Dirty politics of the INC and Rahul Gandhi

(CHAKRA) Indian National Congress has just concluded their so called Annual orgy of eat drink and be merry marriage ceremony, they called it a “Chintan (Reflection) Shivir (Camp)” at Jaipur, Rajasthan on 20 January 2013. The conclusion of business gave an impression that it was more of two things; one a crowning ceremony of the (first) dynasty of post independence India’s heir apparent Mr Rahul Gandhi aka Raul Vinci. Second was a grim show with the remarks of Mr. Sushil Kumar Shinde, Home Minister of India relating Hindu Terrorism a prime concern. With all this pompous luxurious dinning and meeting and poor deliberation on the burning issues facing the common people, it seemed more like “Chinta (anxiety) cum Chita (funeral pyre) Shivir”.

I think these two words could be better suited to express the gala gathering. Chinta is for fast dwindling votebank especially the traditional Muslim population who still harbours their hate for Hindus and can be very easily polarised in the caste ridden society as exclaimed by Justice Markandey Katju, The Chief of the Press Council of India and Ex Justice, Supreme Court of India. TheIndian Express reported: “90 per cent of people vote on caste lines instead of assessing a candidate’s merit, … today said, claiming it allows people with criminal background to get elected.”

It is very pertinent in the spectrum of events of communal violence starting soon after 1947, becoming acute following dissipation of USSR since 1989 in Afghanistan war. All those highly trained guerrilla Islamic fighters trained in Pakistan and Afghanistan were rerouted to Kashmir initially and India subsequently to engage them away from their hinterland. America’s 9/11 and India’s one 9/11 (26/11) are a grim reminder, Shinde’s memory of his geriatric cerebrum is not helping in calibrating his sensitive phrase as Home Minister. 90% of riots were initiated by Muslims in India but Congress of Nehru shielded them for votebank. Lately its size has worsened due to import of militants from across the border. Islam has an inbuilt ideology for violence aggression, which is very well documented by scholars like Will Durant (The Magnitude of Muslim Atrocities) and others.

Indian politicians either do not bother or are ill informed on the historical and political developments as was exhibited by Man Mohan Singh in Sharmail Sheikh when he got carried away on Balochistan issue Vis a Vis Kashmir. In one study in US had said, “The Truth on Kashmir and Terrorism in India: India has been the most terrorized country in the world -US State Department Report on Terrorism and they further captioned it cryptically: India Is an Extraordinary Democracy.

Let us first analyse the speeches by these two leaders only.

Shinde is known for his lose tongue. Earlier he had said to Ms Jaya Bacchan that it is not a film, which bruised his speaking credibility, only to chew his words later. Now he has stirred rabbles by uttering that BJP and RSS run training camps to train Hindu terrorists. How audacious and wickedly impetuous?

Firstpost reported, *“…We are taking steps against injustice towards minorities as also against infiltration. But in the midst of all this we have got an investigation report that be it the RSS or the BJP, their training camps are promoting Hindu terrorism,’’ said Shinde.*

This is uncalled for impromptu speech, it exhibits his intellectual bankruptcy. He is heading a most powerful and a sensitive portfolio of Home Ministry of nation. He should have realised the wider impact of his cheap remarks. It has serious international implications, especially when India is facing serious threats from across her borders. Not long ago on 8 January 2013, India has locked horns with Pakistan on the brutal gruesome murders and beheading of two Indian soldiers on the Line of Control in Jammu against the Geneva Convention, derailing the much arduous peace process between the two countries. India is a constant victim of extremist violence arising from Pakistan and Bangladesh. Kashmir insurgency is a daily menace. It was not exceptional to see the Pakistani Army trying to push their Islamist terrorists bred in the Muridke factory of Lashkar-e Toiba run by Hafiz Saeed to cause violence and loss of life and property.

It gave a much sought for requiem to the acclaimed international terrorist wanted for multitudes of Islamic violence conducted in India and other countries, Lashkar-e Toiba chief Hafiz Saeed poignantly asked as reported by oneindia, “Shinde’s shame: Saeed wants India declared terrorist state, reported by Oneindia news”. It continued:

“…There cannot be more damning indictment of a home minister when an international terrorist (Hafiz Saeed) takes refuge under him and wants India to be declared as terrorist state. Lashkar-e-Taiba founder and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed today sought to exploit Shinde’s remarks against RSS and BJP saying Indian “propaganda” against Pakistanis of spreading terror now stood “exposed”. Unfortunately this has been maddeningly reported in the press incessantly. Please follow some of the links here:

The Hindu, Times of India (TOI), TOI 2, 1, The Indian Express, IBNLive, the list is endless and rightly so.

Let us examine some more love of Hafiz Saeed for Hindu Baniya, “He stressed that India had always been enemy number one of Pakistan and would continue to do so for all times because the mean mentality of Hindu banya would never change.” The Nation, from Pakistan. I hope Shinde Inc is listening.
Shinde soon after resuming charge from P Chidambaram on 31 July 2012 had faced the Assam communal riots involving Bangladesh Muslim infiltration creating unrest. He had not been a very successful Minister in his earlier portfolio as Power Minister.

“In his very first speech — on Assam violence on Wednesday — while referring to Bodoland Territorial Area District, he said terrorist in place of territorial.

“If untoward situation arises, the government will not dare to take action so that nothing happens,” was the next gem from the minister.

Thursday’s gaffe came during his reply to the debate on the situation in Assam. Bachchan interrupted him, saying he had not responded to specific queries raised by members.

“This is a serious matter. It is not a subject of a film,” Shinde shot back, triggering a storm in the House.” Hindustan Times had reported on 9 August 2012 from Delhi. It led to objectionable uproar in the House forcing him to apologise. Hindustan Times added further:

Sensing the mood of the House, Shinde said, “If she is hurt by my comments, I apologise for that. She is my sister. I know the entire Bachchan family for which I have great respect.”

Now coming back to the Crowned Prince Rahul Gandhi, whose coronation ceremony was complete in Jaipur making him official Vice President of the ailing raged 125 Years old(1884) Congress Party. It forms the largest constituent party of the ruling conglomerate of UPA II ridden in scams and corruption, rising inflation, falling foreign reserves and increasing Islamic fundamentalist violence, Reported, “The Dynastic torch passes to Rahul Gandhi in India” and the rest.

