Posted on Monday, July 05, 2010 - 02:55 am:

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Kamal:

if you have Ruj's telephone number .. can you ask him to check his DB email .. have something important to talk to him !

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Posted on Monday, July 05, 2010 - 02:52 am:

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Ashton:

ikkada blacks,mexicans laga akkada kooda oka set of group form avuthundi future lo...India is soon going to become underdeveloped US...mark my words..

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Posted on Monday, July 05, 2010 - 02:48 am:

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Kamal:

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Posted on Monday, July 05, 2010 - 02:43 am:

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Shiv Kumari with her children
Amethi, Uttar Pradesh

Shiv Kumari, the poor widow who briefly shot to fame for providing a temporary home to then British foreign secretary David Miliband and Rahul Gandhi, wonders if she will ever be able to make ends meet after the recent fuel hike. "All I have got after Rahul bhaiya's visit," she says, "was a brick house, without doors and windows or a proper roof. I never got the job promised by Rahul bhaiya. I am barely able to make Rs 45-50 a day working in the fields. Purchasing a litre of kerosene for me is a luxury." With prices of essentials shooting up, Shiv Kumari is bracing herself for the tough times ahead.

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The Balanarsimhacharies
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

Living in a Hyderabad suburb, Siramoju Balanarsimhachary paints number-plates for vehicles and does art work for lorries, earning Rs 8,000-9,000 a month. His wife Jayalakshmi, 28, is a homemaker; the couple have two children. The couple spends Rs 1,500 a month on their fees and limit food expenses to a frugal Rs 2,500-3,000. Every food item, be it veggies or eggs or rice or dal, says Jayalakshmi, seems like a necessity now due to the price. "I have to put at least one litre of petrol in my bike every day as I need to collect material for my job and to get payments," says Balanarsimhachary.

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Posted on Monday, July 05, 2010 - 02:22 am:

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Tpg:

ee inflation tho maatram middle class pachchadi avvuthunnaaru...

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Posted on Sunday, July 04, 2010 - 07:45 pm:

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Dear Dr Manmohan Singh,

It may seem irrelevant when I say that I was born in the same month and year as you. But I feel it necessary to mention this fact because it gives us a shared perspective of independent India's birth and its subsequent development.

Like you, I lost my mother at a young age. Like you, I entered India as a post-Partition refugee, though not from the Punjab [ Images ], but from what is now Bangladesh.

Like you, I have witnessed the turbulence of the freedom struggle, and the terrible trauma of Partition, and, like you, I educated myself in the desperate knowledge that therein lay my only hope of rescue from a nightmarish life.

Of course, the comparisons end there. You became one of the world's most respected economists and are now one of its most admired leaders.

I retired from my small job as a school teacher two decades ago. However, since we are both citizens of India, I feel it necessary to address these few words to you.

I am worried about our country, Dr Singh. I am worried that we are not leaving it in safe hands. I am worried about the enemy within, far more vicious and damaging than the enemy without.

I am worried that, despite all efforts, India is regressing to the time when it was nothing more than a loose conglomeration of princely states, instead of a unified Republic.

Long ago, we were taught that a country gets the government it deserves. If that is indeed so, then we must deserve the largely venal, corrupt, incompetent, and shortsighted group of people we are forced to call our 'leaders'.

No offence to you, Dr Singh, but even you must see how close to collapse our political system is, and how the gap between the rich and the poor is increasing by the day.

At this rate, India's famed middle class will soon be a thing of the past, squeezed out of existence by constant inflation, plummeting incomes, rising unemployment, and the ever-present threat of internal terrorism.

As we are forced to become a Capitalist system, however, we find the State unable, or unwilling, to perform the duties of a Capitalist state.

We Indians pay among the highest taxes in the world, and yet, our standards of living are among the lowest. We know for a fact that whenever the government introduces a scheme, it will ultimately not benefit those it was intended for, because most of the funds would have been siphoned off by corrupt middlemen.

And you know as well as I, Dr Singh, that the corruption stems directly from the corridors of power which you walk.

The lack of transparency in your and your colleagues' public pronouncements is growing by the day, whether you talk about rising food prices or the Maoist threat.

At every step, we are aware that most of you are lying to us. The tragedy, Dr Singh, is that we must elect such people year after year, not because we want to, but because we have no option.

Why don't you take the initiative to make a public appeal across party lines for politicians to come together to fight India's battles? The people are with you on this, of that I am sure.

The advantage is, those who won't join forces with you will be seen as the enemy, but you must also ensure that your own party is with you. Tough challenge, but India needs drastic measures now, Dr Singh. You should know that better than anyone else.

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