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18 November 08
Narco tests lose credibility
Hyderabad, Nov. 17: Narco analysis tests have lost their credibility with the police top brass because of the apparent false leads they threw up in the Macca Masjid blast case. Based on the narco analysis tests, the city police had "solved" the Macca Masjid blast case and had claimed that the HuJI leader Shahed alias Bilal had planned the attack and Lashkar e-Tayyaba operative Abu Hamza had planted the bombs.
This assumption was based on the confessions of one suspect, Imran, who had undergone a narco test. But the Central Bureau of Investigation did not take up these charges seriously and no arrests were made based on the report of the city police. The Delhi CBI superintendent of police, Mr R.S. Dhankar, who is heading the Macca Masjid blast probe, told this correspondent that narco analysis tests do not even have one per cent authenticity.
"We haven't found any evidence of those revelations mentioned in the narco reports," he said. "The city police sent us a report. But we have not made any arrests," Mr Dhankar added. The Special Investigation Cell formed by CCS after Macca Masjid blasts conducted narco analysis tests on suspects Imran, Shoiab Jagirdhar and Rafi alias Shaik Abdul Kaleem at the forensic science laboratory in Bengaluru.
"Around 169 countries have banned such tests," said the Andhra Pradesh forensic science laboratory director, Mr O. Narasimha Murthy. "There is lot of controversy about them," he said. The city police is now confining itself to polygraph tests.
From DECCAN CHRONICLE, 18, November 2008
Custody for Sadhvi Pragnya, others extended
Rahi Gaikwad
Suspects file a slew of petitions
Nashik: A Nashik court on Monday extended the judicial custody for eight Malegaon blast suspects — Pragnya Singh Thakur, Shiv Narayan Kalsanghra, Shyam Bhawarlal Sahu, Ajay Rahirkar, Jagdish Mhatre, Rakesh Dhawde, Sameer Kulkarni and Ramesh Upadhyay — till November 29.
A host of applications from the suspects asking for meetings with relatives and right to liberty, copies of remand statements alleging custodial torture and two pertaining to narco tests were filed in the court. They will be heard on November 29.
Ramesh Upadhyay alleged that three postcards he sent to his friends seeking legal representation were not despatched by the Anti-Terrorism Squad. This restricted his right to liberty. He said basic necessities such as soap were also not allowed.
The court allowed the presence of a lawyer during the interrogation of blast suspect Sudhakar Dwivedi alias Dayanand Pandey.
An application moved by lawyer Kishore Vig said that Dwivedi was being tortured in custody and he faced a threat to his life. Mr. Vig argued for the rights of the accused and protection against police pressure. He cited the D.K. Basu judgment of 1997 in the Supreme Court, which laid down certain guidelines for custodial treatment of the accused — Section 161 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Cr.PC) pertaining to examination of witnesses and Article 20 (3) of the Constitution which states that "no person accused of any offence shall be compelled to be a witness against himself."
Mr. Vig, therefore, asked for either a lawyer or a relative to be present.
Chief Judicial Magistrate H.K. Ganatra ruled that a lawyer be allowed to be present "whenever it is asked by the accused and whenever necessary." This also covered narco tests as they were part of interrogation, Mr. Vig later told the media.
Concern over attacks on students
VHR to lead delegation of State MPs to New Delhi and meet Pranab Mukherjee
Only brilliant students from Andhra Pradesh being targeted: VHR
The U.S. police are just handing over bodies; a permanent solution is needed
HYDERABAD: The attack on Pulluri Sashanka, a native of Warangal district, studying in the United States has raised disturbing questions about the safety of students from Andhra Pradesh there.
Coming a fortnight after the killing of city girl Arpana Jinaga, working with the EMC Corporation, this is the sixth in the string of attacks on migrant youth from the State (including one in the UK) in less than a year. Mr. Sashanka had a providential escape from death and declared out of danger unlike six others who were brutally murdered in separate attacks.
Excellent record
A common threat that runs through all these ghastly incidents is the excellent academic track record of the victims. For instance, one of them Arpana Jinaga, figured in the list of top 20 chip designers after a contest, becoming the first Asian to get the honour.
Congress MP V. Hanumanth Rao, who has been voicing serious concern over the issue, is leading a delegation of the State MPs to External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and his deputy Anand Sharma on November 19.
"It is a serious issue and only brilliant students from Andhra Pradesh are being targeted. The US police are just handing over bodies when there is need for a permanent solution," he told The Hindu, adding he would raise the issue in the Parliament when it resumes its proceedings from December 10.
From the day when Allam Kiran Kumar and Chandrasekhar Reddy, pursuing doctorates in chemistry and biology respectively, were shot dead inside the former's apartment on the Louisiana State University (LSU) campus at Baton Rouge on December 13, 2007, the spree of incidents is continuing. But the motives and people behind the killings continue to remain a mystery.
Reasons unknown
'Home invasion' is said to be the reason behind killing of Kiran Kumar and Chandrasekhar Reddy.
But the reasons behind the mysterious death of A. Srinivas of Korutla in Karimnagar district pursuing his Master's in internal medicine at Scranton-Temple Research Programme at Mercy Hospital in Scranton near Pennsylvania on March 1 remains unknown.
This was followed by the killing of Vijayawada girl V.S. Jyotirmayee at her apartment at Handsworth in Birmingham, UK, on May 6 and the shooting down of Soumya Reddy and her cousin Vikram Reddy near the Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville on September 14. Arpana was killed in her Valley View apartment at Redmond – Woodsville Road, Seattle on November 1, but her parents learnt about her death only on November 4.
Independent tribunal for terror cases mooted
Staff Reporter
'Muslims being linked to bomb blasts even before investigations are done'
Efforts on to provide legal aid to those facing false charges
HYDERABAD: Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) on Monday demanded that the government constitute an independent tribunal for investigating terror-related cases, police atrocities and encounters during the last one decade.
At a press conference here, JIH national president Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Omri said, there was increasing sense of insecurity among minorities, especially Muslims with the police foisting false cases on them after the bomb blasts in different parts of the country. Muslims were directly linked to a bomb blast occurring either in a mosque, marketplace or other public places even before proper investigation was done, he alleged.
Mr. Jalaluddin said, efforts were also on to provide legal aid to those who were facing false charges in connection with bomb blasts that took place across the country. The JIH demanded the Centre to fulfil its electoral promise of enacting an anti-riot legislation which should be in accordance with the recommendations of National Commission for Minorities along with recommendations made by different Commissions that earlier probed such riots.
Senior political analyst Amresh Mishra, sought an explanation from the Andhra Pradesh government for harassing innocent Muslims in connection with the Mecca Masjid blast case.
From THEHINDU, 18, November 2008
Friday, November 21, 2008
India's Intellectual Zombies
India's Intellectual Zombies
By Dr Babu Suseelan
For centuries Hindu society has been active in producing intellectuals, philosophers, psychologists, scientists, political theorists, artists, poets, spiritual leaders and life scientists. Islamic invasion, Christian colonialism, destruction of Sanskrit education and Marxist influence had a disastrous influence on Hindu society. The social and psychological conditioning suffered by Hindus lead frequently to the erosion of cultural identity and the depersonalization of individuals. It is therefore, not surprising that the production of intellectuals dwindled. The repercussions of long period of Islamic oppression and colonization , in the wake of social and cultural disintegration and the trauma suffered by Hindus as a whole, persist even today. Everybody seem to agree that Hindu civilization is now facing a crisis. Entrenched forces from within and without have joined together to de-structure or destroy our thoughts , beliefs, practices and values.
Hinduism has never been a unified, monolithic movement and there has been a great deal of disagreement among Hindus as to how to protect themselves and their interests. There are several Hindu spiritual organizations, and cultural movements in different parts of India. Unfortunately politically, spiritual movements has not resulted in an overreaching Hindu strategy in politics, in the media, in academics, and other areas of social-political life.
It is time for Hindus to join together, to discover its causes and to assume the responsibility of formulating a solution. It is time to rally our values, our self-esteem and fight for our moral ideals with full, righteous confidence. The intellectual group is one that manifests a collective capacity for dealing with the wide-ranging needs and problems in national life. Intellectuals of a nation are expected to maintain connections with the country’s past culture, present social, economic, and political groups and concerns itself with renewing and maintaining internal strengths. But this is not what we see today in India. In India, the anti-Hindu mafia has become the “gate keepers” of Indian minds. The anti-Hindu intellectual zombies have entrapped the members in a servitude and set in motion a malignant process by creating powerlessness in the majority communities. They join together with our enemies from within and without to demean and discredit the culture, and its perennial philosophy that sustains the social bonds for centuries. Our intellectual zombies are competing with our enemies to make Hindus more powerless and prevent them from acquiring skills and self-esteem to regain lost strength and acclaim. Indeed, the greatest threat to India and Hindus today is the political opportunism of the phony secular intellectuals who are inclined to promote Islamo fascism and dismissing or understating internal and external threats. If we ask our moral relativists, agnostics, secularists, liberals and media pundits--they will come up with sticky puddle of stale syrup of tolerance, love, global programs, universalism, and coexistence with Jihadi terrorists, Marxist murderers and crusaders. India’s intellectual zombies had become apologists for the Islamo fascists, Marxists and underground Maoists. They want to replace Hindu tradition, and its eclectic philosophy with the reductionist dogmas of Islam, Marxism and deconstruction. They have sold our nation for a price and joined with our adversaries and engage in “the socialization of the anti-social, or acculturation of the anti-cultural, or the legitimization of the subversive” under the influence of modernism. Intellectual discourse is corrupted by moral relativism, leftist cultural criticism and subversive modernism. By blurring the lines between good and evil, right and wrong, spirituality and fanaticism, these intellectual zombies have rendered our society more vulnerable to evil influences. The general public are increasingly ill equipped to recognize, much less respond to, the evil forces that threatens India from within and without.
One of the tragic errors of India is that too many of its best minds believe as they did in the past-that the solution is to rely on more tolerance, inaction and passivity. They are neither humanist or nationalists. Their goal is to demolish Hindu values and to put barriers on Hindu spirituality and place as many obstacles as possible in the way of Hindutva. Their response against Islamic terrorism goes against the commonest of commonsense and only serve to protect anti nationalists. They are significantly out of touch with reality. Like most psychotic people they avoid complex social problems, afraid of decision making and promote policies that recommends tolerance of intolerant dogmas and their bizarre behavior. The exact opposite is true. What we need most urgently is to recognize that our tolerant culture cannot exist without a philosophy of confrontation of intolerant ideas.
Our present state of cultural disintegration and political oppression is maintained and prolonged by intellectual zombies, posturing as intellectual leaders. India’s intellectual zombies are living in a fantasy world embracing “all religions are the same”, and tolerance of intolerance is a positive virtue . They generally consist of frustrated, alienated and misguided intellectual zombies who serve as catalysts, inciting, and actualizing the prevalent sentiment of Hindu hatred. They also endorse extra privileges for Muslims and provide a sort of moral justification for Hindu oppression. These modern intellectual zombies have succeeded in misdirecting the public and have extinguished the flame of protest, and they have no answer to halt the triumphant advance of brute Jihadis and Marxist murderers. They have no answer to those voices demanding freedom from oppression, liberty from bogus secularism and reason from political idiosyncrasy.
FUMBLED STRATEGY
One of the greatest challenges facing our intellectuals today is objectively examining the roots of the present social-political-pathology and malady afflicting Hindu society and developing a strategy that will lead to a lasting solution of our predicament. The inability to grasp the roots of Islamic terrorism, coercive religious conversion and social disturbances is the result of moral relativism, agnosticism and non-judgmental attitude prominent in India’s liberal thought.
A political ideology directed by bogus secular political leaders whose purpose is to help and empower our enemies is deceptive. In India, these intellectual mafia’s commitment for Hindu bashing has reached a new pinnacle with the national ascendance of Italian born Sonia as the leader of the Congress party. The Congress party’s snobbery and insensitivity to Hindus has created a pseudo-secular culture whose leaders appear unwilling or unable to communicate with the majority Hindus. They are unable to communicate in the cultural language of the majority.
How should Hindus revitalize its strategy? Hindus must better educate and explain the Islamic threat to the general audience. Education at all levels should indicate Hindus in the history, philosophy, mechanics, virtues, responsibilities, and achievements of Hindus. Tolerance and diversity need not mean acceptance of oppression and tyranny. India’s intellectual zombies offer misbegotten solutions, ignore inconvenient facts and hide behind Islamic mafia and promote meaningless universalism. The universal pretensions cannot be used without addressing the proper scale of coercive religious conversion, psychological warfare by foreign agencies, subversive activities of anti-national groups and Jihadi terrorism. Instead of putting the blame where it belongs, India’s intellectual zombies, when confronted with social-political problems, invent fantasies to keep the public in darkness. Real problems confronting India and Hindus are too scary for intellectual zombies to comprehend.
Identifying with your adversary without proper reflection is an exaggerated tendency toward grandiosity. It is an expression of narcissism, one of the deepest wellsprings of India’s liberal tendencies towards unreality. The self-defeating belief system, lead to unreality-to the feelings that somehow Muslims will become fair-minded and do justice. India’s intellectual zombies are in self-delusion that virtually gets in the way of reality, clouding their judgments on important matters leading to bad decisions. Unreality, self-delusion, and denial are the hallmarks of their disease and treatment. It is a treatment in that it promotes adjustment to harsh reality of Islamic violence and terrorism. This treatment of escapism, denial, and self-blame are worse than the disease. It is this collective disease of India’s intellectual zombies, the unhealthy side of reality that is badly in need of treatment.
This liberal unreality, denial, escapism, appeasement and irrational tolerance is narcotic. While each dose “cures” the pain of harsh reality or previous abuse, it further strengthen the disease. Escape from reality, and hiding behind a thick wall of denial, may provide India’s intellectual zombies a brief respite from cruel reality of Islamic atrocities and promote a false adjustment to the cruel world of Islamists. But it is not a true or effective cure for Islamic brutality, hostility and demand for extra privileges.
The most human quality we have is our ability to conceptualize, rationalize and act. As a nation, our greatest hope for improving ourselves and becoming better is to use our mind and capacity to think. It takes intellectual capacity to think and makes change for the better. Why, even after physical independence, Indians shape their reality, interpret or appraise events to please their long term oppressors and tormentors? Why intellectuals shape their thought to justify evil deeds of Muslims, Marxists and phony secularists? Why they downplay external threats or turn off unpleasant internal disturbances created by anti-national elements? It is strange that alienated intellectuals, leftist academicians and phony secularists develop an unconscious cravings and urges to feel good, to feel wonderful or to feel exalted delight in front of adversaries and tormentors. They restructure their thoughts and develop self-defeating behaviors to please their oppressors. They have limited intellectual competencies to handle conflicts and social problems created by Islamic fascists, subversive agents, and psychological warfare operatives. It is difficult for them to assertively handle social conflicts or to say “no” to social pressure to participate in self-destructive behaviors. They often lack the skills to question unhealthy and disastrous policies and activities of our enemies.
For any dangerous social or political challenge or problem situation, India’s intellectual zombies come up with automatic anti Hindu thoughts including blame game. These automatic Hindu blame game that pop up quickly are not rational or evaluative in nature. This self-destructive behavior of intellectual zombies is reinforced by few bread crumbs thrown at them, and few applauses by Jihadis, subversive agents and the bogus secular crowd.
WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
The intellectual zombies that champions the adversary culture now dominate the cultural establishments-the publishing houses, media, museums, book publications, government public relations, television, theater, the cinema, the academia, and the national educational institutions. They promote cultural-moral relativism and mindless universalism. This “relativism of truth and values” has corrupted the moral character of India. India’s phony intellectuals and bogus secular politicians are not attuned to the values of freedom, equality, individual rights, spiritual culture, peace, progress and justice. These alienated, self-serving intellectuals are no longer committed to liberty, fairness, equal opportunity, openness and prosperity. They are busy promoting freedom for Islamic tyrants, strengthening conversion gangs and assisting subversive groups. Silencing of Hindus and the suppression of all inclusive, tolerant, and uplifting Hindu ideas is their pastime.
Hindu organizations should identify Hindu intellectuals and channel resources toward formulating and promoting Hindu vision of public policy. Hindu intellectuals should penetrate community intellectual institutions such as journals, theater companies, study groups, book publishers, electronic media and music clubs. Vital intellectual institutions should be established to create a culture that thinks critically and discuss ideas and philosophies that shape government policies, education and social policy.
Pseudo secular forces have joined with our enemies to restrict the terms of public debate. Hindu intellectuals should address specific issues and concerns that cut across Hindu communities around the globe. In the public sphere, the culture and values of the pluralistic, all inclusive Hindu values should help fashion public policies and political goals.
Only Hindu philosophy points to theoretical systems that yield needed understanding of human beings and their psycho-social-cultural environments. In order to survive in this world of communication, political realities, information warfare, media manipulation and psychological warfare operations, Hindus need to design an action agenda for turning Hindutva into proactive realities in the public field.
By Dr Babu Suseelan
For centuries Hindu society has been active in producing intellectuals, philosophers, psychologists, scientists, political theorists, artists, poets, spiritual leaders and life scientists. Islamic invasion, Christian colonialism, destruction of Sanskrit education and Marxist influence had a disastrous influence on Hindu society. The social and psychological conditioning suffered by Hindus lead frequently to the erosion of cultural identity and the depersonalization of individuals. It is therefore, not surprising that the production of intellectuals dwindled. The repercussions of long period of Islamic oppression and colonization , in the wake of social and cultural disintegration and the trauma suffered by Hindus as a whole, persist even today. Everybody seem to agree that Hindu civilization is now facing a crisis. Entrenched forces from within and without have joined together to de-structure or destroy our thoughts , beliefs, practices and values.
Hinduism has never been a unified, monolithic movement and there has been a great deal of disagreement among Hindus as to how to protect themselves and their interests. There are several Hindu spiritual organizations, and cultural movements in different parts of India. Unfortunately politically, spiritual movements has not resulted in an overreaching Hindu strategy in politics, in the media, in academics, and other areas of social-political life.
