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I recently reviewed Gayla Twist Call of Vampire and completely loved the book, so I asked Ms. Gayla if she would sit down with me to give me the lowdown on herself, Call of Vampire and her upcoming projects. She agreed to do the interview and here is what she had to say…….
Crystal: Gayla Thanks you so much for taking time out of your busy schedule to do this interview with me. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and what inspired you to be an author?
Gayla: I've always loved making up stories. As a very little girl I had this pack of magic makers that I would play with for hours and never actually draw anything because in my world the markers were all characters having adventures.
My husband frequently laughs at me because even when I'm not "working" I make up little adventure stories for our daily lives.
Crystal: LOL, I can remember I was like that with barrettes. My mom used to think it was strange but my father thought it was great that I had a big imagination. Lol. That has to be cool that you do adventure stories. It is always the little thinks that makes life grand.
Gayla: Jane Austen (boring answer) Anita Loos is hilarious. John Steinbeck can make you laugh and cry in the same chapter. Alexander Dumas (he wrote history the way it should have been) Mark Twain (he's a relative so I've got to give Clemens a plug, not that he needs it) There are so many great authors out there. But definitely check out Anita Loos. She wrote Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and her books are still so very funny. Don't know why she's not more popular these days.
Crystal: Wow, what an amazing list of authors. I need to check out some of them. It never seems to amaze me that some of the best author discoveries for me have been through other authors or avid readers.
So tell us Gayla, what are you reading now?
Gayla: In fiction I'm reading Carly Anne West - The Murmurings. Just a few chapters in, but super creepy so far. In non-fiction I just finished Welcome to Your Child's Brain and I am trying to decide what to read next. I'm thinking about The Last Gun: How Changes in the Gun Industry Are Killing Americans and What It Will Take to Stop It by Tom Diaz. Not exactly light reading, but probably important to know. I must also throw a plug in for Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein. You will not be able to put it down and it will change the way you look at being a female.
Crystal: I am the same way about books I like to read more than one book at the same time. I even wonder sometimes why I don’t get confused. Cinderella Ate My Daughter is a catchy title, I will be sure to grab a copy and let you know what I think.
Is Gayla Twist your only pen name?
Gayla: Yes, although I am thinking of adding a few more.
Crystal: Do you write books in other Gerne’s outside of YA?
Gayla: I have an adult romantic comedy that I am finishing up. Then I need to get it edited and a fancy cover. I'm not sure of the time line on that title because I'm trying to focus my energies on book 2 for The Vanderlind Castle Series.
My good twin has done quite a bit of writing, but mostly in YA and MG. She also writes comic books and video game dialog.
Crystal: Wow, I did not know that. Love the alter Egos it must be fun the switch up from time to time.
I loved the Call of Vampire what inspired you to write such an amazing story?
Gayla: I get A Word A Day and one day the word was Aurorean: belonging to the dawn. I thought, "Aurora is such a great name for a vampire." Then I thought, "No, Aurora is the girl the vampire loves." Call of the Vampire pretty much sprung out of my head after that. I was surprised how quickly the plot came to me.
Gayla: Hmmm... Writing the story came pretty easily. The hardest part was finding the time. I basically wrote it around our baby's sleep schedule.
Crystal: Can you tell us who designed the cover?
Gayla: Yes! The multi-talented Phoenix Zoellick did the cover. Not only is she a great designer/illustrator (phoenixzoellick.com) but she also does sparkly pants and crazy fun animal hats (http://www.beastwares.com) The Glitter Britches are amazingly well made, cut to fit properly and have a reinforced crotch. Hey hey! I highly recommend them.
Crystal: I noticed the book was primarily in the POV of Aurora, but I wanted to know if we would ever get a glimpse into Jessie’s Pov?
Gayla: I'm not a big fan of the switching POV in a lot of stories, especially when the inner voice sounds the same for both characters, but I might figure something out so we can hear more of Jessie's thoughts. I don't know if that's book 2 or book 3.
Crystal: I loved everything about Jessie; he seems to have a good heart. But I feel like he has a dark side to him. Do you feel the same way?
Gayla: He's a vampire. There is always a dark side.
Crystal: Is there more to Aurora and Jessie attraction to each other, besides the connection that Colette’s memories are somehow creating?
Gayla: I think a lot of that plays into whether reincarnation exists and if two people are soul mates in one life does that extend to the next? Book 2 will explore that a bit more.
Crystal: Aurora seems to harbor such amazing gifts through her dreams, but it seems to me that there is more to her character?
Gayla: Like any teenager, Aurora is figuring out who she is and who she wants to be. Who she is becomes a bit more complicated the more she finds out about Jessie and his past.
Crystal: Daniel seems to be intriguing will we see more of him in the future book(s)?
Gayla: Daniel will be more and more present in the next two books. He is very much the difficult older brother in that he's convinced he is right and doesn't want to be flexible for other people's wants or needs.
Crystal: Out of all the character, which character is your favorite and why?
Gayla:I like Aurora because she thinks things through. So many modern YA female characters do so many impulsive/reckless/foolish things to move the plot forward and that annoys me. I didn't want Aurora to set that kind of example.
But then again Jessie is pretty dreamy... It's hard when you write the characters to pick a favorite. I do definitely like their love story and feel invested in them.
Crystal: Gayla, you left us with such a cliff hanger. I need to know more….. will there be another book in this story? And if so, can you give us some small details you know enough to whet the appetite lol? I know I am being nosy, but I want to know a little more about the upcoming book in the The Vanderlind Castle Series and release date.
Gayla: I'm glad you enjoyed the story. I tried to make the initial story complete, but without resolving the whole mystery. If all goes according to plan, book 2, Heart of the Vampire, will be out around July first. ... I'm trying to think what I can tell you that doesn't spoil book one for people who haven't read it... We'll definitely find out more about Jessie's world and the politics of being a vampire.
Crystal: If you had to do it all over again, would you change anything in Call of Vampire?
Gayla: At this point, no. But who knows? I might be half way through book 3 and think, "Shoot, I should have set this up in book 1!"
Thank you for considering Call of the Vampire as a potential read for your vampire romance needs. You might also want to consider Fangs for Nothing: Vampire Hunting and Other Foolish Endeavors by Adrianne Ambrose ~ it's also free on Kindle for the next few days.
Crystal, thank you very much for the review and interview!
