The UPA shenanigans from Malegon to Mumbai: B. R. Haran

Pakistan is doing to India precisely what UPA has done to Hindus

Yes! The UPA created a nonexistent 'Hindu Terror' with a motive of diluting the fight against Jihad, and in the process, it maligned Hindu religious leaders and Army officers implicating them in the Malegon blasts without any concrete admissible evidences in spite of a marathon two-month investigation by the Maharashtra ATS. The ATS also attempted to implicate them in the Samjhauta train blasts, which was clearly the handiwork of terrorists belonging to SIMI. This misadventure by the UPA helped Pakistan to defend itself against India's charges and also paved the way for its machinations against India.

The incompetence of the UPA government in fighting terror was exposed totally with the occurrence of frequent terror attacks leading to a high level of 'an attack a month'. When it was 'SIMI' written all over the attacks, the important allies of Congress within and outside UPA like Lalu Yadav, Ramvilas Paswan and Mulayam Yadav recommended with secular passion to revoke the ban on SIMI. These leaders are not far behind the UPA Chairperson, who had served this 'noble' cause in parliament in 2001 itself! But, due to nationwide protests the government had to plead in the Supreme Court for the continuance of the ban despite the allegedly deliberate flip-flop by the Home Ministry leading to the cancellation of the ban by a tribunal of the Delhi High Court.

As the assembly elections for five states were fast approaching, the effete UPA, which allowed a free run for Jihadis in the country, resorted to 'create' Hindu terror not only to dilute the fight against Jihad but also to sustain its Muslim vote-bank and thereby seeking to block the BJP's advance in the electoral arena. The UPA in general and the Congress in particular are notorious for viewing anything and everything through the prism of vote-bank politics with the intention of enjoying power always. Notwithstanding the sustenance of minority votes, the division in Hindu votes is also necessary for winning elections and hence the nonexistent 'Hindu terror' was 'created' ably supported by the 'secular' brigade including the mainstream media, both print and electronic.

The zealous and ambitious investigation carried out by the Maharashtra ATS on Malegon blasts, supposedly on the instructions of 'powerful' vested interests, had its desired impact. Added to this was the 'secular' media's unstinted and tireless campaign of brainwashing the nation and diverting its anger against an amorphous 'political class' instead of pinpointing ruthlessly the inept 'ruling establishment'. In the immediate aftermath of Mumbai terror attack, some vested interests continued the 'Hindu terror' campaign, as the entire nation erupted in outrage against Islamic terror perpetrated by Pakistan. A 'Hindu-Zionist' conspiracy theory was concocted and spread through the internet and clandestine mediums. A suspicion on the death of ATS Chief Hemant Karkare was also brought out connecting it with the Maelgon probe.

This vituperative campaign was initiated by one Mumbai based writer Amaresh Misra, who claimed to have seen a sequence of events and reported them from ground zero at 4 am on 27 November! He wrote an article titled 'Mumbai and India under Attack' (http://www.topix.com/forum/religion/sikh/TPDIJVHL8EOGUFEIM), in which he had invented the 'Hindu-Zionist' conspiracy and claimed that Marathi speaking Hindus had killed Hemant Karkare. He had also sent a message of a possible 'civil war' and even called for the 'arrest' of BJP leader and Prime Ministerial candidate Advani and other leaders of RSS/VHP in that article and spread it in the internet. Even while his malicious article was being translated in various languages and published in many Islamic and 'secular' websites, (http://www.satyamargam.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1108&Itemid=51) he had the audacity to write a sequel in the name of 'Mumbai Terror Attack: Further Evidence Of The Anglo-American-Mossad-RSS Nexus' in http://www.countercurrents.org/misra031208.htm This man also seems to be 'highly' connected as evidenced by the fact that one of his books was recently launched (March 2008) in Delhi and the launch function was graced by the Honourable Vice President of India (http://www.warofcivilisations.blogspot.com/). It is indeed shocking to note that such dangerous elements are allowed to go scot-free even after spreading such baseless, hateful and anti-national propaganda.

Probably taking a cue from Amaresh Misra, the Minister for Minority Affairs, Abdul Rehaman Antulay, became the first 'official' personality to attempt spreading this canard. He raised doubts whether Pakistani terrorists killed Hemant Karkare and questioned his visit to Cama Hospital instead of Taj or Oberoi or Nariman House, where actual encounters were happening. He indirectly blamed 'Hindus' for the death of Hemant Karkare by drawing a parallel with the Malegon probe and demanded a separate probe on Karkare's death. Though the callous and irresponsible remarks of Abdul Rehaman Antulay outraged the nation, the Congress led UPA government's response was meek and barring a Congress spokesperson no leader worth mentioning came out strongly denouncing the minister. In fact, UPA parties such as RJD, LJP and SP supported Antulay and endorsed his statements.

It may be recalled that the Maharashtra ATS, under Hemant Karkare, had for the first time in the nation's history, politicised the probe into the Samjhauta Express attack by blaming Colonel Purohit for the Samjhauta train blasts, which was later used by Pakistan against India's investigation of the Mumbai attack. In such an extraordinarily sensitive situation, the dreadful utterances of Antulay, has compounded the damage already done by the creation of Hindu terror by the Maharashtra ATS, giving ammunition to Pakistan to take on India. Pakistan is doing to India precisely what the UPA government in Delhi and its ally in Maharashtra did to the Hindus using the Maharashtra ATS as a political instrument.

Despite the NDA's opposition in parliament, neither the Prime Minister nor the UPA Chairperson attempted to sack the treacherous and irresponsible minister, who had by this time caused irreparable damage to the UPA. Even after the minister had submitted his resignation letter, they could not come to a decision whether to accept it or not. A meeting chaired by UPA Chairperson and attended by stalwarts like Prime Minister, External Affairs Minister and the Home Minister failed to arrive at a decision even after long hours of deliberation. This utter failure of the party's core committee to remove a minister, who deserves to be tried for treason, from the cabinet, parliament and the party, clearly exposes its dishonesty and also culpability.

It becomes imperative now to revisit the statements made by two other Maharashtra Politicians, R R Patil of NCP and Narayan Rane of INC. R R Patil, who was asked to resign from the post of Home Minister, had said that Karkare had come and met him on the fateful evening and cried over the allegations levelled against him in the Malegon probe. R R Patil has not made it clear whether Hemant Karkare cried for the 'allegations' of the opposition or for the 'instructions' of the government. But just before the Mumbai attack, Hemant Karkare had told a TV Channel that the entire ATS had been asked to focus on Malegon probe and that ninety percent of their forces were diverted into the Malegaon blasts investigation alone.

The Congress man Narayan Rane, who was snubbed by the Congress High Command during the selection of a successor to Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmuk, hit out at his rivals within the party and said that some of them financed terrorists and also provided terrorists safe haven in the country. He accepted full responsibility for this statement and added that he would provide all the details with proof at the appropriate time. Now since the lackadaisical attitude of both the state and central governments and the inexcusable failure of the intelligence & security agencies have come out in the open, the statements made by R R Patil and Narayan Rane gain significance. The point to note here is that both the INC and NCP high commands have preferred to remain silent on the two politicians' remarks and the reason for their silence is quite conspicuous!

If Abdul Rehaman Antulay's utterances are viewed in correlation with the remarks of R R Patil and Narayan Rane, it can be easily inferred that there is indeed 'more to it than what meets the eye'. That is, a lot of things seemed to have happened between the beginning of Malegon investigation and Mumbai terror attack. Even after two months of 'focused' investigation on Malegon blasts, the Maharashtra ATS could not bring out either credible or admissible evidence. Now since Hemant Karkare is no more and the charge sheets are likely to be filed, it has to be wait and seen whether the further proceedings on the Malegon blasts would be continued with the same 'agenda'.

Meanwhile, Abdul Rehaman Antulay, in a show of defiance, has been addressing groups of people and attempting to gather support for his 'communal' stand. Apart from a section of Muslims including clerics, a few leaders within the Congress like Digvijay Singh and Shakeel Ahamed have come out openly in his support. As the core group of the Congress High command has been dillydallying on this vital issue and is poised to take some stupid 'face-saving' action instead of sending a strong message by sacking him, a group of concerned right-thinking citizens have petitioned the Prime Minister by writing an open letter and hosting it 'on line' ( http://www.PetitionOnline.com/mara1234/petition.html)
for all the Indians and others empathising with India to sign the petition for the immediate removal of Abdul Rehaman Antulay from the cabinet.

In the aftermath of the Mumbai terror attack, the UPA, had it been sincere in its fight against terror, could have taken some drastic actions by arranging for the hanging of Afzal Guru thereby sending a strong message to the terrorists. But, it failed to utilise the opportunity. Now since it has passed the bills in parliament with regard to the formation of 'National Investigation Agency' and inclusion of amendments strengthening the 'Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act', the UPA can correct its approach further by dismissing Antulay. But the way it has been going about in this issue, it is most unlikely that it would live up to the expectation of the people and the onus lies on the people to throw out UPA along with Abdul Rehaman Antulay.

This year, in two pieces, one on Kashmir and the other on Mumbai, Miss Arundhati Roy has taken a position on these vital issues that is both offensive and false. The enclosed piece was carried by Outlook magazine on their website this week.

Warm regards

Abhinav Kumar

The author is a serving IPS officer. Though these are his personal views, they hopefully reflect the anguish of an entire fraternity of proud Indians in uniform as also in general.