It is time for Hindus to join together, to discover its causes and to assume the responsibility of formulating a solution. It is time to rally our values, our self-esteem and fight for our moral ideals with full, righteous confidence. The intellectual group is one that manifests a collective capacity for dealing with the wide-ranging needs and problems in national life. Intellectuals of a nation are expected to maintain connections with the country’s past culture, present social, economic, and political groups and concerns itself with renewing and maintaining internal strengths. But this is not what we see today in India. In India, the anti-Hindu mafia has become the “gate keepers” of Indian minds. The anti-Hindu intellectual zombies have entrapped the members in a servitude and set in motion a malignant process by creating powerlessness in the majority communities. They join together with our enemies from within and without to demean and discredit the culture, and its perennial philosophy that sustains the social bonds for centuries. Our intellectual zombies are competing with our enemies to make Hindus more powerless and prevent them from acquiring skills and self-esteem to regain lost strength and acclaim. Indeed, the greatest threat to India and Hindus today is the political opportunism of the phony secular intellectuals who are inclined to promote Islamo fascism and dismissing or understating internal and external threats. If we ask our moral relativists, agnostics, secularists, liberals and media pundits--they will come up with sticky puddle of stale syrup of tolerance, love, global programs, universalism, and coexistence with Jihadi terrorists, Marxist murderers and crusaders. India’s intellectual zombies had become apologists for the Islamo fascists, Marxists and underground Maoists. They want to replace Hindu tradition, and its eclectic philosophy with the reductionist dogmas of Islam, Marxism and deconstruction. They have sold our nation for a price and joined with our adversaries and engage in “the socialization of the anti-social, or acculturation of the anti-cultural, or the legitimization of the subversive” under the influence of modernism. Intellectual discourse is corrupted by moral relativism, leftist cultural criticism and subversive modernism. By blurring the lines between good and evil, right and wrong, spirituality and fanaticism, these intellectual zombies have rendered our society more vulnerable to evil influences. The general public are increasingly ill equipped to recognize, much less respond to, the evil forces that threatens India from within and without.
One of the tragic errors of India is that too many of its best minds believe as they did in the past-that the solution is to rely on more tolerance, inaction and passivity. They are neither humanist or nationalists. Their goal is to demolish Hindu values and to put barriers on Hindu spirituality and place as many obstacles as possible in the way of Hindutva. Their response against Islamic terrorism goes against the commonest of commonsense and only serve to protect anti nationalists. They are significantly out of touch with reality. Like most psychotic people they avoid complex social problems, afraid of decision making and promote policies that recommends tolerance of intolerant dogmas and their bizarre behavior. The exact opposite is true. What we need most urgently is to recognize that our tolerant culture cannot exist without a philosophy of confrontation of intolerant ideas.
Our present state of cultural disintegration and political oppression is maintained and prolonged by intellectual zombies, posturing as intellectual leaders. India’s intellectual zombies are living in a fantasy world embracing “all religions are the same”, and tolerance of intolerance is a positive virtue . They generally consist of frustrated, alienated and misguided intellectual zombies who serve as catalysts, inciting, and actualizing the prevalent sentiment of Hindu hatred. They also endorse extra privileges for Muslims and provide a sort of moral justification for Hindu oppression. These modern intellectual zombies have succeeded in misdirecting the public and have extinguished the flame of protest, and they have no answer to halt the triumphant advance of brute Jihadis and Marxist murderers. They have no answer to those voices demanding freedom from oppression, liberty from bogus secularism and reason from political idiosyncrasy.
FUMBLED STRATEGY
One of the greatest challenges facing our intellectuals today is objectively examining the roots of the present social-political-pathology and malady afflicting Hindu society and developing a strategy that will lead to a lasting solution of our predicament. The inability to grasp the roots of Islamic terrorism, coercive religious conversion and social disturbances is the result of moral relativism, agnosticism and non-judgmental attitude prominent in India’s liberal thought.
A political ideology directed by bogus secular political leaders whose purpose is to help and empower our enemies is deceptive. In India, these intellectual mafia’s commitment for Hindu bashing has reached a new pinnacle with the national ascendance of Italian born Sonia as the leader of the Congress party. The Congress party’s snobbery and insensitivity to Hindus has created a pseudo-secular culture whose leaders appear unwilling or unable to communicate with the majority Hindus. They are unable to communicate in the cultural language of the majority.
How should Hindus revitalize its strategy? Hindus must better educate and explain the Islamic threat to the general audience. Education at all levels should indicate Hindus in the history, philosophy, mechanics, virtues, responsibilities, and achievements of Hindus. Tolerance and diversity need not mean acceptance of oppression and tyranny. India’s intellectual zombies offer misbegotten solutions, ignore inconvenient facts and hide behind Islamic mafia and promote meaningless universalism. The universal pretensions cannot be used without addressing the proper scale of coercive religious conversion, psychological warfare by foreign agencies, subversive activities of anti-national groups and Jihadi terrorism. Instead of putting the blame where it belongs, India’s intellectual zombies, when confronted with social-political problems, invent fantasies to keep the public in darkness. Real problems confronting India and Hindus are too scary for intellectual zombies to comprehend.
Identifying with your adversary without proper reflection is an exaggerated tendency toward grandiosity. It is an expression of narcissism, one of the deepest wellsprings of India’s liberal tendencies towards unreality. The self-defeating belief system, lead to unreality-to the feelings that somehow Muslims will become fair-minded and do justice. India’s intellectual zombies are in self-delusion that virtually gets in the way of reality, clouding their judgments on important matters leading to bad decisions. Unreality, self-delusion, and denial are the hallmarks of their disease and treatment. It is a treatment in that it promotes adjustment to harsh reality of Islamic violence and terrorism. This treatment of escapism, denial, and self-blame are worse than the disease. It is this collective disease of India’s intellectual zombies, the unhealthy side of reality that is badly in need of treatment.
This liberal unreality, denial, escapism, appeasement and irrational tolerance is narcotic. While each dose “cures” the pain of harsh reality or previous abuse, it further strengthen the disease. Escape from reality, and hiding behind a thick wall of denial, may provide India’s intellectual zombies a brief respite from cruel reality of Islamic atrocities and promote a false adjustment to the cruel world of Islamists. But it is not a true or effective cure for Islamic brutality, hostility and demand for extra privileges.
The most human quality we have is our ability to conceptualize, rationalize and act. As a nation, our greatest hope for improving ourselves and becoming better is to use our mind and capacity to think. It takes intellectual capacity to think and makes change for the better. Why, even after physical independence, Indians shape their reality, interpret or appraise events to please their long term oppressors and tormentors? Why intellectuals shape their thought to justify evil deeds of Muslims, Marxists and phony secularists? Why they downplay external threats or turn off unpleasant internal disturbances created by anti-national elements? It is strange that alienated intellectuals, leftist academicians and phony secularists develop an unconscious cravings and urges to feel good, to feel wonderful or to feel exalted delight in front of adversaries and tormentors. They restructure their thoughts and develop self-defeating behaviors to please their oppressors. They have limited intellectual competencies to handle conflicts and social problems created by Islamic fascists, subversive agents, and psychological warfare operatives. It is difficult for them to assertively handle social conflicts or to say “no” to social pressure to participate in self-destructive behaviors. They often lack the skills to question unhealthy and disastrous policies and activities of our enemies.
For any dangerous social or political challenge or problem situation, India’s intellectual zombies come up with automatic anti Hindu thoughts including blame game. These automatic Hindu blame game that pop up quickly are not rational or evaluative in nature. This self-destructive behavior of intellectual zombies is reinforced by few bread crumbs thrown at them, and few applauses by Jihadis, subversive agents and the bogus secular crowd.
WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
The intellectual zombies that champions the adversary culture now dominate the cultural establishments-the publishing houses, media, museums, book publications, government public relations, television, theater, the cinema, the academia, and the national educational institutions. They promote cultural-moral relativism and mindless universalism. This “relativism of truth and values” has corrupted the moral character of India. India’s phony intellectuals and bogus secular politicians are not attuned to the values of freedom, equality, individual rights, spiritual culture, peace, progress and justice. These alienated, self-serving intellectuals are no longer committed to liberty, fairness, equal opportunity, openness and prosperity. They are busy promoting freedom for Islamic tyrants, strengthening conversion gangs and assisting subversive groups. Silencing of Hindus and the suppression of all inclusive, tolerant, and uplifting Hindu ideas is their pastime.
Hindu organizations should identify Hindu intellectuals and channel resources toward formulating and promoting Hindu vision of public policy. Hindu intellectuals should penetrate community intellectual institutions such as journals, theater companies, study groups, book publishers, electronic media and music clubs. Vital intellectual institutions should be established to create a culture that thinks critically and discuss ideas and philosophies that shape government policies, education and social policy.
Pseudo secular forces have joined with our enemies to restrict the terms of public debate. Hindu intellectuals should address specific issues and concerns that cut across Hindu communities around the globe. In the public sphere, the culture and values of the pluralistic, all inclusive Hindu values should help fashion public policies and political goals.
Only Hindu philosophy points to theoretical systems that yield needed understanding of human beings and their psycho-social-cultural environments. In order to survive in this world of communication, political realities, information warfare, media manipulation and psychological warfare operations, Hindus need to design an action agenda for turning Hindutva into proactive realities in the public field.
Why are Hindus angry?
Why are Hindus angry?
18 Nov 2008,
Tarun Vijay
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Columnists/Tarun_Vijay_Why_are_Hindus_angry/articleshow/3726631.cms
In Srinagar, a Muslim women's organization – the Dukhtaran-e-Millat – vows to impose the strict Islamic code on women through violence and declares that it is in the interests of women. The leader of this outfit, Asiyah Andrabi, was jailed several times for working against the nation and for being a conduit for money to jihadi groups who used that help to kill Hindus and create disaffection among people against India. The US State Department Report of 1995 held a Dukhtaran-e-Millat activist responsible for a parcel bomb blast at the BBC office in Srinagar in which one person was killed and two injured.
The DeM has recently been linked to certain money laundering cases. Andrabi was booked under POTA (Prevention of Terrorism Act) for receiving ISI money through hawala channels. Whenever she speaks against India, there is no emotion or any sense of regret.
She was never subjected to a narco test nor did the media feel anything bad about her. Instead, women's groups interviewed her, called her the "new face of Muslim feminism", and glossy magazines splashed her interviews with a tinge of revolutionary romanticism.
For Indian seculars, the Srinagar crowd working against India brings added fizz, a thrill and a heroism that has to be "understood" rather than condemned. Serious academic columns are published saying that if they are so passionately and aggressively pursuing separatism, why shouldn't we give the Kashmir valley to them?
It's only when a lady monk is killed in Kandhamal or arrested in Nashik and appears to be wearing saffron rather than green that expressions become stern, the law becomes the guiding force, narco tests are immediately ordered and before anything can be even remotely established, the person is pronounced guilty. No women's organization comes out openly to say she is a woman and hence the police must protect her honour and religious obligations at all cost.
Her father says she is innocent. No one gives any importance to that statement.
She cooperates during the narco test and nothing incriminatory is proved. The police say she practices yoga, hence the narco test didn't work.
The bike, the RDX, the targets – nothing is proved. Yet, she is tortured in police custody.
The women's commission that swung into action when an item girl used it to get cheap publicity and hot assignments maintains a studied silence.
The Human Rights Commission remains unfazed and the red sirens of the Marxist class look the other way. They had been demanding a pardon for Afzal although the Supreme Court convicted him. But the issues involved were of secular nature; hence they had to speak.
Nobody still knows what Pragya actually did or didn't do. She has to be severely dealt with just because the colour she wears is not registered as secular in the government's registry of protection where rapists, extortionists and scandalous criminals get a cabinet berth and a murder accused jailbird becomes a chief minister for being on the correct side politically.
First they said an army officer used 60 kg of RDX to blow up the Samjhauta Express. Then the denial comes; no RDX was used, it was ammonium nitrate, oh no perhaps IEDs. Then the Mecca Masjid blasts are linked with Malegaon, then the Hyderabad police issue an official statement that nothing has been found to link the two. The motorbike, the disfigured numbers on the chassis, the absconding person, the real mastermind, the saffron terror guru ... Remember when the Kanchi Shankaracharya was arrested, what kind of charges were levelled against him? Rape, murder, financial fraud and womanizing. And women came foreword to issue statements about how they were "lured". What happened afterwards? Even "nothing" won't convey the nothingness of the entire plot.
But the damage to the great seat of Hindu reverence had been done.
After Kanchi and the Kandhamal murders, a new tool in form of Hindu terrorism has been crafted to make the Batla House terror gang happy.
Not a single Hindu will ever condone terrorism. It's not in our genes. Our blood group in this matter is different. If someone does it he is guilty of doing an un-Hindu act. Anyone caught and proven guilty must be severely dealt with. But why humiliate a majority community that defines the character of the nation for election gains?
Words, cacophony, a celebrative secular media's new 24-hour preoccupation – lynch the saffron, light the party fire.
Just one incident and look how Batla House terrorism, Jamia's protective belligerence, Assam blasts, Pakistani flags carried in Bodo areas by Muslim infiltrators, the Ram Setu destruction and affidavits that humiliate Hindus, everything got under cover. Only the newly manufactured "Hindu terrorism" is reigning in the national debate as a new fashion statement.
The invention of "Hindu terrorism" helped the government get out of a defensive shell and be extraordinarily active to crack a whip against "bad elements".
It had never displayed this action-oriented thrill when the Delhi blasts occurred or the Jaipur blasts claimed more than 60 lives. No Maulana was arrested or caricatured in the media as the bloody green terror guru or ghastly Islamic terrorism.
No, they said, terror has no religion hence these blasts, though done with a holy book surrounded by AK47s, and long quotes from it to justify the blasts and the killings of Hindus shouldn't be sourced to religion. These must not be explained away as Islamic terror, but just the work of some misguided people who are giving a bad name to a peaceful, brotherly way of worship.
Fine.
But when they see saffron, everyone loves to tie them with the speeding bus of law enforcement and constitutional propriety and beat them black and blue to prove a secular manliness of dhimmitude variety.
Pragya says she was tortured in police custody but no one took any notice of that. Why?
Even the most dreaded women criminals have been accorded human rights protection. Pragya is no criminal, she doesn't advocate violence against the state, she is not a traitor, she doesn't impose any kind of obscurantist code on women nor does she use acid, like Andarabi, to make other women fear her dictates. She has not said she is out to kill others to bring about any kind of religious order. But she is tortured and no one says it a gross violation of human rights. Is she not to be given the protection that every woman is entitled to?
Those who write against the nation, insult our heritage and support secession, get applauds and awards. But those who die for the nation and protect the civilisational flow are tortured in police custody.
That's the brevity and power of a state that's in reality headed by a woman and is being actually run by another.
More than 60,000 Hindus have been killed by Islamic jihadis, in the name of their religion and not a single Hindu stood up to say: Enough is enough, I will now see the wicked are punished and innocents are protected.
There is a list of more than 200 Hindu temples razed or desecrated in the Kashmir valley. No Hindu Kashmiri vowed to establish a Hindu terror group to take revenge because the state apparatus has failed to provide them safety.
Seema, a six-year-old girl, was found lying unconscious in a pool of blood in Doda when Islamic terrorists came to her house in the thick of night at 2.30 am, woke up her father, mother and her 11-year-old brother, killing them after brutal torture. They used big knives to cut them into pieces.
Still no Hindu terror group was formed to teach them a lesson.
A two-and-a-half-year old boy who was crying for milk as his mother was shot dead by Islamic terrorists in Wandhama attracted the attention of the jihadis and the bullets silenced him too.
Even then, Hindus didn't become terrorists.
The great socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia use to say – India has three dreams – Ram, Krishna and Shiva. The abodes, the principal temples of the global Hindus dedicated to these three dreams of India were destroyed and desecrated by Islamic invaders. Go to Google and see how the Shiva temple in Kashi has been turned into a mosque in such a style that the pillars of the old Hindu temple remain clearly visible to show Hindus that here was once the temple they used to worship, which has been converted into a mosque.
Yet for the last four centuries no Hindu has turned a terrorist to take revenge in Kashi.
Now when elections are underway, the government is in shambles showing utter unworthiness to govern and protect patriotic people. Suddenly every single person arrested for terrorism is a saffron, a Hindu and nothing is appearing on the channels or in Sunday magazine features except the "grave danger of Hindu terrorism" and the army getting the saffron "tilak" of terror.
Even the Ghaznis, Ghauris and Abdalis haven't done so much of character assassination of a majority community as this government has done just to garner a few Muslim votes.
Is it fair?
Will it not create a reaction among those who have been chanting mantras of global peace and fraternity and praying for the welfare of all, irrespective of faith or colour? Pushed to a corner, restricted from crying and blackholed like the Jews during the Nazi regime, will it not be a bit too naive to expect that Hindus will remain silent and offer their necks for the secular sacrificial ritual of election gains? Their temples are bombed, their children are killed, their property is looted, their orchards are burnt, their motherland is disfigured and assaulted, yet the state declares a war on their sensitivities, the media muffles their voice and bans all for a for them to express their views. On the contrary, it shows the victims as aggressors, humiliating them in the eyes of the real attackers.
Nature abhors such Siberian gags. Peace is strengthened by justice alone.
The way Pragya has suddenly become a hero must make sane people sit up and take note of the wave passing through the Hindu heartland. Tsunamis don't send advance emails before they strike.
The author is the Director, Dr Syamaprasad Mookerjee Research Foundation.
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18 Nov 2008,
Tarun Vijay
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Columnists/Tarun_Vijay_Why_are_Hindus_angry/articleshow/3726631.cms
In Srinagar, a Muslim women's organization – the Dukhtaran-e-Millat – vows to impose the strict Islamic code on women through violence and declares that it is in the interests of women. The leader of this outfit, Asiyah Andrabi, was jailed several times for working against the nation and for being a conduit for money to jihadi groups who used that help to kill Hindus and create disaffection among people against India. The US State Department Report of 1995 held a Dukhtaran-e-Millat activist responsible for a parcel bomb blast at the BBC office in Srinagar in which one person was killed and two injured.
The DeM has recently been linked to certain money laundering cases. Andrabi was booked under POTA (Prevention of Terrorism Act) for receiving ISI money through hawala channels. Whenever she speaks against India, there is no emotion or any sense of regret.
She was never subjected to a narco test nor did the media feel anything bad about her. Instead, women's groups interviewed her, called her the "new face of Muslim feminism", and glossy magazines splashed her interviews with a tinge of revolutionary romanticism.
For Indian seculars, the Srinagar crowd working against India brings added fizz, a thrill and a heroism that has to be "understood" rather than condemned. Serious academic columns are published saying that if they are so passionately and aggressively pursuing separatism, why shouldn't we give the Kashmir valley to them?
It's only when a lady monk is killed in Kandhamal or arrested in Nashik and appears to be wearing saffron rather than green that expressions become stern, the law becomes the guiding force, narco tests are immediately ordered and before anything can be even remotely established, the person is pronounced guilty. No women's organization comes out openly to say she is a woman and hence the police must protect her honour and religious obligations at all cost.
Her father says she is innocent. No one gives any importance to that statement.
She cooperates during the narco test and nothing incriminatory is proved. The police say she practices yoga, hence the narco test didn't work.
The bike, the RDX, the targets – nothing is proved. Yet, she is tortured in police custody.
