tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30827389662309607982024-03-12T17:31:20.666-07:00Patriots' Forum … to Study demographic threat to India's secular identity and civilizational ethos.… to Study demographic threat to India's secular identity and civilizational ethos.Capt S B Tyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16645236617210813657noreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082738966230960798.post-70120096372343621092023-01-19T06:44:00.004-08:002023-01-19T06:44:26.580-08:00Jihad Control Conclave I इस्लामिक जिहाद क्या है I What is Islamic Jihad ...<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/MvOyR7ZSOmo" width="480"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div>ज्यू होलोकॉस्ट, जिसे शोआ के नाम से भी जाना जाता है, द्वितीय विश्व युद्ध के दौरान यूरोपीय यहूदियों का नरसंहार था। 1941 और 1945 के बीच, नाजी जर्मनी और उसके सहयोगियों ने जर्मन कब्जे वाले यूरोप में लगभग छह मिलियन यहूदियों की व्यवस्थित रूप से हत्या कर दी - यूरोप की यहूदी आबादी का लगभग दो-तिहाई। हत्याओं को पोग्रोम्स और सामूहिक गोलीबारी में अंजाम दिया गया; एकाग्रता शिविरों में श्रम के माध्यम से मूलाधार समाप्त करने की नीति द्वारा; और जर्मन तबाही शिविरों में गैस चैंबर्स और गैस वैन में।</div><div><br /></div><div>इतिहासकार के.एस. लाल के अनुसार महमूद गजनी के भारत पर वर्ष 1009 में आक्रमण और 1526 में पानीपत की पहली लड़ाई के बीच लगभग 80 मिलियन हिंदू लोगों को मुस्लिम आक्रमणकारियों ने मार डाला था। इंडोलॉजिस्ट कोइनराड एल्स्ट के अनुसार, अब्दाली के भारत पर आक्रमण तक लगभग 20 मिलियन हिंदू हताहतों को आसानी से जोड़ा जा सकता है। यह प्रवृत्ति बांग्लादेश के विभाजन और मुक्ति तक जारी रही। चित्तौड़ का किला हो या नोआखाली, सोमनाथ हो या हिंदू कुश पर्वत श्रृंखला, उपमहाद्वीप का इतिहास इतने लंबे और जघन्य नरसंहार का गवाह रहा है।</div><div><br /></div><div>इतनी बड़ी संख्या में हिंदू नरसंहार के कारण, अमेरिकी इतिहासकार विल ड्यूरेंट ने भारत पर मुस्लिम आक्रमण को मानव इतिहास का सबसे खूनी अध्याय कहा। पाकिस्तानी लेखक इरफ़ान हुसैन कहते हैं कि आक्रमणकारियों ने हिन्दुओं पर रत्ती भर भी दया नहीं दिखाई। वह लिखता है कि मुस्लिम आक्रमणकारियों के हाथ खून से इस कदर रंगे हैं कि इतिहास के इस कलंक को मिटाना संभव नहीं है। इसी प्रकार कश्मीर के इतिहास में सात पलायन दर्ज हैं।</div><div><br /></div><div>हमारा प्रयास इस्लाम के तेजी से विस्तार को उजागर करना और उसका विश्लेषण करना है और इसकी वास्तविक व्याख्या इस्लाम में ही निहित है, जिसमेँ खलीफा के रूप मेँ एक साथ आध्यात्मिक और लौकिक राजकीय शक्ति को जोडा गया है। इस्लाम के कुछ पहलुओं को उजागर करते हुए, बिना किसी पृष्ठ्भूमि के साधारण तौर पर कहा जा सकता है कि, 'यह "भूमि पर आधिपत्य" नहीं है - यह इस्लाम है।</div><div><br /></div><div>सभी को इस मजहब की हिंसा करने की व्याकुलता को समझने की आवश्यकता है जो एक धर्म के रूप में इस्लाम में स्पष्ट रूप से अंतर्निहित है।</div></div>Capt S B Tyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16645236617210813657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082738966230960798.post-44542363651709652412023-01-18T07:57:00.003-08:002023-01-18T07:57:14.461-08:00Indo-Cyprus Defense Agreement and Turkiye's Mischiefs<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/opzWbsL6WM8" width="480"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre-wrap;">On 29th December 2022, the Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar met his contemporary Foreign Minister of Cyprus Ioannis Kasoulides and signed three key <span class="ql-hashtag" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); overflow-wrap: normal; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">#agreements</span> on <span class="ql-hashtag" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); overflow-wrap: normal; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">#defence</span> and <span class="ql-hashtag" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); overflow-wrap: normal; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">#military</span> <span class="ql-hashtag" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); overflow-wrap: normal; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">#cooperation</span>, migration and International Solar Alliance. </p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre-wrap;">This has rattled Turkiye and China, why? </p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre-wrap;">What this deal is all about and how will it have wider <span class="ql-hashtag" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); overflow-wrap: normal; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">#geopolitical</span> consequences? </p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre-wrap;">I have covered wide range of issues during the discussion.</p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre-wrap;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="ql-hashtag" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); overflow-wrap: normal; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">#solar</span> <span class="ql-hashtag" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); overflow-wrap: normal; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">#military</span> </p></div>Capt S B Tyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16645236617210813657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082738966230960798.post-17702197190153489492023-01-17T18:59:00.000-08:002023-01-17T18:59:05.204-08:00Role of Türkiye and Indian Importance for World<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/8JPo-_5m7GM" width="480"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Views of Capt SB Tyagi on why Türkiye is unnecessarily venomous towards India and why India gains confidence of world community and became "Necessary" for any formula for peace in any part of the world? </span></div>Capt S B Tyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16645236617210813657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082738966230960798.post-37038475315362830352023-01-17T08:14:00.004-08:002023-01-17T08:14:58.415-08:00China - Russia Cooperation in the backdrop of Russia-Ukraine War<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/9pntzuTHbWE" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9pntzuTHbWE/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">My take of Russia - China Cooperation in the back drop of Russia - Ukraine war.</span></div>Capt S B Tyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16645236617210813657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082738966230960798.post-14501338638035683782022-01-29T07:31:00.002-08:002022-01-29T07:31:51.130-08:00 आज मेरे देश को सुभाष चाहिए!<p>देश बदल रहा है, परिस्थितियां बदल रही हैं और साथ ही जनमानस की आकांक्षाएं बदल रही हैँ!</p><p>विश्व शक्ति बनने को अग्रसर भारत की जनता की आकांछाऐं बढ़ती जा रही है, उसे भरतीय नेतृत्व की दृढ़-शक्ति और प्रतिबद्धता को और सशक्त देखने की आशा हो रही है.</p><p>आज प्रतीत होता है कि भारत को शायद एक और चिरंजीवी नेता जी सुभाष चंद्र बोस की आवश्यकता है.</p><p> पैट्रियोट्स फॉरम के सौजन्य से यूट्यूब लाइव पर चर्चा में आमंत्रित हैं आदरणीय कर्नल टी.पी.एस. त्यागी, वीर चक्र, जो लगभग 17 वर्ष पूर्व लिखित अपनी पुस्तक "आज मेरे देश को सुभाष चाहिये" पर चर्चा कर रहे हैं. हम साथ ही विश्लेषण करेंगे कि आज भारत की परिस्थितियां क्यों उसी प्रकार के चमत्कारिक नेतृत्व की प्रतीक्षा कर रही हैं जो नेता जी ने देश की स्वतंत्रता के समय प्रस्तुत किया था, और किस प्रकार से भारत विश्व की महा शक्तियों में, ऐसे ही नेतृत्व के कारण स्थान पा सकता?</p><p>यूट्यूव लाइव चर्चा देखने के लिए और प्रश्न करने और टिप्पणियां देने के लिए, कृपया लिंक पर क्लिक करें और आगामी चर्चाओं की अग्रिम सूचना के लिए हमारे चैनल को सब्सक्राइब करें-</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HjNVij9Hvjg" width="320" youtube-src-id="HjNVij9Hvjg"></iframe></div><br /><br /><p></p>Capt S B Tyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16645236617210813657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082738966230960798.post-65257381413764036652022-01-29T07:28:00.001-08:002022-01-29T07:28:23.127-08:00आज भारत को एक और सुभाष चाहिये<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/ecOkJNWYFkM" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ecOkJNWYFkM/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>आज भारत को एक और सुभाष चाहिये!</b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">देश बदल रहा है, परिस्थितियां बदल रही हैं और साथ ही जनमानस की आकांक्षाएं बदल रही हैँ!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">विश्व शक्ति बनने को अग्रसर भारत की जनता की आकांछाऐं बढ़ती जा रही है, उसे भरतीय नेतृत्व की दृढ़-शक्ति और प्रतिबद्धता को और सशक्त देखने की आशा हो रही है.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> आज प्रतीत होता है कि भारत को शायद एक और चिरंजीवी नेता जी सुभाष चंद्र बोस की आवश्यकता है.</div><div><br /></div><div> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecOkJNWYFkM</div></div>Capt S B Tyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16645236617210813657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082738966230960798.post-23158168650680789422014-09-20T09:06:00.002-07:002014-09-20T09:06:52.123-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">New
American Ambassador to India:</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> President
Barack Obama nominated former State Department official<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Richard Verma</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>as U.S. ambassador to India on
Thursday, just ahead of a visit to Washington by new Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, a White House statement said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Destroy" ISIS:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">
So said the US President at the Pentagon in a televised speech on the occasion
of the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the twin towers in New York. <u><span style="color: #0033cc;">(All Press, 12 Sept. 14)<o:p></o:p></span></u></span></div>
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Russia has angrily reacted to this, accusing the West for trying to wreck the
push for peace in the former Soviet Union. <u><span style="color: #0033cc;">(AFP,
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together at the Paris meet on September 15, pledged to boost US efforts to
cobble up a coalition to fight the ISIS menace. <u><span style="color: #0033cc;">(The
Hindustan Times, September 16, 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></u></span></div>
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Parliament ratified on September 16 an agreement to deepen economic and
political ties with the EU and granted autonomy to the rebellious east as part
of a peace deal. <u><span style="color: #0033cc;">(AP, The Indian Express, September 17, 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></u></span></div>
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border incursions, China (Beijing) said on Thursday that the issue has since
been sorted out by dialogue. <u><span style="color: #0033cc;">(The
Hindustan Times, September 19, 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></u></span></div>
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Relations: </span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">President Pranab Mukherjee on return from Vietnam stated that the political
relations between India and Vietnam have always been strong and ‘cloudless’. </span><a href="http://www.security-risks.com/security-issues-south-asia/china-in-south-asia/statement-to-the-media-by-president-on-return-from-vietnam-3501.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">http://www.security-risks.com/security-issues-south-asia/china-in-south-asia/statement-to-the-media-by-president-on-return-from-vietnam-3501.html</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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by the Israeli Counsellor at Bangalore on Thursday. <u><span style="color: #0033cc;">(The
Pioneer, September 19, 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></u></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">General Motors Global CEO, Chairman
meets Prime Minister, India:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> They announced the launching of 40 new
products in international market, including India. <u><span style="color: #0033cc;">(PTI, The Indian Express, September 12, 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></u></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">China To Invest US dollar 100 bn In
India Over 5 Years:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">
This is the amount the Chinese President visiting India will bring with him.
This is more than thrice the amount from Japan. <u><span style="color: #0033cc;">(The Times
of India, Sept. 13, 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></u></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Wholesale Inflation At 5-year Low,
Food Prices Dip</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">:
This is according to data released on September 15, 2014.
<u><span style="color: #0033cc;">(The Hindustan Times, September 16, 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></u></span></div>
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Ceremony : Exercise Yudh Abhyas 2014: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">The combined
Indo-US Military Training, Exercise YUDH ABHYAS 2014 commenced at Chaubattia,
Uttarakhand with an opening ceremony on 17 Sep 14. </span><a href="http://www.security-risks.com/security-trends-south-asia/india-defence/opening-ceremony-exercise-yudh-abhyas-2014-3498.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">http://www.security-risks.com/security-trends-south-asia/india-defence/opening-ceremony-exercise-yudh-abhyas-2014-3498.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">India Signs $ 100
million LOC for Defence Procurement with Vietnam: </span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">MoU on $ 100
million Line of Credit for Defence Procurement. Ms. Geeta Poojary, General
Manager, Exim Bank of India and Mr. Truong Chi Trung, Deputy Minister of
Finance signed the MoU which provides concessional line of credit for
procurement of defence equipment from India. Details of equipment to be
procured by Vietnam are under finalization. The LoC opens new opportunities in
our defence cooperation.. </span><a href="http://www.security-risks.com/security-trends-south-asia/india-defence/india-signs-100-million-loc-for-defence-procurement-with-vietnam-3484.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">http://www.security-risks.com/security-trends-south-asia/india-defence/india-signs-100-million-loc-for-defence-procurement-with-vietnam-3484.html</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Talks only if Maoists Shun Guns:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> This was stated by
the Union Home Minister on September 12, 2014, at a news conference. <u><span style="color: #0033cc;">(The
Times of India, September 13, 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></u></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Central forces to
absorb surrendered NE militants: </span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">In order to lure militants in
northeast to surrender and join mainstream (CCS) is likely to approve a
proposal of the Union Home Ministry. </span><a href="http://www.security-risks.com/security-trends-south-asia/india-north-east/central-forces-to-absorb-surrendered-ne-militants-3477.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">http://www.security-risks.com/security-trends-south-asia/india-north-east/central-forces-to-absorb-surrendered-ne-militants-3477.html</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Germany Prohibits Activities Aiding
ISIS:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">
This was announced on Friday, banning the recruitment for jihadist fighters,
the public display of ISIS symbols and signs and including social media
propaganda.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">(AFP,
The Asian Age, September 13, 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">ISIS Beheads British Aid Worker,
Parades Another:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">
This was on Sunday in a video release, as in the past. In a strongly-worded
response, the British Prime Minister vowed to "extinguish" ISIS by
taking "whatever steps necessary". <u><span style="color: #0033cc;">(All
Press, September 15, 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></u></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Branches of Al Qaeda Urge United Front
against West:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">
The call was given (September 16) by powerful Al Qaeda branches in Yemen and
North Africa. <u><span style="color: #0033cc;">(AFP, The
Asian Age, September 17, 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></u></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">US Strikes Jihadis near Baghdad for
First Time Now:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">
This was in support of the Iraqi forces.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">(AFP,
The Statesman, Sept.17, 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">New ISIS Video Warns US of
"flames of fire":</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> The slick 52-second video shows blowing up tanks and
images of wounded US soldiers. <u><span style="color: #0033cc;">(AP,
The Hindustan Times, September 17, 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></u></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">New Qaeda Wing Claims Hijacking Pak
Navy Ship:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">
This was meant to be used to fire rockets at US vessels in the Arabian Sea. <u><span style="color: #0033cc;">(The
Times of India, September 18, 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></u></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">ISIS Releases Video of another British
Hostage:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">
This was on September 18. The victim is a journalist John Cantle. <u><span style="color: #0033cc;">(The
Hindustan Times, September 19, 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></u></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Global Foot Print: ISIS eclipses Al Qaeda
as Biggest Threat:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">
This was because of Australia having been brought in to the picture by the ISIS's
plan for beheading near Sydney. Australia reacted by a mobilising a massive
anti-terror operation. <u><span style="color: #0033cc;">(All
Press, September 19, 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></u></span></div>
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Rescued Crosses 234000 in J&K: </span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">As the flood water has started
receding the apprehension for water-borne diseases is rising. </span><a href="http://www.security-risks.com/security-trends-south-asia/jammu-kashmir/number-of-people-rescued-crosses-234000-in-jk-3486.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">http://www.security-risks.com/security-trends-south-asia/jammu-kashmir/number-of-people-rescued-crosses-234000-in-jk-3486.html</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Battle for Hearts and Minds in Srinagar: </span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">There is
necessity for conveying the outstanding humanitarian work done by the Armed
Forces in the right context and medium to neutralize separatist propaganda and
disruptions. The heroic efforts of the Indian armed forces rescue and relief
operations named variously as Operation Megh Sahayata or Sahayata has been
recognized all across the country. </span><a href="http://www.security-risks.com/security-trends-south-asia/jammu-kashmir/indian-armys-battle-for-hearts-and-minds-in-srinagar-3489.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">http://www.security-risks.com/security-trends-south-asia/jammu-kashmir/indian-armys-battle-for-hearts-and-minds-in-srinagar-3489.html</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Tech-savvy Naidu Sets e-Cabinet Trend:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Andhra Pradesh,
under N Chandrababu Naidu, the Chief Minister, became the first State in India
to hold paper-less Cabinet meeting, setting a new trend in the country. The
Ministers were told to come to the meeting only with an iPad, no papers
whatsoever. <u><span style="color: #0033cc;">(The
Pioneer, 17 Sept14)<o:p></o:p></span></u></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Four-day Yoga Meet at Thyagaraj
Stadium, Delhi:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">
It started off on September 18. Over 2000 people participated. This Yogatsabha
is part of "Bharat Yatra" that had started last year at Munger,
Bihar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">(The
Hindustan Times, September 19, 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>JKLF chief Yasin Malik 'hijacks' rescue
boat in flood-hit Jammu and Kashmir: </b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Srinagar:</span></b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
Kashmiri separatist leaders have been left exposed once again – this time by
the floods in Jammu and Kashmir. As per reports, Yasin Malik was on Sept.13
seen disrupting relief and rescue operations in flood-hit J&K. Malik and
his aides reportedly tried to hamper the rescue and relief efforts being
carried out by the Indian Army. As per reports, the JKLF chief and his aides
hijacked a rescue boat in order to 'personally' distribute relief items.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]--><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">This book is about
tomorrow and that day after - an alert about mankind's future imperfect! By
2025, Muslims will comprise 30 per-cent of the world population. That could
destabilize many countries and regions. The Indian subcontinent is likely to be
one of the conflict zones. As envisioned by Pakistan's ideologue, Allama Iqbal,
the Islamists hope to restore the lost grandeur of Islam on the strength of
sharply raising numbers and the time-tested strategy of jihad. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pakistan's role in Islam's long march and identified the regions likely to be
worst affected. The ‘Long March of Islam’ is the culmination of a long and
painstaking research into the emerging Islamist threat and its likely impact on
the future of mankind with special reference to India. The book also contains
an incisive analysis of the future demographic developments across the globe
and the likely impact of the changing population profile of India on the growth
of religion-based fault line conflicts in the subcontinent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://bharatabharati.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/demographic-coup-of-islam-tool-of-asymmetric-war-r-k-ohri/" title="The demographic coup of Islam – R. K. Ohri">The demographic coup of Islam – R.
