Closing Word: Eclipse of the Hindu Nation
Radha Rajan
16 Jul 2009
Several years later after Savarkar was exonerated on charges of criminal conspiracy to kill Gandhi, one of the conditions during his release was that he should not be given any public reception nor should there be any public demonstration of rejoicing. This condition was inspired by Gandhi’s exhortation in 1937-38 to the political prisoners of Bengal not to be a party to any celebration, not to hold meetings or make speeches or hold celebratory processions.
The political doctrine, that Hindu nationalists must be neither seen nor heard, was beginning to gain ground. Savarkar was arrested again on 5th April, 1950 in the wake of the extremely foolish Nehru-Liaquat Pact, which like its infamous predecessor, the Gandhi-Irwin Pact, gave more than it got in return. According to the Pact, the governments of India and Pakistan agreed that each shall ensure to the minorities throughout its territories, complete equality of citizenship, irrespective of religion; a full sense of security in respect of life, culture, property and personal honour.
It also guaranteed fundamental human rights of the minorities, such as freedom of movement, speech, occupation and worship. The pact also provided for the minorities to participate in the public life of their country, to hold political or other offices and to serve in their country's civil and armed forces.
Savarkar opposed the Pact vehemently. He prophesized that while the Indian Government would keep its promise, the Pakistani Government would go back on the same; and the life, freedom and dignity of the Hindus in Pakistan would continue to be in jeopardy. Needless to say, Savarkar was proved right about the Muslim psyche not only in Pakistan but also in Jammu and Kashmir.
But Nehru whose determination to incarcerate Savarkar for life had been thwarted in 1948, was determined to either keep him in prison for the rest of life or silence his fiercest political critic forever. Towards this end, when it was driven home to Nehru that Savarkar could not be kept in prison endlessly without reason, his release on 13 July 1950 came with the debilitating condition that he would remain confined to his home and would abjure politics completely. Nehru continued where Gandhi had left off but with greater force because Nehru, like the British government before1947, could back his intent to decimate Hindu nationalists with ruthless use of state power.
Nehru was determined to clear the country’s political arena of Hindu nationalists and he was enabled in his de-Hinduising mission by the Indian Constitution which was drafted and approved by a Constituent Assembly where the Congress was in the majority and Congress members were hand-picked by Gandhi and Nehru. The Indian Constitution, slanting decisively towards religious minorities, owed much to the Motilal Nehru Report.
The Motilal Nehru report was also the harbinger of the potentially divisive linguistic states as also the western liberal-Christian political tenet that the state shall not have any religion; ominously for the Hindus of the country, not one of these principles, which eventually went on to define the new Indian state after 1947, was challenged successfully in the Constituent Assembly.
The Indian Constitution derived equally from the Government of India Act 1935. Hindus and their interests were thus trampled under the feet of the combined might of a de-Hinduised Constituent Assembly, the Motilal Nehru Report and the GOI Act, 1935. They remain trampled till today. Nehru’s Congress in his lifetime and Nehruvian secular polity after Nehru continued to traverse the path of anti-Hindu politics of minority-ism; its results are there for all to see: Hindus have lost territory to Islam and Christianity in the North, North-East, East and West.
The anti-Hindu polity that prevails today has turned a Nelson’s eye to the rapidly changing religious demography in the country’s border and coastal districts. In stark contrast to how Nehru dealt with Hindu nationalists immediately after independence, the Muslim League, the Jamait-e-ulema-e Hind and its members suffered no persecution. They neither disbanded themselves nor were they banned by Nehru’s government. They lay low until such time that Nehru and Nehruvian secularism had rendered the Hindus completely impotent to reverse vivisection or even its consequences, and have now reared their heads again and this time the Hindus are confronting not just one Khilafat Committee, but innumerable jiahdi outfits with roots across the country and across the country’s borders, and with the same objectives as the Jinnah-led Muslim League before independence. So far, both secular Indian polity and Hindu organizations have proved incapable of handling the threat and they continue their jihad against the Hindus and their Bhumi successfully and with little cost to them.
Gandhi and the Indian National Congress did to our revolutionaries and warriors of armed resistance what the British Government did to Aurobindo and Savarkar – laid debilitating conditions for release. Hindus must confront the ugly truth that while the British Government and the Gandhi-Nehru Congress adopted the same methods to disarm and decapitate Hindu nationalists, Hindu nationalists of the 19th and 20 centuries have also lost strength and spirit in the midst of war, leaving the battle-field unchallenged to their tormentors. The kshatriya had indeed been effectively disarmed and banished from public gaze.
Indian polity and the country’s public spaces have been de-Hinduised by state power and Hindus have been politically disempowered also by state power. Hindu interests and minority interests have been made into a zero sum game also by use of state power, as witnessed in the most recent turbulence in Jammu and Kashmir over the issue of land allotment for Hindu pilgrims during the Amarnath Yatra and the unchecked license permitted to Christian missionaries who hide behind the constitutional provision of freedom to practice and propagate one’s religion.
This book is intended to demonstrate to Hindus the origins and path of their disempowerment and to kindle in them a burning desire to capture and put in place self-conscious Hindu state power or Hindu Rajya to protect and defend the Hindu rashtra. The Hindu nation must begin by questioning the concepts of freedom of religion, minority-protection and right to self-determination because the Hindu bhumi historically and without an Indian Constitution had made all religions and their adherents welcome to this land. This Hindu trait of not looking upon any faith as being inimical to dharma and the failure by Hindus to take note of the ultimate political objectives of all Abrahamic faiths has cost the Hindus and the Hindu nation very dear.
If the nation has to deal resolutely with forces and ideologies which threaten the territory and people of the rashtra and this includes jihad, the evangelical Church and anti-Hindu communism, then the nation has to assert its nationhood; one aspect of such an assertion will be the nature of the state or rajya which must necessarily be Hindu in ethos. Separatism, demographic imbalance, and increasing attacks against the state by Naxalism and other terrorist outfits owning allegiance to Communism, have to be dealt with not as law and order issues, but only as ideological issues which confront the core question of the basis of nationhood of this bhumi.
Secularism, for obvious reasons has failed to check and neutralize all threats to the nation’s territory and people only because it is in a state of denial, and has therefore failed to put in place structures and laws which will approach the threats rooted in the sense of Hindu nationhood. National security is best ensured only when the sense of nationhood is faultless and the threats to the nation or rashtra are perceived as threats to nation, nationhood and nationalism. Needless to say, the book seeks to demonstrate that there is no other nationalism on this Bhumi other than Hindu Nationalism.
The superficial convergence of interests between Hindus and Muslims in 1857 interrupted the continuing Hindu civilisational resistance and struggle against Islam, while Gandhi-inspired Nehruvian secularism has rendered all Hindu resistance to both Islam and the Church hors-de-combat. Hindu nationalists understand that the civilisational struggle against Islam and the Church has to be revived in order that it may be resolved decisively.
The destruction that has been wreaked by state power can be corrected without bloodshed only by return of state power to self-conscious Hindus. Only self-conscious Hindu state power can arrange the nation’s affairs to serve dharma and the dharmi. For such a state of affairs we must begin to question political ideas and concepts that originated in the West as a reaction to the predatory Church, to slavery and to colonialism’s invasion and forcible occupation of foreign lands.
Thus the concepts of religious freedom, self-determination, human rights became necessary to protect the disempowered victims of White Christianity – the natives of lands occupied by European colonizers whose numbers have been reduced to negligible numbers, and for victims of slavery. With great foresight European colonialist countries created the United Nations with a charter which, if one were to read the fine print with sound political sense, only serves to deter and punish any idea of revenge or determined correction of the legacy of colonialism in post-colonial independent nations.
However, the truth is that neither the countries forcefully advocating democracy and liberal political values, nor Islam which has never subscribed to contemporary, liberal Christian political ideology, nor the Jewish-majority Israel have been hamstrung by these concepts when they perceived a threat to their national identity and sense of nationhood. Till the present day we still see wars between nations, fought by the full might of state power, which are essentially Jewish Israel versus Islam, Jews versus the evangelical Church, West versus the rest and Islam versus the rest.
It is only in India that a de-Hinduised and virulently anti-Hindu political culture thwarts Hindus from resisting and fighting the predatory intentions of Islam and Christianity because as we pointed out in the Introduction, it is only in India that we have a state which does not derive from the culture and ethos of its majority populace and is therefore not obliged to protect Hindu interests and Hindu sensibilities. This state of affairs must change if the nation has to deal effectively with jihad and with disaffection and separatism arising from the untrammeled license enjoyed by the Church in India.
Concepts of minority-protection, self-determination and religious freedom cannot apply to the adherents of Islam and Christianity on Hindu bhumi under cover of democracy and constitutional rights. These provisions have to be reviewed, given the ultimate goal that these two minority religions have already achieved in Jammu and Kashmir and in the North-east.
That Pakistan and Bangladesh came into being because the Indian National Congress never had a sense of this nation, and because the continuing de-Hinduising trend in Indian polity has resulted in the perverted polity of J&K and growing separatism in the North-east, must goad Hindu nationalists into first reviewing and then correcting the course of anti-Hindu Nehruvian secularism as the guiding spirit of Indian polity. Such a course correction is mandated if there has to be real harmony among communities in this nation and not false peace resting on the artificial and un-natural idea of Nehruvian secularism, which is the Indian derivative of alien political ideas and trends which have little to do with Hindu-civilisational tradition of statecraft and polity. The time has come to set down the coffins of Gandhi and Nehru from the unwilling shoulders of this nation.
Excerpted from
Eclipse of the Hindu Nation: Gandhi and his freedom struggle
Radha Rajan
New Age Publishers (P) Ltd., Delhi, 2009
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
"Walk the talk": Hindus tell Church of England
"Walk the talk": Hindus tell Church of England
Nevada (US), July 27 (ANI):
Hindus have blamed Church of England for double standards over the issue of environment.
Indian American community leader Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Douglas Williams should clarify where he and the Church stood on the issue of bauxite mining by a company in remote tribal area of Orissa ( India ) in which Church of England reportedly had a financial stake and which the environmentalists described as devastating to the area environment.
Zed, who is president of Universal Society of Hinduism, stressed that Church of England should practice what it preached. Its Environmental Policy stated: "The whole creation belongs to God. As human beings we are part of the whole and have a responsibility to love and care for what God has entrusted to us as temporary tenants of the planet. We are called to conserve its complex and fragile ecology, while recognising the need for responsible and sustainable development and the pursuit of social justice."
It has said, "We are not consumers of what God has made; we are in communion with it", and "...challenge itself and all members of the Church of England to make care for creation, and repentance for its exploitation, fundamental to their faith, practice, and mission..."
Rajan Zed pointed out that Church of England was member of Church Investors Group (CIG), an ecumenical gathering of 37 investors connected with the Churches of Britain and Ireland launched in 1973, which encouraged members to "formulate policies relating to investment that are based on Christian ethical principles" and which seeks to "reflect the moral stance and teachings of our faith in our investment portfolios".
Zed also asked the CIG to investigate whether Church of England's investment in this concerned multinational mining company (headquartered in London) met the "ethical principles and moral stance" set-up by CIG. The Church of England has reportedly about 4.1 million dollars stake in this mining company.
According to reports, area tribes view the mountain where mining is proposed as sacred and they have stressed that their traditional and sustainable lifestyle and culture would be disturbed by mining. Environmentalists have asked for a halt in this project arguing that the area is ecologically sensitive and mining would result in displacement, deforestation, affecting water sources, wildlife and ecosystems destruction, water pollution, complicity in human rights violations, etc. Area is said to be home of some endangered species. (ANI)
Nevada (US), July 27 (ANI):
Hindus have blamed Church of England for double standards over the issue of environment.
Indian American community leader Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Douglas Williams should clarify where he and the Church stood on the issue of bauxite mining by a company in remote tribal area of Orissa ( India ) in which Church of England reportedly had a financial stake and which the environmentalists described as devastating to the area environment.
Zed, who is president of Universal Society of Hinduism, stressed that Church of England should practice what it preached. Its Environmental Policy stated: "The whole creation belongs to God. As human beings we are part of the whole and have a responsibility to love and care for what God has entrusted to us as temporary tenants of the planet. We are called to conserve its complex and fragile ecology, while recognising the need for responsible and sustainable development and the pursuit of social justice."
It has said, "We are not consumers of what God has made; we are in communion with it", and "...challenge itself and all members of the Church of England to make care for creation, and repentance for its exploitation, fundamental to their faith, practice, and mission..."
Rajan Zed pointed out that Church of England was member of Church Investors Group (CIG), an ecumenical gathering of 37 investors connected with the Churches of Britain and Ireland launched in 1973, which encouraged members to "formulate policies relating to investment that are based on Christian ethical principles" and which seeks to "reflect the moral stance and teachings of our faith in our investment portfolios".
Zed also asked the CIG to investigate whether Church of England's investment in this concerned multinational mining company (headquartered in London) met the "ethical principles and moral stance" set-up by CIG. The Church of England has reportedly about 4.1 million dollars stake in this mining company.
According to reports, area tribes view the mountain where mining is proposed as sacred and they have stressed that their traditional and sustainable lifestyle and culture would be disturbed by mining. Environmentalists have asked for a halt in this project arguing that the area is ecologically sensitive and mining would result in displacement, deforestation, affecting water sources, wildlife and ecosystems destruction, water pollution, complicity in human rights violations, etc. Area is said to be home of some endangered species. (ANI)
Monday, July 27, 2009
Anti-cow slaughter campaign from Sept 28
Anti-cow slaughter campaign from Sept 28
BHUBANESWAR:(visakeo)- Biswa Mangal Go Gram Samiti would launch a 108 days national wide Yatra seeking complete ban on cow slaughtering and maximum funds for rural India.
Speaking at a Press meet here on Monday, Samiti State vice-president Dr Basanta Kumar Rath, Saint Pranarupananda Saraswati, coordinator Arnada Shankar Panigrahi and joint coordinator Ashok Padhi demanded national animal status for cow and asked the Centre as well as respective States Government to impose a complete ban on cow slaughtering.
A committee has been formed in the State. Justice Debapriya Mohapatra has been selected as chairman while Prafulla Das would remain as secretary, Arun Kumar Panda and Dr Basanta Rath as vice-president. Nirajan Nanda, NK Mishra and Deepak Rout have been elected as joint secretaries.
The Yatra, which will spread the message of 'save cow and save village' will be flagged off on September 28, 2009, on Vijaya Dashami Day at Kurukhetra in Hariyana and calumniated at Nagpur in 2010 on Makar Sankranti Day," they said. The Yatra would traverse some 20,000 kilometers.
Apart, from the main Yatra, 15,000 smaller Yatra including 150 in Orissa to traverse some 10 lakh kilometers during in 108 days while meetings will be held at 400 places across the country and signature of 50 crore people will be collected and submitted to the President of India seeking complete ban on cow slaughter.
The Yatra would stay in Orissa for four days from November 7 to 10. It will arrive at Rourkela on November 7 from Ranchi and reach Sambalpur on November 8 Cuttack on 9 and on 10, it will be at Berhampur and on 11, it would left for Visakhapatnam.
BHUBANESWAR:(visakeo)- Biswa Mangal Go Gram Samiti would launch a 108 days national wide Yatra seeking complete ban on cow slaughtering and maximum funds for rural India.
Speaking at a Press meet here on Monday, Samiti State vice-president Dr Basanta Kumar Rath, Saint Pranarupananda Saraswati, coordinator Arnada Shankar Panigrahi and joint coordinator Ashok Padhi demanded national animal status for cow and asked the Centre as well as respective States Government to impose a complete ban on cow slaughtering.
A committee has been formed in the State. Justice Debapriya Mohapatra has been selected as chairman while Prafulla Das would remain as secretary, Arun Kumar Panda and Dr Basanta Rath as vice-president. Nirajan Nanda, NK Mishra and Deepak Rout have been elected as joint secretaries.
The Yatra, which will spread the message of 'save cow and save village' will be flagged off on September 28, 2009, on Vijaya Dashami Day at Kurukhetra in Hariyana and calumniated at Nagpur in 2010 on Makar Sankranti Day," they said. The Yatra would traverse some 20,000 kilometers.
Apart, from the main Yatra, 15,000 smaller Yatra including 150 in Orissa to traverse some 10 lakh kilometers during in 108 days while meetings will be held at 400 places across the country and signature of 50 crore people will be collected and submitted to the President of India seeking complete ban on cow slaughter.
The Yatra would stay in Orissa for four days from November 7 to 10. It will arrive at Rourkela on November 7 from Ranchi and reach Sambalpur on November 8 Cuttack on 9 and on 10, it will be at Berhampur and on 11, it would left for Visakhapatnam.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Viswa Samvad Kendra, Chennai
Viswa Samvad Kendra, Chennai
No.12, M V Naidu Street, Chetput, Chennai 600 031.
Ph: 044-2836 5386
On 9-7-2009, all DMK Members of Tamilnadu Legislative Assembly heartily thumbed the table to welcome a member reciting Bhagavad Gita Slokas in Samskritam during a discussion in the House. In Palladam, (Tiruppur District, Tamilnadu, Bharat) it was a new classroom ‘Opening Ceremony’ in a Government School; a grand Ganapathi Homam was the highlight. This function was presided over by Block Secretary of DMK Mr. Rajasekaran. In North Chennai ADMK arranged for a Deepa Pooja in which an ADMK MLA Sekar Babu, participated. All this unmistakably point to the eagerness of Dravidian parties to exhibit their Hindu face.
No.12, M V Naidu Street, Chetput, Chennai 600 031.
Ph: 044-2836 5386
On 9-7-2009, all DMK Members of Tamilnadu Legislative Assembly heartily thumbed the table to welcome a member reciting Bhagavad Gita Slokas in Samskritam during a discussion in the House. In Palladam, (Tiruppur District, Tamilnadu, Bharat) it was a new classroom ‘Opening Ceremony’ in a Government School; a grand Ganapathi Homam was the highlight. This function was presided over by Block Secretary of DMK Mr. Rajasekaran. In North Chennai ADMK arranged for a Deepa Pooja in which an ADMK MLA Sekar Babu, participated. All this unmistakably point to the eagerness of Dravidian parties to exhibit their Hindu face.
Meeting of Executive Committee of Orissa BJP concluded
Cuttack (visakeo) The Executive Committee of the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) held on Sunday in the Saheed Bhawan. In this meeting including state unit President Suresh Pujhari, senior leaders of the Party Biswa Bhusan Harichandan, Manmohan Samal, Braja Kishore Tripathy, Bijaya Mohapatra were attended. It has been decided to hold election of the party from the grass root level within three months.In this meeting the mining scam of the state government, EVM tampering in the recent election, failure of the government in maintaining law and order situation , Maoist and Naxals activities and price of the essential commodities in the state.
Orissa BJP decides to send MLAs team to collect information regarding mining scam
Bhubaneswar (visakeo)-The BJP has decided to send some of the MLAs of the party to the mining area at Joda in Keonjhar district, to collect more information regarding the mining scam that rocked the State Assembly on Friday.
A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting presided over by the party state unit president Suresh Pujari here.
