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A deliberate attempt to humiliate and shame Hindus?

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A deliberate attempt to humiliate and shame Hindus?

While we have seen expose by OpIndia team on how about a dozen ‘hate crime’ stories turned out to be fake, and ‘Dara Hua musalman‘ where over 50 hate crimes committed by minority community has not been reported by media.

Aajtak Channel, in its video, ran a half an hour episode under the title –पीएम मोदी को कौन कर रहा बदनाम? Do not go by the not so bad sounding title – the full half an hour of the episode was designed to humiliate Hindus, to paint them as bloodthirsty goons who are now loose on the streets, targeting people belonging to minority community where ever they could lay their hands on.

To support their agenda they went ahead an include fake hate crimes. Something which is not expected of such a big channel – their shoddy research work. Aajtak included the “lynching of Ayub Pandith” in the hate crime list!

Here is a short clip of the half an hour video by AajTak which can be found on this webpage.

Source of news of Ayub Pandith lynching in Srinagar –

  1. 2017 Nowhatta mob lynching
  2. 20 people arrested in DSP Ayub Pandit lynching case in J&K
  3. And surprise surprise from Aajtak – जम्मू-कश्मीर श्रीनगर: जामिया मस्जिद के बाहर नारे लगाती भीड़ ने की DSP की हत्या, तस्वीर आई सामने
  4. another one from Aajtak itself – DSP अयूब पंडित की मौत के बाद एक बार फिर सकते में ‘जन्नत’

Aajtak also included Junaid Khan killing which was not a “mob lynching” incident and has been called out in court that it was not hate crime.

By including Ayub Pandith lynching in the list of people from the minority community, and associating with killings in the name of Ram, what could be the agenda of Aajtak?

Either it could be – to help their political masters, the Congress, by attacking the Hindus or humiliate the country in the International community or could be both.

Whatever the reason be –

  • by deliberately not reporting incidents where Hindus were lynched,
  • by deliberately adding incidents not related to hate crimes in the list
  • by dishonoring the judgment of courts and continue to call a case a hate crime

the attempt is to make urban Hindus hate Hindutva and also the government, divide the majority, aggravate the minorities.

What else could be the reasons for the Indian Media as we see in the likes of Aajtak?

Why delimitation may not be a panacea for Jammu & Kashmir

Prasenjeet Kumar
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Why delimitation may not be a panacea for Jammu & Kashmir

Few weeks back, Union Home Minister Amit Shah reportedly had a closed-door meeting with the Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satyapal Malik, Intelligence Bureau Director Rajiv Jain and Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba.

Among other things, the idea of carrying out a fresh delimitation of constituencies in Jammu & Kashmir was apparently discussed. This was ostensibly “to correct an inequity and anomaly of regional disparity long suffered by Jammu province,” in the backdrop that Kashmir region today has more seats (46) in the state assembly than Jammu (37) even though Jammu has a larger population. This sleight-of-hand perpetuated from the time of Sheikh Abdullah has ensured that the levers of political power remained always in the hands of the Kashmir-centric parties.

The last delimitation of Jammu and Kashmir was done in 1995 under Justice (Retd.) KK Gupta Commission. As the Constitution provides for delimitation every 10 years, the next delimitation of assembly constituencies should have logically taken place in 2005.

However, in 2002, the Farooq Abdullah government (for obviously ulterior reasons) froze delimitation until 2026 by amending the Jammu & Kashmir Representation of the People Act 1957 and Section 47(3) of the Constitution of Jammu & Kashmir.

So, if we have to correct that historic injustice against Jammu, there appears to be no option other than to carry out a fresh delimitation exercise, although all Kashmir centric political parties oppose this move. Look at this tweet of PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti to express her “disappointment”.

Interestingly, she calls “forced delimitation” an obvious attempt to inflict another emotional partition of the state on communal lines. Now, if Mehbooba Mufti is crying hoarse, delimitation should be a good move for the BJP. Isn’t it?

Well, I’m afraid it may not be so. Delimitation in practice can be a painfully long drawn process. First, a commission needs to be set up under a retired judge, who most political parties should preferably have faith in. Second, the commission will need office space and staff and sundry other support systems where after (only) it can get down to the business of hearing and examining political claims and counter claims. Going by how some commissions have functioned in the past, this process can easily consume years.

If it takes more than five years, then just like Ram Mandir or Article 35-A, BJP will have to go to the 2024 elections without doing much in Jammu & Kashmir. Unless that is exactly what the plan is—to not do much—delimitation, I’m afraid, will not change anything in the short term.

Supposing BJP gets hold of a really committed judge, who finishes the whole exercise within six months or so. And supposing Kashmir is restricted to 46 seats and Jammu gets, say, 53 seats. Is there still a guarantee that BJP will be able to form a government on its own in J&K? There are way too many parties competing for the vote share there. You have the PDP and NC in the Kashmir valley, and the BJP, Congress and Panther’s Party in the Jammu region. But things are not that clear-cut. NC also has a strong base in the Jammu region. And Jammu too has a substantial Muslim population which may or may not vote for BJP.

So, the short point is that even after a “successful” delimitation exercise, there is no guarantee that BJP will not be forced to form a coalition with either PDP or NC, who would agree to have a Hindu Chief Minister for the whole of J&K. And we all know what happened from 2015-2018 when BJP had formed a government with PDP hoping to keep Mehbooba Mufti under control whereas the reverse happened.

