you forever.
The day you cease to exist in my
life, my life will cease to exist
at all. #LIFE OF LOVE (Film)
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You will find more happiness if you can bring a smile to someone's face.
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Some people always discriminate each other based on race, group, ethnicity, religion, Even they try to keep a distance who are untouchable to them. But when they are in need of bloods, they can't avoid to flow bloods of that untouchable person to their blood vessels.
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No matter you are in how difficult situation - don't be nervous, don't fear... then you can face the situation with brave.
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Dying is a biological inevitability, but what matters is what one does with the time one is allotted.
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Ah, kamu, Dhar. Orang lain cenderung memecahkan masalah supaya merdeka, kamu malah beternak masalah dan membiarkan dirimu terjajah olehnya.
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Intelligence as an attribute of manβs evolution through the process of selection has become synonymous with his quest for knowledge. Intelligence infrastructure as a part of social evolution and statecraft has become synonymous with diplomacy, law and order, stability and welfare of the governed and governing people and a powerful bridge between war and peace. In internal context it is a perfect tool for repression and welfare, a supreme tool for ensuring law and order and maiming and silencing peopleβs voice. In external relations it plays complimentary roles to statecraft and diplomacy and takes the front seat when certain objectives are required to be achieved through means other than statecraft and diplomacy and war. Intelligence fraternity can carry out wars through peaceful means, it can wage wars through low intensity attrition and it can play havoc through sabotage and subversion. It can seek out the fault lines of the enemy and cause tectonic explosion under his feet. It is as powerful a weapon as a fusion bomb is. It depends how and in what fashion the intelligence infrastructure is used by the ruling clique against whom and at what point of political evolution of a nation state. It is the strongest defensive weapon that can defend the home front by denying intelligence to the enemy and by sniffing out his illegitimate and undiplomatic activities by using superior intelligence tools.
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The most rewarding call came at about ten a.m. βSir the DIG is coming on the line. Please take the call.β A panicked sub-inspector rushed to me, where I was busy meeting a delegation from the nearby villages. I rushed back to the phone and by instinct addressed the caller as sir. I was greeted by a faint laughter and plenty of good wishes. My fiancΓ© was on the line. It was the greatest reward that I hadnβt expected. I assured her that I wasnβt a dragon killer and I wasnβt going to expose myself to unwarranted danger. She knew it was a hollow promise. Danger and I were the most intimate bed mates.
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Canβt you reach your goal through peaceful means? Revolution doesnβt essentially mean war and bloodshed.β βDonβt be silly. India can only be changed by violence.β βWe achieved independence through non-violent means.β βYou are a fool. Had the British not gone bankrupt they would have retained the colony for another two hundred years. Thanks to Hitler that he initiated the process of decolonisation by destroying the coffers of the colonists. The British simply escaped from India.
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It is, however, admitted that the intelligence organisations of these βfree countriesβ do give wide coverage to the activities of their citizen in almost all sphere of activities. Their systems keep track of the citizen from the Cradle to the Grave. No other country, except, perhaps the former Soviet Union, has documented their citizen in such exhaustive and comprehensive manner. India has not been able to keep track of its own citizen. The faulty system allows unhindered entry of alien nationals from the neighbouring countries. Periodically some Indian politicians wake up and raise slogans for comprehensive documentation of the citizens of the country. Vote-bank beggars in the right, left and centre of the political spectrum oppose them, because they depend a lot on illegal migrant voters from the neighbouring countries. They also shed crocodile tears in the name of βsecularismβ- an apartheid mechanism devised by the Indian democracy. Once in a while the intelligence and police agencies are whipped up to trace out the illegal settlers. They even violate the rights of the natural citizens.
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These important national institutions continue to suffer from the bane of feudal and imperial curses. Moreover, the so-called institutions of the iron frame, the entire length of the spinal cord of Indian administration, from Panchayat (rural self-government) to national level, has been mutilated and subjugated in the name of suborning them to the βrule of the people, for the people and by the peopleβ. Several institutions of the country, including the judiciary, have been distorted and subverted to suit the political class. It is not my intention to write another sterile thesis on the state of Indian administration and judiciary. Such thesis are propounded at regular intervals, several commissions are instituted routinely to examine the system breakdown and several such reports, including reports on police and intelligence reform have been gathering dust if not already eaten up by ants and termites of the system.
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All that I wanted to highlight in Open Secrets is my limited tryst with the intelligence fraternity, peripheral brush with the political system and a little bit experience of the horror-house, which is Indian democracy.