India had its first Prime Minister Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru after a dubious manipulative controversy presided by our eponymous Father of The Nation – Mahatma Gandhi. It was the grace of Sardar Ballabh Bhai Patel to recede on the politically incorrect advice by Gandhi. Independent India was unified into a single state nation by abolishing about 565 scattered small independent ruling dynasties with their own mighty defences; only to establish a one dynasty rule. To this point I have to concede that Nehru was highly successful, if the other areas remain debateable.

Who can doubt the much hyped and drummed up rise of the fifth generation of this Kingly Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, which pales even the residues of Monarchies in current Europe.
Hence our much celebrated media icon heir uncrowned Prince, fifth ladder Rahul Gandhi became the Crowned Prince in succession –Mother Sonia Gandhi (ruling without responsibility but with highest power pivot in silent mode), father Rajiv Gandhi died in a yet to be proved controversy, grandmother Ms Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi – killed by her own bodyguards, Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, who is said to have died of ruptured thoracic Aorta Aneurysm, supposed to be caused by tertiary syphilis.

Perusing the first speech after the crowning glory, it is apparent that it was composed more on the rhetorics of sentiment rousing dynasty saga than addressing the real issues facing the hapless majority people in the country.

“BBC reported: Mr Gandhi railed against the “gross” centralisation of political power by the elites, and the lack of meritocracy in politics and public systems. “It doesn’t matter how much wisdom you have. If you don’t have position, you have nothing. That’s the tragedy of India,” he said.

Few will disagree: elitism, nepotism and deeply entrenched hierarchies bedevil India’s progress, and politics is no exception.

Mr Gandhi, who at 42 is youthful by India’s geriatric political standards, also spoke about the growing disconnect between India’s youth and the political class. He talked about their abhorrence for an increasingly arrogant political class. Exclusion, he said rightly, is at the root of most of India’s problems.”

Business Standard sarcastically prodded in its caption: Rahul Gandhi’s speech: Poignant or ‘lacking in content’? On Monday, 21 January 2013.

“The vision he has tried to show, that we have to bring change. Where was he when people were holding massive protests against corruption when Anna Hazare was there in New Delhi, and when there were tens of thousands protesting against the gang-rape?… He never once came out and addressed the people,” Sharma noted.

In an emotional speech in Jaipur, Rahul Gandhi said: “The Congress party is my life. The people of India are now my life. And I will fight for the people of India and for this party.”

“As a boy I loved to play badminton because it gave me balance in a complicated world. I was taught by two policemen who protected my grandmother and were my friends. They killed my grandmother and took way the balance…In the evening I saw my father address the nation. He was terrified of what lay ahead of him. But I saw a glimmer of hope. That hope has brought India where it is today.”

Firstpost with a similar head added: Rahul Gandhi in his first speech as Congress vice president touched an emotional chord among many with references to his mother, party chief Sonia Gandhi, and his father and grandmother, and his frank critique of the party’s functioning and of the ills of the “system”, but many others wonder if there was any real substance in what he spoke.

The 1,200 strong gathering of Congress leaders and activists at the Birla Auditorium in Jaipur erupted in hurrahs and some leaders were seen wiping away tears after Gandhi’s’ speech.

“I think his speech was not as a politician…, His references to how his mother cried etc. were meant to gain sympathy… But I did not find much substance in his speech,” Gagan Sharma, a professional in his 30s, told IANS.”

He dwelt mostly on an emotional chord and enumerating the deficiencies of present UPA II elites and the expectations of the younger generations, a polemical record, which is very evident. It is all very well known but his crowning glory speech is least concerned with the economic hardships, extremist violence, the recent gangrape in Delhi as well as the rest of country had nothing to console the people. Rising inflation is breaking the backbone daily but he has been working for last eight years as Youth leader, he said that he has learnt a lot during these years, “He neither spelt out his knowledge nor the remedy for whatever little he may have learnt from the media savvy focus”. He never gave any interviews to the media, except showing his course bearded face entering the huts, boarding a general compartment in a train etc. All these has been good to attract publicity stunts but had hardly addressed the issues facing the masses. Wherever he visited, nothing has changed, making his visits a disaster and irrelevant. Recent UP and Gujarat polls showed his utter failure bitterly. His mother was quick to quip, “It was an organisational failure that led to UP disaster”. Failures are thrust on the organisation but success must be presumed to coronate. Who is heading the organisation – his own mother Ms Sonia Gandhi”? It seemed deficient in diligence.

Akabaruddin Owaisi Vis a Vis Hafiz Saeed of India:

A glimpse of the hate speech:
On December 24, 2012, Owaisi addressed a rally of twenty to twenty-five thousand people in the Nirmal town of Adilabad district of Andhra Pradesh. In his two-hour long speech, Owaisi made multiple comments against Hindus, Hindu deities, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Vishva Hindu Parishad, Bharatiya Janata Party, Narendra Modi, India and United States of America. In his speech, Owaisi said that the 250 million Indian Muslims needed only 15 minutes without the police to show one billion Hindus who is more powerful. Owaisi referred to the Hindus in a derogatory manner and the Indian police as the “impotent army”. He said that not even one crore impotent men can together father one child. He said that these people (Hindus) cannot face the Muslims, and whenever the Muslims start dominating the Hindus, the impotent army (police) intervenes. Owaisi said that “we (Muslims) will not let you (India or Hindus) live peacefully,” and added that the Muslims could “teach the rest of the country a lesson”.

Owaisi referred to Ajmal Amir Kasab, one of the Pakistani militants of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, as a “child”, and compared him with Narendra Modi. He asked if Kasab was hanged then why is Modi not hanged, and said that the reason was only because Kasab was a Pakistani and Modi is Indian. He said that if the Muslims of India united like the Muslims of Andhra Pradesh, Narendra Modi would soon be hanged.”

Akabaruddin making his hate speech, shown in video reported by . Anyone knowing Hindi and Urdu is requested to kindly peruse this venomous speech which is a little long but worth it for his real face.

“Hyderabad, Jan 22: Political scenario in Hyderabad might be worsened with the news that a court in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday, Jan 22 extended judicial custody of the legislator of Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) – Akbaruddin Owaisi. Akbaruddin’s judicial custody has been extended till Feb 5 over a hate speech case. After the judgement of the Nirmal court, police brought him back to Adilabad jail.