Crystal: Gayla it was my pleasure to have you on the blog for the interview. I really enjoyed Call of Vampire and I look forward to the next installment and thanks again for sponsoring such an awesome giveaway.
Click here if you would like to read my review on Call of Vampire.
I'm just curious what makes your vampire myth different from other's vampire myths.
Hi Meghan ~ Quite honestly, I'm not sure. I haven't read a ton of the current vampire books. With Call of the Vampire I just wrote the story I wanted to tell and didn't stress about what other authors have done. Sorry this isn't a better answer to your question.

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I’m curious if there’s been a discussion about the interface design app Figma and font licensing?
As its designs are cloud based, fonts are too, so it moves beyond cpu installs. This does not square well with cpu based licenses, obviously.
Has this been discussed or addressed?
Since figma is for designing interfaces, I would assume that you'd minimally want to insist on an app license rather than a cpu-based license.
As usual I'm too busy to do any research into the specifics of the example that has raised this question and I'm just going to throw up an answer that might be to a different question but that is still definitely useful to someone.
Any number of CPUs up to the licensed maximum may access and operate the Font Software for desktop use, so long as the CPUs are owned by you and are being used by you and your direct employees. If you host the Font Software on a server for desktop use, non-licensed CPUs must not be given server access to the Font Software, and the number of licensed CPUs must equal at least the server CPUs plus all CPUs that have the permitted access. If you intend to install the Font Software on virtual machines for use by your employees, the number of licensed CPUs must equal at least those virtual machines plus the number of server CPUs that host the virtual machines. If you give away or sell a CPU, you must remove the Font Software from it before doing so. You are responsible to ensure that all persons who operate your licensed CPUs abide by this License.
Since this model is for licensing of computers owned by one entity we would, of course, need an addendum to cover a scenario with a paid service but that's not so hard because we already have an instrument for students at a university that could be converted.
OK. I have a few motherboards that utilize 2 CPUs. If I have a desktop license for a font that uses the CPU license model and is licensed for 5 CPUs, doe that mean with my 3 computers I am out of compliance?
As well, if I were to have a server with multi-CPUs where I store my fonts, using a CPU-based license as written above seems to indicate it is using up two (or more) of those CPU-based license.
OK. I have a few motherboards that utilize 2 CPUs.
I'm pretty sure that, where licensing is concerned, CPU is interpreted as 'workstation'.
The OP's scenario is another reason why font licenses (like most other software licenses) should move to a user, rather than CPU/workstation, based model. If the font is accessible to a specific set of users, we shouldn't care if it's on a hard drive, thumb drive or in the cloud, as long as the users are licensed.
@Mike Wenzloff you are the second person to ask me that in 6 years. The answer is that we aren't that picky and you can count one machine with two processors as one. I would have changed the EULA to reflect that if we got the question more often.
@SiDaniels If I had it to do over I would probably go with user rather than work station because workstation doesn't account for virtual machines where user does. CPUs is a legacy of a time before the internet was really actualized, and certainly before cloud computing, when the options were CPU or user. In that context CPU was more fair. As with so many things it feels like switching now would be more disruptive to our business than keeping them as they are even though we would do it differently if we were starting now.
I actually read most (I cannot say all) licenses before purchasing. Commercial use? Check. Users (typically 5). Check. Usage on goods...this is where I have seen some funny things and, in some cases, moved on to another font.
Font licensing can be weird and often inconsistent in their language. Sometimes it's almost like they punish the user for bothering to read them. I read some that are more intricate than actual software eulas.
It’s hard to craft a good font EULA. Some businesses want a EULA to read like a complex legal document—I think it makes them feel safe. Other people are happy with the total ambiguity that comes from downloading some of the stuff on DaFont. Balancing professionalism and user-friendliness is hard to do.
@Mike Wenzloff licensees who read the EULA are my people and I thank you. Because I'm a nerd, I read EULAs for fun - not use, and I have to say they are a great way to get your blood pressure up.
@James Puckett is not wrong that it is hard to craft a good EULA, but that's still no excuse for all the ill considered ideas that are in so many of them. Mike, you are absolutely correct that many font EULAs read like they are written to punish the licensee who reads them. This is because there are so many dos and don't that everyone knows will either not ever be enforced or only used as leverage if there is an license enforcement over a more easily identified infringement. That means the only people who suffer are the ones who know they are there.
Products clauses are hard. I think it is completely fair to want to essentially receive royalties if your IP is being used to increase the value of a product. Most industries with this sort of intellectual output do receive royalties in this way. (as I side note, I consider broadcast, logo, web and app clauses to be types of product clauses). That said, do to the nature of the way fonts work in computers as well as the way users interact with fonts print forms is a really difficult kind of clause to implement (much less enforce).
In the last year we got rid of all print forms of product clauses because it was clear that embedding had enough use to cover the loss. The idea that embedding, which requires more steps, would require additional licensing is just so much more intuitive.
I should note that we still forbid letterform products. When I say "forbid" I mean forbid not "require additional licensing for". I labored over this because we can't stop someone from doing it in the first place and my entire life philosophy is build around the idea of accepting reality. It seemed like a hill worth dying on. We want to control the merchandising of our letterforms if it ever happens.
Thing is (to me) that to restrict printing on physical widgets (coffee cups, pens or t-shirts) without special pricing being applied versus traditional print books? I can guarantee that the number of books have far outweighed the physical printing on widgets (as defined above). So I have never really understood that restriction, per se.
As regards film credits, titles, signage in a film or building, et al? Naw, I get that part. I have clients I'll do a series of work for (brochures, pricing lists, newsletters, books etc) for that get one price. But the drug companies and large publishing houses I do similar work for? Nope. They get a different price in part calculated against their gross revenues.
This topic has at one and the same time fascinated and frustrated me. It is sometimes hard to do the right thing. It is far easier these days being semi-retired—I don't have 7 people I am trying to herd (keep compliant being one of those tasks).
While I have made fonts beginning in about 1990 (with a long break in there), I have only done so as bespoke fonts (and or drawing the inked design or doing OT Features) and while I refer to the agreement in the font licensing field, it is a contract that is not really different than my design/layout work.

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Cheryl Fernandez-Versini has surprised a young person at a charity ceremony by presenting him with the Young Achiever of the Year award.