Dear Miss Roy,

For many years now you have enriched the public life of our nation. First as a Booker winning novelist with a meteoric debut on the literary firmament, and then as an essayist, persistently pricking the conscience of a sometimes indifferent and ignorant nation, highlighting wide ranging issues of urgent concern. Over the years your provocative essays in the pages of Outlook magazine amount to a substantial intellectual achievement in their own right. One has not always agreed with you, but from big dams to the nuclear bomb, from the vagaries of capitalism to the dangers of American Imperialism, your writings on these important issues have left no one in any doubt about where you stand. Disagree with them as one might, your views occupied an intellectually coherent and morally compelling space in our public life. Until recently, when one read your two pieces on Kashmir and Mumbai with a growing sense of shock, anger, pity and dismay.

As a literary device, self loathing has its uses; the God of Small Things was a splendid lesson in the use of this sentiment. However I am not sure that nations and civilizations can organize their policies around this self indulgent mood. Your two pieces, 'Azadi' and '9 is Not 11' see you as usual in top form as far as style and rhetoric are concerned, but as far as substance goes, I think you have fallen into the trap of being in love with the sound and significance of your own voice. It is still a powerful voice, a seductive voice too, but because it chooses to amplify only those other voices that are prepared to sing in chorus, it is a voice bereft of any sense of moral responsibility. I am sure once again your latest writings will bring you further international recognition as a writer of conscience and conviction, striving tirelessly to expose the monstrosities of the Indian state and civilization. Dare I suggest that the Magsaysay and the NobelPeace Prize, the Holy Grails of the seemingly rootless international intellectual might not be too far behind? But Madam, despite your great charm and greater intellect this is a Faustian bargain. For in doing so you are doing irreparable harm to the very idea of the intellectual as a defender of virtue and morality in public life who too, like the problems you write about, much as he or she would want to, cannot be removed from the context (your favorite word) that created her, nurtured her and accorded the civic and intellectual space for her to articulate and propagate her views.

As someone who for the past 12 years has worn the Khaki uniform, as a servant of your favorite object of hate, the Indian state, I confess to a persistent sense of ambivalence and despair about the manner in which I am expected to serve. At the same time I cannot deny an equally abiding sense of pride in the importance of what we are supposed to do and of the importance of institutions in general in giving meaning and protection to what would otherwise be a society ruthless and brutal, beyond even your considerable powers of comprehension and description. Therefore, I am offended and disgusted by your incomplete, incoherent and therefore immoral portrayal of the recent upheavals of Indian history. I used to think that you articulate the pain of the silent, marginalized, oppressed masses of our country. I had no idea that you held a brief for all those who never felt anything at all not just for India in particular, but who also actively profess violent rage at the shared values of the entire human race.

According to you, everything that the police and security forces do or say whether in Kashmir, or in the war on terror, or against Naxalism, is a falsehood, where as everything that is said by 'Kashmiri Freedom Fighters', or by the harmless theologians of the Lashkar-e-Toiba and their ideological cousins of the Al Qaeda, or by the peace loving disciples of Marx and Mao living a bucolic existence in the jungles of central India, constitutes sufficient grounds to indict the Indian state and civil society in perpetuity. The people of India have always had a tradition to look up to men and woman of the arts and culture to serve as their moral compass. One really wonders what lines of logic and ethics shape your sense of moral direction.

You seem to passionately believe in and defend the 'right' of the Kashmiris to ethnic, cultural, religious and geographical exclusivism. If this is correct than why we should vilify Raj Thackeray or any other chauvinist who seeks to preserve the purity (however defined) of his people (however defined) from outsiders (also however defined)? If the Kashmiris are justified in picking up the gun to safeguard their exclusive identity, then every part of India is justified in doing so. I do hope you have taken the trouble to examine the fundamental assumptions underlying all such movements based on an assertion of a cultural identity. The creation of a hated outsider, in the case of Kashmir, the Indian, in the case of Raj Thackeray, the bhaiya of UP and Bihar, and in the case of the jihadists, anyone and everyone who does not subscribe to their virulent strain of Islam, including Muslims, is common to all these ideologies but you seem to pick and choose thebigotries you will demonize and the bigotries you will defend. Is it possible to freeze identity to a moment in time and on the basis of this demand recognition, retribution and rights for all time to come?
In your world view, the wrongs of Indian security forces of the last twenty years, and the failures of Indian state craft before it, are sufficient justifications for Kashmiri grievances, just as the wrongs of Babri Masjid, the Mumbai riots of 1993, the Gujarat riots of 2002, will justify Islamist terror against India, and the wrongs of corrupt governance and poor administration will justify naxalite violence, in all perpetuity. Why should only these events be accepted as justification for settling scores by shedding the blood of innocents? By this logic the Crucifixion of Christ amply justifies the Holocaust. We non white societies must all be allowed eternal rights to slaughter the Europeans for the sins of colonialism and slavery. Islam itself had a long history of violent conquest and forcible conversions, perhaps that should justify an eternal crusade or dharmyudhh against Islam. The Greeks and Romans have their own scores to settle with the Christian Church. The Latin Americans have their own grievances with Spain and Portugal. Seen this way human history is merely a parody of the eternal theme of perpetrators and victims, and all present violence, no matter how barbaric or senseless can be justified with reference to some past grievance, and we must allow these grievances full expression no matter what. Only then would we return to a state of original purity where all historical sins of the past and present have been fully avenged and the moral ledger as you see it stands perfectly balanced. Only thing is after this bloody book-keeping there may not be anyone left to enjoy the fruits of such a 'just' society.

The Indian state, whose sworn servant I am, is by no means a perfect entity. It is certainly corrupt, it is sometimes brutal and it is often indifferent to the sufferings of the weak and the powerless. But it does have a vision and aim based on certain civilizational values that are uniquely Indian. Demography and history dictates that these values have a prominently Hindu flavor. It is undeniable that these values have come under attack at times from the Hindu right as well. But even the most rabid of the Hinduvta forces do not see the world united under the saffron flag by force of arms, as is the Islamist project of one world under the Green Crescent, or the Naxal project of one world under the Red Star. It would take a pretty breathless and brainless leap of logic to equate violent, local outbursts of Hindu chauvinism, abetted by the sins of commission and omission of the state apparatus, in themselves however repugnant and indefensible, with the atrocities on a global scale that were inflicted by Communism in the 20th century or the outrages that are now threatened across all parts of the world by jihadi Islam. To call the foreign funded insurgency in Kashmir and the terror attacks across the country as justified blowback for the failures of the Indian state and civil society is both false and callous. It implies a failure of the imagination and the intellect and the complete abdication of moral responsibility by you. One could indeed forgive you Ma'am if you were purely an artist. Art has at the best of times a complicated relationship with truth and life. But in your avatar as a public intellectual, you cannot abandon your commitment to the demands of truth, accuracy and the ability to discriminate between the varieties of human experience and action. The liberties you have exercised in the past and continue to do today, however gratuitously and offensively, do not exist in a vacuum. I am not sure if any of these liberties would have a place in a Naxalite Utopia or a Jihadi Caliphate or even in a self-determined Kashmiri paradise that you eloquently espoused. As visions of human perfectibility they are far more flawed than the vision of India that you love to denigrate. In any case, the liberties that you have recently taken with the sensibilities of proud Indians too exist in a cultural, political and constitutional context, a context that is ultimately safeguarded by men such as Hemant Karkare and Major Unnikrishnan with disregard for their own life. Remember that next time you use your poisoned pen to vent your twisted logic on a polity that deserves better from its intellectuals.

Warm regards

(Abhinav Kumar)

Memorandum to PM after Mumbai Terror Attacks: Forestalling and tackling terrorism in our country.

BY SPEEDPOST ACK. DUE: MEMORANDUM

D.C. Nath, IPS (Retd.) 204 Munirka Enclave,
President New Delhi-110067.
Patriots’ Forum Tel: 011 - 26169423
Mobile: 9811995693
www.patriotsforum.org
dcnath@patriotsforum.org

Dated December 3, 2008

To,
Dr. Manmohan Singh,
Honourable Prime Minister of India,
South Block,
New Delhi – 110011

Subject: Forestalling and tackling terrorism in our country.

Sir,

Patriots’ Forum is a registered, non-political, voluntary group comprising largely retired civil servants, defence personnel, social scientists, academicians and public individuals. Our main concern is cohesion and health of our Nation State.

2. Like many others in our country, we are taken aback and outraged by the horrible carnage at Mumbai wrought by determined and extremely well-planned and executed act of mass terrorism against innocent population. While we applaud the great courage and professional confrontation of the well-organised terrorists by our defence, special police and other authorities, we are appalled by the number of terrorists involved, the complexity and the length of the operations found necessary to put an end to this greatest terrorist challenge to India’s nationhood.

3. In this Memorandum, we lay out some issues which we feel require immediate consideration, followed by suggestions for concerted and time-bound action by the Central and the State governments.

4. It is indeed a matter of great consternation to us how, despite warnings, our internal and external intelligence and the State police agencies were totally unaware of what so many terrorists seemed to have been doing collectively for many days in Mumbai, near the Gateway of India and more specifically how they had collected so much of ammunition and weapons inside the Taj Hotel and elsewhere. Today, Mumbai and Delhi happen to be the two most terror-bombed cities in the world. How did the Mumbai police forget that Mumbai continues to remain on the radar of jihadis, hellbent on destroying the Indian nation, especially with so much input, as known publicly now, from different concerned agencies? Why were not then any demonstrative and effective steps taken to protect the city and its inhabitants?

