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

RAJ,YOU ARE RIGHT!!!!!
The heading might sound strange even repelling to someone. Raj and even Sena want to control the influx of outsiders to Mumbai and even issue permits for entry. But Raj is not making any unlawful demand.

Do you know that even in INDIA you have to get a permit to visit certain parts, it might be shocking to you is’nt it?

Well Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Mizoram, three out of the seven sisters can’t be visited if you do'nt have a permit issued by their state governments. Even of you are an INDIAN citizen.

I realized this when I went to visit Arunachal Pradesh. I tried to get a permit in Kolkata and as usual the bureaucrats told me a 100 rules and turned it down. Dejected I changed my plans and decided to visit another location. But on train to Guwahati I met an old friend of mine who works in AP and he gave a laugh when I told the reason of changing my plans. To cut the story short, in Guwahati I met a travel agent who arranged for my permits within few hours even without any document and they were ready at the checkpost of AP.

What does the story imply, that such barriers when put for general public just become a tool for bureaucrats to fleece money ,but what does it impede? a full national integration. It is like blocking a blood vein leading to a gangrene. Who had put this in place you would naturally ask. Our colonial rulers had invented this system so that their beloved missionaries could carry on the conversion unabated. But our free rulers have’nt felt it for past 60 years. The result , Nagaland and Mizoram are 100% Christians and AP is also losing it’s tribal heritage. Both the states have several terrorist organizations demanding sovereignity.Same is the case with Kashmir where you cannot buy a piece of land if you are not local because of article 370.

So RAJ, this demand will not serve anyone, if it does it will be to those who cannot believe that a land of so diverse faiths, cultures, language and geography is but one GREAT NATION.

PS: in the next blog about AMAZING ARUNACHAL!!!!!!!!!!!!

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.

The day that was 7/11.
It has been two years since the worst bombings,Indians have ever seen.It is just an account of a common man about the day he experienced and which will be forever etched on his mind.
The day began usually as I was late,I could not get the bus to my destination i.e Goregaon,so opted to go to Bandra and get a local.It was a typical rainy day of Mumbai with pleasant weather due to absence of rains.After going through contours of eastern Bandra,I reached platform 1 and boarded the local in 10-15 mins. The Ist class compartment was sparsely crowded with enough place to stand.Call it sixth sense or anything (I don’t claim to be possesing it),it was very uncomfortable in the compartment although devoid of the morning mad rush of commuters.After leaving the local, little did anybody realise that these same compartments will be angels of death for several hundred people.

The day went by and it was around 6:30 pm,the office was almost empty.Somebody was conversing on phone and informed the team that there was a blast at Khar station.Quickly everybody logged on to news websites and the news was confirmed.Now another news crashed in with 2 blasts,one also at Jogeshwari.A team member who lived near Jogeshwari station confirmed the sudden rush of ambulances and firebrigades towards the spot.The next few minutes were most horrifying of all,with every refresh of news page,number of blasts increased and count stopped at 7.Reports were confirming of casualties of at least 100,but the way even Ist class compartments are crammed on Borivali & Virar trains,everybody was sure that it is upwards of 200-300.

When we rushed to the terrace,we could see a caravan of people walking along the railway lines as all the locals through Jogeshwari had come to a grinding halt.The picture later was shown over & over as a proof of the ‘never say die’ attitude of Mumbaikars.Fortunately I could inform my family about my whereabouts,as within half an hour all the network was jammed due to sudden burst of traffic.Everybody was advised to stay at the guest house instead of trying the way out as many feared of a communal backlash.What was shown in the media was further chilling ,mangled compartments,countless bodies,body parts along the lines,but what stood out was the way neighbouring people responded. Hospitals and even relatives were informed of the whereabouts,people were rushed to hospitals and even when next day I enquired at Sion hospital for need of blood donation,I was politely answered not to bother as the stock was more than enough for the calamity.

