Hindu : 29 Mar - Editorial : How safe are women in India

This is a great article questioning the purpose of trials and verdicts for abuse against women. It doesn't say that the culprit shouldn't be punished but raises a genuine concern of what can be done to prevent from this country producing such culprits in the first place. It's ok and we do understand that strict rules and bills need to be passed to punish those who treat women badly but will that really protect women nd give them the real sense of safety.

Articles starts off with the present punishments that exists and which are to be newly passed and then takes us through a rigorous explanation of how these cases would be treated and how circumstances will be considered based on a women's age of consent, the time of crime committed and the verdict execution based on crime intensity. However Author says that our system should majorly concentrate on preventing such incidents to happen rather then taking measures on how to punish the culprits 'after' the crime is committed. He then reason some of the existing systems of khap and other ignorant traditions which still exists in our society which encourage abuse against women. Also passing a bill on crime against women and defining only few nature of crimes would surely rule out some of the cases which will never come into light like violence against women after the marriage and violence against men other men.Though articles tries to give in enough statistics and facts in making certain points valid, it is clear that Author is skeptical that passing bills and making punishments sever will not put women in any safe condition.

Finally Author ends the note with a ray of hope that out system will reason this sooner or later so that prevention is given better importance then looking out for a blind cure.

                                                                                                         - Vamshi Regalla

Hindu : 29 Mar - Editorial : Motion or Emotion in TamizhNadu

So we see a lot of articles these days about the protest from the youth in Tamil Nadu over violation of human rights in Srilanka against Local Tamils. Some support the movement and some say its sheer waste of time but few of them throw some light on the ill effects or possible outcomes for such movements. here is one article which tries to go to the root of such a movement and explore the intentions behind such protests. What we see clearly is the political parties trying to please its people by showing their concern for tamils of neighbour country. What people in Tamil Nadu going through is an emotional pain of nativity. Whats happening in Sri Lanka is indeed very unfortunate. Most of the refugees don't even have a job for a living, a shelter to live safely or even food to survive. It's true that international intervention is gravely needed for Srilanka's crisis to come to an end but if India succumbs to the demands of Tamilnadu to go against Sri Lanka, according to the Author, is a mistake which would uproot the path which India had been relying on from the beginning. This is because that India taking such a step will only damage the relation with Sri Lanka at all levels.

 

Authors also says that violence and separate country will not be a final solution and more over that such partition will only cause more pain for the localites through displacement and booder intrusion. Infact Author feels that India should continue to maintain a good relation with its neghboring Island however advice the presidency of Srilanka to maintain peace with the effected area. Democracy followed by election should be the first step in winning the confidence of the localites. Though what authoer suggests is highly impractical, One should keep in mind that a trail in an international court should be done against war crimes of Srilanka in 2009 as circumstancial evidence clearly exists. Authors ends the note with a hope that peace will soon restore and hopes that the native tamilians will somehow feel safe once again in thier own country.

 

                                                                                                      - Vamshi Regalla

Hindu : 29 Mar - Editorial : Prejudice over Terrorists

This article starts off  with a conclusive statement 'Once a terrorist, always a terrorist' logically harsh but practically beleived by all the army personnel who come across those who come in to surrender. Author explains how such prejudices over terrorists are doing more harm in the inter relations between th police and terrorists. Citing an example, he brings out the arrest of a terrorist near the border of Orissa by Special cell against terrorism and they claim that the arrested terrorist was a key player in recent blasts and was in a plan to avenge the death of Afzal Guru. How ever the local police have a complete different story. They said that this terrorist was travelling along with his family and that his intention was clear that he wanted to surrender. they reason out asking why would a man take his family along with him if he was getting into a suicide mission. Special still stands to their claims and explain that this could be one of the ways of travelling with family to avoid suspision. The local police tend to show some courtesy for the courage this terrorist to surrender and is requesting the government to consider him as a surrendered one instead of a captured terrorist.

 

Author also points out how valuable would a captured terrorist be even though he surrendered as he could speak out all his group's future plan of attacks and also act as key evidence in their previous attacks in the past. He also says that the circumstances because of which he had leave his exile also should be taken into consideration.He also reasons that the way he will be treated once he surrenders will also have a great impatct on his fellow companions who would wish to follow that path. As this point Author ends the article with a suggestion that Government should interefere in ideal conflicts like this in avoiding prejudices over wrong doers and come up with a pragmatic solution which would increase the confidents of those terrorists who wish to leave their past behind with justifiable term in jail and subsequently start a new life all over again.

