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Date: Thurs, Apr 1 2010 6:21 pm
From: Sid Harth

Once Uma approaches us, BJP will take stand: Gadkari

Kolkata, April 1
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari Thursday ducked a
question on the return of Uma Bharti into the party, saying the
leadership will spell out its stand on the issue after she approached
it.

"We will finalise our stand when she tells me or some other leader,"
Gadkari said at a media meet here.

However, he was categorical that so far the leadership has not
initiated any dialogue with the firebrand Hindutva leader about her
return.

Uma Bharti last week resigned as president of the Bharatiya Jan Shakti
(BJS), a party she floated four years ago following her expulsion from
the BJP.

She was a senior leader of the BJP and a central minister who had
openly revolted against L.K. Advani in 2004, triggering her temporary
expulsion and a show cause notice.

Her expulsion was revoked later, but in 2005 she was sacked again when
she opposed the appointment of Shivraj Singh Chauhan as the chief
minister of Madhya Pradesh.

In 2006, Uma Bharti floated the BJS, saying she would revive the Hindu
movement in India. However, she received a severe drubbing in the
assembly election from her home turf in Madhya Pradesh's Tikamgarh
constituency.

Last updated on Apr 1st, 2010 at 20:55 pm IST--IANS

http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a125478.html

.Once Uma approaches us, BJP will take stand: Gadkari

"We will finalise our stand when she tells me or some other leader,"
Gadkari said at a media meet here.

However, he was categorical that so far the leadership has not
initiated any dialogue with the firebrand Hindutva leader about her
return.

Uma Bharti last week resigned as president of the Bharatiya Jan Shakti
(BJS), a party she floated four years ago following her expulsion from
the BJP.

She was a senior leader of the BJP and a central minister who had
openly revolted against L.K. Advani in 2004, triggering her temporary
expulsion and a show cause notice.

Her expulsion was revoked later, but in 2005 she was sacked again when
she opposed the appointment of Shivraj Singh Chauhan as the chief
minister of Madhya Pradesh.

Last updated on Apr 1st, 2010 at 20:55 pm IST--IANS

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BJP has not forgotten Ram temple: Gadkari

Kolkata, April 1
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Nitin Gadkari Thursday
said his party has not "forgotten" the Ayodhya Ram temple issue.

Addressing the media here, Gadkari said: "Just because the (party)
president has changed, it does not imply that the policy has also
changed."

Gadkari was replying to a query as to whether the party has forgotten
the temple in Ayodhya as it was only talking about economic policies
and issues like price rise.

Last updated on Apr 1st, 2010 at 20:02 pm IST

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Gadkari flays Congress for 'blacklisting' Amitabh

Kolkata, April 1
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari Thursday
criticised the Congress for "blacklisting" Bollywood superstar Amitabh
Bachchan.

"Amitabh is a great actor of our country. He has enhanced India's
reputation worldwide. Just because madam (Sonia Gandhi) and
'rajkumar' (Rahul Gandhi) do not like him, Bachchan is being
blacklisted. This is shameful for Indian democracy," Gadkari said,
referring to the Congress criticism of the actor's presence at the
opening of the Bandra-Worli sealink.

"Is this the tolerance Jawaharlal Nehru preached? Is Amitabh a Dawood
Ibrahim?" Gadkari said.

Gadkari's reacted differently when asked about the resignation of the
vice chancellor of the Devi Ahilya University in Indore for inviting
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi to a programme.

"These two incidents should not be compared. University is meant for
education. Politicians should not be invited there.

"Yesterday, they invited Rahul. Tomorrow they will invite me and
education will suffer," he said.

Last updated on Apr 1st, 2010 at 20:40 pm IST--IANS

http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a125475.html

Indians on death row in UAE: Badal seeks PM's help

Chandigarh, April 1
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Thursday sought help from
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh regarding 17 Indian youth, including 16
from Punjab, sentenced to death by a court in the United Arab Emirates
(UAE) on charges of murdering a Pakistani national.

In a letter to the prime minister Thursday, Badal urged him to
intervene immediately with the UAE government to ensure justice for
the youth.

Badal pointed that 17 people had been convicted for a single murder
and it looked out of place.

"Therefore, we have to be more cautious to see that there was no
miscarriage of justice," Badal said.

The chief minister also requested the prime minister to advise the
external affairs ministry to provide necessary legal aid to the youth.

Badal pointed out that labourers and skilled workers from Punjab had
worked day and night during last 25 years for infrastructure
development in the UAE and other Middle East countries.

He said that all these Punjabi youth were the sole breadwinners of
their respective families and most of them had mortgaged their small
land-holdings to arrange for their visa and visit to the UAE.

Last updated on Apr 1st, 2010 at 22:43 pm IST--IANS

http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a125498.html

One killed in shootout in Delhi

New Delhi, April 1
One person was killed in a shootout between two groups in Delhi,
police said Thursday.

"The shootout took place in the early hours of Wednesday in Bhajanpura
area in north-east Delhi. The deceased has been identified as Ajay,
who also had a criminal background," a police officer told media
persons Thursday evening.

"Ajay was rushed to the G.T.B. Hospital where he was declared brought
dead," the officer said.

"Five live cartridges have been recovered from the spot," added the
officer.

Ajay was recently released from jail, and lived in Seelampur area.

"He was a member of a gang led by Lallu Pehlwan. The deceased had
committed several crimes in Shahjahanpur in Uttar Pradesh as well,"
added the officer.

But the police officials did not say how the shootout began, adding
further details were being investigated.

Last updated on Apr 1st, 2010 at 22:32 pm IST--IANS

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Six Pakistani LeT terrorists killed in Kashmir (Third Lead)

Jammu, April 1
The Indian Army and the Jammu and Kashmir police Thursday achieved a
major success, killing six Pakistani terrorists belonging to the
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in a four-hour long gun battle in Rajouri
district of the state.

The army had to use its paratroopers to neutralise the terrorists,
hiding in forests of Baghla in in Kalakote area of the district, 200
km north of Jammu.

A police spokesman said that the gunfight broke out around 1 p.m.
after the militants, asked to surrender, opened fire on the security
forces.

"The terrorists also lobbed grenades at the security personnel. The
fire was returned," he said.

Rajouri Senior Superintendent of Police Shafkat Watali told IANS over
phone that the killing of six terrorists is a "big success for the
security forces and a big blow to the LeT".

The six terrorists are suspected to be part of a group of infiltrators
that had crossed over to India early this week.

This was the second gun battle with the militants in Kalakote area in
the past three days. Four terrorists and three soldiers were killed
Wednesday after an 18-hour gun battle, which started Tuesday evening
in Kandi area in the forests of Rajouri.

Last updated on Apr 1st, 2010 at 22:43 pm IST--IANS

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Kanu Sanyal, soldier of Naxalbari, dead -- old foes mourn (Lead)

Siliguri (West Bengal), March 23
Kanu Sanyal, who spearheaded the Naxalbari uprising in 1967 giving
birth to a Maoist movement that now threatens the Indian state, was
Tuesday found hanging in his humble home here. He was 78, an ailing
bachelor and a virtual pauper.

One of the founding members of the Left extremist movement in India,
no one could say why Sanyal killed himself. But police officers
maintained it was suicide.

His thatched home is located in the Siliguri sub-division of
Darjeeling district, where Sanyal and a select few made history over
four decades ago when they launched a violent peasant uprising in
Naxalbari village.

After endorsement of the bloody tactics by Mao's Communists, Naxalbari
became a household word in India and beyond, unleashing a violent
movement that continues to haunt the country.

Guided by Charu Mazumdar, a maverick who gave ideological shape to
that peasant movement, Sanyal helped found the Communist Party of
India-Marxist Leninist (CPI-ML), whose adherants came to be dubbed
Naxalites.

The CPI-ML, which quickly won recognition from Beijing, was born after
a crippling split in the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M). It
unleashed violence across the length and breadth of India that left
many thousands -- Maoists, security personnel and civilians -- dead.

