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मुंबई - चिनी वस्तूंपाठोपाठ आता चिनी बकऱ्यांनीही भारतीय बाजारपेठेवर आक्रमण सुरू केले आहे. बकरी ईदच्या निमित्ताने "झिंक्‍स' म्हणून ओळखल्या जाणारे चिनी बकरे देवनारमध्ये विकले जात आहेत. शौकीन ग्राहक कुर्बानीसाठी या बोकडांसाठी दहा हजारांपासून ते थेट दीड लाखापर्यंतची किंमत देत आहेत.

बकरी ईदला कुर्बानी देण्यासाठी देवनारच्या बाजारात लेह-लडाखपासून थेट उटी-म्हैसूरपर्यंतचे बकरे दाखल झाले आहेत. रंगरूपाने आणि किमतीनेही आपली वैशिष्ट्ये जपत पाच लाखांपेक्षा अधिक बकऱ्यांनी हा बाजार फुलला आहे. सर्वाधिक मागणी महागड्या अशा "दुंबा' जातीच्या बोकडांना असली तरी "झिंक्‍स' हे चिनी बकरे मुख्य आकर्षण आहेत.

भायखळ्यातील बकऱ्यांचे व्यापारी रियाझ यांनी लडाखहून तीन-चार महिन्यांचे काही "झिंक्‍स' आणून त्यांना पाळले. त्यापैकी दहा महिन्यांच्या छोट्या "झिंक्‍स'ची विक्री दहा हजारांपासून ऐंशी हजारांपर्यंत झाली आहे. दोन-अडीच वर्षांच्या मोठ्या "झिंक्‍स'ची किंमत दीड लाखांपर्यंत आहे. हौस म्हणून रियाझ लडाखमधील गावांमधून चिनी बकऱ्यांची खरेदी गेली चार वर्षांपासून करत आहेत. ""लडाखला झिंक्‍सची छोटी पिलं तीन-चार हजारांना मिळतात. त्यांची खूप काळजी घ्यावी लागते. गोरखपूरमार्गे रेल्वेने ती आणली जातात. इथल्या हवामानात त्यांची काळजी घेणे आणि त्यांचा आहार चांगला ठेवणे आवश्‍यक असते,'' असे रियाझ यांनी सांगितले. आतापर्यंत त्यांच्याकडील आठ "झिंक्‍स'ची विक्री झाली आहे. आता केवळ दोन उरले आहेत. "झिंक्‍स' बाजारात नवीन आहे. मात्र, शौकीन ग्राहक त्याच्याविषयी आवर्जून चौकशी करतात. चवीला मात्र भारतीय बकऱ्यांपेक्षा हा वेगळा नाही. ""हा चिनी असला तरी इतर चिनी मालासारखा बनावट नसून, "ओरिजिनल' आहे,'' असेही त्यांनी आवर्जून सांगितले.

उटीचे "दुंबा'ही लोकप्रिय
उटीमधील गावांमधून अगदी शोधून आणलेल्या "दुंबां'नाही बाजारात मागणी आहे. ते प्रत्येकी अडीच लाख रुपयांपर्यंत विकले जातात. पुण्यातील हिंजवडी येथील दलालसिंग उद्यसिंग चितोडीया हे काश्‍मीरपासून उटीपर्यंत फिरून बकरी ईदसाठी "दुंबां'ची खरेदी करतात. "खूप कमवता तुम्ही', असे विचारल्यावर मात्र ते हिरमुसले. "खूप पैसे येतात, पण ते पुन्हा सावकारालाच जातात. देशभर फिरून चांगले बकरे शोधण्यासाठी सावकाराकडून कर्ज घ्यावे लागते. ते फेडून हातामध्ये 80 हजारांपर्यंत उरतात. त्यावर वर्ष काढायचे असते.' "दुंबा' खूपच मांसल असल्याने त्याला थोडेही खरचटले तरी रक्‍त येऊ शकते. त्यामुळे त्याला काटासुद्धा रुतू नये, यासाठी हाताच्या फोडाप्रमाणे काळजी घ्यावी लागत असल्याची माहिती चितोडीया यांनी दिली. त्यांना ज्वारी शिजवून किंवा मका आणि चण्याचा भरडा आहारात द्यावा लागतो.