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and Francis Zavier’s analysis that the fertility of Muslims was about 10%
higher than that of Hindus before independence and is now 25 to 30% higher than
the Hindu rate. Hindus have lost considerable ground since 1947. Yet no Hindu
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Islamists are great strategists. Decades ago, while
Europe slept and India slumbered, their leaders decided on a powerful global
game changer, seeing in demography the key to power in a democracy, as
elections are won or lost on the basis of voter support to a particular party
or candidate. So, to achieve their ambition of world dominion, they decided on
a global campaign to overwhelm the world by sheer increase in Muslim
population. This is now emerging as a deadly weapon for capturing power in many
parts of the world. Christian Europe and Hindu-dominated India appear to be on
the hit list for takeover through fast population growth. After a limbo of
nearly four centuries, radical Islam is again in fast forward mode.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Islam is essentially conquest oriented, as can be
seen from the Quran, the Hadith and two authentic commentaries, the Sahi
Bukhari and the Sahi Muslim. Its ultimate goal is Dar ul Islam, to be done
first by inviting infidels to voluntarily accept the religion of the Prophet
(‘Dawa’), or else by recourse to jihad. This quest has now been resumed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Muslim strategists endeavour to humble non-Muslim
civilizations by waging asymmetric war – jihad – against them through non-State
actors promoted by Islamic States for launching terrorist attacks across the
world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Many bleeding heart liberals have been highly
critical of US action against jihadi terrorists without acknowledging the
repetitive targeting of US outposts and troops for years before the daring 9/11
attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In 1995, an American training facility was bombed in
Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) and five US soldiers killed. The same year, an attempt
was made in Sudan to assassinate the then Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who
was regarded by Islamists as a US stooge. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya
and Tanzania were bombed, killing 224 persons including 12 Americans. American
intelligence agencies said these attacks were organised by bin Laden’s Al
Qaeda, which was responsible for attacking USS Cole near Yemen, claiming the lives
of 17 US marines and soldiers. The attack on Twin Towers was the last straw
which prompted the then US President George Bush to declare war on Al Qaeda.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">9/11 was followed by a dastardly attack on the
Indian Parliament on 13 December 2001 by Jaish-e-Muhammad and Lashkar-e-Tayeba.
Since then, the western world and India have been subjected to thousands of
jihadi attacks, the most spectacular being the Mumbai Massacre of 26 November
2008. The last decade has seen, world over, possibly 18,300 jihadi attacks in
various countries. The cost in terms of human lives is nearly 60,000 innocents
killed and roughly another 90,000 injured worldwide.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Most attacks were by so-called non-State Actors. But
it is well-known that all non-State actors are fathered, nurtured and armed by
one or other Islamic country. Pakistan has played a stellar role in fostering
and strengthening Al Qaeda and Taliban, apart from siring Lashkar-e-Tayyeba and
Jaish-e-Mohammed. Another Islamic strategy (sanctioned by the Prophet, as
stated in Mishkat-ul-Masabih) is to exhort the faithful to have more children
for multiplying the global strength of Umma.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This was clinically analysed by late Oriana Fallaci
in her seminal The Force of Reason. She showed that the ultimate goal of
Islamists is to overwhelm and overrun all non-Muslim countries by sheer growth
in numbers and simultaneously undermine their governance by migration and
infiltration of surplus Muslim population into non-Muslim countries. This
demographic jihad of Islam has the potential to destroy democracy, root and
branch. Once democracy is put to sleep through a demographic coup, a
Shariah-ruled State can be established.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The campaign for increasing Muslim population, in
non-Muslim countries and Muslim societies, is being pushed forward with the
help of Ulema and Islamic scholars who issue regular diktats directing Muslims
not to accept the small family norm on the ground that Islam does not permit
use of contraceptives. Simultaneously, the growing population in Muslim
dominated countries is being pushed into non-Muslim countries for jobs, with a
long-term objective of establishing domination. This double whammy of
increasing Muslim population and promoting migration and infiltration into
non-Muslim countries has played havoc with the geopolitical scene in many
countries where Muslims are still in minority.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">To progress economically, a country needs adequate
and efficient human resources. It also needs an ample reservoir of youthful
manpower to defend its borders from predators and hostile groups; especially
countries like India, China, America, Russia and Australia which have extensive
land mass, large borders and over-stretched coastlines. The demographic
constituents of a society determine a nation’s societal mores, its religious
and social composition and socio-political attitudes, the mode of governance
and civilisational values.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Death by Demography<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rewind to 1974 when Algerian President Boumedienne
famously declared in his address to the UN General Assembly: “One day millions
of men will leave the southern hemisphere of this planet to burst upon the
northern one. But not as friends. Because they will burst in to conquer, and
they will conquer by populating it with their children. Victory will come to us
from the wombs of our women”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In The Force of Reason, Oriana Fallaci dubbed this
‘the Policy-of-the-Womb’ for breeding Muslims in abundance and then exporting
them to take possession of a territory or a country. She said a Resolution
passed in the same year during a session of the Islamic Conference at Lahore in
Pakistan spelt out a plan to turn into a tide the then modest flow of
immigrants to Europe and penetrate the continent through demographic
preponderance. She said that in every mosque of Europe, the Friday prayer is
accompanied by the Imam’s exhortation to Muslim women to bear at least five
children. And if the immigrant has two wives, they will have ten children and
so on…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fallaci chided European liberals as ‘intellectual
cicadas’ for promoting fundamentalist Islam across the continent. Long before
Geert Wilders took up cudgels against the rising crescendo of radical Islam
across Europe, Fallaci was the first intellectual to warn that Christians were
in the midst of “a cultural, political and existential war” with Islam. She
recalled an interview with Palestinian leader George Habash in Beirut in March
1972; he told her the Palestinian problem was more than a clash with Israel,
their enemy was the whole West, including Europe and America. “Our revolution
is a part of the world revolution”, he asserted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">He meant it was going to be the cultural war, the
demographic war, the religious war, waged by stealing a country from its
citizens. Without mincing words, George Habash disclosed the global agenda of
Islam: “To advance step by step. Milimeter by millimeter. Year after year.
Decade after decade. Determined, stubborn and patient. This is our strategy. A
strategy that we shall expand throughout the planet.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">So as early as the 1970s, the Muslim leadership
across the globe had formulated a grand plan of a demographic coup. Rapid
growth in Muslim population is now a worldwide phenomenon, especially in
non-Muslim countries like India, Nepal and Thailand. Akbar S. Ahmed, a
Pakistani diplomat turned scholar, boasts that due to a unique combination of
geo-political factors, Islam is in confrontation with all major religions:
Judaism in the Middle East, Christianity in the Balkans, Chechnya, Nigeria,
Sudan, and sporadically in The Philippines and Indonesia, Hinduism in south Asia,
and after the Taliban blew up the statues in Bamiyan, Buddhism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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billions of petro-dollars bankrolled by Saudi Arabia and other Muslim
countries, and strategically powered by Pakistan’s jihadi storm-troopers, is on
the move across Europe and India.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lebanon is a classic example of a society driven to
violent politico-religious civil war on account of large-scale demographic
changes due to fast decline in the fertility rate of Maronite Christians. In
1932, Maronite Christians comprised roughly 55% of Lebanon’s population;
Muslims were around 45%.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On this basis, Lebanon’s National Pact of 1943
stipulated that political power would be shared between Christians and Muslims
as per ratio of their population in the country. Consequently, the posts of top
ministers were apportioned between Christians and Muslims in a ratio of 6:5
(six posts to Christians, 5 to Muslims). It was further decided that the
President of Lebanon would be a Christian and the Prime Minister a Muslim.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">But within three decades, the tables were turned on
the Christians. Due to large-scale acceptance of the small family norm, their
share in the country’s population fell sharply and around 1970-72 Lebanon
became a Muslim majority country. The denouement came because the fertility of
Christians declined to four children per woman from the earlier average of six,
while Muslims maintained their fertility rate at six children per woman. The
decline could not be reversed despite the efforts of community leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The civilisational conflicts started rising sharply
even before the climactic demographic change. When Muslims became the majority
community and staked claim to rule over the country, a civil war broke out in
1975 between the two communities. Ultimately the jihadi militias aided by Syria
and neighbouring Muslim countries carried the day in a decade-long civil war.
The Christians were routed; a few lakh migrated to Europe and USA. Presently
the Christian population of Lebanon stands reduced to 25 percent or less and is
declining rapidly. The embers of the civil war continue to glow every now and
then leading to occasional outbreak of hostilities between the two communities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Belatedly, European and American strategic analysts
have woken up to the threat posed by the demographic surge of Islam. According
to a study by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Muslim
population across the world was estimated at 1.65 billion in 2008 (global
headcount 6.69 billion). Thus Muslims already constitute 24.31% of the world
population.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A survey by the Pew Research Centre in 2009,
however, placed the Muslim population at 1.57 billion and world population at
6.8 billion. The 2010 survey by Pew Research Forum shows Muslim population
growing worldwide at 1.5% per annum, while the population of non-Muslims is
growing barely at 0.7%.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Christian Europe is in serious panic because the
Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of Muslims in Europe is three times higher than that
of Christians. In 1900, Muslims constituted only 12% of the world population;
now they are touching 25 percent in just one hundred years. And in tandem with
the percentage increase in Muslim population, the incidence of jihad against
non-Muslims across the globe has increased.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://bharatabharati.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/demographic-coup-of-islam-tool-of-asymmetric-war-r-k-ohri/">http://bharatabharati.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/demographic-coup-of-islam-tool-of-asymmetric-war-r-k-ohri/</a></div>
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Capt S B Tyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16645236617210813657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082738966230960798.post-12249170307787619872013-08-17T09:18:00.000-07:002013-08-17T09:18:17.511-07:00Letter from MP to His Son<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">My dear son,</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">When you went abroad to study,
it was with a clear understanding that, once you finish your education you
would return to India. We took a family decision when your education ended;
that it made sense for you to stay in the US for a few years more, enjoy your
youth, money and then return and stand for elections as Member of Parliament
from the constituency our family has represented for so many decades.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">It has been five years since
you left, and, last week, when we spoke on Skype, you told me that you believed
that it was time to return. At first, I was delighted. Then, after the call was
over, the import of what you planned to do sank in. My impulse was to call you
back immediately, but I thought I’d put my thoughts down in an email so that
you have a better understanding of what I want to say and why I say it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">In a nutshell, I do not want
you to return to India. The India of today is not the India that you left. Much
has changed – and much of the change negatively affects families like ours.
There is a change in the balance of power in society. People do not understand
what people like me, member of parliament, do – and no longer acknowledge that
all of us, thanks to the great sacrifices we make for our constituency, do not
live like normal people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">Just the other day, a fellow
Member of Parliament was almost shamed in the context of what media is calling
a Rs 71 lakh ‘scam’. The media, who no longer seem to have respect for people
like us, are harassing him the whole day, treating him like a common cheat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">Even worse is the case of
Robert Vadra, Priyankaji’s husband. It seems DLF lent Robertji Rs 65 crore
without any security – and the media and social activists are making that out
to be a crime. What crime? Many friends in business have lent me hundreds of
crores without any security over the decades – and they haven’t even asked for
me to return it. Why would they? After all, as a friend, I’ve helped them on so
many instances that they’ve earned fortunes from our friendship. Now, media is
making it sound like it’s a crime for MPs and ministers to help friends. What a
terrible state of affairs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">Sharad Pawar’s nephew has been
forced to resign because of some allegations on a developmental work that he
was involved in. Media says that he helped contractors make extra money by
approving of rises in estimates after the contracts were awarded. What is wrong
with that? Your grandfather used to do the same with his friends, as did I.
Ministers like Raja, Kanimozhi and Kalmadi have been jailed because of trying
to help their friends. This is where our country is going to. No one has any
respect for our class any more, and the media and social activists are being
helped by the courts – they’re ganging up against us.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">Things are bad in India, son.
It is becoming difficult for people like us to carry on in the way we are used
to. We are treated like commoners, we are called cheats and thugs. We’re
reaching a stage when toll booth attendants expect us to pay – an FIR was filed
against an MP who, obviously got upset at the request and threatened the
attendant with a gun for his cheek.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">It is getting very petty. The
other day, Air-India staff at Guwahati charged three MPs for carrying excess
baggage. MPs not being allowed excess baggage on the national airline, and
lowly employees of Air-India not respecting them? This is the new India, the
India you want to come back to!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">That’s why I write this note to
you. Do not come back to India, and forget about plans on a career in politics.
Come to Geneva next week;</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will meet you there. I will
transfer money to your account so that you can invest in a house in New York.
As far as business is concerned, maybe you could buy a University nearby. After
all, your Uncle has six universities in India and they are quite profitable. I
will ask him to guide you when you begin <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">your venture.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">Will discuss in detail when we meet next week.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">With love from your father.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Capt S B Tyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16645236617210813657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082738966230960798.post-50141737452450780692013-08-17T09:04:00.005-07:002013-08-17T09:04:55.513-07:00Congress has never been hard on Pakistan....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><img alt="Congress has never been hard on Pakistan" height="276" src="http://www.niticentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/India_20130807.jpg" style="display: inline;" title="Congress has never been hard on Pakistan" width="670" /></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The butchering of five Indian soldiers in the Poonch Sector of Jammu & Kashmir by Pakistani raiders has shocked the nation. It has revived the memories of decapitation of two Indian soldiers at Mendher Sector earlier this year. What is sinister is that the latest raid is apparently a joint operation of Pakistani Army regulars and Jihadi outfits like Lashkar-e-Tayebba, Hizbul Mujahideen and Jaish-e-Mohammed.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">India as usual lodged protest with Pakistan, something it has been doing for long. India is no stranger to such raids by Pakistani forces and its proxies. It had to reckon with such sporadic cross-border enterprises throughout the Nehruvian era. Nehru, in his additional capacity of Minister of External Affairs, was often drawn into the issue inside Parliament. In those days, the Minister of External Affairs, or his deputy, rather than the Defence Minister replied Parliament questions on this subject. A survey of Rajya Sabha Q&A from 1950s and early 1960s brings out the callous approach of the Nehruvian establishment toward cross-border raid.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3333ff;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"></span></b></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Here are some snippets-</b></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><b><u>Raids in Malda, West Bengal (1957):</u></b> On August 12, 1957 Nawab Singh Chauhan raised the issue of Pakistan’s raids in Malda district of West Bengal on May 20-21, 1957. Prior to 1971, Pakistan encompassed both western and eastern (now Bangladesh) flanks. Nehru coolly informed that on May 20, 1957 five Pakistani nationals, aided by 11 armed Pakistani policemen had trespassed into Indian territory in Mouza Ghurnimadia, JL No142, Police Station English Bazar, district Malda and lifted 48 heads of cattle to Pakistan, after threatening the cowherds. On <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2014546043" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">May 21</span></span>, about 35 armed Pakistani nationals trespassed into Indian territory and attempted to kidnap an Indian national who was ploughing a land in Mouza Fatehpur, Police Station Kaliachak, district Malda. Faling in their attempt, they took away a pair of bullocks. The Government of West Bengal had then lodged a protest with East Pakistan and urged them to return the cattle to their owners and to punish the offender. The Government of India apparently did not bother even to protest!</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><b><u>Raids in Ganganagar, Rajasthan (1961):</u></b> On November 27, 1961, JC Chatterji raised the issue of armed raid by Pakistanis on Dandera village, District Ganganagar, Rajasthan. Lakshmi Menon, Deputy External Affairs Minister, informed that on September 2, 1961 some eight raiders from Pakistan drove away eight camels and also looted about four tolas of gold and 230 tolas of silver from silver from inhabitants of two villages. The West Pakistan Rangers reported they had recovered the stolen goods. But the meeting scheduled for November 8, 1961 for restoration of said property could not be held. Nehru was not willing to read much. Such incidents, to Nehru, were merely criminal activities best kept out of bilateral relationship.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.niticentral.com/2013/08/06/live-lok-sabha-adjourned-on-telangana-issue-114478.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">5 Jawans killed at LoC</a>:</b> </span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Raid in Bikaner, Rajasthan (1955): On March 1, 1955 SN Dwivedy raised the issue on a gang from Pakistan entering Baggu near Bikaner and killing three Indian police constables on January 4, 1955. Anil K Chanda, Deputy External Affairs Minister, said a protest had been lodged with Pakistan. In a diplomatic lingo, the Minister said, “In addition to the protest lodged with the Government of Pakistan in regard to the incident, it has been suggested to the Government that the question of adopting some effective machinery for prompt disposal of complaints relating to such incidents as well as the establishment of peaceful and friendly regime on the border in co-operation between the police and other authorities should be discussed between the representatives of two countries! It was a near perfect example of Nehruvian gibberish by his deputy.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><b><u>Raids in J&K (1954):</u></b> On September 22, 1954 , Anil K Chanda informed the House that there were 76 border raids by Pakistan in the J&K border in 1953. There were 71 raids and five violations of the ceasefire line. During the period January to July, 1954, there were 50 border raids, 46 raids and four violations of the ceasefire line. The Deputy Minister said such incidents could not be eliminated altogether.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.niticentral.com/2013/08/06/army-patrol-party-attacked-along-loc-five-jawans-killed-114458.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Pakistan troops fire on Army post in Poonch Sector, 5 jawans killed</a>:</b> </span></span></span><span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Raids in Cooch Behar, West Bengal (1961): On April 20, 1961, Niranjan Singh raised the issue Pakistani raid in a village of Cooch Behar district in West Bengal. Deputy External Affairs Minister, Lakshmi Menon replied some Pakistani nationals armed with deadly weapons raided the house of certain Mahesh Chandra Barman in the border village of Himkumari on the night of March 14-15, 1961 and killed him. The information with the Government was that they were invited to commit the crime by some Indian nationals who had a land dispute with the victim. The Deputy Minister felt it was purely a case of murder with no political implication.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><b><u>East Pakistan Rifles firing in Khasi and Jaintia Hills, Assam (1963):</u></b> On December 21, 1963, Nehru gave a statement on East Pakistan Rifles firing incident in Lobhacherra sector in United Khasi and Jaintia Hills in Assam. The firing had lasted from <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2014546044" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">December 9 to December 19</span></span> when a ceasefire took place. The East Pakistan Rifles had entrenched themselves on a thickly forested tilla 200 to 300 yards within Indian territory. Indian security forces also returned fire. Though there was no casualty on Indian side, two soldiers went missing only to return later. The Assam Government strongly protested the incident.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Nehru never talked of befitting response or strong reply to such acts of Pakistani raid. Most of these raids were directed upon civilians. Obviously, the State was failing in its duty to protect its citizens against external incursions. But Nehru could not care less. He institutionalised the tepid response towards these aggressions. The legacy refuses to leave his party, leading partner in ruling coalition today. No wonder India would merely protest against killing of five Army soldiers. Pakistan meanwhile will plot about the next ‘action’</span></span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.niticentral.com/2013/08/07/congress-has-never-been-hard-on-pakistan-115045.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.niticentral.com/<wbr></wbr>2013/08/07/congress-has-never-<wbr></wbr>been-hard-on-pakistan-115045.</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Three Indians were decorated with the Bharat Ratna in the very first year — 1954 — that the civilian awards were instituted: the elder statesman, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, the vice- president, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and the Nobel laureate, C.V. Raman. No one said at the time that all three were south Indian, all three Brahmins. Their pre-eminence was manifest. They accepted the decoration with respect and went about their work according to their lights.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All three had a Calcutta connection. CR had served as the first governor of West Bengal, the other two had taught, with distinction and dedication, at the University of Calcutta. <i>Om krato smara kritam smara, </i>the Isha Upanishad tells us. The work alone is to be remembered, the work alone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is instructive to see, on the anniversary of our Independence, what these men had to say in the midst of and, indeed, from the very heart of their work, about their country, their people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CR was a prisoner of the <i>raj</i> in 1921. Holed up in Vellore Jail, he could have been bitter about his jailors, about the imperial power. He could have looked forward to <i>swaraj</i> as one might to a dreamlike goal. But no, he did something that surprised his contemporaries then and surprises us now. He wrote in his jail diary: “We all ought to know that Swaraj will not at once or, I think, even for a long time to come, be better government or greater happiness for the people. Elections and their corruptions, injustice, and the power and tyranny of wealth, and inefficiency of administration, will make a hell of life as soon as freedom is given to us. Men will look regretfully back to the old regime of comparative justice, and efficient, peaceful, more or less honest administration. The only thing gained will be that as a race we will be saved from dishonour and subordination.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was a full quarter century before <i>swaraj</i>was attained.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Radhakrishnan was a member of the constituent assembly on the <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2014546035" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">midnight of August 14/15</span></span>, 1947 when, with Jawaharlal Nehru, he made a speech of surpassing value. Reminding the nation of “our national faults of character, our domestic despotism, obscurantism, narrow-mindedness, superstitious bigotry”, he said almost exactly what CR had said 25 years earlier. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Radhakrishnan’s words: “Our opportunities are great but let me warn you that when power strips ability, we will fall on evil days… From <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2014546036" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">tomorrow</span></span> morning — from midnight today — we can no longer throw the blame on the British. We have to assume the responsibility ourselves for what we do. A free India will be judged by the way in which it will serve the interests of the common man in the matter of food, clothing, shelter and the social services. Unless we destroy corruption in high places, root out every trace of nepotism, love of power, profiteering and black-marketing which have spoiled the good name of this great country in recent times, we will not be able to raise the standards of efficiency in administration…”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That was said at the very moment free India was born.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do not have access to any comment made by C.V. Raman on the eve of Independence but the following observation of CVR’s to young Indians is an agnatic cousin of CR’s and SR’s: “Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you and there is nothing worth in this world that can come without the sweat of our brow. I can assert without fear of contradiction that the quality of the Indian mind is equal to the quality of any Teutonic, Nordic or Anglo-Saxon mind. What we lack is perhaps courage, what we lack is perhaps driving force which takes one anywhere. We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit…”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today, those three Bharat Ratnas would have been saddened to see their apprehensions and prognoses coming true. Generalizations are wrong but who can deny that efficiency of administration is not India’s best introduction ? Who can deny that our elections have brought us a great stature in the world but have also brought corruption? And where is the doubt that the power and tyranny of wealth — CR’s startling phrase — rules the land?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Power, political and monetary power, outstrips ability by a long measure. And corruption in high places — Radhakrishnan’s astonishingly prescient expression — has disfigured the image of our public life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As for the sweat of the brow, Raman’s ideal, that has long since ceased to be valued, especially in oneself. The concept of hard work, of service, of what used to be called pride in one’s work, is now an archaism. Except in our gifted artisans who survive miraculously, in our armed forces, in the body of farm labourers across the country and in a few remarkable professions like those of nurses and teachers, ‘work ethic’ is a national casualty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We seek to derive the maximum advantage from the minimum effort. There is a mentality, widespread if not omnipresent, which sees the plodder as a fool, the successful shirker as clever. It only follows that the man or woman who is honest with money is regarded as naïve, to be pitied and the crook who gets caught making illegal money as unlucky. It is the honest politician, by which I mean one who does not encash files, sell favours, turn opportunities of service into ATMs, and there still are many of those, who keeps us in hope. It is, likewise, the exceptional official, doing the work of a hundred, who keeps the administrative machine from collapsing. Thank god there are some such exceptional men and women, still, amidst us. But by and large, the surface density of work-shirking, responsibility-dodging, blame-shifting, back-biting, tale-carrying and, alas, palm-itchy laggards has swelled beyond belief. What we are, the State is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This trait takes many forms but nowhere more seriously than in politics. Ironically and paradoxically, the denominationally intolerant are being projected as administratively able. Those with a questionable secular integrity are said to be men of unquestionable financial integrity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first three Bharat Ratnas foresaw more than ordinary mortals can. But even they could not foresee the self-contradictory piquancy of our predicament today. The liberal Indian, the Indian with a secular conscience, an innately democratic instinct, a value for civil rights, is shown up as effete , a political pansy, whereas the macho rattler of sabres, is offered to the nation as its saviour. A country with its work ethic weakened, its abilities outstripped by narrow self-interests, and its domination by the power and tyranny of wealth well-nigh complete, is easily persuaded to say ‘give us a benign dictator’. Fascism comforts the sloth of mind, the slow of thought, the valuationally sluggish. Fascism excites the timid, the languid and the bored.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">At a time when scams are becoming common, the
exemplary honesty and integrity of a retired Indian Air Force corporal is hard
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Charles Williams, 89, a World War II veteran
from Mysore and who’s in poor health, wants to return the excess money credited
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Mr. Williams joined the Royal Air Force in
pre-Independent India. After being recruited, he was sent to Lahore for a
six-week pre-induction training after which he was posted at Agra. Within days,
Mr. Williams was sent to Burma where he saw action against the Japanese.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Though in the RAF, our unit saw a lot of
ground battle and we dug in and stayed put in the trenches. We were holed up
for weeks without regular supply of food and water. The battle that raged was
horrific with soldiers getting maimed and killed in the heavy exchange of fire.