5. We feel that time has come to enforce the principle of accountability by taking action against all those responsible for this national shame! Common man often wonders why there is no principle of accountability in the government - be at the political or bureaucratic level. The buck must not stop only at the police or intelligence level. The civil/bureaucratic authority in charge of coordinating governmental efforts should also be held equally accountable. How long can the citizens suffer such serious administrative lapses and crass irresponsibility? If this is not done, the general public will lose whatever little respect, faith and confidence they still retain for the political and administrative leadership in the country, which is, above all, responsible of the safety of the people. Such loss of public confidence will embolden terrorists waiting in the wings and will make the future task of governance more difficult.

6. What happened over the recent three or four days in Mumbai should set at rest once and for all any doubt or difference of opinion among political parties about the ruthlessness of the jihadi forces outside and inside our country. What happened in Mumbai is not merely a reckless action by some “mad and misguided” youth who did not understand what their religion taught them. It should be clearly understood that their main objective was not merely to settle some communal and religious scores or to bring fear in the minds of the masses at large but to destroy the heritage and traditions of our society, destroy its self-confidence and take control of the society. It is in this context that a well articulated, unambiguous, easily understood and transparent doctrine of national security in all its aspects must be worked out placed in the public domain and made known to the citizens.

7. Sir, how could you only now, i.e., in November, 2008, decide to task the National Security Adviser to formulate within 100 days a national security plan? Did not that constitute an integral responsibility assigned to the NSA as part of the charter of his duty several years ago? As concerned citizens, we have a right to know why it was not done all these years.

8. The impression the present government at the Centre has given to the people at large is that it has not squarely accepted its fundamental Constitutional responsibility to defend its people against determined aggression from outside and threats from within the country, on the specious ground that law and order is a state subject. Most citizens are not convinced of the argument of the Central Government that a federal anti-terror agency cannot be set up because some States are against it; nor do we think that for such an agency to be set up unilaterally by the Central Government, a Constitutional amendment is required. You are surely aware that the Supreme Court has unequivocally held that terrorism is an act of aggression against the country and cannot be treated as a law and order issue. We, therefore, urge that the matter should be got reviewed by eminent experts outside the Government. Our understanding is that within the existing Constitutional framework, such an agency can be set up, provided there is political will and maturity. Have not the State governments been listening to and following the guidelines sent from time to time by the Intelligence Bureau in respect of VIP security? What makes the Central Government feel that the directions issued by it for protection of citizens will not be adhered to by States governments? Under the concept of a federal Republic, the Centre cannot abdicate its responsibility for governing the States.

9. Pending the result of the foregoing legal review and the larger study mentioned in the following paragraph, and without waiting for them, the Government of India should immediately identify some of the glaring inadequacies, such as, lack of adequate surveillance of coastal waters, land borders and air-space. The government must ensure appropriate access control of as many public places as possible of high sensitivity, visibility and use. Establishments, such as, refineries, power-plants, hotels, railway stations, offices, business offices, must compulsorily introduce state-of-the-art technology in respect of baggage-screening, access-control and the like. Enough expertise in these areas is available in the private sector. In each State, an identified minimum of intelligence staff for these purposes must be established and clearly tasked.

10. There is an intense feeling among citizens that the Maharashtra government did not perform even the minimal due diligence drill in the light of hellish experience of umpteen terrorist strikes suffered by Mumbaikars in recent years. For instance, why could not an Emergency Response Force, comprising trained commandos, be organized and positioned to meet the diabolical jihadi challenge? Prima facie sheer lack of will and kowtowing to vote-bank politics are responsible for the failure of the powers-that-be to prepare in advance and adequately to tackle the menace of jihadi terror. The public surely has the right to seek answers to these questions regarding the monumental failure of the government to protect the human lives and valuable property, that dealt a serious body blow to the pride and prestige of our one billion strong nation.

11. It is well known that the intelligence agencies and other security forces have been suffering from serious handicaps for a number of years. Why the long-felt need for augmenting their manpower and resources is being considered only now? Why could it not be done much earlier? There appears to be a total lack of accountability in the government in this respect. The people of the country have a right to demand urgent and suitable action against all responsible for such serious lapses.

12. None of the foregoing needs to wait for a detailed multi-agency study of the recent tragedy so as to ascertain how:
· it became possible;
· how it was executed so successfully by the terrorists;
· how it could have been forestalled;
· what clarifications in policy are required;
· what strengthening of security apparatus is required in terms of human intelligence, specialised high-tech equipment, special forces and their training, post-event operational efficiency and effectiveness etc.
Such a multi-agency Experts Committee, comprising innovative and competent persons, should be instituted immediately to undertake such a study. It must be given a clearly understood mandate, and a definite time-frame to complete its work. We consider that, if headed by a committed and competent retired public servant with wide experience in administrative, police, defence and national security matters, such a study can be completed in 6 months’ time. Its recommendations, except those for high national security aspects, must be made public and should be implemented by an empowered multi-agency task-force, with an allocated budget for the purpose. Our Forum places its services for this cause, if called upon.

13. In our considered view, such a study should not be entrusted to any Judicial Commission (our history of judicial enquiries is dismal) or to any group of ministers and politicians. It should be by a committee of experts with wide-ranging experience. The Forum will urge upon you to look for experts outside the fold of the government also.

14. A nation which aspires to play a global role in international security, large geo-political matters and which seeks to sit at the UN Security Council table as a permanent member will have credibility in the international eye only if it has a government which is known for its competence, resoluteness and efficiency to tackle the problem of its own internal security. The political will required for the purpose will have to transcend narrow sectarian considerations of electoral politics of the day. This has to be demonstrated to instill enough confidence among the members of the public.

15. Sir, the Forum urges you to get these issues sincerely debated at the appropriate level, have the accountability fixed and early steps taken to remedy the situation.

We shall be happy to know our submission has reached your hand.


Yours faithfully,


(D.C. Nath)

Copy forwarded for information and action, as deemed fit, to:

i) Shri P.C Chidambaram, Home Minister.
ii) Shri A.K. Antony, Defence Minister.
iii) Shri Pranab Mukherjee External Affairs Minister
iv) Shri M.K. Narayanan National Security Adviser
v) Chief Ministers of States/Union Territories


(D.C. Nath)

Sub: An Appeal to Help Build Secure India.

‘Sent herewith a copy of An Appeal we have sent out to:

Chambers of Commerce – National / State.
CMDs of PSUs / Private Industries.
CMDs of Banks.
Select Industrialists.

May be you will find it useful. And, should you think it appropriate, you may also share this with those thought fit by you.

Best regards,

Yours sincerely,

D.C. Nath

Encl: As stated.

No.IISSM/DEL/4/2009- Dated December 16, 2008

Dear Sir,

Subject: An Appeal to Help Build Secure India.

This is with best compliments from IISSM.

The International Institute of Security and Safety Management (IISSM) and its activities would perhaps be known to you. Ours is a registered educational organisation (website: http://www.iissm.com), engaged in promoting professionalism both among security and other senior management executives, directly or indirectly involved in security management in industries.

The cataclysmic event in Mumbai on November 26, 2008, appropriately described as “the seminal event in the history of international terrorism, particularly in the history of global jihad” and as “more sophisticated and logistically more complicated than even 9/11,” was, to all intents and purposes, aimed at crippling the burgeoning Indian economy. As an Institute engaged in bringing about improvement in security management in the country and all over, we therefore felt greatly enthused by recent structured response from business associations like the Confederation of India Industries (CII) and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) as also the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM). Indeed, corporate houses as also industrialists, big or small, have a big role to play in defending the national economy and serving the cause of national security.

We are keenly aware that many enlightened and forward-looking industrialists had after 9/11 initiated steps to overhaul or augment the security systems in their group or groups. Even then, in the surcharged security ambience in the country, we take the liberty of making the following suggestions for your consideration:


Please accept and accord recognition to security business as a part of the overall business procedure of your industry.

Please do not remain satisfied by employing a senior or qualified retired police or armed force officer. Please formulate a basic and formal comprehensive security policy, not only for the Security Division but also for all concerned in your esteemed organisation/industry. That will facilitate structured implementation and fix accountability.

Please do not ignore developing the security infrastructure while planning an integrated security management system.

Please take your Security Division into confidence and expose to it your risk potential in as much details as possible, may be just as you do in respect of the audit group. Better the exposure, better the services that the Security Division can render. The results of such exposure have often been more than expected.

Please accept that Industrial Security is, as we, from the platform of IISSM have been demonstrating, is a Total Management Function that includes risk management as well as loss prevention, the raison de etre of security’s existence.

Please add security risks including terrorism to the cost of doing business and thus factor security management into your regular budget and not treat it as a necessary evil that can be dispensed with in times of economic downswing. Cheap security is no security and good security costs money.

A third-party security auditing of your existing security arrangements will be highly desirable. Though one can surely access foreign experts, it is good to know that a fair amount of professionalism in this area has over the years developed inside the country also.

Please encapsulate and build security education into your CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) policy. After all, security is a business of all, for all and by all. Your employees will then help build up the national resilience against all forms of security threats including terrorism. Time is perhaps appropriate to turn current emotional response of people into constructive and participative mode so that they learn to accept responsibility and discharge the Fundamental Duties enshrined in Article 51-A of the Constitution of India.

