India Today published a story calling it a spoof on the ban of Sri Lankan Players entering Tamil Nadu.
When the Central Government is sublimely indifferent and callous in not condemning The Genocide and bringing the Killers to book, is this the way a Magazine to hurt people’s sentiments?
You need not be a Tamil, being a Human being is enough, not to be moved by the Human Tragedy!
Have the Editors watched the show on The War Museum in Sri Lanka and the Videos of their sister Publications Headlines Today on Sri Lanka Genocide ,including the Killing Fields??
India Today on Ban on Sri Lankan Players by Jayalalithaa
The Agenda /Topics of Moral,Social and National importance.
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SEX ON THE BEACH AND OTHER COCKTAILS
Sip cocktails and enjoy a compilation of the most stunning picture erotica. India Today celebrates 10 years of its path finding sex survey with a special edition. An Intimate Journey, a compilation of articles, photographs and data from ten sex surveys.
Do city lives keep us too busy for sex? Cricket matches, bowling night outs, bachelor parties, beer runs and more – there’s much to keep men occupied. So how do girls grab their attention? And how do guys get in a word edgeways between their partners’ career commitments and family demands?
Speakers:
Randeep Hooda, Actor Madhuri Banerjee, Author, Losing My Virginity And Other Dumb Ideas & Mistakes Like Love And Sex Paromita Vohra, Filmmaker, Writer Sanjay Srivastava, Sociologist/writer of anthology on sex Mahasatvaa Ma Ananda Sarita, Tantric sex guru
The India Today survey finds Indian women meditating intently on the prayer beads of fulfilling and wholesome sex. At the root of this pleasure quest could be the post-modern woman’s desire to take charge of her own destiny.
The technology of fantasy has expanded dramatically, allowing urban Indians access to a supermarket of choices, but all it has done is expand information, not intimacy. Relationships are less conversation, more convenience; less playgrounds, more prisons.
By getting this information, which I am not sure is reliable as the details of the methodology of the Survey is not known and the fact that people do not divulge their true responses,what social cause is to be served?
Or the individual benefited?
Probably this information might help the perverts to justify their acts of depravity.
Sex is neither a sin nor is it sacred,it is just a basic instinct that Nature has in built in us to propagate the Species.
That’s all.
Is India Today desperately struggling to retain its ABC figures on Circulation?
Though I agree that Sexual perversions and other than normal sexual behavior exists, I am not sure about the veracity of the Study.
Will India ToDay stand up and explain the Methodology adopted for this survey?.
Read this as well.
‘”The 2012 India Today survey has gone into the secret world of love and lust in Tier 2 and Tier 3 towns or as it puts it “Bharat surprises India with its sexy secrets”. But IndiaTodaysurprises no one with its choice of visuals. Small town India might be getting jiggy but our magazines are still stuck with the stock images of sex – saris without blouses, clutched hands, scattered rose petals, a touch of lace, red high heels, an anklet, something gauzy slipping off a bare shoulder. And hardly any female faces clearly in sight. If it is there, it’s usually artfully out-of-focus in fifty shades of grey. (Actually the clearest female faces anywhere in the sex issue belong to the model in the Skore condom ads alongside the survey results.)
And they are surprised that 58% of respondents in Kota detach emotions from sex! It’s hard to have emotions when your image of sex never involves a face.
But really, just because it’s printed on paper do we need to believe that the town of Asansol, a few hours outside Kolkata, is THE place to go if you want to get into a bit of wife-swapping? Or that Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh (as opposed to anywhere else in the country) is obsessed about watching partners undress? Or that Salem is the place where partners fake headaches the most to put off sex?
If one reads the information closely, the Pawar scam and the allocation of Coal Blocks to Jayaswal, the connection of Thackeray Group and the stunning silence of BJP on Gadkari scam and his connection to irrigation fraud, we can notice that all are in cahoots, irrespective of party affiliations.
Frauds are exposed only when one does not get an adequate share in the loot.
Follow for more exposes.
An RTI activist has alleged that key associate of Anna Hazare Mayank Gandhi misused his NGO to help builders, media reports said.
India Today reported on Thursday that RTI activist Kishanji Rao has alleged Mayank Gandhi’s NGO Remaking of Mumbai illegally helped his uncle Lalit Gandhi’s Lok Group. Rao alleges that Mayank Gandhi also helped Lalit and other builders in bagging land deals.
The Swindle Story:
An RTI activist has alleged that key associate of Anna Hazare Mayank Gandhi misused his NGO to help builders, media reports said.
India Today reported on Thursday that RTI activist Kishanji Rao has alleged Mayank Gandhi’s NGO Remaking of Mumbai illegally helped his uncle Lalit Gandhi’s Lok Group. Rao alleges that Mayank Gandhi also helped Lalit and other builders in bagging land deals.
Mayank Gandhi-who is He and his scam?
Mayank Gandhi.
