Indian Realist

Traitors at Home

2008-08-07T07:11:00.000-07:00

Look at this report carried by "Times of India" today on its Website and quitely removed within a couple of hours. Who are the TOI editors in touch with to commit such treason? Who meets them? Who entertains them? What is their ideology?
It is about time these faceless people gnawing away at the foundations of our country were exposed for the traitors they are and we made an example out of them. It is amazing to see the governement taking no action at all against such treason against the country. Is the Information and Broadcasting minister sleeping on the job, like the much-reviled home minister?
JKLF chief Yasin Malik hospitalised
NEW DELHI: As the situation in Jammu and Kashmir over the Amarnath land row remained tense, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman Yasin Malik's condition has deteriorated and has been rushed to a hospital in Srinagar. Malik was on a hunger strike since August 5, against the economic blockade of the valley and attacks on Muslims. "Malik’s blood pressure has dropped. He has stopped taking medicines, thus endangering his life," said GQ Allaqaband, member of a two-man team that visited the leader.
Former Chief Minister of occupied Kashmir and President of Awami National Conference GM Shah visited Yasin Malik and expressed solidarity with his cause, a JKLF spokesman said. Meanwhile, to discuss the worsening situation in occupied Kashmir, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held an all-party meeting in New Delhi on Wednesday evening. But, All Party Hurriyat Conference, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front and other Kashmiri leaders were not invited to the meeting.
Meanwhile, Bhim Singh, Chairman Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party has said the all-party meeting is a futile exercise as the state’s regional parties were not invited to it. Without involving true representatives of the people of Jammu, such meeting would not yield result, he said in a statement.

If Indian Maoist supporters are here, can Anglo-American awards be far behind?

2008-04-22T07:55:00.000-07:00

As has been usual for the last decade or so, American government has in a calculated move showered an award on another Indian leftist / liberal / secular entity. This time the personality is even more drastic and radical. According to an IBN Live report, Binayak Sen, a doctor currently lodged in a Chattisgarh jail on charges of links with the murderous Indian Maoists, has been graced with the "presitgious" Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights.

See the report here:
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/us-award-for-docactivist-accused-of-maoist-links/63747-3.html

The English diaspora -- Canada, Australia and the UK -- led by the pied piper USA have been for many decades using their awards to further Anglo-American geo-political interests. These awards are carefully given to raise the profile of particular individuals who are arrayed against native faiths and nationalism in countries such as China and India.

Vernacular Press

2008-01-30T14:09:00.000-08:00

Indian non-English newspapers are like a breath of fresh air. They have no hint of this Marxist / leftist propaganda or anti-Hindu orientation that is so visible in champagne-sipping, west-touring “journalists” of NDTV, CNN-IBN, TOI and HT. The vernacular papers are not ashamed of their Hindu identity and defend it vigorously. The only shame is that they are not available on the Internet and cannot be read by people who are comfortable reading in English.

Dainik Jagaran, which my newspaper vendor tells me sells as much in Delhi as the Times of India, has the following op-ed piece written by its political editor. I have translated it into English. Clearly, it is only the English media in India which is alienated from the land and looks to the West for inspiration. They suffer from the classic Nehru syndrome, while the vernacular media seems to be the salt of this land.

Attack on Hindu Symbols
Prashant Mishr recounts the reasons behind the mentality to attack the most sacred symbols of Hindu faith

Attacks on the most sacred symbols of Hinduism continue unabated. The latest assault has been conducted by the history department of the Delhi University. Some sensational information has been included in its curriculum for graduates, based on critical commentary by A.K. Ramanujam. You may recall that an NGO funded by the Indian government had organised an exhibition right in the middle of Ayodhya to tell us that Lord Rama was having an affair with his mother! Now, Delhi University’s latest “research” is telling us that Laxman was having an affair with Sita.

To add insult to injury, it has been further proclaimed that Lord Hanuman was character-less and used to peep into the rooms of people in Lanka. This “research” is being done by institutions that are funded by the government of India, meaning that common people’s money is being used to attack their own faith. Because of the stamp of government, such “research” gets official credibility and recognition. This kind of nonsense can still be tolerated if published by independent researchers. But when the name of Bhandarkar Research Center or Baroda University is associated with them, it just goes on to show that the attack on symbols of Hindu faith is supported by the government. When the Govt. of India files an affidavit in the Supreme Court that Lord Rama never existed, then this suspicion of government support is turned into proof in our minds.

Hindu faith has been under attack by Western countries and even commercial organisations too. It is also true that the anti-religion viewpoint prevailing in the West is the result of a long struggle which divided Christianity into various sects. We can also agree that the secularism of the West is more or less based on humanitarian values. When Westerners ridicule religion, they do not spare their own. Indian secularism, on the other hand, has the commercialism of the Western society, but lacks its honesty. India secularism is anti-Hindu and nothing else. It does not have the guts to comment on any other faith.

