Ek baras bit gaya.....
A year has gone by and lot many things have changed after 26/11,US president has changed,Loksabha election and Vidhansabha election in Maharastra have gone by.
But the memories remain etched of Jihadi terrorists unleashing a carnage at CST station,the Taj and Oberoi.The mayhem has been equally matched by our response of initial anger,then frustration and now forgetfulness.

The response has'nt changed because of our pride that we are tolerant society but the reality is we are forgetful and coward.Pakistan attacked us in 1948 and occupied 1/3rd of Kashmir and still identifies it as Azad Kashmir but even after passing a resolution in 1994 in Loksabha that we will recover every inch of occupied land we have'nt moved anywhere.In 1965 we had moved till Lahore but we backtracked and in 1971 after a resounding victory we let Pakistan off the hook with a useless agreement that did'nt achieve anything.Chinese side also tells the same story.
And now after ethnic cleansing of Hindus in Kashmir,and innumerable bombings and attacks we are still not able to retaliate.

The main reason is public sentiment is not sharp and hot enough to force the government.Did we punish Pt Nehru or Indira or Rajiv for thier colossal blunders or are we even realizing it now.Just contrast this with a nation 1/100th of our size i.e Israel,even now Moshe the 3 year old toddler who lost his parents in 26/11 attack is a sensation,the nanny which stood by him in the attack has been honored and for past 3 years it is still fighting a pitched battle to bring back a single soldier captured by Hezbollah.Jews beacuse of the holocaust and the persecution of 2000 years very well know the value of motherland and freedom.But Hindus think it is free and easy although our struggle has been raging for almost 1200 years and is smeared with blood and tears of brothers and sisters.

May this be wake up call and make us realize that'Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty'

Missing the message!!!!!!!!

Kolkata is now cooling off after the hectic days of DURGA puja,lots of pandals,lots of art and creativity.The best of bengali creativity at work be it pandals or themes.But the thing which struck me and probably would have also reminded others that DURGA puja is basically worship of strength.

See HER idol and you will be filled with vigor,locks of hair flowing,eyes filled with rage,all hands with weapons to be used for destruction of the wicked.In fact Vijayadashmi resounds even by it's name of victory over evil.We worship crores of gods by different names DURGA,KALI,MAHADEV,RAM,KRISHNA and others.All you notice, carry some form of weapons and what message does it gives us?

To worship strength,to crave for victory in all fields.To understand the difference between good and evil,to give best effort to avoid bloodshed,like Ram and Krishna did by negotiating,but when the need arises and it becomes clear that desctruction of evils like Ravana,Duryodhana,Kansa,Mahishasura is for the larger good go whole hog for it.

If we learn this message from our GODS then only we will be truly worshipping them.Our independence struggle and our misconceptions of AHMISA (non violence) have developed a feeling that weapons,strength is only brawn and non violence places us on a higher plane against the enemy.After independence some people even argued that we should not have any army to defend because it is against non violence.

The message is clear to worship weapons and even to posses it.We had a tradition of possesing weapons and worshipping them on Vijayadashmi.But Englishman after seeing the revolt of 1857 and how the commoners used these weapons against them,disarmed the nation and made it illegal to posses them.The result is a nation in which goons,naxalites,jihadis get weapons from anywhere and terrorize people,but the commoners who can fight them off with weapons are disallowed to do so.

Even in terrorist affected states when commoners were given weapons and formed into VDC(Village defence committees) they have shown miraculous results.The recent example is of a girl slaying a LeT terrorist single handedly.Even the world's oldest democracy USA allows possesion of weapons and has'nt repealed it once even after so many accidents (remember alcohol was banned in 20's in USA but not weapons).

The need in INDIA is to relax control on weapons so that the thriving black market is wiped off and the weapons go in to the hands of people who use it for the nation rather than against it.

Six decades or Six thousand years......

