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Can India trust a post Nawaz Sharif Pakistan?

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Can India trust a post Nawaz Sharif Pakistan?

The recently concluded election in Pakistan has thrown up a fractured mandate, resulting in former cricket captain Imran Khan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf party coming within striking distance of forming the government in that country. However, Imran Khan, as the leader of the single largest party has been invited to take oath as the Prime Minister. There is cautious optimism in our country, despite most of the Indian media, largely dominated by a left-liberal claque of breathless females hailing it as a great victory for a man whom they admire for his macho looks and British accent. Almost similar to their adulation for Shashi Tharoor, despite there being a number of sleazy stories attached to both.

How should India react to this development on its Western flank? But, before we get to grips with that question, it may be instructive to acquaint ourselves with the history of Indo-Pak relations over the last 70 years.

Even from the time of its birth it would be difficult to define Pakistan as a nation or a country in the conventional sense of the term. It is an abominable abortion, performed by a retreating imperial power at its nadir; savagely wanting to wound the people it had so ruthlessly ruled and exploited for over two centuries! The desire to inflict everlasting humiliation and instigate perpetual conflict among the former colonies was something the erstwhile rulers could just not resist. Although, aware that the partition of the sub-continent would lead to a bloodbath, yet the British, in their haste, did not for a moment let this awareness deflect them from their divisive policy. Enough and more has been written on this subject, and there is little purpose served in adding further to it here.

Pakistan that emerged out of the vivisection in 1947 was a concept that had no grounding in reality, both historical and geographical. It was a purely political concept designed to satisfy the whim and fancy of one man, and the impatience to rule, of another. The two parts of Pakistan shared nothing with each other except a common faith. They spoke totally different tongues, dressed differently, and had very dissimilar food habits. While West Pakistan, predominantly Punjabi in language and culture, adopted the Persian script and the Urdu dialect, the Easterners were happy using the Bengali language and script as it was before Partition. The Punjabi dominated military and the bureaucracy looked down upon the Bengali citizens, and treated them with contempt.

Even those who chose to immigrate to Pakistan from Central India found that they were unwelcome. They came to be known as muhajirs, a rather derogatory term. Pakistan, without any roots in national history, and without any rationale for existence, soon deteriorated into a free-for-all, where the military eventually rode to power, due mainly to its superior muscle and the legacy of British organizational ability. The initial promise of it becoming a nation representing a majority of the Muslims of the subcontinent was also not realised, when it became a home for less than one-third. This led Pakistan to desperately look for a reason for its creation and continued existence. Since it had failed in its attempt to represent the Muslims of the subcontinent, including the Muslim majority province of Jammu & Kashmir, it resorted to a policy of subterfuge and deceit.

Beginning with the thinly veiled ‘tribal invasion’ of Kashmir in 1948, through the infiltration policy leading to a second war with India during Gen. Ayub Khan’s military rule in 1965, and until the bifurcation brought upon itself by its repressive policies in East Pakistan that led to the birth of Bangladesh in 1971, Pakistan has been living on a thin edge. It fooled the Americans into believing that it would be their frontline ally against the Soviets during the cold war, and extracted huge amounts of aid from them. This aid was in turn used by it to finance its military and nuclear arsenal, and hardly a pittance was spent upon education, health care, and economic development. It had no qualms in selling dangerous nuclear technology to belligerent states like North Korea, and Iran. The father of its nuclear programme, A. Q. Khan was known to have made his technology available to anybody willing to pay the price. The shocking, three-decade story of A. Q. Khan and Pakistan’s nuclear program, and the complicity of the United States in the spread of nuclear weaponry is comprehensively brought out in Adrian Levy’s book: Deception: Pakistan, The United States And The Global Nuclear Weapons Conspiracy.

The military has continued to dominate Pakistani life even though there have been brief intervals of limited “democracy”. The soviet invasion of Afghanistan gave it another opportunity to continue deceiving the Western allies and furthering its aims at developing nuclear weapons. It had no hesitation in going to bed with the Chinese, to whom it ceded a part of occupied Kashmir. It also collaborated with them in building the Karakoram Highway and allowed them to build naval ports in the Gulf. The Karakoram Highway (KKH) is the highest paved international road in the world. It connects China and Pakistan across the Karakoram mountain range, through the Khunjerab Pass, at an altitude of 4,693-m/15,397 ft. It connects China’s Xinjiang region with Pakistan’s Northern Areas. The Highway is also meant to link with the southern port of Gwadar in Balochistan through the Chinese-aided Gwadar-Dalbandin railway, which extends up to Rawalpindi.

It is no secret that the Chinese have larger designs in this theatre. After the annexation of Tibet and the subsequent demographic alteration of the region by allowing hordes of Han Chinese to settle there, it has turned its attention to the Muslim majority Xinjiang province. Although geographically a part of the PRC, the regime in Beijing looks at the Xinjiang Uighurs with suspicion and hostility. Already the policy adopted in Tibet is seeing its implementation in this region. The continued unrest in the Xinjiang capital Ürümqi is a direct result of the resettlement of large number of Han Chinese in this region. China’s policy appears to be to gradually push the Muslims from its territory into the adjoining countries of Central Asia and fully integrate Xinjiang as a part of the PRC. The Karakoram Highway will facilitate the migration and the subsequent occupation of the entire province of Xinjiang. I cannot see any way in which the Highway benefits Pakistan. The pittance that it would earn by way of tolls from the traffic of commercial goods from China to the Gulf would be very poor compensation for the cost of the construction of the Highway and the threat of an aggressive China at its doorstep.

The humiliation of 1971 and the loss of East Pakistan, temporarily put a halt to Pakistan’s aggressive pursuit for a national identity for some time. But this was only a temporary halt. It is my belief that Indira Gandhi made a grievous mistake when it sought the dismemberment of Pakistan and supported the creation of an independent Bangladesh out of East Pakistan. The Shimla agreement could have been radically different from the abject surrender our Prime Minister made to the charms of the wily Bhutto. The breaking away of the Bengali part of Pakistan removed whatever checks this gentler part of the principally Islamic country exercised on the military adventurism of the Generals from West Pakistan.

At Shimla, in July 1972, Indira Gandhi should have insisted on the following points before returning the 93000 POWs captured during the war:

a)  Pakistan would remain a whole entity and there would be no support for the creation of Bangladesh. (Sheikh Mujib should have been invited to be a part of this conference.)

b)  Sheikh Mujib’s Awami League would be invited to form the Government of Pakistan with him as the Prime Minister

c)  All civilian refugees from East Pakistan would be repatriated from India

d)  All Indian POWs held in Pakistan would be honourably returned to India

e)  Only on fulfillment of the above 4 conditions would India release the 93000 Pakistani POWs.

f)  An agreement would be signed with Sheikh Mujib and Bhutto ratifying that the Government of Pakistan would recognise the LOC in Jammu & Kashmir as the International Border between the two countries. This agreement would be made inviolable and a suitable resolution passed in the Pakistan National Assembly.

However, today that is so much water under the bridge. Indira Gandhi and her advisers missed a fabulous opportunity to not only settle the Kashmir dispute but to end the state of hostility that Pakistan nurtured against India from the first day of its existence. Pakistan would have remained whole, and the large role played by the eastern wing in shaping its political and economic future would perhaps have allowed for a more peaceful era to evolve in the subcontinent.

