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Poem in response to Varun Grover

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हम कागज लेके आयेंगें, उनको जरूर दिखायेंगे।
तुम हमको फासिस्ट बोलोगे, हम तब भी मुस्कुरायेंगे।
तुम हिंदु की कब्र खोदोगे, हम तुमको गले लगायेंगे।
हम कागज लेके आयेंगें, उनको जरूर दिखायेंगें।।

तुम पत्थर हमको मारोगे, हम उनका मंदिर बनायेंगे।
तुम “तेरा मेरा रिश्ता क्या, ला इलाह इल अल्लाह” चिलाओगे, हम तुमको अपनी सहिष्णुता दिखलायेंगें।
तुम इस्लामिक राष्ट्र बनाओगे, हम सनातन देश बचायेंगें।
हम कागज लेके आयेंगें, उनको जरूर दिखायेंगें।।

तुम अपनो का घर उजाड़ोगे, हम प्रताड़ित को घर दिलवायेंगे।
तुम “सब बुत उठवाये जायेंगे” बोलोगे, हम उनकी प्रतिमा बनवायेंगे।
तुम “बस नाम रहेगा अल्लाह का” चिलाओगे, हम हैवानियत को दूर भगायेंगें।
हम कागज लेके आयेंगें, उनको जरूर दिखायेंगें।।

तुम पेट्रोल बम फेकोगे, हम गौतम बुद्ध बन जायेंगे।
तुम मस्जिदो से नफरत फैलाओगे, हम तभी उनको ना तुड़वायेंगें।
तुम शुक्रवार को मारोगे, हम पूर्ण सप्ताह बचायेंगें।
हम कागज लेके आयेंगें, उनको जरूर दिखायेंगें।।

Regional parties in India are in danger from congress emergence, defeat congress and save your tent

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People of India must imagine with fear and caution about a coalition government going to run our country; even if it is going happen in distant future?

India needs stability, direction and strong leadership. Narendra Modi is the best, perfect and right leader to lead our country to development and sab ka vikas.

If we carefully look at the political kitchen of opposition parties in India and how different different tukde tukde gangs are trying to make newer and newer kichadis (coalition) to loot the nation and to keep the dynastic politics alive; every Indian must wake up to the bitterest reality that India is facing a great danger more from the opposition parties than from our neighbouring enemy countries.

Most of the opposition parties including the grand old party of Gandhi family that wants nothing but dynastic culture and sycophancy promotion to achieve the above goal of power. For power all these parties are ready to play any dirty politics however harmful such politics might be to our nation.

The most interesting point is that all these opposition parties want to come together as an alliance partners simultaneously also wants to predate and over-eat the same resource of each other during the election season (minority vote). All these opposition parties are engaged largely in minority appeasement and are focusing on minority vote bank. To achieve the above goal, they often abuse Hindu culture, Hindu gods and our ancient sacred tradition called Hinduism.

The land mark fete of Modi in the recent times is the passing of CAB bill and making CAA. Instead of explaining to the people about why they oppose CAA which congress and many other political parties in the past had also made the same demand and are now engaged in spreading lies and hatred that CAA is threat to Muslims and minority communities, people of India have started to understand. How a new law that proposes to provide citizenship to many persecuted natural Indians who fled from some of our neighbouring countries would affect those who are already citizens of India?

It is so unfortunate that all those oppose CAA and protest against CAA in the street appears to have seldom understood about CAA but are busy serving their masters by spreading lies that CAA is anti-minority.

The new problem that most of opposition parties have diagnosed recently is that all of them are fighting for the same piece of bread. It looks like the congress party of the dynast wants to win back its minority vote bank which is the sole food of many regional parties. At national level the possibility of some minority community to think that the regional parties cannot protect their interest and only congress can protect them cannot be ruled out. If minority communities shift from regional parties to congress, then most of the regional parties are bound to disappear from the scene by next assembly election.

The only option left for the regional parties is to isolate the congress party than BJP. More than opposing Modi, the regional parties must oppose the congress party because victory of congress means death of regional parties whereas victory of Modi means only just a political defeat for these parties.

Regional parties must choose whether they want their permanent political death by allowing the congress party to re-emerge or are willing to endure another political loss to Modi in the next parliamentary election in 2024. Opposition parties should defeat the congress party much more aggressively than BJP.

It is not BJP or Modi pose threat to most of the regional parties like SP, BSP, TMC, TDP but the real threat is the congress party. If the regional parties ever show some level of kindness towards the congress party or inadvertently attempts to profit from such an alliance with the congress party that would be the end game for their existence.

The vote bank of the congress party and all other tukde tukde gangs that oppose Modi is one and the same, i.e., minority community vote. Congress is trying to shift the Muslim vote bank base of SP to itself in UP which is going to be dangerous to the existence of SP.

Congress party and most of the opposition parties are like different species of herbivorous animals and they always wish to stay together fearing lion but unfortunately all these species of animals survive on the same resource in the given habitat. In India, they survive through minority appeasement.

Modi is reforming India and on the other hand, Amit Shah is bringing the much needed Home Ministry reforms to transform the governance. People of India must grow above their normal level of maturity and intelligence and must pledge their unconditional support to Modi to save India from looters and dacoits. 

All those political parties that promote dynasty and corruption have no shame in aligning with any political party for power. The new age politics in Maharashtra played out by Shiv Sena, NCP and INC is the best example. People of India must convert their anger and hatred against various opposition parties to a new strength and must vote for Modi to win the next parliament election with even bigger margin so that more reform initiatives Modi can bring without any resistance or protest.

 

The CAA and Uyghur Muslims: A fraught state of affairs

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I refer to the news about the CAA in India and Uyghur Muslims in China. Though the two issues appear far removed, I find that there are similar broad strokes and will be drawing attention to both in this piece.

The Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), now Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 (CAA) – as the bill has already been passed – in India has brought with it an intense debate, on both sides of the shore. Those who are in support or rather those who are against the protests against it, are of the mind that most people are not understanding the CAA in its entire context. We are simply reacting, following the masses. So, are we? Let’s look into what the CAA is, in a simple manner.

It is an “addition” of sorts to the Citizenship Act 1955. It appears, prima facie (on the face of it), to spell an integral shift in the concept or rather reality of what it means to be an Indian citizen. It brings a positive impact to the rights of citizenship of the Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian religious minorities, giving them a face – where there was none codified in the Citizenship Act before. The problem (and this is no trivial problem: it is in fact reminiscent of the nationality laws for foreigners in Saudi Arabia) is that the bill (quite deliberately) deprives this right from Muslim minorities. This, in essence, would go against the (is ultra vires the) Indian Constitution and is likely to be a grave violation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), which India has ratified.

The CAA has caused a whole new debate on the National Population Register (NPR) and subsequently the National Register of Citizens (NRC). One of the voices, namely, Arundhati Roy (writer of The God of Small Things and activist) has become highly prominent in this debate, suggesting (perhaps in anger and an attempt to institute a movement) that names and addresses be forged in the Indian NPR to pull wool over the eyes of the government that has now passed a law that is – without a shadow of a doubt – anti-Muslim. Although Arundhati Roy was perhaps driven to say and do these things because of the nature of the CAA, some citizens and even the Indian government have instead gone against her, not realizing that her arguments are an almost unavoidable by-product of the CAA. Such is the power of media. Silence is appreciated (surprisingly, the worshipped Bollywood celebrities have failed to give a strong reaction to the CAA, I think the words of Albert Einstein is important here “The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing”) and people who voice out are condemned, vilified and subsequently silenced. A truly sorry state of affairs.

In another stronghold Asian nation, there is the issue of Uyghur Muslims in China, for which the waters are evidently muddled. On the one hand, we have all read and become aware of the “apparent” issue in the continent: that Muslims are being put into “modern-day” camps (eerily resembling Nazi-era concentration camps). This is bad, we all know that, right? Alas, it seems that isn’t so simple after all. China has since then voiced out on the fact that this is simply the evil of Western media (they’re at it again!). This then becomes a wholly different issue, what is the truth and what is the lie? Is the viral (honestly, quite clever) video from an earnest young girl on Tik Tok to be believed? Are Uyghur Muslims truly being terrorized, deprived of their rights to practice religion or is all of this a fabricated crisis, one that is borne out of a “need” to stifle China’s growth as an economic superpower of the 21st century?

The facts and statistics released by China seem legitimate. According to China, they have invested in the Uyghur Muslims and the re-education camps are merely a means for them to be able to become on par with the rest of China’s society. So, does this mean that China is the next victim of the dreaded (supposedly obsolete) “yellow journalism”? The answer is one that cannot be found, it appears. When one Googles “Uyghur Muslims”, one only finds “data” and “research” that smacks of a one-sided media coverage (data and research are in quote marks here because there is no responsible journalism surrounding the facts). The source of most of it is speculative: primarily gained from members of extremist group (the main one being the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM)), terrorists and separatists. How then do we search for the truth?

