THE FINAL KANTDOWN - PART 3

END OF THE "SIMPLE LIVING HIGH THINKING" PHILOSOPHY FOR INDIA
& WORLD - STORIES ABOUT THE CHANGING FACE OF INDIA & WORLD

IRM & ISKCON AFTER NOVEMBER 14 1977 HAVE BECOME THE GAUDIYA MATH THAT
ALSO BECAME DEMONIC

The Founder and Guru, His Divine Grace A C Bhaktivedanta Swami
Prabhupada, arriving in the West from India in 1965 who founded the
famous Hare Krishna Movement has been poisoned physically and
spiritually since November 14 1977 by usurpers (trisexuals) within the
Movement. The World and India are without his guidance as a result.
In 1977, the Founder wanted the American and European "K" alphabet
shape changed because the shape symbolises suicides according to
ancient scriptures however the shape has not been made non-suicidal by
the usurpers (trisexuals). The Founder's books and philosophy have
been changed by the usurpers (trisexuals). This posting reflects on
this continued poisoning and sees evil, suicidal and demoniac changes
happening around the World and his birth country India. Below are
various stories as a result of this.....

The days have elapsed since the usurpers in the Hare Krishna Movement
removed the Hare Krishna Founder: His Divine Grace A C Bhaktivedanta
Swami Prabhupada, from spiritually being the initiating spiritual
master a

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>From 11/14/1977 (m/d/y)
to 1/31/2007 (m/d/y)
is:
10670 days, or
1524 weeks and 2 days
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(Further information can be sought from the following websites:

http://Kalphabet.googlepages.com.
http://Rathayatra.googlepages.com
http://GauraPurnima.googlepages.com
http://GundicaMarjana.googlepages.com
http://DowryJones.blogspot.com

This is a public message that is for periodic posting, omittance of
this message does not necessarily mean that things have correctly
changed, there could be other reasons, such as the poster of this
message cannot get to post this message or that the poster is ill or
has died in which case it is suggested that the reader should take
self-responsibility about whether things have correctly changed or
not.)


- AIDS ravages rural India
- Facts and Figures: HIV & AIDS
- Expert View: Look behind the label and you'll see the dead children
- Wal-Mart, You've Got India Now; Don't Bungle It: Andy Mukherjee - 2
items
- Wine consumption on the rise in India


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AIDS ravages rural India
No country has more people with HIV, and villagers often are unable to
access help.
December 21, 2006

India: The New AIDS Capital
Interactive Feature
India: The New AIDS Capital


FACTS ABOUT AIDS
5.7 million: Indians living with HIV
38 percent: Those infected who are women
54 percent: Sex workers in Mumbai with HIV/AIDS


IN THE 25 YEARS since it was identified, the virus that causes AIDS
has traveled a highway of humanity to all corners of Earth.

It has crossed oceans and continents; it stalks the world's most
marginal people as they struggle to survive.

K. Sangeetha's husband brought HIV/AIDS home to their village of
Gangaikondacholapuram on a rickety bus from Chennai, the coastal city
better known to many as Madras.

Each day, poor men like him from villages throughout the world's
second most populous country head to the booming cities to find work.
The road from Sangeetha's village to Chennai to the north is about 175
miles; along the way laborers find work in quarries, brick plants or
sugar cane fields.

When they go, the men stay for months at a time, leaving their wives
and children as they try to earn enough money to pull their families
out of the poverty of subsistence farming. Many of them also encounter
prostitutes while they are away from home and contract HIV. Many, like
Sangeetha's husband, die.

India has surpassed South Africa as the country with the largest
number of people living with HIV/AIDS. As of last year, there were an
estimated 5.7 million of them.

India's government is fighting back. It is offering free
antiretroviral drugs in the larger cities. A local organization has
enlisted barbers in the fight: They hand out free condoms and comic
books to educate men about the disease.

Rural people have heard that there is hope if they can get to the
cities. But for many of them, it still is out of reach.

For some who have been stricken, the seven-hour bus ride to Chennai
and hours of standing in line for a month's supply of drugs are too
difficult. For others, the $6 cost of the bus ticket is too much.