The X Factor judge and pop singer presented Adrian Maddocks with the prize at the North East Prince's Trust and Samsung Celebrate Success Awards last night.
The accolade was in recognition of how he had overcome bullying, special needs and post-traumatic stress disorder to succeed in the retail industry.
The Prince's Trust and Samsung Celebrate Success Awards are a fantastic opportunity to recognise the achievements of young people who have turned their lives around with the help of The Prince's Trust.
I want to congratulate Adrian on winning the Samsung Young Achiever of the Year Award. He and all the other nominees are a true inspiration to me."
Maddocks, 20, is from Wallsend in North Tyneside - close to Newcastle upon Tyne, where Fernandez-Versini grew up.
Maddocks had faced bullying at primary school, where he was teased for his inability to read or write. He then attended a special needs school and went to college to study retail, but could not keep up and was asked to leave.
During two years of unemployment, he volunteered at a hospital, before joining the Prince's Trust programme Get into Retail. This helped him get a job at Tesco, and he has since been able to move into independent living.
After meeting Fernandez-Versini, Maddocks said: "I am speechless. To win this award and to meet Cheryl has been absolutely amazing."
Ms Fernandez-Versini said she wanted people to celebrate more north east success stories.
I didn't hesitate when I was asked to come and give an award. I am very proud to be from the North East and helping young people is something that is very close to my heart.
I have been lucky to realise my dreams and I think all young people deserve the chance to succeed, no matter what their background is."

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Disclaimers: Yuugiou is the property of Takahashi Kazuki. I obviously do not own it since I'm not having money.
Dedications: To Katsuko, for enjoying the story, despite the twist.
Archive: DarkMagick(dot)net, FanFiction(dot)net, and MediaMiner(dot)org. Anyone else wanting it, please ask first. I'll probably say yes, but ask first.
There were just some days he looked at the people around him and wondered 'Why the hell do they put up with me?' Not that he allowed all that many people to be around him, but they seemed to keep ending up there all the same. If it wasn't one member of that little mutant growth group that hung off Mutou Yuugi, then it was another, till he sometimes almost wondered if they were mitotic; and he wasn't too sure where they were all coming from otherwise.
Then again, in all honesty, he knew only a couple of them were truly mitotic: Yuugi and Bakura... and sometimes that strange Egyptian kid that nearly ruined his Battle City. They'd even somehow managed to briefly force it upon him.
But he was resolutely not thinking about any of that. In fact, he never wanted to think about that again. No matter what he'd seen - or perhaps only thought he'd seen - nearly a year ago no longer mattered in the grand scheme of his world. Like the computer that had been unceremoniously carted out of his office yesterday, those thoughts and experiences were now obsolete.
There were only a few things he was willing to carry over from his experiences with those people, a few things he had been forced to learn: no matter how hard he may deny it, magic apparently did exist; mitosis apparently did apply to humans; there were people out there he could be himself around; and he apparently did have a heart, and it could encompass more people than his younger brother... damn it. And thus were the reasons why he was throwing himself into his work with a little more abandon than usual, why he had barely been home in the seven months since they'd returned from Egypt, why he had only shown up at school for tests... and a myriad of other little things. Because if he ignored or avoided this problem long enough, it might just go away.
There was a knock on his office door. Then again, maybe it wouldn't. He glanced up from his computer screen, a little surprised to find his office to be much darker than it should have been. The windows at his back showed a sun setting behind the other buildings of Domino City, and the clock on his computer revealed he'd already put in another fourteen-hour day. Nonetheless, that was neither Mokuba's nor his secretary's particular knocks. That, in and of itself, was a curiosity, something he rarely afforded himself. If it hadn't been so odd, he probably wouldn't have taken the time to bark out a rough "Come in" before burying himself once more in the spreadsheet open before him.
Perhaps the person who'd entered spoke, and perhaps not. He couldn't imagine himself so far out of it that he'd miss someone speaking to him... but then again he was having to fix yet another mistake in the production schedule sheets. If it were at all possible, he'd love to fire everyone who worked for him and run the whole business himself from top to bottom.
A less dignified person might have been said to have jumped, but never Kaiba Seto. He couldn't think of a term for the slight stiffening his body did, but it was not that he was startled. Kaiba Seto did not startle, he didn't jump, and he certainly didn't yelp because someone managed to sneak up on him.
"Something in my throat," he excused himself, and never mind how blatant the lie was. "What are you doing here?"
"It's been months since anyone saw you. We were worried about you."
He rolled his eyes. Of course, the Friendship Brigade... which was curiously down to one. Didn't they usually travel in a pack of some sort? "Yeah, sure." He cast his eyes back down to the spreadsheet before him.
"We were!" How the hell did he manage to worm his way between Kaiba and his laptop? Not even Mokuba could do that one. "You haven't been to school, Mokuba-kun said he has to come here to see you now, and I'm - we are worried about you!"
"Well, now that you've seen I'm fine, could you clear out so I can finish here?" It was hard, but he made it a request. It was just something about those eyes..
One eyebrow rose suspiciously. "Are you trying to get rid of me, Kaiba-kun?" Surely, he had to be joking. He thought he was making it perfectly obvious that all he wanted was to be left alone.
"Why are you still here?" he snapped off instead.
He didn't have to look away from the computer to know the other's eyes were narrowing. Change the hair just slightly, and he might be speaking to the other version of the older boy. "You're not getting rid of me that easily, Kaiba-kun." Was there something special about his name, the way he kept repeating it? Not that he wasn't prone to that anyway, but this was a bit above and beyond the pale. "You need a keeper. The other me mentioned that to me several times, and now I think I see what he meant."
That bordered on something his other might say, he thought to himself. Outwardly, he let himself bristle slightly. "And who are either of you to talk to me that way?"
"A friend, Kaiba-kun," the other shot back. "You know, that thing you try to pretend you don't have?"
He glanced up from his computer, and suddenly the other was right there beside his chair and close enough that he could now feel his breath against his skin. A hand gripped his jaw and pulled him in closer; he found himself curiously without resistance, even when he felt cool lips press to his own. If he wanted to, he could put a name to what was happening or categorize the individual flavors in the other's mouth. But he didn't. He couldn't, not when he was trying to imagine this was the other Yuugi instead.