Freed from having to worry about a part that was so different from the West Pakistanis, not only in language, literature, history, culture, and an understanding of Islam, it was Zia-ul-Haq, who after seizing power, struck upon the idea of giving Pakistan a whole new identity. Farzana Shaikh, Associate Fellow of Chatham House, and author of Making Sense of Pakistan, argues that that “conflicting visions over the role of Islam in Pakistan have made it impossible to reach a broad consensus over fundamental questions about the purpose of Pakistan, or, indeed about the precise relation between ‘being Muslim’ and ‘being Pakistani’. This lack of consensus, she suggests, “gravely impeded the development of a coherent national identity for Pakistan.” The lack of a national identity has resulted in the emergence of a “negative identity” predicated on Pakistan’s opposition to India. “One of the most significant implications of this ‘negative identity’ that rests on no more than being ‘not India’ has been to dilute Pakistan’s South Asian roots in favour of a more robust Islamic profile informed by the Islam of West Asia.

The implications of this imported theology have been deeply damaging to Pakistan, “where the broadly pluralistic instincts, characteristic of local varieties of Islam have been forced to give way to harsher readings of Islam imported from abroad”. The transformation of Pakistan during the Zia years has had lasting effects on the psyche of its people who have been misguided to believe that they are a Muslim country chosen to become the guarantors of Islam in the world. It is this version of Wahhabi Islam that Pakistan has tried to export to Kashmir through its lackeys in the Hurriyat and other subversive institutions, with the hope that it would turn the Muslims of the valley against their traditional ethos, and make them the instruments of success in breaking Kashmir away from the Indian Union. Pakistan, I am afraid, has largely succeeded in its designs. The people of the Kashmir valley have fallen prey to this invidious propaganda and have driven the Hindus and other non-Muslims out of the valley through terror and murder.

It has also resulted in Pakistan denying its pre-Islamic legacy, and suppressing the culture, history, arts and literature of the Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and other non-Muslim eras. This suppression has deep psychological implications for its people. Having been forced to deny their past, a large vacuum has been created in their consciousness. Lies, hatred, and notions of victimhood are filling this vacuum. People are being made to believe that they are being victimized and persecuted by the rest of the world for pursuing their faith. Lies and deceit have become ingrained in the Pakistani consciousness.

It is this part of the consciousness of Pakistan that makes it “run with the hare and hunt with the hounds”. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan gave it the opportunity to divert Western military aid to the Afghan Mujahideen, whom it nurtured and supported, with the full knowledge of the Americans. After the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, it took no time in turning the Mujahideen into an anti-American/anti-Western force, and here again it was Pakistan that was supplying weaponry and personnel to the Mujahideen outfits. The Kargil war with India in 1999 is another example of Pakistani deceit. While the Pakistani Prime Minister was receiving the Indian Prime Minister in Lahore, who had embarked on a friendship bus journey, Pakistani Army units were surreptitiously occupying positions on the Indian side of the LOC. While initially the Pakistanis maintained that the fighters were Kashmiri insurgents, but documents left behind by their casualties confirmed the involvement of Pakistani paramilitary forces led by Gen. Ashraf Rashid.

The Indian Army, later on supported by the Indian Air Force, recaptured a majority of the positions on the Indian side of the LOC infiltrated by the Pakistani troops and militants. With international diplomatic opposition, the Pakistani forces withdrew from the remaining Indian positions along the LOC. Having been chastised by the then US President, one would think that the Pakistanis would desist from further adventurism. But there has been growing evidence of Pakistani involvement in international terrorist attacks, epitomised by the infamous 26/11 attacks on Mumbai. Even then the Pakistani establishment denied the involvement of its nationals, protesting its innocence with a false sense of outrage. However, the world now knows how deeply the Pakistani Army and the ISI were involved in this operation. It is also quite clear that there will be no action taken against the known masterminds of terror within Pakistan. It is typically characteristic of Pakistanis to strike from behind, as any coward would do, and then protest injured innocence.

It is the same mentality that denies the existence of a known, Interpol-notified criminal like Dawood Ibrahim within its borders. The whole world knows his whereabouts and even his address in Karachi, but Pakistan will continue to deny any knowledge about him. The same consciousness viewed an ordinary event like the marriage of the Indian Tennis star Sania Mirza to the Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik as some kind of a victory over India, with celebrations in Sialkot touching absurd levels of exhibitionism.

One should also not forget that the world’s most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden, was living in Pakistan for nine years before he was terminated by stealth by the US Navy Seals in Abbotabad, on May 2, 2011. That a man wanted by the most powerful military combination in the world would be found living in a fortified compound within walking distance of the Pakistan Military Academy, should raise all kinds of red flags for those who wish to engage ‘actively’ or with ‘aloofness’ with Pakistan.

Which brings us back to the original question: “How should India react to this development on its Western flank?”

For me there are two major takeaways from the elections in Pakistan:

a)  The humiliating defeat of Hafez Saeed’s party as a political force has put paid to this terrorist’s ambitions to rule over Pakistan’s destiny as a sword of Islam. It has renewed faith in the belief that the majority of Pakistanis do not actually support terror, and are mainly silent out of physical fear. By testing electoral waters, Hafez Saeed has made himself expendable and can no longer take state protection for granted. It is more than likely that the US will put renewed pressure on Pakistan to hand over this wanted terrorist or simply liquidate him as it did with OBL.

b)  With Nawaz Sharif and daughter both in jail on corruption charges, the PML (N) had entered  the political battle with both its hands tied behind its back. The other challenger to Imran Khan was the PPP led by Benazir Bhutto’s son, Bilawal. The Pakistan military, largely believed to have rigged the elections, chose to rig them in favour of Imran Khan, and not the PPP. Benazir’s husband had so ingrained corruption and graft in the political system that it would be impossible for his son to come to any table with clean hands. That the military chose Imran over Zardari perhaps shows a little maturing of the political process in Pakistan.

I am not aware of Imran Khan’s financial status or how he has made his fortune. But, to my limited knowledge, there are no major financial scandals that involve him, and of all the possible candidates, he is perhaps the one with the cleanest hands. (Readers may wish to educate me on this aspect.) Whatever may have been his personal life, and there are a number of accusations leveled against him by his second wife Reham Khan; but so long as he does not allow these proclivities to come in the way of governance, Imran should be able to provide some stability to Pakistani politics.

India should not repeat the mistake of going euphoric about Imran Khan’s ascent to power, but instead keep all her guards up. Wait and watch is an admirable policy when there is so much uncertainty in the air. Knowing PM Modi, I am sure he will not be rushing to catch a plane to Islamabad to attend Imran’s swearing in. News reports confirm that no political leaders have been invited for the event. But, all said and done, any movement that takes Pakistan closer to genuine democracy, with better probity in public life, should be welcome by all peace-loving nations of the world.

