| | | | | | | | | | | 4 Incredible India Today's Fastest growing Free Economy - 289 sec A uniquely spiritual country which one Indian leader called the wholesaler of spiritual goodness, where the rest of the world came to buy its goodness.
After all the Beatles had gone to India to seek guidance from the Maharishi.
The country suffered from such severe foreign exchange shortage that to go abroad you had to get a Form P approved by the government and you were allowed only £3 (4.4 euros; $6) in foreign exchange.
To help pay for my first year's university education in Britain my father had to buy sterling on the Mumbai black market and I smuggled £900 hidden in specially stitched underwear.
Emerging class
It was only as the Air India plane carrying me cleared Indian air space and I went to the loo to take my money out that I could breathe a huge sigh of relief and begun to believe that I would get to England.
Ambassador car
The Ambassador car was once one of two makes of car allowed in India
Such was the scarcity in the country that there was a Guest Control Order which meant you could not invite more than fifty people for a meal - at weddings all you got was a thin slice of ice cream.
Government newsreels exhorted people not to over eat or waste food.
The India I have just been to could not be more different.
Poverty is still there, 80% of the population live on 20 rupees (25p) a day, according to a survey, but a large well off group has also emerged. Some 250 million are reckoned to be very well off, many of them very rich.
They have no reluctance to display wealth. Mammon is openly worshipped. As my old school friend Munir put it on our days, partly inspired by the socialist ideology than prevalent, wealth was considered a bad word.
Now if you have money you spend it and let the world know you have. I received the most vivid evidence of this when I went to a Rolls Royce car show room.
Old traditions
It was located in a new shopping mall - the great growth industry in urban India.
Sharad Kachalia, the man in charge, told me he had sold 24 Rolls Royce Phantoms in the last two years, all to local Indian businessmen.
The cars were bespoke, imported from Goodwood in Sussex. Both of us recalled how different things were in the India of our youth.
Mumbai skyline
Poverty can still be seen along Mumbai sea front
Then the government allowed only two car makes, a Morris Oxford which was called an Ambassador and a Fiat. The wait for the Morris Oxford was four years, 14 for a Fiat.
Lack of new cars meant that the cost of second-hand cars kept increasing and not depreciating as is the norm.
Yet even in this display of wealth, explained Kachalia, came wrapped in the old cultural, family, traditions of India.
The decision to buy the car was not the choice of a rich businessman, but his whole family.
One man said he wanted to make sure that the back of the Rolls had enough space for his grandchildren.
As Kachalia drove me along the sea face at Worli in Mumbai (Bombay) we went past hand carts and all the other assortments of vehicles you can still see in India, past poor shanties and road side stalls.
But while all gathered to watch this fabulous car, there was no hostility just curiosity. This was even more emphatically underlined, when I went to what used to be called Back Bay, along the south Mumbai sea front.
Dingy shack
Forty years ago I had played beach cricket and it was a lovely secluded beach. Since then land has been reclaimed, huge high rise buildings have gone up, some of the most expensive property in the world.
However in a corner of the former beach the fishermen who have always fished here live.
One of took me to his dingy shack, which was terribly overcrowded. Six of them were living in a small room.
But he felt no anger for the high rise properties dwarfing him - it seemed to be part of the price of change.
Indians at an Iron Maiden concert
American goods and services are popular in modern India
After all in his little room he had a fridge and television. He could vote and always voted, in contrast to his richer neighbours who often felt they could bypass democracy by bribing the right officials.
In many ways my old school friends best illustrate the changes that have come over India in the last few decades.
Munir Visram, my oldest friend, has lived in the same Bombay flat since independence. It was on his balcony that I first heard an Elvis record.
Unlike me he never wanted to leave India. Today, thanks to a booming economy and no problems of foreign exchange, he has travelled to more parts of the world than I have and proudly displays his Indian passport. Tags: 8.7% sustained economic growth independant manufacturing self sufficient producer of graduates call centres  | | KÄ°VANC TATLÄ°TUG NEW CLÄ°P(mohannad) - 274 sec http://www.onurakay.com
ONUR AKAY(TURKÄ°SH SÄ°NGER)
Onur Akay was born in Ankara on April 28, 1977.
He completed his elementary, and high school education in Ankara. He won Istanbul University's Conservatory, Department of Turkish Music in 1995, and continued his music education for six years, with greatest professors of the period; Süheyla ALTMIŞDÖRT, İsmail Hakkı ÖZKAN, Muazzam SEPETÇİOĞLU, Seha OKUŞ, Alaaddin ADAY, Fatih SALGAR ve Lale YÜZÜGÜLDÜ.
