Population Control In India and other news of the week

Like everything else in India, the land acquisition in Bengal for SEZs has taken a communal color. The Jamaat-e-Ulema Hind has resolved to protect the Mulim farmers of Bengal against their land being acquired by the Bengal Government for SEZ construction. Seeing the window of opportunity, Trinamool Congress has suddenly shown motherly care (translated in hindi as mamta) towards this organization and hence the entire Muslim community. Mamata Banrejee has invited the leader of this organization, Siddiqulla Chowdhary, to her anti land grab rallies. A CPM leader made the mistake of talking about "dire consequences" in case Chowdhary continued the opposition to the government. Senior CPM leader then had to call for peace talks so that the violence stops. A gentle reminder - this is not Kashmir, this is West Bengal.

Meanwhile, the prices kept on soaring, while the communists are busy in trying to hold their base. Food products in India like pulses and spices are at an all time high. Farmers are committing suicides at a rate greater than terrorist deaths in Kashmir. But the Central Statistical Organization claims the agricultural sector is growing at 6%. A pure statistical report again proves what I have always believed - 64.596% of all Statistics are useless. Now there is news of Home and Car Loans to rise - hence now - you can neither afford the stuff nor afford taking a loan. There is no way anybody could die bankrupt in India - here people die only in the following ways -

• Terrorist Attacks (17%)
• Hunger (12 %)
• Road Accidents (11%)
• Communal Violence (17%)
• Natural Deaths (1%)
• Watching TV news about Amitabh, Jaya, Abhishek and Ashwarya Bachhan - (24%)
• Watching Sserrials with their nnnammes changed to suite Nnumerologee - ( 35%)

In other really obscure headlines of the week -

"Indians to sue British Government for unfair Immigration Laws"
- I think we pamper them too much here in India


"Sensex scales new peaks"
- This is anything but "news"


"JD(U) MLA arrested"
- This is just an act of increasing pollution in prisons of India.


" BJP back in business"
- Finally after BJP-Sena alliance won the Maharashtra Municipal elections - they have their own Business to Mind.

The funniest story of the week was in pictures. The World Bank president was seen with a hole in his socks on his visit to Turkey. This proves what I have always believed to be correct. This is all due to World Bank Projects in Bihar and Orissa. They have given so much loans to these states that the World Bank is itself in a shoddy state. Do you know that there have been irrigation projects in Bihar funded by World Bank since 1993 ? And the outcome - Bihar is flooded so frequently that it does not make sense for farmers to take help from WB funded NGOs to get water in their fields. End result - NGO volunteers are wearing Reeboks and you can see the state of the World Bank President in the picture below. By the way, does that mean the World Bank is not SOX compliant ?