Hyderabad and some other parts of Andhra Pradesh witnessed a complete shutdown on Tuesday following the arrest of MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi regarding a 2005 protest case. Shops, business houses and educational institutes remained shut in the old city and other Muslim-dominated areas in the state capital. The government road transport corporation suspended most of its bus services while auto-rickshaws also remained off the roads.”

Asabuddin Owaisi – another snake in the backyard of secular Congress and UPA II:

“MIM supremo and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi surrendered before a local court in Sangareddy in Medak district – not more than 25 kms from the state capital – on Monday morning in connection with a case of rioting and other charges registered in 2005.

Named as accused number one in the case, Asaduddin was remanded in judicial custody till February 2 by special judicial first class magistrate Maruti Devi and lodged in the district jail at Sangareddy. A bail application moved by the MP is slated to be heard on Tuesday. His younger brother Akbaruddin Owaisi is accused number two in the case and has already been produced before the magistrate here on a prisoner transit warrant by the Nirmal police in Adilabad where he is in judicial custody. A non-bailable warrant had been pending against the duo but with the MIM part of the ruling UPA at the Centre, the police had not bothered to execute it.”

I only hope that the reverent Sushil Shinde has not condoned these two Hafiz Saeeds of India before claiming Hindu terrorists. Hindus have the right to self protection and reach out to defend themselves if and when their survival is threatened in their own home. Hindus have no organised terrorists exported out in the name of jihad and fatwas Vis a Via Islamic terrorists, Shinde might know it. Will his official spokespersons stop deifying Osama as Osamaji and Hafiz Saeed as Hafiz Saeed Saheb?

Before I conclude, I must remind the current secular/communal UPA II, “Why there are no communal riots in Pakistan and Bangladesh”? Read this interesting post for a little insight.

(Dr. O. P. Sudrania is a senior retired teacher in surgery and a medico-legal counsellor; now also engaged in research of spiritual and socio-political analytical science as a part of service to humanity. He retired as Emeritus Professor in Surgery from Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. )

1 ) In India, with 80% Hindu population, and the only homeland of Hindus in the world, the birthdays of great sons of the soil, Shri Ram and Shri Krishna, are not compulsory central government holidays, while the birthday of Saudi Arabia born prophet Mohammad and both the birth and crucification day of Bethlehem born Jesus, are compulsory holidays throughout India. This seems in sync with the secular hypothesis that Ram and Krishna are imaginary comic characters while Mohammad and Jesus are actual historical characters. There are only 2 Hindu holidays out of compulsory 14, in contrast with 4 Muslim ones.

2) The Constitution of India enables the government to take control of Hindu temples and trusts and appoint its nominees in their controlling body and even control its funds. The government doesn’t have this privilege for the mosques or churches. The government cannot interfere in the functioning of the mosques, madarsas and any minority institutions even if they receive government aid, which is taxpayers’ money. The minority institutions are not bound to comply with the Right to Education act either. This can be seen as a lighter version of Pakistan and Bangladesh’s enemy property laws which enable their governments to confiscate the propeties of Hindus by declaring them enemy properties.

3) Everyone knows that India doesn’t have uniform civil code. Indian muslim males are legally allowed to have up to 4 wives at a time, and can divorce them by saying ‘Talaaq’ thrice, in compliance with Sharia. Hindus and Christians have to follow proper court procedures to file for divorce. The women right activists who organise ‘slut-walks’ to celebrate their ‘rights’ and advocate girls visiting pubs, do not speak on this matter. Shah Bano case stands as a glaring example of how secularism is a constitutionally prescribed drug meant only for one community, not for others.

4) Prayagraj, one of the holiest pilgrimages of Hindus, is called Allah-abad. Kashi, Ayodhya and Mathura, each of these 3 holy sites has been desecrated during Aurangzeb and Mohd Gauri reins and yet not fully restored. The signboards of Auragzeb road in Delhi stand as the testimony to India’s slavery that Indian secularism celebrates so profusely. In 2007, over 1 lakh Indian muslims paid homage to Aurangzeb’s tomb on his 300th anniversary, that’s when Aurangzebtheir ancestor,who is known to be the perpetrator of the largest Hindu genocide ever. Aurangzeb had even got Guru Teg Bahadur beheaded in his court for his refusal to convert to Islam.

5) An instance of our secularism is the 1978 directive to NCERT which instructs publishers andeducationists to erase all medieval history which paints a picture of clash between natives and invading muslims in that era. Consequently, we have a chapter each from Akbar to Aurangzeb, but Shivaji and Maharana Pratap are squeezed into a paragraph each in history books. Despite all the evidence to the contrary, discredited Aryan Invasion Theory is still taught in Indian schools. The history books do not cover the Mahabharata despite a plethora of archaeological evidence available to conclusively establish its historicity.

6) The Archealogical Survey of India in its annual report of 1924-25 published a long list of temples demolished during Islamic rule. Sita Ram Goel, Arun Shourie and others have published a book each after conducting research and they’ve given a 64 page long district-wise list of Islamic monuments which were constructed by demolishing Hindu temples. This list, in the book, “Hindu temples – what happened to them”, includes around 2000+ temples and gives in most cases, the year of construction of those structures also. Even in Kashmir, hundreds of temples, small and large have been desecrated over during the exodus of Pandits in early 90s. The same, however, is a non-issue in larger secular policy. It’s continued unabted in whichever time or space, Hindus have become weak.

7) From Ram Mandir to Ram Setu and to Bhagwad Geeta, all have been dragged into Indian courts. India is the only country in the world where the faith of 100 Crore people is attemptyed to be humiliated. It’d be silly to look for parallels where in any other community whether Christinity or Muslim majority country, Quran or the prophet, or Bible or the Christ, could be dragged into a court of law. In India, the central government had gumsome to file an affidavit in the Supreme Court suggesting that Ram never existed!. In the same country, Christian missionaries openly preach about Hindus’ false and ‘characterless’ Gods, and so do Islamic missionaries like Zakir Naik, but the tag of ‘hate-monger’ has been attributed to Hindu right wing by secular luminaries in media and otherwise including Arnav of TOI.

