Friday, October 28, 2011
BJP OR CONGRESS--THERE IS NO HOLY COW IN INDIAN POLITICS!
Yesterday, I had an excellent conversation with a politically savvy friend of mine, Prashant Kumar Rathore, who is very well -informed of Indian politics. A professor of history in an American university, he is a keen observer of political developments across the globe. Being a person of Indian origion, his interest in Indian developments is obvious. Like any other NRI, he too is blinded by media campaign on the goodness of BJP and Team ANNA. We had a long discussion on recent events but I am producing here only a condensed version, with deviations and digressions of History clipped out. I will post it in two parts. Part One is produced below:-
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I (RK) : Yeddyurappa incident shows whether BJP or Congress, or even those one man/woman parties headed by the likes of Laloo, Mulayam, Mamta, Mayawati, Jai Lalita, Karunanidhi, Om prakash Chautala, Ps Badal, Ajit Singh etc., there were no HOLY COWS in Indian politics.
Friend (PK) : Yes, you are right. but there is a dfference?
RK : Difference? What diffenece?
PK :BJP is less corrupt than Congress.
RK : This is NO consolation, Sir. This is what I explain : DIL BEHLAANE KE LIYE GHALIB KHAYAL ACHCHHA HAI; CHOROn KE SHEHAR MEn, JAANAM, HAR CHOR SACHCHAA HAI. ( It is a good thought, O' Ghalib, to satisfy your mental state; But in the city of thieves, every thief is truthful, dear mate!)
PK : No, No ! You got me wrong. I say give the devil its due. At least, BJP has the guts to see the back of the corrupt people, whether it was Yeddyurappa or its past president Luxman, but Congress remains in the denial mode whether it was Shiela Dixit, PC Chidambram, Late YSR reddi and his son or even MMS and SG. Even in the case of Kalmadi, thye had hung on for months before SC got after CWG. Same thing happened in case of 2G----they are trying all sorts of tricks to manipulate to save PC and thus prevent exposure of Robert Vadra and PC's Son.Look at it , CBI is manipulated to say that PC can not be prosecuted. Who is CBI to say so?
RK: I agree on the white lies of congress. I think Congress leaders have learnt this trick from Pakistan----whenever caught on a wrong foot---just deny---rubbish all evidences.
PK: Yes, Yes, you are right. They have learnt it from their interaction with Pakistan's leaders. But there is a difference.
RK: Difference? Again difference? What is the difference?
PK: You see, like Pakistan, they do not declare their 'wrong-doers' as 'NON-STATE ACTORS'. They very honestly admit that they were their own stalwarts---and very honorable stalwarts.
RK : Oh, I see. You mean even Pakistan has some decency to delink itself from 'wrong-doing' but our own CONGRESS party has no such pretensions.
PK : You see, it is no more CONGRESS--Over the last 126 years, it has muted itself to be called CON-GROSS---meaning a party of CONS in totality.
RK: How have these mutations come?
PK : Ask the Parsis of Mumbai----why are they now opting out of INTRA COMMUNITY MARRIAGES to Inter -Community marriages?
RK : I don't get you---why do you equate peace loving and docile Parsis with this party?
PK : No, No ---do not misunderstand me----It is just to explain the phenomenon of Mutations. You see Parsis have realized that intra -community marriages have led to some genetic deformities in their community. Even genes get stagnated once they do not find variety. Stagnation causes consternation and decay.
RK : What has it got to do with CON-GROSS?
PK : Even CON-GROSS has been suffering from this INTRA-PARTY growth of Families within CON-GROSS. NEHRU's Fourth generation is dominating it ---there are second- third genaration people in this who become its leaders because of their family connections though they have nothing worthwhile in them----There is a Pilot here, Diwedi there-----Reddi here Reddi there----all links within links-----if father goes----son / daughter thinks it is their birth right to take his/her father's place.
RK : Oh! This way ---Yea but this is so with all other parties, whether DMK, AIADMK, AKALI DAL, SP, Indian Lok Dal, JANTA DAL, BSP, JD (S) and many more such FAMILY FIRMS of Indian political Corporartion.
PK: Yes, Yes----They all have learnt from CON-GROSS and this is why they have NOT grown further because they too suffer from GENETIC DEFORMITY.
RK : Sir, are you suggesting we are in POLITICALLY STAGNANT WATERS----where only reptiles of evil grow?
PK : Somewhat, you can say that. But I would still say that BJP is slightly different because it stiil openly does not promote families to swarm the party.
RK : When will you stop this symphony that BJP was a party with a difference, Sir?
PK : It is a lesser evil and everyone must support it to throw out Con-gross .
RK : Sorry, I do not agree. You know what happened in Satna(MP) the otherday, where Advani's Rath yatra was expected?
PK: I know some smartalec tried to bribe the media by giving each journalist an envelop with FIVE HUNDREDS RUPEES Note in it .
RK : So, do you still think BJP a right choice to lead next government ? Also, when it has a flawed thinking on Indian political map?
PK : Flawed thinking ? what is that/
RK : Even advani's Rath Yatra is based on this flawed thinking? They will never grow out of this. They are stagnating in their thoughts----therefore they can not grow.
PK: Rajee, what is this flawed thinking?
RK : I think as a political teacher you would have known it better. BJP wants to win the next elections on HINDUTAVA Plank------It is a dead horse being flogged by them too often for their inconvenience.
PK : Now, I don't get you---How do you call it a dead horse?
RK : Very simple sir ------the HINDU MAJORITY in India is a misnomer. It was never there. In political arithmatics or even in reality there was nothing known as Hindus----There were Brahmins, Rajpoots, Kashatriyas, Vaish, Yadavs, Ahirs, Jats, Gujjars, Sainis, Gorkhas, Kurmis, Bhumihars, Aggarwals, Maarwaris, Dalits, Lingaytas, Dravids, Tamils, Kannadigas, Malayalis, Ahoms, Mizos, Bodos and God knows how many more splinter groups but No Hindus to vote as Hindus.
PK : This is true.But-----
RK : Not only this -----HINDU MAJORITY is as elusive as HINDU as a religion----The word HINDU in practise and CONNOTATION has only been a LOST ELDER BROTHER of the modern word "INDIAN"---which encompasses everyone who lives in this Land mass called India----So did the word HINDU----as late as 19th century when even Jains, sikhs and Buddhists were called Hindus by all foreigners.
PK : Very Interesting, Rajee. How much is the truth in your theory?
RK : I am not gassing sir. Read HISTORY OF INDIA by JOHN KEAY, an Indologist and renowned Historian. This book is a real good document on Indian ancestry.
PK : So what do you mean by this?
RK : I say, BJP can not win elections anymore on HINDU card-----This is the flaw in their thinking. As on date, from the ELECTORAL ARITHMATICS point of view only MULIMS are a Majority---because they vote as ONE group against this fear of HINDU MAJORITY making them second rate citizens.
PK : How does it make them ( Muslims) second rate citizens?
RK : This is how CON-GROSS has kept the Muslims scared and insulated from BJP----which strengthened this belief by such acts as Advani's Rath Yatras.
PK : So, you rule out BJP as an alternative. How about Team Anna, if they form a party.
RK : No question. Other than Anna and may be Kiran Bedi, they are a bunch of opportunists , who can sell themselves for personal gains.
PK : Very harsh, Rajee. Some days back you were its strong supporter.
RK : I still support ANNA---but I have now doubts about the intentions of Arvind Kejriwal, Santosh Hegde and Prashant Bhushan. Look at it what Prashant Bhushan is doing----
PK : Yea sad--- One fails to understand what made him say so on Kashmir to Media? Perhaps, he does not even know the clauses of UN resolution on Kashmir ----Has he utilised his 'Anna popularity' to make some personal gains.
RK : Everyone knows what TOI is doing through AMAN KI ASHA with Pakistan's JUNG group of News papers. The peace these two papers want in the subcontinent is NOT because of any love for its people but because of BUSINESS reasons. I think TOI had something to do with his Kashmir statement.
PK : Couldn't get you, Rajee?
RK :They want to revitalise their dwindling project AMAN KI ASHA---for which there were no takers in Pakistan , even India. So, if a person like Prashant Bhushan is made to say what Pakistan wants---obviously antennas will rise because Team Anna is projected as the NEXT KING MAKER of Indian politics.
PK : Team Anna--Next KING MAKER? Yea, this is the general perception. But it can only happen if ANNA HAZARE decides to jump into electoral fray. He refuses to do so.
RK : Yea. you are right. This is the FRUSTRATION of personal ambitions of TEAM ANNA. This is why they are sniping at each other-------- whether it was Swami Agnivesh, Kiran bedi, Santosh Hegde and Arvind Kejriwal. And Prashant Bhushan , a clever lawyer as he is, could see the future of Team Anna-----Soon going into oblivion if it does not jumps into electoral fray.
PK : So, make hay while the sun shines. Is it?
RK : Yes, his Kashmir statement is an OPPORTUNIST MOVE to make personal gains----it is NOT born out of any ideological conviction. So, would you trust such OPPORTUNISTS becoming King Makers in 2014.
PK: But Anna Hazare won't allow them. would he?
RK: Sir, don't be so naive. Anna is a disposable product when personal ambitions rule---don't you know what happened to Jai Parkash Narain after Janta Party came to power in 1977?
PK, So where does India go?
RK : To FOURTH ALTERNATIVE-------!
PK : What? Fourth alternative---What?
RK-----Yes sir !------FOURTH ALTERNATIVE!!
_______________To Be Continued In Part Two : FOURTH ALTERNATIVE
NO HOLY COW IN INDIAN POLITICS--PART TWO
In Part One, I highlighted as to how Indian politicians, of whichever affiliation, have lost their credibility. There is no public trust in them any more. People look at them with a lot of suspicion. Even if some are truthful, it is now become a trend to look for his hidden agenda. Team Anna had shown some promises but it has also gone the politicians way. Consider the accusations of improper conduct of Kiran Bedi, Arvind Kejriwal and Prashant Bhushan. They have proved that corruption is in the blood of every Indian, however pious he might project himself to be. Inference is that he might not have got an opportunity to do so. In fact, it is now turning out that what to say of politics, there are NO HOLY COWS ANYWHERE IN INDIA. Now read this conversation between me and Prashant., who ultimately ruled out what I craved for. He had valid explanations.
PK: Before you start with your "Fourth Alternative" theory, what do you make out of this forging of Air Tickets by Kiran Bedi? Isn't she behaving in a similar manner as most honest politicians begin, before they become full scale professional looters?