The most disturbing was response of the political class, especially government.In her latest article in Express ,Tavleen Singh expressed that the way Manmohan Singh responded while visiting blast sites, was like strolling in Lodhi gardens. They were more bothered of the rumours and communal harmony. Till date the intelligence agencies have’nt been able to crack the case. The next, was media by showing how people have again started using local trains and showcasing it as resilience.I think it is a cruel joke to say it resilience, it is necessity or Majboori in Hindi.I think it is this majboori that the political class has become so negligent of it’s masters i.e PEOPLE. I am not a strategist or a politician,but I feel sad to say “is this my own government?” which does not care about the way people fight their everyday battles (not even in local trains but in snarling road traffic across country) and are then butchered by some mad fanatic with abatement from our dear neighbour (which we are trying to mollycoodle)
I think there is a need to wage a war on two fronts, to save our belief that ‘all religions are true paths to ultimate truth (ekam sat vipra bahuda vadanthi) and to turn our democracy into it’s true form of ‘by the people, for the people & of the people’

Is Assam the Next Kashmir?
ULFA fulfilled it's promise when it said that it was pulling out of negotiations.But still the state and central governments kept sitting over the issue.The result is not startling but disgusting,ULFA butchered 70 migrant workers to cleanse Assam of migrants but none of the 4 million Bangladeshis who are spreading like a cancer.
The message is clear,ULFA and it's masters want to start a Assamese & migrant conflict,the result their demand for sovereign Assam becomes stronger.How?once the conflict starts,or atleast it is triggerd,ULFA can claim that Assamese are fighting for their identity,which is endangered by the influx of Hindi speaking workers.Initially Hindi speaking workers are evicted (which has already started),which makes the link with India weaker and Bangladeshi muslims are already majority in 1/3rd of districts.

So the broth is ready for a bigger problem.But is'nt it something familiar......Kashmir...

Flash back 17 years,year is 1989.....year starts with JKLF turning violent,and slowly a pattern emerges.Hindu families are singled out in locality,threatened,and finally butchered.Whoever fears his life,becomes a refugee in his own country.Has to leave his own house,flourishing business and sometimes ........Slowly the valley is cleansed of kafirs,and Muslims are the majority,which makes Pakistan claim stronger,that a Muslim majority area belongs to Holy Land.

Flash back further 42 years,1947,year of partition,Jinnah actually wanted Assam as a largerpart of East Pakistan.Though,East Pakistan is now Bangladesh,but the mindset has not changed.Even the demographic compulsions force Bangladeshis to move to more habitable areas which are Assam & Bengal.And it is much easier in a country like India where your national identity does not matter until you vote for the party.So we have a Central govt which answers the Supreme Court that Bangladeshis cannot be stopped because it is our friendly neighbour.Does one allow one's neighbour to loot his wealth & property in the name of friendship?

And a CM which denies that there is any illegal migration when in some districts YoY growthis seen around 20%,highest in the country.

The solution is simple but simple solutions are the most difficult to implement,Do'nt talk to ULFA,hit them and hit them hard so that they do'nt rise again.
Start a faster eviction of Bangladeshis (not hundreds in a year but in lacs in a year)
Monitor demographics of border districts closely and give incentives to retired defence personnel to settle there.

But this will not come from a weak,lame government but definitely through awakened,nationalistic people.

Wake up Dalit movement !!!!

6th december 2006,the 50th Mahaparinirvan diwas is the best day to reveiw dalit
movement.This blog is about rise,evolution and current state of the largest emancipation movement in the world.

The start can be traced to Mahatma Phule but the real explosion came in 1927,when untouchables started first organised movement at Mahad to draw water from public tank.It was not about only drawing water or entering temples but it was an assertion of human rights which were denied to almost 60 million people for past two milleniums.The change in the mental state was phenomenal, from a unorganised force who were treated worst than animals,they became a politically and socially reckoning force.

The one man who literally pulled them from brink of disaster was none other than Dr Ambedkar.He was not ready to stop and asserted that they should give up all rituals like consuming dead animal's flesh and wearing only silver ornaments which are mark of their slavery.The movement was right at that stage because no upper caste Hindu (except few like Savarkar)were ready to accept their legitimate rights. It was very critical of Brahminical order which beleived in caste superiority.

