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THE DEED OF MRS.MIRA ALFASSA AND THE AUROBINDO ASHRAM PROPERTIES SHOWN IN DEED.

The House Grabbing case of Raghavan House connected to Aurobindo Ashram, wherein the Managing Trustee Mr.Manoj Das Gupta's name found place in FIR resulting in his getting anticipatory bail, underwent a twist when his name was not included in charge sheet. Now that much postponed case is coming up in Supreme Court. In order to provide with journalists and public spirited persons with detail background of properties belonging to Ashram, we are reproducing the deed registered by Ms.Mira Alfassa, known as Mother to Ashramites . N.N

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CAUSE LIST

(For 01st, September, 2008 )

                       COURT NO. 11

                       HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE DALVEER BHANDARI

                       HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE HARJIT SINGH BEDI

46.  SLP(C)No.2223/2007 S. MURUGAVEL                    MR. K.K. MANI

  XII  A/N-O         Vs. R.K. SELVARAJAN & ANR.         MR. BIJAN  KUMAR GHOSH

  96,  0,  0 S.(1807)    (WITH APPLN.(S) FOR DIRECTIONS MS. ANITHA SHENOY

  6TH LISTING             AND FOR LEAVE TO FILE ADDITIONAL

                          DOCUMENTS)

COPY OF DOCUMENT

Document No- 1824061955

(The original is written on stamped paper of the Government of India of the value of Rs. 20 for the first page, 2 and 8 Annas for the 2^nd page and of RS.25 for the third page and bears a stamp of 50 n.p)

We Mrs. MIRA ALFASSA, of the Ashram of Sri Aurobindo at Pondicherry and to those present and to come, salute.

Whereas the Ashram of Sri Aurobindo at Pondicherry is an institution and a centre of practice with a view of evolution of a form and mode of life which shall be animated finally, by an earnest spiritual conscience and shall achieve a life, much elevated of mind, and whereas, the Ashram of Sri Aurobindo, who have faith in his philosophy and his yoga, and whereas the Ashram of Sri Aurobindo has been established and is maintained by the benevolent care and under the direction of the Mother. Only with the aim of helping the devotees in their spiritual education and up-liftment, according to (as per) the ideal and teaching of Sri Aurobindo, and there as an university with boarding has been founded by the Mother, under the aegis of the said Ashram, known as "Sri Aurobindo International University Centre in order to give to the students of the said University an education and a training for ascertaining their complete mental development, this education being fully based on the ideal and teaching of Sri Aurobindo, and whereas Sri Aurobindo has given up all his books, periodicals, writings and manuscripts, published or non-published as well as the copy right, the right of reproduction and the proceeds of sale of these works, to the exclusive benefit and use of these works, to the exclusive benefit and use of disciples, devotees and followers residing in the said Ashram and in favour of the schools lead by the followers of the said Ashram under the direction of the Mother, and whereas Sri Aurobindo has expressed the desire of utilizing the proceeds of sale of his books, periodicals, manuscripts and writings, published or not or as well as all copy rights of these works and the proceeds of their sale to the exclusive use and benefit of the disciples and devotees, residing at the said Ashram, and same as per the instructions which the Mother alone would give as per her absolute discretion; and whereas during the life time of Sri Aurobindo, he has actually allowed the use of the said books, publications, periodicals, manuscripts and writings and permitted to spend and use the proceeds of their sale to the benefit of the disciples and devotees, residing at the said Ashram and for providing party, for the costs of maintenance of the said Ashram and educational institutions and others, attached therewith; and whereas the voluntary donations (gifts) and contributions, received, every now and then, from numerous disciples, devotees and followers of Sri Aurobindo and of the Mother, for being utilised for the benefit of the devotees, residing in the Ashram of Sri Aurobindo, the Mother, with the knowledge of Sri Aurobindo and with his consent, has always provided for the expenses of the said Ashram, and has also, now and then, purchased or taken on leas (rent) or in other names, many immovable properties, at Pondicherry, or elsewhere, either in the name of Sri Aurobindo or in the name of the Mother, for the exclusive aims, use and benefit of the said Ashram and various activities, mentioned above; and whereas the immovable properties acquired in the manner mentioned above and described and bounded in the below mentioned annexure, have always been utilized for the (residence) dwelling of the followers residing in the Ashram of Sri Aurobindo or for different industrial enterprises and others attached with Ashram, and the same to the exclusive benefit and use of the disciples, devotees and followers residing at the said Ashram; and whereas the wooden articles and movables found in the places specified in the below mentioned annexure, have also been purchased with the money received by way of donations (gifts) and voluntary contributions in the manner mentioned above and belong to Ashram and are kept by the Mother as trust, for the exclusive benefit of the Ashram and that of the disciples and followers of Sri Aurobindo; residing therein; and whereas the Mother (and Sri Aurobindo till the day of his death), had always been in possession of all the immovable properties described and bounded in the below mentioned annexure and of all other movable properties, articles, goods and articles, inclusive of the installations, which are at present, in different departments of the Ashram, as trustee, for the use and the benefit of the disciples and devotees residing in the Ashram of Sri Aurobindo and of that of Sri Aurobindo International University Centre; and whereas the Mother who had always had the sole and entire charge (in charge) and the management of the said Ashram, and who really lead these different activities, desire now to institute and create a council of Administration for the management and the direction of the Ashram of Sri Aurobindo and that of "Sri Aurobindo International University Centre" and of the other institutions which will be formed in future, by the mother, or by the person/persons nominated by Her, in order to follow the ideal of Sri Aurobindo, in the manner mentioned above; and whereas the Mother had previously executed a deed containing a declaration of trust, which deed could not be completed through registration; and whereas the Mother is at present in possession and enjoyment of numerous lands, funds, immovables and places (localities), situated at Pondicherry as well as in the Union of India and particularly described in the below mentioned annexure or that she has therein a right sufficiently established, properties free from any charge, kept in trust, in accordance with powers and provisions mentioned hereunder.

This deed states as follows:-

The Mother had always the possession and enjoyment and the Mother, her successors and rightful owners (heirs) and other present trustees (all of whom are later on included as per the term trustee or trustee) will have always, in future, the possession, first of all of all different lands, funds, immovables and places (localities) situated in Pondicherry, as well as in Union of India and specifically described and bounded in the below mentioned annexure, secondly of all books, periodicals, writing and manuscripts of Sri Aurobindo and of the Mother, and of all other books, publications, news papers and other writings, remaining at present preserved in the Ashram of Sri Aurobindo, or belonging to Ashram and thirdly, of all printing machines, printing letter types and other objects or accessories, found in the Ashram Press, lathe tools, machineries, motors, pump, tools, instruments, movables installations, stationeries and other wooden articles, movables and objects belonging or which are used in the schools, university, the gymnasium, the sports ground, the music hall, the painting hall and all other establishments of art, of weaving science, in the bakery, carpentry, workshops, factories, mills or in the technical (service) establishments and all other establishments and activities of the said Ashram, and fourthly the possession of all ready cash as well as the amounts deposited in the banks and all title belonging to the said ashram and of all donations (gifts), contributions (subscriptions) offerings to be received in future by the trustees (all these assets specified hereunder on the whole as properties of the trust) to be kept in trust to preserve and utilize the same to establish and maintain therein for perpetuity the said Sri Aurobindo Ashram with all its activities and various services as well as "Sri Aurobindo International University Centre" according to this deed of settlement and subject to the provisions mentioned hereunder and the same as per the ideal of the teaching of Sri Aurobindo and of the Mother, in the manner mentioned above and for the spiritual and religious education, and for the enlightenment of the humanity in general, based on the ideal and the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo.

2. The trustees or the trustee will have, at present, the absolute direction and the complete control over the assets of the Ashram of Sri Aurobindo, kept under trust, and could every now and then, make, cancel or modify the rules, however, without these being, in contradiction with this deed or with the aim and object of the Ashram, in the manner which they or he decide (s) useful with regard to the aim, the mode of direction, the persons in charge the terms and conditions of the said Ashram and of its various services and activities, as well as the said University and the assets kept under trust will be directed managed, utilized, in such manner that the trustees or the trustee decide the same to be necessary on account of this deed or for the execution of the trust.

3. The trustees (or the trust ) can pay, from and out of the funds of the trust, all rents, costs, taxes, insurance premiums, costs of repairs and other expenses payable periodically in respect of the lands, funds, houses and places as well as all the expenses of maintenance of Ashram of Sri Aurobindo, and all its activities and services, and those of "Sri Aurobindo International University Centre" and the expenditures made for the purchase of what all is required necessary to the said Ashram and University, inclusive of the expenses of different activities of the Ashram, and can also pay the securities and salaries of all employees and all the unexpected expenditures, for the maintenance the improvement of the Ashram, its different activities and services and of the University.

4. The trustee or trustees will always have the right to sell or let any house, land, funds and places (localities) any wooden articles, wood, material or installation, and other moveable properties belonging to the trust with power to purchase or resell and in case of similar sale or place (locality), the trustee (s) or any other person who would have the possession and enjoyment of the assets forming part of the trust and having the powers at that time will execute and register and will sing all documents necessary to execute the sales or leases; any amount of money coming from these sales or leases will be considered as being part of the assets of the trust.

5. In addition to the powers and authorities mentioned above conferred on the trustees and without harm to these rights, the trustees will have the following assignments.

(a) To make use, occupy, utilize, or allow the usage, the occupation, the employment, the perpetuity of all the assets or anyone of the assets kept under trusteeship in such manner, under such aim and for such period they would decide profitable or favorable to the aim and interests of the said Ashram and of those who reside therein, and also in the interests of various activities and departments of the Ashram and that of the University and of its students, as well as that of all other institutions and services which can be established or formed in future.

(b) Obtain by way of purchase, rent, or otherwise all lands, house, funds, dwelling and places as the trustees will decide the same useful and erect, construct, demolish, reconstruct, enlarge, improve, or modify, now and then, and at all time, all buildings, or any one portion of these buildings as the trustees will find it useful or convenient with the view of the aim of the Ashram and of its university;

(c) execute every agreement and cancel and modify any agreement, and make all deeds, documents and in general every thing which they will decide useful, concerning with any assets forming part of the trust and the same in conformity of the aim of the said Ashram of its different activities, services and of its university;

(d) Open one or many accounts in the bank which the trustees will decide suitable, and decide who will operate these accounts and sign, make, endorse and negotiate all cheques, drafts, receipts and other business matters;

(e) receive and accept all gifts and concessions of movable or immovable properties, all contributions and (gifts) donations, and all other receipts and keep them under trust, for the use and the benefit of the followers residing at the said Ashram, as well as for the benefit and use of the university and its students, the whole, forming part of the assets of the trust;

(f) Make and give acknowledgments and receipts and other clearances for the money or other assets received by the trustees;

(g) Keep and take measures in respect of all available amounts belonging to the trust, with guaranties contemplated in the deed of trust, and change the deposits or collect them, now and then.

6. The Mother will be the permanent Director of the Administrative Council and as Director; she will have the full and supreme control over the funds belongings to the trust. She will open and operate all accounts, in the banks and other institutions and will sign the cheques and drafts and other business matters and will make all disbursements and expenses, in the name and on behalf or the said Ashram and University and all other attached services (departments) as she will decide useful.

7. The Mother will also have, at her absolute discretion, the right to authorize any person to reside in the Ashram, either in permanent capacity or other wise, as well as the power to withdraw, from any person already residing therein, the permission to continue his stay therein, in whatever capacity it may be, and her decision in this regard will be final.

8. Every power devolved or which could be (made) utilized by the trustee (s) by virtue of this, will, until there will not be less than three administrators, be carried out, at present by the majority of administrators, or condition that in case of difference of opinion amongst them with regard to a question or any decision, the opinion of the Mother will always be valid and the council of administration will be binding on it.

9. The Mother will nominate, with absolute discretionary power, the number of Administrators which she will decide necessary and useful and if she decides useful, to put the new administrator (s) into possession of the assets kept under trust. If the number of administrators is reduced to less than five, the Mother will have the absolute discretionary power to appoint any other person or persons, as trustees, with a vies to bring the total number of administrators to five, and in case of her retirement, for any reason, the administrators on duty will appoint new administrators to complete the number Five.

Annexure mentioned above

1. All the lands, houses properties and places, known under the name of "Lake House", situated in Cuddalore Division, "District Board of South Arcot", Perambai Village, Patta No.8, Cadastre No.2 dry land, having an extent of 10.44 acres, in Madras State, Registration District of Cuddalore, and Vanur Sub District.

2. The immovable property No.9, situated at Pondicherry South Weavers' Street, known under the name of "ACIERIE" is at the west of the house No.9 of the said street East of the house of Jayalakshmi ammalle and South of the said street.

3. The house and its out-buildings, bearing No. 46, De Richemont Street, Pondicherry, known under the name of "AMAR House", situated at the North of the said street, west of the house of Jayamalle and south of that of Ponnusamy Chetty.

4. The house No8. Situated at Pondicherry, St. Gilles street, with all its out buildings without any exception reserved known under the name "Atelier House", is at the south of the said street, at the west of the Ashram, at the east of the house also belonging to Ashram, at the North of the house No. 9 of the said street.

5. The vacant land, bearing No. 64, Calatisparin koil street (on which, a house was found in the name of Balamani House, now demolished) remains to the North of the said street, to the west of the house of Chinnaya Chettiar, to the East of that of Nadessa naicker and to the south of Arya Vaisya Samajam Sangam, of Pondicherry.