Well, this might be my last story published as Eternal SailorM. Given the way my little poll is going, my writing username might well be changed very shortly. It's been a fun nearly 10 year run with this name, but I think it might be time to change it out; it's a little too 'Sailormoon'-ish for full-time shounen-ai. So, please keep an eye out for stories from 'Apollymi' from here on out!
As for "Mitotic" itself, I asked Katsuko for a first line to a story. The one here is what I got, and "Mitotic" built itself around it. Even I wasn't expecting the ending, though. Poor Yuugi. Stuck in a story with an author who likes to torture the boys.


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text: A near-fatal car accident would set most bands back months, maybe years. Arizona-based trio decker. pulled through the experience and released their fourth album just six months later. The gritty folk-rock band is led by Brandon Decker, whose first album, Long Days, debuted in 2009. Four albums in four years may seem like a lot, but Decker has been piling up praise with every new release.With the help of a Kickstarter campaign and some faithful fans, decker. released Slider on February 26.

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Unbelievable. Good golly I can’t wait until Texas turns purple or blue. Embarrassed.
Writer’s Description: The religious right in this country simply cannot keep their religion (and racism) to themselves.

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Violet, why not just call it purple?
Violet is the color at the end of the visible spectrum of light between blue and the invisible ultraviolet. Violet color has a dominant wavelength of approximately 380-450 nanometres.
Violet and purple look similar, but violet is a spectral colour, with its own set of wavelengths on the spectrum of visible light. Purple is a dichromatic colour, made by combining blue and red. In the traditional colour wheel used by painters, violet and purple are both placed between red and blue. Purple occupies the space closer to red, between crimson and violet. Violet is closer to blue, and usually less intense and bright than purple.
Violet and purple retained their status as the colour of emperors and princes of the church throughout the long rule of the Byzantine Empire.
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In Europe and America, violet is not a popular colour; in a European survey, only three percent of men and women rated it as their favourite colour, ranking it behind blue, green, red, black and yellow (in that order), and tied with orange. Ten percent of respondents rated it their least favourite colour; only brown, pink and grey were more unpopular.


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The item Common trees of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. | Árboles de Puerto Rico y las Islas Vírgenes, por Elbert L. Little, Jr., Roy O. Woodbury, y Frank H. Wadsworth represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Yuma County Library District.
"Traducción al español de Trees of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, Second Volume. Agriculture Handbook No. 449. 1974."
Common trees of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

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The Mountfield 3600SH is a 92cm working width model with a hydrostatic transmission. This high specification garden tractor is suitable for gardens up to 2 acres. Light steering and a tight turning circle makes it easy to manoeuvre around trees, borders and garden furniture with minimal effort. All Mountfield garden tractors cut wider than the wheel width, which means there is little trimming left to do after the lawns have been mown.
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The Week of the Young Child is nearly upon us! Celebrations this year will be the week of April 8-12. This annual event is hosted by the National Association for the Education of Young Children to shed light on early learning, young children and their teachers, families and communities. Each day will have a different theme.
Have you made plans to celebrate any of these special days? You can find ideas from NAEYC here. Share your ideas and photos on our Facebook pages! Help spread the word about the critical importance of young children’s early learning!

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For over two decades, the IRF has been holding the Annual Incentive Invitational which provides four days of networking, education and destination showcase experiences that foster new relationships and solidify existing ones with decision makers from incentive companies and supplier corporations.
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For the first time in 24 years the IRF attendee list was comprised of 50% buyers and 50% sellers. This made for an ideal mix of vast networking possibilities and organically promoted the networking capabilities used in the QuickMobile app. The ability to easily network made the entire event much more impactful and eventful for the attendees.
“We also incentivized uploads of photos to the event gallery by awarding points in the game. Attendees could photograph what’s going on around them and we could capture those photos for our use on social media and for next year’s event gallery. They really enjoyed seeing each others’ photos and they even started to post and then out-post each other,” said Secules.
In order to bring the excitement of the event to the outside world, the IRF used the social media integration in the event app to drive attendees’ use of external channels. Creating a hashtag around the event and encouraging attendees to use Twitter via the QuickMobile app (awarding game points for each tweet,) extended the event’s social reach to an even greater number of personal networks. “We noticed the Invitational’s hashtag skyrocket over the course of the event. It’s been really exciting to see. The fact that attendees could post within the app really increased the value of the event for the IRF,” said Secules.
In order to support the unique characteristics of the IRF Invitational event by the mobile app, the IRF worked closely with QuickMobile to design an event app that was informative and extremely engaging.
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The euro fell to 1.3054 dollars in New York at 2145 GMT from 1.3076 dollars late Thursday.
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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but not so interesting as looking.
What does it mean to see something, to learn to really look? I have colleagues who do this with stones, who can look at something that would be utterly overlooked by most people– a loose tumulus of rocks beside a road, say, or the exposed side of a hill– and name the minerals, put together the pieces of geological history on display, and tell the stories of the stones. Other people can do this with clouds, perhaps, or stars, with texts on a page or paintings or the way people speak or interact. Is this part of what education is, simply extending one’s knowledge so that new aspects of the world become interpretable? This is likely where the humility of education comes in: the realization that however much one knows or sees, it is only an incredibly small sliver of the overall picture, and sight can go so much deeper in so many different directions.
But there’s an art to simply looking and seeing as well, something that complements and yet remains distinct from simply having knowledge. Something that moves observation closer to aesthetics and philosophy than pure objectivity. The prose of Nancy Hugo and the photography of Robert Llewellyn combine in this book to do this with trees.
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To read this book is to see trees for the first time. I am stunned and stirred awake. To see these forms that seem so staid and unmoving, the background to our daily lives and the shade to our fortunate streets, as dynamic, changing, sexual organisms. People who think Groot in the new Guardians of the Galaxy movie is cool have no idea how alive and alien these common trees really are, from the antenna-like flowers of the red maple to the dangling tendrils of the oak male catkins.
You think there are aspects of the world you have a pretty good handle on, things that you can identify and then safely ignore for most of your life. It’s terrifying and refreshing to realize how much life and newness there is in the world around you. And then you’re struck– how much else am I missing? Not simply in the living, green world around me or taking place under my nose in the garden, but what about in the faces of my family, or the unread texts on pages, or a thousand other everyday occurrences?
The greater part of the phenomena of Nature . . . are concealed from us all our lives. There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, and not a grain more. . . . A man sees only what concerns him.
