Rattan Mann

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Is India a 'Rape Empire'?

Saturday, 02 February 2013 21:44 GFP Columnist - Rattan Mann

Students in Guwahati, India, mourned the death of a rape victim on Saturday with a silent vigil; elsewhere, anger seethed.

At midnight of 15 August, 1947, the Midnight Children born in independent India were encouraged to dream the following dreams:

1)   Any Midnight Child could become anything - president, prime minister, a successful film star, or a successful industrialist- just on the basis of his own genius.
2)   No Midnight Child would be discriminated on the basis of his caste, creed, or sex.
3)   The Maharajas, their empires, and dynasties would be abolished once and forever.

As those Midnight Children turn 65 now, they realize that Mother India had fed them with solid lies even before their own mothers could give them her first milk.

Maharajas, Dynasties, privileges arising from birth, and discrimination arising from caste, creed, and sex which were all thrown out of the door at midnight, returned through the window before dawn.

Terrorist Attacks by the Weather

Monday, 07 January 2013 15:47 GFP Columnist - Rattan Mann

Wake up world leaders and answer the question of a poor, insignificant, powerless, and unemployed person in the clutches of economical meltdown, and tossed around like a leaf by the evil witch Sandy!

Alternative Norwegian King’s New Year’s Message 2013 - Noble Cybercitizens, this year again I will talk on only one topic – Terrorist Attacks by the Weather.

One or two cold, wet, and therefore normal, summers in one or two small countries like Norway and Denmark have sent the world leaders back to a warm and cozy winter sleep, sweeping the nasty issue of climate change under the very bed on which they are sleeping so comfortably.

By doing so the world leaders are acting like that stupid guy who was cutting the very branch of the tree on which he was standing. What they have swept under their bed is a new monster called Climate Change who would soon start shaking them the way King Kong shook sky scrapers, because this monster is on his way to conquer the earth.

Judgement Day for Norway

Friday, 17 August 2012 21:42 GFP Columnist - Rattan Mann

'...Norwegian right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik arrives on June 22, 2012 in the courtroom in Oslo on the last day of the trial. His defense is expected to call for his acquittal. Even though there is no chance Breivik will be set free, his lawyers must formally make the request since their client has pleaded not guilty...'

One beautiful summer day of August 2012 is supposed to be the Judgement Day for Anders Breivik, the Killer of Oslo. More truly and accurately, it will be the Judgement Day for Norway itself, thanks to the bogy twist the state prosecutors Svein Holden and Inga Enghhad been trying to give the case by introducing a spooky “third factor”.

The facts are simple.

Breivik executed 77 people in a “military operation”, took full responsibility of his act, and said in his closing statement that at times it is necessary to do a little evil to prevent a greater evil in the future.

With these facts, every sane man on earth will agree that a sentence of life imprisonment should be just a technicality (The death-penalty is forbidden in Norway).

Winds of Change in Corrupt Norway?

Tuesday, 20 March 2012 01:30 GFP Columnist - Rattan Mann

History says that even the most lawless and corrupt country (and Norway is a front-runner) cannot remain lawless and corrupt for too long. Unfortunately, History forgot to define how long is “too long”.

In this respect, the British have done better by being very specific. They say that in politics one week is “too long”. And they have proved themselves right once more – this time in Norway.

In the past one week or so, fresh winds have started blowing over Norway. I hope that this time they make a real dent into the stink that pervades each and every pore of this country. The following incidents give reasons for hope.

1) Since years I have been saying that the Norwegian health-care system is not that paradise that innocent people are forced to believe. And finally three courageous Philippine whistle-blowers have come to my rescue. The facts are as follows.

King's Alternative New Year’s Message 2012

Saturday, 14 January 2012 00:00 GFP Columnist - Rattan Mann

Demonstrators stand outside the courthouse in Oslo Monday morning Nov. 14, 2011. In anticipation of the hearing for Anders Behring Breivik they brandish posters translating to 'We will never forget the 22nd. July massacre, crush fascis' and 'No podium for fascists'. Breivik has admitted killing 77 people on July 22.

Noble Cybercitizens, this year I will talk of only one thing – the most important event in Norway after the Second World War. Yes, I mean Anders Breivik’s Oslo Massacre. As the Norwegian police files charges against Breivik for killing 78 people, I file counter-charged against the Norwegian police in the court of public opinion for being directly responsible for the death of at least 50 of those 78 people.

I appeal to all of you to be my Cyber Judges and Jury.

First the facts which are well-known.

On July 22nd, 2011, Anders Breivik exploded a powerful bomb before the Prime Minister’s office in Oslo which killed 8 people and then, dressed as a police officer, drove for about 90 minutes to the nearby island of Utoeya. There he gunned down another 78 people, unchecked and at his leisure.

The End of the World?

Saturday, 10 September 2011 20:46 GFP Columnist - Rattan Mann

'My main criticism of Christianity is that it tends to interpret things very literally when they should be interpreted more figuratively, symbolically and imaginatively.'

On 21 May, 2011, like on any other day, after finishing my math study, I switched on my laptop and clicked on my favourite website, BBC World, to make sure that the world was still in one piece.

I was shocked to learn that it was about to shake and twist into Nothingness within a few hours, leaving me no time to write my timeless will and testament for posteriority. Well, what this means is that I was not at all surprised by pastor Harold Camping’s Doomsday Predictions, because such “predictions”, like CIA’s predictions about world events, are always 1.000,000% wrong.

What shocked me was that even prestigious websites like BBC were giving such silly statements so much prominence and had made Camping a household name for very shaky reasons. The same prestigious websites like BBC don’t look twice at men like me who spend years trying to say something deep about the future.

This reminds me of Mark Antony’s words, “The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones.”