6. The house No.27bis, Francois Martin Street, with all its appurtenances, and known in the name of "Balicourt" to the south of the house belonging to the Bethel mission, to the East of Francois Martin Street, to the North of St. Gille street, and to the west of the house of Dezir, at Pondicherry.

7. The house constructed with bricks, with all its outbuildings, bearing No.9, in Marine Street, known under the name of "Bibliotheque" and is to the North of the said street, to the East of Orleans street at Pondicherry.

8. The house constructed partly with bricks, with roofing covered with tiles, of which a portion constituting the buildings No.18, Marine Street at Pondicherry, known under the name of "Blanchisserie" is at the north of the said street, at the west of the house belonging to the successor of Nallachettiar, at the East of the house belonging to Camakshiammal and at the North of the guardian of Ramasamy Achary.

9. The house with all its out buildings, known under the name of "Bole Godown", situated at North Boulevard and at the South, at the west of the land belonging to Ramassami Pillay, and at the East of the land belonging to Varadarajapereumal temple, at Pondcherry.

10. The house constructed with bricks and its out buildings constituting No.49, Orleans Street and situated at the East of the said street, at the North of the house belonging to Darma Siva Chettiar, at the South of Narine Street, at the west of the house of Mrs. Reynaud, at present purchased by Ashram, at Pondcherry, the said house known under the name of "Boulangerie".

11. The house constructed with bricks, known under the name of Calve House, situated at No.35, Francois Martin Street, to the North f Building No.10, called "Foyer de Soldat", to the South of Marine Street, to the East of Francs Martin Street, to the west of the house and laces No.5, situated in Marine Street and belonging to Mrs. Delafon, at Pondcherry.

12. The house constructed with bricks, known under the name of "Cartonnerie", situated at No.10, Marine Street, being at the North of the said Street at the South of the house belonging to Ashram, to the West of Francois Martin Street, and to the East of the house belonging to Ashram, at Pondicherry.

13. The house constructed with bricks, situated at No.11, Bussy Street, at Pondicherry, known under the name of "Castellini House", with all its out builsings and found at the South of the said Street, at the East of the Street called "Quai de Gingy", at the North of the house of Marie Hastien a piece of land of Calve Soupraya Chettiar and at the West of the house of Mr. Vigie, at Pondicherry.

14. The lands, house, funds and places known under the name of "Cazanove", situated in oulgaret Commune and bearing Cadastre Nos.5 and 6, Pondicherry.

15. The house constructed with bricks with all its out buildings, known under the name of "Cocotier" situated at No.32, Francois Martin at the West of the said street, at the South of Law de Lauriston, at the South of Orleans street, and at the North of the house of Sadasiva Chetty, Pondicherry.

16. The brick built house with all its out buildings, known under the name of "Cottage House", having No.3, Rangapillai Street and situated at the South of the said Street, at the East of the house belonging to Ashram, and at the North and west of the land of D. Annoussamy, at Pondicherry.

17. The brick built house, with all its out buildings, known in the name of "Cornet House", bearing No.12 and 14, Law de Lauriston Street and situated to the North of the said street, to the South of the house belonging to Ashram, to the East of Orleans Street, and to the west of Francois Martin Street, Pondicherry.

18. The whole house built with bricks with all its outbuildings, known in the name of "Counouma House", situated at No.4, Marine Street, at the North of the said Street, to the South of the house and places of Mr. Edward Arthur of Quadros to the East and West of the houses belonging to Ashram, at Pondicherry.

19. The house constructed with bricks and the places known under the name of "Cycle House", situated at No.12, St. Gilles Street, and to the North of the said Street, to the East of the house of Lourde Marie Abraham, to the South of the house belonging to Ashram, and to the West of Orleans Street, at Pondicherry.

20. The house built with Ricks with all its out buildings known under the name of "maison des Dames", situated at No.33, Francois Martin Street, to the East of the said Street, to the North of the Marine Street, to the west and south of the houses belonging to the Ashram, at Pondicherry.

21. The house built with bricks with all its appurtenances known under the name of "Deconzanet House", situated No.7, Desbassyns de Rechemont Street, to the South of the said street, to the South of the house of Gaston, to the East of the house of Mrs. Primoguet and to the North of the house belonging to the Ashram.

22. The house built with brick with all its out buildings known under the name of "Dispensaire" and situated at No. 31, Francois Martin Street, to the East of the said Street, and to the North and to the West of the houses belonging to Ashram and to South of the house of Xavier, at Pondicherry.

23. The house built with bricks with all its out buildings known under the name of "Dortoir" and bearing No.3, Law de Lauriston Street, and No.19, Saint Louis Street, to the South of Law de Lauriston Street, to the west of St. Louis Street, and to the North and East of the houses belonging to Ashram, Pondicherry.

24. The house built with brick, with all its appurtenances, known under the name of "Dumoulin House" and situated at No.3, St. Martin Street, to the west of the said street, to the East of Compaznie street, to the North of the house of the heir of Dumulin, and to the South of the house of Perrier, Pondicherry.

25. The house built with bricks with all its out buildings known under the name of "Dupleix house" and situated at No.3, Duplied Street, to the South of the said Street and the west of Francois Martin Street at Pondicherry.

26. The house built with brick with all its out buildings, known under the name "Ecole" and situated at 21, St. Louis Street, to the West of the said street, to the South of the house of Ashram, to the East of the house of Mrs.Lefaucheur, to the North of the house belonged to late Datchanamourty Chettiar, at Pondicherry.

27. The house built with bricks, with all its out buildings, with roofing covered with tiles, known under the name of "Enface", situated at No.24, Dupuy Street to the North of the said street, to the West of the house belonging to Swaramou Velayouda Chettiar, to the East of the houses of Ponnussamy Chettiar and to the South of Annamale Modeliar of Pondicherry.

28. The house constructed with bricks, with roofing covered with tiles with all its out-buildings, known under the name of "Espoir", situated at No.30, Dupuy Street, to the North of the said street, to the East of the house of Sacrechettiar, to the west of the house of Papammalle and to the South of the houses belonging to Ashram and or that of the houses belonging to Ashram and that of Vaitinada Mudaliar at Pondicherry.

29. The house constructed with bricks, with all its out buildings known under the name of "Frenetre" situated at No.1, Saint Gilles Street to the south of the said street, to the west of M. Xavier, and to the North of the house belonging to Ashram and of that of Mrs. Fontaine.

30. The house built with brick with all its out-buildings known under the name of "Ganapati House", situated at No.51, Orleans Street, to the East of the said Street, to the South of the house belonging to Ashram, to the West of the house belonging to the estate Cow. Parasourama Chetty and to the North of the house belonging to Ashram, at Pondicherry.

31. The shed built with bricks, situated at Nos.39 and 41, Francois Martin Street, to the East of the said Street, to the South of the house belonging to Ashram, to the west of the house of Mrs. Lefaucher and to the North of the house belonging to Ashram, at Pondicherry.

32. All the buildings known under the name of "Godown Combustible", situated at No.28, Desbassyns de Richemont Street, to the North of the said Street, to the West of Orleans Street, to the East of the house belonging to Appavou Mudaliar and to the South of the house belonging to Soupremania Chettiar, at Pondicherry.

33. The lands, founds and buildings known under the name of "Golconde", with all its out-buildings, said No.9, Dupuy Street, situated to the South of the said Street, to the East of Quai de Gingy (Gingee Salai) to the west of Orleans street and to the North of the house of Ashram.

34. The house built with bricks with all its out buildings known under the name of "Gopalachari House", situated No.22, Dupuy Street, to the North of the said Street, to the East of the house of Ponnoussamy Chettiar and to the South of the house of veniditta Mudaliar, at Pondicherry.

35. The house constructed with bricks, with all its out-buildings, known under the name of "Grace House", situated at No.8, St.Gilles Street, to the North of the said Street, to the South, West and East of the houses belonging to Ashram.

36. The house built with brick, with all its out buildings, known under the name of "Grand Godown" situated at No.2bis, Dupuy Street, to the North of the said Street, to the west of the house of late Sinnaya Mudaliar, to the South of that of Sandiagou and to the East of the house of Gasparin, at Pondicherry.

37. All the lanes, funds, house and places known under the name of "Grenier" situated at No.2, Saint Martin Street, to the East of the said Street, to the west of Cours Chabrol, to the South of the Park Selva Chettiar and to the North of the house of Selvaradju Chettiar.

38. The house with its out-buildings, known under the name of "Harpagon", situated at No.7, Dupuy Street, to the South of the said Street, to the North and to the East of the houses belonging to Ashram, to the West of the house of Michel, at Pondicherry.

39. The house built with bricks with all its out-buildings, situated at No.16, St. Gilles Street, to the North of the said street, to the south of the houses belonging to the Ashram, to the west of the house belonging to Lourdemarie Abraham, to the East of the house of Plenus, at Pondicherry.

40. The vacant land, known under the name of "High land passage", situated at Mariamman Koil Street, to the North of the said Street, to the East of the land of Ghalou Cavoundar, to the west of the land of Visalakshi ammalle, and to the South of the land belonging to Ashram, at Pondicherry.

41. The house built with bricks with all its out buildings, known under the name of "maison des Hotes", situated at No,37, Francois Martin Street, to the East of the said street, to the south of Law De Lauriston Street and to the west and North of the houses belonging to Ashram, at Pondicherry.

42. The storeyed house built with bricks with all its out buildings, situated at No.10, Dupuy Street, known under the name of "Josue House", to the North of the said street, to the East of the house belonging to Lourdemarie Dambrun, to the south of the house belonging to the late Savaricoutty Clairon, and to the west of Francois Martin Street, at Pondicherry.

43. The house built with bricks, with all its out buildings situated at No.26, Francois Martin Street, known under the name of "Laboratoire" to the west of the said street, to the south of the house of Rosmond France and to the North and East of the houses belonging to Ashram, at Pondicherry.

44. The houses built with brick and all its out-buildings known under the name of "Mani House", situated at No.3 Isparian Koil Street, to the South of the said Street, to the East of the house of Periassamy Chettiar, to the West of the house of Periassamy Chettiar, to the west of the house of Sinnaya Pattar, to the North of the house of Narayan Chettiar, at Pondicherry.

45. The house constructed with brick, with all its out buildings known under the name of "Meditation House", situated at No.28, Francois Martin Street, and to the west of the said street, to the East and North of the houses belonging to Ashram and to the South of St. Gilles Street, at Pondicherry.

46. The house built with brick with all its out buildings known under the name of "Minerve" and situated at No.12, Law de Lauriston Street, to North of the said Street, to the East of the house of Soubraya Pillai, to the South of the house of Filatriau, and to the west of the house of Filatriau, and to the west of the house of Mrs. Vincent, at Pondicherry.

47. The house built with bricks, with all its out buildings, situated at No.53, Orleans Street, known under the name of 'Montbrun" to the East of the said street, to the south of the house belonging to Ashram, to the West of the house, belonging, to Ramamourthy Chettiar and to the North of Dupleix Street, at Pondicherry.

48. The house built with bricks, with all its out buildings with tiled roofing, situated at No.7, St. Gilles Street, known under the name of "Mouttou House" to the south of the said street, to the west and to the North of the houses belonging to Ashram and to the East of the house of Ramassamy Achary, at Pondicherry.

49. The house built with bricks, with all its out buildings, situated at No.16, Sint Louis Street, known under the name of "Nanteuil House", to the East of the said Street, to the South of Law de Lauriston Street, to the West of Compagnie Street and to the North of the house of Mrs. Klein, at Pondicherry.

50. The house built with bricks, with all its out buildings, a portion of which covered with tiles, situated at No.15 Marine Street, to the south of the said street, to the East of Quai de Gingy (Gingy Salai), to the North of the house of Mouttoubady and to the west of the house belonging to Ashram, at Pondicherry. The said house is known under the name of "Narsidas House".

51. The house built with bricks with all its out buildings a portion of which with tiled roofing known under the name of "Ouvroir", situated at No 54,Orleans Street, to the West of the said stteet, to the south of St. Gilles and to the East and to the North of the houses belonging to Ashram.

52. The house built with bricks, all its out buildings known under the name of "Parc a Charbon" situated at the extreme corner of Cours Chabrol, to the south of the said street, to the North of the canal and of a piece of land, to the west of the sea and to East of the street leading to Pondriere, at Pondicherry.

53. The house constructed with bricks and all its out-buildings, known under the name of "Potager" situated at No.56, Orleans Street, to the west of the said street to the North, to the East and to the South of the houses belonging to Ashram.

54. The house built with bricks and all its outbuildings, known under the name of "Prasad House", situated at No.10, St.Gilles, to the North of the said street, to the East of the house of "Ansari" and to the south and west of the houses belonging to Ashram, Pondicherry.

55. The house all its out-buildings, known under the name of "Puducotta House", situated at No.6, Dupleix Street at Pondicherry, to the South of the said Street, to the East of Francois Martin Street and to the North and to the west of the houses belonging to Ashram.

56. The house built with bricks, with all its out buildings partly covered with tiles and known under the name of "Purani House", situated at No.25, Isparin Koil Street, to the south of the said street, to the North and East of the house of Vengadassala Chettiar and to the west of Cantine Street, at Pondicherry.

57. The house built with bricks and all its out-buildings, known under the name of "Quadros House" situated at No. 16, Marine Street, to the North of the said street, to the south and East of the house belonging to Ashram, and to the West of Orleans Street.

58. The house built with bricks and all its out-buildings, partly comprising tiled roofing, situated at N0.21, Orleans Street at Pondicherry, to the East of the said Street, to the North of the house of Candapillai, the said house being known under the name of Rameswari House.