‘Few days ago, the city observed builder Lalit Gandhi’s second death anniversary. Gandhi, co-founder of Lok Group, passed away on 23 March 2010.
He had seen visions of innovatively making money from the dilapidated ceased buildings of Chira Bazaar in South Mumbai. In 2006-07, he founded an NGO called Remaking of Mumbai Federation (ROMF).
This NGO was spearheaded by Mayank Gandhi, Shri Lalit Gandhi’s charismatic nephew (who went on to achieve national fame last year as a major architect of Anna Hazare’s India Against Corruption campaign).
By fudging the lines of demarcation between commercial interest, private interest and public interest, this NGO merged Lok Group’s commercial interest with the ambition of over 8000 tenants living in dilapidated buildings to have better homes.
By connecting with the Mumbaikar’s desire for a beautiful city, Remaking of Mumbai Federation (ROMF) became a media-darling and messiah of Chira Bazaar Cluster Development. It organized several events.
Around the core of these events, a publicity campaign consisting of systematic misinformation and name-dropping was built. Sri Sri Ravishankar, Justice P N Bhagwati, Narayan Murthy and Deepak Parekh,
Citispace are a small sample of the dignitaries whose names were exploited for creating brand-equity around ‘Remaking of Mumbai’. The credits-list of this newsletter is a good specimen of such name-dropping.
Contrary to the public perception that was created, there was nothing “inclusive” about Remaking of Mumbai Federation.
It was never a true federation of stakeholders, and it never gained the grassroots level support from landlords and tenants of Chira Bazar. The couple of tenants associations supposedly supporting ROMF were little more than letterheads.
To Lalit Gandhi’s Lok Group-the owner of this NGO-Chira Bazaar Cluster Development was a cash cow to be carved up into beef and sold to the highest bidder. Had things gone according to plan, Lok Group might have reaped bumper profits by selling it for at least Rs 37.5 crores, if not much more.
Under the heading, ‘Cancellation of earlier MOUs and Agreements’, this document refers to an earlier transaction worth Rs 37.5 crore in August 2010, in post-dated cheques dated from November 2010 till end-2013.
ROMF had claimed that it would deliver the Chira Bazaar cluster development project, tied up neatly, to Unity Developers. (Unity Infraprojects Limited (UIL) is the holding Company of Unity Realty & Developers Ltd – the buyer of this project.
The promoters of UIL- K K Avarsekar and his associates – are known to have the blessings of the Thackeray family; this may explain the eagerness of MCGM’s High Powered Committee to overlook the glaring shortcomings of this project.)
So, in effect, this present agreement, which scaled down the payment to Rs 10 crore, was an admission of ROMF’s inability to deliver as promised.
As per the present agreement made in Jan 2011, Lok Group and ROMF sold a 5 acre “pilot project” carved out of this 30-acre project to Unity Realty & Development Ltd (URDL) for down-payment of Rs 5 crore, plus Rs 5 crore linked to the project progress.
Under the heading, ‘Monetary Obligations & Considerations’. (Incidentally, this deal was transacted on stamp paper of Rs 100.
Stamp duty of 5% of value of immovable properties / land / development rights was not paid on this Development Agreement.
If we take the deal at its face value – Rs 10 crore – it amounts to stamp duty evasion of about Rs 50 lakh.
But some experts feel that the true value of this agreement is far beyond these figures; even under the scaled-down agreement, ROMF was delivering to Unity Realty an intangible asset worth hundreds of crores. One way or another, it is a huge evasion, and Maharashtra Stamp Duty department should estimate what its true value is!)
In this agreement, the seller is ROMHIF. So what is the connection of ROMHIF with ROMF?
This extract from Lok Housing & Constructions Ltd Directors Report 2010 explains it: “Remaking of Mumbai Housing Infrastructure & Finance Ltd” (ROMHIF) submits proposal for Chira Bazaar Cluster redevelopment in C Ward of Mumbai.
The High Powered Committee clears Chira Bazaar Cluster redevelopment proposal of ROMHIF to redevelop around 30 acres of land (362 buildings and over 8000 tenements).
ROMHIF has submitted its proposal to redevelop around 30 acres of land (362 buildings and over 8000 tenements) in the Kalbadevi-Chira Bazar area in C Ward. It proposes to demolish these old and dilapidated buildings and in their place construct high rise structure in the ear-marked plots.
Lok Housing Ltd has 49% stake in the shareholding of Remaking of Mumbai Development Ltd. (ROMD) which is the holding Company for ROMHIF”. As per the website of Registrar of Companies, the registered Addresses of both ROMD and ROMHIF is Lok Bhavan,
Andheri East, Mumbai. Paid up capital of ROMD and ROMHIF is Rs 40 lakh and Rs 5 crore respectively.
Since Lok Housing Ltd as per Directors Report has 49% stake in the holding company ROMD for ROMHIF, who owns the balance 51% stake?
Is it somebody in the government or civic administration?
We don’t know, but it will be interesting to find out.