The meeting decided that the MLAs would visit the Kita and Rudakila mines at Joda.
It may be mentioned here that the BJP had raised the issue of massive mining corruption by the state government, in the State Assembly on Friday. The party’s leader Bijaya Mohapatra, legislature party leader K V Singhdeo and all MLAs of the party were present at the meeting.
By Golak Chandra Das
A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting presided over by the party state unit president Suresh Pujari here.
The meeting decided that the MLAs would visit the Kita and Rudakila mines at Joda.
It may be mentioned here that the BJP had raised the issue of massive mining corruption by the state government, in the State Assembly on Friday. The party’s leader Bijaya Mohapatra, legislature party leader K V Singhdeo and all MLAs of the party were present at the meeting.
By Golak Chandra Das
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Vishwa Samvad Kendra Goa, News and Reviews
Rashtraraksha Ninad Gosh Shibir shows the way
Smita Salaskar and Shirish Karkare appeal
Demand an explanation for terrorist attacks from leaders who govern the country
Panvel 24feb., “Why India has been a repeated target of terrorist attacks? Why terrorism is not tackled at the roots itself? Who is responsible for these terrorist attacks?” People of this country should pose these questions before the leaders whom we have empowered to govern the country,’’ appealed Smita Salaskar, wife of late Vijay Salaskar and Shirish Karkare, brother of late Hemant Karkare here today.
Smita Salaskar, wife of the late encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar and Shirish Karkare, brother of the late ATS chief Hemant Karkare addressed the audience as chief guests in an open programme arranged on the occasion of Rashtraraksha Ninand Ghosh Shibir organized by the Konkan Pranta of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh at Karnala Sports Academy on February 22. The noted singer and music director Shridhar Phadke who was the chief of the three-day camp welcomed the chief guests. In his inaugural speech he said, “Music is very close to human life. Music can effectively portray happy and tragic moments in life and it also has tremendous power to inspire society. Veer rasa rousing patriotic feelings among masses is necessary today for national security.” Delightful demonstrations presented by 770 participants (ghosh vadaks) set the mood of the programme.
Smita Salaskar maintained in her speech, “I don’t take pride in calling myself ‘veer patni’, because the very fact that my husband was the victim of terrorists who were illiterate and some ordinary people who could handle guns --is extremely disgraceful to the national security of the country. How many more veer mata and veera patni do we want? Everybody should readily perform one’s duty if such a danger has to be avoided in future”. She further added that organizations like the RSS would inspire people to perform their duties. Shirish Karkare, brother of martyr Heman Karkare shared some memories of late Hemant Karkare and expressed that every citizen should understand one’s responsibility and perform one’s duty honestly. He mentioned, ‘’The late Hemant Karkare had very high hopes from the youngsters of the country. After witnessing the Rashtriya Ninand Shibir, I am hopeful that the committed youngsters of this country can perform many things in future. This Ghosh Shibir is the very embodiment of patriotic fervour. Families are becoming smaller and smaller in today’s age of globalization. In future the middle class people would have to bare the responsibility of performing national duty. The organization like the RSS can nourish such feelings,” he added. Vaishali Ombale, daughter of martyr police constable Ombale also spoke on the occasion.
Bhaiyyaji Joshi, Saha Sarkaryavaha RSS appealed the audience to preserve national safety and told the citizens to be prepared to destroy the evil tendencies in the society. He totally agreed with the opinions expressed by Karkare and Salaskar but he maintained that these feelings should be supported by positive action. He opined that India had experienced such challenges even before and positive strength of this country had successfully retaliated against it. It is wrong that today Hindu society is blamed as terrorist. Hindus were never terrorists and would never be terrorists in future. This country has always excelled in giving something to others. The internal security of India is indeed a matter of concern but more alarming is the threat of attacks from outside. Infiltration in border areas is the major challenge before the country. China is trying to increase its dominance over Arunachal Pradesh. To tackle this problem it is necessary to take support of International law and power of weapons. Today too much importance is given to politics and power game. It is sad that powers from outside play important roles in deciding the prime minister or president of the country. Adivasi and vanavasi people are forced to convert to Christianity by using money. Every citizen should readily take some responsibility in tackling these challenges before the country. The government should do its duties and people should be conscious and alert in performing their duties and responsibilities. Hindus can be patient and tolerant only up to some limit and there is no need to teach lessons of humanity to them,’’ he maintained. “If the country has to face the challenge of problems like national security and conversion then the society should be more organized and media should play an important role in giving positive publicity to such organized work”, he added.
Attractive Deepotsav was also arranged on the occasion. Pramod Bapat presented a song. Swanand Oak anchored the event.
Shibir Video
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Monday, 5 January 2009
Devasthan Sanrakshan Maha Sammelan on 10th Jan 2009 at Campal, Panaji, Goa
Devasthan Sanrakshan Maha Sammelan is being organised at Campal SAG Ground on 10th Jan 2009 by Mandir Suraksha Samiti to protest against the frequent vandalism of Hindu temples in the state of Goa for the past 4 years. The Government of Goa has been totally unsuccessful in investigating any of the vandalism cases. It has turned a blind eye on the recent vandalisms. More than 1 lakh people are expected for the Sammelan from all conners of Goa. The excitement about the Sammelam is already seen in the major towns and even in the villages in the form of banners, rallies, public meetings, door to door campaings, dwaj poojan in temples etc. It is first time in the History of Goa that such a huge Sammelan is held which will specifically be attended by Hindus of the Sate who are actually a majority in the state but has to come together to protest the recent vandalism as the Government is not willing to do anything.
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Dirty and Mean methods adopted by followers of Semitic religion for conversion of Hindus
The followers of Semitic religion want to convert the whole world into their respective religions Christianity or Islam. Followers of Christianity had quite success in converting the people of Africa into Christianity but they were not finding it easy to convert Hindus of Bhaarat. For that purpose they started adopting many tricks. One of the tricks was to denigrate Hindu religion in many ways. Christians found it very convient that by distorting Caste System and Sati system of Hindu religion for conversion Hindus into Christianity. See the details in the following article how the Christians took advantage for converting Hindus by distorting the Sati system.
http://indiaview.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/censoring-indian-history/
Sati Pratha and its origins
Prabhat Varun
Sati Pratha is a favorite topic among Hindu-bashers. As soon as they are questioned about the validity of their own claims, goals and methods they immediately start harping on Sati Pratha.
And lo! The trick works. The questioning Hindu becomes defensive. He never tries to probe into the origin of so-called Sati Pratha, or at least about its rumors. So, let us try to do it here, what the typical-Hindu always refrains to.
Sati Pratha is nowhere mentioned in Hindu scriptures. Not a hint of it. There is no case of forceful widow burning in any of our scriptures. News about Sati Pratha started surfacing only with the advent of Christian Missionaries in India . They with their mission of converting the wretched idolaters, i.e., Hindus to Christianity started slandering Hinduism. For they quickly perceived that Hindus were an unyielding, staunch lot. They would not yield to the treacherous methods of Christian Missionaries. So they devised a new way for accomplishing their Harvest. They decided to slander Hinduism in front of Hindus, so as to shake their belief in it, and also in front of global community so as to justify their demonic agendas of Conversion. And for that they had a new tool in their hands to which Hindus had no access. This tool was the combined institution of Modern British Education System and the newly born media, i.e., the propaganda machine. (How they developed these mediums in India is another topic, related to Macaulay and many others and too long to be discussed here).
So, they started their well-planned campaign against Hinduism. A very good example of this is the English word “Juggernaut”, meaning, “a huge and overwhelming force”. It is originated form the Rath Yatra of Jagganath. Christian Missionaries said that there goes one evil Yatra among Hindus, in which wretched idolaters take out a procession of three idols. In the Yatra, they take intoxicating drugs, dance nude in front of the chariot, make obscene gestures to each other and then in a fit throw themselves in front of the chariot to commit suicide. Hence, the word with its meaning of an “overwhelming force”.
Swami Vivekanand also mentions this at one place along with many other calumnies heaped over Hinduism and Hindu civilization by the designing Christian Missionaries. Here is an excerpt of that, “What is meant by those pictures in the school-books for children where the Hindu mother is painted as throwing her children to the crocodiles in the Ganga ? The mother is black, but the baby is painted white, to arouse more sympathy, and get more money. What is meant by those pictures, which painted a man burning his wife at a stake with his own hands, so that she may become a ghost and torment the husband’s enemy? What is meant by the pictures of huge cars crushing over human beings? I have heard one of these gentlemen preach in Memphis that, in every village of India , there is a pond of the bones of little babies… What have the Hindus done to these disciples of Christ that every Christian child is taught to call the Hindus ‘vile’ and ‘wretched’ and the most horrible demons on earth?” Swami Vivekananda, The Complete
Works, Vol. IV (1945 ed.)
Any person even most slightly acquainted with the Rath Yatra needs no explaining about the truth.
Similarly, they harped on Sati, and invented the very term and phenomenon of Sati Pratha, citing some allegedly eye-witness accounts of widow burning on the funeral pyre of their husband. So, what was the truth in those accounts? If, there was any truth in those accounts, then what was their origin?
For finding their origin, we have to stretch our memory some centuries back to the Medieval Ages, the era of great unprecedented rape, pillage and looting of India by Muslims and their armies. Among the very first provinces to bear the brunt of Islamic sword were Sindh, Punjab and Rajputana. Sindh being Buddhist in majority and Punjab also having a considerable population of Buddhists, succumbed soon to the unprecedented barbarous Islamic invasions. But Rajputana being completely Hindu held out for centuries. Even now there are only 9% Muslims in Rajasthan. But this resistance cost them a great deal. They had never faced such barbarous invaders and looters. All of the wars which they fought until then, were fought with a moral ethical code. Being synonymous with the Hindu philosophy, wars were fought only between warriors and concerned only them. Civil populace was never even touched, let alone molested.
But the new Islamic enemy they were now facing was an unprecedented evil force, which did not rely on valour for victory, but instead on treachery, deceit, malice, crookedness and all other evil means. Those Islamic armies instead of fighting chivalrously with their opponents, chose to decimate the civilian populace, by laying siege to the country side, thus decimating the social, cultural and economic fabric of the nations. They massacred and butchered complete populations of Hindus, broke their idols, desecrated their temples, butchered the Brahmins, converted them forcibly to Islam (by making them eat beef!) destroyed their corps, poisoned their wells, burned their houses, abducted their children and raped their women. They took their inspiration from Quran. Ayats 2:193, 8:39, orders them to break idols. Ayats 8:12, 22: 19-22 exhorts them to massacre the religious leaders of the other religion. Ayats 33:59 and 4:24 encourages them to commit sexual transgressions without compunction with the non-Muslim women.
This, this last atrocity done to the local populace by these Islamic marauders was without precedence in cruelty. (No one in Hindu era even thought of touching another woman, let alone raping her). It was a greater calamity on women than their family men. They did not think of such calamity befalling them in their wildest nightmares. They were free women under Hinduism with an equal say in society as men. They were not used to the sexual, and mental humiliation and torture to which Muslim and non-Muslim women under Islamic rule were subjected to. Chastity for them was everything, the prime value of life. They could not imagine an unchaste life. The very concept was unthinkable to them. And for preserving their chastity they were prepared to do anything, to break every barrier, to sacrifice every tying, even their life. And so they did.
Facing these Islamic molesters, the brave Hindu women chose death. They built big cauldron like pots, lit then with fire and jumped into them, to die voluntarily and happily in order to save their honour and chastity. They chose and embraced death themselves and nobody forced them to do so. They with their very feminine bravery defied whole armies of Islamic marauders with all of their evil means and intentions. This phenomenon was called ‘johar’, meaning giving themselves to fire in order to be saved from disgrace.
So, this was ‘Johar’, later practiced by Hindu women in every part of India in order to save themselves from the dirty hands of Islamic marauders. There was no forced immolation in that process, no malign Brahmins, no cruel priests, thus no ‘Sati Pratha.’ And for suicide no other person can be blamed, other than those Islamic marauders whose threat forced Hindu women to suicide.
‘Sati’ is an ancient Sanskrit term, meaning a chaste woman who thinks of no other man than her own husband. The famous examples are Sati Anusuiya, Savitri, Ahilya etc. None of them committed suicide, let alone being forcible burned. So how is that that they are called Sati? The word ‘Sati’ means a chaste woman, and it has no co-relations with either suicide or murder. The term ‘Sati’ was never accompanied by ‘Pratha’. The phrase, ‘Sati Pratha’ was a Christian Missionary invention. Sati was taken form the above quoted source and ‘Pratha’ was taken from the practice of Johar’, (by distorting its meaning from ‘suicide’ to ‘murder’) and the myth of ‘Sati Pratha’ was born to haunt Hindus forever.
So ‘Sati Pratha’ (in its modern avatar of forcible widow burning) is not a fault of Hinduism but a crime of Islam. Islam is the perpetrator of crime here, and Hinduism, the victim. It is a joint crime of Islam and Christianity. The crime of Islam was transposed on Hinduism (absolving Islam in the process) by the historical connivance of anti-Hindu forces (Islam, Christianity and Marxism).
To insert a spiritual clause here, it is very important to say that in modern times whenever is there a case reported of voluntary immolation of a woman on her husband’s pyre, it is never reported that the dying woman shrieked in the unbearable pain of the burning flesh. Sucha case is reported by Mark Tully in his book ‘No Full Stops in India ’. He tells of a woman Roop Kanwar in the village Deorala, district Sikar of Rajasthan who in Sep 1987 voluntarily died by burning herself with fire, without emitting any cries or shrieks. So what does it signify? No mortal can remain calm when his flesh is being burnt. So what is the reason of this superhuman quality of these women? The answer lies in dharma, Yoga and meditation. There are umpteen stories in Puranas and Vedas in which both men and women voluntarily accept death by immolating their mortal bodies by various means, including fire. The power of Yoga makes them oblivious of the pain of the decay of the mortal body. So women who voluntarily gave up their life in fire were empowered with the power of Yoga. Pain did not touch their chaste bodies.
Hindus being oppressed for centuries have developed a mental state called ‘Dhimmitude’, which means a mental slavery to its long time oppressor Islam. So, now even those Hindus who stand against Islam are timid, defensive and guilty of some hypothetical crimes, imagined for their chagrin, for them by their enemies. They still can’t think freely, analyze history objectively and recognize the true nature of Hinduism, i.e., Dharma.
But, if they want to re-generate Dharma, Truth and Goodness then they will have to view History in its true light, with Courage, Resolution and with Objectivity. Then only they will be able to re-discover their Dharma and do something for its regeneration.
History being ‘Dharma’ itself hopes them to do so.
http://www.ivarta.com/columns/OL_060328.htm
One strong Hindu can change the thought-current of the whole world...
Hindus should have fearlessness,the first prerequisite of a spiritual life.
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Monday, 3 March 2008
Filmfare or Film fraud?
Islamist agenda of Bollywood trade-award lobby
From: Pushpa Rajguru
pushparajguru@yahoo.com
Saturday, February 23, 2008 - Commentary
Between the distorted tributes to Akbar Ghazi and the fake Kabir Khan, it is hard to understand why the Islamic Republic of Pakistan really needs an ISI when they have Bollywood and its agents in the trade-award lobby planted in India to do their job for them right under the eyes of the Indian public.
This agenda of Bollywood continues this year with Filmfare, once known to ignore popular Hindi blockbusters in favor of Naseeruddin Shah type cinema in the name of 'appreciating art', now having dropped all pretensions of that neutrality and dignity.
The filmfare sponsors were linked to the mid-east funded underworld not too long ago. But they don't even bother pretending not to be an Islamist charade anymore.
The awards are hosted at Adi Chopra's studio, where Chopras are given some made up power award. What is the need for a made up 'power award' in a critical appreciation environment anyway should be the first question? But that apart, why are chopras given these made up power awards?
The answer is not because they were able to make Uday Chopra into a superstar. It is because Chopras are serving as vessels to promote certain Khan actors in Hindi's cinema, not for any other reason. The show is emceed by this khan, Shah Rukh Khan, who conveniently, is again nominated for the award, standing along with Saif Ali Khan who's linked to a Kareena Kapoor, who is also now all of a sudden being given award after award as if she is the new Nutan. Why? You can't be sure whether her award is for her performance in some movie, or for her performance of dumping her man for some Khan in real life.
This is not to ignore the Shahrukh Khan Community peons Farah Khan, and Sajid Khan, whose works like Heyy Babyy and OSO are also deemed worthy of an award nomination.
After a series of gimmicks, the actor award goes to....who else? Shahrukh Khan, the supposed host. Nobody asks how can any actor, who is supposed to be a nominee for awards gets to be a host also.
This is nothing new of course. Even in years 'baadsha' Khan is rejected by the audience, Filmfare likes to create a false illusion and make up some award for Khan.
The whole charade is a first class repulsive political tamasha. The BJP (or some other) government before it comes into power should take note that Bollywood and its media are nothing but the media arm of the Islamist congress party. That congress has been getting routed and its government is about to fall from Delhi but bollywood has so far gone unscathed. And it shouldn't anymore.
Because Bollywood's trade and award lobby have become unabashedly political along that ideology (it can be seen through Zee Cine Awards, IIFA, Star Screen awards, Filmfare and trade write-ups). The politics of it is that if you're a Hindu, and make a movie on Hindu cultural values or heroes, you will get the shaft at the awards. On the other hand, make a semi-coherent movie starring a Muslim Khan actor, or distort towards heroism of a Jalaluddin Akbar Ghazi in Jodhaa Akbar or some fake Kabir Khan in Chak De, well you might as well book yourself a filmfare award now. It would be one thing if there was a semblance of balance reflecting the reality of Hindustan as a whole but there isn't. This crowd is something else, belongs somewhere else. This is not the Hindi reality.
The question is why are Hindus patronizing this charade, let alone allowing this in the name of Hindi cinema? What we have here is essentially subsidization of Pakistani-Punjabi culture in the guise of Hindi cinema. Pakistani-Punjabi because those Punjabis who lean Hindu too get the shaft from the trade/award lobby. And all this is increasingly being done dropping all pretenses of dignity and secularism. These people benefitting from secularism are themselves operating in communal camps when they can.
But be that as it may then. They can self-congratulate themselves right now. But Bollywood and its awards are going to be treated in the same manner from now on in response; without pretense of the esteem and dignity that an award is supposed to represent in the first place.
And politically, the producers and lobbyists need to keep in mind that the climate can change in 10 Janpath soon. They will have to go pleading to the very people being angered right now.