He later won Haliç University's Turkish Music Voice training department. He continued undergraduate education for four years with renowned professors, like Prof. Dr. Alaeddin Yavaşca, Assoc. Prof. Çetin Körükçü, Dr. Yalçın Çetinkaya, Dr. Binnaz Çelik, Şehnaz Uğurel, Osman Kut Dinçer, Naci Madanoğlu, Nilgün Onat ve Nuriye Eracar and graduated in 2006.
He received first musical training from Nevin İnam KARINDAŞ, herself trained by Münir Nurettin SELÇUK. Onur Akay started to play the "kanun" with his professor Turan İnam. He developed his skills at small age at Turkish Art Music Choir, directed by State television TRT's Ankara Radio maestro Gültekin AYDOĞDU.
He prepared and presented Turkish Art Music programs on Ankara radios. He received speech and diction lessons from famous actor Semih SERGEN. He worked as announcer and speaker for three years. Onur Akay's first play was Güngör DİLMEN's "Kurban" (Victim), where he played "Murat," and composed his first dong at the age of fourteen.
A member of Poets' and Composers' Association and MESAM, Onur Akay's poems are published at TRT Radios and Televisions, private radios and channels, several newspapers, magazines and anthologies, and he has several awards.
Onur Akay started as a columnist in "ANA," a cultural magazine, and he composed several march style pieces for important days.
He enjoyed Halil Soyuer's poems for long years.
His poems are available in "Onur Akay with his Poems," compositions in "Onur Akay with his compositions," all details of his life and his experiences with great names of Music in his book "Steps to Fame." Tags: نور مهند مسلسل التركي عمرو دياب gümüs onur akay kivanc tatlitug nour mohanad amer diab | | 2 Incredible India The Present: Since Painful Independance - 145 sec A uniquely spiritual country which one Indian leader called the wholesaler of spiritual goodness, where the rest of the world came to buy its goodness.
After all the Beatles had gone to India to seek guidance from the Maharishi.
The country suffered from such severe foreign exchange shortage that to go abroad you had to get a Form P approved by the government and you were allowed only £3 (4.4 euros; $6) in foreign exchange.
To help pay for my first year's university education in Britain my father had to buy sterling on the Mumbai black market and I smuggled £900 hidden in specially stitched underwear.
Emerging class
It was only as the Air India plane carrying me cleared Indian air space and I went to the loo to take my money out that I could breathe a huge sigh of relief and begun to believe that I would get to England.
Ambassador car
The Ambassador car was once one of two makes of car allowed in India
Such was the scarcity in the country that there was a Guest Control Order which meant you could not invite more than fifty people for a meal - at weddings all you got was a thin slice of ice cream.
Government newsreels exhorted people not to over eat or waste food.
The India I have just been to could not be more different.
Poverty is still there, 80% of the population live on 20 rupees (25p) a day, according to a survey, but a large well off group has also emerged. Some 250 million are reckoned to be very well off, many of them very rich.
They have no reluctance to display wealth. Mammon is openly worshipped. As my old school friend Munir put it on our days, partly inspired by the socialist ideology than prevalent, wealth was considered a bad word.
Now if you have money you spend it and let the world know you have. I received the most vivid evidence of this when I went to a Rolls Royce car show room.
Old traditions
It was located in a new shopping mall - the great growth industry in urban India.
Sharad Kachalia, the man in charge, told me he had sold 24 Rolls Royce Phantoms in the last two years, all to local Indian businessmen.
The cars were bespoke, imported from Goodwood in Sussex. Both of us recalled how different things were in the India of our youth.
Mumbai skyline
Poverty can still be seen along Mumbai sea front
Then the government allowed only two car makes, a Morris Oxford which was called an Ambassador and a Fiat. The wait for the Morris Oxford was four years, 14 for a Fiat.
Lack of new cars meant that the cost of second-hand cars kept increasing and not depreciating as is the norm.
Yet even in this display of wealth, explained Kachalia, came wrapped in the old cultural, family, traditions of India.
The decision to buy the car was not the choice of a rich businessman, but his whole family.
One man said he wanted to make sure that the back of the Rolls had enough space for his grandchildren.
As Kachalia drove me along the sea face at Worli in Mumbai (Bombay) we went past hand carts and all the other assortments of vehicles you can still see in India, past poor shanties and road side stalls.
But while all gathered to watch this fabulous car, there was no hostility just curiosity. This was even more emphatically underlined, when I went to what used to be called Back Bay, along the south Mumbai sea front.