The names of all companies start with Remaking of Mumbai.
Why? So that the brand equity of ‘Remaking of Mumbai’ can be effortlessly passed on to any buyer. The government approvals gotten by ROMF can also be transferred, with some help from pliant government officials, to another entity with the same name, namely Remaking of Mumbai Unity Developers Private Limited. In this crucial clause, the agreement recognizes that it is crucial to retain the ‘Remaking of Mumbai’ name at all times, even if the latter part of the name were changed in future i.e. if Unity Realty & Developers sold its stake to someone else. (Now that is like saying: Smita is married to Ramesh. It is crucial that any man desirous of sleeping with Smita must knock on the bedroom door and say, “Open the door, I am Ramesh.” Needless to say, the real Ramesh gets paid.)
Unfortunately for Lok Group and their buyer, Unity Realty, the state government questioned the fraudulent claims of Lok Group/ROMF – especially the claim that that it had written consent from 79.2% tenants. What it actually had was some letters from a small number of tenants, giving the project their best wishes without even knowing the particulars of the project – and of course, without knowing even which builder was going to undertake the massive redevelopment, and whether he had the capital and infrastructural capabilities to do so.
While the Spectrum scam tapes have been talked about, what has not received adequate notice so far is the lobbying and controversy surrounding the division of gas between theAmbani brothers. The conversations in this set seemingly include journalists Vir Sanghvi of the Hindustan Times; Prabhu Chawla of the India Today group; and G. Ganapathy Subramaniam and M.K. Venu of the Economic Times…
M.K.Venu.
While we are yet to fully absorb and understand the various intricacies and ramifications of the very many conversations on record, and clearly, there are many serious issues at stake here including those of privacy (who authorised these taps), timing of their made public and on-going corporate wars but it is eerie how casually a discussion, for example, about the battle for power sector involving Tatas and Reliance in Maharashtra segues into instigating the likes of Shiv Sena and other groups like the MNS and how easily corporates play and manoeuvre the “protests” by goon-gangs of political outfits to further their ends.
Also, how easy it seems for these power-brokers to casually fix not just politicians — e.g.Venkaiah Naidu of the BJP here is mentioned as amenable to persuasion, as against Arun Shourie, for example — but also, in their narration, the higher judiciary.
Some of the abbreviations:
MM: Manoj Modi, Mukesh Ambani‘s right hand man in Reliance
Following files said to be K. Venugopal, Editor, Hindu Business Line
Vinu-fudged RCOM figs-gas-Curse on AmarSingh-20090616-200515 &
Vinu perhaps-All issues-mainly spectrum-20090616-195137
The file-names below are as in the CD handed over to the Supreme Court. They seem to follow the format of the date and time of the recording in the file name, thus -20090620-143207 seems to refer to a recording of 14:32:07 on 20 June, 2010.
M.K. Venu: You saw Rohini’s story. It has come today.
Niira Radia: No, I haven’t seen it. I’m going to see it now. I finished at 1.30 in the night.
MK: But it’s all tucked away. You’re also keeping Manoj Modi’s timings. 2 o’ clock!
NR: It’s tucked away, is it?
MK: Yeah, but in ET you can’t miss it. It is the inside page but it’s the top half, the lead story of the page.
NR: You know this one, Ganapathy has been chasing me but I don’t want to give it to him. I have a letter from the Andhra chief minister.
MK: Hmm.
NR: I don’t want to give it to him, I am scared to give it and find the story killed. What do you think I should do? He has given a scathing attack. He has written to the PM.
MK: The Andhra CM. Two years ago, he used to sing Anil Ambani’s tune. It is a very strong letter, yaar.
NR:Kya karoon yaar. I don’t want it tucked away.
MK: Objective advice. Isko aise akhbar ko do jo isko lead flyer carry kare. Isko CNBC ko do. Then these people will be adequately provoked. If CNBC carries it as a lead 10 times a day, then everyone will start running helter skelter. If I was the editor, Rohini’s story was a clean Page 1, top half, like a lead story. Do you think a letter to the MD is possible? Broadly saying that we congratulate the launch of ET Now and then you can raise this issue that there is this raging controversy that is of national interest and we hope you can take which is, you know, which is in keeping with what Y.S.R. Reddy has written. Aisa karke you should lagao one.
NR: How is Prabhakar Sinha in Times?
MK: My information is that he and his brother Arun Kumar are retainers on the other side. About Arun Kumar, I am quite sure. He and Sandeep Bamzai used to be so openly partisan. I met Shekhar Bhatia at dinner, he used to be executive editor then, he told Sandeep Bamzai ki kam se kam ek hafta to chhod do. At least three to six months, you don’t plug him. This is what Shekhar Bhatia told him publicly.
NR: Yes, I don’t blame him. I met Sukumar and Sanjoy Narayan.
MK: That Sanjoy Narayan has an old friendship with that Tony (Jesudasan), na? They have some great common interests.
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