8) There are numerous government schemes which are run exclusively for the benefit of minorities at the expense of taxpayer money, despite an apparent prohibition to the same in the constitution. Pashchim Bangal government paying monthly stipend to all the Imams of all the mosques in the state is a GLARING example of this. The same is not extended to any other pujaris. The Haj subsidy, against which the Supreme Court finally ordered, which had been running since Independence even when no other country, not even Pakistan offers it, is another example of fictious or pseudo SECULARISM!

9) The pious Human Right Activists, known for their love for Jihadi terrorists, those who have been running justice for Afzalguru.org for years now, have not spoken for the inhumane treatment meted out to Sadhvi Pragya, and Swami Aseemanand. Their love for those displaced in Gujarat riots, their sympathy on crores of Bangladeshi infiltrators and their disgusting silence and aversion on lakhs of Kashmiri Pandits refugees and Pakistani Sindhi refugees is another jewel of the muddled waters of Indian secularism.

10) The practice of Saraswati Vandana has been discontinued from almost all government events with the rise of secular fanaticism. The TV series Chanakya of 90′s was asked to remove Saffron flags from it, its being indispensable to the picturaization of Chanakya’s Akhand Bharat notwithstanding. Doordarshan’s ‘Satyam Shivam Sundaram’ had also been removed before being brought back. Off late, even the practice of lighting a lamp has been criticised as ‘unislamic’. A litigation was filed in Gujarat high court for inaugurating a room by breaking a coconut for its being a Hindu (not Secular). A case was lodged in Chennai High Court to prohibit the employees celebrating festivals in office space. The beast of secular fanaticism has gone wilder over the years, and if not us, posterity will have to bear the brunt of our callous ignorance.

Source: IBTL

Time for Indians to Reflect

(CHAKRA) To The People of India, Greetings, I address you collectively as a nation, as nation builders, and as individuals capable of rationale and reasoning.

As human beings we are endowed with an enhanced intellectual faculty, which is really the only thing that confers us a distinct position in the animal kingdom. Genetically, we are 99% similar to chimps, but that 1% sets us apart. This difference manifests itself in a very special place- the human mind.

Our choices define us, and it is the mind where all choices are made. In the mind alone, transformations that shape the external world are first conceived before being put into action. Indeed, it is a powerful tool, but with great power comes great responsibility. Unfortunately, we have been shirking our responsibilities for a long time now.

Today, we live in an age of social crisis. The trouble isn’t lack of intelligence or some debility; rather it is the lack of knowledge, and the subsequent inaction on our part that follows. Without knowledge, we cannot make informed decisions- crucial decisions that shape our future, and that of our nation.

A region having seismic fault-lines is most prone to geological disturbances- more commonly known as earthquakes. India too is replete with its own fault-lines, but on the political, educational, cultural, social, economic and intellectual fronts. These fault lines disintegrate the country from within, making it susceptible to exploitation in one form or another. I cannot possibly address all of the issues here- that would require a voluminous tome, not an essay. I will however give a bird’s eye view of it, touching upon the general ideas, providing the impetus to do your own subsequent research where required.

Time and time again we hear about “India rising”; sweeping remarks about its financial success, or last year’s GDP growth, at par with- at times even overtaking- China. In short, we hear only about the things that make us feel good as a nation, seldom do you hear about what goes about behind the scenes; the foreign and domestic forces at hand in demolishing the national structure, one day at a time, one unit at a time. These keenly neglected newsreels are precisely what we will present here, but first a brief history lesson.

LOOKING BACK IN TIME:

The Hindu/Indian culture was the cradle of advanced civilization. Everything flourished in this ancient land- Philosophy, Mathematics, Science, Literature, Commerce, Arts, Yoga, Ayurveda, Architecture, Governance, Logic, Astrology, Astronomy, Medicine- you name it, we had it. We even came up with the same postulates of Pythagorus’ theorem before he did, presented in Vedic scriptures, detailing the size and shapes of yajna altars. Thus the cornerstone of every great thought found its epicenter in India.

Being a highly evolved and peace-loving culture, we knew the value of our values. We gave birth to some of the most profound luminaries that walked this earth:- Vyasa, Vashishta, Adi Shankaracharya, Mahavira, Buddha, Valmiki, to name a few, and an endless, unbroken lineage of enlightened Acharyas in this Guru-Shishya Parampara (student-teacher tradition). Then things went awry.

When the Islamic invaders attacked India, there was large scale cultural dishevelment. Wealth was plundered, women were defiled, ancient religions were displaced, and scores of temples were demolished. It would be fitting to term the Mughals- perhaps with the exception of Akbar- as less of rulers and more of barbarians. Long lapses of time make us routinely forget that first it was Babar, who destroyed the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya, creating an long-standing legacy of temple destruction throughout erstwhile India, which ended only with the demise of the last Mughul ruler, the ruthless Aurangzeb. Thus India underwent a painful transformation from being the most prolific producers and inventors, to passive ones, because we had to direct our minds and resources toward resisting the onslaught.

The next blow came from the Europeans, when they landed ashore under the pretext of trade. We did not them for an extended stay-back to sample more of our curry dishes- they invaded us. Already weakened by the Mughuls, and thus falling technologically behind, we did not put up much of a challenge to the British, and were once again at the mercy of another foreign power.

It is a well recognized fact that India was the world’s economic superpower for the most part of recorded history. However, due to the Islamic and British invasions, contrasted by the Industrial revolution hitting Europe, India fell behind in the GDP race in the early 19th century, and we never again regained our lost position again

It is crucial to note that in spite of our numerous successes, Indians never set out to conquer other nations, we have always been self sustaining and self satisfied. Even with the outsiders who ruled us, we tried to form amicable relationships, allowing them to assimilate into our way of living, despite their best attempts to extricate us from our own. It is in our cultural DNA to always be accommodating, and therein lies the greatness of our Hindu/Indian culture.

The Hindu-Jewish Summit was held in New Delhi, in 2010. The Jewish Rabbis graciously admitted that the Hindus alone gave them shelter when they were chased into exile by everyone else. Whether it was being ousted from their homeland by the Muslims in Arabia, the anti-Semitist movements of the Christians, or facing the holocaust at the hands of the Nazi regime; Jews have faced a long history of persecution. It is in India where they found their long awaited peace.

