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Saturday, February 15, 2014

ENSURING MALFUNCTIONING OF INDIAN DEMOCRACY!

ENSURING MALFUNCTIONING OF INDIAN DEMOCRACY!

> Arvind Kejriwal has resigned from the post of Chief Ministership of Delhi. He dramatized his exit. But he confirmed my opinion of him that he was an escapist. Or may be "escapism" is a deliberate act with something else scripted or planned. I reckon there was something messy about the whole act of resignation, for sure.
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> A question comes to my mind if through his 'Blame- game- philosophy', he has been trying to make a virtue out of his incapability? I know that he likes to play to the gallery but, then, he lacks the will to do what his audience want. He does not stick to his promises made. He melts under pressure or is it a deliberately planned melt down? He backs out from his resolves. He oscillates like a pendulum from one decision to another on the same subject. This man is a complex mix of confusion or is it a put up act?
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> What now? I suppose that he would continue to chastise others as corrupt and dishonest. He would continue to promise moon to the people. And the Indians like big talking "messiahs". Have you wondered ever as to why India swarms with multitudes of Godmen? They are available in India for dime a dozen.
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> It is because of typical Indian psyche: they want God or a prophet to resolve their daily problems? At the drop of a hat they run to fortune tellers to know of ways and means to alleviate their sufferings. Look at the news papers and TV Channels, who carry weekly/ daily columns/ programs on ' what Stars foretell'. Our history is rampant with examples from Som Nath Temple to modern day KPs (Pundits of Kashmir) as to how much we depend on the "Messiahs" to come and rescue us. We all await others to resolve our problems. This is why people like Kejriwal, Bapu Asaram, NIrmal Baba, Nityanand and host of other such "babas" have "herds" following them. Indians prefer to be followers than lead.
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> Now what will Arvind Kejriwal do? My sixth sense tells me that he would continue to sell dreams to god-fearing Indians and become the "God man" that they were waiting for to come and relieve them of all their miseries. You know God men never deliver, they only give discourses. And Arvind Kejriwal excels in giving harangues. I wonder if Delhites are going to make some shrine for him or may be an Ashram!
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> And what is likely to happen? My prediction is that May 2014 'General Elections' would throw up a badly hung Loksabha, where a Maya or Mulayam or even Mamta or a Lalita would be thrown up as a leader of the nation with 22-25 MPs. A number of regional satraps would join him/her to extract their pound of flesh. A dying Congress will, then, support such a weak 'combination of opportunists' to ensure misdeeds of her rule between 2004 to 2014 remain under wraps. Congress game plan would be to lie low for sometimes before favorable conditions are created to strike. And such conditions, no doubts, would be created because of conflicting interests of regional satraps. Kejriwal and AAP exist to fill up this time vacuum.
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> One suspects that it was for this purpose Kejriwal had been propped up since 2005. It might not be directly done by Congress. Even Arvind Kejriwal might not know that he was being prepared as a sacrificial goat. The forces inimical to India have been cleverly working behind the scenes. In a well worked out script,It seems some outside agencies have been managing Arvind Kejriwal's Social/political career. He was awarded with Ramon Magasaysay Award in 2005, which probably, he also won't know for what. Then, he was brought close to Munish Sisodia's NGO "Kabir", wholly funded by foreign agencies. Munish Sisodia is an ex journalist, known very well outside the borders of India. Even Arvind Kejriwal had been on two years study leave to USA between the years1998 to 2000.
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> After leaving Indian revenue Service (IRS) Arvind Kejriwal first joined Mother Teresa organization to get recognized and then infiltrated into Anna Hazare movement. When he got all India recognition, he quickly changed stance and shifted to a political platform. And now, when it became obvious that Arvind was getting exposed on his inability to deliver, he was manipulated to quit, lest the game plan gets stalled and he loses his credibility. His emergence on Indian political scene was not to govern but to ensure malfunctioning of Indian political system. And, thus, life would be squeezed out of India. May be the grand Indian civilization would go the "ATLANTIS" way.
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> It seems, whether he knows it or not, Arvind Kejriwal has been prepared, organised and groomed all along to act as a spoil-sport for 2014 General elections. Why ? Well ! Apparently, it is not only to prevent unearthing of lakhs of Crores of Indian money swindled out of India but also to either weaken the nation or break it up into micro dots on the world map. May be Indian politicians in major political parties, such as Congress, including AAP, are so blinded by their personal agendas that they do not see the looming dangers of a weak coalition Government at the centre.

> China's outsourced WOM ( War by Other Means) on India through Pakistan's ISI is fructifying through Maoists and Naxalite movement. AAP and Arvind Kejriwal are unwittingly facilitating this war. Only way it could be stopped was to ensure that a strong leader swings to power after 2014 General Elections. Thus, a script was prepared by foreign agencies in cahoot with Indian collaborators to ensure malfunctioning of Indian political system, so as to stop a strong central government, headed by a clean and honest man.
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> The planners of this strategy saw a serious threat from a strong man from Gujarat and thus two pronged strategy was worked out to stop him from coming to power. First prong was to make personal attacks on him directly by media onslaughts through manipulated NGOs to label charges of communalism and anti Muslim riots of 2002. At the same time, second prong was to create hurdles on his way to come to power with strength, if he survives the onslaught of First pincer. AAP was to spearhead the second pincer on him. AAP may not realise it but it exists to create political instability in India by preventing Indian voters from giving a decisive mandate to one party.
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> It is a very well considered strategy and it would definitely have its impact on the General elections in 2014. Unfortunately, its cascading effect would be on Indian defence and security, too. It might endanger Indian existence, as was suggested by a Chinese journal, "Global Times" in 2009 to break up India into 20-30 states. I have no doubts that ensuring the malfunctioning of Indian democracy was the sole purpose of creation of AAP and the rise of Arvind Kejriwal.

Saturday, January 25, 2014

ANARCHY Vs CORRUPTION---REMEDY WORST THAN DISEASE

REMEDY WORST THAN DISEASE!

Men become monsters, when self - righteousness over powers them. Once in a while, we all indulge in asserting our judiciousness. But if we persist being self righteous, then, we transform into demons. Self-righteousness of political leaders and their supporters does not auger well for the Indian polity. One might not question the righteousness of the cause AAP stands for, but certainly the righteousness of the methods chosen to undo the wrong in the polity and the society, do send a message that remedy was worst than the disease.

The ruckus that took place in Delhi over a non-issue on January 21-22 gave an impression of " Hitler like philosophy", fully drenched in self -righteousness. The issue made out was on the self righteous demand for the suspension of some Police officials, who did not respond to illegal commands of a Law Minister of Delhi. Do I take it that philosophy of this new political outfit and its supporters was that police officials were meant to obey wrong and illegal orders of politicians? Is this why Delhi governments, now or before it, have been clamoring for getting police under their thumb?

Frankly speaking the demand for placing of Delhi under Delhi government was misplaced. I say, the very "Statehood of Delhi" was wrong. It should have been a union territory placed under a commissioner or a Lt Governor, as is Pondicherry of Daman & Diu. Its administrative control should have been with the Union government. There can not be two swords in one sheath. It would definitely lead to confrontation. Crazy leaders can always justify their acts on self righteous virtues.