Courtesy: IBOS Network
February 23, 2008
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Wednesday, 16 January 2008
Govt Style - Shame to Mahabharatha epic
Government of India
Ministry of Human Resources Development
Department of Culture
Films Division
New Films Subdivision
No. B1452/234/2003 Dt. 23.12.07
To:
Shri. B.R.Chopra,
Film Director,
Mumbai
Ref: Film story submitted by you, regarding financing of films by Govt of India; Your letter dt. 2.12.90
The undersigned is directed to refer the aforementiontioned letter and state that the Government (GOI) has examined your proposal for financing a film called ''Mahabharat'. The VHLC (Very High Level Committee) constituted for this purpose has been in consultation with the Human Rights Commission, National Commission for Women and Labour Commission, in addition to various Ministries and State Governments, and have formed definitive opinions about the script. Their observations are as below:
1. In the script submitted by you it is shown that there were two sets of cousins, namely, the 'Kauravas', numbering one hundred, and the 'Pandavas', numbering five or six. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has pointed out that these numbers are high, well above the norm prescribed for families by them. It is brought to your kind attention that when the Government is spending massive amounts for promoting Family Planning in due earnest, this indiscretion will send erroneous signals to the general public. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that there may be only three 'Kauravas' and one 'Pandava'.
2. The Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs has raised an issue whether it is suitable to depict kings and emperors in this democratic age. Therefore,it is suggested that the 'Kauravas' may please be depicted as Honourable Members of Parliament (Lok Sabha) and the 'Pandava' may please be depicted as Honourable Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha). The ending of the film shows the victory of the said 'Pandavas' over the said 'Kauravas'. The ending may be suitably modified so none of the Honourable Members of Parliament is shown as being inferior to other Honourable Members of Parliament.
3. The Ministry of Science and Technology has observed that the manner of birth of 'Kauravas' is suggestive of human cloning, a technology banned in India. This may be changed to normal birth.
4. The National Commission for Women has objected that the father of 'Pandavas', one Sri 'Pandu', is depicted as bigamous, and also there is only one wife for the 'Pandavas' in common. Thereore suitable changes may be made in the said script so that the said Sri 'Pandu' is not depicted as bigamous. However, with the reduction in number of 'Pandavas' as suggested above, the issue of polyandry can be addressed without further trouble.
5. The Commission for the Physically Challenged has observed that the portrayal of the visually impaired character 'Dhritarashtra' is derogatory. Therefore the said character may not be shown as visually impaired.
6. The Department of Women and Child Development have highlighted that the public disrobing of one female character called 'Draupadi' is objectionable and derogatory to women in general. Further the Home Ministry anticipates that depiction of such scenes may create law and order problem and at the same time invite strong protests from the different women forums. Such scenes may also invite penal action under SITA (Suppression of Immoral Traffic Act), therefore they may be avoided and deleted from the film.
7. It is felt that showing the 'Pandava' and the 'Kauravas' as gamblers will be anti-social and counter-productive as it might encourage gambling. Therefore, the said 'Pandavas' and 'Kauravas' may be shown to have engaged in horse racing or cricket. (Hon. Supreme Court has held horse racing and cricket not to be gambling).
8. The 'Pandavas' are shown as working in the King 'Virat's employment without receiving any salary. According to the Human Rights Commission, this amounts to bonded labour and may attract provisions of The Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976. This may be corrected at once.
9. In the ensuing war, one character by name Sri 'Abhimanyu' has been shown as fighting. The National Labour Commission has observed that, war being a hazardous industry, and the said character being 16 years old, this depiction will be construed as a case of child labour. Also there is no record of his being paid any compensation. This may also be deemed to be violatory of the provisions of The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 and Minimum Wages Act, 1948. Such references in the film may be removed.
10. The character Sri 'Krishna' has been depicted as wearing a peacock feather. The peacock is our National Bird and wearing dresses made from peacock feather is an offence under the Wild Life Protection Act, 1972. This may not be depicted
11. Smt. Maneka Gandhi has raised very serious objection against using any elephants or horses in war scenes, since there is every scope for mistreatment and injury to the said animals. The provisions of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1890 and Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Amendment) Act, 1960 would be applicable in the instant case. Suitable changes may be made in the script to address the objections raised.
12. In pursuance of the Memorandum of Ministry of Finance regarding austerity measures, it is informed that in the battle field sequences, only ten soldiers may be allowed for each side. Also, all the characters may be shown to have obtained a valid licence under the Arms Act, 1959 as well as the Indian Arms Act, 1878.
You may have observed already that none of these observations attempt to curb artistic freedom or ingenuity in conformity with avowed GOI policy. You are therefore requested to modify your otherwise meritorious script along the aforementioned lines and resubmit it (notarised triplicate) to the undersigned at the earliest for the Government's consideration in due course.
Sd/-
Under Secretary
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Adopting Hindu names for destroying Hinduism
"How come I am a Hindu?"
said Rajiv Gandhi.
B.K.Dass(kunjwani@sancharnet.in)
During his visit to Kashmir in late eighties, the Prime Minister of India , Rajiv Gandhi was adamant to drive his Safari himself across the tunnel, when both the air and road traffic were closed due to heavy snowfall. For others it was violation of law, but Mr. Clean was above the law of the land. The Safari was however, almost hand lifted by a Brigadier, the I / C Commanding Officer at Udhampur to the north portal of the tunnel
Kashmir Valley was covered white. The road traffic had come to stand still. I along with my children walked the distance from Magarmal Bagh to Zainakot, HMT crossing. En route, we, besides a crowd of people had to stand on the roadside at kamarwari Chattabal, until the cavalcade of the two non serious Heads, who were the curse on the people, thrust by their self centered parents on the innocent Indians including the Kashmiris. We Kashmiri people were doubly cursed. Both our Prime Minister and the Chief Minister had inherited their respective thrones courtesy manipulation of democracy. The senior Clean was at the steering wheel while the local Clean was next to him waving hand to the public standing under compulsion due to the traffic hazard. A little ahead the caravan had a temporary stopover at Maulvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari’s residence at Kamarwari crossing over a tea party.
Doordarshan Kashmir Evening News Bulletin had given full coverage to the PM’s valley joy tour. Special event of the news made me to believe that faces are deceptive. Though Clean, yet filthy within. Farooq in his dramatic style held Rajiv’s hand tight in his hand and lifted hand to exhibit commitment:” Aaj eak Musalman eak Hindu key saath muhadha kerta hai (Today a Musalman and a Hindu do commit to each other.” Naming Rajiv as Hindu was nothing short of an electric current to Rajiv. He in a jolt withdrew his hand and said: “Maie kehan Hindu houn(How come I am a Hindu?” Farooq said: “Thodee dhair key leiay maan lo na. (Let it be for a while)”.
The next day or the same day, the two were, stopped by Farooq Ahangar, a National Conference worker at Kanikadal crossing leading to Tankipora, near Hari halwi’s shop. Rajiv followed Farooq and, both one by one shook hand with with Farooq Ahangar.
Hari Halwaie’s immediate prophecy was that bad days for India are bound to come.
The same year Lala Tirth Ram Amila, Raj Sabha Member (Congress) forewarned the Raj Sabha about the infiltration of militants. Rajiv gagged Lala Ji and said: “Lala Ji you are not here to spread rumours”.
In Bhaarat, Rajiv Gandhi who was a Muslim (Most of the Bhaaratiya people believe that he is a Hindu due to his name) became a Roman Catholic and still Bhaaratiya made him the Prime Minister of Bhaarat (80% of people in Bhaarat are Hindu.) That happens only in Bhaarat. However, adopting Hindu names and practices poses a danger. If a convert adopts name Joseph we immediately know that he is different, but if he keeps his name Jagannath or Jagadish and becomes a Christian we can't distinguish him. Rajiv kept his Hindu name to deceive Hindus in spite of being a Muslim and latter converted to Christianity, the religion of his wife. Many Christians and Muslims are taking Hindu names for fooling and deceiving Hindus. Daya Shankar, Dinesh, Sunil, Nirmala, Deepak, Kirti, Shakti Singh, Bhanu Pratap, Vivekenanda, Kapil, Manohar, Vidyadhar, Arvind, Shanti Prasad, Premchand, Vimla, Anand, Vinod Kumar, Jyoti, Rajni, Jai Shree, Yashwant, Shalini, Ajay Singh, Ajat Shatru are all names of Christians and some Muslims are also having such name for getting jobs or for merging with Hindus for creating terrorist activities. Many Christian ministers in government are having Hindu names.
Ambika Soni is a Christian lady with Hindu name. She is trying to destroy Hindu religion. How did Ambika Soni, in spite of being Christian come to the conclusion that NASA's evidence is not reliable about Ram Sethu? She is neither being logical, nor neutral, but is divesting her anti-Hindu propensity. She is not even doing her job properly; she is mishandling and bungling her job. If she were doing her job, she would be setting funds to classify Ram Sethu as an Ancient-Monument, which is older than the pyramids, older than the Great Wall Of China, in fact, it is the oldest man-made structure in the world. She would try to propagate the importance and history of this great monument, and notify the government about its significance, importance, and antiquity of it. She has not done any study to determine the age, the antiquity, and heritage value of this great monument. Of course, this monument is highly sacred to over one billion Hindus. But this is never a consideration in Ambika Soni's thinking that is why she has such a reputation for being an anti-Hindu. Her assessment of the situation is purely anti-Hindu, political, and not scientific.
Ms. Gandhi, an Italian-born Roman Catholic, hails from a family loyal to Benito Mussolini. She married Mr. Rajiv Gandhi, son of the then Indian Prime Minister Indira khan (commonly known as Gandhi); he became Prime Minister after her assassination in 1984. In 1991, Congress failed to win enough seats to form its own government, so Mr. Narasimha Rao was asked to cobble a working majority, while the widowed Ms. Gandhi bided her time. By 1996, she felt strong enough to physically takeover the party from president Sitaram Kesri, but in 2004, despite overt support, was denied premiership and forced to make way for Dr. Man Mohan Singh.
She now hopes to groom her son, Rahul Gandhi, for leadership of the party and country. The citizenship status of Ms. Sonia Gandhi and her two children has never been clarified; she is a naturalized Indian and under Roman law, she and her offspring are eternally entitled to Roman citizenship. This was how she took her husband and children to the Italian embassy in 1977 after Mrs. Indira Gandhi lost the elections.
Ms. Gandhi’s long and privileged stay in this country was lucrative to her native country and friends. The Italian public sector Snam Progetti won extravagant and regular fertilizer contracts in India , and her personal friend Ottavio Quattrochi even doubled up as a middleman in the Bofors kickbacks scandal. The Congress president had enough political cachet to help friends evade justice after the scandal broke, and as UPA chairperson ensured that the Bofors monies, frozen in two London accounts, were released to Mr. Quattrochi, and that he walked free after detention in Argentina!
More recently, she struggled hard to impose the controversial Indo-US nuclear deal on the nation, despite its crippling financial, technological and security implications for Bhaarat. The covert but firm opposition of coalition partners to premature elections appears to have scuttled the deal, but it is too early to celebrate. Observers expect Congress to somehow ‘buy’ Left compliance.
Should we be proud of Bobby Jindal?
Bobby Jindal born to relatively affluent professionals in Louisiana, he rejected his Bhaaratiya name (Piyush) as a very young child, insisting that he be called Bobby, after a (white) character on the popular TV show 'The Brady Bunch'. His desire to fit in to the majority-white society he saw around him soon manifested itself in another act of rejection: Bobby spurned the Hinduism into which he was born and, as a teenager, converted to Roman Catholicism, the faith of most white Louisianans. After conversion to Christianity he did not change his Hindu name to maintain his Hindu identity as well.
The election of Bobby Jindal as governor of the US state of Louisiana has been greeted exultantly by Bhaaratiyas and Indian-Americans around the world. There's no question that this is an extraordinary accomplishment: a young Indian-American, just 36 years old.
Jindal asked his Indian wife, Supriya, to convert to Christianity as well, and the two are regular churchgoers. In his social circle, Bobby Jindal is considered very conservative Christian.
Let us be proud that a brown-skinned man with a Bhaaratiya name has achieved what Bobby Jindal has. But let us not make the mistake of thinking that we should be proud of what he stands for.
To achieve something poor people are leaving Sanatan Dharm and Bobby did the same thing what is the difference. Why give label made in India ....Hindus treat Hindutva like their mothers can’t give her up for anything and most of you will not. The point is don’t just be happy because of some sensation created by a converted Hindu. He won’t be of any use to you or for Hindutva....keep this thing in mind. Hindus should not be heart broken....He has left all Hindus willingly let him go. do not label his family as they are still practicing Hindu...it does not matter at all....he has set precedence for people eying for higher positions...to convert and achieve...
If he helps Bhaarat, we should be thankful, as for Hindus he can be of no help. And most of us know, during California Books Crisis, it was Indian Christians and Communists who were supporting Michael Witzel of Harvard University .
Muslims Use Hindu Names to Survive
Muslims could be using Hindu names to survive, but can you blame Hindus who know that terrorists all over the world are all Muslims. And this also could be a trap for Hindu girls who may date or marry a Muslim who is using a Hindus name. In fact, Hindu organizations need to educate fellowmen regarding those Muslims who are hiding under Hindu names. Non-Hindu girls need to know about this trap.
-- Excerpts from news:--Muslims Use Hindu Names to Survive Al Alam -- August 25, 2007
"Fifteen years ago, when I came to Calcutta in search of a job, almost all street restaurants in the city refused to employ me because I was a Muslim," Shaikh Salim told the Washington Times on Tuesday, August 21.
"But soon I met a Muslim man who worked as a cook in a Hindu-owned restaurant under a Hindu identity. I followed his advice, picked up a Hindu identity, and soon an upper-class Hindu employed me to run a food stall."
Salim, who goes by the common Hindu name Shankar Maity, now runs a food stall in a busy street in Calcutta, which he calls "Shankar's Fast Food."
Nearly all of his customers are Hindus and he fears his business would suffer disastrously if they found out about his Muslim identity.
http://www.alalam.ir/english/en-NewsPage.asp?newsid=009090120070824203431
This is a Great-Opportunity for the Hindus, to convert a whole slew of Moslems to Hinduism.
There are tens of thousands of Moslems, who are using Hindu names (but are actually practicing Moslems), to secure jobs from Hindu-employers, to survive. These Moslems are living a Double-Life. A Double-Life is never easy; it is neither easy nor simple. There is always fear of being discovered and fired from the job. Unfortunately, most Hindu employers never do any detective work, to discover the real identity of their employees. What is required is an Army of Dedicated Hindu Dharm-Yodhas, who would do the detective-work, and notify the Hindu-Employer of any Double-Life Hindu (a Phony-Hindu), and the Phoney would be fired immediately.
Chances are that this technique work? Because the Moslem has an Addiction. The Moslem is Addicted to eating. He would rather dump his Islam (and become Hindu), than go without eating and die of starvation.
Hinduism can only flourish if such rules like Shuddhi and non acceptance of non vegetarians are allowed. Tillwe can evolve a method of conversion we will just die on the wine in the future. We must work towardreformation.
The Hindus have to create means to do this? The Hindu has more than enough resources (in terms of money) to hire Dedicated Dharm-Yodhas, and lots of them. This technique can work equally well (if not better) on Christians as well. Bhaarat is full of RICE-CHRISTIANS.
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Smita Salaskar and Shirish Karkare appeal
Demand an explanation for terrorist attacks from leaders who govern the country
Panvel 24feb., “Why India has been a repeated target of terrorist attacks? Why terrorism is not tackled at the roots itself? Who is responsible for these terrorist attacks?” People of this country should pose these questions before the leaders whom we have empowered to govern the country,’’ appealed Smita Salaskar, wife of late Vijay Salaskar and Shirish Karkare, brother of late Hemant Karkare here today.
Smita Salaskar, wife of the late encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar and Shirish Karkare, brother of the late ATS chief Hemant Karkare addressed the audience as chief guests in an open programme arranged on the occasion of Rashtraraksha Ninand Ghosh Shibir organized by the Konkan Pranta of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh at Karnala Sports Academy on February 22. The noted singer and music director Shridhar Phadke who was the chief of the three-day camp welcomed the chief guests. In his inaugural speech he said, “Music is very close to human life. Music can effectively portray happy and tragic moments in life and it also has tremendous power to inspire society. Veer rasa rousing patriotic feelings among masses is necessary today for national security.” Delightful demonstrations presented by 770 participants (ghosh vadaks) set the mood of the programme.
Smita Salaskar maintained in her speech, “I don’t take pride in calling myself ‘veer patni’, because the very fact that my husband was the victim of terrorists who were illiterate and some ordinary people who could handle guns --is extremely disgraceful to the national security of the country. How many more veer mata and veera patni do we want? Everybody should readily perform one’s duty if such a danger has to be avoided in future”. She further added that organizations like the RSS would inspire people to perform their duties. Shirish Karkare, brother of martyr Heman Karkare shared some memories of late Hemant Karkare and expressed that every citizen should understand one’s responsibility and perform one’s duty honestly. He mentioned, ‘’The late Hemant Karkare had very high hopes from the youngsters of the country. After witnessing the Rashtriya Ninand Shibir, I am hopeful that the committed youngsters of this country can perform many things in future. This Ghosh Shibir is the very embodiment of patriotic fervour. Families are becoming smaller and smaller in today’s age of globalization. In future the middle class people would have to bare the responsibility of performing national duty. The organization like the RSS can nourish such feelings,” he added. Vaishali Ombale, daughter of martyr police constable Ombale also spoke on the occasion.
Bhaiyyaji Joshi, Saha Sarkaryavaha RSS appealed the audience to preserve national safety and told the citizens to be prepared to destroy the evil tendencies in the society. He totally agreed with the opinions expressed by Karkare and Salaskar but he maintained that these feelings should be supported by positive action. He opined that India had experienced such challenges even before and positive strength of this country had successfully retaliated against it. It is wrong that today Hindu society is blamed as terrorist. Hindus were never terrorists and would never be terrorists in future. This country has always excelled in giving something to others. The internal security of India is indeed a matter of concern but more alarming is the threat of attacks from outside. Infiltration in border areas is the major challenge before the country. China is trying to increase its dominance over Arunachal Pradesh. To tackle this problem it is necessary to take support of International law and power of weapons. Today too much importance is given to politics and power game. It is sad that powers from outside play important roles in deciding the prime minister or president of the country. Adivasi and vanavasi people are forced to convert to Christianity by using money. Every citizen should readily take some responsibility in tackling these challenges before the country. The government should do its duties and people should be conscious and alert in performing their duties and responsibilities. Hindus can be patient and tolerant only up to some limit and there is no need to teach lessons of humanity to them,’’ he maintained. “If the country has to face the challenge of problems like national security and conversion then the society should be more organized and media should play an important role in giving positive publicity to such organized work”, he added.
Attractive Deepotsav was also arranged on the occasion. Pramod Bapat presented a song. Swanand Oak anchored the event.
Shibir Video
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Monday, 5 January 2009
Devasthan Sanrakshan Maha Sammelan on 10th Jan 2009 at Campal, Panaji, Goa
Devasthan Sanrakshan Maha Sammelan is being organised at Campal SAG Ground on 10th Jan 2009 by Mandir Suraksha Samiti to protest against the frequent vandalism of Hindu temples in the state of Goa for the past 4 years. The Government of Goa has been totally unsuccessful in investigating any of the vandalism cases. It has turned a blind eye on the recent vandalisms. More than 1 lakh people are expected for the Sammelan from all conners of Goa. The excitement about the Sammelam is already seen in the major towns and even in the villages in the form of banners, rallies, public meetings, door to door campaings, dwaj poojan in temples etc. It is first time in the History of Goa that such a huge Sammelan is held which will specifically be attended by Hindus of the Sate who are actually a majority in the state but has to come together to protest the recent vandalism as the Government is not willing to do anything.