The women's commission that swung into action when an item girl used it to get cheap publicity and hot assignments maintains a studied silence.
The Human Rights Commission remains unfazed and the red sirens of the Marxist class look the other way. They had been demanding a pardon for Afzal although the Supreme Court convicted him. But the issues involved were of secular nature; hence they had to speak.
Nobody still knows what Pragya actually did or didn't do. She has to be severely dealt with just because the colour she wears is not registered as secular in the government's registry of protection where rapists, extortionists and scandalous criminals get a cabinet berth and a murder accused jailbird becomes a chief minister for being on the correct side politically.
First they said an army officer used 60 kg of RDX to blow up the Samjhauta Express. Then the denial comes; no RDX was used, it was ammonium nitrate, oh no perhaps IEDs. Then the Mecca Masjid blasts are linked with Malegaon, then the Hyderabad police issue an official statement that nothing has been found to link the two. The motorbike, the disfigured numbers on the chassis, the absconding person, the real mastermind, the saffron terror guru ... Remember when the Kanchi Shankaracharya was arrested, what kind of charges were levelled against him? Rape, murder, financial fraud and womanizing. And women came foreword to issue statements about how they were "lured". What happened afterwards? Even "nothing" won't convey the nothingness of the entire plot.
But the damage to the great seat of Hindu reverence had been done.
After Kanchi and the Kandhamal murders, a new tool in form of Hindu terrorism has been crafted to make the Batla House terror gang happy.
Not a single Hindu will ever condone terrorism. It's not in our genes. Our blood group in this matter is different. If someone does it he is guilty of doing an un-Hindu act. Anyone caught and proven guilty must be severely dealt with. But why humiliate a majority community that defines the character of the nation for election gains?
Words, cacophony, a celebrative secular media's new 24-hour preoccupation – lynch the saffron, light the party fire.
Just one incident and look how Batla House terrorism, Jamia's protective belligerence, Assam blasts, Pakistani flags carried in Bodo areas by Muslim infiltrators, the Ram Setu destruction and affidavits that humiliate Hindus, everything got under cover. Only the newly manufactured "Hindu terrorism" is reigning in the national debate as a new fashion statement.
The invention of "Hindu terrorism" helped the government get out of a defensive shell and be extraordinarily active to crack a whip against "bad elements".
It had never displayed this action-oriented thrill when the Delhi blasts occurred or the Jaipur blasts claimed more than 60 lives. No Maulana was arrested or caricatured in the media as the bloody green terror guru or ghastly Islamic terrorism.
No, they said, terror has no religion hence these blasts, though done with a holy book surrounded by AK47s, and long quotes from it to justify the blasts and the killings of Hindus shouldn't be sourced to religion. These must not be explained away as Islamic terror, but just the work of some misguided people who are giving a bad name to a peaceful, brotherly way of worship.
Fine.
But when they see saffron, everyone loves to tie them with the speeding bus of law enforcement and constitutional propriety and beat them black and blue to prove a secular manliness of dhimmitude variety.
Pragya says she was tortured in police custody but no one took any notice of that. Why?
Even the most dreaded women criminals have been accorded human rights protection. Pragya is no criminal, she doesn't advocate violence against the state, she is not a traitor, she doesn't impose any kind of obscurantist code on women nor does she use acid, like Andarabi, to make other women fear her dictates. She has not said she is out to kill others to bring about any kind of religious order. But she is tortured and no one says it a gross violation of human rights. Is she not to be given the protection that every woman is entitled to?
Those who write against the nation, insult our heritage and support secession, get applauds and awards. But those who die for the nation and protect the civilisational flow are tortured in police custody.
That's the brevity and power of a state that's in reality headed by a woman and is being actually run by another.
More than 60,000 Hindus have been killed by Islamic jihadis, in the name of their religion and not a single Hindu stood up to say: Enough is enough, I will now see the wicked are punished and innocents are protected.
There is a list of more than 200 Hindu temples razed or desecrated in the Kashmir valley. No Hindu Kashmiri vowed to establish a Hindu terror group to take revenge because the state apparatus has failed to provide them safety.
Seema, a six-year-old girl, was found lying unconscious in a pool of blood in Doda when Islamic terrorists came to her house in the thick of night at 2.30 am, woke up her father, mother and her 11-year-old brother, killing them after brutal torture. They used big knives to cut them into pieces.
Still no Hindu terror group was formed to teach them a lesson.
A two-and-a-half-year old boy who was crying for milk as his mother was shot dead by Islamic terrorists in Wandhama attracted the attention of the jihadis and the bullets silenced him too.
Even then, Hindus didn't become terrorists.
The great socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia use to say – India has three dreams – Ram, Krishna and Shiva. The abodes, the principal temples of the global Hindus dedicated to these three dreams of India were destroyed and desecrated by Islamic invaders. Go to Google and see how the Shiva temple in Kashi has been turned into a mosque in such a style that the pillars of the old Hindu temple remain clearly visible to show Hindus that here was once the temple they used to worship, which has been converted into a mosque.
Yet for the last four centuries no Hindu has turned a terrorist to take revenge in Kashi.
Now when elections are underway, the government is in shambles showing utter unworthiness to govern and protect patriotic people. Suddenly every single person arrested for terrorism is a saffron, a Hindu and nothing is appearing on the channels or in Sunday magazine features except the "grave danger of Hindu terrorism" and the army getting the saffron "tilak" of terror.
Even the Ghaznis, Ghauris and Abdalis haven't done so much of character assassination of a majority community as this government has done just to garner a few Muslim votes.
Is it fair?
Will it not create a reaction among those who have been chanting mantras of global peace and fraternity and praying for the welfare of all, irrespective of faith or colour? Pushed to a corner, restricted from crying and blackholed like the Jews during the Nazi regime, will it not be a bit too naive to expect that Hindus will remain silent and offer their necks for the secular sacrificial ritual of election gains? Their temples are bombed, their children are killed, their property is looted, their orchards are burnt, their motherland is disfigured and assaulted, yet the state declares a war on their sensitivities, the media muffles their voice and bans all for a for them to express their views. On the contrary, it shows the victims as aggressors, humiliating them in the eyes of the real attackers.
Nature abhors such Siberian gags. Peace is strengthened by justice alone.
The way Pragya has suddenly become a hero must make sane people sit up and take note of the wave passing through the Hindu heartland. Tsunamis don't send advance emails before they strike.
The author is the Director, Dr Syamaprasad Mookerjee Research Foundation.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Dec 25 bandh call justified, Samiti
Bhubaneswar:(Visakeo) Swami Laxmananda Saraswati Sradhanjali Samiti on Wednesday argued that the bandh call on December 25 was logical and justified if the State Government fails to nab the killers of Swamiji and his disciples by December 15.
Samiti’s while reacting to the visit of the three-member Central Ministerial team led by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar to riot hit Kandhamal, however alleged that the team coming under pressure from church militants, has criticized the bandh call.
Both Central as well as the State Government has no morale right to oppose a bandh call on December 25, Samiti State coordinator Laxmikant Dash said. He further alleged that top church leaders and Congress President Sonia Gandhi are giving safe shelters to the killers of Swamiji.
The Crime Branch of State Police improved a lot in connection with the fake gang rape of a nun while the same officials have failed to the nab the killers of Swamiji even after four months of the incident, he added.
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Samiti’s while reacting to the visit of the three-member Central Ministerial team led by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar to riot hit Kandhamal, however alleged that the team coming under pressure from church militants, has criticized the bandh call.
Both Central as well as the State Government has no morale right to oppose a bandh call on December 25, Samiti State coordinator Laxmikant Dash said. He further alleged that top church leaders and Congress President Sonia Gandhi are giving safe shelters to the killers of Swamiji.
The Crime Branch of State Police improved a lot in connection with the fake gang rape of a nun while the same officials have failed to the nab the killers of Swamiji even after four months of the incident, he added.
Golakha Chandra Das
Monday, November 17, 2008
Govt must stop financial assistance for damaged churches, demands VHP
Govt must stop financial assistance for damaged churches, demands VHP
Bhubaneswar:(visakeo) Defiant Viswa Hindu Parishad on Monday asked Orissa Government to stop any kind of financial help for the reconstruction of churches and prayer houses in riot hit Kandhamal district.
The Government has no right to spend taxpayers' money to appease Christian Community and it should withdraw its announcement in this regard, VHP State general secretary Gouri Prasad Rath said. There is no provision for financial assistance to places of worship in the relief code, so the Government must reconsider its decision, he added.
The Supreme Court had never directed the State Government for financial assistance. It had only asked the Government to look into the issue in a humanitarian manner but the Government seems mistaken over the Court order, he argued.
He further pointed out that as Church, training centers for pastors and Nun are patronizing conversion activities; the Government must stop financial assistance to restore communal harmony in Kandhamal.
Orissa became first State in the country, which offered such type of financial help for reconstruction of religious institutions damaged during communal violence.
Churches, prayer houses, temples, mosques, gurudwaras, boudh vihars, jain temples and prayer halls of tribals and training institutions for nuns and pastors would get financial help as per the official announcement of the Orissa Government.
According to the order issued by the Revenue Department, places of worship and religious institutions built on disputed land would not be eligible for getting the assistance, which will vary from Rs 10,000 to Rs two lakh.
Rs 2 lakh each would be provided for churches and temples destroyed during riots in Kandhamal, while partially damaged places of worship would be given Rs 1 lakh each.
Similarly, Rs 50,000 each would be given for completely destroyed prayer halls, while those with moderate damage would be given Rs 20,000 each and partially damaged prayer halls would get Rs 10,000 each.
By Golakha Chandra Das
Bhubaneswar:(visakeo) Defiant Viswa Hindu Parishad on Monday asked Orissa Government to stop any kind of financial help for the reconstruction of churches and prayer houses in riot hit Kandhamal district.
The Government has no right to spend taxpayers' money to appease Christian Community and it should withdraw its announcement in this regard, VHP State general secretary Gouri Prasad Rath said. There is no provision for financial assistance to places of worship in the relief code, so the Government must reconsider its decision, he added.
The Supreme Court had never directed the State Government for financial assistance. It had only asked the Government to look into the issue in a humanitarian manner but the Government seems mistaken over the Court order, he argued.
He further pointed out that as Church, training centers for pastors and Nun are patronizing conversion activities; the Government must stop financial assistance to restore communal harmony in Kandhamal.
Orissa became first State in the country, which offered such type of financial help for reconstruction of religious institutions damaged during communal violence.
Churches, prayer houses, temples, mosques, gurudwaras, boudh vihars, jain temples and prayer halls of tribals and training institutions for nuns and pastors would get financial help as per the official announcement of the Orissa Government.
According to the order issued by the Revenue Department, places of worship and religious institutions built on disputed land would not be eligible for getting the assistance, which will vary from Rs 10,000 to Rs two lakh.
Rs 2 lakh each would be provided for churches and temples destroyed during riots in Kandhamal, while partially damaged places of worship would be given Rs 1 lakh each.
Similarly, Rs 50,000 each would be given for completely destroyed prayer halls, while those with moderate damage would be given Rs 20,000 each and partially damaged prayer halls would get Rs 10,000 each.
By Golakha Chandra Das
Orissa HC dismisses plea of Utkal Christian Council
Bhubaneswar:(visakeo)17/11- Orissa High Court on Monday rejected a petition of Utkal Christian Council that sought to change judge heading the one-man judicial panel to probe communal violence in Kandhamal district.
The division bench comprising chief Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan and justice BN Mohapatra dismissed the petition filed by the Council Nov 7.
Orissa Government appointed SC Mohapatra, a retired judge of the Orissa High Court September 2 to the one-man judicial commission that will probe the killing of a Hindu leader Aug 23 and the communal violence that followed.
The council, represented through its secretary Jyotsna Rani Patro, filed a writ application in the Orissa High court describing the appointment of Mohapatra as illegal.
The council in its petition had said that 'Mohapatra, a former Lok Pal (vigilance body member), cannot be appointed to head the commission because he is not eligible as per law. 'As per section 5 of the Lokpal Act, on ceasing to hold office the Lokpal or Lokayukta shall be ineligible for further employment under the state government,' the council had said.
"The court dismissed the plea. The court said that the commission of inquiry is not a government service so as to come within the purview of the word 'employment' and upheld the appointment,"
By Golakha Chandra Das
The division bench comprising chief Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan and justice BN Mohapatra dismissed the petition filed by the Council Nov 7.
Orissa Government appointed SC Mohapatra, a retired judge of the Orissa High Court September 2 to the one-man judicial commission that will probe the killing of a Hindu leader Aug 23 and the communal violence that followed.
The council, represented through its secretary Jyotsna Rani Patro, filed a writ application in the Orissa High court describing the appointment of Mohapatra as illegal.
The council in its petition had said that 'Mohapatra, a former Lok Pal (vigilance body member), cannot be appointed to head the commission because he is not eligible as per law. 'As per section 5 of the Lokpal Act, on ceasing to hold office the Lokpal or Lokayukta shall be ineligible for further employment under the state government,' the council had said.
"The court dismissed the plea. The court said that the commission of inquiry is not a government service so as to come within the purview of the word 'employment' and upheld the appointment,"
By Golakha Chandra Das
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Politics of 'Hindu terror'
http://www.dailypioneer.com/134642/Politics-of-Hindu-terror.html
Sunday Pioneer
16 Nov 2008
Politics of 'Hindu terror'
The cutting Ed: Chandan Mitra
Ab Tak Chhappan! The title of this Ram Gopal Varma film easily comes to mind observing the manner in which the Maharashtra ATS is going about picking up people all over India and slapping them into the cooler on a daily basis, ostensibly in a bid to unearth dimensions of "Hindu terror".
We have lost count of the number of persons interrogated, sent on police or judicial remand, their brains penetrated with narcotic substances to induce confession to their "crimes". But not a day has passed, since Sadhvi Pragya was nabbed some 25 days ago, without somebody or the other being arrested, allegedly in connection with a fantastic plot conjured up by the Maharashtra Police.
Those arrested included serving and retired Army officers, school and college teachers, political activists and now even a resourceful sadhu. Every evening at the news meeting in our office, the first question asked is, "What's the score today? Ab tak ...?"
Buoyed by enthusiastic endorsement from the "secular" media, which is gleefully eating out of the ATS' hands, the so-called Hindu terror plot keeps assuming an ever-growing magnitude. Not content with pinning the blame for the minor bomb blasts in Malegaon and Modasa, then Nanded and later Kanpur, the ATS' ambitions have increased manifold. Currently, it is busy trying to implicate the same group in the 2006 Samjhauta Express blasts. Curiously, SIMI commander Safdar Nagori's narco tests have resulted in a confession that his organisation executed the Samjhauta bombings. Does this mean that so-called Hindu terrorists have been synchronising their moves with SIMI? Or, maybe ATS will tomorrow come up with a theory that "Hindu terrorists" have been funding and masterminding the actions of jihadis who innocently fell into the Hindu trap in the lure of money. Far fetched? Not really, if you consider the gigantic yarns being spun around the purported confessions of the detained suspects.
Interestingly, in the last seven days, contradictory "leaks" have been planted on the handpicked media about the responses of detained suspects. A particularly hilarious story front-paged by a leading national daily claimed that the narco-analysis of Sadhvi Pragya came to a naught because she meditates daily! Apparently, those who are ardent practitioners of that spiritual art become immune to narco tests because their mental powers are strong enough to resist drug-induced coercion aimed at extracting confessions.
Moral of the story: All criminals ought to mediate, for then narco-tests shall fail and they go scot-free!
By the way, it would be interesting to know if the servants arrested in the Arushi Talwar murder case were also trained in the art of meditation. Must be, for the CBI failed to get any information out of them and finally they had to be released. Similarly, Lt Col. Srikant Purohit, too, foiled the investigators' desperate attempts to cajole him into confessing his crime because, we are told, as an Armyman, he was trained to absorb stress and no amount of drugs got him to talk. Halted on their tracks, the ATS then leaked purported details of Purohit's confessions, which were eagerly lapped up by sections of the media to further their campaign to equate "Hindu" with jihadi terror.
Following the arrest of Swami Amritanand aka Dayanand Pandey or Sudhakar Dwivedi, we were treated to details of his past, website photos, his ashrams, connections with top national personalities, ex-President APJ Abdul Kalam downwards. But what we never got to know was his role in the Malegaon blasts. Within hours of his arrest, the Haryana Railway Police swooped down on him apparently to discover his link to the Samjhauta Express blasts, which self-confessedly, SIMI had carried out. Without a shred of evidence to that effect, he has already been awarded the epithet of "Terror Guru".
In the same way, the highly respected Bhonsala Military School has been dubbed a terror factory - a term used hitherto for Talibanised madrasas. Merely because some members of a little known outfit called Abhinav Bharat, an adjunct of the largely defunct Hindu Mahasabha, visited the premises of the school, its custodians were hounded to the point of putting in their papers.
Judging by the hype accompanying the "Hindu terror" revelations, it would appear that nothing else is happening in this country for the last month or so. With every passing day, the ATS' concoctions get more incredible, the scale of "leaked" stories magnified and the media's tone becomes predictably shriller. All this before any of the arrested persons is formally charged or given an opportunity to defend themselves. Wasn't it the Congress that kept cautioning us against trial by media? Wasn't it Manmohan Singh who plaintively lamented that everything in this country gets politicised? But when a trial by the media is actually sponsored by the Government and agencies under its control, like the Maharashtra ATS, nobody sees anything wrong with it.
That, in the process, even the Army is being hauled over the coals and its exalted status sullied beyond repair is of no consequence. Clearly, the Government thinks tarnishing the Army serves its short-term agenda: Putting BJP on the backfoot. Nothing is too sacrosanct to achieve that aim in an election year. In the face of mounting public anger against the UPA's all-round failure, especially its vote-bank politics over terrorism, the Government desperately needed a face-saver. So, they decided to construct an elaborate theory of all-pervasive Hindu terror hoping to convince the electorate that the Hindutva forces are the real fountainhead of all terrorist activities. It is a matter of time before it is volubly argued by "secular" politicians and their media cheerleaders that jihadi terror is nothing but an act of self-defence in the face of rampant "Hindu terrorist" provocation.
With investigating agencies dragging their feet (could it be under orders from above?), failing to convict any terror accused so far, this is a clever ploy to divert attention from the real danger jihadi terror poses to India. Determined to thwart efforts by BJP-ruled States to introduce tough anti-terror laws, the Government has directed the President to return Narendra Modi's proposed GUJCOC, drafted on the lines of MCOCA, which is operational in UPA-ruled Maharashtra. And the Centre is equally determined not to execute Afzal Guru despite the Supreme Court sentencing him to death several years back. Incidentally, Muslim-majority Indonesia has fewer qualms: It executed three Islamic radicals last week, soon after they were convicted for the Bali bombings.
