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19 November 2012             23:30 ET

The arrest of two women on Monday over a comment on Facebook has sparked off widespread anger in India.

One of the women had criticised the shutdown of Mumbai in her post, after the death of politician Bal Thackeray, while the other “liked” the comment.

The women, accused of “hurting religious sentiments”, were released on bail after appearing in court.

The death of the controversial Hindu nationalist politician on Saturday afternoon brought Mumbai to a halt.

In her Facebook comment on Sunday, 21-year-old Shaheen Dhanda wrote: “People like Thackeray are born and die daily and one should not observe a ‘bandh’ [shutdown] for that.”

Her 20-year-old friend Renu Srinivasan ‘liked’ the status.

‘Abuse of authority’

The Times of India newspaper responded with the headline: “Shame: 2 girls arrested for harmless online comment.”

The newspaper said the arrests were a “clear case of abuse of authority”.

“The girl was not slandering anybody, nor was she promoting hatred towards any community”.

The newspaper said the charges should be dropped and a case of “wrongful arrest” registered against the police.

Press Council of India Chairman Markandey Katju has written a letter to the Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan criticising the arrests.

“We are living in a democracy, not a fascist dictatorship. In fact, this arrest itself appears to be a criminal act, since… it is a crime to wrongfully arrest or wrongfully confine someone who has committed no crime,” Mr Katju, a former Supreme Court judge, said.

Telecommunications Minister Kapil Sibal was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India news agency that he was “deeply saddened” by the arrests.

“It is their point of view, and enforcement of these laws are not to ban people from expressing their views,” he said.

In recent months, police have arrested a number of people in cases which are being seen as a test of India’s commitment to freedom of speech.

In October, Ravi Srinivasan, a 46-year-old businessman in the southern Indian city of Pondicherry, was arrested for a tweet criticising Karti Chidambaram, son of Indian Finance Minister P Chidambaram. He was later released on bail.

In September, there was outrage when a cartoonist was jailed in Mumbai on charges of sedition for his anti-corruption drawings. The charges were later dropped.

And in April, the West Bengal government arrested a teacher who had emailed to friends a cartoon that was critical of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. He too was later released on bail.

from:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-20405193

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using the number/letter grid:

 
1      2      3       4       5       6      7      8      9
A      B     C       D       E       F      G      H      I
J      K      L      M      N       O      P      Q      R
S      T      U      V      W      X      Y      Z

Where:

A = 1              J = 1              S = 1

B = 2              K = 2             T = 2

C = 3              L = 3             U = 3

D = 4              M = 4            V = 4

E = 5              N = 5            W = 5

F = 6              O = 6             X = 6

G = 7              P = 7             Y = 7

H = 8              Q = 8             Z = 8

I = 9               R = 9

 

 

Renu Srinivasan

9       1        111

 

her primary challenge (RS), how she appears to the world (Ra), what she dislikes (Rs), and what she must not do (Ra) all = 91 = Being in the wrong place at the wrong time.  Being part of a growing trend.

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10 September 2012           03:20 ET

The arrest of an anti-corruption cartoonist in India on charges of sedition has sparked criticism.

Aseem Trivedi was held in the city of Mumbai over the weekend for his cartoons allegedly mocking the Indian constitution.

He was also charged with insulting the national flag and remanded in police custody until 16 September.

The cartoonist has been participating in the anti-corruption movement led by campaigner Anna Hazare.

India’s media and prominent citizens have condemned Mr Trivedi’s arrest, calling it a “wrongful act”.

“From the information I have gathered, the cartoonist did nothing illegal and, in fact, arresting him was an illegal act,” Chairman of the Press Council of India Markandey Katju told The Hindu newspaper.

“A wrongful arrest is a serious crime under the Indian Penal Code, and it is those who arrested him who should be arrested.”

Mr Katju, a former Supreme Court judge, asked how drawing a cartoon could be considered a crime and said politicians should learn to accept criticism.

“Either the allegation is true, in which case you deserve it; or it is false, in which case, you ignore it. This kind of behaviour is not acceptable in a democracy,” he said.

Senior journalist and the editor of CNN-IBN news channel Rajdeep Sardesai said he found it “amusing, but also very dangerous that you can get away with hate speech in this country, but parody and political satire leads to immediate arrest”.

A former senior police officer and lawyer YP Singh told the Mint newspaper that from “what I have heard, it seems he [Mr Trivedi] can be booked at the most under a law to prevent insults to national honour and not on serious charges like sedition, which attract much harsher punishment”.

If proved, a sedition charge can invite a three-year prison term in India.

The micro-blogging site Twitter was also full of messages criticising Mr Trivedi’s arrest.

Police held him acting on a complaint by a Mumbai-based lawyer who said his cartoons were anti-India.

Earlier this year, a website carrying Mr Trivedi’s anti-corruption cartoons was banned by the police in Mumbai, reports say.

In April, Indian police arrested a professor in Calcutta for allegedly posting on the internet cartoons ridiculing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. He was later released.

from:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-19540565

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using the number/letter grid:

 
1      2      3       4       5       6      7      8      9
A      B     C       D       E       F      G      H      I
J      K      L      M      N       O      P      Q      R
S      T      U      V      W      X      Y      Z

Where:

A = 1              J = 1              S = 1

B = 2              K = 2             T = 2

C = 3              L = 3             U = 3

D = 4              M = 4            V = 4

E = 5              N = 5            W = 5

F = 6              O = 6             X = 6

G = 7              P = 7             Y = 7

H = 8              Q = 8             Z = 8

I = 9               R = 9

 

 

Aseem Trivedi

11554 2994549                58

 

his path of destiny = 58 = Give me a break.  Civil unrest.