The answer to that is: the truth lies somewhere in between. There perhaps is some level of control on the part of the Chinese government (as they are after all a unitary one-party socialist republic), and we all know that China is famed for its control over outside media.

This control, however, appears well-meaning, an action that became “necessary” due to the attacks on Xinjiang (notice that I am using the word “appears” and “necessary” here, because the truth is hard to find, especially in regard to Uyghur Muslims). We have been led to believe for ever so long, that there is a crisis in China, that there is a lack of transparency with information and this is with reason, no doubt. The question is: is the issue truly about Uyghur Muslims or is it simply that China is a conservative country that guards its doors against “Western” coverage? It could very well be that because China is so secretive about its goings-on that we are quick to believe any coverage on it (good or bad) because there is nothing else to fall back on? Perhaps.

If anyone were to ask: why should we care about issues that do not directly affect us? Why am I, a Malaysian citizen, talking about these issues? The answer would be in Martin Luther King Jr’s words, in a letter from Birmingham Jail “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly”.

Parveen Kaur Harnam

Kuala Lumpur Based Lawyer

“Technocrats are the key to take India forward”, opines none less than Major Gaurav Arya

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At the end of a meeting to review the progress of a government scheme, Hon’ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently gave bureaucrats an earful, saying that they had spoiled his first five-year term in office, but he would not let them spoil the second.

Through an interview with the YouTube channel Defensive Offence, renowned defence analyst Major Gaurav Arya, sought to recommend solutions to the Prime Minister as regards the field of defence, in light of Prime Minister Modi’s scathing observation.

Major Arya opines that such bureaucratic institutions are structured precisely in the manner wherein they become impediments, and not assets, at least in the field of defence. He warns that the Prime Minister’s term could be ruined for the present tenure of five years until 2024, and every subsequent government would have to grapple with the same lethargy of the bureaucratic system.

He hastens to add that not all bureaucrats were lethargic, and he quoted the example of Shri T N Seshan, who implemented unprecedented transformations in the Election Commission of India and made it a powerful institution.

He is unequivocal about his disappointment on learning that the newly created position of “Chief of Defence Staff” or CDS was to be “first among equals”. He makes it clear that democracy must be kept away from the Armed Forces, for they simply cannot function in such an environment. They function on the basis of orders from the superiors.

He recommends that the CDS must be a five star general, superior to the three chiefs of the armed services. The CDS must have authority equivalent to that of a Cabinet Minister, and must report directly to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). The three service chiefs must report to him. Integration of the three services could not be achieved by Integrated Theatre Commands alone. It would also require integration at the very top levels, that can be achieved by the CDS.

The Ministry of Defence, in his view, must be restricted purely to administrative work. The CDS and the service chiefs must be given a separate office in Delhi itself (he tentatively calls it the “Trident”, conceptualized as the equivalent of The Pentagon of the United States), and they must be given all authority for operational planning and expenditures of the allotted budget.

Major Arya has insisted that institutions such as DRDO and Ordnance Factory Boards must not be run by bureaucrats, but by technocrats. The former group is too preoccupied with files and file notings. The latter are capable of actually implementing their duties.

To support his assertion, he quotes two examples:

  • E Sreedharan, a retired officer of Indian Railway Service of Engineers, is popularly known as “Metro Man” because he was the brains behind the Delhi Metro, and he oversaw its successful implementation. This was because he was a technocrat who valued work. He had made his position unambiguous: if the political leadership were to interfere in his work, he would promptly tender his resignation and leave for Kerala, where he came from. Interestingly, he is the same person who opposed Arvind Kejriwal’s decision of announcing the metro as a freebie for women.
  • K Sivan, the Chairperson of ISRO, is also a technocrat, for he is well-acquainted with the technical skills for the work that his organization is responsible for; sending satellites to space, and not preparing elaborate file notings.

Administrative work is important, but bureaucrats who specialize in such work must not be made in charge of such important aspects of India’s security. According to Major Arya, the Ministry of Defence may be headed by a Minister of any background, but the Secretary of Defence must preferably be of a defence background. So should a sizeable number of other secretaries. Today, the Ministry of Defence has been dominated by civilians, who have little to no knowledge of military matters.

In today’s circumstances, the Headquarters of the Army, the Navy and the Air Force need to spend considerable time with the civilian bureaucracy of the Ministry of Defence, which gives rise to a parallel bureaucracy in these military institutions. This hampers the working of the armed services at top levels.

Major Arya has admitted that he has always been a critic of the Ordnance Factory Boards, but only because of the way it is structured. The engineers and scientists are extremely talented, but it is red-tapism that prevents them from showcasing their nigh-world-class skills. This is because the Boards are not run by technocrats.

He makes the same argument for DRDO. In this era, where new challenges such as information warfare, cyber warfare etc. face India, the role of technocrats increases even further.

He is categorical about the need for gunboat diplomacy. “There is no friendship without might”, he asserts. When the nation’s Prime Minister visits the head of another nation, the latter must always be aware that the INS Arihant is lurking in the oceans nearby.

None of the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council are “good boys”. They have among the most overawing records of human rights violations.

The United States of America: Hardly has there been a year since the conclusion of World War II when the United States was not involved in an armed conflict or a war. Its military operations increased exponentially following 9/11, and its interventions have often proved cataclysmic, as in the case of Iraq.

The Russian Federation: Joseph Stalin was responsible for the massacre of so many millions of his own citizens that in absolute numbers, his atrocities exceeded those of Hitler.

Peoples’ Republic of China: Mao Tse Tung exceeded the numbers of even Stalin when his aggressive industrialization policies led to deaths of millions of Chinese.

France: In its colonial history, France was responsible for ravaging North Africa.

The United Kingdom: Its tyrannic empire was responsible for the penurious conditions of several of its colonies, notably India.

India needn’t follow them, for our ethics are completely different. However, India can definitely learn from them. Periodic displays of power are necessary in order to thrive in this world. We must learn to toughen ourselves up.

Major Arya supports talks with Pakistan, but only when, in his words, “Imran Khan is on a wheelchair and General Bajwa has a bandaged head”. India needn’t launch itself into a war, but periodic strikes against Pakistan are necessary.

He does not quite approve of the government taking pride in its Army being non-expeditionary. According to him, the Army must be expeditionary. If we aim to be at the high table of nations, military power must be developed as a critical component of our gross national power. If we aim to counter China’s influence, and we should, for it would otherwise go against our interests, the Army must be made expeditionary.He asserts that the BSF must have the responsibility to guard the borders. The paramilitary and state police must be used to quell insurgency. The Army needs to be spared from such duties and must be made, just like the Navy and the Air Force, an armed service that is outward-looking, in the sense of being an instrument of power projection.

This is all the more necessary given the fact that in about two decades, the majority population of Balochistan would be Chinese. In his view, dealing with China on two fronts would be very difficult.

Not trusting the military to do its job is unfair. The Indian Army has had a stellar record of respecting the democratic ideals of India unlike Pakistan, where military coups are pretty common. The military must not be burdened with bureaucracy. He summarizes it by saying that the nation needs to put faith in its military for the purposes of external security, and being overly suspicious about it is akin to harbouring suspicion for the closest of one’s family members.

Instant opinion-makers owe a lot to India: CAA protests

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It was distressing and frightening to look at young-adults who took to streets totally deluded by the indoctrinated leftists in the modern day neoliberal India. In my humble opinion, we today as a country stand on the inflexion point; our generation is the one that is going to decide if we tomorrow become a Latin American socialist state or live our dream to become a superpower of its kind. A lot of scholarly talk happens on the demographic dividend which is an opportunity to grow due to rapid changes in the age structures of a country. This divided, would not come back to India after few centuries – maybe 200 to 300 years. Today, I am scared if the Instagram-rich youth is actually going to once again board the bus of socialism – the very mistake generation before them made as well.

Most of the content my friends consume are from leftist and high on creativity social websites such as Wire, Quint, and In-shorts. They face this tension within themselves that comes from the reality of not ever picking up a newspaper but yet wanting to be a part of the civil discourse. Leftist media comes as a solution to their tension; it gives them trimmed 10 second snackable videos from 60 minute long interviews while instantly helping them form to form an opinion. Who really cares to do fact checking these days? They enthusiastically take massive leaps of faith to form a conclusion.