Union Government can not be an appendage of a state (Delhi) government. Therefore Police is rightly placed under the union Home Minister. To say that Law and Order was a state subject is not applicable to State of Delhi. It can not equate itself with other states of the union. In fact Mumbai and Kolkotta had better claims for statehood than Delhi.

Placing of Delhi police under State of Delhi can create a number of administrative and constitutional problems for the federal structure of the nation.Self righteous and a strong headed Chief Minister can make functioning of Union Government difficult. He can order arrest of an inconvenient union minister. He can threaten and dictate to judiciary, as has been done by the present law minister of Delhi.

Self righteousness of nw political outfit in Delhi is visible, when it backed its Law Minister for his illegal and wrong acts but demands suspension of police officials without inquiry yet not prepared to sack its Law Minister on the same premise.

All sort of reasoning is being given that what can a minister do if a police official does not listen to him. FACT IS THE POLICE OFFICIAL IS NOT SUPPOSED TO LISTEN TO A WRONG ORDER, EVEN IF POLICE WAS UNDER THE STATE. Unfortunately, this is what has gone wrong with the polity, where Police has become a mere personal fiefdom of political masters. Those who support such moves should NOT blame Police but themselves for making police the doormat of politicians by supporting such moves.

I am of the view that in view of rising problem of INTERNAL SECURITY and WOM (War By Other Means) Police be made an ALL INDIA SERVICE, under the union government. Else switch over to a different model of political system, where the role of STATES is reduced to barest minimum. More POWERS are placed in the hands of LOCAL SELF GOVERNMENT at District and Block levels.

I suggest a new model of Political system, where "CENTRE" should have just Six -Seven subjects; States or Provinces should deal with only three subjects and rest all subjects be placed under LOCAL SELF GOVERNMENT at district and Block level. Let there be direct relation between Centre and local Self Government. Pimping Interference by mediators at State level must be banished from our political system.

I suggest empowerment of Local Self Government, at the District and Block levels. 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, including 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, surface communications, education, jails, agriculture, urban & town planning and so like.

I want the posts of GOVERNORS of States to be revitalized and empowered, too. . They should NOT be politicians but emminent persons from various other fields. I want President of India to be empowered, too. At the moment, both governors and President 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 the right to recall of a MP, MLA , District Council member and Panch to become instituted into electoral reforms?

India has some 610 districts. Each district must send two representatives to Parliament----- first winner to Lok Sabha and Second Winner to RajySabha. The party with combined strength in Parliament should form the Federal Government. Besides, we should have 610 local self governments, along with CENTRALLY MANAGED UNITS (CMUs) of Some important cities, such as Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkotta, Bengluru, Chandigarh and so on.

India needs to move away from a political system selected some 67 years back. It has not failed but outlived its utility in a different socio- economic moralities of its people. It needs to be modified according to the needs of the time. The makers of the constitution could not envision such scenarios. And I personally feel we need to have a direct democracy where people participate directly.the role of middle level brokers need to be cut. Local Self Government empowerment is a step towards this.

Tuesday, January 07, 2014

IS 'AAP' REALLY INFALLIBLE?

My NEW YEAR resolution was TO KNOW MYSELF and refresh my self on my visible shortcomings. I analyzed myself over the years and came to a conclusion that I WAS OVERLY CRITICAL of people and issues I am NOT endeared to.

This kind of attitude reflects a tinge of SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS, which in my own philosophy is a terribly wrong thing to possess. ...And I am always guided by what British thinker and philosopher, BERTRAND RUSSELL, had to say when asked by his student if he (Russell) would like to die for the principle he had held so dear to his heart? Bertrand thought for a while and then said, "No". Student asked "Why"? Russell responded, " For, all I know, I might be wrong" . That is it. So, I tell myself that all my pronouncements and critical views on AAP might be wrong, therefore, do not bet on them.

But, then, I am reminded of a French Philosopher, Francois de Roche, who observed: WE PROMISE ACCORDING TO OUR HOPES; WE PERFORM ACCORDING TO OUR FEARS. What do you make out of this? I have my fears---- as does AAP. I tell you what------ AAP promised MOON to the people before Elections and now after the elections, it is acting with FEAR. AM I wrong? You might say "Yes" Do so. But I have something else to say.

Before elections, AAP leadership was promising everything without realizing that it might have to deliver one day. Even AAP did not realize the effect of its promises of ridding the common man of the side effects of all pervasive corruption in this country. Of course, courtesy, their partner in Power now in Delhi. So, it has dished out two Cheap gimmicks of 50% subsidy on power bill up to 400 units and 700 liters of daily water to every METERED HOME in Delhi.

How many houses are metered for water in the slums of Delhi? Well! As per information, only 5 Lakh houses might be having water meters. However, AAM ADMI should not know it? Where is the subsidy of Rs 200 Crores every month going? Well! AAM AADMI is NOT supposed to know. But it is going to TATA Power and RELIANCE POWER (Rs 60 crores+140 Crores respectively). Secrecy and misleading information about governmental and administrative decisions is the key feature of Indian political leadership. The Indian political leadership, however of all hue and cry, fails to realise that TRANSPARENCY was the buzz word of the success of modern leadership.

But to "govern by gimmick's seems to be the "mantra" of new political kid on the blocks. This is the new POLITICS of Arvind Kejriwal, the NEW MESSIAH of COMMON MAN ----- who makes no bones about teaching this brand of politics to others also. You would obviously say, " What's wrong"? My overly critical brain does not agree with you. Because this man has delivered nothing. It is all a media hyped announcements.

Ask yourself, "Has water started pouring into 22 Lakh non metered houses?" Just walk out of your AC rooms into some slum. Where would the subsidy of Rs 200 Crores to be paid every month to Power companies come from? You have no idea? Well! You are a good AAM ADMI!! To be deliberately UNAWARE is your special characteristic !!! If you ask me, where would it come from? I would unhesitatingly say, " Of course, from people of Delhi?" The AAM AADMI of Delhi would pay for it, directly or indirectly. This joy is only short lived. Let the reality hit them in the face, after KHICHDI government comes in power at the Centre, with the help of AAP, who would join hands with SP or BSP or even DMK or many other DYNASTIC POLITICAL OUTFITS, now hogging limelight on the Indian political space. But Arvind Kejriwal Knows he would have achieved what he was supposed to have been indented to achieve i.e. install a WEAK KHICHDI GOVERNMENT at the Centre. And if it does not happen, then there is CENTRAL GOVERNMENT to be blamed for not giving an economic package.

Remember the year 1991, when MMS had to mortgage all the gold of the country to a London Bank. It was the result of such cheap economics gimmicks of populism or what I call SOCIALISM TRASH, in the decade preceding the year 1991, marked by turbulence and JANTA DAL rise that led to the economics fiasco. Is AAP going to be another JANTA DAL or their previous avatar JANTA PARTY? I wonder if there is any difference in the meaning of AAM ADMI and JANTA?

My worry is NOT these cheap gimmicks. My worry is the media hyped attention to AAP----- which is coming like a TSUNAMI. And when Tsunami comes it uproots everything. This TSUNAMI is not from within but engineered from outside. Foreign powers, who do not want to see a strong central government in India, are heavily investing in this ANTI CORRUPTION FACADE of AAP.