The same applied for Parsis- the Zoroastrians now integrated in India. Like the Jews, they too were harassed away from their native Persia by the Arabic Muslims, and thus made their way into the Hindu/Indian culture upon their arrival at Gujarat, into which they were peacefully assimilated.

A NEED FOR INTEGRATION OF CULTURES:

Today, India is a potpourri of many world religions, but it is fast losing its culture due to many eroding factors which we will explore. As we made abundantly clear above, historically, it is the Hindu/Indigenous culture alone that has allowed for the peaceful integration of people in our nation. The cultures associated with the major western religions- with all due respect- do not allow for this plurality in India, as they wish for others to do and believe in the same things that they do.

A sparkling example of this is Dr.Zakir Naik. If you have seen him on television or ‘Youtube’, you would know exactly what I mean. For those who haven’t, he is Islam’s answer to Televangelists, performing his theatrical antics on stage believing that the public is comprised of incompetents. Unfortunately that is true, as most of his audience consist of yes-men. The same applies to Christian Missionaries in India, whose primary motive for the most part is to convert the nation to their faith. That will be further discussed as we proceed.

Pre-Independence, Hindus and Muslims co-existed side-by-side in relative peace, until the seeds of divisiveness had been planted into the Indian soil by the colonizers. Almost all Muslims living in India are converts, and culturally are still very much Indian, but today they are being led astray with the solid influence of figures living in the Arab world, and their dialectics are contrary; even antagonistic to the Indian culture. Over time, those figures are transforming the psyche of Indian Muslims to that of the Arabic world. This breaks the nation from within.

Similarly, the Christian Missionaries who “work” in India are trying to mould India from a very Western angle and that has been causing a lot of friction in rural villages, which is responsible for scores of families falling apart.

In India, family has been the most important social unit, and these domestically implanted “push factors” coupled with foreign influenced “pull factors” are causing massive damage to the social structure of India.

The Hindu religion on the other hand does not require its followers to convert anybody; it prescribes a way of living for the adherents alone, and for no one else. We neither wish to be converted nor are we looking to convert, which is what makes the associated Hindu/Indian culture the most pluralistic and accommodating of all.

As a Hindu, one has no personal restrictions against entering a Church or a Mosque, just as freely as he worships in his own temple, but today it is some fundamentalist sitting in the Middle-East, who determines what Indian Muslims should and should not do.

Let me be very clear here. Adopting a Hindu culture does not mean one needs to adopt the Hindu religion, one can practice their own faith, just as the Jews, Parsis, Jains, Buddhists, Sikhs and the Vedic followers have merged seamlessly into a unified Hindu/Indian culture, and quite successfully too. This alone can save our country from internal fragmenting.

Our Ex- President Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam serves as a perfect example of this. There is no doubt in anyone’s mind that he has been one of the greatest modern contributors to our national structure, and in his capacity has done more for the nation than credited for. His interest at heart has always been India, and despite being born in a Muslim family, he has shown no hesitation in appreciating his Indian roots.

When in Rome, do as the Romans do, it only makes perfect sense that those living in India follow the same principle, without having to give up their religious beliefs and practices. Thus we see that adopting an indigenous culture alone can stop the country from the internal fragmentation envisioned by divisive forces.

In this kind of unity alone lies strength. No one loses their identity; they simply become part of a greater Indian story.

UNDERSTANDING PSEUDO-SECULARISM:

When an organization or entity, in their pretentious bid to be overly secular, behaves in a totally un-secular fashion, this behaviour is termed as ‘Pseudo-Secularism’. When such pseudo-secularism is put into practice, the ones who primarily suffer are the majority inhabitants of the country; in our case, Hindus.

A functioning democracy should reflect the interest of the people, providing equal rights to all and sundry.  As we will discover, the major institutions in our country such as the government, media and educational system are severely crippling the nation through their non-secular practices. Let’s take them on one by one.

PSEUDO-SECULARISM IN THE GOVERNMENT:

Sonia Gandhi, born in Italy, under the name Edvige Antonia Albina Maino, and the rest of the Congress Party have time and again proven that their governance is detrimental to the development of our nation.

It is entirely frightening that in a country of nearly 1.2 billion people, most are oblivious to the facts surrounding the people they elect to power.

Dr. Subramaniam Swamy has collected plenty of incriminating evidence against the Congress officials on many counts, yet the proceedings are moving at a snail’s pace. It would appear that some are in fervent hope of outliving the prosecutor. The media too has unnecessarily been giving him a hard time, despite his efforts to expose corrupt individuals in power. The supporting evidences for Dr. Swamy’s claims are up for display on his website. You may draw your own conclusions from the same.

I can understand that we didn’t really have that much of a choice thwarting the British; what’s done is done, but honestly, must we make the same mistake with the Italian born as well? We need to wean off this colonized mentality and learn to elect one of our own; someone who understands the nation better, someone who is interested in its well being, and someone who can effectively govern it.

Trivia: The family name, ‘Gandhi’, has merely been adopted to play to the sentiments of the masses; sadly it worked. The lesser said about Mrs. Gandhi’s not-so- illustrious child, Rahul Gandhi, the better. One may also want to do some inquiry into what his real name is, as the family has a long history of adopting names that resonate well with the public.

Dressed in white, smiling and waving at the camera does not qualify one to run a nation of 120 crore people, competence does. On all counts, the Gandhi scion is unfit to bear this impending responsibility. It would be a shame to see him as our next Prime Minister in the 2014 General Elections.

MINORITY APPEASEMENT:

Now, the Congress Government partakes in an activity called ‘Minority Appeasement’, which you may consider one of the package deals under the provisions of Pseudo-Secularism.

Here is how and why it works to their advantage, and this will directly tie in to the need for Hindus to be more organized socio-culturally and politically.

In the process of Minority Appeasement, the Government will be extra nice to the Muslim and Christian populace, but they will conveniently ignore other minorities such as Sikhs, Jews, Jains etc. The reason is very simple. Muslims and Christians in India are highly organized in their joint decision making strategies. There is a very high level of agreement amongst them; hence if you can win the confidence of a few, you win them all. That is why an overwhelming majority of Muslims and Christians will vote for Congress alone, which is the reason they are appeased in the first place.