                                                                                                                         - Vamshi Regalla

Hindu : 28 Mar - Editorial : 'Tamizh' war at home

As there are many articles turning up everyday in this newspaper, I was genuinely curious to know what actually went wrong which is making Tamil Nadu a highly agitated place in recent times. a little research in the internet and I ended up with this video uploaded just a month back by Channel 4. The content in this video is highly disturbing and one should watch it only as a documentary of shocking revelation since in the end all we can do is close the window, drink some water, take a nap and get back to our normal life. Nothing much is expected in return.

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

War crimes Unpunished - will the International Community come to save Holocaust after effects.

Coming back to the article, Author's realistic approach amuses me. His tone is palely frank when he says that  its ambitious to expect any kind of support from Tamil Nadu to those native Tamilians in Srilanka as Tamil Nadu in iteself is busy in proving to everyone on who amongst the major political parties are in true support of Tamizh Eelam. Karunanidhi's withdrawal from UPA government and Jayalalitha's plea to prevent Sri Lankan players in entering into Tamil Nadu, according to the Author, look like mere moves taken to stay in good eyes of people. In both instances, it was public pressure that made these political parties to succumb and take such extreme decisions. Author infers that these political parties are pretending to support the movement to please their own people but not for the necessity of it.

Author then gives a detail explanation on the events which happened in Srilanka and how Indian government was alienating the issue with decision which were mostly favorable to our own convenience. Many facts were placed on how India little ignored the prediction that such a holocaust was bound to happen  in 2009. Author finally suggests that an International community should be the right ones to save those living in a dreadful state   of Sri Lanka but not politicians or political parties who rarely empathize their situation.

                                                                                                              - Vamshi Regalla

Hindu : 28 Mar - Editorial : Highs and Lows of Indian Cricket team

So finally India avenged its humiliation of a terrible loss to Australia last year with a clean sweep this year. Yet somehow this article suggests that it has become a tradition for Indian cricket team to either raise to the glory for being world champions or perish to the ground with consecutive losses. though it seems a bit satirical that our cricket team lacks consistency, Author from this article infers that the team had performed in the worst of the time under favourable conditions after a 2-1 loss in foreign soil where cricket was first born.

 

Authors brings out valid points on how our cricket lteam had surpassed the losses and in an aggressive mode triumped with a white wash. And a commendable innings from skipper Dhoni in the first test was the right dose of adrenalin rushed in at the right moment which also phsycologically effected australian cricketers all through the series. Author also reminds his readers on high risks which the selectors had to take such as dropping out Gautham Gambhir and sacking Sehwag after first two tests. Though its extremely delightful to see the local talents rising to the occassion such as the left handed shikar dhawan and opener Murali Vijay along with spinner Ohja and a surprise all rounder Ravindra Jadeja, Authors really wants to see how these would perform on bouncy pitches of foreign lands which is due 8 months from now in New Zealand.

 

The happy tone of the author challenges the Cricket team to maintain consistency inspite of an 8 mont break from test cricket for which he sarcastically thanked BCCI for such a schedule. Also he expects our team to showcase best sportmanship by not succumbing into pressure and surely perform as a whole but not relying on single or dial star talent.

 

                                                                                                      - Vamshi Regalla

Hindu : 28 Mar - An incredible journey of Mars Rover

At first when I had to guess what NASA stands first, after a lot of logical thinking I came up with North American Space Agency and I was so confident that it was right but google thrashed it right away saying its National Aeronautics and Space Administration. After Isro, Nasa is a dream of any engineering who would like to explore outer space and this article is written by one such hoper who always looks forward for some good news and accomplishment from space organisation who put in so much money and years of research for something a naked eye would rarely when looked up into sky.

 

Author of this article uses an objective, factual and definitely worth mentioning, a happy tone to point out the achievement of Mars rover which analyised a sample from the crater and found out life sustainable conditions did existed on mars some time long back  and it goes beyond thousands of years. All minerals which supported life were found in the sample taken. Author is totally amazed by the kind of incredible tasks Mars rover could do without human intervention and gives complete credit to the dedicated team back at Nasa. Tasks starting from safely landing on Mars, digging a hole, taking a sample rock from the drill, sewing the sample for needed size to continue the analysis and finally analysing the sample and giving out much needed results of all the components present in the sample including its age. At robot expected of to do so many things in a foreign atmosphere is immensly commendable.