प्रतिक्रिया

On 03/11/2011 07:43 PM anshu said:

पुण्यातील हिंजवडी येथील दलालसिंग उद्यसिंग चितोडीया हे काश्‍मीरपासून उटीपर्यंत फिरून बकरी ईदसाठी "दुंबां'ची खरेदी करतात. "खूप कमवता तुम्ही', असे विचारल्यावर मात्र ते हिरमुसले. "खूप पैसे येतात, पण ते पुन्हा सावकारालाच जातात. देशभर फिरून चांगले बकरे शोधण्यासाठी सावकाराकडून कर्ज घ्यावे लागते. ते फेडून हातामध्ये 80 हजारांपर्यंत उरतात. त्यावर वर्ष काढायचे असते. अबब...किती गरिबी...ते नाही मटण खात का?

On 03/11/2011 06:29 PM sharad said:

समस्त प्राणी प्रेमी या काळात उंदरा सारखे लपून बसतात व मटणावर चांगलाच ताव मारतात.

On 03/11/2011 10:44 AM makarand ghule said:

अहिंसा मानणाऱ्या भारत देशात बकरी ईद च्या निमित्ताने हिंसेचे खूप समर्थन केले जाते. का नाही हा उत्सव सुद्धा हिंदू उत्सवाप्रमाणेच एको फ्रेंडली पद्धतीने साजरा केला जावा. आयडिया जरा विचित्र वाटते ना, विशेष करून मांसाहार करणाऱ्या लोकांना.

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तरुणींच्या धर्मांतरामुळे हिंदू भयग्रस्त
3 Nov 2011, 0126 hrs IST हिंदू तरुणींचे अपहरण करून त्यांचे जबरदस्तीने धर्मांतर करणे आणि त्यांचा मुस्लीम मुलांशी निकाह करण्याचे प्रमाण पाकिस्तानात वाढले आहे. त्यामुळे येथील तरुण हिंदू मुलींचे पालक भयग्रस्त झाले आहेत.
कराचीमधील लायर भागात राहणाऱ्या धनबाई यांच्या २१ वर्षांच्या बानो या मुलीचे तीन वर्षांपूवीर् अपहरण करण्यात आल्यानंतर तिचे धर्मांतर करून मुस्लिम तरुणाशी लग्न लावण्यात आल्याचे उघड झाले. याप्रकरणी धनबाई व त्यांचे पती बुधाराम लालजी यांनी कोर्टात धाव घेतली आहे.
धनबाई म्हणाल्या, 'मॅट्रिकपर्यंत शिक्षण झाल्यावर बानोला नोकरी करण्याची परवानगी आम्ही दिली होती. आपल्या वडिलांना ती हातभार लावत होती; पण एक दिवस काही जण आले आणि बानोला घेऊन गेले. त्यांनी तिचे जबरदस्तीने धर्मांतर केले आणि नंतर परस्पर लग्न लावून दिले. तिचा चेहरा अजून आम्हाला दिसलेला नाही. माझ्या इतर दोन मुली लक्ष्मी आणि श्रद्धा यांची चिंता मला लागली आहे. मला बिल्डिंगवरुन उडी मारुन जीव द्यावासा वाटत आहे.'
धनबाई या काही एकमेव नाहीत. त्यांच्यासारखी चिंताग्रस्त असंख्य कुटुंबे पाकिस्तानात आहेत. कराची हिंदू पंचायतीनुसार, दर महिन्याला किमान २२ हिंदू तरुणींचे धर्मांतर करून त्यांचे लग्न लावल्याच्या तक्रारी येतात. पंचायचीचे अध्यक्ष अमरनाथ म्हणाले, 'ही येथील हिंदूंची सर्वात मोठी समस्या आहे. सरकार आणि पोलिस दोघेही मदत करत नाहीत. अलीकडे या सर्व प्रकारांत मुस्लीम कट्टर गट आणि मदरशांतील मुले सहभाग घेत आहेत.'
कराचीतील सर्वात मोठा मदरसा असलेल्या जामिया बिनोरियाचे अध्यक्ष मुफ्ती नईम म्हणाले, 'गेल्या दोन महिन्यांत २०० मुले आणि मुली मुसलमान झाले, पण त्यापैकी एकानेही आपल्यावर जबरदस्ती करण्यात आल्याचे सांगितले नाही.'