Our Indian government does not have the courage to even punish the terrorists who attacked our parliament. Our prime minister is unable to sleep when an Indian Muslim is arrested on charges of terrorism abroad. But when terrorists have destroyed thousands of families in India, it does not seem to cause any special pain to our prime minister.

And this is the mentality of a party whose own two biggest leaders have been consumed by the fires of terrorism! Isn’t it a matter of great surprise then that when it comes to Hindu faith, the government suddenly discovers its courage! In this matter, some communist organisations and NGOs too jump on the bandwagon and become militant along with the government. Such an NGO recently did not mind stripping Mother India of her clothes. When Hindus protested, a TV journalist came to the rescue by giving the argument that there was a kind of pristine innocence attached to nudity and motherhood!

The journalist perhaps overlooked the fact that this “naked innocence” does not appeal to M.F. Hussain when making a painting of his own mother (or even women from the Prophet's household). The painter has developed a taste of nudity only when painting Mother India or Goddess Durga. When he paints Madhuri Dixit, he turns into “Mac Bull.” One TV channel included Hussain’s name in the list of people who should be given the Bharat Ratna.

Media is busy creating an impression that a great injustice has been done with Hussain and he was forced to flee the country to London. The truth is that this kind of controversy is created for commercial gain. As far as the communists are concerned, they not only hate the Hindu religion, they hate Indian nationalism too. These people support nuclear programme of Iran but have objections about the Indian nuclear programme! Hindu faith is attacked under the garb of scientific reasoning, historical research or artistic freedom. Sometimes, the logic is given that because Hinduism allows dissent, it is rightful forf others to insult its most sacred symbols, meaning that “you deserve it because you are liberal and tolerant.”

These people seem to argue that only those faiths are worthy of respect which are fundamentalist in nature and do not brook any opposition or intellectual freedom. No faith in the world is ever tested on the parameters of modern logic, historical truth or science. Mankind needed religion only because we wanted to cross the boundaries of the physical world to experience something spiritual that is beyond all logic and science of this world. When doubts are raised about the historicity of Lord Rama, it seems that the rationalists want to argue that no conception is possible without physical intercourse, nobody can come alive after death and one’s body cannot fly to heaven. But isn’t it clear that the entire edifice of Christianity is based on these very unscientific principles? Every faith in the world is based on a foundation that cannot be tested scientifically. Then why only Hindu faith is singled out for such examination and attack?

Hindu religion is anyway so ancient that is not a part of history, but proto-history. Recently we have excavated some portions of the ancient submerged city of Dwarka. Surely, Hindu faith must have got strengthened due to it. But can a faith be questioned only because no archaeological proof has been found to substantiate its core beliefs? The time has come when Hindus should protect and save their gods and beliefs from motivated insults and slurs with as much seriousness and zeal as they protect slurs to their own personal reputation.

"I will scratch your back, you scratch mine"

2008-01-25T13:27:00.001-08:00

This is what came to my mind when I read that the Congress-led UPA government has decided to shower awards on the hallowed tribe of CNN-IBN and NDTV "journalists" who go around under the labels of "leftists / liberals / secularists / civil society members / facilitators of interfaith dialogue" and God knows what else, but in actuality just run Kangaroo courts where judgement is passed upon the political enemies of Congress and Communists as well as the strange species of "Hindoo fundamentalists."

The managing editor of NDTV Barkha Dutt, independent telecaster Vinod Dua who is currently a consultant with NDTV India, as well as CNN-IBN's editor in chief Rajdeep Sardesai have been conferred the Padm Shri award by the Indian government. On January 17, NDTV had conferred its "Leader of the Year" award on the prime minister of India, Manmohan Singh. Is there some kind of award-exchange programme going on? Both the news channels are well-known for their pro-Congress slant and coming down like a ton of bricks on its political rivals, most notably the BJP.

The politician-journalists nexus has become the bane of India, with many journalists and newspapers, especially from the English media, well known for their corruption and low moral standards.

What were we like in 4th Century BC?

2008-01-25T10:38:00.000-08:00

The other day I stumbled upon a nice blog that goes through some ancient Greek and Latin writings to tell us how we Indians used to perceive ourselves and what the world thought of us, way back in the 4th century BC just before and after the invasion of Alexander.

Here is the link:

http://arvindsharma.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/18-the-indian-self-image-in-the-fourth-century-bc/

The writings clearly show that even 2500 years back, we Indians had values that will do any civilisation proud. Also, Indians of that time had no civilisational memory that their ancestors had come from anywhere outside India. They and the Greeks considered ancient Indians as thoroughly indigenous, the salt of the land. This flies in the face of the controversial and now-debunked Aryan Invasion Theory popularised by some missionaries and Indian communist historians.

Even that time, the sources tell us, Indian kings refused to invade territories outside India because "it will be unjust." The sense of "dharma" was quite strong at that time and it seems the society had a keen sense of what is just and what is unjust. Seems like today's India again needs a strong dose of our ancient dharma.