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In the name of maintaining meaningful dialogue with the state police and intelligence machineries a large number of police officers were (still are) brought on deputation from the state police forces. The post independence governments have blindly followed this Imperial system. This system has certain advantages and a lot of inbuilt disadvantages. Indian politics has become segmented on caste, creed and ideological lines. Officers coming on deputation from a particular state often cannot rise above the constraints imposed on them by the environment from which they graduate to the central intelligence department. This has often caused serious perspective distortion.
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In pre-Indira Gandhi days the IB was basically guided by the βear markingβ scheme. This scheme enabled the IB to earmark certain IPS officers while they were under training in the Police Academy. They were earmarked on the basis of their performance in the All India Services Examination, performance in the academy and confidential reports on their shaping up process. A number of brilliant officers, including the illustrious Directors like Hari Anand Barari, M. K. Narayanan, and V. G. Vaidya were inducted through the earmarking scheme. The humble author of this book was also an earmarked officer. Of course, some officers also were inducted on βdeputationβ from state cadres. They were later absorbed as βhard coreβ officers. This system was abandoned after 1970 to accommodate βloyal and committed officersβ and also to bring the IB at par with other Central Police Organisations (CPO), like the CRPF, BSF. The IB was opened up as a waiting room for IPS officers from the less glamorous state cadres like Manipur and Tripura, Assam, West Bengal and any other state where the prevailing political culture did not suit certain officers. They used the IB to cool off and to catch up with other opportunities.
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It is hoped that sooner than later the political planners and the members of the intelligence fraternity will understand the need for broad basing the foundation of national intelligence and free them from the clutches of captive police working philosophy and techniques.
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Policing is not merely a law and order problem and problems of men in uniform. Policing is a social problem and it should also be studied by the social scientists. In spite of existence of several police regulations, the Police Act and a few specific Rules framed by the respective state governments the police forces are controlled by the political hierarchy through the Home Department or the department responsible for general administration. The States have also followed the pattern of the Union Government and maintained firm political grip on the intelligence generating units of the State Police Forces.
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Serious gap of communication between the IB and the State Police on the one hand and the IB and the R&AW and the CBI on the other, had become apparent during security operations in Punjab, Kashmir, Assam and against the Pakistan sponsored Jihadist elements. The most glaring example of total intelligence failure was the Kargil adventure by Pakistan army. The R&AW, the Military Intelligence and to a lesser extent the Intelligence Bureau had miserably failed to unearth the Pakistani design and warn the policy planners. Whatever intelligence was available was not coordinated to cull out a coherent collage. The rest is history.
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India had witnessed the destructive dances of its intelligence organisations during the Emergency regime and the regime that followed. Indian democracy can be as oppressive as the regime of Idi Amin. There is no dearth of evidence to support this statement. Rights of the citizen are more frequently violated even under normal circumstances. A shaky ruler can run amuck and rock the foundation of the country. The present system is not good enough to ensure free democracy and constitutional liberty. Mere government notifications are not good enough to give legal status to the prime intelligence organisations, which have evolved along with the political system of the country and democratic aspirations of the people. If the systemic evolution has made the administrative services and other spheres of national activities accountable to the elected representatives of the people why the most powerful tools of the state machinery should be kept under the wrap of secrecy and the hazards of informality that can be misused and manipulated by a few politicians?
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An involved officer in any intelligence and investigation agency almost becomes a member of the organised mafia. He can afford to get out only at the cost of inviting a few fatal bullets or an accidental hit by a running truck at a lonely intersection.
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In case of India neither the politicians nor the bureaucrats of the general administration and the intelligence community are accountable to anyone. The intelligence agencies get away even after mercenaries drop arms at Purulia and a Kargil happens to the country and the top men of such organisations are rewarded with gubernatorial assignments. It happens because the buck stops with the Home Minister and the Prime Minister.
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Should not a βfree Indiaβ enact laws to administer its intelligence community both at the Centre and in the States? Should not the country safeguard its future from errant leaders like Indira and Sanjay Gandhi, who mercilessly used the intelligence and enforcement machineries to execute the dictates of national emergency? Who can prevent the fundamentalist political entities to use these functional agencies to impose on the nation their brand of nationalism? Only the constitutional system can do that.
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I have been advocating this for near about a decade. I would like to draw the attention of the discerning members of the opinion makers, the judiciary, the media, the academia and the intellectuals to think over this loudly and to start a national debate in and outside the Parliament. Such acts are essential for the politicians too. Some day or the other, taking advantage of the weakening fabric of our democracy, some unscrupulous intelligence men may gang up with ambitious Army Brass and change the political texture of the nation and give IB the colours of the Inter Services Intelligence of Pakistan. That will be the most unfortunate day for Indian democracy. India cannot afford to suffer that indignity from which most of the postcolonial regimes in Asia and Africa are suffering.
