Dr. Carvalho and Dr.Lenin I am deliberately avoiding the other half of your names that is misleading the readers as Nirmala and Raghuvanshi, real Indians interested in the Country. All the World bodies like WB, IMF, WTO are all American controlled and dictate their terms while advancing funds or declaring trade policies, to benefit the indomitable position of America, which even draws water from our tubewells free and sell it as Mineral water at Rs.12 a litre, making millkions of $ and transferring the same to US!! Our Govt. is a silent witness to these scary loot of our resources, which Jharkand Group too targets and tries to prevent the ecological and environmental calamities? Pope Ratzinger- read about his life history and what he did in South America and U.S. in various positions. Why the Bishops had to wait for three days emitting black smoke until leaders of Opus Dei landed and made the selection and white smoke!! Pope Paul too was for total "harvesting" of India to Christianity and billions of US$ flow to the Country for evangelisation esp. Jharkand tribals. The less said about these Popes the better about what has been happening in the Catholic Churches in US and the billions the Church had to pay as compensations/ damages. India too has its share of bishops but still these are not revealed. Why are you against large dams? Who said ecological problems by large dams? If the rivers are large like Narmada or Sutlej or Godavari or Sindh(Sukkur), the dams have to be large both for power generation, prevent floodings and irrigation for agriculture. Displacement and rehabilitation of the affected is a small price to pay for the development. Are you a part of Medha Patkar movement funded by negative interests from abroad? There is no food crises in India with all the godwns of STC.FCI and Warehouse Corpn., full to the brim adequate for three years, procurement was far above targets and wheat is stored in open fields in Punjab/Haryana covered by tarpaulins for want of covered sheds. Do not spread the scare, though prices have increased due to external factors but there is no shortage. Escalation of petrol prices is manmade and Chidambaram could have avoided taxation of the incremental prices we pay on import of crudes ($40 to 145), and States too follow suit so that consumers get the fuel at affordable rates!! It is shocking to see our Ministers comparing the price of petrol to that of developed Countries like US or Australia where the minimum wages are $12 or Rs.500 per hour or Rs.4000 per day, compared to India's Rs.150 per day, a small fraction of this!! You pay $ 12 (Rs.500) for a haircut (cheapest) there compared to Rs.25-30 or below $1 in India. We are paying huge interests on borrowings from World bodies due to the follies committed by past Govts. and even the present by allowing multinationals like Coca Cola, Pepsi, Macdonalds ot KFC to fleece Indian currency at their will without any restriction. We should get out of this American hold on our economy as China has boldly done and dictating terms now. Social Justice, inequity, poverty alleviation, human rights..etc. are the bombastic terms used by the economists of West to denigrate the local Govts. in developing Countries and gulped by the evangelical groups with ulterior motives as if conversions and pumping of funds to tribals would solve the problems to bring them to utopia. If the pastors and priests keep away from the tribals and they are funded to develop themselves through self governed co-operatives, these high sounding problems would solve by themselves. It appears the proceedings of G8 is being used to spread false ideas of conversions to the poor throughout the World, particularly Indian villages.
--- On Tue, 7/8/08, Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [ =>> Jharkhand <<= ] Indian activist: G8 called to outline "future development of peoples" To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2008, 7:55 AM Jharkhand Forum | Jharkhand.org. in/forum http://new.asianews .it/index. php?l=en&art=12697# » 07/07/2008 12:59 INDIA Indian activist: G8 called to outline "future development of peoples" Nirmala Carvalho In an interview with AsiaNews, Lenin Raghuvashi considers the G8, the global food crisis and inflation, the emergence of India and China, the prophetic words of the pope. And the problems of India, which spends more on its public debt than on health and education. New Delhi (AsiaNews) - "This G8 meeting taking place in Japan is very important as it is a very powerful decision making body, and also involves the world's leading charities". The difficult situation of India, the global economic crisis, the "prophetic" appeal from Pope Benedict XVI: an exclusive interview with Lenin Raghuvanshi, well-known activist and winner of the prestigious Gwangju Prize for human rights. According to Mr Raghuvanshi, "The G8 encompasses all spheres of influential policy making bodies of the world, like the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, and other major bodies. These are important times, when there is a serious issue of inequalities in the world - inflation (food and fuel crisis), climate change, environmental degradation, poverty eradication and social conflicts - in this context, we need to examine the role and policies of this powerful body (G8). "Human rights defenders like me have three major concerns with reference to this important meeting: inequalities in the world created because of the food and fuel crisis; social degradation due to poverty and environmental degradation, consequences of big dams and urban policies which compound the pollution to the environment; and climate change. "Terrorism is an issue of grave importance, but how will the G8 address terrorism arising out of social conflict - what will be their role on the issue of social conflict? The world needs social justice, peace, and religious freedom, and the lack of this gives rise to social conflict. "India pays more than 26% of GDP on debt, while our education budget is 5%, and 1% for health. India is paying most heavily on its military and returning interest on debt. Such gross allocation of funds is a strain on the economy, and results in severely curtailing welfare schemes and has a direct effect on poverty eradication programmes, hurting most the needs of the weakest and poorest populations. "The G8 must pay attention to more than just economic and military questions. The G8 club are the elite 20% of the world, using 80% of world resources and responsible for 78% of pollution, hence these G8 people have to engage in serious dialogue with nation states. "Given that third world countries and poorer nations are in the debt trap of the IMF and World Bank, however, the World Bank and the IMF while giving loans to the poorer nations dictate terms to them controlling their policy making bodies, especially in the agriculture sector, textile policies and other major policies. Pope Benedict is prophetic in sending a message to the G8 in Japan hoping that generosity and farsightedness may help lead to decisions capable of relaunching a fair process of comprehensive development, in protection of human dignity. His predecessor Pope John Paul II during the Jubilee year 2000 spearheaded the request for the G7 nations to wipe out the debts of the African nations. The contours of the world economy have changed dramatically over the last decade, and China and India wield substantial clout in the global market. And today the G8 is compelled to acknowledge that the global balance of power is changing. The G8 must reconsider the pressing matters of poverty alleviation, rights of the common people, inequity in the world, social conflict, the common good of every human being on this world today, to ensure sustainable development and the human dignity of our future generations". -- Dr. Lenin (Ashoka Fellow) Mobile:+91-99355993 33 cmm=51624734 My final words of advice to you are educate, agitate and organize; have faith in yourself. With justice on our side I do not see how we can loose our battle.. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is battle for freedom. It is the battle of reclamation of human personality…. Dr. B.R.Ambedkar Jharkhand Forum | Jharkhand.org. in/forum