This entry was posted in Reviews and tagged environmentalism, natural history, nature, nonfiction, observation, science, trees on August 28, 2014 by boldsaintcroix.
This is a book of postcards. It’s not in actuality a book of physical postcards (though that might be a fantastic manifestation of this work). But that’s what it feels like: amazing images with just enough explicatory prose to whet one’s appetite. Pakenham traveled the world photographing the most remarkable trees from Asia, North America, Africa, Australia, and Europe. Unfortunately, he did not write a book about it. He published a book of postcards instead. Gorgeous postcards, in a huge, hardcover coffee table book. But postcards, nonetheless.
Remarkable Trees of the World is a follow-up to Pakenham’s earlier work that featured sixty remarkable living trees found throughout Britain and Ireland. I’m still very interested in reading that book. Perhaps a constrained focus on the lingering leviathans of one particular corner of the world would allow Pakenham to go deeper than he does in this work.
The trees here are indeed remarkable. There are again sixty, divided into delightfully non-botanical categories such as Giants, Dwarfs, Methuselahs, and Dreams. Usually one particular tree of either aesthetic or historic significance is featured for each entry—such as the grove of oldest trees in the world, the largest living tree in the world, or a tree said to have been grown from a cutting of the original tree under which the Buddha obtained enlightenment. Others are simply examples of broader categories: particularly impressive baobabs, for instance, or Australian mountain ash or examples of bonsai. Any one of the sixty trees Pakenham examines would be worth at least a chapter on its own. Many certainly merit a book in their own right.
But their stories aren’t to be found here. Pakenham’s book is a beautiful work that gives hints and glimmers of the breathtaking scope of these specimens. We get a glimpse of their physical forms through Pakenham’s excellent photographs, and we get a brief taste of the legends or histories that have grown up around them in his brief prose. Pakenham admittedly shies away from any extensive botanical explication, though the book is not the worse for it.
Ironically though, reading the work feels like a whirlwind tour of those organisms that most embody place, fixity, and rootedness. Maybe I simply read it too fast (though you’re driven to turn the page to catch sight of the next forest giant). I felt I was racing through a forest when I should have been lingering in a garden.
If you are passionate about trees, this book is worth your time for the images alone. You’ve probably read about some of these specimens before, but you’ve never seen them through the thoughtful and elegant eye of Pakenham’s camera. Their stories aren’t here though. Here are frightening, awe-inspiring, and terribly pleasing glimpses alone.
This entry was posted in Reviews and tagged forests, nature, Pakenham, photography, Remarkable Trees of the World, trees on June 24, 2014 by boldsaintcroix.
There is an idea that if you know something well enough—if you spend some time learning about it and seeing all of its internal and external connections—you cannot help but loving it. I’m not entirely sure this is true, though I’d like to believe it is. I think it is an important aspect of environmentalism and likely the reason why so many scientists become conservationists: sometimes it is only by careful and deliberate study that the inherent value of an organism or system becomes apparent.
I also think this is the point of good nature writing: making the reader take a long look at something. Really study it. Get to know deeply. By doing so, rational analysis becomes something more: it becomes a form of art, of contemplation, maybe even a form of worship. It certainly can become a form of excellent literature and, in the case of this book, an opportunity for combining knowledge, connection, and empathy.
Trees fascinate me. They are ubiquitous and prosaic, and yet they’re also ancient, silent, and somehow unknowable. Have you ever stopped and simply considered how large they are? How a single specimen can tower over your home physically and cast its sheltering shade over your entire life temporally? And yet, how much do most of us really know about them? What’s going on inside the bark and beneath the soil? What unseen networks do they play a role within?
I write about trees. I titled my first collection of short stories after them. And for a long time I’ve been looking for a book that captures what they are and more importantly teaches me things about them that I didn’t know. This book, by David Suzuki and Wayne Grady, went a long way toward filling that tree-shaped hole in my head I’ve been walking around with. Grady, a Canadian science writer, and Suzuki, a zoologist, academic, and environmentalist, team up to do something that at first blush appears fairly simple: they want to write the life story of a single tree, in particular a Douglas-fir growing outside a British Columbian cabin retreat.
Of course it’s not that simple. Trying to focus on one aspect of nature—let alone a single tree—is like falling down Alice’s rabbit hole. Grady and Suzuki use the life cycle of a single Douglas-fir, from germination to death, as a lens to explore trees in general, the zoology and botany of British Columbia, and the importance of forests throughout the world. Yet the single tree itself functions effectively as a unifying thread throughout the book, and of course along the way we get a wealth of information about the evolution, reproduction, growth, morphology, taxonomy, and mystery of trees.
Tree, A Life Story is a wealth of information, yet it is consistently readable and compelling. As with any good nature book, we learn the object itself and we also learn the impossibility of seeing the object alone or isolated. We get a glimpse of the essential connectivity of trees with each other, with wildlife and fungi, and with other plants. What was most surprising to me—apart from the new facts I picked up, like the fact that scientists are still not quite sure they have a handle on how trees pull water and nutrients up hundreds of feet into the air from roots to canopy—was the way the tree itself became a character of this story. With trees, the authors explain, there is no definite moment of death. A tree’s life is in many ways a long dying. But reading the final acts of this particular tree’s life, I found myself—in a twist on much conservationist writing that witnesses to the loss of entire species or habitats—mourning an individual. Trees are monuments, they’re like rooted ships sailing not through space but through time. And we so often only see still images of their lives. To see the whole story spelled out from beginning to end was quite wonderful and surprisingly moving.
Trees still fascinate me. After reading this book I know them a little better. I also know (as with so much) that to truly understand them I’d need to devote a career to their study. But every little bit helps. Now maybe I love them a little better as well.
This entry was posted in Reviews and tagged botany, conservationism, ecology, forestry, nature, nature writing, non-fiction, reviews, science writing, trees, Trees and Other Wonders on June 10, 2014 by boldsaintcroix.


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Effective reference letters are a crucial element of good teaching, and considering the importance of these letters to our students’ futures, it is shocking how little guidance educators receive on how to write them. The limited amount of publicly available guidance on how to write reference letters is primarily in university career centres. Clearly, then, practitioners of the scholarship of teaching – particularly in Canada but also world-wide – have yet to identify the letter of reference as part of the learning experience.