FIGHTING 2 1/2 FRONT WAR WITH CHINA BRIG MAHAJAN ARTICLE IN PRABHAT 03 NOV 2011

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TERRORISM IN PAKISTAN BRIG HEMANT MAHAJAN ARTICLE IN TARUN BHARAT

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KASHMIR - HUMOUROUSLY EXPLAINED

A Kashmiri, a reporter and a tough old soldier were captured by terrorists in Kashmir . The leader of the terrorists told them he'd grant each of them one last request before they were beheaded and dragged naked through the streets.

The Kashmiri said,'Well, I'm a foodie, so I'd like one last plate of tandoori chicken.'

The leader nodded to an underling who left and returned with the Chicken.

The tourist ate it all and said, 'Now I can die content.'

The reporter said, 'I'm a reporter to the end. I want to take out my tape recorder and describe the

scene here and what's about to happen. Maybe, someday, someone will hear it and know that I was

on the job till the end.'

The leader directed an aide to hand over the tape recorder and the reporter dictated his comments.He then said, 'Now I can die happy.'The leader turned to the soldier and asked, 'And now, Havaldarji, what is your final wish?'Kick me in the ass,' said the soldier.

'What?' asked the leader, 'Will you mock us in your last hour?''No, I'm NOT kidding. I want you to kick me in the ass,' insisted the soldier.So the leader shoved him into the yard and kicked him in the ass.

The soldier went sprawling, but rolled to his knees, pulled a 9 mm pistol

from inside his cammies and shot the leader dead. In the resulting confusion, he emptied his sidearm on six terrorists, then with his knife he slashed the throat of one, and with an AK-47, which he took from one of the already dead terrorists, sprayed the rest of the terrorists killing another 11. In a flash, all of them were either dead or fleeing for their lives.

As the soldier was untying the Kashmiri and the reporter, they asked him,

'Why didn't you just shoot them all in the first place? Why did you ask him

to kick you in the ass?'

'Because' replied the soldier, 'if I had shot first, you two assholes would have

reported that I was the aggressor and the root cause of all the blood shedding

in Kashmir ?'

... Such is the irony of Indian Democracy !! God Bless Us

AN ODE TO LATE COL NEERAJ SOOD

(WHO LAID DOWN HIS LIFE ON 23 JUNE IN J&K WHILE CHASING MILITANTS)
 

REST IN PEACE.
O! MY BROTHER-IN-ARMS.
FOR YOU WISHED VERY YOUNG,
TO BE THUS DESTINED.
 
EXPECT NOT YOUR COUNTRYMEN,
OR POLITICAL MASTERS
TO MOURN OR GIVE A TRIME.
FOR THEM YOUR LIFE IS YET ANOTHER BRINE.
 
TV CHANNELS WILL SHOW A FLICK OR TWO,
SO WILL PRINT MEDIA DO.
BUT ALL WILL BE FORGOTTEN
IN ANOTHER DAY OR TWOONLY YOUR FAMILY WILL CARRY THE CROSS
OF MISSING SON, BROTHER
HUSBAND OR FATHER
FOR REST OF THEIR LIFE.