ARVIND KEJRIWAL, the mascot of new politics in India and alleged MESSIAH of common man has been cleverly projected to bring this AAP Tsunami. The USP of this man, now, assumingly donning the skin of mythological God, KALGIDHAR, of Indian mythology, has been anti corruption sentiments of the people. This has been systematically and cleverly exploited----- first, he was given Ramon Magsaysay award in 2006 for something which no one in India knows. Then, he was appended to ANNA HAZARE and slowly projected as his main advisor. Once, he was a house hold name, he was pulled out with a well selected team from Media persons---- who became his PUBLICITY AGENTS. and they jumped into electoral foray in Delhi with all sorts of promises and now surprised by their own victory doing everything to gain cheap popularity and against the tenets of good governance and good economics. They are riding high on the CRUTCHES OF SOCIALIST POLPULISM------ which ought to collapse one day. It will definitely fall. Remember, it is the fallibility of infallible that often causes discomfort.

Well! This fallibility of the "infallible" is certain---not even an iota of doubt. However, its fall would have damaged India in an irreparable manner. People with good intentions, who are fed up with ten years of corruption and non - governance, are making a beeline to join this political road roller called AAP -----storm is picking up on MEDIA,s sudden love for it and AAP TSUNAMI is gathering mass----- soon it would engulf whole of India. But when it subsides, India would be in ruins. AM I RIGHT? This is my gut feelings. You never know, I might be wrong. What says thou?

A GLANCE AT PAST AND A PEEP INTO FUTURE---03 January 1967 to 03 January 2067 !

03 JANUARY 1967------03 JANUARY 2014------03 JANUARY 2067

Some dates you never forget------they etch on your memory because they were the turning points in your life.

This day, 47 years back, on January 03, 1967 to be precise, I had joined National Defence Academy at Khadakvasla, Pune, Maharashtra . I was a young man of 17 years with lot of dreams of the future which was yet to unf...old itself. This was sure a turning point in my life. Hereafter I was to don olive green till I came out of it in September 2003.

How has the journey been, you might ask? It has been of agony and ecstasy. Agony, because a number of sad things took place----- I lost my near and dear ones; environments I grew up to be 17 years old have disappeared; nothing , just nothing has remained the same, so much so even my physical profile has undergone a change. This does agonize me. I yearn to be amongst the same people and same environs. I say to hell with all this modern gadgetry, communications and awareness level.

Increase of Knowledge and information have separated everyone from every one. More knowledge and education have made us merely aware of our animal instincts and nothing else. They have individualized us because everyone now yearns for SELF IDENTITY.

We have become a human jungle. Thus, the laws of the Jungle have become applicable to our existence. Darwinian concept of SURVIVAL OF FITTEST holds good not only in the physical structure of the mammals but it also incorporates economic and community strength. The family, community and the national interests have been dwarfed by desire to seek SELF ADVANCEMENT at whatever cost. Social relations have fallen apart. Everyone is on his own. Social institutions are becoming almost defunct. Definitions of family have changed.

In June 1967, during a term break from NDA, when I went back to my village, BALACHAUR, I had an outing in a different house for every meal of my 15 days stay. There was so much love and affection----- there was great sense of belonging----- you touched every elder's feet and got the blessing.

In January 2014, hardly any person in my own street in BALACHAUR knows me. What to say of my village, even the place, I have been living for the past 11 years, people in my block (15 houses) do not know me, though I might be the President of the society of 332 houses. We are strangers in a human zoo.

No, no!! You got me wrong. I am NOT looking for recognition, nor I am lamenting about the present state of affairs. I am only drawing the differences between THEN and NOW. It is up to you to decide as to what was good for your social living. It is for you to know what brings in the SOCIAL HARMONY. it is for you to evaluate what creates MUTUAL BONDS. It is for you to learn how Love begets love and respect begets respect.

It is a UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE that unless we care for others; they won't care for us. Why are there rising cases of Corruption and violence? Have you ever wondered? It is because everyone is on his own. There is lawlessness and disorder in our social, political and individual lives.

Why is this lawlessness? My take is : TO GAIN SOMETHING, ONE HAS TO LOSE SOMETHING. The principle of ZERO SUM EQUILIBRIUM is as applicable to our social and political life today, as it was applicable in the days begone. We have to sacrifice some of our freedom and liberty to feel safe and secure. We can promote FREE FOR ALL environments only at peril to our own existence.

Society and the polity needs to be disciplined. Fear of authority , which has disappeared because of individualisation of society and the polity in its variant forms, has to be re- established. Regionalism, Castism and religious manifestations are the social and political variants of "Individualism", I have been talking about.

Having said all this, I must now take a look at the GLOBALISING WORLD. George Friedman has called it a FLAT WORLD. Alvin Toffler, in his treatise on social transformation had stated in POWER SHIFT that world shall split up into 5000 states and concept of Nation State would disappear. Instead, we would have some 5000 inter connected but interdependent ECONOMIC NODES flourishing in the world, somewhere around the advent of 22nd Century. Simple,in your computer language , they would all be MICRO DOTS ON A BIG COMPUTER CHIP called the Globe.

What is likely to happen , then? Why am I harping about the glory of the past, which is not retrievable? I say I was only tracing the path of human journey from a MASSIFIED SOCIAL SYSTEM to interconnected DEMASSIFIED SOCIAL SYSTEM. Most of my life I had lived in that era ---- so, I liked it.

What seems strange to me, might not be the same to Gen "X" and Gen "Y". They would grow up in the new social system, which is perhaps would endear them. But they might feel the same way, some FIVE DECADES LATER, as I do now. Because the journey of the humans continues forward.

Alvin Toffler had defined this journey of humans into THREE waves----- First wave of Agriculture; Second Wave of industrialization and Third wave of Information Age , which started somewhere around 1950s. He has defined them as periods of shifting emphasis of POWER. George Friedman, in a some what oblique manner, has defined them as FOUR STAGES of GLOBALISATION. He laid emphasis on the economic factor leading to FLATTENING OF THE WORLD and thus, man becoming a CONTINENT HOPPING MAN. Globe becomes a real village. And it is happening. SILLICON REVOLUTION has reduced the geographical distances. Well, this revolution might be SILLY and CONING, too. So, remain mentally alert to ward off its adverse effects.

Today, one can chat , face to face on Skype or hosts of other such sites, with your family members, friends and acquaintances. This is the impact of globalization. So, what has happened while the physical distances have narrowed down, the social and political distances have been increasing. We are living in our own cocoons. Welcome to the VIRTUAL WORLD, where you can live in total anonymity and yet be known all over the world.

This is the biggest paradox of human development in the last 50 years, I have talked about. While on one hand, he broke away from a joint family to create one's Self identity; on the other, he is deliberately effacing his identity in the Virtual world. There you are, then: In the REAL WORLD IDENTITY IS REAL, ACTIONS MIGHT BE UNREAL; AT THE SAME TIME, THE IDENTITY IN THE UNREAL WORLD MAY BE UNREAL BUT ACTIONS ARE LIKELY TO BE REAL, FROM THE CORE OF THE HEART.

" What is the paradox" , you would say? Simple, it is the crisis of growing "self confidence" but "distrust" in the things around you. It is a growing sense of materialistic insecurity that is driving man away from his environments. WHILE SELF RECOGNITION IS THE DESIRE OF EVERY HUMAN BEING BUT AT THE SAME TIMEBUT KNOWLEDGE AND FEAR MAKES HIM HIDE HIS IDENTITY. He lives in two worlds of "REAL" and "UNREAL".