59. The house and all its out-buildings, known under the name of "Ranjan House" situated at No.6, Peroumal Koil Street at Pondicherry, to the North of the said street, to the west of the house of Nagarattinam Chettiar, to the South of the North Boulevard and to the East of the house of Rattina Cramany.

60. The house constructed both bricks and all its out-buildings known under the name of "Remplacante", situated at No.1, Comouttys street at Pondicherry, to the west of the said street, to the south of Comoutty Street, to the East of the house of Chandubhai Patel, and to the North of the godown belonging to Ashram.

61. The house built with bricks and all its out-buildings, known under the name of "Resustite" situated at No.45, Orleans Street at Pondicherry, to the East of the said street, to the south of Dupuy Street, to the North of the house of Ansari, and to the west of the house belonging to Ashram.

62. The house and all its out-buildings, known under the name of "Retraite", situated at No.6, St.Gilles Street at Pondicherry, to the North of the said Street, to the West of the Francois Martin Street and to the south and East of the houses belonging to Ashram.

63. The lands and the places known under the name of 'Riziere-I", situated at Ellapillaichavady and bearing Cadastre Nos.1640, 1640bis and 1641 in the outskirts of Pondicherry.

64. The lands and buildings known under the name of "Riziere-II', situated at Ellapillaichavady and bearing Cadastre No.1555 in the outskirt of Pondicherry.

65. The land and buildings known under the name of Riziere-III situated at Ellaipillaichavady and bearing Cadastre No.1640/2 in the outskirt of Pondicherry.

66. The land known under the name of "Rizieri Passage Land' situated at Ellapillaichavady and bearing Cadastre No.1640/2.

67. The house built with bricks and its out-buildings known under the name of "Maison Saint Louis", situated at the No.15, Saint Louis Street, at Pondicherry, to the west of the said street, to the East of the house of Mrs. Fontaine, to the South of the house of Selvanadin, and to the North of Marine Street.

68. The house and all its out-buildings known "Shivabhai House", situated at No.43, Desbassyns de Richemont Street, at Pondicherry, to the South of the said Street, to the West of the house of Md. Said, to the North of the house of Abhy Naidou, and to the East of Quai de Gingy (Gingee Salai).

69. The house and all its out-buildings, known under the name of "Studio House", situated at No.46, Orleans Street, at Pondicherry, to the West of the said Street, to the East of the house of Vaitinada Mudaliar, to the North of the house of Compere and to the South of the property previously belonging to Annamalle Moudaliar.

70. The house and all its out buildings known under the name of "Srinivasa House II", situated at No.54, Perumal Covil Street, at Pondicherry, to the North of the said street, to the West of the house of Ramarattinammalle, to the East of the house of Rajannar Chettiar an to the South of the house belonging to Ashram.

71. The house and all its out-buildings, known under the name of "Srinivasa House III", situated at No.15, Washermen's Street, at Pondicherry, to the South of the said Street, to the North of a house belonging to Ashram to the East of "Badjnamadames House" and to the West of the house of Villou Vattiar.

72. The house built with bricks and all its out-buildings, known under the name of "Tresor House" situated at No.6, Saint Louis Street at Pondicherry, to the East of the said Street, to the west and to the North of the building known under the name of "Tresorier-Payeur" and to the South of Dupuy Street.

73. The house built with bricks and all its appurtenances, a portion of which comprises a roofing covered with tilles, known under the name of villa Avani, situated at No.12, North Boulevard at Pondicherry, to the North of the said street, to the South of Chanmouga Pounavidy, to the East of the house belonging to Arpoudassamy Francois, to the west of the house belonging to Tirouvengadam Dubois.

74. The house built with bricks and all its out-buildings, known under the name of "Arogya House" situated at No.6, Desbassyns de Richemont, to the North of the said street at Pondicherry, to the East of Francois Martin Street, to the west of the house of V. Saint prix and to the South of the house belonging to late Sinnaya Mudaliar.

75. The land and the buildings known under the name of "Cottage Land", situated at Pondicherry, Capitaine Marius Xavier, to the East of the said street, to the South of Rangapillai Street, to the North of the land of Md.Hanif, to the West of the house of Sanjivy which was later purchased by Ashram.

76. All the land and buildings known under the name of "Ilot", situated at Ariyankuppam and bearing Cadastre No.503.

77. The house built with bricks with all its out-buildings with roofing covered with tiles known under the name of "Induroy House" situated at No.33, Desbassyns de Richemont Street at Pondicherry, to the South of the said street, to the North and West of the house belonging to Vaitinada Mudaliar and to the East of the house of Ariattammalle.

78. The house built with bricks and all its out-buildings, situated at No.4, Dupleix Street at Pondicherry, known under the name of "Le Faucher House" to the North of the said house, to the South and East of the houses belonging to Ashram, to the West of the house of the Ashram and of that belonging to Datchanamourty Chettiar.

79. All these lands, property, houses and places having an extent of seventeen ares and twenty cents, known under the name of "Le Faucher Campagne" included in Cadastre Nos.1156,1157, 1158,1159,1160,1161,1178,1179,1180,1182,1183,1184,1185,1186,1187, 1188, 1189, 1190 and 1191 in the out skirts of Pondicherry.

80. The land, known under the name of "Le Poulailler Land I", situated at Oulgaret and comprised in Cadastre Nos.1528, 1529 and 1531 in the outskirts of Pondicherry.

81. The land known under the name of "Le Poulailler Land II," situated at Oulgaret and included in Nos.3366, 3367, 3358, 3359 and 3370 in the out skirt of Pondicherry.

82. The house and all its out buildings, known under the name of "Mouchoir", situated at No.26, Dupuy Street at Pondicherry, to the North of the said street, to the West of the house belonging to Ashram, to the South of the house of Vaidynatha Mudaliar and to the East of the house of "Mino Shanmugam".

83. The land known under the name of "Astrologue Land", situated at Ponniampet, at Pondicherry and included in Cadastre No.251 and 256.

84. The land known under the name of "Calve land", situated at Muthialpet, Pondicherry and comprised in Cadastre No.251 and 256.

85. The land known under the name of "Jalad land" situated at Cattamodou and comprised in Cadastre No.916, in the outskirt of Pondicherry.

86. The land, known under the name of "Jalad land", situated in Parimala Mudaliar tottam, and comprised in Cadastre No.898 in the outskirt of Pondicherry.

87. The land, known under the name of "Ambabikshu Land" and comprised in Cadastre No.948 and situated at Ponniampet.

88. The house constructed with bricks and all its out-buildings known under the name of "Delafon House", situated No.4, Marine Street, at Pondicherry, (now no.5) and No.18 (Now No.15) Saint Louis, to the North of Law de Lauriston Street and of the house of the tradesman Louis Chinnaya Mudaliar, to the East of the house belonging to Ashram and of the building called "Foyer de Soldat" and to the South of Marine Street and to the West of St.Louis.

89. All these lands, funds, house and places known under the name of garden of "Mariappan", situated at Saram, Pondicherry (cimmune) comprised in Nos.941, 944, 943 ½, 945 1/3, 943 2/2, 945 2/3 and to the North of Boulevard Road, to the South of the Canal and of the property of Annamale Chetty, to the East of the street leading to Vajacoulam and to the west of the street leading to the incineration land.

90. The house built with bricks and all its out-buildings comprising garden, known under the name of "Desiree", situated at No.4, St. Louis Street at Pondicherry, to the East of the said street, to the west of Cours Chabrol, to the North of Dupuy Street and to the South of Desbassyns Richemont Street.

All these lands, funds, houses and places mentioned above described and delimited in the manner mentioned above or otherwise the same described and delimited called, known and numbered, situated partly in the limits of the Indian Union ND Partly in the limits of Pondicherry Territory and adjacent regions which are mentioned above. In witness where of, I, the undersigned, MIRA ALFASSA, have signed and sealed, this first May nineteen fifty five, M. Alfassa (Seal). Signed, sealed and issued by the above said Mira Alfassa, at Perambai, in the presence of witnesses 1) Siddheswar Banerjee (Ashram), Pondicherry, 2) Pranav Kumar Bhattacharya (Ashram), Pondicherry, 3) Pradyot Kumar Bhattacharya, (Ashram), Pondicherry.

At the back of the first and second page, the following entry is found, No.166, sold to Siddeswar Banerjee of 9/7 Piary Mohan Surlane, Calcutta, Rs.20, as Value of stamp, permitted by the High Court, on 11-4-1955, signed Illisible, authorised stamp vendor- certifies that having not a single stamp of the value of 22 Rs.8 as, necessary for this document and that the smallest number of stamp which I have furnished to reach the figure required is in the following manner Rs.20 Rs.2-8 No.166.

At the beginning of the 3^rd page, the following entry is found 1962/355 (in Tamil) Mrs. Mira Alfassa twenty five rupees.

Signed : Illegible

S. V. Vanur

Seal.

COPY OF THE ENDORSEMENT OF THE CERTIFICATE

Presented at the private residence of M. Alfassa, Lake House, No.1, Perambai and the fees of Rs.22.4.0, paid between 4 and 5 hours in the afternoon, on 1^st May 1955, signed. M. Alfassa. Execution Authorised by (Signed: M. Alfassa) Administrator of Ashram of Sri Aurobindo, Pondicherry, presently at Perambai Lake House, No.1, Identified by Amiyo Rangan Ganguli, son of late Nolini Behari Ganguli, Indian, Landlord, residing at Pondicherry, Viswanath Lahiri, so of late Rajendranath Lahiri, Indian, Engineer, residing at Pondicherry- the 1^st May 1955m V.K. Chinnappa Pillai, "Sub Registered Registrar" (Deputy Officer of Registration) Registered under No.1823 of 1955, Registre 1, Volume 402, Pages 273 to 287 only with regard to the portion of properties situated in Perambai Village, which are in the limits of the region where the Registration Act is applicable. 7rh October 1955. Signed: Illegible: Sub Registrar (Seal of Sub Registrar, Vanur).

At the back of all sheets, in addition, there is a following entry 1823/Volume 1, document No.P.7 pf 1955 and contains nineteen sheets.

Signed : Chinnappa

Sub : Registrar for Translation

Pondicherry the 18^th December 1963.

Judicial interpretation

[From Tehelka Magazine, Vol 5, Issue 35, Dated Sept 06, 2008]

PUBLIC WARRIORS *The House of Bhushan*

Judicial accountability is the latest passion for public good that drives the legendary father-son lawyer duo of Shashi and Prashant Bhushan, writes /*VIJAY SIMHA*

A slim balding man with content eyes walks in a little after six one evening, into a basement in Jangpura, New Delhi's reasonably up market colony. There are 40 people already there, mostly college students, squatting on the wooden floor. Watching them, from on the walls, are the greats: Che Guevara, Marlon Brando, Alfred Hitchcock and Federico Fellini. The man with the deliberate eyes, Prashant Bhushan, a lawyer, is whom everyone is waiting for. Shashi Bhushan and son Prashant

This is the Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reform (CJAR), a group of common people whose sense of outrage is driving them into uncommon pursuit. Like most Indians, this group has been raised on the belief that the country's system of justice is a template of integrity. But, for about 30 minutes before Prashant arrives, the group has been listening to stories of how corruption is rotting the judiciary. It is Prashant's job to make the interest work. Over the next half hour, Prashant, 52, goes over the nitty-gritty of India's first public campaign to punish corrupt judges, and bring the system to book. It's about time as well. An Independence Day arrangement unraveled in Chandigarh when the munshi of the Haryana Additional Advocate General, Sandeep Bansal, delivered a packet to the security guard of a High Court judge. The guard thought it was a bomb, and opened the packet. There was Rs 15 lakh inside. Bansal was sacked and arrested, and the case is on. It's the newest example of what Prashant and the CJAR are battling: greed in robes. None of this was part of Prashant's plans in his younger days. 'I took a circuitous route. I was in the IIT Madras, which I quit after a semester in Mechanical Engineering. I studied economics and then philosophy (of science) at Princeton. I quit the course, as I would have had to study another four years of Physics.' Finally, he returned to India to gain a law degree from Allahabad University.

An early big fight was the Doon Valley case, where limestone quarrying was hurting the environment. He then did the Bhopal gas tragedy litigation and the Narmada case as well. He was the Delhi President of the People's Union for Civil Liberties, India's oldest human rights organization. He also wrote a book on the Rs 64-crore Bofors scandal of the late 1980s, involving payoffs in the supply of howitzers to the Indian government. Prashant's father is Shanti Bhushan, 83, who was union minister for law in the Morarji Desai government (1977-79). They live in the same house in Noida, adjacent to Delhi. Both are outraged by the corruption among judges.

The father thinks small parties are a disgrace. He is impressed by the achievements of the UPA Government and is likely to vote for the Congress. The son thinks that the UPA Government is among the weakest that India has had. He is likely to vote for the BSP. The father is not anti-America. The son is strongly against the US and the Indo-US civilian nuclear agreement. Together, they are formidable public warriors, among India's best. On August 7, the father and son were part of a drama in the Supreme Court. The court was hearing what is called the Ghaziabad PF scam. For about eight years, a nazir, a court official, is alleged to have pilfered money from the Provident Fund (PF) account (a social security scheme where an employer and an employee contribute an equal amount every month to be given to the employee usually at retirement). The nazir was kept in the post by three judges as he wrote fake applications and withdrew money from the PF account. A vigilance officer broke the scam. The nazir confessed and named many district and High Court judges. The name of a sitting Supreme Court judge has also been taken. Apparently, the nazir paid sums up to Rs 1 lakh at a time to the judges, paid for the construction of houses in a few cases, gifted some judges' cell phones and air-conditioners, and even paid for their family shopping. Furniture was shipped to the Kolkata home of the sitting Supreme Court judge's son, the nazir's confessions apparently said. A three-judge bench headed by Justice BN Agrawal was hearing the case.