The letter-writing process begins well before the referee starts to fill out the relevant forms. Since the receiving universities say the most common flaws in reference letters are vagueness and generalities (according to Lynn Brown’s “Fourteen ways to write a better letter of recommendation” in the journal Professional School Counselling, 1999), it is therefore critical that instructors know enough about their subjects to write convincingly before they start.
If students are familiar to referees, the writers must first decide whether a letter from them will be in the students’ best interest. Do they think highly enough of the individuals who have approached them? Do they have any recent experience with them? Is the knowledge they have appropriate to the application? Research suggests that lukewarm letters are often more harmful than no letter at all, so the decision to write in support of a student should be considered carefully.
When students are less well-known to referees, potential writers should begin by encouraging, if not requiring, applicants to provide them with appropriate supporting information – an updated CV, an unofficial transcript, a draft of the student’s personal statement (which will explain how the student’s interests match the program in question), and any other concise information that writers might deem useful. If the student took a course that uses teaching assistants to lead tutorials, seminars or labs, then those assistants should be contacted for their views of the student’s performance. On rare occasions – for instance when a student has been away from university for an extended period and is now hoping to return – they might need to talk to the student.
Letters are typically made up of four sections.
The first serves as an introduction which establishes the relationship between the student and the referee, along with the length of time that the two individuals have been known to one another. Was the student known to you in a single or multiple courses? Did you have any other interactions or opportunities to observe the performance and commitment of this candidate? The context and quality of your interaction with the student in question is an important feature of your credibility as a referee.
The second deals specifically with the student’s accomplishments and performance as they relate both to you as the referee and comparatively to the student’s cohort (results in courses, ranking in classes, any other evidence that demonstrates achievement). Grounding your reference in such concrete measures and specific examples can help to provide selecting committees with the kinds of hard evidence required from their most explicitly enumerated selections criteria.
No less significant are the softer, more nuanced appraisals of the student’s abilities you can offer. This third section considers the student’s character at a more general, but at the same time personal, level (examples might include work ethic, social skills, non-academic achievements, degree of motivation for the program in question, resourcefulness). Your ability to confidently capture the student’s core professional character or to speak knowledgably about their other relevant activities beyond your lecture hall can help to make your reference among the most powerful agents in their admissions folio.
The conclusion should recommend the student to the program in a clear and explicit manner, without caveat or qualification. Your final remarks should bear directly on what you judge to be this student’s overall suitability and prospects for success in the target program. The committee should not be in any doubt as to the strength and substance of your final recommendation.
Rightly or wrongly, unmitigated praise can raise unwarranted suspicion about a candidate. Letter inflation, or exaggerating a candidate’s abilities, is a perpetual concern. Exaggerating too much puts the referee’s credibility in present and future letters at risk, but being honest and critical when others are less so might also prevent a worthy student from gaining a much-deserved opportunity. Fortunately, relatively recent research by Michael Ryan and David Martinson in the Journalism and Mass Communication Educator suggests that references are generally less inflated than most would assume, and writers can therefore feel reasonably comfortable speaking the so-called truth.
When attempting to determine how even-handed the assessments in their letter might appear, referees should take into consideration cultural differences. Anecdotally, in a 1998 article in English for Specific Purposes, Karen Precht noted that British admissions committees seem to expect more balanced letters, and therefore perceive referees who find faults in their subjects as more credible. American readers, on the other hand, are more inclined to interpret the listing of an applicant’s flaws as a vote of non-confidence. Americans also are more likely to respond to lengthier letters that include personal anecdotes; they assume that being able to recount an intimate story demonstrates that you’re more familiar with a candidate and can therefore make a more-informed judgment. In contrast, British and German letters are generally more factual and might even come across to North Americans as abrupt because of their more intense focus on the candidate’s measurable academic accomplishments.
Adam Chapnick is the deputy chair, Department of Command, Leadership, and Management at Canadian Forces College.


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Are IFA Rulings on Awqaf Progressive Enough?
At the just concluded seminar on Awqaf in India held during March 29-30, 2014 organized by the Islamic Fiqh Academy (IFA), India Mr K Rahman Khan, Honorable Minister of Minority Affairs raised an important concern. He invited the uleme to deliberate upon and show direction on the issue of preservation of large tracts of waqf land classified as “burial ground”. He was of the view that developing the “unused” land should be considered as an effective way to preserving them. Else, these face the prospect of being encroached upon and lost for ever. Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rehmani, Secretary General of IFA sought to address this concern by drawing attention to the Resolutions of Tenth Fiqh Seminar held in 2010 at Mumbai. According to him the issue of preserving and developing burial grounds was adequately covered in the Resolutions. This led me to search and dig out the contents of the Resolutions. These are presented below.
1. It is indeed an immensely rewarding act and a “Sadqa-e- Jaria” (perpetual charity) in Islam to do deeds of welfare and endow (waqf) land, property and riches for charitable purposes. That is precisely why the Muslims all over the world even in the remotest parts of the globe endow land, property and riches for welfare purposes. The history of Islam and Muslims is considerably old. The Muslims have dwelt in different parts of the country for centuries altogether. In this perspective, a number of Muslim awqaf have been operative on religions, reformative and charitable lines in almost every nook and corner of the country. It is indubitably, the foremost responsibility of the Muslims of India and the Indian government to protect these Awqaf, to work for their development and expansion, to spend the income of the ‘Awqaf’ in accordance with the intentions of the endower (waqif) and last but not the least to get the Awqaf properties liberated form the clutches of the usurpers.
(It can neither be sold off, nor gifted away and nor can be inherited).
Therefore, efforts should be made keeping in mind that the waqf, apart form maintaining and looking after it’s properties, ought to reap profits and grow. In this connection, appropriate rules and laws need to be framed which would ensure complete protection and sanctity of the institution called ‘Waqf’ besides the utility enhancement and growth of the waqf taking due care of the objectives and intentions of the endowers (waqifs).
3. We notice that the mosques garner greater sanctity and veneration in comparison with other Awqaf. In this regard, the sale and transfer of mosque is valid under no circumstances. It is strictly prohibited. Even if the mosque happens to become deserted and forsaken with ‘Namaz’ not being performed there, still the piece of the land where such a mosque stands remains a mosque, whatsoever. Moreover, it still commands the sanctity and veneration of a mosque. Sincere efforts ought to be carried out to reconstruct or repair the mosque and rehabilitate it afresh.