By the time the Indian state cracked down hard on the CPI-ML and its
general secretary Mazumdar died in Kolkata's Presidency Jail in July
1972, Sanyal was a broken man.

Although he distanced himself from Mazumdar's advocacy of annihilation
of "class enemies", Sanyal remained wedded to Maoist ideology - but
minus its gory past.

A graduate from Siliguri's A.C. College, Sanyal suffered repeated
imprisonment before he decided, in the 1980s, to reorganise the
scattered Indian Maoists.

The experiment was a failure although by now he was ready to take part
in the "bourgeois democracy" he had once denounced. However candidates
he put up lost badly in the hills of West Bengal.

All that disappointed him. Over the years, he not only suffered from
poor health but he was disgusted with the violent tactics of the
present lot of Indian Maoists, who incidentally consider Mazumdar as
their god.

Although an iconic figure in and around the village of Naxalbari, he
led a spartan life, keeping mostly to himself.

When the police entered his home Tuesday, they found few possessions
-- apart from his books, clothes and utensils and some framed black
and white photographs of leaders from the Communist pantheon.

In one of his last interviews, Sanyal said: "I was popular once. I
have lost my popularity. I am unwell. That is the reason I cannot
organise the masses any more."

Azizul Haq, one of his contemporaries from the Naxalbari era, shed
tears in Kolkata as he paid an emotive homage to his former comrade.

"Sanyal will be remembered as one of the best leaders of the Naxalite
movement," Haq told IANS. "Although he was ailing, he never took
treatment from any government hospital. His argument was he could not
approach the state when he was fighting it."

It was in the undivided Communist Party of India (CPI) that Sanyal
began his political career decades ago before switching over to the
breakaway CPI-M in 1964. Once he joined CPI-ML, the Naxalite leader
denounced both the CPI and CPI-M as revisionists.

But on Tuesday, his former ideological foes hailed him.

"He was a very popular leader in the early days of Naxalbari," CPI's
S. Sudhakar Reddy told IANS. "Although we disagree with his Maoist
ideology, he contributed greatly to the communist movement."

CPI-M politburo member Sitaram Yechury said Sanyal's death was "very
unfortunate" and added that the Naxal leader had been critical of the
line adopted by the present Maoist guerrillas.

"After Nandigram and Lalgarh (in West Bengal), Sanyal had been saying
that the line adopted by Maoists do not conform to the revolutionary
understanding adopted when the Naxalite movement started," Yechury
added.

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CPI, CPI-M condole death of Kanu Sanyal

New Delhi, March 23
The Communist Party of India (CPI) and the Communist Party of India-
Marxist (CPI-M) Tuesday condoled the death of Naxalite leader Kanu
Sanyal, who once violently opposed both parties.

Although they disagreed with their ideology for years, both the CPI
and CPI-M said that Sanyal contributed to the growth of the communist
movement in the country.

"He was a very popular leader in the early days of the Naxalbari
movement," CPI deputy general secretary S. Sudhakar Reddy told IANS.

"Although we disagree with his ideology of armed struggle, he had
contributed greatly to the communist movement."

Reddy said Sanyal had differences with the present Maoist movement,
led by the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist.

Sanyal was Tuesday found hanging at his house Siliguri in West Bengal.
He was 78. According to police, Sanyal had committed suicide.

He was one of the protagonists of the 1967 peasant uprising in
Naxalbari village that gave birth to the Maoist movement in India.

CPI-M politburo member Sitaram Yechury said Sanyal's death was "very
unfortunate" and added that the Naxal leader had been critical of the
line adopted by the present Maoist guerrillas.

Last updated on Mar 23rd, 2010 at 18:35 pm IST--IANS

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Maoists abduct five Jharkhand officials, free all (Second Lead)

Ranchi, March 20
Maoist rebels abducted five government officials, including an
additional district magistrate, at gun point from Latehar district in
Jharkhand Saturday noon, but released them a few hours later, police
said.

Latehar Superintendent of Police Kuldip Dewadi said more than five
armed Communist Party of India-Maoist rebels abducted the five
officials, including ADM Shrawan Soya, at gun point.

Others abducted were PWD officer H. Bhengra, assistant engineer Adish
Sayru Ram, dairy officer Vinod Sinha and driver Kiran Singh from
Bandhua village under Manika block of Lather district, the police
official said.

However, the rebels freed the men after five hours.

"The Maoists were afraid of the vigorous anti-Naxal (Maoist) offensive
launched by the police, and released all the abducted officials after
five hours," Dewadi said later.

The prompt action of the police forced the rebels to release all the
abducted men, he said.

The rebels Saturday also released four other workers, including junior
engineer Ranjeet Kumar, in Simdega district whom they had kidnapped
Thursday night. More than 15 Maoist rebels from the 'Hill Panther'
group abducted the four men working for the Ram Rekha Dam and looted
35 mobile phones, Rs.2 lakh in cash and one gun from the site, said a
police official.

Anti-Maoist operations are going on in five places in Jharkhand - West
Singhbhum, East Singhbhum, Bokaro, Hazaribagh and Seraikela districts.

"An inter-state operation has been launched against the extremists
simultaneously in seven-eight districts of Jharkhand and West Bengal,"
Neyaz Ahmad, Jharkhand director general of police, told reporters.

The operations are on mainly in the bordering districts of Jharkhand.
The West Bengal police are mounting vigil along the border to check
Maoist infiltration.

In Jharkhand, out of the 24 districts, Maoist rebels are active in 21.
About 1,900 people, including 350 security personnel, have been killed
in Maoist-related violence in the past few years.

Last updated on Mar 20th, 2010 at 18:17 pm IST--IANS

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.Maoists abduct five Jharkhand officials, free all (Second Lead)

Latehar Superintendent of Police Kuldip Dewadi said more than five
armed Communist Party of India-Maoist rebels abducted the five
officials, including ADM Shrawan Soya, at gun point.

However, the rebels freed the men after five hours.

"The Maoists were afraid of the vigorous anti-Naxal (Maoist) offensive
launched by the police, and released all the abducted officials after
five hours," Dewadi said later.

The prompt action of the police forced the rebels to release all the
abducted men, he said.

Anti-Maoist operations are going on in five places in Jharkhand - West
Singhbhum, East Singhbhum, Bokaro, Hazaribagh and Seraikela districts.

The operations are on mainly in the bordering districts of Jharkhand.
The West Bengal police are mounting vigil along the border to check
Maoist infiltration.

In Jharkhand, out of the 24 districts, Maoist rebels are active in 21.
About 1,900 people, including 350 security personnel, have been killed
in Maoist-related violence in the past few years.

Last updated on Mar 20th, 2010 at 18:17 pm IST--IANS

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Gafoor to head Maharashtra's anti-corruption bureau

Mumbai, Feb, 26
Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Hasan Gafoor, who served as city
police chief during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, was Friday
appointed director general of the state Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB).

Gafoor is at present the managing director of the Maharashtra State
Housing & Welfare Corporation. He will be succeeded in that post by
P.P. Shrivastava, who has been promoted to the rank of DGP.

The post of ACB chief was laying vacant after A.N. Roy was appointed
the state police chief.

Another senior officer, Sanjeev Dayal, will be the new DGP (Special
Operations) - a crucial post which was lying vacant since Jan 1 after
Jayant Umranikar retired. In the post, Dayal will oversee the working
of three critical units - the state Intelligence Department, Anti-
Terrorism Squad and Anti-Naxal Operations.

Gafoor was shunted out as DGP (Housing), after the 26/11 attacks. The
Pradhan-Balachandran Vommittee which enquired into the various aspects
of the terror attacks, indicted him, saying Gafoor failed to provide
"visible and overt leadership". However, the state government did not
accept this.

A few days before the first anniversary of the terror attacks last
year, Gafoor, in an interview to a newsweekly, blamed four city police
officials for not responding to the call of duty.

The comments kicked up a major controversy, prompting the state
government to seek an explanation from him.