Well Sir, these are some of our broad suggestions for your consideration. You may have already initiated appropriate steps. In any case, we from the IISSM offer our services, if felt necessary, at any stage.

At the end, we wish to humbly underscore that this is no effort to create or expand security business. This is, as we have highlighted in the beginning, an appeal to help build a secure India and it is our honest perception/belief that the trump card to achieve that lies in your hands.

‘Hope to be excused for inflicting this lengthy unsolicited submission for whatever worth it is at this stage. If thought appropriate, ‘may like to consider forwarding our submission to your constituent members in the manner thought best by you.

Thanking you and with best regards,

Yours sincerely,



(D.C. Nath)
To
All Chambers of Commerce – National/State.

Taqiyah or Holy Deception by Shahrukh Khan

By: Dr Radhasyam Brahmachari *

In a press interview on 6th December, Sharukh Khan, the well known Bollywood film star, told dark lies and said that the Koran does not inspire terrorism. He told the press that he has read English translation of Koran and the book does not contain any verse that instructs to kill innocent people. On the contrary, he said, the Koran says that if anyone hurts another man, he hearts the entire humanity and if one heels another man, he heels the entire humanity. In fact, Khan has quoted the verse (5.32) of the Koran that reads “…whoever killed a human being, except as punishment for murder or other villainy in the land, shall be regarded as having killed all mankind; and that whoever saved a human life shall be regarded as saving all mankind.” It should be pointed out here that whenever Koran uses such lofty humane words, it should be understood that this humanity is confined within the Muslims alone. Koran has no headache to save the lives of the kafirs (non-Muslims) or doing any good to the kafirs. According to the Koran, kafirs are to be slain wherever they could be found.

So the verse (9.5) of the Koran says, “Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters (i.e. kafirs) wherever ye find them, and take them (captive) and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is forgiving, Merciful.” Furthermore, through this verse, Koran declares that for the kafirs in a dar-ul-Islam (or a Muslim country), there are two alternatives, either Islam or death.

Today, only a stupid, ignorant of Islam and of the contents of the Koran, can say that Islam never preaches terrorism. But Shahrukh Khan has said all those rubbish and nonsensical lies not due to his ignorance of Islam. But knowing fully well the contents of the Koran, he has told all these lies simply to misguide and deceive the kafirs. But Khan should know that kafirs today are not so ignorant about Islam as they had been 10 or 20 years ago and it is not so easy to befool them now.

As a matter of fact, translations of Koran in English or in any other major Indian language are now easily available and hence it is not difficult for a kafir to procure one and go through the same. Particularly after 9/11, sale of Koran has gone up by many many times throughout the world. Had Khan been aware of these developments, he would have thought twice before telling all such blatant lies. In fact, by telling such lies, Khan has exposed himself as a stupid liar. He should also know that Internet is now doing an excellent job by exposing Islam to the world of kafirs and recently the film FITNA by Geert Wilders has vividly exposed that Koran and its violent verses of jihad are the fountainhead of Islamic terrorism. We hope that in his similar discourses in future he will restrain himself, so that he might not be taken as a mischievous liar by his fans.

However, the question remains, why this fellow, being fully aware of the contents of the Koran, talked like such a half educated idiot, before the press? There is an Arabic word “Taqiyah” that stands for “holy deception”. If a Muslim can deceive the kafirs by telling lies, or by giving false testimony in the court of law or by any other means, for the benefit of the Muslims, or for the benefit of Islam, the mischief is called taqiyah and Allah has assigned considerable merit on such an act. He will reward such a deceiver profusely on the Day of Last Judgment or Qiyamah.

Any kafir who knows abc of Islam is aware of the fact that the ultimate aim of Islam is to bring the entire world under the banner of Islam or to turn the entire world into a dar-ul-Islam (or land under the rule of Islam). And as part of that goal, India is to be conquered for Islam as soon as possible. So they are going on intensifying terror attacks on the Indian soil. A section of the Muslims are engaged in organizing attacks and procuring Arms and Explosives for the purpose while another section of Muslims are trying to deceive or hoodwink the Kafirs by playing Taqiyah. The reader may recall that a few months ago the clerics of Dar-ul-ulum Deoband, in a press statement, declared that Islam does not profess or support terrorism and a few months later they took out a procession decrying terrorism. But the madrassas that are being run by them are, in reality, are factories for producing terrorists and procuring and storing sophisticated weapons of jihad like AK-47 rifles and high explosives such as RDX and so on. So even a Billy-goat will refuse to believe that they are against terrorism and hence, their above mentioned declaration and propaganda were nothing but Taqiyah. On 7th December, a group of Muslim women took out a procession in Mumbai to condemn terrorism. But even a preliminary investigation might reveal that the women who took part in the said demonstration have taken part in the recent attack in Mumbai by contributing funds and providing safe haven for the terrorists. Hence, their above mentioned demonstration was also a taqiyah.

But the Muslims of these country, including Shahrukh Khan, should know that situation has changed greatly for past a few years. Millions and millions of Kafirs are now studying Koran to know the blood-thirsty creed called Islam and to defend any future onslaught of Islam in this country. So, we like to advise the Muslims, including Shahrukh Khan not to play taqiyah any more because all their efforts will be futile.

As a matter of fact, the Muslims of this divided India have no moral and ethical right to stay in this country. In 1940, these people said that they were a different nation and it was not possible for them to live peacefully with the hateful Hindu Kafirs. In 1947 they got their homeland Pakistan but these treacherous and mischievous people did not go to their cherished land but continued to stay in this country as resident non-Indians with their hidden agenda to make entire India into a dar-ul-Islam. Hindus of this country should have kicked them out as soon as Pakistan had been created. But they have been kind enough to allow them to stay in this country. But there is also a limit of their tolerance and a further irritation might compel them to drive them out of this country.

The author takes the liberty of quoting a few more verses of Koran below so that the reader may judge for himself whether Koran is a book of love and compassion or it is a book of hatred, terror and bloodshed.

Lo! Allah hath bought from the believers their lives and their wealth because the garden will be theirs: they shall fight in the way of Allah and shall slay and be slain.(9/111)

Who is an enemy to Allah, and His angels and His messengers and Gabriel and Michael! Then lo! Allah (Himself) is an enemy to the disbelievers.(2/98)

Muster against them all the men and cavalry at your command, so that you may strike terror into the enemy of Allah and your enemy, and others beside them who are unknown to you but known to Allah (8/60)

Did you suppose that you would enter Paradise before Allah has proved the men who fought for Him and endured with fortitude?(3/142)

NB: In plain words, jihad means indiscriminate killing of kafirs, plundering their wealth, occupying their land and other properties by sword, fire and rape. In fact, Islam as a creed has nothing to do with spiritualism and its sole intention is to create an empire throughout the world and hence it puts greatest virtue in its military component, jihad, or fighting against the kafirs with the ultimate motive of eliminating them en masse. Hence for a Muslim, launching a jihad or war against the kafirs, is the highest virtue; higher even than a pilgrimage to Mecca (hajj), not to speak of lower virtues like prayer (namaj) and fasting (roja). So the Koran says, “Fighting against the kafirs is beyond one’s personal likings and dislikings as Allah has commanded to fight the pagans and all those who ascribe partners (shirk) with Allah” (2.216).

The author is a Professor of Applied Physics, University of Calcutta

Mumbai Terror Attacks: Our collective heads are hanging in shame…

Where was the Crisis Management Group, and, what was it doing all this while? If popular Delhi FM radio station is to be believed, it took precious 9 hours for CMG to assemble and decide about sending NSG team to Mumbai. When it reached there, same source revealed, how they were brought to the venue of their action? No prize for guessing – in BEST buses, no less!

To break the somnambulistic lethargy emanating out of sense of being in power is provably the toughest challenge which Nation faces! Facing the terrorism or hostile nation is consequent and easier!! Leadership changing the dresses and changing the words still spewed same rhetoric! Not only the concerned ministry but the whole country takes the concerned Minister as a liability. ‘Address to the Nation’ with Zombie like glazed looks and monotone - devoid of feelings and emotions can not instill the trust and confidence of the citizens in the national leadership.

Where are the tough anti-terror laws they have been talking about? Where are the tough actions promised time and again?? When police from one Indian state can not enter other state on hot-pursuit then how doctrine of hot pursuit can be practiced when terrorists come from Pakistan and run back to it? Our leaders shy away even naming Pakistan as country behind terrorists activities and on sly name it as ‘neighboring country’ when actually they should name it as Pakistan. Terrorism can not be eliminated by tough talks; it can be eliminated only by tough actions. Taking decision is the most difficulty part; actions are easier for politicians and police forces respectively.

How one redeems his name, ask Hemant Karkare who led from front and sacrificed his life? Till few days back his name was being maligned and now he is a martyr! The political appointment – Director General of Maharashtra Police chose to issue statements from the comforts of his office using brave words when other Director General – in this case – of National Security Guards was in battle fatigue and supervised the whole operation rushing from place to place wherever his guidance was needed. He did not forget to introduce his team of officer involved in operation when he addressed the media. But when a local congress leader faced the camera, not only his followers chanted slogans in his favor as if he was addressing election rally, he himself made it a point to credit his leadership for planning to formulate ‘tough anti-terror law’. Hollow words, all these!