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Dirty and Mean methods adopted by followers of Semitic religion for conversion of Hindus
The followers of Semitic religion want to convert the whole world into their respective religions Christianity or Islam. Followers of Christianity had quite success in converting the people of Africa into Christianity but they were not finding it easy to convert Hindus of Bhaarat. For that purpose they started adopting many tricks. One of the tricks was to denigrate Hindu religion in many ways. Christians found it very convient that by distorting Caste System and Sati system of Hindu religion for conversion Hindus into Christianity. See the details in the following article how the Christians took advantage for converting Hindus by distorting the Sati system.
http://indiaview.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/censoring-indian-history/
Sati Pratha and its origins
Prabhat Varun
Sati Pratha is a favorite topic among Hindu-bashers. As soon as they are questioned about the validity of their own claims, goals and methods they immediately start harping on Sati Pratha.
And lo! The trick works. The questioning Hindu becomes defensive. He never tries to probe into the origin of so-called Sati Pratha, or at least about its rumors. So, let us try to do it here, what the typical-Hindu always refrains to.
Sati Pratha is nowhere mentioned in Hindu scriptures. Not a hint of it. There is no case of forceful widow burning in any of our scriptures. News about Sati Pratha started surfacing only with the advent of Christian Missionaries in India . They with their mission of converting the wretched idolaters, i.e., Hindus to Christianity started slandering Hinduism. For they quickly perceived that Hindus were an unyielding, staunch lot. They would not yield to the treacherous methods of Christian Missionaries. So they devised a new way for accomplishing their Harvest. They decided to slander Hinduism in front of Hindus, so as to shake their belief in it, and also in front of global community so as to justify their demonic agendas of Conversion. And for that they had a new tool in their hands to which Hindus had no access. This tool was the combined institution of Modern British Education System and the newly born media, i.e., the propaganda machine. (How they developed these mediums in India is another topic, related to Macaulay and many others and too long to be discussed here).
So, they started their well-planned campaign against Hinduism. A very good example of this is the English word “Juggernaut”, meaning, “a huge and overwhelming force”. It is originated form the Rath Yatra of Jagganath. Christian Missionaries said that there goes one evil Yatra among Hindus, in which wretched idolaters take out a procession of three idols. In the Yatra, they take intoxicating drugs, dance nude in front of the chariot, make obscene gestures to each other and then in a fit throw themselves in front of the chariot to commit suicide. Hence, the word with its meaning of an “overwhelming force”.
Swami Vivekanand also mentions this at one place along with many other calumnies heaped over Hinduism and Hindu civilization by the designing Christian Missionaries. Here is an excerpt of that, “What is meant by those pictures in the school-books for children where the Hindu mother is painted as throwing her children to the crocodiles in the Ganga ? The mother is black, but the baby is painted white, to arouse more sympathy, and get more money. What is meant by those pictures, which painted a man burning his wife at a stake with his own hands, so that she may become a ghost and torment the husband’s enemy? What is meant by the pictures of huge cars crushing over human beings? I have heard one of these gentlemen preach in Memphis that, in every village of India , there is a pond of the bones of little babies… What have the Hindus done to these disciples of Christ that every Christian child is taught to call the Hindus ‘vile’ and ‘wretched’ and the most horrible demons on earth?” Swami Vivekananda, The Complete
Works, Vol. IV (1945 ed.)
Any person even most slightly acquainted with the Rath Yatra needs no explaining about the truth.
Similarly, they harped on Sati, and invented the very term and phenomenon of Sati Pratha, citing some allegedly eye-witness accounts of widow burning on the funeral pyre of their husband. So, what was the truth in those accounts? If, there was any truth in those accounts, then what was their origin?
For finding their origin, we have to stretch our memory some centuries back to the Medieval Ages, the era of great unprecedented rape, pillage and looting of India by Muslims and their armies. Among the very first provinces to bear the brunt of Islamic sword were Sindh, Punjab and Rajputana. Sindh being Buddhist in majority and Punjab also having a considerable population of Buddhists, succumbed soon to the unprecedented barbarous Islamic invasions. But Rajputana being completely Hindu held out for centuries. Even now there are only 9% Muslims in Rajasthan. But this resistance cost them a great deal. They had never faced such barbarous invaders and looters. All of the wars which they fought until then, were fought with a moral ethical code. Being synonymous with the Hindu philosophy, wars were fought only between warriors and concerned only them. Civil populace was never even touched, let alone molested.
But the new Islamic enemy they were now facing was an unprecedented evil force, which did not rely on valour for victory, but instead on treachery, deceit, malice, crookedness and all other evil means. Those Islamic armies instead of fighting chivalrously with their opponents, chose to decimate the civilian populace, by laying siege to the country side, thus decimating the social, cultural and economic fabric of the nations. They massacred and butchered complete populations of Hindus, broke their idols, desecrated their temples, butchered the Brahmins, converted them forcibly to Islam (by making them eat beef!) destroyed their corps, poisoned their wells, burned their houses, abducted their children and raped their women. They took their inspiration from Quran. Ayats 2:193, 8:39, orders them to break idols. Ayats 8:12, 22: 19-22 exhorts them to massacre the religious leaders of the other religion. Ayats 33:59 and 4:24 encourages them to commit sexual transgressions without compunction with the non-Muslim women.
This, this last atrocity done to the local populace by these Islamic marauders was without precedence in cruelty. (No one in Hindu era even thought of touching another woman, let alone raping her). It was a greater calamity on women than their family men. They did not think of such calamity befalling them in their wildest nightmares. They were free women under Hinduism with an equal say in society as men. They were not used to the sexual, and mental humiliation and torture to which Muslim and non-Muslim women under Islamic rule were subjected to. Chastity for them was everything, the prime value of life. They could not imagine an unchaste life. The very concept was unthinkable to them. And for preserving their chastity they were prepared to do anything, to break every barrier, to sacrifice every tying, even their life. And so they did.
Facing these Islamic molesters, the brave Hindu women chose death. They built big cauldron like pots, lit then with fire and jumped into them, to die voluntarily and happily in order to save their honour and chastity. They chose and embraced death themselves and nobody forced them to do so. They with their very feminine bravery defied whole armies of Islamic marauders with all of their evil means and intentions. This phenomenon was called ‘johar’, meaning giving themselves to fire in order to be saved from disgrace.
So, this was ‘Johar’, later practiced by Hindu women in every part of India in order to save themselves from the dirty hands of Islamic marauders. There was no forced immolation in that process, no malign Brahmins, no cruel priests, thus no ‘Sati Pratha.’ And for suicide no other person can be blamed, other than those Islamic marauders whose threat forced Hindu women to suicide.
‘Sati’ is an ancient Sanskrit term, meaning a chaste woman who thinks of no other man than her own husband. The famous examples are Sati Anusuiya, Savitri, Ahilya etc. None of them committed suicide, let alone being forcible burned. So how is that that they are called Sati? The word ‘Sati’ means a chaste woman, and it has no co-relations with either suicide or murder. The term ‘Sati’ was never accompanied by ‘Pratha’. The phrase, ‘Sati Pratha’ was a Christian Missionary invention. Sati was taken form the above quoted source and ‘Pratha’ was taken from the practice of Johar’, (by distorting its meaning from ‘suicide’ to ‘murder’) and the myth of ‘Sati Pratha’ was born to haunt Hindus forever.
So ‘Sati Pratha’ (in its modern avatar of forcible widow burning) is not a fault of Hinduism but a crime of Islam. Islam is the perpetrator of crime here, and Hinduism, the victim. It is a joint crime of Islam and Christianity. The crime of Islam was transposed on Hinduism (absolving Islam in the process) by the historical connivance of anti-Hindu forces (Islam, Christianity and Marxism).
To insert a spiritual clause here, it is very important to say that in modern times whenever is there a case reported of voluntary immolation of a woman on her husband’s pyre, it is never reported that the dying woman shrieked in the unbearable pain of the burning flesh. Sucha case is reported by Mark Tully in his book ‘No Full Stops in India ’. He tells of a woman Roop Kanwar in the village Deorala, district Sikar of Rajasthan who in Sep 1987 voluntarily died by burning herself with fire, without emitting any cries or shrieks. So what does it signify? No mortal can remain calm when his flesh is being burnt. So what is the reason of this superhuman quality of these women? The answer lies in dharma, Yoga and meditation. There are umpteen stories in Puranas and Vedas in which both men and women voluntarily accept death by immolating their mortal bodies by various means, including fire. The power of Yoga makes them oblivious of the pain of the decay of the mortal body. So women who voluntarily gave up their life in fire were empowered with the power of Yoga. Pain did not touch their chaste bodies.
Hindus being oppressed for centuries have developed a mental state called ‘Dhimmitude’, which means a mental slavery to its long time oppressor Islam. So, now even those Hindus who stand against Islam are timid, defensive and guilty of some hypothetical crimes, imagined for their chagrin, for them by their enemies. They still can’t think freely, analyze history objectively and recognize the true nature of Hinduism, i.e., Dharma.
But, if they want to re-generate Dharma, Truth and Goodness then they will have to view History in its true light, with Courage, Resolution and with Objectivity. Then only they will be able to re-discover their Dharma and do something for its regeneration.
History being ‘Dharma’ itself hopes them to do so.
http://www.ivarta.com/columns/OL_060328.htm
One strong Hindu can change the thought-current of the whole world...
Hindus should have fearlessness,the first prerequisite of a spiritual life.
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Monday, 3 March 2008
Filmfare or Film fraud?
Islamist agenda of Bollywood trade-award lobby
From: Pushpa Rajguru
pushparajguru@yahoo.com
Saturday, February 23, 2008 - Commentary
Between the distorted tributes to Akbar Ghazi and the fake Kabir Khan, it is hard to understand why the Islamic Republic of Pakistan really needs an ISI when they have Bollywood and its agents in the trade-award lobby planted in India to do their job for them right under the eyes of the Indian public.
This agenda of Bollywood continues this year with Filmfare, once known to ignore popular Hindi blockbusters in favor of Naseeruddin Shah type cinema in the name of 'appreciating art', now having dropped all pretensions of that neutrality and dignity.
The filmfare sponsors were linked to the mid-east funded underworld not too long ago. But they don't even bother pretending not to be an Islamist charade anymore.
The awards are hosted at Adi Chopra's studio, where Chopras are given some made up power award. What is the need for a made up 'power award' in a critical appreciation environment anyway should be the first question? But that apart, why are chopras given these made up power awards?
The answer is not because they were able to make Uday Chopra into a superstar. It is because Chopras are serving as vessels to promote certain Khan actors in Hindi's cinema, not for any other reason. The show is emceed by this khan, Shah Rukh Khan, who conveniently, is again nominated for the award, standing along with Saif Ali Khan who's linked to a Kareena Kapoor, who is also now all of a sudden being given award after award as if she is the new Nutan. Why? You can't be sure whether her award is for her performance in some movie, or for her performance of dumping her man for some Khan in real life.
This is not to ignore the Shahrukh Khan Community peons Farah Khan, and Sajid Khan, whose works like Heyy Babyy and OSO are also deemed worthy of an award nomination.
After a series of gimmicks, the actor award goes to....who else? Shahrukh Khan, the supposed host. Nobody asks how can any actor, who is supposed to be a nominee for awards gets to be a host also.
This is nothing new of course. Even in years 'baadsha' Khan is rejected by the audience, Filmfare likes to create a false illusion and make up some award for Khan.
The whole charade is a first class repulsive political tamasha. The BJP (or some other) government before it comes into power should take note that Bollywood and its media are nothing but the media arm of the Islamist congress party. That congress has been getting routed and its government is about to fall from Delhi but bollywood has so far gone unscathed. And it shouldn't anymore.
Because Bollywood's trade and award lobby have become unabashedly political along that ideology (it can be seen through Zee Cine Awards, IIFA, Star Screen awards, Filmfare and trade write-ups). The politics of it is that if you're a Hindu, and make a movie on Hindu cultural values or heroes, you will get the shaft at the awards. On the other hand, make a semi-coherent movie starring a Muslim Khan actor, or distort towards heroism of a Jalaluddin Akbar Ghazi in Jodhaa Akbar or some fake Kabir Khan in Chak De, well you might as well book yourself a filmfare award now. It would be one thing if there was a semblance of balance reflecting the reality of Hindustan as a whole but there isn't. This crowd is something else, belongs somewhere else. This is not the Hindi reality.
The question is why are Hindus patronizing this charade, let alone allowing this in the name of Hindi cinema? What we have here is essentially subsidization of Pakistani-Punjabi culture in the guise of Hindi cinema. Pakistani-Punjabi because those Punjabis who lean Hindu too get the shaft from the trade/award lobby. And all this is increasingly being done dropping all pretenses of dignity and secularism. These people benefitting from secularism are themselves operating in communal camps when they can.
But be that as it may then. They can self-congratulate themselves right now. But Bollywood and its awards are going to be treated in the same manner from now on in response; without pretense of the esteem and dignity that an award is supposed to represent in the first place.
And politically, the producers and lobbyists need to keep in mind that the climate can change in 10 Janpath soon. They will have to go pleading to the very people being angered right now.
Courtesy: IBOS Network
February 23, 2008
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Wednesday, 16 January 2008
Govt Style - Shame to Mahabharatha epic
Government of India
Ministry of Human Resources Development
Department of Culture
Films Division
New Films Subdivision
No. B1452/234/2003 Dt. 23.12.07
To:
Shri. B.R.Chopra,
Film Director,
Mumbai
Ref: Film story submitted by you, regarding financing of films by Govt of India; Your letter dt. 2.12.90
The undersigned is directed to refer the aforementiontioned letter and state that the Government (GOI) has examined your proposal for financing a film called ''Mahabharat'. The VHLC (Very High Level Committee) constituted for this purpose has been in consultation with the Human Rights Commission, National Commission for Women and Labour Commission, in addition to various Ministries and State Governments, and have formed definitive opinions about the script. Their observations are as below:
1. In the script submitted by you it is shown that there were two sets of cousins, namely, the 'Kauravas', numbering one hundred, and the 'Pandavas', numbering five or six. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has pointed out that these numbers are high, well above the norm prescribed for families by them. It is brought to your kind attention that when the Government is spending massive amounts for promoting Family Planning in due earnest, this indiscretion will send erroneous signals to the general public. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that there may be only three 'Kauravas' and one 'Pandava'.
2. The Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs has raised an issue whether it is suitable to depict kings and emperors in this democratic age. Therefore,it is suggested that the 'Kauravas' may please be depicted as Honourable Members of Parliament (Lok Sabha) and the 'Pandava' may please be depicted as Honourable Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha). The ending of the film shows the victory of the said 'Pandavas' over the said 'Kauravas'. The ending may be suitably modified so none of the Honourable Members of Parliament is shown as being inferior to other Honourable Members of Parliament.
3. The Ministry of Science and Technology has observed that the manner of birth of 'Kauravas' is suggestive of human cloning, a technology banned in India. This may be changed to normal birth.
4. The National Commission for Women has objected that the father of 'Pandavas', one Sri 'Pandu', is depicted as bigamous, and also there is only one wife for the 'Pandavas' in common. Thereore suitable changes may be made in the said script so that the said Sri 'Pandu' is not depicted as bigamous. However, with the reduction in number of 'Pandavas' as suggested above, the issue of polyandry can be addressed without further trouble.
5. The Commission for the Physically Challenged has observed that the portrayal of the visually impaired character 'Dhritarashtra' is derogatory. Therefore the said character may not be shown as visually impaired.
6. The Department of Women and Child Development have highlighted that the public disrobing of one female character called 'Draupadi' is objectionable and derogatory to women in general. Further the Home Ministry anticipates that depiction of such scenes may create law and order problem and at the same time invite strong protests from the different women forums. Such scenes may also invite penal action under SITA (Suppression of Immoral Traffic Act), therefore they may be avoided and deleted from the film.
7. It is felt that showing the 'Pandava' and the 'Kauravas' as gamblers will be anti-social and counter-productive as it might encourage gambling. Therefore, the said 'Pandavas' and 'Kauravas' may be shown to have engaged in horse racing or cricket. (Hon. Supreme Court has held horse racing and cricket not to be gambling).
8. The 'Pandavas' are shown as working in the King 'Virat's employment without receiving any salary. According to the Human Rights Commission, this amounts to bonded labour and may attract provisions of The Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976. This may be corrected at once.
9. In the ensuing war, one character by name Sri 'Abhimanyu' has been shown as fighting. The National Labour Commission has observed that, war being a hazardous industry, and the said character being 16 years old, this depiction will be construed as a case of child labour. Also there is no record of his being paid any compensation. This may also be deemed to be violatory of the provisions of The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 and Minimum Wages Act, 1948. Such references in the film may be removed.
10. The character Sri 'Krishna' has been depicted as wearing a peacock feather. The peacock is our National Bird and wearing dresses made from peacock feather is an offence under the Wild Life Protection Act, 1972. This may not be depicted
11. Smt. Maneka Gandhi has raised very serious objection against using any elephants or horses in war scenes, since there is every scope for mistreatment and injury to the said animals. The provisions of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1890 and Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Amendment) Act, 1960 would be applicable in the instant case. Suitable changes may be made in the script to address the objections raised.
12. In pursuance of the Memorandum of Ministry of Finance regarding austerity measures, it is informed that in the battle field sequences, only ten soldiers may be allowed for each side. Also, all the characters may be shown to have obtained a valid licence under the Arms Act, 1959 as well as the Indian Arms Act, 1878.
You may have observed already that none of these observations attempt to curb artistic freedom or ingenuity in conformity with avowed GOI policy. You are therefore requested to modify your otherwise meritorious script along the aforementioned lines and resubmit it (notarised triplicate) to the undersigned at the earliest for the Government's consideration in due course.
Sd/-
Under Secretary
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Adopting Hindu names for destroying Hinduism
"How come I am a Hindu?"
said Rajiv Gandhi.
B.K.Dass(kunjwani@sancharnet.in)
During his visit to Kashmir in late eighties, the Prime Minister of India , Rajiv Gandhi was adamant to drive his Safari himself across the tunnel, when both the air and road traffic were closed due to heavy snowfall. For others it was violation of law, but Mr. Clean was above the law of the land. The Safari was however, almost hand lifted by a Brigadier, the I / C Commanding Officer at Udhampur to the north portal of the tunnel
Kashmir Valley was covered white. The road traffic had come to stand still. I along with my children walked the distance from Magarmal Bagh to Zainakot, HMT crossing. En route, we, besides a crowd of people had to stand on the roadside at kamarwari Chattabal, until the cavalcade of the two non serious Heads, who were the curse on the people, thrust by their self centered parents on the innocent Indians including the Kashmiris. We Kashmiri people were doubly cursed. Both our Prime Minister and the Chief Minister had inherited their respective thrones courtesy manipulation of democracy. The senior Clean was at the steering wheel while the local Clean was next to him waving hand to the public standing under compulsion due to the traffic hazard. A little ahead the caravan had a temporary stopover at Maulvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari’s residence at Kamarwari crossing over a tea party.