What follows after that in parlance of psychology is called “belief bias”. It is the tendency to be influenced by one’s knowledge about the world in evaluating conclusions and to accept them as true because they are believable rather than because they are logically valid. And now they’re perfectly conditioned to become the torchbearers of the next Indian Bolshevik Revolution. They are supported by more digital natives who join the movement falling prey to a cognitive bias of “false – consensus effect “, which is an attributional bias whereby people tend to overestimate the extent to which their own beliefs and preferences are typical of others (i.e. others also think the same way they do).

I was other day talking to a friend of mine who was trying to convince that even the judiciary was wrong when they went ahead with not putting the stay on CAB. She labelled the every institution – including army as stooges of Modi. It was absolutely bizarre for someone like me who was left thinking that if we start questioning the sanctity of every institution in this country there would be a serious trust deficit which could lead to a complete collapse of idea of separation of power (trias politica) –  executive, judiciary and legislature. It scares the shit out of me when I see more young people sponsoring this point of view, seeking external validation from their Instagram tribe.

Personally, I feel Instagram is not a priority platform for BJP digital team. They must understand that Instagram is heavily used by the leftist media to condition Indian youth while pushing their larger agenda to revive socialism in India. It can be an extremely effective platform to reach to the educated people who are a little ahead on the technology adoption curve than people on other social-media platforms.

So should there be no criticism of the government ? I believe there is no other government in independent India that has so vocally welcomed criticism. Whatever brings improvement must warmly be received. “True Scholarship” can never say no to improvement. But when the criticism is extremely destructive – as in the case of CAA; then it becomes the obligation of the state machinery to diffuse misinformation. I was left impressed and extremely satisfied as more people who were earlier unaware about the nuances of the Act changed their teams to support the secular CAA. However, I continue to feel that a lot of them just might have boarded the wrong bus just like the generations before. I wish tomorrow they (who become moral gatekeepers of society) constructively criticise to make India live its dream – the Indian dream.

Corrupt dynastic politics and coalition route for power, let us support Modi and save India

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To save the people of Mathura from Jarasanda- the demon king, Lord Krishna built a separate landmass in Dwaraka and moved the people of Mathura to Dwaraka. Lord Krishna could have easily killed the Jarasanda but Lord Krishna reserved the right to kill the demon king Jarasanda to his devotee Bheema.

At birth, Jarasanda was only one half where the two wives of his father gave birth to two separate halves of Jarasanda. Seeing the ugly child, the king ordered to discard the body of the child in the forest but a women demon named Jara in the forest accidentally brought both two halves of the child and to her surprise the child woke up to life. Due to her kindness, she gifted the child back to the king narrating all that had happened. The king was overjoyed because he got a demon king to continue his rule of Adharma and Aneeti after his death. The Jarasandha came to existence because of the demon Jara who only brought both separate halves of the child and made the child alive.

Today India is witnessing several Jarasandas in politics. At the behest of several demon-nassess, several lifeless, half and quarter sized political forces are coming together to life by forming an unholy alliance to continue the rule of dynasty, injustice, corruption, nepotism and sycophancy.  Like Jarasanda who was killed by the devotee of Lord Krishna, Bheema by separating the line of attachment of the two halves of the demon king Jarasanda, people of India also must defeat and decompose all those tukde tukde gangs that oppose the good governance of Narendra Modi.

At state level, coalition government can be accepted but for a stable India, coalition government India cannot afford to have. To protect the integrity, national security, development, sab ka vikas, corruption free governance etc., India need Modi and Amit Shah and not the Khan Market gang or sycophants or dynasts.

All the Asura kings during Lord Krishna’s time formed a formidable alliance to defeat Krishna.  They used the ploy of Tadaka, Karkodaka snake etc., but none of them worked against Lord Krishna because no day in our life, adharma and aneeti shall win over truth and honesty.

People of India can easily understand who are those Jarasandas forming unholy political alliances and who are acting like the demon Jara to make still born child to life to loot the nation.

Modi represents sacred and noble values, honesty, development, sab ka vikas and corruption free governance. Amit Shah is the axil of dharma and the annihilator of corruption and dynastic politics. 

All those evil forces are gathering strength to defeat Modi which every Indian must worry and prevent. 

Defeat of Modi or attack on Modi is against India and its development and progress. All those evil forces want to weaken India and defeat Modi because they have realized that only by weakening Modi, they can weaken India. Even if Indian is weak and unstable, that is ok for all those evil forces but still they want power to loot the nation and expand their dynastic rule.

Today what we witness in general in the political space of India is a fight between truth and untruth, Dharma and Adharma, development versus corruption, merit versus sycophancy, political dynasty versus true leadership born out of humbleness and humility (Modi).

Several micro reform measures of Modi have indeed caused some level of discomfort to our economy and all such consequences are known and at the same are very transient. It is like when we lay a road or re-build it, until the work is completed, the road would be quite uncomfortable to travel.

People must re-pledge their faith and unconditional support on Modi and Amit Shah to make India great, rich and developed.  Further corruption and dynastic politics free India, Modi and Amit Shah are needed. To prevent jarasanda to attack India’s stability, India needs Modi and Amit Shah.  Let us save India by defeating all those negative, corrupt, dynastic forces.

Why Amit Shah/Modi/BJP’s Citizenship Amendment Act on religious lines is right and USCIRF’s view wrong

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Indian Home Minister passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill through both houses of parliament and made it a CAA. This made it easier for the persecuted religious minorities from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan to get Indian citizenship.

Yes, Egypt and Iran were made Islamic countries few years after their conquest; yet baffling Islamists India has remained a Hindu majority country. The country, however, had to pay a heavy price for it. It suffered the worst genocide of Hindus, rapes of their women and destructions of many temples – of which one has only recently been regained using law. Having gone through the convulsions of religious killings during the disorganized and hurried partition of the motherland into Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan by the then Congress leaders, Indians are wary of religious tensions.Although nowhere near the burnings during the violent vivisection of their country, with the state calling its army in Guwahati, India’s North East was seen burning, when parliamentarians in Delhi were debating. Suddenly, while almost by magic few university students started a violent agitation in the land of Gandhi; as if ‘workers of the world unite’ was at work even some far away American universities showered Twitter support. With such unison for Muslims thus displayed, even Islamophobes looked confused. Strangely, however, going deeper, the inciting cause seems to be none other than compassion – or more precisely compassion gone wrong.

Although still in overall majority, with the aggressive fraudulent Christian missionary conversions showing a steep rise of Christians and even making the rest a minority in its NE, and population boom and conversion aiding the rise of Muslims in India, Hindus fear of being a minority in their own land in the coming times.

In addition, the country not only suffered an unhindered economic migration from Bangladesh that caused agitations in its state of Assam, it noticed that some state governments themselves were aiding migration for vote bank politics. Thus, they feel that if it is allowed unchecked, while not only ‘India is secular because of Hinduism’ will not remain, almost following the principle ‘In polytheism gods clash men don’t; in monotheism men clash God doesn’t’ the two aggressive monotheistic creeds may not spare one another — like in Nigeria — in this highly religious country. With the first vivisection being brought about by, ‘we cannot live with the Hindus’, Indians fear a 2nd vivisection on similar lines. Before that their fear of a clash for resources or an intra-faith sectarian clash through transfer of Pakistani emotions is not without substance. With their fear of becoming minority in their own land being reinforced by the site of their coreligionists leaving such areas, Hindus worry that they don’t have any other country to go to when needed.

With them unable to do what China does to control its population, and their country rapidly closing the population gap with China, Indians are more worried about imbibing large group of additional people.

Those fears aside; almost like Jesus’flesh for Christians in Eucharist, as brethren Hindus have their‘flesh’ in those countries as minorities. Although not quite like the earlier genocides, exploitation of minorities in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan have been inhuman. They include gang rapes especially of Hindu girls, forceful conversions; demolition of places of worship, non-use of them used utensils, false accusation of blasphemy, selling of Christian girls to the Chinese as slaves & humiliation. Surprisingly, however, far from being an act of criminals, while a fear of Mullah’s fatwa silences the concerned police or good men on the rape and forceful conversions of girls to Islam, government agencies themselves are seen demolishing temples and churches. Let alone the ordinary folks; despite being Western educated and the highest justice giver of the land, the Chief Justice in Pakistan traces Islam rather than modern human rights and denies a forcefully converted Hindu girl the basic right to reconvert back to her faith! This plight is felt by all religious minorities in those countries and is disconcerting to the whole of humanity.

Unlike prosperity of Indian Muslims even as minorities, life being intolerable and having gross reduction in their supporting community numbers, many of them have taken huge risks and migrated to India with the saying ‘never want to go back.’ The pain is clearly disheartening but while the deafening silence of the local and the global media made them voiceless and their prolonged suffering is still going on, the promise of the then Congress Party leaders like Gandhi, Nehru and M Singh had to wait for the BJP to finally make those promises true. And yet disrespecting their own leaders, Congress Party criticizes the CAA!! The joyful street dances of the pleased persecuted people, however, actually give pleasure to all.