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The pioneers of the post-independence IB must be saluted for giving the country an efficient tool of national security in spite of the fact that the ruling class generally tried to use it for protecting and promoting their elite club. They never thought it fit to adopt a constitutionally validated Act to govern the IB and its sister organisations. The IB and the R&AW etc are the only organs of the government that are not accountable to any elected constitutional body of India and are not governed by any Act of the Parliament. They are subsidiary bureaus and departments.
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The counter terrorist units received very little attention till terrorism in Punjab blew up on the face of its creators. The Operations Cells, specialised in combating indigenous terrorism, were put on the rails around 1986, after Operation Blue Star and the assassination of Indira Gandhi. Specialised cells to combat ISI operations in India and Pakistan sponsored Islamist terrorism had taken shape only after the Bombay serial bomb blasts in 1993. The political infrastructure and its intelligence edifices responded very slowly to the emerging geopolitical needs.
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I do not intend to give a tour of the magnificent Himalayas to my readers. But the amazing behaviour of a herd of wild elephant at Kumai tea garden was a challenge to my personal and professional capabilities. It was a kind of clash of personality between men and nature.
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The ruling Indian National Congress did not receive adequate attention of our trainers. The talks were rudimentary and an avid reader of the national history that I was, could discern that the analysts were reluctant to talk freely on the ruling party. The communists and communalists were the fiercest ghosts to the intelligence community and their political masters. The ruling party was treated as Caesarβs Wife.
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However, the spooky boys of the super secret Technical Laboratory failed to impress me. I possessed a vast library on the various facades of technical intelligence. I was amused to see the rudimentary wireless sets (some manufactured by the IB technicians at mount joy), clandestine cameras, miniature radio transmitters and a few bugging tools flaunted by the so-called experts as the main tools of technical intelligence. These gadgets were shown to us like the magicians pulling out an occasional rabbit from their hats. I donβt think anyone emerged out of the classrooms much wiser about the application of electronic gadgets for generating intelligence
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The imperialist concept of treating the genuine grievances of the people simply as βlaw and orderβ problems and inability of the system to respond to the peaceful and legal means of democratic agitation had firmly rooted in the minds of the people that the βsarkarsβ (governments) only understood the language of violence.
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In fact, the post independence Indian political and bureaucratic rulers had succeeded in enshrining the cult of violence as a semi-statutory means of grievance redressal. They allowed the genuine aspirations of the people to be trampled and ignored and subsequently handling the violent venting of the accumulated frustration as a law and order problem. The state governments and the Union ministry of internal affairs had perfected the battle order of deputing police and paramilitary forces to fighting the violent segment of the people, who were, at the first instance, were allowed to choose violent means to express their genuine and perceived grievances over peaceful constitutional means. Somewhere some vested interests in the political and bureaucratic edifices of the country worked assiduously to bury the concepts of constitutional grievance redressing mechanics and promoted the cult of violence. They blindly followed the British attitude in dealing with the post-independent Indians who had assumedly given themselves an elaborate constitution and several layers of legal guarantees. The politicians and bureaucrats simply looted the public exchequer in the name of maintaining law and order. They were neither interested nor capable of addressing the grievances of the people.
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The situation was vastly different way back in 1968-69. The politicians and the bureaucrats hadnβt yet found the open sesame mantra into the national treasury. Most of them depended on the lowly SIB representatives for monetary help, tactical support and for building bridges with the political bosses and the top bureaucrats in Delhi. The situation has now reversed. The local political bosses like their counterparts in Delhi and elsewhere in India, have found the open sesame keys and are in a position to shame some of the millionaire barons of industry. Now, I understand, they are not required to pamper the local SIB station chief. They can shop around in Delhi, right from the top political to the chick bureaucratic shopping mall and spend as much as they like. They arrive in Delhi with suitcases and go back with political support and plan and non-plan budgetary grants and aids. Most of these allocations, even a blind person can perceive, travel straight to the private coffers of the adventurers and fortune hunters. Thatβs how the development activities are implemented in India to remove poverty and to bring the people up to civilised standard of living!
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If you donβt step up to fight for yourself and your own, donβt expect others to do so for you. We
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We Indians are a stinking corrupt people. Our religion is corrupt and we try to survive by corrupting our gods. Itβs in our philosophy, taught by our great Aryan ancestors, the Muslim invaders and the British imperialists.
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The destiny moves according to a predestined speed.
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In Open Secrets an intelligence operator has for the first time offered an insight into the working of the prime intelligence organisation of Indiaβthe Intelligence Bureau.
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Waves upon waves of human activity around the seats of power had given Delhi its unique flavour and stink. The stink was visible. But to discover the distinct flavour of Delhi one had to dive deep into the human pool.
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POOR GIRLS Can't Buy School Lunch, What Happens Is Shocking | Dhar Mann
( Dhar Mann Studios Top Videos) - Review for this different kind of video about social lessoning?!
