tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43721490738546572792024-03-05T21:31:43.719-08:00Easy Stock BasicsThe easiest way to understand stock markets.Easy Stock Basicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14581011587713454370noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4372149073854657279.post-90829274487351697182013-03-01T23:54:00.000-08:002013-02-02T06:06:59.583-08:00your start up here<link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Craj%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"MS Mincho"; panose-1:2 2 6 9 4 2 5 8 3 4; mso-font-alt:"MS 明朝"; mso-font-charset:128; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:fixed; mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;} @font-face {font-family:"\@MS Mincho"; panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:128; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:fixed; mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 65.95pt 1.0in 65.95pt; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} </style> --><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <br />
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Entirely new to stock markets?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Previously I not involved in any financial business, can these stock markets are understandable to me? Is it possible to me to enter?</div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><a href="http://easystockbasics.blogspot.com/2010/05/simply-tell-what-stock-markets-are.html" style="font-weight: bold;">Simply tell what Stock Markets are?</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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With eager to enter I referred so much, its really confusious…no one told me in simple what they are? Can u?????</div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><a href="http://easystockbasics.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-stock-markets-are-personally-useful.html" style="font-weight: bold;">Easy stock basics: How stock markets are personally useful to me? </a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Stock markets are useful to companies and large businesses, then how they are useful to my personal account?</div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><a href="http://easystockbasics.blogspot.com/2010/05/basic-stock-market-concepts-what-are.html" style="color: #cccccc; font-weight: bold;">Basic stock market concepts: What are shares? </a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ohhh! Large definitions, complex explanations..can u tell simply told what these are…</div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><a href="http://easystockbasics.blogspot.com/2010/05/who-can-invest-in-stock-markets-average.html" style="font-weight: bold;">Who can invest in stock markets? Average persons? </a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Is stock markets are confined to large personalities or average persons like mine can also eligible to invest in stock markets?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><a href="http://easystockbasics.blogspot.com/2010/05/minimum-investment-needed-to-enter.html" style="font-weight: bold;">Minimum Investment Needed to Enter Stock Markets </a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><a href="http://easystockbasics.blogspot.com/2010/05/is-my-money-secure-in-stock-market.html" style="font-weight: bold;">Is my Money Secure in Stock Market Investments?</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Heavy transactions, involvement of brokers…I have a doubt, is my investment secure in stock markets?</div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><a href="http://easystockbasics.blogspot.com/2010/05/risk-factors-associated-in-stock-market.html" style="font-weight: bold;">Risk factors Associated in Stock Market Investments</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><a href="http://easystockbasics.blogspot.com/2010/05/whats-necessity-to-invest-in-stock.html" style="font-weight: bold;">What’s necessity to invest in stock markets?</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><a href="http://easystockbasics.blogspot.com/2010/05/can-money-doubles-with-stock-market.html" style="font-weight: bold;">Can money doubles with stock market investments</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><a href="http://easystockbasics.blogspot.com/2010/05/working-with-demat-and-trading-accounts.html" style="font-weight: bold;">DEMAT and Trading accounts</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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What these are? Is they needed to start investing in stock markets?
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">its not complete there is a lot to know more...through this blog.</span><br />
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I think most people will agree that granting Rushdie is the only step<br />forward...<div style="border: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
NEW DELHI, Feb 17 (AFP) - India's vast Moslem minority appears <br />divided over the prospect of British writer Salman Rushdie's<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />proposed return to the land of his birth.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> India was the first country to ban Rushdie's book "The Satanic <br />Verses" -- considered blasphemous by many Moslems -- and until<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />earlier this month had refused to grant him a visa to visit India.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> Now a visa has been issued, a furious debate has broken out <br />among the country's 125 million-strong Moslem community -- the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />second largest in the world.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> "Almost 99.99 percent of Moslems oppose Salman Rushdie coming <br />into India," asserted Zahid Ali Khan, editor of "Siyasat", one of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />the widest circulated Urdu-language dailies.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> "Moslems cannot forgive anybody who has written a single word <br />against the Holy Prophet," he said by telephone from his office in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />the southern city of Hyderabad.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> Khan's comments mirrored those of Ahmed Bukhari, a priest at <br />India's largest mosque, the Jama Masjid in New Delhi, who slammed<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />the decision by India's ruling Hindu nationalists to grant Rushdie a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />visa, and warned of violent consequences if the author went through<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />with the trip.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> "While the Indian constitution granted the right to freedom of <br />expression, it also says that people's sentiments should not be<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />hurt," Bukhari said.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> Rushdie picked up his visa last month in London, but gave no <br />indication as to when he might use it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> The late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a <br />death sentence against Rushdie 10 years ago over "The Satanic<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />Verses".<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> Iran last year distanced itself from the death warrant but <br />Rushdie remains under threat from fundamentalist Moslem groups. An<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />influential Iranian religious foundation insisted at the weekend<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />that the death sentence would be carried out.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> Moslem activists held demonstrations in New Delhi and Bombay <br />last week, burning effigies of Rushdie and calling on the government<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />to revoke the visa.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> But not all Indian Moslems have joined the ranks of the <br />protestors.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> "This call to stop Rushdie from coming to India is nonsense," <br />said Wahiduddin Khan, a Moslem scholar whose moderate views have<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />often clashed with others in the community.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> "Bukhari is the imam of one mosque," Khan said. "There are <br />400,000 mosques in India. Who made these people the spokesmen of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />Indian Moslems?"<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> Khan said he had read "The Satanic Verses" and found it "a badly <br />written" book.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> "From the literary point of view, it's not a good novel. But I <br />would not call it blasphemous."<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> Some Moslems opposed to Rushdie's visit feel the Hindu <br />nationalist-dominated government is deliberately stirring up<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />communal feelings for its own ends.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> Hindu extremists like the rabidly anti-Moslem chief of the <br />militant Shiv Sena party, Bal Thackeray, have certainly been quick<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />to put their particular political slant on the discussions.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> "Why should we oppose (Rushdie's) visit here. He has written <br />against Islam hasn't he?" Thackeray said.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> While opposing Rushdie's visit, Intezar Naeem, who edits a <br />Moslem weekly in New Delhi, bemoaned the knee-jerk reaction of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />hardliners.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> "There is no doubt some people in our community are <br />intentionally blowing it out of proportion," Naeem said, while at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />the same time accusing the government of double standards.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> "On the one hand eminent Islamic theologists from Pakistan are <br />barred from coming into India, but Rushdie is given a visa. It's<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />rubbing salt into our wounds."<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> Outside intellectual circles, there is a degree of indifference <br />towards the whole controversy.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> An autorickshaw driver, Saleem, said he had no idea who Rushdie <br />was.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> "We don't know these things," he said. "We are bothered about <br />everyday lives, our bread and butter. 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>(Desi-Patriot)<br />>Date: 2/17/99 11:43 AM Central Standard Time<br />>Message-id: <<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4372149073854657279" style="border: 0px; color: #6611cc; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">36caff6f...@news.antw.<wbr></wbr>online.be</a>><br />><div class="GAK2G4EDN5" style="border: 0px; color: #500050; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
><br />>I think most people will agree that granting Rushdie is the only step<br />>forward...<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />></div>
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I seen two post about Indian Muslim Rush-to-die. Indian muslims are not<br />against him visiting India but the real intention behind granting him visa.</div>
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Indian Muslims believe that shia-community which supports BJP and its<br />shia-minister in BJP govt could be danger to Rush-to-die. Indian Muslims also<br />believe that Shiva Sena could pull the trigger on Rush-to-die for potraying Bal<br />Thackery bad way in one of his book. Indian Muslims also believe that<br />International hungry BJP govt could also pull the trigger and blame on Muslims.</div>
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The conclusion is BJP govt is dangerious for Indian Muslim Rush-to-die. He<br />should visit India when there is a change of government in India.. ..</div>
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<br /> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4372149073854657279" style="border: 0px; color: #6611cc; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Ind...@iloveindia.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br />> I think most people will agree that granting Rushdie is the only step<br />> forward...</div>
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The first step forward in behaving like a normal civilised nation, yes.</div>
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<br />> "Almost 99.99 percent of Moslems oppose Salman Rushdie coming<br />> into India," asserted Zahid Ali Khan, editor of "Siyasat", one of<br />> the widest circulated Urdu-language dailies.<br />> "Moslems cannot forgive anybody who has written a single word<br />> against the Holy Prophet," he said by telephone from his office in<br />> the southern city of Hyderabad.</div>
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Sorry, pal, we don't believe your unsubtantiated '99.99 percent figure'. And<br />even if it were 100% opposition, a person of Indian origin cannot be denied<br />entry into India.</div>
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> Khan's comments mirrored those of Ahmed Bukhari, a priest at<br />> India's largest mosque, the Jama Masjid in New Delhi, who slammed<br />> the decision by India's ruling Hindu nationalists to grant Rushdie a<br />> visa, and warned of violent consequences if the author went through<br />> with the trip.</div>
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Well, if he wants violence he may be granted his wish.</div>
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> "While the Indian constitution granted the right to freedom of<br />> expression, it also says that people's sentiments should not be<br />> hurt," Bukhari said.</div>
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Yes, our constitution makes no provisions for easily hurt sentiments of its<br />people. It only makes provisions for our rights as citizens not as sentimental<br />beings.</div>
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> Moslem activists held demonstrations in New Delhi and Bombay<br />> last week, burning effigies of Rushdie and calling on the government<br />> to revoke the visa.</div>
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Sorry, the only way to revoke the visa is to take control of India and change<br />the constitution.</div>
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> But not all Indian Moslems have joined the ranks of the<br />> protestors.</div>
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Exactly. Why should one waste one's time to support the ones whose full time<br />career is relgion based politics.</div>
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> "This call to stop Rushdie from coming to India is nonsense,"<br />> said Wahiduddin Khan, a Moslem scholar whose moderate views have<br />> often clashed with others in the community.<br />> "Bukhari is the imam of one mosque," Khan said. "There are<br />> 400,000 mosques in India. Who made these people the spokesmen of<br />> Indian Moslems?"</div>
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So much for 99.99 percent figure.</div>
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> Khan said he had read "The Satanic Verses" and found it "a badly<br />> written" book.<br />> "From the literary point of view, it's not a good novel. But I<br />> would not call it blasphemous."</div>
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It is only a book. A piece of fiction. But for some, it is their ticket to<br />religious fame.</div>
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> Some Moslems opposed to Rushdie's visit feel the Hindu<br />> nationalist-dominated government is deliberately stirring up<br />> communal feelings for its own ends.</div>
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It is obvious that the Government is taking advantage of the this situation<br />where an Indian cannot be denied entry on any grounds. That is the price to<br />pay for living in secular country.</div>
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> Hindu extremists like the rabidly anti-Moslem chief of the<br />> militant Shiv Sena party, Bal Thackeray, have certainly been quick<br />> to put their particular political slant on the discussions.<br />> "Why should we oppose (Rushdie's) visit here. He has written<br />> against Islam hasn't he?" Thackeray said.</div>
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That's funny as Salman Rushdie has written against the Shiv Sena also. That is<br />why I like Salman R, he stands up to oppressors and crooks everywhere.</div>
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> While opposing Rushdie's visit, Intezar Naeem, who edits a<br />> Moslem weekly in New Delhi, bemoaned the knee-jerk reaction of the<br />> hardliners.<br />> "There is no doubt some people in our community are<br />> intentionally blowing it out of proportion," Naeem said, while at<br />> the same time accusing the government of double standards.<br />> "On the one hand eminent Islamic theologists from Pakistan are<br />> barred from coming into India, but Rushdie is given a visa. It's<br />> rubbing salt into our wounds."</div>
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Naeem's standards of double standards stops when it comes to Islam itself.<br />What business have Pakistani theologists visiting India ? Are Hindu<br />theologists allowed to visit Pakistan ? As for rubbing salt into his<br />sensitive wounds, perhaps he should examine the wounds that Hindus have had<br />to suffer under benign Muslim conquerors.</div>
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> Outside intellectual circles, there is a degree of indifference<br />> towards the whole controversy.<br />> An autorickshaw driver, Saleem, said he had no idea who Rushdie<br />> was.<br />> "We don't know these things," he said. "We are bothered about<br />> everyday lives, our bread and butter. I am not into politics."</div>
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It goes to show that only educated people are the root of most problems and<br />that they have the gall to blame the 'uneducated, the easily excitable<br />rickshawwallas" while coming out with terms like '99.99 percent' and 'rub<br />salt into our wounds'.</div>
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On Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:14:19 GMT,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4372149073854657279" style="border: 0px; color: #6611cc; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">sk...@my-dejanews.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:</div>
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<br />>> Khan said he had read "The Satanic Verses" and found it "a badly<br />>> written" book.<br />>> "From the literary point of view, it's not a good novel. But I<br />>> would not call it blasphemous."<br />><br />>It is only a book. A piece of fiction. But for some, it is their ticket to<br />>religious fame.<br />></div>
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That is exactly what i am saying, a few Influential people who seek<br />attention with the media are trying to associate themselves with the<br />Iranian Mullahs who arranged the fatwa...Rushdie's got nothing to do<br />with all this crap and neither does the book....a few people who want<br />to prove themselves are trying to cause a lot of trouble, and they are<br />succeding.</div>
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On 18 Feb 1999 02:09:30 GMT,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4372149073854657279" style="border: 0px; color: #6611cc; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">mun...@aol.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Muna123) wrote:</div>
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>>I think most people will agree that granting Rushdie is the only step<br />>>forward...<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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>I seen two post about Indian Muslim Rush-to-die. Indian muslims are not<br />>against him visiting India but the real intention behind granting him visa.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />><br />>Indian Muslims believe that shia-community which supports BJP and its<br />>shia-minister in BJP govt could be danger to Rush-to-die. Indian Muslims also<br />>believe that Shiva Sena could pull the trigger on Rush-to-die for potraying Bal<br />>Thackery bad way in one of his book. Indian Muslims also believe that<br />>International hungry BJP govt could also pull the trigger and blame on Muslims.<br />><br />>The conclusion is BJP govt is dangerious for Indian Muslim Rush-to-die. He<br />>should visit India when there is a change of government in India.. ..</div>