Although the government is told to trace its secularism, India attempts to treat all citizens well not through secularism, as is said, but through pluralism, which is the ethos of the vivisected India. In fact, the word secularism that got added to the constitution through trickery during the dark days of its emergency actually favors atheists, which in turn is not what the constitution asks for. For the aware, it is haram in Islam too, as godlessness always is. Even then, if ‘India is secular because of Hinduism’ is taken as a view, the CAA will save; not destroy India – as is said. If on the other hand, Muslim majority is given a free way, the Christians, who criticize the CAA, despite it giving a new lease of life to their persecuted brethren fleeing Pakistan today, may themselves become uncomfortable in the future. Despite Assam clearly airing the feared scenario, which incidentally can be solved by cash infusion and burden dilution, opposing students still don’t seem to get the lesson.

Why Bring in Religion?

If minorities in the neighboring countries lived happily, there would be no need for this act. Since the persecuted people were oppressed by virtue of them being non-Muslims minorities the CAA had to be about religion. That answers, ‘why bring in religion?’ The important thing is despite being seen as a right-wing Hindu nationalist party, parallel to its pluralism offered compassion, BJP’s CAA does not focus on Hindus alone – not even on Indic religions. It even includes persecuted Christians! Yes, with there being many powerful Christian countries, the troubled Christians could go to those countries as brethren. But curiously, probably because of the often talked about Islamist-globalist nexus the expected ‘Christian ummah’ globally has not helped to alleviate their plight. And when its ‘local ummah’ is vying for an anti Hindu tirade, despite BJP’s magnanimity airing noble effort to alleviate their plight at last, showing no feelings for the persecuted Christians the ‘local ummah’ still opposes the CAA! But then, at least the persecuted Christians are happy with the ‘fascist’ right wing anti minority government! Interestingly, unlike Islamophobia, which gets a global protection, Hinduphobia finds no takers; and in these globe Hindus have no other place to go either.

But Why Not Muslims?

Although Islam seeks Ummah, not nation, not Christians but Muslims of all sects voted and chose to live amongst Muslims in Pakistan with the guiding principle, ‘We can’t live with the Hindus.’

These countries not only have Sunni majority, but almost reflecting ‘dar al-Islam’ they have declared themselves as Islamic countries, where overall guidance of rule is Islam. That is why despite being a western educated and the highest justice giver in the land, Pakistani Chief Justice denies reconversion of a forcefully converted Hindu girl. Also, blasphemy law is still practiced. In fact, since, these are declared Islamic states — a la dar al-Islam the support of Muslim migration to dar al-harb could amount to disrespect to Islam itself — if not a straightforward Islamophobia.

Irrespective of that, the CAA isn’t about Muslims of all countries to justify the question ‘why no Muslim.’ It only includes the vivisected countries e.g. Bangladesh and Pakistan, and by extension Afghanistan – where people of India related faiths are persecuted as minorities. The key word here is ‘persecuted minorities’, nothing else.

The Shias:

Yes Shia Muslims are often killed in Sunni bombings and one could argue their inclusion in the list. But, like earlier routine Hindu Muslim clashes in India yet unlike the exploited non-Muslim minorities in those countries, they fight back too. Since they are seen as non-Muslims or bad Muslims by Sunnis, the problem is theological and can be solved theologically. Thus, in their case citing theological differences, whole sect could claim ‘persecuted minority.’ With it fearing demographic change, repeat of earlier routine clashes, and even a 2nd vivisection of the motherland and a history of Indira Gandhi even rejecting the incorporation of Bangladesh in 1971 (opposing Congress Party should know this), India may not feel comfortable with the influx of Shias. With the theology not limited to ‘Pakistani Sunnis’ but extending to Indian Sunnis that even has transpired some to find solace in peaceful Hindu Nepal or in support of the BJP their migration into Muslim areas could be reminiscent of the Muhajir. When resource paucity is added even local Shias could act like Assamese. And when they get transplanted into Hindu areas like the Rohingyas, Hindus won’t be happy either.

Despite theological denigration, dar al-harb has been kinder to the suffering Middle Eastern Muslims than dar al-Islam (Muslim countries). Thus, dissolving into majority Shias, and even governing over the minority Sunnis, Iran may be the land of bread and honey for the Shia influx.

Ahmadiyya:

Yes, Ahmadiyyas themselves chose not to remain with Kafirs during partition and Md Jafarullah Khan himself wrote the Lahore resolution in 1940. However, more than just individual humiliations, Pakistan’s constitution itself denies Ahmadiyyas their faith as Muslims. However, with their addition of a ‘prophet’ after Mohammed being a theological misfit — even amongst Indian Muslims — they may not find peace even in religious India. Or as invited trouble they may need much resource draining security. Instead, less religious liberal West may suit them better unless doctrinal readjustment is made.

Rohingyas:

Yes, Rohingyas are refugees, but CAA isn’t about Myanmar. Also, while Muslim Bangladesh becomes uncomfortable with them, a question becomes relevant; why didn’t Myanmar persecute and expel the Hindu minority but just them? In fact, as Bangladesh asserts, they could pose a threat to Indian security. In addition, they have massacred innocent Hindu women and children in Myanmar for not converting to Islam. India is duty bound to protect its citizens. It can’t take that risk.

The Sunnis:

With them, by definition, not being the religiously persecuted minority and if allowed they – the Sunnis — could only constitute a large chunk of economic migrants — as is happening in its North East. India cannot afford to restrain that flow of Sunnis because of vote bank politics and the resources needed to investigate individual cases. India certainly cannot be Germany – neither in resource as said above, nor in liberalism. Not even in historical context.

Critics/Apostates:

Islam prescribes death for apostates and critics face death threats. They are as much a persecuted minority in those countries. Surprisingly, however, not being gay/lesbian issue the rules of globalist-Islamist fleeting bond makes the Indian atheist communists not see ‘workers of the world unite’ in them let alone voice their lack in the ACC. Prominent ones like Taslima Nasreen and Tariq Fatah seem to feel secure in the liberal West than religious India.

Far from blocking Muslims or showing inequality, as allowed by its 1955 Act India has given citizenship to thousands of Muslims over the years. One was given recently.

With it having a fear of population boom, state agitations, vote bank politics, religious riots, competition of resources for proper living and the burden of probing each case India cannot afford an influx of demography changing economic migrants from the majority community – who chose to live in those countries during the partition. While this sequela is bad even for Indian Muslims, unlike the Indianized Muslims, the migrant Muslims come with the Pakistani trait. While the Indian Hindus fear being minority if that is allowed, the minority refugees feel getting Indian citizenship pointless, if the persecutors are allowed to accompany them. CAA, thus, would not only be pointless but cruel. If the CAA is bad, it is bad for the opposition alone.

Opposition in India:

Being a citizenship law for persecuted minority, who arrived from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan before Dec. 2014 that only reduces the required time spent in India from 10 to 5 years, this CAA has nothing to do with any Indian citizen. However, either showing complete ignorance of the ethos, history, existential reality and the future of India (for that matter themselves) or tracing an agenda or even their own relevance the leftists, liberals and the Congress Party are missing the absence the word Muslim in the list. Choosing not to understand that the anti-Muslim accused BJP has done much more for the Muslims than Congress, that they are insulting their own leaders like Gandhi, Nehru and Singh – who wished to do so and that the law is actually helping Indian Muslims they are wrongly deriding the CAA as anti-Muslim and anti-constitutional. The quoted equality in article 14 also routinely allows exceptions. Without that there would be no reservations for the underprivileged or grants for Hajj. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk-9iXzDQNM&w=560&h=315]

Furthermore, unlike the opposition tacitly using ‘by any means’, students airing lack of humanity – even if not an educated sympathy for the persecuted but instead seeking persecutor’s rights to add insult to injury questions their education itself. Also, instead of ‘We pause our peaceful protests for the sake of our country as criminals have overtaken it’, their, ‘it’s not by us, let police investigate’ – when many police personnel are hospitalized is pathetic. It questions the education system in that country.

In addition, far from being legal, spontaneous, peaceful and democratic expressions the protests have been well planned, violent and criminal – clearly indicating a nexus between students, opposition politicians and the criminals. Expectedly some ‘called to walk’ protestors don’t even know, what they are protesting against. And spreading not towards other Indian universities as it usually happens, but to Harvard and Cambridge universities does seem to show a globalist-Islamist connection.