So, if not delimitation, what is the solution? Simple, it is trifurcation. Split the state of Jammu and Kashmir into three states: Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. This way you ensure that Jammu and Ladakh have their own governments and that they are no longer under the jackboots of the Kashmir centric anti-India parties.

Now the questions. How long will the process of trifurcation take? What if the State Government of Jammu & Kashmir says no? Will Jammu and Ladakh be able to survive as independent state/Union Territory? What will happen to the Kashmir valley?

All valid questions, for which I’m afraid there are no short answers. I’ve tried to deal with all these questions extensively in my novel Kashmir is free (available both as an e-book and paperback). But the short answer is that the process of trifurcation is constitutionally a much simpler process than delimitation and is a damn good idea.

Jammu and Kashmir is not a problem, mind you. The problem is only Kashmir. That is the festering, malodorous, cancerous part. Once you trifurcate, you can easily laser focus your attention on the cancerous part, and deal with it with all the resources at your command.

I wish the new Modi Government focuses more on this course of action than the chimera of delimitation.

लुटियंस दिल्ली को समझ में न आने वाली फिल्म- कबीर सिंह

AKASH
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लुटियंस दिल्ली को समझ में न आने वाली फिल्म- कबीर सिंह

हम पैदा होते हैं प्यार करते हैं और मर जाते है लाइफ का ये ही 10% हिस्सा सबसे जरुरी होता है बाकी 90% तो इन्ही का रिफ्लेक्शन है।

पिछले शुक्रवार से एक नयी चरस मार्किट में आयी हुई है misogynist टाइप की या यूँ कहें कि the fucking patriarchal Society वाली सोच के साथ कबीर सिंह (ऐसा रिव्यु आया है)। तो कल जब पेपर ख़त्म हुआ तो सोचा नयी चरस है try तो करना बनता है इसलिए पहुँच गये टाकीज। और दो बार गया कि हो सकता है अपने male ego के चक्कर में सिमोन दी बुआ (फेमिनिस्ट चाची- आखिरी वाला नाम याद नहीं रहता) का कांसेप्ट भूल जाऊं इसलिए दो बार देखनी चाहिए। पहली बार सोसाइटी के सबसे असभ्य टाकीज (ऐसा दिल्ली वाले कहते हैं) में और दूसरी बार वहां जहाँ सामने होता किस देखकर तुम्हारे पड़ोस में लाइव हो जाता है। But we can’t judge anyone because u born with fucking patriarchal mindset.

Movie कबीर सिंह दक्षिण की अर्जुन रेड्डी की रीमेक है। एक फिल्म के तौर पर किसी को जब देखा जाता है तो उसके सभी पक्षों को देखना पड़ता है। जैसे म्यूजिक, movie आने से पहले ही बेख्याली, मेरे सोनेया लोगों की जुबान पर था। और सबसे खास बात कि अन्य movie की तरह गानों को 5 मिनट अलग से नहीं दिया गया है। डायरेक्शन और सिनेमोटोग्राफ़ी भी कमाल की थी। बाकी स्क्रिप्ट थोड़ी ढीली है।

शाहिद अपने हर रोल के साथ बेहतर होते जा रहें है हैदर, उड़ता पंजाब और अब कबीर सिंह जितना नेगेटिव शेड और उतना बंदे में दम। कियारा को सबसे कमजोर कड़ी भी कह सकते हो क्यूंकि शुरुआत में ऐसा कौन होता है वो भी मेडिकल में। लास्ट में जब वह रोती है तो शायद वह एक्टिंग का सबसे गन्दा पार्ट था। शिव (सोहम मजूमदार) पूरी फिल्म में एक अच्छे दोस्त की तरह पीछे ही रहा। ये राँझणा के मुरारी, संजू के कमली से बिल्कुल भी कम नहीं है और एक्टिंग उसको जज कर सकूं इतनी औकात ही नहीं है (क्यूंकि वो थियेटर वाला आदमी है)। बाकी लोग जिया (निकिता दत्ता), सुरेश ओबरॉय, दादी सब अपने छोटे छोटे स्लॉट में कभी बोझिल नहीं लगे।

The Hindu के दो कैप्शन

अब आते स्क्रिप्ट पर जिस पर हंगामा तो ऐसा मच रहा है जैसे कबीर सिंह देखने के बाद हर बंदा अपनी गर्लफ्रेंड को ऐसे ही ट्रीट करेगा। भाई वो बंदी है तुम्हारी जो कभी भी तुमको छोड़ सकती है इसलिए लड़के बाबू तुमने थाना थाया ऐसा ही बोल पायेंगे उससे ज्यादा तो दिल्ली का मातृ शब्द भेन्चों भी नहीं।