 

Now that evidence of life on Mars is rightly proved by Mars Rover, Author hopes that the exploration will continue further on the other important parts as programmed into it and further anaylsis will give NASA a head start for its future ventures on Mission Mars. Author infers that a lot is expected from Mars Rovers as its performance went beyond what was promised and very soon few such keep valuable information will be found out soon.

 

                                                                                              - Vamshi Regalla

Hindu : 27 Mar - Editorial : Journey of Environmentalism in India

This is an objective and far more factual article from the author who is largely concerned on the present environmentalism which has lost its actual purpose of existence. Author takes us back in time where the first protest for protecting the native environment started in India which was the Chipko moment where a group of tribes stopped those who were in their region to cut the trees for trade. Author then takes us through an extensive journey giving examples on how the whole Chipko movement ignited and gave birth to many environmentalists and how many moments started in all over the country to save nature from the brutal hands of industrialization  He also talks about the attitude of those who were against such environmental Acts and how they portrayed the environmentalist as socialists who were stopping our country from development and that they were being funded by foreign countries who wanted our country to remain backward.

Succumbing to such allegation the Environmentalism in India took a back them and the result is severely painful as many trees were cut, many forest vanished and many natural resources depleted and it had gone to the extent that our National Animal, Tiger is now in danger of extinction. He then explains that the very excuse that such encroachments are needed for the region's development is to be questioned if this situation is to be handled in a diplomatic way. The whole idea of industrialization and development seems to be in the hands of few wealthy industrialists and politicians who are least bothered about the loss of nature with such exploitation. Environmentalists are bound to be shown in bad light because they are the first and unfortunately  the only ones who question the credibility of land mining or new erection of plants in a place which previously belonged to the natives and flourished with greenery.

Karnataka Land mining was shown as a direct example of political influence in deteriorating a region and Narmada project was mentioned to show how the environmentalists were sidelined in controversies to shut their mouths.Author shows pity in the present scenario which our country is going through in the name of industrialism which promised development but sadly nature had to pay heavy price in the form of high air pollution, deforestation, dried up rivers and worse extinction of nativity. Author then talks about a possible solution if a person who gives equal importance to environment is given power to drive this country. He says the of all the prime ministers we had , Nehru was the only one who empathized on environment which had resulted in a special cabinet post for environmental protection. Other prime ministers who were mostly economists gave a deaf ear to such cries as they would calculate everything with a balance sheet and believed that economic growth would eventually result in a health country. He then quotes Gandhi's statement that just like England which spread in the whole world making a mark of its own in all its colonies, India would also flourish if it followed its previous ruler - the west. However Author sighs that though Our Countries followed the west, it could not turn into practicality as England had many resources coming from most of its colonies but India had to rely on its own resources.

Author ends the note with a blind hope that some day a new Chipko movement will start that would eventually end such brutal behavior of Mankind towards nature in India.
                                                                                                                  - Vamshi Krishna

Hindu : 27 Mar - Editorial : Obama's Attitude towards Israel and Palestine

This Article talks about the way Obama had been biased towards  Israel over Palestine and how such action should be hidden from press at least in order to curb any form of prejudices which the Media already has over Obama's administration.Author starts off with few examples on the kind of words used in his speech by President Obama on his visit to both the nations which are in conflict. His speech clearly showed how he was biased towards Jews of Israel and how he showed his immense friendliness towards Israel's president at the same his speech in Palestine showed how diplomatic he was being to make sure that he doesn't give out any hints that he was being partial to Israel.

At one point author points out how easy it is for an outsider who has viewed both the visits to judge on Obama's partiality towards one nation over other. He suggests that such acts would only bring bitter consequences to face since a person of hid cadre was in actuality expected to be more unbiased than ever because its the matter of two countries who are fight for borders, religion and illegal immigrants  Obama's support for illegal immigration from Israel to Palestine, His good gesture over Jews settling in the borders of Palestine and his denial over Palestine's suppression over the border settles would only make things more severe and Palestine seems little happy for Obama ignoring their point of view of losing the native identity.