Like the New Delhi rally that was organized by Congress to stay relevant, the party associated Chief Ministers serially said, ‘won’t put it in my state.’This is understandable but illegal. True, being the primary taker of immigrants Assam’s pain is understandable. Also, like in the making of Bangladesh, identity and economy being stronger than faith can be seen here too. But while cash and dilution of the neo-citizens into other states can settle it, if not, ethnicism can be deduced. Strangely, it wasn’t objected, when the criteron was 10 years. Since this CAA’s reduction of it to 5 years didn’t have much ‘meat’ the opposition has dragged in the fear of the content of not yet formed imaginary NRC to gather people for destruction of their country’s property. Amounting to crossing the bridge before it comes, the myth is causing devastating damage to the country which is spreading via the Net.

Global opposition:

Despite taking its riches – material and knowledge – that tremendously helped the West, later itself, has never tried to understand India apart from a few. They have been wrong on assessing the intactness of a ‘polytheist’ India after its independence, and the impact of post Atom Bomb blast sanctions. Having less knowledge and more of an agenda, the Western media has not been kind to India either.

Not even having control over their places of worship among others and believing that they are second-class citizens the accused Hindus instead had to do a Hindu Revolution in 2014. Despite being innocent, like a bad prognostic cancer doctor, The Guardian collected its pundits to predict doomsday for Muslims if Modi came to power. But silencing those pundits Modi has done far more for the Muslims than Congress ever did as said above and religious riots that were routine before have now vanished.

In this instance, while showing yellow journalism WSJ does not show ‘Christian’ to its audience, seeking an agenda to demean India in any way USCIRF does not see the alleviation of the plight of the persecuted minorities in those courtiers. Having Muslim countries as members, who did not give refuge to Middle Eastern Muslim refugees and allowed the burden to be taken by Christian/atheist Europe, UN saying ‘discriminatory’ is irrational but understandable. The ambassador at large for international religious freedom, who showed brilliance in his Ten Stages of Genocide‘ does not show it in the understanding of allowed inequalities and favours in India – reservation, Haj subsidies, taking Hindu temple money, etc. in the freedom of speech he uses.

Self-reflection:

Almost suggesting ones in glass house should not throw stones; the Western world is not without its own inequalities. While the indigenous Indians are not happy, the blacks who suffer persecution on a daily basis as a second class citizen even have a hash tag #blacklivesmatter. Let alone race, even minority religions don’t get dignity. American Hindu citizens, whose children are forced to read derogatory remarks about their own religion in school text books as prescribed by the cartel of Hindu academics, are having to fight for their rights in California.

The truth:

Facts are facts. The CAA is about choosing people who can be citizens of the country not about treatment of who are already citizens. Either way as said above, CAA isn’t wrong constitutionally. Also, let alone citizenship, the US cannot offer visas to all the third world applicants. India is no different. Like US has Hispanic migrants issue, India has its own painful history, influx of migrants from the surrounding Muslim countries and an anxiety laden future as explained above. Also, unknown to the West, it is this allowance of privileges to certain groups in India that is actually said to have aided the progress of USA itself!

That facility’s use on the CAA as per the country’s need isn’t wrong either. Despite a traumatic history/vivisection, far from a block on them, India has given citizenships to many Muslims – on an individual, not a large group basis.

Yes after losing the North East, India fears change in its religious demography, especially, in the tribal areas because of the unpalatable fraudulent Christian missionary activities. Also, Hindus are bearing the brunt of vilification of their deities, the hatred espoused towards their faith and the creation of ‘Christ Village’ where Hindu icons are desecrated like in Pakistan. It also fears the resourceful break India forces that dramatized fake church attacks to demonize India in many international forums. Both Obama and Trump have criticized India for not treating its minorities’ right, not because of Muslim pressure but due to the pressure of US Christian missionaries. Despite all that India has not traced the course followed by missionaries not tolerating Muslim countries. Rather tracing its own pluralistic and compassionate tradition of offering place to the persecuted people including the much indebted West persecuted Jews, India has offered unquestioned citizenship to the persecuted Christians too. It is also true that being from a majority group, the word Christian would not be there if Vatican was mentioned or Buddhist if Thailand was. If only learned people understood this.

In all this, where is the talk about the persecuted people? It is so sad. Almost like the enthusiasm of taking videos of a drowning human being instead of helping him, the philosophy of moral duty to save the persecuted humanity from certain entry into a lion’s den is a far cry. Suddenly ‘homo sapiens’ is seen rising and ‘civilization’ seems to follow sunset.

Consequence of Opposition:

Yes, the outcry by this 4th pillar and the other agencies could have lessened the gang rapes and torture of these unfortunate minorities, which instead continued for such a long time. Far from a sorry for the incompetence, almost like a homosexuality alone hindered globalist-Muslim connect, the West shows paucity of knowledge of the Indian context (India’s past, present and future) and gets stuck with the word Muslim or lack of it in the CAA.

Even if their absence of feelings for the persecuted souls is overlooked, the giving perpetrators the impression of, ‘West is on our side’ becomes harmful. While this entices perpetrators in the Muslim majority states, in the land of Gandhi it makes even students make petrol bombs for violence. Not only that thanks to that support, Muslim rioters are openly saying ‘freedom from Hindus’, ‘we will kill all Hindus’ or ‘Idols will be removed.’ Thankfully, India is not burning because it has many Indianized Muslims, who sense that mentioning Muslim in the CAA would have enticed mass migration and that would not have been good for them too.

Yes India’s Hindu nationalist party BJP & Modi are blamed, and Indian police are having a rough time controlling rioters now, but Modi only did what Gandhi, Nehru and Singh wanted. Since they favored minorities and not Muslims, the protesters possibly have to agree that those three were communal anti-Muslim bigots too!

Yes, BJP certainly has made the minority refugees dance on the streets praising Modi, but like the revenge destruction of their temples back home following the Babri Mosque demolition, a revenge persecution there could painfully follow.Since oppression will expectedly continue regardless, the December 2014 deadline won’t help them; an open end will. Only then the compassion asked by its civilization will be full. If that is not invoked, India could easily be accused of not giving its children an informed choice during the partition, and not doing anything for them when they are facing almost certain forced conversion or a forced migration just for survival. Love and care of the unqualified is another essential..

Before that, however, like infusing intellectuals, it has to infuse billions into its media to apprise people and into its police force to intelligently and effectively control violence – lest it turns into a civil war.

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Citizenship Amendment Act, Dec. 2019 and attendant issues– The state of the Hindu in India

The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
-Milan Kundera

As horses run true to form, the Citizenship Amendment Act passed by the Parliament has run into a predictable storm. As buzz words like bigoted, sectarian, fascist, unconstitutional etc. are bandied about, it will be in order to take a critical look at the singular underpinning of the strident criticism (accompanied of course by riots, arson, vandalism and incendiary): all said and done, shorn of all cacophony and breast-beating, it all boils down to one single point: India is not the natural home of Hindus (they ought to rank on par with other nationals) and to maintain so is to be non-secular and counter to the precepts of the constitution. And if you discern in the orgy of violence that has ensued shades of the Direct Action of Jinnah, you are not far off the mark. This is one of their trusted tactics down ages.

The attempt here is to study the state of the Hindu in India today.

Secularism

The country was metamorphosed into a ‘socialist secular’ Republic by the 42nd Amendment in 1976 at the behest of Indira Gandhi. The towering stalwarts who deliberated threadbare every tenet of the constitution did not feel it necessary to declare the Republic secular, leave alone socialist. Adequate protection for minorities, religious and linguistic, was ensured through well defined Articles. And as for the original and governing ethos of the country, suffice it to say that they had, inter alia, illustrations from Ramayana ornate the constitution.

Now, it will be no nobody’s case that Indira Gandhi was more secular or perspicacious than the original authors of the constitution. Those who tinkered with the Constitution later clearly did not match their sagacity, breadth of vision and elaborate consultative process and more often than not expediency rather than conviction informed their actions.

Now, if secularism has been turned into such an exalted touchstone in our narrative and become the yardstick of the moral fiber of the country, how can its inextricable twin sister. socialism, be ignored? Those who selectively set so much store by secularism cannot shut their eyes to the secularism’s conjoined sibling in the 42nd Amendment. Unless they strive with equal vigour to turn India into another bankrupt Venezuela or Greece or a totalitarian regime like (the erstwhile) USSR, they are doing a disservice to the very Amendment they swear by.