Veer Savarkar opposed this malice appeasement politics of Congress and not Quit India Movement

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Veer Savarkar opposed this malice appeasement politics of Congress and not Quit India Movement

Pseudo-liberals.. Islamists.. Hinduphobes or whatever else we may call them, they leave no stone unturned against Hindutva and Veer Savarkar who was once its ambassador. Now all those who have read independence history of India, must be knowing that Islamists once used to label “Congress and Gandhi ji” as “Hindu icons”. Congress attempted every bit to gain support from Muslims, but it terribly failed to win even a single seat in Muslim constituencies during 1945 General elections. All the seats were secured by Muslim league. In the eyes of Britain, outcome of 1945 election proved Jinnah to be correct. Jinnah was always loud about his stand that Muslims want partition of India otherwise this would lead to a civil war on the other hand, Gandhi ji’s and Congress’ stand was of a united India [1].

But as soon as the outcome of 1945 elections was disclosed, it reflected a terrible defeat of Gandhi ji and victory of Jinnah in all the Muslim constituencies. After partition, those Muslims who stayed back in India, for whatever reason, were obviously finding themselves in an atmosphere of guilt that it is their community which has become the cause of partition of this ancient land. Now to free Muslims from that very guilt, pro-Islamist historians invented fake narratives one after the other. And one such narrative is that it is not Muslims but Hindutva people who are to blamed for partition of this country. They say, it was Savarkar who sided with Britishers. And what evidence do they produce? That Savarkar didn’t participate or in fact opposed an important freedom movement like “Quit India Movement”.

Readers, for a moment, without defending Veer Savarkar, even if I acknowledge this allegation that Veer Savarkar opposed Quit India Movement then does that make Veer Savarkar, a traitor, as termed by Hinduphobes? I mean, how can we as Indians, forget his struggle against Britishers for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment twice in his life, and that he was locked up in the most horrible jail known of that time known as “Kala Pani” for almost a decade? Also that he was literally treated like an animal by Britishers for the kind of crimes Veer Savarkar committed against British government [2]?

But keeping all this apart, the genuine question which pops up in any readers mind is that why Veer Savarkar didn’t participate or opposed Quit India Movement? This question has been answered in best possible way by none than Veer Savarkar himself in his book, Hindu Rashtra Darshan pp.129-131

We all know that in early days, the motive of Congress was not absolute freedom of nation but grant of several rights to Indians. Later Congress adopted the motive of “absolute freedom”. So when Quit India Movement was about to launch, Veer Savarkar was finding out the goal which Congress was seeking to achieve through this movement. He wrote “You must know before you go to fight the objective for which you have to fight.” When Veer Savarkar was convinced that the goal of this mission is to gain absolute independence, he noted “it was the duty of every Indian patriot and especially of a Hindu patriot to join a movement which had for its goal the absolute political independence of Hindusthan.”

So as we can understand, on first glance, Veer Savarkar felt that it is duty of every Indian and especially of every Hindu to join a movement which aims to secure absolute freedom. But then, what went wrong? Veer Savarkar says “The Congress had made it crystal clear by that time that it was ready to agree even to vivisect India as an organic and centralised State in order to placate the Moslems and to persuade them to join the movement“. As we have read, the first objection raised by Veer Savarkar was that Congress’ policy of Muslim appeasement. But this was not all, Veer Savarkar continues “they added to it a rider which demanded of great Britain that though the British should leave India yet the must retain their British forces and even the American forces behind to protect India against the axis powers invading her. In short, the war-cry of the Congress movement came to ‘Quit India but keep the British army here and the Americans to boot!!’”

As we are familiar with the fact that though Congress was aiming for absolute freedom; it was at the same time willing to keep British army in India and Veer Savarkar opposed that. But despite having these two major disagreements with Congress, Veer Savarkar agreed to think of supporting Quit India Movement if Congress accepts 7 major demands set by him. Those demands were:

1. The Congress should guarantee the; integrity of Hindusthan form the Indus to the Seas as an organic nation and an internal centralized State.

2. The Congress should, therefore, openly repudiate the granting of any right to the provinces to secede.

3. Representation in the legislatures, etc. should be in proportion to the population of the majority and the minorities.

4. Public services should go by merit alone.

5. That the Hindu Mahasabha should be recognised as the representative body of Hindudom and consequently no step should be taken affecting Hindu rights without its consultation and sanction.

6. All minorities should be given effective safeguards to protect their language, religion, culture, etc. but none of them should be allowed to create ‘a state within a state’ as the League of Nations put it, or to encroach upon the legitimate rights of the majority as defined above.

7. The residue powers should be vested in the Central Government.

Do you feel any of these demands were illegitimate? No, they were quite necessary. But did Congress agreed to these demands? Veer Savarkar writes “the Congress refused stubbornly to have anything to do with these conditions.” So the Congress refused. Not just Congress refused but went a step further, says Savarkar that “in their resolution at Bombay, the A.I.C.C. actually declared that the residuary powers shall be vested in the Provincial Government instead of the Central, in addition to the concession the Congress had already made to the Pakistanis of the principle of provincial self-determination to secede. The climax came when Gandhiji, after being proclaimed as the de fecto dictator of the Congress, wrote an authoritative letter to reassure Mr. Jinnah of his readiness to hand over the whole Government of India including the Indian States to the Moslem League.”

Just look what a terrible statement was made by Gandhi ji! Gandhi ji was okay with British handing over power to Muslim league [if league rejects partition]. Just imagine what India would have been if it was ruled by Muslim league! How could have Veer Savarkar supported such a “freedom movement” where Muslim league of Jinnah was given opportunity to rule entire India after British?

But when Veer Savarkar was alleging that Gandhi ji had agreed to the fact that Muslim league would rule India if they reject partition, what was the source of his allegation? The source of Veer Savarkar’s allegation was the letter of Gandhi ji written on 8th August 1942 [just a day before Quit India Movement started] which is even available today [3]. It could be read even below:

So Veer Savarkar was right. Gandhi ji actually said “the Congress will have no objection to the British Government transferring all the powers it today exercises to the Muslim League on behalf of the whole of India, including the so-called Indian India“.

Readers, after reading all this, do you think Veer Savarkar was wrong when he didn’t supported Quit India Movement? Well, I leave this for you to decide. But to sum up, following were the reasons why Veer Savarkar restrained Hindu Mahasabha from participating in the Quit India Movement:

  • Congress’ policy of Muslim appeasement.
  • Congress’ aspiration that British Army should remain in India even after independence for a certain period.
  • Congress rejected 7 legitimate demands put up by Veer Savarkar.
  • Gandhi ji made a shocking and a very terrible statement that Congress has no objection if British handover power of whole India to Muslim league.

References:

[1]: Mahatma Gandhi, Nonviolent Liberator: A Biography, p. 91

[2]: My Transportation for Life, 111-12.

[3]: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 83, pp.186-87

A response to The Print’s article attacking Kangana Ranaut

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A response to The Print’s article attacking Kangana Ranaut

Recently, an article was published in ThePrint titled, “Kangana Ranaut’s Modi comment shows she is a feminist, but only for herself” by a poet Harnidh Kaur who criticized Kangana Ranaut’s statement calling Narendra Modi as the rightful leader of the country. When I first heard about the comment made by Kangana on Modi, I knew that is enough to rile up some ‘oppressed’ ‘intellectuals’ and ‘warriors of free speech and expression’. How dare she give complement to ‘Narendra Modi’? How dare she called him a ‘Rightful Leader’? Doesn’t she know that only Rahul Gandhi deserves such respect? Just look at his extraordinary political lineage- Nehru, Indira, Rajiv, and now HIM!

