16th of December

In all the talk of government formation,we have forgotten an important day like 16th December. It was on this day that we gave a crushing defeat to Pakistan and created a new nation of Bangladesh.

We created a world record of taking surrender of 93000 prisoner of war. For once we took offensive stand and even superpowers with all their nuclear weapons couldn't change the outcome.

What we won on the battlefield was lost on the table. We signed a useless Shimla agreement not even asking for PoK or war damages. Swarna Singh has commented that at the summit, Indira was behaving as if she was the loser while Bhutto was behaving like a winner. A long period of slavery has broken our very confidence that we can WIN.

May this day remind us that WE CAN.

Bharat mata ki jai!!!!!

On Gandhi Jayanti..

 

Kshama karo bapu, vachan bhang ke hum apradhi,
Rajghat ko kiya apavan, manzil bhule yatra aadhi,

Atalji wrote this poem after the fall of Janata party government. But isn’t it really applicable to all of us. Who was Gandhiji any ways a politician, patriot, leader, social reformer, author or as the Nobel prize committee described him “political saint”. We sing paens to his contribution, but what was his contribution? In a simple way he made the freedom movement broad based. He had the courage to declare in Congress session that freedom does not only belong to clever barristers of Bombay or Delhi but to the masses who live in lacs of villages of India. The lawyer he was, he won’t have missed the ordinance by which Englishman had disarmed the whole country after 1857, making armed revolution an impossibility. Thus civil disobedience or non cooperation through non violent means were the only effective ways to overthrow the empire.
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But his vision didn’t end at freedom it encompassed the very path Bharat should take after independence. When returning from second round table conference he was asked that what he thought about western civilization? He pondered for a while and said “I think it is a good idea”. In his book Hind Swaraj which is now more than 100 years old, you would know his thoughts on development models. He questions whether development just means living in bigger/better houses with more comforts or is it the development of MAN. It is said that he commented once that if Indians followed western model of consumerism (??) they would plunder earth like locusts.

It was his unshakeable faith in India which prompted him in saying that Egypt is lost, nobody knows about Greece or Rome, Japan has turned to west, nothing can be said about China, but even though ruined India is still throbbing in it’s bosom. People make mockery of his idea of swadeshi or gram swaraj but will have to turn towards it one day if the world is to be saved from the mad rush of consumption.

It is very fitting that his true follower was also born on the same day.
Vande Mataram !!!!

On inauguration anniversary of Rock Memorial: 02nd Sept 1970 

How many of you have seen or heard about Vivekananda rock memorial at kanyakumari and how many of you know about Eknathji Ranade???
Probably very few, Eknathji was secretary of RSS when he was relieved of his responsibilities to construct a memorial for this great son of motherland (swami vivekananda). The story of construction is as magnificent as the memorial.
He was not interested in just raising money from a few individuals for this great endeavour,so he formed district level committees and collected 1 Re each from 1 crore Indians.
When the progress started,Christians objected to the project stating it was St Xaviers rock. The government as usual capitulated and declared an inquiry which came out unequivocally in favour of memorial. In the meantime Eknathji submitted a signed memorandum from more than 350 MPs to Shastriji who was pleasantly surprised and took up the matter with Nehru who had to relent.
When the pace picked up,anti Hindi or north agitation picked up and it was demanded that instead of vivekananda (north Indian) ,thiruvalluvar's memorial would be more apt. But Eknathji was not someone to relent,he convinced Karunanidhi, the then chief minister to approve the memorial.
Finally after 7-8 years of effort on this day in 1970,the memorial was a reality.

On punyatithi of Lokmanya Tilak : 1st August

 

The other day when I was talking to a group of kids,I asked them about Tilak,and they looked me with a question mark. I was amazed....
Anyways who was this man a social reformer,educationist,journalist,philosopher,politician,patriot or a ma...thematician or all rolled into one.
Britishers rightly called him "father of Indian discontent" and why would'nt they. Can you imagine a journalist who could ask in editorial "has the government lost it's head" or openly give lectures on Shivaji's killing of afzal khan which reminded people of the foreign rule. He had very practical notions about fight against injustice so even being non violent he was inspiration behind armed revolutionaries like Chapekar brothers and Savarkar.
When sentenced to rigorous imprisonment in Mandalay he produced a master treatise on Gita called "Gita rahsya".Let us remember him on his 93rd death anniversary and ask for an iota of his courage and dedication for motherland......

 

On Ashadhi Ekadashi (19th July):

Tommorow is Ashadhi Ekadashi, for many people it is just another day. But it is a very special day in Maharashtra, millions of people from different parts of the country forgetting their cast and creed throng to Pandharpur to see their belo...ved VITTHAL. The wari as it is called has record of being at least 800 years old. Why is gathering of simple and many illiterate people such a big event?

India is a unique country of having such gatherings across the country and owing allegiance to one saint or another. This country has witnessed a galaxy of saints across country like Dnyaneshwar, Namdeo, Tukaram in Maharashtra, Narsinh Mehta in Gujarat, Meerabai in Rajasthan, Guru Nanak in Punjab, Tulsidas, Surdas, Kabir, Ravidas in UP, Chaitanya in Bengal, Shankardeo in Assam, Ramdas, Kanakdas, Purandardas in South. Our history has not acknowledged their due contribution or probably our Marxist historians cannot see it. They were born at times when Dharma was locked in Sanskrit and become a monopoly of few. Society was divided into as much fragments as imagined and become embroiled in superstitions. Moreover they could see that it was falling short of challenges ahead in form of foreign invasions which would have been a death toll for this country.