In the case of Hindus, our votes are divided. We cannot reach consensus even over regional MLAs- let alone electing a National Government. This is the reason why the Government must stoop to the level of Minority Appeasement, because the minorities are highly homogenized in their collective decisions. They have no reason to be nice to Hindus; hence the Hindus lie at the suffering end. This absolute lack of socio-political unity among Hindus is the main cause for anti-Hindu parties running the country.

Even Church and Mosque funds are mainly handled by their respective autonomous religious institutions, but when it comes to Temple funds, for some reason the Government often wants to interfere and take control.

Year 2011 presented a shameful incident regarding the Sri Padmanabhaswamy Temple. It is a matter of pride that the members of the Travancore Royal Family were the caretakers of an estimated US$26.76 billion; not having used it for themselves, and a matter of shame that the State Government wished to manage this fund.

For a very long time, Indian Muslims were being provided a Haj subsidy by the government to go to Mecca. In 2007 the government spent Rs. 47,454 per passenger. In December, 2011, Christians were accorded a subsidy to pilgrimage to Jerusalem. It was only after much struggle that the Tamil Nadu Government extended the same rights to Hindus to visit Mansarovar.

United we stand, divided we fall. As Hindus, our lack of consensus on issues is one of the primary reasons for our downfall as a nation.

I once read a joke on the internet: “The second stupidest thing America did was elect Bush as President, but the stupidest thing they did was elect him again.” I sincerely hope our nation does not make the same mistake with the present Government, because if it does, we cannot blame anyone but ourselves. As the saying goes, “fool me once; shame on you, fool me twice; shame on me”.

PSEUDO-SECULARISM IN THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM:

Educational centers are the most important places to begin shaping our understanding of the world. What we learn in school and college is often what we develop a life-long affinity for.

When you infect the educational system, you are infecting minds; not one, but many. It spreads like an epidemic. Horizontally; it grows by infecting the contemporary population, and vertically; through the generations of culturally deprived children.

It should not come across as much of a surprise, that a large portion of our school and college syllabus is patterned after Western thought, but before I get into that I’d like to point out a fundamental flaw in the modern Indian Education System.

In ancient times, there was equal emphasis on the sciences as well as cultural ethos. Sanskrit Literature abounds with rigorous treatises on logic which would make the Greek philosophers look juvenile in comparison. For sampling purposes, please study one of our Nyaya Shastras. On the other hand, our texts also painted a gentler, more picturesque view of life. The ancients understood the importance of striking this balance and with good reason too.

The brain is divided into hemispheres; the left and the right. The right side is concerned with aesthetics, languages, emotions, intuition, empathy, self image, inter-personal relationships, and a holistic appreciation of things. The left side deals with logic, analysis, objectivity, goals, and is detail oriented. Too much of right with very little left would leave behind a sentimental wreck; irrational and lacking objectivity. Too much of left with little right would give rise to an automaton; a flesh and blood robot with no sentiments or appreciation of the finer side of life. Neither one of these individuals is socially fit.

A well developed person is adequately developed in both hemispheres. He caters to both his emotional and analytical needs as and when required. Unfortunately, our educational system is primarily focused only on the left, turning children into mechanical zombies before every exam, giving no chance to develop their creative side. Parents and teachers need to address this problem. The formative years of children are their school going years, and will vastly determine their future personality.

As the decades pass, we are giving lesser importance to value education and appreciation of Indian culture. The Board of Education needs to recognize this problem, and focus on finding a way to incorporate cultural activities into their education.

Introducing Indian dance forms such as Bharat Natyam, Oddisi, Kuchchipudi, Kathak etc- depending on the State you hail from; Yoga, for a sound mind and body as part of Physical Education, and Carnatic and Hindustani Sangeet, are good steps to take.

These need to find their way into the lives of children. If you are a parent concerned about negative influences on your little ones, try enrolling them into these Indo-cultural activities and mark the difference for yourselves. Even if the schools do not offer them, find a nearby cultural center for Indian arts; every major city in India has at least a few.

Small efforts on your part will turn them into well rounded children, and that can only happen if they are familiar with their cultural ethos.

PRESERVATION OF SANSKRIT:

For several reasons, attempts to bury Sanskrit as a language have been made. One of the primary reasons being that the majority of Hindu literature and scriptures have been written in Sanskrit, so when the language dies, automatically there are fewer people taking interest in these ancient works, so the associated religion and culture start dying along with it, leaving plenty of room for those with ulterior motives to take advantage of this situation.

If there exists an option between Sanskrit and a foreign language offered in school, opt for Sanskrit. It is only the pseudo-secular mentality in our heads that we feel something “foreign” is better, or “cooler”- well it isn’t, nor is it going to impress anyone. It is simply an idea that has been fed to us for a very long time, which we have digested quite successfully.

The good news is that Sanskrit is not a dead language yet. The bad news is it will be if you allow it to happen. Please don’t. We should be just as proud of it as we are of English. It is an important part of your heritage, and its preservation lies in your hands.

MARXIST CURRICULUM:

Every country having a rich and varied heritage would be proud of it. It is disparaging that in spite of living in the land of the Ramayana and Mahabharata; two of the lengthiest and culturally meaningful historical epics, they do not find their way into the school curriculum despite having some very good English translations, yet we find mention of Shakespeare, Gilgamesh and Rumi. Furthermore, we learn tales from Aesop’s Fables, for “Value Education”, but not beautiful ones from the Puranas or Panchatantra.

To illustrate, there is a story in the Puranas, where Ganesha and his brother Karthikeya decide to have a race to see who can go around the world the quickest. Karthikeya sets off like a bolt of lightning, while Ganesha slowly encircles his parents- Lord Shiva and Mother Parvati- 3 times before Karthikeya returns. Ganesha states that his parents mean the world to him, and is declared the winner.

This is what India is about; there is so much to learn from these little stories. It is painfully evident that however good things are, Pseudo-Secularism will always undermine the greatness of our culture.

Dance and music in India have always been hinged on devotion to the Lord, one cannot separate the means from the end, yet we find just that happening. In Kalakshetra, a renowned fine arts school in India, most Ganesha images on which (as per tradition) pooja would be performed, were removed in an attempt to be a more secular.