So they stay home, often stigmatized by their neighbors, left to
confront the certainty of decline and death in the same isolation in
which they lived.

Sangeetha, a 35-year-old widow with a 15-year-old daughter, was one
such woman.

She died this fall.

2
Facts and Figures: HIV & AIDS


11:35 04 September 2006
NewScientist.com news service
John Pickrell


AIDS deaths to date: 20 million people

HIV and AIDS - Learn more about the worst pandemic in human history in
our continuously updated special report.

Estimated AIDS deaths by 2015: 60 million people

Current HIV infections: About 40 million people

HIV infections in Sub-Saharan Africa: 28.4 million people - more than
60% of world total

Prevalence of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa: 9% of total population

HIV infections in South Africa: 5.3 million people - biggest national
total in the world

HIV infections in India: 5.1 million - second biggest national total
in the world

HIV infections in North America and West and Central Europe: 1.6
million

Countries with negative population growth due to AIDS mortality:
Botswana, and South Africa. Mozambique, Lesotho and Swaziland are
projected follow suit by 2010

Life expectancy in Botswana: 34 years - it would be 72 years without
AIDS. Six other countries, from Angola to Zambia, now have average
life expectancies under 40 years

Access rate to antiretroviral drugs in developing countries: 7% of
infected people

Global AIDS spending in 2004: $6.1 billion

Estimated global AIDS spending required in 2007 for prevention and
ca $20 billion

Condoms required in the developing world in 2002 to achieve a
significant reduction in the rate of HIV infection 10 billion - but
only 2.5 billion were distributed

Proportion of people in China unable to name a single way to protect
themselves against HIV infection in a 2003 survey: 40%

Young women in developing world who did not know three HIV protection
methods when surveyed: 66%


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Expert View: Look behind the label and you'll see the dead children


I am sick and tired of reading about India's economic success


By Chris Walker


Published: 10 December 2006

There was a fire while I was in India - a fire which chilled me to the
bone. A factory in Calcutta burnt down, and although it was in the
middle of the night, most of the workers were burnt alive. They were
largely adolescents or children. They were not paid any money - just
enough food to survive. A young boy cried out in vain to the crowd who
came to watch the blaze, through the bars at the factory door. You
see, they had all been locked in - in case they tried to escape. They
had been making luxury handbags for the Western market.


I am tired of reading articles about the success of India's economy -
or, more accurately, I am sick and tired. Sure, India is winning many
prizes for breathtaking economic growth. On Friday, the latest
industrial output numbers for India showed a colossal 10 per cent
annualised growth rate. And the current economic boom in the
sub-continent is creating significant wealth for a new entrepreneurial
class: the latest Forbes Asia report showed that India's 40 richest
individuals have a net worth of more than $106bn (£54bn).


But there can be few countries on this planet where "trickle-down
economics" is so palpably failing. What good the various impressive
economic statistics and Bollywood lifestyles for the few, when the
individual in a city or village is so often in the most desperate
poverty? Even unskilled workers in the UK can earn in an hour what the
vast majority of the Indian workforce earn in a week.


One crucial difference between the paths chosen by China and India is
the investment in infrastructure. I experienced so many power cuts
while I was there, I lost count. Take the main road from India's
crumbling, smog-ridden capital Delhi to what is surely its main
tourist attraction, the Taj Mahal, and you will spend up to six hours
on a glorified dirt track, dodging oncoming lorries. At some points,
the "road" breaks down completely and you are forced into the
neighbouring fields.


On this road, as on so many others, you will see stark evidence of
just how little rural India is sharing in the new-found economic
prosperity. In India, everything becomes a relative game. The horrific
conditions of the shanty towns surrounding the main cities can still
seem attractive compared to the mud huts a few miles out or, even
worse, the tents (or rather stick-and-cloth homes). Many people
subsist in nothing but dirt.


Again, though, at least the rural poor have some element of freedom
compared to the slave labour of the factories of Calcutta and Bombay.
Last week the charity War on Want produced a damning report
illustrating just how bad working conditions are in many Asian
factories making clothes for the Western market - for retailers such
as Tesco and Asda. This report alleges that many are working seven
days a week - often 16-hour days - for as little as 3p an hour. Those
£30 suits come at a price.