But ultimately we prevailed,” recalled Mr. Williams.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">After retirement, he found certain anomaly in
his pension and complained that he was being underpaid. “A visit to the local
Sainik Welfare and Resettlement Board did not help me much as officials are
apathetic to the grievances of ex-servicemen,” according to Mr. Williams, who
then approached M.N. Subramani, president, VeKare Ex-Servicemen Trust in
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">But calculations showed that the Centralised
Pension Processing Centre of State Bank of Mysore, Mangalore, had credited Mr.
Williams’ account with excess money.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Mr. Subramani said he was being credited with
Rs. 300 towards fixed medical allowances to which he was not entitled. He was credited
with Rs. 15,200 in excess with effect from July 2007.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“When this was brought to the notice of Mr.
Williams, he asked me to inform the bank to recover the amount in 15 equal
instalments so as not to put him in financial hardship,” said Mr. Subramani.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What is ironic is that Mr. Williams is
returning the medical allowance when he needs it the most. He is visually
impaired and desperately needs Rs. 1.5 lakh for a heart operation. “When I am
not entitled for something, the national exchequer should not be made to bear
the burden,” said Mr. Williams, whose only request was that the excess amount
be deducted in instalments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div>Capt S B Tyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16645236617210813657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082738966230960798.post-5506354059832218722011-07-11T22:15:00.000-07:002013-08-17T08:13:58.851-07:00कांग्रेस का असली चेहरा<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>जरा इनके बयानों का विरोधाभास देखिये....</b><br />
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हजारों सिखों का कत्लेआम – एक गलती<br />
कश्मीर में हिन्दुओं का नरसंहार – एक राजनैतिक समस्या ?<br />
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गुजरात में कुछ हजार लोगों द्वारा मुसलमानों की हत्या – एक विध्वंस<br />
बंगाल में गरीब प्रदर्शनकारियों पर गोलीबारी – गलतफ़हमी ?<br />
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गुजरात में “परजानिया” पर प्रतिबन्ध – साम्प्रदायिक<br />
“दा विंची कोड” और “जो बोले सो निहाल” पर प्रतिबन्ध – धर्मनिरपेक्षता ?<br />
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कारगिल हमला – भाजपा सरकार की भूल<br />
चीन का 1962 का हमला – नेहरू को एक धोखा ?<br />
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जातिगत आधार पर स्कूल-कालेजों में आरक्षण – सेक्यूलर<br />
अल्पसंख्यक संस्थाओं में भी आरक्षण की भाजपा की मांग – साम्प्रदायिक ?<br />
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सोहराबुद्दीन की फ़र्जी मुठभेड़ – भाजपा का सांप्रदायिक चेहरा ,<br />
ख्वाजा यूनुस का महाराष्ट्र में फ़र्जी मुठभेड़ – पुलिसिया अत्याचार ?<br />
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गोधरा के बाद के गुजरात दंगे - मोदी का शर्मनाक कांड ,<br />
मेरठ, मलियाना, मुम्बई, मालेगाँव आदि-आदि-आदि दंगे - एक प्रशासनिक विफ़लता ?<br />
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हिन्दुओं और हिन्दुत्व के बारे बातें करना – सांप्रदायिक ,<br />
इस्लाम और मुसलमानों के बारे में बातें करना – सेक्यूलर ?<br />
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संसद पर हमला – भाजपा सरकार की कमजोरी<br />
अफ़जल गुरु को सुप्रीम कोर्ट के आदेश के बावजूद फ़ाँसी न देना – मानवीयता ?<br />
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भाजपा के इस्लाम के बारे में सवाल – सांप्रदायिकता,<br />
कांग्रेस के “राम” के बारे में सवाल – नौकरशाही की गलती ?<br />
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यदि कांग्रेस लोकसभा चुनाव जीती – सोनिया को जनता ने स्वीकारा ,<br />
मोदी गुजरात में चुनाव जीते – फ़ासिस्टों की जीत ?<br />
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सोनिया मोदी को कहती हैं “मौत का सौदागर” – सेक्यूलरिज्म को बढ़ावा,<br />
जब मोदी अफ़जल गुरु के बारे में बोले – मुस्लिम विरोधी ?</div>
Capt S B Tyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16645236617210813657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082738966230960798.post-8672756526354671762011-02-02T03:19:00.000-08:002013-08-17T08:25:53.319-07:00हमारे भ्रष्ट राजनेताओं और नोकरशाहों ने कैसे देश को लूटा?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">“<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">भारतीय</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">गरीब</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">है</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">लेकिन</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">भारत</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">देश</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">कभी</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">गरीब</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">नहीं</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">रहा</span>", <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">ये</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">कहना</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">है</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">स्विस</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">बैंक</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">के</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">डाइरेक्टर</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">का</span>. <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">स्विस</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">बैंक</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">के</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">डाइरेक्टर</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">ने</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">यह</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">भी</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">कहा</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">है</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">कि</span>, “<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">भारत</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">का</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">लगभग</span> 280 <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">लाख</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">करोड़</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">रुपये</span> (280 ,00 ,000 ,000
,000) <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">उनके</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">स्विस</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">बैंक</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">में</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">जमा</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">है</span>.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">ये</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">रकम</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">इतनी</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">है</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">कि</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">भारत</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">का</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">आने</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">वाले</span> 30 <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">सालों</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">का</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">बजट</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">बिना</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">टैक्स</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">के</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">बनाया</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">जा</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">सकता</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">है</span>. <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">या</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">यूँ</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">कहें</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">कि</span>
60 <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">करोड़</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">रोजगार</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">के</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">अवसर</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">दिए</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">जा</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">सकते</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">है</span>. <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">या</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">यूँ</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">भी</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">कह</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">सकते</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">हैकि</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">भारत</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">के</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">किसी</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">भी</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">गाँव</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">से</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">दिल्ली</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">तक</span> 4 <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">लेन</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">रोड</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">बनाया</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">जा</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">सकता</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">है</span>. <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">ऐसा</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">भी</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">कह</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">सकते</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">है</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">कि</span> 500 <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">से</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">ज्यादा</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">सामाजिक</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">प्रोजेक्ट</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">पूर्ण</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">किये</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">जा</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">सकते</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">है</span>. <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">ये</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">रकम</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">इतनी</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">ज्यादा</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">है</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">कि</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">अगर</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">हर</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">भारतीय</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">को</span>
2000 <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">रुपये</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">हर</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">महीने</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">भी</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">दिए</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">जाये</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">तो</span> 60 <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">साल</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">तक</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">ख़त्म</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">ना</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">हो</span>. <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">यानी</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">भारत</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">को</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">किसी</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">वर्ल्ड</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">बैंक</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">से</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">लोन</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">लेने</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">कि</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">कोई</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">जरुरतनहीं</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">है</span>. <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">जरा</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">सोचिये</span>...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">लूटा</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">है</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">और</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">ये</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">लूट</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">का</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">सिलसिला</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">अभी</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">तक</span> 2010 <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">तक</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">जारी</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">है</span>. <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">इस</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">सिलसिले</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">को</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">अब</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">रोकना</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">बहुत</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">ज्यादा</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">जरूरी</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">हो</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">गया</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">है</span>. <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">अंग्रेजो</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">ने</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">हमारे</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">भारत</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">पर</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">करीब</span> 200 <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">सालो</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">तक</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">राज</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">करके</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">करीब</span> 1 <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">लाख</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">करोड</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">रुपये</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">लूटे</span>. <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">मगर</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">आजादी</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">के</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">केवल</span> 64 <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">सालों</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">में</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">हमारे</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">भ्रस्टाचार</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">ने</span> 280 <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">लाख</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">करोड़</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">लूटा</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">है</span>. <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">एक</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">तरफ</span>
200 <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">साल</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">में</span> 1 <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">लाख</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">करोड़</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">है</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">और</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">दूसरी</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">तरफ</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">केवल</span> 64<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">सालों</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">में</span> 280 <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">लाख</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">करोड़</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">है</span>. <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">यानि</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">हर</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">साल</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">लगभग</span> 4.37 <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">लाख</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">करोड़</span>, <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">या</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">हर</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">महीनेकरीब</span> 36 <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">हजार</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">करोड़</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">भारतीय</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">मुद्रा</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">स्विस</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">बैंक</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">में</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">इन</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">भ्रष्ट</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">लोगों</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">द्वारा</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">जमाकरवाई</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">गई</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">है</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">को</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">किसी</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">वर्ल्ड</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">बैंक</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">के</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">लोन</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">की</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">कोई</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">दरकार</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">नहीं</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">है</span>. <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">सोचो</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">कि</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">कितना</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">पैसा</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">हमारे</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">भ्रष्ट</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">राजनेताओं</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">और</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">उच्च</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">अधिकारीयों</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">ने</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">ब्लाक</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">करके</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">रखा</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">हुआ</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">है</span>. <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">हमे</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">भ्रस्ट</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">राजनेताओं</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">और</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">भ्रष्ट</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">अधिकारीयों</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">के</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">खिलाफ</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">जाने</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">का</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">पूर्ण</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">अधिकारहै</span>. <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">हाल</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">ही</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">में</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">हुवे</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">घोटालों</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">का</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">आप</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">सभी</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">को</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">पता</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">ही</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">है</span> - CWG <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">घोटाला</span>, <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">२</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">जी</span>-<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">स्पेक्ट्रुम</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">घोटाला</span> , <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">आदर्श</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">होउसिंग</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">घोटाला</span> ... <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">और</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">ना</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">जाने</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">कौन</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">कौन</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">से</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">घोटाले</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">अभी</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">उजागर</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">होने</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">वाले</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">है</span> ........<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">लोग</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">जोक्स</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">फॉरवर्ड</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">करते</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">ही</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">हो</span>.