But our Government is focused on damning Hindu organisations by a sustained campaign of calumny. I wonder if the Maharashtra ATS will soon "unearth" global linkages of Hindu terror and accuse some sadhvi, swami or an Army officer of having plotted 9/11 too!
What the Congress-led Government is failing to recognise is that public anger against a regime increasingly seen as decidedly anti-Hindu, is rising. In the process, the Congress may actually be helping to create a Hindu vote for the first time in India's history. Pyromaniacs often end up being consumed by the very fire they light.
Sunday Pioneer
16 Nov 2008
Politics of 'Hindu terror'
The cutting Ed: Chandan Mitra
Ab Tak Chhappan! The title of this Ram Gopal Varma film easily comes to mind observing the manner in which the Maharashtra ATS is going about picking up people all over India and slapping them into the cooler on a daily basis, ostensibly in a bid to unearth dimensions of "Hindu terror".
We have lost count of the number of persons interrogated, sent on police or judicial remand, their brains penetrated with narcotic substances to induce confession to their "crimes". But not a day has passed, since Sadhvi Pragya was nabbed some 25 days ago, without somebody or the other being arrested, allegedly in connection with a fantastic plot conjured up by the Maharashtra Police.
Those arrested included serving and retired Army officers, school and college teachers, political activists and now even a resourceful sadhu. Every evening at the news meeting in our office, the first question asked is, "What's the score today? Ab tak ...?"
Buoyed by enthusiastic endorsement from the "secular" media, which is gleefully eating out of the ATS' hands, the so-called Hindu terror plot keeps assuming an ever-growing magnitude. Not content with pinning the blame for the minor bomb blasts in Malegaon and Modasa, then Nanded and later Kanpur, the ATS' ambitions have increased manifold. Currently, it is busy trying to implicate the same group in the 2006 Samjhauta Express blasts. Curiously, SIMI commander Safdar Nagori's narco tests have resulted in a confession that his organisation executed the Samjhauta bombings. Does this mean that so-called Hindu terrorists have been synchronising their moves with SIMI? Or, maybe ATS will tomorrow come up with a theory that "Hindu terrorists" have been funding and masterminding the actions of jihadis who innocently fell into the Hindu trap in the lure of money. Far fetched? Not really, if you consider the gigantic yarns being spun around the purported confessions of the detained suspects.
Interestingly, in the last seven days, contradictory "leaks" have been planted on the handpicked media about the responses of detained suspects. A particularly hilarious story front-paged by a leading national daily claimed that the narco-analysis of Sadhvi Pragya came to a naught because she meditates daily! Apparently, those who are ardent practitioners of that spiritual art become immune to narco tests because their mental powers are strong enough to resist drug-induced coercion aimed at extracting confessions.
Moral of the story: All criminals ought to mediate, for then narco-tests shall fail and they go scot-free!
By the way, it would be interesting to know if the servants arrested in the Arushi Talwar murder case were also trained in the art of meditation. Must be, for the CBI failed to get any information out of them and finally they had to be released. Similarly, Lt Col. Srikant Purohit, too, foiled the investigators' desperate attempts to cajole him into confessing his crime because, we are told, as an Armyman, he was trained to absorb stress and no amount of drugs got him to talk. Halted on their tracks, the ATS then leaked purported details of Purohit's confessions, which were eagerly lapped up by sections of the media to further their campaign to equate "Hindu" with jihadi terror.
Following the arrest of Swami Amritanand aka Dayanand Pandey or Sudhakar Dwivedi, we were treated to details of his past, website photos, his ashrams, connections with top national personalities, ex-President APJ Abdul Kalam downwards. But what we never got to know was his role in the Malegaon blasts. Within hours of his arrest, the Haryana Railway Police swooped down on him apparently to discover his link to the Samjhauta Express blasts, which self-confessedly, SIMI had carried out. Without a shred of evidence to that effect, he has already been awarded the epithet of "Terror Guru".
In the same way, the highly respected Bhonsala Military School has been dubbed a terror factory - a term used hitherto for Talibanised madrasas. Merely because some members of a little known outfit called Abhinav Bharat, an adjunct of the largely defunct Hindu Mahasabha, visited the premises of the school, its custodians were hounded to the point of putting in their papers.
Judging by the hype accompanying the "Hindu terror" revelations, it would appear that nothing else is happening in this country for the last month or so. With every passing day, the ATS' concoctions get more incredible, the scale of "leaked" stories magnified and the media's tone becomes predictably shriller. All this before any of the arrested persons is formally charged or given an opportunity to defend themselves. Wasn't it the Congress that kept cautioning us against trial by media? Wasn't it Manmohan Singh who plaintively lamented that everything in this country gets politicised? But when a trial by the media is actually sponsored by the Government and agencies under its control, like the Maharashtra ATS, nobody sees anything wrong with it.
That, in the process, even the Army is being hauled over the coals and its exalted status sullied beyond repair is of no consequence. Clearly, the Government thinks tarnishing the Army serves its short-term agenda: Putting BJP on the backfoot. Nothing is too sacrosanct to achieve that aim in an election year. In the face of mounting public anger against the UPA's all-round failure, especially its vote-bank politics over terrorism, the Government desperately needed a face-saver. So, they decided to construct an elaborate theory of all-pervasive Hindu terror hoping to convince the electorate that the Hindutva forces are the real fountainhead of all terrorist activities. It is a matter of time before it is volubly argued by "secular" politicians and their media cheerleaders that jihadi terror is nothing but an act of self-defence in the face of rampant "Hindu terrorist" provocation.
With investigating agencies dragging their feet (could it be under orders from above?), failing to convict any terror accused so far, this is a clever ploy to divert attention from the real danger jihadi terror poses to India. Determined to thwart efforts by BJP-ruled States to introduce tough anti-terror laws, the Government has directed the President to return Narendra Modi's proposed GUJCOC, drafted on the lines of MCOCA, which is operational in UPA-ruled Maharashtra. And the Centre is equally determined not to execute Afzal Guru despite the Supreme Court sentencing him to death several years back. Incidentally, Muslim-majority Indonesia has fewer qualms: It executed three Islamic radicals last week, soon after they were convicted for the Bali bombings.
But our Government is focused on damning Hindu organisations by a sustained campaign of calumny. I wonder if the Maharashtra ATS will soon "unearth" global linkages of Hindu terror and accuse some sadhvi, swami or an Army officer of having plotted 9/11 too!
What the Congress-led Government is failing to recognise is that public anger against a regime increasingly seen as decidedly anti-Hindu, is rising. In the process, the Congress may actually be helping to create a Hindu vote for the first time in India's history. Pyromaniacs often end up being consumed by the very fire they light.
Who’s the new Mogambo?
http://www.dailypioneer.com/134801/Who%e2%80%99s-the-new-Mogambo.html
THE PIONEER
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Who’s the new Mogambo?
By Swapan Dasgupta
There are seasons when the media’s perception of national priorities bear little relation to the average middle-class (I cannot presume to speak for the much-invoked aam aadmi) concerns. My own impression is that there is one overriding preoccupation: The economic downturn and the threat of recession. The insecurity fuelled by jihadi terror comes second.
The media perception is markedly different. Its main focus is on the Mumbai ATS’ sensational unearthing of a “Hindu terror” conspiracy. The Delhi edition of The Times of India on Saturday, for example, had 10 reports on the subject and another three on the miscarriage of justice in cases involving alleged jihadi terrorists.
To be fair to the media, the emerging story is riveting. To begin with there was the arrest of Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, the owner of a motorcycle which was used to plant bombs in Malegaon on September 29. The dashing sadhvi was believed to be the “mastermind”. The plot then came to embrace the Army and led to the arrest of Lt-Colonel Shrikant Purohit of the Military Intelligence. The shock of a serving Army officer being the real “mastermind” of the terror plot was profound. But even before this was fully digested, came the further revelation that a self-anointed shankaracharya Dayanand Pandey, alias Sudhakar Dwivedi, with a penchant for changing mobile phone numbers was the real divine inspiration behind Purohit. In other words, he was this week’s Mogambo. There is a suspicion that next week’s “mastermind” may well turn out to be the person who was all along the intended target — a senior RSS functionary whose responsibilities included J&K.
If all goes according to plan, this is a story that will run till the last round of voting for the Lok Sabha election. It is not merely the colourful conspirators that are of interest. Equally enthralling is the plot that the ATS has supposedly unearthed through extensive drugging and narco-analysis.
It would seem that a group of extreme Hindu nationalists, exasperated by the Government’s failure to control jihadi terror decided that the Muslims must get a taste of their own medicine. The inspirational shankaracharya supposedly requisitioned the services of the like-minded Purohit who he had got to know during his own missions in J&K. Using the Military Intelligence network and, may be, funds, he contacted jihadi groups to persuade them to engage in friendly fire, i.e. bomb their own community. This filmi plot did not succeed and Purohit had to settle for buying RDX from the “enemy”. With the assistance of a retired Territorial Army officer, a collector of antique arms and, of course, Pragya’s bike, the group killed six innocent Muslims in Malegaon.
The ATS now believes the group could have also triggered earlier blasts in Nanded, Kanpur, the first Malegaon blasts in 2006 and even the Samjhauta Express bombing. The net is being cast far and wide. The official spokesman of the Congress has even gone to the extent of suggesting that even the other bombings were outsourced by the RSS to the SIMI and Indian Mujahideen! It would also not be surprising if in the coming weeks some bright secular spark or ridiculous tabloid comes to the startling conclusion that the D-company is actually a covert RSS cell.
Before there is a formal request to the Obama Administration to reopen the 9/11 inquiries in the light of the Mumbai ATS unofficial disclosures to the media, it is pertinent to note a few features of the Hindu terrorist case. First, in its submission to the courts, the Mumbai ATS has pointed to 18 traces of RDX in Malegaon. Yet, it is curious that the Central forensic teams that were despatched to the spot immediately found no RDX. Obviously, both can’t be right.
Second, is it the normal custom of authorities to arrest anyone who has been remotely associated or had telephone links with the accused, subject them to narco-tests casually and then rush to the media? When nothing incriminating is unearthed, it is attributed to yogic skills. In most countries narco-tests are sparingly used to fill in missing links (usually the search for the murder weapon) after the bulk of the investigations are complete. In this investigation, it has become the first act of an otherwise clueless ATS.
Second, in its internal inquiry submitted to the Defence Ministry submitted some 10 days ago, the Army ruled out the involvement of any other officers. It has also refrained from dismissing Purohit from service — a revealing piece of non-action.
The implications of what the ATS has leaked to the media about the role of the Army are horrifying. It suggests that senior MI operatives have no wider accountability and are routinely engaged in clandestine activities with known jihadis. If Purohit had the ability to mount operations without instructions and without the knowledge of his superior officers, it suggests that the emergence of a rogue force like Pakistan’s ISI cannot be entirely discounted in India. Does the ATS and its political mentors in the UPA have any idea of what they are casually implying? Are the media stenographers who are faithfully reproducing every unattributable briefing aware of the long-term costs of trying to establish a moral equivalence between jihadi terror and Hindu terror?
Beleaguered Governments have made a habit of trying to bolster their electoral prospects through dirty tricks. In 1989, there was the elaborate attempt to discredit V P Singh through the discovery of fictitious accounts in St Kitts. Both the agencies and senior journalists were part of the plot. In 1996, there was the Jain hawala case which neither secured convictions nor won the Congress the election. Let us see how far the invocation of Hindu terror takes those who can’t bear the idea of being out of power. Meanwhile, the jihadis are sitting pretty, plotting their next move.
THE PIONEER
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Who’s the new Mogambo?
By Swapan Dasgupta
There are seasons when the media’s perception of national priorities bear little relation to the average middle-class (I cannot presume to speak for the much-invoked aam aadmi) concerns. My own impression is that there is one overriding preoccupation: The economic downturn and the threat of recession. The insecurity fuelled by jihadi terror comes second.
The media perception is markedly different. Its main focus is on the Mumbai ATS’ sensational unearthing of a “Hindu terror” conspiracy. The Delhi edition of The Times of India on Saturday, for example, had 10 reports on the subject and another three on the miscarriage of justice in cases involving alleged jihadi terrorists.
To be fair to the media, the emerging story is riveting. To begin with there was the arrest of Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, the owner of a motorcycle which was used to plant bombs in Malegaon on September 29. The dashing sadhvi was believed to be the “mastermind”. The plot then came to embrace the Army and led to the arrest of Lt-Colonel Shrikant Purohit of the Military Intelligence. The shock of a serving Army officer being the real “mastermind” of the terror plot was profound. But even before this was fully digested, came the further revelation that a self-anointed shankaracharya Dayanand Pandey, alias Sudhakar Dwivedi, with a penchant for changing mobile phone numbers was the real divine inspiration behind Purohit. In other words, he was this week’s Mogambo. There is a suspicion that next week’s “mastermind” may well turn out to be the person who was all along the intended target — a senior RSS functionary whose responsibilities included J&K.
If all goes according to plan, this is a story that will run till the last round of voting for the Lok Sabha election. It is not merely the colourful conspirators that are of interest. Equally enthralling is the plot that the ATS has supposedly unearthed through extensive drugging and narco-analysis.
It would seem that a group of extreme Hindu nationalists, exasperated by the Government’s failure to control jihadi terror decided that the Muslims must get a taste of their own medicine. The inspirational shankaracharya supposedly requisitioned the services of the like-minded Purohit who he had got to know during his own missions in J&K. Using the Military Intelligence network and, may be, funds, he contacted jihadi groups to persuade them to engage in friendly fire, i.e. bomb their own community. This filmi plot did not succeed and Purohit had to settle for buying RDX from the “enemy”. With the assistance of a retired Territorial Army officer, a collector of antique arms and, of course, Pragya’s bike, the group killed six innocent Muslims in Malegaon.
The ATS now believes the group could have also triggered earlier blasts in Nanded, Kanpur, the first Malegaon blasts in 2006 and even the Samjhauta Express bombing. The net is being cast far and wide. The official spokesman of the Congress has even gone to the extent of suggesting that even the other bombings were outsourced by the RSS to the SIMI and Indian Mujahideen! It would also not be surprising if in the coming weeks some bright secular spark or ridiculous tabloid comes to the startling conclusion that the D-company is actually a covert RSS cell.
Before there is a formal request to the Obama Administration to reopen the 9/11 inquiries in the light of the Mumbai ATS unofficial disclosures to the media, it is pertinent to note a few features of the Hindu terrorist case. First, in its submission to the courts, the Mumbai ATS has pointed to 18 traces of RDX in Malegaon. Yet, it is curious that the Central forensic teams that were despatched to the spot immediately found no RDX. Obviously, both can’t be right.
Second, is it the normal custom of authorities to arrest anyone who has been remotely associated or had telephone links with the accused, subject them to narco-tests casually and then rush to the media? When nothing incriminating is unearthed, it is attributed to yogic skills. In most countries narco-tests are sparingly used to fill in missing links (usually the search for the murder weapon) after the bulk of the investigations are complete. In this investigation, it has become the first act of an otherwise clueless ATS.
Second, in its internal inquiry submitted to the Defence Ministry submitted some 10 days ago, the Army ruled out the involvement of any other officers. It has also refrained from dismissing Purohit from service — a revealing piece of non-action.
The implications of what the ATS has leaked to the media about the role of the Army are horrifying. It suggests that senior MI operatives have no wider accountability and are routinely engaged in clandestine activities with known jihadis. If Purohit had the ability to mount operations without instructions and without the knowledge of his superior officers, it suggests that the emergence of a rogue force like Pakistan’s ISI cannot be entirely discounted in India. Does the ATS and its political mentors in the UPA have any idea of what they are casually implying? Are the media stenographers who are faithfully reproducing every unattributable briefing aware of the long-term costs of trying to establish a moral equivalence between jihadi terror and Hindu terror?
Beleaguered Governments have made a habit of trying to bolster their electoral prospects through dirty tricks. In 1989, there was the elaborate attempt to discredit V P Singh through the discovery of fictitious accounts in St Kitts. Both the agencies and senior journalists were part of the plot. In 1996, there was the Jain hawala case which neither secured convictions nor won the Congress the election. Let us see how far the invocation of Hindu terror takes those who can’t bear the idea of being out of power. Meanwhile, the jihadis are sitting pretty, plotting their next move.
Vatican owes us an apology
Vatican owes us an apology
http://www.dailypioneer.com/134662/Vatican-owes-us-an-apology.html
The Pioneer
16 Nov 2008
Vatican owes us an apology
by Kanchan Gupta
His Majesty the king has ordered that there shall be no Brahmins in his land and that they should be banished.”
“In the name of his Majesty I order that no Hindu can or shall perform marriages…”
“The marriages of the supplicants are superstitious acts or functions which include Hindu rites and ceremonies as well as cult, adoration and prayers of Hindu temples…”
“I order that no Hindu temples be erected in any of the territories of my king… and that Hindu temples which already have been erected be not repaired…'
Anybody familiar with the brutalisation of Hindu customs and practices, indeed Hindu faith and belief, could mistakenly believe these extracts have been taken from royal decrees issued during Muslim rule. The harshness with which suppression is prescribed in these decrees, the callous disregard that is advocated for the other’s sentiment, the cruelty that is so palpable in both thought and action, suggest that these firman could have been issued by one of the “shadows of god” who ruled this land, laying to waste Hindu lives and temples.
But these are not extracts from firman issued by the Mughal court of, say, Aurangzeb. They have been taken from firmans issued by the Portuguese who ruled Goa and recognised no religion other than Christianity as the legitimate means of communion with god. It was no secular rule that they imposed, but a ruthless system of pillage disguised as trade and a cruel administration for whom Hindus were nothing more than “supplicants” to be crushed into submission or exiled into oblivion.
The horrors inflicted on Galileo Galilei by the Inquisition — the Vatican has now admitted that the Church was wrong and Galileo was right — are well known. Not that well-known, and tragically so, are the horrors inflicted by the Goa Inquisition. Every child reads about Galileo’s trial and how it is symbolic of the triumph of science over faith. But there is no reference — indeed, all reference is scrupulously avoided — to the brutal attempts of the Church to stamp out Hinduism in the territories controlled by the Portuguese in India.
And this silence is not because there exists no evidence: There exist, in full text, orders issued by the Portuguese Viceroy and the Governor. There exist, in written records and travelogues, penned not by the persecuted but by the persecutors, full details of the horrors perpetrated in the name of Christ. Hindus who dared oppose the persecution were punished, swiftly and mercilessly. Those who were fortunate, got away with being banished. The less fortunate had their property seized and auctioned — the money was used, in large measures, for furthering proselytisation. The least fortunate were forced to serve as slave labour on the galleys that transported loot from Indian shores to Portuguese coffers.