Do you get me? OK, I shall explain it thus: People in my childhood were real both in acts and identity, it is not so in the world of today's i.e. IF A PERSON IS " REAL" HIS CONDUCT IS UNREAL; IF A PERSON IS "UNREAL" HIS ACTS MIGHT BE REAL.

"Where would we go from here", is the natural question on every lip? I would say from Alvin Toffler's transforming man from Agricultural to Industrial to Information, I would now add the FOURTH WAVE of COSMIC MAN------ we shall leap from CONTINENT HOPPING MAN or a GLOBALISED MAN to GALAXY HOPPING MAN or the COSMIC MAN, with their own values and social norms.

Therefore, my advice to Gen "X" and Gen "Y" is to get up and join the COSMIC BAND WAGON. My parting philosophy : WHAT WAS YESTERDAY IS NOT TODAY; WHAT IS TODAY WOULD DEFINITELY NOT BE THERE TOMORROW. Learn to live with the ARROW OF TIME. Like ever before, it continues to pierce into the abdomen of the unknown but well anticipated future.

May be the COSMIC MAN of tomorrow would be produced in the HUMAN FACTORIES, where human relations won't have any values. As it is the institution of marriage was now moving towards its extinction------the advent of "Stem cell technology" has reduced the need for a Man - Woman copulation for reproduction.

Stem cells might be made available in the market as VICKY DONORS have come to stay. Social and family relations and designation shall march into the dustbin of human history. Live- in partnership, single parent and "specific period marriages" are going to obliterate the designations of " Father" , " Brother", " Sister" and so on.

Hullo! What I have stated in the foregoing paragraph above, is going to be your journey over the next 50 years. Your leap into COSMIC AGE would throw you into isolation and solitude. So, learn to live alone.-----Here is to the COSMIC MAN of the future :----

LIVE YOUR LIFE, WITHOUT A WIFE;
LIVE IN A COCOON, SELF-GROOMED;
HAVE NO IDENTITY,IN YOUR ENTITY;
FACTORY BORN, LIVE LIKE A MORON.

WELCOME TO JANUARY 2067! CHHERS!! What drink do you have? I started with RUM, then graduated to whisky and now addicted to Indian made Scotch-----B/L or Black Dog. And now body says : CHHOD DE 'SAALE', FOR YOUR OWN GOOD HEALTH!!

Saturday, August 03, 2013

CALL FOR JASMINE WINDS !

Mrs SONIA GANDHI has sprung to Durga SHAKTI NAGPAL's defence, so screams this morning's Times Of India Head lines------ I have this to offer you----

CALL FOR JASMINE WINDS!

Lament O' India ! Know, where you are heading?

Led by corrupt leaders who are together bedding;

Unchecked, we shall soon become a lost civilization------

For, our leaders are only crocodile tears shedding!

Honesty and integrity are the values of the past,

Now everyone wants to make money very fast;

Corruption is rampant because common man is so----

Hypocrisy and greed, over him, have their shadows cast.

Indian media, today, is controlled by political masters,

Motivated stories are dished out by their News casters;

True lies have become synonymous with their profession------

They oggle hate and venom even during natural disasters.

Less said of Indian legal system, it is better for posterity,

Government, often, manipulates judiciary with dexterity,

Even highest court in the land toes the corrupt rulers line,

Ignoring popular sentiments, it gets blinded by legality.

"Rajee" 'Jasmine winds' ought to blow in this country,

India, today, needs real action not words so sedentary ;

Silent majority, if you do not heed this call of the times--------

Violence and chaos would be served from social pantry.

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Sonia-backs-IAS-officer-SP-rakes-up-Vadra-case/articleshow/21585302.cms

Wednesday, June 05, 2013

PREPARE FOR THREE FRONT WAR---INDIA's SECURITY IMPERATIVE

PREPARE FOR THREE FRONT WAR: INDIA's SECURITY IMPERATIVE IN 21st CENTURY !

Col Rajinder Singh (retired)

The security environments of India have undergone diabolic changes in the recent past. As India marches further into the 21st Century, it is becoming abundantly clear that threat to her integrity and sovereignty rises from three adversaries, i.e. internal foe in the form of raging insurgencies, inclusive of North East, J&K and Maoists/Naxalite militancy; external foes on the Western and Northern borders. The threat becomes more serious when we consider that all three have begun to seek coordination and mutual support against their common enemy,‘called India ’. It becomes imperative for India to develop ability to face all three adversaries simultaneously and concurrently. And this has to be developed as early as by 2015 as India would enter a major security minefield after 2015. Time is running out for Indian defense planners.

Recent Maoist attack in Darba Ghati of Chhatisgarh provide ample proof of seriousness of the threat arising out of internal foes. It is no doubts they are trained and equipped by India's Northern and Western adversaries. There is enough evidence available of Chinese and ISI connection. Therefore India has to take peace overtures from China and Pakistan with pinch of Salt. Pakistan sees its "JIHADIS" as "Strategic Assets" against India. With US?NATO troops pulling out of Afghanistan in 2014 and thereby likely gaining of an upper hand by Pakistan, the security environments of India would become dangerously more acute.

China’s aggressive posture towards India and her hectic activities of 'string of pearls' policy in the Indian ocean, rail-road construction in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) along with positioning of its troops in the FCNA of Pakistan, some two years back, is a sure indicator of her future intentions about India. On April 15, 2013, some 50 PLA troops intruded into Indian territory, up to 19 KMs in Daulat Beg Oldi(DBO) Sector of Ladakh and established a tented camp. This was clear provocation and NO friendly act. Though matter was resolved amicably, but it was at a great cost to India, where she had to accept Chinese terms to dismantle Indian look-out post in Chumar.

If one adds to this macabre high-handedness of China, the unfolding schism of ‘Kayani Doctrine’ from Pakistan and the poisonous fangs of Maoism/ Naxalite violence, now biting 240 districts of 20 Indian states, one finds a classic script for India’s planned disintegration by her internal and external foes. Yes, India is likely to be under siege by her internal and external foes, in the ensuing decade.

Read all this in conjunction with an article that appeared in the year 2009 in ‘Global Times’, an English language Chinese official internet news portal. The article had sought to break up India into 20-30 smaller states to remove India as an impediment to China ’s global ambitions. It suits the Pakistani military and her Generals, who see a united India, as a potential threat to their rule in Pakistan.

It also suits the sectarian interests of some self-styled guardians of India’s poor i.e. tribal, rural and urban, all included. Indian history is full of instances of traitors like‘Jai Chand, who joined hands with Mohammed Gori against Prithvi Raj Chohan; King Ambhi of Taxila, who sided with Alexander against King Porus and ‘Mir Jaffar’, who betrayed Nawab Sirajudaula and helped Lord Clive. In modern times, they masquerade as ‘Koteshwar Rao’, “Kishenji” and “Ganpati” or even as “Paresh Barua”, “Sayyed Gillani”, “Dawood Ibrahim” and “Wadhava Singh”. Defense and strategic planners in India cannot view these internal mascots of danger separately or in isolation the 'three-pronged' danger to national security, emanating in unison from inside and outside.

Centuries back, great Indian thinker-cum-administrator, ‘Chanakya’, had listed four dangers to national security. They were: one, emanating from outside and abetted from outside; two, emanating from inside and abetted from inside; three, emanating from outside and abetted from inside; lastly, emanating from inside and abetted from outside. He had also cautioned that a threat emanating from inside and abetted from outside was the most dangerous threat for the integrity of a state. Time has come for India to upgrade her security apparatus to be able to cope concurrently with this three way pincer.