The timing of this report is apposite, given that EU Trade
Commissioner Peter Mandelson spoke on Tuesday about pioneering a new
policy to intro- duce compulsory improvements in trading partners'
working conditions. The EU has taken action, revoking trading
privileges for some countries found to have flouted UN standards. It's
about time.


In the case of India, it is true that the government is finally
investing to improve the infra-structure ($200bn over the next five
years), and it has introduced child labour laws. But if it does not
move to enforce that legislation, and to make atrocities such as the
fire in that Calcutta factory an impossibility, then shame on it.
Equally, if you and I buy goods without considering just why they are
so cheap, then shame on us.


Look properly behind the label, and you will see the face of that
child who burnt to death.

Independent News and Media Limited

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Wal-Mart, You've Got India Now; Don't Bungle It: Andy Mukherjee


By Andy Mukherjee



Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) -- After abandoning disastrous forays in South
Korea and Germany, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is coming to India.


The opportunity is no doubt sizzling, though if Wal-Mart is not
careful, it might end up making a hash of it.


The world's largest retailer desperately wants to increase
international sales to a third of its total from about a fifth at
present. Wal-Mart has already announced plans to double its presence
in China, where the number of large-format stores grew six-fold from
2000 to 2005.


India will be the next big frontier in the battle for shoppers'
wallets. The country ranks as the world's most attractive destination
in consulting firm A.T. Kearney Inc.'s Retail Development Index.


The $250 billion market is controlled almost exclusively by
mom-and-pop shops. Only 11 percent of sales in the top 23 Indian
cities are currently channeled through modern stores, according to New
York-based research firm AC Nielsen. That presents a tremendous
opportunity.


Wal-Mart has two decisive advantages in the Indian market.


One is its partner.


Bharti Group Chairman Sunil Mittal may know nothing about
hypermarkets, but he surely knows a thing or two about running a
consumer business.


New York-based buyout firm Warburg Pincus LLC took home $1.6 billion
on the $290 million it invested in Mittal's mobile-phone network from
1999 to 2001.


Perfect Timing


Mittal will fully own the front end of Wal-Mart's retail business, at
least for now. That's a clever move. Indian law still doesn't allow
foreign investment in stores with a large range of brand-name consumer
goods. The government's communist allies are opposed to its plan to
open up the industry to overseas investors.


An equal joint venture between Mittal and Wal-Mart will run the supply
chain and sell to wholesalers, something that German retailer Metro AG
is already doing successfully in India. Mittal is not disclosing if
his stores will carry the Wal-Mart brand. That will perhaps depend on
the prevailing political temperature when the first store opens in the
second half of next year.


After Bharti announced the deal this week, the Communist Party of
India (Marxist) denounced the ``backdoor'' entry of Wal- Mart into
India, saying multinational stores will cause ``massive displacement''
of unorganized retailers.


The other advantage that Wal-Mart will have in India is timing: The
Bentonville, Arkansas-based company is neither too early to arrive in
India, nor too late.


The Middle Class


In the early 1990s, when the beginning of India's economic
liberalization brought in the first rush of global consumer-good
brands to India in search of the much-touted ``300 million-strong
middle class,'' disenchantment didn't take long to set in. This time
it's different.


Fast-growing industries such as software, engineering and finance are
helping create a true urban middle class, whose purchasing power is
constantly gaining traction in the economy.


The credit-card revolution has shaken off the inherent debt aversion
of the Indian consumer.


Demographics are supportive of higher spending: The typical
five-member family supported by a single wage earner is giving way to
smaller, double-income households.


Wal-Mart shouldn't squander its first-mover advantage in India over
Carrefour SA and Tesco Plc, which are also keen to enter the country.


Here's some free advice to Chief Executive Officer H. Lee Scott on
getting it right:


-- Don't compete on prices and range alone.


Wal-Mart should have learned this lesson from its Korean debacle. The
Indian consumers may be among the world's most value-conscious. Yet,
they may have little use for a big-box, warehouse-type store located
at the edge of the city with a huge parking lot in the front.