Viceroy D Constantine de Braganca issued an order on April 2, 1560, instructing that Brahmins should be thrown out of Goa and other areas under Portuguese control. They had a month's time to sell their property — it is obvious who gained from such distress sale. Those found violating the viceregal order, it was declared, would have their properties seized. Another order was issued, this time by Governor Antonio Morez Barreto, on February 7, 1575, decreeing that the estates of Brahmins whose "presence was prejudicial to Christianity" would be confiscated and used for "providing clothes to the New Christians".
The attitude of the Portuguese administrators in India and the Church hardened over the years, to a point where each fiat, each decree, each order, each letter, became an instrument of religious persecution. The Third Concilio Provincial — a gathering of bishops and other clerics — met in 1585 to review, among other things, the progress of converting the “heathens” to the “only faith”. The Concilio adopted a resolution which said, ‘His Majesty the king has on occasion ordered the Viceroys and Governors of India that there should be no Brahmins in his lands, and that they should be banished therefrom together with the physicians and other infidels who are prejudicial to Christianity, after taking the opinion of the Archbishop and other religious persons who have experience in the matter. As the orders of His Majesty in this regard have not been executed, great impediments in the way of conversion and the community of New Christians have followed and continue to follow.”
One can quote from many other orders, resolutions and instructions that resulted in the hideous Vatican-backed Goa Inquisition. The details are not unknown to most of us; they are definitely well known to the Vatican. The reason I have raised the issue of the Goa Inquisition is two-fold. First, Pope Benedict XVI should bear in mind the horrors inflicted on Hindus in the name of Christianity before he berates them for being intolerant towards Christians. Second, the Vatican owes an apology for the crimes committed during the Goa Inquisition; it must apologise and repent for its misdeeds against Hindus and gross attempts to stamp out Hinduism. Not to do so would amount to continued endorsement of the crimes and the unfair practices of missionaries.
Ten years ago, the Vatican issued a 14-page document, ‘apologising’ and ‘repenting’ for not doing enough to save Europe’s Jews from the Holocaust. While it is common knowledge that Pope Pius XII did not feel particularly appalled by Hitler’s ‘final solution’, the Vatican claimed in its 1998 document that he was unaware of the concentration camps, the mass slaughter, the gas chambers and the furnaces. The document, understandably, failed to impress Jews who have made it clear that Pope Benedict XVI is not welcome to visit Israel unless he offers an unqualified apology and makes public documents of that period which are now stored in the Vatican’s archives. The Vatican may have eliminated the phrase “perfidious Jews” from its liturgy and Pope Paul II may have made it fashionable for the Pontiff to refer to Jews as “older brothers”, these are seen as no more than meaningless, insincere gestures.
The purpose of securing an apology for the Goa Inquisition is not to belittle the Vatican, but to drive home the point that it cannot seek to occupy the moral high ground till such time it has apologised and atoned for the sins committed against Hindus. If the Vatican can say sorry to others, there is no reason why it cannot say sorry to Hindus. Their faith is no less than those of the Book.
http://www.dailypioneer.com/134662/Vatican-owes-us-an-apology.html
The Pioneer
16 Nov 2008
Vatican owes us an apology
by Kanchan Gupta
His Majesty the king has ordered that there shall be no Brahmins in his land and that they should be banished.”
“In the name of his Majesty I order that no Hindu can or shall perform marriages…”
“The marriages of the supplicants are superstitious acts or functions which include Hindu rites and ceremonies as well as cult, adoration and prayers of Hindu temples…”
“I order that no Hindu temples be erected in any of the territories of my king… and that Hindu temples which already have been erected be not repaired…'
Anybody familiar with the brutalisation of Hindu customs and practices, indeed Hindu faith and belief, could mistakenly believe these extracts have been taken from royal decrees issued during Muslim rule. The harshness with which suppression is prescribed in these decrees, the callous disregard that is advocated for the other’s sentiment, the cruelty that is so palpable in both thought and action, suggest that these firman could have been issued by one of the “shadows of god” who ruled this land, laying to waste Hindu lives and temples.
But these are not extracts from firman issued by the Mughal court of, say, Aurangzeb. They have been taken from firmans issued by the Portuguese who ruled Goa and recognised no religion other than Christianity as the legitimate means of communion with god. It was no secular rule that they imposed, but a ruthless system of pillage disguised as trade and a cruel administration for whom Hindus were nothing more than “supplicants” to be crushed into submission or exiled into oblivion.
The horrors inflicted on Galileo Galilei by the Inquisition — the Vatican has now admitted that the Church was wrong and Galileo was right — are well known. Not that well-known, and tragically so, are the horrors inflicted by the Goa Inquisition. Every child reads about Galileo’s trial and how it is symbolic of the triumph of science over faith. But there is no reference — indeed, all reference is scrupulously avoided — to the brutal attempts of the Church to stamp out Hinduism in the territories controlled by the Portuguese in India.
And this silence is not because there exists no evidence: There exist, in full text, orders issued by the Portuguese Viceroy and the Governor. There exist, in written records and travelogues, penned not by the persecuted but by the persecutors, full details of the horrors perpetrated in the name of Christ. Hindus who dared oppose the persecution were punished, swiftly and mercilessly. Those who were fortunate, got away with being banished. The less fortunate had their property seized and auctioned — the money was used, in large measures, for furthering proselytisation. The least fortunate were forced to serve as slave labour on the galleys that transported loot from Indian shores to Portuguese coffers.
Viceroy D Constantine de Braganca issued an order on April 2, 1560, instructing that Brahmins should be thrown out of Goa and other areas under Portuguese control. They had a month's time to sell their property — it is obvious who gained from such distress sale. Those found violating the viceregal order, it was declared, would have their properties seized. Another order was issued, this time by Governor Antonio Morez Barreto, on February 7, 1575, decreeing that the estates of Brahmins whose "presence was prejudicial to Christianity" would be confiscated and used for "providing clothes to the New Christians".
The attitude of the Portuguese administrators in India and the Church hardened over the years, to a point where each fiat, each decree, each order, each letter, became an instrument of religious persecution. The Third Concilio Provincial — a gathering of bishops and other clerics — met in 1585 to review, among other things, the progress of converting the “heathens” to the “only faith”. The Concilio adopted a resolution which said, ‘His Majesty the king has on occasion ordered the Viceroys and Governors of India that there should be no Brahmins in his lands, and that they should be banished therefrom together with the physicians and other infidels who are prejudicial to Christianity, after taking the opinion of the Archbishop and other religious persons who have experience in the matter. As the orders of His Majesty in this regard have not been executed, great impediments in the way of conversion and the community of New Christians have followed and continue to follow.”
One can quote from many other orders, resolutions and instructions that resulted in the hideous Vatican-backed Goa Inquisition. The details are not unknown to most of us; they are definitely well known to the Vatican. The reason I have raised the issue of the Goa Inquisition is two-fold. First, Pope Benedict XVI should bear in mind the horrors inflicted on Hindus in the name of Christianity before he berates them for being intolerant towards Christians. Second, the Vatican owes an apology for the crimes committed during the Goa Inquisition; it must apologise and repent for its misdeeds against Hindus and gross attempts to stamp out Hinduism. Not to do so would amount to continued endorsement of the crimes and the unfair practices of missionaries.
Ten years ago, the Vatican issued a 14-page document, ‘apologising’ and ‘repenting’ for not doing enough to save Europe’s Jews from the Holocaust. While it is common knowledge that Pope Pius XII did not feel particularly appalled by Hitler’s ‘final solution’, the Vatican claimed in its 1998 document that he was unaware of the concentration camps, the mass slaughter, the gas chambers and the furnaces. The document, understandably, failed to impress Jews who have made it clear that Pope Benedict XVI is not welcome to visit Israel unless he offers an unqualified apology and makes public documents of that period which are now stored in the Vatican’s archives. The Vatican may have eliminated the phrase “perfidious Jews” from its liturgy and Pope Paul II may have made it fashionable for the Pontiff to refer to Jews as “older brothers”, these are seen as no more than meaningless, insincere gestures.
The purpose of securing an apology for the Goa Inquisition is not to belittle the Vatican, but to drive home the point that it cannot seek to occupy the moral high ground till such time it has apologised and atoned for the sins committed against Hindus. If the Vatican can say sorry to others, there is no reason why it cannot say sorry to Hindus. Their faith is no less than those of the Book.
Samiti warns Orissa Bandh on December 25, holds massive Sradhanjali Sabha
Bhubaneswar: (visakeo),16/11-Swami Laxmananda Saraswati Sradhanjali Samiti, which held a massive Sradhanjali Sabha here at PMG Square, warned for Orissa Bandh on December 25 if the State Government failed to arrest the killers and conspirators of the Hindu saint by December 15. The Samiti also demanded highest civilian award for the late Seer and asked the Government to stop arrest of innocent Kandh tribals. Speakers paid homage to late Swami Laxmananda Saraswati and vowed to fight against conversion and cow slaughtering.
It may be noted here that Swamiji and his four followers who were killed by unidentified attackers Aug 23 in an ashram in Orissa's Kandhamal district. The rally attended by seers from across the State and outside, was held with the permission of the State Government despite the Centre's warning against such gathering. Saffron flags were seen fluttering in many parts of the city as Hindu activists raised slogans against the government for failing to arrest the people involved in the brutal murder.
Speakers, who addressed the huge gathering, also alleged that the Orissa Chief Minister is working under pressure from both church and the Congress led UPA Government at the Centre in dealing with the Kandhamal violence. They held Congress Rajya Sabha member Radhakant Nayak as key conspirator behind the murder and alleged that the Congress chief Sonia Gandhi is giving safe shelter to MP Nayak.
The speakers also urged the State Government to take action against those are violating court orders and law of the land, police and administration. Referring to allegations that Christmas last year was dampened by violence by saffron outfits, they said, "Let there be a state-wide bandh this time on December 25 to ensure a completely peaceful Christmas,"s
"We will be forced to observe Orissa Bandh on December 25, if the government failed to arrest the killers and conspirators", said Swami Laxamananda Saraswati Sradhanjali Samiti president ratnakar Cahinee
Suspecting killing of Swamiji as part of an international conspiracy, the leaders wanted narco-test of Sonia Gandhi, archbishop Rapheal Cheenath and Rajya Sabha MP Nayak.
"We doubt that the three were conspirators in the Swami killing incidents", the VHP Marg Darsak Mandali member Ramvilas Vedanti Maharaj said adding that defaming and eliminating Hindu saints were part of the conspiracy hatched by Church along with Sonia Gandhi.
While demanding Bharat Ratna for the slain VHP leader Laxamananda, the Sangh Parivar also demanded release of innocent tribals who had been lodged in jails without sufficient evidence.
"We give one month time to Naveen Patnaik to arrest the killers. Otherwise, we will be forced to go for a bandh", said VHP state secretary Gouri Prasad Rath.
The rally, first of its kind in Orissa's state capital also witnessed active participation of the ruling BJP leaders and MLA where the chief minister and the government were condemned and held responsible for the Kandhamal violence.
They too strongly criticized the government for giving preferential treatment to the alleged rape victim nun who had no faith on the government as well as on the police.
"While hundreds of rape victims were denied justice in Orissa, why such royal treatment for a nun", asked Dr. Indulata Das, a member of the samiti and wife of a IAS officer.
"We have deployed 50 platoons of security forces including few companies of Central Reserve Police Force and Rapid Action Force. The Sradhanjali Sabha passes off peacefully with reports no untoward incident in the State Capital," Commissioner of Police BK Sharma said.
Samiti president Dr Ratnakar Chaini presided over the Sabha. Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram national president Jagdeo Ram Oram, RSS Central Committee senior member Indresh Kumar, Mahanta Dr Ramvilash Vedanti of Ram Janmabhoomi Movement, national president, national coordinator of Hindu Jagaran Samukhya Harihar Nanda, Swami Pranarupanandaji, Swami Jeevan Chaitnyaji, BJP National vice-president Jual Oram, State president Suresh Pujari, BMS national organizing secretary KC Mishra, BKS national organsing secretary Mohini Mohan Mishra, HJS State president Ashok Sahu, VHP State general secretary Gouri Prasad Rath, RSS Pranta Pracharak Jagadish P Khadanga, Saha Khetra Pracharak Ajit Prasad Mohapatra, Dr Indulata Das and Bhagirathi Mahasuar, were among those attended the meet.
It may be noted here that Swamiji and his four followers who were killed by unidentified attackers Aug 23 in an ashram in Orissa's Kandhamal district. The rally attended by seers from across the State and outside, was held with the permission of the State Government despite the Centre's warning against such gathering. Saffron flags were seen fluttering in many parts of the city as Hindu activists raised slogans against the government for failing to arrest the people involved in the brutal murder.
Speakers, who addressed the huge gathering, also alleged that the Orissa Chief Minister is working under pressure from both church and the Congress led UPA Government at the Centre in dealing with the Kandhamal violence. They held Congress Rajya Sabha member Radhakant Nayak as key conspirator behind the murder and alleged that the Congress chief Sonia Gandhi is giving safe shelter to MP Nayak.
The speakers also urged the State Government to take action against those are violating court orders and law of the land, police and administration. Referring to allegations that Christmas last year was dampened by violence by saffron outfits, they said, "Let there be a state-wide bandh this time on December 25 to ensure a completely peaceful Christmas,"s
"We will be forced to observe Orissa Bandh on December 25, if the government failed to arrest the killers and conspirators", said Swami Laxamananda Saraswati Sradhanjali Samiti president ratnakar Cahinee
Suspecting killing of Swamiji as part of an international conspiracy, the leaders wanted narco-test of Sonia Gandhi, archbishop Rapheal Cheenath and Rajya Sabha MP Nayak.
"We doubt that the three were conspirators in the Swami killing incidents", the VHP Marg Darsak Mandali member Ramvilas Vedanti Maharaj said adding that defaming and eliminating Hindu saints were part of the conspiracy hatched by Church along with Sonia Gandhi.
While demanding Bharat Ratna for the slain VHP leader Laxamananda, the Sangh Parivar also demanded release of innocent tribals who had been lodged in jails without sufficient evidence.
"We give one month time to Naveen Patnaik to arrest the killers. Otherwise, we will be forced to go for a bandh", said VHP state secretary Gouri Prasad Rath.
The rally, first of its kind in Orissa's state capital also witnessed active participation of the ruling BJP leaders and MLA where the chief minister and the government were condemned and held responsible for the Kandhamal violence.
They too strongly criticized the government for giving preferential treatment to the alleged rape victim nun who had no faith on the government as well as on the police.
"While hundreds of rape victims were denied justice in Orissa, why such royal treatment for a nun", asked Dr. Indulata Das, a member of the samiti and wife of a IAS officer.
"We have deployed 50 platoons of security forces including few companies of Central Reserve Police Force and Rapid Action Force. The Sradhanjali Sabha passes off peacefully with reports no untoward incident in the State Capital," Commissioner of Police BK Sharma said.
Samiti president Dr Ratnakar Chaini presided over the Sabha. Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram national president Jagdeo Ram Oram, RSS Central Committee senior member Indresh Kumar, Mahanta Dr Ramvilash Vedanti of Ram Janmabhoomi Movement, national president, national coordinator of Hindu Jagaran Samukhya Harihar Nanda, Swami Pranarupanandaji, Swami Jeevan Chaitnyaji, BJP National vice-president Jual Oram, State president Suresh Pujari, BMS national organizing secretary KC Mishra, BKS national organsing secretary Mohini Mohan Mishra, HJS State president Ashok Sahu, VHP State general secretary Gouri Prasad Rath, RSS Pranta Pracharak Jagadish P Khadanga, Saha Khetra Pracharak Ajit Prasad Mohapatra, Dr Indulata Das and Bhagirathi Mahasuar, were among those attended the meet.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Samiti warns Orissa Bandh on December 25, holds massive Sradhanjali Sabha
By Golakha Chandra Das
Bhubaneswar:(visakeo),15/11- Swami Laxmananda Saraswati Sradhanjali Samiti, which held a massive Sradhanjali Sabha here at PMG Square, warned for Orissa Bandh on December 25 if the State Government failed to arrest the killers and conspirators of the Hindu saint by December 15. The Samiti also demanded highest civilian award for the late Seer and asked the Government to stop arrest of innocent Kandh tribals.
Speakers paid homage to late Swami Laxmananda Saraswati and vowed to fight against conversion and cow slaughtering. It may be noted here that Swamiji and his four followers who were killed by unidentified attackers Aug 23 in an ashram in Orissa’s Kandhamal district.
The rally attended by seers from across the State and outside, was held with the permission of the State Government despite the Centre's warning against such gathering. Saffron flags were seen fluttering in many parts of the city as Hindu activists raised slogans against the government for failing to arrest the people involved in the brutal murder.
Speakers, who addressed the huge gathering, also alleged that the Orissa Chief Minister is working under pressure from both church and the Congress led UPA Government at the Centre in dealing with the Kandhamal violence. They held Congress Rajya Sabha member Radhakant Nayak as key conspirator behind the murder and alleged that the Congress chief Sonia Gandhi is giving safe shelter to MP Nayak.
The speakers also urged the State Government to take action against those are violating court orders and law of the land, police and administration. Referring to allegations that Christmas last year was dampened by violence by saffron outfits, they said, “Let there be a state-wide bandh this time on December 25 to ensure a completely peaceful Christmas,”
“We have deployed 50 platoons of security forces including few companies of Central Reserve Police Force and Rapid Action Force. The Sradhanjali Sabha passes off peacefully with reports no untoward incident in the State Capital,” Commissioner of Police BK Sharma said.
Samiti president Dr Ratnakar Chaini presided over the Sabha. Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram national president Jagdeo Ram Oram, RSS Central Committee senior member Indresh Kumar, Mahanta Dr Ramvilash Vedanti of Ram Janmabhoomi Movement, national president, national coordinator of Hindu Jagaran Samukhya Harihar Nanda, Swami Pranarupanandaji, Swami Jeevan Chaitnyaji, BJP National vice-president Jual Oram, State president Suresh Pujari, BMS national organizing secretary KC Mishra, BKS national organsing secretary Mohini Mohan Mishra, HJS State president Ashok Sahu, VHP State general secretary Gouri Prasad Rath, RSS Pranta Pracharak Jagadish P Khadanga, Saha Khetra Pracharak Ajit Prasad Mohapatra, Dr Indulata Das and Bhagirathi Mahasuar, were among those attended the meet.
Bhubaneswar:(visakeo),15/11- Swami Laxmananda Saraswati Sradhanjali Samiti, which held a massive Sradhanjali Sabha here at PMG Square, warned for Orissa Bandh on December 25 if the State Government failed to arrest the killers and conspirators of the Hindu saint by December 15. The Samiti also demanded highest civilian award for the late Seer and asked the Government to stop arrest of innocent Kandh tribals.