In all assessments, the threat to Indian security from China is considered paramount. In an interview, to editor-in-chief, Mr. Raj Chengappa, of ‘The Tribune’, a North India daily from Chandigarh, published on October 17, 2010, General VK Singh, then, Chief of army staff of Indian Army, while talking of China, had rightly observed that notwithstanding the present peace on the Chinese borders, there was a need to be vigilant as the intentions can change when the capabilities grow. In other words, peace or no peace, Chinese threat cannot be discounted, particularly when you view it in terms of its latest activities around India.

China had been following a policy of encirclement of India both by sea and land. Its 'string of pearls' spreads from Gwador in Pakistan, through Hamanbantota in Sri Lanka to deep water port at Sittwe in Myanmar. It would control the sea lanes to India in the Indian Ocean. Besides, China had been busy in making foray into South Asian nations around India. India has Pakistan on her western borders, whose military sees India not only her enemy number one but also the only evil in the world. The Maoist Nepal, despite temporary setback, also looks to China as a friend, philosopher and a guide. China has also cultivated Bangla Desh and sees it as a major anti-India plank for seeding and supporting separatist movements in India’s North East states. It supported Sri Lanka with weapons and equipment, during its final war with LTTE in the year 2008-09. What is worse is that China has been supporting the military regime in Myanmar to go nuclear through covert assistance from North Korea. If it happens then, India would be fully flanked in the North, East and the West by nuclear states. It would be very dangerous situation for India.

Thus, China’s over all military strategy against India has been four pronged:-

(a) Contain and isolate India by making her

neighbors hostile and unfriendly.

(b) Outsource its low cost proxy war to

Pakistan and Maoists/Naxalites by:-

(i) Supporting and encouraging internal

Insurgencies brewing in India and thus

break-up India through implosion.

(ii) Using Pakistan to the maximum to

retard India’s military and economic growth.

‘String of Pearls’ policy.

(d) Befool Indian leadership and Indian

public through overt goodwill gestures in the interregnum period.

Military Generals of Pakistan have their own arithmetic on India. Their game is to survive as rulers of Pakistan at all costs. The only way they can do this is by creating a “monster of Hindu India” in the public mind of their country and thus hobnob with anyone who is unhappy with India and her policies, whether it was USA of 50s though 70s or China since 1962. In so doing, if they have to ignore basic Pakistani interests, so be it.

In any case, in Pakistan’s military perceptions, interests of the ‘Generals’ are the national interests of Pakistan. It is, therefore, in their interests to have a continued state of hostility between India and Pakistan. Any attempt to normalize relations must be scuttled with some irreconcilable incidents, like Kargil-99 episode; assault on Indian Parliament on December 13, 2001 or Mumbai 26/11.

Thus, Pakistan military follows five pronged strategy on India, as under:-

(a) Isolate India by enhancing US/ West helplessness over Afghanistan by controlling militant network engaging USA/NATO in Afghanistan.

(b) Act in conjunction with China to not only retard India’s economic and military growth but also be an important node of a combined threat in-being to India’s security.

(d) Weaken, attrite and balkanize India through her ‘War by Other Means’ (WOM) by using her so called ‘strategic asset’.

(e) Use nuclear black mail to check mate India from a 'measured military response' and use of ‘strategic depth’ in case of controlled nuclear exchange. Thus, Afghanistan remains her major worry, if it was hostile to her. This is the Achilles heel in their strategy.

Both China and Pakistan seek to dismember India by an internal explosion triggered by double pronged fuse from the East via China-supported- Maoist/Naxalite insurgency, along with other separatist movements in the North East states and from the West through Pakistan sponsored trouble in Punjab, J&K and entire North India. \

There is no real effort required to find links of Maoists and other terrorist outfits of India with India’s Western and Northern adversaries. In fact, while Pakistan treats ‘ultra-outfits’ as her ‘strategic asset’; China covertly supports them with weapons, training and a safe sanctuary for leadership. Presence of ULFA commander-in-chief, Mr. Paresh Barua, in China is not without reason. Certainly, he is not holidaying in China. Thus, prospect of a combined and coordinated threat from three elements, in the near-future, is very much on the cards.

What must India do to counter this combination of three pronged threat from within and without? The first thing is to recognize internal foe, aided and abetted from outside. As highlighted above, internal foe can be more damaging than the external enemies. In identifying her internal foe, it is no gainsaying the fact that India was utterly confused. Learned intellectuals and intelligentsia of India considerably add to this confusion by calling insurgents/militants/terrorists as ‘our misguided boys’. How can the killers, extortionists, kidnappers and butchers be termed as ‘our misguided boys’, when they plan and kill innocent people at will? This is the bane of all democratic forms of political systems.

The law of the land is very clear: anyone who has picked up arms against the state is the enemy of the state, whether he/she was a resident of India or otherwise. Thus, the ‘enemy’ has to be dealt with as ‘enemy’. There is nothing ‘misguided’ about these paid ‘stooges’ of China and Pakistan. They clearly know what they were doing. If there was confusion, it was in the minds of those who think they would listen to reason. Even if they want to listen to you, their masters across the northern and western borders won’t give them this flexibility. This option was long annulled when these so called ‘misguided boys’ fell into the lap of their ‘foreign’ patrons.

Let us remember one thing that military option was adopted once all other efforts fail to make the so called ‘misguided youth’ listen to reason. This failure graduates them from so called ‘misguided youth’ to ‘enemy’ of India. If the ‘logic of bullet for bullet’ has to be followed, then, there can be no half-cocked measures.

In order to do so, we ought to delink internal security from law and order problems. We cannot confuse the two, as it leads to dilution of the problem, India faces. Once we do it, we would realize that both need different kind of forces to deal with it. Law and order is essentially to be tackled by police force, trained in dealing with law-breakers of a civilized society, ranging from theft, murder, cheating, forgery, kidnapping, spying and other such like civil offences. Law and order is essentially a term to be used for ‘individualized crime’ and not for ‘organized crime’, in whatever form. I would, therefore, even exclude mass protests, resulting into rail/ road blockades in organized manner, from the realm of law and order.

Internal security requires a specialized force capable of conducting a military operation to fight well-trained ‘irregular soldiers’ of our external foes. Besides, militancy and insurgency, it would also encompass all acts of mass violence by organized crime mafia, such as communal riots, violent agitations, affecting national progress and development. Drug-trafficking, gun-running and organized extortion must also come under the purview of internal security.

Internal security, also, needs to be delinked from external security, from the execution point of view and not from overall defense planning and strategy. The forces dedicated for internal security not only be properly trained, organized and equipped but must also be placed under a unified command on all India basis. Internal security must have a national security grid and forces dedicated for each grid, depending upon the extent, nature and type of internal threat.

External security must have specialized forces separately, for the defense of mountainous and plain types of terrain, requiring minimum switching of forces from one theatre to another, except emergency. There is a need to raise dedicated area specific and specially trained, organized and equipped troops to effectively ward off any surprise. This is to ensure realistic and measured response to external military threats, individually or combined from China and Pakistan, with nuclear dimensions appropriately debated.