कोई भी movie समय काल परिस्थिति को देख के ही बनती है। गाली देना कोई अपराध तो नहीं और अगर इसको देखकर ही जज करते हो गैंग्स ऑफ़ वासेपुर के बाद movie बनना ही बंद हो चुकी होती। पद्मावती के जौहर के बाद ही पद्मावत बनी थी या तेरे नाम का राधे कोई movie देखने के बाद नहीं हुआ था। ऐसे लोगों को देखने के बाद movie बनी थी। हमें ये समझाना होगा खुद को कि ऐसा समाज में होता है। कबीर सिर्फ प्रीती के साथ ऐसा नहीं कर रहा था उसने अपने आस पास रहने वाले हर इन्सान से वैसा ही व्यवहार किया था। यहाँ तक कि भाई को भी माँ की गाली दी। और क्या तुम्हारी गर्लफ्रेंड को कोई छेड़ेगा तो तुम हाइपर नहीं होगे। क्यूँ जलन है उस व्यक्ति से तुम्हें वो उनका आपसी consent है दोनों ने बराबर थप्पड़ मारे है। जो लड़का अपनी गर्लफ्रेंड को कंधे पर बैग इसलिए नही रखने देता कि उसके कंधे पर निशान पड जायेगा तो उसका गुस्सा होना जायज भी है।

और हाँ सारी चीजें रीयलिस्टिक है दिल्ली में कौन नहीं पीता यहाँ तक कि जिन्होंने ये रिव्यू लिखें है न वो भी हो सकता है कि शराब के नशें में लिखें हो। तो क्यूँ दर्द हो रहा है movie देख के। कोई नहीं बिगड़ता और हाँ बंद ही करवाना है न तो पहले क्राइम पैट्रोल जैसा हद बकलोल कांसेप्ट बंद करवाओ, जिससे ज्यादातर लोगों को मारने का आईडिया मिलता है।

अरे हाँ एक बात कहना भूल गया कि मैं पितृसत्तामक का सबसे बड़ा समर्थक हूँ क्यूंकि मेरे घर का राशन कार्ड भी माँ के नाम पर है। वैसे सभ्य टाकीज में सबसे ज्यादा तालियाँ सेक्स scene पर बजी थी।

वैसे सोफे पे बैठने वाले सरस शराबी लोग कबीर सिंह का कहीं सिर्फ इसलिए तो विरोध नहीं कर रहे कि बॉलीवुड धीरे-धीरे मोदी के समर्थन में आ रहा है और शाहिद भी मोदी को पसंद करते हैं और ऐसा अर्जुन रेड्डी और कबीर सिंह के रिव्यू को देखकर भी लग सकता है।

Have Gandhis- the Atma (soul) of the Congress?

G Indira
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Have Gandhis- the Atma (soul) of the Congress?

Rahul Gandhi resigned as the president of the Congress party owning responsibility for the poll debacle in the recent parliamentary elections. That’s needed but the Liberal lobby came to the conclusion that he should be replaced. The reason? Shri Ramchandra Guha, the kurupitamaha of Liberals in India, has been voicing his concern over Rahul Gandhi’s leadership and his incapacity to take the party forward, for a longtime. His line (of thinking) is toed now by journalists: Sagarika Ghose, Rajdeep Sardesai and many more.

But they themselves could not find an alternative. Some voiced curiously for Priyanka Vadra, though she proved to be no savior for the aged-party. Her under-performance in the recent elections was kindly attributed to her late entry into the electoral fray by her proponents. It begs a question: who barred her from coming early? The party, undoubtedly, is the fiefdom of the Gandhi family. All through her campaign, the page-3 journalists conducted page-3 programs, eulogizing her sense of wearing cotton sarees and her gait. Her casual talk to the crowd was amplified as oratorical prowess.

In India, with Bharateeya Janata Party at the helm, Politics has become a 24/7 enterprise. It’s pursued with more zeal than ever. For the BJP leaders, Politics is the breakfast, lunch and dinner. Now, the pace of India and the world are enhanced by technology, old Congress ways of laid-back Politics is gone. Entitlement of certain pedigree of certain dynasty would not automatically give power. Rahul Gandhi’s hardship was only four, five months before the elections which is inadequate in all sense of proportion compared to the BJP’S years – long toil.

Admittedly, it’s not only hard work, the sense of direction a party offers to the voters also matters. Rahul Gandhi’s European leanings, made him think that in a country where the poor are more, has to have a Left leaning orientation policies. So to say the NYAY- proposal. That proved to be ambiguous and enigmatic. Next, his promise of repeal of sedition. India has many internal threats. Sedition law, one way works as a deterrent, though successive governments misused in some cases making it somewhat a bad law. There’s nothing wrong in it being in statute books for using it on fissiparous forces that threaten the country.

Rahul Gandhi was amateur to put it in the manifesto to scrap it. Rightly, Anand Sharma admitted the fact that it should not have been incorporated in the manifesto. Similarly, Mr. Sharma also admitted on the promise of the repeal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA of J&K) to be one such bad proposal to have entered in the Congress’ manifesto. Belated realization! Rahul Gandhi became the prisoner of the Leftist ideology because he was mobbed by the ideologically left youth that spoiled the meagre chances of Congress’ win to dismal.

More than one month of after Rahul Gandhi’s resignation, the Congress which boasts itself a tall party that fought for Independence, could not find an alternative presidential candidate. The likes of Ashok Gehlot, Chidambaram, Digvijaya Singh etc. are all old leaders who cannot energize the party or its cadres (if left any). There has been a mass exodus that has been taking from the Congress to the other parties, specially to the BJP, unabated in the South.

The BJP’s efforts are laudatory. The way Amit Shah as the president travelled throughout the length and breadth of the country, is unparalleled. Relatively younger breed: Manish Tiwari, Randeep Singh Surjewala, Shashi Tharoor have no pan India appeal and are also non-committal. Every political party thrives on leadership and the leader’s access to them. That’s the glue for them. The party workers should be heard.

