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says a Modi bhakt :laugh: :laugh: You are the one who sees nothing except Modi Modi Modi. As for being a fanatic - I have said this earlier and I'll say it again. I will happy if Lk Advani or Sushma Swaraj become PM. Arun Jaitley would also be ok...unlike ylu, I am not fixated on one and ONLY one name who, according to you, is a messiah and will solve all of India's problems.
you are fixated on any name but him.
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Some more NRI intelectuals released letter opposing Modi :haha:

Around 75 professors and other academics of Indian origin working at some of Britain's prestigious institutions such as Cambridge and Oxford universities and London School of Economics today issued an open letter, sharply attacking Narendra Modi and saying, "The idea of Modi in power fills us with dread".
The academics led by Professor Chetan Bhatt and Gautam Appa of the London School of Economics issued the open letter in the UK's Left-leaning 'Independent' newspaper.
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says a Modi bhakt :laugh: :laugh: You are the one who sees nothing except Modi Modi Modi. As for being a fanatic - I have said this earlier and I'll say it again. I will happy if Lk Advani or Sushma Swaraj become PM. Arun Jaitley would also be ok...unlike ylu, I am not fixated on one and ONLY one name who, according to you, is a messiah and will solve all of India's problems.
This not to make you or any one happy..Modi is declared PM candidate from BJP,why should Advani/Sushma's name comes into picture? Then why would BJP announce Modi as PM candidate in first place. Some time i feel you will be happy if BJP lose the elections just to see Modi not becomign PM.
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Person who uses language like Madam' date=' Shehzada, Pakistani agent saying others are making petty statements. This guy is getting increasingly laughable with single passing day.[/quote'] Excuse me!!What's wrong in using words like madam and shehzada,the only laughable person here is kejru. sent from dil se
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As expected' date=' few blind ones dont see anything wrong in continual use of ''shehzada'.[/quote'] When people doesnt have problem with "Muslims should become communal" what is big deal about Sahazad.
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As expected' date=' few blind ones dont see anything wrong in continual use of ''shehzada'.[/quote'] Shehzada is much more respectful than the chaddi
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Excuse me!!What's wrong in using words like madam and shehzada,the only laughable person here is kejru. sent from dil se
Imagine VajpayeeJi using such kind of cheap language in his public rallies, you'll see what is problem. This guy Modi has plummeted standard of public campaigns to an all time low. Grace is something which would be put as antonym of Modi in dictionaries very soon.
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It is interesting how for so many years congi acolytes and sympathizers were using that Macaulay's pota Thapar's interview to browbeat Modi. Ofcourse, they ignored several other interviews he gave to regional and hindi channels but nonetheless, now that he has been giving all these interviews, total silence (other than that India tv tamasha. Sickulars, that is what he thinks about your "News media". That he'd rather give interview to India freaking TV than to macaulay's pota potis). He is still ignoring the English channels, which I'm glad (these idiots will be out of business anyways once congi money tap is turned off).

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As expected' date=' few blind ones dont see anything wrong in continual use of ''shehzada'.[/quote'] Yup ,coz there is calling somebody prince is not offensive,i dint think any body would mind it unless u r just some random guy and if shehzada is offensive what about shazia ilmi 's comment. sent from dil se
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Imagine VajpayeeJi using such kind of cheap language in his public rallies' date=' you'll see what is problem. This guy Modi has plummeted standard of public campaigns to an all time low. Grace is something which would be put as antonym of Modi in dictionaries very soon.[/quote'] Wow!If u address a lady madam is it cheap,u have to be utterly dumb to think ,that calling somebody madam is cheap also how is calling somebody shehzada is cheap,in case u don't know shehzada means prince. And if that's cheap than what shazia said was beyond tolerance. sent from dil se
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http://week.manoramaonline.com/cgi-bin/MMOnline.dll/portal/ep/theWeekContent.do?programId=1073754900&contentId=16674236 Foreign diplomats in India are keeping a close watch on the elections
Will it be the mercurial Mamata Banerjee, or the feisty Jayalalithaa, or as most opinion polls suggest, Narendra Modi, the next Prime Minister of India? Like millions of Indians, foreign diplomats posted in India, too, are keeping their fingers crossed. Despite the uncertain pollscape, impression is gaining ground among the diplomatic community in Delhi that by the end of May, India might have a right-leaning government, and countries like Israel are watching the evolving situation with great interest. The Israelis remember Modi's trip to their country in 2006, when he charmed one and all. Roley Horowitz, his tour guide on a trip to Old Jerusalem, remembers the visit. “The Israelis remember Modi for his warmth. When he was told that my Indian name was Savitri, he quickly called me Savitri behen. The visit by Modi remains one of the most popular Indian visits to Israel,†said Horowitz. The Arabs, on the other hand, did not make any effort to engage Modi. They took note of him only after the United States sent its envoy to meet him in Gandhinagar. The visit caught the Arab diplomats in New Delhi by surprise. They feel that they have missed the opportunity to cultivate not just Modi, but the entire top brass of the BJP, while the Israelis beat them to it. “Whoever comes to power will be our partner because we have to work with India. Individual leaders do not matter much in our plan of action,†said a senior Arab diplomat. He, however, admitted that the Arab approach towards the BJP was coloured by the record of the Modi government during the 2002 Gujarat riots. Modi reciprocated to the Arab cold shoulder by avoiding trips even to big Gulf markets like Dubai while leading Gujarat for more than a decade. The Arab diplomatic community has now sat up in view of the possible change of government in New Delhi. The recent visit by Crown Prince Salman, first deputy prime minister and defence minister of Saudi Arabia, is seen in this context. An Arab diplomat who interacted with the visiting prince's team said the Saudi royal family was deeply concerned about its ties with India, especially if the BJP came to power. “The prince wanted to know whether the BJP was coming to power. Because, apart from Israel, the Iranians, too, would be really happy