A comprehensive strategy to tackle all three dangers concurrently must be evolved to effectively ward off the dangers. We also need to have an appropriate mix of nuclear defense, both at tactical and strategic level, in our overall strategy of national defense. I see following six points, though nothing new about them but still worth considering:-

(a) Unified Command Under CDS (Chief of defense Staff) and Theatre commanders. Vitalize three wings of our armed forces and internal security forces in such a manner that they ought to fight under unified command on a synchronized battlefield with area specific needs, from mountains to desert to plains and riverine terrain. He should also act as National security adviser (NSA. It is time NSA is appointed who is well versed in matters military and not from the cadres of people who spent their lives, “suited- booted” in the foreign capitals. There is no need for a separate person to be appointed for this purpose.

(b) National Grid For Counter Insurgency. To deal with the menacing threat of internal threat, the nation ought to be organized into a grid of sectors and sub-sectors with dedicated force allocated to each sector/sub-sector. Overall command of the National security grid be under the CDS and respective theatre commanders.

(c) Space And Nuclear Defence Command.(SAND-CO). Functioning directly under PM, it should have, scientific adviser to PM, CDS cum NSA, Defence Minister, Home Minister and External affairs Minister along with head of NIA as members. The Vice President of India should be observer with this command.

(d) Integrated Intelligence Organization for External & Internal Threats. National Intelligence Agency (NIA) should command all agencies engaged in intelligence gathering and interpretation. All intelligence agencies, such as RAW, SB, SSB, IB and intelligence agencies of various states be place under the command of NIA for effective coordination and dissemination of intelligence.

(e) National Security Council (NSC). The national Security Council must be vitalized to include relevant central government ministries, such as Home, External Affairs, Defence, Finance, Commerce etc and Chief Ministers of various Border States. It should be headed by the President of India with Prime Minister as Vice Chairman. It should have external and internal security wings headed by Defence Minister and Home Minister respectively.

(f) Theatre Specific Organization of Armed Forces. To deal with external threat from North and West, defensive forces must be organized based on terrain specific requirements. The theatre specific forces must have limited offensive capabilities. Besides India needs to create double role offensive forces, who can switch rapidly from mountains to plains or deserts. These strike formations must have their adequate Air support and air defence components. Indian air force must develop a capability to carry out deep strikes in the North and West simultaneously. The role of strategic Missile Forces would be very important in any future conflict. Indian Navy must not only guard her coast line or the sea lanes in her economic zone but develop a capability to transfer a division sized force on the enemy coast line. It is high time it has an offensive arm as Marine Corps.

It is imperative for India to be prepared for the worst. And the worst is when internal and external foes join hands to balkanize her. The moral and material support to Maoists and J&K militants from China and Pakistan, respectively, give enough indications as to what India must expect from her external foes. India doesn’t have to not only develop ability to fight on three fronts simultaneously but also be mentally tuned to face such an eventuality. Half the job would be done, once India accepts this as a reality of the near-future. Sometimes preparing for war serves as a good deterrent to the adversaries. Preparing meticulously, with worst scenario in mind, often lays the foundation of victory. And ignoring the warning signals is to face military disgrace and humiliation of 1962 type!

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

EXPLORING LEGENDS OF VEDIC HISTORY---VISITING KEDARNATH AND BADRINATH

EXPLORING LEGENDS OF VEDIC HISTORY---VISITING KEDARNATH AND BADRINATH

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THIS IS MY TRAVELOGUE TO HARIDWAR_RISHIKESH_KEDARNATH AND BADRINATH WITH PHOTOS SUITABLY EXPLAINED AND DISPLAYED APPROPRIATELY.

I am not a historian nor a dispenser of Vedic knowledge but the myths of VEDIC people enamour me and I undertook a journey to BADRINATH and KEDARNATH to explore some mysteries---I have come back with some clear ideas and less confusion.

Just look at it---Lord VISHNU has FOUR wives----LUXMI, PRITHVI, VRINDA (TULSI) and GANGA----the latter three had to come to this WORLD because of a curse by GODESS LUXMI. He had displaced LORD SHIVA from their ABODE in BADRINATH through a Clever trick----Do I see a Confluence of Indigenous NAGA PEOPLE and those who returned as ARYAN after some 4000 years. I am convinced the ORIGIONAL INHABITANTS of INDIA were NAGAS of SUNDA LAND---whose presiding Diety was lord SHIVA. They went NORTH and WEST from here at the end of ICE AGE. they were the CUSTODIANS of VEDIC KNOWLEDGE. Anyway-------

There are SEVEN " RIVER SARAWATIS" as per Chapter 38 of SHALYA PURAAN of MAHABHARAT---they are SUPRABHA in PUSHKAR; KANCHNAKSHI in NAIMISHANYA; VISHALA in Gaya; MANORMA in AYODHYA; OGHAWATI in KURUKSHETRA; SURENA in GANGADWAR and VIMLODKA in HIMALYA.

BADRI-----is a wild berry tree under which LORD VISHNU had meditated on a TAUNT by sage NARDA----LUXMI took the shape of BERRY plant to protect VISHNU during his MEDITATION---so the BADRI NATH Temple. There are large number of BADRI bushes in this ALAKNANDA VALLEY called KANDH MOOL in local dialects.

KEDARNATH --one of the twelve HOLY JYOTILINGAS is actually a HUMP of a BULL---PANDAVAS came here in search of LORD SHIVA to absolve themselves of KILLING THEIR KITH & KIN and TEACHERS. Lord Shiva had not wanted to absolve them---so he disappeared from BENRAS--- old KASHI to UTTARANCHAL---GUPT KASHI on river MANDAKINI---they followed --he went to KEDARNATH VALLEY---PANDAVS came there ---He took the form of a BULL and joined other cattle grazing there---By evening all cattle returned by moving under the gigantic but widened legs of BHIM--But lord SHIVA as a bull did not and was recognized---BHIM saw him---Lord SHIVA sank into the EARTH but BHIM caught the HUMP. Lord was pleased and he absolved if they built a temple for the HUMP and worshipped----PANDAVAS did it and temple was constructed by them.

GANGA----Actually a confluence at DEVPARYAG of ALAKNANDA coming from ALKAPURI GLACIER some 15 KM North of BADRINATH and BHAGIRTHI coming from GANGOTRI-----

ALAKNANDA is joined by MANDAKINI at RUDRAPARYAG----PINDER at KARAN PARYAG----NANDAKINI at NADPARYAG-----DHAULIGANGA at VISHNUPARYAG------RISHIGANGA at BADRINATH and SARASWATI at KESHAVPARYAG.

MANDAKINI takes off from MERU-SUMERU foothills at KEDARNATH---it is made by KHEER GANGA, MADHU GANGA and DOODH GANGA. Later KAALI GANGA and SONE GANGA join it at SONPARYAG some 19 KMs down stream.

SARASWATI disappeared at MANA GORGE---some 5 KMs north of BADRINATH due to a curse by SAGE VYAS---it starts from 5 KM north of MANA PASS which is about 15 Kms from MANA village. Some residual water does come out of the GORGE and joins ALAKNANDA some one km from it VANISHING GORGE.

Uttaranchal has four DHAMS---YAMUNOTRI---GANGOTRI---KEDARNATH and BADRINATH. The crow flight distance or the aerial distance is some 28 KMs between YAMUNOTRI on the WEST and BADRINATH on the EAST. If you take the road distance it is 1500 KMs and require 10 days on the run. we went to only KEDARNATH and BADRINATH via RISHIKESH between---19-24 September 2009. Kedarnath is for lord SHIVA and BADRINATH is for lord VISHNU.