The movement became consolidated with broader sphere of awakening led by Babasaheb who did’nt miss any opportunity to assert the sufferings and grab more rights for their emancipation. The ‘Poona Pact’ made Babasaheb, one of the stalwarts in political arena of India and proclaimed on the world stage that no body can now deny rights to this wronged populace. The pact secured reserved seats for dalits. Even when their political rights had been recognized still a large proportion of Hindus were not ready to recognize their legitimate social rights. After observing this attitude for almost a decade, finally Babasaheb declared that although ‘he was born a Hindu but he will not die as Hindu’. However during a conversation with Gandhiji, he assured him that he will chose the least damaging path for the nation.

Finally the culmination came when on 14th October 1956,he embraced Buddhism and along with him, his lacs of followers also followed suite. Thus even while lodging a protest against Hinduism, he did’nt missed the national character of India. He chose Buddhism which had it’s firm roots in India and was not a religion of invaders. Even during Round Table conference, he wanted Dalits to be mentioned as Protestant Hindus. Thus he was very well aware that conversion of Dalits to Muslims or Christianity will spell a disaster for the nation.

But today the Dalit movement is first of all leaderless and if they exist then they are the likes of Mayawati, Paswan, Athavle or Gawai who are only interested in securing their power. And in spate of secularism are pushing the movement closer to Muslims and Christians whom Babasaheb purposely avoided. The need of the hour is to turn the movement from it’s reactionary and violent mode to a more proactive and constructive mode by joining hands with socio-religious organizations like RSS which are trying to reorganize the Hindu society by destroying caste barriers.

Loud thoughts!!!!!!!!
Last days have been of confusion and be it Arunachal, Sachar committee or nuke deal.

Chinese are displaying their hidden claws. Now their ambassador says Arunachal is integral to China, and no Chinese official has denied it but arrogantly said that it is disputed area. Why are we following one-China policy…Tibet is clearly an illegal occupation……Taiwan is any ways independent. Let us openly declare that Tawang (area of Arunachal) which is disputed because of birthplace of Lama ,then whole Tibet is actually a sovereign country.

Sachar committee,one of the manifesto promises of UPA, has come out with evident results. But the conclusion being drawn is because of flaw in Indian polity Muslims have been wronged for 50 years. The basic issue is no party has ever made a clear attempt to integrate Muslims in the mainstream.
Congress and all secular parties have just treated them as vote banks and mullahs have fully enjoyed it. Muslims are also to share the blame,if they want to be educated in madarassas and only Quran or Urdu then no IT,BPO or UPSC is open for them. The low level of education among women leads to bad family planning and bigger problems like unemployment and criminality. That’s the reason every state has more proportion of jail inmates as Muslims than their population.
The solution is no reservation but clearly asking Muslims to follow IPC and not AIMPLB. Asking them for a reform in religion, like giving more freedom to women and freeing them from clutches of mullahs. Linking madarassas to NCERT and bringing curb over fundamentalist which have gained control over it. Educated Muslims can be the real torchbearers for the reform movement. Congress and all secularists are just trying to make reservation an election issue.

Nobody has displayed such utter dishonor to nation than communists have been doing for past 50 years-:
Their great Namboodripaad supported Chinese invasion of India in name of socialism and they even went to an extent of describing Mao as avatar of Krishna who is coming to liberate us.
They were the first to support League’s demand for Pakistan.
They referred Subhasbabu as Tojo’s (Japanese dictator) dog.
Now they are supporting Chinese interests and even accepted Arunachal as disputed territory. Mitrokhin’s archives have clearly shown how communists were on KGB’s payroll and now it must have been replaced by PLA.( People’s Liberation Army) of China.

Testing Times……
Well read the news of Ujjain, ABVP state president has been implicated in Prof’s murder.
He has surrendered before police and sent to judicial custody. The law will take it’s own course. But in media they already have been convicted of murder and the tapes of threatening been aired across all channels.