`Everyday Low Prices'


A survey by AC Nielsen said 32 percent of Indian consumers view
shopping as ``entertainment.''


That's something Wal-Mart shouldn't lose sight of in its preoccupation
with ``everyday low prices.''


-- Learn localization from Carrefour.


Inadequate localization was the main reason that Wal-Mart bungled
Germany and Korea: It sold both businesses earlier this year. That's
where it must learn from Jean-Luc Cherreau, the managing director of
Carrefour's China business, who will retire in January after an
incredibly successful run.


Rather than going for culturally unacceptable frozen fish, Carrefour
in China replicated the display styles of wet-market fishmongers in a
cleaner environment. ``Now, on the mainland, the first image customers
get when they enter a Carrefour store is fresh products,'' Cherreau
recently told McKinsey & Co.'s quarterly journal. ``When customers are
in the fresh area, they recognize the fresh market they're accustomed
to.''


Replete With Middlemen


India, too, is a fresh-food country that equates frozen with tasteless
and stale. Of course, hinterland customers will find frozen fish to be
an improvement on the unfrozen variety, whose quality is often
suspect. That, again, is something that Carrefour learned in China.


The food-supply chain in India is replete with middlemen. If Wal-Mart
can eliminate some of them and cut the inefficiency and the waste, it
will sell better food, cheaper.


That, however, will also be the cornerstone of the $5.6 billion
hypermarket strategy recently unveiled by Indian businessman Mukesh
Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd.


Reliance, India's largest non-state company, has a reputation for
being both ferociously competitive and extremely quick in
decision-making. Wal-Mart executives should disabuse themselves of any
notion that they can run Indian operations from Arkansas. Reliance has
already put together a formidable management team for its retail
foray.


Then there's Pantaloon Retail India Ltd., the country's biggest
publicly traded retailer, which this month said it will spend $1
billion on new stores to fend off Reliance and Wal-Mart.


And that's really the last piece of advice for Wal-Mart: Don't
underestimate local competition.


(Andy Mukherjee is a Bloomberg News columnist. The opinions expressed
are his own.)


To contact the writer of this column: Andy Mukherjee in Singapore at
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Last Updated: November 29, 2006 15:02 EST
Wal-Mart plans to open hundreds of stores in India
By Anand Giridharadas and Saritha Rai
International Herald Tribune


Wal-Mart Stores moved closer Monday to cracking open one of the last
and potentially most lucrative frontiers for giant Western retailers,
announcing a joint venture with an Indian partner.



Wal-Mart, the world's biggest retailer, plans to open "hundreds" of
Wal-Mart- branded superstores across India in five years starting in
2007, working with Bharti Enterprises, a company that runs the leading
Indian cellphone operator, said the Bharti chairman, Sunil Mittal.



The deal would be the first large- scale entry into the booming Indian
market by a foreign multibrand retailer. Companies like Wal-Mart and
Carrefour, the French retailer, have long been stymied by Indian
government rules that critics feel are protectionist.



"It is the last and a very big frontier," Mittal said during an
interview at the World Economic Forum conference in New Delhi. "Brazil
is done. China is done. This is the last Shangri-La of retail. Where
will Tesco or Wal-Mart get their growth? Here." Tesco ended talks last
week with Bharti on a similar deal.



Mittal, who is not related to the Mittal family of steel-making fame,
said that the companies would invest "whatever it takes." He did not
give specific figures. The first would open Aug. 15, 2007, India
Independence Day, he said.



The deal sets the stage for a tough battle between the traditions of
the 12 million family-run shops in India and big Western retailers,
which are eager to tap India's growing middle classes.



"It is a defining moment for India's retail industry," said Kishore
Biyani, chief executive of the leading Indian retail company, Future
Group. Biyani, whose group runs more than 200 stores, said he and his
colleagues were closely watching the strategy of the new venture.



Wal-Mart has stumbled recently in some of its overseas markets, in
part by misjudging local tastes. It said this year that it would pull
out of South Korea and Germany. Bharti has no experience in
supermarkets, but it is well known in India as a market leader in
cellphone service through Bharti Airtel.