to get Indian support in their efforts to counterbalance Saudi Arabia,†he said. Iran, as if on cue, sent its foreign minister Javad Zarif to Delhi to take stock of the evolving political situation. China, Pakistan, the US and the European Union, too, have shown a great deal of interest in the Indian elections, the perceived ascendancy of the BJP and the downswing in the Congress fortunes. China has taken note of Modi's criticism of its “expansionist†mindset, while addressing a campaign rally at Pasighat in Arunachal Pradesh. Chinese media representatives told THE WEEK that Modi's strident comments left them confused about his China policy, especially since Gujarat had benefited from his business trips to China. Of all countries watching the election season in India, Pakistan stands out because of its antipathy to Modi. Najam Rafique of the Islamabad Institute of Strategic Studies said Pakistanis had not forgotten Modi's comments during the Kargil war of 1999 that India would respond not with chicken biriyani, but with bombs if it was attacked. Perhaps anxious to start afresh, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, a veteran of the 1999 peace initiative with Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, has sent a new high commissioner to Delhi. Abdul Basit, the new envoy, presented his credentials to President Pranab Mukherjee on April 2. The European Union is also following the elections closely. The EU diplomats are a frustrated lot as the free trade pact with India continues to be stalled. The ambassador of an east European country told THE WEEK that the EU expected the next government to pay more attention to India's hopeless ties with EU member countries. “Nokia is having problems in India. The Italians have diplomatic problems. The free trade agreement is stuck. India will have to show political will to resolve such irritants,†he said. It is reliably learnt that the EU ambassadors are going to write a joint letter to the next government, highlighting these concerns. Global powers are also looking at how the new government will respond to two big developments which are likely to make the international situation volatile in the days to come: intensification of the crisis in Ukraine and the rapid spread of the radical Islamic Brotherhood in the Gulf region. Experts warn that the next government might have little time to prepare in case problems break out in the Gulf, which has a considerable number of Indian expatriates. The world is also looking at Mamata Banerjee, J. Jayalalithaa and Nitish Kumar being possible contenders for the top job. Mamata has influenced India's policy on Bangladesh and Jayalalithaa has been a factor in India's handling of Sri Lanka. The obvious frontrunner, however, is Modi and diplomats suggest that Modi as PM will have implications for India's ties with the world.
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View from Pakistan By Najam Rafique Of all 48 elections being held across the world in 2014, the two that matter the most to Pakistan are the ones in India and Afghanistan. The Indian elections are significant as Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is pursuing a policy of improving relations with a recalcitrant neighbour as he sees this as the only sane thing to do in an atmosphere thick with the fog of war and conspiracy theorists having a field day with the prospects of a Hindu nationalist, Narendra Modi, taking over as the new prime minister of India. It is difficult for a vast majority of Pakistanis to think that Modi will be willing to change his spots. Many in Pakistan remember him as a notorious "mass murderer" who turned a blind eye to the bloodshed of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002. But, what is surprising is that there is a complete absence of this being played up by the Pakistani media. Of course, one can ascribe this to many of the internal problems facing Pakistan, and Pakistanis today give more importance to things other than a "mass murderer" becoming the prime minister of a country that still refuses to see Pakistan as anything other than a pariah. Pakistan's security establishment is deeply suspicious of Indian influence in Afghanistan and fears the possibility of encirclement by its old enemy. However, the Sharif government has been sending conciliatory signals by saying that it has no concerns so far about India's role in Afghanistan and that ties with India will not be affected by Modi becoming the prime minister. Sartaj Aziz, national security and foreign affairs adviser to Sharif, has already made it clear that his government's "platform for better relations with India and Afghanistan is the enormous economic opportunities that lie ahead for regional cooperation and regional connectivity with central Asia and west Asia." Sharif holds pleasant memories of the last time when the BJP was in power in India. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee rode the bus across the Wagah border in February 1999 and signed a peace declaration in Lahore that made peace a possibility. Both sides celebrated the motorway project of the Sharif government, which would have opened up the possibilities of trade like never before, even if that was short-lived. The hawks in Pakistan still recall Modi's words at a TV show when the Kargil war broke out in May 1999: "Chicken biryani se nahi, bullet ka jawab bomb se diya jayega." On the basis of this statement, one can say that if Modi becomes prime minister, relations between the two neighbours will nosedive. In that context, Modi's ascension to the prime ministership will be a complicating factor. So, will Modi as prime minister be reluctant to pursue dialogue for normalising ties with Pakistan? Or will he go one step further to push the already delicate ties to the brink? Academics and policy-makers in Pakistan still remember that the BJP government in India from March 1998 to May 2004 demonstrated a remarkable affinity to both shakti [power] and shanti [peace]. Even after Kargil, the BJP government was not averse to inviting General Musharraf to talks at Agra. Despite Modi's image of being at the heart of the Gujarat pogrom, his Hindu nationalism and support by the RSS, the present leadership in Pakistan sees in him a pro-business reformer. The Sharif government says developing peaceful ties with India is one of its core foreign policy principles. Will Modi be willing to reciprocate and follow in the footsteps of his party's predecessor if he becomes the next prime minister of India? The writer is director, Americas/Programmes, Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad. The views expressed are personal and do not represent those of the institute.
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Wow!If u address a lady madam is it cheap,u have to be utterly dumb to think ,that calling somebody madam is cheap also how is calling somebody shehzada is cheap,in case u don't know shehzada means prince. And if that's cheap than what shazia said was beyond tolerance. sent from dil se
I am not so sure.. check out the expression - "wham bham, thank you Mam" :--D
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