HARIDWAR---HAR KI PAUDI---HARIDWAR IS ONE OF THOSE 12 PLACES where ELIXIR (NECTAR OF LIFE) fell after the CHURNING OF OCEAN by SURAS and ASURAS. Four places are on earth and 8 places in HEAVENS. The other three on earth are: ALLAHABAD,NASIK and UJJAIN. At these places MAHA KUMBH FESTIVAL is HELD every 12 years. The MAHAKUMBH at HARIDWAR is due in 2010. Why after ever 12 years? Simple once a year for each one of the 12 places---- Next turn will come after 12 years only.

RISHI KESH---PARMARTH ASHRAM---RISHIKESH is the city of SAGES and Piligimages.

RISHIKESH---PARAMARTH ASHRAM---before evening AARTI---This ashram is on the EASTERN BANK of GANGES. one has to come through the road passing through BARRAGE on GANGES some 6 Kms short of RISHIKESH

DEVPARYAG--some 71 Kms from Rishikesh---CONFLUENCE of BHAGIRTHI on the LEFT and ALAKNANDA on the RIGHT. See the colour of the water. It becomes GANGA hereafter. THe route to GANGOTRI is along BHAGIRTHI River on the Left.

Another view of DEVPARYAG--The route to KedarNath and Badrinath is on the right along Alaknanda

VIEW OF GANGA from DEVPARYAG VIEW POINT. Legend has it that Bhagirath---descsndent of IKSHAVAKU and ancestor of RAM had worshipped for the release of GANGA by VISHNU---who did after Lord SHIVA the earthly BOSS agreed to accept her in his HAIRS. Do you see the logic of confluence of NAGAS and RETURNING inhabitants of SUNDALAND---calling themselves as ARYANS. Before this, SARASWATI was the main river---disappeared around MAHABHARTA PERIOD. Sage Vyasa's curse?

ALAKNANDA RIVER meandering along---near SRINAGAR (GARHWAL HILLS---established by king Ajay Pal in the 14th century---do not confuse with J&K) ---some 106 KMS from RISHIKESH and 34 KMs from DEVPARYAG .

Another view of meandering ALAKNANDA. Srinagar has got good hotels and accomodation is aplenty.

RUDRAPARYAG--some 34 KMs from SRINAGAR and 140 KMS from RISHIKESH. Here MANDA KINI on the LEFT and ALAKNANDA on the RIGHT (just a slight portion) meet. MANDAKINI loses her identity here.

KEDARNATH TEMPLE with MERU and SUMERU snow covered peaks in the backdrop.It is at a height of some 3581 meters or 11500 feet. Built by PANDAVAS---you find their engraved statues inside the temple. It is located some 130 kms from RUDRAPARYAG-----the climb to KEDARNATH begins from GAURIKUND---ROAD HEAD---- some 19 kms from SONE PARAYAG and 40 Kms from PHATA---HELIPAD. Gaurikund to KEDARNATH is a climb of 14 KMS. Choice is there to come by HELICOPTER

Another view of KEDARNATH COMPLEX from the HELIPAD----Helicopter service is from PHATA some 56 KMs away. it takes some 7 minutes to arrive by heptr ---else you got to come by road. one round trip for one person is Rs 7000 and a couple Rs 14000/- It is wiorth it.

View of MEANDERING MANDAKINI from the HELICOPTER WINDOW!

TRIYOGINARAYAN TEMPLE-- legend has it that LORD SHIVA and GAURI had got married here. It was second marriage after UMA had burnt herself in the YAGNA of Her father. The pond just in front of the temple is CLAIMED to have WATER pouring from the NAVEL (NABHI) of Lord Vishnu

BACK to RUDRAPARYAG from KEDARNATH---on our way to BADRINATH. We went ahead to GAUCHER some 23 KMS along Alaknanda towards Badrinath. we came from LEFT and went RIGHT.

At Karanparyag----some 33 Kms from Rudraparyag and 177 Kms from Rishikesh

At VISHNUPARAG---some 270 Kms from Rishikeash and 30 Kms short of BADRINATH. Here DHAULIGANGA and ALAKNANDA join. DHAULIGANGA water is GREYISH and this is the colour of the GANGA water---throughout. It is because of the limestone melting iunto it.

Vishnupryag is some 14 KMs ahead of JOSHIMATH which was set up by ADGURU SHANKARACHARYA--HIS MATH IS THERE. He is reckoned as incarnation of Lord VISHNU.

View of ALAKNANDA at the feet of BADRINATH TEMPLE--some 301 KMs from RISHIKESH and 160 Kms from Rudraparyag

View of the TEMPLE---It has the idol of Lord VISHNU---it is said the place was inhabited by Lord SHIVA and PARVATI but it was cleverly USURPED by Lord VISHNU ---who appeared as a child at the doorsteps and Parvati let him sleep inside the bedroom before the couple went to take Bath in the river. when they returned---it was locked from iside and lord Shiva and Parvati had to go some 10 Kms to the North

Another view of BADRINATH TEMPLE--inside idols of GANESH Ji, NAR & NARAYAN are also there.

The valley of BADRINATH is covered by two HILLS called NAR & NARAYAN. They were the sons of MURTI---youngest wife of DHARAM RAJ. Murthi was one of the 13 daughters of DAKSHA who was married to DHARAMRAJ. Narayan was the incarnation of Vishnu and NAR of the SHESHA NAAG.--In the next birth to fulfill a vow to NAR ---naryan as lord KRISHNA becomes NAR's (ARJUNA's) charioteer.

This is the River SARASWATI GORGE-----river Saraswati can be seen in the backdrop----it starts off from MANA PASS---some 15 Kms to the North-----The river disappeared here after a curse by SAGE VYAS---who was disturbed by the raging noise of the river while he was dictating BHAGWAT PURAAN to GANESHA JI. This gorge is some 7 Kms North of BADRINATH temple---just a KM ahead of the village of MANA---the last Indian village.

Disappearing waters of river SARASWATI

THE GORGE HOLE--UNFATHOMED for THOSANDS of YEARS--some residual water comes out of this to form a stream which joins the ALAKNANDA about one Km from here.

Garhwal scout guide on the SARASWATI GORGE He trekked us to this place . The gorge is above MANNA VILLAGE

The rectangular opening in a rock is called BHIM PUL---it was done by BHIM to make DRAUPADI cross the RESIDUAL SARASWATI.

RESIDUAL SARASWATI---joining ALAKNANDA RIVER in the distance. The confluence is called KESHAV PARYAG. In the far distance is MURTHI MATA's temple

Two lady visitors at the entry to MANA VILLAGE---Last INDIAN village before the TIBETAN BORDER.

This is the JAYPEE--HYDRO ELECTRIC PROJECT on ALAKNANDA some 19 KMs from BADRINATH on our way back to JOSHIMATH. a 14 KMs tunnel takes the water from this DAM to Vishnuparyag and electricity is produced. There are number of such PRIVATE project is in the offing on these rivers.

Back to HARIDWAR---HAR KI PAUDI--23 SEPT--2009. AARTI is in progress.