Anyway, jokes apart, while I read the article; I could see the hypocrisy and arrogance visible in the daylight. I sometimes wonder, that if people in India were to lose the mentality of treating language above the logic, we wouldn’t be having such high number of ‘Intellectuals’ in this country.

In response to that article, I hereby present the point by point critique of “A Poet”s point in this post:

1. “So, it was a little alarming for liberal people, who appointed Kangana as their feminist icon, to hear her endorsing Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the ‘rightful’ leader of the country.”

First, I don’t think it was alarming for ‘liberal people’. Difference of opinions is welcomed by liberal people. To be a liberal or a conservative is actually a psychological-personality trait depending on Openness- one of the BIG 5. It may even be rooted in biology of immunity though there isn’t as much concrete evidence to pass the final judgement.

Second, there are no ‘liberals’ in politics of India but shades of communists and opportunistic people in my opinion. For instance, a party which supports the doctrine of ‘reservations’ can never be classified as liberal in actual sense but communist for it is a policy born out of Marxist notion of ‘Privilege’ and ‘Oppressed’. Postmodernism mixed this notion into Feminism, Liberalism (which is Social Liberalism), Economics, Sociology, etc.

Third, Narendra Modi is the ‘rightful’ leader of the country called India as its Prime Minister.

2. “Maybe that’s why liberals take it particularly personally when she falters or takes a misstep – something she’s been doing a lot recently.”

Here, the question arises, “Who decides what is a misstep?” A person who walks or others who just know how to shame the people who don’t walk like them? This notion of being at some high pedestal of knowledge and owner of it, is a trademark of modern liberalism. No wonder it’s losing its charm.

3. “This comes after a series of discomfiting behaviours from her, like when she laughed along with Jim Sarbh’s rape jokes, or when she refused to support a campaign for fellow star Deepika Padukone. The reiterated message is fairly clear. Kangana is a feminist, yes, but only for herself.”

First, laughing is a personal choice. Her body, her mouth, her brain, her choice.

Second, “rape jokes are funny, rape is not” as said by Sarah Silverman. In the words of famous stand-up comedian, George Carlin, “It’s the context that matters, not the words. Words are neutral”. Here’s a link to the video for those who want to watch it and one more to make people realize how liberals and postmodernists took hold over language:

George Carlin on Rape – See, the context matters.
Geroge Carlin on Soft Words

Third, not supporting a campaign? Again, her freedom to choose.

Fourth, isn’t making ‘independent’ the goal of Feminism? Strong and “INDEPENDENT’ Women? You see, the word Independent means being for yourself.

So, in essence what she is espousing here is not ‘independence’ but another form of ‘collectivism’. It’s either that she doesn’t have the intelligence to understand this simple fact or she wants to simply overthrow one form of collectivism- religious and orthodox, which oppresses women in favor of another form of cult oppression under the banner of Feminism. I say, both. Latter being her goal, Former being her trait- which I’ll tell you why in a second.

4. “Feminism, when optimized for quick consumption, loses nuance and the ability to be inter-sectional. In a country like India, any feminism that is not inclusive is incomplete and dangerous. When someone like Kangana shows examples of personal courage, but repeatedly makes contrived statements that serve nothing but her own marketing, she poses a difficult conundrum to anyone looking up to her.”

See that word she used, ‘Inter-sectional’, let me explain why I concluded her to be lacking intelligence. Intersectionality, if applied to its logical end, leaves out an individual. Intersectionality is a philosophy of disintegration-integration. You first disintegrate a person from a big group based on certain traits and then integrate the person into a separate group representing that person’s trait. But if you actually do this for any person to its logical end, it leaves out that person alone. It leaves out an individual alone.

Here’s another way of looking at it. Intersectionality works for excluded people, in a sense that it asks how a person is excluded from a group. So like how a woman is excluded from mankind’s achievements for instance. Now the fun fact is, there is no limit to the excluded individuals in this world. Case being the LGBTQA+ That “+” signifies the infinite nature of excluded categories. The reason being that the category of the excluded is the category of all things that don’t fit in the category, which is an infinite set. So it becomes a mathematical problem of infinite set and hence can be solved mathematically. Now all you have to ask is the question, “How many categories of exclusion do you need to get 1 in a billion?” That means at best you’ll be a group of 8 people, one more addition of the excluded category in that and you are an individual. For those of you who don’t understand what a ‘category’ is, consider this:

  • Women is one category in mankind.
  • Dusky women is another category in mankind and also one category in Women.
  • Fat is one category in mankind [people].
  • Intersection of category Women and Fat People gives you a Fat Women category.
  • Intersection of category Dusky Women and Fat Women gives you another category of Fat-Dusky-Women.

Now the question is, how many Fat-Dusky-Women are there in this world? Each one of them are sets in their own along with all resulting intersectional sets. The mathematical question would be how many categories are needed to get a set with one element representing an individual? So, take the Fat-Dusky-Women and put another category dwarf. Then you get a Fat-Dusky-Dwarf-Women. Ask the same question. How many members are there in this set? And keep on doing it because at the final logical conclusion, you’ll receive an individual.

Here’s some other fun analysis. The number of categories are infinite as well because it all depends on the gradation of your categories. So for example, in the same above category of Fat-Dusky-Dwarf-Women, let’s add the category of AGE. Now you can define this category in:

  • Two Parts – Old and Young.
  • Three Parts – Children, Young Adults, Old Adults.
  • 100 Parts – 1, 2, 3, 4,…., 100.

Now applying the Age intersection in two parts leads to creation of 2 more categories. Applying the three parts leads to creation of 3 more categories. But applying the 100 parts leads to creation of whooping 100 more intersectional category. Remove 18 of them as a woman is defined as a human female above 18 years, and you still get 82 different intersectional categories. How many 18 years old, fat, dusky, dwarf women are there?

Here’s more, and yes it’s the last one. You can further divide the age into 1200 different categories based on months and so on.

Conclusion: In real essence, you only need 6th dimensional differential analysis to bottom down to an individual. Take the set of humankind, differentiate them along 6 highly robust categories and you’ll be down to 1 in a billion, approximately small enough to be called an individual(courtesy of Jordan Peterson). A multi-caste, bisexual, 24 years old, smart, speak 3 languages, rich, and educated woman; the probability that you are one in a billion is approximately 1. Just for your information, the scale of probability is from 0 to 1. Hence, we don’t need intersectionality but already existing individualism which is the logical end of the intersectionality. I prefer Classical Liberalism.

Now let’s look into the idea of Inclusiveness. The notion of inclusion here is based on synthetic unity with underlying philosophy of Western Judio-Christian roots of “othering”. It will always be “US vs THEM”. Who are included in “US”? Those who share your views on any matter to the infinity. That’s your cult. A religious cult. That’s the reason why she didn’t show any inclusion of Kangana’s political opinion or Narendra Modi being a PM of India. She, in her hypocrisy, excluded 31% of Indians who voted for Modi and made him a PM of India – hence “A RIGHTFUL” LEADER of INDIA.

Coming to self-marketing, well in the market economy, it’s good to market yourself. Isn’t she marketting herself continuosly as a FEMINIST or A POET?

5. “For me, as someone who often finds herself tired after a long day of trying to be a better woman and a better feminist, it’s not enough.”