62 years are a flash for a country which has evolved over a thousand years. It has it’s share of happiness and tears. Last thousand years have seen more of tears than smiles.But exactly 62 years ago on this day we received a fractured independence because of partition. It was a day of joy because we were free again but also of sorrow because a large part of our beloved motherland was being separated from us. Different times of our history have had different heroes who changed destiny. I am going to talk of those times-:

In recorded history the first person to imagine this nation of continental proportions was CHANAKYA who after seeing Alexander’s invasion and our weaknesses, decided that the only answer was a strong centrally controlled empire which is aware that this is one nation from Hindukush to Bay of Bengal. Chandragupta Maurya, his disciple and the founder of Mauryan empire mad this a reality and so India enjoyed invasion free centuries till Ashoka. He might have been the inspiration behind Sardar Patel who amalgamated the princely states to create a unified India.

The period which is referred as Golden Age of India or which coined the term of Golden sparrow about India was the Gupta Empire. The nation was in forefront in arts, literature, science, trade and was brimming with prosperity. It had invasions from Huns but the emperors stopped it at the gates and even gave their lives for it. The same time needs to be revived again where INDIA is at the forefront of all aspects of life.

Then were the dark ages starting from attack of Muhammad Bin Qasim in 712 AD on Sindh and our millennium long struggle for freedom. The unified front formed by armies of 17 kingdoms against Mahmud Ghazni’s nephew who also came for plunder but had to pay his life for the misadventure shows that united we stand and divided we fall. When all was lost and the barbarians ruled the roost and nobody imagined of taking them to task, saints reinforced our faith. Tulsidas, Kabir, Nanak, Meerabai, Dnyaneshwar, Namdeo, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and the list is long who taught us not to lose hope but keep faith in DHARMA and slowly but surely fight back for it’s glory.

Then came a galaxy of warriors and statesman Rana Sanga, Bappa Rawal, Rana Pratap, Prithviraj Chauhan, Chatrapati Shivaji, Samabhaji, Bajirao, Chatrasal, Krishnadevraya , Lachit Badfukan , Guru Gobind Singh, Ranjitsingh who took the barbarians to task and made them realize that if there was any divine right to rule this beautiful country it was vested with HER SONS and not for people who came from other side of Himalayas. When it was just felt that freedom was in our grasp came the calamity from West and again there was a two century long independence struggle which brought us the happy-sad day of today.

It will be fully happy only when the river which hosted one of the oldest civilizations in the world and gave us our identity is back in our fold.


VANDE MATARAM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hindus Hindutva and Politics
2009 election results are out almost 45 days back and it is amply clear that it is the most stable government after 1996 as largest party has crossed the psychological barrier of 200 seats.BJP is defeated for second time in row and analysts have pounced on it saying it is high time to dump HINDUTVA and be a moderate party.

In a nation of 80% Hindus and third most followed religion (??) in the world can it be really dumped.The situation has risen because we Hindus have stopped asserting it and have wrongly equated it only with Shiv Sena,Bajrang Dal or even BJP.Hindutva or Hinduism is a way of life as honorable Supereme court has ruled in one of it's proceedings.The confusion is basically out of ambiguity between SECULAR and Equal Respect for all Religions.Secularism is seperation of religion from politics and it came from West because kings wanted to overthrow the papal authority.But India always have had kings who bowed before holy men and showed equal respect for all religions.

Hindutva is something which encompasses every aspect of life be it politics,education,economics,spirituality.Today when battlelines are being drawn in our neighbourhood it is Hindutva's VASUDAIV KUTAMBAKAM (whole earth is a family)philosophy which can save the world.When the earth is warming up beacause of our haphazard model of development it is Hindutva's holistic view which says SARVE BHAVANTU SUKHINAH, SARVE BHAVANTU NIRAMAYAH....(let everybody be happy and healthy)can guide mankind.Communism has died 20 years back and capitalism has had it's Pearl Harbour it is Hindutva which can give the world a new view of development.

So instead of dumping BJP should take Hindutva in much more rigor and also make the country realise what it stands for.Swami Vivekananda said that if the word HINDU has lost it's sheen it is beacuse of us so let us strive and make it so glorious that the word HINDU will be the best word conceived in any language.

The day that was 10th May
We all know and say that public memory is short, it tends to forget for it’s own loss. But if the memory loss is so acute that it makes us forget key events of our history then it is a disorder. Not stretching the suspense far the day I am talking about is 10th May. Still questions will arise what is so special about that?