Dingy shack
Forty years ago I had played beach cricket and it was a lovely secluded beach. Since then land has been reclaimed, huge high rise buildings have gone up, some of the most expensive property in the world.
However in a corner of the former beach the fishermen who have always fished here live.
One of took me to his dingy shack, which was terribly overcrowded. Six of them were living in a small room.
But he felt no anger for the high rise properties dwarfing him - it seemed to be part of the price of change.
Indians at an Iron Maiden concert
American goods and services are popular in modern India
After all in his little room he had a fridge and television. He could vote and always voted, in contrast to his richer neighbours who often felt they could bypass democracy by bribing the right officials.
In many ways my old school friends best illustrate the changes that have come over India in the last few decades.
Munir Visram, my oldest friend, has lived in the same Bombay flat since independence. It was on his balcony that I first heard an Elvis record.
Unlike me he never wanted to leave India. Today, thanks to a booming economy and no problems of foreign exchange, he has travelled to more parts of the world than I have and proudly displays his Indian passport. Tags: Social Science Documentary TM meditation herbs ayurveda mind body medicine hindu muslim sikh christian | | Debat Kontroversi SKB Ahmadiyah @ TV One-1 - 577 sec Mahendradatta
(Tim Pembela Muslim)
&
Adnin Armas, MA
(Majlis Tarjih Muhammadiyah)
V.S
Usman Hamid
(Koordinator KONTRAS)
&
Abdul Moqsith Ghazali
(Koordinator Jaringan Islam Liberal)
Recorded from TV One, Jakarta June 11th 2008
Full version debat ini juga bisa di download di :
Rapidshare.com (83 MB)
Muhammad Mahendradatta, lahir di Jakarta 11 Januari 1962 yang kemudian menamatkan Sarjana Hukum pada Fakultas Hukum Universitas Indonesia pada tahun 1988. Kemudian di tahun 2002 dia memperoleh gelar Magister Hukum Bisnis dari Universitas yang sama. Sebelumnya Mahendradatta sempat menyelesaikan pendidikan khusus American Litigation di School of Law-University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) yang dipersamakan dengan gelar Master of Arts, pada tahun 1994.
Muhammad Mahendradatta, SH. MA. MH berprofesi sebagai Advokat/Pengacara yang mulai mencuat namanya dan dikenal publik setelah dia memegang jabatan sebagai Ketua Tim Pembela Muslim (TPM). Berbagai kasus kontroversial pernah ditanganinya, dimulai dari pembelaan hukum terhadap Ustadz Jafar Umar Thalib, Panglima Laskar Jihad Ahlus'sunnah Wal Jamaah (Aswaja) yang terjerat kasus pidana rajam dan Penghinaan Terhadap Kepala Negara (Megawati Soekarnoputri). Namanya semakin melambung dikenal didunia Internasional karena keteguhan dan keberaniannya dalam membela Al Ustadz Abubakar Ba'asyir, juga beberapa Terdakwa Kasus Terorisme Besar seperti Amrozi, Imam Samudera dan Ali Ghufron. Namanya menjadi suatu fenomena tersendiri dalam dunia hukum, seiring dengan semakin dikenalnya nama grup pengacaranya yaitu TPM.
Saat ini (Agustus 2007) karena integritas dan keberaniannya, dia dicalonkan untuk menjadi salah satu Pimpinan Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK) walaupun banyak kalangan memastikan dirinya akan gagal karena Islamophobia (rasa ketakutan berlebihan terhadap Islam) sudah merasuki penguasa saat ini. Isu yang berkembangpun mengatakan telah dipersiapkan beberapa algojo yang akan "membantainya" saat seleksi pimpinan KPK nantinya. (wikipedia)
Adnin Armas, M.A menyelesaikan pendidikannya di Pondok Pesantren Modern Darussalam Gontor Ponorogo tahun 1992 dan melanjutkan ke Universitas Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (UIAM), dalam bidang Filsafat. Memperoleh Sarjana dari International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC) bidang Pemikiran Islam (Islamic Thought) dengan tesis berjudul Fakhruddin arRazi on Time pada tahun 2003.
