Another desi tale from Kla

June 4, 2014 Brown Pundits Archive No Comments filed under Archived Authors

I’m currently playing poke with a bunch of Gujarati industrialists (I’m the only Teetollar in a bunch of Hindus, Jains, Sunnis & Ismailis).

At any rate Sid’s encouragement has spurred me to share my last tale about Desis in Kampala.

I was going to the Electronics shop in the new (but less popular mall, another newer one opened and has just killed it) and I saw two Desis manning the shop who just had the most Pakistanis mannerisms + appearance.

Even their nicknames were Ummahistic but imagine my surprise when they happened to be from India (Mumbai) and Hindus. But even so that time I let it go and did not pry, they didn’t have the brash Punjabi way about them but they reeked of the Indus.

A few days later I drop in the shop and I ask about them, turns out they are from Kalian, Bombay. But as I asked if they were Punjjus I finally got the answer to my riddle, they were Sindhis.

The mark of the Indus is always strong..

MH-370- eyewitness account?

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In her account, Katherine
Tee has described seeing “an elongated plane glowing bright orange, with
a trail of black smoke behind it”, heading from north to south.
…
With all the wonders of modern technology they still have no clue about what happened to the plane. But astonishingly enough, there may have been an eyewitness. Is she credible? That is now the million dollar question.
….She said: “I saw something that looked like a plane
on fire. That’s what I thought it was. Then, I thought I must be mad …
It caught my attention because I had never seen a plane with orange
lights before, so I wondered what they were.
……

A
British woman who was sailing near Indonesia at the time Malaysia
Airlines flight MH370 disappeared has said she believes she saw the
plane “burning” and billowing smoke before it crashed in the southern
Indian Ocean.

An eyewitness account from yachting enthusiast
Katherine Tee, 41, has now been filed with the Joint Agency Coordination
Centre (JACC) leading the search based in Australia, which is yet to
find any trace of the missing jet.

In her account, Katherine
Tee has described seeing “an elongated plane glowing bright orange, with
a trail of black smoke behind it”, heading from north to south.

The object was flying at “about half the height” of two other flights
in the same patch of sky at the time, she said, in a series of posts
detailing the sighting on the yachting website Cruisers Forum, where
Katherine Tee is a moderator.
She
later told the Phuket Gazette that she initially dismissed the incident
as being “just a meteor” or even a figment of her imagination — until a
recent check of GPS logs confirmed that the plane’s projected track may
have taken it very close to where the yacht was sailing at the time.
“This is what convinced me to file a report with the full track data for our voyage to the relevant authorities,” she said.

As for whether or not what Katherine Tee saw really was a burning
plane, she has admitted on the forum that she was going through a
particularly stressful part of the journey at the time, including
difficulties in her marriage, and that her judgment may have been
impaired.

She said: “I saw something that looked like a plane
on fire. That’s what I thought it was. Then, I thought I must be mad …
It caught my attention because I had never seen a plane with orange
lights before, so I wondered what they were.

“There were two
other planes passing well above it — moving the other way — at that
time. They had normal navigation lights. I remember thinking that if it
was a plane on fire that I was seeing, the other aircraft would report
it.”

When the pair arrived in Phuket everyone was talking about
the missing jet, and asked if they had seen anything. Ms Tee said she
told them what had happened, but that she “didn’t think anyone would
believe me when I was having trouble believing my own eyes”.

The JOCC has reportedly told Katherine Tee it will use her data logs
alongside those of the British satellite operator Inmarsat in its
ongoing investigation The JOCC has reportedly told Ms Tee it will use
her data logs alongside those of the British satellite operator Inmarsat
in its ongoing investigation “I didn’t even consider putting out a
Mayday at the time. Imagine what an idiot I would have looked like if I
was mistaken, and I believed I was.”

She has now filed two
reports to the JACC, which she said had replied to say her data logs
would be looked into. The Phuket Gazette reported that officials are yet
to confirm the account will be investigated in full.

…..