Security personnel and law enforcing agencies are routinely rubbished for being utterly unprofessional, criminally lethargic, poor in intelligence and shabby in action! There have been routinely departmental cases and guilty are punished. What about punishing the leadership? To whom they are answerable?

Some terrorist apprehended will be put through the long drawn legal battle. They might not get punishment, and, even when that happens there is no guarantee that the Government will not dither? Has Afzal been hanged so far? The family members of security personnel who laid down their lives defending the Parliament are still waiting the final decision on Afzal. The Top Executive of the country takes ages deciding on a ‘non-issue’ related to a dreaded terrorist but is always ‘pleased’ to punish some ‘Babu’ coming late to the office!

Those talking bravely about removing ‘North Indians’ from their Land had lapsed in tongue tormenting paralysis and are yet to speak even a single word condemning the terrorist attacks and about their plans to remove the terrorists from their Land. There were already two ‘Senas” in Mumbai specially trained to bully and tormenting the innocents and vandalizing the public and private property. Surely these ‘Senas” could have handled the ‘terror situation’ in Mumbai without the help of ‘outsiders’ for this would otherwise sully the ‘Asmita’ (self dignity) of ‘Marathi Manoos’! Why was it not done remains a mystery! In fact other mystery is what were the ‘Senapatis’ doing at the time of crisis if not hiding in some bunkers?

When India demands America to declare Pakistan as ‘Rogue Nation’ or ‘Terrorist Nation’ it becomes laughing stock as it is same India which has accorded Pakistan the status of ‘Most Favored Nation’. We don’t have to present so called clinching evidences to USA for Pakistan’s involvement in terrorism in India. If we are so convinced about them, what stops us taking drastic actions? Super Power a country doesn’t become by pretensions, one only becomes by tough actions. Time for tough action is now, if there ever was any!

Our collective heads are hanging in shame for the way country’s leadership so irresponsibly and callously handled the situation in Mumbai! Those who know little Greek mythology will understand that cutting the snakes was never a solution as solution was cutting the head of Medusa! We can eliminate terrorism only by eliminating its breeding and feeding ground which is Pakistan.

Violation of Human Rights of Sadhvi Pragya, Col. Purohit and others - Petition to NHRC

21 November 2008
This afternoon, a petition was submitted to the NHRC by a delegation led by Mr. K P S Gill. The text of the petition is given below.
Apart from those mentioned below, many others also joined the congregation at Mandi House.
It is hoped that you will also send your individual petitions and letters to the NHRC. Some of you may have already received the text of the petition submitted by us.

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PRESS RELEASE
Violation of human rights, dignity & reputation of Sadhvi Pragya & others
A delegation of 81 eminent citizens comprising retired army officers, retired police officers, lawyers, media persons and social workers today marched to the office of the National Human Rights Commission and presented a petition seeking enquiry into the violation of human rights of Sadhvi Pragya and others accused in the Malegaon blast case.

Led by former Punjab Director General of Police, Mr. K.P.S. Gill, the delegation met Justice G.P. Mathur, Member, NHRC and presented a memorandum.

Mr. Gill told the Commission that prima facie a gross violation of human rights has taken place as Sadhvi Pragya was illegally detained for nearly 13 days; physically assaulted and mentally tortured in police custody with no female police officers present; robbed of her dignity by officers who questioned her chastity; interrogated and transferred from one place to another without the presence of female police officers; and worst of all, denied access to her family and lawyers.

The delegation expressed astonishment that despite the affidavit of Sadhvi Pragya being widely covered in the media, and even published in its entirety in one newspaper, the Commission had taken no notice of the case. Justice Mathur assured that the Commission would study the memorandum and follow the due process in the matter.

Other members of the delegation included Mr Balbir Punj, MP Rajya Sabha; Mrs. Nancy Kaul; Brig R.B. Sharma; Mr. Praful Goradia, former MP; Prof. J.S. Rajput; Prof. Makkhan Lal; Mr. K.N. Govindacharya; Mr. Kanchan Gupta, Mr. Jay Bhattacharjee; Mrs. Meenakshi Lekhi, Mr. Rajesh Gogna, Mr. Tarun Vijay, Mr. R. Balashankar; Mr Deepak Rath; Mrs. Jaya Jaitly; Mr. K.R. Phanda and Ms. Sandhya Jain.

Later, a smaller group visited the National Commission for Women and presented a similar petition demanding intervention in the violation of human rights and illegal detention of Sadhvi Pragya, on the basis of her sworn affidavit in a Nashik court.

A copy of the petition to the NCW is attached below.
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21 November 2008
To
Dr. Girija Vyas
Chairperson
National Commission for Women
4 Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg
New Delhi 110001.

Sub: Violation of human rights, dignity & reputation of Sadhwi Pragyan Singh Thakur

Dear Madam,

We the undersigned citizens of India are appalled by the gross abuse of Sadhvi Pragyan Singh Thakur's human rights, dignity, civil liberties, and reputation, by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad.

We are extremely disturbed about the cavalier fashion in which the ATS ignored the law of the land and various judgements of the Hon'ble Supreme Court while inquiring into allegations against Sadhwi Pragyan Singh Thakur and others who have been arrested and are, since 20 November 2008, being held under MCOCA after repeatedly seeking and securing their remand on charges for which no evidence has as yet been put forward.

Sadhwi Pragyan Singh Thakur submitted a sworn affidavit in the Nashik court on 17 November 2008. Prima facie the affidavit reveals serious violations of her rights and those of others named in her statement.

Some points that should be of concern to the National Commission for Women include:

1. She was illegally detained for 10 days and shifted from one place to another.
2. She was physically assaulted and mentally tortured in custody.
3. She was robbed of her dignity by the ATS which questioned her chastity.
4. No female police officers were present during her interrogation and transfer from one place to another.
5. She was denied the right to contact her family and her lawyer.

So immense was her trauma that she even contemplated committing suicide. She was subjected to narco-analysis and brain-mapping tests without her consent; these methods of interrogation are used to make accused persons incriminate themselves, and they were continued even though they repeatedly failed to achieve this objective.

A copy of her affidavit is attached to this petition. We have also attached a copy of The Pioneer, published from New Delhi, dated November 19, 2008, which has reproduced the text of the affidavit.

We believe the National Commission for Women should inquire into the issues raised in the affidavit, especially as Sadhwi Pragyan Singh Thakur and others have been detained under MCOCA. Not to do so would be to deny her right to liberty, dignity, and reputation to which she and other accused are entitled.

Thanking you
Yours sincerely

(The undersigned citizens of India)

Dr T H Chowdary *
Director : Center for Telecom Management & Studies
Chairman : Pragna Bharati, Andhra Pradesh
Fellow: Tata Consultancy Services & Satyam Computer Services
Former: Information Technology Advisor, Government of Andhra Pradesh
Chairman & Managing Director, Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd
Plot No. 8, P&T Colony, Karkhana (Secunderabad), Hyderabad - 500 009.
Phone : +91 (40) 2784-6137,6667-1191 (Off) & 2784-3121 (Res)
Fax : +91 (40) 6667-1111, 2789-6103 (Off)
E-Mail: hanuman.chowdary@tcs.com & thc@satyam.com

1. The weeks-long Hindu Christian riots in Kandhamal District of Orissa and similar incidents in Karnataka are not unlikely to be repeated in Andhra Pradesh very soon. In Orissa and Karnataka the riots are precipitated by the intensive, aggressive, extensive activities of hundreds of missionary organisations with thousands of fulltime, well-paid propagandists and agents. In Kandhamal District, alone there are 350 missionary organisations funded from all quarters of the world. They are engaging lots and lots of unemployed people, to inveigle poor and uneducated Hindus into Christianity by monetary rewards, given in installments related to the number of people that these full-time marketers of Christianity are able to convert. Aiding them are the fifth columns of a number of NGOs with enticing names, all funded by Christian missions from abroad? The fact that in Kandhamal District alone the Christian population has increased from 6 percent in 1970 to 27 percent in 2001, despite an Act enacted by Orissa Legislature in 1967 to prevent conversion shows the intensity of the multinational conversion, [MNC] enterprises marketing and financial clout.

2. In Karnataka, it is plain blasphemy, openly and aggressively indulged in by an MNC enterprise that has led to the Hindu-Christian strife. In Andhra Pradesh, strife is building up and will burst with great fury in not too distant a time. In Village after Village, different denominations of Christians are planting churches, recruiting converts as pastors, paying them handsomely, they are also engaging thousands of unemployed Hindu youth for propagating Christianity and gaining converts. These are being rewarded in installments. Just as the total compensation of company employees is having a fixed and varying components, fixed amount and varying amount related to the number of converts they are able to bring into Christianity.

3. Where from is the money coming for the large number of Christians’ places of worship, if the Christian population is only 1.44%? In contradiction of the census figures, leaders of Christian churches and associations having been asserting that their population is not less 10% to 12% in Andhra Pradesh and therefore every party must put up 10% to 12% candidates of their total number, from Christians. The difference between 1.44% as per GOI’s census of 2001 and 10% to 12% claimed by Christians is clear indication of the fraud that the conversion enterprises are indulging in. It appears that they are telling the converts to continue to describe themselves as Hindu Scheduled Castes, so that they continue to get the benefit of reservations meant for Hindu SCs. They withhold the fact of conversion from the government records. At the same time in order to protect themselves from the exposure of fraud and continue to get benefit of reservations, they have launched a movement for get “Christian dalits”. The greatest lure to get converts from Hindu Harijans is that in Christianity there are no castes. How come then that there are Dalits among Christians? Another fraud that the converters are indulging in is 70% of the Christians in Andhra Pradesh are former SCs. In the educational Institutions and medical Institutions that Christians are founding and managing, there are no reservations for “dalit Christians”. But the churchmen and the converters are asking that in Hindu Institutions, including government and colleges there should be reservations to Christian dalits. 98% of the Bishops in India are from upper castes, while 70% of the Christians are former Scheduled Castes. The caste discrimination continues in Christianity. There are Reddy Christians, Kamma Christians, Brahmin Christians and Dalit Christians. They seldom inter-marry. This is another fraud for selling Christianity.