Even a petty worker should have a feeling that he is also cared for and his contribution is also getting recognition. PM Modi and Amit Shah created that feeling that they’re for the party workers and for party welfare entirely. They dedicated their lives for building the party where every worker feels that he is being wanted. It’s difficult for the Congress to surpass this benchmark set by the BJP in near or far future.

The workers in the BJP have an ideological bonding of Hindutva which they make no bones about to mince. What’s the ideology of the Congress (for it) to make people flock? Their secularism is outdated and is branded as “appeasement of minorities”. They cannot please the Hindus on any aspect as they may face wrath of the minorities. The Congress cannot forsake the first (Gandhi) family as it is the only sticking gum for the desperate leaders.

All Liberal journalists want Rahul Gandhi to go. Where does he go? He remains at the front or at the back of the Congress like how Sonia Gandhi remained steering UPA I & II from behind. The ridiculous thing is, all Congress leaders want the Gandhi Parivar to remain active in Politics. They want a titular head as the Congress president who is again a façade for people to see. If some by poll or state poll is won, credit goes to the three Gandhi scions, if lost to the working Congress president (who is a stooge)! Why making someone a scapegoat? Anyway, when the first family is in active politics (as wished by senior Congress leaders) why a name-sake with no powers? That eunuch-kind is the bullshit to hoodwink people.

The Congress first family has not taken to Ashra-Sanyas like Bhishmapitamah. Let Rahul Gandhi be the president from the front instead of calling potshots from back. Sam Pitroda said, Rahul Gandhi is very learned in his estimates. The learned man should have some wisdom. Rahul Gandhi mouths shibboleths on Indian philosophy. Indian philosophy says: success and failure should be taken with equipoise. Cowards do things from behind, brave are heroic and confront head-on. It’s interesting to see what Rahul Gandhi chooses to be, as the Indian democracy needs an opposition although weak. Bravery or cowardice, is the choice before the Congress now.

Unpredictable Cricket

Anant Chetan
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Unpredictable Cricket

Recently, India defeated Pakistan in the world cup. Defeating Pakistan is a feat only because of the bitter relations of the two nations. Otherwise there was nothing great or spectacular about the cricket played by the two sides.

Fans, media and analysts swivel in between the two extremes. As per them everything was wrong with Pakistan and everything was awesome with India. The odds of Pakistan winning the match were already buried in the ground even before the first ball was delivered. The team’s preparedness for the four yearly tournament reflected when it received a complete white wash in the form of 5-0 and 4-0 by Australia and England respectively in ODI series. India and Pakistan are sitting at the opposite ends of the spectrum, when we look at the stats or rankings.

Why was anybody expecting a tight match? Where was the confidence coming from? I guess from the Champions Trophy and by labeling Pakistan as an Unpredictable team.

How does a team become unpredictable? Is cricket really a game of chance?

I along with all the people of my age have grown witnessing Australian dominance in the international Cricket. In last two decades, barring the 2011 world cup where India won against Sri Lanka, Australia has won 4 out of 5 world cups. Why does chance always seems to favor Australia and not India?

Comparing the two games between the two countries (CT2017 and WC2019) we might actually see why a team is unpredictable.

Pakistan came with almost the same squad that they came with in Champions Trophy 2017 final except two changes (Imam-ul-Haq in place of Azhar Ali and Wahab Riaz in place of Junaid Khan). However, the results of the two games were poles. If everything is wrong with the Pakistani Team, be it fitness, technique or anything else, how come the team was able to win in 2017?

India and Pakistan, both have a similar problem, which they have been trying to avoid for decades and still not acknowledging it. We depend on a few players  to win the game for us. If they fail, the team fails and it looks like there is nothing right with the team.

Pakistan relies on Mohammad Aamir. He is the only reliable bowler Pakistan has got. Others, might bowl at the right spots or they might not. If they bowl at right line and length we get a bowling attack like the one in Champions Trophy final, if they don’t we get a game like world cup 2019. Aamir sent the top three Indian batsmen back to pavilion and the other bowlers just rode on the pressure he created. On the other hand, this time Indian openers took extra precautions against him. They had no intentions of playing his swinging deliveries, let alone hitting them. Md Aamir was delivering dot balls as if it was a test match and not a one day match. That’s a clever strategy. Indian openers were simply leaving the balls if the ball was pitched even an inch outside off stump. And at the same time, they were hitting the other bowlers. This is the reason Pakistan could not build pressure, the runs keep flowing in.

This also highlights India’s vulnerabilities that we don’t want to see. India relies on its top three batsmen. What happens when all three (Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli) get out without scoring much? India struggles to  reach even a 200 runs mark. Same goes with India’s bowling attack. We play with only two reliable pacers in the team.

An example of disadvantage of playing with unreliable bowlers is the world cup final between India and Sri Lanka in 2011. Sri Lanka lost just because they had only one reliable fast bowler, Malinga and one reliable spinner Muralidharan. Indian’s had followed the same strategy, respect the two dangerous bowlers and hit the other bowlers. Indians on the other hand had three reliable pacers; Zaheer Khan, Munaf Patel and Sreesanth.

Unpredictability is not a cause in itself, it is a result of unreliable players in the team.