I don’t know about the case and not trying to exonerate them, but the way whole issue has been highlighted seems other way round. It just follows the line, that whenever any RSS related organization is involved, media leaves no stone unturned to malign them.
These are a few examples-:

-during NDA rule, several nuns in Jhabua district filed cases of rape and the media directly convicted Bajrang dal,VHP for it. Later on it was found out that tribals converted to Christianity were the actual rapists. One of the case filed by nun was found to be false and medically confirmed that she was not raped.

- Graham Staines’ and his two children were burnt alive by a mob. Same allegations and direct conviction by media. But nobody investigated that Staines’ was a Christian missionary involved in conversion and the mob was of tribals and noway related to these organizations.

-Honorable Shankaracharya was arrested on the allegations of murder, case is still going on. But the way media and all parties (except BJP) jumped on the issue to implicate Him was simply fascinating. Don’t they know that Shah Imam of Jama Masjid openly supported Taliban and Laden, and was even alleged to have been involved in smuggling but NO ARRESTS.

-Sudden explosions rocked churches during NDA rule, same allegations, but later on Din-Dar Anjuman a Pakistani organization was impicated in it. But one of the Reverend approached Chandrababu Naidu to withdraw support from NDA ……strange……

-in broad daylight, a coach full of karsevaks was burnt in Godhra…..but our secularists said , they teased muslim girls and even abducted them…so the carnage took place. Within a span of 15-20 minutes a mob of thousand gathers and has all weapons to burn a coach….great organizing power or a preplanned attack….

There are several such examples not only recent but from Nehruvian era. The media is prejudiced and will never appreciate the yeoman service being done by RSS and it’s affiliations but anywhere it finds a controversy, it will try to falsely implicate them.

The solution is to have a strong electronic and print media which can fight back this misconceptions spread by secularists.

HISTORY REVISITED…….
We will be celebrating 60th year of independence staring from 15th august 2006. It’s a diamond jubilee year, so lot of celebrations will be held and we would be reminded of the great sacrifice made by our freedom fighters. It is this history which I am going to revisit in my blog.

While seeing all the publicity campaigns for I-day, the message was clear ,it is because of CONGRESS ,that we achieved independence otherwise we might still have been one of the jewels of British empire. It made me think, is it true, are we interpreting the history correctly……

Ponder on these facts,

After World War-II, most of the Asiatic regions like Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Lanka besides India & Pakistan got independent. There were no violent movements in these neighboring regions still they managed to throw off foreign yoke. I will let the reader decide whether it was QUIT INDIA or WW-II which expedited the process.

Indian National Army aroused national feeling among armed forces and turned them against their colonial masters first time after 1857. It made the British jittery about staying in India.

Besides anybody studying world history will notice that almost all independence movements were violent and basically armed struggles. Even in India we have a long history of armed struggles starting with Vasudev Balwant Phadke . Although we might claim that we are first to achieve independence through non violent means still violence had it’s own impact.

Revolutionaries like Bose, Savarkar, Aurbindo Ghosh, Khudiram, Bismil, Ashfaqullah, Dhingra gave more sacrifices than congressmen to see their beloved motherland free.

It drives down to the fact that an illusion was purposely created by successive Cong governments that Congress (esp a particular family) only sacrificed and made us free.
Can a nation of continental proportions be free just because of a family or a party.

The answer is NO, Congress was one of the many factors which led us to freedom.
But has’nt Congress and even the family achieved almost 50 years of continuous rule by harping on their sacrifices which are so small when compared to others.

For eg-: We only know (?????) Vinayak Savrkar but very few know that all the 3 brothers gave their heart and soul for this cause and elder Babarao along with Vinayak Savarkar suffered life imprisonment at Andaman which probably no congressmen ever endured.

It is because of such distorted visions of history that we have developed into a nation of such insensitivities. Because of impractical notion of non violence we have been suffering blows from our neighbours (latest of 11th july). And a nation 1/100th of our size is forcing UN Security council to take care of it’s concerns.