REST IN PEACE.
O! MY BROTHER-IN-ARMS.
FOR YOU WISHED VERY YOUNG,
TO BE THUS DESTINED.

BRIG HEMANT MAHAJAN NATIONAL SECURITY: HOW RAJEEV GANDHI KILLERS WERE CAUGHT BY MAJ RAVI ...

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HOW RAJEEV GANDHI KILLERS WERE CAUGHT BY MAJ RAVI BY BRIG MAHAJAN IN SAKAL

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STATE OF PAKISTAN

Folks,

This truly is a hard hitting editoril......but is any one listening in Pakistan !!

    This editorial, by a well known Pak columnist in a prestigious Pak newspaper, should be read carefully by everyone both in Pakistan and in India !!

    (1) It demolishes yet again the carefully cultivated myth in Pakistan that Pakistan won the 1965 Indo-Pak war, and it is still being celebrated as "victory day" in Pakistan !!  But there are some in India too who believe that this is true.

    (2) Najam Sethi gives us a true perspective of Pak relations with the countries that matter, like China, Saudi Arabia and of course the USA.

ENJOY

Injo

TFT CURRENT ISSUE| October 07-13, 2011 - Vol. XXIII, No. 34Editorial By Najam Sethi

Wake up Pakistan !!!

            US-Pak relations have broken down. The United States has "suspended" military aid and all but closed the Kerry-Lugar-Berman tap of funds for the civilians.

             US-Pak relations have broken down.  The United States has "suspended" military aid and all but closed the Kerry-Lugar-Berman tap of funds for the civilians.  Proud Pakistanis have puffed up their chests and vowed to eat grass, if necessary, in order to defend the "sovereignty" of their country.  What's the big deal, they aver, US aid was peanuts anyway, and our traditional friends like China and Saudi Arabia are at hand to bail us out of our problems.

        To be sure, our relationship with the US has been no small disaster.

        In the 1950s, we begged the US to befriend us instead of India, cheerily going along with the US into the cold war against the USSR when it wasn't our war at all. In consequence, the military became the dominant theme of our life and wrecked the budding impulse of democracy.  Once again, in the 1980s and 2000s, we tripped over ourselves to rent out our services to the US in Afghanistan.  Today, we are reaping the terrorist whirlwind of our greed and opportunism.

            But a little introspection is in order to prove that we don't need the US as an enemy because we are our own worst enemies.

              More Pakistanis are eating "grass" now than ever before.  The number of Pakistanis below the poverty line has increased from 27 per cent five years ago to 33 per cent in 2011.  And, this has nothing to do with the US.

           The growth rate of the economy has fallen from 6.5% five years ago to 3% now. The fiscal deficit is yawning at 7.5% of GDP today compared to 4.5% five years ago. And this has nothing to do with the US.

          The Rupee has fallen from 77 to the dollar five years ago to 90 today.  General inflation is running at 15% and food inflation at 25%.  And this has nothing to do with the US.   

            The tax to GDP ratio is down to 8.7% in 2011 from 11.5% five years ago.  And this has nothing to do with the US.

          Floods continue to devastate the lives and produce of millions of poor people across the country.  And this has nothing to do with the US.

         Sunni extremists are rampaging, killing Shias. Ethnic parties continue to mow down people in Karachi.  And this has nothing to do with the US.

          Power breakdowns have made the lives of tens of millions wretched and miserable while rendering millions of others jobless.  And this has nothing to do with the US.

         Instead of rooting for Pakistani nationalism, we are proud to undermine it as Muslims first, or Sindhis, Muhajirs, Baloch, Pakhtun, Punjabi, Seraiki, Hazarajat, Kashmiri, Sunni, Shia, Deobandi, Barelvi.  And this has nothing to do with the US.