Rishikesh---idol of lord Shiva in

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

ARYANS, DRAVIDIANS AND NAGAS-- -PART-4---HARAPPAN AND BRAHMI SCRIPTS--- REWRITING ANCIENT INDIAN HISTORY

INTERPRETTING HARAPPAN SCRIPT

Harappan script is a pictorial symbols. One must know that Harappan used the natural symbols of fish and stars , as they lived by water bodies. It confirms my research and interpretation that Harappans were NAGAS of SUNDALAND, who left the coastal areas at the end of last Ice age when SUNDALAND got submerged into water due to rising sea level with melting glaciers and advent of Rivers and River civilizations.

FULL HARAPPAN SCRIPT -SOME 419

Harappan script----- which is seemingly similar to Prakriti and resembles Tamil and Barhui script----- it is close to Brahmi, too.

BRAHMI SCRIPT-----LEADING TO SANSKRIT & DEVNAGRI SCRIPTS

Ancient Brahmi script, which led to development of Sanskrit and Devnagri scripts. Brahmi was developed from Prakriti ---- which is also the mother of Tamil and Barhui. You can see the close resemblence of this to various other pictorial scripts. I say even Tamil and other South Indian Languages along with scripts of North East languages are very close to this.

REWRITING ANCIENT INDIAN HISTORY

With more and more archaeological, genetic, astrological, geological and scientific datas available, it is now clear that myths about ARYANS and DRAVIDIANS were created because of half knowledge of foreigners about ancient Indian past. They interpreted Indian history based on what they saw in Harappa and Mohanjodaro, discounting everything else that might have preceded it.

Aryan invasion thheory (AIT) or Aryan Migration Theory (AMT) is a myth created on wrong interpretations. Aryan was a word comprising two sanskrit roots i.e. AA+RI-------AA means NOT and RI means common man, as it is in RIYYA in old Persian. Thus, ARYAN stood for---NOT A COMMON MAN or very simply put ---a NOBLE MAN. This is how ancient Indian scriptures refer to Kings and princes and persons with high social status. There was nothing RACIAL or ethnic about them.

MYTH of ARYA, as a race, was created by Europeans or more particularly the GERMANS, who were looking for a racial supremacy. Therefore, when in the early twenties of the last Century, such magnificent archaeological sites as HARAPPA and MOHANJO-DARO were excavated, they were immediately linked to something superior which had imported itself from outside to the Indian mainland. People, like MAXMULELLER and MORTIMER WHEELER, could not believe that ancient INDIA could have had created such ARCHITECTURAL WONDERS IN URBAN DWELLING.

Western Scholars, trained and educated on the biblical beliefs that the universe was created only around 23 October 4100BC, could not think of the world existing prior to this.In fact, this belief might have risen from a fact of GEOLOGICAL UPHEAVAL that might have caused a serious disaster to humans and geography. It endorses my view on REVERSE JOURNEY of NAGAS to their Original land-----and the cause of SARASWATI losing its two tributaries,i.e. YAMUNA and SATLUJ.

In time and space, western scholars, therefore, reduced everything to within 2000BC and originating from Central Asia. Thus, based on the flimsiest of grounds, the theory of ARYAN INVASION and CONQUER was floated when a mount of dead bodies was found at MOHANJO-DARO. It was assumed that they might have been slaughtered by the SUPERIOR ARYANS. This myth led to the emergence of a SUPER MYTH on the supremacy and superiroity of a great ARYAN & VEDIC KNOWLEDGE, imported from outside. New archaeological excavations and the interpretation of the ORAL HISTORY reveal that the MYTH and the SUPER MYTH, both, were a cruel joke on the ANCIENT GREATNESS of INDIA.

The word DRAVIDIANS is a derivation from a old Sanskrit root--VID ---which meant water----RI--meant People and DRI---Have/Possess/living, as in old persian DRIn-CHE-SHAK, (Have No doubts)----Thus, DRAVID meant people who lived in the coastal region or the water body. In ancient scriptures, FIVE regions have been decribed as DRAVIDAS---Maharashtra, Gujarat, TAMIL NADU, ANDHRA, KARNATKA. It was the region closely associated with now submerged Sunda Land. It is also called lost LIMURIA ISLAND or KUMARI KANDHAM in ancient Tamil texts. The word DRAVID was first time used by a 7th century BUDHIST SCHOLAR of Sanskrit Mr. KUMARILLA BHATTA in his bool TANTARIKAVARTIYA. He used the term to decribe NON-SANSKRIT SPEAKING people of these five regions as mentioned above. The word DRAVID could also be a derivation from a Sanskrit word DRAMILLA or DRAMIL or even TAMIL. It was only in 1859, a christian missionary, Robert Caldwel , who sought to link it with ethnicity and race because he found similarity in the grammar and dialects of 73 variations of TAMIL LANGUAGE including BARHUI spoken in BALOCHISTAN and Afghanistan. However he failed to link it with NAGA CIVILISATION of ancient India, who left SUBMEGED SUNDALAND at the end of last ice age.

The inhabitants of Sundaland were called NAGAS,because NAAG also means a WATER BODY in old sanskrit. They are the people who established FIRST HUMAN AGRICYLTURAL CIVILISATION. While interpreting Harappan script,one must know that Harappan used the natural symbols of fish and stars to develop their script because they were natural objects seen by them, as they lived by water bodies. It confirms my research and interpretation that Harappans were NAGAS of SUNDALAND, who left the coastal areas at the end of last Ice age when SUNDALAND got submerged into water due to rising sea level with melting glaciers and advent of Rivers and River civilizations. SUNDA LAND was the cradle of HUMAN Civilisation. For other details on SUNDA LAND and Chronology of ancient Indian History/ events see my blog :

http://creative.sulekha.com/chronological-history-of-indian-subcontinent-my-interpretations-and-impressions_558239_blog

The VEDIC Knowledge was developed by these people and they too it along with them as they moved up North and West,at the end of LAST ICE AGE (8000-10000 BC). They established RIVER CIVILISATIONS along, Saraswati and Indus rivers. Archaeologically, 75% of excavations of old settlements , dating to Harappan period, have been found on the ancient course of River SARASWATI. Therefore, IVC , should be really SARASWATI VALLEY CIVILISATION of NAGAS. Its they who migrated North and later some 4000 years afterwards, returned due to a geological upheaval. It is these people who are refered to by some Historians as ARYANS and residual people of Ancient India as Dravids. But this is a half bit of ancient Indiamn History.

From above discussion, I have reached two conclusions :-

------ Ancient Indian history, even prior to Harappa and IVC belonged to people who inhabited lost land mass of SUNDALAND , also called KUMARI KANDHAM and LIMURIA. These people worshippers of lord Shiva were the creator of Vedic knowledge. This was the FIRST HUMAN CIVILISATION anywhere in the world.

-------- My second observation is that Indian ancient history post NAGA CIVILISATION or Post LAST ICE AGE is a story of MIGRATIONS, TO AND FRO AND CROSS MIGRATIONS. It is these people who went up and down to PERSIA, EUROPE, CAUCASIAN HIGHLANDS and returned with different identities.

As regards the confusion about ANI and ASI merger is concerned, let me assert again that it took place 40,000 years back------ it took another 20,000 years for first human civilisation to develop in these coastal regions.

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.

Look at the ancient map of submergedTamil Nadu or Sunda Land/Kumari Kandham/Limuria island:-