Last updated on Feb 26th, 2010 at 21:05 pm IST--IANS

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Friday, April 02, 2010
BJP asks Indian govt to seek Headley's extradition

* Party spokesman says US wants to protect ISI by resisting
interrogation of the terror suspect in India

NEW DELHI: The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday asked the
Indian government to formally seek the extradition of terror suspect
David Headley from the US.

The opposition party demanded the government to follow the extradition
treaty and the mutual legal assistance treaty it has with US to bring
Headley to India. "He must be tried in India for the massacre of so
many innocent people and be given the death penalty. India must never
miss this historic opportunity to establish once for all that Pakistan
indeed is the epicentre of international terror," BJP chief spokesman
Ravi Shankar Prasad told a press conference. He asserted that the
bargain plea agreement between Headley and the US prosecutors was not
binding on India at all. Prasad said India should also implement two
UN resolutions-1373 and 1267, under which every country was obliged to
support the other country in the investigation and trial of terror
related offences.

Protecting ISI: Commenting on why the US was resisting Headley's
extradition and interrogation by Indian officials, Prasad suspected
that the US might want to protect the ISI, as its involvement in
terror attacks on Indian soil would be exposed and said the Americans
should be reminded that the war against terrorism was being fought by
the whole world and not by a single country. The BJP spokesman
regretted that the judgement of the Mumbai attacks case, which would
be announced on May 3, would only punish Ajmal Kasab, Fahim Ansari and
Salahuddin Ahmad, without nabbing the main planners and financiers of
the attacks who were based in Pakistan. "Even the prosecution did not
dispute that the three who were tried for the Mumbai attacks,
including Kasab were only secondary players," he said. Prasad said
that the trial of Kasab and others had highlighted the role of
Pakistan-based Laskhar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) in the Mumbai attacks but
expressed optimism that Islamabad would prosecute LeT chief Hafiz
Saeed and others despite the fact that India provided evidence against
them in a dozen dossiers, which were handed over to Pakistan. "The
reason is obvious. Many of the key conspirators behind the Mumbai
terror attacks have been the blue-eyed boys of the ISI and any fair
trial would expose the real face of the intelligence agency," he
said.

Prasad said India must not lose any opportunity to get him back into
India, subject him to custodial interrogation, expose the entire
conspiracy including the fact that there is no difference between
state and non-state actors in Pakistan. The BJP spokesman said much of
the planning, conspiracy and logistical coordination was done by David
Headley before the terror attacks in Mumbai but saved himself from the
death penalty by entering into a plea bargain agreement in a Chicago
court. iftikhar gilani

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Saturday, March 27, 2010 Praful Bidwai Is the Bharatiya Janata Party
obsessed with proving itself the sectarian, confrontationist oddball
of Indian politics? Last fortnight's developments suggest so. Take the
shenanigans of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. A Special
Investigation Team appointed by the Supreme Court to probe the 2002
Gujarat pogrom summoned him to question him about his role in the
killings. Many questions had been raised about his role by former
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NEW DELHI, April 2, 2010 CBI must file appeal in Lalu assets case: BJP
Neena Vyas
Share · print · T+ With the Supreme Court on Thursday
rejecting the Bihar government's right to appeal against the acquittal
of Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad in the disproportionate
assets case, the Bharatiya Janata Party demanded that the Central
Bureau of Investigation file an appeal.

Party spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said: "We do not want to
comment on the Supreme Court. However, we do feel that the trial
court's judgment of acquittal in the case was most vulnerable in law
and the CBI must appeal against it."

He said the CBI had, in fact, wanted to appeal against the trial court
verdict, but "some legal advisers in Delhi" were against the appeal,
and, therefore, no appeal was filed.

It was only because the CBI did not appeal against the acquittal
verdict that the Bihar government decided to appeal in the Patna High
Court. The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the State government
did not have the right to appeal.

The Apex Court's ruling comes just months ahead of crucial Assembly
polls in Bihar. The BJP fears that the ruling coalition in the State,
of which it is a part along with the Janata Dal (United), will not be
able to exploit the assets case politically during the election.

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NEW DELHI, April 2, 2010 Vested interest in U.S. will scuttle access
to Headley: BJP
Special Correspondent
Share · print · T+ The United States' commitment to fight
terrorism globally is being tested, as also India's strategic
partnership with America, on the issue of David Coleman Headley's
extradition to India and his custodial interrogation by Indian
agencies, the Bharatiya Janata Party said on Thursday.

Spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad's charge against the U.S. was that
the case of Headley, who pleaded guilty of being part of the 26/11
terror plot, gave the impression that America was "soft" on terror
when India was the target.

Referring to some reports that Headley might have been a double agent,
Mr. Prasad said that possibly vested interests in the U.S.
establishment did not want his role to be fully exposed. However, for
India and the world, it was crucial that the role of Lashkar-e-Taiba
operatives in Pakistan and the involvement of the Inter Services
Intelligence and Pakistan's Army in the Mumbai attack plot was
exposed.

Headley's was a "copybook case for extradition," Mr. Prasad said. The
extradition agreement between the U.S. and India apart, two United
Nations resolutions (1373 and 1267) obligated every country to support
others in the investigation and trial of terror suspects.

The BJP demanded that the government take immediate steps to secure
Headley's extradition and ensure that he faced trial in India for the
death of 166 innocent victims of the 26/11 attacks. It would be in the
interest of the global fight against terrorism to expose the Lahore
and Karachi angle of the conspiracy.

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NEW DELHI, April 2, 2010 Child rights panel to monitor RTE
implementation
Aarti Dhar
Share · print · T+ The National Commission for Protection of
Child Rights (NCPCR) has been mandated to monitor the implementation
of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009.

A special division within the panel will undertake this task in the
coming months and a special toll-free helpline to register complaints
will be set up.

The NCPCR has invited all civil society groups, students, teachers,
administrators, artists, government officials, legislators and members
of the judiciary apart from all other stakeholders to join hands and
work together to build a movement to ensure that every child of this
country is in school and gets at least 8 years of quality education.

The Right to Education Act, 2009 — that became effective from Thursday
— makes elementary education a fundamental right under Article 21 (A)
of the Constitution. Every child in the age group of 6-14 will be
provided elementary education in the age-appropriate classroom in the
vicinity of his/her neighbourhood. Any cost that prevents a child from
accessing school will be borne by the State which shall have the
responsibility of enrolling the child as well as ensuring attendance
and completion of eight years of schooling. No child will be denied
admission for want of documents, no child will be turned away if the
admission cycle in the school is over and no child will be asked to
take an admission test.

Into the mainstream
Children with disabilities will also be educated in the mainstream
schools. Further, all private schools shall be required to enrol
children from weaker sections and disadvantaged communities in their
incoming class to the extent of 25 per cent of their enrolment, by
simple random selection. No seats in this quota will be left vacant.
These children will be treated on a par with all other children in the
school and subsidised by the State at the rate of average per learner
costs in the government schools.

All schools will have to follow norms and standards laid out in the
Act and all private schools will have to apply for recognition,
failing which they will be penalised to the tune of Rs. 1 lakh and if
they still continue to function, they will be liable to pay Rs. 10,000
per day as fine.

http://beta.thehindu.com/news/national/article365043.ece

KAITHAL, April 2, 2010 Villages still in trauma after 'honour-killing'
verdict
Vrinda Sharma
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A FATHER'S PAIN: Har Krishan, whose son Ved Pal was killed for
marrying a girl from a neighbouring village. Photo: Vrinda Sharma
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Two days after five people were given the capital punishment by a
court for the so-called honour-killing of a young couple here in
Haryana, the family members of the victims are more tense than they
are relieved. "The verdict has done justice to my son's death, but it
has not changed the way the village works," says Chandrapati Berwal
who fought the legal battle.

She is the mother of Manoj, who along with Babli was murdered three
years ago by Babli's relatives on the orders of a 'khap panchayat' for
having married within the same gotra. But Tuesday's landmark verdict
seems to have made little difference to the minds of the votaries of
the system of 'khap panchayats', which are caste-based.