RK :Very sad. It is no doubts that corruption has got into the blood of we- Indians. It is a matter of opportunity, one gets to respond to one's temptations. But you know one thing ? Do you have any idea of what is the phenomenon of 'issue contagion'
PK: Issue contagion? Now what is that phenomenon?
RK : You know it explains the power of INTERNET AGE. World has now moved into the advance stage of INFORMATION EXPLOSION. Instant communications have redefined the parameters of " Knowledge -is- Power" quote of Francis Bacon. This remark was the defining characteristic of KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY.
PK: Yea, I do understand this, Rajee? I know Alvin Toffler defined the three pillars of Power as FORCE, MONEY and KNOWLEDGE. He also pointed out that humanity has passed through' "three waves' to reach present level of growth and development. In the FIRST WAVE, i.e. Agricultural Society, it was the" FORCE" which controlled power. In the SECOND Wave, which began in the 15th Century with Industrial revolution, it was the "MONEY" which controlled power. In the THIRD Wave, which started in the mid- 20th Century, it was "KNOWLEDGE" which obtained significance .Some say, we are now moving closer to FOURTH WAVE----the COSMIC SOCIETY.
RK: It might take time for us to enter FOURTH WAVE but we are in the advanced stage of Knowledge Society. You know , Sir! Other day, I was reading that fine book "HOW" by Dov Siedman. ( Published in 2007 by JOHN WILEY & SONS, Inc, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA). He explains this phenomenon of ISSUE CONTAGION by giving an example of U-Shaped bicycle lock made by Kryptonite Lock Company in 2001 , who, aggressively marketed it as unlockable by thieves.. It boasted of its invincibility. But in 2004, a normal person, Chris Brenen, demonstrated how this lock can be opened. While the message spread like wildfire through the internet, the management of Kryptonite company remained unconcerned. Their failure to immediately respond to this information led to massive loss to company and it lost its credibility, too. The spread of this message to the concerned buyers or the clients made them react. Kryptonite company still treated as a trivial matter while internet was abuzz with it. This caused extensive loss of business to the company. Therefore, the power of internet and the flow of information on this must not be underestimated. Today control of information is just NOT possible.
PK. OK, how do you relate it to present context of our discussion?
RK: You see one conclusion of KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY philosophers was that whoever controlled Knowledge/ Information would have the power.
PK: That's right ---I suppose this is founding principle of Information Society.
RK. Yea, but this very founding principle has undergone change with the rise of INTERNET. It has shown that INFORMATION CAN NOT BE CONTROLLED. One might delay its flow but it would ultimately tumble out of the container, it was contained in. This is the power of internet. Power , therefore moves into the hands of those who SHARE INFORMATION and NOT Controlling it.
PK: This is very interesting. I can relate it. Even despite the control of electronic and print Media by Politicians and yet information leaking out into the public domain.
RK: This is what neither Indian media nor Indian public figures ( politicians, bureaucrats, technocrats, Govenment servants and all those who have authority but NOT power) have understood as yet . All attempts to control the flow of information on corruption by these men in government have failed and the information on 2G and CWG came out in public domain.
PK: This is true. Even People like Kiran Bedi and Arvind Kejriwal have fallen victim to this powerful tools of "Advance Knowledge Society". So, are you saying : IS HAMAM MEn SUB NANGE HO RAHE HAI ( IN THIS BATH, EVERY ONE HAS BEEN ROBBED OFF HIS CLOTHES)?
RK. Exactly. The message for future aspirants of political power is that TRANSPARENCY was the new rule of ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY----which has not only flattened the world but empowered the POWERLESS to be equal participants in the process.
PK: You said it---I agree with you. Globalised society is now more informed and does not take leaders on face value. The Arab spring in the Middle East is a clear reminder to Indian politicians to fall in the line.
RK: It is also a warning to opportunists like the ones, who swarmed around ANNA HAZARE, that their acts of omission and commission are also visible,. They can not pose as saints while attacking others.
PK: Absolutely right. Transparency is going to be the key trait of acceptability of leaders in the very well informed society. This will be above all other attributes of leadership. We have seen that whoever is in power puts up a false front of honesty through technical legalities, like present Congress government is doing by blocking CBI investigations of PC Chidambram, under false pretexts.
RK: The only answer to such manipulations is to decontrol authority and decentralise powers.
PK: That is very interesting. You mean centralisation of powers is the mother of corruption.
RK: Yes, I mean it. Unless the boss is corrupt, subbordinate dares not. We have been dealing with this problem from Bottom to Top. It must be reversed. I recommend devolution of powers. The power must flow from BOTTOM TO TOP and NOT from TOP to BOTTOM.
PK.: So you recommend empowering of local self governments- Could you elaborate a bit?
RK: If you look at the present structure of Indian democracy----it has a strong TOP (Centre); Less strong MIDDLE (States) but a very weak Bottom( Panchayats or Zila Parsishads). This is why Indian democracy is weak and unstable because 'Heavy top ' can not rest properly on 'Weak Base". Our democracy is unstable and corrupt.
PK: I agree. This is why the local development and growth is imbalanced. There are economic imbalances because lopsided priorities of ministers of the central Government.. You see, if a Railway Minister is from Bihar, his attention is totally on Bihar. If he or she is from West Bengal, priority shifts there. Similarly about other ministeries. We need to empower the base for balanced growth. Local people would know their needs and priortise them properly.
RK. This is why I recommend that devolution of power should aim at :
(a) Centre : Handle only seven subjects i.e.1. Defence & security, including internal security and Nuclear defence; 2. Media & Electronic.Communications ; 3.Law-making for the Union and Elections for the Centre, state and District councils; 4.Foreign Affairs; 5. Research & Development including Space research 6. Currency.7. Rail Transportation.
(b) States: Handle only three subjects i.e.1. Law Making for the state; 2. Surface, both road and water alongwith air transportation and Infrastructure; 3.Excise and Taxation including Land records.
(c) District Councils : All other subjects from local law and order problems to formulation of local laws as approved by state legislature councils. This would include, industry, local taxation.,Surfacecommunications, education, jails, agriculture, urban & town planning and so like.
PK: This would need a massive exercise to amend the constitution. How's it possible under the present set up?
RK : This is the million dollar question. This is why I suggested a FOURTH ALTERNATIVE to present setup.
PK : You mean a government outside the present lot of politicians who would root for amendment of the constitution. Aren't you dreaming , Rajee?
RK: I am looking at a National Government ,as an interim measure, which will come through People's movement which roots for a national refrendum and ousting of present regime. I say forget Lokpal or Janlokpal Bills---they are meaningless exercise. We need a total overhaul of India and it would come through only by amending the constitution in totality or even be re-written.
PK : You want to amend some more aspects of constitution?
RK: Yes: I want the posts of GOVERNORS of States to be revitalised.. They should NOT be politicians but emminent persons from various fields. I want President of India to be empowered, too. Both Governors and Presidents are toothless tigers, mere puppets in the hands of politicians. They must be rid of. politicians. In fact political connection should be a disqualification for these posts. I also want right to recall of a MP, MLA , District Council member and Panch to become part of the constitution.
PK: Very radical changes you are suggesting. But the problem is your NATIONAL GOVERNMENT or the FOURTH ALTERNATIVE you are suggesting. How does it find itself in the saddle of Indian Democracy?
RK: Radical ---? yes, radical are the measures suggested by me. But you see all these laments and cries on corruption , Janlokpal or Lokpal bill, non-governance, rising prices, economic imbalances, population explosion, poverty, communal violence, vote-bank politicsand terrorism can not be tackled under present set up. These demands are patch work of the real problems. Lokpal is not going to solve anything. He would be just another burden on National exchequer.
PK,: But , Rajee, why don't you understand the arithmatics of Indian Democracy? It is not possible to install a National Government through a people's movement.
RK: Everything is possible, if we can only energise the public, like Anna Hazare had done. It has happened in Egypt, It is happening in other places. We are in the advance age of information society. we just need a spark. It will come from political high-handedness only. The way politicians are trying to evade corruption investigations and bureaucratic machinery siding with them----it will energise the public. Situation is waiting to explode.
PK: Do you see a revolution in the offing?
RK: I am seeing a POLITICAL CHURNING which will emerge out of this Corruption Chaos and public frustration. I see a Storm rising in India if SC and Government do not handle 2G and CWG scam properly. If government tries to further shelter those who have amassed wealth in foreign banks-----the storm will rise. Spark is already there, INTERNET will provide the OXYGEN for flames to rise.
PK : What would be the shape of your FOURTH ALTERNATIVE of NATIONAL GOVERNMENT born out of the chaos of a bloody revolution envisaged by you? Who would head such a government and what would be the political outfit supporting it.
RK: I seek a forceful people's movement for a national refrendum on electing a National Government as an interim measure to amend and modify the constitution to suit modern realities. This government be headed by emminent person like Dr APJ Kalam and it should have members from various professional fields, san politics. There could be any other emminent person if Dr APJ Kalam is not ready to take on the responsibility. The new government appoint a body constitutional review committee.
PK: Rajee Sir, Forceful people's movement means it could be a violent movement. I know what you actually meant was a kind of revolution, as is happening in the Arab world. Let me emphasise that ARAB SPRING CAN NOT TRANSPLANT ITSELF IN INDIA..
RK: Why? Why do you say so ? If Egyptians can do why not we? If Libya can throw out the tyrants, why not the Indians?
PK: Your suggestions are too impractical to be implemented. You are talking in isolation of Indian conditions and other realities. Sir, idealism is always not the winner. Your wishful thinking smacks more of what you want and not what is possible. Let me give you FIVE REASONS as to why your NATIONAL GOVERNMENT or FOURTH ALTERNATIVE.
(a) Arab Spring : It is Not wholly Arab Spring. The rebels or what you call revolutionaries are backed up by the western world. They have their vested interests to control oil. This rebel movements from Tunisia through Yemen to Libya have been engineered by the West which will not be openly possible in case of India.
(b) Indian History : Indian history bears testimony to the fact that Indians basically are a "STATUS QUO" people. They do not like bloodshed. Their history is witness to the fact that people have never revolted enmasse against the tyranny of the ruler. The causes of the failure of 1857 uprising must tell you that Britishers used Indians against Indians to curb this uprising. Even during Aurengzeb rule, the nation did not rise in revolt in favour of Marathas or Guru Govind Singh. Individual cases of revolt were suppressed with heavyy hand. In any case one cuckoo does not make a spring.