Saat ini beliau adalah kandidat doktor di ISTAC UIAM aktif sebagai peneliti INSIST (Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought and Civilization). Karya beliau antara lain adalah: Metodologi Bibel dalam Studi al-Qur'an; Pengaruh Orientalis terhadap Islam Liberal. Di samping itu beliau sangat aktif menulis artikel-artikel ilmiah di beberapa majalah dan surat kabar di Indonesia.(insists.multiply.com)
Usman Hamid, Koordinator Komisi untuk Orang Hilang dan Tindak Kekerasan (KONTRAS). Perjuangan Usman dalam penegakan HAM dan keadilan di negeri ini telah melewati pematang panjang nan berliku. Sebelum heboh politik 1998, Usman mengaku hanyalah mahasiswa biasa yang meniti waktu di kampus Trisakti, almamaternya. Ia juga seorang gitaris sebuah band yang kerap manggung membawakan karya-karya Rolling Stones. Tetapi kekerasan politik yang terjadi membawanya ke sebuah garis yang sampai saat ini ia pijak. Garis perjuangan melawan kekuasaan yang kejam dan korup.
Sejak 1998 ia bergabung bersama KONTRAS. Setelah itu aktivitasnya mengalir seperti sungai. Pada 2002, ia sempat tergabung di Kelompok Kerja Masyarakat Jakarta Peduli Papua (Pokja Papua), yang digalangnya bersama Patra Zen, koleganya di KONTRAS, yang kini menjadi ketua badan pengurus Yayasan Lembaga Bantuan hukum Indonesia (YLBHI). Pada 2004, ia tergabung bersama tim pencari fakta (TPF) Munir yang dipimpin Marsudi Hanafi.(http://aka81.wordpress.com/)
Abdul Moqsith Ghazali adalah aktivis Jaringan Islam Liberal (JIL), Jakarta; staf pengajar pada Fakultas Syari'ah Institut Agama Islam Ibrahimy (IAII), Situbondo; staf pengajar pada Fakultas Pascasarjana Perguruan Tinggi Ilmu al-Qur'an (PTIQ), Jakarta; dan redaktur Jurnal Tashwirul Afkar (Lakpesdam NU), Jakarta. Ia memperoleh gelar Master dalam bidang Kajian Islam dari Program Pascasarjana Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, pada 1998. Ia kini sedang menempuh program doktor dalam bidang Kajian Islam pada Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta.
Ia pernah bekerja sebagai kepala Divisi Advokasi pada Indonesian Conference on Religion and Peace (ICRP), Jakarta, 2003. Di antara karya tulisnya, bersama Marzuki Wahid dan Suwendi, ia menyunting buku Geger di Republik NU (Jakarta: Kerjasama Kompas dan Lakpesdam, 1999) dan Dinamika NU: Perjalanan Sosial dari Muktamar Cipasung (1994) ke Muktamar Kediri (1999) (Jakarta: Kerjasama Kompas dan Lakpesdam, 1999). Kini ia sedang menulis disertasi mengenai hermeneutika al-Qur'an tentang pluralisme agama.(http://www.ohio.edu) Tags: TVOne ahmadiyah fpi debat adnin armas JIL mahendratta islam muslim kontras | | Debat Kontroversi SKB Ahmadiyah @ TV One-2 - 588 sec Mahendradatta
(Tim Pembela Muslim)
&
Adnin Armas, MA
(Majlis Tarjih Muhammadiyah)
V.S
Usman Hamid
(Koordinator KONTRAS)
&
Abdul Moqsith Ghazali
(Koordinator Jaringan Islam Liberal)
Recorded from TV One, Jakarta June 11th 2008
Full version debat ini juga bisa di download di :
Rapidshare.com (83 MB)
Muhammad Mahendradatta, lahir di Jakarta 11 Januari 1962 yang kemudian menamatkan Sarjana Hukum pada Fakultas Hukum Universitas Indonesia pada tahun 1988. Kemudian di tahun 2002 dia memperoleh gelar Magister Hukum Bisnis dari Universitas yang sama. Sebelumnya Mahendradatta sempat menyelesaikan pendidikan khusus American Litigation di School of Law-University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) yang dipersamakan dengan gelar Master of Arts, pada tahun 1994.
Muhammad Mahendradatta, SH. MA. MH berprofesi sebagai Advokat/Pengacara yang mulai mencuat namanya dan dikenal publik setelah dia memegang jabatan sebagai Ketua Tim Pembela Muslim (TPM). Berbagai kasus kontroversial pernah ditanganinya, dimulai dari pembelaan hukum terhadap Ustadz Jafar Umar Thalib, Panglima Laskar Jihad Ahlus'sunnah Wal Jamaah (Aswaja) yang terjerat kasus pidana rajam dan Penghinaan Terhadap Kepala Negara (Megawati Soekarnoputri). Namanya semakin melambung dikenal didunia Internasional karena keteguhan dan keberaniannya dalam membela Al Ustadz Abubakar Ba'asyir, juga beberapa Terdakwa Kasus Terorisme Besar seperti Amrozi, Imam Samudera dan Ali Ghufron. Namanya menjadi suatu fenomena tersendiri dalam dunia hukum, seiring dengan semakin dikenalnya nama grup pengacaranya yaitu TPM.