And terming India secular through a constitutional amendment was as absurd as painting the lily white. Hinduism is the only religion in today’s world that welcomes noble ideas from all directions, as opposed to the pagan, heathen, kafir (ineluctably us-vs-them) concepts of hard-currency predatory religions. It endorses any path, quest for God, as valid, the cardinal principle being like all rivers from different directions flow into the sea, all paths ultimately lead to one God, the Paramathma. There is no claim of monopoly over God. For millennia, secularism has been the bedrock of Bharath. Be it Ashoka or Shivaji, right through modern times, secularism has continued to be an integral part of Hinduism, despite the subjugation and torment of alien rulers. It bears repetition that those who fled religious persecution, Zoroastrians and Jews for instance, were welcomed and accommodated and allowed to practice their religion without let or hindrance.

The Nehruvian norm that self-abnegation is sine qua non on the part of the Hindu to be secular has held fast. Thus, a Hindu is by default communal and is perpetually on trial as to his secular credentials. The irony cannot be missed that the followers of religions of book, with their fundamentalist belief other religionists are non-believers condemned to perdition unless saved through conversion, pass easy muster as secular.

Pluralism, multi-culturalism etc.

There is a patent fallacy in Indian context about the western terms like majority, minority, pluralism, multi culturalism etc. being mindlessly tossed about today,

Pluralism happens to be the very character of Hinduism. To cite a representative example, in the Mumbai apartment where hundreds of us lived, most of us Hindus, we did not worship the same Deities, and even if we did, our manner of worship differed, we did not celebrate the same festivals, even in cases where we did, like Deepavali, our customs differed widely, our Acharyas were different, we did not speak the same language, but we lived in peace, taking a keen interest in others’ customs and beliefs and sharing the reverence they held for their practices. The temple architecture in the South differs from the North and the East. For thousands of years people from South have been travelling to Varanasi and people from North to Rameswaram. Aadi Sankaracharya who traversed the length and breadth of this country on foot sanctioned different streams of worship: Shaivism, Vaishnavism, Devi, Karthik and Sastha. Multi-culturalism is interwoven into Hinduism. The truly integrating aspect of the country is veritably the religion; as early as circa 509 BCE, he appointed priests from Kerala to officiate poojas at Badrinath, Maharashtrian priests at Rameswaram, Karnataka priests at Pasupathinath, a custom still being followed.

The pretence of the liberals to be standing guard to pluralism and multi culturalism is thus as grotesque as someone claiming credit for the sun rising in the east.

Another term in need of elucidation in Indian context is ‘minority.’ The word minority conjures up visions of, say, a black in USA or a Jamaican in Britain, of a different sock, distinguishable by appearance and colour of skin. In India, a Robert, Ram or Rahim cannot be told apart unless of course they display overtly their religious affiliation. The term religious minority is a misnomer in a secular nation. The Muslims are not mere minorities; they were the iconoclast rulers to whom the Hindus were slaves. Impact of seven centuries of Islamic reign on the enslaved is inevitable in terms of religious conversion, be it through force, to curry official favours, or as an escape from the pains of slavery.

The converts, being of the same stock, bear an unconscious unreconciled antipathy towards their mother religion. The burden of the converted necessitates that they deride their former faith, if only to justify to themselves their conversion, they flaunt holier than thou attitude to be one up on the originals; as a Hindi proverb has it – a new Musalman wears his beard longer. Thence the inexorable hostility of Pakistan towards India (as opposed to the accommodative stance of, say, Indonesia, UAE etc). The convert often exhibits a latent, irrational adversity to the community he deserted. And in the absence of the alien rulers whom they embraced, the raison d’etre is effaced, certain unease takes hold.

Distinct sets of Indians

The present Indian populace can be broadly divided into three distinct categories. Those who converted to the religion of the rulers, Hindus who tried to escape the humiliation of slavery by aping the very rulers, though not through conversion (WOGs as the Britishers derisively called them) and their descendents in free India, urbane, mouthing platitudes, copybook liberals who have distanced themselves from the history of conquest and enslavement of the nation. After all, who would like to identify themselves with the losers, the enslaved?

The victor has many takers, the vanquished none, even the kin deserts them. (In Edgar Reitz’s epic film Heimat, the bust of the unknown soldier in the town square quietly disappears giving way to ‘development’ after Germany is defeated in the second world war).This group of elites is the one which, for instance, discovered the virtues of India’s ancient meditation techniques after Maharishi Yogi marketed it successfully in the West and had Beatles (more popular than Christ as they claimed) in tow to the Himalayas. The third lot is the hoi polloi, common ingenuous Hindus, browbeaten, ridiculed, talked down to, derided, dubbed lumpen elements if they ever exercised the right of self-defence. Certain subtle snobbery, concealed contempt, condescendence, variously imbued the words and acts of the elites towards the Hindus.

And the Hindu internalized the inferior status. The Hindu has thus a lower amour-propre, still searching for a tangible mark of affranchisement. Seventy years of independence is too short a period for the ghosts of slavery of a millennium to be exorcised from the collective psyche of a race. Have you ever heard of anyone trying to prove as scientific the parting of the red sea or conversion of water into wine or the immaculate conception or the sky being held by God from collapsing on earth? It’s the Hindu who is at pains to prove that his religious beliefs are in fact compatible with science.

And the collective humiliation of the millennium of slavery of India has fallen squarely on the shoulders of Hindus.

For the Muslims still identify themselves with the Moghul rulers and their leadership has for a long time been unable to come to terms with no longer being the rulers. They consider themselves subjugated by the British and resent it deeply as the sword slicing through swathes of land celebrated by poet Iqbal had obviously been blunted. The Indian Muslim leadership still grappling with coming to terms with no longer being rulers and their continued identification with the Moghul rulers is one single factor inhibiting a complete, genuine rapprochement. Babri Masjid, which was like a monument for Hitler in the heart of Tel Aviv, was the subject of such protracted bitter contention. Abolition of triple Talak, already effected in Islamic countries including Bangladesh and Pakistan, was held as anti-minority in secular India. What we should have had is a Truth and Recondition Commission as in South Africa to iron out the bitter memories of the humiliation the majority suffered at the hands of Moghuls and the Muslim population should have been weaned away from the invader-conquerors..

The Indian liberals pride themselves to be counterpart of western liberals – but an imitator can never be the original. They affect the same mannerisms, same diction, embrace the same causes. Muslims who receive their love in embarrassingly abundant measure were once the pitiless masters and the Hindus their slaves and any liberal sympathy should lie with the former slaves. It is of course beyond the liberals’ ken that their overkill of effusive concern in fact militates against the interests of Muslims (honourable, patriotic citizens barring a few exceptions like in any other community) and pushes them deeper into ghettos. Their undue alacrity to defend Muslims from imaginary majoritarianism is in actuality a disservice to the community. Adorned with unmitigated hypocrisy, they shed copious tears for ouster of Palestinians from a non-existent country called Palestine, they advocate lebensraum for illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, but the forced exile of Pundits from their home land merits no kindred sympathy in their conscience.

Incidentally, should there be any resistance to unbridled conversion to Christianity, American Senate hectors to us immediately, Vatican thinks it fit to advise us, about religious freedom; if something is perceived to be affecting the Muslims, Pakistan, OIC and now the Malaysian PM line up to voice concern and lecture to us. The Kashmiri Pundits’ issue did not evoke any significant reaction even within India.

Marxists with transnational loyalty, who ruled the intellectual space in India unchallenged, of course never considered themselves Indians except to the extent India represented an ideal land for revolution that they just could not bring about because of this Goddamned Hinduism. How they hate it, the stumbling block between them and the apotheosis of revolution! They thought nothing of entering into a pact with the British to sabotage the Quit India movement. Gasping for relevance at present, they still pull their levers from academic institutions and media. They didn’t lag behind the invaders in any way in persecuting the Hindus. Remember for instance how they ruthlessly hounded the Ramakrishna Mutt in West Bengal that the Mutt was forced to declare itself a denomination different from Hinduism so that they can invoke the constitutional protection available to minorities. Remember how they cornered, thrashed and foisted false cases on Aiyappa bhakthas in Kerala for no sin of theirs except being Hindu pilgrims, who simply wanted traditions of thousands of years not to be trampled.

The irony however is that the self-effacing Hindus have handed over the authority to define what secularism is to these very people who defected from their fold.

Religious affiliation of nations unstated and understood

The religious affiliation has never been in any doubt for other democracies, not reckoning the Islamic countries. After the 9/11, a healing service was conducted in a Church, to which evangelist Billy Graham, not known exactly for his ‘secular’ views, was an invitee, counting among the attendees the President and all the past Presidents and US Senators. A similar healing service after 26/11 would have brought the ceiling down over screams of communalizing terrorism. Archbishop of Canterbury is an organ of the Royalty and England. It is customary for Governments in Europe to set up Christmas trees and wooden houses for celebrations without entailing the label of being communal.