          We are counted amongst the most corrupt countries of the world.  We have waged four wars with India and lost each of them and in the bargain losing half of Pakistan. And this has nothing to do with the US.

         As if this litany of self-induced failures isn't enough, there is the hypocrisy of double standards to contend with too.

         Of course, the US has violated our sovereignty by raining drones on FATA.  But so have the Afghan Taliban and Al-Qaeda who have established safe havens there too.  But we are quick to blast the US and quicker still to pretend that Al-Qaeda doesn't exist and the Taliban are innocent refugees for whom our traditional hospitality is on offer.

        The story doesn't end here.

         The IMF is not welcome.  How dare it demand that we tax the rich, plug the bleeding in public sector corporations, stop the theft of power, and spend according to our means.

         US aid is dispensable.  We don't need to build dams and reservoirs for managing our natural resources, we don't need schools and teachers for our children and hospitals for the poor.

         Our all-weather friends are China and Saudi Arabia.  Never mind that China doesn't help us much when we are ravaged by earthquakes and floods or when we are short of cash to pay our foreign bills.  Never mind that Saudi Arabia treats our migrant workers like slaves, rents our military to crack down on Shia majorities in Bahrain and exports extremist "Islam" to our lands.

         At the end of the day, who eats grass when we rise to defend our sovereignty ?  Not our pot bellied traders and businessmen.  Not our golf-playing generals.  Not our Defence Housing Society residents.  Not our foreign-asset holding politicians whose kids go to English-medium private schools at home and abroad.  Not our self-righteous media Mughals who berate our slavish black-skins and white masks.  Not our corrupt judges and civil servants.  It's the wretched of the earth, the poorest of the poor, who eat grass.

         For too long we have made foreign scapegoats for our own failures and corruptions.  It is time to wake up and set our house in order without begging or berating the US.

           Can you disagree with Najam Sethi ???

 

CAN WE IGNORE CHINESE AGRESSION

For decades New Delhi has refused to acknowledge Beijing's increasing belligerence and the need to meet its challenges head on.

Unfortunately, we have also failed to learn from history. At this rate we may well be faced with an undesirable crisis ast September, Chinese troops intrudL ed into south-eastern Ladakh and stopped construction of a civilian shelter. District authorities approached the Leh Army authorities, who helplessly told them that the area being close to the Line of Actual Control, the Union Ministry of External Affairs needs to first take Chinese permission. Further, although the locals say that Chinese motorcycle patrols frequently intrude into the area, the Army has been compelled to deny Chinese intrusions -sheltering euphemistically behind on the explanation that “perceptions differ on where the LAC runs on ground“. In effect, India has ceded control of territory even within the LAC to Chinese. Could this be because Government lacks the will or the military capability to defend our territory?

It could be both.

In 1962, then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had rebutted charges that the forces were poorly equipped by retorting, “It is the man behind the gun that counts.“ Today, not only do our defence forces have huge material deficiencies but military families with generations in the defence forces are snapping the tradition.

This led to a severe staff shortage and warwinning capability. The Army alone is down a third of its officer strength.

Highlighting the Union Government's dismal approach towards national defence, Harsh V Pant (of King's College, London) says, “The higher defence organisational setup in India continues to exhibit serious weaknesses with its ability to prosecute wars... remaining doubtful. The institutional structures today are not effective enough to provide single-point military advice to the Government or to facilitate the definition of defence objectives...The Indian Government is yet to demonstrate political will to tackle the defence policy paralysis...

rendering all claims of India's rise as a military power increasingly hollow. There has been no long-term strategic review of India's security environment and no overall defence strategy has been articulated.“

Last year, then Air Chief PV Naik bluntly informed the nation that half of its aircraft and equipment were either obsolete or obsolescent. Meanwhile, munitions and equipment levels in the Army are below 50 per cent and will need 20 years and `43,000 crore to gain full defence preparedness. The induction of modern Howitzers has been hanging fire for a quarter-century while air defence systems need urgent replacement. As for the Navy, analysts have warned that India's naval power is actually shrinking.