"Bharti and Wal-Mart make a formidable combination," said Arvind
Singhal, chairman of KSA Technopak, a retail consultancy based in New
Delhi.



The Indian retail industry remains largely closed to foreign capital,
owing to fear that Western retailers will cost mom-and-pop shops their
livelihoods.



But Wal-Mart found two loopholes: Foreign retailers can operate via
franchisees and they can invest their own capital in wholesale shops,
like the German retailer Metro has done. Mittal said that Wal-Mart
would open franchise stores owned by Bharti while investing its own
money in wholesale outlets.



Wal-Mart, with backing from Washington, has lobbied aggressively to
pry open a market where just 3 percent of consumers shop in
large-format, Western-style stores. That compares with 20 percent in
China, 30 percent in Indonesia and 40 percent in Thailand, according
to KSA Technopak.



Foes of Wal-Mart's large-scale operations decried its entry and said
that the ranks of the jobless would rise and that pollution would
increase as shoppers drive to stores instead of receiving
home-delivered produce.



"The entry of Wal-Mart will be like an economic tsunami in terms of
its destructive impact," said Vandana Shiva, an environmental
campaigner who runs an organic food business. "Because of the nature
of what Wal-Mart does, it will affect the people who grow food, the
people who eat it and the people who sell it."



Small retailers have resisted government-led attempts to organize the
sector and make way for chains. Recently, a court-ordered shutdown of
more than 30,000 illegal shops in New Delhi neighborhoods met with
violent protests.



Yet steps are being made toward change. In January, the government
allowed international companies to set up single-brand retail chains
and hold up to a 51 percent stake in them.



Last month, the largest private-sector Indian company, the
petrochemicals giant Reliance Industries, opened the first of 5,500
planned retail stores, in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad.



The Indian retail industry is expected to grow by 2015 to $637 billion
from $300 billion now. The share of large- format retail is expected
to grow in five years to 18 percent from 3 percent.



Based on those numbers, industry experts argue that the leading
players in Indian retail could each count on $10 billion to $50
billion in annual revenue within a decade. Such numbers are beginning
to draw even big-league players like Wal-Mart, which reported $315
billion in revenue last year.



Wal-Mart already has a sourcing operation in India, but it long has
argued to Indian officials that, were it allowed to sell in the
country as well as buy, it would use its inventory and logistics
expertise to help spread prosperity by creating new markets for
farmers.



Saritha Rai reported from Bangalore.


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Updated 7:13 AM on Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Wine consumption on the rise in India


By GAVIN RABINOWITZ
Associated Press





NEW DELHI - Having mutton curry for dinner? Then a German Riesling,
with its subtle tones of mango, lychee and jasmine, may be the perfect
accompaniment.



Unusual culinary advice, but it's swirling in the mouths of hundreds
of thousands of Indians who have adopted a new deity into their
bountiful pantheon: Bacchus, the Roman god of wine.



Escaping from the confines of a few high-end hotels, wine is rapidly
becoming the drink of choice among Indians who have grown affluent as
the economy has boomed.




PAIRINGS


Some personal suggestions from noted Indian food critic Sourish
Bhattacharyya for pairing Indian foods with wine and some recommended
Indian wines:



· Mutton seekh kebabs with a slightly sweet South African chenin blanc
or a drier Indian sauvignon blanc from the Grover Vineyards.



· Chunky lamb barra kebabs with a fruity California old-vine zinfandel
or an earthy Spanish tempranillo.



· Chicken malai tikka with a rich Australian chardonnay.



· Butter chicken with a dry white Gavi or a light red Valpolicella
Classico from Italy.



· Lamb curry with almond gravy with a strong, ripe Italian Amarone or
the La Reserve from India's Grover Vineyards.




"People want a better lifestyle and wine is the symbol of the good
life," said Subhash Arora, president of the Delhi Wine Club.



Despite growing domestic production and an influx of foreign wines,
the local market is still tiny compared to traditional wine-drinking
nations.