(c) Social strategem : Indians have slave blood running in their veins. They still have not come out of the Colonial system of " ZEE HUZOOR---MAI BAP" ( Yes Sir ! My Lord ) concept of living. Besides Indian Social system advocates hypocrisy. Indians say something and do something else. Moreover, another character of Indians is to back stab each other, Read your history, you will realise how you were enslaved whether it was Babar in 1526 or Mohammed Ghori in 1192 or even Mohammed Bin Kassim in 712 AD. All of them defeated the dominant Indian kings with the help of other Indians who were jealous. Even British employed this tactics against Nawab Sirajudaula of Bengal when MIR JAFFAR was bought over.
(d) Urban disenchantment : Present state of disenchantment is only urban. Still 50-60 % indians live in villages, who are totally disconnected from the present noise on corruption---the likely spearhead of your people's movement. It seems to be only media hype. To be very frank, after so much reported corruption cases if the blood of Indians is NOT boiling, it will never do in future. They still believe in the philosophy of why worry if it does not affect us personally.
(e) Religious and Regional Disunity There are so many cleavages in Indian polity that they can never unite. The politicians will spike such movements by turning them into racial or regional movements. They would pitch one community against other. Even Anna's movement did not see Muslim participation whole heartedly. These religious and regional chasms would drain out the life out of any of your projected movement.
RK: Like a history professor, you have rightly assessed the situation, sir. But the question remains----where does India go?
PK: Rajee Sir, India has lived through the centuries like this----it will continue to do so. There are NO GAME CHANGERS who can succeed in India. It was NOT Gandhi who got you the freedom, ultimately---it was Britain who decided to leave because SECOND WORLD WAR had weakened them. India has always been like this and it has learnt to adjust to "good -bad" times. Don't look for HOLY COWS in India. Leave India to its own fate---it will survive.
RK. Thanks sir! I am grateful for your views..
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Friday, October 14, 2011
NOTHING WAS PERFECT IN LIFE!
Reality and idealism are like two banks of a river,
They always run parallel, but meet they will never;
Demands of reality compels to make a compromise,
Even most known saints have lived by this premise.
In a real or virtual world, people often wear masks,
So,discourses on moralitiy are meaningless talks.
What to say of a person, who willfully hides identity!
Claims of truth by this person, contains no certainty.
Wise men say that there was nothing perfect in life,
As truth and lies would always go side wise side;
Generally, in the public, people wear a mask of piety,
Invariably their acts are dictated by needs of reality.
Know this, for sure that life was a zero sum game,
One's deeds will fetch back either honour or shame:
Do unto others what one expects others must do,
For, good done to even enemy, one would never rue.
One's acts seed and nourish one's future wants,
For, one can not grow oranges on a lemon plant?
Before you expect your child to do good to you,
Must ask yourself if you did the same things, too?
Though everyone accepts the universality of God?
Yet humanity is, still, divided into religious forts?
Must not humanity become a necklace of religions?
Where each person is threded by a common vision.
The boat of truth is always anchored by nailed lies,
As a heap of jaggery attracts a bunch of humming flies;
Purity on its own always stands on slippery grounds,
To make attractive Jewellry, impuritiy in gold abounds.
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Friday, September 16, 2011
WAKE UP O' WOMAN---DON'T BE APPENDAGE OF MAN!
What is a woman, a common question always persists,
Some say without the man, a woman just can not exist;
Sure, the man only views a woman as a thing of beauty,
Who, also, must be seen to carry out home maker's duties.
From "Ranjha's Heer" to "Majnu's Laila" through "Romeo's Juliet",
Your devotion and dedication to your man has been totally explicit;
No doubts, euphemism of a "Radha' or a "Sita" brings no dignity,
As 'Krishna' flirted with 'gopis' and "Rama" questioned your fidelity.
A woman always craves for man and unconditionally surrenders,
She blindly trusts him and confides, which leads her to blunder;
It is no secret that man often treats her as his personal property,
Woman merely serves him as an object for his sexual activity.
It is truism a man's real intent even a mother can't discern,
He grows up in her lap but forgets her and show no concern,
Her cuddling kisses and caring touches, when he was in cradle,
Would be invariably forgotten, once wife rides his life's saddle.
It is a gospel truth that a man lacks in mental robustness,
When the crisis descend, he cracks up and cries in distress;
Often, a woman comes to his rescue to hold him straight--
It could be a doting wife or a mother who re-writes his fate.
You have been abused enough, so, rise! O', Woman, rise!!
No matters, if you are a mother, sister, daughter and wife;
You allowed yourself to be treated as an appendage of man;
Wake up to break free of servility and create your own elan.!
Man often shifts loyalty from mother to wife, then, to daughter,
For self-seeking pursuits, even his kith and kin, he would barter;
Face him straight, don't you look down and don't you squeak,
Stand up o', woman ! Stare into his eyes and then you speak.
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Tuesday, August 09, 2011
HINDU ASSERTIVENESS AND UNFOUNDED FEARS!
I would like to quote Napoleon who had said: World suffers a lot not because of the violence of Bad people but Silence of Good people. I would re-frame it to say that HINDUISM in India suffers NOT so much from its obvious FAILINGS but from its excessive GOODNESS.
This write-up is inspired by 'Prostitutional treatment of Hinduism' by all and sundry. More particularly, I write it as a rejoinder to an unwanted criticism of an article in the online daily Newspaper, DNA, by Dr Subramaniyam Swamy, which has been posted verbatim by Gregory Fegel on Sulekha.. One might not agree on measures suggested by Dr Swamy to eradicate terrorism, but there was no DEVIL in his article. He spoke out the bare facts, which most of us want to hedge hog in the name of pesudo-secularism. Problem is not of Secularism but his call for assertion of Hinduism. People are annoyed because he has named Muslim fundamentalists as the root cause of terrorism. This was his cardinal sin, as viewed by his frantic critics. I wonder if the tolerance level of Indian Muslims was so low that their patience cracks at the mere accusation of one person. Or is it that truth was bitter---very very bitter.
But why are these pseudo-secular Hindus batting for the Muslim community? I am sure and I can vouch for it that bulk of the Muslim community of India understands this reality. It is only these SELF ACCLAIMED MESSAIHAS of MUSLIMS, from the ranks of HINDUS, who are squeaking like this. And they have made Hinduism their whipping boy to instil fear amongst the minorities in general and Muslims in particular.
Hinduism has been made to look a diabolical monster through such criticism of Dr Swamy. A blogger says it would lead to anarchy. Another feared it might fragment India.If Indian Unity is so fragile that it breaks up at the mere raising of a finger at "Muslim Fundamentalists" by someone----then it must damn well break-up. There is no need for such a weak India in the commity of nations! But before that these guys must answer as to why didn't they expounded the same theory when their "Priya Rahul Ji" lamented to the US Ambassador on "Hindu terror"? Why doesn't India break up when Digvijay Singh sees the hands of "Hindu terrorists" in every misfortune India undergoes. Is tolerance only to be shown by Hindus? Why doesn't someone ask the families of those killed in Mumbai 26/11 as to who the terrorists were? Why don't these guys investigate series of blasts carried out in various cities of India in 2008-09? We all know the truth but we want to close our eyes. If a Subramaniyam Swamy speaks, we go crazy in denouncing him and think we can wish away the evil by closing our eyes. Our pseudo-secularists suffer from an 'Ostrich syndrome' or as I prefer to dub it a "pigeon psyche".
Some, often, rubbish Hinduism in the name of secularism; some ridicule it in the name of "surging Hindu terror"; some exploit it in the name of its puratnical ethics; some rebuke it being a 'majority' religion of India and some even poke fun at its epochal characters like Hanuman etc. The things have come to such a sorry pass that should a person just identifiy himself as a HINDU, there would be cries all over India of " HINDU TERROR" or even danger to SECULARISM. Some even see it as a threat to NATIONAL SECURITY. This noise and the 'cowardice docility' of a Hindu, sends the entire community into a state of 'suspended animation'. He is neither dead, nor alive; neither existing, nor perishing and neither cared nor alienated. It seems, to be recognised as a Hindu today, is a shame in India of yore.
Though I was a born 'Hindu' , in practice and conduct. I was never a 'Hindu'. I genuinely detested this 'birth tag' denomination of my religion, which I thought had been thrust upon me without my consent. As a rebellious youth, I had a tendency to question the established order. To be very frank, I did not like the chaos and anarchy of Hindu philosophy of gods ---too many of them to give you any comfort. As a youngman, I did everything what a Hindu is forbidden to do---I ate 'halal meat'; I relished beef. I even questioned the occurence of Ramayana and Mahabharta, at the level and scale it is made out to be. I still do it.
But I wonder, today, whether all other religions allow such freedom and lattitude to be so independent and freewheeling in your thoughts? May be Christanity---but they also impose compulsary 'Sunday Mass' on their followers. Hindus care too hoots for such compulsary rituals---it is voluntary. I don't know whether it was weakness or strength but I do feel all CONTROLLED RELIGIONS have a tendency to stay in a 'Ghetto'. There are fears of desertion by followers, if given freedom. Fatwas, Five times compulsary NAMAZ; Burqa for women etc., etc---these are some common measures to control the followers. And Sir, This is the reason for the rise of ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM ---the FEAR OF ITS LOSING GROUND in the aftermath of Globalisation----which is actusally the feared GLASNOST of CLOSED RELIGIONS. Mullas and Qazis have come to dominate. What happened to Christanity in the medeival period or to HInduism after Mahabharta war, Islam is passing through now. Whenever clergy came to the fore in any religion, decay and destruction of that religion began.
My main grouse is that I am tired of listening to this "HINDU -BASHING" , which goes on day in and day out without any rhyme and reason. People talk of Hindu- Terror----when in reality they are most docile and even cowardly, if I may say so. It is this docile nature of Hindus which has become the cause of their problems. At the drop of a hat Hindus submit to the authority---or anyone behaves "God-Like"-----This explains the multiplicity of GODS. GODESSES and GODMEN in India---to each one acoo"rding to his tastes and likes.
What is secularism of today? It is merely in name--outlined in the constitution. It is practised in a most chaotic and confused manner. In real sense, true SECULARISM would imply NON-PATRONISATION of any class, creed, religion, region,language in ANY FORM by THE STATE. But we have caste reservations, we have a minority commission, we have special provision and protection for some states and religions on silly reasons and we have now even gender differentiation for woman reservation. To say the least our constitution is the BIGGEST PRACTITIONER OF NON-SECULAR ETHOS. We are undoubtedly a nation driven to hypocrisy by wrong practices. The PROTECTIONIST policies of our constitution is the mother of PSEUDO-SECULARISM.