Speakers paid homage to late Swami Laxmananda Saraswati and vowed to fight against conversion and cow slaughtering. It may be noted here that Swamiji and his four followers who were killed by unidentified attackers Aug 23 in an ashram in Orissa’s Kandhamal district.
The rally attended by seers from across the State and outside, was held with the permission of the State Government despite the Centre's warning against such gathering. Saffron flags were seen fluttering in many parts of the city as Hindu activists raised slogans against the government for failing to arrest the people involved in the brutal murder.
Speakers, who addressed the huge gathering, also alleged that the Orissa Chief Minister is working under pressure from both church and the Congress led UPA Government at the Centre in dealing with the Kandhamal violence. They held Congress Rajya Sabha member Radhakant Nayak as key conspirator behind the murder and alleged that the Congress chief Sonia Gandhi is giving safe shelter to MP Nayak.
The speakers also urged the State Government to take action against those are violating court orders and law of the land, police and administration. Referring to allegations that Christmas last year was dampened by violence by saffron outfits, they said, “Let there be a state-wide bandh this time on December 25 to ensure a completely peaceful Christmas,”
“We have deployed 50 platoons of security forces including few companies of Central Reserve Police Force and Rapid Action Force. The Sradhanjali Sabha passes off peacefully with reports no untoward incident in the State Capital,” Commissioner of Police BK Sharma said.
Samiti president Dr Ratnakar Chaini presided over the Sabha. Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram national president Jagdeo Ram Oram, RSS Central Committee senior member Indresh Kumar, Mahanta Dr Ramvilash Vedanti of Ram Janmabhoomi Movement, national president, national coordinator of Hindu Jagaran Samukhya Harihar Nanda, Swami Pranarupanandaji, Swami Jeevan Chaitnyaji, BJP National vice-president Jual Oram, State president Suresh Pujari, BMS national organizing secretary KC Mishra, BKS national organsing secretary Mohini Mohan Mishra, HJS State president Ashok Sahu, VHP State general secretary Gouri Prasad Rath, RSS Pranta Pracharak Jagadish P Khadanga, Saha Khetra Pracharak Ajit Prasad Mohapatra, Dr Indulata Das and Bhagirathi Mahasuar, were among those attended the meet.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Sadhus make beeline for massive Sradhanjali Sabha
Bhubaneswar: ( visakeo),14/11-Thousands of Hindu saints on Friday gathered here in State Capital to take part in a massive Sradhanjali Sabha hosted in memory of late Swami Vedanta Keshari Laxmananda Saraswati here at PMG Square on Saturday. Till Friday afternoon, more than 50,000 thousand people from across the State and outside have reached the city while others would reach by Saturday morning. A peace meet will be at 8.30 followed by Namasankirtan from 10 to 11.30 and then Sradhanjali Sabha.
The Sabha would demand immediate arrest of killers and conspirators of Swamiji and four of his disciples. Narco Test of Congress Rajya Sabha member Radhakant Nayak, Cuttack-Bhubaneswar Archbishop Raphael Cheenath, National Integration Council member John Dayal to find out truth and find out the killers and conspirators. Besides, it would also strongly oppose conversion and cow slaughtering.
Sradhanjali Samiti joint coordinator Dr Laxmikant Dash said that 500 people each from Kendrapara, Jagatsinghpur, Dhenkanal, Puri, 800 from Khurda, 200 from Puri, 400 from Nayagarh are coming in cycle and motorcycle rallies and they would reach by tomorrow morning while 1000 people would took out a motor cycle rally from Cuttack to the venue of the Sabha on Saturday morning, he added.
Samiti has made adequate arrangement for the Sabha as well as those who attend while night shelters have been made for them at Bargarh Brit Colony, Jaya Prakash Narayan Park in Master Canteen Sqaure, Giridurga Ground, and Capital High School Ground and Sahid Nagar Durga Mandap ground. Sadhus and Santhas would stay at Unit-5 Saraswati Sishu Mandir.
Samiti president Dr Ratnakar Chaini would preside over the Sabha. Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram national president Jagdeo Ram Oram, RSS Central Committee senior member Indresh Kumar, Mahanta Dr Ramvilash Vedanti of Ram Janmabhoomi Movement, national president Viswa Hindu Parishad Y Raghavellu national coordinator of Hindu Jagaran Samukhya Harihar Nanda, Swami Pranarupanandaji, Swami Jeevan Chaitnyaji, Swami Sachidananda Saraswatiji Maharaj of Puri, Swami Bhagaban Devji, BMS national organizing secretary KC Mishra, BKS national organsing secretary Mohini Mohan Mishra, Kandha Baba Sudeaba, Former RSS State Sanghachalak BK Basu, columnist Bhagirathi Mahasuar, Dr Indulata Das, , Western Orissa tribal leader Buddha Oram, HJS State president Ashok Sahu, Kui Samaj president Padmanav Pradhan, Sabar Samaj president Lachaman Nayak and VHP State president Bipin Bihari Ratho are among those expected to attend the meet.
By Golakha Chandra Das
The Sabha would demand immediate arrest of killers and conspirators of Swamiji and four of his disciples. Narco Test of Congress Rajya Sabha member Radhakant Nayak, Cuttack-Bhubaneswar Archbishop Raphael Cheenath, National Integration Council member John Dayal to find out truth and find out the killers and conspirators. Besides, it would also strongly oppose conversion and cow slaughtering.
Sradhanjali Samiti joint coordinator Dr Laxmikant Dash said that 500 people each from Kendrapara, Jagatsinghpur, Dhenkanal, Puri, 800 from Khurda, 200 from Puri, 400 from Nayagarh are coming in cycle and motorcycle rallies and they would reach by tomorrow morning while 1000 people would took out a motor cycle rally from Cuttack to the venue of the Sabha on Saturday morning, he added.
Samiti has made adequate arrangement for the Sabha as well as those who attend while night shelters have been made for them at Bargarh Brit Colony, Jaya Prakash Narayan Park in Master Canteen Sqaure, Giridurga Ground, and Capital High School Ground and Sahid Nagar Durga Mandap ground. Sadhus and Santhas would stay at Unit-5 Saraswati Sishu Mandir.
Samiti president Dr Ratnakar Chaini would preside over the Sabha. Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram national president Jagdeo Ram Oram, RSS Central Committee senior member Indresh Kumar, Mahanta Dr Ramvilash Vedanti of Ram Janmabhoomi Movement, national president Viswa Hindu Parishad Y Raghavellu national coordinator of Hindu Jagaran Samukhya Harihar Nanda, Swami Pranarupanandaji, Swami Jeevan Chaitnyaji, Swami Sachidananda Saraswatiji Maharaj of Puri, Swami Bhagaban Devji, BMS national organizing secretary KC Mishra, BKS national organsing secretary Mohini Mohan Mishra, Kandha Baba Sudeaba, Former RSS State Sanghachalak BK Basu, columnist Bhagirathi Mahasuar, Dr Indulata Das, , Western Orissa tribal leader Buddha Oram, HJS State president Ashok Sahu, Kui Samaj president Padmanav Pradhan, Sabar Samaj president Lachaman Nayak and VHP State president Bipin Bihari Ratho are among those expected to attend the meet.
By Golakha Chandra Das
Successful Colleges Bandh in All over Country
Successful Colleges Bandh in All over Country
Nationwide successful college Bandh against Bangla Infiltration
Bhubaneswar(Visakeo)13/11-The problem of Bangladesh infiltrations; has been raised as a big challenge for internal security of nations. In spite of it proved participation in recent bomb-blast, Government is not taking any action just to politicize this issue.
With an intention to create awareness among youth & to presserise the central govt. today on 12th Nov., ABVP has proclaimed for nationwide College-Band & it was a success. The Bandh had nationwide impact. According to the figure which we have, excluding the six states i.e. Maharashtra, Gujarat, vidarbha, Orissa, T.N. & Chhattisgarh, all the other region have shown a good response. As per figures, 12685 college, 25203 high school & coaching Institution were closed.
Especially in Delhi University, 32 colleges were closed as to follows Band. A rally was organised in which Sunil Ambekar, National Organising Secretary made a statement saying that the Bandh was successful & he gave an appeal of `Chalo Chicken neck` for the national cause. Further he added that whole together 50,000 student will be participating in this national activity.
Nationwide successful college Bandh against Bangla Infiltration
Bhubaneswar(Visakeo)13/11-The problem of Bangladesh infiltrations; has been raised as a big challenge for internal security of nations. In spite of it proved participation in recent bomb-blast, Government is not taking any action just to politicize this issue.
With an intention to create awareness among youth & to presserise the central govt. today on 12th Nov., ABVP has proclaimed for nationwide College-Band & it was a success. The Bandh had nationwide impact. According to the figure which we have, excluding the six states i.e. Maharashtra, Gujarat, vidarbha, Orissa, T.N. & Chhattisgarh, all the other region have shown a good response. As per figures, 12685 college, 25203 high school & coaching Institution were closed.
Especially in Delhi University, 32 colleges were closed as to follows Band. A rally was organised in which Sunil Ambekar, National Organising Secretary made a statement saying that the Bandh was successful & he gave an appeal of `Chalo Chicken neck` for the national cause. Further he added that whole together 50,000 student will be participating in this national activity.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Arrest anti-Orissa elements, demands RSA
Bhubaneswar(Visakeo),13/11- Rashtriya Swabhiman Andolan of Govindacharya on Thursday urged Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to arrest all anti-Orissa elements; those are making false propaganda worldwide over the Kandhamal sectarian violence.
RSA State coordinator Soumendra Jena further alleged that several Fathers and Nuns from Southern States of Tamil Nadu and Kerala are camping here to plot conspiracy against the Hindus.
He has enquired whether the alleged Kandhamal nun gang rape issue, a repeat of 1999 episode, in which nun Jacklin Merry (32) had alleged that she had been gang raped by a group of people on February 4, 1999. The matter was subsequently probed false.
RSA state chief said that it was pre-planned conspiracy to divert attention from Swami Laxmananda Saraswati murder case. They have no respect to our law of the land as they said they have no faith on Orissa Police, he added.
The nuns should under go medical examination to probe their credibility, he demanded. He further revealed that an unidentified chopper carrying church people is flying over Tangi in Khurda district frequently while a helipad is being constructed at Baliguda. The Government should initiate probe into the issues, he added.
By Golak Chandra Das
RSA State coordinator Soumendra Jena further alleged that several Fathers and Nuns from Southern States of Tamil Nadu and Kerala are camping here to plot conspiracy against the Hindus.
He has enquired whether the alleged Kandhamal nun gang rape issue, a repeat of 1999 episode, in which nun Jacklin Merry (32) had alleged that she had been gang raped by a group of people on February 4, 1999. The matter was subsequently probed false.
RSA state chief said that it was pre-planned conspiracy to divert attention from Swami Laxmananda Saraswati murder case. They have no respect to our law of the land as they said they have no faith on Orissa Police, he added.
The nuns should under go medical examination to probe their credibility, he demanded. He further revealed that an unidentified chopper carrying church people is flying over Tangi in Khurda district frequently while a helipad is being constructed at Baliguda. The Government should initiate probe into the issues, he added.
By Golak Chandra Das
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
VKA national president to visit Orissa
Bhubaneswar: (Visakeo)National president of Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram, Shri Jagdeo Ram Oram will pay a three-day long visit to Orissa beginning from November 14 to take stock of Kandhamal situation, where the lives of innocent Kandh tribe is under threat because large scale illegal conversion.
Shri Oram will also address the massive rally, to be hosted by the Swami Laxmananda Saraswati Sradhanjali Samiti here in State Capital on November.
RSS Central Committee senior member Indresh Kumar, Mahanta Dr Ramvilash Vedanti of Ram Janmabhoomi Movement, national president Viswa Hindu Parishad Y Raghavellu national coordinator of Hindu Jagaran Samukhya Harihar Nanda and all Hindu outfits would attend the rally.
By Golak Chandra Das
Shri Oram will also address the massive rally, to be hosted by the Swami Laxmananda Saraswati Sradhanjali Samiti here in State Capital on November.
RSS Central Committee senior member Indresh Kumar, Mahanta Dr Ramvilash Vedanti of Ram Janmabhoomi Movement, national president Viswa Hindu Parishad Y Raghavellu national coordinator of Hindu Jagaran Samukhya Harihar Nanda and all Hindu outfits would attend the rally.
By Golak Chandra Das
Akhila Bharatiya Seva Pramukh visited the Dharana place at Talcher
Talcher (visakeo)-12/11.-. The Akhila Bharatiya Seva Pramukh of RSS Mananeeya SitaRam ji have visited the "Dharana" site organised by Swami Laxmananda Saraswati Sradhanjali Samiti Talcher yesterday i.e.on 11.11.2008 at time 03:30 pm with his colligues.The Dharana is sitting in front of the Sub-collector office Talcher since 06th October 2008 till date.Among his group Pranta Seva pramukh Ashok Padhi, Bibhag saha sangha Chalak Mananeeya Sudhira Kumar Mishra and bibhag pracharak Srustidhar Biswal and jilla prachar pramukh Ashutosh Rath were there.The M.L.A. Talcher Mr. Mahesh Sahoo was with the protesters sitting on Dharana.While addressing to the crowd Sitaram ji stated that on the top of the chair of speaker Lok Sabha and Chief justice of India a quotation has written"Jato Dharma Tatho Jay". So as Swami ji was doing the work of Dharma Samrakshyan he can not be detached from us . And after his death we must take oath to fulfill his wishes and work he left for us. The seva pramukkh had a one day visit to take a baithak of prabasi karyakarta of Talcher jilla
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Sradhanjali Samiti to hold massive rally on Nov 15 in Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar(Visakeo) Swami Laxmananda Saraswati Sradhanjali Samiti will hold a massive rally here at Lower PMG Square on November 15 in protest against the 'total failure' of the Orissa Government as well as the Crime Branch of Police in nabbing the real culprits behind Swamiji's killing.
Addressing a Press Conference here on Tuesday, Samiti president Dr Ratnakar Chaini alleged that the Orissa Government is adopting double standard in dealing with the Kandhamal crisis. "It seems, the Government is under pressure from both Church and UPA Government at Centre" he added.
Acting on an unsubstantiated allegation of a 29-year Old Catholic Nun, the Orissa Government made all out efforts to nab the rapists while the victim, even despite repeated court orders, the Nun is trying very hard to shift the matter outside Orissa.
The same Crime Branch, looking into the murder of Swamiji, yet to submit its charge sheet where as it progressed a lot in the Nun rape case. So, it's clear that the Orissa Chief Minister is under tremendous pressure, added Dr Chaini.
He further said that even after near two and half months of the brutal murder of Swamiji, Police completely failed to reach at the real culprits. "We demanded that unless and until, the real killers and conspirators nabbed, the Samiti would continue its agitation across the State," he said adding that the Samiti would strongly oppose any further conversion activities of the Church.
"We shocked, the manner in which, the police looking into the issue. IGP (Crime Branch) Arun Kumar Ray himself admitted that the real culprits and masterminds are staying outside Orissa after the brutal murder of the Hindu saint while few killers are hiding in any undisclosed location of Kandhamal's dense forest.
But, the police did not take any steps to locate the killers while it also not take steps to nab, those are staying outside Orissa," Dr Chaini alleged. "The verdict of Baliguda SDJM court rejecting the plea of the Nun seeking TIP of the accused outside Orissa, was historic, we wholeheartedly endorsed it," he added.
About five lakh angry Hindus from across the country would gather here in State Capital to protest minority appeasement initiatives of Orissa Chief Minister, who is false claming every bone of his body is secular.
The massive rally would also serve an ultimatum to the State Government asking it to nab the culprits behind Swamiji's killing. Is secularism means Church and Nun appeasement? . "If the killers will not be nabbed by November 15, we would plan for Orissa Bandh on December 25," he said. He further added that Hindus across the country have filed more than 15,000 FIRs in their respective districts.
Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram national president Jagdeo Ram Oram, RSS Central Committee senior member Indresh Kumar, Mahanta Dr Ramvilash Vedanti of Ram Janmabhoomi Movement, national president Viswa Hindu Parishad Y Raghavellu national coordinator of Hindu Jagaran Samukhya Harihar Nanda and all Hindu outfits would attend the rally. Immediate arrest of killers and conspirators of Swamiji and four of his disciples. The Crime Branch should conduct Narco Test of Congress Rajya Sabha member Radhakant Nayak, Cuttack-Bhubaneswar Archbishop Raphael Cheenath, National Integration Council member John Dayal to find out truth and find out the killers and conspirators. Provide adequate security to those Hindus, who have been targeted by Church sponsored militants. Immediately release of all innocent Kandhas , who were arrested basing on false and baseless cases. Ensure the protection of Kandhas, who are staying in jungles fearing Church terror The Orissa Government should not adopt double standard on Nun rape case and must ensure fair trail. Crime Branch probe should be time bound, Dr Chaini added. Dr Indulata Das was also present in the press meet.
Addressing a Press Conference here on Tuesday, Samiti president Dr Ratnakar Chaini alleged that the Orissa Government is adopting double standard in dealing with the Kandhamal crisis. "It seems, the Government is under pressure from both Church and UPA Government at Centre" he added.
Acting on an unsubstantiated allegation of a 29-year Old Catholic Nun, the Orissa Government made all out efforts to nab the rapists while the victim, even despite repeated court orders, the Nun is trying very hard to shift the matter outside Orissa.
The same Crime Branch, looking into the murder of Swamiji, yet to submit its charge sheet where as it progressed a lot in the Nun rape case. So, it's clear that the Orissa Chief Minister is under tremendous pressure, added Dr Chaini.
He further said that even after near two and half months of the brutal murder of Swamiji, Police completely failed to reach at the real culprits. "We demanded that unless and until, the real killers and conspirators nabbed, the Samiti would continue its agitation across the State," he said adding that the Samiti would strongly oppose any further conversion activities of the Church.
"We shocked, the manner in which, the police looking into the issue. IGP (Crime Branch) Arun Kumar Ray himself admitted that the real culprits and masterminds are staying outside Orissa after the brutal murder of the Hindu saint while few killers are hiding in any undisclosed location of Kandhamal's dense forest.
But, the police did not take any steps to locate the killers while it also not take steps to nab, those are staying outside Orissa," Dr Chaini alleged. "The verdict of Baliguda SDJM court rejecting the plea of the Nun seeking TIP of the accused outside Orissa, was historic, we wholeheartedly endorsed it," he added.
About five lakh angry Hindus from across the country would gather here in State Capital to protest minority appeasement initiatives of Orissa Chief Minister, who is false claming every bone of his body is secular.