Agrawal and Shanti Bhushan have known each other for a while. Both men have reputations for integrity. Six years ago, Agrawal accosted Shanti Bhushan at a party and asked him what he thought of a High Court judge, whose name was up for promotion to the Supreme Court. Shanti Bhushan said the man was corrupt. Following this, Agrawal is believed to have opposed the corrupt judge's promotion. So, they relied on the other's sense of fair play. In Agrawal's court, Shanti Bhushan spoke of Sir Grimwood Mears, Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court in 1930. Word had once reached Mears that four judges were indulging in corrupt practices. Mears called four CID officers and asked them to investigate. The four judges were found corrupt. Mears called them by telegram showed each one of them the evidence collected by the CID against them. Mears offered two choices: quit or face action. They quit. Shanti Bhushan contrasted this with today, where no action can be taken against a judge unless the Chief Justice of India permits it. He also mentioned that the Registrar-General of the Supreme Court told the investigating officer in the Ghaziabad PF scam to submit a written questionnaire to the Chief Justice of India before talking to the suspects. Shanti Bhushan had asked the court to summon the Registrar-General as a witness in the case.

AGRAWAL was livid. He said Shanti Bhushan was targeting the judiciary and arguing like a street urchin. By then, Prashant, also in court, was furious as well. He said the judge was twisting what his father had said. Three good judges of integrity. Three angry men. The clash made headlines the next day. I don't hold a grudge against Agrawal for calling me a street urchin. You can call me anything you want. My grudge is that he is not taking action against the corrupt. Agrawal lost his balance, says Shanti Bhushan. He was misrepresenting my father's arguments. Agrawal was loud, and was offensive and arrogant. There is a limit to tolerance. My anger was rising all the time, says Prashant. His voice is raised and he is banging the table. It's like he is back in court. Its a few moments before there are calm. Prashant asks for digestive biscuits .My digestion is not strong. I eat papaya everyday. The next hearing in the Ghaziabad PF case is slated for September 9. Which is why the CJAR is hurrying? They want stickers on the backs of autos, and posters and placards. They want the people to know there's a crucial case coming up, which could well punish corrupt judges. The judges will be scared, and angry, says Prashant.

The campaign has to go public to have an impact. It has to become visible. Prashant figures that there are only two ways that the war against corruption in judiciary can be won. Either there is an open and shut case (like in a sting operation, for instance), or there is public scandal. Prashant and the CJAR can't do sting operations. They don't know how to go about it. So, they are going to the people.

The CJAR was formed in March 2007, the result of many vexing meetings of its precursor, the Committee on Judicial Accountability. We formed the Committee in 1990, consisting of some lawyers and ex-judges. We found it impossible to expand or grow. There was barely a lawyer willing to take a stand against judges, or even to seek accountability. So we had to go the people. That's when the Campaign came about, says Prashant. Prashant came to law because of the Justice V Ramaswami case. Justice Ramaswami was a Supreme Court judge, brought for impeachment before the Lok Sabha in 1993. There were many charges of corruption against Ramaswami but the impeachment motion failed. This was a case of a brazen and thoroughly corrupt judge and it was impossible to catch him. Impeachment doesn't work. You can't get even 50 to 100 MPs to sign up for an impeachment. Nobody wants to annoy the judges. It is a case of loot and let loot, says Prashant.

He wants to debunk the myth of a clean judiciary. He looks to the day when there will be no lawyers. When the system becomes transparent and honest, so that everyone can negotiate it by themselves. Shanti Bhushan came to the law in 1943 when a case, Zameer Qasim versus the Emperor, caught his attention. It had to do with an issue of law under the Criminal Procedure Code. It was about a man convicted in two cases. The case was referred to a full bench. My father was a Public Prosecutor. Many jurors and police officers used to come to his office for this case. I was hugely interested in the intellectual exercise that the case demanded, says Shanti Bhushan. He had to fight his father's reluctance to send his son into law, because the father feared that his son would struggle for the first few years, like all lawyers who took to law in those days. The Public Prosecutor took Shanti Bhushan to the famous Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, a respected lawyer during the British Raj, hoping that Sir Sapru would knock some sense into the young man. Sir Sapru was astonished that a man of my father's standing in the legal profession did not want his son to be a lawyer. He dismissed my father's objections and asked me to become a lawyer. The father need not have worried. Shanti Bhushan filed his Income Tax Return (ITR) in his first year as an advocate, showing an income of Rs 6,600 when the minimum required annual income for filing ITRS was Rs 2,500. So, you see, I didn't have to struggle, he says.

He looks to the day when a couple of judges are sent to jail for corruption now. Otherwise wind up the judiciary. A corrupt judiciary makes no sense. It has utility only if it is totally objective. You have the power to rule over people's lives. How can you be anything but completely clean? The elder Bhushan defines a corrupt judge as one who will take money to decide a case. To the Bhushans, it's a mystery why the system wants to protect the corrupt. Maybe because they think the judiciary is a family. And punishing a member of the family will cause everyone in the family pain. Or because they think the image and the effectiveness of the judiciary will suffer. Prashant says he is around because nobody else was emerging from the fraternity. I didn't want this role of a campaigner. But the legal fraternity is a peculiar set of animals with extremely low levels of interest outside themselves. They are not my friends. The hurt is personal as well. Prashant's wife was a lawyer too. She gave up. She found the courts an unpleasant workplace. She couldn't stand the uncouth behaviour in the courts, and the long wait for cases to be disposed off. So, she put her energies into raising their three sons, the eldest of whom is preparing to leave for Oxford. And, sweetest of all, Prashant says he's beginning to get the mileage. You can see some of it as the youngsters swarm around him after the CJAR meeting in Jangpura. They are looking for a mentor. Prashants head begins to bob as he answers eager questions. Someone passes him a cup of black tea. It's like what happened after Amartya Sen delivered the Hiren Mukherjee Lecture in Parlaiment on August 11. MPs came over and congratulated me for standing my ground in Agrawal's court, he says. Just as well, because Prashant estimates that every fourth judge in the Supreme Court is corrupt. That's a lot of work. As for the father, Shanti Bhushan, he is busy correcting the proofs of his forthcoming memoirs.

[Courtesy:*E-mail *vijay@tehelka.com /From Tehelka Magazine, Vol 5, Issue 35, Dated Sept 06, 2008]

ASSAULT ON INDIAN MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT:

STORY OF DEPORTATION OF AUROVILLE UKRANIANS

[All people who come to Auroville are not saints. Indian government now and then had issued leave India notices to foreigners. These deportations done on the reports of Intelligence Bureau should not remain secrets. The list should be made public. Then only foreigners who set their foot in Indian soil will be alert and will not arrogantly pursue their animal instincts, hoping their skin colour will shield them from all crimes. The fate of a Former Chief Minister Ms.Nandini Sathpathy's son, current Member of Parliament from Dhenkanal of Orissa Mr.Tataghata Sathpathy and his wife, who were assaulted by Ukrainians of Auroville, is another proof of the arrogance of foreigners in Indian soil. The High Court of Madras heard this case, and its judgment will speak about the incident.] N.Nandhivarman General Secretary Dravida Peravai

IN THE HIGH COURT OF MADRAS

Writ Petition Nos. 983 to 985 of 2005 and W.P.M.P. Nos. 1113 to 1115 of 2005

Decided On: 17.01.2005

Appellants: Zhovtan Dmytro, Boris Ahmed Mabilat and Hadju Krisztan

Vs. Respondent: Government of India rep. by Chief Immigration Officer (MHA)

Hon’ble Judges: Justice: K.P. Sivasubramaniam,

Counsels: For Appellant/Petitioner/Plaintiff: Ar. L. Sundaresan, Advocate.

For Respondents/Defendant: V.T. Gopalan, Additional Solicitor General

: Gilles Preiffer v. The Union of India and Ors., 1996 W.L.R. 386; Hans Muller of Nurenburg v. Superintendent, Presidency Jail, Calcutta and Ors., A.I.R. 1955 S.C. 367

Case Note:

Criminal ' notice -Sections 294, 354, 323 and 506 of Indian Penal Code, 1860 '

Petitioner challenged impugned notice directing petitioners to leave India within 15

Days ' petitioners were Ukrainian nationals ' convicted under Sections 294, 354, 323

And 506 Part II ' offences for which petitioners stand charged cannot be said to be

Minor charges which can be easily ignored -no valid ground to interfere with Order

Passed by respondent ' Court directed to respondent not to enforce Order for period

Of two weeks.

ORDER: K.P. Sivasubramaniam, J.

1. These three writ petitions have been filed by the respective petitioners for a certiorari to call for the records of the respondent/Chief Immigration Officer dated 30.12.2004 and to quash the same. It is sufficient to extract the statement of facts in W.P.No. 983 of 2005 in view of the fact that all the three writ petitions proceed on the same background of facts.

2. The petitioner claims to be a Ukrainian National and he is staying in Auroville, Pondicherry since 1992. According to him, his stay in India is lawful with the permission of the concerned authorities duly obtained from time to time. He was peacefully living at the above address and he was engaged in the activities of the Auroville Foundation.

3. A criminal complaint came to be filed against him and three others by the Station House Officer, Kalapet Police Station, Pondicherry for the alleged offences under Sections 294, 354, 323 and 506 Part II read with Section 34 I.P.C. The said complaint was given by one Thathagate Satpathy and his wife Adyasha Satpathy alleging that on 1.1.2002, when they came to the New Year Get-Together in the premises, the petitioner along with three other persons used abusive language against them, assaulted them and also threatened them with dire consequences. They are also alleged to have caused simple injuries. The said complaint was registered by the Station House Officer as Crime No. 2 of 2002. A charge sheet was filed before the learned Judicial Magistrate No. II, Pondicherry as C.C.No. 129 of 2002.

4. The proceedings were defended and the learned Magistrate, by his judgment dated

10.12.2004, found the petitioner and others guilty of the offences and they were sentenced to undergo simple imprisonment till the rising of the Court on each count and to pay a fine of Rs. 750/-or in default to undergo simple imprisonment for a period of three months. The said fine amount was remitted without prejudice to the rights of the petitioner and the others.

5. The petitioners contend that they have not committed any offence and they have preferred appeals before the learned Principal District Sessions Judge, Pondicherry in C.A.No. 3 of 2004 and the matter were posted for hearing on 28.1.2005. The petitioners contend that they have got fair chances of success in the appeals. While so, the petitioners have received the impugned notice under clause (c) of Sub-section 2 of Section 3 of The Foreigners Act, 1946, directing the petitioners to leave India within 15 days after the receipt of the order. The said order was received by the petitioners on 3.1.2005 and the petitioners also approached the respondent to ascertain the reason why they have been directed to leave India. They have been informed that the authorities had information of conviction of the petitioners in C.C.No. 129 of 2002 on the file of Judicial Magistrate No. II, Pondicherry. Hence the above writ petitions.

6. Mr. AR.L. Sundaresan, learned counsel appearing for the petitioners contends that when once the petitioners are convicted for an offence under the Indian Penal Code, they have got a right of appeal before the appropriate appellate Court, which they have availed by filing an appeal. Therefore, in order to wipe out the stigma against them, it has become necessary for the petitioners to remain in India and to pursue the appeal. No prior notice was issued before the impugned order was passed. However, when they have enquired the respondent, they were positively informed that the impugned order has been passed only as a result of the conviction by the criminal Court. Therefore, though the Supreme Court has held that the foreigners have no fundamental rights, in the peculiar facts and circumstances of the present case, the petitioners are required to pursue the appeal filed by them. It is also stated that their visa is valid as on date and hence their stay in India is valid.

7. Mr.V.T.Gopalan learned Additional Solicitor General, appearing for the Union Government contends that the orders have been issued under the provisions of the Foreigners Act and there is no requirement to issue any prior notice or to provide any opportunity to show cause against the proposed order. The executive has full powers to use their discretion and, if in their opinion, the petitioners’ presence is found to be objectionable, the action of the executive in directing their deportation cannot be called as illegal. Though the impugned order does not disclose the reasons, learned Additional Solicitor General was fair enough to state that the reason for serving the ‘Leave India Notice’ was due to the fact that they had come to adverse notice as a result of their own conduct resulting in registration of a case in Crime No. 2 of 2002 and the ultimate punishment which was awarded against them.

8. Learned Additional Solicitor General also relies on the judgment of this Court in “GILLES PREIFFER v. THE UNION OF INDIA and Ors.” reported in 1996 W.L.R.386, in support of his contention that the foreign nationals have no right to claim to continue to stay in India when the conduct of any foreigner comes to the adverse notice of the Government.

9. Reference is also made to the judgment of the Supreme Court in “HANS MULLER OF

NURENBURG v. SUPERINTENDENT, PRESIDENCY JAIL, CALCUTTA and Ors.” Learned Additional Solicitor General an also state that the judgment of the learned single Judge of this Court referred supra was also subsequently confirmed by the Supreme Court.

10. in reply, Mr. AR.L. Sundaresan contends that the facts of the case reported in 1996

W.L.R.386 will not apply to the facts of the present case. That was a case in which the accused was found to be indulging in activities adverse to the security of the country, whereas in the present case, the petitioners have been charged with criminal offence and pursuant to their conviction they have also preferred an appeal. Therefore, the rights of the individuals to pursue the appellate remedy cannot be barred by directing them to leave the country.