Doordarshan Kashmir Evening News Bulletin had given full coverage to the PM’s valley joy tour. Special event of the news made me to believe that faces are deceptive. Though Clean, yet filthy within. Farooq in his dramatic style held Rajiv’s hand tight in his hand and lifted hand to exhibit commitment:” Aaj eak Musalman eak Hindu key saath muhadha kerta hai (Today a Musalman and a Hindu do commit to each other.” Naming Rajiv as Hindu was nothing short of an electric current to Rajiv. He in a jolt withdrew his hand and said: “Maie kehan Hindu houn(How come I am a Hindu?” Farooq said: “Thodee dhair key leiay maan lo na. (Let it be for a while)”.
The next day or the same day, the two were, stopped by Farooq Ahangar, a National Conference worker at Kanikadal crossing leading to Tankipora, near Hari halwi’s shop. Rajiv followed Farooq and, both one by one shook hand with with Farooq Ahangar.
Hari Halwaie’s immediate prophecy was that bad days for India are bound to come.
The same year Lala Tirth Ram Amila, Raj Sabha Member (Congress) forewarned the Raj Sabha about the infiltration of militants. Rajiv gagged Lala Ji and said: “Lala Ji you are not here to spread rumours”.
In Bhaarat, Rajiv Gandhi who was a Muslim (Most of the Bhaaratiya people believe that he is a Hindu due to his name) became a Roman Catholic and still Bhaaratiya made him the Prime Minister of Bhaarat (80% of people in Bhaarat are Hindu.) That happens only in Bhaarat. However, adopting Hindu names and practices poses a danger. If a convert adopts name Joseph we immediately know that he is different, but if he keeps his name Jagannath or Jagadish and becomes a Christian we can't distinguish him. Rajiv kept his Hindu name to deceive Hindus in spite of being a Muslim and latter converted to Christianity, the religion of his wife. Many Christians and Muslims are taking Hindu names for fooling and deceiving Hindus. Daya Shankar, Dinesh, Sunil, Nirmala, Deepak, Kirti, Shakti Singh, Bhanu Pratap, Vivekenanda, Kapil, Manohar, Vidyadhar, Arvind, Shanti Prasad, Premchand, Vimla, Anand, Vinod Kumar, Jyoti, Rajni, Jai Shree, Yashwant, Shalini, Ajay Singh, Ajat Shatru are all names of Christians and some Muslims are also having such name for getting jobs or for merging with Hindus for creating terrorist activities. Many Christian ministers in government are having Hindu names.
Ambika Soni is a Christian lady with Hindu name. She is trying to destroy Hindu religion. How did Ambika Soni, in spite of being Christian come to the conclusion that NASA's evidence is not reliable about Ram Sethu? She is neither being logical, nor neutral, but is divesting her anti-Hindu propensity. She is not even doing her job properly; she is mishandling and bungling her job. If she were doing her job, she would be setting funds to classify Ram Sethu as an Ancient-Monument, which is older than the pyramids, older than the Great Wall Of China, in fact, it is the oldest man-made structure in the world. She would try to propagate the importance and history of this great monument, and notify the government about its significance, importance, and antiquity of it. She has not done any study to determine the age, the antiquity, and heritage value of this great monument. Of course, this monument is highly sacred to over one billion Hindus. But this is never a consideration in Ambika Soni's thinking that is why she has such a reputation for being an anti-Hindu. Her assessment of the situation is purely anti-Hindu, political, and not scientific.
Ms. Gandhi, an Italian-born Roman Catholic, hails from a family loyal to Benito Mussolini. She married Mr. Rajiv Gandhi, son of the then Indian Prime Minister Indira khan (commonly known as Gandhi); he became Prime Minister after her assassination in 1984. In 1991, Congress failed to win enough seats to form its own government, so Mr. Narasimha Rao was asked to cobble a working majority, while the widowed Ms. Gandhi bided her time. By 1996, she felt strong enough to physically takeover the party from president Sitaram Kesri, but in 2004, despite overt support, was denied premiership and forced to make way for Dr. Man Mohan Singh.
She now hopes to groom her son, Rahul Gandhi, for leadership of the party and country. The citizenship status of Ms. Sonia Gandhi and her two children has never been clarified; she is a naturalized Indian and under Roman law, she and her offspring are eternally entitled to Roman citizenship. This was how she took her husband and children to the Italian embassy in 1977 after Mrs. Indira Gandhi lost the elections.
Ms. Gandhi’s long and privileged stay in this country was lucrative to her native country and friends. The Italian public sector Snam Progetti won extravagant and regular fertilizer contracts in India , and her personal friend Ottavio Quattrochi even doubled up as a middleman in the Bofors kickbacks scandal. The Congress president had enough political cachet to help friends evade justice after the scandal broke, and as UPA chairperson ensured that the Bofors monies, frozen in two London accounts, were released to Mr. Quattrochi, and that he walked free after detention in Argentina!
More recently, she struggled hard to impose the controversial Indo-US nuclear deal on the nation, despite its crippling financial, technological and security implications for Bhaarat. The covert but firm opposition of coalition partners to premature elections appears to have scuttled the deal, but it is too early to celebrate. Observers expect Congress to somehow ‘buy’ Left compliance.
Should we be proud of Bobby Jindal?
Bobby Jindal born to relatively affluent professionals in Louisiana, he rejected his Bhaaratiya name (Piyush) as a very young child, insisting that he be called Bobby, after a (white) character on the popular TV show 'The Brady Bunch'. His desire to fit in to the majority-white society he saw around him soon manifested itself in another act of rejection: Bobby spurned the Hinduism into which he was born and, as a teenager, converted to Roman Catholicism, the faith of most white Louisianans. After conversion to Christianity he did not change his Hindu name to maintain his Hindu identity as well.
The election of Bobby Jindal as governor of the US state of Louisiana has been greeted exultantly by Bhaaratiyas and Indian-Americans around the world. There's no question that this is an extraordinary accomplishment: a young Indian-American, just 36 years old.
Jindal asked his Indian wife, Supriya, to convert to Christianity as well, and the two are regular churchgoers. In his social circle, Bobby Jindal is considered very conservative Christian.
Let us be proud that a brown-skinned man with a Bhaaratiya name has achieved what Bobby Jindal has. But let us not make the mistake of thinking that we should be proud of what he stands for.
To achieve something poor people are leaving Sanatan Dharm and Bobby did the same thing what is the difference. Why give label made in India ....Hindus treat Hindutva like their mothers can’t give her up for anything and most of you will not. The point is don’t just be happy because of some sensation created by a converted Hindu. He won’t be of any use to you or for Hindutva....keep this thing in mind. Hindus should not be heart broken....He has left all Hindus willingly let him go. do not label his family as they are still practicing Hindu...it does not matter at all....he has set precedence for people eying for higher positions...to convert and achieve...
If he helps Bhaarat, we should be thankful, as for Hindus he can be of no help. And most of us know, during California Books Crisis, it was Indian Christians and Communists who were supporting Michael Witzel of Harvard University .
Muslims Use Hindu Names to Survive
Muslims could be using Hindu names to survive, but can you blame Hindus who know that terrorists all over the world are all Muslims. And this also could be a trap for Hindu girls who may date or marry a Muslim who is using a Hindus name. In fact, Hindu organizations need to educate fellowmen regarding those Muslims who are hiding under Hindu names. Non-Hindu girls need to know about this trap.
-- Excerpts from news:--Muslims Use Hindu Names to Survive Al Alam -- August 25, 2007
"Fifteen years ago, when I came to Calcutta in search of a job, almost all street restaurants in the city refused to employ me because I was a Muslim," Shaikh Salim told the Washington Times on Tuesday, August 21.
"But soon I met a Muslim man who worked as a cook in a Hindu-owned restaurant under a Hindu identity. I followed his advice, picked up a Hindu identity, and soon an upper-class Hindu employed me to run a food stall."
Salim, who goes by the common Hindu name Shankar Maity, now runs a food stall in a busy street in Calcutta, which he calls "Shankar's Fast Food."
Nearly all of his customers are Hindus and he fears his business would suffer disastrously if they found out about his Muslim identity.
http://www.alalam.ir/english/en-NewsPage.asp?newsid=009090120070824203431
This is a Great-Opportunity for the Hindus, to convert a whole slew of Moslems to Hinduism.
There are tens of thousands of Moslems, who are using Hindu names (but are actually practicing Moslems), to secure jobs from Hindu-employers, to survive. These Moslems are living a Double-Life. A Double-Life is never easy; it is neither easy nor simple. There is always fear of being discovered and fired from the job. Unfortunately, most Hindu employers never do any detective work, to discover the real identity of their employees. What is required is an Army of Dedicated Hindu Dharm-Yodhas, who would do the detective-work, and notify the Hindu-Employer of any Double-Life Hindu (a Phony-Hindu), and the Phoney would be fired immediately.
Chances are that this technique work? Because the Moslem has an Addiction. The Moslem is Addicted to eating. He would rather dump his Islam (and become Hindu), than go without eating and die of starvation.
Hinduism can only flourish if such rules like Shuddhi and non acceptance of non vegetarians are allowed. Tillwe can evolve a method of conversion we will just die on the wine in the future. We must work towardreformation.
The Hindus have to create means to do this? The Hindu has more than enough resources (in terms of money) to hire Dedicated Dharm-Yodhas, and lots of them. This technique can work equally well (if not better) on Christians as well. Bhaarat is full of RICE-CHRISTIANS.
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
AP Samachar - 9 July, 2009
The Pioneer
Waging war on Taliban
Education takes a toll in terrorism-infested areas of Jammu
Deccan Chronicle
TTD priest under scanner
Advantage meltdown, say Maoists
The Hindu
Telugu comes to aid of tribal language
Go easy with the family silver
A budget that is sleight all the way
The New Indian Express
Dogmatic obsession
The Times of India
Zardari admits terrorism nurtured by govt for tactical use
Look On The Bright Side
http://vskap.blogspot.com/2009/07/ap-samachar-9-july-2009.html
AP Samachar - 9 July, 2009
The Pioneer
Waging war on Taliban
Education takes a toll in terrorism-infested areas of Jammu
Deccan Chronicle
TTD priest under scanner
Advantage meltdown, say Maoists
The Hindu
Telugu comes to aid of tribal language
Go easy with the family silver
A budget that is sleight all the way
The New Indian Express
Dogmatic obsession
The Times of India
Zardari admits terrorism nurtured by govt for tactical use
Look On The Bright Side
http://vskap.blogspot.com/2009/07/ap-samachar-9-july-2009.html
VANAVASIS (TRIBALS) SAVE 100-YEAR OLD TREE
VANAVASIS (TRIBALS) SAVE 100-YEAR OLD TREE
The villagers of Kovilur in Javadhu Hills (Tiruvannamalai district) have been protecting a century-old sandalwood tree for generations now. For the villagers, the tree is a symbol of pride of their ancestors.
The villagers are a virtual ‘human shield’ against smugglers for the oldest and biggest sandalwood tree of the hills spread over 3,150 sq. km. The tribals had put their lives at risk and helped the forest department on several occasions to keep the sandalwood tree mafias at bay, said forest officials. They have been resisting the smugglers for nearly a century now. They have also been safeguarding another 30 year old tree in the village.
UPA AT ITS OLD GAME
In a bid to facilitate the issuance of temporary passports to Haj pilgrims, the UPA Government has decided to do away with police verification process. On Monday (5-7-2009), the Haj Committee of India said the Government's decision to this effect came after two meetings in Delhi and Bangalore on June 8 and 10 June, chaired by N Ravi, Secretary (East), Ministry of External Affairs.
The villagers of Kovilur in Javadhu Hills (Tiruvannamalai district) have been protecting a century-old sandalwood tree for generations now. For the villagers, the tree is a symbol of pride of their ancestors.
The villagers are a virtual ‘human shield’ against smugglers for the oldest and biggest sandalwood tree of the hills spread over 3,150 sq. km. The tribals had put their lives at risk and helped the forest department on several occasions to keep the sandalwood tree mafias at bay, said forest officials. They have been resisting the smugglers for nearly a century now. They have also been safeguarding another 30 year old tree in the village.
UPA AT ITS OLD GAME
In a bid to facilitate the issuance of temporary passports to Haj pilgrims, the UPA Government has decided to do away with police verification process. On Monday (5-7-2009), the Haj Committee of India said the Government's decision to this effect came after two meetings in Delhi and Bangalore on June 8 and 10 June, chaired by N Ravi, Secretary (East), Ministry of External Affairs.
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Gandhian swaraj, diminishing the kshatriya
Gandhian swaraj, diminishing the kshatriya
Radha Rajan
03 Jul 2009
[This chapter makes the distinction between Aurobindo swaraj and Gandhi's swaraj. Along the way we mark the beginning of the de-hinduising of the INC when the Moderates import Dadabhai Naoroji as President of the INC when they realize that the Nationalists intended to present Tilak for the post. Aurobindo correctly summarised this move as being rejection of Tilak's steadfast Hindu identity. This chapter also looks at Hindu understanding of Nation and Nationhood by citing Kautilya's exposition on alien rule or vairajya. Finally this chapter demonstrates how Gandhian swaraj led to Nehruvian secularism – Author]
Our study of Gandhi’s political career in South Africa demonstrated that his Satyagraha did not yield anything the Empire was not willing to concede. It established tangentially that Gandhi’s encounter with the British Empire in South Africa was not intended to bring the Empire down by ending Apartheid colonial rule in South Africa, but merely to persuade the British government to look favourably upon the migrant Indian community there and enhance their social and political status above that of native Africans, through amendment or repeal of some discriminatory laws.
We hope to establish that when Gandhi returned to India, his political career was consistent with his sojourn in South Africa, with no difference in objectives, and with disastrous consequences for Hindus and their motherland. Gandhi rendered Hindus politically impotent and fathered modern India’s politics of minority-ism. It is our contention that:
- The so-called freedom movement was never a freedom movement.
- Until 1942, the INC under Gandhi’s leadership and under his explicit injunction, never contemplated ending colonial rule.
- The call for ‘swaraj’ at the 1920 Nagpur Congress and for ‘purna swaraj’ at the 1928 Lahore Congress was a mockery of the Tilak/Aurobindo war-cry that galvanized the entire nation in the two decades between 1890-1910 on one hand, and on the other hand deceived ordinary Indians about the content and meaning of Gandhian swaraj which was never intended to be complete political independence entailing the exit of the Empire.
- It was only in 1942 when world events weakened the Empire and made continued occupation of India increasingly untenable that the INC issued the utterly redundant notice to ‘Quit India.’
- When the Empire finally decided to quit, it did so only on its terms with an ascendant Islam vivisecting the Hindu nation, with Nehru firmly positioned to inherit the mantle of leadership from Gandhi, with Jammu & Kashmir twisted into a permanent thorn in the nation’s flesh by Nehru and Mountbatten, with Hindus decisively disempowered politically, and the basis of nationhood of the new nation-state floundering in rampant confusion.
- But the most disgraceful situation was that on 15 August 1947, when India allegedly became ‘independent’ to the emotive vacuity of Nehru’s tryst with ‘freedom at midnight,’ the nation was actually a Dominion of the British Empire. What we achieved on 15 August was self-rule within the Empire because Nehru had consented to the King of England to remain Head of State for three more years, until January 1950, while falsely celebrating 15 August 1947 as official Independence Day.
- Complete political independence was thus still in the future, though the groves of Nehruvian academia continued to perpetuate a falsehood.
Even before the INC split decisively in December 1907 into two factions – those advocating the mendicant policy calling themselves Moderates, while those wanting nothing less than total political independence calling themselves Nationalists, the radically different objectives before the Congress as perceived among followers of these two sections was already evident by 1906 on the issue of who should be the president of the Calcutta Congress in December that year.
The Nationalists wanted Tilak while the Moderates wanted to import Dadabhai Naoroji from London knowing that Tilak would never set himself up against a man who was widely respected and held in high esteem. Aurobindo unerringly concluded that objections to Tilak becoming president of the INC originated from Gokhale, Surendranath Banerjea and Pherozeshah Mehta because Tilak was perceived as being Hindu and as advocating Hindu nationalism.
“The Indian Mirror, which is now the chief ally of the government among the Congress organs in Bengal, has chosen naturally enough to fall foul of Mr. Tilak. Mr. Tilak, we learn, has seriously offended our contemporary by giving honour to Mr. Bhopatkar on his release from jail; his speeches on the Shivaji festival were displeasing to the thoughtful and enlightened men who congregate in the office of the Indian Mirror; and to sum up the whole matter, he is a man of extreme views and without ‘tact’. Ergo, he is no fit man for the presidential chair of the Congress.
“It is interesting to learn on this unimpeachable authority, what are the qualifications which the moderate and loyalist mind demands in a President of the ‘national’ Congress. It is not the great protagonist and champion of Swadeshi in Western India. It is not the one man whom the whole Hindu community in Western India delights to honour, from Peshawar to Kolhapur and from Bombay to our own borders; it is one who will not talk about Shivaji and Bhavani – only about Mahatmas. His social and religious views may not agree with those of the ‘enlightened’, but we have yet to learn that the Congress platform is sacred to advanced social reformers, that the profession of the Hindu religion is a bar to leadership in its ranks. Mr. Tilak’s only other offence is the courage and boldness of his views and his sturdiness in holding by them.” (The “Mirror” and Mr. Tilak, Bande Mataram, August 28, 1906, pp 140-41)
Aurobindo’s incisive intelligence perceived the nascent trend in the INC to de-Hinduise itself; but even he failed to develop the thought further. In 1906, the move to dilute the Hinduness of the prominent leaders of the INC could only have been either to please the powerful Parsee community or the Imperial and Indian British governments because courting the Muslims was still in the future. Knowing well enough that nominating Gokhale (who had expressed regret to the British government for the Boycott campaign) for Presidentship would trigger a revolt in the Congress ranks, in what would become decades later a trend-setting back-room manoeuvre or a coup d’etat, the ‘moderate’ and loyalist factions in 1906 presented Dadabhai Naoroji for presidentship as fait accompli.
“The plea that it had long been known Mr. Naoroji was coming to India and it was therefore thought fit to ask him to preside at the Congress, is one which will command no credit. Not until Mr. Tilak’s name was before the country and they saw that none of their mediocrities they had suggested could weigh in the scale with the great Maratha leader. Not by these sophisms will the Calcutta autocrats escape the discredit of their actions.” (A Disingenuous Defence, September 14, 1906, Bande Mataram, pp 171-72)
A similar coup d’etat was attempted in October 1911 when a private suggestion was made to Gandhi, after his profitable London visit in 1909 and now the author of the ‘banned’ Hind Swaraj, to accept the Presidentship of the INC; Gandhi, eager by now to return to India for a more ambitious political role, wired his acceptance with alacrity but withdrew his acceptance when it was communicated to him that it was merely an ‘inquiry’ and not an offer. Pandit Bishen Narayan Dhar was subsequently elected President. Needless to say, the choice of President for the Congress was determined only by the goal that the Congress had set for itself: the goal was not political freedom or end of colonial rule.