4. Almost all Hindus are feeling tremendously agitated about the intense activities of the multinational conversion enterprises, their planting of churches in Villages. Families are getting divided, so are Village populations and so will be the entire polity in the state. Wanting to know whether there is anything in the Gospels which promotes this division and strife in the people, I am surprised to find the following in the Gospel according to Luke in the New Testament Chapter 12 -

• 51 “Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, but rather division.
• 52 “For from now on five in one house will be divided: three against two, and two New testament of Bible;
• 53: “Father will be divided against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother.
  

5. In Andhra Pradesh especially in districts of the Godavari, we are sitting on a time-bomb of Hindu-Christian strife. To prevent this, intelligentsia in the State and newspapers and media men with integrity must bring out the facts, including the conflict between 1.44% Christian population according to government on the one hand and thousands of churches and claims of Christian leaders that their population is 10% and more. Government should also find out where from the money is coming for thousands of full timers and buildings for churches. Income Tax authorities must also swing into action to assess the total cost of all the churches that are built and find out from the church owners, the sources of their funds.

6. Finally, Government of Andhra Pradesh is contributing not a small measure to the building up of strife between Christians and Hindus by subsidising the pilgrimage of Christians to Jerusalem from the funds of the 'secular' Government of Andhra Pradesh. The 'secular' government is spending tax moneys for the performance of Christians’ marriages. Government of Andhra Pradesh is not spending tax moneys for subsidizing the pilgrimage of Hindus or performance of their marriages. The TTD’s ‘Kalyanamastu’ is financed by offerings of Hindus to the Hindu God, Balaji in Tirumala. Government of Andhra Pradesh is also spending tax moneys, performing marriages of Muslims. This way the government is contributing to the heart burning among Hindus and therefore for the building up of potential strife between the various religious communities in the state. It would be proper for any responsible government, especially the government of Andhra Pradesh which claims to be transparent and accountable to come out with a White Paper on the number of conversion enterprises, associated NGOs and finances available to the MNC enterprises to build numerous churches; how many are engaged as full timers for conversion activities and whether the Supreme Court’s observation that the right to propagate guaranteed in the Constitution does not confer right to convert is being flouted by the MNC enterprises.. And since the conversion activities are conducted as a business with modern marketing methods, with multinational sources for funds, the constitutionally guaranteed freedom to propagate, profess and practise religion is being misused by the commercial activities of the multinational conversion enterprises. Right to convert oneself to another religion is legal; can such a right to convert extend to MNC enterprises, operating on commercial lines? It would be right and prudent to ban this organised marketing of religions by company-like multinational enterprise conversion missions offering the same product competitively under different brands.

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The Danger of Hindu Christian Riots in Andhra Pradesh
Dr T H Chowdary *
Director : Center for Telecom Management & Studies
Chairman : Pragna Bharati, Andhra Pradesh
Fellow: Tata Consultancy Services & Satyam Computer Services
Former: Information Technology Advisor, Government of Andhra Pradesh
Chairman & Managing Director, Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd
Plot No. 8, P&T Colony, Karkhana (Secunderabad), Hyderabad - 500 009.
Phone : +91 (40) 2784-6137,6667-1191 (Off) & 2784-3121 (Res)
Fax : +91 (40) 6667-1111, 2789-6103 (Off)
E-Mail: hanuman.chowdary@tcs.com & thc@satyam.com

The weeks-long Hindu Christian riots in Kandhamal District of Orissa and similar incidents in Karnataka are not unlikely to be repeated in Andhra Pradesh very soon. In Orissa and Karnataka the riots are precipitated by the intensive, aggressive, extensive activities of hundreds of missionary organisations with thousands of fulltime, well-paid propagandists and agents. In Kandhamal District, alone there are 350 missionary organisations funded from all quarters of the world. They are engaging lots and lots of unemployed people, to inveigle poor and uneducated Hindus into Christianity by monetary rewards, given in installments related to the number of people that these full-time marketers of Christianity are able to convert. Aiding them are the fifth columns of a number of NGOs with enticing names, all funded by Christian missions from abroad? The fact that in Kandhamal District alone the Christian population has increased from 6 percent in 1970 to 27 percent in 2001, despite an Act enacted by Orissa Legislature in 1967 to prevent conversion shows the intensity of the multinational conversion, [MNC] enterprises marketing and financial clout.
2. In Karnataka, it is plain blasphemy, openly and aggressively indulged in by an MNC enterprise that has led to the Hindu-Christian strife. In Andhra Pradesh, strife is building up and will burst with great fury in not too distant a time. In Village after Village, different denominations of Christians are planting churches, recruiting converts as pastors, paying them handsomely, they are also engaging thousands of unemployed Hindu youth for propagating Christianity and gaining converts. These are being rewarded in installments. Just as the total compensation of company employees is having a fixed and varying components, fixed amount and varying amount related to the number of converts they are able to bring into Christianity.

3 A look at the Table below shows the fantastically numerous places of worship or prayers of Muslims and Christians district-wise in our State it would be seen based upon Christian population is 1.44% as per the census of 2001, there is one place of worship for seven Christians and one place of worship for 39 Muslims and one place of worship for 341 Hindus.
Existing No. of Temples, Mosques and Churches in as on 31st March 2005.
(Revenue and Endowment Board of Andhra Pradesh)

District Temples Churches Mosques

Adilabad 12,346 3,347 18,482
Ananthpur 14,008 4,892 9,328
Chittor 26,120 9,098 12,320
Cuddpah 22,982
7,241
14,223
East Godavari
8,220
12,123
9,230
Guntur
9,302
16,388
5,429
Hyderabad (Rangareddy)
13,144
3,204
15,203
Kakinada
7,203
8,585
5,274
Karimnagar
4,129
1,648
9,714
Khammam
5,210
7,203
5,922
Krishna
8,929
8,462
3,769
Kurnool
6,549
5,203
9,293
Machlipatnam
5,000 (Aprx)
8,320
6,493
Mahboobnagar
3,299
3,128
7,235
Medak
6,302
3,203
3,234
Nellore
7,993
6,782
7,323
Nalgonda
6,882
2,412
5,239
Nizamabad
4,638
3,203
9,366
Prakasham
4,255
5,583
4,932
Srikakulam
7,339
9,879
2,140
Warangal
1,393
6,320
1,342
West Godavari
3,293
5,464
2,765
Vishakapatnam
6,430
3,203
4,203
Vizianagaram
3,891
3,100
3,500
TOTAL
198,857
147,991
175,959

4 Where from is the money coming for the large number of Christians’ places of worship, if the Christian population is only 1.44%? In contradiction of the census figures, leaders of Christian churches and associations having been asserting that their population is not less 10% to 12% in Andhra Pradesh and therefore every party must put up 10% to 12% candidates of their total number, from Christians. The difference between 1.44% as per GOI’s census of 2001 and 10% to 12% claimed by Christians is clear indication of the fraud that the conversion enterprises are indulging in. It appears that they are telling the converts to continue to describe themselves as Hindu Scheduled Castes, so that they continue to get the benefit of reservations meant for Hindu SCs. They withhold the fact of conversion from the government records. At the same time in order to protect themselves from the exposure of fraud and continue to get benefit of reservations, they have launched a movement for get “Christian dalits”. The greatest lure to get converts from Hindu Harijans is that in Christianity there are no castes. How come then that there are Dalits among Christians? Another fraud that the converters are indulging in is 70% of the Christians in Andhra Pradesh are former SCs. In the educational Institutions and medical Institutions that Christians are founding and managing, there are no reservations for “dalit Christians”. But the churchmen and the converters are asking that in Hindu Institutions, including government and colleges there should be reservations to Christian dalits. 98% of the Bishops in India are from upper castes, while 70% of the Christians are former Scheduled Castes. The caste discrimination continues in Christianity. There are Reddy Christians, Kamma Christians, Brahmin Christians and Dalit Christians. They seldom inter-marry. This is another fraud for selling Christianity.
5 Almost all Hindus are feeling tremendously agitated about the intense activities of the multinational conversion enterprises, their planting of churches in Villages. Families are getting divided, so are Village populations and so will be the entire polity in the state. Wanting to know whether there is anything in the Gospels which promotes this division and strife in the people, I am surprised to find the following in the Gospel according to Luke in the New Testament Chapter 12,
51 “Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, but rather division.

52 “For from now on five in one house will be divided: three against two, and two
New testament of Bible:

53: “Father will be divided against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother.