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I dont think so, i still dont agree why you keep insisting BJP is so<br />anti-minority when you can see from all the facts it has not done<br />anything against minorities.</div>
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I was always for freedom of speech,etc when the film Fire was there,<br />but i thought it stupid to have some things banned and some things<br />not, Bal Thackeray is obviosuly annoyed with Rushdie about that book<br />so how can you say he rules the BJP, Thackeray hates Rushdie as much<br />as the Mullah who placed a fatwas on Rushdie without reading the<br />book...</div>
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All this protests is being oprhcestrated by a tiny minority of<br />attention seeking idiots who have a lot of influence, but nothing is<br />going to happy so people dont get your hopes up...Rushdie's probably<br />already landed in India without us knowing...</div>
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<br />><br />>On 18 Feb 1999 02:09:30 GMT,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4372149073854657279" style="border: 0px; color: #6611cc; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">mun...@aol.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Muna123) wrote:<br />><br />>>>I think most people will agree that granting Rushdie is the only step<br />>>>forward...<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />>>I seen two post about Indian Muslim Rush-to-die. Indian muslims are not<br />>>against him visiting India but the real intention behind granting him visa.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />>><br />>>Indian Muslims believe that shia-community which supports BJP and its<br />>>shia-minister in BJP govt could be danger to Rush-to-die. Indian Muslims<br />>also<br />>>believe that Shiva Sena could pull the trigger on Rush-to-die for potraying<br />>Bal<br />>>Thackery bad way in one of his book. Indian Muslims also believe that<br />>>International hungry BJP govt could also pull the trigger and blame on<br />>Muslims.<br />>><br />>>The conclusion is BJP govt is dangerious for Indian Muslim Rush-to-die. He<br />>>should visit India when there is a change of government in India.. ..<br />><br />>I dont think so, i still dont agree why you keep insisting BJP is so<br />>anti-minority when you can see from all the facts it has not done<br />>anything against minorities.</div>
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<br />FRONTLLINE<br />Vol. 16 :: No. 03 :: Jan. 30 - Feb. 12, 1999</div>
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A catalogue of crimes<br />by PRAVEEN SWAMI</div>
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AFTER shaming India with the demolition of the Babri Masjid<br />on December 6,1992, the Bharatiya Janata Party and its patron<br />bodies in the Sangh Parivar sought to project a new moderation.<br />Propelled to power by their flagrant communal campaign in March<br />1998, Hindutva formations claimed that they would conduct<br />themselves in a responsible manner and respect the country's<br />Constitution and its laws.</div>
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However, communal incidents that occurred from March 1998<br />onwards reveal that precisely the reverse has been true. Although<br />there were no major communal riots during this period, the<br />Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the Vishwa Hindu<br />Parishad (VHP), the Bajrang Dal, the Shiv Sena and other<br />Hindutva forces were engaged in the systematic intimidation<br />of minority communities. This compilation by Frontline is far<br />from comprehensive. Put together from newspaper reports, human<br />rights investigations and documentation prepared by independent<br />and community groups,Frontline's list excludes dozens of claims<br />of communal violence and instances of hate propaganda which<br />appeared to lack integrity, precision or clarity. Programmes such<br />as the communal- and caste-biased encounters engineered by the<br />BJP in Uttar Pradesh and the Shiv Sena in Mumbai were left out<br />altogether because of difficulties in ascertaining exactly which<br />killings<br />were motivated by religious hate.</div>
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The scores of specific manifestations of hate politics that Frontline<br />has compiled range from outright violence to propagandistic activity.<br />Concentrated mostly in Gujarat and Maharashtra, the incidents give<br />an insight into the Hindu Right's current agenda. Attacks on Muslims<br />account for just over a quarter of the total. This marks a shift from<br />the pattern of single-minded attacks on Muslims that spearheaded the<br />Hindutva campaign in the early 1990s. Only one incident - in Jammu<br />and Kashmir -involved loss of life to Muslims. The vast majority of<br />attacks, in which damage to property and injuries were common,<br />were aimed at Christians. In one incident VHP members attacked<br />a group of human rights activists, mistaking them for missionary<br />workers.<br /> 1998</div>
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March 2, Gujarat: People distributing leaflets about a Christian<br />meeting at the Vadodara Polo Ground are attacked by Bajrang<br />Dal, Durga Vahini and VHP cadre. Among those injured is a<br />pregnant woman, who is repeatedly kicked in the stomach.<br />The police detain the people who are attacked, but not the attackers.</div>
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March 4, Gujarat: A meeting of evangelists at the Vadodara Polo<br />Ground is disrupted by VHP-Bajrang Dal cadre, who injure several<br />people. (A day earlier the same activists attempted to set the stage on<br />fire.)</div>
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March 13, Maharashtra: Alleged Hindu fundamentalists attack<br />Christian pilgrims in Khanvel.</div>
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March 16, Uttar Pradesh: Bajrang Dal activists attack a Christian<br />meeting in Kanpur, resulting in injuries to several people and loss<br />of property.</div>
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March 19, Jammu and Kashmir: Four Muslims are beaten to<br />death in Karara near Doda by RSS workers in reprisal for the<br />killing of an RSS worker two days earlier by a different group<br />of Muslims for allegedly molesting a local girl.</div>
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April 11, Gujarat: Alleged VHP-Bajrang Dal activists armed<br />with hockey sticks, cricket bats and rods, attack a Christian<br />group observing Passion Week in Palanpur.</div>
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April 16, Gujarat: A church under construction is brought down<br />at Naroda near Ahmedabad. (The structure appears to have<br />been built without legal approvals, but temples nearby, which<br />were also constructed without the necessary legal approvals,<br />were not touched.)</div>
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May 3, Maharashtra: Shiv Sena activists disrupt a concert by<br />Pakistani ghazal singer Ghulam Ali in Mumbai.</div>
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May 8, Jammu and Kashmir: Mobs of RSS workers in Poonch<br />destroy government buildings and attempt to attack Muslim<br />homes in protest against the killing of four people by terrorists in<br />Surankot.</div>
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May 11, Maharashtra: Shiv Sena activists assault a missionary,<br />Octavio Nevis, in Ambernath.</div>
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May 15, Bihar: Modestus Tirkey, headmaster of a Catholic school,<br />is attacked in Ranchi.</div>
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May 18, Gujarat: Hindu fundamentalists attack a Catholic priest,<br />Xavier Amalraj, at Pilpilvada near Zankhav.</div>
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June 16, Maharashtra: The St. Savariyar Church in Srilankapada<br />slum in Mumbai's Malad suburb is demolished. Unauthorised<br />Hindu structures are, however, left untouched.</div>
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June 17, Gujarat: St. Xavier's School and Lourdes Convent in<br />Surat are served with orders by the Collector, Surat. Records<br />of admissions and applications are confiscated. School officials<br />claim that this is done to harass them.</div>
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June 21, Gujarat: A prayer hall is burnt down in Singana village, Dangs<br />district.</div>
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June 23, Gujarat: After two Muslim youths elope with Hindu<br />girls from Randhikpur village, VHP and Bajrang Dal squads<br />force over 400 Muslim villagers to leave their homes in an act<br />of collective reprisal. The administration and the police stand<br />by and watch as independent fact-finding teams and journalists<br />visiting Randhikpur are attacked.</div>
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June 29, Gujarat: A prayer hall in Umerpada village in Dangs<br />district is attacked by assailants who, however, fail in their attempts<br />to set it on fire.</div>
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July 3, New Delhi: News breaks of the plans of the BJP Government<br />of Delhi to remove churches from the list of recognised places of<br />worship on the pretext that wine is served (as a holy sacrament) in<br />the churches.</div>
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July 8, Gujarat: The body of Samuel Christian is exhumed from<br />a graveyard in Kapadvanj in Nadiad district, allegedly by VHP<br />activists, and dumped near a Methodist church nearby.</div>
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July 11, Maharashtra: Two Christian workers are reportedly beaten in<br />Bhind.</div>
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July 12, Gujarat: Christians gathered for worship at a prayer<br />hall in Dhavalidod are threatened by the village leader. The<br />church's lock was broken later the same day and a cross removed.</div>
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July 17, Karnataka: VHP activists raid at least 11 Christian-run<br />schools in Bangalore, Mysore, Mandya and Mangalore, disrupting<br />their functioning. In one case, a nun who protested was spat at.</div>
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July 18, Gujarat: The Shantiniketan High School in Zankhav near<br />Surat, run by Christian missionaries, is vandalised. The playground<br />is ploughed with a tractor. (Violence follows false reports in the<br />Gujarati language press that the school's adivasi students are<br />forcibly converted, whereas only 152 of the school's 750<br />students are Christians.)</div>
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July 18, Gujarat: A prayer hall is burnt down in Bhapkal village in<br />Dangs district.</div>
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July 18, Tamil Nadu: An Assemblies of God church is attacked<br />and church materials are looted in Anaipalayam.</div>
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July 20, Gujarat: Copies of the New Testament are burnt allegedly<br />by VHP and Bajrang Dal activists at IP Mission School in Rajkot.<br />The VHP says that the request on a page in the copies of the<br />Bibles distributed by Gideons International asking believers to<br />sign as proof that they have accepted Jesus Christ as their<br />saviour is evidence of forcible conversions.</div>
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July 23, Gujarat: Mobs allegedly led by a low-level revenue<br />official attack on adivasis at a prayer meeting in Borkhal village.</div>
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July 24, Gujarat: Bajrang Dal and RSS activists attack Catholic<br />priests in Isar, a small adivasi village near Zankhav.</div>
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July 25, Gujarat: The body of a Christian is exhumed from a<br />graveyard in Gandhinagar, allegedly by Bajrang Dal activists.</div>
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August 9, Gujarat: A church is destroyed allegedly by RSS<br />cadre in Ahmedabad.</div>
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August 15, Gujarat: Communal riots break out in Sanjeli against<br />the background of the BJP-VHP's efforts to communalise inter-community<br />weddings. The home of a Christian priest, Joe Vas, is attacked.<br />(Riots follow a Dharam Sabha organised in the town three days<br />earlier, where BJP-VHP leaders made speeches inciting<br />adivasis against Muslims. Independent investigators found<br />that in this case the root cause of the riot was the local<br />panchayat's refusal to honour court orders granting a<br />Muslim fishing rights in a local pond.)</div>
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August 15, Uttar Pradesh: Bajrang Dal and VHP cadre attack<br />church activists in Robertsganj.</div>
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August 25, West Bengal: Bikash Das, a church worker, is<br />allegedly assaulted by a Trinamul Congress leader.</div>
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August 31, Bihar: A church is demolished in Kobatoli village in<br />Gumla district.</div>
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September 5, New Delhi: The Bajrang Dal announces that it will<br />launch a 'new Quit India Movement' to remove all Christian<br />missionaries from the country. The organisation, along with the<br />VHP, demands an end to forced conversions they allege are taking place.</div>
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September 23, Madhya Pradesh: A crowd allegedly led by a<br />BJP MLA attack Edward Sarel, a Christian priest, in Jhamli village,<br />10 km from Jhabua.</div>
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September 23, Uttar Pradesh: Nuns at the Clarist Convent in<br />Baghpat are assaulted.</div>
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September 25, Madhya Pradesh: Nuns are raped at a Christian<br />convent in Jhabua. Although specific culpability for the incident<br />remains unclear, it came in the wake of the VHP-BJP's anti-Christian<br />campaign.</div>
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September 26, Uttar Pradesh: Police and local administration<br />officials barge into the Jiwan Jyoti Christian Hospital campus in<br />Robertsganj and allegedly misbehave with patients and hospital staff.</div>
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September 26, Uttar Pradesh: Activists of the Hindu Jagran Manch,<br />the Bajrang Dal and the Rana Tharu Parishad break into the Union<br />Church at Amaun near Khatima in Udham Singh Nagar district<br />and install a Siva idol.</div>
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September 26, New Delhi: A statue of St. Bernard is broken and<br />thrown out of the grounds of Jesus and Mary College in New Delhi.</div>
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September 30, New Delhi: Acharya Giriraj Kishore, secretary-general<br />of theVHP, asks Christian missionaries to leave India.</div>
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October 1, Gujarat: The VHP and Bajrang Dal ban pop dandiya<br />ras dancing in several cities of Gujarat and forbid Muslim film<br />stars from participating in these events.</div>
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October 1, Rajasthan: School books are found to have been<br />rewritten to suit the Hindu Right's agenda. Articles by RSS<br />chief Rajendra Singh, his deputy K.S. Sudershan, Panchjanya<br />editor Tarun Vijay and the Swadeshi Jagran Manch's<br />Jalam Singh Rawlot found to appear in Class 9 textbooks.</div>
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October 1, Karnataka: Convent schools in Karnataka and some<br />other States begin to receive threatening letters and in some cases<br />visits by local VHP leaders demanding that they stop their supposed<br />prosletysation activities.</div>
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October 1, Uttar Pradesh: The Uttar Pradesh Government issues<br />a Government Order making the singing of Vande Mataram<br />mandatory in schools in the State. Public outrage and the threat<br />of legal action by the Minorities Commission and independent<br />groups force it to back down and lead to the resignation of the<br />Education Minister.</div>
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October 7, Uttar Pradesh: The staff of the Christy Jyoti Convent<br />School in Baghpat is threatened by villagers who have been told<br />that children are forcibly converted there.</div>
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October 18, Maharashtra: Christian villagers in Karye Sadapada<br />village near Peth are attacked after they refuse to make contributions<br />of cash and rice for an adivasi festival. A church is destroyed.</div>
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October 27, Uttar Pradesh: The BJP-dominated Municipal<br />Corporation of Ayodhya passes a resolution banning burials<br />within the city limits. Ayodhya has a large Muslim population<br />and is the site of several graveyards.</div>
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October 30, Gujarat: Bajrang Dal-VHP members armed with belts,<br />chains and lathis attack delegates at the National Christian Conference<br />in Baroda.</div>
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October 31, New Delhi: A spokesperson for Vidya Bharati,<br />the pro-RSS educational body, says that 14-year-old school-children<br />should not be taught "salacious texts", which in its view includes<br />poems by Alfred Noyes.</div>
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November 3, Gujarat: VHP members attack social groups<br />seeking to end anti-women exorcism rituals at the Kaliyaji<br />temple in Shamlaji.</div>
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November 4, Gujarat: Miscreants, allegedly instigated by<br />VHP-Bajrang Dal workers, attempt to set fire to a chapel<br />in Baurigautha village in Dangs district. Churches in Nirgumandal<br />village are also damaged.</div>
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November 5, Gujarat: A church is burned down at Gadhavi<br />village in Dangs district.</div>
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November 9, Haryana: A convent in Khera Khummar village in<br />Jhajjar district is<br />broken into and two nuns are beaten and asked to leave the district.</div>
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November 11, Gujarat: Hindu fundamentalists force residents of<br />Daghunia village<br /> near the Satpura road in Dangs to enter hot springs for ritual<br />purification. The village<br /> sarpanch also issues orders barring adivasi Christians from drawing<br />water from the<br /> community well, grazing their livestock on community land and gaining<br />employment in government projects.</div>
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November 12, Gujarat: Churches are burned down in Kamath village.</div>
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November 13, Haryana: A missionary team from Punjab is<br />attacked by VHP activists in Beri town while distributing<br />leaflets on gospels.</div>
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November 24, Karnataka: Forty armed Hindu activists, allegedly<br />affiliated to the RSS, attack a Christian service at Kulai near<br />Mangalore.</div>
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December 6, 1992: Hindutva hordes bring down the Babri Masjid.</div>
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December 1, Maharashtra: Lumpen elements<br /> belonging to the Shiv Sena storm cinemas in<br /> Mumbai and stop screenings of Deepa Mehta's<br /> film Fire on the grounds that it is "anti-Hindu".</div>
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December 3, Karnataka: Police action terminates a rath yatra<br />organised by VHP activists with the public support of Karwar's<br />BJP MP Ananthakumar Hegde to storm the Sufi shrine of Hazrat<br />Abdul Azeez Macci at Chikmagalur. The VHP and the BJP claim<br />that the shrine is in fact a Hindu temple, which they wish to call Datta</div>
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December 3, New Delhi: Shiv Sena lumpens attack cinemas<br />screening Fire and follow this up with attacks on a cinema in<br />Patiala, Punjab.</div>
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December 11, Maharashtra: Shiv Sena corporators in the<br />Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation move a motion to<br />make the singing of Vande Mataram mandatory in Greater<br />Mumbai's schools.</div>