“Our immediate problem as a nation is not how to be intellectual and well-informed or how to be rich and industrious, but how to stave off imminent death, how to put an end to the white peril, how to assert ourselves and live. It is for this reason that whatever minor differences there may be between different exponents of the new spirit, they are all agreed on the immediate necessity of an organized national resistance to the state of things which is crushing us out of existence as a nation, and on the one goal of that resistance – freedom.” (Aurobindo, The Doctrine of Passive Resistance, Its Necessity, page 96)
‘End to white peril’, ‘organized national resistance’, ‘freedom’, these were the goals which the Nationalists sought to place before the Congress by nominating Tilak for Presidentship. The Congress rejected the attempt by the Nationalists to redefine its raison d’etre and signalled its rejection by choosing instead to bring back empire loyalist Dadabhai Naoroji from London. Aurobindo accurately diagnosed the condition of educated Indians as being steeped in tamas – a state of languor which did not perceive its enslavement and therefore felt no desire to end it.
Excerpted from
Eclipse of the Hindu Nation: Gandhi and his freedom struggle
Radha Rajan
New Age Publishers (P) Ltd., Delhi, 2009
Price: Rs 495/-
ISBN 81- 7819 - 068- 0
The book may be ordered from the publishers at ncbadel@ncbapvtltd.com
or at 011-2649 3326/ 27/ 28
The author is editor, www.vigilonline.com
Radha Rajan
03 Jul 2009
[This chapter makes the distinction between Aurobindo swaraj and Gandhi's swaraj. Along the way we mark the beginning of the de-hinduising of the INC when the Moderates import Dadabhai Naoroji as President of the INC when they realize that the Nationalists intended to present Tilak for the post. Aurobindo correctly summarised this move as being rejection of Tilak's steadfast Hindu identity. This chapter also looks at Hindu understanding of Nation and Nationhood by citing Kautilya's exposition on alien rule or vairajya. Finally this chapter demonstrates how Gandhian swaraj led to Nehruvian secularism – Author]
Our study of Gandhi’s political career in South Africa demonstrated that his Satyagraha did not yield anything the Empire was not willing to concede. It established tangentially that Gandhi’s encounter with the British Empire in South Africa was not intended to bring the Empire down by ending Apartheid colonial rule in South Africa, but merely to persuade the British government to look favourably upon the migrant Indian community there and enhance their social and political status above that of native Africans, through amendment or repeal of some discriminatory laws.
We hope to establish that when Gandhi returned to India, his political career was consistent with his sojourn in South Africa, with no difference in objectives, and with disastrous consequences for Hindus and their motherland. Gandhi rendered Hindus politically impotent and fathered modern India’s politics of minority-ism. It is our contention that:
- The so-called freedom movement was never a freedom movement.
- Until 1942, the INC under Gandhi’s leadership and under his explicit injunction, never contemplated ending colonial rule.
- The call for ‘swaraj’ at the 1920 Nagpur Congress and for ‘purna swaraj’ at the 1928 Lahore Congress was a mockery of the Tilak/Aurobindo war-cry that galvanized the entire nation in the two decades between 1890-1910 on one hand, and on the other hand deceived ordinary Indians about the content and meaning of Gandhian swaraj which was never intended to be complete political independence entailing the exit of the Empire.
- It was only in 1942 when world events weakened the Empire and made continued occupation of India increasingly untenable that the INC issued the utterly redundant notice to ‘Quit India.’
- When the Empire finally decided to quit, it did so only on its terms with an ascendant Islam vivisecting the Hindu nation, with Nehru firmly positioned to inherit the mantle of leadership from Gandhi, with Jammu & Kashmir twisted into a permanent thorn in the nation’s flesh by Nehru and Mountbatten, with Hindus decisively disempowered politically, and the basis of nationhood of the new nation-state floundering in rampant confusion.
- But the most disgraceful situation was that on 15 August 1947, when India allegedly became ‘independent’ to the emotive vacuity of Nehru’s tryst with ‘freedom at midnight,’ the nation was actually a Dominion of the British Empire. What we achieved on 15 August was self-rule within the Empire because Nehru had consented to the King of England to remain Head of State for three more years, until January 1950, while falsely celebrating 15 August 1947 as official Independence Day.
- Complete political independence was thus still in the future, though the groves of Nehruvian academia continued to perpetuate a falsehood.
Even before the INC split decisively in December 1907 into two factions – those advocating the mendicant policy calling themselves Moderates, while those wanting nothing less than total political independence calling themselves Nationalists, the radically different objectives before the Congress as perceived among followers of these two sections was already evident by 1906 on the issue of who should be the president of the Calcutta Congress in December that year.
The Nationalists wanted Tilak while the Moderates wanted to import Dadabhai Naoroji from London knowing that Tilak would never set himself up against a man who was widely respected and held in high esteem. Aurobindo unerringly concluded that objections to Tilak becoming president of the INC originated from Gokhale, Surendranath Banerjea and Pherozeshah Mehta because Tilak was perceived as being Hindu and as advocating Hindu nationalism.
“The Indian Mirror, which is now the chief ally of the government among the Congress organs in Bengal, has chosen naturally enough to fall foul of Mr. Tilak. Mr. Tilak, we learn, has seriously offended our contemporary by giving honour to Mr. Bhopatkar on his release from jail; his speeches on the Shivaji festival were displeasing to the thoughtful and enlightened men who congregate in the office of the Indian Mirror; and to sum up the whole matter, he is a man of extreme views and without ‘tact’. Ergo, he is no fit man for the presidential chair of the Congress.
“It is interesting to learn on this unimpeachable authority, what are the qualifications which the moderate and loyalist mind demands in a President of the ‘national’ Congress. It is not the great protagonist and champion of Swadeshi in Western India. It is not the one man whom the whole Hindu community in Western India delights to honour, from Peshawar to Kolhapur and from Bombay to our own borders; it is one who will not talk about Shivaji and Bhavani – only about Mahatmas. His social and religious views may not agree with those of the ‘enlightened’, but we have yet to learn that the Congress platform is sacred to advanced social reformers, that the profession of the Hindu religion is a bar to leadership in its ranks. Mr. Tilak’s only other offence is the courage and boldness of his views and his sturdiness in holding by them.” (The “Mirror” and Mr. Tilak, Bande Mataram, August 28, 1906, pp 140-41)
Aurobindo’s incisive intelligence perceived the nascent trend in the INC to de-Hinduise itself; but even he failed to develop the thought further. In 1906, the move to dilute the Hinduness of the prominent leaders of the INC could only have been either to please the powerful Parsee community or the Imperial and Indian British governments because courting the Muslims was still in the future. Knowing well enough that nominating Gokhale (who had expressed regret to the British government for the Boycott campaign) for Presidentship would trigger a revolt in the Congress ranks, in what would become decades later a trend-setting back-room manoeuvre or a coup d’etat, the ‘moderate’ and loyalist factions in 1906 presented Dadabhai Naoroji for presidentship as fait accompli.
“The plea that it had long been known Mr. Naoroji was coming to India and it was therefore thought fit to ask him to preside at the Congress, is one which will command no credit. Not until Mr. Tilak’s name was before the country and they saw that none of their mediocrities they had suggested could weigh in the scale with the great Maratha leader. Not by these sophisms will the Calcutta autocrats escape the discredit of their actions.” (A Disingenuous Defence, September 14, 1906, Bande Mataram, pp 171-72)
A similar coup d’etat was attempted in October 1911 when a private suggestion was made to Gandhi, after his profitable London visit in 1909 and now the author of the ‘banned’ Hind Swaraj, to accept the Presidentship of the INC; Gandhi, eager by now to return to India for a more ambitious political role, wired his acceptance with alacrity but withdrew his acceptance when it was communicated to him that it was merely an ‘inquiry’ and not an offer. Pandit Bishen Narayan Dhar was subsequently elected President. Needless to say, the choice of President for the Congress was determined only by the goal that the Congress had set for itself: the goal was not political freedom or end of colonial rule.
“Our immediate problem as a nation is not how to be intellectual and well-informed or how to be rich and industrious, but how to stave off imminent death, how to put an end to the white peril, how to assert ourselves and live. It is for this reason that whatever minor differences there may be between different exponents of the new spirit, they are all agreed on the immediate necessity of an organized national resistance to the state of things which is crushing us out of existence as a nation, and on the one goal of that resistance – freedom.” (Aurobindo, The Doctrine of Passive Resistance, Its Necessity, page 96)
‘End to white peril’, ‘organized national resistance’, ‘freedom’, these were the goals which the Nationalists sought to place before the Congress by nominating Tilak for Presidentship. The Congress rejected the attempt by the Nationalists to redefine its raison d’etre and signalled its rejection by choosing instead to bring back empire loyalist Dadabhai Naoroji from London. Aurobindo accurately diagnosed the condition of educated Indians as being steeped in tamas – a state of languor which did not perceive its enslavement and therefore felt no desire to end it.
Excerpted from
Eclipse of the Hindu Nation: Gandhi and his freedom struggle
Radha Rajan
New Age Publishers (P) Ltd., Delhi, 2009
Price: Rs 495/-
ISBN 81- 7819 - 068- 0
The book may be ordered from the publishers at ncbadel@ncbapvtltd.com
or at 011-2649 3326/ 27/ 28
The author is editor, www.vigilonline.com
Was the 2009 election rigged?
Was the 2009 election rigged?
Here is a Rediff news report that appeared today. It was mysteriously pulled within a few hours of posting it. Though the link gives the name of the story (see below), if you click on it you get an error message: “The requested page could not be found.” Seems like somebody high-up made a phone call. Something is fishy, otherwise why will the story get pulled all of a sudden? Chawla sahib has been up to some hanky panky. I hope the dude gets nailed for his lack of morality and any kind of accountability to the people of India.
http://www.rediff.com/www/news/2009/jul/04was-election-2009-rigged.htm
Here is the story (that somebody copied in full before it vanished):
Was the 2009 elections rigged?
The Election Commission has now officially taken up the investigation of charges of rigging and fraud through the Electronic Voting Machines.
Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla [ Images ] is sitting over a major scandal of a possible massive rigging of elections by manipulation of software of the Electronic Voting Machines.
But for the charge levelled by a former Delhi [ Images ] chief secretary five years senior to him in the Indian Administrative Service cadre, Chawla would have rejected such claims of rigging.
Omesh Saigal, a 1964 batch IAS officer of the Union Territory, stunned him with a presentation to force him to order an inquiry into any possibility of such a rigging.
Chawla is himself a Union Territory cadre IAS of 1969 batch.
Deputy Election Commissioner Balakrishnan has been asked to conduct the inquiry on the basis of a report handed over by Saigal to the CEC, with a software he got developed to show how the elections can be rigged.
Saigal, who is an Indian Institute of Technology alumni, has demanded an urgent check of the programme that runs the EVMs used in elections since 2004.
He demonstrated with his software that its manipulation ensured that one has to just key in a certain code number and that will ensure every fifth vote cast in a particular polling booth goes in favour of a certain candidate.
In his letter to the CEC, Saigal alleged that the software written onto the EVMs has never been checked by the Election Commission ever since these machines were manufactured than 6-7 years back.
His contention is that the EC merely relied on the certificates supplied by the manufacturers, the government-run BEL and ECIL. He alleged that these government firms had subcontracted private parties who actually provided these certificates.
“A public software audit of these machines from time to time, especially after and before an election, was a must to retain the credibility of the elections,” Saigal affirmed, demanding that for the sake of transparency names and ownerships of these private companies must be disclosed, as also the details of the factories where they were actually manufactured.
The records retained in the factories must also be immediately taken over by the EC to prevent any tampering and to facilitate an audit, he said.
He also pointed out how, after nearly two years of deliberation, Germany’s [ Images ] Supreme Court ruled last March that e-voting was unconstitutional because the average citizen could not be expected to understand the exact steps involved in the recording and tallying of votes. Earlier, Ireland had given up e-voting for similar reasons.
In the United States too, after considerable controversy the Federal Election Commission has come up in 2005 with detailed voting system guidelines which run into more than 400 pages.
Saigal said that it is noteworthy that not a single safeguard mentioned in these guidelines are in place in India.
Saigal said he had gone into all the safeguards built into the e-voting system in India with the help of former colleagues and IT experts and finds it both ‘possible and plausible’ to rig these machines and get a crooked result.
“If the credibility of the electoral process is to be ensured, pre- and post-election checks of the software now fused onto the chips of the EVMs is a must,” Saigal said.
It is not that all the 10 lakh odd machines used in the poll need to be checked. If we take only those booths where one of the candidates has received 75 per cent of the votes and in constituencies where the
margin of the winner is less than 15,000, not more than 7,000-odd machines will need to be checked.
Saigal argued in his report that “if we cannot do this we must revert to the paper ballot.”
“The need for a fair, free and transparent polling system transcends any reasons anyone may have to the contrary,” he added.
Here is a Rediff news report that appeared today. It was mysteriously pulled within a few hours of posting it. Though the link gives the name of the story (see below), if you click on it you get an error message: “The requested page could not be found.” Seems like somebody high-up made a phone call. Something is fishy, otherwise why will the story get pulled all of a sudden? Chawla sahib has been up to some hanky panky. I hope the dude gets nailed for his lack of morality and any kind of accountability to the people of India.
http://www.rediff.com/www/news/2009/jul/04was-election-2009-rigged.htm
Here is the story (that somebody copied in full before it vanished):
Was the 2009 elections rigged?
The Election Commission has now officially taken up the investigation of charges of rigging and fraud through the Electronic Voting Machines.
Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla [ Images ] is sitting over a major scandal of a possible massive rigging of elections by manipulation of software of the Electronic Voting Machines.
But for the charge levelled by a former Delhi [ Images ] chief secretary five years senior to him in the Indian Administrative Service cadre, Chawla would have rejected such claims of rigging.
Omesh Saigal, a 1964 batch IAS officer of the Union Territory, stunned him with a presentation to force him to order an inquiry into any possibility of such a rigging.
Chawla is himself a Union Territory cadre IAS of 1969 batch.
Deputy Election Commissioner Balakrishnan has been asked to conduct the inquiry on the basis of a report handed over by Saigal to the CEC, with a software he got developed to show how the elections can be rigged.
Saigal, who is an Indian Institute of Technology alumni, has demanded an urgent check of the programme that runs the EVMs used in elections since 2004.
He demonstrated with his software that its manipulation ensured that one has to just key in a certain code number and that will ensure every fifth vote cast in a particular polling booth goes in favour of a certain candidate.
In his letter to the CEC, Saigal alleged that the software written onto the EVMs has never been checked by the Election Commission ever since these machines were manufactured than 6-7 years back.
His contention is that the EC merely relied on the certificates supplied by the manufacturers, the government-run BEL and ECIL. He alleged that these government firms had subcontracted private parties who actually provided these certificates.
“A public software audit of these machines from time to time, especially after and before an election, was a must to retain the credibility of the elections,” Saigal affirmed, demanding that for the sake of transparency names and ownerships of these private companies must be disclosed, as also the details of the factories where they were actually manufactured.
The records retained in the factories must also be immediately taken over by the EC to prevent any tampering and to facilitate an audit, he said.
He also pointed out how, after nearly two years of deliberation, Germany’s [ Images ] Supreme Court ruled last March that e-voting was unconstitutional because the average citizen could not be expected to understand the exact steps involved in the recording and tallying of votes. Earlier, Ireland had given up e-voting for similar reasons.
In the United States too, after considerable controversy the Federal Election Commission has come up in 2005 with detailed voting system guidelines which run into more than 400 pages.
Saigal said that it is noteworthy that not a single safeguard mentioned in these guidelines are in place in India.
Saigal said he had gone into all the safeguards built into the e-voting system in India with the help of former colleagues and IT experts and finds it both ‘possible and plausible’ to rig these machines and get a crooked result.
“If the credibility of the electoral process is to be ensured, pre- and post-election checks of the software now fused onto the chips of the EVMs is a must,” Saigal said.
It is not that all the 10 lakh odd machines used in the poll need to be checked. If we take only those booths where one of the candidates has received 75 per cent of the votes and in constituencies where the
margin of the winner is less than 15,000, not more than 7,000-odd machines will need to be checked.
Saigal argued in his report that “if we cannot do this we must revert to the paper ballot.”
“The need for a fair, free and transparent polling system transcends any reasons anyone may have to the contrary,” he added.
BJP MLA seeks better security
BJP MLA seeks better security
BHUBANESWAR: BJP MLA from G Udayagiri in Orissa’s riot hit Kandhamal district, Manoj Pradhan on Tuesday appealed to Speaker Pradip Amata to avail better security for him as the outlawed leftwing guerrillas have threatened to kill him.
Pradhan had taken his oath as a member of the Assembly on Monday after he was released from the jail on Sunday on a 15-day conditional bail.So far, in G-Udaygiri, Naxalites have killed four RSS activists, besides eliminating VHP leader Laxamananda Saraswati and four of his associates.
The MLA was behind bars ever since his arrest on October 18, 2008, on charges of rioting and arson and was booked in 14 criminal cases, including seven charges of murder.
Pradhan stressed upon his innocence and repeatedly said that he was not involved in any violence. “I never ventured out of my house during the riots and I do not know who filed the cases against me. The charges against me are false but I have complete trust in the judiciary and know that justice will be done,” said Pradhan.
He blamed the Naxalites of the murders of Swami Laxmananda and four of his associates at a Jalespeta ashram in August 2008. After Pradhan’s release, the leader reportedly first visited the ashram to offer his prayers.
When quizzed about the Kandhamal riots, Pradhan said peace would be possible in the block only when the government addresses the three main issues — land, fake certificate and conversion. Pradhan appealed to riot victims staying at relief camps to return home.
The MLA had fought and won the recent elections from behind bars defeating a senior Congress leader, Ajayanti Pradhan.
BHUBANESWAR: BJP MLA from G Udayagiri in Orissa’s riot hit Kandhamal district, Manoj Pradhan on Tuesday appealed to Speaker Pradip Amata to avail better security for him as the outlawed leftwing guerrillas have threatened to kill him.
Pradhan had taken his oath as a member of the Assembly on Monday after he was released from the jail on Sunday on a 15-day conditional bail.So far, in G-Udaygiri, Naxalites have killed four RSS activists, besides eliminating VHP leader Laxamananda Saraswati and four of his associates.
The MLA was behind bars ever since his arrest on October 18, 2008, on charges of rioting and arson and was booked in 14 criminal cases, including seven charges of murder.
Pradhan stressed upon his innocence and repeatedly said that he was not involved in any violence. “I never ventured out of my house during the riots and I do not know who filed the cases against me. The charges against me are false but I have complete trust in the judiciary and know that justice will be done,” said Pradhan.
He blamed the Naxalites of the murders of Swami Laxmananda and four of his associates at a Jalespeta ashram in August 2008. After Pradhan’s release, the leader reportedly first visited the ashram to offer his prayers.