11. I have considered the submissions of both sides. A perusal of the provisions of the

Foreigners Act discloses that no reasons are required to be stated while directing deportation of the foreign citizens. Section 3 of the Foreigners Act, 1946 reads as follows.

“3. Power to make orders:

(1) The Central Government may by order make provision, either generally or with respect to all foreigners or with respect to any particular foreigner or any prescribed class or description of foreigner, for prohibiting, regulating or restricting the entry of foreigners into India, or their departure there from or their presence or continued presence therein.

(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, orders made under this section may provide that the foreigner(a)shall not enter India, or shall enter India only at such times and by such route and at such port or place and subject to the observance of such conditions on arrival as may be prescribed.

(b) Shall not depart from India, or shall depart only at such times and by such route and from such port or place and subject to the observance of such conditions on departure as may be prescribed;

(c) Shall not remain in India or in any prescribed area therein;

(cc) shall, if he has been required by order under this section not to remain in India, meet from any resources at his disposal the cost of his removal from India and of his maintenance therein pending such removal.

(d) Shall remove himself to, and remain in, such area in India as may be prescribed;

(e) Shall comply with such conditions as may be prescribed or specified-

i. requiring him to reside in a particular place;

ii. Imposing any restrictions on his movements;

iii. requiring him to furnish such proof of his identity and to report such particulars to such authority in such manner and at such time and place as may be prescribed and specified; iv. Requiring him to allow his photograph and finger impressions to be taken and to furnish specimens of his handwriting and signature to such authority and at such time and place as may be prescribed or specified;

v. requiring him to submit himself to such medical examination by such authority and at

Such time and place as may be prescribed or specified;

vi. Prohibiting him from association with persons of a prescribed or specified description;

vii. Prohibiting him from engaging in activities of a prescribed or specified description;

viii. Prohibiting him from using or possessing prescribed or specified articles;

ix. Otherwise regulating his conduct in any such particular as may be prescribed or specified;

x. otherwise regulating his conduct in any such particular as may be prescribed or specified.

(f) Shall enter into a bond with or without sureties for the due observance of, or as an alternative to the enforcement of, any or all prescribed or specified restrictions or conditions;

(g) Shall be arrested and detained or confined.

And may make provision for any matter which is to be or may be prescribed for such incidental and supplementary matters as may, in the opinion of the Central Government, be expedient or necessary for giving effect to this Act.

(3) Any authority prescribed in this behalf may with respect to any particular foreigner make orders under clause (e) or clause (f) of Sub-section (2).” 12. While interpreting the said provisions, the Supreme Court in SC/0074/1955 cited above, has in clear terms, stated that the Foreigners Act vests the Central Government with absolute and unfettered discretion and, as there is no provision fettering this discretion in the Constitution, an unrestricted right to expel remains with the Government.

13. SHIVRAJ PATIL, J. as he then was, in GILLES PREIFFER v. THE UNION OF INDIA and Ors.” reported in 1996 W.L.R.386, has dealt with the said issue in a very detailed manner and after considering the various judgments of the Supreme Court had ultimately held that the claim of rights by the petitioner cannot be sustained.

14. It is no doubt true that the learned counsel for the petitioner seeks to distinguish the facts of the said case with the present case and contends that the petitioners in this case have got a fundamental right to pursue the appellate remedy. I am unable to accept the said contention. The fact remains that it is open to the petitioners to pursue the appeal before the appellate Court through their counsel and their personal appearance is not required. The petitioners have come to the adverse notice of misbehavior and had been prosecuted under Sections 294, 354, 323 and 506 Part II read with Section 34 I.P.C., which are serious offences. The offences for which the petitioners stand charged cannot be said to be minor charges which can be easily ignored.

15. Therefore, I do not find any ground to interfere with the order passed by the respondent. It is, however, made clear that the observations made in this order shall not prejudice the case of the petitioners in their appeals before the appellate Court and the appellate Court is directed to deal with the merits of the appeals without K.P. SIVASUBRAMANIAM, J. being influenced by any of the observations made in this order.

16. Learned counsel for the petitioners prays that this order may be suspended so as to enable the petitioners to file an appeal. The learned counsel relies on the very judgment of the learned single Judge in GILLES PREIFFER v. THE UNION OF INDIA and Ors.” reported in 1996 W.L.R.386. Though I am not inclined to suspend this order, the respondent is directed not to enforce the order for a period of two weeks from today.

17. With the above observations, the writ petitions are disposed of. Consequently, connected

W.P.M.P.Nos.1113 to 1115 of 2005 are closed. No costs.

IN ZIMBABWE :TO DRINK TEA CARRY SUITCASE FULL OF MONEY

 [The yahoo group zimbabwenews@yahoogroups.com published the shocking story : Tuesday, 19 August 2008 12:45]

JOHANNESBURG - By the end of the year nearly half of Zimbabwe’s population will be at risk of starvation, and right now hungry people are resorting to desperate measures, including marrying off underage daughters to old men in return for food and general support, a new report says. The reason for this huge increase in suffering is as simple as it is brutal: Robert Mugabe has reneged on the pledge he made when he signed the 21 July Memorandum of Understanding with Morgan Tsvangarai to lift immediately and unconditionally his regime’s ban on NGOs distributing food aid.

The report, compiled by the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, Solidarity Peace Trust and Amandla Publishers, is based partly on interviews with Zimbabweans at Musina, who are among the upsurge in those fleeing to South Africa, refugees in Johannesburg, and people in Harare. The interviews were done between July 27 and August 13.Mugabe, in characteristic fashion, has ignored first private and then public appeals from Japan, Western countries, which are the major aid donors, and the European Commission, as well as from Tsvangarai himself to lift the ban. It was imposed by the regime June 4 on the spurious ground that NGOs were campaigning for the MDC.At the beginning of August; the regime announced a partial lifting of the ban, permitting the resumption of feeding programmes for HIV/AIDs patients. But the wider ban remains in effect." The suspension of humanitarian operations is estimated to have put the lives of more than 1.5 million marginalized Zimbabweans at risk already,” said the report. “Without the immediate resumption of food aid across the country, widespread hunger and worsening malnutrition are unavoidable.”

It noted that the two main international food agencies, the World Food Programme and the Food and Agricultural Organization, estimate that 2.04 million Zimbabweans in rural and urban areas do not have enough food now. By January, the organizations say that 5.1 million will be at risk of starvation - about 45% of the population. “The government has always maintained a stranglehold on food distribution with a view to ensuring that those receiving the food associate this generosity with the government, rather than the donors,” the report noted. It quoted Mbare residents as saying they registered for but have never received the recently announced state-funded hampers, and independent media reports say these are reserved for supporters of Mugabe’s Zanu (PF). Opposition supporters have to resort to measures like buying maize meal for hard currency from those “connected,” such as policemen.

Many families eat only once a day and rural people are selling off livestock for cash to buy food, and eating wild fruits." Reports of the revival of the tradition of child brides under which desperate families marry off their underage girls to elderly well-off men in

return for food and general support are now commonplace in rural areas in the southern provinces,” the report added. As well as food, the continuing ban on NGO operations affects water and sanitation services as some aid agencies provide these, and has led to staff being laid off, adding to the legions of unemployed. The report cited the case of a young woman working for the field office of an international organization in Zvishavane who was laid off July 7. With the prospect of returning to work diminishing, she sold off her mobile phone line and handset for Rands, gave some to her sister to continue paying her one-room lodgings, and made her way to South Africa in the hope of finding work. “It is critical that the Zimbabwe government immediately lift the suspension of field operations by aid agencies,” the report said. “Given the lead time required to bring in imported maize for distribution and agricultural inputs for the new planting season, the government needs to act swiftly to avert a very serious humanitarian catastrophe from worsening next year,” the report said.

THE TELEVISIONS SPOKE ON HIGHEST INFLATION :

To find out the nature of the economy I sought the help of Wikipedia, free encycloepedia.

"The government of Zimbabwe faces a variety of economic problems after having abandoned earlier efforts to develop a market-oriented economy. Problems include a shortage of foreign exchange, soaring inflation, and supply shortages. Zimbabwe’s involvement from 1998 to 2002 in the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo drained hundreds of millions of dollars from the economy. Mineral exports, agriculture, and tourism are the main foreign currency earners of Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is the biggest trading partner of South Africa on the continent. The downward spiral of the economy has been attributed mainly to mismanagement and corruption of the Mugabe regime and the eviction of more than 4,000 white farmers in the controversial land redistribution of 2000.Since this land redistribution began, agricultural exports, especially tobacco, have declined sharply. The Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force released a report in June 2007; estimating 60% of Zimbabwe’s wildlife has died since 2000. The report warns that the loss of life combined with widespread deforestation is potentially disastrous for the tourist industry. Inflation rose from an annual rate of 32% in 1998 to an official estimated high of 11,200,000% in July 2008 according to the country’s Central Statistical Office, a state of hyperinflation, and the central bank introduced a new 100 billion dollar note. Local residents have largely resorted to buying essentials from neighboring Botswana, South Africa and Zambia. IMF economists estimated inflation at about 150,000% in Dec 2007.

In 2005, the government, led by central bank governor Gideon Gono, started making overtures that white farmers could come back. There were 400 to 500 still left in the country, but much of the land that had been confiscated was no longer productive. In January 2007, the government even let some white farmers sign long term leases. But, the government reversed course again and started demanding that all remaining white farmers leave the country or face jail.

In August 2006, a new revalued Zimbabwean dollar was introduced, equal to 1000 of the prior Zimbabwean. The exchange rate fell from 24 old Zimbabwean dollars per U.S. dollar (USD) in 1998 to 250,000 prior or 250 new Zimbabwean dollars per USD at the official rate, and an estimated 120,000,000 old or 120,000 revalued Zimbabwean dollars per US dollar on the parallel market, in June 2007.

On June 21, 2007, the U.S. ambassador to Zimbabwe, Christopher Dell, told The Guardian newspaper that inflation could reach 1.5 million per cent (1,500,000%) by the end of the year. In November 2007, the official inflation rate was above 26,000% and the black-market exchange rate was Z$3,650,000 to the pound. On July 13, 2007, the Zimbabwe government said it had temporarily stopped publishing (official) inflation figures, a move that observers said was meant to draw attention away from runaway inflation which has come to symbolize the country’s economic meltdown. The current estimated inflation rate of the currency is 11,200,000% (as of July 2008).

Mugabe points to foreign governments and alleged “sabotage” as the cause of the fall of the Zimbabwean economy, as well as the country’s 80% formal unemployment rate. Critics of Mugabe’s administration, including the majority of the international community, blame Mugabe’s controversial programme which sought to seize land from white commercial farmers. Mugabe has repeatedly blamed sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the European Union and the United States for the state of the Zimbabwean economy. According to the United States, however, these sanctions target only seven specific businesses owned or controlled by government officials and not ordinary citizens. During a meeting of the Southern African Development Community in 2007, a call was issued for the sanctions to be removed. It should be noted that Rhodesia had a successful export-led economy despite harsh sanctions applied to the whole nation by the UK and other world powers.

THE CIA WORLD BOOK ON ZIMBABWE HISTORY :

The UK annexed Southern Rhodesia from the [British] South Africa Company in 1923. A 1961 constitution was formulated that favored whites in power. In 1965 the government unilaterally declared its independence, but the UK did not recognize the act and demanded more complete voting rights for the black African majority in the country (then called Rhodesia). UN sanctions and a guerrilla uprising finally led to free elections in 1979 and independence (as Zimbabwe) in 1980. Robert MUGABE, the nation’s first prime minister, has been the country’s only ruler (as president since 1987) and has dominated the country’s political system since independence. His chaotic land redistribution campaign, which began in 2000, caused an exodus of white farmers, crippled the economy, and ushered in widespread shortages of basic commodities. Ignoring international condemnation, MUGABE rigged the 2002 presidential election to ensure his reelection. The ruling ZANU-PF party used fraud and intimidation to win a two-thirds majority in the March 2005 parliamentary election, allowing it to amend the constitution at will and recreate the Senate, which had been abolished in the late 1980s. In April 2005, Harare embarked on Operation Restore Order, ostensibly an urban rationalization program, which resulted in the destruction of the homes or businesses of 700,000 mostly poor supporters of the opposition. President MUGABE in June 2007 instituted price controls on all basic commodities causing panic buying and leaving store shelves empty for months. General elections held in March 2008 contained irregularities but still amounted to a censure of the ZANU-PF-led government with significant gains in opposition seats in parliament. MDC opposition leader Morgan TSVANGIRAI won the presidential polls, and may have won an out right majority, but official results posted by the Zimbabwe Electoral Committee did not reflect this. In the lead up to a run-off election in late June 2008, considerable violence enacted against opposition party members led to the withdrawal of TSVANGIRAI from the ballot. Extensive evidence of vote tampering and ballot-box stuffing resulted in international condemnation of the process, and calls for the creation of a power-sharing government have been ignored.

Dravida Peravai Comments: The China-centric Communists or America-centric capitalist parties of India and so called conscience keepers who write columns in Indian media have forgotten that while we Indians are crushed by less than 12% inflation, in the same earth there is a country with 1,500,000 % inflation that kills its people. If our price rise is hurting us, imagine the prices in Zimbabwe.To drink tea they have to carry suitcase full of money.The colonial rule, and the dictatorial rule of greedy politicians have pushed Zimbabwe to a condition unimaginable by civilized society. India must forge closer ties with the poorest countries of the world and help them in their redemption from poverty. Zimbabwe must awaken the conscience of India.