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December 12, Maharashtra: Shiv Sena protestors throw stones<br />at actor Dilip Kumar's house for saying that Fire has a right to<br />be screened. Vulgar slogans are chanted by Sena activists who<br />strip down to their underwear. The police stand by.</div>
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December 14, Gujarat: Churches are burned down at<br />Lachanchariya village and several other places.</div>
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December 24, Maharashtra: Christmas celebrations in Mumbai's<br />Bandra suburb are disrupted by Bajrang Dal activists.</div>
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December 25, Gujarat: A VHP-affiliated Hindu Jagran Manch rally<br />in Ahwa town in Dangs district, timed to coincide with Christmas<br />gatherings, ends with attacks on schools and churches throughout<br />the district. The attacks last several days. (The rally was preceded<br />by the distribution of offensive pamphlets about Christian priests and<br />nuns.)</div>
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<br /> January 5, Maharashtra: The VHP-affiliated Dharmarakshan Samiti<br />holds a rally in Peth to "re-convert" adivasi Christians and asks<br />Christian missionaries to leave the area.</div>
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January 6, New Delhi: Shiv Sena activists dig up the pitch at<br />Ferozeshah Kotla cricket stadium to prevent an India-Pakistan<br />match from being played there. The Sena also threatens to<br />disrupt a New Delhi-Lahore bus service.</div>
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January 18, Maharashtra: The office of the Board of Control for<br />Cricket in India in Mumbai is stormed by Shiv Sena activists and<br />trophies of historic value are damaged.</div>
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January 18, Tamil Nadu: The Shiv Sena unit in Chennai threatens<br />to disrupt "at any cost" the first India-Pakistan cricket Test<br />scheduled to be held in the city.</div>
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January 19, Maharashtra: Members of Cable Sena, a union<br />of Shiv Sena-affiliated cable television operators, threaten to<br />cut off broadcasts of the India-Pakistan cricket series and boycott<br />the ESPN sports channel.</div>
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January 20, Mumbai: Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray<br />announces that Kashmiri Muslim traders will not be allowed<br />to set up shop in Goa.</div>
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<br />>I was always for freedom of speech,etc when the film Fire was there,<br />>but i thought it stupid to have some things banned and some things<br />>not, Bal Thackeray is obviosuly annoyed with Rushdie about that book<br />>so how can you say he rules the BJP, Thackeray hates Rushdie as much<br />>as the Mullah who placed a fatwas on Rushdie without reading the<br />>book...<br />><br />>All this protests is being oprhcestrated by a tiny minority of<br />>attention seeking idiots who have a lot of influence, but nothing is<br />>going to happy so people dont get your hopes up...Rushdie's probably<br />>already landed in India without us knowing...<br />></div>
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You double talking yourself, the reason you posted this article to get<br />attention, if rush-to-die obtained visa with no public announcement by BJP,<br />would have been safe for him and their would not have been any criticism of<br />BJP.</div>
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On 19 Feb 1999 23:04:39 GMT,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4372149073854657279" style="border: 0px; color: #6611cc; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">mun...@aol.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Muna123) wrote:<br />>>All this protests is being oprhcestrated by a tiny minority of<br />>>attention seeking idiots who have a lot of influence, but nothing is<br />>>going to happy so people dont get your hopes up...Rushdie's probably<br />>>already landed in India without us knowing...<br />>><br />><br />>You double talking yourself, the reason you posted this article to get<br />>attention, if rush-to-die obtained visa with no public announcement by BJP,<br />>would have been safe for him and their would not have been any criticism of<br />>BJP.</div>
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Well it's quite symbolic move, just like Khatami in Iran delcaring<br />himself seperated from the Fatwa on Rushdie.....and anyways it was the<br />Western Media that was making such a big deal out of all this....</div>
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NEW DELHI, Feb 17 (AFP) - India's vast Moslem minority appears <br />divided over the prospect of British writer Salman Rushdie's<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />proposed return to the land of his birth.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> India was the first country to ban Rushdie's book "The Satanic <br />Verses" -- considered blasphemous by many Moslems -- and until<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />earlier this month had refused to grant him a visa to visit India.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> Now a visa has been issued, a furious debate has broken out <br />among the country's 125 million-strong Moslem community -- the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />second largest in the world.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> "Almost 99.99 percent of Moslems oppose Salman Rushdie coming <br />into India," asserted Zahid Ali Khan, editor of "Siyasat", one of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />the widest circulated Urdu-language dailies.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> "Moslems cannot forgive anybody who has written a single word <br />against the Holy Prophet," he said by telephone from his office in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />the southern city of Hyderabad.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> Khan's comments mirrored those of Ahmed Bukhari, a priest at <br />India's largest mosque, the Jama Masjid in New Delhi, who slammed<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />the decision by India's ruling Hindu nationalists to grant Rushdie a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />visa, and warned of violent consequences if the author went through<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />with the trip.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> "While the Indian constitution granted the right to freedom of <br />expression, it also says that people's sentiments should not be<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />hurt," Bukhari said.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> Rushdie picked up his visa last month in London, but gave no <br />indication as to when he might use it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> The late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a <br />death sentence against Rushdie 10 years ago over "The Satanic<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />Verses".<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> Iran last year distanced itself from the death warrant but <br />Rushdie remains under threat from fundamentalist Moslem groups. An<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />influential Iranian religious foundation insisted at the weekend<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />that the death sentence would be carried out.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> Moslem activists held demonstrations in New Delhi and Bombay <br />last week, burning effigies of Rushdie and calling on the government<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />to revoke the visa.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> But not all Indian Moslems have joined the ranks of the <br />protestors.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> "This call to stop Rushdie from coming to India is nonsense," <br />said Wahiduddin Khan, a Moslem scholar whose moderate views have<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />often clashed with others in the community.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> "Bukhari is the imam of one mosque," Khan said. "There are <br />400,000 mosques in India. Who made these people the spokesmen of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />Indian Moslems?"<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> Khan said he had read "The Satanic Verses" and found it "a badly <br />written" book.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> "From the literary point of view, it's not a good novel. But I <br />would not call it blasphemous."<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> Some Moslems opposed to Rushdie's visit feel the Hindu <br />nationalist-dominated government is deliberately stirring up<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />communal feelings for its own ends.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> Hindu extremists like the rabidly anti-Moslem chief of the <br />militant Shiv Sena party, Bal Thackeray, have certainly been quick<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />to put their particular political slant on the discussions.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> "Why should we oppose (Rushdie's) visit here. He has written <br />against Islam hasn't he?" Thackeray said.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> While opposing Rushdie's visit, Intezar Naeem, who edits a <br />Moslem weekly in New Delhi, bemoaned the knee-jerk reaction of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />hardliners.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> "There is no doubt some people in our community are <br />intentionally blowing it out of proportion," Naeem said, while at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />the same time accusing the government of double standards.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> "On the one hand eminent Islamic theologists from Pakistan are <br />barred from coming into India, but Rushdie is given a visa. It's<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />rubbing salt into our wounds."<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> Outside intellectual circles, there is a degree of indifference <br />towards the whole controversy.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> An autorickshaw driver, Saleem, said he had no idea who Rushdie <br />was.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> "We don't know these things," he said. "We are bothered about <br />everyday lives, our bread and butter. 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>(Desi-Patriot)<br />>Date: 2/17/99 11:43 AM Central Standard Time<br />>Message-id: <<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4372149073854657279" style="border: 0px; color: #6611cc; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">36caff6f...@news.antw.<wbr></wbr>online.be</a>><br />><div class="GAK2G4EDN5" style="border: 0px; color: #500050; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
><br />>I think most people will agree that granting Rushdie is the only step<br />>forward...<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />></div>
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I seen two post about Indian Muslim Rush-to-die. Indian muslims are not<br />against him visiting India but the real intention behind granting him visa.</div>
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Indian Muslims believe that shia-community which supports BJP and its<br />shia-minister in BJP govt could be danger to Rush-to-die. Indian Muslims also<br />believe that Shiva Sena could pull the trigger on Rush-to-die for potraying Bal<br />Thackery bad way in one of his book. Indian Muslims also believe that<br />International hungry BJP govt could also pull the trigger and blame on Muslims.</div>
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The conclusion is BJP govt is dangerious for Indian Muslim Rush-to-die. He<br />should visit India when there is a change of government in India.. ..</div>
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<br /> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4372149073854657279" style="border: 0px; color: #6611cc; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Ind...@iloveindia.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br />> I think most people will agree that granting Rushdie is the only step<br />> forward...</div>
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The first step forward in behaving like a normal civilised nation, yes.</div>
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<br />> "Almost 99.99 percent of Moslems oppose Salman Rushdie coming<br />> into India," asserted Zahid Ali Khan, editor of "Siyasat", one of<br />> the widest circulated Urdu-language dailies.<br />> "Moslems cannot forgive anybody who has written a single word<br />> against the Holy Prophet," he said by telephone from his office in<br />> the southern city of Hyderabad.</div>
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Sorry, pal, we don't believe your unsubtantiated '99.99 percent figure'. And<br />even if it were 100% opposition, a person of Indian origin cannot be denied<br />entry into India.</div>
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> Khan's comments mirrored those of Ahmed Bukhari, a priest at<br />> India's largest mosque, the Jama Masjid in New Delhi, who slammed<br />> the decision by India's ruling Hindu nationalists to grant Rushdie a<br />> visa, and warned of violent consequences if the author went through<br />> with the trip.</div>
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Well, if he wants violence he may be granted his wish.</div>
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> "While the Indian constitution granted the right to freedom of<br />> expression, it also says that people's sentiments should not be<br />> hurt," Bukhari said.</div>
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Yes, our constitution makes no provisions for easily hurt sentiments of its<br />people. It only makes provisions for our rights as citizens not as sentimental<br />beings.</div>
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> Moslem activists held demonstrations in New Delhi and Bombay<br />> last week, burning effigies of Rushdie and calling on the government<br />> to revoke the visa.</div>
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Sorry, the only way to revoke the visa is to take control of India and change<br />the constitution.</div>
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> But not all Indian Moslems have joined the ranks of the<br />> protestors.</div>
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Exactly. Why should one waste one's time to support the ones whose full time<br />career is relgion based politics.</div>
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> "This call to stop Rushdie from coming to India is nonsense,"<br />> said Wahiduddin Khan, a Moslem scholar whose moderate views have<br />> often clashed with others in the community.<br />> "Bukhari is the imam of one mosque," Khan said. "There are<br />> 400,000 mosques in India. Who made these people the spokesmen of<br />> Indian Moslems?"</div>
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So much for 99.99 percent figure.</div>
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> Khan said he had read "The Satanic Verses" and found it "a badly<br />> written" book.<br />> "From the literary point of view, it's not a good novel. But I<br />> would not call it blasphemous."</div>
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It is only a book. A piece of fiction. But for some, it is their ticket to<br />religious fame.</div>
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> Some Moslems opposed to Rushdie's visit feel the Hindu<br />> nationalist-dominated government is deliberately stirring up<br />> communal feelings for its own ends.</div>
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It is obvious that the Government is taking advantage of the this situation<br />where an Indian cannot be denied entry on any grounds. That is the price to<br />pay for living in secular country.</div>
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> Hindu extremists like the rabidly anti-Moslem chief of the<br />> militant Shiv Sena party, Bal Thackeray, have certainly been quick<br />> to put their particular political slant on the discussions.<br />> "Why should we oppose (Rushdie's) visit here. He has written<br />> against Islam hasn't he?" Thackeray said.</div>
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That's funny as Salman Rushdie has written against the Shiv Sena also. That is<br />why I like Salman R, he stands up to oppressors and crooks everywhere.</div>
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> While opposing Rushdie's visit, Intezar Naeem, who edits a<br />> Moslem weekly in New Delhi, bemoaned the knee-jerk reaction of the<br />> hardliners.<br />> "There is no doubt some people in our community are<br />> intentionally blowing it out of proportion," Naeem said, while at<br />> the same time accusing the government of double standards.<br />> "On the one hand eminent Islamic theologists from Pakistan are<br />> barred from coming into India, but Rushdie is given a visa. It's<br />> rubbing salt into our wounds."</div>
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Naeem's standards of double standards stops when it comes to Islam itself.<br />What business have Pakistani theologists visiting India ? Are Hindu<br />theologists allowed to visit Pakistan ? As for rubbing salt into his<br />sensitive wounds, perhaps he should examine the wounds that Hindus have had<br />to suffer under benign Muslim conquerors.</div>
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> Outside intellectual circles, there is a degree of indifference<br />> towards the whole controversy.<br />> An autorickshaw driver, Saleem, said he had no idea who Rushdie<br />> was.<br />> "We don't know these things," he said. "We are bothered about<br />> everyday lives, our bread and butter. I am not into politics."</div>
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It goes to show that only educated people are the root of most problems and<br />that they have the gall to blame the 'uneducated, the easily excitable<br />rickshawwallas" while coming out with terms like '99.99 percent' and 'rub<br />salt into our wounds'.</div>
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<br />>> Khan said he had read "The Satanic Verses" and found it "a badly<br />>> written" book.<br />>> "From the literary point of view, it's not a good novel. But I<br />>> would not call it blasphemous."<br />><br />>It is only a book. A piece of fiction. But for some, it is their ticket to<br />>religious fame.<br />></div>
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That is exactly what i am saying, a few Influential people who seek<br />attention with the media are trying to associate themselves with the<br />Iranian Mullahs who arranged the fatwa...Rushdie's got nothing to do<br />with all this crap and neither does the book....a few people who want<br />to prove themselves are trying to cause a lot of trouble, and they are<br />succeding.</div>
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On 18 Feb 1999 02:09:30 GMT,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4372149073854657279" style="border: 0px; color: #6611cc; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">mun...@aol.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Muna123) wrote:</div>
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>>I think most people will agree that granting Rushdie is the only step<br />>>forward...<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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>I seen two post about Indian Muslim Rush-to-die. Indian muslims are not<br />>against him visiting India but the real intention behind granting him visa.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />><br />>Indian Muslims believe that shia-community which supports BJP and its<br />>shia-minister in BJP govt could be danger to Rush-to-die. Indian Muslims also<br />>believe that Shiva Sena could pull the trigger on Rush-to-die for potraying Bal<br />>Thackery bad way in one of his book. Indian Muslims also believe that<br />>International hungry BJP govt could also pull the trigger and blame on Muslims.<br />><br />>The conclusion is BJP govt is dangerious for Indian Muslim Rush-to-die. He<br />>should visit India when there is a change of government in India.. ..</div>
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I dont think so, i still dont agree why you keep insisting BJP is so<br />anti-minority when you can see from all the facts it has not done<br />anything against minorities.</div>
