"Attacker" Wrong. Sardesai Wrong And Worse.

I heard about Rajdeep Sardesai attacked by an NRI in New York. My first reaction was that it was wrong. Journalists, good or bad should not be touched. That is the first rule of a free society and a democracy. Violence must and can never be the way to express your point of view. It is not the Hindu way. VIOLENCE AGAINST JOURNALISTS SHOULD BE SHUNNED AT ALL COSTS.

Then I saw the video of the entire event. It started off as a heated argument with two Indian men. Nothing wrong with that. It still is a free exchange of views. But then out of the blue, Sardesai uses a profanity and lunges at the NRI. It was shocking to see that the “attacker” was actually the victim. It should not have been be shocking knowing the violent proclivities of leftists like Sardesai who want to be right no matter what the cost.

After watching the video, I must say that the moment Sardesai lunged at the NRI, he ceased to be a responsible journalist and became a leftist goon in the vein of the CPI or Trinamool or SP or BSP goons / “gundas”. After that all bets are off. I am happy to see that fellow NRIs did not join in and beat the daylights out of Sardesai in a fit of anger. Good show guys!! We are proud of the NRI’s showing this kind of restraint.

There is a bigger issue at work here. The typical Indian English media maven will sell themselves to the highest bidder and if shortchanged, will shamelessly use the bully pulpit i.e. yelling and screaming and try to shame their customer in public to get what they want. Sardesai and his entire ilk hold everyone who disagrees with them in pathetically low esteem. If you are a conservative Hindu nationalist who cannot speak fluent English then you really are down on their list with drug dealers and pimps; even lower than terrorists (you can guess why). What my venting indicates is that their behavior is infuriating. You really want to tear this bastard into pieces but you must control your anger. You must find another outlet to express your point of view. VIOLENCE MUST BE SHUNNED AT ALL COSTS. If you really want to punish the left wing media, then stop watching their TV shows. Lower TRPs will destroy these irresponsible journalists.

Going back to the event in Manhattan, you can see that despite of being the aggressor, this wretch managed to manipulate things and project himself as the victim. He has the media and fellow irresponsible wretches in the Editors Guild who were only too quick to jump to this man’s defence. The NRI who is just a common man has no one to back and support him. We are all helpless at the hands of these mass manipulators yelling lies on TV. Bleak, isn’t it? Not really.

We have gotten our revenge on every single pimp in the Indian media. They ran a systematic campaign to destroy Narendra Modi for over a decade, left no stone unturned to deny him the top job. And yet, we Indian went and voted for the man and won him the seat in an overwhelming margin. And if that were not enough, we can clearly see that Modi has shown media their real place in Indian polity - under the voter's shoe.

Q: CAN THERE BE A HARDER, MORE VISCIOUS SLAP ON RAJDEEP SARDESAI AND HIS ILK THAN NARENDRA MODI IN PM’s CHAIR?
A: NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dear fellow Indians. I beg of you. Do not get angry and take matters in your own hands. We have the right man in PM’s chair who knows exactly how to handle Sardesai and his ilk. Work hard to ensure Modi’s success – now and in future. Ensure that BJP wins every forthcoming election. That would be our revenge on the criminally biased leftist English language media in India and every left wing thug who has made you feel small and helpless. Let your effort and vote do the slapping not your hand.

Modi Needs To Revamp His Cabinet

Modi Sarkar completed 100 days a while ago. People from both sides are evaluating the performance with predictable results. Two things do not set well with me with the 100 day evaluation.

First of all, this is not a movie where one can ascribe a Rupee figure and evaluate “Hit or Flop”. 100 day evaluation is something that is done in the west. In India other than providing the talking heads a topic to rant or rave, it does precious little. This brings me to the second point. In India, the moment the government machinery gets involved with all the babus in fray, things move at a glacier like speed. Getting anything done in 100 days is a miracle which is beyond even a miracle worker like Modi. However, one can get a sense of the direction of the government by the decisions taken. Most decisions taken so far are the kind which will any kinds of dividends any time soon.