It gets even worse at University level; pointedly in the case of Liberal Arts majors. Now their entire syllabus not only ignores Hindu Literature, but is often antagonistic to it. Once again, it is very becoming of them to read philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Marx, Descartes and other Westerners, but not any Indian school of philosophical thought such as Vedanta, Tarka, Nyaya, Sankhya, Vaisheshika and etc. If they do happen to read ancient Indian texts, many do so only with a critical eye, not with the reverence that they were intended for, and how can they, when their schools did not provide them any appreciation of these texts via culture based value education? So they end up writing acidic papers on the Hindu culture in the light of their warped understanding of contexts and perspectives.

In summary, you have little kids that have grown up, all ready to be sent off to college, still traditionally impoverished in their thought process. Then due to their inadequate supplementary education, they set themselves up for more more-of-the-same, and get sucked right into the game of rebelling against their own culture, scoring self goal after another. It is truly a no-win situation for them.

These sadly misplaced students find their way into popular media by becoming Journalists, News Reporters, Authors, Historians, Social workers or Western styled Lobbyists. Several of them take up teaching positions, and they teach their students the same things that they had been taught. Thus the vicious circle completes itself, with another generation getting ready for the same treatment. It should be noted that there are still a few exceptional people that I appreciate in each of these disciplines cited above, who do have their understanding in right place; however the general trend is still downhill.

PSEUDO-SECULARISM IN THE MEDIA:

As mentioned, some of the graduating batches of pseudo-secular individuals are likely to pick careers in media/broadcasting, and here is where they wreak wide-spread havoc.

Already steeped in Marxist thought, having only a perfunctory academic knowledge of Indian tradition, and completely removed from our cultural ethos, these media men and women think they understand what is good for India better than many Indians who have fortunately not undergone such a cultural alienation as them.

So far we uncovered the mechanism at work, but who is pushing the buttons? As a common civilian lacking access to inside information, I will refrain from making any statements I cannot fully substantiate, so as an exercise, I do encourage typing the phrase ‘Who Owns the Indian Media’, and performing an internet search on it, from which you can draw your own conclusions.

It isn’t surprising that the vocabulary of some media personalities is replete with mocking adjectives for Hindus taking up some prominent public position; be it a Swami or a Politician. In other words, it is okay if you are a devout Christian or a Muslim, and taking part in politics, but if you are a Hindu, you are automatically associated with one or more of the following terms: “God-men”, “saffron brigade”, “fundamentalist”, “Right-winged terrorist”, “communal’ and more.

There are deviants found everywhere, but for every scandal one can associate a Hindu figure with, ten or more scandals could be pointed out connected to the Church. Would the Indian Media dare extend the same disrespect to Christian Clerics or Muslim Imams, as they do towards Swamis? Not by a long shot.

Another favorite pass-time of the Media is R.S.S. (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) bashing. We have all heard it on television and read it in the papers; the media spends more time dogging after R.S.S. than it does chastising real terrorist organizations.

However not everyone is that biased, here is what a former SC Judge, K.T. Thomas, has to say:

“There is a smear campaign that RSS was responsible for Gandhi’s assassination just because the assassin was once an RSS worker,” he said, adding that the organisation had been “completely exonerated” by the court. “This smear campaign must end against RSS,” he said.

“I am a Christian. I was born as a Christian and practise that religion. I am a church-going Christian. But I have also learnt many things about RSS,” he said.

“During the Emergency, RSS was the only non-political organisation which fought against it, he said. “We owe very much to RSS for sacrificing many lives for regaining our fundamental rights,” said Thomas.

That should put the matter at rest. Plenty more could be said about the media, but this gives the general idea.

Read PART 2: Open Letter to India: A Call to Action

By Prashant Parikh

Pseudo Secularism

By Sameer Thakkar

Today, we can find many people who are quick to christen famous Hindu gurus as “dhongis” and “pakhandi”.  Such people generally hold the view that to become a guru all one needs is to chant a few mantras and promote the superstitions. These people think that the millions who follow the advice and teachings of such gurus are “fools” and ignorant of the modern science. Moreover, they not only percieve Hinduism as a mix of cast system, dowry, sati pratha etc but also use these assumptions as a basic elements of their argument to further denigrate their own culture and the ancient knowledge. These are the set of people who have never read even the bhagvad-Gita, the works of the world famous scholar Sri Aurobindo or the testimonials of the famous scientists like Heisenberg, Nicholas Tesla, Albert Einstein etc.

On the contrary, today, if any other Hindu promotes the true aspects of hinduism and tries to clear   the myths and distortions, then such people are quick to term him as ‘illiterate and unscientific’. Moreover, if a Hindu questions the aspects and practices of other religions he is termed as “communal”. A person born in a hindu family who doesn’t even know anything regarding these differentiations created by the abrahamic invaders is often termed as anti-minority if he, from his own conscience and objectivity, questions reservation based on religion and animal killing. If he questions the scams, corruption and anti-nationalism of the ministers in the Congress government which thrives on minority appeasment, then he is termed as “BJP-RSS” activist.

A patriot is one who thinks about his country first. It is the conscience of a person which makes him voice against animal killings and other atrocities. How can any person who raises “pro-India” slogans which can be anti-Congress be confused as or termed deliberately as pro-”BJP-RSS”? Reservation based on religion is a direct abuse to the secularism and animal killings are against animal rights and welfare. How can supporting these causes be called “communal”?

Recently, many pseudo secularists wrote articles against Dr.Subramanyam Swamy’s article on ‘How to wipe out Islamic terror”. Aditya Ramakrishnan wrote, “I am 17 years old. I am not a Muslim. I am not a Christian. I was born a Hindu, but I am against religious fundamentalism of any kind because it breeds distrust and tears apart the social fabric of any country.” Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr wrote, “Many liberals have been outraged by Swamy’s arguments. The maverick — he hates the term and objects to being described as one — politician is no closet Hindu right-winger.”

If Aditya Ramakrishnan and Venkateshwar are so concerned about Dr.Swamy’s statements, then perhaps they should also similarly discuss on the killing of infidels, idolators, jews and christians as openly mentioned in some other scriptures which divides the society between their faith and the rest of the world. The apologists argue that the term “infidel” refers to one who doesn’t believe in God. “La Iaha Ill Allah Muhammudur Rasool Aallah”, God according to Islam is Allah and there is no other name except Allah and one who doesn’t believe in the abrahamic god is called as “atheist”.