6 In Andhra Pradesh especially in districts of the Godavari, we are sitting on a time-bomb of Hindu-Christian strife. To prevent this, intelligentsia in the State and newspapers and media men with integrity must bring out the facts, including the conflict between 1.44% Christian population according to government on the one hand and thousands of churches and claims of Christian leaders that their population is 10% and more. Government should also find out where from the money is coming for thousands of full timers and buildings for churches. Income Tax authorities must also swing into action to assess the total cost of all the churches that are built and find out from the church owners, the sources of their funds.
7 Finally, Government of Andhra Pradesh is contributing not a small measure to the building up of strife between Christians and Hindus by subsidising the pilgrimage of Christians to Jerusalem from the funds of the 'secular' Government of Andhra Pradesh. The 'secular' government is spending tax moneys for the performance of Christians’ marriages. Government of Andhra Pradesh is not spending tax moneys for subsidizing the pilgrimage of Hindus or performance of their marriages. The TTD’s ‘Kalyanamastu’ is financed by offerings of Hindus to the Hindu God, Balaji in Tirumala. Government of Andhra Pradesh is also spending tax moneys, performing marriages of Muslims. This way the government is contributing to the heart burning among Hindus and therefore for the building up of potential strife between the various religious communities in the state. It would be proper for any responsible government, especially the government of Andhra Pradesh which claims to be transparent and accountable to come out with a White Paper on the number of conversion enterprises, associated NGOs and finances available to the MNC enterprises to build numerous churches; how many are engaged as full timers for conversion activities and whether the Supreme Court’s observation that the right to propagate guaranteed in the Constitution does not confer right to convert is being flouted by the MNC enterprises.. And since the conversion activities are conducted as a business with modern marketing methods, with multinational sources for funds, the constitutionally guaranteed freedom to propagate, profess and practise religion is being misused by the commercial activities of the multinational conversion enterprises. Right to convert oneself to another religion is legal; can such a right to convert extend to MNC enterprises, operating on commercial lines? It would be right and prudent to ban this organised marketing of religions by company-like multinational enterprise conversion missions offering the same product competitively under different brands.
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The Sachar report: A flawed number game

By: Nitish Sengupta
(Dr Nitish Sengupta, an academic and an author, is a former Member of Parliament and a former secretary to the Government of India)

The Sachar Committee Report, an often-quoted 404-page document, is disappointing, both in its method of analysis and in the way it has collected and presented some dubious statistics. A fundamental fact that has been ignored is that almost 95 per cent of elite Muslims in India, who largely depended on jobs, went over to Pakistan after Partition. Those who stayed back in India were, by and large, the rural community, the self-employed and the service providers. A great majority of them, under the influence of powerful mullahs, kept away from modern education and, in consequence, modern jobs and professions. Thus, the figures for Muslim percentage in government jobs practically started from a zero base.

This point should have been mentioned in the report’s overall analysis. Its omission is a serious statistical error. Then again, the Committee conveniently ignored the fact that the social and economic position of a community does not necessarily depend on the jobs that its members hold in the government or the organised sector. If that had been the case, I am afraid the position of Parsees, to take one example, would be extremely backward. The Sachar Committee’s Report completely ignored that there is a much larger number of self-employed people, tradesmen and service providers among the Muslims who do not seek government jobs. Another area where it has gone completely wrong is in creating an impression that India’s entire educational and economic system has gone out of its way to exclude Muslims. Whereas, in actual fact, we have all gone out of our way to give placement to them wherever they merit selection.

There are indeed, some very serious errors, on the statistical front. Prof A.R. Hashim has pointed out that in looking at the position of Hindus in general, the Sachar Committee first excluded the Scheduled Castes and Dalits from the general Hindu community and then compared them with the Muslim community. The Committee also pointed out that the position of the Scheduled Castes and Dalits is little or no different from that of the Muslim community. To exclude such a big chunk from the Hindu community and thereafter compare the residual Hindu community with the Muslims is a serious oversight.

Another Muslim scholar, Prof Imtiaz Hussain, also trashed the report on the ground that it ignored the status of Muslims in terms of jobs held in all the South Indian states and others like Gujarat and West Bengal. He pointed out that in all the southern states the Muslims are much better off than what the Sachar Report has made them to be. He questioned the statistics presented by the Sachar Committee in relation to the Census data which shows that the Muslims are better off in several states.

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, chief minister of West Bengal, has pointed out that the report ignores the Muslim peasantry who benefited from the state’s land reforms programme. Insofar as the organised private sector is concerned, one point which has escaped the Committee’s attention is that many of our business organisations are still dominated by the caste system. Consequently, a company dominated by banias generally looks out for banias. In that process too Muslims and minorities suffer as much as people belonging to other Hindu castes. This need not necessarily be an anti-Muslim bias.

Clearly, Justice Sachar simply chose to ignore available evidence to make out that the Muslim community is not doing any better than the other communities. He should have taken into account examples like Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro, the richest corporate Indian, Habil Khorakiwala of Wockhardt, the Cipla group, or for that matter, people like Habib Rahman, chairman ITC Hotels, Israt Hussain, a top associate of Ratan Tata, and many others. He should also have objectively made a community-wise analysis of the employees of such successful enterprises as Azim Premji’s Wipro. Is merit their main criterion for recruitment? Does this amount to discrimination and anti-Muslim bias? Or do successful Muslim industrialists reserve jobs for fellow Muslims irrespective of their merit?

I also wish the Sachar Committee had taken into account the brass manufacturers and traders of Moradabad, the glass workers of Ferozabad, the textile operators of Bhiwandi, the carpet makers of Kashmir and the Zari workers of Varanasi. Sadly, these people do not find any mention in the Sachar Report which chose to concentrate only on certain levels of government jobs and worked out the position of Muslims only on that account.

That is not all. The Committee has not taken into account the overwhelming eminent position occupied by Muslims in Bollywood, including the fact that almost 50 per cent of top actors and actresses are Muslims, if not more. Does that smack of discrimination? It remains a mystery as to why the government did not think it appropriate to assign this work to the National Minorities Commission or even to its own department of minority affairs and, instead, chose to appoint a separate committee. Equally mysterious is the fact that without choosing to discuss this matter in the country’s sovereign Parliament or allowing an informal debate, the government has announced that it has accepted all the recommendations of the Sachar Committee. Neither the government nor the Indian nation at large deserves the accusation by the Sachar Committee that they have been anti-Muslim all along. Indian Muslims occupy a pride of place in our democracy, and Gujarat (2002) and Babri Masjid (1992) are exceptions, not the rule.

Taken all together, one has to come to the sad conclusion that the Committee has erred both in its analysis and its conclusions. Mr. Justice Rajinder Sachar has been a much respected friend for many years. But I am afraid, in this report he has side stepped from the position of a judge and taken on the rule of a lawyer who was assigned a certain brief and went on to collect evidence which suited that brief.

Endangered Demography Nature and impact of Demographic changes in West Bengal - 1951-2001: Bimal Pramanik

A change in the demographic pattern in a country is an obvious resultant effect of migration which is as old as human civilization, but if the change is significantly high in a short span of time it is bound to cause a serious social concern for the country experiencing this phenomenon. No people of a country accept migratory people with open arms and when this migration of people belonging to a separate religion takes the shape of a design the question of acceptance almost vanishes giving rise to social unrest and tension. Significantly, however, there has been marked departure from this hypothesis so far as migration/infiltration from East Pakistan/Bangladesh to West Bengal is concerned. The Hindus who were uprooted from their hearth and home in East Pakistan due to religious persecution and measures or lack of them, taken by the successive Governments in Bangladesh after partition in 1947 were accepted as refugees by the Government of India and her people, not of course without grudge, and were given shelter, citizenship and were gradually absorbed in the mainstream of Indian people, particularly that of West Bengal. This was quite understandable. But what happened after the birth of Bangladesh w3hen it was the declared policy of the Government of India not to grant citizenship to any people (even if they were Hindus and were forced to leave Bangladesh as refugees after 1971? In what way the migratory trend post 1971 was different from the earlier trends? How were hordes of Muslims able to settle in the border districts of West Bengal without much notice and commotion? How was this silent demographic invasion possible? Was there any historical perspective behind this large scale infiltration or a well thought out design of our neighboring country? What change this invasion has brought up in the demographic pattern of border districts as well as interior districts of West Bengal? These are the queries I have tried to address here.

I would like to make it clear that no extraneous facts except that are borne out of the data available from the Census reports have been considered for determining the change in the demographic pattern and the author has been swayed by reason to spell out some of its fallouts and possible danger to the polity of West Bengal socio politically as well as economically. One does not have to be communal or for that matter secular in one’s attempt to pin point a social change which is part of history and history does not have any conscience of what is good or what is evil but its grand design provides some clues in finding out ways and means to mend our mistakes committed in the past in order to sustain a decent life for the present and the future, socio-politically and economically.

It is fair to affirm that the vast demographic changes in the eastern and north-eastern States of India are deniable. Yet there is ample scope for an analysis of facts and factors behind such demographic changes. Moreover, the nature, the pattern and even the motives are to be brought into proper focus, if one is to understand the totality of phenomenal demographic changes that have occurred. Migration from one country to another has been a persistent and significant socio-economic and socio-political phenomenon over the whole world. The concept of migration is not alien to the Indian people also. In fact, as an inevitable consequence of Partition of India in 1947, mass migration to West Bengal became ceaseless and large-scale. There was a continuous flow of the Hindu minority population from erstwhile East Bengal/East Pakistan, which was attributed mainly to the communal enmity of the Muslim majority population. The rate of this continuous migration from East Bengal to West Bengal, however, fluctuated, till 1971, depending on a multitude of socio-political and socio-religious factors.