Author finally ends with a note that such a gesture from Obama shows his vulnerability for the allegations he is facing back at home for mistreating minority religions back at home and his extended support for Israel Jews and an outright statement that Israel would soon turn into a country of Jews would only ignite the sentiments of native Israelis who are not Jewish.
                                                                                                     - Vamshi Krishna

Hindu : 27 Mar - Editorial : Chauvinism at its worst

This article thrashes the behavior of Tamil Nadu's Chief Minister on prohibiting  Srilankan Players to play in IPL matches to be held  in Chennai. Chauvinism is the extreme word used in the title as well as in the conclusive tone of the article all the way. Author vents out his frustration for bringing politics into sports and Jayalalitha has ignited a fresh protest by taking such a step. She submitted a statement to the central government that considering the tensions among the people of Tamil Nadu over Srilankan outrageous treatment on native tamilians, there could be an outbreak of law and order in the stadiums where IPL matches would be conducted and so to keep everything smooth she suggested that no Sri Lankan player shall be permitted to enter Tamil Nadu.

BCCI on other hand, to play a safe game, not only agreed to Jayalalitha but also passed out a decision to ban all Sirlankan players from playing this season's IPL. Though the central government is being nonchalant to the current situation, its is quite evident that such a decision would not only deteriorate the spirit of sportmanship but also damage our international relations with neighboring countries in the long run for showing such extreme chauvinism. Author explains that having hatred towards a country for its wrong doing is different from banning it's players to play in an international sport. He also cites an example where our country had to face a similar situation with Pakistan but at that time, BCCI had requested the teams to not buy any players from Pakistan which to some extent subsided the tension between two countries at least  in that season of IPL. But such a step is impossible for now as the auction had already been done and many players from Sri Lanka were bought at higher price. Such a decision from BCCI would surely out these teams into helpless situation and would eventually result in unpredictable match outcomes.

On the whole, Author condemns Jayalalitha's decision and hopes that though nothing can be undone now, at least in future such extreme patriotism for no reason should be little encouraged. A pragmatic approach in dealing such situations would be more wise to come up with a logical conclusion.
                                                                                                                        - Vamshi Krishna

Hindu : 26 Mar - Editorial : Cyprus to the rescue

An article on economics is always difficult to understand unless we have pre knowledge global economy and its current situation. This article pehaps brought out the worst fears on how ignorant people can be if they don't look into what happening with thier country's economy. Cuprus deal brought in light many things which uprooted the system of bail outs from governments and that could be seen from the continuing protest by people of Cyprus.

Author uses an ojective tone on how the EU Government had come forward to bail out one of its European countries Cyprus and the deal which was propsed by the government in return of bailing out the national bank of Cyprus.Author explains that the idea of decducing 10% from the savings accounts of those individuals who have a closing balance of 100000 euros and 6% from those  who have less than 100000 Euros by EU government will have a negative response from common public since they were being penalized for the flaws in Bank system. The same could be seen as people have come to protest their anger for Cyprus to sign such a deal. How ever author suggestes that if this deal is closed then EU government would levy similar penalties for all its future bail outs which might eventually impact the Global Economy.

All in all Author hopes that RBI will take enough measure to make sure the Cyprus deal will not effect Indian Economy just as the same way it had prevented Indian Economy to fall down under immense pressure of Global meltdown which Europe had to see some time bak.

Hindu : 26 Mar - Editorial : Sanjay Dutt's reasoning for Appeal

It's indeed a surprising article. Just a day before, we had an article telling us how our government should not be biased toward celeb criminals and the very next day we get to seen an article in which it is explained on the reasons behind Sanjay Dutt's possessing of an Ak 47 rifle during the Riots and how his plea should be considered for Pardon.

Author starts off with recalling all the events which led to Sanjay Dutt's arrest for possessing armed weapons at his residence. Authors points out logically that circumstances which lead to a possible crime should be taken into consideration before coming to a conclusion. Though its clearly stated in Indian Penal code that any person who possesses armed weapon without license will be imprisoned for 6 years no explanations asked which will in default put Sajay Dutt behind bars, one should also understand the situation he and his family were going throught when Sanjay Dutt had to get a weapon to save his family. Author supports Sanjay Dutt's reasoning and also appreciates his honesty for accepting his guilt for purchasing illegally a dangerous weapon. During the 1993 communal riots many hindu communities were threateing Sanjay Dutt for he was protecting the muslin community near his residence. Eventunally an actual attack too happened on Sanjay Dutt. Though he lodged a complaint that he and his family would be in danger and that he needed police protection, Sanjay dutt realised that any delay from the police department would put him and his family in complete danger. Though his intentions were true to possess a rifle the path he chose to procure the weapon seems to be the real reason why Supreme court had sentenced him for 5 years which is one year less than the usual sentence and court says that the concession was considered for the honest intention. it would be a secure shield for any one to attack on Sanjay Dutt'ss house when they would come to know that he had a weapon purchased.