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">इसे</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">भी</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">इतनाफॉरवर्ड</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">करो</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">की</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">पूरा</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">भारत</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">इसे</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">पढ़े</span>
... <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">और</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">एक</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">आन्दोलन</span>
<span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">बन</span> <span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">जाये</span> ...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</b><b><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">ठन्डी</span>
</b><b><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">बुझी</span>
</b><b><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">राख</span>
</b><b><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">सुगबुगा</span>
</b><b><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">उठी</span>,<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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</b><b><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">इठलाती</span> </b><b><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">है।</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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</b><b><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">के</span>
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</b><b><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">का</span>
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</b><b><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">नाद</span>
</b><b><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">सुनो</span>,<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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</b><b><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">करो</span>
</b><b><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">की</span>
</b><b><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">जनता</span>
</b><b><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">आती</span>
</b><b><span style="font-family: "Mangal","serif";">है।<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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Capt S B Tyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16645236617210813657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082738966230960798.post-15018768423332572302011-02-02T03:03:00.000-08:002011-02-02T03:08:04.339-08:00Who owns the media in India ?<div align="justify"><font face="arial">Let us see the ownership of different media agencies.</font></div><div align="justify"><font face="Arial"></font> </div><div align="justify"><font face="arial"><strong>NDTV:</strong> A very popular TV news media is funded by Gospels of Charity in Spain Supports Communism. Recently it has developed a soft corner towards Pakistan because Pakistan President has allowed only this channel to be aired in Pakistan . Indian CEO Prannoy Roy is co-brother of Prakash Karat, General Secretary of the Communist party of India . His wife and Brinda Karat are sisters.IndiaToday:Which used to be the only national weekly which supported BJP is now bought by NDTV!! Since then the tone has changed drastically and turned into Hindu bashing.CNN-IBN:This is 100 percent funded by Southern Baptist Church with its branches in all over the world with HQ in US.. The Church annually allocates $800 million for promotion of its channel. Its Indian head is Rajdeep Sardesai and his wife Sagarika Ghosh.Times group list:Times Of India, Mid-Day, Nav-Bharth Times, Stardust, Femina, Vijay Times, Vijaya Karnataka, Times now (24- hour news channel) and many more...</font></div><font face="arial"><div align="justify"><br /><strong>Times Group</strong> is owned by Bennet & Coleman. 'World Christian Council' does 80 percent of the Funding, and an Englishman and an Italian equally share balance 20 percent. The Italian Robertio Mindo is a close relative of Sonia Gandhi.</div><div align="justify"><br /><strong>Star TV:</strong> It is run by an Australian, who is supported by St. Peters Pontifical Church Melbourne.<br />HindustanTimes:Owned by Birla Group, but hands have changed since Shobana Bhartiya took over. Presently it is working in Collaboration with Times Group.</div><div align="justify"><br /><strong>The Hindu:</strong> English daily, started over 125 years has been recently taken over by Joshua Society, Berne , Switzerland .. N. Ram's wife is a Swiss national.</div><div align="justify"><br /><strong>Indian Express:</strong> Divided into two groups. The Indian Express and new Indian Express (southern edition) ACTS Christian Ministries have major stake in the Indian Express and latter is still with the Indian counterpart.</div><div align="justify"><br /><strong>Eeenadu:</strong> Still to date controlled by an Indian named Ramoji Rao. Ramoji Rao is connected with film industry and owns a huge studio in Andhra Pradesh.</div><div align="justify"><br /><strong>Andhra Jyothi:</strong> The Muslim party of Hyderabad known as MIM along with a Congress Minister has purchased this Telugu daily very recently.</div><div align="justify"><br /><strong>The Statesman</strong>: It is controlled by Communist Party of India.</div><div align="justify"><br /><strong>Kairali TV:I</strong> t is controlled by Communist party of India (Marxist)</div><div align="justify"><br /><strong>Mathrubhoomi</strong>: Leaders of Muslim League and Communist leaders have major investment.<br />Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle:Is owned by a Saudi Arabian Company with its chief Editor M.J. Akbar.</div><div align="justify"><br />Gujarat riots which took place in 2002 where Hindus were burnt alive, Rajdeep Sardesai and Bharkha Dutt working for NDTV at that time got around 5 Million Dollars from Saudi Arabia to cover only Muslim victims, which they did very faithfully...</div><div align="justify"><br />Not a single Hindu family was interviewed or shown on TV whose near and dear ones had been burnt alive in Godra.<br /></div><div align="justify">It is reported Tarun Tejpal of </font><a title="http://prolinks.rediffmailpro.com/cgi-bin/prored.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fprolinks%2Erediff%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fprored%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ftehelka%2Ecom%2F%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0%26amp%3Brediffng%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0&rediffng=0 http://tehelka.com/" href="http://prolinks.rediffmailpro.com/cgi-bin/prored.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fprolinks%2Erediff%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fprored%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ftehelka%2Ecom%2F%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0%26amp%3Brediffng%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0&rediffng=0" target="_blank"><font face="arial">Tehelka.com</font></a> <font face="arial">regularly gets blank cheques from Arab countries to target BJP and Hindus only, it is said.</font></div><div align="justify"><font face="arial"><br />The ownership explains the control of media in India by foreigners. The result is obvious.<br /> </font></div><div align="justify"><font face="arial">PONDER OVER THIS. NOW YOU KNOW WHY EVERY ONE IS AGAINST TRUTH, HOW VERY SAD.</font></div>Capt S B Tyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16645236617210813657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082738966230960798.post-2148778384367997452010-12-15T21:26:00.000-08:002010-12-15T21:32:54.405-08:00Bitter Truth !!!!! If you cross the border......<span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>Bitter Truth !!!!!!!</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000000;">If you cross the " The North Korean " border illegally, you get ..... 12 years hard labour in an isolated prison ..... </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000000;">If you cross the " Iranian " border illegally, you get ..... detained indefinitely ..... </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000000;">If you cross the " Afghan " border illegally, you get ..... shot ..... </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000000;">If you cross the " Saudi Arabian " border illegally, you get ..... jailed ..... I</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000000;">f you cross the " Chinese " border illegally, you get ..... kidnapped and may be never heard of - again ..... </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000000;">If you cross the " Venezuelan " border illegally, you get ..... branded as a spy and your fate sealed ..... </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000000;">If you cross the " Cuban " border illegally, you get ..... thrown into a political prison to rot ..... </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000000;">If you cross the " British " border illegally, you get ..... arrested, prosecuted, sent to prison and be deported after serving your sentence ..... </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000000;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000000;">Now ..... if you were to cross the " Indian " border illegally, you get ..... </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000066;">1. A ration card</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000066;">2. A passport ( even more than one - if you please ! ) </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000066;">3. A driver's licence </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000066;">4. A voter identity card </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000066;">5. Credit cards 6. A Haj subsidy </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000066;">7. Job reservation </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000066;">8. Special privileges for minorities </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000066;">9. Government housing on subsidized rent </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000066;">10. Loan to buy a house </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000066;">11. Free education </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000066;">12. Free health care </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000066;">13. A lobbyist in New Delhi , with a bunch of media morons and a bigger bunch of human rights activists promoting your " cause " </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000066;">14. The right to talk about secularism, which you have not heard about in your own country ! </span><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#000066;">15. And of-course ..... voting rights to elect corrupt politicians who will promote your community for their selfish interest in securing your votes !!!<br /> 16. And right to fight election for MLA or MP</span><br /> <br /><span style="color:#660000;">Hats off ..... to the ..... </span></span></div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#660000;">A. Corrupt and communal Indian politicians</span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#660000;">B. The inefficient and corrupt Indian police force </span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#660000;">C. The silly pseudo-secularists in India , who promote traitors staying here </span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#660000;">D. The amazingly lenient Indian courts and legal system.</span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#660000;">That's why people like Afzal Guru are still alive, same will happen with Kasab.</span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#660000;">E. WE self centered Indian citizens, who are not bothered about the dangers to our own country.</span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#660000;">F. The illogically brainless human-rights activists, who think that terrorists deserve to be dealt with by archaic laws meant for an era, when human beings were human beings</span></span></div>Capt S B Tyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16645236617210813657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082738966230960798.post-30987028328552191112010-06-17T08:03:00.000-07:002010-06-17T08:27:45.360-07:00CASTE-BASED CENSUS - A CONSPIRACY TO DESTROY HINDU SOCIETY<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;">About six crore of devotees from more than 140 countries speaking 56 languages visited Haridwar and took a dip in the holy Ganga during the period of the Kumbha Mela which concluded recently. They have all one and only identity - they are Hindus - children of Mother Bharat and those who adore this Holy Land as the land of their forefathers, the land of their hoary spiritual culture and heritage, the land of their salvation. When this ocean of humanity immersed itself into the surging waves of River Ganga, rubbing shoulders to each other, none of them did ask the question what was the caste of the one standing next to him or her in the cool waters of Mother Ganga, the Ganga maiya for all of them. When millions congregated in the dining halls spread out on the river bank by hundreds of religious and spiritual organizations to provide food for the pilgrims from far and wide, none in the gathering asked the question who was sitting next to him and partaking the food so lovingly served by their own Hindu brethren.<br /><br />A few months earlier, there was a congregation of three million mothers lighting ovens in front of the Attukal Bhagavati temple near Tiruvanandapuram, to offer ‘Pongala’ - sweet rice pudding prepared with milk and jaggery - to the Divine Mother. All the roads surrounding the temple town were blocked to enable the mothers to set up their ovens to prepare the Prasad for the Mother of all. The Guinness Book of Records called it the greatest congregation of women in the world. The mothers who stood in line to prepare the food for the Mother did not care to know to which caste the women standing next to them belonged. For all of them, She was the Only Mother and all were Her children.<br /><br />Millions throng from all parts of the country and abroad to the renowned temples in India, whether Rameshwaram, Tirupati, or Kollur in the South or Kashi, Kedarnath, Badrinath or Vaishnodevi in the North. In last March, about 1 lakh devotees had Darshan of Tirupati Balaji on a single day. The pilgrims stand in long cues for hours together to have Darshan of their beloved Deity or to share the Prasad in the temple dining halls. None bothers about the caste of others standing or sitting by their side. In the schools, colleges, universities, market places, theatres and cinema halls, in the hotels and restaurants, in trains and buses, millions of people sit side by side, but no one has ever asked the caste of another sitting by his side. In crowded cities and towns, in flats and residential colonies, people of all castes and creeds live together. Then where is caste?<br /><br />Caste has never existed in the remote past nor does it exist today. The Vedas nowhere speak about caste system. Manu emphatically declares, <em>"Janmanaa jaayate shoodrah, samskaarena dwijah" </em>-<em> that all human beings are born as Shudras - unrefined - and by samskaara - refinement, one becomes a dwijah­ - twice born, i.e., one among the Brahmanas, Kshatriyas and Vaishyas.</em> The classification of the four Varnas are not based on birth. Krishna says very clearly in the Srimad Bhagavad Gita - <em>"Chaaturvarnyam mayaa srishtham, guna karma vibhaagashah"</em> - "I have created the four Varnas on the basis of quality and temparament". Vedavyasa was born in the womb of a fisherwoman, but he became the Guru of all Gurus and compiler of the Vedas by virtue of his inclination and actions. Satyakaama Jabaali was son of a woman who was serving many masters and therefore he did not know his father. But he became a Upanishadic seer. Narada was a son of a servant maid. Ravana, though born as the son of a Brahmana, descended to the level of Rakshasa whereas his brother Vibhishana is adored as an Alwar saint—a saint of the Vaishnava order. </span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span> </div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;">The classification of the four Varnas mentioned in the Purusha Sookta, as rightly pointed out by Sri Guruji Golwalkar in the "Bunch of Thoughts", speaks about the Raashthra Purusha. The men in whom wisdom is predominant and who are inclined to spiritual life are the spokespersons of the Jnaanabhoomi, Karmabhoomi, Mokshabhoomi Bharat. Vasishtha, Viswamitra, Gautama and other rishis of highest enlightenment guided kings and emperors like Dasaratha and Janaka. Men in whom the emotion, prowess - strength of the shoulder--, patriotism and the qualities of a warrior are predominant, become the protectors of the nation and society. Men in whom entrepreneurial skill is predominant become Vaishyas or traders. The common run, whose interest and inclination to do casual work and eke out a living are Shudras. All the four Varnas are various limbs of the Rashtra Purusha. <em>"Janmanaa jaayate shoodrah, samskaarena dwijah" - all men are born as Shudras - unrefined - and by samskaara - refinement, one becomes a dwijah­ - twice born, i.e., one among the Brahmanas, Kshatriyas and Vaishyas. </em>The classification of the four Varnas is not based on birth. Krishna says very clearly in the Srimad Bhagavad Gita - <em>"Chaaturvarnyam mayaa srishtham, guna karma vibhaagashah" - "I have created the four Varnas on the basis of quality and temperament".</em> </span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span> </div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;">Veda Vyasa was the son of Sage Parasara and born in the womb of a fisherwoman, but he became the Guru of all Gurus and compiler of the Vedas by virtue of his inclination and actions. Satyakama Jabali was son of a woman who was serving many masters and therefore he could not know who his father was. His guru Haridrumata Gautama accepted him as a Brahmana because he spoke truth, and speaking truth was the noblest quality of Brahmana, and he became a great Upanishadic seer. Narada was the son of a servant maid. Ravana, though born as the son of a Brahmana, descended to the level of Rakshasa whereas his brother Vibhishana rose to become adored as an Alwar saint - a saint of the Vaishnava order. There were anuloma and pratiloma marriages among the Hindus, one of the higher Varna marrying a girl from the lower Varna and vice versa, respectively. </span><span style="font-family:arial;">The classification of the four Varnas mentioned in the Purusha Sookta, as rightly pointed out by Sri Guruji Golwalkar in the "Bunch of Thoughts", speaks about the Raashthra Purusha. The men in whom wisdom is predominant and who are inclined to spiritual life are the spokespersons of the Jnaanabhoomi, Karmabhoomi, Mokshabhoomi Bharat. Vasishtha, Viswamitra, Gautama and other rishis of highest enlightenment guided kings and emperors like Dasaratha and Janaka. Men in whom the emotion, prowess - strength of the shoulder--, patriotism and the qualities of a warrior are predominant, become the protectors of the nation and society. Men in whom entrepreneurial skill is predominant become Vaishyas or traders. The common run, whose interest and inclination are to do casual work and eke out a living are Shudras. All the four Varnas are various limbs of the Rashtra Purusha.</span></div><span style="font-family:arial;"><div align="justify"><br />Nowhere it is said that one cannot move from one Varna to another. Karna, who was considered as a charioteer’s son and was not accepted as Kshatriya, was appointed as King of Angadesha and elevated to the position of Kshatriya by Duryodhana. Vishwamitra, who was a Rajarishi, was elevated to the position of Brahma Rishi and was accepted by Vasishtha. Veetahavya, who was also a Kshatriya, became a Brahmana. Valmiki, a hunter and dacoit by profession turned into the highest Brahmana of the land who gave us the Ramayana. Parasurama and Dronacharya, though Brahmanas by birth, wielded weapons and chose to serve as Kshatriyas.<br /><br />This classification on the basis of Varna gave strength to the Hindu society in most ancient times. When many civilizations and societies all over the world which arose in the later days crumbled because of their conflict with outside forces, Bharat withstood the invasions by Shakas, Hunas and Greeks and even absorbed many of them into the mainstream of Hindu race. However, the rigidity of the Varna distinctions which later came to be called as casteism arose when society advanced with many professional groups coming into existence and intermarriages created many new castes and sub-castes. In the historical period, reform movements like Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism cleansed the Hindu society of the disintegrating caste system and movements like those of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, the Maharashtriyan saints like Ramdas, Tukaram and Eknath, the saints of South India like the Alwars and Nayanmars, Sri Ramanuja, Saint Ramalinga and Sree Narayana Guru fought against the distinction between castes as higher and lower. Swami Vivekananda, the greatest reformer and patriot monk of modern India, points out: “We believe in Indian caste as one of the greatest social institutions that the Lord gave to man. We also believe that though the unavoidable defects, foreign persecutions, and above all, the monumental ignorance and pride of many brahmanas who do not deserve the name, have thwarted in many ways, the legitimate fructification of the most glorious Indian institution, it has already worked wonders for the land of Bharat and is destined to lead Indian humanity to its goal.” During India’s freedom struggle, many great Indian leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Lokamanya Tilak and Veer Savarkar strove to break the barriers between different castes and integrate the entire Hindu society. Mahakavi Bharati, the poet-patriot of the South sang: <em>“Jaatikal etume illayadi paappaa, kulat taazchi uyarchi sollal paapam” - </em>“There are no castes, it is sin to speak of higher and lower births.”<br /><br />Swami Harshananda rightly points out: “There is no gainsaying the fact that during the last 150 years, there has been a true decline of the true spirit behind the caste system. It has been much more pronounced during the 50 years after our political independence.” The British colonialists made the best use of the caste distinctions among the Hindus to divide and disintegrate the nation to keep the country as a part of their empire and the Christian evangelists converted the poor and downtrodden Hindus into their religion to perpetuate the white man’s rule over this nation. Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, who founded of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in 1925, had a deep foresight and he realized that unless and until the entire Hindu society from Kashmir to Kanyakumari stood as one man, wiping out all distinctions based on caste, colour and language, Bharatavarsha could not rise up once again as Hindu Nation and he launched the movement to integrate the entire Hindu society under one banner and with a fiery ideal of adoration of Motherland and elevating Mother Bharat once again as the Loka Guru. In 1934, a winter camp of the Sangh took place in Sevagram at Wardha. One thousand five hundred Swayamsevaks participated in the camp which took place in an open ground near the Ashram where Gandhiji was staying. Seeing the disciplined manner in which the programme of activities of the Sangh were conducted, Gandhiji expressed his desire to visit the camp. As soon as the information reached the Sanghchalak, Sri Appaji Joshi, through Mahadeva Desai, Gandhiji was invited to the camp. On 25th December 1934, in the early morning, Gandhiji visited the camp and spent one and half hours with the Swayamsevaks. He was deeply impressed by their character, discipline and above all the unity which crossed all the barriers of caste and creed. He visited the camp hospital and the dining hall and when he found that the Swayamsevaks did not even care to know each other's caste and lived like members of one family, he expressed his desire to meet the person who had built up this organization. Next morning, when Dr. Hedgewar visited the camp to participate in the concluding function of the camp, the information was conveyed to him and he accordingly called on Gandhiji in the night. Gandhiji spent an hour with Dr. Hedgewar discussing about the Sangh work. Gandhiji was amazed to find that what he was striving to do though his incessant propaganda, i.e., removing the blot of untouchability, was already achieved by Dr. Hedgewar through his Sangh Shakas.