A novel outcome of demographic pressures became more and more prominent over the years among the Bangladeshi migrants setting in India’s border region. Amazingly, this has gone largely unnoticed, even though it reflects significant changes in the daily life style and affects the very root of the civil society. We have gone into some details in this study of such unanticipated fallout of the demographic changes. I have tried to analyze the negative impact of gigantic immigration fro Bangladesh upon India’s attempts to preserve secular harmony as well as national security. We do not intend to overrate the military potential of Bangladesh while assessing the impact of Bangladeshi immigrants upon India’s national security in north eastern and eastern States, but we can hardly underrate the significance of their disturbing and distorting impact on the ethos of secular harmony that India stands for, and has been practicing unabatedly since independence, despite Partition on religious grounds.

The sordid impact of Bangladeshi immigration upon India is but a logical consequence of the stark failure of Bangladesh to evolve as a secular multicultural polity. The ruling circle of present day Bangladesh is determined not only to broaden and deepen the Islamisation of Bangladesh, but also to use Islam to incite separatist or secessionist forces in eastern/north-eastern India - by extensive support to a protracted arms struggle, if necessary. It is an open secret that in Bangladesh many international terrorist outfits with aggressive fundamentalist agendas are making all efforts to envelop Bangladesh’s socio-cultural fabrics with new Islamic prints and designs—though at the cost of the liberal tenets of Islam. The religio-cultural aspects of social harmony and the political-economic aspects of national security have been taken up in an integrated fashion in this study. This will enable us to assess truly the potential menace casting its shadow on the relations between India and Bangladesh. Following the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, the eastern and north eastern region of India faced a novel political and social challenge. At one time, critics and analysts complacently characterized it to be a migration flow. But later on, a series of political events proved that this was nothing but a kind of infiltration flow. As a corollary, it is equally imperative to understand the changing responses of the political parties and their leaders in this great drama of incessant demographic change, creating a menace to social harmony and national security.

This threat to our national security and social harmony will not be clearly understood unless we analyze the role of Bangladesh in this regard. Since the days of Partition, the Muslim psyche in both the parts of Pakistan has been suffering from a sense of injury about losing half of Bengal and Assam. They have been ruthlessly pursuing the policy of ‘lebensraum’ since the days of partition. Acting, perhaps, on the philosophy of the great Italian, Machiavelli, who observed in the 16th century that “Sending immigrants is the most effective way to colonize countries because it is less offensive than to send military expeditions and much less expensive.” Bangladesh with a single minded devotion has been following this policy, and, t say the least, it has been quite successful in this endeavor.

There was, however, not much concern about Muslim infiltration from erstwhile East Pakistan to India in the pre-1971 period. For, an extensive migration of Hindu population into India was regarded as a natural fall-out of Partition. If we look back to the history of political development of East Pakistan, especially in the phase of 1966 to 1971, we can easily identify the new features and directions of the strong Bengali nationalist sentiment to encourage and enthuse Bengali masses, irrespective of religion, against the political leadership of the military junta of Pakistan. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was able to articulate step by step the aggrieved Bengali psyche by mooting an alternative scheme of sharing power at the center of Pakistan’s power structure. The central political power structure in Pakistan failed to comprehend anything beyond their selfish design of perpetuating the status of eastern Pakistan as a subservient region of the West Pakistani heartland. Obviously, on the other side of the barricade, Mujib’s Bengal started resenting a colonial treatment.

When Mujib and his Bengal were fast assuming a posture of defiance against Pakistan political leadership, the Muslim population in North-East and Eastern India regionally, and in India as a whole, were suffering from a kind of nervousness at any prospect of political weakening of Pakistan, in case Mujib could triumph, and thereby justify his complaint about Pakistani colonial domination over eastern Pakistan. Obviously, Hindus, by and large, whether in east Pakistan or outside, were increasingly amused and gradually enthused about a potential political metamorphosis of the Pakistani state. Mujib was not squarely ready at the strategic level for a resolution of his demand by even a sort of war, even if that was thrust upon him. On their part, the leadership of Pakistan started suffering from uncertainly about he fallout of a conflagration between Mujib’s Bengal and western Pakistan. This was what exactly occurred in December 1971, almost inevitably. The destiny of Pakistan from its historic origin was thus already blown off. The entire subcontinent was now on the verge of a new set of relations which were not intelligible, far less recognizable. Only one thing was discernible, and that was the fate of hapless and hopeless Hindus, whose sacrifice in the 1971 freedom struggle appeared to be negated by the assassination of Mujibur Rahman, and who started moving as an endless flock of people from Bangladesh to multiple directions into the land of India.

A new politics, a new economics and a new culture, taken together, started unraveling itself in India as a result of secularism, which aggravated the confusion of the exuberant and extravagant politics of secularism of the erstwhile radical nationalist and the radical left in India. Gradually, for the first time, the Hindu refugees were being treated at par with the Muslim infiltrators. This twin flow at the same time had introduced a new opportunity to show perversely that Bangladesh was as much secular as India. Politicians, who placed immediate electoral gain above national interest, could successfully equate Muslim infiltration with the Hindu refugee flow under the grand title of infinite and indefinite migration of Bangladeshis with nondescript faces through all conceivable manholes in the border region. A gunman, a smuggler and a family man have started working together only to mislead the border security forces, because the infiltrator is not easily distinguishable from a refugee. A new era has started, Leading Bangladeshi strategic analysts and intelligentsia introduced the theory of lebensraum in the 1980s. They claim that their right to settle in India’s eastern and north eastern States is to be considered as the natural course of overriding what is to them, an unacceptable political demarcation of the border. Growing population pressure and crippling poverty and pauperization of the marginal rural masses in Bangladesh encouraged, if not forced, them to put this agenda of migration as a life and death question, which no lock can resist. In the mean time, the consolidation of Islamic forces was already advanced. They adopted the agenda of a greater Islamic region as a grand political strategy. Although it was an emotional issue for Sheikh Mujib, later it became a political and strategic issue with the support of Pakistan. Population Movement or migration, internal or external, is a universal phenomenon of human society. Its nature, degree, direction and dimension, however, may vary from case to case. Numerous studies have been conducted to identify the attributes associated with migratory movements of people. Along with ‘push’ and ‘pull’ factors, a variety of explanations are also available as the cause and effect of migration and consequent societal change. A change in the demographic pattern in any country is an obvious resultant effect of migration, which is as old as human civilization, but if the change is significantly high in a short span of time, it is bound to arouse a serious social concern in the country experiencing the phenomenon. No people of a country accept migratory people with open arms, and when this migration of people belonging to a separate ethnic group and religion appears to reveal an unholy political design, the question of acceptance almost vanishes, giving rise to social unrest and tension. The north eastern region of India, particularly Assam and West Bengal, are cases in point.

The change in the demographic pattern of the Eastern and North-Eastern States, particularly West Bengal during the last five decades, has been exhaustively dealt with in this book, and we can sum up the phenomenon in a few words. A new dimension in the political and social arena has emerged in this eastern and northeastern region of India after independence of Bangladesh in 1971. A novel phenomenon of demographic pressure—emanating from Bangladesh—started looming larger and larger in the border region. During the last three decades, illegal migration from Bangladesh to India is going on unabated. All the refugees who had been coming to West Bengal during Pakistan days were Hindus. In the Bangladesh era, Hindus are coming as usual like in the days of Pakistan due to religious persecution and political pressure, but a new feature also started emerging as people from the majority segment (Muslims), for different reasons and purposes, started coming to West Bengal. Both the Central and West Bengal governments were generally aware of this development, yet no great concern was visible before November 2002. In recent years, the Deputy Prime Minister and the Prime Minister of the NDA Government, the Chief Minister of West Bengal and even the President of India have expressed their grave concern and agony on the issue of illegal Bangladeshi migration, and its implications for internal security issues. There is no state religion in secular India, which is obliged to protect all religious equally, but the Bangladesh Republic has to preserve religious peace and harmony under the shadow of its state religion, viz. Islam. The adoption of Islam as the state religion has utterly demoralized Hindus, and has reinforced their already powerful compulsions about migration to India. Significantly, a state religion cannot extend the minimum of socio-economic protection even to Muslims, who, instead of being satisfied with living in Islamic Bangladesh, have long been voting with their feet, and continuously leaving for secular India, especially Assam and West Bengal. Whereas this is a constant tribute to India’s secularism, this is also a threat to India’s socio-economic-political security. Unfortunately, authorities in India have displayed little alertness in preempting or coping with this threat. For more than three decades (1971-2005) there ahs been a ceaseless and significant demographic change in the districts of West Bengal, particularly districts adjoining Bangladesh. Now both sides of the Indo-Bangladesh border region are inhabited by a population which is ethnically, culturally, linguistically and religiously identical. Already, thus, it has taken the shape of a demographic invasion.

• To sum up, callous local administration, limited scope for earning income in the incompetently managed economy of Bangladesh and religious vested interests may not always be meticulously working out anti-Indian designs, but from ground level data the impression is inescapable that they are so working. The most important fact to note is that the residual Hindu population in some border villages, still not insignificant, remains under a constant pressure to migrate from their traditional and ancestral places of habitation. Opinion makers and decision makers have not paid even the minimum of attention to available data on this significant subject. Such data, recorded and analyzed in the present study, deserve immediate attention from all those who are genuinely interested in national integration, internal security and social harmony in India.