Author then denies Supreme court for blindly following the rule book for sentencing a person like Sanjay Dutt and concludes that his plea should be accepted and pardoning him would be a noble gesture to set a man free who had to choose the wrong path only to save his family 

                                                                                                         - Vamshi Regalla

Hindu : 26 Mar - Editorial : Indian Army Discipline needs reformation

Author in this articles portrays his disbeleif on the kind of transition our Indian Army had gone through in terms of strict discipline and mutual respect among different heirarchies. Quoting the incident of last year where Jawans had a fight with thier superior in one of the batallions in Ladakh, Author explains why such the army personnel in the lower cader are being mistreated  by their immediate superiors. He also takes for reference, a study by the psychologist that the main reason for a large amount of Sepoy or Jawan suicides is due to extreme humiliation. It is evident that once in Army, No soldier is allowed to talk against his/her superior officer which would be considered an offense and that soldier will be held upon under disciplinary action. So the higher officials taking to their own advantage mistreat their subordinates even to the extent of asking them to go and help thier wives in daily chores or taking their kids to school. This kind of treatment was adopted from the e sbritish army but such behaviour by any officer would reach to a breaking point and that could have led to increase in agony and cry for self respect which eventually results in such fights amongst them.

 

Army is the shield of the country and fight amongst themselves is the least anyone would expect. Though Ladakh's incident is now being taken to court for trial, author feels that the system should identify and skillfully rectify the flaws in it to give every army personnel the sense of ownership and dignity at all levels. Thus the article being in a tome of objective where author looks forwards that such incident could reduce in future if timely measures are taken.

                                                                                                                  - Vamshi Regalla

Hindu : 25 Mar - Editorial : BRICS and mortar for India's global rule

First of all How many such groups have formed till now and whats the purpose behind the collaboration. Thats something out of my own reach. And this exactly what the Author was trying to explain in this article where he takes BRICS meet as a good example. BRICS is a group of developing countries formed together, well to discuss matters which would eventually improve their country's present condition. South Africa is the newest of the group and also the host for the next BRICS conference so Author infers that South Africa has a lot to contribute and gain from such conference as It is now being the host of many such conferences. Brazil, Russia  India and China being the other members of the group. Coming back to real purpose behind forming such groups, first we have G-8 countries which mostly consists of the super power nations and similar groups and India is a part of such notable groups and BRICS initially formed to be a group of developing nations but one could point out on why some countries were ruled out of such groups like Indonesia which are developing at a  swift rate. Author explains that the reason why BRICS has those specific countries in it because of the Quantum of population, economy and other key statistics it shard with the rest of the world. So what will happened when such conferences happen? Will there be any crucial talk on economics and politics or will it just be a tea for representing countries diplomats? Authors answers with a kind gesture that conferences like this provide a unique opportunity for countries, which share similar economic and political conditions back home, on improving their relations with each other and cites India and China relations as an example.

Author also takes few more examples on how other group countries discuss on terrorism, globalization  environment changes and industrial growth. Here he brings out India's contribution and its expectation from such conferences. He suggests that India should contribute more so that it can play a major power in future since India is already trying to enter into few big groups. Not only contribute India should gain from such  groups in making its goal clear to drive into the direction of development.Author hopes that BRICS would play a key role in India's journey to achieve a membership for global rule.

                                                                                                   - Vamshi Krishna

Hindu : 25 Mar - Editorial : Pakistan's Journey with Democracy

Author uses an objective tone in stating the current political situation of Pakistan and her journey with democracy. Author feels that though pakistan has a reason to celebrate that its first democratic government had successfully finished one term without any interference from the usual dictatorship, She probably has very little to boast about and give hope to her people from the events that happened in the past  5 years. It is evident that this country had suffered less from a government built by its own people but is still recovering from the damage done by previous presidential rule. Author points out that it was a good start to shift powers from its president to prime minister but that did not suffice yet from the decision making authority some of the military officials still have. Pakistan in the last five years though had a smooth government run, the economic policies had a steep effect on its development and most importantly international relations with neighbouring and western countries.