So what DO I make of the government’s performance so far? Clearly Modi himself has changed the ways in which our government works. He has a vision which is evident in the “macro-decisions”. He is getting India involved in major deals with the three biggest economies in the world and that is in just over three months. Clearly he is as different from his predecessors as night and day. However he has come to the center from a high performing state and thus is going through a learning curve – clearly leading Gujarat and India are two different tasks. What we were hoping was that the cabinet he chooses will ease that learning curve and Delhi insiders like Jaitley, Swaraj and Rajnath Singh will do the heavy lifting thereby freeing some time for Modi to focus on governance. It is at this point that things start to become murky.

Rajnath Singh’s tenure so far has proven to be a damp squib. No key decisions have been made since he took over the all-important ministry. This is what NV Subramanian says about him:

Hitting a low, he has been identified with the chauvinistic pro-Hindi drive of his government which will end up destroying goodwill for it across the country, but is that all Rajnath Singh stands for as home minister Rajnath Singh shows no pride and does not have the bearing of a home minister. Now newspaper reports say Singh has been cut out of the appointment process of senior officials.

Arun Jaitley who has lost the only election he contested has shown only one talent – being at the right place at the right time and identifying Modi’s ascending star. He has positioned himself in getting not one but two plum ministries. This for a man who has no public or party worker support (how can lower level party worked support and respect a man who has never won an election?) and is in such terrible shape that he cannot stand for more than 30 min. He clearly suffers from every disease known to affect the super-rich. This is what NV Subramanian says about his first budget:

Arun Jaitley’s first budget was thunderously underwhelming. People inside government say Modi had little hand in the budget apart from making suggestions here and there because he did not want to cramp Jaitley’s independence. Very likely, he was testing his minister of finance. Whatever the prime minister’s verdict, the country was far from being satisfied. It reflected in comments that it was a “UPA-3” budget which might as well have been presented by Chidambaram. Smug Chidambaram said the same.

Not only has he presented a lackluster budget but also failed to rein in food prices. I do not know under whose purview the price control falls but it has to be under Finance or Home (bringing the hoarders to justice) but clearly these two men have utterly failed in price control and thus earned the sole black mark against the Modi government so far. Of course only Narendra Bhai knows why a seldom performing minister like Jaitley is handling two very important ministries.

The lesser said about Swaraj, the better it is. The woman who, after failing at every attempt to scuttle the good ship Modi, demanded a “samman janak” ministry. Right now she is no more than a glorified bureaucrat with Modi doing all the heavy lifting. Of course making deals with the three biggest economies is a task too important to be left with a person who could not rule Delhi effectively.

When Modi took office, he had to make compromises in doling out ministries. Pressures from RSS and Delhi establishment would have been too much to bear for a man who was a newcomer to the cesspool known as New Delhi. He is repeating what he did when he became a new CM – learn the ropes from people in the know. This is why he selected a number of people from the Vivekananda Foundation. These are people whose ability and patriotism are beyond reproach. The same cannot be said about his ministry because he had to select people from a certain pool of elected and selected (by RSS and Delhi establishment) people. Unfortunately, Modi does not have the luxury of a gradual learning curve. He has a learn fast, act soon and show immediate results so he can lay a claim to a much needed and an essential second term.

If you read an article by NV Subramanian, Modi is surrounded by people whose lives have been altered; whose morals have been questioned; whose hitherto pathetic work ethics streamlined with Modi’s own; whose easygoing lifestyles of entitlements challenged and changed. These are powerful people who are not going to give up the fight easily. Modi is up to the challenge as we saw during his tenure in Gujarat. However, he needs performers and people he can trust – the sort he had in Gujarat.