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I was always for freedom of speech,etc when the film Fire was there,<br />but i thought it stupid to have some things banned and some things<br />not, Bal Thackeray is obviosuly annoyed with Rushdie about that book<br />so how can you say he rules the BJP, Thackeray hates Rushdie as much<br />as the Mullah who placed a fatwas on Rushdie without reading the<br />book...</div>
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All this protests is being oprhcestrated by a tiny minority of<br />attention seeking idiots who have a lot of influence, but nothing is<br />going to happy so people dont get your hopes up...Rushdie's probably<br />already landed in India without us knowing...</div>
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>(Desi-Patriot)<br />>Date: 2/19/99 11:41 AM Central Standard Time<br />>Message-id: <<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4372149073854657279" style="border: 0px; color: #6611cc; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">36cda192...@news.antw.<wbr></wbr>online.be</a>><div class="GAK2G4EDN5" style="border: 0px; color: #500050; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<br />><br />>On 18 Feb 1999 02:09:30 GMT,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4372149073854657279" style="border: 0px; color: #6611cc; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">mun...@aol.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Muna123) wrote:<br />><br />>>>I think most people will agree that granting Rushdie is the only step<br />>>>forward...<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />>>I seen two post about Indian Muslim Rush-to-die. Indian muslims are not<br />>>against him visiting India but the real intention behind granting him visa.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />>><br />>>Indian Muslims believe that shia-community which supports BJP and its<br />>>shia-minister in BJP govt could be danger to Rush-to-die. Indian Muslims<br />>also<br />>>believe that Shiva Sena could pull the trigger on Rush-to-die for potraying<br />>Bal<br />>>Thackery bad way in one of his book. Indian Muslims also believe that<br />>>International hungry BJP govt could also pull the trigger and blame on<br />>Muslims.<br />>><br />>>The conclusion is BJP govt is dangerious for Indian Muslim Rush-to-die. He<br />>>should visit India when there is a change of government in India.. ..<br />><br />>I dont think so, i still dont agree why you keep insisting BJP is so<br />>anti-minority when you can see from all the facts it has not done<br />>anything against minorities.</div>
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<br />FRONTLLINE<br />Vol. 16 :: No. 03 :: Jan. 30 - Feb. 12, 1999</div>
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A catalogue of crimes<br />by PRAVEEN SWAMI</div>
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AFTER shaming India with the demolition of the Babri Masjid<br />on December 6,1992, the Bharatiya Janata Party and its patron<br />bodies in the Sangh Parivar sought to project a new moderation.<br />Propelled to power by their flagrant communal campaign in March<br />1998, Hindutva formations claimed that they would conduct<br />themselves in a responsible manner and respect the country's<br />Constitution and its laws.</div>
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However, communal incidents that occurred from March 1998<br />onwards reveal that precisely the reverse has been true. Although<br />there were no major communal riots during this period, the<br />Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the Vishwa Hindu<br />Parishad (VHP), the Bajrang Dal, the Shiv Sena and other<br />Hindutva forces were engaged in the systematic intimidation<br />of minority communities. This compilation by Frontline is far<br />from comprehensive. Put together from newspaper reports, human<br />rights investigations and documentation prepared by independent<br />and community groups,Frontline's list excludes dozens of claims<br />of communal violence and instances of hate propaganda which<br />appeared to lack integrity, precision or clarity. Programmes such<br />as the communal- and caste-biased encounters engineered by the<br />BJP in Uttar Pradesh and the Shiv Sena in Mumbai were left out<br />altogether because of difficulties in ascertaining exactly which<br />killings<br />were motivated by religious hate.</div>
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The scores of specific manifestations of hate politics that Frontline<br />has compiled range from outright violence to propagandistic activity.<br />Concentrated mostly in Gujarat and Maharashtra, the incidents give<br />an insight into the Hindu Right's current agenda. Attacks on Muslims<br />account for just over a quarter of the total. This marks a shift from<br />the pattern of single-minded attacks on Muslims that spearheaded the<br />Hindutva campaign in the early 1990s. Only one incident - in Jammu<br />and Kashmir -involved loss of life to Muslims. The vast majority of<br />attacks, in which damage to property and injuries were common,<br />were aimed at Christians. In one incident VHP members attacked<br />a group of human rights activists, mistaking them for missionary<br />workers.<br /> 1998</div>
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March 2, Gujarat: People distributing leaflets about a Christian<br />meeting at the Vadodara Polo Ground are attacked by Bajrang<br />Dal, Durga Vahini and VHP cadre. Among those injured is a<br />pregnant woman, who is repeatedly kicked in the stomach.<br />The police detain the people who are attacked, but not the attackers.</div>
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March 4, Gujarat: A meeting of evangelists at the Vadodara Polo<br />Ground is disrupted by VHP-Bajrang Dal cadre, who injure several<br />people. (A day earlier the same activists attempted to set the stage on<br />fire.)</div>
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March 13, Maharashtra: Alleged Hindu fundamentalists attack<br />Christian pilgrims in Khanvel.</div>
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March 16, Uttar Pradesh: Bajrang Dal activists attack a Christian<br />meeting in Kanpur, resulting in injuries to several people and loss<br />of property.</div>
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March 19, Jammu and Kashmir: Four Muslims are beaten to<br />death in Karara near Doda by RSS workers in reprisal for the<br />killing of an RSS worker two days earlier by a different group<br />of Muslims for allegedly molesting a local girl.</div>
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April 11, Gujarat: Alleged VHP-Bajrang Dal activists armed<br />with hockey sticks, cricket bats and rods, attack a Christian<br />group observing Passion Week in Palanpur.</div>
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April 16, Gujarat: A church under construction is brought down<br />at Naroda near Ahmedabad. (The structure appears to have<br />been built without legal approvals, but temples nearby, which<br />were also constructed without the necessary legal approvals,<br />were not touched.)</div>
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May 3, Maharashtra: Shiv Sena activists disrupt a concert by<br />Pakistani ghazal singer Ghulam Ali in Mumbai.</div>
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May 8, Jammu and Kashmir: Mobs of RSS workers in Poonch<br />destroy government buildings and attempt to attack Muslim<br />homes in protest against the killing of four people by terrorists in<br />Surankot.</div>
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May 11, Maharashtra: Shiv Sena activists assault a missionary,<br />Octavio Nevis, in Ambernath.</div>
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May 15, Bihar: Modestus Tirkey, headmaster of a Catholic school,<br />is attacked in Ranchi.</div>
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May 18, Gujarat: Hindu fundamentalists attack a Catholic priest,<br />Xavier Amalraj, at Pilpilvada near Zankhav.</div>
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June 16, Maharashtra: The St. Savariyar Church in Srilankapada<br />slum in Mumbai's Malad suburb is demolished. Unauthorised<br />Hindu structures are, however, left untouched.</div>
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June 17, Gujarat: St. Xavier's School and Lourdes Convent in<br />Surat are served with orders by the Collector, Surat. Records<br />of admissions and applications are confiscated. School officials<br />claim that this is done to harass them.</div>
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June 21, Gujarat: A prayer hall is burnt down in Singana village, Dangs<br />district.</div>
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June 23, Gujarat: After two Muslim youths elope with Hindu<br />girls from Randhikpur village, VHP and Bajrang Dal squads<br />force over 400 Muslim villagers to leave their homes in an act<br />of collective reprisal. The administration and the police stand<br />by and watch as independent fact-finding teams and journalists<br />visiting Randhikpur are attacked.</div>
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June 29, Gujarat: A prayer hall in Umerpada village in Dangs<br />district is attacked by assailants who, however, fail in their attempts<br />to set it on fire.</div>
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July 3, New Delhi: News breaks of the plans of the BJP Government<br />of Delhi to remove churches from the list of recognised places of<br />worship on the pretext that wine is served (as a holy sacrament) in<br />the churches.</div>
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July 8, Gujarat: The body of Samuel Christian is exhumed from<br />a graveyard in Kapadvanj in Nadiad district, allegedly by VHP<br />activists, and dumped near a Methodist church nearby.</div>
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July 11, Maharashtra: Two Christian workers are reportedly beaten in<br />Bhind.</div>
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July 12, Gujarat: Christians gathered for worship at a prayer<br />hall in Dhavalidod are threatened by the village leader. The<br />church's lock was broken later the same day and a cross removed.</div>
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July 17, Karnataka: VHP activists raid at least 11 Christian-run<br />schools in Bangalore, Mysore, Mandya and Mangalore, disrupting<br />their functioning. In one case, a nun who protested was spat at.</div>
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July 18, Gujarat: The Shantiniketan High School in Zankhav near<br />Surat, run by Christian missionaries, is vandalised. The playground<br />is ploughed with a tractor. (Violence follows false reports in the<br />Gujarati language press that the school's adivasi students are<br />forcibly converted, whereas only 152 of the school's 750<br />students are Christians.)</div>
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July 18, Gujarat: A prayer hall is burnt down in Bhapkal village in<br />Dangs district.</div>
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July 18, Tamil Nadu: An Assemblies of God church is attacked<br />and church materials are looted in Anaipalayam.</div>
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July 20, Gujarat: Copies of the New Testament are burnt allegedly<br />by VHP and Bajrang Dal activists at IP Mission School in Rajkot.<br />The VHP says that the request on a page in the copies of the<br />Bibles distributed by Gideons International asking believers to<br />sign as proof that they have accepted Jesus Christ as their<br />saviour is evidence of forcible conversions.</div>
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July 23, Gujarat: Mobs allegedly led by a low-level revenue<br />official attack on adivasis at a prayer meeting in Borkhal village.</div>
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July 24, Gujarat: Bajrang Dal and RSS activists attack Catholic<br />priests in Isar, a small adivasi village near Zankhav.</div>
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July 25, Gujarat: The body of a Christian is exhumed from a<br />graveyard in Gandhinagar, allegedly by Bajrang Dal activists.</div>
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August 9, Gujarat: A church is destroyed allegedly by RSS<br />cadre in Ahmedabad.</div>
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August 15, Gujarat: Communal riots break out in Sanjeli against<br />the background of the BJP-VHP's efforts to communalise inter-community<br />weddings. The home of a Christian priest, Joe Vas, is attacked.<br />(Riots follow a Dharam Sabha organised in the town three days<br />earlier, where BJP-VHP leaders made speeches inciting<br />adivasis against Muslims. Independent investigators found<br />that in this case the root cause of the riot was the local<br />panchayat's refusal to honour court orders granting a<br />Muslim fishing rights in a local pond.)</div>
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August 15, Uttar Pradesh: Bajrang Dal and VHP cadre attack<br />church activists in Robertsganj.</div>
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August 25, West Bengal: Bikash Das, a church worker, is<br />allegedly assaulted by a Trinamul Congress leader.</div>
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August 31, Bihar: A church is demolished in Kobatoli village in<br />Gumla district.</div>
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September 5, New Delhi: The Bajrang Dal announces that it will<br />launch a 'new Quit India Movement' to remove all Christian<br />missionaries from the country. The organisation, along with the<br />VHP, demands an end to forced conversions they allege are taking place.</div>
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September 23, Madhya Pradesh: A crowd allegedly led by a<br />BJP MLA attack Edward Sarel, a Christian priest, in Jhamli village,<br />10 km from Jhabua.</div>
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September 23, Uttar Pradesh: Nuns at the Clarist Convent in<br />Baghpat are assaulted.</div>
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September 25, Madhya Pradesh: Nuns are raped at a Christian<br />convent in Jhabua. Although specific culpability for the incident<br />remains unclear, it came in the wake of the VHP-BJP's anti-Christian<br />campaign.</div>
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September 26, Uttar Pradesh: Police and local administration<br />officials barge into the Jiwan Jyoti Christian Hospital campus in<br />Robertsganj and allegedly misbehave with patients and hospital staff.</div>
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September 26, Uttar Pradesh: Activists of the Hindu Jagran Manch,<br />the Bajrang Dal and the Rana Tharu Parishad break into the Union<br />Church at Amaun near Khatima in Udham Singh Nagar district<br />and install a Siva idol.</div>
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September 26, New Delhi: A statue of St. Bernard is broken and<br />thrown out of the grounds of Jesus and Mary College in New Delhi.</div>
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September 30, New Delhi: Acharya Giriraj Kishore, secretary-general<br />of theVHP, asks Christian missionaries to leave India.</div>
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October 1, Gujarat: The VHP and Bajrang Dal ban pop dandiya<br />ras dancing in several cities of Gujarat and forbid Muslim film<br />stars from participating in these events.</div>
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October 1, Rajasthan: School books are found to have been<br />rewritten to suit the Hindu Right's agenda. Articles by RSS<br />chief Rajendra Singh, his deputy K.S. Sudershan, Panchjanya<br />editor Tarun Vijay and the Swadeshi Jagran Manch's<br />Jalam Singh Rawlot found to appear in Class 9 textbooks.</div>
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October 1, Karnataka: Convent schools in Karnataka and some<br />other States begin to receive threatening letters and in some cases<br />visits by local VHP leaders demanding that they stop their supposed<br />prosletysation activities.</div>
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October 1, Uttar Pradesh: The Uttar Pradesh Government issues<br />a Government Order making the singing of Vande Mataram<br />mandatory in schools in the State. Public outrage and the threat<br />of legal action by the Minorities Commission and independent<br />groups force it to back down and lead to the resignation of the<br />Education Minister.</div>
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October 7, Uttar Pradesh: The staff of the Christy Jyoti Convent<br />School in Baghpat is threatened by villagers who have been told<br />that children are forcibly converted there.</div>
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October 18, Maharashtra: Christian villagers in Karye Sadapada<br />village near Peth are attacked after they refuse to make contributions<br />of cash and rice for an adivasi festival. A church is destroyed.</div>
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October 27, Uttar Pradesh: The BJP-dominated Municipal<br />Corporation of Ayodhya passes a resolution banning burials<br />within the city limits. Ayodhya has a large Muslim population<br />and is the site of several graveyards.</div>
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October 30, Gujarat: Bajrang Dal-VHP members armed with belts,<br />chains and lathis attack delegates at the National Christian Conference<br />in Baroda.</div>
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October 31, New Delhi: A spokesperson for Vidya Bharati,<br />the pro-RSS educational body, says that 14-year-old school-children<br />should not be taught "salacious texts", which in its view includes<br />poems by Alfred Noyes.</div>
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November 3, Gujarat: VHP members attack social groups<br />seeking to end anti-women exorcism rituals at the Kaliyaji<br />temple in Shamlaji.</div>
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November 4, Gujarat: Miscreants, allegedly instigated by<br />VHP-Bajrang Dal workers, attempt to set fire to a chapel<br />in Baurigautha village in Dangs district. Churches in Nirgumandal<br />village are also damaged.</div>
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November 5, Gujarat: A church is burned down at Gadhavi<br />village in Dangs district.</div>
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November 9, Haryana: A convent in Khera Khummar village in<br />Jhajjar district is<br />broken into and two nuns are beaten and asked to leave the district.</div>
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November 11, Gujarat: Hindu fundamentalists force residents of<br />Daghunia village<br /> near the Satpura road in Dangs to enter hot springs for ritual<br />purification. The village<br /> sarpanch also issues orders barring adivasi Christians from drawing<br />water from the<br /> community well, grazing their livestock on community land and gaining<br />employment in government projects.</div>
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November 12, Gujarat: Churches are burned down in Kamath village.</div>
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November 13, Haryana: A missionary team from Punjab is<br />attacked by VHP activists in Beri town while distributing<br />leaflets on gospels.</div>
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November 24, Karnataka: Forty armed Hindu activists, allegedly<br />affiliated to the RSS, attack a Christian service at Kulai near<br />Mangalore.</div>
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December 6, 1992: Hindutva hordes bring down the Babri Masjid.</div>
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December 1, Maharashtra: Lumpen elements<br /> belonging to the Shiv Sena storm cinemas in<br /> Mumbai and stop screenings of Deepa Mehta's<br /> film Fire on the grounds that it is "anti-Hindu".</div>
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December 3, Karnataka: Police action terminates a rath yatra<br />organised by VHP activists with the public support of Karwar's<br />BJP MP Ananthakumar Hegde to storm the Sufi shrine of Hazrat<br />Abdul Azeez Macci at Chikmagalur. The VHP and the BJP claim<br />that the shrine is in fact a Hindu temple, which they wish to call Datta</div>
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December 3, New Delhi: Shiv Sena lumpens attack cinemas<br />screening Fire and follow this up with attacks on a cinema in<br />Patiala, Punjab.</div>
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December 11, Maharashtra: Shiv Sena corporators in the<br />Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation move a motion to<br />make the singing of Vande Mataram mandatory in Greater<br />Mumbai's schools.</div>
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December 12, Maharashtra: Shiv Sena protestors throw stones<br />at actor Dilip Kumar's house for saying that Fire has a right to<br />be screened. Vulgar slogans are chanted by Sena activists who<br />strip down to their underwear. The police stand by.</div>