When quizzed about the Kandhamal riots, Pradhan said peace would be possible in the block only when the government addresses the three main issues — land, fake certificate and conversion. Pradhan appealed to riot victims staying at relief camps to return home.
The MLA had fought and won the recent elections from behind bars defeating a senior Congress leader, Ajayanti Pradhan.
Sunday, July 05, 2009
HSC toppers felicitated
HSC toppers felicitated
BHUBANESWAR:(visakeo)- The Sikhya Vikash Samiti on Sunday, felicitated toppers of High School Certificate Examinations-2009 here.
School and Mass Education Minister Pratap Jena while attending a function at OUAT campus, lauded the performance of students and promised all help for the Saraswati Sishu Vidya Mandir. The Minister however promised better facilities including financial help for girl student.
45 out of the best 100 including two joint toppers Bibek Biswal and Sanket Dash and three former students, in total, 48 students felicitated.
Besides, Bidya Bharati zonal president Jagadish Patnaik, Sudarshan Nayak, Dr Nagendra Pradhan, BC Sahoo and Swami Jeevan Chaitnya were also felicitated.
Board Director DD Nath, Bidya Bharati State joint organizing secretary of Uttar Pradesh Prakash Chandraji, organizing secretray B Ganesh Kulkarni, Samiti president Dr Prafulla Mohapatra and Secretary Bijay Swain, spokesman Rabi Narayan Panda and organizing secretray Gobinda Chandra Mahanta were among those present.
BHUBANESWAR:(visakeo)- The Sikhya Vikash Samiti on Sunday, felicitated toppers of High School Certificate Examinations-2009 here.
School and Mass Education Minister Pratap Jena while attending a function at OUAT campus, lauded the performance of students and promised all help for the Saraswati Sishu Vidya Mandir. The Minister however promised better facilities including financial help for girl student.
45 out of the best 100 including two joint toppers Bibek Biswal and Sanket Dash and three former students, in total, 48 students felicitated.
Besides, Bidya Bharati zonal president Jagadish Patnaik, Sudarshan Nayak, Dr Nagendra Pradhan, BC Sahoo and Swami Jeevan Chaitnya were also felicitated.
Board Director DD Nath, Bidya Bharati State joint organizing secretary of Uttar Pradesh Prakash Chandraji, organizing secretray B Ganesh Kulkarni, Samiti president Dr Prafulla Mohapatra and Secretary Bijay Swain, spokesman Rabi Narayan Panda and organizing secretray Gobinda Chandra Mahanta were among those present.
Friday, July 03, 2009
Samiti to felicitate Matric toppers
Samiti to felicitate Matric toppers
BHUBANESWAR:(visakeo)- The Sikhya Vikash Samiti, State unit of Bidya Bharati, which runs the Saraswati Sishu Bidya Mandir Schools chains, would felicitate toppers of High School Certificate Examinations-2009 conducted by the Orissa Board of Secondary Education.
The Samiti is hosting a function to felicitate all toppers here at OUAT Campus on July 5, said Samiti State spokesman Rabi Narayan Panda on Friday. 45 out of the best 100 including two joint toppers Bibek Biswal and Sanket Dash and three former students, in total, 48 students would be felicitated on this occasion, he added.
School and Mass Education Minister Pratap Jena, OUAT VC Dr DP Ray, Board Director DD Nath, Bidya Bharati State joint organizing secretary of Uttar Pradesh Prakash Chandraji, Samiti president Dr Prafulla Mohapatra and secretary Bijay Swain are among expected to attend.
BHUBANESWAR:(visakeo)- The Sikhya Vikash Samiti, State unit of Bidya Bharati, which runs the Saraswati Sishu Bidya Mandir Schools chains, would felicitate toppers of High School Certificate Examinations-2009 conducted by the Orissa Board of Secondary Education.
The Samiti is hosting a function to felicitate all toppers here at OUAT Campus on July 5, said Samiti State spokesman Rabi Narayan Panda on Friday. 45 out of the best 100 including two joint toppers Bibek Biswal and Sanket Dash and three former students, in total, 48 students would be felicitated on this occasion, he added.
School and Mass Education Minister Pratap Jena, OUAT VC Dr DP Ray, Board Director DD Nath, Bidya Bharati State joint organizing secretary of Uttar Pradesh Prakash Chandraji, Samiti president Dr Prafulla Mohapatra and secretary Bijay Swain are among expected to attend.
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Gandhi's success in South Africa
Gandhi's success in South Africa
Radha Rajan
02 Jul 2009
[This chapter presents a detailed timeline of Gandhi's political activism in South Africa and examines the build-up to being and becoming a mahatma. It demonstrates how Gandhi's political activism in South Africa was confined merely to getting the Transvaal and the Natal governments to amend laws affecting Indians in a manner to raise them to a level above that of native Africans. Gandhi was confronting entrenched Apartheid and this would not end until 1990; nothing changed for Indians or native Africans for as long as Gandhi stayed in South Africa and until 1990. This chapter shows how Gandhi's satyagraha in South Africa was gently nudged and and directed by the colonial governments in SA and in London to give Gandhi a halo and his satyagraha the reputation that it was the only effective tool for engagement with the British, and infinitely superior to armed resistance. Granting the bare minimum to give Gandhi an air of infallibility, Gen. Smuts gave him the appellation ‘the saint’ and bid Gandhi a permanent farewell – Author]
Even as the British government in India was removing Tilak and Aurobindo from the INC and from the political arena in 1909, the Imperial Government in London was shaping Gandhi’s political career in such a way that would make him the unchallenged leader of the INC in India in the not-too-distant future; crafting him to occupy the political space created by them with foresight and flawless planning.
From 1910, until Gandhi’s hurried departure to India in 1914, there was little or no advance in Gandhi’s ‘struggle’ in South Africa, though in 1913 Smuts precipitated a crisis that facilitated Gandhi emerging center-stage again. The events following the ‘crisis’ enabled the imperial British government, the South African government, and the INC, to act in tandem to catapult Gandhi to India as de-facto leader of the Congress.
- 1913 November, the third Satyagraha campaign launched; Gandhi arrested thrice in four days; at the second trial he received a sentence of three months’ imprisonment, but was released before completing the term.
Very little is known about this Satyagraha, also known as the Natal Indian Strike or Miners’ Strike, Gandhi’s last campaign before finally departing from South Africa in July 1914 [1]. By this time the opposition to Gandhi was growing among the Indian community; one section began to get both disillusioned and dissatisfied with his Satyagraha and his refusal to even consider more effective methods of resistance and protest; this resulted in a split in the Natal Indian Congress. The timing of the last South African Satyagraha is significant.
- Gandhi undertook this campaign within a month of the split in the NIC, almost as though to drive home the point that he alone could organize people into a mass-protest movement and that the regime would deal with Indians only with and through him. Yet the split in the NIC was the first crack in the myth about Gandhi’s leadership, namely, that he was so saintly and his methods so moral and noble that his leadership was beyond criticism, his methods beyond reproach.
Gandhi had to repair the image of his infallibility among the community for the sake of his political career in the immediate future in India; the British Empire had a stake in that mission because if Gandhi had to take over the leadership of the Congress and steer it away from armed resistance and political independence, towards passive acceptance of self-rule within the Empire, then Gandhi had to return to India with the image of being not only infallible but also morally superior to others in the INC. The British Empire could not afford to have Gandhi’s authority eroded nor have Indians perceive him as impotent.
- The South African government, for no tangible political reason and knowing that it would cause grave unrest within the Indian community, almost as if eager to present Gandhi with an explosive issue guaranteed to inflame passions and enable him to bring people to the streets, decided to de-recognize all marriages not conducted according to Christian rites and/or not registered with the Registrar of Marriages. In one stroke, it rendered illegal the unions of Indian Muslims and Hindus married according to their respective religious customs.
- Gandhi organized his satyagraha jointly against three laws: to protest the March 1913 ruling by Justice Searle in the Cape Supreme Court which de-recognized Hindu and Muslim marriages; the June 1913 Immigrants Regulation Amendment Act; and the notorious Three Pound Tax which came into effect in March 1911 and made it mandatory for every Indian family who did not wish to continue their contracts as indentured labour and chose to stay on in South Africa as ‘free’ Indians, to pay a tax of three pounds per head to the South African state. In this way, an ex-indentured family paid as much as 15, 20 or even 25 pounds, depending on the size of the family. Children of ex-indentured Indians were not spared, and boys above 16 years and girls over 13 had to pay this crippling tax. Clearly the South African regime was determined to precipitate a crisis.
- Gandhi’s last Satyagraha in South Africa thus brought to the streets indentured and ex-indentured Indians along with vast numbers of the Indian community, making this his largest campaign in South Africa, and covering a large segment of Apartheid laws in force against the Indian community. The coal miners from Newcastle in northern Natal were the first to down tools and join Gandhi in the strike, followed by workers across Natal. The satyagraha coincided with a general and paralyzing railway strike, and Gandhi was in a position to push the government into a corner, demanding immediate repeal of discriminatory laws in return for ending the non-cooperation movement.
- As a perfect prelude to what would become a pattern in India, first in 1922, and then in 1931, even as many Indians were brutally beaten up, killed in police firing, and as more and more Indians, particularly women, joined the strike, choosing to die for Gandhi’s satyagraha, the leader himself was simply lodged in jail. As protests mounted over his ‘arrest’ and over police brutality, Gandhi called off the civil disobedience movement.
In this instance, Gandhi called off the strike at a time when it had gained optimum momentum and reached its peak, because he allegedly did not want to add to the troubles of the South African government which had already been brought to its knees by the general railway strike. So as a loyal citizen of the Empire, having demonstrated his ability to inflame passions and get people killed by repressive State power, he withdrew the strike and rendered the sacrifice of ordinary Indians completely futile.
Gandhi’s unique ability to arouse and deflate human passions somehow always benefited the colonial government and increased his own grip over the organizations he headed: first NIC, then NIA, and finally INC. Each time his moral halo was burnished by his acolytes, yet it pushed the people’s movement into an abyss of vulnerability and impotence, because every time Satyagraha or civil disobedience ended prematurely, it ended in failure.
1] The timing of his departure is significant. Though tensions had been building up in Europe, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Crown Prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 proved to be the spark that finally triggered off World War I. G.K. Gokhale was already dying and Britain would have worried about Tilak and the other nationalists.
Excerpted from
Eclipse of the Hindu Nation: Gandhi and his freedom struggle
Radha Rajan
New Age Publishers (P) Ltd., Delhi, 2009
Price: Rs 495/-
ISBN 81- 7819 - 068- 0
The book may be ordered from the publishers at ncbadel@ncbapvtltd.com or at 011-2649 3326/ 27/ 28
The author is editor, www.vigilonline.com
Radha Rajan
02 Jul 2009
[This chapter presents a detailed timeline of Gandhi's political activism in South Africa and examines the build-up to being and becoming a mahatma. It demonstrates how Gandhi's political activism in South Africa was confined merely to getting the Transvaal and the Natal governments to amend laws affecting Indians in a manner to raise them to a level above that of native Africans. Gandhi was confronting entrenched Apartheid and this would not end until 1990; nothing changed for Indians or native Africans for as long as Gandhi stayed in South Africa and until 1990. This chapter shows how Gandhi's satyagraha in South Africa was gently nudged and and directed by the colonial governments in SA and in London to give Gandhi a halo and his satyagraha the reputation that it was the only effective tool for engagement with the British, and infinitely superior to armed resistance. Granting the bare minimum to give Gandhi an air of infallibility, Gen. Smuts gave him the appellation ‘the saint’ and bid Gandhi a permanent farewell – Author]
Even as the British government in India was removing Tilak and Aurobindo from the INC and from the political arena in 1909, the Imperial Government in London was shaping Gandhi’s political career in such a way that would make him the unchallenged leader of the INC in India in the not-too-distant future; crafting him to occupy the political space created by them with foresight and flawless planning.
From 1910, until Gandhi’s hurried departure to India in 1914, there was little or no advance in Gandhi’s ‘struggle’ in South Africa, though in 1913 Smuts precipitated a crisis that facilitated Gandhi emerging center-stage again. The events following the ‘crisis’ enabled the imperial British government, the South African government, and the INC, to act in tandem to catapult Gandhi to India as de-facto leader of the Congress.
- 1913 November, the third Satyagraha campaign launched; Gandhi arrested thrice in four days; at the second trial he received a sentence of three months’ imprisonment, but was released before completing the term.
Very little is known about this Satyagraha, also known as the Natal Indian Strike or Miners’ Strike, Gandhi’s last campaign before finally departing from South Africa in July 1914 [1]. By this time the opposition to Gandhi was growing among the Indian community; one section began to get both disillusioned and dissatisfied with his Satyagraha and his refusal to even consider more effective methods of resistance and protest; this resulted in a split in the Natal Indian Congress. The timing of the last South African Satyagraha is significant.
- Gandhi undertook this campaign within a month of the split in the NIC, almost as though to drive home the point that he alone could organize people into a mass-protest movement and that the regime would deal with Indians only with and through him. Yet the split in the NIC was the first crack in the myth about Gandhi’s leadership, namely, that he was so saintly and his methods so moral and noble that his leadership was beyond criticism, his methods beyond reproach.
Gandhi had to repair the image of his infallibility among the community for the sake of his political career in the immediate future in India; the British Empire had a stake in that mission because if Gandhi had to take over the leadership of the Congress and steer it away from armed resistance and political independence, towards passive acceptance of self-rule within the Empire, then Gandhi had to return to India with the image of being not only infallible but also morally superior to others in the INC. The British Empire could not afford to have Gandhi’s authority eroded nor have Indians perceive him as impotent.
- The South African government, for no tangible political reason and knowing that it would cause grave unrest within the Indian community, almost as if eager to present Gandhi with an explosive issue guaranteed to inflame passions and enable him to bring people to the streets, decided to de-recognize all marriages not conducted according to Christian rites and/or not registered with the Registrar of Marriages. In one stroke, it rendered illegal the unions of Indian Muslims and Hindus married according to their respective religious customs.
- Gandhi organized his satyagraha jointly against three laws: to protest the March 1913 ruling by Justice Searle in the Cape Supreme Court which de-recognized Hindu and Muslim marriages; the June 1913 Immigrants Regulation Amendment Act; and the notorious Three Pound Tax which came into effect in March 1911 and made it mandatory for every Indian family who did not wish to continue their contracts as indentured labour and chose to stay on in South Africa as ‘free’ Indians, to pay a tax of three pounds per head to the South African state. In this way, an ex-indentured family paid as much as 15, 20 or even 25 pounds, depending on the size of the family. Children of ex-indentured Indians were not spared, and boys above 16 years and girls over 13 had to pay this crippling tax. Clearly the South African regime was determined to precipitate a crisis.
- Gandhi’s last Satyagraha in South Africa thus brought to the streets indentured and ex-indentured Indians along with vast numbers of the Indian community, making this his largest campaign in South Africa, and covering a large segment of Apartheid laws in force against the Indian community. The coal miners from Newcastle in northern Natal were the first to down tools and join Gandhi in the strike, followed by workers across Natal. The satyagraha coincided with a general and paralyzing railway strike, and Gandhi was in a position to push the government into a corner, demanding immediate repeal of discriminatory laws in return for ending the non-cooperation movement.
- As a perfect prelude to what would become a pattern in India, first in 1922, and then in 1931, even as many Indians were brutally beaten up, killed in police firing, and as more and more Indians, particularly women, joined the strike, choosing to die for Gandhi’s satyagraha, the leader himself was simply lodged in jail. As protests mounted over his ‘arrest’ and over police brutality, Gandhi called off the civil disobedience movement.
In this instance, Gandhi called off the strike at a time when it had gained optimum momentum and reached its peak, because he allegedly did not want to add to the troubles of the South African government which had already been brought to its knees by the general railway strike. So as a loyal citizen of the Empire, having demonstrated his ability to inflame passions and get people killed by repressive State power, he withdrew the strike and rendered the sacrifice of ordinary Indians completely futile.
Gandhi’s unique ability to arouse and deflate human passions somehow always benefited the colonial government and increased his own grip over the organizations he headed: first NIC, then NIA, and finally INC. Each time his moral halo was burnished by his acolytes, yet it pushed the people’s movement into an abyss of vulnerability and impotence, because every time Satyagraha or civil disobedience ended prematurely, it ended in failure.
1] The timing of his departure is significant. Though tensions had been building up in Europe, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Crown Prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 proved to be the spark that finally triggered off World War I. G.K. Gokhale was already dying and Britain would have worried about Tilak and the other nationalists.
Excerpted from
Eclipse of the Hindu Nation: Gandhi and his freedom struggle
Radha Rajan
New Age Publishers (P) Ltd., Delhi, 2009
Price: Rs 495/-
ISBN 81- 7819 - 068- 0
The book may be ordered from the publishers at ncbadel@ncbapvtltd.com or at 011-2649 3326/ 27/ 28
The author is editor, www.vigilonline.com
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Saraswati Sishu Mandir student shines in Orissa Exams
Saraswati Sishu Mandir student shines in Orissa Exams
BHUBANESWAR: (visakeo)Students of Saraswati Sishu Vidya Mandir, a chain of Schools run by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh under Sikhya Vikash Samiti once again on Tuesday did very well with as many as 46 students placed in best 100 of the State Board of Secondary Education Examinations.
Out of 29 students in best 10, 16 were from Saraswati Sishu Bidya Mandir. Importantly, two joint toppers including Bibeka Bishal Mehena of Rourkela( 574) and Sanket Dash of Berhampur(754) were from the Saraswati Sishu Mandir and the second topper Anshuman(573) Tripathy was also from Balangiri Saraswati Sishu Vidya Mandir.
Similarly, Bidyasabitry Nayak of Lunahar Saraswati Sishu Vidya Mandir in Salipur stood third in the toppers list by securing 572 marks while Satwik Routray secured 571 from the same School.
Others, who found place in best 100 from SSVM included, Anjan Kumar Tripathy (570) of Balangir SSVM, Rosaline Sahoo(569) of Nalco Nagar SSVM, AP Padhi(569) of Unit-8 SSVM, Bijay Laxmi Parida( 568) of Rourkela-2 SSVM.
Similarly, Abhisek Das(568) of College Square SSVM, S Parida(567) of Nayagarh SSVM, Amit Kumar Pradhani(566) of Jeypore SSVM have found place in best 100.
Followed by Kalpataru Palai(565) of Dhanupalli SSVM, Abhijit Joshi(565) of Patnagarh SSVM, Adesh Kumar Mishra(564) of Balangiri SSVM also shined in the examinations.
Similarly, Anwesh Parida(564) of Salipur SSVM, Sabhasachi Baliarsingh(564) of Nayagarh SSVM, Shibashis Mohapatra(563) of Damanjodi SSVM also found places in 100 best.
Abinash Swain (563) of Manjari Road SSVM in Bhadrak, Biswajit Samanta(563) of Barmunda SSVM, Debasis Sahu( 563) of Nayapalli SSVM, Suman Kar(562) of Sohela SSVM, M Acharya(562) of Balangir SSVM, S Nayak( 562) of Ramaharinagar SSVM also found places in best 100.