Only he should visit or tend God’s houses of worship who believe in God and the Last Day.
4. It is an enormously sinful act and a cruelty of the worst kind to prohibit the people from offering the Namaz in a mosque.
Once a mosque always a mosque in the eyes of the Shariah, no matter for how long period the Muslims have been disallowed from offering Namaz inside the mosque or it has been forcefully usurped or the mosque building have been demolished.
5. According to the Shariah, it is practically an act of tyranny to stop the offerings of Namaz in archaeologically protected mosques.
populace, whatever their number be, should take the responsibility of maintaining and protecting these Awqaf making them profitable and functional. Also, the respective Waqf Boards should shoulder responsibilities in protecting and looking after the Awqaf in places and localities which have been eventually deserted by the Muslims. As a corollary to it, the Muslims from the neighboring localities need to strive for their protection.
usurpation of the Awqaf property are looming large, then it would be correct and advisable to sell off those Awqaf and establish the Awqaf of similar nature at other places under the above mentioned circumstances provided that: It has been thoroughly investigated that those localities or places have been wholly deserted by the Muslims and there exists no probable chance of the Muslims resettling in these places. The Waqf property is sold off at rates, which are at par with its market value. Of course, it should not be sold off at such a meager price, which cannot be estimated by experts. The Mutawalli or the officer-in charge of the Waqf should not sell off the Waqf to his close relative, hoping to reap some sort of benefit form the deal. In this way, he should also not strike a deal with a person whom he is indebted to.
shall hold good from the Shariah angle, once it has sought the opinions of at least three renowned Muftis (religious scholars) and acted in accordance with their advices.
Note : It is worth mentioning over here that the aforesaid properties viz. shops, houses, land, property, etc. which are sold off and the new shops, houses, land and property purchased against them shall also fall under the same objectives of the waqf as had been in the first case.
The proceeds of deserted and desolate Awqaf should be spent as per the intentions and objectives of the waqif (endower) as laid down in the waqfnama. If such heads in which the money can be no longer exist, the nearest channels should be considered. However, it would be unfair and unjust to spend the proceeds on other heads being unmindful of the waqif’s (endower’s) intentions and motives. In case the deserted and desolate awqaf are to be sold off, then it would be incumbent to establish other Awqaf instead of them.
as a catalyst in making the mosque functional and rehabilitated once again. There exists an enormous fear of forceful usurpation of the surplus Waqf land endowed to the mosque and the establishment of a religious madrasa or school could get the mosque out of such a danger.
There is hardly any permanent or proper bandobast in sight for the establishment of a religious madrasa or school for Muslim children in a place or locality where a mosque does exist.
finalized taking due care to ensure that the ownership rights of the mosque are not jeopardized.
11. Those mosques which have a much larger income than their total expenditures and are going on accumulating endlessly year after year and there is virtually no probability for the mosque concerned to utilize such an accumulated surplus wealth in the near future, then under such circumstances, the surplus proceeds of the mosque should be diverted towards other places (where there is a need) for constructing mosque or to help the indigent and needy mosques because even today there are numerous dwellings in India which are devoid of any mosque or religious school. Unfortunately, the Muslims crave to hear the ‘Azaan’ in such places. The excess funds of wealthy mosques ought to be utilized for building mosques in such areas.
12. In addition to this, an important head of expenditure from the funds obtained form the lands and properties endowed for the mosque comprises of the Imams, Muazzins and other workers. The participants of the seminar do feel that on certain instances, the Imams, Muazzins and others do not get adequate salaries despite the mosques having sufficient income. Henceforth, the seminar urges the members of the managing committee of mosques to provide sufficient honorarium and perks to the Imams, Muazzins and other workers of the mosque.
unscrupulous persons, then the surplus amount should be spent for that particular purpose only. To cite an example, the surplus incomes of the madrasas need to be spent for the causes of madrasas alone, that of inns for inns and the like.
meager that even the necessary expenses of the Waqf property remain unfulfilled and funds need to be borrowed to make it functional and, moreover, there lies no other alternative in question to enhance its income under such grim circumstances, the endowed property might be sold off under the conditions mentioned in Clause 7 above to buy a more beneficial and profitable property. However, if the waqif (endower) is alive, his consent should also be obtained before striking a deal.
one or two storey of a multi-storied building to the builder forever.
16. In case, there is a paucity of funds for the construction of a boundary wall or fence around a graveyard for protection- sake, shops can be allowed to be constructed in its premises. However, the passage to these shops should be form outside the graveyard. For this purpose, the rent can be collected in advance and the money can be used for constructing the shops. The income from these shops should be utilized for the security and other requirements of the graveyards. However, it should be initially ensured that the construction of the shops might not affect those graves whose identities are still existing.
formed by the Government of India for Muslim Awqaf. The committee ought to execute its plans as soon as possible and represent the Fiqh Academy in this connection. In a nutshell, the Resolutions while prescribing adequate caution, provide for exchange of assets (istabdal) as a way to develop waqf assets (clause 7); use of private investment capital for construction and development of waqf assets while ensuring a fair return on such capital (clause 15); as also development work around graveyards as a way to preservation (clause 16).


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Viktor Yanukovych, the pro-Kremlin candidate in Ukraine's presidential elections, tells Andrew Osborn in Kiev why the Orange Revolution will soon be over.
As the mercury plunged to minus ten and the strains of martial music filled the freezing air, Viktor Yanukovych took to the outdoor stage. A bear of a man with a bouffon hairdo, he gave a bizarrely robotic Mexican wave to the crowd before speaking.
"The hour of our victory is near," he boomed, as giant plasma screens projected his jowly features before a cheering crowd. "We have watched how our country has been destroyed for the past five years. Now it is payback time!"
Written off as a political corpse and a Kremlin flunky only five years ago, the barrel-chested 59 year-old Mr Yanukovych is on the verge of staging a remarkable and unlikely comeback in today's election. A former electrician and member of the Soviet Communist party, his critics often liken him to stilted Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
But that does not appear to be a problem for millions of Ukrainian voters. Failing a last-minute upset, he is on course to win the second and final round of Ukraine's presidential election today, beating the fiery and glamorous Yulia Tymoshenko, the current prime minister, into second place.