The massive rally would also serve an ultimatum to the State Government asking it to nab the culprits behind Swamiji's killing. Is secularism means Church and Nun appeasement? . "If the killers will not be nabbed by November 15, we would plan for Orissa Bandh on December 25," he said. He further added that Hindus across the country have filed more than 15,000 FIRs in their respective districts.
Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram national president Jagdeo Ram Oram, RSS Central Committee senior member Indresh Kumar, Mahanta Dr Ramvilash Vedanti of Ram Janmabhoomi Movement, national president Viswa Hindu Parishad Y Raghavellu national coordinator of Hindu Jagaran Samukhya Harihar Nanda and all Hindu outfits would attend the rally. Immediate arrest of killers and conspirators of Swamiji and four of his disciples. The Crime Branch should conduct Narco Test of Congress Rajya Sabha member Radhakant Nayak, Cuttack-Bhubaneswar Archbishop Raphael Cheenath, National Integration Council member John Dayal to find out truth and find out the killers and conspirators. Provide adequate security to those Hindus, who have been targeted by Church sponsored militants. Immediately release of all innocent Kandhas , who were arrested basing on false and baseless cases. Ensure the protection of Kandhas, who are staying in jungles fearing Church terror The Orissa Government should not adopt double standard on Nun rape case and must ensure fair trail. Crime Branch probe should be time bound, Dr Chaini added. Dr Indulata Das was also present in the press meet.
Sunday, November 09, 2008
Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati Shrdhanjali Samiti declares for mass rally soon
Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati Shrdhanjali Samiti declares for mass rally soon
Bhubaneswar, 09/11/08 (VISAKEO): Swami Laxmanananda Shradhanjali Samiti has declared for the grand mass rally in the State capital on coming 15th of this month on the ground of not arresting the real culprits and the conspirators of Swamiji’s slain who was gunned down by the Christian people on the past 23rd of August. Demanding to punish the real conspirator of the holy leader’s murder in Kandhamal district the Samiti said it has been more than two months still the main masterminds are moving freely and the alleged gang rape of the Nun that is now the regional, national and international media and the government is making it more newsworthy rather than the murder of Swamiji, is proved as false by the Regional Forensic Laboratory and no scoop and material is found on her cloth and against such false allegation she should be arrested who made Orissa lowered down after Swamiji’s slain.
As everyone and the evidence and proofs know the fact are sufficient to arrest and punish those masterminds but the government’s disinterest on arresting the killers is disturbing the common people in the rural and urban belts of the State, stated the rally coordinator Dr. Ratnakar Chaini. He also stated that the government is focusing on the Nun’s false allegation that she was victim of the gang rape after the slain of Swamiji and making it issue though she was proved as wrong not giving importance on the real victim in the conversion process by the Christian missionaries instead. Condemning the administration he said that it is in fact the serious matter that the innocent Hindu people and women are tortured in the name of security. As per the statement of the police IG Arun Kumar Ray a “particular community” had hired some local Maoists to kill Swamiji, stressing on his statement “particular community”, Dr. Chaini said that everyone is clear about that particular community and the center assistance to the State government providing police force have failed to find out those Maoists who were being bribed to end the mission. In spite of arresting them the police are found with the killers, which is a matter of shame on our administration and the government. Consequently again a Hindu man Dhanu Pradhani was shot dead in the broad day light in Brahmonigaon. To remind to government regarding the mass demand Swami Laxmanananda Shradhanjali Samiti has decided to stand firm in front the government in form of staging mass dharna in the State capital. An all India chairman of Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram Sri Jagadev Ram Oram, union member of RSS Indresh Kumar, Mahant Dr. Ram Bilash Vedant, Saint Ritambhara, an all India chief of Hindu Jagaran Samukhya Harihar Nanda and the union and state level members of the Samiti will join along with the proposed more than 15 lakh people and will address the rally, he added.
Bhubaneswar, 09/11/08 (VISAKEO): Swami Laxmanananda Shradhanjali Samiti has declared for the grand mass rally in the State capital on coming 15th of this month on the ground of not arresting the real culprits and the conspirators of Swamiji’s slain who was gunned down by the Christian people on the past 23rd of August. Demanding to punish the real conspirator of the holy leader’s murder in Kandhamal district the Samiti said it has been more than two months still the main masterminds are moving freely and the alleged gang rape of the Nun that is now the regional, national and international media and the government is making it more newsworthy rather than the murder of Swamiji, is proved as false by the Regional Forensic Laboratory and no scoop and material is found on her cloth and against such false allegation she should be arrested who made Orissa lowered down after Swamiji’s slain.
As everyone and the evidence and proofs know the fact are sufficient to arrest and punish those masterminds but the government’s disinterest on arresting the killers is disturbing the common people in the rural and urban belts of the State, stated the rally coordinator Dr. Ratnakar Chaini. He also stated that the government is focusing on the Nun’s false allegation that she was victim of the gang rape after the slain of Swamiji and making it issue though she was proved as wrong not giving importance on the real victim in the conversion process by the Christian missionaries instead. Condemning the administration he said that it is in fact the serious matter that the innocent Hindu people and women are tortured in the name of security. As per the statement of the police IG Arun Kumar Ray a “particular community” had hired some local Maoists to kill Swamiji, stressing on his statement “particular community”, Dr. Chaini said that everyone is clear about that particular community and the center assistance to the State government providing police force have failed to find out those Maoists who were being bribed to end the mission. In spite of arresting them the police are found with the killers, which is a matter of shame on our administration and the government. Consequently again a Hindu man Dhanu Pradhani was shot dead in the broad day light in Brahmonigaon. To remind to government regarding the mass demand Swami Laxmanananda Shradhanjali Samiti has decided to stand firm in front the government in form of staging mass dharna in the State capital. An all India chairman of Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram Sri Jagadev Ram Oram, union member of RSS Indresh Kumar, Mahant Dr. Ram Bilash Vedant, Saint Ritambhara, an all India chief of Hindu Jagaran Samukhya Harihar Nanda and the union and state level members of the Samiti will join along with the proposed more than 15 lakh people and will address the rally, he added.
It is an international conspiracy to slam Orissa: The Writer’s Forum
Bhubaneswar, 09/11/08 (VISAKEO): Condemning the Kandhamal violence after the slain of the spiritual leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati, The Writer’s Forum of the State has stated that Orissa is the chief target by the international force in the matter of religion conversion. As this is the only State that puts question on forcible religion conversion by the Christian missionaries through entices by the help of churches and preaching the false ideas for the sake of their religion promotion to the poor and neglected castes of Hindus. In the state level seminar on “Kandhamal and Agitated Orissa” organized by The Writer’s Forum of Viswa sambad Kendra Orissa many professionals and statesmen have opined that an Orissa has been the victim of an international conspiracy to damage its image and reputation at the door of the Universe in the matter of kandhamal violence.
The Writer’s Forum stated that an existing social caste system is the main reason for the religion conversion. Against the religion conversion the tribal community Kandh have been agitated since 1853. The Christian Missionaries by the direction of the international churches and its policies were engaged in converting the scheduled castes of the Hindu community and motivated them to fight against the tribal groups. And Kandhamal violence is an outcome of that agitation and protest by the two groups: the scheduled castes and the scheduled tribes after the slain of Swamiji. But the media and the government coloured it as the communal violence and arrested lots of innocent Hindus and tortured them by bringing an allegation of Nun’s gang rape. Attending as the chief guest an eminent writer and the an all India organizing secretary of Bharatiya Kisan Sangh briefed the history of the religion conversion by the Christian missionaries, the motto of the Matth and spiritual leaders in the rural belts and the real story of Swamiji’s contribution to the society and his heinous murder in the seminar. He said how Swamiji had dedicated his life living in a remote area in the favour of Hindu community by protesting an action of cow slaughter, taking wine and liquors, and uniting the divided Hindu community, the women power by preaching and teaching holy books and eternal ideas to the poor and illiterate people in the tribal area, and as a result he was gunned down by the Christian people who had stood up on their way to religion conversion. He said, the real tribute and homage should be when his ideas will be accepted and his purpose will be disseminated throughout the Indians. Condemning the terrorism he said that the most wanted terrorist Osama Bin Laden and the Pope are the two sides of a coin whose principles are same and mottos are clear that to spread their irrational ideas by hook or crook. An eminent writer cum lecturer Niranjan Padhi in his opinion said that the government and the world are beholding the Kandhamal violence in a different angle not considering as a national crisis. Writer Dr. Umesh Patri participating in the seminar said that the slain of Swamiji is a national shame if his personality be analysed properly. Not arrsesting the real culprtits of his slain, the government and its administration is providing them to kill another saint and leader who are working for the motherland and society. The vice chairperson of Utkal Sammilani Subash chandra Das, Scientist Sarat Chandra Panda, Poet Harekrishna Dhupapala Sharma, Usharani Mohanty, Lalit Mohan Pattnaik, Bijoy Kumar Singh, Bipin Bihari Tripathy, Writer Abhay Singh, and Trilochan Panda had made the Christian missionaries and the churches responsible for the national disintegration in the name of their services. They appealed to the citizens of India to stand against their “dividing and rule” principles and to see the fact. In this seminar the state coordinator of Rastriya Swabhiman Andolon Orissa Saumendra Jena had addressed the seminar and the joint secretary of Viswa Sambad Kendra Orissa Srimant Samantray had offered word of thanks. Around 72 writers and columnists were present in the seminar. Seminar held at Orissa Bhavan under the chairmanship of Bhagirathi Mahasuar, Sri Niranjan Padhi had opened a book on the real face of the churches in Orissa “Orissa under the conspiracy of church” written by Mohini Mohan Mishra and Saumendra Jena.
Pictures from left Srimant Samntaray, 2: Niranjan Padhi, 3: Bhagirathi Mahasuar, 4: Mohini Mohan Mishra, 5: Saumendra Jena.
The Writer’s Forum stated that an existing social caste system is the main reason for the religion conversion. Against the religion conversion the tribal community Kandh have been agitated since 1853. The Christian Missionaries by the direction of the international churches and its policies were engaged in converting the scheduled castes of the Hindu community and motivated them to fight against the tribal groups. And Kandhamal violence is an outcome of that agitation and protest by the two groups: the scheduled castes and the scheduled tribes after the slain of Swamiji. But the media and the government coloured it as the communal violence and arrested lots of innocent Hindus and tortured them by bringing an allegation of Nun’s gang rape. Attending as the chief guest an eminent writer and the an all India organizing secretary of Bharatiya Kisan Sangh briefed the history of the religion conversion by the Christian missionaries, the motto of the Matth and spiritual leaders in the rural belts and the real story of Swamiji’s contribution to the society and his heinous murder in the seminar. He said how Swamiji had dedicated his life living in a remote area in the favour of Hindu community by protesting an action of cow slaughter, taking wine and liquors, and uniting the divided Hindu community, the women power by preaching and teaching holy books and eternal ideas to the poor and illiterate people in the tribal area, and as a result he was gunned down by the Christian people who had stood up on their way to religion conversion. He said, the real tribute and homage should be when his ideas will be accepted and his purpose will be disseminated throughout the Indians. Condemning the terrorism he said that the most wanted terrorist Osama Bin Laden and the Pope are the two sides of a coin whose principles are same and mottos are clear that to spread their irrational ideas by hook or crook. An eminent writer cum lecturer Niranjan Padhi in his opinion said that the government and the world are beholding the Kandhamal violence in a different angle not considering as a national crisis. Writer Dr. Umesh Patri participating in the seminar said that the slain of Swamiji is a national shame if his personality be analysed properly. Not arrsesting the real culprtits of his slain, the government and its administration is providing them to kill another saint and leader who are working for the motherland and society. The vice chairperson of Utkal Sammilani Subash chandra Das, Scientist Sarat Chandra Panda, Poet Harekrishna Dhupapala Sharma, Usharani Mohanty, Lalit Mohan Pattnaik, Bijoy Kumar Singh, Bipin Bihari Tripathy, Writer Abhay Singh, and Trilochan Panda had made the Christian missionaries and the churches responsible for the national disintegration in the name of their services. They appealed to the citizens of India to stand against their “dividing and rule” principles and to see the fact. In this seminar the state coordinator of Rastriya Swabhiman Andolon Orissa Saumendra Jena had addressed the seminar and the joint secretary of Viswa Sambad Kendra Orissa Srimant Samantray had offered word of thanks. Around 72 writers and columnists were present in the seminar. Seminar held at Orissa Bhavan under the chairmanship of Bhagirathi Mahasuar, Sri Niranjan Padhi had opened a book on the real face of the churches in Orissa “Orissa under the conspiracy of church” written by Mohini Mohan Mishra and Saumendra Jena.
Pictures from left Srimant Samntaray, 2: Niranjan Padhi, 3: Bhagirathi Mahasuar, 4: Mohini Mohan Mishra, 5: Saumendra Jena.
RSS refuses the media claim on burning of effigies
Bhubaneswar, 09/11/08 (VISAKEO): The RSS has refused not involved in the burning of the Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and his cabinet minister Vishwabhushan Harichandan’s effigies. The Sangh Parivar has condemned such claim by one of the regional media reported on the past 7th of this month.
Opposing to the media report the RSS Prachar Pramukh of the State Sri Simanchal Khatuasaid that burning effigies is not an ethics of the Sangh Parivar. “We never used to burn anyone’s effigy on the public road nor damage anyone’s image, this not a part of our principle”. Some one might have conspired to lower down an image of the Sangh Parivar by doing such action who is in oppose to its principle and policies, he said in a press meet. It is alleged that a man belonging to the Sangh on his return from its branch office had burnt down the effigies of the Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and cabinet minister Sri Harichandan who has held the department of the industries of the State and sent the pictures to the media. On behalf of the Parivar Sri Khatua has condemned such action and refused the media report and cleared out that as usual again Sangh is under the conspiracy and its opposition force’s target to be blamed in front of the public.
Opposing to the media report the RSS Prachar Pramukh of the State Sri Simanchal Khatuasaid that burning effigies is not an ethics of the Sangh Parivar. “We never used to burn anyone’s effigy on the public road nor damage anyone’s image, this not a part of our principle”. Some one might have conspired to lower down an image of the Sangh Parivar by doing such action who is in oppose to its principle and policies, he said in a press meet. It is alleged that a man belonging to the Sangh on his return from its branch office had burnt down the effigies of the Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and cabinet minister Sri Harichandan who has held the department of the industries of the State and sent the pictures to the media. On behalf of the Parivar Sri Khatua has condemned such action and refused the media report and cleared out that as usual again Sangh is under the conspiracy and its opposition force’s target to be blamed in front of the public.
Friday, November 07, 2008
Swamji Sradhanjali Sabha to hold massive rally on November 15
Bhubaneswar(Visakeo),7/11- Swami Laxmananda Saraswati Sradhanjali Samiti would a hold a massive rally in State Capital on November 15 protesting against the Orissa Government's failure to nab the killers of Swamiji and four of his disciples, who were shot dead by church sponsored militants at Jalespata Ashram in Kandhamal district on August 23.
About five lakh Hindus from across the country would gather here to protest minority appeasement initiatives of Orissa Government and its failure over Kandhamal crisis, Samiti coordinator Dr Ratnakar Chaini said on Friday. The massive rally, which will be held on November 15, would also serve an ultimatum to the State Government asking it to nab the culprits behind Swamiji's killing, he added.
Sadhavi Ritambara, Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram national president Jagdeo Ram Oram, RSS Central Committee senior member Indresh Kumar, Mahanta Dr Ramvilash Vedanti of Ram Janmabhoomi Movement, national president of Hindu Jagaran Samukhya Harihar Nanda and several other leaders would attend the massive rally.
The Samiti alleged that the Government is adopting double standard in dealing with Kandhamal crisis and illegally arresting innocent Hindus. Acting on an unconfirmed allegation of a 29-year old Catholic Nun, the Orissa Government made all out efforts to nab the rapists while the same Crime Branch, looking into the murder of Swamiji, yet to submit its charge sheet where as it progressed a lot in the rape case, he added.
By Golak Chandra Das
About five lakh Hindus from across the country would gather here to protest minority appeasement initiatives of Orissa Government and its failure over Kandhamal crisis, Samiti coordinator Dr Ratnakar Chaini said on Friday. The massive rally, which will be held on November 15, would also serve an ultimatum to the State Government asking it to nab the culprits behind Swamiji's killing, he added.
Sadhavi Ritambara, Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram national president Jagdeo Ram Oram, RSS Central Committee senior member Indresh Kumar, Mahanta Dr Ramvilash Vedanti of Ram Janmabhoomi Movement, national president of Hindu Jagaran Samukhya Harihar Nanda and several other leaders would attend the massive rally.
The Samiti alleged that the Government is adopting double standard in dealing with Kandhamal crisis and illegally arresting innocent Hindus. Acting on an unconfirmed allegation of a 29-year old Catholic Nun, the Orissa Government made all out efforts to nab the rapists while the same Crime Branch, looking into the murder of Swamiji, yet to submit its charge sheet where as it progressed a lot in the rape case, he added.
By Golak Chandra Das
Thursday, November 06, 2008
Press Release by Hindu Jagaran Sammukhya on
Bhubaneswar, Dated 6, Nov. 2008.
“One Dhanu Pradhani (35 years) was killed on 5/11/2008 (Wednesday) in Jhinjiriguda village under Brahmanigaon P.S. while working in Kumbharigaon School by three militant Christians belonging to the same area. The incident occurred at about 12.30 p.m. in the afternoon while other co-workers had gone for mid-day food and Dhanu Pradhani, a mason by profession was about to leave for the same purpose. The three persons were assisted by two of the teachers Prasant Uthar Singh and Susanta Nayak in locating and identifying the victim. It may be recalled that within days of killing of Swamiji and others, there were wall posters targeting Dhanu Pradhani, Vikram, Arun Karji and Chitrasen displayed in Jhanjiriguda area. On the 31st October 2008 when peace committee meeting was held at the Brahmanigaon P.S. there was none from among the local Christians. Later, on enquiry Thomas Nayak, Subash Nayak, Kailash Nayak and Vikram Basturoy of Brahmanigaon area told that ‘first they would eliminate the four aforesaid Kandh youth, and then only they might sit down to talk about peace’.