Thanks for clarifying that being a ‘better woman’ and ‘better feminist’ are not synonyms.

6. “When people around the world are putting their hearts, minds, and souls into being better version of themselves, into learning and educating, into pushing the boundaries of inclusion to make the world a safer space for themselves and those less privileged, it’s rankling to know that someone with so much public clout simply doesn’t see the impact her words have on people.”

Allow me to make an argument for her from a completely different perspective but similar in intent to hers to reveal her shallow reflection of oneself.

“When people around the world are putting their hearts, minds, and souls into being a moral citizens of the world, into teaching their kids moral values and ethics, into preserving and honoring the traditions and culture of their nation, to make this world a cultured place for themselves and their children, it’s rankling to know that someone with so much public clout simply doesn’t see the impact her masturbation scene would have on children moral outlook”

In essence, she’s doing the same moral policing like the people liberals or feminists criticize. Let me put it in same language that I have seen people use to shun them, “Morality or Impact ka pura theka tumne hi le rakha hai kya? Live and let live.”

7. “…when someone with her platform brushes away the incredible amount of social discontent and trauma in this country to win a few brownie points, she’s made herself complicit in the status quo. She’s made it known that her platform, her privilege and her clout will serve only herself, and if we hope to find some kinship and solidarity with her, it’s only going to be one-sided.”

Incredible amount of social discontent and trauma? Where? In Leftist Lit Fests?

George Orwell, a socialist himself, in his book, “Road to Wagon Pier”, said, “Socialist don’t love the poor, but hate the rich”. I love this quote as it explains her, and those like her, mental condition; so well and in such brilliant articulated words. If Kangana Ranaut would be just some girl who had given up or didn’t make it to her self-made platform, privilege, and status, she would be using her, like she is using the victims of social abuse to score brownie points on her feminism, to make her advancement to becoming a millionare or billionare in order to fight for those type of poor girls/women. But the moment she earned her platform, her privilege, and her status all by her own without needed lovers of poor and downtrodden oppressed people like the author of this piece, she fell off of the pedestal.

8. “This isn’t the first woke icon falling off her pedestal. She won’t be the last. The past few years have been a series of stark, uncomfortable realisations that most hashtag-friendly people we know, well, aren’t quite woke. From Aziz Ansari’s sexual misconduct, to Kanye’s Trump love, to Jim Sarbh’s rape jokes, to the tragic creative downfall of Nawazuddin Siddique – our heroes aren’t really heroic. And that hurts.”

True. This isn’t the first icon who got shamed by the liberals for expressing their viewpoint and this isn’t going to be the last. The past few years and even before that, the likes of Ramdev, Subramanyan Swami, Rajiv Malhotra, Nawazuddin Siddique etc. they haven’t left anyone who doesn’t walk the path they want them to walk like a robot because a robot which doesn’t walk how its master wants it to walk is obviously taking a ‘misstep’.

9. “But for those of us who are feeling let down by her, coping with such betrayals isn’t easy.”

Betrayal? That happens when you are in the same team. Did she ever ask her whether she is in the same team as her? And who appointed her and others like her to represent that team? Privilege much? Cause last time, I didn’t see any voting system set up by any person to ask the 1.3 billion Indians to choose their icons on feminism, liberalism, etc. At least the “Rightful” Leader of this Country was chosen by the majority of its population to be the Prime Minister.

10. “Harnidh Kaur is a poet.”

Thanks for not ‘selfishly marketing yourself’! But really thanks for telling me who you are, I wouldn’t have heard about you otherwise.

Why this war-cry Mamata Didi?

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Why this war-cry Mamata Didi?

The war cry of Mamata Banerjee, the Honourable Chief Minister of West Bengal over NRC draft report and her aggression to preserve the vote bank politics by compromising national security looks not only bizarre but is also dangerous to our country. Politics of appeasement appears to have hijacked the interest of our nation and the opposition parties are interested only in power and not in the welfare or development of the country.

To the question of who would be the prime ministerial candidate of the united opposition in 2019, TMC leader’s answer was quite curious and amusing. She wants to win first and only then they would decide who would fit the bill of PM. More than winning, the opposition wants to stop Modiji coming back to power in 2019.

They fear Modiji the most because Modiji is cleaning the political system, giving no room for the corrupt Netas to amok the country. The opportunity for the dynasty politics and politics of nepotism is also getting squeezed out from India. It means if Modiji comes back to power again in 2019, India may emerge as super power and the chance for all those fringe players to divide and torment the country and run vote bank politics shall come to an end. It looks like the opposition parties have more reason to worry than celebrate when India develops and every Indian prosper. It is the problem of the livelihood of all those fringe players that had made them to gang together and beat the drum of civil war.

The primary and fundamental responsibility of every country is to protect its citizens. In that respect India is for Indians and not for infiltrators. The infiltrators in Assam have made several part of Assam as their hostages and had declared in the past as Friday holiday and not Sunday. Congress party was extending its tactical support to some religious leaders to amok the democracy of India for vote bank politics. When Modiji came to power, he envisioned the vision of one India, development, Sab Ka Vikas, New India, and many more. Neither minority nor majority politics was entertained by Modiji.

Certain attempts were made by the BJP government to achieve the cultural renaissance in the country. Our country was known for a great heritage, culture and tradition. The family politics played by the age old party has changed the narratives and history of the country and converted India as their family property. Therefore reviving our ancient tradition for the present generation is needed to infuse socio-spiritual balance in the system. The degradation of such value has infiltrated our society and as a result the family values are eroding and diminishing.

Modiji is not a politician but a global leader par visionary. Modiji is a sage, a saint and mendicant.

Modiji is like Swami Vivekananda who wants to awake India to a new level of development where the definition of development shall not limit to mere materialistic level but spiritual as well where human values are included in the development capsule.

But for the opposition parties India should never grow and prosper. India should remain, fragmented, poor and caste and community driven so that each political party can share their power out of such confusion.

The opposition parties never want to infuse confidence and courage to the nation but want to sell fear and scare to different communities.  The opposition wants to create unrest and destroy the philosophy of one India and instead they want to fragment India into different regions based on language and culture. Through such division, the regional parties want to run their livelihood where the country shall remain impoverished forever.

Modiji came with a clear prescription and treatment which has shocked several fringe players. The great dynasty has been thoroughly exposed of its politics and Modiji has made the age old party to kneel before the fringe players to be relevant.

People of India must recognise the importance of NRC and how such initiative would help us to build New India. People of India must recognise the hidden agenda of the opposition parties to tag the effort of the government on the infiltrators as anti-minority mission of BJP. The NRC is all about infiltrators and unlawful immigrants from our neighbouring country. Since our neighbouring countries are largely Islamic states, large number of infiltrators are naturally belongs to a particular religion. But because the infiltrators belong to a minority religion, no action should be taken is quite strange and bizarre. The mission of the opposition parties is to use such infiltrators as vote bank and destroy the country.

People of India have matured and will certainly teach a tough lesson to all those fringe players.

People must pledge their unconditional solidarity to Modiji and must give massive majority for Modiji in 2019.