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December 14, Gujarat: Churches are burned down at<br />Lachanchariya village and several other places.</div>
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December 25, Gujarat: A VHP-affiliated Hindu Jagran Manch rally<br />in Ahwa town in Dangs district, timed to coincide with Christmas<br />gatherings, ends with attacks on schools and churches throughout<br />the district. The attacks last several days. (The rally was preceded<br />by the distribution of offensive pamphlets about Christian priests and<br />nuns.)</div>
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January 6, New Delhi: Shiv Sena activists dig up the pitch at<br />Ferozeshah Kotla cricket stadium to prevent an India-Pakistan<br />match from being played there. The Sena also threatens to<br />disrupt a New Delhi-Lahore bus service.</div>
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January 18, Maharashtra: The office of the Board of Control for<br />Cricket in India in Mumbai is stormed by Shiv Sena activists and<br />trophies of historic value are damaged.</div>
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January 18, Tamil Nadu: The Shiv Sena unit in Chennai threatens<br />to disrupt "at any cost" the first India-Pakistan cricket Test<br />scheduled to be held in the city.</div>
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January 19, Maharashtra: Members of Cable Sena, a union<br />of Shiv Sena-affiliated cable television operators, threaten to<br />cut off broadcasts of the India-Pakistan cricket series and boycott<br />the ESPN sports channel.</div>
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January 20, Mumbai: Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray<br />announces that Kashmiri Muslim traders will not be allowed<br />to set up shop in Goa.</div>
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<br />>I was always for freedom of speech,etc when the film Fire was there,<br />>but i thought it stupid to have some things banned and some things<br />>not, Bal Thackeray is obviosuly annoyed with Rushdie about that book<br />>so how can you say he rules the BJP, Thackeray hates Rushdie as much<br />>as the Mullah who placed a fatwas on Rushdie without reading the<br />>book...<br />><br />>All this protests is being oprhcestrated by a tiny minority of<br />>attention seeking idiots who have a lot of influence, but nothing is<br />>going to happy so people dont get your hopes up...Rushdie's probably<br />>already landed in India without us knowing...<br />></div>
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It's often the same reasons people leave any real-world relationship:<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><ul style="list-style: disc; margin: 5px 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">Their needs aren't being fulfilled</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">They are getting their needs fulfilled somewhere else</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">"The grass is greener" syndrome</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">Someone they admire is doing it</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">Pure boredom</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">The excitement of something new</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">Driven out by poor behavior</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">Not enough time to invest; schedule changes</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">They were being ignored</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">No real reason; if you stick around they might come back</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;"><b style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">change in the type of peeps entering the community</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>be it the user base or the moderators - especially if this is a change for the worse [yelp]</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;"><b style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">TMI</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(too much information)</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or a low signal to noise whereby it becomes a task just to sort through updates, postings + all things new [facebook]</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;"><b style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">you get booted</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>due to multifarious factors [fluther]</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">social graph is too vast</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>+ grows larger + more impersonal leading to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">TMI</b>[twitter]</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">constant disruptions in UI or unannounced changes that move stuff all about</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">depreciation +/ dwindling in quality of content</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">rampant uncontrolled trolling</li>
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The real reason why flocks of people leave online communities, is because of a type of people called "attention whores". If you're down with the kids, or internet culture, you might of heard of it.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Basically what happens, is that a website has eager and enthusiastic people, who are skilled at the website's applicable craft, and they are eager about helping others, and enthusiastic about sharing their substantial and worthwhile expression to the world.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />What typically happens to make these people leave eventually, is when attention whores join the website, is that they neglect and censor superior content, and blast their mediocre and misconstrued content and ideals to the site, trying to drown out the prominent signal from the signal vs noise, and unfairly drown it out with wretched noise using herd mentality.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />This has happened with Deviantart. Writers Cafe, and now it's starting to happen with Quora.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Deviantart used to be a place full of amazing art, where members were happy to make new friends and review each others work, back in 2006. Now it is full of attention whores drawing crap work, a proliferation of fox animal artwork, people not giving critques, who blast their work to 100 groups. Many talented members have left the community.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Writers Cafe and other writing communities, used to be a place to read work from talented authors and get critique. Now it is full of attention whores who post the same poem 100 times, don't review stories, spend time dating, and posting fanfics and a splurge of photos.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Quora is going down the same path.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Quora used to be a place where really intelligent people who were eager to share their views and ideas with enthusiasm, not feel marginalised or penalised for their views. Now they have their answers collapsed with no recourse or notification as the Flag feature is gone, are attacked personally for their views brandished as bad people, and other such things.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />It is hard to know which direction or outcome Quora will come to, as the attention whore problem is new. But what I do know is that I've spoken to clever people who feel this way, who want to leave Quora, stop posting answers, and find a new website to express their views on. People believing that downvoting purely because you disagree with their views, not constituting as censorship, also increases the problem. Also people believe that Quora is against<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"information diversity"</i>, and is purely a website for self gratification, designed to reinforce ones existing views, and marginalise<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"weak ties"</i>, with the absence of the Flag feature.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Basically attention whores are what make all the valuable people leave social networks.</u></i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They like to bring others down, to bring themselves up.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />But why should any of those websites care? They have the page views, and that's all that matters!<div class="container_boundary" id="__w2_O9nmZkG_container_boundary" style="height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 0px;">
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There are a few universal reasons why people will leave an online community but you need to separate out the type of community before really getting true insight into why people leave.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />If the community is organized around a product, there can be some unique reasons why people would leave, often dealing with product issues, or advances in the competition.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />If the community deals with a hobby, people leave hobbies all the time and start new ones.</div>
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Thank you for the invitation to answer this question, Anonymous.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />To me, this question and questions like it are similar to asking "can forums replace forums?" To answer it, I am going to borrow from my answers to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="qlink_container" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.quora.com/Could-Quora-become-the-next-evolution-of-a-forum" style="color: #19558d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Could Quora become the next evolution of a forum?</a></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="qlink_container" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.quora.com/Why-havent-web-forums-evolved-over-the-past-10-years" style="color: #19558d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Why haven't web forums evolved over the past 10 years?</a></span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Some people see forums as this archaic beast that is lingering and (in their mind, if not in reality) declining. They see Facebook, Twitter and, yes, Quora, as something completely new and fresh. But, that's not really the case.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In the latter question linked above, the person who asked it suggested that forums were "partying like it was 1999."<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />But, forum, or community software, has greatly evolved since 1999. Install a version of UBB that was released in 1999. Now, install the latest versions of vBulletin, phpBB, bbPress, Vanilla and Invision Power Board. You should see a startling difference and a wealth of evolution. Is every one of these new features a "replacement" of forums? Or are they just additional features?<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />That is where forums have, can and will innovate – in their software, in their options and features. What will not change – and what should not change – is what forums are and that is threaded, text-based conversation. Forums are everywhere in the social web.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Forums are like bread. Why hasn’t bread evolved? Well, it has. We have more flavors, we have better ingredients and we know more about the construction of bread than ever before. However, bread will always be bread.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />That said, bread is a flexible medium. People eat bread plain, they make an open face sandwich, a closed sandwich, they toast it, they chop it up, they put it in bread pudding and they add any number of ingredients to it.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Similarly, if you look at Facebook, you’ll see forums or forum-like functionality. If you look at your favorite “social network,” you’ll see forums or forum-like functionality. If you look at YouTube, Flickr and many blogs, you’ll see the same.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Quora is a forum, more or less, so it can't replace what it already is. Questions are threads, answers are replies. It’s very much the same. There may be some nuances to it, but is that replacing anything? Or is it new features? The vast majority of what you see on Quora are features, or related to features, that forums have had previously.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In my view, to say that Quora is an evolution of forums as a whole or a replacement for them only serves to take away from what people have already been accomplishing with forums for a long time, which is what Quora has built upon or taken away from.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />There may be some new things - or some things that are laid out in a new way. Just as Quora has features it learned from other forums, other forums can learn from how Quora has integrated features, laid them out, etc. They learn and evolve together, more than anything else.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Forums are bread. They are flexible. That is why there are such rich hack and customization communities that arise around popular pieces of software, especially open source software. Because there are a thousand different ways to do a forum. Or a social network. Or whatever you want to call it. That's a great thing.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />It’s not a huge deal, but I just find that people sometimes want to see something new in something that is not inherently new (from a technical perspective). Quora isn’t great because it’s something new technology wise or because they took forums to a new level or because it’s some new form of social media.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />It’s great because they took all of these features and put them together in a really cool, crisp way and added their own spice to it. It's great because the site was well developed and slickly designed. And, last but not least, it's great because they have built a great community (presumably backed by great management and vision by their people) around a great idea. In other words, smart people. That's the story here.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Beyond that, Quora is a platform that competes with other Q&A platforms, whether they be forums or something. If you want to host your own Q&A site, Quora is not an option because it is not a platform you can download and install and run as your own service. If you, as a member, find Quora to be more useful than other Q&A platforms and forums, then it is more valuable for you personally, but won't be for many (most?) others. So, it isn't a replacement, but an option and a good one, at that.</div>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">Forums basically work. Sure, they could work better, but for most of the people using them they do what they want them to do (allow for many-to-many conversations).</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">Lack of financing</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">Perhaps most importantly a lot of forums are run by people who have "real" jobs and they are not in it to create a new product. They are running them because they actually just want to talk about whatever subject they have created the forum about. So upgrading for them is probably not first and foremost ...</li>
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I would suggest that they have evolved in the ways that they should.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Forum, or community software, has greatly, greatly evolved since 1999. Install a version of UBB that was released in 1999. Now, install the latest versions of vBulletin, phpBB, bbPress, Vanilla and Invision Power Board. You should see a startling difference and a wealth of evolution.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />That is where forums have, can and will innovate - in their software, in their options and features. What will not change - and what should not change - is what forums are and that is threaded, text-based conversation. Forums are everywhere in the social web.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />It's like asking "Why hasn't the telephone evolved?" or "Why hasn't the television evolved?" They both have evolved - a lot. But, what will not change is that the primary function of a telephone is to speak, verbally, to someone. And the primary function of a television is to view some sort of visual.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />But, that doesn't mean they haven't evolved. With the television, for example. We have more channels, clearer, more vibrant pictures, bigger pictures, more attractive displays, a wealth of configuration settings and options. What has evolved is the quality of the core, but what is new is not the core - what is new is the complements to the core, the additional features and options.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Sometimes, we think of evolution in a way that is not fair, in a way that would mean that the thing we are thinking of would no longer be itself. For example, if the television evolves into a computer, it is no longer a television - it is a computer. In other words, it's not really evolution if it turns into something else - it's a new and different thing.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Even new and different things retain many of the characteristics of other things. Let me add to the comparison overload by comparing forums to bread. Why hasn't bread evolved? Well, it has. We have more flavors, we have better ingredients and we know more about the construction of bread. However, bread will always be bread.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />That said, bread is a flexible medium. People eat bread plain, they make an open face sandwich, a closed sandwich, they toast it, they chop it up, they put it in bread pudding and they add any number of ingredients to it.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Similarly, if you look at Facebook, you'll see forums or forum-like functionality. If you look at your favorite "social network," you'll see forums or forum-like functionality. If you look at YouTube, Flickr and many blogs, you'll see the same.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Quora is a forum. Questions are threads, answers are<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />replies. It's very much the same. Some forums have employed the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />opportunity to vote posts up or down (in one way or another) for a very<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />long time.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><b style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Forums are bread.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They are flexible. That is why there are such rich hack<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />and customization communities that arise around popular pieces of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />software, especially open source software. Because there are a thousand<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />different ways to do a forum. Or a social network. Or whatever you want<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />to call it.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><b style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The direction that you take forums, your evolution of them, is on you.</b><div class="container_boundary" id="__w2_W4hcnUP_container_boundary" style="height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 0px;">
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Organizations in particular just simply dump forums online and tell the community: help your self. There has been a total lack of innovation in this space.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />So community users end up asking all sorts of questions in the hope of finding solutions to their problems. It's usually problems that drive us to visit forum sites.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The future is around making it even quicker to find solutions to problems that people may face by PROVIDING RELEVANT REPLIES. Because people are busy.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />And this is why there has been hardly any innovation in this space. Forum software vendors are busy thinking about<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">'what other bells and whistles can we add?'</i>. Instead, stop and think about<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">'how can we improve forums software to provide mechanisms for the community to provide quicker, relevant replies to people's questions?'</i>.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Take an example: you are struggling to install/configure XYZ software. You visit the vendors site and are directed to their forum. You search and ask a question in the hope of finding a solution. You then go over to look at the FAQ's and hope to find a solution. You then take a look at their documentation.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />So you jump around disparate forums, FAQs and documentation hoping to stumble upon an answer.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />So, when it comes to organizations wanting to deploy 'forums' for providing community support, then<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">the future is providing a single 'joined up support' platform that allows different types of replies to questions (e.g. Faqs, Docs, Tickets, Videos) and where all content types that help people find answers is consistently tagged.</b> Think of it as CMS for forums.<div class="container_boundary" id="__w2_oPHIDZy_container_boundary" style="height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 0px;">