American President and First Lady usually open a giant Christmas tree and pose standing on either side in the White House. The Congress session on impeachment of President Trump opened with an address by a Chaplain. When the eglise Notre Dame de Paris was devastated by fire, much to the chagrin of everyone across the globe regardless of religious affiliation, the French Government initiated expeditious steps to restore it to its former glory. Contrast it with the outcry against rebuilding of Somnath temple, repeatedly plundered and desecrated. The eventual Moghul reign began with the raids on Somnath and rebuilding Somnath could have only symbolized the affranchisement of the nation. In India it had to be dubbed communal.

What is to be acknowledged is India is de facto a Hindu nation – just as Israel is to Jews, United States is to Anglo Saxons, Britain and Germany are to Protestants, Ireland is to Catholics, Russia is to Christians of the Russian Orthodox Church denomination. Any refugee, any prospective immigrant, who traces his ancestry to undivided India has a natural right to settle in India if he happens to be a Hindu, as Mahatma Gandhi himself said when he realized partition was unavoidable; and in Pakistan if he happens to be a Muslim since the nation was amputated precisely to create a separate country for Muslims of the sub-continent and the natural home for Muslim refugees can but be Pakistan. Nehru admitted that much, partition of the sub-continent into Pakistan and Hindustan. The public sector monoliths, his grand idea of industrialization, were prefixed with Hindustan – Hindustan Petroleum, Hindustan Aeronautics, Hindustan Teleprinters etc. etc. Hindustan has always been used alternatively for India.

When the occupying forces are ultimately driven out, it is par for the course for the local populace to turn against the fellow citizens who supported the invader conqueror. For instance, after Iraq was driven out from Kuwait, the Kuwaitis who had collaborated with the Iraqui forces were hunted and thrashed publicly. When Paris was liberated from German occupation, French women who were at the German army quarters were shaven and paraded nude. Examples can be multiplied. In India, no such reprisal ever took place. The Hindu never got the credit for this magnanimity.

No other country would be home to (at a modest estimate) 30 million illegal immigrants as India is. As Arun Shourie observed pertinently (before the advent of Google map) while we, bred in a city, find it difficult to locate an address elsewhere in the same city, Bangladesh refugees knew exactly where to land in a foreign country, where to pitch their tents, whom to approach for assistance. Illegal immigration of such stupendous scale was obviously aided and abetted by human traffickers with the blessings of sympathetic politicians in power. No other country would accept with such stoic indifference the radical demographic changes to the disadvantage of its own citizens.

The orgy of violence orchestrated in the wake of the passing of Citizenship Amendment Act bears no connect whatever to the import of the Act. No Indian Muslim is deprived of any of his rights. The Act opens the door to the religiously persecuted minorities of neighboring Islamic nations where it is routine for families to have their daughters abducted and converted and married to much older men; to desperate escapees from societies where a Christian like Aasia Bibi could be sentenced to death for blasphemy (prompting Presidential intervention from America) heedless of her denials.

The Government is face to face with a flagrantly scabrous problem. It is interesting that no one has till now spelt out clearly how exactly the CAA affects the Indian Muslims, pinpointing the provisos perceived inimical, in order that the doubts could be clarified, fears allayed, issues discussed, corrective measures, if needed, implemented. This is how a civilized society conducts itself, not by hurling stones, molotov cocktails, resorting to vandalism, destruction of public property and conflagration. Disinformation, lack of knowledge, visceral hatred of Modi drive the current turmoil. Given the engineered disquiet among Muslims, unrest in the wake of passing of the Act is seen only as an opportunity to latch onto to put the Government on the mat, no matter at what cost to the nation.

Tailpiece: What should be disquieting are the reports from Hyderabad a few months back that a group of Rohingyas managed to obtain Indian passports. Evidently, our borders continue to be porous and the illegal refugees have powerful well-wishers.

Why Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 is a crucial law for the current times

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C(A)A aims to solve an unresolved Partition-era issue that lingered for 70 years, and is a vital law for Assam, contrary to popular (mis)perceptions arising out of protests in the state which suggest otherwise.

The Citizenship Amendment Act {C(A)A} has dominated the headlines in the last few weeks, with several parts of the country (Assam in particular in the North-East) rocked by violent protests with the active participation of some prominent institutions of learning. While violent protests are per se reprehensible, in the instant case an objective analysis of the nature of the Act and the prevailing circumstances would militate against even a peaceful agitation. Clearly, the protests being witnessed are the result of unfounded apprehensions fomented by vested interests which are acting against the national interest and enabling a 70-year old problem to persist. A classic example of this is Mamata Banerjee’s call for a UN monitored referendum on the C(A)A! The fact that students have joined the protests gives us an idea of the prevailing rot persisting in our educational system. The least that one would have expected of such students was to be better informed about the realities of the C(A)A before mindlessly taking to the streets and resorting to vandalism.

Unfortunately, the Government narrative designed to set at rest these apprehensions has not succeeded so far. Both the Central and Assam State governments had horribly miscalculated the situation in the state arising out of these protests. Much greater attention was needed to sensitize the people about this upcoming law, which would have prevented such a precarious situation from arising. Sadly, it has been found wanting on the communication front with the native populace, giving away all the wrong signals, while it has addressed the perception management adequately elsewhere in the country and on the foreign policy aspect.

Also, from what I have observed from the reactions on this Act, the supporters (which very much includes Yours Truly, who’s himself an Assamese-Hindu and a college student), seem to have a vague idea about how this Act would be beneficial. To set things clear, this law does not talk about the minorities currently residing in the Islamic countries of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. It only offers a one-time amnesty to the refugees from these countries (more specifically the ones on the eastern sector), who were already here in Bharat on or before the cut-off date of 31st December, 2014 and who were left stateless by the actions of the Congress party. How, when and why they were left in such a pitiable situation, let us know in detail:

In the year 1950, the Illegal Immigrants (Expulsion from Assam) Act came into being. Under this Act, Hindu displaced persons (refugees) who were victims of partition or faced persecution in East Pakistan, were protected ONLY in the state of Assam, while it had stringent provision for expulsion of illegal Muslim immigrants from that country. So as per this Act, there was a difference between immigrants and refugees, which continued till 1983. Sadly, during this long period from 1950, while they were protected, the citizenship status of these partition and post partition era refugees was never settled by successive Congress Govts. Even the Citizenship Act that was first framed in 1955 did not have any mention about these refugees without documents, which could have settled the issue once and for all. This helped Congress keep Assam disturbed and reap political mileage.

In 1983, the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act came into being that clubbed both Hindu refugees and Muslim illegal immigrants together by coining a new term “illegal migrant”. The IMDT Act also legally introduced the cut-off date 25th March 1971 to detect the illegal migrants. Two years later in 1985, the Assam Accord accepted this same cut-off date, which subsequently was inserted into the Citizenship Act as ‘Section 6A’ later that year, thereby delineating a separate cut-off year for the state of Assam, while for the rest of the country it was 19th July, 1948. Since Hindu refugees were anyway protected by the 1950 Act till the time it got suspended with the coming about of IMDT Act, the Assam Accord thus only helped to regularise the Muslim illegal immigrants till 1971. Thus the All Assam Students Union (AASU), which signed this Accord on behalf of the people of Assam, fell into the trap of the Congress and pro-Islamist lobby.

In 2005, however, when SC repealed the IMDT Act, it also re-promulgated the 1950 Act in Assam (paragraph no. 57 of the judgement) that was suspended for the past 22 years. Thus again from 12th July 2005, Hindu refugees continued to be protected in Assam. In effect, SC also accepted the difference between refugees and illegal immigrants. But in December 2004, sensing that IMDT may get repealed, Congress amended the Citizenship Act on 3rd December 2004 by inserting the term “illegal migrant” into Section 2 of the Act, so that illegal migrants (the term at that point of time included both Hindu refugees and Muslim illegal immigrants) cannot even apply for citizenship.

After BJP came to power, it strengthened the Passport Act and Foreigners Act in 2015 giving protection to Hindu refugees. After these two amendments via notifications, now the C(A)A only seeks to re-amend the Citizenship Act as a natural corollary to the SC order to correct the actions of the Congress in December 2004. This re-amendment will ONLY allow Hindu refugees to APPLY for citizenship. Now as BJP came to power in 2014, it set 31st December 2014 as the cut-off date for C(A)A, since the cut-off has to be on or after 12th July 2005, when the SC pronounced its verdict on IMDT and ensured that the 1950 Act is once again enforced in the state of Assam, ensuring protection to Hindu refugees ONLY in one state.