Ok I got it. It is a mass teaching kind of thing. I guess it is from USA and each and every individual are given privacy rights 100% not like any other nations and the lessons are taught in a slow and steady manner. Whomever are poor, not looking good, fatty, black racism are main targets and Christianity teaching them in good will but the question remains! why cant you people directly teach the children about good manners directly? you let them live like primitive and insane humans and then teaching them? what is the actual concept here? Anyhow one thing I really loved, anyhow good lessons are taught, but when these people are grown they have to good friends that tease each other , knock each other and love each other for better society, and it will happen but the way these lessons are taught in a manner to make kind of trans human nature, I don't understand whether it is good or not.
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Ian Fleming once said that once is happenstance, twice is a coincidence, but thrice is enemy action.
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Mainak Dhar (The 1st Assassin (Unit 22, #1))
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Hereβs some free career advice- when the man who could fire you says something that makes you angry, donβt let him know you want to kill him.
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Mainak Dhar (The 1st Assassin (Unit 22, #1))
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If you canβt handle the heat, you shouldnβt be in the kitchen.
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Aaditya Sengupta Dhar (Kaalchakra: The Rise of Kalki)
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Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is. William James The
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Maloy Krishna Dhar (Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer)
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A nation learns its lesson through mistakes. It is hoped that the lessons have been learnt.
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A best friend will stand beside you when other will not.
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Santonu Kumar Dhar
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Sometimes when we hate something too much, we are fated to become the very thing we hate.β They
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Mainak Dhar (Alice In Deadland Trilogy (Alice in Deadland #1-3))
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Success comes only through strong will, determination and effort.
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Santonu Kumar Dhar (The Effort - A Novel)
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Those were simpler times, or so it certainly seemed now.
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Mainak Dhar (The Funda of Mix-ology: What Bartending Teaches that IIM Doesn't)
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Indira Gandhi did not have to do much from the confines of her 12 Wellingdon Crescent home, a small place that doubled as the residence of her extended family, and her office. The βrevolutionβ initiated by Jayaprakash Narayan was squandered away by the hungry and tactless politicians of the Janata conglomerate. They failed to understand that the people of the country were not interested in hunting down Indira for her emergency follies. They had been aggrieved and had given Indian democracy a chance to change for the better. The Janata leaders betrayed them. The people wanted economic regeneration, poverty alleviation, and transparent governance and not witch-hunting.
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India has not been able to keep track of its own citizen. The faulty system allows unhindered entry of alien nationals from the neighbouring countries. Periodically some Indian politicians wake up and raise slogans for comprehensive documentation of the citizens of the country. Vote-bank beggars in the right, left and centre of the political spectrum oppose them, because they depend a lot on illegal migrant voters from the neighbouring countries. They also shed crocodile tears in the name of βsecularismββan apartheid mechanism devised by the Indian democracy. Once in a while the intelligence and police agencies are whipped up to trace out the illegal settlers. They even violate the rights of the natural citizens.
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Maloy Krishna Dhar (Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer)
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What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying. - Nikita Khrushchev
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Mainak Dhar (Line of Control)
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On 18 May 2006, the Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry report was placed before Parliament with a single-page Memorandum of Action Taken Report signed by Home Minister Shivraj Patil. Even a school report card would have been far more detailed.
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Anuj Dhar (India's Biggest Cover-up)
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Despite this so-called βhighest-levelβ decision, out of 202 only 91 exhibits were eventually released by the MHA to us. One paperβa note by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehruβremained classified. There was no word about the rest 110βincluding Home, Foreign ministry records/files; letters from Home Minister, High Commissioner, Taiwan government and Intelligence Bureau Director; a report on the INA treasure said to have been lost along with Bose and a memo from Director of Military Intelligence over Mahatma Gandhiβs view on the matter. These papers were simply βunavailableβ.
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Perhaps I was wrong in devoting myself single mindedly to intelligence production and not endearing myself to the eyes and minds of the pillars of the IB. I was wrong in assuming that my work would speak for me. In the bureaucratic jungle of Delhi, I learnt at great cost, rather late in my career, that excellence in work was not an essential accessory for surviving and thriving in the oddest chemical concoction of Indian bureaucracy. Belonging to the right club and having ticket to the right coterie were the greatest manures.
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Maloy Krishna Dhar (Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer)
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A modern world, with so many choices for women, yet still very much a manβs world, with little
place for compassion or community or flowery skirts. No, it was a world of business suits and
lawsuits, of committees and careful conversations.
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Debotri Dhar (The Courtesans of Karim Street)
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An elephant has two sets of teeth. One for the purpose of eating and the other for flaunting.Β Β Β
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