"The panchayat only intended to bring about a moral balance and
inculcate honour in youngsters, although its method was perhaps a bit
too harsh," said a resident of the village, who refused to reveal his
name. Asked about the verdict, he said: "The panchayat killed two
persons and the court will kill five. At the end of it all the village
has lost seven lives. I don't see justice in any of the verdicts."

"The villagers, who have boycotted us socially and financially, will
not change their mindset. The verdict has given a milder form of
punishment to the actual instigator, sarpanch Ganaga Raj," said Ms.
Chandrapati. She alleged that panchayats could get away with giving
such harsh orders and executing them only owing to political backing
and the inefficiency of the police. For the last three years one
police constable has been guarding her doors, but since the verdict on
Tuesday the police presence around her house in Kerora village has
increased.

"Earlier there was one man, now there are two jeeps. But I and my
daughter are as unsafe as we ever were. The police could do nothing
when a few goons went after my son and his wife. What will the police
do if all of them barge into my house at once?"

A tense calm prevails in the dusty village. Nobody will publicly
discuss the matter, and except in Ms. Chandrapati's house none dares
to talk about it even indoors. Village sarpanch Karambeer Singh
refused even to come out of his house. The street where Babli once
lived wears a pall of gloom. The women in Babli's maternal house sit
with stony expressions and refuse to identify themselves or talk to
anyone, especially mediapersons, who are often seen as the villains
who exaggerated the issue.

"They tried to hide their sin from us, and then they tried to
threaten, boycott and even bribe us so that we keep quiet. My son will
not return but they will bear the pain of their wrongs so that such
inhuman decisions are never taken by anyone," she said.

A few kilometres from Ms. Chandrapati's village, in Matour village,
Hari Krishan cries with his son's photographs in his hands. His hope
is that a similar judgment would come in his case as well: his 23-year-
old son was lynched by a crowd for marrying a girl from the
neighbouring village. Ved Pal and his wife Sonia's marriage was
accepted by both the families as they were of the same caste although
the gotras differed. But later the 'khap panchayat' instigated Sonia's
family to forcibly marry the 17-year-old to a 50-year-old man and
later kill Ved Pal.

"My son was killed by a mob because a panchayat felt that marrying a
girl from the neighbouring village was 'incest'. And I was expected to
make peace with this explanation? After this verdict I feel that
unlike the politicians and the police, the law is not going to be
unjust to us. But the sarpanch [Ganga Raj] should have been given the
death penalty as he was the root cause of the trouble," said Mr. Hari
Krishan.

Mr. Hari Krishan, who has cancer, said he too was approached by the
sarpanch of Sonia village for a compromise. "They offered me Rs.25
lakh. They think a father can forgive his son's murderer just because
he is poor. I will fight this case till the last drop of blood."

This father then cried out aloud, and asked: "Because of the khap so
many families have lost their breadwinners. Why didn't they let them
live? What honour comes from giving widows and orphans to homes that
were otherwise happy?"

http://beta.thehindu.com/news/national/article364946.ece

Ahmedabad, April 1, 2010 Order against summoning Modi not final:
Nanavati
Manas Dasgupta
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AP Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi gestures during a function in
Gandhinagar on March 28, 2010. The Nanavati panel has told the Gujarat
High Court that the option to summon Mr. Modi in connection with post-
Godhra riots is still open. Related
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SIT completes Modi interrogation

Fully satisfied with questioning of Narendra Modi, says SIT chief

Modi says he recalled the events eights years back
SIT acting on Zakia Jaffrey's petition raising questions of state
complicity

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riots

The G.T. Nanavati-Akshay Mehta judicial inquiry commission probing the
Godhra train carnage and the post-Godhra communal riots in 2002 told
the Gujarat High Court on Thursday that its September 18, 2009 order
rejecting the plea of the Jansangharsh Manch to summon Chief Minister
Narendra Modi for cross-examination was "not a final order."

A letter written by the commission secretary was submitted to the High
Court by Advocate-General Kamal Trivedi. The court had not opened the
sealed cover and ordered that it be kept in the records until further
orders. But, a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice S.J.
Mukhopadhyaya and Justice Akil Kureshi told the Manch's counsel that
the commission had not taken a "final" decision on not summoning Mr.
Modi. The next hearing on the Manch petition seeking a direction to
the commission to summon the Chief Minister was posted for June 17.

The commission's letter was in response to the March 22 court
directive seeking a clarification on its stand on the Manch plea for
summoning Mr. Modi.

Manch petition

Manch advocate Mukul Sinha had filed the petition following the
commission's September 2009 order in which it had ignored its plea to
summon Mr. Modi but had asked only three of his personal secretaries
to submit details of mobile phone calls during the 2002 communal
riots.

Besides Mr Modi, the Manch, in its application to the commission on
August 31, 2007, also demanded summoning of the then Minister of State
for Home Gordhan Jhadaphia, the then Health Minister and presently
Speaker Ashok Bhatt, and the then Deputy Commissioner of Police in
charge of the affected areas R.J. Savani, among others.

The commission rejected the plea saying it did not find the demand for
cross-examining Mr. Modi and others justified, following which the
Manch filed the petition in the High Court. A single judge Bench had
earlier rejected the Manch petition.

http://beta.thehindu.com/news/national/article360551.ece

Gandhinagar, March 28, 2010 Modi says he recalled the events eights
years back
PTI
Share · print · T+ When the mediapersons pointed out that he
had been in the dock for the last 8 years over the riots, Mr. Modi
shotback with a smile, "You have still kept me in the dock."

Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who was questioned in two marathon
sessions by the Supreme Court-appointed SIT in a Gujarat riots case,
has said he recalled to the extent possible the sequence of events
that had taken place eight years ago.

Claiming that his quizzing, the first since the communal violence of
2002, has concluded, he declined to go into the details of his
questioning, saying that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) has to
submit its report to the apex court.

"I have been told by SIT that your work is over", 59-year-old Mr. Modi
said at 0100 hours on Sunday emerging from the second round of his
questioning at the SIT office at the old secretariat building.

Mr. Modi claimed he had answered all questions put by the SIT and that
he had recalled to the extent possible the sequence of events that had
taken place eight years ago.

The Chief Minister said his statement was recorded by the SIT
investigators after which he signed it.

Asked what sort of questions he was asked, Mr. Modi said, "I cannot
share that with you because the SIT has to submit its report to the
Supreme Court."

Though there was no official word on the questioning, Mr. Modi is said
to have replied to 62 of the 68 questions put to him in the five-hour-
long first session that had begun at noon on Saturday.

Mr. Modi returned to the SIT office at 9 pm and faced a second round
of questioning for four hours as he was keen that the entire exercise
be completed in one day.

The BJP leader is facing allegations of omission and commission with
regard to the mob attack on a housing society in which a former
Congress MP Ehsan Jafri and 68 others were killed. He was questioned
by a team of officers headed by A K Malhotra, a former CBI DIG.

When pointed out that he had been in the dock for the last eight years
over the riots, a smiling Mr. Modi said, "You have still kept me in
the dock."

"Vistaar se batcheet ki (we spoke in detail)," he said, adding, "Under
the Indian Constitution, the law is supreme. As a common man, CM, I am
bound by the Indian Constitution and the law. No one can be above the
law."

SIT chairman R. K. Raghavan was not present in his office when Mr.
Modi appeared in the first session in response to the panel's summons.

"This was the first time in eight years that someone wanted to speak
to me on the issue and I attended that", Mr. Modi said.

Taking a dig at his critics, he said, "God give good sense to those
who said I have not spoken for eight years.

"I hope that today's happening will give good sense to those who are
keen to spread misinformation and those who spread lies", the Chief
Minister said.

http://beta.thehindu.com/news/national/article318173.ece

NEW DELHI, March 28, 2010 Modi is law-abiding: BJP
Neena Vyas
Share · Comment · print · T+ Gujarat Chief Minister
Narendra Modi's declaration that he was committed to the Constitution
of India and the rule of law was on Saturday held up by the Bharatiya
Janata Party as a shining example for all.