What they did was totally revolutionary in nature. The first thing they did was decoded Dharma for common people like us in form of Dnyaneshwari, Abhang gatha, Ramcharitmanas, Dasbodh, Dohe, Bhajans and what not. Secondly they went around nook and corners, preaching it and acting as a shining beacon of light when the society was groping in darkness. They claimed that GOD, can be called by any name and it is not only in idols but it is everywhere in all your fellow beings and creatures. To love them and help them is the real worship. Thus they were real social reformers and laid foundation of an equal society. Instead of running away from world for GOD, they preached that HE can be realised by doing our karma and surrendering everything to HIM. Thus they consolidated faith of society in itself and made them courageous to fight back injustice and invasions. They should always be a guide for us in current testing times of today.

 

On Gudipadwa (Hindu New Year)
Some men are born prodigal, today i.e the first day of new year is the birthday of Dr K B Hedgewar, founder of RSS. Very few people know him or mostly misunderstand him outside the so called SANGH PARIVAR.
He was born in a poor family and l...ost his parents at an early age due to plague. At the tender age of 8 he refused to eat sweets distributed in school for diamond jubilee of Victoria rule. He was rusticated from school for instigating students to sing VANDE MATARAM during visit of education inspector. When studying MBBS at Calcutta he joined Anushilan Samiti for armed revolution in India. Even after returning to Nagpur and being a doctor which could have easily given him all the comforts of life, he dedicated it to the cause of motherland. After closely observing armed revolutionaries and Congress movement he came to the realisation that nobody was attacking the root cause of slavery, which had led this nation of continental proportions with all the resources and great men into such an abyss, which was disunity and lack of national character.
Thus he founded RSS on Vijayadashmi in 1925. Even during early days every member of RSS used to take oath of striving for complete independence of motherland which invited the wrath of british government and all government servants were banned from participation in RSS which our governments are continuing till now. Within 15 years , in 1940 before his death RSS had reached every state of undivided India and had impressed stalwarts like Gandhiji, Patel, Madan Malviya with selflessness, character and discipline. This was the result of tapascharya of a selfless man for making his motherland attain it’s lost glory....

 

On Shivjayanti (March 30)

Today is 363rd anniversary of Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj according to Hindu calendar. A young lad of 16 years took oath at Raireshwar along with his few friends of creating a free kingdom where there would be rule of law for all alike. Pursuing this life long oath within 28 years after facing life threatening dangers, he creates Swarajya defeating Adilshahi, Qutubshahi and Mughals, top 3 powers in the country.

Our Marxist historians like Nehru termed him only a Maratha warrior and even going forward a bandit. But when Shivaji was asked about his dream, he is said to have replied that he wants to free his motherland from Manasarovar to south of Kaveri, was'nt it a Pan Indian movement which Bajirao and Madhavrao Peshwa took forward.

When Grant Duff, a Britisher was asked that how could you rout the Marathas within 18 years, while Aurangzeb who riegned over the largest empire in Asia at his time could not do in 27 years. He is said to have replied that when Aurangzeb arrived in Maharashtra, the legend of Shivaji was fresh in mind of Marathas but when britishers came the legend had been forgotten in 100 years. Such was the impact of this MAN.

But it is sad to note that outside Maharashtra very few people know about him or are taught about the contribution he made to INDIA......HE was and will be THE REAL INDIAN IDOL......

 

On Sambhaji Maharaj's martyrdom day-:

It was exactly yesterday i.e 11th March , 324 years before ,Aurangzeb brutally murdered elder son of Shivaji, Dharmveer Sambhaji Maharaj. His eyes were gouged, tongue removed and then he was hacked to pieces and thrown off to dogs. Aurangzeb had imagined that by killing the Chatrapati he could kill the freedom movement of Maharashtra.
But that was not to be, Shivaji's life and Sambhaji's martyrdom... had kindled the torch of freedom in Marathas, within 4 months Santaji Ghorpade in a daring raid took away the golden tower on Aurang's tent. Within 10 years "mountain rats" had spread from Narmada to Kaveri. Aurang lost all hopes and died an old man of 92 in Aurangabad in 1707.
The same Aurangzebi mindset still persists, with beheading of soldiers, bomb attacks and innumerable treachery. But people who do'nt learn from their history always tend to repeat it.

On death anniversary of Swatrantaveer Savarkar (26th February)-:
Today is the 47th remembrance day of Swatrantra Veer Savarkar,a revolutionary,poet,author, philosopher,politician,social reformer par excellence. Even his contribution in any one of the field would have made him great son of mother India, but he devoted all his skills to the cause of motherland.
 -First nationalist to refer to 1857 revolt as First War of Independence and not as Sepoy Mutiny
-First Indian whose case was referred to International Court of Justice,Hague because britishers arrested him illegally on French land while he was trying to escape from ship.
-Visionary who thought that there should be a naval base of India at Andaman in 1911 so that our navy can control Malacca strait, which GOI established in 1998.
 -Was awarded 2 back to back life imprisonment of 48 years to Kalapaniand referred as 'D' dangerous category prisoner because of threat to empire
- Refuse to take oath for completion of Barrister because it involved allegiance to English emperor so was not awarded the degree
 - When under restriction in Ratnagiri started reform activities to remove evil practices like untouchability in Hinduism
- First to recognise the end motive of Muslim League whom Congress was molly coddling with which will lead to partition...
I will fall short of words to describe his greatness......
 BHARAT MATA KI JAI