And, unreliable bowlers contribute more towards the unpredictability as compared to unreliable batsmen. Simply because the number of overs a bowler can bowl in a match are capped (max of 10 overs for every bowler) however a batsmen can bat any number of overs. If there are only two world class reliable bowlers in the team, who is going to bowl the other thirty overs? People generally tend to assess a player’s performance on the number of wickets he took or the number of runs he made, which is an incorrect or rather an incomplete way to assess.  Buvneshvar Kumar and Jaspreet Bumrah bowls with an economy of 2 or 3 in their first spells but do not get wickets because the other side knows that they have other bowlers to hit. The pressure they are able to create is difficult to represent statistically.

Is MS Dhoni a reliable player? Yes, indeed he is, but not as a batsmen but as a keeper. You could compare these two skills with other players. He undoubtedly has unmatched keeping skills. He is one of the best Wicket Keepers not only Indian Cricket but the world cricket has seen. He is an exceptionally brilliant keeper who can also hit the ball. He can hit the stumps without looking. A lot of people were questioning his retirement and his keeping skills are the reason he should not be asked to resign. However what is/was the universal selling point for players like Ravinder Jadeja, Yusuf Pathan or even Hardik Pandya? They are neither reliable bowlers nor reliable batsmen players and they are the ones who make India unpredictable. This is the reason India fails a lot of times when the top order batsmen fail or the strike bowlers fail.

Cricket is a game played by a team that has eleven players. India never plays with eleven reliable or consistent players. It plays with three or may be four reliable batsmen, two or maybe three reliable bowlers and one reliable keeper. And the others are just to fill in.  This is also the case why India’s bowling has always been weak. The team does not entertain three of four pacers. All rounders are good only if they are reliable at at least one of the things, be it bowling or batting. A player whose only skill is to bowl wicket to wicket and a slower ones in between can never fill in for the time when one of the strike bowlers has a bad day.

This is one of the biggest reasons as to why Australia dominated world cricket for more than two decades. Even if you get their first three wickets in the first five overs, their middle order and lower order batsmen are reliable enough to give a nice looking target. Along with this they always come with more than two pacers. Reliable players mitigate the effect of chance or reduce unpredictability.

Sure, luck do exist in the game like it does in every other sport. Rohit Sharma got three inside edges and the ball raced to the boundary but for Sarfaraz Ahmed and Shoaib Malik, the ball found the stumps after the inside edge. And in the same innings Virat Kohli went back because of Umpire’s wrong call. That’s luck. But, what if all three of these batsmen (Sarfaraz, Shoaib and Virat) had got a chance to continue their innings. Would the contribution made by these three batsmen would be similar? No, Virat Kohli would have made more than the Sarfaraz Ahmed or Shoaib Malik. Wouldn’t he? At this point in time he is a batsmen more reliable and consistent than any other. Isn’t he?

One of the most unfortunate things that had happened in this world cup was a washed out game between India and New Zealand. Playing against a good team would have highlighted the teams flaws ahead of the knockout matches. I hope the game against England does not get washed up.

Pakistan plays with teams like Zimbabwe and decides on the playing XI. India should not do the same mistakes, playing against Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Pakistan would lead India to the Semi finals. The goal is not just reach there but win the cup. India should keep in mind that good teams that would reach in semi final would not rely on only one bowler and two batsmen.

Thanks for reading!!!

Also read: Cricket: A blessing in disguise

Men in Blue will be in Orange: Cricket controversy

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Men in Blue will be in Orange: Cricket controversy

Indian cricket team need a new colour for its June 30 uniform to battle England. It’s going to wear saffron the splaterring blue will be the collar of nee jersey. This change came as England jersey is also in Blue color so for the sake of avoiding twining moment. For a nation that breathes and sleeps cricket regardless of gender, class or caste the national team should remain equally secular. For televised ICC events all participating teams will be required to provide two different kits except for the host country who has a preference in choice of color and may if it chooses to do so provide only one colored kit to be worn in all matches throughout the event. Although Congress is saying India should wear a tri colour jersey and that Modi wants to paint the country saffron. Samajwadi Party Leader and MLA Abu Azmi has also said Modi led NDA government has changed the color of the jersey as part of its plan to saffronise everything in the country.

Now looks like the Congress and SP are so blinded by their hate for Modi that they possibly even lost sight that they are questioning everything Indian. They are also indirectly giving additional visibility to BJP. This was one of the reasons for their poor show in general election.

We as Indians should be proud and applaud BCCI for selecting saffron as a dominant color of the Indian Jersey against England as it potrays the struggle and sacrifice for Indians. Now the focus is on World Cup but look at how the Congress and SP motivating the players.

Shah Banu Case of 1986 – the ugly face and dirty teeth of congress party is out in public, thanks to PM Modi

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Shah Banu Case of 1986 – the ugly face and dirty teeth of congress party is out in public, thanks to PM Modi

Every Indian must spread across the wonderful speech of our Honourable Prime Minister Shri Narandra Modi in Parliament thanking the President. With several facts and figures, Modi has shown the ugly face and dirty teeth of congress party and how it had reacted post Shah Banu’s maintenance verdict in 1986 by saying “it is not congress responsibility to reform Muslims”. 