While BJP therefore wants to go as per law (1950 Act & SC order) and give protection to refugees and finally settle the refugee issue completely by clarifying their citizenship status (like the land boundary agreement with Bangladesh), the Congress and Left-liberal lobby wants the same facility to be extended to Muslims from these countries as they want Muslim illegal immigrants should also be allowed to apply for citizenship, after having regularised them till 2004. This only signifies their latent sinister agenda. The regionalist lobby comprising of the AASU on the other hand threatens that no one should be allowed to apply after 25th March 1971 on the basis of religion as all are illegal migrants as per Assam Accord. But why where they sleeping when the Citizenship Act was amended in 1987, 1992 and 2003 regularising foreigners by birth? And why do they fail to realize that they themselves had celebrated the SC order in 2005 which in principle had accepted the difference between Hindu refugees and illegal Muslim migrants?

What they would not want others to know (or maybe they themselves are not aware of), is the cut-off date in the Assam Accord that they have consistently been alleging is violated by C(A)A, is actually for detection of foreigners, while the cut-off in the C(A)A talks of granting citizenship. This basic fundamental difference that plays out to ensure a difference between illegal immigrants and refugees must be kept in mind. Both these groups seem to be under the influence of the Islamist lobby (represented earlier by Sadullah, then Mainul Haq Choudhury, followed by Muhib Mazumdar, now Badruddin Ajmal) which harbours a tacit goal of making Assam the next Kashmir.

Now that C(A)A is a national law, it extends refugee protection to entire India. Also, the refugees in Assam will no longer remain ‘refugee’ but can become ‘citizens’. Once they become citizens, they will no longer be protected by the 1950 law in Assam alone, as has been the case. They can go to other states also. Moreover, with C(A)A in place, even refugees can be disbursed to other states. Without C(A)A no such removal or expulsion of refugees from Assam is possible under any other prevalent law, as is being demanded by the protesting groups. In addition, once the bonafide refugees are identified via this filtering mechanism, the illegal economic immigrants would be completely isolated on one side. Hence, government would be under a better position to initiate a crackdown on them, leading to the ultimate step of deportation.

To conclude, the exact time-frame for the refugees to apply shall be known when the Rules under this Act are notified by the government in the coming days. Till then, the government deserves our support for solving these never-ending problems created by vote-bank politics of the Congress once and for all. Hence this law is a necessity not just for one state, but for the whole nation, as it is a de facto refugee law which will highlight our duty towards our very own brethren who were separated from us due to the cruelties of fate and time, and allow them to have a life of dignity!

“Joyotu Axomi Aai!”
“Joy Arjyavarta!”

Parallels between the West today and Bharat in 10th century

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I was born in India but like 3 crore persons of Indian origin, I live in the West.

There has been a Christian social democratic, liberal and left leaning consensus that has dominated the West over the last several decades. The West includes North America (US and Canada), Europe, Australia and New Zealand. It does not include major economies like Japan.

We have few records of how ancient India looked like during the last millennia, mostly because of wanton destruction perpetrated by invaders starting at the beginning of this millennium. The West is at its glorious best now, wealthy, healthy with technological superiority. It is also facing existential crises in the form of immigration, Islam and identity. I can see many parallels between how West is today and how Bharat might have been around AD 1000, when the first successful Islamic invasions began, destroying most of what existed before.

  1. Criminal justice system; today’s West favours the criminal against the society. A murderer can expect to be imprisoned for just 8 years in many Western nations. Hindu benevolence towards evil rather than evil-doer gave us stories of invaders being forgiven, we know what this resulted in.

2. Immigration of undesirable societies, religions and communities; the West is not only encouraging immigration from Islamic nations, it is doing so with the full knowledge of how these recent immigrants fail to integrate, cost tax payers and many take part in terrorism against the very state that allows them in. Indian generosity allowed people of many faiths to come to India, Malabar was an example of Moplah or Mappila Muslims allowed to settle in Kerala in 10th century, how this has changed Kerala is known to all of us.

3. Incorrect interpretation of morality or Dharma; Christian openness allows the West to embrace cultures that are openly inimical to them, a recent example was of a Pakistani origin, UK born terrorist murdering people in London and one of the victim’s father wrote columns in newspapers saying that such terrorists should not be imprisoned for long periods! We have seen how Dharma has been incorrectly interpreted to support docility in the face of committed adversaries. Failure of Indian kingdoms to go after the invaders when the first Arab invasions failed in 8th century resulted in more invasions that ultimately succeeded and destroyed temples, while committing genocide of Hindus. This continues in independent India where the majority religion is taught docility while madarsas teach something opposite.

4. Vegan, vegetarianism, animal-rights; vegetarianism and veganism is on the rise in the West, this is alright on it’s own but it comes with a whole gamut of thought processes of do no harm that encompasses kindness to those who vow to destroy the West. Such kindness was prevalent in 10th century Bharat especially after centuries of Buddhist ahimsa discourse.

India in 10th century

5. Fewer children; the West encourages immigration due to falling birth rates, it does not introspect how the Western state is responsible for such decline because it encourages female work-force participation while sacrificing the next generation. Bharat in 10th Century could not compete against demographic bulges that were taking place in the Islamic world, giving unending supply of soldiers ready for jihad against Hindu India.

6. Focus on worldly pleasures, drug taking, multiple partners, alternative sexuality and promoting these lifestyle choices in the West; we know that Al Qaeda leaders saw the West as debauch and gave this as a reason for their holy war. Bharat in 10th century had arts, music, freedoms for females and societal openness. The invaders had focused resolve as they have today against the West. 

7. Abandoning religion; the West has lowest levels of religiosity ever. Bharat in 10th century encouraged debates, theorising and welcoming approach to all forms of worship. This made Indians at that time unready for Abrahamic religions that were exclusionary and preached conversion or death to infidels.

8. Respect for the other results in annihilation of own culture; Sweden has bombs going off every week from immigrant gangs, 80% of Swedish police are afraid to go into immigrant dominated (mostly Muslim) areas. Curiosity and respect for other cultures is slowly asphyxiating western cultures. Bharat in 10th century may have had similar curiosity, witness the Sufi movement where Ajmer Pirs still wear saffron but the faith that they preach remains anti-Hindu.

9. Is a welfare state essentially defeatist and prone to be taken over? This is a question that remains open in the West, may be in 10th century India the culture of welcoming guests, feeding people in temples, charity and benevolence made fighting for survival a forgotten instinct?

10. Comparison between Inca and Conquistadors, they were expected but they were not aware of the malign intent; the West today does not see the mal-intent of immigrants from Islamic world even when they have witnessed countless terrorist attacks. Western courts still support these immigrants against the general public. Did 10th century Indian kingdoms make wrong assessments of the intent of invaders when many Hindu kingdoms aligned with Islamic conquerors for petty gains against their fellow Hindu kingdoms. 

11. The most important thing in a civilisation or society or nations’ survival is what it teaches its next generation, left leaning education system promotes a welcoming world view for Western children who grow up and study in left-leaning universities. They do not see the threats posed by Islam. While madarsas in the West teach Muslim children growing up in the west to hate infidels. While new immigrants from Islamic nations already come with ideologies that tell them to hate and kill the infidels. This is a powder keg that will destroy the future of the West. May be 10th century Bharat promoted ideas rather than hard military mindset that made such invasions successful.

12. Climate is an emergency because it may kill people in the future but Islamic radicalism is not seen as an emergency even when this ideology is terrorising people today; the West is falling over about climate emergency and are blind to the threats that are eating away their societies and geopolitical threats that are threatening their nations. 10th century India may have had priorities that did not see immediate threats.

13. Social evils like Mocro mafia, Moroccan mafia in Netherlands, Muslim criminal enterprises in UK and Europe; Drug running, prostitution, human trafficking, a large part of criminal enterprises are run by Muslims in Europe. Nations are too weak and hindered by liberal laws to either prosecute or punish. Netherlands has Mocro mafia or Moroccan drugs mafia that generates $18 billion. 10th century Bharat did not have slavery on the scale that started after Muslim invasions, resulting in millions of Hindus being taken as slaves to be sold across the Muslim world. Hindukush mountain range literally means Hindu-killer as so many died while crossing these mountain ranges when they were being taken away as slaves.

14. Fall of Roman empire; many scholars state that Rome started declining after it allowed immigration on a large scale, the West today may be on a similar precipice. 10th century India allowed Muslims from Arab lands in Malabar coasts, followed by centuries of arrivals from European colonists to Islamic invaders. Majority of Muslim ruling classes were foreigners, centuries of Islamic rule was never really Indian in nature as left historians falsely claim. Even today the gap between what is taught to the majority community in India and what is taught in 600,000 madarsas in India is creating a societal chasm that will be difficult to bridge.

Of course, many of these parallels may just be suppositions, but historical records show that Bharat in 10th century was a welcoming society just like the West today. The threats faced by the West today have similarities to what Indian kingdoms faced at the beginning of this millennium.