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Link: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/MH370-search-British-sailor-may-be-last-to-see-lost-jet-after-reporting-burning-plane-with-trail-of-black-smoke-over-Indian-Ocean/articleshow/36006286.cms
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regards

Justice (for the dead) and dignity (for non-dead)

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It is very unlikely that justice will come in time for all the internally displaced people (IDP) who are literally dying in the refugee camps in South Asia, Australia and elsewhere. At the least we should try and make sure that the survivors are able to live with dignity.
….
A 29-year-old asylum seeker…Seemanpillai died
of his injuries after burns to 90% of his body and is the second Sri
Lankan asylum seeker to have self-immolated in Australia this year.
……..

But…as the bishop says…we are all one people. We must have faith in this sentiment
even while all over South Asia, one community after another, is trying
to create high purity enclaves in which no minority voice will be
tolerated.

….The
resettlement process in Sri Lanka cannot move forward without India’s
assistance and the country can do more to help thousands of widows and
children who have been rendered orphans, Bishop of Jaffna diocese Daniel
S Thiagarajah said on Tuesday.

…

And if we find the will-power to help Sri Lankan Tamils let us also be mindful about the Gujarati Muslims and the Kashmiri, Bengali, and Sindhi Hindus (and many others).

It would be also nice if the Pankajists spend even one percent of their ink on ALL of the forgotten South Asians (Hindus mainly). Arundhati Roy has even claimed that the India has let the Pandit refugees suffer on purpose so as to discredit Kashmiri muslims. She needs to grow up and remove her ideological blinkers.

Not to diminish the suicides noted above, it is women who suffer the most from such adverse social dynamics. They suffer during war and they suffer during peace. They suffer because men (collectively, individually) act as if deprived of any conscience whatsoever.

To our elites one simple message: stop bickering and start governing. Maintain law and order and provide the basic amenities of life. Stop purchasing submarines and aircraft carriers till you can stop the society from sinking into the mud. Above all stop polarizing communities against each other for petty gain.
…..
A 29-year-old asylum seeker who died after setting himself on fire
has been named as Leo Seemanpillai, a Tamil man who lived in Geelong,
Victoria.
Seemanpillai died of his injuries after burns to 90% of his body and is the second Sri Lankan asylum seeker to have self-immolated in Australia this year.
The
Tamil Refugee Council said Seemanpillai had set himself alight on
Saturday evening and died on Sunday morning at Alfred Hospital.

Seemanpillai
arrived in Darwin by boat in January 2013 and was said to be suffering
depression for more than a year. He was being held in community
detention on a bridging visa with work rights. His refugee claim was
still being processed, Scott Morrison said on Monday.

Arasa Ratnakanthan, a Sri Lankan refugee activist
who spoke to Seemanpillai’s flatmate on Monday morning, said the asylum
seeker had left Sri Lanka in the early 1990s aged just three or four.
Ratnakanthan
said Leo had spent more than 20 years as a refugee in India and had
tried to return to Sri Lanka in 2002 but had been persecuted by the Sri
Lankan military and so had returned to India.
Ratnakanthan said Leo’s family had been members of the Tamil political movement.

The
Australian government has close diplomatic ties with Sri Lanka and many
Sri Lankan asylum seekers have been subject to a fast track “enhanced
screening” process, which human rights groups say denies them due
process as many have their claims assessed without the presence of a lawyer before being returned. More than 1,000 Sri Lankans have been returned by Australia in recent years.

Seemanpillai was not subject to the enhanced screening process, but in October the immigration minister warned Sri Lankan asylum seekers who planned to enter Australia by boat: “Anyone who may have come from Sri Lanka should know that they will go back to Sri Lanka.”

……
The
resettlement process in Sri Lanka cannot move forward without India’s
assistance and the country can do more to help thousands of widows and
children who have been rendered orphans, Bishop of Jaffna diocese Daniel
S Thiagarajah said on Tuesday.

He said the Church of South India has set up a centre in Jaffna to help
those who witnessed the war and to help them overcome their fear.

He stressed that the church was focusing on the well-being of all
people in the country. “We are all one people. Ahead of us is a
challenging task of rehabilitation of our people who have gone through
the darkest period in our history,” he said.

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Link (1): http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/02/asylum-seeker-who-set-himself-on-fire-spent-18-months-in-limbo

Link (2): http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Jaffna-bishop-says-Sri-Lanka-requires-Indias-help-for-resettlement-of-Tamils/articleshow/36010366.cms
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regards