I ask a simple question now. Does ASSERTION of HINDUISM by someone endanger secularism? You should have asked yourself as to why has he asserted himself? In fact, this is the question I ask everyone. What has driven this most docile creature called HINDU to such a state that he wants to assert himself? Why is there so much noise when Hindu points out that the bulk of the terrorist acts in India were initiated by fanatical Muslims, even if they were just 20 % of the Muslim population? Don't confuse 'terrorism' and "Insurgency"--- there is a wide difference between ISI sponsored Terrorism through WOM and Maoist/ Naxalite or ULFA insurgency---though violence is the ultimate product of both. Why can not be face the truth?
Let us not go by this crap----TERRORISTS HAVE NO RELIGION--- This is a trash of Pakistan's excuse makers---who now also say after 26/11 that TERRORISTS WERE NON-STATE ACTORS. Firs,t they had no religion; now, they have no state also? Then, where do they come from? Do they fall from skies? What are those JIHAD FACTORIES of Pakistan doing? Why are Americans crying about Haqani Group in Afghanistan being supported by Pakistanis? What is the strategic asset of General Kayani's Pakistan? Let us accept the fact India too has ISLANDS of SUPPORT, amongst its Muslim Population to ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS of Pakistan. It is immaterial whether it was voluntary or through coercion of family ties. But this fact can not be denied by even pseudo-secularists. It may be 10-15 percent but if you look at the size of community some 160 millions---it works out to 1.6 to 2.4 million---which is a sizeable number to create havoc in India. It can further spread if NOT checked now. This is what Dr Swamy has conveyed---what is the devil in this? Watch this video by TIMES NOW on Indians like ARUN DHATI ROY being on the paypanel of ISI.
http://www.timesnow.tv/videoshow/4379408.cms
Whole world knows that 75% of terror attacks, everywhere, are the doings of ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS---No one is saying that all Muslims were Terrorists but international terrorism was conceived and delivered from the womb of ISI of Pakistan----Its objective is PAN -ISLAMIC world. Why are we running away from this fact? Dr Swamy highlighted this. As a counter to Dr Swamy's Article, there is an article by a teenager Aditi Ramakrishanan. She claims that she was 17 years old. I doubt if it was written by her---She must be doubling up for some one. I wonder as to what were her journalistic credentials for DNA to accept her article. She talked of issues, which at her age, she won't understand, even if she was a gold medalist or a topper.
There was another article by Seema Mustafa. The name must suggest to you her compulsion to harp about 'Congress brand of Secularism'. Britishers left in 1947 but their policies of 'divide and rule' was adopted by ruling clique and thus ' majority-minority' dividing lines were created to safeguard the votes. We are till date NOT freed from this mental slavery. And these two articles were manifestations of this psyche.
Does this teenager Aditi Rama Krishanan know what is ISI and Pan-Islamic ambition of ISI? Does she know about the resolution of POK by Indian Parliament-----Does she understand the meaning of KASHMIR, POK SHAMIL, BHARAT KA ATOOT ANG HAI ( Kashmir, POK included, is the integaral part of India) Did she mean the parliamentarians of yesteryears were fools? Forget the conspiracy theories of some friends to pass terror attacks as CIA or RAW doings. You know they are here to do some firefighting on behalf of the organisations who have created their identity and sustains them in such forums. Let me NOT go into details.
Therefore, I find the critiism of Dr Subramaniyam Swamy is primarily to divert attention from corruption charges against the RULING conglomeration under Sonia Gandhi----she is neck deep into problems because of Swamy----If UPA does not returns to power after next hustings, she would scoot out of India along with 'our Priya Rahul'. But that I don't think would happen because HINDUS are not only COWARDS are also FOOLISH--RSS has proved it to me-------they would vote her party back to power. Fact is most of the CRYING HINDUS like me won't vote, most of them would tag along with Sonia as Secularists and majority of them would sell their votes for TWO PIECES of CRUMBS-----Afterall poverty is rampant in India.
Government says those who earn Rs 11/ 17 ( rural /urban) daily are below poverty line (BPL) ----it also laid down that those who can not consume 2400 calories/day----SC questioned this logic-----But lot of logic of GOI you won't understand as of SECULARISM and reservation-----Still govt claims there were 400 Millions BPL---In actual fact if you double the rate it would be almost 7-800 millions under BPL out of 1210 millions-----And there are only 600-650 milion voters in India---you know what will happen when money bags from SWITZERLAND would open. HINDUISM you are rooted to be condemned in India for ever if your majority does not wake up. THROW OUT CONGRESS and CONGRESSMEN, LOCK STOCK AND BARREL ---this is the only solution ---All your problems of communal disharmony, corruption, violence, terrorism, economic imbalances, peace with neighbours would get resolved----what more there would be less danger to national security.
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CIVILITIES,PRIVACY AND MORALITIES---WHAT?
Amazing---just amazing how people keep beating around the bush. It is a basic human tendency to advise others but not to follow the same advice. I have never understood this Indian trait of sermonising others at the drop of a hat. I might not be an exception, too.
Do we consider ourselves as 'gatekeepers of civilities and moralities'? In what capacity, do we advise others? You call a person idiotic, moron and wicked etc. and then talk of moralities? What made you call the guy 'immature'? Sure, you did---read yourself, O' exponent of virtues! Was it because he/she wrote something against a person you like? If you call him 'idiotic', do you think, he/she would take it lying down? What a hypocrisy?
Now someone is accusing people for using foul language---I never understood as to what was the true definition of 'foul language'? Is it according to individual interpretation or does it have a universal definition? Imagine this coming from the people, who are so accustomed to the use of FOUR LETTER word with ease and comfort twice, in a simple sentence they utter. I had heard one such 'Sulekhite', often hurling choicest of negative words at Mamta Bannerjee, not in the so distant a past. Today, the said person is lecturing others on the social norms. I say civilities begin at home.
Sometimes people talk about freedom of expression---but at the same time question others who express their opinion which perhaps is NOT to the liking of the person who question. Freedom of expression is a fearless outpouring against something one does not like. But it is ought to be kept within the permissible limits of accepted social norms. One can not throw indiginties at others. Slur is, of course, falling under abuse but merely doubting some one's intentions does not. If I say, why so and so person was behaving in a particular manner---I am just expressing my view NOT abusing him----even if I was wrong.
Individual whims and fancies have been cloaked as conversational civilities and moralities. Let us say, we all know that India of 2011 is badly affected by corruption, scams and scandals. Most of the people also think that a particular person was responsible for this. Obviously, the said person has to do something to wriggle out of this mess by doing something else. May be the person might enact a drama to gain sympathies and deflect attention away from corruption. This is what has happened in the case of Madam Sonia Gandhi, Chairperson of Congress and convener of UPA---the ruling combination of India.
We all know that CAG report has come down heavily on the ruling clique. The pages of secret deals are now opening up---naturally all pointers are towards Mrs Sonia Gandhi---the way she has corrupted the polity. She is recognised as the person who manipulated Mr "Q" to get away from India---She figures in all mega scams of 2010-11. Her stoned silence on Swiss bank money is sending the nation into tizzy spins.
In the meanwhile, a "controlled news" has now come of her dangerously serious ailment. Obviously people will get alerted on this "controlled informatio"n due to lack of transparency of the government and its dwindling credibility. Some might doubt of the disease. It is but natural---it is freedom of thought and expression-----why must you call the person "WICKED", who thinks she should have kept the nation informed? Heavens have not fallen, if he asked who would foot the bill of such an expensive treatment in a poor country with 500 millions or so not been able to earn even 11-17 rupees a day? This is the problem of Congresswallas--Not that BJP, Left and others are different----whole political class suffers from self-righteousness-----and anyone raising doubts on their conduct is wishfully explained as a conspiracy.
We must know the hazards of being a public figure-----they have their privileges and drawbacks----one such thing is LACK OF PRIVACY. There is NO privacy for such people. Lady Diana was constantly chased by paparazi till she died. All sort of stories appear in the print and electonic media about the public figures----therefore, they ought to take them in their own stride.I thought Madam Sonia Gandhi's ailment has fallen victim of a hush- hush manner in which it has been handled. It was mishandled by the Congress whose die-hard supporters are now crying on the questions being raised.
Now it has come out that her treatment has been organised by an Indian director of World Bank, PULOK CHATTERJI, and his assistant Mr Rupesh Dalal----and this director is supposedly taking over as Principal Secretary in PMO's office. Isn't it gross misude of office and height of slavery of government servants? Obviously, people would raise questions as to :-
----What is the disease? When was it detected----It might NOT have developed overnight? She is a leader of the ruling party---Nation ought to know the seriousness of the disease----there is NO---I repeat NO privacy clause can be enforced if public money is to be expended---
-----Who is paying for it?Is she paying from her pocket? Can she afford it as per her financial statements before CEC in various elections? If Government of India paying for it---who has sanctioned it?
------What is the total bill, if paid by govt? Why has the parliament not been taken into confidence? Dear all, she is a public servant and public figure---if President 's sanction is required to prosecute her for corruption----being a public servant then, she also must get parliament approval for her treatment outside the country
-----Why couldn't the Doctor---Indian Doctor, come to India?
------ Are their lack of facilities in India?
------Why such facilities can not be created in India?
-----Sonia Gandhi is an important link in the government-----why it has been kept a secret?
If above questions are to be answered, how can it be a private affair? why are people crying about it? What is so FOUL in these questions that you start howling about? What is so immoral about them?
If there is anything immoral, it is secrecy of this ailment----if anything wrong it is lack of transparency-----why has this time been fixed when CAG report was tabled in Parliament? There is a method in her strange actions----If you recollect the night when DELHI police raided RAMDEV at Ram Lila Ground-----she had boarded the private plane to Dubai the same night along with her son-----possibly for holidays to Switzerland. You see her own acts raise doubts. Did she run away from CAG report reaction of the people?
Let us not get blinded by uncalled for moralities-----Let us call a spade a spade-----Civilities begin at home---Kindly do not call others wicked because your "WICKED IDOL" is under the scanner.
Read this excerpt from an article in HUFFINGTON POST by Cleo Paskal, an associate fellow at Royal Institute of International studies-----
( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cleo-paskal/worlds-9-most-powerful-pe_b_853132.html)
"---------Sten Lindstrom, Sweden’s special prosecutor investigating the pay-offs associated with the sale of weapons by Bofors to the Government of India. His investigation showed that a close friend of Sonia’s, Ottavio Quattrocchi, has received kickbacks in the millions.
