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Missionaries of ‘Progress’
Western wars and missionaries now wage war for 'democracy', 'progress', 'freedom' - instead of Jesus. (Cartoon source and courtesy - polyp.org.uk). Click for larger image.
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Parag Tope, a regular reader and critic, of 2ndlook, starts writing in Quicktakes.
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ICA and Paul Polak…
met someone here in san fran who wanted me to come to an ICA meeting which hosted Prashant Bhushan on saturday…
…looks like ICA and some precursors to ICA (including guys like Polak) have been the NGOs/liberal missionaries who want to bring “progress” to India…
…when Ramdev announced his bharat swabhman movement last year – hazare and his “backers” joined in… they made important proclamations on nov 4, 2010… as soon as ram dev announced his june date for ramlila in jab/feb 2011, hazare moved out and announced his own fast in april…
Related articles
- Behind Anna Hazare … (quicktake.wordpress.com)
- Hazare camp opposes Ramdev’s idea of armed wing (thehindu.com)
- Hazare opposes Ramdev’s idea of armed wing (hindu.com)
- Mood upbeat at venue of Hazare’s fast (thehindu.com)
- Missionaries of ‘Progress’ (quicktake.wordpress.com)
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