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HAPPY CHRISTMAS & SUCCESFULL NEW YEAR

 

Zalig Kerstmis & Gelukkig Nieuwjaar
Frohe Weihnachten & Glueckliges Neues

ABSENT

During my absence from India I recommend the following link(s)
http://indien-nachrichten.blog.de/ (all in German)
which are more or less in the same situation than myself

LOOKING FOR UNITY BUT SPEAKING ABOUT SEPERATION

A very angry interview, givibg the blame to the MP. A terrorist attack if it is performed as a military action and in nearly unavoidable. Instead of the fanatic moslems causing all the ordure, now the PM is blamed and has to go. In the moment unity should govern, seperation is dictated.... this is the wrong way. If comared with 9/11 in NY where the compete nation was standing- up and build a new feeling of unity in India the attack is used to divergate and seperate.

IS IT TIME TO LEAVE ?

I did not mind to much the continious power cuts
I tried to forget the ostentive spitting, sneezing and coughing of the Indians
I was prepared to solve the abdominable conditions on public and business toilets
Tremendous potholes on the roads were not able to destroy my back
Against pollution I was wrongly weapened with a paper handkerchief on the nose
Against the frustration of the impossibility to use sidewalks I took pictures for no use.
For the food cooked with spices to cover the agreable natural taste I had my phantasy
The complete lack of circulation rules is a continious threat I tought by being carefull I could avoid accidents.
But now after at least 8 bomb (I stopped counting) terrorist attacks in this year with numereous victims I was getting scared to travel.
What happened in Mumbai where the muslem terrorist attacked Taj Hotel and Oberoi Trident in Mumbai and selectively started shooting Westerns I think this is too much .... I have to go

IMPRESSIONS OF HARIDWAR

On my trip to Dehradun I had the opportunity to spent half a day in Hardiwar and one total day in Rishikesh. Here some impressions of Haridwar.

VIEW OVER RISHIKESH AND GANGA ENTERING THE INDIAN PLANES

I took me 2 hours of climbing to get this view. It was more or less per coincedence, first I was following the path going up to the waterfalls in the south of Rishikesh. This path is a kind of artificial partialy with cement stairs. Half of the way to the major waterfall I detected a small path going all up to the top of the ill , with a superb view over Rishikesh and 3- 4 meanders of Ganga.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG8Xa4RQnzY

INDIAN ROMANCE VIII

Seven people were arrested in Bhiwani Deswai on Thursday, being suspected to be involved in the lynching of 2 teenage girls on Diwali (that was two weeks ago) Murdered because they met some boys outside the village and the boys might have belonged to an upper caste.For family honour they had to get killed.
The father of one of the girls belongs to the arrest.

DEFINITION OF POVERAGE LEVEL

After the yesterday publication about the poll fraude by buying votes by promising 1 Kg rice for 0.16 euro for the pover, I was asked were are the poverty limits. For each one in THE WEST it seams to be unreachable, so you will still have to pay 1 euro for low cost rice and up to 3 euro for real Basmati.
In the Indian governement scheme , the poverty line derived from the monthly income varies from state to state and city to city:
Delhi rps 506 (= euro 8 euros per month !!!)
Mumbai: rps 540
Calcutta: rps 410
Chennai: rps 475

For Dahl the small Indian beans similar regulations are in force

THE RICE DEMOCRACY

In INDIA to win an election the only thing to do is to lower the price of rice for the poorest. This is now in strong contradiction to the essential of democracy, which should be a free election. For those who don't know the currency relation it is 1 euro to 60 rupees. So if the speakers mention a final price of 1 rupee per Kg this means 1.6 eurocentimes. All this because India refuses to make birth- rate restrictions and wants to populate the world by Indians only.