N.Nandhivarman General Secretary Dravida Peravai

APPEAL TO CONGRESS AND BJP :

KEEP AWAY FROM KASHMIR FOR ONE ELECTION

The Rediff.com news dated August 19, 2008 states that "Besides many other things, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is certainly a lucky politician. In just 22 days his police claims to have solved the conspiracy behind the serial bomb blasts in Ahmedabad of July 26 and the mystery behind the bombs that were planted all over Surat but did not explode. How did the Gujarat police manage what the police in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Jaipur and Bangalore could not do in the last two years? Rediff.com reconstructs the investigations that went into unraveling the conspiracy on the basis of information from multiple sources in Ahmedabad and New Delhi".

When I read this story though it contained passage about state authorities and Intelligence Bureau working united brought this result, what struck me is the other side of Mr.Narendra Modi. Two years ago I wrote letters to all the Chief Ministers in this country about the genocidal war in Srilanka where more than 70,000 people had lost their lives and urged them to participate in an Eye-Opening Seminar of Tamil Eelam. Only two Chief Ministers replied. Mr.Narendra Modi of Gujarat and Dr.Raman Singh of Chattisgarh. It left a lasting impression in me. I could not assimilate the role of Narendra Modi with regard to Gujrat riots. But by his swift response, he touched my heart. Here is a politician in power willing to discuss the Tamil problem, while all other Congress Chief Ministers were dutifully killing their conscience to please the ruling dynasty, of course ruling by proxy. Now again Mr.Modi had proved that he can tackle terrorism, since he has political will.

While I record my appreciation for Mr.Narendra Modi, I must also place my word of condemnation for the words that emanate from the mouth of Mr.Lal Krishna Advani. My friend and grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and Rajaji, Mr.Rajmohan Gandhi had expressed the same feeling I have in the columns of The Hindustan Times dated 19^th August 2008.

Mr.Rajmohan Gandhi wrote: "In his letter to the Prime Minister on nationalism versus separatism, L.K. Advani has placed the people of Jammu, the national flag, the Motherland and the Indian Army in one column, and the people of the Kashmir Valley and separatism in a second, adversarial, column. Some will see this as fair. Can it be denied that the national flag and the Indian Army have many more admirers in Jammu than in the Valley? Don't we hear of attacks on security forces and the raising of Pakistani flags in Kashmir? Does anything like that happen in Jammu town? Advani's divisive formulation has to be opposed not because it is entirely untrue but precisely because it is a half-truth, more dangerous than a lie for being believable. A difficult reality can be dealt with in two ways. It can be admitted, deplored, and corrected. Or it can be welcomed with glee, presented as a fundamental and unchangeable truth, and used as a political springboard. For the first time, an important political leader has suggested that not just the terrorists but all the people of the Kashmir Valley are adversaries ? foes of the Motherland, of the national flag, and of the Army. For the first time, a possible future Prime Minister of India has divided the people of Jammu and Kashmir into two sections, one with positive qualities and worthy of the Army's protection, and the other with negative impulses, deserving of the Army's suspicion. Advani was careful not to use the word 'Muslims'. But, of course, he is not implying that Kashmiri Pandits are separatists. He means Kashmiri Muslims. Everyone knows that, and Advani knows that everyone knows what he means."

Electoral gains are uppermost in the minds of politicians. They want either caste vote bank or vote bank of religion. How long these politicians are going to foment trouble, divide society and practice the British principle of divide and rule? All these years the Congress is the sole accused in keeping Kashmir burning, now it is the time of BJP, it seems.

NEHRU IN DOCK :

In fact a host of questions have to be answered in order to understand the Kashmir problem. The background and political mysteries that surround Kashmir's accession to India, is best known only to Dr.Karan Singh, who continues to enjoy Indian Government patronage all through his life but never goes to the rescue of any section of the people of Kashmir, whether it bleeds or burns.

A scholar wrote that " an understanding of various political forces such as National Conference, Jamat-i-Islami and Congress party within the region provides important clues. Although Hindu reactionaries had limited space to operate, they did enormous damage to the healthy political traditions in the valley. There is no doubt that of all the political parties, National Conference till recently enjoyed immense popular support for having emerged as the champion of anti-feudal struggle under the leadership of Late Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah in the thirties and forties of 20^th century. But unfortunately when Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah was arrested in 1953, the political expression was brutally ruptured." Thus wrote Mr.Rattan Lal Hangloo, Reader, Department of History, Hyderabad University

In 1955 Sheikh Abdullah's associate Mirza Murd Afzal Beg founded the Plebiscite Front. After the break out of Indo-China war, Sheikh Abdullah was released. Prescriptions of Congress are delivered when the disease worsens, that is why till now, Congress continues to commit mistake after mistake. Congress envied the popularity of Sheikh Abdullah, its leaders lacked his charisma, hence the need to arrest him so that his political space could be occupied by Congress.

" In the late sixties and early seventies, though the Congress was at the helm of affairs in Kashmir, at the popular level it was the Plebiscite Front and the Jamat-i-Islami which had made a dent . In 1974 Congress thought of another trick that it asked then Chief Minister Mir Quasim to step down and offered the post of Chief Minister to Sheikh Abdullah with the intention of getting the Plebiscite Front of Sheikh Abdullah dissolved. Once Abdullah took over as Chief Minister with the Congress support he was made to dissolve the Plebiscite Front. It was thought that this move would undermine the growth of regional tendencies at the popular level. But once again Congress failed because it soon withdrew support to Sheikh Abdullah in the assembly and after a short period of Governor's rule the state went to polls in which the National Conference [which had been revived in meantime by Sheikh Abdullah ] came to power with Sheikh Abdullah as Chief Minister." Thus goes the analysis. But what should be borne in mind, the people of Kashmir were made pawns in the power games played by the Congress. Thereafter whatever permutation and combination Congress works to be in power in that state had only alienated the people from Indian mainstream political parties.

Now it is the time for BJP to fish in troubled waters. BJP would be left happy with Jammu, but country will loose Kashmir, if these. election oriented statements of Advani spreads hate. Mahatma Gandhi told on attaining Indian Independence that Congress should cease to be a political party but must become a seva sangh. If that had happened fresh blood would have been infused into Indian politics. The erstwhile Maharaja's against whom people fought would not have been rehabilitated like Dr.Karan Singh enjoying fruits while freedom fighters struggle even to get pensions. National Parties like Congress and BJP must not contest atleast one election in Jammu and Kashmir, neither they should directly or indirectly prop up proxies. They must allow the people to elect their government, and promise Kashmiris that they wont impose any Government on them and they can rule themselves within Indian Union and power games of ruling parties at Center will be outlawed in Kashmir.

N.Nandhivarman General Secretary Dravida Peravai

OCCULT USED TO CREATE A CULT:

AUROVILLE EXPERIMENT IS DIFFICULT

Race has no genetic base. All are equals. The racial superiority is a myth. Times of India dated 1^st November 2004 wrote: "The genetic basis of race and the superiority of one of them over the other died a sudden death during the 1936 Aryan supremacy Olympics in Berlin. That was when Jesse Owens, a black US athlete, exploded in the track and field events. He won four gold medals and broke a number of world records simultaneously. Hitler refused to shake hands with him and instead stormed out of stadium in disgust at the star's triumph over his much hyped Nordic Caucasian team. This opened the most disastrous chapter of the modern 20^th century eugenic movement. It also led to the renewed politicization of race."

Hitler might have been defeated but his mentality of imagining that his race is superior over others is still a disease not erased from human minds. The Aurobindonians imagine they are superior human beings, having got the visa to enter the land of super men and super women. Even in the defeat of Hitler it is not the armed forces of the combined democratic forces that were responsible, these men in ashram, will write their own World History. The lady with occult powers flew in her wings, all the way from Pondicherry to Berlin, sneaked into the mind of Hitler and made him open two fronts against Russia and America at the same time instead of defeating one after the another, and this occult powered master-plan, led to the defeat of Hitler the Auro-dreamers will write in their own version of world history. Their history cannot be accepted as truth. Similarly their dream to attain superman status just by chanting, praying and yogic exercise and sexercise is not realizable.

Scientists have recently proved, particularly neurologists that with non-invasive brain computer interfaces, a person can perform an action just by thinking about it. This is how this seemingly fantastical innovation works: A person wears and electrode cap which detects electroencephalographic [EEG] activity in the brain from the scalp. The electrodes are placed over the sensory part of the brain. In other words we can now turn to technology to help us mind control. This would enhance the quality of life for people with severe spinal injuries or illness like cerebral palsy, affording them greater independence. Jonathan Wolpaw and his team, invented the early invasive brain computer interfaces said that they are giving the brain the opportunity to develop a motor skill" Science and scientists alone are doing yeomen service to humanity, not the yogis. Yoga is just like physical exercise, nothing more. All yogis have perished, none conquered death. They may have preached noble goals but that were never attained. Yet the Aurobindo Ashram Trust got tax exemption for "scientific research" thanks to the unscientific approval of people like Dr.Karan Singh. All these years what research they did? What is the result? In what way it benefited society? Similarly they are behind the dangerous concept of creating an international city called Auroville. These day dreamers club thinks that the occult powers acquired by Mirra Alfassa, who is no more will prove all their dreams as scientifically viable, possible and attainable. The human unity is not possible as long as anyone thinks he is an Arya, a race superior on earth like Hitler imagined.

The question will arise, and then how come you call yourself as Dravidian? The inception of the Dravidian movement started with the coining of the word Dravida to denote a language group. Then it became a word to counter the word Arya, which claimed superiority over other human beings. Now we live in a world where race is proven to be a false notion. In Front Line magazine [July 18-2003] my friend Dr.Subramanian Swamy wrote a hard hitting article against Dravidian movement. Only two Dravidian parties replied. The General Secretary of Dravida Kazhagam Mr.K.Veeramani and me, General Secretary of Dravida Peravai. Let me quote from my reply:

"So to accept humanity is one and the world is one, science had to unearth mysteries. The common gene in every human being had also proven that the theories of race are culture oriented. While race is disproved, both Aryan and Dravidian theories have to die. Perhaps Dr.Swamy wants the Aryan concept to die, and if that were the case, one can welcome to some extent his wishful thinking. The Second World War waged by Hitler propounding the supremacy of the Aryan race, which he demonstrated by the killings of millions of Jews, still remind us that whoever claims supremacy over fellow human beings in the name of the race of his birth will be taught a befitting lesson by mankind." This is what I wrote. Give up the racial superiority notion and the connected word Arya, used by Aurobindo Ghosh. We will shed the counter-word, the armour against superiority among human beings theory, namely the Dravidian shield. As science progresses when our intellect gets enlightened why cling to words and wrong notions. Similarly the word Hindu. Today it denotes only a religion. It was derived from the word Indus, denoting the people of Indus Valley Civilization. We believe that Indus Valley Civilization is Dravidian civilization. Then the word Hindu should only mean us the Dravidians. If we concede, the invasion, in larger context it will also include Aryans, but now it is being used as a word only to describe a religion. Religions had different names. Saivaism, Vaishnavism, Buddhism, Sikkism etc. The common word to mean Indian people, Indus Valley people is in usage narrowed to a religious context. Otherwise we have no enmity to any words. Its meaning, its usage and how it fits us in the humanity, alone matters. If we are to be slaves under the Order of Manu, if few claim they are above all in humanity, there comes the conflict. The Dalit uprising seen all over India is our fault. We, Dravidians separated them from our villages and built caste walls. We borrowed the Aryan mentality, degrading our kinsmen, which now witnesses Dalit assertion in Indian politics and society.

In Srilanka, a group thinks they belong to a separate race. There is no Sinhalese race, yet on that basis human sufferings continue for decades, about which the recent book narrates:

‘Conversations in a Failing State‘

Towards the end of 19th century, the renowned American writer Mark Twain visited Colombo. While he was admiring the plurality of colour in the native dresses, somewhere in Pettah, he saw native children coming out of an English school, in line, in white uniform and in the same hairdo. 'What an ugly scene', he wrote, being sad at the way colonial institutions depriving natives of their pluralism. More than a century later, Patrick Lawrence, another American, comes to Sri Lanka to record the net results, a failed nationalism and a failed state, as consequences of the loss of pluralism.

Almost unbelievably for a nation with so many advantages and so much promise, it was a legitimate question by 2006 whether Sri Lanka could be called ‘a failed state,’ writes Patrick Lawrence in his recent book 'Conversations in a Failing State', brought out by Hong Kong based Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) in March 2008.

Mr. Patrick Lawrence was correspondent, commentator and editor in Asia for more than twenty-five years working for the International Herald Tribune, New Yorker and the Far Eastern Economic Review. The present publication is a result of his study as Senior Rapporteur for the AHRC.

Excerpts from some of his interesting observations follow:

Back: Back to Tamil Nadu, to southern India.

Going back is a recurring theme among some Sinhalese. In 1981, just after the burning of the Jaffna Library, a legislator from the U. N. P. said of the Tamils in a parliamentary debate, "If there is discrimination in this land, which is not their homeland, then why try to stay here? Why not go back home, where there would be no discrimination? There you have your culture, your education, universities, et cetera. There you are masters of your own fate It would be advisable for the Tamils not to disturb the sleeping Sinhalese brother . Everyone knows that lions, when disturbed, are not peaceful."

On Sri Lankan historiography

The past in Sri Lanka has been both despoiled and neglected. And it is the despoiled and neglected past, not history, which Sri Lankans carry in their minds. The paradox is plain: History matters in Sri Lanka, but there is no history.