"Mr. Modi has always declared he will abide by the law. He has high
regard for the Special Investigation Team appointed by the Supreme
Court and on Saturday he appeared before it. He answered questions put
to him by the SIT and what he said is now between him and the SIT,"
BJP chief spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad told The Hindu over
telephone from Patna.

He said it was true the party had reservations about "certain
activists" who have revelled in "Modi-baiting" and were silent about
victims of terror attacks and naxal violence. "Is it that those
victims do not need justice," Mr. Prasad asked.

Mr. Modi's first round of questioning by the SIT lasted five hours
ending at around 5.30 p.m.

Party spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman, who held up Mr. Modi as an
honourable law-abiding man, lashed out at the media for wrongly
reporting that he had been summoned by the SIT to appear before it on
March 21 when the truth was that he had been asked to accept a
mutually acceptable date in the week starting March 21. It was then
agreed that he would appear before the SIT on March 27 and he did.

She said the media was holding a trial of its own and was assuming
guilt when there was none. "He had only gone to assist the SIT and
cooperate with it," she said. "The BJP respects the SIT and other
institutions and we work within the framework of law," she said.

However, she did admit that the SIT was set up because the Supreme
Court was not satisfied by the manner in which the cases flowing from
the 2002 riots were being handled by the Gujarat police and the
Gujarat courts.

At some levels in the party, questions have begun to be asked whether
the BJP would treat Mr. Modi differently from how it has treated other
leaders. It was recalled that Madan Lal Khurana was forced to resign
as the Delhi Chief Minister as soon as his name figured in the
'hawala' scandal although there was no formal charge sheet. Uma
Bharati was forced to resign as Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister after an
old case related to hoisting of the national flag in Karnataka came
up. The question that is being asked is whether Mr. Modi will be asked
by the party to put in his papers if an FIR were to be filed against
him.

Ms. Sitharaman on Saturday found fault with a reported statement by
the Law Minister advising Mr. Modi to cooperate with the SIT. "Such
advice is unacceptable," she said.

http://beta.thehindu.com/news/national/article317800.ece

NEW DELHI, March 28, 2010 SIT acting on Zakia Jaffrey's petition
raising questions of state complicity
Special Correspondent
Share · Comment · print · T+ The Special Investigation
Team, which interrogated Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on
Saturday, is acting on a petition filed by Zakia Jaffrey and the
Citizens for Justice and Peace. That petition alleged the involvement
of Mr. Modi and 61 other senior politicians, police officers and
bureaucrats from the State in the mass killing of Muslims in Gujarat
following the Godhra incident of February 27, 2002.

Among the questions the petition raised were:

— Why were there no minutes of the meeting which Mr. Modi held with
senior officers for a review of the situation arising out of the
Godhra train burning incident?

— There are some State intelligence reports of a Vishwa Hindu Parishad
meeting held at 4 p.m. at Ahmedabad on February 27, 2002. Who attended
this meting? Were any elected members of the Gujarat legislature and
the State Cabinet present?

— Why were the bodies of the victims of the Godhra train carnage
brought to Ahmedabad, and why were they paraded in streets? Who took
that decision? Did senior police officials or the DGP report to the
Chief Minister or higher officers in writing about the likely
repercussions of parading the bodies?

— Why was no preventive action taken when a bandh call had already
been given by VHP?

— Why was the Army not called out immediately and why was there a
delay in the deployment of the Army when it reached Ahmedabad?

— Why was there a delay in the declaration of curfew in Ahmedabad on
February 28, 2002 when curfew in other cities was declared
immediately?

— Despite rules for this, why was there no arrangement for videography
of the violence by mobs in all districts of the State?

— Why were more Muslims killed in police firing during riots when it
is well known that Muslims were the target of the mob violence?

— Why was the response to distress calls from prominent Muslims like
Ehsan Jafri delayed?

— Why was there no monitoring of the instructions of senior officials,
including Chief Secretary, officials of the Home Department and the
DGP?

— Why was there no action against officials who failed to register
FIRs and why was there no adequate response to the complaints of riot
victims?

— Why was no action taken against supervisory officers, from district
superintendents of police to the level of police commissioners and
DGP, who violated the Gujarat Police Manual by not properly
supervising the investigations of serious riot-related crimes and
thereby committing culpable omission and grave misconduct?

— Why was no action taken on the supervisory officers whose negligent
supervision of the Bilkis Bano and Best Bakery mass massacre cases led
to those trials being transferred by the Supreme Court to Maharashtra?

— Why has there been no further investigation of the depositions of
IPS officer Rahul Sharma before the Nanavati Commission, to reveal the
location of BJP leaders and senior officers of police during the
riots?

— Many calls were made to Modi, his Cabinet Ministers, the then
Ahmedabad Police Commissioner, P.C. Pandey, and the then DGP, K.
Chakravarti, during the riots. Their phone records must be examined to
unearth the facts.

http://beta.thehindu.com/news/states/other-states/article317971.ece

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Sonia-Rahul not anti-Bachchan: Amar Singh
IANS, Apr 1, 2010, 04.56pm IST

Amitabh BachchanThe Congress' attacks on mega star Amitabh Bachchan
over being brand ambassador of Gujarat have not been at the behest of
party president Sonia Gandhi or her MP son Rahul Gandhi, expelled
Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh said Thursday.

"Personally, I have full faith that this whole act (the Congress'
statements) could not have been done at the level of Sonia Gandhi and
Rahul Gandhi," Amar Singh, a close friend of Bachchan, said in the
latest post on his blog. Amar Singh said he had interacted many times
with the top leadership of the Congress on political issues but had
not found any streak of vindictiveness in them.

The Congress had asked Bachchan to clarify whether he, as brand
ambassador for Gujarat, endorsed the 2002 riots in the state even as
Chief Minister Narendra Modi himself is being questioned in the matter
by a Supreme Court appointed investigation team.

But referring to the Gandhi family, Singh said: "The family, whose
daughter is sensitive to the killer of her father, the family which
has piety even for those who had committed this detestable act, their
heart cannot be so harsh to the family of Dr Harivansh Rai Bachchan
and Teji Bachchan, leave Amitabh."

He said proof of this was that Bachchan's daughter-in-law Aishwarya
Rai got the Padma Shri award during the United Progressive Alliance
(UPA) government's rule and Bachchan was given the best actor award.
He said some of his associates feel the "unnecessary propaganda" has
been started by a person "who wanted me to make anti-Congress remarks
in my love for Bachchan".

While Singh has openly criticised Bachchan's wife Jaya Bachchan for
staying put in the Samajwadi Party, he defended the mega star over his
acceptance of Modi's offer to be brand ambassador of Gujarat. Singh
said: "Leave Modi to the Supreme Court and the Bachchan family to its
art and culture." Recounting that he and Bachchan shared the dais at
Pune Tuesday, Singh also took a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party's
(BJP) "sudden love" for the actor. Singh added BJP leader L.K. Advani
and the late Pramod Mahajan had rejected Bachchan's plea to take steps
to prevent disruption of the world beauty pageant in Bangalore in
1996. "Today, BJP has suddenly realised the actor in Amitabh.
Whichever the party, honour and dishonour of an artist should have
permanence and should not be based on political self-interest," he
said.

Asserting that there was a vast difference between the "communal
politics" of Modi and promoting tourism in Gujarat, Singh said film
director "Yash Chopra and actor Shah Rukh Khan had made films on BJP
leader and former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and they
continued to be close to parties opposed to the BJP as well". He said
actor Salman Khan too has canvassed for his friends both in the BJP
and the Congress.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Sonia-Rahul-not-anti-Bachchan-Amar-Singh-/articleshow/5751214.cms

ABVP calls for Bihar bandh

News Desk - March 31, 2010 PATLIPUTRA —

Elaborate security arrangements have been made for the state-wide
bandh called by Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthy Parishad (ABVP) tomorrow to
protest against police lathicharge on its activists at the secretariat
police station on March 29.
State police headquarters sources said all the police stations have
been put on a maximum alert and patrolling was intensified to ensure
normal movement of trains and vehicular traffic.