In 1998 Lindstrom gave an interview in which he said:
The Gandhis, particularly now Sonia, should explain how Quattrocchi-owned companies got such fat sums as payoffs from the Bofors deal. After all, what is the connection of Sonia and the Gandhi family to Quattrocchi? Who introduced Quattrocchi and his AE Services to Bofors?At least one thing is certainly known now. A part of the payoffs definitely went to Quattrocchi. [...] the papers all pointed to the Gandhi family.
Not only have the questions not been answered by Sonia, but in spite of substantial evidence against him, Quattrocchi has managed to evade prosecution in India, and has even had his kickback funds unfrozen from overseas accounts.---------------"
Why shouldn't people ask these questions now? Stop crying about her privacy---Days of "BECHARI SONIA" are over-----Here is what we must know-----
SONIA GANDHI AILMENT -----'RED SKIN PATCHES----CURABLE CANCER'---SAYS A RECENT REPORT'!
Madam Sonia Gandhi was recognised as the 9th most powerful person in the world as declared by Forbes 500 list of the year 2010. Suddenly this person is missing from the Parliament on August 01, 2011. Speculation begins, till Tehleka Dot Com, an online Magazine, squeaks about her serious ailment on August 04,2011. After utter confusion is created all over India, about their most powerful person, 'All India Congress Committee (AICC)' gives out a brief on August 05,2011. It said : Gandhi is abroad after being "diagnosed with a medical condition that requires surgery". Instead of clarifying, it further cluttered the public mind.
And the confusion continues due to the stocky silence maintained by Indian Media, while the internet is agog of the news of the description of her ailment. Do you see somekind of a conspiracy behind this deliberate confusion and Indian Media's stocky silence on the nature and type of Madam Sonia Gandhi's ailment? Contrast this with Man Mohan Singh's heart operation in UPA-1, when dailly medical bulletins were issued. Even when AB Vajpayee underwent knee operation, no secrecy was maintained. What was the necessity to go blank on Sonia Gandhi's ailment? Was it part of some kind of a starategy Have your own take. Here are some facts.
News has now filtered out that Madam Sonia Gandhi was suffering from red patches on the skin. This is a curable ailment and there is NO danger to her life. In fact , it never was. If the news about this ailment of 'red patches on the skin' is correct, then, this would have been known to the family for long. Even congressmen would have known. Why this information could not have been given out in a simple press release rather than cloaking in secrecy?
What was the need for this sudden disclosure in a dramatic manner? Was there some definite motive behind this sordid drama ? It seems so, if one looks at the way this information was handled in a hush-hush manner---through planted leaks in a web magazine called TEHLEKA DOT COM----who is basically a Congress trap door for opposition. It now tried to trap innocent Indians.
It is now a fair assumption that Sonia Gandhi's ailment was a drama being enacted to gain sympathy of the public to deflect attention from corruption charges. It has been reported that reddish patches of the skin are most common to Westerners when exposed to sun----Bill Clinton, former US President, suffered from it and he was cured---George Bush, both father son duo, Bill Clinton's predecessor and successor respectively, suffered from this and were cured. Sonia Gandhi too has that soft skin which is amenable to this ailment. There is NOTHING serious about it.
Let us first listen to the actual report on her ailment.
Listen to NEWS X. It reports : For all those praying for Sonia Gandhi's health ,we have good news. NewsX has learnt from highly reliable sources that the Congress President has a relatively benign kind of skin cancer for which she has undergone surgery at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the US on Thursday. The cancer is curable and she is out of danger-------
Listen to the Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4x8Uu_G2Vc
Why did Congress Party allow people to speculate on this ailment? People went mad with wild imagination---from cervical Cancer to Intestinal cancer. There was no transparency about this. Was there a method in this madness of Congress party? Did it try to encash this sickness to create a sympathy wave? Such a doubt does come up. Just note it----
-----It was leaked through TEHLEKA . COM----a mouth piece of Congress----It was to create a drama.
------Watch the timings of the treatment:-
-----CAG report was tabled in Parliament.
-----Dr swamy's deadline for permission to prosecute her ended on July 15, 2001---though extended upto August 15 by him as he was at Harvard.
-----CJI of India Justiice Kapadia is likely to retire soon---He is after the SWISS BANK ACCOUNTS of all politicians----
As soon as the news of the seriousness of ailment got out, Congress men started their well-rehearsed drama----Janardan Poojary & co began POOJA in a Temple---Rest of them also their own prayer programmes. The name of a famous India- born Oncologist was let out to add veracity to the seriousness of the disease. Do we see a well planned move now backfiring?\
It is now obvious that she would be out of the country on this plea when the heat is on for corruption charges. Her location would remain undisclosed so that no one can question her when SC takes up corruption charges against her. In the mean while PC Chidambram, Kapil Sibbal and DigVijay would create noise and drum-beating about HOME MADE TERROR and involve Dr Swamy & CO in this. So the script of the drama is complete.
It is amazing that Dr NORI 's name was involved for treatment----deliberately to create the scare-----He was away holidaying in Iceland----Why would a cervix cancer / urology oncologist Dr. Nori would treat skin cancer? Is the Congress so naive that it does not know the power of media in the INFORMATION AGE.? Wasn't Nori's name used to create TEHLEKA in the minds of INDIAN PUBLIC? Isn't this lie being nailed?
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THE MAKING OF OSLO-KILLER!
Oslo-killing has thrown up many questions which needs to be realistically examined. The killer is Andres Breivik---a white Norwegian and a Christian. Eye-brows are being raised as to how a Christian could do this dastardly act? A large number of postmortems are under way by different experts, intelligentsia and intellectuals. Each one has one's own theory to explain as to why Andres Breivik did, what he did. Everyone is trying to get into his psyche to understand his act but no one is telling as to what had made Andres Breivik . The act of Andres Breivik is as unpardonable as any acts of 'Jihadi outfits’. There is a tendency to dismiss the likes of him as a 'maverick" or an 'insane' guy. Is he really so? Or is he the soldier of another ideology which is finding its feet against Islam?
By now, everyone knows the story of his troubled childhood, deficient of parental love and suspected connections with EDL-(English Defence League--an association of rowdy footballers!). A reference is also made to 1500 page web document he posted on the web before the incident. To put it simply, Oslo-killing is being explained as the work of a mad man---an insane, who is mentally not sound. Is that so?
The question arises as to what made Andres Breivik? Is it the fear of 'Islamisation' of the Western society and the lurking danger of its likely overwhelming of a liberalized and a free society by the diktats of Mullahs and Moulvis ? The fear is of the intolerant, regimented, inflexible, rigid and controlled tenets of Islam, which has been refereed to as 'Islamofascism'. This fear been called as 'Islamophobia'.
'Islamophobia' has given rise to a counter -ideology, which is referred to as “Cultural Conservatism". This counter ideology is nothing but an attempt to protect and secure Western culture being allegedly decimated due to liberalized western philosophy on 'Immigration', hitherto, defined as "Multiculturalism". It is no gains saying the fact that rise of 'Cultural Conservatism' is definitely promoting intolerance and hatred.
Let us put it this way: If the fear of loss of Islamic culture due to Western influence and 'globalization', aided by such thoughts as 'Pan-Islamic World View' of Islamic clergy, gave rise to " Jihadi Culture" and the rise of “Mullahs and Moulvis" in the Islamic world; similarly Islamophobia' has led to rise of "cultural conservatism" in the Western world, which is giving birth to guys like Andres Breivik----the "Jihadis" of the so called "Free World". You will notice there is a “cause-effect" phenomenon operating here.
Is this incident not a reflection of the ongoing conflict between “Pan Islamic World View” and rising head of “Cultural Conservatism” phenomenon in Europe, allegedly backed by many European Governments, such as France, Germany, Denmark etc? Is it the beginning of the 'Clash of Civilisations', as enunciated by P Huntington , an American thinker & strategist, now in full swing. Isn't this a 'War of ideologies'?
Years back, in 90-92 to be precise, when I conducted 'Operation Rhino' against ULFA (United Liberation Front of Assam) in Jorhat, I had a very interesting conversation with an ULFA ideologue, Rajan Chetia of Jorhat. Every one, including ULFA Leadership, was in awe of him. ULFA leadership, wanting to surrender asked me to first neutralize him. When he was nabbed, ULFA melted like a house of wax not only in my area but all over. We started the surrender process in Jorhat & Golaghat, which spread like wild fire all over Assam and led to creation of 'Surrendered ULFA' or SULFA, as a group, to counter ULFA.
When we apprehended him in February 1992, he held the appointment of 'General Editor' of Jorhat & Golaghat districts of Assam, something like a Political Commissar in the PLA of China. Our conversation pertained to future of ULFA due to neutralization of entire ULFA leadership by my unit in those two districts and initiation of Surrender process which had spread to all other parts of Assam. To say the least, ULFA was almost decimated and SULFA had sprung up. My conversation with Rajan Chetia ran like this:
Me: We have finished ULFA, Rajan Chetia. ( I had chided him to start the conversation because he was a die hard ULFA cadre---He was the one we had nabbed with great efforts just before suspension of Operation Rhino.. He was the master mind of abduction of UNGC officials in Jorhat)
Rajan: Sir, ideologies are never defeated by men but ideologies.
Me: Interesting Rajan. Please elaborate.
Rajan: Colonel, You might pat your back for what you have claimed to achieve---but it is not so. You might kill me but ULFA will not die----even if you eliminate Arbindo Rajkhowa and Paresh Barua, it will continue to live till you find a better ideology to defeat it. It is our ideology which has suffered a temporary setback (due to our faulty tactics and your brilliant strategy) but not finished. Sir, individuals do not matter.
Yes, he was right, I thought. To cut diamond, one needs a diamond. Therefore, to defeat an ideology, you need a 'counter- ideology'. Andres Breveik is a product of an ideology which is now engulfing not only western world but the whole world, too. The Oslo-act of Andres Breivik must be seen through the kaleidoscope of Islamophobia, which is to say:-
(a) He might have intended to kill the Palestinian students who were camping on the same island and whose camp rounded up two days before the shooting. He might have been misled or acted out of mistaken identity.
(b) His act was intended to send a warning signal to perceived inaction of 'Islamic Apologists" who continuously keep parroting such excuses as “Terrorists have No religion" or “Terrorists were Non-state actors".
Message of Andres Breivik is absolutely clear:-
(a) Religion is the mother of modern day terrorism.)Terrorists do have a religion----whether it is Islam or Christianity or whatever.
(b)Terrorists have “Patrons' , religious or political, who definitely have a 'state'.