It is so special that should be marked with gold because our first war of independence started on this day i.e 10th May 1857.The day decided was 31st May and the planning was meticulous a simple roti was the symbol which was circulated through villages, cities and cantonments. Everybody consuming roti had to take oath of fighting against the foreigners and Bahadurshah was the leader of the war. But circumstances went otherwise and soldiers in Meerut went on a rebellion on this day and before the gora sahibs could sit up and notice the whole North India was up in arms.

Although the plan did’nt go well still it was enough to shake the company raj to it’s roots.Even Lord Canning the then Governor General noted “ If Scindias of Gwalior join I will have to pack off”. Almost 100 thousand soldiers forgetting their caste & creed fought as sons and daughters of our beloved motherland. It produced a galaxy of leaders Nanasaheb Peshwa & Tatya Tope from Kanpur,Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi, Kunwarsingh from Ara, Ahmedshah from Audh and a lot of others. But their own brethren like Sikhs fought against them and South India did’nt create a whimper. Englishmen with their superior technology ,skills and imperial backing took almost a year to douse of what was the most serious challenge to their power after Marathas.

They failed but in act not in vision. They had a clear vision of free India and wanted it at the cost of even their kingdoms, families and lives. They did what they could to the best of their efforts and finally all of them except Nanasaheb who vanished gave the last measure of dedication i.e life for the dearest cause of Independence. It is to those that we should look upto when in doubt that what can a aamadmi like you and me do for a country of continental proportions not only in size but in problems.

If you have a clear vision like them and are ready to give your full measure of devotion you will change the course of history like they did.

P.S: Even 11th & 13th May is an important day can you tell me why especially for India?

A sense of desperation and anger

Last few weeks have been of desperation and anger at the site of continuing terror attacks and the paralysis that has stuck not only governance but our feelings too.

It is about 2 very different events that seem unrelated but have one thing in common the paralytic governance. The audacity with which 26/11 attacks were carried out are being matched by the same degree of lame duck response from our government. As the news related to attacks fades from first to inner pages of newspapers so it will fade from public memory also. And we should not forget that so we will sow the seeds of further attacks against our beloved country ,people and everything we hold near and dear.

It is history repeating itself, remember always the marauders have come from WEST, be it Alexander, Bin Qasim, Ghazni , Ghori or Clive. And finally they have overshadowed our destiny. If we do not want the history to repeat we have to change the response from what our forefathers gave to them. We have to be on offensive instead of fighting the war in our own land and facing destruction as Shivaji did.

Pakistan remains the only state in the world to have terrorism as state policy after all the Arab states have resigned from it latest being Syria. PLO is not worth calling a state and Palestine has a long way to go before being called a nation. But as it is said ‘All the road lead to ROME’ so “All the terrorists lead to PAKISTAN”. It is a deadly potion of army, ISI and Islamic jihad with a dangerous spice of nuclear weapons which can revive the memories of holocaust. The only way out is not destruction of terrorist set ups but the destruction of Pakistan itself to make the world a terror free heaven. We Indians have to get ready for a long drawn battle because we are the front line against these marauders and we only are going to deal a death blow to this dance of terror. But this will only happen if we show these lunatics of what power we weild not in the mouth but in brawn, raw power which will frighten their wits and remove once and for all any foolish notions of seeing the crescent flying over RED FORT once again. So offence against terrorist camps first and then against the largest bunch of terrorists i.e Pakistani army is the only answer.

The second event is from Kolkata, High court has outlawed all the 2 stroke autos which use adulterated fuel and have earned Kolkata the title of most polluted city in India from 31st Dec. But they continue to ply unabated because our state government does not have the guts to face them and put them off the roads for fear of losing vote banks. It did not do anything in the deadline of 3 months which was given by the court and is now behaving as if it is the savior of auto drivers. This paralytic governance which is not ready to see problems in it’s eye and try to remove them cannot face the dauting challenges which confront us in this century.

The only answer is PEOPLE awakened and enlightened who want a better future and the place for our country in the comity of nations which it rightly deserves.