Police personnel would be posted at the universities and colleges, the
sources said.

ABVP General Secretary Amritanshu said the VHP and Bajrang Dal
extended their support for tomorrow's shutdown.

He said the strike has also been called to protest against Nitish
Kumar government's move to set up a unit of the Aligarh Muslim
University at Kishanganj in Bihar.

- AGENCIES

6 Responses to "ABVP calls for Bihar bandh"

i do understand the apprehension of A.B.V.P but having said that i
also believe that empowerment of MUSLIMS should be given utmost
priority otherwise the community would remain laggard for years to
come. The AMU at kisanganj should spearhead a revolution in the
empowerment of Muslims and bring it closer to the mainstream INDIA.

NISHANT KUMAR April 1st, 2010 4:52 pm

I think setting up AMU central university branch is good move.

Sandip April 1st, 2010 3:03 pm

thanks guys for ur voice against abvp…that's completely true that they
never initiated their step to bring central university in bihar and
now when somebody needs their appreciation they r protesting..shame on
abvp…
i don't think anybody of them has truly been a vidyarthi,just dirty
politician..baba come out of politics and go earn ur livelihood,u r no
more needed in the politics of bihar..
i appeal to biharis to come together against this kind of unwanted
strike,pls let bihar grow with its current speed….

ghazanfar April 1st, 2010 12:46 pm

I condemn the protest of AVBP. They are doing it for cheap popularity.
I appriciate the police lathi charge on AVBP activist.

JAI BIHAR!
Acha Bihari Banye

Raman Gopal April 1st, 2010 9:42 am

BJP or ABVP doesn'nt set-up any university or college in Bihar . Now
when AMU is being set-up they are creating ruckus and theories to
oppose the educatinal development in bihar.
Creating educational institues will mobilise Biharis youth on the
right path of education . nitihs kumar should open more instituion in
Bihar , Muslim colleges, Christian college, Buddhist coleges , jain
colleges all is welcome to start in Bihar .
Jai bihar !! All is well !! Jai Buddha !!

BJP Goes cheap April 1st, 2010 4:55 am

Hey what happened to thakrey's support. That will be really great .
ABVP should have requested Bjp for that.

Where was abvp when no central university was in Bihar, just to make
some noise…. Good work abvp…. No wonder bjp is going down

Krishna April 1st, 2010 2:47 am

http://jaibihar.com/abvp-calls-for-bihar-bandh-tomorrow/201018633.html

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Ruckus-over-cow-meat--BJP-MLAs-suspended--marshalled-out-of-House/598432/

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What is Tantric Sex?
Basics about Tantra
By Cory Silverberg, About.com Guide

Updated January 19, 2009

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Sex is exciting, but it's nothing new. It's possible that for as long
as we've had sex, we've had people who wrote about sex and thought
about what it means and what might make it more meaningful. Tantric
sex and teaching about Tantric sexuality represent one of the oldest
examples of a philosophy of spiritual sexuality that continues to be
practiced today.

What is Tantra?

One translation of the word Tantra is "tools for expansion." Tantra is
over 1500 years old, and like yoga it originated in India. It is a set
of teachings and practices that are specifically designed to help us
feel more, to increase our awareness of our own energy and the energy
around us. The path that Tantra uses to these ends is the exploration
of sexual energy.
The goal of Tantric sex is to allow us to experience more depth and
breadth in our sexuality. The goal is not necessarily orgasm, but
rather enriching the whole sexual experience.

Is Tantra a Religion?

While traditional Tantric teachings refer to concepts such as
"universal energy" or "higher power" the teachings are, in many cases,
not about stubbornly sticking to one set of beliefs or rules. If you
are interested in the idea of sexual expression bringing you closer to
a higher power, you will find much in Tantra that speaks to you. If
you are looking for a way to enhance or deepen your sexual connection
with your partner, Tantra can offer many wonderful opportunities
without requiring that you follow any specific set of beliefs.
Who is Tantric Sex Good For?

Many of the teachings are about desire and the experience of sexual
energy. Unlike western approaches to improving your sex life, Tantra
teachings do not focus on external evaluations of what our body looks
like, what kind of car we drive, how we wear our hair. In this way
Tantric sex teaching are open to anyone who is interested in exploring
a new path to sexual fulfillment.
Incorporating ideas of Tantra into your sex life can be something
anyone does, regardless of age, sexual orientation, and what your body
looks, like, how it feels, how it moves, etc…

What are Chakras?

Tantra distinguishes many different energy systems within us. One of
these that you might have already read about is chakras; energy
centers in the body between the pelvis and the top of the head. In
this system of thought, there is the idea that the smooth flow of
energy in our bodies can get stuck somewhere in the system blocked
from moving freely or depleted for a variety of reasons. Tantric
practice works toward keeping energy flowing through us smoothly and
naturally.
What is Tantric Sex Like?

Tantra is different from western ideas about sex in some other
important ways. The western concept of sex is like a story with a
clear beginning (sexual excitement), middle (penetration), and end
(orgasm). This is the way it's supposed to be and if you don't follow
the story, something is wrong. Sex without penetration is often viewed
as being "not real" or "merely" foreplay.
In Tantric sex the point of sex is not orgasm, the point is to feel.
There is no clear cut beginning middle or end. Most of the exercises
related to Tantric sex involve slowing things down, trying not to
focus on our external body, or orgasm, or anything outside of our
experience of the moment.

Without a focus on orgasm, the goal becomes increased awareness
leading to greater understanding of ourselves, which eventually leads
to enlightenment. There is no pressure to "get over the top". This
doesn't mean that orgasm doesn't exist in Tantra, it just isn't the be
all and end all. The spiritual practice and the good sexual feelings
are inter-related, each leading back to, and improving the other.

What Tantric sex "looks like" will be different for different people.
Tantra is taught by many teachers around the world, who have their own
take on it, influenced by the cultures they grew up in. Certainly a
key feature of Tantric sex is the importance of breathing, and slowing
down sexual behavior compared to the hectic, orgasm-focused North
American approach. [h4]Recommended Reading[/h4]

http://sexuality.about.com/od/spiritualsex/a/tantra101.htm

Cory Silverberg

About.com Guide to Sexuality

Email MeMy BlogMy Forum.Cory Silverberg is an AASECT certified
sexuality educator, author, media contributor and researcher.

Experience:

Since discovering his passion for talking and teaching about sex, Cory
Silverberg has worked in as many areas of sexuality as he can find
time for. He is a sexuality media consultant, a founding member of a
worker co-operative sex store, a sex educator, a frequent contributor
to national media, and the co-author of The Ultimate Guide to Sex and
Disability. He also has conducted workshops across North America on
the topic of sex and technology, sex toys, sexual communication, and
sexuality and disability.

Education:

Cory received an honors BA in psychology from York University and a
Masters degree in counseling psychology from The Ontario Institute for
Studies in Education at The University of Toronto. His area of
research in both degrees was human sexuality.

From Cory Silverberg:

"Sexuality is the best and most interesting way for me to understand
the world and the people around me. On this site you will find
friendly, non-judgmental, and accessible information, encouragement,
and advice that will try to get you to think about sex in different
ways."