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There have been a few products that have tried to address this. One aspect of the broader issue is that it is hard for forums and forum software to gain traction. It's not easy to port an existing community to a new platform - as Sanjay says forum owners and members tend to be very protective of their online spaces. And starting a new forum without an existing community means it takes a lot of time and effort to get growth. A very chicken and egg issue.<div class="container_boundary" id="__w2_xbV3NYq_container_boundary" style="height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 0px;">
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The evolution was not an overnight show. It has evolved slowly yet steadily shifting its prominence from just discussion boards to features that can cater to all communication needs. With tags, file upload, image categorizing, channels, social share plugging options and many more to come, forums is definitely going to be a bigger thing in the world of group communication!<div class="container_boundary" id="__w2_IslizrE_container_boundary" style="height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 0px;">
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I believe<b style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>forums have already evolved</b>. There are further developments as well. There are many companies which are trying to aggregate different '<b style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">group communication</b>' features to the existing forums. And, I believe this is going to be more exciting in future.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Check out this question for more answers on this -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="qlink_container" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.quora.com/Will-internet-forums-become-obsolete-or-evolve" style="color: #19558d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Will internet forums become obsolete or evolve?</a></span><div class="container_boundary" id="__w2_uOJzwOV_container_boundary" style="height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 0px;">
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I see forums as moving toward integration within the entire site, rather than just existing in one spot. Woven on other web pages, internal to the domain as well as external sites, forum content is being leveraged as part of a complete social strategy. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I also see more gamification and badges coming down the pike, building on existing point systems and user levels.</div>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">TED Talks has actual events, virtual presentations, and is a massive movement (ie the TED x gatherings). My guess is by attendees and views it beats most alternatives.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">iTunes U or Open Courseware is arguably pretty close, but the content for Open Courseware while interesting and informative is rather long form and tends to be historical rather than forward looking in many of the subject areas (especially when juxtaposted versus TED talks).</li>
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What are the best online sites/forums/communities for entrepreneurs building bootstrapped companies?</h1>
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<span id="__w2_LoMAlnR_text_snip_content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">There seems to be a good bit of offline meetup-type gatherings of bootstrappers, but where are the most active and healthiest communities for founders of bootstrapped companies online?</span></div>
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I'm also looking for more resources and communities, specifically for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">bootstrappers</b>like myself.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />So far, my primary consumption is:<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a class="external_link" href="http://mixergy.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(https://d1vgw4v7ja2ido.cloudfront.net/-d00b84133c0b47df.gif); background-position: 100% 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #19558d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 12px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Mixergy.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>-<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="qlink_container" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.quora.com/Andrew-Warner-9592" style="color: #19558d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Andrew Warner</a></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>hosts interviews and premium courses for all types of entrepreneurs (some bootstrapped). He used to have a question/answer site called FoundersMix, but I believe that has been shut down... :(<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a class="external_link" href="http://softwarebyrob.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(https://d1vgw4v7ja2ido.cloudfront.net/-d00b84133c0b47df.gif); background-position: 100% 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #19558d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 12px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Softwarebyrob.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>-<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="qlink_container" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.quora.com/Rob-Walling" style="color: #19558d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Rob Walling</a></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>blogs about being a solo bootstrapped (software) entrepreneur and runs a premium course and community for this (I'm not a member, but hope to check it out next time it opens).<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I subscribe to various other blogs... but I'm constantly looking for people/communities who are focused on BOOTSTRAPPING.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Any suggestions?<div class="container_boundary" id="__w2_WV1AoHQ_container_boundary" style="height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 0px;">
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;"><a class="external_link" href="http://www.kalzumeus.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(https://d1vgw4v7ja2ido.cloudfront.net/-d00b84133c0b47df.gif); background-position: 100% 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #19558d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 12px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.kalzumeus.com/</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- Patrick McKenzie's blog.</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;"><a class="external_link" href="http://blog.asmartbear.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(https://d1vgw4v7ja2ido.cloudfront.net/-d00b84133c0b47df.gif); background-position: 100% 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #19558d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 12px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://blog.asmartbear.co<wbr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></wbr>m/</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- Jason Cohen has raised funding, but most of what he talks about applies to bootstrapping.</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">Forums basically work. Sure, they could work better, but for most of the people using them they do what they want them to do (allow for many-to-many conversations).</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">Perhaps most importantly a lot of forums are run by people who have "real" jobs and they are not in it to create a new product. They are running them because they actually just want to talk about whatever subject they have created the forum about. So upgrading for them is probably not first and foremost ...</li>
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I would suggest that they have evolved in the ways that they should.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Forum, or community software, has greatly, greatly evolved since 1999. Install a version of UBB that was released in 1999. Now, install the latest versions of vBulletin, phpBB, bbPress, Vanilla and Invision Power Board. You should see a startling difference and a wealth of evolution.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />That is where forums have, can and will innovate - in their software, in their options and features. What will not change - and what should not change - is what forums are and that is threaded, text-based conversation. Forums are everywhere in the social web.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />It's like asking "Why hasn't the telephone evolved?" or "Why hasn't the television evolved?" They both have evolved - a lot. But, what will not change is that the primary function of a telephone is to speak, verbally, to someone. And the primary function of a television is to view some sort of visual.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />But, that doesn't mean they haven't evolved. With the television, for example. We have more channels, clearer, more vibrant pictures, bigger pictures, more attractive displays, a wealth of configuration settings and options. What has evolved is the quality of the core, but what is new is not the core - what is new is the complements to the core, the additional features and options.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Sometimes, we think of evolution in a way that is not fair, in a way that would mean that the thing we are thinking of would no longer be itself. For example, if the television evolves into a computer, it is no longer a television - it is a computer. In other words, it's not really evolution if it turns into something else - it's a new and different thing.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Even new and different things retain many of the characteristics of other things. Let me add to the comparison overload by comparing forums to bread. Why hasn't bread evolved? Well, it has. We have more flavors, we have better ingredients and we know more about the construction of bread. However, bread will always be bread.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />That said, bread is a flexible medium. People eat bread plain, they make an open face sandwich, a closed sandwich, they toast it, they chop it up, they put it in bread pudding and they add any number of ingredients to it.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Similarly, if you look at Facebook, you'll see forums or forum-like functionality. If you look at your favorite "social network," you'll see forums or forum-like functionality. If you look at YouTube, Flickr and many blogs, you'll see the same.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Quora is a forum. Questions are threads, answers are<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />replies. It's very much the same. Some forums have employed the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />opportunity to vote posts up or down (in one way or another) for a very<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />long time.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><b style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Forums are bread.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They are flexible. That is why there are such rich hack<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />and customization communities that arise around popular pieces of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />software, especially open source software. Because there are a thousand<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />different ways to do a forum. Or a social network. Or whatever you want<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />to call it.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><b style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The direction that you take forums, your evolution of them, is on you.</b><div class="container_boundary" id="__w2_dSTR2AL_container_boundary" style="height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 0px;">
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Organizations in particular just simply dump forums online and tell the community: help your self. There has been a total lack of innovation in this space.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />So community users end up asking all sorts of questions in the hope of finding solutions to their problems. It's usually problems that drive us to visit forum sites.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The future is around making it even quicker to find solutions to problems that people may face by PROVIDING RELEVANT REPLIES. Because people are busy.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />And this is why there has been hardly any innovation in this space. Forum software vendors are busy thinking about<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">'what other bells and whistles can we add?'</i>. Instead, stop and think about<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">'how can we improve forums software to provide mechanisms for the community to provide quicker, relevant replies to people's questions?'</i>.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Take an example: you are struggling to install/configure XYZ software. You visit the vendors site and are directed to their forum. You search and ask a question in the hope of finding a solution. You then go over to look at the FAQ's and hope to find a solution. You then take a look at their documentation.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />So you jump around disparate forums, FAQs and documentation hoping to stumble upon an answer.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />So, when it comes to organizations wanting to deploy 'forums' for providing community support, then<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">the future is providing a single 'joined up support' platform that allows different types of replies to questions (e.g. Faqs, Docs, Tickets, Videos) and where all content types that help people find answers is consistently tagged.</b> Think of it as CMS for forums.<div class="container_boundary" id="__w2_rckWxKR_container_boundary" style="height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 0px;">
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The evolution was not an overnight show. It has evolved slowly yet steadily shifting its prominence from just discussion boards to features that can cater to all communication needs. With tags, file upload, image categorizing, channels, social share plugging options and many more to come, forums is definitely going to be a bigger thing in the world of group communication!<div class="container_boundary" id="__w2_l6uAsNr_container_boundary" style="height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 0px;">
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I believe<b style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>forums have already evolved</b>. There are further developments as well. There are many companies which are trying to aggregate different '<b style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">group communication</b>' features to the existing forums. And, I believe this is going to be more exciting in future.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Check out this question for more answers on this -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="qlink_container" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.quora.com/Will-internet-forums-become-obsolete-or-evolve" style="color: #19558d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Will internet forums become obsolete or evolve?</a></span><div class="container_boundary" id="__w2_teIOxD2_container_boundary" style="height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 0px;">
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It really depends on how you define evolution. In my view, Quora is more or less a forum, not an evolution of the space as a whole. This ties in, directly, with my answer to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="qlink_container" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.quora.com/Why-havent-web-forums-evolved-over-the-past-10-years" style="color: #19558d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Why haven't web forums evolved over the past 10 years?</a></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and I am going to borrow a lot of my answer below from that one, since it fits so well.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Some people see forums as this archaic beast that is lingering and (in their mind, if not in reality) declining. They see Facebook, Twitter and, yes, Quora, as something completely new and fresh. But is that really so?<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In that other question, the person who asked it suggested that forums were "partying like it was 1999."<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />But, forum, or community software, has greatly evolved since 1999. Install a version of UBB that was released in 1999. Now, install the latest versions of vBulletin, phpBB, bbPress, Vanilla and Invision Power Board. You should see a startling difference and a wealth of evolution. Is every one of these new features an evolution of forums? Or are they just additional features?<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />That is where forums have, can and will innovate – in their software, in their options and features. What will not change – and what should not change – is what forums are and that is threaded, text-based conversation. Forums are everywhere in the social web.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Forums are like bread. Why hasn’t bread evolved? Well, it has. We have more flavors, we have better ingredients and we know more about the construction of bread than ever before. However, bread will always be bread.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />That said, bread is a flexible medium. People eat bread plain, they make an open face sandwich, a closed sandwich, they toast it, they chop it up, they put it in bread pudding and they add any number of ingredients to it.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Similarly, if you look at Facebook, you’ll see forums or forum-like functionality. If you look at your favorite “social network,” you’ll see forums or forum-like functionality. If you look at YouTube, Flickr and many blogs, you’ll see the same.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Quora is a forum, more or less. Questions are threads, answers are replies. It’s very much the same. There may be some nuances to it, but is that evolution? Or is it new features? Again, I guess that is how you define it.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />But, the vast majority of what you see on Quora are features, or related to features, that forums have had previously.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />For example, the ability to up and down vote answers. Some forums have employed the opportunity to vote posts up and/or down (in one way or another) for a very long time.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Another example would be the one answer per question limitation. On one of my communities, you are not allowed to reply to a thread if you were the last one to reply and that reply was posted within the last 48 hours.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />If I recall (could be mistaken), I came up with the feature either in full or in part with a friend of mine, who wrote it. At least for the given software that we use, which is phpBB. I don’t recall it being available as a feature before he released it.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />That’s not an evolution of forums, it’s just a means of preventing people from cheaply bumping their threads and to make them use the posts that they have more completely and to focus on the quality of those posts (much like Quora’s one answer per question policy). Quora’s one answer per question deal isn’t an evolution, it’s just a feature (or a hack, if you will) aimed at increasing quality and lessening noise.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Again, it really depends on your evolution of forums. For me, evolution implies something different. In my view, to say that Quora is an evolution of forums as a whole is really quite strong and serves to take away from what people have already been accomplishing with forums for a long time.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Functionality wise, the vast majority of what Quora does has been done by other forums. There may be some new things - or some things that are laid out in a new way. Just as Quora has features it learned from other forums, other forums can learn from how Quora has integrated features, laid them out, etc. They learn and evolve together, more than anything else.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Forums are bread. They are flexible. That is why there are such rich hack and customization communities that arise around popular pieces of software, especially open source software. Because there are a thousand different ways to do a forum. Or a social network. Or whatever you want to call it. That's a great thing.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />It’s not a huge deal, but I just find that people sometimes want to see something new in something that is not inherently new (from a technical perspective). Quora isn’t great because it’s something new technology wise or because they took forums to a new level or because it’s some new form of social media.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />It’s great because they took all of these features and put them together in a really cool, crisp way and added their own spice to it. It's great because the site was well developed and slickly designed. And, last but not least, it's great because they have built a great community (presumably backed by great management and vision by their people) around a great idea. In other words, smart people. That's the story here.<div class="container_boundary" id="__w2_yFDglJb_container_boundary" style="height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 0px;">
