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Dear Jaal,
I and several friends would soon be launching a web newspaper.. a bit like Rediff on the Net, but with a secular anti-fundamentalist editorial position.
We hope this will become an important forum for all likeminded persons, and an important source of news and analysis on India and the subcontinent on peace and freedom issues. Eventually it will be updated twice a day with the latest political developments, but initially we will update it twice a week.
I am, as u would know, a professional newspaper editor, 32 years a journalist.
Any suggestions? Contacts? Lists? Possible columnists?
Do write in.
warm regards
John Dayal (johndayal@vsnl.com)
Jaal: The only suggestion we can offer is to have nothing whatsoever to do with Jaal for therein lies the path to total loss of credibility.
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Dear Jaal,
The central fact about the Bofors issue is that the disclosures of these and HDW kickbacks were made in quick succession by Western powers, starting with Swedish Government radio, to blackmail Rajiv Gandhi into agreeing to the use of India's population as guinea pigs for AIDS vaccine development. Since Indians don't seem to know the meaning of the word "blackmail", it does not mean that the charges of kickbacks were fabricated but that they were true and the threat of the exposure of these kickbacks was used to coerce Rajiv Gandhi to agree to the use of India's population as guinea pigs. This, of course, required that the Western powers have control over what and how much evidence was made available at any point. The Indian Government, in accordance, has relied entirely on Western entities and courts for the evidence and made no serious attempt to obtain evidence on its own. Accordingly, while the Bihar Chief Minister's residence has been raided and that dignitary (whose abilities, including linguistic abilities, are certainly better than the AIDS woman's) interrogated in connection with the fodder scam, no raid has ever been conducted on the AIDS woman's residence nor the woman interrogated as she should have been long ago, though the stakes in the Bofors matter are nothing less than India's survival. There is white supremacy in India, enforced by the Indian Government, exactly as there is white supremacy in the United States, encountered by this Indian scientist. By perpetuating the SPG security cover, given to prime ministers, to the AIDS woman and doing nothing about her improper occupancy of a former prime ministerial residence, the Indian Government perpetuates a grievous injury and debility inflicted on India. Vajpayee explains his behaviour toward the AIDS woman by calling himself a "gentleman".
Satish Chandra (satchandra@hotmail.com)
Jaal: And there we were, always thinking that as per the liberalisation policy followed by successive governments, receiving foreign AIDS was a good thing.
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Dear Jaal,
We have recd your letter and would like to inform you that your logo was given to us by our designer as his original creation. We were simply not aware of his imitation. We would request you to excuse us since in any case we have not used your logo for any commercial gain. Also we have removed your logo from our site. And we have also removed the designer from our job.
Sincerely yours
Cyberpatel (jaal@jaal.com)
Jaal: Obviously a designer with interesting designs. Imitation, of course, is a sincere form of flattering; but we consider money even more acceptable. Just a little advise - when indulging in plagiarism at least show good taste.
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Dear Jaal,
"By the end of this century a great door is going to open. It is not absolutely certain that man may not miss it - man may miss it. It is just an opportunity, a possibility, but it has never been greater than it is today."
Osho
With participants from over 100 countries, these Millennium events are to celebrate this possibility, this vision of a new dawn, a new humanity, and invite a "quantum leap" of consciousness - through meditation, laughter, celebration, relaxation and creativity. It starts with a 6-week festival in Pune in December/January, and continues around the world throughout the year 2000.
The festival program includes Osho meditations, plus a wide variety of daytime activities, workshops, classes and sessions from the Osho Multiversity; creativity workshops, dance, music, Zen sports and fitness; cultural events, shows, exhibitions and concerts.
Celebrate New Years' Day, January 1, 2000, with a Laughter Meditation. The meeting of White Robe Brotherhood happens every evening at 6.40.
Chaitanya Keerti (press@osho.net)
Jaal: We'll be celebrating the New Millenium with laughter all right; far far away from all the creditors we've gypped. Till, of course, we return and then it's back to ducking into alleys, even entering Parliament.
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Dear Jaal,
How are you??. My name is Prashanth Myadam and I am the Business Development Manager for nostOps.com. We are based out of New Jersey.
Objective of this e-mail is to introduce nostOps.com to you and explore the possibility of providing Branded e-mail, Calendaring and Chat services to your Portal http://www.jaalmag.com.
In a nutshell, nostOps.com provides email messaging service solutions to Internet service providers (ISPs), Web hosting companies, Web portals, telecommunications companies and Corporations.
nostOps.com helps you to customise your Web-based e-mail interface to accommodate the look and feel of your site. Your users get all the advanced features of our e-mail and a total reliability from nostOps.com.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Prashanth (sales@nostops.com)
Jaal: Just because we're a humour webzine doesn't mean you can send us up by describing us as a portal. As for branding, our creditors do have ideas about that [in relation to us and our outstanding (they're really outstanding) debts].
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