How many Indians can read Usenet ?
kill...@invalid.invalid
then, that India had good potential as a software-factory, and
could earn good money exporting its product.
Now I want to out-source some legal-work there.
How would competent legal-trained people, who can use email,
find me, to sell their services to me ?
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Here's my post which received no response:---
Subject: Foreign legal-out-sourcing opportunity.
US$ ..etc. for persons/firms competent in law and email usage.
The first matter: minority shareholder oppression, closely matches:--
http://clb.nic.in/sections/Vale_397_398.htm
or Google's cache
http://74.125.93.104/search?q=cache:EKNO2QguU7oJ:clb.nic.in/sections/
Vale_397_398.htm+%22Vinod+Kimar+Mittal%22+%22Kaveri+Lime%22&cd=2
&hl=en&ct=clnk&ie=UTF-8
> Courts/Company Law Board have time and again relied upon
> the principle of "quasi-partnership" as far as family owned
> private companies are concerned were participation of family
> members in the business is part and parcel of the management
> setup. But not all increase or removal of directors has been
> held to oppression.
> Vijay Krishnan Jaidka v. Jaidka Motor Co. Ltd. (1997) 1 Comp. LJ.268
> (CLB)
> Vinod Kimar Mittal v. Kaveri Lime Industries (200) 100 Comp. Cases 66
> (CLB)
> Tea Brokers P. Ltd. v. Hamendra Prasad Baroah (1998) 5 Comp. LJ. 463
> (Cal)
> Naresh Trehan v. Hymatic Agro Equipments Pvt. Ltd. (1997) 97 Comp. Cases
> 561 (CLB)
> Dipak G.Mehta v. Anupar Chemicals India Ltd. (1999) 98 Comp. Cases 575
> (CLB)
> Prasadachandran Nair (T.V.) V. Anandamdiram Hotels Pvt. Ltd. (2000) 2
> Comp. LJ. 120 (CLB).
> T. M. Paul (Dr.) v. City Hospitals Pvt. Ltd. (2000) 2 Comp. LJ. 84
> (CLB)
--------------- end of extract.
Parties interested in taking up this opportunity please email me at
lab...@gmail.com
Thanks,
== John Grant.
Jedi
Ralph Waldo
"Progress" Pisses Off Older Farts!
"A Rising Anger in India's Streets"
"Hindu Extremists Lash Out Against Symbols of Change"
By Emily Wax
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, May 1, 2009
BANGALORE, India -- At a trendy pub in this cosmopolitan IT capital,
Hemangini Gupta, 28, and some of her girlfriends were recently
relaxing with cocktails after work. A group of Hindu men later
followed them outside, verbally accosting them for drinking in a
public bar and for wearing jeans.
"These guys went psycho," Gupta said. "This isn't Afghanistan. But
here in Bangalore, as a young woman on the streets, if you are driving
a car or in a pub or dressed a certain way, you just feel this rising
anger."
The incident was mild compared with some of the violent assaults on
women that have taken place here. The attacks are part of what many
see as rising Hindu extremism in much of the country over the past few
years, especially in places such as Bangalore, precisely because it is
a bastion of India's fast-changing culture. Bangalore is home to an
explosion of software companies, a lively heavy-metal rock music scene
and burgeoning gay rights and environmental movements.
The growing extremism has sparked a national debate -- especially with
national elections this month -- over what has become known by the
Indian media and analysts as the "Talibanization of India." It
features a rise of moral policing and an increasingly active
constellation of Hindu right-wing groups that believe in a politicized
form of religion known as Hindutva.
In Bangalore, recent street protests by Hindu extremist groups have
targeted the emblems of globalization. The demonstrators have thrown
rocks at the glass office buildings of call centers and software
companies. They have shut down clubs that feature dancing and live
music. They have hurled verbal and physical abuse at women in jeans or
skirts. They have vandalized Christian churches, which are regarded as
foreign trespassers.
Political experts predict that the rise of Hindu extremism will spur
greater participation during India's marathon, month-long elections by
the secular middle class and by those who support traditional values.
Some Indians see the growing number of attacks as a national
embarrassment. The issue has resonated among young urban voters,
frustrated that politicians and police have turned a blind eye or have
themselves taken on the task of moral policing.
For India's young, the debate goes to the heart of India's new
identity. In this fast-changing society, long-held religious
sentiments about public behavior are still being negotiated in Indian
homes and on the streets. The discussion is complicated by the fact
that India's economic growth has been lopsided: Well-paid urban youth
tend to embrace Western values, while the country's poor appear more
eager than ever to stick to traditions that have been shaped by Hindu
religious teachings.