Instead there is a mythical past, the past of Vijaya, the legendary voyager from northern India who, with seven hundred companions, is said to have come to Sri Lanka sometime in the fifth century B. C., whereupon the Sinhalese became Sinhalese. This is the past of great kings and great stones and great tanks. It is the past of we-were-here-first and ours-was-the-great-civilization. It is not a human narrative; it is not inhabited in the way history is by definition and certainly not by those we now call the indigenous, who arrived at least ten millennia before Vijaya. There is Vijaya, of course, who enters the narrative by way of a text on a plaque [in the National Museum, Colombo]:

The transition from Pre' and Proto'history to the historical period in Sri Lanka begins with the Indo'Aryan settlers headed by the legendary ruler Vijaya from North India around the 5th century B. C., thus commencing the Sinhalese race.

This is sloppy logic and very sloppy writing?sloppy and provocative. There is the problematic word "legendary." Are we acquiring a notion of history in these galleries, or a creation myth?

Then the problem of "the Sinhalese race." By even the most lenient of definitions, the Sinhalese are not remotely a race. And the scholars of our time are moving further and further away from any such notion: Contemporary thinking is such that the very notion of race is losing its validity. In any case, one has never heard of a heroic adventurer arriving somewhere and "commencing" a race. It is, prima facie, an impossible idea. [Chapter 11]

On Burning the Jaffna Library

The most fateful fire in Sri Lankan history occurred in the city of Jaffna, in the far north, in 1981. It was set on the first of three nights of anti-Tamil violence and destruction that resembled a pogrom, in the center of the Tamil community. Apart from the death toll, which was six, the greatest casualty was the Jaffna Library.

It is natural that those of Tamil extraction would mourn the loss of their library for many years, as many Tamils did. But the true loss was larger still than it was commonly understood to be. Jaffna Library was not only, or even primarily, a Tamil institution. Understood properly, it was Sri Lankan. It stood for the multicultural mosaic of the nation. As a national treasure, Sinhalese ought to have celebrated it just as much as Tamils did. In the burning of the Jaffna Library we must recognize not only an attack on an ethnic population, but the annihilation of public space. [Chapter 4]

On the Upcountry Tamils

As the founding prime minister he quickly turned government into a kind of family business. Senanayake himself was also minister of defense and foreign affairs. His son, Dudley, was agriculture minister; his nephew, John Lionel Kotalawala, was commerce minister, and his cousin J. R. Jayewardene, the future president, held the finance portfolio. One of the first important acts of this family enterprise came in a series of three bills enacted in 1948 and 1949. These laws effectively disenfranchised Tamils working on the tea estates in central Ceylon. [Chapter 1]

The plantation workers are still predominantly Tamil?poor, mostly unorganized, living in minimal conditions on the estates. Once you know the immense suffering that made these places what they are, it is impossible to drink tea again in the same way, or to look in the same way at the rows of tea bushes as they roll over the hilltops like the undulations of ocean swells. They are a beautiful sight, but too much pain and deprivation has been sacrificed for them to be beautiful and nothing more. [Chapter 7]

Conclusion: Tamils are the worst sufferers of the racial supremacy theory. For centuries we have suffered and still bleeding under the war machine of genocide. Let the curse called race be sent to catacomb. Let us all unite as human beings. But let Indian government not allow a group to imagine they are super species experimenting to reach the next ladder in evolution and further push Tamils in their own soil into slave mentality and make them second class citizens.

N.Nandhivarman, General Secretary, Dravida Peravai

TENTH DEGREE CANAL TO SAVE FUEL

(In a letter to then Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee and then Prime Minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra an appeal to construct 10 th Degree Canal was suggested. Much before this appeal a letter to the then Lt.Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands N.N.Jha sought to construct and name the canal as Thamizhan Canal. Also a personal meeting with then Minister of State for External Affairs Digvijay Singh to urge this project was undertaken. The details of the project are recalled here to once again to remind Government of India to act fast and create this short route from Bay of Bengal to South China seas.)

Joint efforts by India and Thailand to construct the Tenth Degree Canal for linking Andaman Sea and Gulf of Thailand to create a short navigational route to South China Seas ensuring fuel savings and to act as catalyst for bilateral economic growth , is need of the hour.

You may be aware that the Suez Canal (1869) and Panama Canal (1915) Sethu Samudram Canal (1860) and Tenth Degree Canal have been mooted to create short navigational routes to bring prosperity to their respective regions and countries. The French initiative to build Siene_Norde Canal is an example for the keen interest evinced by developing countries to promote trade and overall development. Since the recent visit of Indian Prime Minister had given tremendous boost to the cooperation between India and Thailand, Dravida Peravai is bringing to your knowledge certain historical facts with the humble request to you both to take an active interest for the construction of Tenth Degree Canal, which can bring prosperity to Andaman & Nicobar islands of India and Thailand, apart from boosting bilateral trade.

You must go back to the pages of history to know that Thailand then known, as Siam is an enemy country of the British and an ally of the Japan during the World War II. On the conclusion of the Second World War II, one of the last secretive acts performed by the colonial Government of India was the signing of a Peace Treaty with Siam (Thailand). A Peace Treaty between her Majesty's Government and the Government of India on one hand and the Kingdom of Siam on the other, on January 1, 1946 at the Government House Singapore. The signatories were for the Britain Mr. Moberly Dening, Political Adviser to Lord Louis Mount batten, for Government of India Mr.M.S.Aney and for Siam (now Thailand) Prince Viwat Anajai Jaiyant, Lt.General Phya Abhai Songgram and Nai Serm Vinichayakul. This treaty contains 24 articles. Out of this Article 7 assumes importance in the context of this letter.

Article 7: Siam undertakes to construct no canal linking the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Siam (i.e. across the Kra Isthmus) without British consent. (Keesing's Contemporary Archives 1946-48 Vol VI, p 7695). This article had done great havoc to Indian shipping costing our nation billions of extra money by way of fuel imports, in view of shelving of the Tenth Degree Canal project with the imposition of a condition in this Peace Treaty. It has also blocked the economic prosperity of Thailand and held up the development process by half a century and more.

Hence Dravida Peravai urges the Government of India and Government of Thailand to look into the unfavorable condition imposed by a colonial rule, that too at the threshold of a defeat in Second World War II on Thailand, an ally of Japan. It is in the interests of India and Thailand that a Canal be cut across the Isthmus of Kra where the isthmus narrows to just 75 miles and to develop this canal vigorously so that a detour of 1500 nautical miles down the Malayan Coast via the Straits of Malacca and up the Gulf of Thailand in the South China Sea is avoided.

The proposed Tenth Degree Canal will be an extension of the Tenth Degree channel in between Andaman and Nicobar islands. The opening of Tenth Degree canal will result is saving millions of tons of fuel foe world shipping. The Tenth Degree canal reduces the importance of other major canals of the world namely Suez Canal and Panama Canal. The Tenth Degree Canal would develop Andaman & Nicobar Islands and bring prosperity to its economy. The opening of this canal will also benefit the Indian East Coast Ports like Haldia, Paradeep, Visakapatinam, Chennai and Tuticurin. There are more than 138 minor and intermediary ports under the control of various state governments in India. If Indian Government creates a National Seaway Authority and permits private sector vessels to transport cargo and passengers connecting all Indian Ports, these 138 minor and intermediary Ports, which mostly are inoperable, will be busting with activity and the opening up of the Tenth Degree Canal by Thailand will also improve its share in international trade and access to Indian market. The completion of Sethu samudram Project along with the Tenth Degree canal Project, will give a boost to Indian coastal shipping, cargo shipping and major boost to Indian and Thailand's economy. The Tenth degree Canal will boost the economies of SAARC and ASEAN nations. The savings in fuel will be so great for Japan, and it may fund this project. India and China too would benefit with this Canal, and this will boost bilateral trade. The Tenth Degree Canal reduces the cost of shipping for the nations of the Pacific rim of Asia.

The Indian Prime Ministers vision to look towards East is laudable and the Free Trade Agreements India signing with its neighbours is a right step in the right direction, as world is moving towards regional blocks and common markets, Dravida Peravai urges both India and Thailand to foster their economic cooperation with speedy construction of Tenth Degree Canal as a Indo Thailand joint venture to open a New Seaway to East. Economists like Dominic Wilson and Roopa Purushothaman an alumnus of London School of Economics have in their joint report predicted that Brazil, Russia, India and China could become a powerful economic block like G-6 nations and will race ahead of developed nations by 2050. It will be appropriate to have a common Asian Market and A Common Asian currency for the resurgence of the economies of the Asian block, and by launching schemes with foresight both India and Thailand along with other neighbouring countries must set the agenda for changing their economies into one common market with a common currency.

The proposed land bridge between Thailand and Andaman is not necessary and instead the cutting of a canal right east from Andaman will be the easiest and best way to open a New Sea Way to South China Seas and EAST. India at the moment is planning a transshipment harbour in Indira point, the last island in our border, and this too could get a boost with the construction of Tenth Degree canal. There may be some voices of concern in environment angle, but such opposition will also be there for the land bridge mooted by the Thailand Government. Even for Sethu Samudram Project there was opposition and the National environment Research Institute had countered it in its report. For interlinking of rivers too there will voices against it here and there, but over all societal concerns must prevail. Nuclear tests are taking place amidst environmental caution, and in places where Tsunami, i.e. killer waves that rise from ocean floor and swallow towns is common as in Hawaii and Japanese regions harbours do exist and have come up. So it will not be an economically and environmentally unsound proposition to construct 10 Th Degree Canal and name it as THAMIZHAN CANAL.

AUROVILLE UTOPIA: TAMIL PHOBIA

Paul Johnson wrote in Spectator on utopians. In that article he defines "an intellectual is someone who thinks ideas matter more than people." This is the problem with all Aurovillians headed by the Maharaja Karan Singh. They live in ivory towers, talk about noble ideals but shut their eyes, heart, brain and minds towards the poverty-stricken indigenous Tamil people in whose land they want to colonize to realize a utopian ideal.

"If people get in the way of ideas they must be swept aside and if necessary put in concentration camps or killed. To intellectuals, individuals as such are not interesting and do not matter. Indeed individualism is a hindrance to the pursuit of ideals in an absolute sense. The individual with his quirks and quiddities, has mixture of good and bad, intelligence and stupidity, longing for justice but anxiety to promote his own selfish interests, does not fit into a utopian community. Hence utopians, if they are in earnest, tend to become terrorists. A significant case was Robespierre, who invented both utopianism and terrorism in their modern forms."

"On February 17, 1794 he outlined : In our country we want to substitute ethics for egoism, integrity for honour, principles for habits, duties for protocol, the empire of reason for the tyranny of changing taste, scorn of vice for the scorn of misfortune, pride for insolence, elevation of soul for vanity, the love of glory for the love of money, good men for amusing companions, merit for intrigue, genius for cleverness, truth for wit, the charm of happiness for the boredom of sensuality, the greatness of man for the pettiness of the great and magnanimous , strong happy people for an amiable, frivolous, miserable people, that is to say, all the virtues and all the miracles of the republic for the vices and all the absurdities of a monarchy."

This is Robespierre who created Utopian dream. Going by this definition what strikes us is that a monarchy comprises all vices and all absurdities. If so a monarch former or present cannot be liberated by the ingredients of a monarchy. So it becomes imperative that for realization of Utopian dream that monarchs must be kept out. May be in spiritual empires monarchs like Karan Singh are given visa and permit to stay and rule.

Tsarist Russia was a cruel and merciless society, but it was also, in its own way, a Christian one. In the 80 years before 1917, an average of 17 people was executed every year in Russia, virtually all of them convicted for murder. By 1918-19 with Lenin firmly in power, his prime instrument of terror, the Cheka, was executing 1000 a month. The methodology of the terror was explained by a senior official of Cheka. We are not carrying out war against individuals. We are exterminating the bourgeois as a class. We are not looking for evidence or witnesses to reveal deeds or words against the Soviet power. The first question we ask is: to what class does he belong, what are his origins, upbringing, education or profession? The answers to these questions decide the fate of the accused. This is the essence of Red Terror" wrote Paul Johnson.

Dravida Peravai comments: In Aurobindo Ashram and Auroville, being spiritual empires executions are ruled out. The comparison should not be literally lifted to suit with the situation here. The Auro-Dream is a Utopia. In pursuit of that utopia, ashram has inmates, whom they call as sadhaks. There are around 1200 sadaks in Ashram. All cannot be calculated as members of the utopian brigade. Most of them are poor people from Orissa, who have been brought here on the promise of secure life, shelter, food etc. The reason for this import is to gradually eliminate all Tamil workers from the ashram business units, to avoid minimum wages payment to Tamils. The elimination is like filtering of people belonging to one class. The fact that the top most rowdy of Ashram is an Oriya is enough to indicate that to rule Oriya workers, a rowdy had been groomed among them. That rowdy once vowed to eliminate me, which led to my complaint to the then Police top cop, Shivaji Sinha I.P.S, who persuaded to pacify me and made the complaint sent to cold storage, a decade ago. Five women from Jharkand, just because they complained of sexual harassment, are on the verge of being thrown out, and as far as inside news we have is they will commit suicide if they are thrown out. All through their life they dreamt of the utopia, even know they are not willing to go anywhere to make a living, but want to end their life here, and this blind faith in Mother and Thiru Aurobindo, is what emboldens the Trustees to carry on their autocratic rule eliminating all dissidence, while keeping Tamils at bay.