Saat ini (Agustus 2007) karena integritas dan keberaniannya, dia dicalonkan untuk menjadi salah satu Pimpinan Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK) walaupun banyak kalangan memastikan dirinya akan gagal karena Islamophobia (rasa ketakutan berlebihan terhadap Islam) sudah merasuki penguasa saat ini. Isu yang berkembangpun mengatakan telah dipersiapkan beberapa algojo yang akan "membantainya" saat seleksi pimpinan KPK nantinya. (wikipedia)
Adnin Armas, M.A menyelesaikan pendidikannya di Pondok Pesantren Modern Darussalam Gontor Ponorogo tahun 1992 dan melanjutkan ke Universitas Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (UIAM), dalam bidang Filsafat. Memperoleh Sarjana dari International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC) bidang Pemikiran Islam (Islamic Thought) dengan tesis berjudul Fakhruddin arRazi on Time pada tahun 2003.
Saat ini beliau adalah kandidat doktor di ISTAC UIAM aktif sebagai peneliti INSIST (Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought and Civilization). Karya beliau antara lain adalah: Metodologi Bibel dalam Studi al-Qur'an; Pengaruh Orientalis terhadap Islam Liberal. Di samping itu beliau sangat aktif menulis artikel-artikel ilmiah di beberapa majalah dan surat kabar di Indonesia.(insists.multiply.com)
Usman Hamid, Koordinator Komisi untuk Orang Hilang dan Tindak Kekerasan (KONTRAS). Perjuangan Usman dalam penegakan HAM dan keadilan di negeri ini telah melewati pematang panjang nan berliku. Sebelum heboh politik 1998, Usman mengaku hanyalah mahasiswa biasa yang meniti waktu di kampus Trisakti, almamaternya. Ia juga seorang gitaris sebuah band yang kerap manggung membawakan karya-karya Rolling Stones. Tetapi kekerasan politik yang terjadi membawanya ke sebuah garis yang sampai saat ini ia pijak. Garis perjuangan melawan kekuasaan yang kejam dan korup.
Sejak 1998 ia bergabung bersama KONTRAS. Setelah itu aktivitasnya mengalir seperti sungai. Pada 2002, ia sempat tergabung di Kelompok Kerja Masyarakat Jakarta Peduli Papua (Pokja Papua), yang digalangnya bersama Patra Zen, koleganya di KONTRAS, yang kini menjadi ketua badan pengurus Yayasan Lembaga Bantuan hukum Indonesia (YLBHI). Pada 2004, ia tergabung bersama tim pencari fakta (TPF) Munir yang dipimpin Marsudi Hanafi.(http://aka81.wordpress.com/)
Abdul Moqsith Ghazali adalah aktivis Jaringan Islam Liberal (JIL), Jakarta; staf pengajar pada Fakultas Syari'ah Institut Agama Islam Ibrahimy (IAII), Situbondo; staf pengajar pada Fakultas Pascasarjana Perguruan Tinggi Ilmu al-Qur'an (PTIQ), Jakarta; dan redaktur Jurnal Tashwirul Afkar (Lakpesdam NU), Jakarta. Ia memperoleh gelar Master dalam bidang Kajian Islam dari Program Pascasarjana Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, pada 1998. Ia kini sedang menempuh program doktor dalam bidang Kajian Islam pada Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta.
Ia pernah bekerja sebagai kepala Divisi Advokasi pada Indonesian Conference on Religion and Peace (ICRP), Jakarta, 2003. Di antara karya tulisnya, bersama Marzuki Wahid dan Suwendi, ia menyunting buku Geger di Republik NU (Jakarta: Kerjasama Kompas dan Lakpesdam, 1999) dan Dinamika NU: Perjalanan Sosial dari Muktamar Cipasung (1994) ke Muktamar Kediri (1999) (Jakarta: Kerjasama Kompas dan Lakpesdam, 1999). Kini ia sedang menulis disertasi mengenai hermeneutika al-Qur'an tentang pluralisme agama.(http://www.ohio.edu) Tags: TVOne insists ahmadiyah fpi debat adnin armas JIL mahendratta islam muslim kontras |
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