"Before the IT culture, things were very peaceful. Our youth enjoyed
their own Indian culture," said Vasanth Kumar Bhavani, 32, president
of Bangalore's branch of Sri Ram Sene, a right-wing Hindu group
involved in a string of attacks on women. "Now it's been spoiled by
all these outsiders flowing in, and it's all because of this IT
sector. They need to be taught a lesson."
His lesson plan apparently includes violence. In January, his
followers -- 40 men wearing saffron-colored headbands -- barged into a
pub called Amnesia in the southern city of Mangalore as television
cameras rolled. They pulled down the skirts of several young female
patrons in an effort to embarrass them and kicked others, accusing
them of being prostitutes. Since the stunt, which was billed by the
group as an effort to "preserve Indian culture," nearly a dozen cases
of attacks on women have been reported in Bangalore.
"What they did was correct in some ways and wrong in others," Bhavani
said. "When something is wrong, you have to respond. Sometimes the
reaction is too much. But you must respond."
On a recent afternoon, he sipped coffee at a hotel garden in
Bangalore, as his buff bodyguard hovered nearby, and said he sees his
group as a custodian of Indian culture. It will soon be launching
social outreach programs: visiting with tech companies and putting on
street plays that preach traditional values. It will also provide
marriage counseling.
Bhavani said he was concerned about the opening of more retirement
homes in Bangalore, which he said indicated that young people were
abandoning their parents and grandparents instead of caring for them
in their homes, as is India's family tradition. "These IT youths are
partying at pubs after work instead of spending time and their new
salaries on their parents, who gave them everything," Bhavani said.
Bhavani is also at the forefront of crackdowns on the closing time of
discos -- known here as Cinderella laws -- and protests against
Valentine's Day, which Bhavani and his followers say gives young
people the wrong ideas about love and romance. Combined, the efforts
have given Bangalore a new nickname in the Indian media: Bans-Galore.
In response, a group of artists and writers that calls itself the
Consortium of Pub-Going, Loose and Forward Women mailed his group a
Valentine: hundreds of pink panties. "We felt enough is enough. You
suddenly see a state that is going berserk," said Nisha Susan, 29, who
organized the protest and started the consortium. "The attacks are
just spreading like crazy along with Hindutva. We didn't want the
protest to be wishy-washy. We wanted to thumb our noses at these right-
wing groups."
Few places symbolize a changing and youthful India more than
Bangalore. It is a destination for young people from across the
country who come here for well-paid outsourcing jobs or to escape the
pressures of family.
It's common to see young women wearing saris with jasmine strung to
their long braided hair walking alongside girls in miniskirts with
pixie haircuts and bright purple highlights.
"It's a clash of cultures, for sure. But the heart of the issue is
that in India, globalization has left many more people alienated from
development and confused. That frustration has been converted into
hatred," said Arvind Narrain, 33, a lawyer with the Alternative Law
Forum in Bangalore who wrote a report on the state's rise of cultural
policing. "So many young men can't afford a drink at those pubs, can't
afford Western clothes, can't speak English. The girls they are
attacking wouldn't look twice at them."
Narrain pointed out that every place where the Hindu nationalist
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and other right-wing parties have whipped
up communal strife, they have been able to remain in power and have
become even more popular. In the Western state of Gujarat,
controversial Chief Minister Narendra Modi is accused of complicity in
the 2002 violence against Muslims. But he was overwhelmingly elected
last year.
Both sides of the debate have been moved to political action in
Bangalore, where the BJP was elected to the state government last
year. Elections for the national government here are dominated by
debate over cultural policing.
"They call us Hindu Taliban. But we are not against modernization,"
said P.M. Girdhara Upadhyaya, 36, of the Hindu Awareness Forum. "This
country has its own heritage and way of living. If you ask the common
man if he wants his daughter going to a pub, he will of course say
no."
Sitting at a fusion restaurant that serves Belgian beer along with
pomegranate mojitos, several generations of women recently had lunch
to the sounds of blaring Bob Marley music.
"India is going through a very confused phase. There are many cultures
coming at us. But at the end of the day, we are a secular democracy.
That means we don't all have to wear a sari every minute of the day,"
said Lakshmi Khanna, 26, an Indian classical dancer who was dressed in
a sexy, low-cut Western dress.
Her grandmother, Sarla Seth, 76, was wearing a sari and gently smiled,
agreeing. But she also joked with her granddaughter to put on a
scarf.
"Women have progressed so much in India," she said. "Still, there are
limits."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/30/AR2009043004083.html