Besides, Sunena Nayak( 562) of Bhadrak SSVM, Sunil Kumar Pahadasingh(562) of Khurda SSVM, J Jaypuria(561) of Banharpali SSVM, Bibek Prusty( 561) of Keonjhargarh SSVM, R Lopamudra Sahoo(561) of Harachandisahi SSVM, A Majhisamanta(561) of Nayapalli SSVM, N Dash(560) of Puri-1 SSVM, J Sarangi(560) of Pipili SSVM, S Panda(560) of Nayapalli SSVM, Ipsita Swain(559) of Badagada SSVM, A Dash(559) of Nayapalli SSVM, Payal Sahu(558) of Dhanupalli SSVM, S Agasty(558) of Patanagarh SSVM have able to registered their name in best 100.
Similarly, P Paik (558) of Parlakhemundi SSVM, S S Mishra( 558) OF Neelakantha Nagar SSVM, Arpita Malla( 558) of Santasahi SSVM in Kendrapara, M Dash( 558) of Barmunda SSVM, D Dash ( 558) of Badagada SSVM and Poonam Mahaptra( 558) of Nayapalli SSVM have also did well in the examinations.
In Orissa, 739 Schools are being run by the SVS. Out of 6588 students appeared the examinations, 97.25 per cent students have been passed the examination.
Samiti president Dr Prafulla Mohapatra, secretary Dr Bijay Swain, organizing secretary GC Mahanta and others have congratulated students for their success.
BHUBANESWAR: (visakeo)Students of Saraswati Sishu Vidya Mandir, a chain of Schools run by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh under Sikhya Vikash Samiti once again on Tuesday did very well with as many as 46 students placed in best 100 of the State Board of Secondary Education Examinations.
Out of 29 students in best 10, 16 were from Saraswati Sishu Bidya Mandir. Importantly, two joint toppers including Bibeka Bishal Mehena of Rourkela( 574) and Sanket Dash of Berhampur(754) were from the Saraswati Sishu Mandir and the second topper Anshuman(573) Tripathy was also from Balangiri Saraswati Sishu Vidya Mandir.
Similarly, Bidyasabitry Nayak of Lunahar Saraswati Sishu Vidya Mandir in Salipur stood third in the toppers list by securing 572 marks while Satwik Routray secured 571 from the same School.
Others, who found place in best 100 from SSVM included, Anjan Kumar Tripathy (570) of Balangir SSVM, Rosaline Sahoo(569) of Nalco Nagar SSVM, AP Padhi(569) of Unit-8 SSVM, Bijay Laxmi Parida( 568) of Rourkela-2 SSVM.
Similarly, Abhisek Das(568) of College Square SSVM, S Parida(567) of Nayagarh SSVM, Amit Kumar Pradhani(566) of Jeypore SSVM have found place in best 100.
Followed by Kalpataru Palai(565) of Dhanupalli SSVM, Abhijit Joshi(565) of Patnagarh SSVM, Adesh Kumar Mishra(564) of Balangiri SSVM also shined in the examinations.
Similarly, Anwesh Parida(564) of Salipur SSVM, Sabhasachi Baliarsingh(564) of Nayagarh SSVM, Shibashis Mohapatra(563) of Damanjodi SSVM also found places in 100 best.
Abinash Swain (563) of Manjari Road SSVM in Bhadrak, Biswajit Samanta(563) of Barmunda SSVM, Debasis Sahu( 563) of Nayapalli SSVM, Suman Kar(562) of Sohela SSVM, M Acharya(562) of Balangir SSVM, S Nayak( 562) of Ramaharinagar SSVM also found places in best 100.
Besides, Sunena Nayak( 562) of Bhadrak SSVM, Sunil Kumar Pahadasingh(562) of Khurda SSVM, J Jaypuria(561) of Banharpali SSVM, Bibek Prusty( 561) of Keonjhargarh SSVM, R Lopamudra Sahoo(561) of Harachandisahi SSVM, A Majhisamanta(561) of Nayapalli SSVM, N Dash(560) of Puri-1 SSVM, J Sarangi(560) of Pipili SSVM, S Panda(560) of Nayapalli SSVM, Ipsita Swain(559) of Badagada SSVM, A Dash(559) of Nayapalli SSVM, Payal Sahu(558) of Dhanupalli SSVM, S Agasty(558) of Patanagarh SSVM have able to registered their name in best 100.
Similarly, P Paik (558) of Parlakhemundi SSVM, S S Mishra( 558) OF Neelakantha Nagar SSVM, Arpita Malla( 558) of Santasahi SSVM in Kendrapara, M Dash( 558) of Barmunda SSVM, D Dash ( 558) of Badagada SSVM and Poonam Mahaptra( 558) of Nayapalli SSVM have also did well in the examinations.
In Orissa, 739 Schools are being run by the SVS. Out of 6588 students appeared the examinations, 97.25 per cent students have been passed the examination.
Samiti president Dr Prafulla Mohapatra, secretary Dr Bijay Swain, organizing secretary GC Mahanta and others have congratulated students for their success.
A Hindu Nation but not a Hindu State
A Hindu Nation but not a Hindu State
Radha Rajan
30 Jun 2009
[This excerpt refers to the Hindu tradition of statecraft and makes the distinction and connection between Hindu rashtra and Hindu rajya - the Hindu nation and the Hindu state. Detailing the reasons behind the Imperial government’s creation of the INC and the Muslim League, this chapter deals with the rise of Hindu nationalism, the decimation of the nationalists, and tragically, the rise and retreat of Aurobindo which created the space in the INC for Gandhi. We have also examined the reasons why Gandhi was compelled to pen Hind Swaraj – Author]
Armed resistance and British response
‘Jugantar’, a revolutionary off-shoot of the Anusilan Samiti and one of the earliest armed Hindu resistance movements of the twentieth century came into being in the early 1900s. The partition of Bengal, British appeasement of Muslims by Viceroy Minto, and the creation of the Muslim League added an edge to the resistance, which also influenced a section of the INC. Tilak and Aurobindo, among others, refused to allow the INC to serve as implementing agency of British intent. As a definitive response to the Muslim League and Muslim appeasement policies of the colonial power, and as a response to the meek leadership of the INC which neither responded effectively to the creation of the League nor opposed the British successfully, the INC, under the Presidentship of Aurobindo split vertically in December 1907, just one year after the League was born, with Tilak and Aurobindo leading the ‘nationalist’ faction[1]. The ‘Nationalist’ section soon began to be pejoratively labeled as ‘Extremist’, while the faction led by Surendranath Banerjea and Gopal Krishna Gokhale was termed ‘Moderate’.
-- We should be absolutely unsparing in our attack on whatever obstructs the growth of the nation, and never be afraid to call a spade a spade. Excessive good nature, chakshu lajja [the desire to be always pleasant and polite], will never do in serious politics. Respect of persons must always give place to truth and conscience; and the demand that we should be silent because of the age or past services of our opponents, is politically immoral and unsound. Open attack, unsparing criticism, the severest satire, the most wounding irony, are all methods perfectly justifiable and indispensable in politics. We have strong things to say; let us say them strongly; we have stern things to do; let us do them sternly. But there is always a danger of strength degenerating into violence and sternness into ferocity, and that should be avoided so far as it is humanly possible [2].
Unnerved by the armed revolution of ‘Jugantar’ and the rise of votaries of armed resistance within the INC, the British government, consistent with its response in 1857, employed the full might of repressive State power against the members of ‘Jugantar’ and the nationalist segment of the INC, in order to break the backbone of Hindu resistance. National sentiment over the partition of Bengal, fuelled by the swaraj and swadeshi movement soon spread to the Punjab, Central Provinces, Poona, Bombay, Madras and other cities of the country. It was a dangerous replay of 1857 and the Raj reacted just as ferociously. Within two years, by the end of 1909, almost all the leaders of Jugantar, the nationalists in the Congress including Tilak, Aurobindo, and Savarkar had been hanged, deported, or arrested and confined in jails; some opted for voluntary exile.
Savarkar was inspired by the three Chapekar brothers – Damodar, Balakrishna and Vasudev, who had been found guilty of conspiring to kill and killing British ICS officer Walter Rand on 22nd June 1897, on Ganeshkhind Road, in Pune, when Rand was returning from a party to celebrate the anniversary of Queen Victoria’s coronation. The three brothers and their close associate, Mahadev Ranade were hanged in Pune over a period of 13 months between April 1898-99 and Lokmanya Tilak was arrested and sentenced to 18 months rigorous imprisonment for ‘seditious writing’ which allegedly inspired the Chapekar brothers to take up arms against an officer of the British government. This act of great courage by the Chapekar brothers and Ranade and their brave death left a deep impression upon the teenaged Savarkar who too decided to take up armed struggle against the British. To this end he set up the Abhinav Bharat Society which preached only armed resistance to British rule.
But in the two years between 1907 and 1909 an enraged and extremely frightened British government brutally crushed this spontaneous and soon well-organized armed revolution by the nationalist faction of the INC, by Jugantar, and Savarkar. Aurobindo was first arrested in August 1907 and jailed for a month on charges of seditious writing in Bande Mataram; he was arrested again in May 1908 in the Alipore Bomb Case, Tilak was charged with seditious writing and jailed in Mandalay in the then Burma [3] and Savarkar who was arrested in France in 1910, following the killing of Sir Curzon Wyllie by Madanlal Dhingra in London, was sentenced with ‘transportation for life’ and suffered confinement in the Cellular Jail in the Andamans, a sentence unparalleled in the history of the British Empire; it is significant that Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, Tilak and Savarkar, all Hindu Nationalists were sentenced to ‘Transportation’ which in effect meant removing them from the scene and from public consciousness with a view to denying them martyrdom [4].
Aurobindo was arrested, tried and released in the Alipore bomb case, but when he was threatened again with fresh arrest for ‘seditious writing’ in Karmayogin he decided inexplicably to abandon politics and armed resistance. As in 1906, the British Government in 1909 again empowered the Muslim community while simultaneously decapitating the Hindu nationalist leadership. The Minto-Morley reforms of 1909 granted the Muslim League demand for separate electorates for Muslims, and thus Muslim separatism acquired a sharper edge. In more ways than one, the year 1909 was a turning point in the political destiny of the Hindus.
Unable to cope with the barbaric use of British State power, which left the nationalist movement in complete disarray, Aurobindo, immediately after his release on May 6, 1909 in his famous Uttarapara Speech delivered on May 30, 1909, signalled his retreat from active politics and armed resistance; justifying this abdication as deference to what he termed was the call of his ‘inner voice’.
To his own physical advantage but to the detriment of Hindu nationalism, Aurobindo declared his intention to depart from Bengal, his political karmabhumi, and seek refuge in the distant French colony of Pondicherry down South, beyond the reach of the British government and henceforth work only for the spiritual uplift of the nation. Relieved on this front, the British took further measures to ensure that Hindu armed resistance from within the INC was effectively neutralized. A part of this grand strategy was to get Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who had already positioned himself against armed resistance, against the nationalists, and who always spoke with tremendous affection and awe of the English, to quietly occupy the space vacated by the nationalists.
Notes
1] Implicit in the term nationalist was ‘Hindu’ nationalist.
2] “By the Way” Bande Mataram, 13 April, 1907, page 257
3] Tilak was sentenced to transportation and removed to Mandalay in Burma, over 3000 miles away. The life expectancy of an average British male in 1908 was around 48 years while for an average Indian male living in conditions of slavery would have been even less. The barbarity of British rule can be estimated from the fact that Tilak was aged 52 years when he was sentenced to transportation to Mandalay.
4] The very idea of ‘Transportation’, if it weren’t so tragic, would be considered black humour. That invaders who were forcibly occupying territory not their own, were actually transporting natives of that territory as punishment, to alien lands surely belongs to the realm of the absurd. For details of Savarkar’s trial and the sentence, see end of chapter.
Excerpted from
Eclipse of the Hindu Nation: Gandhi and his freedom struggle
Radha Rajan
New Age Publishers (P) Ltd., Delhi, 2009
Price: Rs 495/-
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Radha Rajan
30 Jun 2009
[This excerpt refers to the Hindu tradition of statecraft and makes the distinction and connection between Hindu rashtra and Hindu rajya - the Hindu nation and the Hindu state. Detailing the reasons behind the Imperial government’s creation of the INC and the Muslim League, this chapter deals with the rise of Hindu nationalism, the decimation of the nationalists, and tragically, the rise and retreat of Aurobindo which created the space in the INC for Gandhi. We have also examined the reasons why Gandhi was compelled to pen Hind Swaraj – Author]
Armed resistance and British response
‘Jugantar’, a revolutionary off-shoot of the Anusilan Samiti and one of the earliest armed Hindu resistance movements of the twentieth century came into being in the early 1900s. The partition of Bengal, British appeasement of Muslims by Viceroy Minto, and the creation of the Muslim League added an edge to the resistance, which also influenced a section of the INC. Tilak and Aurobindo, among others, refused to allow the INC to serve as implementing agency of British intent. As a definitive response to the Muslim League and Muslim appeasement policies of the colonial power, and as a response to the meek leadership of the INC which neither responded effectively to the creation of the League nor opposed the British successfully, the INC, under the Presidentship of Aurobindo split vertically in December 1907, just one year after the League was born, with Tilak and Aurobindo leading the ‘nationalist’ faction[1]. The ‘Nationalist’ section soon began to be pejoratively labeled as ‘Extremist’, while the faction led by Surendranath Banerjea and Gopal Krishna Gokhale was termed ‘Moderate’.
-- We should be absolutely unsparing in our attack on whatever obstructs the growth of the nation, and never be afraid to call a spade a spade. Excessive good nature, chakshu lajja [the desire to be always pleasant and polite], will never do in serious politics. Respect of persons must always give place to truth and conscience; and the demand that we should be silent because of the age or past services of our opponents, is politically immoral and unsound. Open attack, unsparing criticism, the severest satire, the most wounding irony, are all methods perfectly justifiable and indispensable in politics. We have strong things to say; let us say them strongly; we have stern things to do; let us do them sternly. But there is always a danger of strength degenerating into violence and sternness into ferocity, and that should be avoided so far as it is humanly possible [2].
Unnerved by the armed revolution of ‘Jugantar’ and the rise of votaries of armed resistance within the INC, the British government, consistent with its response in 1857, employed the full might of repressive State power against the members of ‘Jugantar’ and the nationalist segment of the INC, in order to break the backbone of Hindu resistance. National sentiment over the partition of Bengal, fuelled by the swaraj and swadeshi movement soon spread to the Punjab, Central Provinces, Poona, Bombay, Madras and other cities of the country. It was a dangerous replay of 1857 and the Raj reacted just as ferociously. Within two years, by the end of 1909, almost all the leaders of Jugantar, the nationalists in the Congress including Tilak, Aurobindo, and Savarkar had been hanged, deported, or arrested and confined in jails; some opted for voluntary exile.
Savarkar was inspired by the three Chapekar brothers – Damodar, Balakrishna and Vasudev, who had been found guilty of conspiring to kill and killing British ICS officer Walter Rand on 22nd June 1897, on Ganeshkhind Road, in Pune, when Rand was returning from a party to celebrate the anniversary of Queen Victoria’s coronation. The three brothers and their close associate, Mahadev Ranade were hanged in Pune over a period of 13 months between April 1898-99 and Lokmanya Tilak was arrested and sentenced to 18 months rigorous imprisonment for ‘seditious writing’ which allegedly inspired the Chapekar brothers to take up arms against an officer of the British government. This act of great courage by the Chapekar brothers and Ranade and their brave death left a deep impression upon the teenaged Savarkar who too decided to take up armed struggle against the British. To this end he set up the Abhinav Bharat Society which preached only armed resistance to British rule.
But in the two years between 1907 and 1909 an enraged and extremely frightened British government brutally crushed this spontaneous and soon well-organized armed revolution by the nationalist faction of the INC, by Jugantar, and Savarkar. Aurobindo was first arrested in August 1907 and jailed for a month on charges of seditious writing in Bande Mataram; he was arrested again in May 1908 in the Alipore Bomb Case, Tilak was charged with seditious writing and jailed in Mandalay in the then Burma [3] and Savarkar who was arrested in France in 1910, following the killing of Sir Curzon Wyllie by Madanlal Dhingra in London, was sentenced with ‘transportation for life’ and suffered confinement in the Cellular Jail in the Andamans, a sentence unparalleled in the history of the British Empire; it is significant that Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, Tilak and Savarkar, all Hindu Nationalists were sentenced to ‘Transportation’ which in effect meant removing them from the scene and from public consciousness with a view to denying them martyrdom [4].
Aurobindo was arrested, tried and released in the Alipore bomb case, but when he was threatened again with fresh arrest for ‘seditious writing’ in Karmayogin he decided inexplicably to abandon politics and armed resistance. As in 1906, the British Government in 1909 again empowered the Muslim community while simultaneously decapitating the Hindu nationalist leadership. The Minto-Morley reforms of 1909 granted the Muslim League demand for separate electorates for Muslims, and thus Muslim separatism acquired a sharper edge. In more ways than one, the year 1909 was a turning point in the political destiny of the Hindus.
Unable to cope with the barbaric use of British State power, which left the nationalist movement in complete disarray, Aurobindo, immediately after his release on May 6, 1909 in his famous Uttarapara Speech delivered on May 30, 1909, signalled his retreat from active politics and armed resistance; justifying this abdication as deference to what he termed was the call of his ‘inner voice’.
To his own physical advantage but to the detriment of Hindu nationalism, Aurobindo declared his intention to depart from Bengal, his political karmabhumi, and seek refuge in the distant French colony of Pondicherry down South, beyond the reach of the British government and henceforth work only for the spiritual uplift of the nation. Relieved on this front, the British took further measures to ensure that Hindu armed resistance from within the INC was effectively neutralized. A part of this grand strategy was to get Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who had already positioned himself against armed resistance, against the nationalists, and who always spoke with tremendous affection and awe of the English, to quietly occupy the space vacated by the nationalists.
Notes
1] Implicit in the term nationalist was ‘Hindu’ nationalist.
2] “By the Way” Bande Mataram, 13 April, 1907, page 257
3] Tilak was sentenced to transportation and removed to Mandalay in Burma, over 3000 miles away. The life expectancy of an average British male in 1908 was around 48 years while for an average Indian male living in conditions of slavery would have been even less. The barbarity of British rule can be estimated from the fact that Tilak was aged 52 years when he was sentenced to transportation to Mandalay.
4] The very idea of ‘Transportation’, if it weren’t so tragic, would be considered black humour. That invaders who were forcibly occupying territory not their own, were actually transporting natives of that territory as punishment, to alien lands surely belongs to the realm of the absurd. For details of Savarkar’s trial and the sentence, see end of chapter.
Excerpted from
Eclipse of the Hindu Nation: Gandhi and his freedom struggle
Radha Rajan
New Age Publishers (P) Ltd., Delhi, 2009
Price: Rs 495/-
ISBN 81- 7819 - 068- 0
The book may be ordered from the publishers at ncbadel@ncbapvtltd.com
or at 011-2649 3326/ 27/ 28
The author is editor, www.vigilonline.com
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