<br /><br />After the attainment of Independence, it was expected that the distinctions in the name of caste will be totally wiped out, but the Europeanized politicians who came to power after the British left the shores of this land found a duck that lays the golden eggs in the caste system and realized that as long as they perpetuate the caste distinctions among the Hindus, it will be easy to create vote banks which will help them keep themselves in power perpetually. Therefore they have divided the parliamentary and assembly constituencies in such a way that one or the other caste is predominant there and by appeasing the caste leaders, they could create vote banks. Reservations in jobs, admission to educational institutions and even electing the peoples’ representatives on the basis of caste were found to be easy means to catch votes to remain in power. Today, even those who got converted to Christianity and Islam from Hinduism, apparently protesting against casteism in Hindu society, want to claim the rights given to Scheduled Castes and Tribes among the Hindus. It is those who want to deliberately keep the Hindu society divided for their nefarious political purposes that go on raising the charge that casteism is part of Hinduism.<br /><br />The cunning politician today wants to perpetuate the disintegration and disunity among the Hindus by promoting census on the basis of castes. The foreign Christian missionary and evangelical organizations, who have a hold on the Government of India through a Christian leader of foreign origin controlling the ruling party, find an opportunity to fix their targets for large scale conversion through the caste based census which will disintegrate the Hindus. The so called secular politicians of the country who have betrayed the Hindu society for the sake of power and have always been anti-Hindu, find this caste-based census as an opportunity to keep the Hindus ever divided so that no Hindu nationalist party would ever come to power. "The counting of castes in the ongoing census will weaken the efforts of social harmony and Rashtriya Ekatmata (national integration) being pushed by various organizations and people in the country. It will also ruin the dream of creating a casteless society as was emancipated by many great personalities like Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar and others. The RSS has been working since beginning for the unity of the whole Hindu society irrespective of castes," said RSS Sarkaryavah Shri Bhaiyaji Joshi, while talking to the media persons at the RSS headquarters in Nagpur, recently. Why is this caste-based census directed against the Hindus only? Among the Christians, there are so many castes like Catholics, Protestants, Lutherans and Syrians. Among the Muslims, there are Pathans, Labbais, Shias, Sunnis and Ahamadiyas. Will the caste-based senses take the head-count of all these groups? Caste-based census is a conspiracy of anti-Hindu politicians, Christian evangelists and Muslim fundamentalists to destroy Hinduism.<br /><br />Patriotic Indian citizens, irrespective of caste, creed or linguistic differences, should oppose this caste-based census tooth and nail. In countries where Hindus are settled in large numbers, the caste distinctions are almost non-existent. Even in India, only in some remote village areas, these distinctions are prevalent, that too because of ignorance and because of the patronage of politicians who want to create vote banks in the name of caste. The Sindhis, who are the descendants of the Vedic Rishis who built up the Hindu civilization on the banks of River Sindh, do not have any caste distinctions among them. The day casteism will be totally wiped out of India is not far. Why harp upon it again and again? Let us make positive efforts to remove the blot of Casteism that has crept into Hindu society as a virus infecting the whole body. The Rishis addressed the whole of humanity as "Amritasya putraah” - Children of Immortality and called the whole world as one family, "Vasudaiva kutumbhakam". They proclaimed a 'Maanava Dharma' - Religion of Man - that is 'Vishwa Dharma' - Religion of the World - which is the 'Sanaatan Dharma' - the Eternal Religion. They have entrusted to the children of Mother Bharat and their descendants the task of spreading in the entire world man-making and universal values of life. Let us fulfil the hopes and aspirations of our forefathers. We could achieve this mission only when we do away with all distinctions in the name of caste. Let us declare ourselves as Hindus first and Hindus last and refuse to identify ourselves with any caste when the officials come to take the census. Let us boldly declare that we have no castes and WE ARE HINDUS, WE ARE BHARATIYAS.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">Vishwa Dharma ki Jai! Bharatamata ki Jai! Vande Mataram!</span></strong></span></div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify"><strong>Sadhu Prof. V. Rangarajan<br /></strong>Founder Trustee<br />Sri Bharatamata Gurukula Ashram &<br />Yogi Ramsuratkumar Indoligical Research Centre<br />Sri Bharatamata Mandir, Srinivasanagar, Krishna Raja Puram,<br />Bangalore 560 036<br />(Phone: 080-25610935, Cell: 09448275935,<br />E-mail: sadhu.rangarajan@gmail.com)<br /> </div>Capt S B Tyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16645236617210813657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082738966230960798.post-11961339025144102102009-11-18T06:26:00.000-08:002009-11-18T06:31:35.908-08:00A Global Fault Line: The retreat of Muslim Moderates.<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>By Lewis M. Simons NEWSWEEK </strong><br />Published Nov 7, 2009<br />From the magazine issue dated Nov 16, 2009<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">When young Barack Hussein Obama lived with his American mother and Indonesian stepfather in Jakarta nearly 40 years ago, the Muslims of Southeast Asia were renowned for their moderation. Women may have covered their hair with a light scarf, but almost none veiled their faces. It was the rare Muslim man who grew a beard, and many drank with non-Muslim friends. </span></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><div align="justify"><br />Today, as Obama prepares to meet with Southeast Asia's leaders in Singapore, all that, and more, is shifting. Moderation is suspect, as many of the region's quarter billion Muslims—more than in the Middle East—turn to the birthplace of Islam to reaffirm their religious identity. Though still a distinct minority, fundamentalists are demanding—and obtaining—a greater role for Sharia, or religious law, in family life and in the life of the nation.<br /><br />In recent travel, I found signs of the drift throughout the region's five major Islamic centers: Indonesia, Malaysia, the southern -Phil- ippines, southern Thailand, and Singapore. Nowhere was it more jarring than Bulukumba, on the orchid-shaped Indonesian island of Sulawesi. With 350,000 people, mostly farmers whose holdings are shrinking as the population booms, Bulukumba is one of the poorest places on the island, and religious rule has supplanted the secular. In 2006 radical clergy, backed by sympathetic local politicians, military, and police officers, imposed Sharia over constitutional law. Today, Bulukumba is just one of more than two dozen such towns in the archipelago. Women are required to wear the jilbab, or headscarf. Wage earners are required to contribute 2.5 percent of their income as zakat, or alms. Children by the age of 7 must prove reading proficiency of the Quran in Arabic to qualify for elementary school. So must couples seeking approval to marry, and civil serv-ants applying for promotion.<br /><br />Similar changes are happening in Malaysia. When I met with Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, I related this little story: in 1970, during a dinner party, my wife found herself dancing a quadrille with his father, then–prime minister Tun Abdul Razak, and I with his mother. A cloud crossed Najib's face. He peered directly at me over his wire-rim glasses and said nothing. Such behavior, we both understood, would be out of the question in today's Malaysia, now a proudly Islamic fundamentalist state.<br /><br />Along the border, Muslims and Buddhists in southern Thailand are slaughtering each other. Since 2004, some 3,500 have been killed. The government in Bangkok says the Muslim fighters are common criminals. But in the city of Hat Yai, Monsour Salleh, a counselor to the militant Muslim Youth Association of Thailand, praised them as religious warriors. "The young generation of Muslims believes in jihad," he said. "They are good boys, dignified and committed, who study the Quran. They learn that if they fight to right injustice, they will be rewarded in heaven."<br /><br />In the small southern Philippines town of Pikit, on the terror-torn island of Basilan, a Roman Catholic priest told me that fundamentalist attitudes were hardening among the Moros, as Muslims in the area are known. "It's an identity crisis," said Father Bert Layson, who is openly sympathetic to the Moros. "And it's been infinitely heightened through globalism by the international Islamic revival. This is leading the Moros back to their old belief that they must live in an Islamic environment in order to truly practice Islam." An estimated 120,000 Muslims and Christians have killed each other in the southern Philippines since 1970.<br /><br />Singaporeans—obedient, relentlessly middle-class, and overwhelmingly ethnic Chinese—were stunned when, in 2001, the government narrowly averted a sophisticated attack planned by homegrown members of the Jemaah Islamiah terror organization. As on any taut ship, Singapore's captain remains obsessed over a future threat. "We're sitting on a global fault line," Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong told me. </div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify">Now, on Obama's first trip to Southeast Asia as president, the region's leaders are pressing him to reengage with a part of the world the U.S. has largely ignored. He would be wise to accede. For even as fundamentalism advances among them, the Muslims of Southeast Asia want Americans—in sandals and sneakers, not combat boots—to return and work with them as Peace Corps volunteers, teachers, agriculturalists, and entrepreneurs. This may be the best chance the United States will have to launch a "preemptive peace," a chance to set things right with Muslims everywhere.<br /><br /><em><span style="color:#330033;">Simons, a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist, is coauthor with U.S. Sen. Christopher Bond of The Next Front: Southeast Asia and the Road to Global Peace With Islam.</span></em><br /></div></span></span><strong></strong>Capt S B Tyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16645236617210813657noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082738966230960798.post-71067832913833042262009-11-18T06:16:00.000-08:002009-11-18T06:23:17.957-08:00HUBRIS OF DARUL ULOOM :Frightening Contours of a State Within State<span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>By: Ram Kumar Ohri, IPS (Retd)</strong><br /></span></span><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000066;">Darul Uloom has done it again. By issuing a Fatwa, loaded with fundamentalist frenzy, the seminary has reiterated its earlier stand that singing of the national song, Vande Matram, by Muslims is ‘haram’. Obviously the Deoband Ulema have openly expressed utter contempt for the majesty of India’s Constitution and delivered a body blow to the ideal of national integration. The timing of the ‘fatwa’ has surprised everyone, especially when the stand of the Ulema had been known now for several years. Apparently the provocation for spewing hatred against singing of ‘Vande Matram’ by Muslims, once again, was the visit of the Union Home Minister to Deoband and the presence of renowned Hindu Yoga Guru, Swami Ramdev, at the massive conclave of Muslim clerics. No wonder the air is thick once again with acrid smoke rising out of the communal cauldron lit by the Deoband clergy. The facile reasoning of the Ulema against singing of Vande Matram is that the national song means bowing before Mother India, and bowing before anyone except Allah militates against the tenets of Islam. Though the fanatic Ulema, Jamiat-ul-Ulema-e Hind and members of the Muslim Personal Law Board loudly proclaim that Muslim cannot bow before anyone except Allah, they conveniently forget that in the not too distant past, during Muslim rule, all Muslims, including the highest of the Ulema, had no hesitation in bowing before Muslim rulers like Akbar, Shahjahan and Aurangzeb and several cruel kings. And there is no dearth of Muslims in India who readily bow before their fathers and mothers. What could then be the motive of re- issuing the fatwa against Vande Matram? Well, the intention was to emphasise the separate identity of Muslims and keeping them away from the national mainstream. </span></div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000066;">Another fatwa issued by the Ulema of Darul Uloom was against acts of terrorism and suicide bombing being committed across the globe by Muslims. The ulema declared that these were against the basic tenets of Islam. But it came with a rider in the form of a caveat that concept of jihad is a constructive phenomenon - whatever that might mean. </span></div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000066;">Interestingly the website of Darul Uloom defines ‘terrorism’ as the “struggle of resistance of the weak for securing their legitimate rights against suppression.” Could there be a more brazen attempt to defend the jihadi terror stalking the civil society worldwide? Reiteration of Deoband’s earlier fatwa against Vande Matram issued in 2006 and the so-called fatwa against terrorism and suicide bombing are only one part of the sordid story. Darul Uloom issued another 23 fatwas out of which seven are listed below as examples of Deoband’s separatist agenda -</span></div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000066;">1. Muslims should not use ‘namaste’ as greetings and must always say ‘salam’ ;<br />2. Muslims should refrain from watching television and listen to radio music ;<br />3. Muslims should refuse to get inoculated for Aids or Polio ;<br />4. Muslims should oppose the proposed Women’s Reservation Bill ;<br />5. Girls who are ten years old and above must be educated only in madarasas ;<br />6. Muslims must always emphasise their religious identity; and<br />7. The Madarasa Board proposed by the government was unacceptable and will be opposed by the community.<br /><br />These ‘fatwas’ unequivocally emphasise the separatist mindset being promoted among Muslims by the clerics of Deoband. Apparently, the Union Home Minister, P.C. Chidambram, and Baba Ramdev appear to be unaware of the communal agenda of Darul Uloom and the fact that it has played a major role in spawning terrorism both in India and Pakistan by incessantly preaching and promoting the fundamentalist version of Islam, i.e., the Wahabi Islam. Not only this, the Deoband Ulema have been openly preaching the use of violence to spread Islam, the so-called religion of peace. As candidly pointed out in an article by Arif Mohammed Khan, a former Union Minister, the syllabus of Darul Uloom states : “When the Muslims enter the enemy’s country and besiege the cities or strongholds of the infidels, it is necessary to invite them to embrace the faith, because Ibn Abbas relates of the Prophet that he never destroyed any without previously inviting them to embrace the faith. If therefore they embrace the faith, it is unnecessary to war with them, because that which was the design of the war is then obtained without war.1 The syllabus further elaborates that the Prophet has said that ‘we are directed to make war upon men only until such time as they shall confess, “There is no God, but one God”.2 </span></div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000066;">Thus while comfortably enconsed in India and shouting from housetops that they are totally loyal to the country, the Deoband ulema have been openly preaching jihad against the infidels (read kaffir Hindus). Could there be any worse instance of doublespeak? For a while let us try to analyse and understand the implications of what Darul Uloom has been preaching, say in the context of the dastardly attack by Pakistan sponsored fidayeens on 26 /11 for murderous mayhem across Mumbai. </span></div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000066;">According to Darul Uloom’s interpretation of scriptural war against infidels what those ten fidayeens after entering Mumbai should have done was to serve a notice on the Hindus to embrace Islam, as commanded by the Prophet. And if the kaffirs did not agree to embrace Islam, the fidayeens would have been fully justified in killing them. That is what the syllabus of Deoband seminary appears to teach to Muslim students, and in the process revealing the true face of Darul Uloom ! </span></div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000066;">The activities of Darul Uloom not only militate against national integration, but its teachings are totally anti-national. By telling Muslims not to use ‘namaste’ for the purpose of greeting each other, and aggressively opposing the national policy of eradication of Polio and Aids, the ulema are working overtime to create a separatist Muslim state within the Indian state. Time has to come for the government as well as the Indian people to confront them and tell them either to behave or to shut down their shop of separatism and fanaticism. </span></div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000066;">In our secularitis infected polity no one expected P. C. Chidambram to say good bye to the policy of minority appeasement. But Swami Ramdev ought to have known better. He should have realized long ago that there is a total disconnect between the ideals enshrined in the Indian Constitution and the preaching of violence by Darul Uloom. Nothing could be more distressing than the ugly spectacle of dhimmitude which Swami Ramdev presented while trying to appease the jihad preaching ulema of Deoband. Hellbent on insulting Swami Ramdev, after passing the controversial fatwa against Vande Matram on November 3, 2009, they decreed on November 7, 2009, that Muslims must not attend Swami Ramdev’s health camps because of the singing of Vande Matram.<br /><br />It is a shame that even after being insulted repeatedly, many self-styled Hindu seers refuse to learn even elementary lessons in self respect. Barely four days after the Deoband conclave, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, another 5-star high flyer Hindu guru, rushed to Darul Uloom and tried to appease the fundamentalist clerics by pleading that the word ‘vande’ in the national song, Vande Matram, does not mean worship of Mother India. That marked a new low in abject appeasement by Sri Sri who seems to have acquired not an iota of Hindu pride even after reading Gita and other sacred sciptures !. </span></div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000066;">Interestingly the syllabus of Darul Uloom also constitutes the bedrock of Islamic teaching in tens of thousands of madrasas affiliated to Deoband spread out across the length and breadth of India and Pakistan. The truth is that Darul Uloom has been responsible for fanning the prairie fire of global jihad. A further confirmation about the fundamentalist role of Deoband seminary came from Sohail Abbas, a leading Pakistan-based psychologist, whose published study revealed that out of 517 jihadis arrested in Afghanistan and lodged in Pakistani jails the overwhelming majority belonged to Deoband school of thought.3 The ideology being preached by Darul Uloom is playing havoc with the security of Indian nation and our secular ideal. </span></div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000066;">Before concluding, it would be in order to warn our peace-preaching 5-star seers like Swami Ramdev and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar to take sometime off their busy schedule (read money-making business activity) to study the concept of jihad and understand what propels the ulemas, living in India, to openly preach war against the so-called ‘kaffirs’. For all practical purposes, these clerics appear to be part of the global Islamic design to establish a ‘seamless caliphate’ from Indonesia to the Balkans after overrunning India which is the only non-Muslim country in South Asia, and a bulwark of democracy and secularism in this part of the world. </span></div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#cc0000;"><span style="color:#000066;">And a word of caution to our 5-star lifestyle seers and gurus, merrily wearing dyed hair and beards to look younger than their age. It is time they watched their step, lest the future generations wrote their names in the book of Infamous Hindus who let down their besieged community in hour of crisis. A warning has already been administered by some sadhus of Ayodhya to Baba Ramdev for his failure to oppose the fatwa against Vande Matram. They minced no words when they proclaimed that Swami Ramdev has become a businessman. Mahant Narayan Giri went a step further and asked Swami Ramdev to seek forgiveness for not protesting at Deoband and thereby hurting the sentiments of crores of Indians.<br />**********<br /><br />1. Arif Mohammed Khan, ‘Sending A Wrong Message’, Times of India, New Delhi,<br />September 30, 2008, p. 20 ;<br />2. Ibid.<br />3. Ibid.<br /></span><br /><strong>Copyright @ Ram Kumar Ohri</strong></span></span><br /></div>Capt S B Tyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16645236617210813657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082738966230960798.post-55344366073017808542009-10-06T08:40:00.000-07:002009-10-06T08:46:50.911-07:00A devious attempt to equate Gita with Quran by blatant recourse to taqiyah<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;">By: Ram Ohri, IPS (Retd)<br /><br />“I am with you: give Firmness to the Believers<br />I will instill terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers.”<br /><br />Quran 8.12<br />. . . . . . . .<br /><br />Recently a very clumsy attempt was made to downgrade the Gita during an interactive discourse organized by Times of India on a quixotic topic, ‘Jihad in the Gita and the Quran’. The title of the debate implied that the doctrine of jihad has been preached both in the Gita and the Quran - something totally false and highly offensive to Hindu ethos. The participants were Maulana Wahiduddin and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, while the well known columnist, Narayani Ganesh, acted as moderator.<br /><br />First things first. The scriptural soul of Hinduism, the Gita, does not preach, nor even remotely mentions., anything comparable to the Islamic doctrine of jihad which is a permanent holy war against all non-Muslims, as ordained in Islamic scriptures. It is difficult, nay impossible, to fathom the intent of Times of India group to select such a wonky theme suggesting that jihad has been sanctioned in Hindu scriptures, too !. There is no moral equivalence between what Gita preaches and what Quran ordains. The choice of the subject of the discourse shows total mental bankruptcy because it tries to equate the two incomparable scriptures. Apparently the leading lights of Times of India group as well as Narayani Ganesh have neither read the Gita, nor Quran. Otherwise they would not have ventured to wade into the minefield of jihad which has tormented innumerable civilisations and countless countries for centuries and taken toll of crores of innocent lives. The attempt to underline some kind of spiritual equivalence between the Gita and the Quran is nothing short of an affront to sacred Hindu beliefs, nay to the Gita, itself. </span></div><span style="font-family:arial;"><div align="justify"><br />It is a pity that Sri Sri could not see through the clever game being played by the sham-secularist newspaper to bring down Gita to the level of jihadi orthopraxy, enshrined in the Quran. Nor could he rebut the inane profanity hidden in the theme. The Gita does not command Hindus to kill all non-Hindus, or for that matter, not even atheists. Sri Krishna advised a wavering Arjuna at Kurukshetra to wage war in the cause of righteousness and justice, and nothing more. Even after explaining the import of ‘dharma’ and righteousness, Sri Krishna left the final choice about taking up arms to Arjuna, saying that it was for him to make the correct decision, in according to ‘dharma’.