Rajiv Gandhi through a parliament enactment struck down the judgment of Supreme Court of India passing an order to provide maintenance to Shah Banu who was divorced by her husband after reciting talaq thrice. The Muslim vote bank was more important to congress party than helping the impecunious Shah Banu. The above truth was shared to the world by none other than a then key confident of Rajiv Gandhi and one of the important leaders of congress party – Mr. Arif Mohamad Khan.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi recalled the excerpts of the interview of Arif Mohamad Khan to tell to the world how farcical and deceitful is congress party towards Muslims and other minority communities. But today the same congress party of the dynast is talking about the idea of India, secularism, democracy etc. But it has been deceitfully appeasing the Muslim community and treating them as mere vote bank and winning election since independence. How the congress government headed by Rajiv Gandhi could defeat the Supreme Court judgment against an impecunious Muslim women who was asking for maintenance assistance from her husband who pronounced talaq thrice and divorced her.

People of New India must take the message from the speech of PM Modi in parliament to the masses to show how farcical was congress party and how heartless it was in saying it is not congress responsibility to reform Muslims.

Whether Muslim community understand the double standards and lies of congress party or not but Hindus should understand the above ugly face of congress party so that the party is never supported by them in future. Further when Hindus en mass support Modi, certainly Modi will do enough justice to Muslims and other minority communities as he vision for New India is sab ka vikas.

None of the negative propaganda, spreading of lies, fear mongering among minority community, selling hate politics etc., has worked for the congress party and people of India clearly gave their verdict to PM Modi and BJP to rule the country for another 5 more years. Certainly the saga of PM Modi’s good work will continue for several more years. 

India has elected Modi because India wants to prosper, wants a corruption and scam free governance, governance free from dynastic culture and nepotism, governance dedicated for development and sab ka vikas. But even after the repeated defeat, the congress party and other opposition parties are not willing to learn their lesson and wants to continue their disruptive role in parliament.

Congress party has a wonderful chance to support the Triple talaq bill brought by PM Modi. The bill is aimed to raise the dignity and aspiration of Muslim women in our society. No civilized nation in the world would allow divorcing women by just uttering talaq thrice and leave the helpless women in lurch.

PM Modi really transformed the life of millions of poor women by providing cooking gas connection, health insurance coverage, building toilets, drinking water supply, electrification and opening bank accounts to every household woman to transfer government benefits and subsidies directly to the account of poor people. All those poor people and beneficiaries of various schemes of Modi and those wish and dream of New India have voted decisively for PM Modi.

The opposition parties are still acting arrogant and want to engage in disruptive politics and politics of spreading lies. Indians have woken up to the new realities of Indian politics since 2014. People of India are very quick to update every political development that is happening across India. Therefore the prejudiced media houses, the leutyen club in Delhi and the punkah coolies of the dynast cannot spread lies and negativity against PM Modi and can easily and take Indians for a ride.

Every Indian must spread the good governance of Modi to everyone in the society and must educate the poor people in the society to be aspirational and participate in building new India. Let the opposition parties continue to live in fool’s paradise and in continuous denial, but let us pledge our unconditional support to Modi and BJP and make India a great land to live and be proud of.

S Ranganathan

Rana Ayyub is an Islamist masquerading as a journalist

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Rana Ayyub is an Islamist masquerading as a journalist

Recently, the Washington Post chose Rana Ayyub to write about India’s momentous elections in 2019, the largest in the history of the world. The article was filled with invective against the ruling party (BJP), was full of hatred against majority Hindus, and spoke only about the victimhood of Muslims. From the article, one would have got the impression that the only issue in the election, was what Muslims like Rana Ayyub thought. Rana Ayyub also insulted India’s democratic process, just because she didn’t agree ideologically with the expected winners.

The choice of Ayyub for framing the narrative about India’s elections spoke poorly about Washington Post’s editorial choices. It also showed that the Washington Post, for all its journalistic pretensions, continues to be narrowly informed about India.

For one, Rana Ayyub has dubious media credentials. Her original stint as a full-time journalist was with Tehelka magazine, whose main claim to fame was creating news stories through shady stings and undercover traps.

But there is a bigger reason why giving a platform to Rana Ayyub is troublesome. While Rana Ayyub presents herself as a journalist, she is in fact an Islamist masquerading as a journalist. If you read her articles closely, you will find that she talks of nothing other than the interests of Muslims.

You can check out this trait of hers in the infamous Washington Post article cited below:

You know India’s democracy is broken when millions wait for election results in fear

There were numerous issues debated during the Indian elections in 2019. The Government talked about ensuring that developmental schemes reached the grassroots, its success in delivering basic amenities like power and toilets to the vast majority, and having a strong national security policy. The opposition parties raised issues like unemployment, farmer’s distress, Rafale acquisition etc. At the constituency level, there were numerous other local issues, which were debated and discussed.

So there was a smorgasbord of issues that the Indian electorate mulled over, before punching the electoral button. And the voice of the electorate was emphatic, they brought back the BJP with a majority larger than the one it had received 5 years back.

But Rana Ayyub only focused on the likes and dislikes of Muslims, as if this was the only thing that mattered in the elections. She had absolutely nothing to say about the common Indian’s hopes, desires, aspirations or even concerns or anxieties. For her one-track mind, issues like infrastructure building, sanitation, financial inclusion, corruption et al. were of zero value.

Her exclusive obsession with the interest of Muslims, is a trait she shares with Islamists throughout the world. Their only concern is painting pictures of Muslim victimhood, and voicing discontent with secular democracies. (However, for some strange reason, Islamists will never talk about the atrocities inflicted on Uighur Muslims by China). Any other issue on the Earth, whether they are related to the Environment, gender justice or development, is not part of the Islamist’s mental domain. A person who wears green glasses, thinks that the entire world is only made of green.