India, with more than 1 billion people, currently consumes some 6
million cases of wine a year, compared with the 250 million cases
consumed in the United States, population 300 million, and the 320
million cases sipped in France, home to some 60 million people,
according to industry figures.



But with wine sales growing at some 25 percent a year since 1998,
according to the government, Arora estimates there are potentially 20
million to 30 million wine drinkers in the country.



Fully tapping this market means creating a culture of wine drinking,
and in the process weaning Indians from their beloved
whiskey-and-sodas, Arora said.



For him that starts simply with coming up with a good name for wine.
There is no word for wine in Hindi, where it is known as sharaab, a
collective term for all alcohol "which has some negative
connotations."



"Wine needs to be called wine," he said.



At the academy



His other goal is to educate Indians about wine, and that has included
setting up the Indian Wine Academy, which organizes tastings and
workshops. "Wine is one of the very few drinks that need to be
understood a bit to enjoy properly," he said.



Others go even further.



Sourish Bhattacharyya, a prominent food critic and author, argues that
India needs to develop its own lexicon for putting wine into a local
context.



"When I do reviews, I cannot talk of notes of black currants or cassis
[in the wine]," he said. "I have never had a fresh black currant in my
life."



"The beauty of nosing a wine is that it is personal. When I drink a
Riesling, I find lychee and jasmine," Bhattacharyya explained. "When
you hear Indians talking about raspberry, they are just memorizing
tasting notes."



He is also determined to disprove the idea that wine is overwhelmed by
spicy Indian dishes.



Standard pairing guides suggest only a sweet Gewurztraminer with Asian
food, but lumping together the different styles, from subtle Thai to
fiery Punjabi dishes, is ridiculous, he said.



In recent months the Indian Wine Academy has brought together wine
exporters from Italy, Germany, South Africa and Chile with India's
leading chefs, restaurateurs and sommeliers, to match wines with
Indian dishes.



"We demonstrated one thing quite clearly, that Indian food can be
matched beautifully with wine," Bhattacharyya said.



"We had chicken tikka with a viognier chardonnay from South Africa;
the match was perfect," he said. German Rieslings also went very well
with Indian foods, particularly mutton dishes, he said.



"Who could have guessed that German wines, from such a different
culture, could match so beautifully with Indian foods," he said.



However, he does concede that some wines, particularly full-bodied
reds, clash with spicy Indian cuisine.



Local oenophiles are reveling in the surge in popularity of wine.



End to bootlegging



"Five years ago we had to rely on bootleggers to get foreign wines,"
said Sanjit Das, a 31-year-old photographer who picked up his taste
for wine during a stint in France.



"Now you can find any wine under the sun here," he said, sitting in an
upmarket New Delhi restaurant, a bottle of California zinfandel rose
nestled in a silver ice bucket next to him.



While Indians have been exploring the joys of wine, international
producers are giddy at the thought of so many budding consumers.



"India for us is a very small market but there is tremendous
potential," said Chilean Ambassador Jorge Heine, who hosted a recent
wine-tasting on the lawns of his residence, showcasing top-end brands
from his country.



"With 1.1 billion people there is room in the market for everyone,"
Heine said.



There will likely never be that many wine drinkers in a country where
poverty is still rampant and more than 40 percent of the population
live on less than a dollar a day.



But those in the wine industry believe India could become a
significant focus of the global wine trade as its economy, growing at
some 8 percent a year, creates more people with disposable income.



That said, high taxes and import duties that drive up wine prices do
present a tough challenge to importers.



The levies are intended to protect producers of local wines - which,
while improving, are still only competitive with low-end foreign
wines. A local bottle costs about $10.



Foreign wines, in contrast, cost eight to 10 times more than they
would in Europe or the United States because of duties and taxes that
can up the price of a bottle by as much as 300 percent, said Emeric
Christiansen, a New Delhi-based importer of French wines and
champagnes.



India's harsh climate and unreliable electricity supply also make
shipping and storing delicate wines a problem.



Yet despite this, wine makers, whose current markets are already
saturated, still view India as the next great frontier.



"If we could sell one teaspoon of wine to every Indian ..." Heine said
wistfully.