His win will reconfigure the geopolitical map of Europe, reversing the pro-Western path of Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution and pushing it back into Moscow's sphere if influence.
"They say I've changed," he said, in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph. "Everyone changes. I was too naive. We study, we gain more experience, and we learn from our mistakes."
A Russian-speaker with close ties to Russia's ruling United Russia party, Mr Yanukovych is expected to prioritise a raft of policies that will mend Ukraine's fractious relations with Moscow. He is also likely to give the Kremlin more say in the management of the country's strategically vital gas pipeline network that carries gas to Europe and heats millions of European homes.
His victory will mean that Ukraine, a giant country on the EU's eastern flank with almost 50 million people and a huge standing army, will drop its ambitions to join Nato and put its EU membership bid on the backburner.
Russia is savouring the moment. Anticipating his victory, it has already dispatched an ambassador to Ukraine after deliberately leaving the post vacant to show its displeasure with the country's outgoing pro-Western leadership.
Five years ago, he looked like a broken man. Back then, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians took to the streets to protest against his fraud- tainted election victory. Those protests, dubbed the Orange Revolution after the party colours of its figurehead, outgoing president Viktor Yushchenko, triggered a repeat election which he lost. It was a very public humiliation that saw him demonised as a bumbling Kremlin puppet and jailbird.
It was also a major embarrassment for Russia. Vladimir Putin, then the Russian president, had already publicly congratulated Mr Yanukovych on his victory and had made it clear that the Kremlin was delighted it had a new ally. Mr Putin then watched with barely concealed anger as a court declared Mr Yanukovych's win null and void. Analysts at the time said "losing Ukraine" was one of Mr Putin's rare missteps.
Now, though, it seems that the loss was only temporary. In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Mr Yanukovych says rebuilding relations with Russia will be a priority. "We need mutually beneficial relations," he said, speaking at his characteristic snail pace, picking his words as if they are finite. He accused outgoing Mr Yushchenko of ruining relations with Russia.
"Can you imagine it? Our trading relationship with Russia is worth $40bn. It is very important."
Mr Yanukovych has said Ukraine under his leadership will join a Russian free trade zone, that Russian will be the second state language with the same status as Ukrainian, and that Russia's Black Sea Fleet in Crimea may not have to leave when its lease expires in 2017. He has also promised to consider recognising the pro-Russian Georgian breakaway republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Anna German, one of his closest advisers and an MP, agrees. "It is not in our interests to cut ourself off from Russia. We can be a bridge between Russia and the West. It is an important role."
Mr Yanukovych hails from the Russian-speaking eastern part of the country known for its rusting Soviet-era industry and coal mines which is where he has his core support. He is less popular in western Ukraine where people speak Ukrainian and warily equate Russia with the Soviet Union. Critics say he is is bankrolled by a shadowy group of oligarchs including Ukraine's richest man Rinat Akhmetov, a state of affairs that has seen him often accused of being their creature.
Supporters insist he is unfairly maligned. "An enormous propaganda machine has been working to create an image of him as a monster," says Mrs German. "He had problems but he has overcome them. He has worked on himself. It is not his fault that his mother died when he was two."
When asked whether he feels a sense of revenge, Mr Yanukovych does not blink. "I just want to work for the people and to restore order," he says.
His aides fawn over him often referring to him as simply "the leader." During an intermission on a recent talk show he was on, one adviser told him his performance had been "excellent" at least five times without pausing for breath.
His political rival, Mrs Tymoshenko, says she does not trust him, however, and suspects he is planning to falsify the vote. If he does, she has promised to rally the people, raising the spectre of attempting a second Orange Revolution.
"Yanukovych is a dinosaur and his team Jurassic Park," said Hrihoriy Nemyria, a deputy prime minister and Tymoshenko ally. "If he wins we'll be trapped in a grey zone between Russia and the EU. He cannot turn the clock back completely but he can quite significantly."
Mr Yanukovych appears unfazed though, and ready to face down any accusations of fraud.
At his last rally before the vote, he told his supporters their time was coming. "February 7 is the last day of the Orange epoch," he crowed. "The leaders of the Orange regime are going to be sent into political retirement."


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As the 2019 general elections near, Indian politics has started to take unexpected turns. The new modus operandi seems to be ‘Communal Harmony’. The way communal politics has become the only way to decide the political discourse of the country is unfortunate and not a good sign for the future of democracy.
The extremely unfortunate ‘Bharat Bandh’ of April 2 in protest against the dilution of the SC/ST Act by Dalits, was a culmination of the atrocities against the community illustrated by Rohith Vemula’s suicide, the Una (Gujarat) lynchings, Bhima Koregaon, and a horse-riding Dalit boy being killed brutally in Gujarat.
Recent events in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar prove that a stage is being set to bring the country back to the post-Babri Masjid demolition era, when cities were aflame and friends had turned foes.
Indian National Congress President Rahul Gandhi along with other party leaders observed Collective Fast for Communal Harmony. The Agenda was to “fight against the divisive & oppressive agenda by BJP towards Dalits, Minority & Tribal”.
It got nasty when in an event for communal harmony. Congress mocked the victims of 1984 Sikhs massacre of 1984 by inviting the Guilty Jagdish Tytler & Sajjan Kumar to share the stage.
To add upon the Hypocrisy that was in the air today to the fast organized at Delhi’s Rajghat, Congressi leaders were seen eating ‘chhole bhature’ from Chandni Chowk earlier that day.
Mahatma Gandhi, the man who fought for freedom and taught lessons of Satyagraha, his burial ground has been reduce to today.
It is an appeal to the Public to not fall for such petty politics that has the potential to tear the fabric of our Democracy down.
There has already been so much violence and people have died. Lives have been lost. Property damaged. Politicizing the issue further will not only be insensitive but also Negligent.
The situation at the moment desperately demands that when crony capitalism has shifted the polity Right-ward; when the media owned by them are ‘manufacturing consent’ in favour of the ruling, and the middle classes have been suffocated overdose of communalism.
We advocate for a mechanism in our system to ensure prompt service and report. The delivery of Justice to be made prompt.
A pro-poor economic and socially inclusive programme needs to be formulated. A policy that cares about basic Education, Healthcare and Welfare of the masses.
Kejriwal Government has working Day and Night for the same. Fighting the road block of BJP’s such as cronies LG and Election Commission.