Baburnama and Aurangzebnama themselves testify how Babur and Aurangzeb killed infidels and destroyed temples for the sake of Allah and to spread Islam (e.g Baburnama page 232,370,371, 373, 374, 385-388, 527 etc). The same pattern can be seen in the email sent by the Indian Mujahideen on Varanasi terror attacks. But, the pseudo-secularists seem to have a habit of ignoring such patterns but rather argue that “all religions are the same”. If that was the case, then abrahamic invaders would have prayed in the temples instead of demolishing them, Bamiya Buddha statues would have been honoured and animals like goats and cows would have been protected and not killed to appease some God on some festival. Quran itself sees Allah as the ultimate god and Islam as superior. How is it then such pseudo-seculars are the champions in denigrating Hinduism which doesn’t divide the society between hindus and non-hindus, and pioneers in playing a mute audience where secularism and democracy are openly abused? For a muslim, no other name is to be chanted other than Allah and to appease that “God of mercy” a goat is killed on Bakr-Id. Jihad related terrorism is not just local to India but global. Do we find Hindus, Buddhist, Sikhs, Jains etc blowing up mosques or churches all over the world? Why is it then that the Indian history which is full of temple destructions, conversion by hook or crook etc, as stated by the invaders  themselves, is ignored? Why is it that an open discussion and exposition of such verses and testimonies is called “communal”?

Discussions and questioning of Quran and Mohammed is prohibited and reservation based on religion or animal killing to appease some God are ignored. Ex-Muslims like Taslima Nasreen, Salman Rushdie were exiled. Whereas, thousands of Hindus and non-hindus keep writing inflammatory speeches against Hinduism and India themselves. “O you who believe, take not the  Jews and the Christians for friends.  They are friends of each other. And  whoever amongst you takes them for  friends he is indeed one of them.  Surely Allåh guides not the unjust  people”. (Quran 5.51).  Clearly, the Jews and christians are not friendly according to Quran and the idolators are “unequal and unclean” (Quran 9.19, 9.28). Nobody is a born genius to know about a “holy name”, if a particular animal is really meant to be killed or if a particular category of people are “inferior or unfriendly”. Some apologists argue that such verses reflect the ancient life when Islam started in Arab. Such a connotation also implies that such ancient practices are not applicable in the case of India, a land where “athiti devo bhava” and ideals of “ahimsa” have been the eternal mantras, the cows are treated as divine and the divine elements of the nature are personified and celebrated in the form of paintings and idols. In general, such ancient practices are not compatible with the modern world where people make idols of different forms and personalities for different reasons.

The Indian law gives death punishment in the rarest of the cases, but can the same be said about Sharia law which is based on Quran? “The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger [i.e., Muhammad], and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is:  execution, or  crucifixion, or  the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter. ( Quran 5.33)”

Fight those who believe not in Allåh, nor in the Last Day, nor forbid  that which Allåh and His Messenger  have forbidden, nor follow the  Religion of Truth, out of those who  have been given the Book, until they  pay the tax in acknowledgement of  superiority and they are in a state of  s subjection  (9.29)

In the western world, the studies of comparative religion itself is a subject and history is seen without any bias or filters. But in India, it seems, any discussion of history which includes abrahamic invasion and mughal atrocities or questioning of “minority scriptures” is seen as “communal”.

References :

http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column_the-paradox-called-subramanian-swamy_1567157

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/comment_dr-subramanian-swamy-i-strongly-disagree-with-you_1566760

http://www.muslim.org/english-quran/ch005-100.pdf

http://www.muslim.org/english-quran/ch009-66.pdf

Full texts os Indian Mujahideen on Varanasi blasts : http://www.freedombulwark.net/voices/257

Babur Nama : http://www.archive.org/download/baburnama017152mbp/baburnama017152mbp.pdf

Rahul Gandhi, member of Indian National Congress party and Sonia Gandhi's son relaxes outside of India with his Columbian girlfriend much of the year

By N. Rastogi

New Delhi, India (CHAKRA) - Today, many nations of the world take immense pride in having a stable democratic society with secular values.  One such country is India which is acclaimed around the world for being the largest democracy—but this is only at the surface.  The “democratic” name for India has remained over the years at the cost of the poor and illiterate in rural India as well as at the cost of the majority Hindus in this so called democracy.  The Congress Party has been kept in power for years due to its connection with the Gandhi name and it is up to people living or connected to this nation to question why this party stays in power regardless of unfixed problems related to malnutrition, high illiteracy rates, and corruption.India had enormous potential due to its huge population, rich culture and heritage, fertile river deltas and much more.  It is a great thing for countries to meet the needs and appease their minority populations, but the extent to which India has put its resources into such causes, has caused them to ignore the illiterate and poor population, in addition to treating Hindu’s unjustly.

Now it makes you wonder why a country with so much potential would take such unreasonable action.  The gap between the rich and poor is only advancing and illiteracy rates are going up or remaining constant.  It is a given that any democratic country or a country that calls itself a democracy will put a vast amount of resources into education and a universal education plan but instead the Congress government has focused on other issues related to secularism and appeasement.

It is using these values of secularism to appease the minority and gain more votes to stay in power.  Not only does the government do this for their own gain but allows for missionaries to enter the country and constantly take advantage of the poor to feed them provided that the aided convert.  This forms an equation of minority appeasement plus missionary projects equalling to a positive for the Congress led government. Not only do the appeased minorities now keep the Congress in power for their help, but the poor Hindus who have been aided by missionaries are too uninformed to realize which party to vote for so they go with what they are told to vote for.

Thus keeping the uneducated—uneducated allows for the government to take advantage of them and use their fragile minds to vote for Congress in the name of the one and only Gandhi.

More leadership is needed at the grass roots level where local leaders can have more of an influence on its people, so that at the least people can be taught what their rights are and how they can go about exercising them.  In addition, a government willing to consider universal education needs to be voted into power.  It’s a cycle though that will have a rippling effect.   If more leaders can help at the local level and teach India’s rural population to decide what is right for them, then only can a higher vote bank result in education for example, and greater change for the better.