The Islamist always thinks of the Muslim community, as a monolithic bloc. Notice how Rana Ayyub claims in her articles, that she is speaking for all 190 million Muslims in India. In recent times, Islamists and their all-weather allies, the Leftists, have been painting any isolated incident involving Muslims as victims, as an attack on the entire Muslim community. Similarly, Rana Ayyub also, conflates Danish with the entire Musilm community of India, saying that “Danish’s fear permeates life for all Muslims in India”. Islamists and Leftists should think carefully before spreading this message of fear. My concern is, what if other communities also decide to think conversely, that every attack by a Muslim, is an attack by the entire Muslim community!

In her article, Rana is intellectually dishonest, as she slyly blames Narendra Modi for the Akhlaq incident which happened in 2015, whereas the UP Chief Minister, at that time was Akhilesh Yadav, and was responsible for state law & order. Akhilesh is the head of a socialist party, which counts numerous Islamists amongst its members.

Along with victimization of the Muslims as the main theme,there is a parallel attempt by Islamists to demonize the ‘Other’ community. The ‘Other’ for the Islamist, is always the Hindu in India. Elsewhere the ‘Other’ could be Buddhist, Jew or Christian, Yazidi or Kalash. In the Islamist viewpoint, all the ills of the Muslims are only because of the “Other’ community. This demonization of the “Other’ serves another purpose of the Islamist, which is to whitewash and provide justification for Islamist violence.

Thus, we need to start recognizing Rana Ayyub for what she is, a radical Islamist. Only then, will her hate-filled invective start to make (some) sense.

Why there is ‘special hate’ reserved for Narendra Modi in the mind of ‘liberals’

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Why there is ‘special hate’ reserved for Narendra Modi in the mind of ‘liberals’

Since Narendra Modi became Prime Minister, the entire ‘left liberal’ ecosystem has made it their life mission to oppose and demean him. They do not let small things like ‘facts’, ‘national interest’, ‘Indian culture’ stand in their way when it comes to opposing Modi.

We all have seen the Divider-in-chief remark by the Time magazine. We have seen the venom that has been spewed against him in the national and international publications under the garb of ‘secularism’. Many of the publications have resorted to half-truths and outright lies to portray him in bad light. Most of the international publications have been Hinduphobic to say the least since the time they have been founded but their narrative and propaganda took another level in last 5 years.

From calling Saree as a nationalist tool to outright calling Indians as bigots and racists, we have seen it all in last few years. So this begs the question, why so much hatred against a single person who most of the Indians have unparalleled love for? Even Atal Bihari Vajpayee was a BJP PM but he was not hated on such a scale; in fact he is often regarded as a ‘statesman’ by these very voices. So what is so different about Narendra Modi that makes these people loose all their sanity and reasoning?

Well, for those who have followed Narendra Modi’s journey since he became Chief Minister of Gujarat, this is nothing new. He has been hounded and boycotted since the day he became the Chief Minister. No other BJP CM has faced the kind of treatment at the hands of mainstream ‘liberal’ media as that of Narendra Modi.

The seeds of discontent were sowed within a few days of his swearing-in as the Chief Minister of Gujarat when he decided to treat “Hindu Karsevaks” as human beings when the popular consensus among the ‘left liberals’ was that “Hindu lives don’t matter”. Hindus were not to be treated at par with people from other faiths or from those who put their caste above religion.

But he dared to break the norm by allowing the 59 dead bodies of Godhra Train victims who were killed by the fanatic Muslim mob to be brought to Ahmadabad for proper cremation and rituals. This was against the very essence of ‘secularism’ that was being practiced in India since Independence. This country’s leadership did not bat an eyelid when hundreds of thousands of Kashmiri Pandits were thrown out of their native place just to upheld the idea of ‘secularism’ and here is a political leader who is giving importance to 59 dead ones! How dare he!

Since then the things have gone downhill thereon between Narendra Modi and ‘Left Liberals’. After making sure that Gujarat remains part of India only in the maps and none of the positive things happening in Gujarat reaches to any other part of India, they tried everything to make sure that he does not become Prime Minister in 2014. But you cannot stop the idea whose time has come, no matter how much power you think you have.

He is unabashedly Hindu and is proud of Indian civilization. That is the reason enough for the ‘liberals’ to hate him. On top of that he has gone against their way of thinking and have done things which have pricked holes in their narrative of ‘secularism’ umpteen number of times since becoming the Prime Minister of the country.

He openly stated that India was not born in 1947 but is the ancient surviving civilization on earth, a fact that ‘liberals’ have worked hard to deny. He got a record 175 nations to endorse India’s resolution to celebrate 21st June as “International Yoga Day”. He even started gifting ‘Bhagvat Gita’ instead of replica of ‘Taj Mahal’ on official visits to truly depict the ethos of the country and its culture. He promoted Indian culture and its ancient knowledge wherever he went, which got a lot of eyeballs due to his immense popularity.