<br /><br />On the other hand, Jihad is not, repeat not, merely a struggle with one’s self, as claimed by Maulana Wahiduddin. It is Islam’s holy war against ‘kaffirs” (in Indian context read Hindus) as ordained in the Quran Importance of jihad has been highlighted by M.J. Akbar, in his tome, The Shade of Swords, where in the Introduction itself he has reiterated that “jihad is the signature tune of Islamic history”1. Elaborating the Islamic doctrine he says that though the Prophet did say that the ‘greater’ jihad (i.e., jihad-e-akbar) was the struggle to cleanse the impurity within, it was the lesser jihad (i.e., jihad-e-asghar) which had “powered the armies of Islam and made them all conquering”.2 For Muslims, M.J. Akbar, continues, jihad is not merely a question of cleansing the inner spirit; it is also a call for holy war regularly heard since the beginning of Islam. He has drawn pointed attention to the saying by the Prophet himself that “Paradise comes under the shade of swords”3. A similar message was conveyed to his jihadi hordes by Osama bin Laden during an interview on CNN news channel on May 10, 1997, when he proclaimed that the acme of this religion (i.e., Islam) was jihad. M.J. Akbar’s exposition of jihad is a clear rebuttal of the falsehood being preached by Maulana Wahiduddin and several others to hoodwink the gullible Hindus.<br /><br />The claim of Maulana that jihad has nothing to do with the concept of holy war against infidels is again comprehensively rebutted by the well known exposition of jihad by Sheikh Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Humaid (a former Chief Justice of Saudi Arabia) in his commentary titled, ‘Jihad in the Quran and Sunnah’. The learned scholar, an acknowledged authority on Islam, emphasizes that Allah has ordained that Al-jihad (i.e., the holy fighting in Allah’s cause) should be carried out by the following three means :<br /><br />( i ) with the heart (i.e., intentions or feelings) ;<br />(ii) with the hand (ie., with weapons, etc.) ; and<br />(iii) with the tongue (i.e., by speeches and preachings, in the cause of Allah).<br /><br />Sheikh Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Humaid further elaborates that Allah will reward all those who participate in jihad with lofty dwellings in the Garden of Paradise.3 He clearly states that jihad, or fighting in the cause of Allah, is superior to non-obligatory prayers, fasting, Zakat, Umra and even Haj. As explained in Sahi Muslim No. 4696, Abu Huraira, an important companion of the Messenger of Allah, had emphasized that the Prophet had declared that a Muslim who died, but did not fight in the way of Allah, nor did express any desire or determination for jihad died the death of a hypocrite.4 A similar message for waging a holy war against infidels is contained in Verse 74 of Surah Nisi which says that whosoever fights in the way of Allah, be he slain or victorious, on him we shall bestow a vast reward. Logically a taqiyah practicing cleric like Maulana Wahiduddin should have been confronted with Verse 8.12 and Verse 74 which openly preach jihad through terrorizing the so-called infidels. But unfortunately Sri Sri failed to do so perhaps because of his lack of knowledge about the Quran and the doctrine of jihad. The conceptual framework of jihad has been lucidly enunciated in Surah Anfal, namely the eighth Sura (i.e., chapter 8) and 9th Surah titled ‘Taubah’ of the Quran, although this holy war has been enjoined on the faithful in many other chapters also. In fact, there are more than 200 verses in the Quran exhorting the Muslims to wage a holy war against the infidels. </div><div align="justify"><br />More importantly the doctrine of jihad has at least four major components, e.g., forcible conversion of the so-called ‘kaffirs’ on pain of death, the scriptural sanction for ‘slaughter in the land’ in verse 8.67 after defeating the kaffirs and recourse to ghanima which means plunder and seizure of the property of the vanquished kaffirs, including carrying away of their women and children. A typical example of the ‘slaughter in the land’ was the beheading of nearly Jews, chained and menacled, under supervision of Prophet Muhammad, in the public square of Medina in the year 627 A.D., after the Battle of Ditch. Another example is from Indian history when after Muhammad bin Qasim’s victory over Raja Dahir of Sind, when Hajjaj reminded bin Qasim of the Prophet’s commandment :”Give no quarter to infidels but cut their throats. Then know that this is the command of the great God. You shall not be too ready to grant protection, because it will prolong your work”.5 The fourth important component of jihad is the imposition of ‘jiziya’ or poll tax on the so-called ‘dhimmies’, i.e., non-Muslims living under protection of the Muslim rulers. Originally meant for only Christians and Jews (the people of the Book) later on it was extended to ‘kaffir’ Hindus also. Otherwise the Quranic punishment for ‘kaffirs’ is death and destruction.<br /><br />The scriptural sanction for enjoying the spoils of war, including carrying away of women and children of the vanquished ‘kaffirs’ is accorded in verse 8.69 of Surah Anfal which says “Eat ye the spoils of war. They are lawful and pure”. Thus the Quran proclaims that there is nothing improper about plunder and enjoying the spoils of war; it is a mujahid’s prerogative. The only condition imposed is that ‘holy’ one-fifth of the spoils of war (including the captive women) must be sent to the Prophet, and after him, to the Caliph as his share of the war booty. The command about treatment to be meted out to the plundered womenfolk is contained in verse 4.24 which asserts : “ All married women are forbidden (to you) save those (captives) whom your right hand possesses.”6 Obviously, they are to be used as concubines, as indeed they have been throughout history.. </div><div align="justify"><br />Interestingly, Islam has a doctrine of using deception and telling lies to further the cause of Islam. It is called “Taqiyah”, or recourse to deception, which is duly sanctioned in Verse 16.106, which approves that under certain circumstances and Muslim can tell a lie (in the cause of Islam) for which no action will lie against him. ‘Taqiyah’ is also approved in many more Verses , namely 16.106, 3.28, 2.225 and 66.2. Explaining the utility of taqiyah Sahi Bukhari recounts the assassination of a poet, Ka’b bin al-Ashraf under orders of the Prophet.7 The men who volunteered to murder Ka’b used deception to gain the poet’s trust by pretending that they had turned against Prophet Muhammad in order to draw the victim out of his fortress and then killed him. Sahi Bukhari 84:64-65 categorically affirms that Hazrat Ali had confirmed that lying is permissible in order to deceive the enemy.8 . No wonder Maulana Wahiduddin and many others like him keep on confounding gullible Hindus, even Hindu seers, through their lectures laced with taqiyah. Sadly the wayward discourse clearly highlighted that Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has not read the Quran at all. More importantly the discourse further showed his astonishing inability to comprehend what Sri Krishna had preached at Kurukshetra which was in no way comparable to the doctrine of jihad enunciated in the Quran. He failed to point out that Gita preaches the concept of righteousness while doing one’s ‘karmic’ duty, above everything else. But Gita does not sanction the senseless killings of the kind which are ordained in innumerable verses of the Quran. Nor does Gita sanction plunder after victory, nor the carrying away of the hapless women and children of those vanquished in war and sharing them as ‘war booty’.<br /><br />Perhaps due to his inadequate knowledge of the Quran and the Hadith, or sheer timidity, Sri Sri could not rebut the bogus contention of Maulana Wahiduddin that jihad means nothing more than trying to control one’s desires and that some Muslims presently engaged in “violent activities which they claim to be jihad” should be ignored because “these people belong to non-governmental organizations”. How is it that all these non-State actors like Al Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Tayyeba, Jasih-e-Muhammad, Taliban, Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami, Hamas, Fatah, Hezbollah, etc., responsible for killing thousands of innocents, are a speciality of Islamic States like Pakistan, Iran, Syria, Palestine, etc ? What is most important is that all these non-state actors are the creation of various Islamic governments who invariably support them in their nefarious activities.<br /><br />Before closing this rejoinder it must be pointed out that the notorious July 2008 e-mail circulated by Indian Mujahideen had quoted verbatim three Ayats of Quran (in Arabic along with English translation) exhorting the faithful to kill the infidels. After pouring enormous ridicule on Hindu Gods and Goddesses, they had commanded the Hindus to convert to Islam failing which they shall be slaughtered as surely as their forbears had been by Muhammad bin Qasi, Mahmud Ghazanvi and Muhammad Ghauri in the past. And within four months Lashkar-e-Tayyeba’s ten fidayeens carried out the notorious Mumbai Massacre of 26 /11 in which nearly 180 innocents were slaughtered, a ghastly event about which a threat had been duly administered by Indian Mujahideen. That shows the ugly face of the Islamic doctrine of jihad. It is a shame that the preaching of righteous war by Sri Krishna at Kurukshetra is sought to be equated by Times of India group and Narayani Ganesh with what Indian Mujahideen had vowed to do the killings and which hey actually did, in accordance with the Quranic verses.<br /><br />A much greater shame, however, is the gullibility of Hindu preachers like Sri Sri to acuisece in the falsehood being propagated to equate the Gita, both morally and spiritually, with the Quran. My humble advice to Sri Sri and other Hindu seers is that either they should read in great detail the Quran and the Hadith along with two authentic commentaries, Sahi Bukhari and Sahi Muslim, or they should scruplously refrain from participating in such weird discourses often organized by the sham-secularist groups and individuals to denigrate Hindu ethos and morally equate “adharma” with ‘dharma”.<br /><br />*************<br />1. M. J. Akbar, The Shade of Swords, p. xvi<br />2. Ibid.<br />3. Jihad in Quran and Sunnah, published by Maktaba Dar-us-Salam, Riyadh.<br />4. Suhas Majumdar, Jihad – The Islamic Doctrine of Permanent War, p.20.<br />5. Dr. Titus, Indian Islam, p. 10.<br />6. Suhas Majumdar, Jihad – The Islamic Doctrine of Permanent War, p. 29.<br />7. Sahi Bukhari 52.271.<br />8. Sahi Bukhari 84:64-65<br />Copyright @ Ram Ohri<br /><br /><br /></div></span>Capt S B Tyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16645236617210813657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082738966230960798.post-14333089951427188502009-10-06T08:26:00.000-07:002009-10-06T08:31:10.179-07:00Jinnah to Hafiz Saeed<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;">Similarities in their anti-India agenda<br />By: G. Parthasarathy<br /><br />Addressing a gathering of tens of thousands of zealots at the headquarters of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (earlier calling itself the Lashkar-e-Toiba), on November 3, 2000, the Amir of the Lashkar, Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, thundered: “Jihad is not about Kashmir only. About 15 years ago people might have found it ridiculous if someone had told them about the disintegration of the Soviet Union (Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics). Today, I announce the breakup of India, Inshallah. We will not rest till the whole of India is dissolved into Pakistan.”<br /><br />Over the past two decades, Saeed has been publicly pronouncing a war that would encompass the whole of India. Till the terrorist outrage of 26/11 no one took him seriously. Shortly after his November 2000 speech, Saeed sent his “mujahideen” into the very heart of India’s national capital, New Delhi, to attack the historic Red Fort on December 22, 2000. Addressing a gathering of political leaders from Islamic parties shortly thereafter, Saeed proudly proclaimed that he had unfurled the green flag of Islam in the historic Red Fort.<br /><br />Hafiz Saeed was and is no ordinary person. He enjoyed the patronage of former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who had sent Punjab Governor Shahid Hamid and his Information Minister Mushahid Hussein Syed to personally call on and pay their respects to Saeed in 1998. The Wahabi/Salafi school of Islam propagated by Saeed was patronised by Nawaz Sharif’s father, Mian Mohammed Sharif, through the Tablighi Jamaat. Moreover, at the grassroots level, the Lashkar is closely linked to the Pakistan Army and the ISI, which provide weapons, training and logistical support to the extremist group. But is Saeed’s talk of “disintegration” of India merely rhetoric of a demented mind, or does it reflect a wider strategic vision within Pakistan and particularly in its armed forces?<br /><br />While the “idea” of Pakistan was first enunciated by Chaudhuri Rehmat Ali in 1933 and given shape in the Lahore Resolution of the Muslim League in 1940, the hope in Pakistan, ever since it was born, was that India would be a loose confederation, with units like the Nizam’s domain in Hyderabad and even a “Dravidistan” going their own separate ways. Jinnah often spoke contemptuously of upper caste Hindus while fostering separatism by emphasising on a separate linguistic and ethnic Dravidian identity, characterising the social ethos in South India.<br /><br />While Mahatma Gandhi tried to address centuries of exploitation and alienation of Dalits in India together with leaders like Dr B.R. Ambedkar, Jinnah endeavoured to foment Dalit alienation. He also encouraged elements in princely states like Jodhpur and Travancore-Cochin to declare independence. His aim was to Balkanise India and ensure domination of the sub-continent by a minority of its population. Jinnah’s approach to the Cabinet Mission Plan of 1946 was motivated by the belief that after 10 years, a united Punjab and Sind in the west, together with Bengal and Assam in the east, would break away from a fragile and fragmented India.<br /><br />Jinnah shared a common interest with the British in ensuring that there was a weak central government in India, incapable of firmly holding the country together. Jinnah’s aims regarding India were thus not very different from those of Hafiz Saeed, though he was a virtually agnostic Ismaili Muslim who, according to his biographer Stanley Wolpert, loved Scotch whisky and ham sandwiches! Saeed, however, espouses rabid Wahabi causes.<br /><br />Saeed makes no secret of his contempt for parliamentary democracy based on the principle of “one man, one vote”. But was Jinnah’s demand for a disproportionate share of parliamentary seats for his community on the basis of their having been the “rulers” of India before the British arrived, also not a negation of the concept of “one man one vote,” which is the fundamental principle of parliamentary democracy? It was Jinnah’s quest for “parity” for a minority that forms the basis of Pakistan’s unrealistic yearning for parity with India — a yearning that has led Pakistan to disaster.<br /><br />Jinnah’s successors, from Liaquat Ali Khan to Gen Pervez Musharraf, have all conducted relations with India in the belief that India’s unity is fragile. Ayub Khan launched the 1965 conflict with India believing that Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri was a weak leader facing serious separatist problems, because of the Punjabi Suba movement in Punjab and anti-Hindu riots combined with the rise of Dravidian parties in the South, apart from continuing insurgencies in the Northeast.<br /><br />Gen Zia-ul-Haq set up an elaborate network to encourage separatism within India and laid special stress on creating a Hindu-Sikh communal divide in Punjab, in much the same manner as Jinnah had sought to sow doubts in the mind of Master Tara Singh. Such efforts failed the primarily because Hindus and Sikhs alike saw through Pakistan’s game-plans. The ISI effort to “bleed” India in Jammu and Kashmir is a continuation of policies that Pakistan has followed since its birth. It is shocking when Indians, who should know better, extol Jinnah’s “virtues”. His culpability in the communal holocaust he unleashed by his call for “Direct Action” cannot be condoned.<br /><br />In his book, “The Shadow of the Great Game — The Untold Story of Partition”, former diplomat Narendra Singh Sarila has revealed that well before the Cabinet Mission arrived in India in 1946 two successive British Viceroys, Lord Linlithgow and Lord Wavell, had decided to partition India by creating a Muslim-majority state in its northwest, bordering Iran, Afghanistan and Sinkiang, in order to protect British interests in the oil-rich Persian Gulf. Mohammad Ali Jinnah was coopted to further this British objective around 1939. </span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Jinnah’s efforts to impose Urdu as Pakistan’s sole national language sowed the seeds of Bangladeshi separatism and of Pakistan’s disintegration in 1971. His assumption of office as an unelected Executive Head of State, who presided over the Cabinet, led to his successors arbitrarily dismissing Prime Ministers and staging a takeover of Pakistan by a military-dominated feudal elite — a malady the country suffers from even today.<br /><br />The statesmanlike visit of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to the “Minar-e-Pakistan” in Lahore signalled that India had no intention of reversing Partition and that it wishes the people of Pakistan well. The challenges that Pakistan’s establishment poses will be overcome when the values of secularism, pluralism and inclusive democratic development are established as being more enduring than the fantasies of nationhood based exclusively on religion, which Jinnah propounded, or the hate and bigotry of Hafiz Mohammed Saeed. Banning books whose contents many may find objectionable is not the way to deal with such challenges.<br /><br />The Tribune, New Delhi<br />October 3, 3009<br /></div></span>Capt S B Tyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16645236617210813657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082738966230960798.post-14066121014174166592009-08-22T10:20:00.000-07:002009-08-22T10:24:53.250-07:00JINNAH VIRUS DISTRACTS AND DEBILITATES BJP<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> <p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong><span style="color:#000066;">Wages of Poor Scholarship<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family:arial;color:#3333ff;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#3333ff;">-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>R.K. Ohri, IPS (Retd)<o:p></o:p></span></span><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial;">For a second time during the last four years Jinnah virus has struck the Bharatiya Janta Party.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Greatly impressed by the success of Mohammed Ali Jinnah in carving out the Islamic State of Pakistan by ensuring division of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>, almost single-handedly, some BJP leaders are bending backwards in praising Jinnah as a great ‘secular’ leader.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Overwhelmed by ‘Jinnah virus’ and trying to outdo his senior colleague, L K Advani, in his latest book Jaswant Singh (a prominent BJP leader and former Foreign Affairs Minister in NDA government), has showered encomiums on Jinnah, while criticizing the murky role of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Nehru and Gandhi in accepting partition of the country as a fait accompli. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>While this belated claim to wisdom by Jaswant Singh about greatness of the founder of <st1:country-region><st1:place>Pakistan</st1:place></st1:country-region> further bewildered the average middle class Hindu, the BJP was left with no option but to expel Jaswant Singh from the party due to his deliberate deviation from the ideology of BJP. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span></span> </p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span></span> </p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span></span> </p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span><o:p></o:p></span> </p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial;">In June 2005 the then President of BJP, L.K. Advani, had praised Mohammed Ali Jinnah, as a secular leader during his visit to <st1:country-region><st1:place>Pakistan</st1:place></st1:country-region>, without verifying the facts. That controversial statement bestowing the halo of a “secular leader” on Jinnah was greatly resented by the Hindu masses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Ultimately it led to large scale criticism of Advani’s wrong perception and he had to step down from the office of BJP President. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial;">Advani’s misadventure about Jinnah’s secular status was based on Pakistan’s Qaid-e Azam’s address to the Constituent Assembly on August 11, 1947, in which he had declared that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“you are free to go to your mosques, or any other place of worship<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>……<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>you may belong to any religion, caste or creed, that has nothing to do with the business of the state. You will find that in the course of time Hindus will cease to be Hindus and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Muslims will cease to be Muslims, not in the religious sense<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>…..<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>but in the political sense as citizens of the State”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Apparently that statement was enough to make Advani conclude that Jinnah was indeed a secular democrat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The veteran leader did not care to check up the reasons which could have prompted Jinnah to make that most-unlike-Jinnah statement in the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan on <st1:date month="8" day="11" year="1947">August 11, 1947</st1:date>. Perhaps he relied too much on the advice and assessment of his aide, Sudheendra Kulkarni, yet another admirer of Jinnah, who had accompanied him. Advani just could not figure out that what Jinnah had pronounced on August 11, 1947, was nothing but mere posturing done on the advice of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Lord <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Ismay who was the Chief of Staff of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>the then Governor General of India, Lord Mountbatten. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial;">The inside story of Jinnah’s August 11, 1947, statement has been narrated by a distinguished Punjabi scholar, Dr. Kripal Singh, on page 740 of his book, Select Documents on Partition of India -1947 (India and Pakistan), published in 1990. As revealed by Dr. Kripal Singh, the advice to make such a statement was given by Lord Ismay to Jinnah, under specific instructions of Lord Mountbatten in order to douse the raging fire of communal violence across <st1:country-region><st1:place>Pakistan</st1:place></st1:country-region> at that time. It was a belated attempt to assure the Hindus and the Sikhs living in <st1:country-region><st1:place>Pakistan</st1:place></st1:country-region> about their safety, expressly made on the suggestion of Lord Mountbatten, the then Governor General of <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>. The sole aim of the <st1:date month="8" day="11" year="1947">August 11, 1947</st1:date>, statement was to check the spiraling communal violence in <st1:country-region><st1:place>Pakistan</st1:place></st1:country-region> which had already generated a violent reaction in <st1:place>East Punjab</st1:place> (<st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial;">The fact that Jinnah had been prevailed upon to make such a statement was told to Dr. Kripal Singh by Lord Ismay himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>His aforesaid book contains interviews with Lord Attlee, the Prime Minister of U.K. in 1947, Sir Francis Muddies, the then Governor of Punjab and Sir Cyril Radcliff, Chairman of the Boundary Commission who drew the final lines of the partitioned sub-continent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In an exclusive interview to TNS (Tribune News Service) Dr. Kripal Singh had disclosed that he had interviewed Lord Ismay on <st1:date month="8" day="17" year="1964">August 17, 1964</st1:date>, at his residence in <st1:country-region><st1:place>U.K.</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Dr. Kripal Singh is a former Head of the Department of Historical Studies, <st1:place><st1:placename>Punjabi</st1:PlaceName> <st1:placetype>University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, <st1:city><st1:place>Patiala</st1:place></st1:City>, and an erudite scholar and author of several books. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial;">Every Indian, except perhaps Jaswant Singh, knows that Jinnah had repeatedly said that the Hindus and the Muslims cannot live together in <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> and had pompously declared in August 1946, “We shall have <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> divided or we shall have <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> destroyed”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He was a fundamentalist who was squarely responsible for organizing the great <st1:city><st1:place>Calcutta</st1:place></st1:City> killings on <st1:date month="8" day="16" year="1947">August 16, 1947</st1:date>, by giving a call for Direct Action to achieve the goal of <st1:country-region><st1:place>Pakistan</st1:place></st1:country-region>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Apparently the fast ageing BJP leaders like Jaswant Singh and Advani have forgotten that on <st1:date month="7" day="27" year="1946">July 27, 1946</st1:date>, while giving a call to Muslims for observing <st1:date month="8" day="16" year="1946">August 16, 1946</st1:date>, as Direct Action Day for achieving the goal of <st1:country-region><st1:place>Pakistan</st1:place></st1:country-region>, Jinnah spoke thus: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial;">“The Muslims of India would not rest contented with anything less than the immediate establishment of independent and fully sovereign State of <st1:country-region><st1:place>Pakistan</st1:place></st1:country-region>… Now the time has come for the Muslim Nation to resort to Direct Action. ….We have taken a most historic decision. Never before in the whole history of the Muslim League did we do anything except by constitutional methods. Today we have said good-bye to constitutional methods. Throughout the painful negotiations the two parties with whom we bargain held a pistol at us - one with power and machine-guns behind it and the other with non-cooperation and the threat to launch mass civil disobedience. The situation must be met. We also have a pistol”. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial;">That open declaration to defy the law had prompted Muslim League’s Mayor of Calcutta, Mohammed Usman, to give a call for jihad on <st1:date month="8" day="16" year="1946">August 16, 1946</st1:date>, by issuing an inflammatory leaflet titled “Munajat for Jihad”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>On the Direct Action Day the city of <st1:city><st1:place>Calcutta</st1:place></st1:City> (now Kolkata) went through a grisly bloodbath which continued for several days a brief account of which has been given by Justice G.D. Khosla in his famous narrative, ‘The Stern Reckoning’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The total number of innocent citizens killed during the jihad unleashed by Muslim League on the Direct Action Day was estimated to be between 5,000 and 10,000. Subsequently communal riots broke out in many parts of the country. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial;">Thus Jinnah was never ’secular’ in his outlook, much less in deed. Both Advani and Jaswant Singh appear to be suffering from age-related amnesia. How else could they forget that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>barely 10 weeks after Jinnah’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>statement of August 11, 1946, Pakistan had invaded<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Jammu & Kashmir and let loose a horrendous campaign of murder, rape and pillage against unsuspecting hapless people?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>At that time Jinnah was very much alive (he died only in September 1948) and no one can deny that the <st1:place>Kashmir</st1:place> invasion was launched with his approval as Governor General of <st1:country-region><st1:place>Pakistan</st1:place></st1:country-region>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial;">Apparently the two BJP leaders never ever cared to ascertain the truth behind Jinnah’s deceptive statement made in <st1:country-region><st1:place>Pakistan</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s Constituent Assembly on <st1:date month="8" day="11" year="1947">11th August 1947</st1:date>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>What made Jinnah issue the so-called “secular statement” on <st1:date month="8" day="11" year="1947">August 11, 1947</st1:date>, has been clarified by Dr. Kripal Singh, as stated above.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In essence that statement of Jinnah was nothing but recourse to ‘Taqiyah’, a convenient Islamic tool for befooling the so-called ‘kaffirs’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial;">Going far beyond what Advani had stated in June 2005, in a TV interview Jaswant Singh claimed that the widespread opinion in <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> that Jinnah was anti-Hindu was mistaken, and that he was unfairly demonized. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The tall leader failed to explain why Jinnah did not try to prevent the massive ethnic cleansing of Hindus from <st1:country-region><st1:place>Pakistan</st1:place></st1:country-region>, why did he not raise even a small finger to save the lives and properties of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>lakhs of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Hindus trapped in <st1:country-region><st1:place>Pakistan</st1:place></st1:country-region>? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial;">Giving further twist to his love for Jinnah, during a TV interview by Karan Thapar<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Jaswant Singh bemoaned, “Look into the eyes of the Muslims who live in India and if you truly see their pain with which they live, to which land do they belong? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We treat them as aliens …..<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Without doubt Muslims have paid the price of partition”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It is difficult, nay impossible, to comprehend why Jaswant Singh does not realize that the real price of partition was paid by Crores of Hindus and Sikhs who were killed, converted and driven out from <st1:country-region><st1:place>Pakistan</st1:place></st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region><st1:place>Bangladesh</st1:place></st1:country-region> (formerly known as <st1:place>East Pakistan</st1:place>). How can he be so insensitive to the ethnic cleansing of Hindus and Sikhs from <st1:country-region><st1:place>Pakistan</st1:place></st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region><st1:place>Bangladesh</st1:place></st1:country-region> and even from <st1:place>Kashmir</st1:place>, an important part of our bogus secular political dispensation?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Surely he cannot be oblivious of the fact Hindu population in Pakistan has come down from 23% in 1947 to less than 2% now, and in Bangladesh it has dwindled from 27% in 1947 to a meager 8%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And in <st1:place>Kashmir</st1:place> valley there are hardly any Hindus left now, except government servants!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Yet Jaswant Singh’s heart bleeds only for Muslims<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>- nary a tear did he shed for millions of ethnically Hindus and Sikhs. What hypocrisy, what poor scholarship?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial;">It is extraordinary that Jaswant Singh does not know that in four globally recognized human development indices, namely, the Infant Mortality, Child Mortality, Degree of Urbanization and Life Expectancy at Birth the Muslims of India are better placed than the Hindus, and that according to a survey conducted in 2005 by the Centre for Studies of Developing Studies, New Delhi, at the all India level the proportion of “very poor” people is higher among Hindus than among Muslims. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial;">The untruthful book of Jaswant Singh and his interviews to the media are indeed classic examples of poor scholarship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>No wonder, Jaswant Singh has been expelled from the BJP. The lesson is that book writing is a serious academic pursuit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It should not be taken as a casual exercise, even by the tallest politicians.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>**********<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span></o:p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial;">Copyright @ R.K. Ohri <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>Capt S B Tyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16645236617210813657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082738966230960798.post-19553030122961028942009-08-05T08:47:00.000-07:002009-08-05T08:57:13.173-07:00Hindu Spiritualism: The Ancient Hindu Way<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong> By: Om Prakash Sharma Former Governor Nagaland</strong><br /><br />It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it is not to end in self-destruction of the human race. At this supremely dangerous moment in human history , the only way of salvation is the ancient Hindu way. Here we have the attitude and spirit that can make it possible for the human race to grow together into a single family.<br />-Dr. Arnold J. Toynbee British Historian<br /><br />The Ancient Hindu Way, in the above-quoted perceptive observation, is the soul of the Indian Nation and Democracy. Toynbee could as well say: The chapter which had an Indian beginning in pre-historical times will have to have an Indian ending as well. The ancient Hindu way stands for liberal outlook, constructive attitude and an accommodating spirit. Pursuit of universal values made it possible for world’s greatest diversity that even now comprises more than two thousand ethnic groups, 652 languages & dialects and every major religion, to live in harmony. India continues to be a home to the third largest Muslim population, even after the birth of Pakistan as a separate homeland for them.<br /><br />Unfortunately, the ancient liberal creed of India has been undermined in recent times. It is further mired in the turbid waters of narrow politics of pretentious secularism and intellectual dishonesty. There is an appalling disconnect from the Indian heritage of the large westernized segment of the society that tends to be more effete than elite in outlook. The object of this paper is to make a comparative study of the cardinal features of Hindu spiritualism that has shaped the Hindu Philosophy of life that went into making India a unique nation and a vibrant democracy. India is a dynamic democracy due to its liberal ethos and democratic traditions at grassroots level, nurtured over the millennia, and not because of the British legacy, as generally assumed. British parliamentary institutions succeeded in India because of the receptive environment. Will Durant rightly gives credit for this to the “democratic traditions of India through village communities of self-government." Indologists like T.W. Rhys Davids and R.C.Majumdar also endorse the view about the widespread political culture based on popular assemblies. Buddhism and Jainism contributed to the development of democratic institutions. The Buddhist Sangha was a democratic institution. The Buddhist canons were finalized during the three Synods of Buddhism, and of Jainsm at Vallabhi in 456 AD after 800 years of Vardhman.<br /><br />If the British influence was indeed a potent factor for the success of democracy in India, then many Afro-Asian countries that were part of the British Empire would have been practicing democratic values today. Nothing illustrates the fallacy of the assumption better than the failure of democratic experiments in Pakistan and Bangladesh, the successor state to East Pakistan, that were offshoots of India. Fired by fanaticism, they partitioned the assets without sharing the liberal Indian heritage. It is no coincidence that out of about 50 Muslim majority countries, very few have managed to establish genuinely democratic form of governments. A section of the Muslim clerics, in a recent statement to the effect that democracy is not compatible with Islam may have confirmed the views of many scholars. In fact, some of the leading Islamic countries, like Saudi Arabia, figure among the worst governed countries in the world.<br /><br />A study in contrast is quite revealing. Christianity and Islam, two major religions of the world grew out of Judaism. In India, Buddhism and Jainism, two great ethical religions, emerged against the Hindu background. But, the similarity ends here. The two Judaism-based religions have a long history of violent confrontation with each other and with Judaism. One can see the depth of their historical aversion in Dante's Divine Comedy (Canto XXVIII), that puts Prophet Muhammad in Hell "among the sowers of discord and the schismatics, being lacerated by devils again and again." In contrast Gautam, the founder of Buddhism the rival religion to Hinduism, was merely brushed away as ‘nastika’- an atheist (Valmiki Ramayana); as per Manu’s definition, a non-believer of Vedas.<br /><br />India has an ancient civilization, with the longest unbroken continuity. India had not witnessed religious violence until the Muslim invasions of India. "The Mohammedan Conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history", wrote Will Durant in ‘The Story of Civilization’. Koenraad Elst, the Belgian historian, estimates that between the year 1000 and 1525, eighty million Hindus died at the hands of Muslim invaders, “probably the biggest holocaust in the whole history of our planet. Likewise, historians write that Christianity as a group has murdered more people in the name of ‘their God’ and wiped out entire cultures, than probably any other group in history. Over the course of 200 years, some 2 to 5 million persons are estimated to have been killed during the crusades. Muslims still consider the Crusades to be a symbol of Western hostility toward Islam. Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), author of ‘Perennial Philosophy’, further writes of "Islam's black record of holy wars and persecution - a record comparable to that of later Christianity." Swami Vivekananda wrote: "Mohammedans talk of universal brotherhood, but what comes out of that in reality? Why, anybody who is not a Mohammedan will not be admitted into the brotherhood; he will more likely have his own throat cut. Christians talk of universal brotherhood; but anyone who is not a Christian must go to that place where he will be eternally barbecued."<br /><br />A canard was spread by western historians that the Aryans had wiped out the native non-Aryan populations and that the Hindus had finished Buddhism. The first charge seeks to cover up the guilt of the imperial powers for having committed massive genocide of the indigenous people in the lands they had colonized. B.R. Ambedkar, a Buddhist himself, has replied to the second charge. According to him, “There can be no doubt that the fall of Buddhism in India was due to the invasions of the Musalmans." He mentions in his book, ‘Ends and Means’; "It is an extremely significant fact that, before the coming of the Mohammedans, there was virtually no persecution in India. The Chinese pilgrim Hiuen Tsang, who visited India in the first half of the seventh century and has left a circumstantial account of his 14 years in the country, makes it clear that Hindus and Buddhist lived side by side without any show of violence.”<br /><br />Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher and writer, gives an account of fortitude shown by Hindus in the face of atrocities perpetrated by foreign invaders as follows:<br /><br />“Hinduism remains a vibrant, cultural and religious force in the world today. To understand Hinduism, it is necessary that we examine its history and marvel at its sheer stamina to survive in spite of repeated attacks across India's borders, time and again, by Greeks, Shakas, Huns, Arabs, Pathans, Mongols, Portuguese, British etc. India gave shelter, acceptance, and freedom to all. But, in holy frenzy, millions of Hindus were slaughtered or proselytized. Their cities were pillaged and burnt, temples were destroyed and accumulated treasures of centuries carried off. Even under grievous persecutions from the ruling foreigners, the basics of its civilization remained undefiled and, as soon as the crises were over Hindus returned to the same old ways of searching for the perfection or the unknown”.<br /><br />Islam and Christianity wiped out Pagans and maligned their intensely humanitarian religion. In a fit of extreme malice towards them the Bible created a Genocidal God that ordered the killing of every single man, woman and child during the conquest of Canaan by Moses and Joshua. It concludes that all the Canaanites and Amalekites were killed. The stated reason for the genocide was that God wanted to prevent the coexistence of His people with Pagans, which would result in religious syncretism and the restoration of polytheism. The burning of heretics by the Roman Church on stakes has its own chapter of ignominy. Lao Tse was closer to the Indian thought in saying in Tao The Ching: “The Way of Heaven is to help not harm.” The universal religion of Hinduism urges mankind to be the sarva-mitra- friend of every being. In the Yajur Veda, the devotee prays to look upon all created things as friends.<br /><br />In a striking contrast, Hu Shih, a former Chinese ambassador to the United States, observed: “India conquered and dominated China culturally for twenty centuries without having to send a single soldier across her border.” It is worth recalling that two Chinese emperors had persecuted the Buddhist missionaries to China. When the succeeding emperor wanted to punish the persecutors, the Buddhist monks magnanimously dissuaded him from doing so. Religions of India reached other lands through enterprising traders and pacifist monks that promoted harmony instead of discord. The religions that entered India belligerently under the Imperial push could hardly be expected to be integrative. As a defense mechanism, Hinduism erected the walls of orthodoxy around it with ‘hundred exits and not one door for entrance’. This was to have a deleterious impact on the internal harmony of Hinduism.<br /><br />The Hindus have welcomed and respected all religions with an open mind. St Thomas Church, the oldest Church at Palyar in Trichur, Kerala was established in 52 A.D. Christianity reached India three centuries before it reached Rome. Likewise, Cheraman Jama Masjid located at Kodungallur, about 37-km from Thrissur, built in 628 AD, 7 years after the Prophet's migration to Medina, is believed to be the second oldest mosque in the world after the Medina mosque. Hounded and persecuted in other countries, the Jews in India led a peaceful life in the coastal state of Kerala. The first Jewish migration was around 605 BC when they landed in the ancient port town of Cranganore (now called Kodungallore). After that there were waves of migration in 586 BC, 68 AD, 369 AD, 486 AD and 490AD. Nathan Katz, in his book titled: ‘Who are the Jews of India?’ writes that India is the only country where the Jews were not persecuted. Zoroastrians, fleeing from the persecution of Muslim rulers in Iran made India their home as early as the 10th century AD. A population of 70,000 out of about one lakh Parsees live in India. Some 2.2 Million Bahá'ís of India - members of the largest Bahá'í Community of the world, persecuted in Iran, live here in peace. In their sheer liberal exuberance the Hindus even wrote Allah-Opanishad, probably during Akbar’s reign.<br /><br />Emperor Ashoka was the epitome of national integration. D.R. Bhandarkar commenting on Ashoka, observed that he perceived the fundamental unity of all religions as seen in his edicts. He summed it up in two words: self-restraint (sanyama) and purity of heart (bhavaa-shuddhi). He exhorted his people to cease praising one’s own sect and decrying other’s unnecessarily. On the contrary, they should show reverence to other sects for those aspects where they deserve it. His advice to mankind is: “Listen and desire to listen to one another’s dharma.” The consequence of all this would be that they would be bahushrut- more knowledgeable about dharama and they will also be kalyanagam- conducive to the welfare of the world.<br /><br />In sharp contrast to the above, Christianity holds, that if a man does not follow the teachings of Jesus Christ, he shall be condemned to hell. Islam says the same about those who do not follow the teachings of Prophet Mohammed. Tagore had misgivings about the adverse impact of such religious views on the human psyche when he said: “It has become tragically evident during the course of human history that the religions that were to liberate soul have in some form or the other been instrumental in shackling freedom of mind and even moral rights. Much of the bigotry, fanaticism, and religious persecution, has risen in the world from our dogmatizing.” Thomas Jefferson, an American President, seemed to echo the attitude of a liberal Hindu. He wrote his own Gospel minus the miracles. It was published 75 years after his death. He retained the teachings of the Bible through parables. He thought all miracles were added through the stupidity or roguery of Jesus’ disciples. His Jesus was simply a praying man. In defense of religious freedom he wrote: “It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”<br /><br />For several centuries, the men concerned with religious organisations, especially in Europe, imprisoned, tortured and even put to death the seekers of truth. The revolutionary theory of Copernicus about the earth revolving around the sun was published on his deathbed, sparing him conflict with the Vatican church. Bruno, born seven years after the death of Copernicus, published a book ‘Infinity of universe and the Worlds.’ He was burnt alive at the stake in Italy. He was produced before the Roman governor in 1600 who sentenced him with the usual directives to treat him “with as great clemency as possible and without the effusion of blood.” He was burnt at the stake; there was no effusion of blood! Thousands of ‘heretics’ were done to death in Inquisitions by the Roman Catholic church in such a compassionate manner! Contemporary historians have given blood-curdling accounts of the Hindu killings during the Goa Inquisitions carried out by the Portuguese. Francis Xavier sent to Goa by Ignatius Loyola of Jesuit order under the direction of the King João III of Portugal in 1541, came to the conclusions: “Hindus are an unholy race that they are liars and cheats to the very backbone, that the Indians being black themselves, consider their own color the best and also that they believe that their gods are black. On this account the great majority of their idols are as black as black can be, and moreover are generally so rubbed over with oil as to smell detestably, and seem to be as dirty as they are ugly and horrible to look at." He wrote to Rome to install inquisition in Goa immediately. The Goan inquisition is regarded by all contemporary portrayals as the most violent inquisition ever executed by the Portuguese Catholic Church. It lasted from 1560 to 1812 though in Europe it ended by 1774, (briefly restarted in 1778).<br /><br />After the perspective account based on the observations of scholars, statesmen and historians, the stage is set to examine the rationale behind the ‘The Ancient Hindu Way’- the amalgam that has galvanized India into a nation with its creed of tolerance. The Vedas, world’s most ancient library of scriptures, hold the key to a proper understanding of the phenomenon that India is. According to Dr. Radha Kumud Mookerji, the Rig Veda is the first book of Hindus and also of mankind. Some observations that may appear in the nature of clichés need to be stated as a prologue to the narrative that follows. According to the Yajur Veda, the Vedas represented the first civilization in the entire world: prathama sanskritih vishvara (Ya. 7.14). The Yajur Veda further proclaims that the Vedic seers had the task of awakening mankind: vayam rastre jagrayama purohitah- with the purpose of ennobling the human race: kranvantu vishvam aryam-(Rig. 9.63.5); not through conquests but through the pursuit of truth. The Vedic Aryan had the vision of the world as one family: Vasudheva Kutumbakam or yatra vishvam bhavati ek nidam (YAJ. 3.8). In the bhumi sukta, he delighted in being the son, not merely of the Aryavrata, but of the Earth: putro ahm prithviyah. The Sukta further hails the earth for giving shelter to numerous faiths: nana dharmanam Prithvi yathanksam.