 

since the events of Mumbai attacks in 2008, Pakistan's relation with India was no good as India stopped beleiving Pakistan's version because India had evidence to prove that Pakistan militants played a crucial role in the attacks. Osama bin Laden's capture and consequent death in pakistan by a tactiful operation by U.S made it lot worse for Pakistan to cope with the then allegations that Pakistan was indeed a hub for international terrorism. Some hope which actually made this government look good was the peaceful improvement of people in Pakistan and author hope that Pakistan's government should focus more on the development plans to make the country economically strong and this hope will be a key factor in making it's people trust the government and give it a chance for the second term. Author ends the note with a hint that Pervez's re entry in Pakistan is something to be dealt seriously if the government wants to come back in power and also suggests that Government should stop living in the past blaming the dictator's rule for all the damage that was caused.

                                                                                                        - Vamshi Regalla
 

Hindu : 25 Mar - Editorial : Government choice to be biased on Celeb Criminals

The article is about the intensity of our thoughts as a society when it comes to problems faced by celebrities. Author points out that our government should be extra careful if its actually considering the plea from different sections of high society on pardoning Mr.Sanjay dutt for the conviction he's been charged with. Author seems to be practical when he reasons why such partiality would ruin the fundamentals of law which treats everyone equal irrespective of their position amongst us.

 

The crime committed by Sanjat Dutt is not a grave one but one should keep in mind that the weapon which he possessed could have easily caused unspeakable terror if it had fallen in wrong hands. Author also reasons whether such plea would be entertained if a vedict was given to similar crime but to an offender whom people know. Author ridicules the very idea of such a reaction from many high esteemed personality show empathy towards Sanjay Dutt because first of all the trial had taken almost 20 years when the verdict made little witness to those who have lost thier lives and those who lost their loved ones. Though some of those liberals point out that Sanjay had already done 18 months in jail waiting for the final verdict, Author skillfully uses the same logic for those behind bars who had been patiently waiting for thier chance of fair trail even for longer duration. And just because Sanjay Dutt had done a role on Gandhigiri in a movie which presumely states that  it's an act of fiction, it just shows once ignorance if they claim that particular character to be taken into consideration to let Sanajt Dutt leave free.

 

This is rather a conclusive tone from the Author that it would be nice if the onGovernment acts on its own in taking such decision but not rely on ones' popularity  in putting him behind bars.

                                                                                                                                  - Vamshi Regalla

Hindu : 23 Mar - Editorial : A new Canterbury tale

Christians- 2.2 billion people- 33.39% (of which Roman Catholic 16.85%, Protestant 6.15%, Orthodox 3.96%, Anglican 1.26%) are the percentages taken for the whole population in the world.[1]

This article shows that the archbishop[2] of Cantebury, Justin Welby has commenced his first public speech, while for the first time in Anglican Church's history a woman has become an archdeacon. The article also emphasizes on his life,giving light on how he rescued 200,00 children who were supported by the British government, now the supplies being decreased; he raised his voice as taking up one's duty towards them. He also encourages women bishops, which is a bitter matter to put forward that divides him from the Church of England. And he gives a strong opposition to homo sexual marriages, though he recognises that they are leading lasting relationships with love and commitment. Now the archbishop of over 80 million people he stands in a prime position and his stance is taken in every important matter that raises along his tenure.

One is ordinated for any position in the Church. The article was about the archbishop being elected for the position and his background, his stances taken.

TONE:objective, informative, factual

[1]

Catholicism

Claim to be direct descendants of Saint Peter. The pope is considered as his successor. 

Eastern Orthodox

The goal of Orthodox Christians from baptism is to continually draw themselves nearer to God throughout their lives. This process is called theosis, or deification, and is a spiritual pilgrimage in which each person strives to both become more holy through the imitation of Christ and cultivation of the inner life through unceasing prayer.

Oriental Orthodoxy

The Oriental Orthodox Churches and the rest of the Church split over differences in Christological terminology. The First Council of Nicaea (325) declared that Jesus Christ is God, that is to say, "consubstantial" with the Father; and the First Council of Ephesus (431) that Jesus, though divine as well as human, is only one being (hypostasis). Twenty years after Ephesus, the Council of Chalcedon declared that Jesus is one person in two complete natures, one human and one divine. Those who opposed Chalcedon likened its doctrine to the Nestorian heresy, condemned at Ephesus, that Christ was two distinct beings, one divine (the Logos) and one human (Jesus).

Church of the East

The Church of the East is said to have been formed by St Thomas.