Then he made the ‘biggest’ mistake in the eyes of an Indian ‘left liberal’. He appointed a Saffron-clad Hindu Priest as the Chief Minister of the most populous state of India after winning the biggest mandate in last many decades – a person who had been ‘officially’ labelled ‘communal’ by the ‘liberals’. It did not matter that the person was a four time MP from the same seat; it did not matter that he had an impeccable record as an MP all these years; it did not matter that he had long administered one of the biggest ‘Math’ in India and its numerous organizations which employs hundreds of people and caters to thousands of people every day. The only thing that mattered was that Yogi Adityanath was even more unabashedly Hindu than Narendra Modi.

This was a ‘sin’ which ‘liberals’ just could not get over of. On top of that, he has been able to keep such a tight leash on his decisions that whatever predictions ‘liberals’ have made regarding some impending decisions, all have turned out to be false. They just can’t seem to read the man’s thought process and this angers them even further.

Whether it is the choices of Chief Ministers in various states, or the decision to appoint Ram Nath Kovind as the President of India, or to field Sadhvi Pragya against Digvijay Singh from Bhopal in 2019 Loksabha elections, or to risk military action against Pakistan so close to general elections, or to appoint Om Birla as the Loksabha speaker when his name was not even being discussed in the media; he has surprised them every step of the way. ‘Liberals’ do not like this even a bit.

They want someone who can conform to their world view; whom they can read and predict accurately; someone who is at least silent about being a Hindu if not ashamed; someone who fans the ecosystem rather than taking them on; someone who does nothing to expose their hypocrisy and true faces.

Narendra Modi has not scored a single point in any of these requirements. He even called them out openly by labeling them ‘Khan Market Gang‘ during 2019 general elections. He not only called out but even announced the death of ‘nehruvian secularism’ as was being practiced in India since 1947 in his first victory speech on 23rd May 2019.

No wonder they cannot stand this one man who has threatened their hegemony, made them irrelevant and has changed the Indian politics for ever.

Feasibility of One Nation One Poll

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Feasibility of One Nation One Poll

India is 70 plus. The country has to rethink and reorient in order to progress. One has to ponder over on- whether to conduct elections relentlessly throughout months and years – by a government- in its term of 5-years. These elections keep the government on its toes with no smooth sailing. The perennial elections make the government to please the people than to prosper the country as a whole. Sometimes for the country to progress, the people have to swallow the bitter pills of economic and strategic reforms. For which, the party in power needs much leverage and breathing space than continually going for elections in one state or the other.

The Prime Minister of India’s proposed policy of ‘one nation one poll’ was agreed upon by all politicians from all parties ‘in principle’ instead of innumerable polls, proverbially at the drop of the hat in the country. Soon after Independence, polls were conducted to the Parliament and State Assemblies simultaneously. That had happened till 1967. Later with dissolution of state assemblies and parliament due to no-confidence motions or total collapse or failure of the elected, elections began taking place intermittently. This kind of frequent electoral disturbance was not envisaged by our founding fathers of the Constitution.

To start with- Lok Sabha, Assembly Elections for states, local bodies like Panchayats and Municipal elections- should they all go in one time or not, is to be debated. Apart from the above series, Rajya Sabha elections and unending saga of national and state by-polls, when a candidate resigns or expires, are another headache. In each case of election: big or small, poll or by-poll the incumbent government or the party that’s governing, if it loses the poll, it is humiliated and castigated as an unfit to rule by the baiters from among the journalists and politicians. Somehow, this criticism, in itself, is not totally wrong as it opens the eyes of the incumbent government to see things with more clarity. However, there are varied reasons for a loss, including the candidate who is fielded: whether the person is electorally weak or strong (electoral merit), personal probity and integrity, work among people of his constituency to their satisfaction etc. irrespective of the party that has put him up.

Model code of conduct and election machinery: Frequent elections and application of model code of conduct hampers the developmental programmes (of the incumbent government) leading to policy paralysis. Moreover, the government machinery is geared to the peaceful conduct of the election. The officers from the cadre of IAS rank to teaching staff to security personnel, are all allotted to poll duty, by avoiding their main duties of work for weeks and months together. During this period, security where it is in need viz. shopping malls, airports, jails etc. would be depleted. So, those aforesaid establishments become more vulnerable for mischievous forces.

Regional parties lose their hold: simultaneous elections to the parliament and states would not be a threat to regional parties. They have their say and sway where they belong to i.e. to that particular region. India is not Luteyns Delhi. National politics is only notional in states. For, water supply, power supply, hospitals, police stations are all state provided. Even in the recent state assembly elections along with the parliament, Odisha is a textbook example followed by Telangana for giving good state governance by their respective regional parties to win: BJD and TRS.

Cost-saving: simultaneous elections cut the cost. For, the same polling booths, the same polling personnel deployed, same police, same IAS officers, in the same tent – electronic voting machines one for the state assembly and one for the parliament would suffice. Hence, there is no dispute on cost- effectiveness. So, with the same amount of strain of personnel, the cost would be saved in a simultaneous elections.

Anxieties: people’s representatives once elected (for a 5-year fixed period) may not turn to people in distress, is one of the anxieties in a large democracy like India. And there will not be any mid-term check or course correction for the government that is running on a guaranteed 5-year term, is another fear. These issues are in a way genuine and need to be addressed. For a solution, instead of clubbing parliament elections with all state elections, parliament at one time, after that in 2-3 year gap (somewhere midway), if state elections are conducted (in one go) that would be fair to make a fair assessment of things. In any case, the painful conduct of too many elections should have to be stopped.

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