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No, I think Facebook did that. It did it to the ones I was in anyway. Once everybody was connected on Facebook it seemed redundant and silly to still maintain a forum dialogue. Facebook was more authentic, had messaging (asynchronous and real time) built in, calendaring features, media sharing, and eventually profiles with enough sophistication to handle delineation.<div class="container_boundary" id="__w2_Oxzutid_container_boundary" style="height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 0px;">
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One of the prime reasons why multiple message boards exist is they allow more people to be part of the top group or elite posters in a particular forum. Thus their multiplicity is a means to provide more people to have their own corner in the Internet where they have significant impact. A single website will surely not kill all the message boards.<div class="container_boundary" id="__w2_StXdwiP_container_boundary" style="height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 0px;">
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I spend a lot of time on forums and honestly, Quora doesn't come up very often. In order to do some checking I did a Google search for "Quora" and other social media sites for the past 30 days, limiting the results to "discussions" in order to focus on forum chatter.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Quora 1,830 results<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Reddit 1,470,000<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />StackOverflow 187,000<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Myspace 1,340,000<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />It seems that Quora is not impacting forums at least not as a topic of discussion.<div class="container_boundary" id="__w2_yZw7hKe_container_boundary" style="height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 0px;">
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<b style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Probably not.</b><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />They're good for different things:<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><ul style="list-style: disc; margin: 5px 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">Wikipedia is good for canonical answers. ("What is the population of New York?")</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">Quora is best for canonical questions with personal answers. ("What's it like to live in New York?")</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">Forums are good for personal questions with personal answers and ensuing discussion from a specific community. ("Hey, fellow long-distance cyclists! What riding should I do in and around New York next week?")</li>
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<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I'm sure a modest number of forum questions are now answered on Quora pages, so some searchers will never make it as far as a forum. But a lot of forums find that sort of repetitive question annoying. So I'd expect that rather than killing message boards, it will let them focus more on the community of discussion that they're really good at.<div class="container_boundary" id="__w2_OFnYRSL_container_boundary" style="height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 0px;">
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Web forums are one of the oldest types of web apps, and haven't seen a lot of innovation. While they are being supplanted by sites like Ning, StackOverflow, Quora, or Forrst, there are still thousands of old school phpbb-style forums throughout the web. How will web forums be innovated in the future?Edit</div>
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Forum software needs to focus on the syndication of content beyond forums.</div>
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Registration and the user experience need to more closely resemble the current best practices instead of those from 1998.</div>
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Members must be cajoled into better classifying their content at the point of creation.</div>
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High value content should be displayed in a format that best highlights the type of content. The initial post of a review thread should look different than an event thread or a tutorial thread.</div>
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Search must be built from the ground up in order to help users find posts, places, and people that are relevant to their query.</div>
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Reputation and status need to integrate better game mechanics so that users will be motivated to contribute in their own ways.</div>
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Advertising must be factored into the design of forums from the beginning...not as an after thought.</div>
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Forums are the best medium for many to many communication that has ever existed. This is not something I say lightly, it is what I truly believe. Unfortunately all the adaptations in forum software have been evolutionary from the days of flat files on UBB to the current resource hogging bloatware that exists today. We need to start from scratch and move all the wonderful communities to this infrastructure before they are lost forever.</div>
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Total lack of innovation in this space. Organizations in particular just simply dump forums online and tell the community: help your self. </div>
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So community users end up asking all sorts of questions in the hope of finding solutions to their problems. It's usually problems that drive us to visit forum sites.</div>
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The future is around making it even quicker to find solutions to problems that people may face by PROVIDING RELEVANT REPLIES. Because people are busy.</div>
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And this is why there has been hardly any innovation in this space. Forum software vendors are busy thinking about 'what other bells and whistles can we add?'. Instead, stop and think about 'how can we improve forums software to provide mechanisms for the community to provide quicker, relevant replies to people's questions?'.</div>
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Take an example: you are struggling to install/configure XYZ software. You visit the vendors site and are directed to their forum. You search and ask a question in the hope of finding a solution. You then go over to look at the FAQ's and hope to find a solution. You then take a look at their documentation.</div>
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So you jump around disparate forums, FAQs and documentation hoping to stumble upon an answer. Madness!</div>
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So, when it comes to organizations wanting to deploy 'forums' for providing community support, then the future is providing a single 'joined up support' platform that allows different types of replies to questions (e.g. Faqs, Docs, Tickets, Videos), and where all content is consistently tagged. Think of it as CMS for forums.</div>
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3 votes by Inigo Sarmiento, Julia Teitelbaum, and Yiping Zhu</div>
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Quora and Stack Overflow are the future of the online forum. For traditional web forums, the old standbys (phpbb, Simple Machines, etc.) do a pretty good job.</div>
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2 votes by Anon User and Faheem Gill</div>
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I like the idea of putting everything in one place. I seem to spend a lifetime hunting around forum sites looking for answers. If you know of a tool for aggregating this stuff then please share it. I think the forum space is a nightmare.</div>
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- The forum software developers should create cross-platform ID's where reputation, profile, stats can be used on many forums.</div>
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- Allow for truly annonymous quality discussions (reputations etc).</div>
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- Who can solve to "get paid to provide quality answers" problem, this will unleash enormous initiative.</div>
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- Integrate with Twitter.</div>
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- Integrate with the comming Semantic Web (long shot as of now, but will arrive in time), there will arrive a smarter more inteligent web, however this will need to be suplemented by human efforts, this is the future of colaboration online.</div>
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1 vote by Vilan Natanzon</div>
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I've been thinking about this as well. Here is my proposition:</div>
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for more information - explanation:</div>
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http://www.quora.com/Online-Gove...</div>
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work in progress :-)</div>
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I think the Vanillaforums approach will be the future. Where you can embed it easily into any website/cms and make it part of it.</div>
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the future? I think you have seen it. Quora is exactly the future of web forum.</div>
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The future of the forum is as small, private groups with a tight focus. Social networks have taken over their role as large public spaces for socializing and looking for info.</div>
Easy Stock Basicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14581011587713454370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4372149073854657279.post-42145336014181149712012-01-02T05:49:00.000-08:002013-02-02T06:17:34.445-08:00topic discussions<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">I wonder if Salman Rushdie is a Detective too ....<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">How did he come to know about Mamata's intervention in the matter of his visit to Kolkata ??<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="highlight" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fff8cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 226, 34); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: black; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding-bottom: 1px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Mamata</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is being a soft target of the Elitists ...<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Mr. Rushdie must come out with some evidence in the favour of his Tweet Statement if he is not lying ...</span><br />
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<span class="userContent"><span id="id_510d16ac35a0a9438792767"><span class="text_exposed_hide">...<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Minister<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="highlight" style="background-color: #fff8cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 226, 34); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px;">Mamata</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="highlight" style="background-color: #fff8cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 226, 34); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px;">Banerjee</span>, saying she did nothing wrong in blocking author Salman Rushdie's visit to Kolkata. "There is nothing shameful, I am congratulating the state government for taking the right decision,". Now Friend, if you like to imagine that ‘Mythological Bird’ is functioning here also, Just look back towards incidents few years back, when Com. Buddhadeb Bhattacharyya was in power.<span class="highlight" style="background-color: #fff8cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 226, 34); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px;">Mamata</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>was creating widespread ‘Holla-Golla’ against the Administrative decision<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="userContent"><span id="id_510d16ac39b913879375968">So Rushdie banned from the literary meet... Oh Calcutta !! This one feather was missing from your cap Madam Chief Minister... turn a state which honored and celebrated literary geniuses into a bigoted ignorant society.. I wish no Calcuttans turn up to the book fair as a protest... and the world would know the ones who are against Rushdie hardly ever read more than 1 book !!</span></span></div>
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<span class="userContent"><span id="id_510d1a46710119030124603">I feel am lucky to watch<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="highlight" style="background-color: #fff8cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 226, 34); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px;">Viswaroopam</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>over here in Bangalore last night. The Magnum opus of Mr. Kamalhaasan is really rocking. I just had the feel of watching a hollywoold movie. Ulaga nayagan rocks. Unfortunate for tamil nadu fans...Thanks to Mr. Kamalhaasan for giving such a quality movie which taken the Indian cinema to the next level of film making....</span></span></div>
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<span class="userContent"><span id="id_510d1bd8126d60e01704203">Again an idi..ic TV chnl is after<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="highlight" style="background-color: #fff8cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 226, 34); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px;">Dhoni</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>abt his closeness with BCCI chief..SL loses to Aus 3-0..Pkstn is bwld out for 49 but our samaj sevak media is after a player who is possibly the best wk-batsman after Gilchrist (Gilly did not captain Aus)..we must support our players who hv given enough joy to the country by winning more matches than losing .TV chnls can only create negativity by airing views from failed ex-cricketers.</span></span><br />
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An insightful new function introduced by Facebook, something to consider when further developing/refining our capstone idea. Of course for us it would be more like “My neighbors, who live relatively close to me, who liked this landscaper…etc.”</div>
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“Facebook's new Graph Search will allow users to uncover social connections between other members of the site and quickly identify which friends have been to certain places, "liked" specific topics... For example, Facebook explained how Graph Search could be used to find "My friends who live in Palo Alto who like Game of Thrones," "Indian restaurants liked by my friends from India”…</div>
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Despite the fact that FB is doing this because they are desperate for revenue, I think the move is great news for "AskAround' for a couple of reasons. First, the fact that they are looking to leverage data in this way helps to validate our business problem: people want to know what their friends and neighbors (e.g. trusted) think, use, recommend, etc. But, the board may ask, isn't that fact that FB is getting into this going to demolish our business opportunity to solve the "same problem"? Absolutely not, we say! FB has 1B users in every country of the world to worry about. We can focus on niche markets and be successful. This is a case where the network effect is very important, but can also hinder innovation. FB will not be nimble or quick about the roll out. They will also have difficulty getting the mobile and local connections made across their entire footprint. Not only can a company like AskAround be able to leverage the FB (and other social network) "social graphs", but we will also have a much better understanding of local markets and can thus build partnerships to build more profitable revenue streams. <br />
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This could also represent an inflection point that spells big trouble for the Angie's lists of the world. Not only is this potentially a source of better information but it is also free. Again, network effect is important, but not if the cost of acquiring new customers exceed the revenue expected over an extended period of time. AL has blown over $100M on advertising to bait customers to their network with the hope that they stay for a long time. As the AskArounds of the world make trusted information more available and "friction free", who is going to keep shelling out $50 or more bucks a year for a proprietary database of reviews?</div>