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June 26, 2012         10:09 AM CT

Pranab Mukherjee resigned as India’s finance minister to vie for the presidency, prompting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take charge of the portfolio as he tries to revive a faltering economy.

Singh will head the ministry until Mukherjee’s successor is appointed, Pankaj Pachauri, communications adviser to the prime minister’s office, said in New Delhi today. Singh was finance minister in the 1990s, sparking an economic turnaround that now faces one of its sternest tests. Mukherjee, the ruling Congress party’s nominee for the presidential poll in July, quit earlier in the day.

India’s finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, the ruling Congress party’s pick for July’s presidential poll, confirmed in New Delhi today that he has stepped down and told reporters he will file nomination papers for the election on June 28. Photographer: Pankaj Nangia/Bloomberg

Mukherjee departs with the government projecting record borrowing to plug its budget deficit and as political gridlock hampers efforts to spur investment and ease bottlenecks stoking elevated inflation. The veteran politician’s attempt yesterday to halt a slump in the rupee by allowing foreigners to buy more bonds fizzled, leaving the currency close to its weakest level against the dollar as his three-year tenure ends.

Singh’s decision to refrain from appointing a successor immediately implies he “wants to keep the portfolio with himself for some time to push stalled reforms and lift the slowing economy in order to boost confidence” said Satish Misra, an analyst at the New Delhi-based Observer Research Foundation.

The rupee, which touched a record low of 57.3275 per dollar on June 22, was little changed today at 57.035 per dollar at the close in Mumbai. It is down about 21 percent in the past year, the worst slide among major Asian currencies. Aside from India’s deteriorating outlook, the rupee has also been hurt by Europe’s debt crisis, which has sapped demand for emerging-market assets.

Singh Steps In

Singh, 79, was finance minister for five years from 1991, when India was on the brink of defaulting on some of its overseas debt. In his first two months in the job, he devalued the rupee, tackled government monopolies, cut import tariffs and tax rates, and let foreign companies take majority stakes in sectors including automobiles and pharmaceuticals.

Liberalization spurred faster growth, including an 8.4 percent expansion in the 12 months ended March 2011, before a paralysis in policy making contributed to a slowdown to 5.3 percent last quarter from a year earlier, a nine-year low.

The government’s recent setbacks include the suspension in December of plans to allow foreign companies such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to open supermarkets after an ally of the ruling coalition objected. India has also foregone investment in the pension and insurance industries in recent months.

IKEA, Coca-Cola

Swedish furniture retailer IKEA last week eased some of the gloom, saying it wants to open stores in India and may invest as much as 1.5 billion euros ($1.9 billion). Coca-Cola Co. said today the company and its local partners plan to spend $5 billion in the country by 2020.

Mukherjee, 76, entered parliament in 1969 after working as a teacher and journalist. He had stints in charge of India’s foreign, defense, commerce and steel ministries and ran a closed economy as finance minister from 1982 to 1984.

“Given the challenging global environment during his tenure, Mukherjee has done a decent job,” said Vishnu Varathan, an economist at Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd. in Singapore. “A lot more could have been done, but one has to be mindful of political processes involved which make ground-breaking changes a lot tougher.”

Mukherjee’s resignation may lead to a cabinet reshuffle as Singh tries to revitalize his development agenda to cut poverty.

Possible Replacements

Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram, Commerce Minister Anand Sharma, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council Chakravarthy Rangarajan and Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh are all probable candidates to replace Mukherjee, Business Standard newspaper reported June 15.

The government projects record borrowing of 5.69 trillion rupees ($100 billion) in the year through March 2013. It aims to narrow the budget gap to 5.1 percent of gross domestic product this fiscal year, from 5.76 percent in 2011-2012.

Inflation accelerated to 7.55 percent in May, and the central bank signaled this month that price pressures are crimping scope to cut interest rates.

Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor’s have said they may strip Asia’s third-largest economy of its investment-grade rating. The nation has struggled to pare spending on a subsidy program ranging from diesel to fertilizers.

‘Messy Combination’

“It’s a very messy combination of things that is going on in the economy,” said Robert Prior-Wandesforde, Singapore-based director of Asian economics at Credit Suisse Group AG. The next finance minister will need to improve public finances by raising fuel prices and push forward with other reforms, such as introducing a goods and services tax, he said.

The finance ministry and Reserve Bank of India yesterday boosted the amount of government bonds foreign investors can purchase by $5 billion to $20 billion to support the rupee.

The poll for president, India’s highest constitutional office, is due July 19. Elected legislators of state assemblies and the federal parliament will vote to select the successor to Pratibha Devisingh Patil.

While largely a ceremonial post, the president is the supreme commander of the armed forces and oversees the creation of a government after general elections, which are due by 2014.

from:  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-26/mukherjee-quits-as-india-finance-minister-to-run-for-presidency.html

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Pranab Mukherjee was born on December 11th, 1935 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pranab_Mukherjee

December 11th, 1935

12 + 11 +1+9+3+5 = 41 = his life lesson = Things get ugly.

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