Current Assam-NRC and its historical development

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Current Assam-NRC and its historical development

Assam undertook the much discussed NRC exercise in September 2015 and published the first draft with names of 19 million people, on December 31 last year. The second draft for the remaining 13.9 million people was scheduled to be published on July 30. As per schedule, it was published in Assam, identifying 2,89,83,677 people as valid citizens of India. A total 3,29,91,384 people had applied to become part of the NRC, officials said today. More than 40 lakh people were found to be invalid citizens of India.

To apply for inclusion in the NRC, one’s name or one’s ancestor’s name must be in the 1951 NRC or in any voter list up to the midnight of March 24, 1971, the cut-off date agreed upon. Exclusion from the final NRC does not mean automatic declaration of anyone as foreigner and once the final document is published, if someone is dissatisfied, he or she can always go to a foreigners’ tribunal in the state to get justice. There are around 300 foreigners’ tribunals in Assam.

Further, the Supreme Court has now directed that there must be no coercion to those not in the register.

The problem of illegal immigration from erstwhile East Pakistan and now Bangladesh started from Partition days and still persists over whole of North East including Assam and even West Bengal. Assam has been impacted the most and therefore the current steps towards identification of illegal immigrants are only to be welcomed particularly since it is being monitored by the Supreme Court. Only the implementation process has to be painless. Further, we need a sensible policy that focuses on sending back hardcore illegals, while absorbing the long-resident refugees from East Pakistan/Bangladesh with temporary work permits. These can be converted to citizenship and permanent residency over time.

The competing ethnic nationalism of Assam, which gave rise to armed insurgencies, have always been defined by fears about “demographic change” and indigenous homelands being “swamped” by outsiders. In realty, the Assamese don’t want too many non-Assamese in Assam because they say that their ethnicity originating from the Ahoms is trod upon in the process. However, their claim to hegemony in whole of Assam is contestable, if we examine the issue historically.

The Burmese ceded Assam to the British on 24th February 1826 as per the treaty of Yandabo, thus bringing to an end Ahom rule in Assam which had begun sometime in the 13th century. The British annexed Assam and placed it as an administrative unit of the Bengal Province. At that time Assam valley was only 15248 sq km. The area increased through annexations of some neighbouring areas as given below, to 78440 sq km.

To elaborate, the British annexed Kachari kingdom in 1832. In 1833, the Ahom prince Purandar Singha was made a tributary ruler in Upper Assam. But, the British authorities annexed his kingdom in 1838. With the annexation of the Maran territory in the east in 1839, the annexation of Assam was complete. In 1835, the kingdom of Jaintia was annexed. In 1842, the region of Matak and Sadiya was annexed and in 1854, the North Cachar Hill district was also annexed into British Empire, thereby completing their conquest and consolidation of their rule in Assam.

In 1874, the Assam region was separated from the Bengal Presidency, Sylhet was added to it. Goalpara was annexed to Assam in 1874. The people of Sylhet, Goalpara, Kamrup and the Hills protested the inclusion in Assam and now the Hills have moved out of Assam.

Therefore, it appears that the Assamese whose lineage goes back to Ahoms can’t claim hegemony over the whole of present Assam including the annexed parts or claim it as their exclusive homeland. At the least, Kamrup, Goalpara and Cachar can and may legitimately claim their distinctive identities in their districts; their ethnicity will have to be recognized. They only can determine the rules of citizenship in their areas.

The writer is a commentator and an author.

Here is why Congress should lose 2019 for its own good

Anant Chetan
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Here is why Congress should lose 2019 for its own good

The Indian General Election next year in 2019 will not just be an election to choose a particular party but would have deeper and far reaching consequences on the nation and its policies. Although there are a total of seven national parties but the government will be formed either with Indian National Congress (INC) or Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP)  dominating the coalition, if it will be a coalition government. There is nothing new with this, as it has been the case for past few decades. The point to ponder is the health and stature of India’s two big National parties: Congress and BJP.

The political landscape in India is looking much like the one which prevailed for few decades just after independence; a weak spineless opposition with no clear ideology or modus of operandie. Any individual or party who is against BJP should join hands with Congress is neither an ideology nor a framework.

Congress, India’s oldest party has relied heavily on three major pillars; the name “Gandhi”, the freedom struggle and the vote banks (polarization politics in the name of castes and religion). They have done a lot of interior designing during the course of time to their old building but have lingered to redesign the building itself. The establishment needs a new architecture and not just a new facade. Just once in Indian politics, a person with a different narrative (Gujarat Model) came and all of a sudden “Gandhi” Ji vanished substantially from both the “pockets” and the “politics”. Regardless of the veracity of the model, it does portray a different mindset with which the election was approached. The success of the narrative certainly proves that two out of the three pillars have weakened considerably.

There are a lot of things changed in past few decades which lead to the weakening of those two pillars. First and the foremost, before 1980s Congress was winning a race in which it was the only qualified strong runner, rest others had no clue about what they were doing. In other words, they were behaving like today’s Congress. A Second truly national party started taking shape in the 1980s and since then barring the 1984 election Congress lost its supremacy.  Second, people by now know that Congress was not the sole participant in the freedom struggle. There were other people as well who made sacrifices and fought for the country. Thirdly, Just after independence, the villain was the British, people were terrified by what they had gone through during and prior to independence struggle.  There are not many voters today who were born before independence who still have sour memories of that period. Britain is not the villain for today’s generation, on the contrary, an indecisive, incompetent and corrupt government is.

BJP, on the other hand, has restructured itself several times and had even faced a lot of humiliating election results, but none the less the party improved and has a firm ideology and a framework to work on. Merit is taking precedence in the party. They learned a few tricks from Congress as well, one of them being, snatching more number of seats with the same vote share. This was the trick Congress party used in 2004 to form the government, the vote share was almost the same as in 1999 but the number of seats won was more.

Evolution is the rule of nature, anything that cannot adapt or evolve dies. King Kong, The giant ape (Gigantopithecus) became extinct due to its inability to adapt. It is high time and the best possible time (the party is already in poor condition) that the party changes and adapts to the new normal. Otherwise, Mr. Modi’s statement “Congress Mukt Bharat” is going to become a harsh reality. The party’s current status is not endangered or vulnerable, it is critically endangered. It is not far when the status would change to Extinct in the Wild (EW) or Extinct.

Congress should either fight the election on its own, face the humiliation and then change its operating principles or let go of this one general election and invest all the time, energy and resource for creating a new, better and a functional party. Maybe Congress gets to a respectable place before the general elections in 2024. They need to get some sort of system in place, the sooner they do it the better it is for them. They could take a leaf from BJP’s Mr. Modi’s booklet, make a model bigger and brighter than Gujarat Model. It seems a better way to improve the image of the party. The party getting obsolete from Indian Politics would be bad not only for them but also for the nation and BJP, because there would be no check whatsoever. A successful democracy needs at least two fundamentally strong national parties.

As of today, it is conspicuous that the Congress is using its third pillar (divisive vote bank politics) along with borrowed pillars in the form of regional parties to survive. The regional parties like SP, BSP, TMC etc. wish for a dominant position in the government but have completely failed to establish themselves in states other than the states they have their solid vote banks. These parties become part of the coalition government, paralyze the government with their demands and needs and at the end country pays the price because of the indecisive government which is not able to take difficult but mandatory steps. The party might in best case scenario survive like this, but to what end? The government that would be formed would be like the UPA or UPA2, even with some smart individuals in the government the fate of the nation would perish again. Sooner or later, the weak structure will fall. India cannot afford another stint of a government with shackles of a coalition. The country needs a number of socio-economic reforms. Only a government which has clear mandate would be in a position of making the required effort.