Despite all these warning signs, defence budgets continue to languish below 2 per cent of GDP. At last week's Combined Commanders' Conference, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh parroted the hollow slogan, “No expense will be spared to equip the Defence Forces.“ One doubts if he himself believed it; the services certainly cannot! Defence modernisation is thus in limbo, just as it has been since at least the 7th Defence Plan (1987). Only the 9th Plan had been approved, that too in the aftermath of the Kargil war. George Tanham, an American expert, states that, “Indians have no strategic doctrine and formulate strategy on purely ad hoc basis.“ No wonder, each year the Ministry of Defence surrenders large proportions of even the meagre budget through sheer sloth and redtape in Defence and Finance Ministries.

And Parliament's Standing Defence Committee remains blithely oblivious of all these issues.

In 1962, Nehru sent the Army to a frozen Ladakh and the NEFA regions in summer cotton uniforms as he begged the US for assistance. Things today are much the same. While Chinese patrols are motorcycle-mounted, clad in smart, warm jackets and ultra-light, fur-lined boots; our jawans are issued leaking rubber boots and woollen socks made of jute fibre -keeping the feet wet and icy.

Our armed forces are unique in having absolutely no say in the quality of clothing or equipment thrust onto them. Neither are they formally in the defence policy and planning loop. Echoes of Kargil 1999, the Army chief was constrained to state, “We will fight with what we have.“ Consequently, a half-century after 1962, our force-correlation vis-à-vis China is far worse. Then our infrastructure was dismal, but the adversary's was not much better. Today, the Chinese have excellent infrastructure, ultra-modern weapons and logistics. The two nations' new fighter aircraft exemplify the stark disparity. India's Tejas is a second-generation fighter, (dubbed MiG-21 plus) with a 40-year old vintage technology. China's J-20 is a fifthgeneration stealth aircraft, which has even the Americans worried.

The Government appears complacent in the belief that with nuclear-armed adversaries, a conventional conflict is precluded. This, despite lacking a credible N-deterrence! Therefore, succumbing to pressure tactics seems the only option. No wonder the Government is in denial over Chinese intrusions and must seek China's permission for even civilian works on our side of the LAC.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit last year was preceded by a tectonic policy shift, conveyed through a typical Chinese subtlety. In a press briefing before the visit, Assistant Minister Hu unobtrusively lopped off 2000 km from the Sino-Indian border, thus implying that China now regards the disputed Pakistan Occupied Kashmir as an integral part of Pakistan.

Consequently, although Wen Jiabao promised to hike trade to $100 billion in five years and opined that the Elephant and Dragon should tango, he pointedly deferred the J&K stapled-visa issue. Many analysts now believe that Nehru's belligerence caused the 1962 conflict.

Hence, the MEA avoids even the slightest risk of offending the Dragon. But such restraint has served only to encourage Beijing in upping the ante. China is now giving stapled-visas to residents of Arunachal Pradesh. Recently, Army chief General VK Singh confirmed that over 4000 Chinese troops are present in POK and many of these are combat soldiers. Last month, INS Airavat was harassed by the Chinese navy in international waters while on a routine port call to Vietnam. China has now brazenly warned Vietnam and India against bilateral cooperation in oil-exploration.

Therefore, if we are not to precipitate a conflict by encouraging adventurism through perceived weakness and timidity, we should heed the age-old maxim, `He that desireth peace must prepare for ware'. A strong stance backed by real military strength alone can ensure peace, enabling us to get on with the real task of pulling nearly half a billion Indians out of poverty. Some steps like the formulation of a national security doctrine recommended by the Naresh Chandra Committee, greater equipment indigenisation etc. have been initiated, but they need an urgent push. In addition we must make Service Chiefs formal members of the CCS and engage professional HR consultants to reverse endemic officer shortfalls.