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Hence according to SEBI regulations PAN is must precondition to invest in stock markets (in any securities).<br /><br />The application forums of pan card are available at brokers, financial advisers, Internet centers etc. Apply with adequate proofs of bank account, address proof, photo identity. Approximately within 20 days pan will be posted to address we mentioned during application.<br /><br />The next is having a good bank account; your savings account is just sufficient for this. But confirm that your bank account offers chequebook, online transactions account, and etc facilities. Its also better if the bank offers Demat account itself at reasonable prices. Its better to have a account on local branch of bank for your brokerages, this facilitates flexible transactions of cheque deductions etc.(in fact the bank having tie-up with your brokerage is much more preferable)Easy Stock Basicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14581011587713454370noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4372149073854657279.post-12765366090949466642010-05-10T23:47:00.000-07:002010-05-10T23:48:43.292-07:00Can money doubles with stock market investmentsYes, it’s very easy to get money doubled within short period in stock markets as return on investments is very high, but in how much period we shouldn’t think off.<br /><br />Stock markets gives good profits may be more than doubling. But never invest with that targets with time period like ‘I am investing in stock markets to make my money double in 2 months’, ‘Advice me best stocks that double within 3 months’. My advice is not to set targets for your returns while investing.<br /><br />All the returns depends equally on the ‘Market Conditions’, your invested ‘Company Performance’, ‘the Sector to which company belongs’, nothing more than these…<br />Picking a ‘Right stock’, operating in ‘Right sector’ in ‘Right conditions’, gives the satisfactory returns on our investment.<br /><br />Some small cap company stocks grow by more than 20% in a single day in stock markets. But also there are many cases where stocks grow by more than 50% within 2-3 days. But expecting and timely catching those stocks is not an easy task.<br />For example, some leading small cap companies announce exponential profits during its quarterly results announcement. Then its share price outperforms, it may grow by more than 20%. But it’s not easy to approximately expect the quarterly results of small cap companies.<br /><br />Below are <span style="font-weight: bold;">some outlined guidance’s for higher returns:</span><br />Generally shares in sectors Information technology (IT) and Reality are very volatile, they grow more than others in bull markets and vice versa in bear markets.<br /><br />Generally stocks of Small Cap Companies give good profits than large cap and mid cap stocks. But much more care is necessary while picking small cap stocks.<br /><br />Expecting the quarterly results of companies and investing before announcement.<br />If results reach expectations stocks outperforms.<br /><br />Investing with clues ‘for a sector’ or ‘individual company’ or of ‘general market clues’.<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">For example, </span><br />Company clue: Investing in a pharma company, that FDI may accept the drug in pending. Or ‘expectations on patents of pharma companies.<br />Sector clue: Investing in railway stocks, with clue of benefits for railway companies in railway budget announcement.<br />General market clues: With vast positive expectations during GDP, IIP numbers, packages, RBI Reporates, budget announcements etc.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Conclusion:</span> Definitely your money doubles in stock markets, if you followed a right way. But not enter with that type of greed expectations.Easy Stock Basicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14581011587713454370noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4372149073854657279.post-86916133024399509122010-05-10T23:45:00.000-07:002010-05-10T23:47:13.776-07:00What’s necessity to invest in stock markets?What is the reason beyond to prefer investment in stock markets, why not to continue in banks or mutual funds?’. Below are suspected reasons why it’s always preferable to invest in stock markets, over traditional investment options.<br /><br />Compared to stock markets, growth of money in banks (with simple interest) or mutual funds (where fund company shares some profit) is very less.<br />Growth of money by gaining good profits is very faster and higher with stock markets.<br />With savings on banks we need to satisfy with just interest (of 8-10%) on fixed deposits.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Mutual funds perform at an annual rate of 25-30%. But it’s possible to gain above 100% annual returns only with stock markets. Some small cap stocks even double and even triple within one-year time elapse.</div><br />Another demerit with banks or mutual funds is lock in period, where our money locks up to completion of fixed deposit period or maturity of a close ended mutual fund. Fixed deposits and many mutual funds even not offer tax benefits. But shares can be bought and sell at any instant we desire.<br /><br />Another factor is Inflation, which if once entered the orbit outperforms bank interest rates. For example, just before recession inflation rocketed to above 12%, where bank interests stayed below 10%. So in actual we are losses by 2% by saving in banks. To tolerate growing inflation (life expenses) we should invest in stock markets or gold.<br /><br />There is no entry load or additional charges, for stock market investments (only minor brokerage and transaction charges) like mutual funds with hidden charges.<br /><br />With stock markets we directly get the Dividend from companies, the additional profit apart from increased share price.<br /><br />Trading of shares is much more easy than mutual fund units, with outcome of online trading.<br /><br />We have wide range of companies from various sectors available at optimum risk, unlike in mutual funds where the fund itself offers pre-lined sectors or companies.<br /><br />Wide range of data is available to analyze stock companies, where relatively less data is available about the fund.<br /><br />In mutual funds, public gets no vote or right either to influence investment decisions or demand of dividends, where public have rights in stock companies.<br /><br />Even mutual funds never compete with stocks in returns, they equally corrected to shares during the last recession.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Conclusion:</span> It’s always better to invest in stock markets due to its huge benefits over mutual funds or bank savings.Easy Stock Basicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14581011587713454370noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4372149073854657279.post-13239285130998378562010-05-10T23:44:00.000-07:002010-05-10T23:45:40.187-07:00Risk factors Associated in Stock Market InvestmentsStock markets are absolutely secure, but they are risky for common investors. Risk depends on stocks, which you have selected for investment. There are low risk shares, but there are no risk free shares.<br /><br />The extent of risk depends on various factors, <span style="font-weight: bold;">some of these are:</span><br />Individual stocks you invested: Risk depends on individual companies.<br />In general large cap stocks are of low risk, but small cap companies especially with high promoter stake are of high risk. All BSE 30, NSE 50 stocks and stocks with good brand value compromises of low risk, even they are corrected, have ability to actively rebound.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Choosed sector for investment:</span> some sectors are riskier than others.<br />Example, Reality and Infra sectors are risky and volatile.<br />While Pharma, Health care sectors are of low risk.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Time point of investment:</span><br />Investment at peak of stock market rallies is highly riskier (as Rally-Correction are Cyclical). Who invested at starting phase of rally gains good profits.<br />Example, investment at 2008 December Peak returned high risk, paid of huge losses.<br />Conflictingly, investment on 2009 march Dips is good timing and returned good profits.<br /><br />Also stock markets are widely effected by global and national economic factors, rumors (for short term only), inflation, commodities alterations, companies quarterly results, industrial production, GDP numbers, economic surveys and reports etc. a lot of factors… All these ‘Market Factors’ when negative to stock markets can be considered as risk factors.<br /><br />The study of all risk factors, their co-relation among them and with individual stocks, their intensity, future violence they would create, is a matter of complex science.<br /><br />These are <span style="font-weight: bold;">some directions to Tolerate the Risk:</span><br />Select shares of bse30, nse50 index. (Especially of brand value).<br />Avoid low float value stocks.<br />Follow systemic investment.<br /><br />But also risk varies, depending on security you bought<br />Future trading (highly risky)<br />Options trading (relatively low risk than futures, but high risk than cash segment)<br />Cash market/direct shares (comparatively low risk than above two)<br /><br />So always consider the risk factors before investing your money in stock markets, but no fear. Simply follow long-term investments, the best technique to avoid risk.Easy Stock Basicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14581011587713454370noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4372149073854657279.post-41922443740068562552010-05-10T23:42:00.000-07:002010-05-10T23:44:06.524-07:00Is my Money Secure in Stock Market Investments?Absolutely, invested money in stock markets is 100% secure in stock markets provided your stockbroker or brokerage is a SEBI registered.<br /><br />A Stockbroker should be SEBI registered. SEBI follows strict regulations regarding the security of money in Demat and Trading accounts. Also as the technology using by stock exchanges is very fine, no way of fraud in money transactions with Demat accounts.<br /><br />So, before openings demat account confirm that your broker is SEBI registered. Also remember, there is no need to give any direct cash payment to broker cash trading account, instead always give in the form of cheque or D.D form, which are much safer form and no chance of any misuse by sub-brokers.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">“Here readers should not understand the security of money as risk, which is a different concept that always exist in stock markets”</span><br /><br />Instead of all these security labels, unfortunately there reported some misshapes on money transactions between stock trading accounts. Its best fit to use the word “Technical Mistakes/Errors” for this miss-happens, instead of ‘fraud’ or ‘misuse’. Online platform is source of many of these technical mistakes.<br /><br />Some examples of these are:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Missed-orders, wrong orders or order cancellations </span><br />Your money may harvest in orders that you may not be placed actually. These are due to technical errors or technical incompatibility between exchanges and brokerages. But many brokerages are resolving these mistakes within 15days you may also complain about this type of issues in sebi official website.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Problems with online passwords:</span><br />We should work with extreme care while entering and saving online account passwords, and to change them timely. Indecimate use of online passwords would result in heavy misuses. It’s always preferable to work with your online trading account on own pc. But it’s not a big problem as many brokerages allow money transfer from trading account to single bank account only (that is registered with trading account), so that even third persons that know your password cannot able to transfer money to his account.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Conclusion:</span> Money in trading accounts is absolutely secure; cases of misuse or technical mistakes are very very minor.Easy Stock Basicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14581011587713454370noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4372149073854657279.post-63979965002657361072010-05-10T23:41:00.000-07:002010-05-10T23:42:39.379-07:00Minimum Investment Needed to Enter Stock Markets<span style="font-weight: bold;">“Stock markets needs no specific minimum amount to enter, so it’s possible to start your investments, no doubt with very small amounts of money”</span><br /><br />Only practical unit is to buy a single share. Buying of fractional number of shares is not possible.<br />E.g. Buying of 2.5 shares not possible<br /> 1, 2, 3,4…only possible.<br /><br />So anyone can start their investments in stock markets by buying atleast one share, of course there are different shares in markets ranging from below one rupee to more than ten thousand. Hence theoretically it’s possible to enter investments in stock markets with a single rupee.<br /><br />But this is not the case with all the stock brokerages; some may fix their own minimum amount. Many brokerages cannot accept amounts below 1000 rupees, also transactions pause when the balance is reached below 1000 rupees.<br /><br />Lacking of minimum amount is an immense advantage to investors. That’s we start our investment with small amounts first, then after better expertise we make our full sized investment. Thereby avoiding the losses by lack of experience during our initial practices. Most of mutual funds have atleast 5000 rupees as their minimum investment and also we share our profit with the mutual fund company. Also they are preferable than other investment options like gold (requiring atleast 1gm buy), currency futures (1000$) or other commodities having their own minimum amounts.<br /><br />But, how much you invest that much you profited. But its best to start your stock market investment career with a start amount of 5000 rupees minimum.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Conclusion:</span> Stock Markets have NO minimum amount must required to invest, But arbitrarily its better to start with atleast 5000 rupees. Hence always prefer stock markets for your investments and make better.Easy Stock Basicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14581011587713454370noreply@blogger.com216tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4372149073854657279.post-90296971812948564512010-05-10T23:40:00.000-07:002010-05-10T23:41:36.663-07:00Who can invest in stock markets? Average persons?<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“Always new investors have one doubt; can stock markets are suitable to me? Because amount I can able to invest is not a huge. But in fact stock markets are very useful For Small Investors, as they support very small amounts even less than minimum amount required for mutual fund investing”</span><br /><br />Anyone can invest in stock markets, by buying the shares of companies. They are never confined way of investment only for large investors. The simple requirements are small amount required to buy atleast one share we are favoring and transaction accounts (Demat and Trading accounts)<br /><br />We observe many persons who think of stock market are not for normal people. Also they think, persons investing in the stock markets are so rich. But it’s not the real case, because stock markets are available to all. But also investing in stock markets is so simple if you have Demat and trading accounts, it’s only telling your broker which shares to buy.<br /><br />In fact, the primary Aim of Stock Markets is to Make Involve Common Public in larger companies. All the Public financial corporations, Mutual funds are only to facilitate indirect investment in stock markets for people who not much known about it.<br />Even there are certain arbitraries in front of SEBI on fixing certain minimum amount of stake holding by common public (retail investors) in all companies.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Conclusion:</span> Any average persons can able to invest in stock markets, starting with small amount of money having.Easy Stock Basicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14581011587713454370noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4372149073854657279.post-21823133421105800452010-05-10T23:39:00.000-07:002010-05-10T23:40:28.309-07:00Basic stock market concepts: What are shares?<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">“They are most associated terms with stock market investments. We do either buying or selling i.e. trading of shares based on the performance of the stock companies”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">The aim of many companies is to attract even the small investors to invest in their company. But company worth’s crores of rupees, so not possible for small investors to invest that larger amount. Hence the total value of the company is divided into small divisions, called shares.</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">For example, if the value of the company is 50 lakhs. The shares equal to the 50 lakhs rupees will be allotted by the company i.e. 5000 shares each of cost 1000 rupees. (Companies specify price range to their shares based on their desire, but total value of shares should be equal to the total value of the company). Anyone who is impressed by the performance of specific company can buy its shares from stock markets at price they are currently trading. If company of which you bought shares is performing well and getting good profits, company value rises and ultimately shares prices increases. This is based on the demand and supply rule. Hence of buying right company shares is a logical art, which make you good profits. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">The owners or who are part of company management and holding large number of shares are called promoters of the company. Promoters and other shareholders of the company, who are part of the company decisions, are restricted to trade their company shares in stock markets (can sell/buy their shares only with adequate information supplied to the stock exchanges).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Only the shares that are sold by company owners on the stock markets are available to trade by public, this is called as open market. Investors should buy shares at the fixed price range by company, if it is newly listing in stock markets (through IPO). But once listed in stock markets the price of shares changes basing on performance of company and investors can buy shares at the current market price (CMP).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Companies have a right to make desired changes in the shares i.e. they can split or bond shares or can issue bonus shares to their shareholders, provided the total value of the company will not changes. For example, company can split its share pricing 1000 rupees into 2 shares each valuing 500 rupees or can bond two or more shares into one valuing accordingly. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">As the shares are a part of the company value, hence they are often called as ‘equity shares’. Equity shareholders (who buy company shares) can demand the company regarding various aspects of their business. And even can change the management of the company, if have 51% of the total shares in your hand. Hence companies generally hold more than 51% of shares and sell some percentage of shares in stock markets to public holding. The shares that are trading on stock markets for public holding are called free float shares (free float value of company). For example, 90% of company shares in promoter’s hand, only 10% in stock markets, so 10% shares are free float shares. All the shares we are buying on stock markets are free float shares. Even though only some shares of company trades in stock markets, the value applies to all shares of company. The total sum of value of shares calculated by their market price is Market Value Of The Company.</span>Easy Stock Basicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14581011587713454370noreply@blogger.com49tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4372149073854657279.post-70574336297215508222010-05-10T23:37:00.000-07:002010-05-10T23:39:21.705-07:00How stock markets are personally useful to me?“Stock markets are useful tools for companies to get money for their business, then how can they are useful to me personally?” especially for common investors how they are useful?”<br /><br />India, being a developing country the economy is growing at a faster rate. Only way to participate in this race is by “Investing in stock markets”. To participate in the growth of the nation and to make profited equally stock markets are useful for every individual.<br /><br />Today you may be a middleman or somewhat rich, but after some years you definitely become financially poor if you stay out of this race, especially if you are a non-business person.<br />So Stock markets are not a useful investment tool, but “Must Essential” Investment Practice.<br />You may not be running a business, but how to participate in the fastest growing business and companies in India, by investing in stock markets. The companies, which you are invested, are doing business and sharing the profits equally with you. How nice…profits without participating in business, just by buying the shares of that company.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">For example</span>, companies like Infosys.<br />Once upon a time it is a small software company. But later by software boom it had grown very fastly. The people who invested in that are benefited hugely by its growth and profits without even knowing what business it is. So, They do business for all (for company and investors).<br /><br />You may invest in the India’s largest companies, by buying the shares of that company.<br />Can you think off the Oil Refinement Business, or Car Manufacturing or becoming the starting the business of Telecom services with relatively small amount of money you have, never…. but, yes you can do…how?, with the investment in stock markets.<br />But its not direct, you need not to do that any business operations. But equally get the profit from the business.<br /><br />How can achieve this? Suppose if you are invested in reliance industries limited by buying its shares, now you are a part of the company business. You are doing indirectly the oil refinement business.<br />Likely similar in any big companies like Tata motors, Airtel or any….<br />Being a partner, by investing in good company you get good profits both with increased share price and any dividend offered by the company.Easy Stock Basicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14581011587713454370noreply@blogger.com17