Now the questions arise if Islamofascism and Islamophobia were real or just figment of imagination of some right wing thinkers of the west? It would be pertinent to know the feared tenets of Islam through eye-lens of an insider---the one who belongs to the said religion and how he sees it. Here are some relevant excerpts from the interview of Dr Syed Kamran Mirza, a noted Bangla Deshi thinker and the author of Roots of Islamic Terrorism and co-author of Beyond Jihad and Leaving Islam. He does say that the religion was rigid and regressive and does not allow any freedom and liberty to question its seventh century old tenets. ( Inferences are given in red. Full interview is at the link given below : http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=33591 )
A. I learned from Mullahs/seniors that Islam is the ultimate truth and the best religion in the whole world. The Qur’an is the infallible word of Allah, who loves only the religion Islam, and all other religions are simply false and bad; they all are “Kafirs” and destined to go to hell. ( He talks about the INVINCIBILITY & INFALLIBILITY OF ISLAM----which he was brainwashed with---which actually implies that NON-BELIEVERS should be punished-----in other words, KAFIRS are not the PRODUCT of their GOD-----So, GOD is NOT ONE---)
B. Also, I learned from the Maulanas and Mullahs that—someday the entire world will be converted to Islam, by the master plan of Allah. (Intolerance and negation of the principle of Peaceful-Co-existence-----Pan Islamic World View?) .
C. The Islamist and Mullahs told me: “it is the sacred duty for the Muslims to kill kafirs. Hindus are kafirs therefore it is our duty to kill them.” I asked him if it is written in the Qur’an or hadiths to kill Hindus. The Mullah replied: yes. (Repudiating the claim of apologists that Islam was peaceful).
D. These fanatic Mullahs used to capture young Bengali girls (Mainly Hindus and also Muslims) and supply them to those Pakistani soldiers as Islamic booty (sex slaves) for their service to protecting Islam. (Theme that Religioun was puratanical/ pious is a farce----May be applicable to all religions!)
E. I also found out that Qur’an is a book full of hatred, cruelties, unethical matters and most of all it has no divinity at all. I could not find anything that was impossible for mankind to think or say in the 7th century period. The Qur’an is replete with hateful, coercive and killing verses (examples: 5:51, 9:5, 3:85, 8:39, 9:29, 47:4, 2:191).(Explodes the myth that Islam does NOT spread Hatred or Violence----This is the proof)
F. My conclusion was that this book, the Qur’an, was man made -- as other holy books that predate Islam were; and I came to the realization that the Prophet Muhammad himself primarily created it for his self-serving ( No comments--self explanatory----I hold this view for all religions on the Man-Made Gods!----God is definitely a creation of Mullahs, Pundits, Priests, 'Granthis and so on----God is ONE SUPREME BEING----nameless--formless--invisible--non-incarnating---non-discriminating)
G. It is very important to understand that Muslims in general will mostly deny that any Muslims are ever involved in Islamic terrorism around the world. Muslims in general and pure Muslims in particular will spread some awkward conspiracy theories blaming America, Israel and India about Mumbai incident.(Denial mode is in built in Islamic believers )
H. Many of them may condemn terrorism, but they do not condemn any Islamic terrorists’ gang by name and identity and they will always smell some conspiracy theory and will outright disbelieve western media. (Cry for secularism is a farce----extra-national loyalty describe islamic followers!----Duality in the conduct is visible------ wherever Muslims are in Majority ---they treat others as second rate-----if they are in 'minority' they cry for 'secularism)
J. Islamic terrorists are continuously getting a silent “nod of consent” from millions of gullible Muslims and hypocritical Islamist. Devout Muslims, (especially in Arab nations, Pakistan and elsewhere) have two-faces: to the western media, they profess to oppose terrorism, while in private, they espouse Islamic jihad, which is Islamic terrorism. (Silence of Majority of Muslims is actually a tacit approval of Jihadi acts-----Islamic followers are more “hypocrites” than accepted.)
K. But the menace may continue to grow if the West follows the fruitless policy of appeasing the Muslims, disseminating patronizing statements like: “Terrorists are not real Muslims, Islam is a religion of peace, Terrorists are a radicalized or perverted interpretation of peaceful Islam etc.” Western appeasement will be dangerous and this foolish technique of appeasing Islamist will only embolden the fanatic zeal of Islamist. Please remember, Muslims do believe strongly that Allah is working behind their ulterior plan of converting the entire earth under the fold of Islam, they call it peace or surrender. (Islamophobia is born and rise of cultural conservatism!)
Having seen dimensions of 'Islamofascism' let us see the extent of 'Islamophobia' and what do the critics of Islamisation of Europe say?
Islamisation of Europe
----In 2010 Libyan leader Gaddafi visited Italy and announced that "Islam should become the religion of the whole of Europe." He also said that Europe's conversion would become a fait accompli "when Turkey becomes a member of the European Union." -------------Soeren Kern in his piece at : http://www.hudson-ny.org/1536/islam-religion-of-europe
-------We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe.This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West. ----Alleges Geert Wilders, President of Freedom Party of the Netherlands .( http://www.geertwilders.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1535)
---------A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live in Europe.San Diego University recently calculated that a staggering 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now. Bernhardt Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end of this century.----Alleges Geert Wilders, President of Freedom Party of the Netherlands.
---------And the numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate. But there are few signs of that. The Pew Research Center reported that half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to France. One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks. ----Alleges Geert Wilders, President of Freedom Party of the Netherland.
What is the Grouse against Islamic immigration?
--------They do not come to integrate into our societies; they come to integrate our society into their Dar-al-Islam. ----Alleges Geert Wilders, President of Freedom Party of the Netherland.
Islam- Not a religion but a Political Ideology.
--------Let no one fool you about Islam being a religion -----in its essence, Islam is a political ideology. It is a system that lays down detailed rules for society and the life of every person. Islam wants to dictate every aspect of life.Islam means 'submission'.Islam is not compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives for is Sharia. ------Geert Wilders, Chairman, Party of Freedom, The Netherland, made in a speech at the Four Seasons, New York.
Demographic Upheaval
-------birth rates among native Europeans are far below replacement levels in most European countries. By contrast, Muslim immigrants in Europe are procreating at a breakneck pace, with birth rates that in many cases are double or triple those of native European populations. -----Soeren Keren.
We must note that the 'third highest community of immigrants' to Norway is from Pakistan-----Out of 4.9 million population of Norway, 12.4 % were immigrants. And Pakistan is perceived as the womb through which 'Islamic Terrorism and Pan -Islamic world View' have taken birth. These immigrants have extra national loyalty to Islam.
Everyone is skeptical of Pakistan and its military who is hand in gloves with terrorists outfits. They are using them as “strategic Assets” in Afghanistan and Kashmir. Sadly enough but it is truism that the West and USA have been the silent votary of Pakistan's transformation to a nation of Islamofascists.
It must be noted that Islam was no more seen as a religion but a political ideology. The controls and thought -regimentation by Mullahs/Moulvis, through 'Fatwas' against those who dare to question their anti-freedom edicts; Burqas for the women; Killing of KAFIRS (Non Believers); absolute superiority of Islamic God, have led to Islamophobia . In such a set up, freedom and liberty, the cutting edge of democracies, have no place.
The loyalty of the followers is more to this ideology than the nations they have settled in modern times. It is contended that the misplaced loyalty of these 'settlers' has led to the rise of 'Andres Breivik' in the West. This probably might be the cause of the rise of 'Pragya Thakurs' in India, too. 'Islamophobia' is not only real but it also threatens to make others extinct. You can not wish away this reality till Islam remains under the tight grip of Mullas and Moulvis. Anyone trying to break free of them is sidelined--like what happened to Vastanvi---ex VC of Darul Uloom of Deobandh.
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Friday, July 15, 2011
WHAT TIME HAS COME, WHAT PEOPLE IT HAILS?
What time has come, what people it hails?
Moralities,religion and integrity are on sale;
Imagine the times in the past and its people-
Who sacrificed their lives for these scruples.
Watch families of today, where parents neglected;
Daughters are raped and one's sisters transacted!
What time has come, what people it hails?
Moralities,religion and integrity are on sale;
There is no rule and no law as money is the obsession!
Hence brothers kill brothers and seek solace in religion;
What time has come, what people it hails?
Moralities,religion and integrity are on sale;
Dumb and deaf form the Government, full of hooligans-
Where misrule abounds who cares for the cries of citizens?
What time has come, what people it hails?
Moralities,religion and integrity are on sale;
Talks of hunger alleviation are false promises of fake administration,
How can poverty be eradicated if we are not a disciplined nation?
What time has come, what people it hails?
Moralities,religion and integrity are on sale;
Corruption is in our veins, taking bribe is a matter of right-
So talk of moralities is useless when scandals fill our lives;
What time has come, what people it hails?
Moralities,religion and integrity are on sale;
How will this nation fight the rising clouds of terror?
No noise can awaken our leaders from deep slumber;
What time has come, what people it hails?
Moralities,religion and integrity are on sale;
What were those times when a lady with jewellery bedecked-
Embarked on a journey at night but without a scratch returned!
What time has come, what people it hails?
Moralities,religion and integrity are on sale;
"Rajee" how will those days ever return when our big leaders--
Talk like parrots but rarely ever they are the promise-keepers;
What time has come, what people it hails?
Moralities,religion and integrity are on sale;
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If I am silent, my dear, let me be so---------
If I am silent, my dear, let me be so;
Lest the hearts be in flames, if I spoke.
Please Note:-
Road side rantings shall not turn lies into truth-
As a tree without fruits never downwards droops;
Changing colours like a chamleon is your pastime-
But my greenary in all seasons is ever pristine!
Because:-
We talked behind doors, let talks remain so-
The place will rock if some secrets I disclose;
If I am silent, my dear, let me be so-
Lest the hearts be in flames, if I spoke.
You say anything, then, claim it is in jest-
I say a few words you term them as pest;
It is not my habbit to name persons as such,
Should you initiate it, I must repay the debt?
If I am silent, my dear, let me be so;
Lest the hearts be in flames, if I spoke.
I know I have no status in this place as yet,
But I willl anchor here to be embedded, I bet;
As cuckoo of the orchid, each branch I will flirt,
Other day I had fun; future, too,it will be mirth.
If I am silent, my dear, let me be so;
Lest the hearts be in flames, if I spoke.
The news of your arrival , "Rajee", is now, in the air-
Some dislike your style, but your gait to some endear;
Remain focussed, you shall sure reach your destination;
While you pass through many milestones and obstructions.
If I am silent, my dear, let me be so;
Lest the hearts be in flames, if I spoke.