Protestantism

• Sola scriptura maintains that the Bible (rather than church tradition or ecclesiastical interpretations of the Bible)^[5] is the primary and supreme source of binding authority for all Christians. This does not exclude other sources of binding authority, rather it places other forms of authority in subordination to the authority of Scripture.
• Sola fide holds that salvation comes by grace through faith alone in Jesus as the Christ, rather than through good works.

These are some famous denominations in Christianity, while Anglican being a sub denomination under Protestantism.

[2]

An archbishop is a bishop of higher rank, but not of higher sacramental order above that of the three orders of deacon, priest (presbyter), and bishop.

Hindu : march 23, 2013 Italy redeems itself

It is a known fact that Italy and India have been in spats from the forsaken times. 

for more info: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/southasia/view/1261526/1/.html

These days everyone is aware of the chopper.scam:
 http://www.deccanherald.com/content/311781/italy-unearths-scam-chopper-deal.html while this problem hasn't been dealt away with, two Italian marines( Massimiliano Lattore and Salvatore Girone ) are accused of shooting two Indian fishermen in the Arabian sea on 15th feb 2012, whom they had mistaken for pirates. While the trial for them is still up, they were sent to Italy two times, once for christmas and another for voting in their elections. And as Rome refused to send them back, Italy's ambassador Daniele Mancini was held up by Indian authorities to withstand him in India till our plea was heard by their government. So our foreign ministry spoke about this issue addressing that they know about the Vienna convention, yet are still bound by the supreme court to not let him out of the country. Keeping this aside the Italian government opinionated that it was a fault made on both sides. Italy insisted that any restrictions on its ambassador's movements violated conventions on diplomatic relations.India contends the shooting happened in Indian waters, while Italy has insisted the shooting happened in international waters during an international anti-piracy mission and Italy should have jurisdiction.

What would happen if the two marines were handed over to an international court?

It would anyway be lenient on them, it is no different here in India. While the higher authorities such as the PM have assured the Italian government that the marines won't be given a death sentence and the punishment would also be reduced. That aside, by keeping a strong stand of bringing back the marines to India for a trial in a special court( ordered by Supreme court) has to be brought up immediately and it should be seen whether the family of the fishermen is done full justice by punishing the marines for the murder. For all the publicity this issue received it is yet to be seen if due justice is done to the families of the fishermen, or if the diplomacy matters more in trials like this.

TONE: objective 

                                                                                                                                      - VJ

The forbidden word list : Kehna Mana hein

List of words fobidden to be used in a regular chat. if u dont have anything to speak just end the chat and mind your own business, don't waste my time even if I am not doing anything, I would prefer wasting my time in other ridiculous ways then using these words in the chat.. Learn to express or alteast practice better vocabulary which can help our writing skills. using short cuts and single line words is not cool always especially

 in this area of chatting ..well here we go

and

hello

lol

rofl

wait

ok

inka

wat else

hmm

hehe

haha

he he he..

nice

yup

cheppali

inka cheppu

wassup

 haa

ya

no

yes

oh

ah

so

kinda

yeah

oh my

nope

na

see ya.
oh that's nice

Hindu : 22 Mar - How good is our judicial system

This article is rather a frustration of the author that the guilty don't get punished in the right time in India. More over the author has cited subjective examples comparing the master minds behind terror plots as the archers in a war and those who execute the plan  are foot soldiers. He says that India should rather feel ashamed but not proud in sentencing these foot soldiers because the real master minds always get away in spite of knowing there where-abouts.

As Media gets more interested to highligt the verdict of Mr.Sanjay Dutt on the issue of Mumbai blasts 1993, Author takes a leap into the core of the problem that is the punishement to the actual culprits of the blasts. First of all its irritates both author and reader on delay of the verdict for the crimes committed almost a decade ago.

 

Author rightly says that the master minds who plan such crimes always get away inspite of knowing thier hiding, excuse either being political or situational. Then he also points on the systems which takes so much time to trail those who are mere puppets who just fell victims in carrying out such viscious plots. Even though government gives some consolation by giving harsh punishments, Author beleives that such verdicts will not be sufficient to avenge the death of those who have lost thier lives and those who still live in the momory of the lost onces.Solutions still seems impossible but the author ends the article with a little bit of optimissim that either government should speeden up the trail process before the heal is wound and the issue forgotten or find the masterminds without bowing to the pressure of inter mecountty relations or politics of high measure. Author ends the note with a mere analogy that foot soldiers though get killed at first, the real victory and courage is behold on those who could crack and be brave enough to infiltrate the archers and bring them to justics for the grave crimes they have done.