Paul Johnson continues: Stalin's Great purge raised the execution rate, in the years 1937-38 to 40,000 a month. But the principle was the same. Those executed, whether prominent ex-comrades or simply party officials were not judged on account of actual deeds, albeit in certain show trials evidence and confessions were extracted under torture. They all belong to the categories, enemies of USSR or counter revolutionaries, Trotskyites etc. When it comes to killing in pursuit of their respective utopias, Hitler and Stalin were essentially the same. Hitler killed counter revolutionaries and enemies of his state on the basis of individual guilt, but most of his victims fell into racial categories: gypsies, Jews, and Slavs. Unlike Stalin who was building a class-utopia and killed or caused to die a likely 20 million people in pursuit of it, in the process of killing six million Jews, women and children, judged worthy of death on account of their birth, in accordance with the Nuremburg laws"

Dravida Peravai comments: These are violent utopian dreams, what we see in Auro-dream is peaceful pursuit to keep Tamils away. Why should 1619 people, mostly foreigners be chosen as residents to pursue the utopia, while 45,000 Tamil indigenous villagers kept out of this? Is it a class-utopia? Is it a cult-utopia? Is it a creed-utopia? Much before Auroville take over by Government of India, while it was under Mr.Navjata of Aurobindo Society, I went to meet him along with a delegation of foreigners from the movement Moral-Rearmament in which the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and Rajaji, Mr.Raj Mohan Gandhi was active leader. During our conversation one member of the delegation asked Mr.Navjatha, why it is so many hippies are seen around Auroville, to which Mr.Navjatha answered "Our philosophy attracts them". Intervening I said, "Yes their philosophy only attracts hippies and not Tamils." Now years had passed, Auroville is under a Government controlled foundation. Even now if Mr.Carel Theieme and his company say that we foreigners alone will be majority in this utopian township, is it not the duty of the Government of India and Government of Tamilnadu to lay down strict conditions that all 45,000 villagers who live within the Auroville Master plan area must be made citizens of Auroville, so that another Dutch India Company or French India Company will not try to hijack the city claiming Vatican-like status?

THE RIVAL OF VATICAN: AUROVILLE

We want the Government of India to withdraw the approval given to the Auroville Universal Township Master Plan by the Ministry of Human Resources Development vide letter dated No: F 27-3/2000 UU dated 12^th April 2001. The people's revolt in Nandhigram of West Bengal over setting up of an industry acquiring lands indicates that even if employment opportunities knock their doors, people are not willing to barter their traditional right over their soil. The Amarnath land row is a head ache for our nation. In both cases after things went beyond control, Government of India is now frantically searching for a panacea. The Master Plan [Perspective 2025] brought out by Auroville Foundation and Town and Country Planning Organization, Government of India Ministry of Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation, needs intensive scrutiny before agitations erupt.

1. The publication under the heading ORIGIN OF THE TOWNSHIP: THE VISION

Says : " In 1954 [ coinciding with the end of French colonial rule in Puducherry] The Mother had envisioned that " There should be somewhere upon Earth a place no nation could claim as its sole property, a place where all human beings of goodwill, sincere in their aspiration, could live freely as citizens of the world, obeying one single authority, that of Supreme Truth, a place of peace, concord, harmony where all the fighting instincts of man would be used exclusively to conquer the causes of his suffering and misery, to surmount his weakness and ignorance, to triumph over his limitations and incapacities, a place where the needs of the spirit and the care for the progress would get precedence over the satisfaction of desires and passions, the seeking for pleasures and material enjoyments."

Dravida Peravai comments: The Honorable French Lady Mirra Alfasa during the French colonial time would have easily set up such a Utopian City in the French colony of Pondicherry. Why this vision did not appear to her at that time? All these experiments she could have carried within Pondicherry with French Government support. Further she could have made Aurobindo Ashram as laboratory where all fighting instincts of man could be conquered? If she had succeeded within Aurobindo Ashram, she could have argued we have succeeded here and this experiment we want to carry on wider scale, hence we need a township. I can quote her from her own words recorded in cassettes in French and brought out in 6000 pages of Mother's Agenda in English. Did she say that when her eyesight became dim, all around her are cheating her? She had said. When she was in her old age, she had cited many examples on how people around her betrayed her? A Goddess in her lifetime cannot even reform her followers, wants Government of India to sanction a Universal Township, where "over the satisfaction of desires and passions, the seeking of pleasures and material enjoyments, need of spirit will take precedence. In Puducherry people throng due to the need of liquor based on rectified spirit, and her vision, mission and ashram had not lifted Pondicherry from the bane of alcoholism. Her own comments in 13^th volume of Mother's Agenda that if I build hospital for people's benefit, illicit children are being delivered there, proves the Poet Bharathidasan's poetic attack in his epic Kudumba Villakku on the immorality prevailing there to be truth. When she cannot succeed in creating a new species in the ashram, what need arises for a Universal Township. Unless it is for creating a neo-colony nearby with French leaving their original colony Puducherry, there is no need for a universal township to import people from abroad. British, French and Portuguese colonialism ended, and Indian people were happy. Why should we import people from various countries unless it is for creating a neo-colony? If the noble goals of Auroville are for humanity, Indians too are part of humanity, not all are atheists like me, and most are spiritual guided by various saints and gurus over centuries. Are these people unfit to become supermen and women? The Mother left a will in cassette and writing on how Ashram should function after her, and the ninety year old Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya, Director of Physical Education of Aurobindo Ashram in his words had said that after mourning period they will listen to that cassette and run the Aurobindo Ashram according to her directives. Till date where that cassette had vanished is mystery, and years back investigative Tamil journal Nakkeeran had exposed this mystery. Our question is if the sadaks trained by Thiru.Aurobindo Ghosh and Ms.Mirra Alfasa failed to run an ashram as per her last will, how can Government of India expect a Universal Township will be run in accordance with her dreams.

2. The Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India, is a ministry under a cabinet elected by the people of India. It should be impartial. It must plan for the development of all urban cities in India, and not shower its grace to only one Universal Township. Does the Government thinks all Indian cities should stink and Indian people breathe polluted air, while a town of 1619 foreigners including 472 supporters of those foreigners, should have a green belt evacuating Tamil villages either forcibly or cunningly purchasing the lands to ease the locals out of their soil. The Government of India is representative of Indian people. It must think of Master Plans that will beautify all Indian cities, and not show undue partiality to support only one township comprising people who will not vote in Indian elections, who are not tax payers but are people to avail concessions in the name of so many activities, which thousands on non-governmental organizations in India are already pursuing. Puducherry is on the verge of loosing all cultivable lands. In future the Union Territory is not going to produce even a bagful of food grains. All lands are becoming concrete jungles. Same is the case of Chennai and most cities in India. The Government of India wants Indian citizens to live in congested concrete jungles, but it wants a green jungle belt to shield a town of special species from pollution. It is shameful and ridiculous.

3. The Ministry which has Poverty Alleviation in its title must visit the Tamil villages where the Auroville Universal Township will come up, and see the poverty in which neck deep these Tamils have sunk with no one to redeem. There is nothing to do with poverty alleviation, and it is whimsical to sanction a township that never will work for poverty alleviation.

Auroville belongs to nobody in particular, by these words Tamils are kept away, saying "to live in Auroville one must be a willing servitor of Divine Consciousness" The imported foreigners only are willing servitor to Divine Consciousness, and Secretary of Auroville Foundation had to just rubber stamp that certificate issued by the residents assembly comprising the foreigners with more than two thirds majority. The words of their Mother that there has to be a place that no nation could claim its property, clearly indicates, that like Vatican, they want city state status, keeping all sovereign countries out of reach. For this only fools in Indian Government could nod like the Sultans and Maharaja's of past who extended red carpet welcome to East India Company and French India Company.

N.Nandhivarman. General Secretary Dravida Peravai

Note: The arrogance of a foreigner is proven by him putting a photograph saying the people of Chief Minister's constituency respect him so much that is why they have renamed a street as Chief Ministers Penis High Way. The link to that blog is given below. http://memestreamblog.wordpress.com/category/politics-policy/page/2/

I am ardent critic of Chief Minister, but a foreigner is not ridiculing just a Chief Minister, but also people of Pondicherry as if they are fools to name one street like this. If it is vulgar joke, that shows foreigners coming to Pondicherry can mudsling our people.

AUROVILLE : THE MIRAGE CHASE

The Matrimandir Workers Team brought out an article on The Present Situation: An Analysis dated October-November 2002. That paper opens with a quote from Thiru. Aurobindo Ghosh. "India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word, she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. And that which must seek now to awaken is not an anglicized oriental people, docile people of the west and doomed to repeat the cycle of the occident's success and failure, but still the ancient immemorable."

Docile people of the west are ruling the roost. So it becomes evident that he forewarned importing western people to illuminate our civilization. We don't have a west-phobia. We know how west wants to deny east its due. In this connection let me quote from the center page article of Times of India [August 17^th 2004] written by Ameresh Mishra. Circle of Reason: Roots of Western Rationalism lie in the East, is the title of that article. "Ancient India and China had systems of rational philosophies and social conduct in the marrow of religious beliefs. Moreover the struggle between orthodoxy and progressive innovation was a constant theme. Islam had Mutazilites [rationalists] as early as 10^th century. Islamic empires produced scientists, scholars and philosophers like Ibn Sina, Ibn Rushd, Al Farabi and Al Kindi. Known as Avicenna in West Ibn Sina laid the foundations of modern medicine. Ibn Rushd rediscovered Plato and Aristotle, Al Kindi and Al Farabi broke new ground in hydraulics and discovered the symphony, the cornerstone of western classical music. These four scholars represent just a tiny spectrum of intellectuals who created the Arabic Renaissance and enlightenment. Western societies were barbaric, superstitious and bigoted at that time. The Arabic Renaissance laid the basis of western renaissance, something recognized by Dante, the father of western renaissance. Everyone knows that modern science evolved out of the helio-centric concept of the Universe. If Galileo had not challenged the Christian idea of Geo-centric Universe, the West would have been grappling with the absurd notion of the sun revolving around the earth. But was Galileo the first helio-centrist?

"The earth rotates around its axis [27:88] rotates round the sun [7:54] is not flat but is like a ball [39:5] an egg [79:30] .This QUR'AN quotation predates Galileo by eight hundred years. The Qur'an also says: The heavens are expanding [51:47]. The picture taken by Edwin Hubble in Mount Wilson observatory in 1929 showed universe was expanding, which led to the Big bang theory. The Qua'ran anticipated this by 14 centuries. Similarly Indians even before Islam were aware that universe is helio-centric. Arab and Iranian adventures refined the knowledge gained basically from India, China and older pagan western civilizations. In contrast to the west, Arabs and Iranians never hid their sources. Algebra was called Al Hind and Arabic prescriptions Unani [Greek]medicine. The democratic idea in the sense we understand it was expressed first by Emperor Akbar's Sulh-i-kul [Peace and Fraternity with all]. The game played by the West has been to deny the East its own science, its own rationality "so goes on Amaresh Mishra.

This passage was reproduced here because people who follow Islam live under siege mentality. We all know they were our kinsmen who opted for Islam during the rule by Islamic Emperors. To sum up West had always denied East its due, be it Islam or Indian. And the opening quote of Thiru.Aurobindo Ghosh also stresses the greatness of India and its Indianized people. He warns against Anglicized oriental people, then why should western people be imported to create anglicized oriental people in Auroville? The international city should be a city to uphold the greatness of India or the East; it should not be a colony of the west.

The opening note by the Matrimandir workers team states: "The present imbroglio surrounding Matrimandir has unfortunately clouded and hidden the deeper and more central issues of direction both for Matrimandir and Auroville. Contrary to the popular belief that the current impasse has been created because of a conflict between matrimandir workers team and the Follow Roger Faction, the actual dimension of the problem is more serious. The Matrimandir Workers Team has chosen to take a firm stand against all attempts of removal because it perceives that the Mother's vision of Auroville as a spiritual township and cradle of the New World is at stake from the threat of a conventional Master Plan based on a politico-economic approach"

By this paper prepared by one Deepti and sent to the Secretary Auroville Foundation on 16^th November 2002 [Ref: 23/21/2002-2003] signed by Arjun Puri, it becomes clear that a section is against the Master Plan. They want their Masters Plan, i.e. of Aurobindo and Ashram Mother's plan. Here we have debated about Mirra Alfasa's divine anarchy. Now let us go through another paper Towards the city of Aurobindo.

"It is obvious to all that the present Foundation is a temporary frame work. [Government of India particularly the Human Resources Development Ministry must take note of the hidden and open meaning of this line. Like Maoists who want to be within Parliamentary system and subvert from within, the Aurovillians want always to weaken the Government run Foundation] As Aurobindo wrote: . In an entirely right and sound condition of man, individual and collective, a condition typified by the legendary golden age, Sathya Yuga, Age of Truth, there is no need of any political government or state or artificial construction of society, because all then live freely according to truth of their enlightened self and God-inhabited being and therefore spontaneously according to their inner divine dharma. The self determining individual and self determining community living according to the right and free law of his and its being is therefore the ideal.

Sorry, for our comments. We cannot but laugh within ourselves on the City suitable for Age of Truth. If Age of Truth arrives, will it only descend on this city or on the entire earth? If such an age arrives, let whole humanity get benefited, why should Indians import foreigners, give them land and resources, provide all governmental help and prepare 1619 residents to benefit on the arrival of sathya yuga. Is it not illogical?

Karl Marx too dreamt of withering away of governments, but only Soviet Russia withered. Aurobindo too wants no political government, let Government of India think deep. They want no government, and you are a government chosen by Indian people. Are you going to declare a town as no governance zone, like litter free zones?

N.Nandhivarman General Secretary Dravida Peravai