Dhanu’s murder is predetermined and brutal. The killers pumped in to 12 bullets from small arms in close range. Dhanu could not escape as there was a minor boy alongwith who had come to accompany him to the place of lunch. This daring act in broad day light under gaze of eye-witnesses indicates a direct challenge to the State Police who have failed to nab the local killers of Swamiji who according to the investigation numbered 18 in total. Only three from among them are shown arrested, till date. Many of the remaining 15 are loitering around freely with impunity. The Kandhs were assisting in the state sponsored peace efforts for restoration of normalcy. But the militant Christians again by such acts are inviting trouble to themselves. The Chief Minister has been very partisan in using the coercive armed police (CRPF, OSAP etc.) against the local Kandhs of whom so many innocents in hundreds are hospitalized and an equal number languishing behind the bar, including women and minors. On the other hand, militant Christians with illegally procured firearms who are behind the murders of Swamiji and there after, are moving freely with impunity. Peace is two way traffic. Naveen Babu, holding the Police portfolio in the cabinet will remain squarely responsible for the repercussions that will ensue after such blatantly partisan and highly discriminatory handling of the situation as if he is bound by a vow to protect the Christians at the cost of the Kandhs. The killers are moving under CRPF protection. Kandhs will never lie low in protecting their dignity. They are fighting their battle for cultural existence and they have full support of other sects of Hindus whole over the country.”
“One Dhanu Pradhani (35 years) was killed on 5/11/2008 (Wednesday) in Jhinjiriguda village under Brahmanigaon P.S. while working in Kumbharigaon School by three militant Christians belonging to the same area. The incident occurred at about 12.30 p.m. in the afternoon while other co-workers had gone for mid-day food and Dhanu Pradhani, a mason by profession was about to leave for the same purpose. The three persons were assisted by two of the teachers Prasant Uthar Singh and Susanta Nayak in locating and identifying the victim. It may be recalled that within days of killing of Swamiji and others, there were wall posters targeting Dhanu Pradhani, Vikram, Arun Karji and Chitrasen displayed in Jhanjiriguda area. On the 31st October 2008 when peace committee meeting was held at the Brahmanigaon P.S. there was none from among the local Christians. Later, on enquiry Thomas Nayak, Subash Nayak, Kailash Nayak and Vikram Basturoy of Brahmanigaon area told that ‘first they would eliminate the four aforesaid Kandh youth, and then only they might sit down to talk about peace’.
Dhanu’s murder is predetermined and brutal. The killers pumped in to 12 bullets from small arms in close range. Dhanu could not escape as there was a minor boy alongwith who had come to accompany him to the place of lunch. This daring act in broad day light under gaze of eye-witnesses indicates a direct challenge to the State Police who have failed to nab the local killers of Swamiji who according to the investigation numbered 18 in total. Only three from among them are shown arrested, till date. Many of the remaining 15 are loitering around freely with impunity. The Kandhs were assisting in the state sponsored peace efforts for restoration of normalcy. But the militant Christians again by such acts are inviting trouble to themselves. The Chief Minister has been very partisan in using the coercive armed police (CRPF, OSAP etc.) against the local Kandhs of whom so many innocents in hundreds are hospitalized and an equal number languishing behind the bar, including women and minors. On the other hand, militant Christians with illegally procured firearms who are behind the murders of Swamiji and there after, are moving freely with impunity. Peace is two way traffic. Naveen Babu, holding the Police portfolio in the cabinet will remain squarely responsible for the repercussions that will ensue after such blatantly partisan and highly discriminatory handling of the situation as if he is bound by a vow to protect the Christians at the cost of the Kandhs. The killers are moving under CRPF protection. Kandhs will never lie low in protecting their dignity. They are fighting their battle for cultural existence and they have full support of other sects of Hindus whole over the country.”
Vnavasi Kalyan Ashram demands the safety for the Hindu community
Bhubaneswar, 06/11/08 (VISAKEO): The murder of a Hindu man in Brahmoni Gaon has arised the tension among the Hindu people in Kandhamal district. The real conspirator of the VHP leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati who was brutally gunned down by the Maoist militants who were hired by the Christian people, were moving freely though all the evidence and proofs are there against them. After that incident, again Hindu man, was allegedly belongs to RSS, who was a daily wager, now victim of the Christian conspiracy to gear up the conversion of religion in the State. The administration is blind and like Swami’s case it tries to paste it on the Maoists. Regarding the violence spread in Kandhamal and the tragedy of the Hindu people the State Secretary of Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram Lasmikant Dash has condemned the State administration and the chief minister of Orissa who happens to be the supporter of the Christians in disguise. He has demanded to give the protection and safety to the Hindu Community who is the minor in Kandhamal district.
Lots of things are there that indeed the State administration and the Chief Minister to be blamed and questioned for its irresponsibility right from the murder attempt on the most lovable VHP leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati, to his slain, to the attack on the innocent Hindu tribals and the illegal arrest of the Hindu people, and now the victim Dhanu Pradhan who was gunned down by the Christian militants at the broad day light on Wednesday. Sri Dash stated that till now the real conspirators of Swamiji are not arrested, the suspected Christians from whom the weapons were found and few NGOs like SFDC, Ama Gaon, and World Vision who are involved in the attack on the police stations have been ignored by the state administration. Various cases that have been lodged against the Christian people in setting fire the tribal people’s homes and forcible religion conversion are pressed down. The Christian attack victims Dasharath Pradhan Raghav Digal and Binod Digal of Raikia police station, Gayadhar Digal of Phiringia police station, Sanyasi Majhi of Tumudibandha police station and the Manoj Pradhan of Raikia police station who was seriously injured by the Christian attack after the slain of Swamiji are in fact the matter of condemnation. Besides the recent murder that has been plotted in Brahmoni Gaon and the improper treatment of that corpse after the post mortem clears the disinterest of the administration and the sympathy towards the majority Christians, he said. On behalf the Organisation he announced to forward the memorandum to the Prime Minister and the President of India by staging mass dharna in all the distict headquarters of the country and on behalf of Swami Laxmanananda Shradhanjali Samiti lakh of people will be assembled at PMG square in the State capital, he said.
Sri Dash has demanded the state government and the chief minister to compensate the victim Dhanu Pradhan with amount 10 lakhs, to arrest the killer and the conspirators and to provide proper safety and protection to the Hindu people in Brhamoni Gaon at a press conference in the State capital. Swami Pranarupananda Saraswati, the state advisor of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati; Padmanabh Pradhan, the president of Kui Samaj were present in the conference.
Lots of things are there that indeed the State administration and the Chief Minister to be blamed and questioned for its irresponsibility right from the murder attempt on the most lovable VHP leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati, to his slain, to the attack on the innocent Hindu tribals and the illegal arrest of the Hindu people, and now the victim Dhanu Pradhan who was gunned down by the Christian militants at the broad day light on Wednesday. Sri Dash stated that till now the real conspirators of Swamiji are not arrested, the suspected Christians from whom the weapons were found and few NGOs like SFDC, Ama Gaon, and World Vision who are involved in the attack on the police stations have been ignored by the state administration. Various cases that have been lodged against the Christian people in setting fire the tribal people’s homes and forcible religion conversion are pressed down. The Christian attack victims Dasharath Pradhan Raghav Digal and Binod Digal of Raikia police station, Gayadhar Digal of Phiringia police station, Sanyasi Majhi of Tumudibandha police station and the Manoj Pradhan of Raikia police station who was seriously injured by the Christian attack after the slain of Swamiji are in fact the matter of condemnation. Besides the recent murder that has been plotted in Brahmoni Gaon and the improper treatment of that corpse after the post mortem clears the disinterest of the administration and the sympathy towards the majority Christians, he said. On behalf the Organisation he announced to forward the memorandum to the Prime Minister and the President of India by staging mass dharna in all the distict headquarters of the country and on behalf of Swami Laxmanananda Shradhanjali Samiti lakh of people will be assembled at PMG square in the State capital, he said.
Sri Dash has demanded the state government and the chief minister to compensate the victim Dhanu Pradhan with amount 10 lakhs, to arrest the killer and the conspirators and to provide proper safety and protection to the Hindu people in Brhamoni Gaon at a press conference in the State capital. Swami Pranarupananda Saraswati, the state advisor of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati; Padmanabh Pradhan, the president of Kui Samaj were present in the conference.
Again violence strikes Kandhamal
Christians gun down one Hindu
Bhubaneswar, 06/11/08 (VISAKEO): Violence and agitation has stroke the Kandhamal district once again after killing of one Hindu man near Kumbahri Gaon square of Brahmoni Gaon plice station area in Daringbadi block. The victim is allegedly gunned down by the Christian community in the broad day light heinously belonged to the RSS who was said to be threatened by the Christian militants few days ago. After the slain of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati tension has been fired again in the minds of the Hindu community and the administration seems to colour the incident as an action of Maoists.
Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh backed Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram on Wednesday alleged that Christian militants have killed one 40-year-old Dhanu Pradhan of Kumbahrigaon. Ridiculing police reports, which say, Maoists gun down Pradhan, daily wager, Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram State Secretary Laxmikant Dash added that three Christian people belonging to Katingia village have killed Pradhan. The Christian militants had triggered 12 round bullets on the head, stomach and chest of the victim. Dhanu belongs to village Jingiraguda and his brother is a Samiti member. Pradhan along with other workers were engaged in a construction of School since early morning, when the workers left for lunch, the church militants fired at Pradhan and killed him, Dash added. He further alleged that despite information, police reached the spot two hours after the incident. The area is Hindu minority, so the church people are taking advantage of it, he added. We would give befitting reply to them if the police did not take proper action.
On behalf of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati Shradhanjali Samiti a memorandum will be forwarded to the Prime Minister and the President of India regarding the torture and humiliation charged on the Hindu community by the so called minority people in the name of religion and the Samiti announced to stage dharna on tomorrow in all the districts of the country and questions the safety and protection of Hindu community.
Bhubaneswar, 06/11/08 (VISAKEO): Violence and agitation has stroke the Kandhamal district once again after killing of one Hindu man near Kumbahri Gaon square of Brahmoni Gaon plice station area in Daringbadi block. The victim is allegedly gunned down by the Christian community in the broad day light heinously belonged to the RSS who was said to be threatened by the Christian militants few days ago. After the slain of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati tension has been fired again in the minds of the Hindu community and the administration seems to colour the incident as an action of Maoists.
Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh backed Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram on Wednesday alleged that Christian militants have killed one 40-year-old Dhanu Pradhan of Kumbahrigaon. Ridiculing police reports, which say, Maoists gun down Pradhan, daily wager, Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram State Secretary Laxmikant Dash added that three Christian people belonging to Katingia village have killed Pradhan. The Christian militants had triggered 12 round bullets on the head, stomach and chest of the victim. Dhanu belongs to village Jingiraguda and his brother is a Samiti member. Pradhan along with other workers were engaged in a construction of School since early morning, when the workers left for lunch, the church militants fired at Pradhan and killed him, Dash added. He further alleged that despite information, police reached the spot two hours after the incident. The area is Hindu minority, so the church people are taking advantage of it, he added. We would give befitting reply to them if the police did not take proper action.
On behalf of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati Shradhanjali Samiti a memorandum will be forwarded to the Prime Minister and the President of India regarding the torture and humiliation charged on the Hindu community by the so called minority people in the name of religion and the Samiti announced to stage dharna on tomorrow in all the districts of the country and questions the safety and protection of Hindu community.
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Christian militants kill one more Hindu in Kandhamal
Bhubaneswar: (Visakeo),5/11-Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh backed Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram on Wednesday alleged that Christian militants have killed one 40-year-old Dhanu Pradhan of Kumbahrigaon under Bamunigaon Police limits of Orissa Kandhamal district.
Ridiculing police reports, which say, Maoists gun down Pradhan, daily wager, VKS further added that three Christian people belonging to Katingia village have killed Pradhan. The church sponsored goons have also announced that they would not allow a single Hindu to live in Bamunigaon area, VKS State general secretary Dr Laxmikant Dash said.
Dhanu belongs to village Jingiraguda and his brother is a Samiti member. Pradhan along with other workers were engaged in a construction of School since early morning, when the workers left for lunch, the church militants fired at Pradhan and killed him, Dash added. He further alleged that despite information, police reached the spot two hours after the incident. The area is Hindu minority, so the church people are taking advantage of it, he added. We would give befitting reply to them if the police did not take proper action.
Golakha Chandra Das
Ridiculing police reports, which say, Maoists gun down Pradhan, daily wager, VKS further added that three Christian people belonging to Katingia village have killed Pradhan. The church sponsored goons have also announced that they would not allow a single Hindu to live in Bamunigaon area, VKS State general secretary Dr Laxmikant Dash said.
Dhanu belongs to village Jingiraguda and his brother is a Samiti member. Pradhan along with other workers were engaged in a construction of School since early morning, when the workers left for lunch, the church militants fired at Pradhan and killed him, Dash added. He further alleged that despite information, police reached the spot two hours after the incident. The area is Hindu minority, so the church people are taking advantage of it, he added. We would give befitting reply to them if the police did not take proper action.
Golakha Chandra Das
Monday, November 03, 2008
Sense feeling never generates spiritual knowledge
Science dejects Christian philosophy
Bhubaneswar, 03/11/08 (VISAKEO): Science dejects the very ideas of the Christianity regarding the sense experience and the absolute knowledge that the sense experience never arises any kind of complete knowledge. In the suit filed at Bhubaneswar civil judge junior division court the petitioner Sri Bhairab Charan Padhy claims that Saint Thomas Aquinas’s saying “all knowledge originates in sensation but sense data can be made intelligible only by the action of the intellect…” is wrong and false, due to the fact that sense recognizes already sense known matter therefore, no knowledge is derived from senses. More over, there is no such action or reaction in the human body to convert sense data into knowledge. In fact, human body is congruent with matter. Hence no action or reaction of a different nature is possible in human body.
In a press meet at the State capital today, Sri Padhy, a postgraduate degree in physics from IIT Mumbai has shown Saint Aquinas’s thought is wrong and false. Sri Padhy in his book “Solution to Global Warming and Nuclear Bomb” has stated the above regarding this matter he has filed a petition in the court. The defended being Archdiocese of Orissa represented through Archbishop of Cuttack and Bhubaneswar. He has prayed to the court to direct Christian priest not to propagate Aquinas’s aforesaid false ideas. Around 400 A.D. Saint Augustine had said that to search for truth people should depend upon sense experiences. Around 1200-1300 Islamic philosopher Averoees in Europe propagated A.D. Aristotle’s philosophy. This threatened supremacy and integrity of Roman Catholic Church’s doctrine. In this situation, to reconcile Augustine’s teaching with Aristotle’s philosophy Saint Aquinas’s had held that sense experience by the action of intellect is converted into knowledge. Referring to the Hindu mythology in Ramayana, Sri Padhy illustrated that while Shravan Kumar was filling water in the evening, from a distance King Dasharath by hearing the sound concluded that some deer is drinking water and applied arrows in that direction, but the arrows pierced Shravan Kumar. Hearing the sound in the ear King Dasharath could not know the origin of the sound. This means hearing organ experience is not converted into knowledge. In general to know the origin of the sound is called knowledge. If in a room some music instrument like tape recorder, TV, Radio are kept and one instrument is put on, and if it is asked to a person listening to the music in the next room he can not say from which instrument the music is coming. Hearing sense experience does not know the origin of the sound. Therefore, sense experience knows already sense known matter. Hence, sense experience is not converted into knowledge. Also, in natural sciences systematic study of matter is undertaken by searching, examining, testing, verifying it by senses such as hearing, sight, smell, taste and touch and sense aiding equipments could only find already sense known matter. More over science could find already sense- known- matter; it could find no new knowledge. Therefore, science-searching matter by human senses invented mass destruction nuclear bomb. In view of the above it is said here that experienced due to sense input data by action or reaction is not converted into knowledge. But, if sense experiences are taken as complete knowledge, there is a possibility that we will face danger. At present, through science, the mass destruction weapons produced in the field of science has put humanity in danger. This proves that propagation of Aquinas’s philosophy that is false, by Roman Catholic Church is misleading. Advocate Sri Anil Kumar Sathapathy was also present in this press meet.
Golakha Chandra Das
Bhubaneswar, 03/11/08 (VISAKEO): Science dejects the very ideas of the Christianity regarding the sense experience and the absolute knowledge that the sense experience never arises any kind of complete knowledge. In the suit filed at Bhubaneswar civil judge junior division court the petitioner Sri Bhairab Charan Padhy claims that Saint Thomas Aquinas’s saying “all knowledge originates in sensation but sense data can be made intelligible only by the action of the intellect…” is wrong and false, due to the fact that sense recognizes already sense known matter therefore, no knowledge is derived from senses. More over, there is no such action or reaction in the human body to convert sense data into knowledge. In fact, human body is congruent with matter. Hence no action or reaction of a different nature is possible in human body.
In a press meet at the State capital today, Sri Padhy, a postgraduate degree in physics from IIT Mumbai has shown Saint Aquinas’s thought is wrong and false. Sri Padhy in his book “Solution to Global Warming and Nuclear Bomb” has stated the above regarding this matter he has filed a petition in the court. The defended being Archdiocese of Orissa represented through Archbishop of Cuttack and Bhubaneswar. He has prayed to the court to direct Christian priest not to propagate Aquinas’s aforesaid false ideas. Around 400 A.D. Saint Augustine had said that to search for truth people should depend upon sense experiences. Around 1200-1300 Islamic philosopher Averoees in Europe propagated A.D. Aristotle’s philosophy. This threatened supremacy and integrity of Roman Catholic Church’s doctrine. In this situation, to reconcile Augustine’s teaching with Aristotle’s philosophy Saint Aquinas’s had held that sense experience by the action of intellect is converted into knowledge. Referring to the Hindu mythology in Ramayana, Sri Padhy illustrated that while Shravan Kumar was filling water in the evening, from a distance King Dasharath by hearing the sound concluded that some deer is drinking water and applied arrows in that direction, but the arrows pierced Shravan Kumar. Hearing the sound in the ear King Dasharath could not know the origin of the sound. This means hearing organ experience is not converted into knowledge. In general to know the origin of the sound is called knowledge. If in a room some music instrument like tape recorder, TV, Radio are kept and one instrument is put on, and if it is asked to a person listening to the music in the next room he can not say from which instrument the music is coming. Hearing sense experience does not know the origin of the sound. Therefore, sense experience knows already sense known matter. Hence, sense experience is not converted into knowledge. Also, in natural sciences systematic study of matter is undertaken by searching, examining, testing, verifying it by senses such as hearing, sight, smell, taste and touch and sense aiding equipments could only find already sense known matter. More over science could find already sense- known- matter; it could find no new knowledge. Therefore, science-searching matter by human senses invented mass destruction nuclear bomb. In view of the above it is said here that experienced due to sense input data by action or reaction is not converted into knowledge. But, if sense experiences are taken as complete knowledge, there is a possibility that we will face danger. At present, through science, the mass destruction weapons produced in the field of science has put humanity in danger. This proves that propagation of Aquinas’s philosophy that is false, by Roman Catholic Church is misleading. Advocate Sri Anil Kumar Sathapathy was also present in this press meet.
Golakha Chandra Das
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