<br /><br />The Vedas were envisioned by the seers who had seen the Truth: Satya-Shrutah, Kavayah. They are also referred to as mantra- drasta, seers who had divined the hymns. More importantly, what the seers could perceive is not the whole Veda, but part of the Veda - 'anantah vai vedah'. There is no dogmatic finality about the Truth. The Upanishads also proclaimed the same, concluding that there is no end to it - 'neti neti '. This is typical of the India-born religions. The Buddha told Anand, his chief disciple, that he “had given him a handful of truths, but besides these there are many thousands more truths than can be enumerated.” The syadvaad of the Jains also deals with probability of the Truth, not the finality of it. Only Truth as per the Upanishads was that of the Self-existent- braham eva satyam. The second sutra of the Brahma-sutra defines braham as: janmadasya yatah- That who is the cause of creation etc. This observation is to be viewed in the light of a fierce debate that was going on between the Mimansakas who did not believe that God was the cause of creation and the Vedantists, who did.<br /><br />The term for religion in the Rig Veda is ‘rit’, synonymous with Truth personified (ritam- to go the right way, be pious or virtuous: RV- Sanskrit English Dictionary by M. Monier- Williams). The religion of Hindus, a nomenclature tagged by Persians, had no founder. It sprang from the depths of surging spiritualism. The Nasadiya Sukta (RV X, 12 9), the poetic Hymn of Creation of the Rig Veda, is the core of monotheism of the Vedas. It states that in the beginning when nothing existed and it was like darkness wrapped in layers of darkness; only That One (Tad Ekam) breathed by itself: aanid vaatam swadhaya tad ekam. The Creator had no name, as Lao Tse said: You can not name the nameless. The Vedic Aryan was in close communion with the forces of Nature, which he deified as His divine aspects. The Veda, however, clarified unequivocally: One alone exists though the sages call It variously- ekam sad vipra bahudha vadanti. (Rig. I. 164. 46). God is One without a parallel: ekameva-advityam or as interpreted by Sayana Acharya: There is only one supreme deity: 'Ekam eva Sat Tatva'. That only one supreme being created the earth and the heaven. (Rig. X. 8.3). That the Truth was called variously supplied the genes to the liberal Hindu psyche. Significantly, one name for war in the Rig Veda is ‘mam satyam’- my truth. History is a witness to religious wars to settle scores over the claims of Truth. India has a long history of resolving spiritual and religious differences through enlightened debates.<br /><br />Internal reform has been a regular feature of Hinduism. There was an opposition to ritualism within Rig Veda itself. It not approve of ritualism: richa kim karishyati- what can the mere recitation of the hymns do? The Gita admonished the veda-vaada ratah- those who paid mere lip service to the Vedas. There is a celebrated legend about Ashtavakra, an eight-humped scholar, during king Janaka’s reign. While in his mother’s womb he had the audacity to tell his father who was reading Veda to her mother, to look within for enlightenment, instead of reading scriptures which were only a storehouse of verbiage. The Sama Veda takes a stand against sacrifices of the early Vedic age. It says of famous Horse Sacrifice (ashva-medha): “O! Ye gods! We use no sacrificial stake. We slay no victim. We worship entirely by the repetition of sacred mantras”. The Gita transformed the Vedic theory of sacrifices and reconciles it with true knowledge of the eternal as Manduka Upanishad observed: ‘braham vid braham eva bhavati- the knower of Braham is Braham Himself.<br />The freedom of thought is the hallmark of Hindu scriptures. The Mahabharata says: “There is no muni that has not an opinion of his own”. The differences of opinion between Rishi Vaishampayan and Rishi Yagvalkya led to the division of the Yajur Veda into two schools of thought: The Krishana Yajur Veda and the Sukla Yajurveda. The acceptance of the Atharva Veda as the fourth Veda was a momentous development. It illustrates the Hindu genius to resolve conflicts in religious matters with great sagacity. There were polemics between the followers of the three Vedas, called strotriya, and those of the Atharva Veda, derisively called mantrikam (believers in magic), as they believed in mantra vidya. In many early scriptures only three Vedas were mentioned. (R.V., x. 90. 9.;v. 7. 1; Tait Up., ii. 2-3.) The Gita, Valmiki Ramayan and the Maha Bharata mention only 'Veda Trai’. The canonical works of the Buddhists do not mention the Atharva Veda. Grammarian Panini who flourished in the 3rd century B.C mentioned only three Vedas and not the Atharva Veda. Brahadaryanak Upanishads also mentions three Vedas. Some Atharva-vedic Acharyas considered it as the first Veda or even as brahmveda. Jayant Bhatt wrote in Nyay Manjari: "tatra vedaschtvar prathmo Atharva Veda"- among the four Vedas, the Atharva Veda is the first.<br /><br />Ved Vyas, the compiler of the Vedas, can be called the the first nation builder as he created the institution of teertha yatra- pilgrimages, for ‘chitta-shuddhi’ that prepared the ground for national unity. He was a great harmoniser. He could see the threat of schism among the Vedas to religious harmony. He regrouped the four Vedas by accommodating the Atharva Veda as the fourth Veda. Sumantu, son of Rishi Atharvan (of Atharva Veda), was one of his four shishyas, whose chain of disciples founded 1180 shakhas: Rig Veda 21, Yajurveda 101, Samaveda 1000 and Atharveda 58. Four disciples of Vyas, representing four Vedas were Pail, Jaimini, Vaishampayan and Sumantu. Dr P.V. Kane in the ‘History of Dharma Shastra,’ highlights how, in every age, the social thinkers tried to adjust Hindu institutions to the requirements of the time.<br />The Vedic system came to have two schools of thought: of the gyan-kand (Upanishadic path of knowledge) of the uttar-mimasa, and karma-kand (path of ritual) of the Poorva mimasa of Jamini. Differences at times were acute but never violent. They called karama-kandis as ‘devam priya' which according to Panini meant idiot. Upanishads and the Bhagwad Gita, were to draw the attention of the world to the greatness of the Hindu philosophy. The earliest translation of fifty Upanishads by Dara Shukoh attracted the attention of European scholars in the year 1775 when Anquetil Duperron received one MS of the Persian translation of Upanishads, sent by M.Gentil, the French resident at the court of Shuja ud Daula, and brought to France by M.Bernier. It was translated into Latin, published in 1801 and 1802, under the title of Oupnekhat. Schopenhauer proclaimed to the world ‘the vast treasures of thought which were lying buried beneath that fearful jargon’. His philosophy is powerfully impregnated with the doctrines of the Upanishads. He wrote: “Indian air surrounds us, and original thoughts of kindred spirits. And oh, how thoroughly is the mind here washed clean of all early engulfed Jewish superstitions, and of all philosophy that cringes before these superstitions! In the whole world there is no study, except that of the originals, so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Oupnekhat. It has been solace of my life, it will be solace of my death!” Max Muller fully agreed with him. Deusen, the German philosopher, explained the validity of the Vedantic message: ‘Because all other selves are your own selves’. He used to keep a copy of the Oupnekhat by his bed-side and read it before going to sleep. The German philosopher Nietze was very much influenced by the Upanishads which he learnt from Schopaneuher and Deusen.<br /><br />The Upanishads proclaim that Brahman is the only God-head. In Kathopnisad, it is Vishnu; in Mandukyaopnisad it is called Shivam. Staunch advaita monotheist, Adi Shankaracharya with his concern for unity, instituted six religious systems or sanmata: which included the prevailing worship of Shiva, Vishnu, Sakti, Ganapati, Kumar and Surya. Shankaracharya, a seer and a great nation builder, set four coordinates of the Indian nation by establishing four mathas at four geographical extremities at Puri, Sringeri, Dwarka and Badrinath, in 8th century when communications should have been extremely difficult. It is for every Indian to remember with pride that India owes its status as a nation to the harmonizing influence of Hindu spiritualism and the great vision of Hindu seers.<br /><br />The role of Bhagwad Gita , as an interpreter of the Upanishadic thought and a synthesiser of Hindu systems, deserves attention. Gita has been translated 1412 times in Indian languages and 191 times in other languages. Abul Fazal a scribe in Akbar’s court translated it in Persian. Dara Shukoh translated Gita in 1656. Its first English translation was done by Charles Wilkins, the first librarian of the East India Company. Warren Hastings, a soldier and a statesman observed: “Gita and the Indian scriptures will survive when the British dominion in India shall have long ceased to exist.” Thoreau observed about Gita that ‘in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial.’ Oppenheimer, father of the atom bomb, who knew the Gita, on seeing the first atomic explosions in 1945, spontaneously quoted the Gita and described the spectacle as: divi surya sahasraya – brilliance of thousand suns.<br /><br />The Gita had a role in nation building. It democratized the spiritual pursuit by opening the doors to all by taking to the devotional path. Besides, Shri Krishna gave freedom of pursuit of any faith, saying that ‘what ever paths men have taken any where, all paths lead to Me’: mam vartma ‘nuvartante manusyah partha sarvasah-Gita.4.11.. The Hindu God does not emerge as ‘a jealous God’ or a sectarian like a ‘Hebrew God’ or a God with a regional bias. The Gita is a synthesis of prevalent thoughts. The Sankhya, an atheistic school of philosophy in the beginning was given an equal status by Shri Krishan in the Gita: (III.iv, V.iv and V.v)- ekam sankhyam cha yogam cha yah pashyati sa pashayati- he who sees that both the Sankhya and the Yoga, both paths, are the same, he truly sees (the truth).<br /><br />How Jainism and Buddhism two great non-theistic faiths found a common meeting ground with theistic Hindu religion makes an intersting study. The Jain view is called Syadvada since it holds that all knowledge is only probable. It is a common feature of the Indian philosophies. As in the case of Buddhism, the founder of Jainism was a Kshatriya. Spiritualism was not a monopoly of Brahmins. Brahmanism was, however, too strong to be resisted. When the followers of the Krishna cult came into the fold of Jainism, a relationship was established between the 22nd Tirthankar (Aristanemi) and Krishna. Many Hindu gods crept in, so that there were divisions among Jains as Vaishnavas and non-Vaishnavas.<br /><br />Hinyana Buddhism is a colourless religion denying God in doctrine. A religion more catholic and less skeptic was required. A readjustment to the emerging situation also became imperative. At the formative stage of Mahayana, there was an influx of nomadic tribes from outside the country. It imitated the success of Hinduism and imbibed the theism of the Yoga of the later Upanishads and of the Bhagvad Gita. Mahayan believes in a saviour God. Emancipation could be delayed for the good of humanity. Life of the people was dominated by Brahamanism. It came to dominate Buddhism as well. Buddhism included Indra, Brahma and other Hindu divinities in its pantheon. While the Brahamins accepted Buddha as incarnation of Vishnu, the Buddhists identified Vishnu with Boddhisatva. Buddha represented the world as soulless. The religious instinct of man requires a God, so Buddha himself was deified.<br /><br />The six Brahmanical schools of Philosophy, or darshanas, make the liberal Hindu approach to spiritual matters clearer. These are: Gautama’s Nyaya, Kanada’s Vaishesik, Kapila’s Sakhya, Patanjali’s Yoga, Jaimini’s Purva Mimasa, and Badrayana’s Uttara Mimasa or the Vedanta. First five of these do not regard God as the creator of matter. Early Nyaya was not theistic. Vaishesika does not openly refer to God. It traced the primeval activities of the atoms and souls to the principle of adarshta. Kanad held that the Vedas were the act of seers and not of God. For Sankhya, the world is not a creation of God. Theism is not part of Patanjali’s creed. A personal god serves the practical purpose as an aid to Yoga. The central theme of Purva Mimasa is ritual; of the Uttara Mimasa, it is knowledge or Truth. Jamini doe not as much deny God as much he ignores Him. Later writers slowly smuggled God into it.<br /><br />The Epic period, which falls prior to the sixth century BC, was the era of Charvaka as well as of the Buddha. Acharya Brahaspati, the founder of the Charvaks, did not believe in God or religion. The Buddha and the Charvaks strongly denied the authority of the Vedas. The Charvakas denounced the scriptures, priests and the rituals. The worshippers would merely laugh at their diatribes and move ahead. There was no head-hunting, no bloodshed, not even bad feelings. This is the greatness of Hinduism. The epicurean thought finds a mention in other religious books as well. In a famous argument in the Hindu epic of Ramayana, Javali, a minister told Rama ; “O Sagacious Prince, there is no world but this; let this thought be absorbed by thee. Concern yourself with what is evident and turn thy back on what is beyond our knowledge. Take the crown”.<br /><br />During the epic period Brahamanism adjusted to the revolt against it in the east, and to fresh changes in the west in view of the influx of communities with their new beliefs. The Aryan culture met the new entrants half way ‘to build a new Aryan culture based on non-Aryan symbolism’, as observed by Dr. Radhakrishan. The concept of Trimurti was evolved in the Mahabharata, when the Greeks (Yavanas), Parthians (Shakas) and the Parthians (Pahlavas) entered the country. The Mahabharata apart from becoming a Brahamanical theistic poem, was a multi-disciplinary encyclopedia. It earned the title of the Fifth Veda as all classes could have access to it. Sister Nivedita observed that there were two distinct features quite discernible in the Mahabharata: “One of Unity in complexity and second constant impression upon its hearers of the single centralised idea of One India, with heroic tradition of its own”.<br /><br />Durga Puja figures in Mahabharata. Durga soon became the consort of Shiva. The merger of three philosophic and historical streams in present day Hinduism, one of Vedic through Upnishads and Vaishavism, the second of Shaivism from the South, with Agams (108) being the basic scriptures, and the third of the Shakta religion emanating from eastern India, was a vital homogenizing process that integrated Hindus.<br /><br /><br />The Bhakti movement that democratized the spiritual pursuit served as a strong stabilizing force through the length and the breadth of the country. The medieval saints of north India inherited the traditions set by Alavar saints of the south. Their compositions were in the local language instead of Sanskrit. Their faith was accessible to all without distinctions of caste and status. The Tamil Alavars were twelve in all and belonged to the Pallava and Chola times from the fifth to ninth centuries AD. They came from different backgrounds. They believed in monotheism. Alavar means one who is "immersed" in the experience of God, the omnipresent mysterious One. The Alavars composed approximately 4000 Tamil verses. In the 9th-10th century, the philosopher-saint Nathamuni arranged them as the Divya Prabandham, or Divine Collection, popularly called the Tamil Veda.<br />Hindu saints endeavoured to bring a social revolution through the medium of religion. Sri Basava of Karnataka, and Ramanujacharya in Tamilnadu in the 11th century took up the cause of the oppressed. Basava founded a sect in 1160. This sect led to social reforms, such as the elevation of the status of women, abolition of caste distinction, removal of untouchablity, and inculcating the dignity of manual labour and simplicity of life in the community. These preachers, in many cases, came from the submerged classes of Hindu society. This trend was earlier set in motion by the parivrajikas, the itinerant religious teachers in Buddha’s time, who often belonged to non-Brahmanic castes. In medieval times, the followers of Ramanand came from the lowest classes and even from outside the fold of Hinduism. This was the period when Muslim invaders were drenching the Indian soils with the blood of Hindu ‘Kafirs’. According to the estimates of historians, nearly seventy Muslim invasions had taken place before Guru Nanak. He had witnessed the atrocities perpetrated by Babar, whom he called as ‘yam’, the god of death. These saints were the consolidators of the Indian nation in the true tradition of Rishi Vyas and Adi Shankaracharya.<br />After an overview of the Ancient Hindu Way spread over several millennia it is time to address the present-day reality. The Hindu society is experiencing a state of siege. The nation is facing two types of aggressions; one demographic, inundating the country with millions of illegal immigrants altering the demographic map of India, and second of Christianization by missionaries, of vulnerable chunks of the Hindu society. In both cases they get impetus from the vote-bank politics. If the Hindu society shows concern about infiltration and conversions they are dubbed as Hindu chauvinists. Even if they talks about reconverting the converts they earn the odium of being communal and divisive. Two different norms are applied to the same problem.<br /><br />It is hard to ignore the subversive impact of missionary activities backed by powerful foreign churches. The nation is still feeling the subversive impact of Baptist missionaries in the northeast. Baptist Mission entered Naga Hills in 1872, when the Hills came under the British administration. The Baptist Missionaries in Nagaland infused secessionism, when Independent India was in an embryonic state. A senior British ICS officer who served in Nagaland had forewarned that the activities of the Baptists who were a source of inspiration for the terrorist outfit of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in America, did not augur well as they would be a source of trouble in times to come. He proved right. Under the permissive political climate, the missionaries have further spread their tentacles in the north-east region, in recent times.<br />There is a clear ruling on conversions. In the Stainislaus v. State of Madhya Pradesh (AIR 1977 SC 908), the Supreme Court has held that Article 25 (1) of the Indian Constitution does not grant any right to convert any person to one’s own religion. However, there is no halt to aggressive evangelization. While addressing missionaries in New Delhi on 7th November, 1999, late Pope John Paul II gave a call to convert Asia to Christianity as follows:- “Just as the first millennium saw the Cross firmly planted in the soil of Europe, and the second in that of America and Africa, so may the Third Christian Millennium witness a great harvest of faith on this vast and vital continent”. His successor and present Pope Benedict XVI reiterated this agenda of conversion with the words: “The Church is by its very nature missionary; its first task is evangelization. Hindus in India and Nepal are prime targets for this harvest of faith”. It was expected from a self-respecting nation to strongly rebuff such moves and additionally insist on getting an apology from the Pope for the Hindu holocaust in Goa Inquisitions, instead of listening to papal harangue about the aggressive evangelisation in the sub-continent.<br />Hindus had promoted secular environments and social harmony in ancient India. The present-day unprincipled politics, has regrettably replaced the British policy of ‘Divide and rule’ with the more sinister political tactics of ‘Fragment and Rule’. Fragmentation of the Indian society on communal, regional and caste lines has been the most dubious contribution of politics of opportunism. The Indian society was never so fragmented with each group confronting the other as it is now. The word “Hindu” has become synonymous with ‘communal’; Hindu bashing is considered secular. The process of social integration has given way to social engineering to meet demands of political expediency. The state has become a partisan by catering to the sectarian needs of certain religious groups with special dispensation. This is nothing short of state- promoted communalism. Under true secularism the state should stay neutral.<br />The nation is facing a new threat from modern day generation of iconoclasts from ‘eminent historians’ to pseudo intellectuals. Their efforts to deny and denigrate India’s rich and liberal heritage is diabolic. Hindus that were burnt on the stakes are martyrs of their faith and of the nation. Millions of Hindus put to the sword by fanatic invaders are martyrs of the motherland. They deserve a memorial in the hearts of all true Indians if not in monuments. Not to recall their sacrifices for their faith and the motherland is an act of disrespect towards them. Vidiadhar Naipaul summed up the situation well: "In art and history books, people write of the Muslims "arriving" in India as though they came on a tourist bus and went away again. The Muslim view of their conquest is a truer one. They speak of the triumph of faith, the destruction of idols and temples, the loot, the casting away of locals as slaves."<br />Yet India is a nation, despite incongruities, fractious politics, and massive backlog of unfulfilled missions. It is on account of the indestructible, all-sustaining and ever rejuvenating soul- ‘The Ancient Hindu Way’. India is a land of many creeds, customs and mores, and peoples savouring the munificence of mother India. It is the bounden dharma of all Indians to contribute to an atmosphere of peace and harmony under which every one develops according to one’s own peculiar genius, respecting the sensibilities of fellow citizens. It is befitting to conclude the exposition of the ‘Ancient Hindu Way’, by quoting the lines from the last Sukta of the Rig Veda, which is in the nature of an international anthem for its message of harmony to the entire humanity. Such sublime sentiments can be expressed only by a spiritually alive civilization. The thrust of the message in the Sukta is Sahchittamesam- to be of one mind, as a key to the harmonious living. </span></div><span style="font-family:arial;"><div align="justify"><br /><em> Sangacchadhvam samvadadhvam<br /> Samvo manamsi janatam<br /> Samano mantrah samiti samani<br /> Samanam manah Sahchittamesam.<br /></em><br />"Let all men meet and think as one mind,<br />Let all hearts unite in Love,<br />Let the goal be common,<br />May all live in happiness with a common purpose".</span> </div>Capt S B Tyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16645236617210813657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082738966230960798.post-4019111769577872892009-07-03T10:38:00.000-07:002009-07-03T10:43:11.195-07:00Letter to Dr. Karan Singh<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;">June 22, 2009<br /><br />Dear Sir,<br /><br /><strong> Sub: US President Obama’s 4th June Address.</strong><br /><br /> We take the liberty of intruding into your valuable time for a cause that, we feel, your goodself will appreciate.<br /><br />US President Barak Obama’s speech at the Al Azhar University, Cairo, on 4th June 2009, has been held as historic. A copy of this speech, as available publicly, is attached for ready reference. While the primary objective of this speech looking for bringing in all round peace is appreciated, we failed to persuade ourselves to accept his extremely bipartisan effort to please the Muslim world and in the process totally ignoring India’s contribution and role if world peace is to be ensured. Even if this is a diplomatic move, one cannot, and we strongly feel, one must not, evade or ignore the truth. We, from the platform of the Patriots’ Forum (</span><a href="http://www.patriotsforum.org/"><span style="font-family:arial;">www.patriotsforum.org</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">), have therefore, lodged a protest of sorts. A copy of our “Open letter by an Indian to US President” is attached.<br /><br />The Forum strongly feels you as the proud inheritor and flag-bearer of the Indian (read Hindu) civilization, could also consider taking up the issue formally from your esteemed organization (Indian Council for Cultural Relations - ICCR) in the manner thought fit.<br /><br />Sir, we should be grateful to know that the matter has been taken up by you appropriately.<br /><br />Kind regards,<br /><br />Yours sincerely,<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>(D.C. Nath)<br />President, Patriots' Forum</strong> </span></div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">To,</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>Dr. Karan Singh</strong><br />President,<br />Indian Council for Cultural Relations<br />Azad Bhavan Indraprastha Estate,<br />New Delhi- 110002, India<br />Phones:23378616 23370698<br />president@iccrindia.org</span>Capt S B Tyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16645236617210813657noreply@blogger.com0