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Halt there, O' dear life! please reduce your speed somewhat----
Halt there, O' dear life! please reduce your speed somewhat,
I have been constantly on the move, let me have some rest.
It were those childhood dreams, which I passionately chased;
Got so embroiled in them that fun of my youth I had missed.
Halt there, O' dear life! please reduce your speed somewhat,
I have been constantly on the move, let me have some rest.
Many a goals I had achieved but I was never to be contented,
As the race went on, sorrow and ecstasy were both presented.
Halt there, O' dear life! please reduce your speed somewhat,
have been constantly on the move, let me have some rest.
There were those times when 'life' moved slowly, so did I;
I don't know how it happened, but suddenly 'life' began to fly?
Halt there, O' dear life! please reduce your speed somewhat,
I have been constantly on the move, let me have some rest.
In this fast moving life, I came across land- mark destinations-
At times, my feet stumbled or it were simple miscalculations.
Halt there, O' dear life! please reduce your speed somewhat,
I have been constantly on the move, let me have some rest.
'Relatives- worries' or the 'pressure of my job' were never kind;
Also, the future of my children constantly troubled my mind?
Halt there, O' dear life! please reduce your speed somewhat,
I have been constantly on the move, let me have some rest.
I was so engrossed with the worries of the future, my dear!
I have no clue when my face aged and body had wear and tear.
Halt there, O' dear life! please reduce your speed somewhat,
I have been constantly on the move, let me have some rest.
I lament, I wasted my time always worrying for others,
Time to take rest now "Rajee", your tired feet dodder.
Halt, O' dear Life! Please reduce your speed somewhat;
I have been constantly on the move, let me have some rest.
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SPECTACLE OF TIMES!
My blood boiled on every issue for, hot-blooded I was in my prime,
Advancing age has mellowed me down and life has lost its shine.
Who shall I narrate my tale of woe, when emptiness keeps me company?
There was time when world bowed before me, now, who cares for me?
Alas! I wasred my happy moments of 'present times', worrying for 'tomorrow';
'Tomorrow' never came but life, at the mercy of others, is a bundle of sorrows.
There was time when people who had world at their feet, they felt shy of me;
And even those who claimed to be merchants of death, seeing me would flee.
Even the pages pf History do narrate to us an interesting episode!
Great ARJUNA and his GANDEEV were beaten by small time kids.
It is a spectacle of times "RAJEE", happy moments,once gone, never again arrive;
O,I've seen powerful men in their prime, crying in the closing years of life!
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Thursday, July 14, 2011
MISMATCH!
Some times in life, strange persons one does find,
Whose obnoxious conduct reflects their small minds;
First five years of infancy make a child acquire traits-
Author of the book, I'm OK, you are OK, so does state.
Life beacons at them but they let the opportunity go by-,
As the environs they grow up might make them very sly;
Ego,hatred and jealousy then make them emit toxic fumes-
Which, often, turn a blossoming orchid into savage dunes.
Long long ago, a friend was enticed by a charming face,
Infatuation so over -powered that they got married in haste;
Alas! the differences in their up-bringing were soon shown-
As man was from joint family and bride from a broken home.
Cultural mismatch turned their homes into a battlefield,
Arrogance of the girl ensured no comromise be reached;
Suspicious and cynnical, she always dreamt him flirting,
Fed up with her daily barbs, the man kept slowly drifting.
But the lady became a nuisance even in their locality ,
When neighbours got enraged with her split personality;
Her hypocritical ways were unbearable for even her friends,
Because they all realised she was not what she pretends.
Soon it was apparent she loved the company of freaks;
Lunacy and perversion was beefed up by wanton deceit;
One day an old lunatic enticed her with verbal aerobatics,
She lost her wits and fell for scheming fox's virile antiques.
The neighbors were anguished at her unacceptable deeds,
While the wily old man exploited her for his own sexual needs;
Unmindful of own acts, she would accuse husband of adultry,
One day temperature rose very high and weather became sultry;
Selfish old man smelt his chance to exploit the vulnerable lady,
He told her husband that the unfaithful woman carried his baby.
This was enough to put to an end to the tale of love at first sight-
When emotions over-power one, not easy to judge what was right?
To live in a social system, one must follow its well-set norms;
I should become We, if one wants to avoid marital storms;
Self-righteousness ought to give way to adjustment and compromise---
And broken-home children must grasp virtues of joint family ties?
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Whose obnoxious conduct reflects their small minds;
First five years of infancy make a child acquire traits-
Author of the book, I'm OK, you are OK, so does state.
Life beacons at them but they let the opportunity go by-,
As the environs they grow up might make them very sly;
Ego,hatred and jealousy then make them emit toxic fumes-
Which, often, turn a blossoming orchid into savage dunes.
Long long ago, a friend was enticed by a charming face,
Infatuation so over -powered that they got married in haste;
Alas! the differences in their up-bringing were soon shown-
As man was from joint family and bride from a broken home.
Cultural mismatch turned their homes into a battlefield,
Arrogance of the girl ensured no comromise be reached;
Suspicious and cynnical, she always dreamt him flirting,
Fed up with her daily barbs, the man kept slowly drifting.
But the lady became a nuisance even in their locality ,
When neighbours got enraged with her split personality;
Her hypocritical ways were unbearable for even her friends,
Because they all realised she was not what she pretends.
Soon it was apparent she loved the company of freaks;
Lunacy and perversion was beefed up by wanton deceit;
One day an old lunatic enticed her with verbal aerobatics,
She lost her wits and fell for scheming fox's virile antiques.
The neighbors were anguished at her unacceptable deeds,
While the wily old man exploited her for his own sexual needs;
Unmindful of own acts, she would accuse husband of adultry,
One day temperature rose very high and weather became sultry;
Selfish old man smelt his chance to exploit the vulnerable lady,
He told her husband that the unfaithful woman carried his baby.
This was enough to put to an end to the tale of love at first sight-
When emotions over-power one, not easy to judge what was right?
To live in a social system, one must follow its well-set norms;
I should become We, if one wants to avoid marital storms;
Self-righteousness ought to give way to adjustment and compromise---
And broken-home children must grasp virtues of joint family ties?
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Monday, May 16, 2011
I am a human-being, I am no sage.
Don't be in rage, dear, don't be in a rage?
For, I am a human-being, I am no sage.--(2)
I do still love you ,dear, I do,still, love you;
Whatever you want me, that's what I do;
You are my craze, still, you are my craze,
For, I am a human-being, I am no sage.--(2)
Love is mutual concern, love is, also, care?
They say in love and war, everything is fair;
We have our roles to play, as life is a stage;
For, I am a human-being, I am no sage.--(2)
Love needs trust ,dear, love needs trust;
In order to sustain itself, faith is a must;
Yet as we move in life, doubts will be raised;
For, I am a human being, I am no sage.--(2)
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Saturday, March 26, 2011
WELCOME, DEAR ANUSHKA!
On March 23, 2011, at 19.10 PM (LA, California Time, USA), a girl child was born in our family---This time, it was my son and DIL, who were blessed with the child. We heartily welcome her to our family fold. And I scribbled these lines welcoming her!
O' dear 'Anushka'! Welcome to this small world of ours!
You have illuminated our lives like divine powers;
Always, this month of March 2011 we shall adorn-
For, on its 23rd day, our cute little princess was born;
It was four and half years wait for you to show intent-
Excited and thrilled, your parents just could not pretend;
Grooming you as a 'good human' would be their vision---
As you grow from a bubbling infant to a graceful citizen.
You would sure be the cynosure of your grandparent’s eyes,
Your eloquence and elegance would enhance their pride;
Matters not if you were born far away from your native land,
Even in Los Angeles, you would represent 'Kushwaha- brand';
In the 'United States of America', as you would slowly grow,
Your lively graces and 'Indian' beauty would definitely show;
When your fame and achievements on the time-curve meander --
People would ask, "Is she the grand-daughter of 'Raj & Rajinder"?
I know Abhilash and Ketki would have their own expectations,
So would Ajit and Anjali, flirt with their meticulous calculations;
Success and glory would touch your feet as time moves on--
You would sure attain the heights, where none had ever gone;
To needy friends, you shall be an oasis in the desert of their lives;
To the evil minds, sense of goodness you would definitely imbibe;
You shall be the hope of the world tormented by violence and hate,
You shall guide the humanity for its final tryst with desirable fate.
May you shine like a brightest star, your whole life through?
May success and fame be yours to take, in whatever you do?
May you imprint your name on all spheres of human activities-----
May you sail through crisis and conflicts with vigor and vitality?
May you spearhead mankind’s march into the coming cosmic age?
May you ensure that hatred and wars no more be a human craze?
I,as your grandfather,wish you to lead a life full of glorious times!
May Anushka become a divine light that heals the minds of crime!
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Tuesday, March 08, 2011
DEAR, I OWN YOU !
I don't wish to thank you,
But I do want to frank you;
No, no, I don't frown you----
Because, dear, I own you.
What silly doubts you have?
Clarifying them, I go mad;
Heart's queen I crown you-----
Because, dear, I own you.
You know,dear, I love you,
How can I ever snub you?
Ocean of love, I'll drown you-----
Because, dear, I own you.
I know you are possessive,
Your love for me is massive;
Your thoughts,I surround you;
Because, dear, I own you.
I dread the way you fight,
I do hate the way you slight;
Yet,"Rajee",I can't scorn you-
Because, dear, I own you.
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Monday, February 07, 2011
NAGAS Vs ARYANS---REVISITING SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY---PART -3 OF MY ARYAN-DRAVIDIAN -NAGAS SERIES !