References:

•American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and
Therapists
Cory has been certified by AASECT as a sex educator.
http://sexuality.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=sexuality&cdn=health&tm=124&gps=263_264_918_510&f=20&tt=17&bt=1&bts=1&st=24&zu=http%3A//www.aasect.org/

•The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability
The most recent book Cory co-authored focusing on sexuality and
disability.
http://sexuality.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=sexuality&cdn=health&tm=158&gps=220_302_918_510&f=20&tt=17&bt=1&bts=1&st=24&zu=http%3A//www.cleispress.com/book_page.php%3Fbook_id%3D227

•Come As You Are
Cory is a founding member of this co-operatively owned, education
based sex toy store.

http://sexuality.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=sexuality&cdn=health&tm=178&gps=124_336_918_510&f=20&tt=17&bt=1&bts=1&st=24&zu=http%3A//www.comeasyouare.com/

•Internet Sexuality Information Services (ISIS)
Cory sits on the board of this non-profit that works in sexual health
and technology

http://sexuality.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=sexuality&cdn=health&tm=196&gps=269_393_918_510&f=20&tt=17&bt=1&bts=1&st=24&zu=http%3A//www.isis-inc.org/

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By Cory Silverberg, About.com Guide to Sexuality

Monday March 29, 2010

CREA, http://web.creaworld.org/ the feminist human rights organization
based in the global South and led by women from the global South.
which developed and ran this
http://sexuality.about.com/b/2009/11/19/new-online-course-on-sexuality-disability-and-rights.htm
online course on sexuality, disability, and rights, is accepting
applications for their 4th Global Sexuality, Gender and Rights
Institute, happening in Istanbul from June 12-19. From their site:
http://web.creaworld.org/home.asp

The Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute is an annual, week-long,
residential course that focuses on a conceptual study of sexuality. It
examines the links between sexuality, rights, gender, and health and
their interface with socio-cultural and legal issues. Participants
will critically analyze policy, research and program interventions
using a rights-based approach.
The content of the course sounds great, and the list of participating
faculty is crush worthy (in a very thoughtful, academic, kind of way,
of course).

The deadline for applications is April 18th. More information and
applications are available on their website.

What's the Difference Between Lasting Longer for Sex, and Sex that
Lasts Longer?
Friday March 26, 2010

"Please. I want to last longer."

Every week I receive a few emails with variations of this request. The
emails are usually from people identifying themselves as male who are
most often having sex with women. The rarely offer up details about
the sex they are having. The emails are brief and polite. The emailer
wants to provide more pleasure for his partner, and believes that
being able to last longer will solve their problem.

I have a different problem. I need to know what they want to last
longer at. You may think it's obvious; that everyone wants to make
intercourse last longer. But that's not obvious to me. I have the
benefit of talking with thousands of people a year about their sex
lives so I know that sex is more than intercourse. If you're someone
for whom sex has always been all about intercourse, it makes sense
that you'd think that your ability to maintain an erection during
intercourse defines your value as a sexual partner. It's hard to learn
about what other people's sex lives are really like. More often we end
up reading statistics on average frequency of sex, or how long sex
lasts. But statistics have a white washing effect, and they don't
always reflect individual experience.

So I usually start with a few questions of my own. When they respond
(most don't, by the way) I can usually offer a few answers or
resources, or at the very least, a different way of thinking about it.

Read the full article - Questions for Those Who Want to Last Longer

Sex Tips for the Rest of Us - Stop and Go Sex Play
Wednesday March 24, 2010

Most sex tips I read don't apply to me at all. They assume too much,
about my body, about my gender, about what I want from sex. I could go
on, and on. But instead, over the years, I've been compiling sex ideas
that try not to assume or expect too much. I call them sex tips for
the rest of us.

This week's sex tip suggests a playful way to teach your partner what
kinds of sexual touch are working for you and what kinds are, not so
much. Nothing in our sexual response is set in stone, our bodies and
desires change over time, so don't think of this as writing the
definitive story on what you like. It's more of a way to open up a
line of communication often shut down by embarrassment and fear.

The Set

There are so many things we don't share with our partners about our
sexual feelings. We might be embarrassed to disclose a sexual desire
for fear of being rejected, laughed at, or told we're perverted. We
might not tell a partner that we prefer one kind of touch or activity
to another for fear of hurting their feelings. We all do this at
times. Not telling a partner that you'd rather them go faster or
slower, a little to the left or a little to the right, isn't the end
of the world. But it's a silence where we all lose out. If you're in a
long term relationship and have established patterns of being sexual
with each other, it can seem especially hard to break that pattern by
saying you do or don't like something new. This sex tip offers a fun
way to do just that.

The Exercise

The exercise is simple. Pick a time when you have (ideally) a few
hours of uninterrupted time and privacy. Pick a place you're both
comfortable physically and a setting where you can both get as naked
as you want to be. You're going to take turns touching each other. You
begin by touching any part of your partner's body. Stroke their hair,
offer a back massage, move in right for a handjob, whatever. Your
partner takes a minute or two to feel your touch and then has to say
one of six words: "stop," "slower," "faster," "softer," "harder," or
"keep going". If they say stop, then you switch and your partner
begins to touch you. If they say any of the other words, you need to
do what they ask. You go for five minutes, and then switch (yes, even
if you're almost "there", you must switch at five minutes!)

The point of this sex tip isn't to help you find each others "perfect"
way of being touched. There's no such thing as a touch that's always
perfect. It might be frustrating that you only have four words to
choose from, but the game is designed to make you more aware of the
limits you put on yourself and your mutual sexual pleasure by not
talking at all. It's also meant to make the mechanics of sexual touch
more like a game, just for the time being.

Try to do this for at least three turns each. Once you're done, you
may want to keep having sex. Whether you do or don't, at some point
later on, talk about how it felt both to give such structured feedback
to your partner and also to hear the feedback. Did you feel bad when
you're partner said stop? We're you surprised at the times when they
wanted faster or slower touch? Are there things you learned doing this
that you think will change the way you both give and receive sexual
touch?

As always, try to have fun!

Read all Sex Tips for the Rest of Us
http://sexuality.about.com/od/humpdaysextips/Sex_Tips_for_the_Rest_of_Us.htm

Taking One Step Forward and Two Steps Back in the Sex Toy Industry
Monday March 22, 2010

It's a time of great change in the sex toy industry. On the one hand
an industry that has been, for almost 60 years, controlled by a small
number of big players, is seeing increasing competition from small and
medium sized manufacturers who are bringing basic business sense to a
product category that has thrived often in spite of itself. On the
other, the "big players" are in danger of being eclipsed by much
bigger players, huge multinational corporations (such as SSL, Church
and Dwight, and most recently, Phillips) moving into the sex toy
market, wide eyed with excitement over huge profit margins and, what
often seems like, an easy sell.

If you believe that capitalism is good, then you could say that the
ultimate winner in all this is the consumer. Partly because I'm not
sure about capitalism, and partly because I'm more interested in
education than commerce, I'm skeptical that a more sophisticated
commercialization of sexual desire is in fact any better than what we
currently have.

In any case, because I'm a sex toy industry nerd I follow all of this
with great interest. I want the industry to continue developing. And
while I have high hopes, often I'm reminded that evolution,
particularly when sex is involved, can take time. Take two recent
business pieces on the sex toy industry. JimmyJane was given a start
up profile in Reuters small business news. The piece is interesting,
and refreshingly it's written just as it would be for any other start
up. But the vision of the company, and particularly it's founder,
Ethan Imboden, is undercut by the fact that most of it's backers are
unwilling to associate themselves with the investment. In the article
one investor chalks this up to puritanism in Silicon Valley.

This may or may not be a problem, but it's interesting to think about
how, as sexual pleasure products become less stigmatized and more
investors flock to this highly profitable category, this
quintessentially American relationship to sex will play out in a
purely capitalist arena. Once the shareholders of WalMart see the
writing on the wall, will they be able to say no to a sexual pleasure
section in their stores? And what happens if it turns out, as Phillips
may have discovered, that the way to make the most money is to be
explicit about the products you sell?