If a group of people or a political party has become so power hungry that they cannot see the impact of their actions on the nation, Indian voters should at least understand the significance and true potential of their voting rights.

Please visit Infinite Sea Of Opportunities  for more similar views and feel free to let me know your opinions about the same. Thank you for taking out time for reading this.

Facebook blocks user for non-abusive and reasonable reply to a hate mongering post by ‘Humans Of Hindutva’

Aniruddh Desai
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Facebook blocks user for non-abusive and reasonable reply to a hate mongering post by ‘Humans Of Hindutva’

“In the times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. If liberty and freedom means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” – George Orwell

In today’s times this quote of George Orwell makes utmost sense when being related to Islam, Left, Neo-Liberalism and their respective champions. If you are on the Right or even Centre-Right side of the political spectrum you can relate this quote with positions taken by these champions I mentioned above. Apologias given by Leftists in defence of Militant Islam deceives Neo-Liberals who are, generally, being nurtured in such an atmosphere where they are being taught certain things by people with certain political ideology.

These students then make up their worldviews based on whatsoever is being served on the platter by these people. They hardly try to think beyond what’s being taught. Which makes them profoundly biased towards certain religion and its customs. They made to feel inferior to Westerners. And in bid to show themselves progressive, they start believing that everything which is native is dystopian, like institution of arranged marriage or other religious customs, no matter even if there’s science in it.

The post by Humans of Hindutva to which a response was given

I have had a similar experience. There is a Facebook page named ‘Humans Of Hindutva’. Irony is that what you find on this page is venomous posts mocking and abusing Hinduism, Hindus, BJP and RSS. Administrator of this page seems to be a person I talked about in above paragraph.

There was a post by him/her in which he/she said Hindus are ‘jealous and insecure of Muslim men marrying Hindu women‘. And out of this jealousy Hindus have coined terms like Love Jihad. Hindus are hateful of ‘True Love’ because entire life of Hindu Males is arranged by their parents. All that he/she further conveyed is that Hindu Institution of Marriage is all about dowry and Gotras. This is said by a person who is calling Hindu males hateful, irony.

I couldn’t resist my rage. I had to retort. So I made a comment. I retorted him by saying that it is better to have influence of parents in our lives because parents never wish bad for their children. I said – as I thought the person in opposition is very fond of Islam, that – it is better to live under the shadow of parents than, being dictated by a person with ambivalent character worshiped as prophet ; being remote controlled by a book which has no authentication and being ruled by a medieval draconian law which orders its followers to beat up women.

I said it is not the jealousy for Muslims but fear for our girls that makes us scared of letting our girls marry a Muslim. Fear that she doesn’t have to wear Burqa, fear that she doesn’t have to share her husband with several other women, fear that she doesn’t get divorced for switching off fan while her husband was sleeping, fear that she doesn’t have to sleep with her father-in-law or brother-in-law as a part of reconciliation with her husband under Islamic laws and fear that she doesn’t have to bear a dozen children out of which half of them would die because of malnutrition.

Facebook can’t tolerate bitter truth?

My comments must have enraged him/her to such an extent that that person first blocked me from commenting on the said page. And then reported one of my old post, in which I wrote about how a Kafir or Non-Muslim land is converted into Islamic one, that led me to a one day ouster from Facebook.

Now let me come back to George Orwell. This incident reminded me of George Orwell’s quote I mentioned in first paragraph.

Nowadays when Militant Islam is being promulgated universally as a Religion Of Peace, terrorists who are on killing spree derives their inspiration from the same holy book apologists of Militant Islam defends, isn’t it deceitful ? When I tried to show the champion of Islam a mirror by putting truths, all he/she could do is block me from commenting. My right to tell him/her what they didn’t want to hear was snatched by Facebook which sermons about freedom of free speech. It has come into notice a long time back that Facebook is also biased towards voices who are critical of Islam, Left and self proclaimed Liberals. While this same Facebook seems to be in cohesion with people who abuse women who have opposite worldview than theirs.

So, in this time when Islam, Left and Liberals are in nexus globally controlling mediums of mass manipulation like film industry or media, unveiling the Burqa of a so called Peaceful Religion, Hateful Violent and Globally Failed Ideology and double standards of a so called Liberal Society is a Revolutionary Act. If Facebook claims to be unbiased, it must ensure my fundamental right of free speech. Unfortunately it has failed me once.

NDTV’s spin to recent NRC issue

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NDTV’s spin to recent NRC issue

NDTV which recently accused Postcard news of being “Fake news factory”, misquotes the Chief Election Commissioner OP Rawat to peddle its own agenda. This time though the consequences may not just be as simple as public outrage. NRC Assam being most talked about topic in India, NDTV decided to warp the statements of Chief Election Commissioner as saying that the 4 million declared as non citizens would get their chance to vote in 2019 India’s general elections.

“Those left out of the Assam citizen’s list can vote if their names are in the voter’s list and they fulfill all conditions. The Election Commission will publish a voter list in January and will not wait for the final NRC,” Chief Election Commissioner OP Rawat told NDTV. “Nothing changes now,” he said, adding that the election panel is coordinating with the NRC. A snapshot of the original NDTV article reported by A Vaidyanathan, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh

In the above mentioned quote all the condition include being Indian citizen, above 18 of age, and under normal conditions a resident of the place where the person is intending to be a voter (quoted from the CEC interview to CNNnews18).

But according to NDTV, NRC Assam’s list is the only draft and that those illegals may still have their voting powers. But just 24hr ago TMC supremo West Bengal CM Mamatha Banerjee had quoted saying, “They are trying to divide people. There will be bloodbath and civil war in the country”.

Just after a day West Bengal CM threatening possibility of a civil war, NDTV has been caught trying to add acceleration to already volatile situation of Assam.

Is this just inciting a riot or is this just first step helping political parties lobbying for Rohingya epidemic to make an argument keep their vote banks alive?

For Modiji India comes first not politics: Learn from NRC

S Ranganathan
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For Modiji India comes first not politics: Learn from NRC

The release of the draft report of NRC (National Registry of Citizens) of Assam by the Government of Assam needs to be appreciated by all because all unlawful immigrants must be differentiated from Indian citizens to ensure national security. Modiji has shown the way that India is for Indians and not for those fringe political parties to play vote bank politics and politics of appeasement.

Some political parties are cleaver in creating pool of immigrants for vote bank politics. But considering the importance of national security, NRC must be done for all those states that are easily infiltrated by unlawful immigrants.

Some opposition parties are playing the skirmish by misinterpreting the intent and spirit of NRC and it is a move against certain community. Indian Muslims are different from unlawful infiltrators from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan and the NRC initiative is all about dealing the unlawful infiltrators. But the opposition parties are misguiding the society and people of certain community and creating fear psychosis to divide India.

The government headed by Modiji is not only brave but also is committed to complete the process of NRC in Assam. The NRC was duly monitored by Honourable Supreme Court of India. Several political parties have been playing politics over immigrants for vote and the recent draft report of NRC would hamper their poll prospects in future. Naturally such political parties have more reason to worry, cry and shout in parliament and take India for a ride.