"----------If there is a country on earth which can justly claim the honour of having been the cradle of the Human race or at least the scene of primitive civilization, the successive developments of which carried into all parts of the ancient world and even beyond, the blessings of knowledge which is the second life of man, that country is assuredly India---------------"
--- A quote from ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANICA
Recent genetic Studies have shown that there were no GENETIC DIFFERENCES between North and South Indians. Please refer to ----- "A prehistory of Indian Y chromosomes: Evaluating demic diffusion scenarios". Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences of United States of America ; 103(4) carried out on 26 Jan 2004. . Genetically speaking, ANCIENT NORTH INDIANS (ANI) came to this land some 40,000 years from Middle East and ANCIENT SOUTH INDIANS (ASI) entered South India through Australia some 60,000 years back------What ever genetic differences existed between ANI and ASI that was some 40,000 years back is . Here is an extract from a study report on " ARYAN-DRAVID -DIVIDE" MYTH-Study:-
"----------.A study of 132 individuals, 560,000 single-nucleotide polymorphisms in 25 different Indian groups were analyzed, providing strong evidence in support of the notion that modern Indians are a hybrid population descending from two pre-historic, genetically divergent populations[citation needed], one of which, referred to as the 'Ancestral North Indians', 40,000 years ago and the other, called the 'Ancestral South Indians', 60,000 years ago. The intermingling of ANI's and ASI's happened in the same period as the ANI's first appeared, 40,000 years ago -------"
This report has been published in TIMES OF INDIA on 25 September 2009. Therefore the study of prehistory of SUNDA LAND/LEMURIA/KUMARI KANDAMN is very important. I insist that there was nothing known as ARYAN and DRAVIDIANS in the ancient India. They were just symbols of address for various type of people. ARYANS were NOT a race but a lingual fraternity who owed their ancestry to NAGAS of SUNDA LAND/ KUMARI KANDAM/ LEMURIA. To be very frank, if I can use the term 'Anglicised-'NRI' to describe the ARYANS of ancient India, as in the modern context , I won't be drastically wrong. They were 'SANSKRITISED NAGAS' who returned home after a long sojourn outside Indian sub-continent. Same is true of Dravidans----they were 'Non -Sanskritised' people-----who did not speak Sanskrit.
As time passes many established logics get blown away---particularly about cosmic arena, sociology, geology and astronomy. More recently, it has come to notice that homo sapiens-----ancestors of present day man first appeared in the Middle east on the banks of River Jordon and NOT the Rift valley of Africa. It is from here the man went to SUNDA LAND or LIMURIA Islands or KANDAM. This land is the SUBMERGED PORTION of ocean between Peninsular coastline of India and modern Indonesia. It is here man first tasted his social growth as a 'civilised man' when he established the AGRICULTURAL CIVILISATION which later spread to rest of the world.
This development further debunks ARYAN MIGRATION or ARYAN INVASION THEORY. The agricultural civilisation in the coastal region of India or what some call SUNDA LAND/LIMURIA or KANDAM existed in the pre-ice age. This was a KNOWLEDGE RICH society of NAGAS----followers of Lord Shiva whose temples dot the Subcontinent from Afghanistan-Pakistan in the west and North to North east India in the East and Kerala-Karnatka in the South.
Around the end of last ice age, say some 11000- 8000 BC, the sea level began to rise with the melting of glaciers. By 8000 BC it had risen by 400 feet thus submerging bulk of SUNDA LAND. This forced the people from the region to move up north and west----along with their VEDIC KNOWLEDGE, which they had generated . When glaciers melted they also formed rivers-----There sprang up rivers like SARASWATI and SINDHU------The migrants from the SUNDALAND settlled along the banks of River SARASWATI--- for, the need of the water for their agricultural economies was essential------It led to setting up of RIVER CIVILISATIONS. It was the SARASWATI River along which major settlements were established as evidenced by 75% of the settlements being unearthed along its recreated channel, today. It is called INDUS valley Civilisation because two early excavations of MOHANJODARO and HARAPPA were found along River Indus and its tributary, River Satluj. Incidentally, Satluj and Yamuna were tributaries of River sarraswati. This river is worshipped as GODDESS of KNOWLEDGE in Hindu mythology. This is the reason because most of the ancient Indian Civilisation----the resource of Knowlege---was spread along this river. The migrations of Naga people continued towards North and West----as far as Syria-Iraq---Turkey---Germany----Hungry---Uzvekistan--Kazakhistan---and many other countries in the Balkans.
Geological study has shown that some major upheavals took place around 4000-4500 BC which dried up the source of River Saraswati and thus led to it eventual drying up by 2000 BC. During the upheaval , River Satluj and River Yamuna parted company with River Saraswati. They say by 2000 BC River Saraswati had totally disappeared. Thus between 4000 BC and 2000 BC a reverse migration took place which is now infamous as ARYANS FROM THE STEPPES OF CENTRAL ASIA. It is nothing but the return of the NAGA PEOPLE to their original home.
My interpretaions of epic of Ramayana is that it happened around 4000BC. It is refered to as Battle of TEN KINGS in the chronology. The story of RAMAYANA is actually ---part fiction and part truth based on the BATTLE OF TEN KINGS---It took place in the region called SAPTA SINDHU ( from Indian Punjab to Afghanistan). Kindly refer to a book by Rajesh Kochhar ---an ex Surveyor general of India and a renowned archaeologist. It fits well into the logic if we consider that VALMIKI the author had his ASRAM at RAM TIRATH, near modern Amritsar in Indian Punjab. He spun a web around this battle of TEN KINGS. DASSEHRA ---the festival is celebrated as victory over TEN HEADS of RAVNA. Certainly, ravna had ten ASSOCIATES and NOT TEN HEADS. Actually the total strength of kings against SUDAS were 13 and he defeated them all.. I shall recount the story of TEN KINGS in comments section when the debate develops.
Interpolating data from my sources from RETURN OF THE ARYANS by BS Gidwani; HIDDEN HORIZONS---1000 Years of Indian History by Dr David Frawley and Dr NS Raja Ram; Vedic History of India by Rajesh Kochhar; History of India by John Keay an Indologist and British Historians and various other sources on the internet---I give out the brief Chronology of events in ancient India.
CHRONOLOGY OF HISTORIC EVENTS IN SOUTH ASIAN LAND MASS
Dates Natural/Historical event Historical development
60,000BC First humans enter Coastal India Genetically referred to ASI or
From Australia or South East Asia Ancient South Indians.
40,000BC First Humans enter North India Genetically referred to ANI or
From Middle East Ancient North Indians.
40,000to Transformation from hunting/ Nomadic
3000 BC Man to fixed place living and emergence
of Families, clans, tribes and social groups.
30,000 to Interaction of North and South and
20000 BC Emergence of HYBRID Indian race,
Probably Nagas-Lord Shiva worshippers.
17000BC Late Ice Age Coastal cultures in Sunda land/
Lemuria/ Kumari Kandam ,the idea of
Pre-flood civilizations. (Pre-historic)
15000BC Warming begins; Coastal cultures under stress.
Unstable coast line.
13000BC Ice Age ending; flooding Proto-Vedic civilizations mainly in
begins of coastal areas. South India.
North India opens up for
the habitation.
11000BC Glaciations; freeze returns Indra -Vritra battles as per the
Vedas
10000BC Farming spreads in Indra -Vritra battles continue.
Sunda land and Indian interiors
10000 BC Renewed warming. Ice sheet Vritra--the coverer is slain by
to 8000BC Finally retreats. Indra -the solar deity.
Great North Indra Indian
Rivers (glacier fed)begin
to flow. Saraswati becomes
the greatest river.
and Saraswati-Drishadvati
Doab becomes the Rig Vedic home.
8000BC Beginning of the post Saraswati Manu Vivaswan period.
settlements.
7000BC Prime era of ocean-going The early Vedic dynasties;
to Saraswati Yayati, Turvash, Yadu and
4000BC Puru. The early rishis;
Angirasas,Bbhrigus,
Bhardwajas, Vamdev.
4000BC Weakening of Saraswati; Great kings of Ikshavakus
to end of early Vedic age. and the Puru -Bhartas.
3100BC Trasyadasu, Mandhara,
Bharat etc. Late Vedic
rulers, Sudas, Ram and
the Panchalas. The
Battle of Ten kings.
Rishis Vashishta and Vishavmitra.
3100BC Traditional date of Krishna Compilation of Vedas
sacking of Takshila by under the Purus. The
Janamajay. Mahabharata war, Ved Vyas
and his pupils compile the Vedas.
3100 Harappan civilization Late Vedic age and the
-2200BC to declining saraswati early Puranic age.
2200BC Worldwide droughts--. End of late Vedic Age.
-1900BC Europe to China. The focus shifts to
Saraswati dries up. East--Gangetic plains.
Janpadas are established and
kingdoms vanish.
1900 Post Harappan period. Some Vedic people still move
-1300BC out of India to the west.
Mesopotemia is conquered.
And Kassette Empire established.
1300BC -500 BC Period of Confusion Migrations TO and FRO South Asia Continues
500 BC onwards Budha, Mahavira and Mauryan Empire
100BC to 500AD Sakas, Kushans, Huns -- Bacterian and-Chinese Tribes come to
India and get merged.
500AD Hindu Rajput Kingdoms from Kashmir to Kanyakumari including present
to 1200 AD day Pakistan and Afghanistan except Sindh where Caliphatite rule of
Mohammed Bin Kassim established.
1200 AD Muslim & Mugal Period--Advent of Mohammed Gori and his wars with
to 1757 AD Prithviraj Chohan
1764 AD to British set up and ruled Indian subcontinent.---The only people who
1947 did not merge with the native people and stayed aloof----rest all
migrants in the past and ancient India had merged into great
Indian SOCIAL MASS to give it a unique Cosmopolitan
society culture.
As for as the mystery of DRAVIDIANS is concerned ---it is a brainchild of Christian missionaries , led by one ROBERT CALDWEL who had done so in 1856 AD. Robert Caldwell, a renowned linguist, in his book “Grammar of the Dravidians or the People of South India, published in 1856, recognized 73 Dravidian languages spoken from South India to Baluchistan(PAKISTAN),Western Iran, Afghanistan and Urals. It is now believed they were the people who established Pre –Aryan or the HARAPPAN civilization .I call it the civilization of NAGA people who were the worshippers of lord Shiva. The VEDIC knowledge belongs to them which had been usurped by the ARYANS because by that time, say around 1900 BC to 2800 BC NATURAL UPHEAVALS had devastated the NAGA CIVILISATION.
The Origin of the word DRAVIDA is attributed to the Sanskrit word “DRAMILA” or “DAMILA”, which later corrupted to Tamil or Tamil speaking people. It has been done by Linguists and they have gone to the extent of equating these words with TAMIL or TARMIZ. Actually the word DRAVID was first used by KUMARILLA BHATTA in the 7th CENTURY AD in his SANSKRIT book 'TANTRIKAVATIKA'. Kumarilla, a hardcore BUDDHIST and a SANSKRIT scholar recognised five regiona as DRAVID-------namely, GUJARAT, MAHARASHTRA, TAMIL NADU, ANDHRA and KARNATKA. He considered these regions lacking in the knowledge of Sanskrit thus poor in knowledge-----DRI + VID ( Devoid of Knowledge). You can further read my note on this.
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A pictorial view of an artist's impression of SUNDA LAND/LEMURIA and KUMARI KANDAM ISLAND is given below:-
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