A different kind of conflict is seen in this marketing profile of
Lovehoney. Lovehoney is a UK based online sex toy retailer, and one of
the hardest working adult websites in the world. Creative, flexible,
and tenacious, there isn't a marketing approach Lovehoney hasn't
tried, and they have been ahead of the curve among online adult
retailers on a number of fronts. Which is partly why this interview
with company co-founder Neal Slateford was so disappointing. Where the
Reuters piece was good because it treated Jimmyjane like any other
business, the Econsultancy profile throws lobs at Lovehoney and seems
to think that reprinting a company press release is enough if the
company sells sex toys. Can you imagine any other marketing profile
where we would learn nothing about the companies market share, their
strategies, or their vision of the future of the industry? To be fair,
this isn't actually journalism, it's a profile on a organizations
website. But the step backward here is still worth noting. Lovehoney's
reticence to talk about the industry, to step ahead and know that
while others may follow, you can't break through if you're hiding in
the shadows, feels like a particularly old sex toy industry way of
doing business.

Most Fun Sex Survey. Ever.
Friday March 19, 2010

I often complain about quantitative social science research in this
blog. But I had the most fun I've had filling out boxes in a long time
with this adorable and frankly long overdue survey from Dr. Debby
Herbenick at Indiana University. The survey is called Sexual Intimacy
and Expression: A Survey of Men and Women Who Live With Pets and true
to it's name it's all about the impact of your dogs and cats on your
sex life.

I laughed, I cried (from laughing), I had the chance to express some
of my most conflicted and creative thoughts about having a dog who
pretty much ALWAYS wants to be the center of attention.

If you've got a pet, check it out. If you know someone who does, pass
it along. It's all in the name of science.

Take the survey - Sexual Intimacy and Expression: A Survey of Men and
Women Who Live With Pets

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JL7THLB

Erection Fretting (or Why We're Dying to Talk About Sex)
Wednesday March 17, 2010

We fret about erections. Those whose erections figure large in their
sex lives fret if they stop getting them, or if the ones they have now
are different than the ones they had before. Those who rely on the
erections of others for sex play fret if their partners lack of
erection is a sign of lack of interest, lack of love, lack of lust.

Sex educators, desperately trying to derail unrealistic and narrowly
conceived sexual norms, fret about how much everyone frets about
erections. Forget the erections, we're sometimes heard shouting over
the ramparts. There are more tools in heaven and earth that can
arouse. And some of them come with multiple speeds, if you hadn't
noticed.

But toys, fingers, and other body parts aren't actually substitutes
for penises. They may at times be more pleasure producing, but
suggesting they are the same thing seems pig headed.

And as a recent German study points out, there may be more reasons
than a crisis of virility for men and their partners to stand at
attention when their erections aren't. From a prepared release:

Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a strong predictor of death from all
causes and of heart attack, stroke and heart failure in men with
cardiovascular disease (CVD), German researchers reported in
Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
In the first study to show that ED is predictive of death and
cardiovascular outcomes, researchers found that men with CVD and ED
(compared to those without ED) were twice as likely to suffer death
from all causes and 1.6 times more likely to suffer the composite of
cardiovascular death, heart attack, stroke and heart failure
hospitalization.

This isn't the first research to point out that erections (sensitive
as they are to the waxing and waning fortunes of circulation) are
something of a canary in a coal mine when it comes to heart health.

The researchers of the most recent study are calling on men to think
about heart disease if they are noticing a change in their erections
and calling on doctors to ask routinely about erectile functioning. I
guess there's an argument that this is good, anything that gets us
talking more about sexual health is positive. But in the absence of
proper sexual health training for doctors and in the context of a
health care system that never gives physicians and patients time to
talk about tricky subjects, it's hard to know if the kinds of
conversations that may happen as a result of this research and the
media coverage of it, will do anyone any good.

Also it would be nice if just once we didn't have to wait to be told
we might DIE before we start talking about sex.

Read more - LA Times: Erectile dysfunction is strong predictor of
fatal heart ailments, study finds

Related - Erectile Dysfunction: Prevalence and Risk Factors in the
U.S. ; Possible Treatment for Erectile Dysfunction Resulting from
Priapism ; Consumer Reports Takes on Erectile Dysfunction Ads

http://sexuality.about.com/od/anatomyresponse/a/erectiledysfunc.htm
http://sexuality.about.com/b/2009/11/03/possible-treatment-for-erectile-dysfunction-resulting-from-priapism.htm
http://sexuality.about.com/b/2008/06/17/consumer-reports-takes-on-erectile-dysfunction-ads.htm

Is God Your Sexual Co-Pilot?
Monday March 15, 2010

A recent study in the journal Sociology of Religion looks at
American's beliefs about divine intervention in their daily lives.
Based on two large surveys of Americans (one of which was nationally
representative) the paper reports on how much or little people believe
God is involved and influencing the events and activities of their
daily lives. Among the findings, the study documented that:

•82% of participants say they depend on God for help and guidance in
making decisions

•71 per cent believe that when good or bad things happen, these
occurrences are simply part of God's plan for them

•61 per cent believe that God has determined the direction and course
of their lives

•32 per cent agree with the statement: "There is no sense in planning
a lot because ultimately my fate is in God's hands."

There are all sorts of critical questions to ask about what these
numbers mean, especially since, if I understood the paper correctly,
participants responded to questions whether or not they actually
believed in God (so they were asked to report what they thought God
was like, even if they didn't believe in God).

But that's not why I'm sharing this information. Even if these numbers
are off, and they are much lower, it got me thinking. If you believe
that God is at all involved in your daily life, if you believe there
is a God who is making decisions or has a plan, and exerts an
influence on your path, do you believe that God is involved in your
sex life? Is it God who influences your choice of sexual partners?
What does God have to say about how much you like sex, or the kind of
sex you like?

I know a little bit about the various positions organized religions
take on sexuality (positions that are never uniform, even within one
religious faith or practice). I also know that there's a whole
Christian sex self-help industry. But what I'd like to know more about
is whether people who feel God's presence in their daily lives also
feel that presence in their sex lives.

I talk with lots of people about sex every day. And thinking on this
question I'm aware that sex is usually compartmentalized off from
other kinds of God-ish experiences.

So there are people who engage in specific kinds of sexual practices
that they call spiritual (things like Tantric and Taoist sexual
practices). And they often talk about feeling as if sexual activities
are a form of worship, that sex makes them feel closer to God. But I
don't hear those people talking so much about God outside of their
sexual practice.

And then there are people who (as this study suggests) feel as if God
is influencing their daily lives, but those folks don't talk so much
about sex.

This may or may not be the best place to ask (and for goodness sake,
if you're going to leave a comment below please be kind) but it seems
to me that there must be all sorts of voices missing from these
conversations, and I'm genuinely curious. If you do believe that God
is involved in your everyday life, how much do you think about that
when you think about sex and sexuality?

Read more - Schieman, S. "Socioeconomic Status and Beliefs about God's
Influence in Everyday Life" Sociology of Religion. Volume 71, No. 1
(2010): 25-51. Accessed March 11, 2010.

CNBC Confuses Porn Actors With Little Children
Friday March 12, 2010

It wasn't their intention, I'm sure, but this obnoxious and
condescending CNBC piece about porn actors retiring reads like a
special interest story about 6-year-old Timmy who got is very own bank
account. Who could have imagined that porn actors do things like think
about their careers, invest their savings, and plan for their futures?
Isn't it darling the way they talk about retirement and take on other
sorts of work? It's almost like they're real grown ups!

Business media outlets should cover sex work and the people who do it,
just like they do workers in almost every other industry. I only wish
they made even the slightest attempt to keep their sex bias in check,
and did a little thinking before they wrote. I'd like to hear how
Marketplace would cover sex workers. Somehow I feel it would be way
less annoying.

CNBC.com: Life After Porn: The Retirement Challenge

Heart Sex

Tuesday March 9, 2010

The mind may be our greatest sexual organ, but without the heart, our
sex lives, just like the rest of our lives, wouldn't exist. Until you,
or someone you're having sex with, has a heart attack or is diagnosed
with heart disease, you probably won't think too much about the
relationship between your heart and your sex life. But the
relationship is intimate, and having a basic understanding of both
sexual health and heart health is an important way to minimize your
risk and maximize your health and pleasure.

http://sexuality.about.com/od/sexualhealthqanda/a/sex_heart_attack_disease.htm

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