                                                                                                         - Vamshi Regalla

Hindu : 22 Mar - Editorial : ill Timing of CBI

Article was rather funny to read and the tone used here was conclusive that CBI should check their timing if they don't want to get embarrassed next time when they are actually doing their work.

 The Author takes some pity on CBI's so called timing in raiding the son and other close relatives just a day after DMK's official withdrawl from the UPA government. Though CBI have their own version to share that they have been tracking the details of Karunanidhi's kins who have been using foreign cars, gathering necessary evidence to prove that none of the foreign cars, which cost a ton, had a tax payment for thier import, it seems interesting to beleive that the DMK's withdrawl followed by immediate income tax raid is a sheer coincidence.

 

The Author suggests that atleast the head of the CBI should have been careful in choosing the dates because the media has sensatinalised the new of such grave measures to be a mere political stunt. CBI works for no government and the public wants beleive the same, so such ridicules have to be carefully dealth to avoid coincidences in future. though prime minister sent out a message that its very unfortunate that the politicians of the south had a CBI raid, it was used as a part of mockery by the media as a warning signal to those who have plans to withdraw thier support from the UPA government. Author also brings out a clear opinion that CBI should be extra cautious if they want to continue their work religiously without any kind of interference from the unwanted politics.

                                                                                                              - Vamshi Regalla

Hindu : 22 Mar - Editorial : theories of Indian caste System

Some guy who thinks he is a genius to know about Indian culture comments on various theories which explain the transition of Indian cultures in modern times. Most of the times he was being sarcastic in his views  throwing tantrums on the theorists who presented their theories. Honestly the whole article looked ridiculous to me and was irritated reading it.

 

Firstly, the Author directly attacks the views of Nandy who made some blunt statements that most of the corrupt come from the backward castes. Though such claims are blunt and should be shunned but what the difference if he is responded in similar tone. The author disagrees to the theories which propose that the backward castes have been trying to meet up the upper caste by trying to follow them in preachings and business sector. He infacts satrically says that if the brahmins are fond of eating meat and lose their rituals to follow the greed ideals of lower caste and would that mean its a reverse theory suggesting that its the upper castes who have fallen to the habits of lower castes.

 

The whole idea of such arguments on various theories of society in Modern Indian have erupted with few people like Nandy who seem to be keenly interested to leave a mark in the pages of history with such repulsive and provocative theories. And as expected there was an outrage from all sections of the society to such an extent that people like Nandy were threatened to be sent to Jail. The author ridicules the idea of Nandy who threatens back saying that he would sit in jail and come up with better theories.

 

All in all, Author tries to clearly inflict the minds of readers with his views that such theories would be made fun of in due course of time. He also cites few examples from others notables who have come up thier own theories. He mentions Gandhi's theory beleived that India should have caste system to main a balance in the way system runs and Nehru's theory which beleived that our country should be divied in linguistic basis to have a sense of unity. The intention behind mentioning these theories by the author seem to make his one clear that putting such people in jail would only end up in  having such theories which, for any reason, either good or bad, explain the current circumstances of Modern India.

 

There is only one person Author seems to be completely please with and its by no surprise is Ambedkar. He idealises Ambedkar's theory to be more practical since such theory was the result of the continous oppression of human values. I wonder how the author skipped from the practicality of Ambedkarism which clearly suggested that in a span of 50 years, the concept of reservation for the backwards should be abolised and it is to be claimed based on the economic depravation but not on caste and rightly predicted that failing to do so would end complete misbalance in the very needs of reservation.

                                                                                                               - Vamshi Regalla

Hindu : 21 Mar - Editorial : Inflation And Stuff

The article wants to emphasize on the effects of inflation in the ongoing progress of our country. According to him, GDP of India is in the lowest trend which is not a good sign of development. there is a mention of repo rate and reverse repo rate, terms which I have heard of long back and I am sure they are related to inflation. Its hard for me to deduce on what the author inferred from all the statistics because the topic itself needs lot of understanding on Economics.

Author says that the most effected sector is the food and retail and that the price hike is soon to be seen in spite of measures taken by the ruling government keeping in view of the approaching general elections. the energy sector has a low growth rate which is not good for a developing country like us and that could be because of FDI in other words, revenue generated had to be shared with foreign industries.

throw some light on this if u have or gathered any further information. if not we can end this discussion and move to the next editorial topics.