In the state of West Bengal also such exercise must be done to ensure the interest of citizens of India is protected and internal security is ensured.

Already the Government of Assam and Government of India under Modiji have assured the people of Assam that the rights of all the lawful citizens of Assam will be protected and if their names are not there in the first draft list. All such details will be looked into and after verification of all documents the necessary corrective action will be taken.  Until such process is competed not deportation or legal action would be initiated against anyone. But the opposition parties want to engage in scare monger so that they can create unnecessary unrest in the country.

The opposition parties have tried their best to hijack the parliament session through a non-confidence motion with the presumption that the Government may delay the confidence motion. But the opposition parties were hurt and disappointed for the fact that their mission did not succeed. Even in 2019 also their mission will not meet success.  When the opposition parties got thoroughly exposed in parliament they were looking for different ways and means to stall the parliament and now they are using NRC to create havoc and unrest in the country.

People of India are wise and can understand why TMC is jittery and making war cry. Modiji has simply followed only the Assam accord signed by the then Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi of congress way back in 1985. Congress has never done anything on its promise it had made to people of Assam during its long 15 or more years of rule possibly due to vote bank politics. Vote bank politics and minority appeasement become more important for all these political parties than national security. But for Modiji, India and India shall remain first and only then politics.

People of India, especially the youths must differentiate the trueness of Modiji versus lie sellers and those who make war cry over NRC.

Modiji is the leader of action and decision and not promise and rhetoric. Modiji is the messiah of development and not the merchant of fear psychosis.

On the issue of politics versus governance, Modiji has always chosen governance and development of India than vote bank politics and minority appeasement.

India must stay together and united with Modiji to build New India and Sab Ka Vikas. The organized and well-orchestrated game plan of some opposition parties to derail the agenda of development and Sab Ka Vikas must be defeated at any cost. People of India should never fall victim to dynasty politics or negative politics of the opposition parties and instead must pledge their unconditional support to Modiji.

People must recognize the absolute truth that if Modiji wins, India wins. The victory of Modiji in 2019 is more needed for India than for Modiji. Soon in West Bengal also government must enroll the people into NRC to ensure citizens’ rights are protected and also national security is achieved.  Those Hindus who suffered religious persecution from various Islamic countries must also be protected.

ASI finds relics dated 1800-2000 BC in UP, could belong to ‘Mahabharata-era’: The leftists cry foul once again

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ASI finds relics dated 1800-2000 BC in UP, could belong to ‘Mahabharata-era’: The leftists cry foul once again

In the month of June 2018, the Archeological survey of India had found some Chariots relics belonging to Mahabharata epic era in Bhagpat, UP during an excavation operation. This sensational discovery had hit the media and the Hindu heritage buffs were naturally pushed into celebration mode. Within a couple of day’s of this discovery, I had expressed my conviction that these Chariot relics could very well be of Mahabharata Age.

My conviction was then based on some strong evidence, like the artifacts that were recovered from the site, and the site’s proximity to the other famous Mahabharata era places as described in the epic itself. Now the news is that these relics were shifted to Red Fort, Delhi and a huge and in-depth study is being undertaken by the ASI as well as some experts. The outcome of this study, which has been discussed with the media by the ASI officials on 30th July 2018, is highly gratifying.
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The Director of Institute of Archeology, Delhi Sri Sanjay Manjul said these new findings and artifacts could give a new dimension to India’s past. He further informed that this was the first time ‘Chariots’ relics were found in the entire Asian region. He further confirmed the fact that only in Greece and Mesopotamia, Chariots were found earlier. From this angle, this discovery of chariots in Bhagpat India has attained an immense importance in the world of archaeology. These findings, in fact, is going in conformity with the Hindus greatest Epic Mahabharata’, as last year the believers of Epic Ramayana got a shot in their arms when NASA vouched for the fact that the Ramasethu’ was a man-made bridge and its historicity pushed back to thousands of years in BCE.

The highlights of the Sunauli Bhagpat excavation are:

For the first time, an antenna sword was found. Many swords found with hilt design. The Coffins have four legs with copper leaf designs engrossed over it. In total 8 burial pits were found and in one pit, a pair of twins with a dog were recovered. These pits were plotted with food items, gold, beads etc.

The Director has confirmed the fact that the burial sepultures, were found to be more elaborate than the ones found in Lothal and Rakhigarhi.

In my view, this is an important observation as, till today it is believed that the site at Bhagpat would belong to ‘mature age period of IVC, as it was generally and logically believed that the IVC sites in the western region of India must be earlier ones, and when the nomads were moving towards east of India (may be influenced by the dead theory of ‘Aryan invasion’) they believed the sites around Bhagpat are of late mature period of IVC.

Due to the high significance of the findings in Bhagpat, an elaborate scientific scanning is being undertaken on the artifacts. X-ray, in-suit CT scan, Infrared photography were all employed for the first time to analyse the burial sites. Further DNA tests would reveal in finality, who the inhabitants were. Metallurgical tests on the metal artifacts are too undertaken. Soil samples from the cloth shreds, broken pottery were undertaken to find out the peoples farming and food standards.

Finally, Paleobotanists were also on the site to examine the remains of plants for biological reconstruction of the site that existed 3000 yrs ago.

This site in Bhagpat is encircled by many Mahabharat sites like Bijnor, Panipat, and Sonipat. If we go back to the great Mahabharat epic time, Bhagpat, Sonipat and Panipat were three of 5 towns that Pandavas did demand from Kauravas during truce talks. Bijnor is the city belongs to Pandit Vidhur. There is a Kutir right now in Bijnor known as Vidhur Kutir. Hastinapur, Kurukshetra at 40 km from Ambala, Banganga Kurukshetra near Kurukshetra where Bhisma fell on a bed of arrows, Varnavat just 35 km from Bhagpat, where Kauravas built the famous Vax Palace to kill Pandavas.

The trustworthy aspect of our Mahabharat and Ramayan is the description of geographical areas of the time, which perfectly match with the present topography, mostly tallying with the present names of towns in existence today.

While I was excited about these findings and eager to hear more such discovery of Mahabharat time Palaces this time, like the Maya Sabha palace etc, our Tukde Tukde gang were much worried about these findings day by day. The Print last month (June 2018) covered the Bhagpat findings and almost cried foul, in a typical Leftist- sadist note. The Print interviewed a research student from JNU, where she debunked these findings as false and the Chariot, in fact, could be a bullock cart and did cast aspersions on the very ASI hinting they may be lying about the findings only to hype the Hindutva sentiments.

Ruchika Sharma, a history doctoral scholar at JNU, says the ASI has to clarify its findings. “We should first obtain clarity on why ASI is calling them chariots. It isn’t uncommon for a late Harappan site to have bullock carts. There is already evidence of such terracotta carts,” she said. ASI has a tendency to colour their discoveries through the lens of Hindutva. They had earlier interpreted female figures as ‘mother goddesses’, even though there was no evidence to suggest it.”

This is the height of hypocrisy and cynicism on the part our liberals.

I am sure in any other country, the news of such findings would have hit the front page headlines, and the whole nation would be celebrating in ecstasy, yet for Indian media, it is the moment for grief and vexation.

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