Modi needs to revamp his cabinet. He is firmly ensconced in the PM’s chair and has given his cabinet enough opportunity to show, if not results then vision and direction. His mid level ministers (the ones with less than samman-janak portfolios) have responded very well. Modi needs to identify the snake in the grass babus and non-performing ministers in his government and weed them out before they become millstones around his neck. Clearly Jaitley (who is just one of them) with his ongoing health issues need to take leave and enjoy his crores and leave governance to people who know how. Now that sacrifice would be patriotic and endear him to people like me. If he and others like him do not leave with dignity then they need to be dragged out screaming. Otherwise Modi can forget about his second term.

NV Subramanian’s article on evaluating ministers can be read at:
http://newsinsight.net/TeamModi-4..aspx#page=page-1

NVS’ article on the chakravyuh around Modi can be read at:

http://newsinsight.net/Aheadofthegame.aspx#page=page-1

Dear Brits: Indians And Pakistanis Are Different.

We write after the Scottish vote on freedom from England. You may think that all is well in the Queen’s backyard. Hardly so. The Brits may be loath to admit it but some of their decisions made in the past are coming back to haunt them in the worst possible ways. As victims of their brutality, we could not care less about those chickens coming to roost but when it affects us or our names we do care. I will explain.

If you understand the concept of “Hum-kitaab” you can understand the mutual respect between Muslims and Christians. “Hum-kitaab” refers to overlap between Bible and Quran. No such overlap exists between Hinduism and those religions which would explain constant mistrust rather than mutual respect between the west and India. While it did not erase it, some of the mutual respect between Christians and Muslims evaporated in the aftermath of the 9/11 carnage.

It is quite amazing that despite of repeated proofs of the peace loving nature of Hinduism we are still looked upon as some sort of brain washed cult followers. On the flip side despite well-established penchant for violence demonstrated by Muslims, they continue to find favors with the west. In fact if it was not for Israel and the anti-Jewish violence and hatred demonstrated by the Muslims we would be deeper waters.

The history of raj days especially that of British dealings with Hindus and Muslims and eventually India and Pakistan depends a lot on whom you listen to. Muslims / pakis / Indian liberals will tell you one story while the nationalists will tell you another. Being a nationalist myself, I tend to believe the latter. While their version of history can be debated, the results of their version is there for all to see.

Of course if you go back in our History, it is quite obvious that the British preferred dealing with Muslims. It clearly went beyond their “divide and rule” policy. It could have been due to their familiarity with Islam. If we look at the goings on during the partition, it is clear that the British thought that a Muslims Pakistan would be a better bulwark against spread of communism. They conveyed this to the American who then went to ally with the pakis. This alliance was so precious to them that they chose not to tell Nehru about the impending attack by the Pakistani army on J&K which resulted on the loss of huge amount of land in J&K to Pakistanis who then went and gifted some of it to the Chinese. Clear case of Pakistan over India. Go a decade ahead and you will see another blunder by the Brits. When cloth mill workers were needed in England then chose to import all those workers from Pakistan (current day accounts say that Indian workers were taken as well but that is a lie or a token number of workers may have been taken). Those workers are now part of the establishments (as in voters and politicians) and their children are creating a havoc in England. Britain has become a steady source of terrorists to the world now. We saw the terrorists associated with the Finsbury Park Mosque. Now we are seeing a steady stream of British Muslim terrorists into Iraq. The ISIS superstar Jihadi John if from London. Things have become so bad that people refer to London as Londonistan. All this is because of the British policy of appeasement. The British conservative will have you believe that it is because of political correctness. Are these the same people who killed 1500 people in Jallianwallah? Are these the same people who led by Churchill denied tens of lakhs of famine victims of Bengal any relief because they could not take away any resources from British navy? These people ruthlessly ruled India and now they are telling that they are helpless at the hands of Labor Party / Liberal media’s political correctness? Of course if you look at the Indian immigrants and their children in England who are doing exceedingly well, the current state of British Muslims becomes a real head scratcher. It is clear that over two centuries of rule did not teach them the difference between Hindus and Muslims. Either that or they refused to do so because of their extreme hatred for us.

If the British policies of the past and recent past are yielding so many terrorists then aren’t the British responsible for them? It started off with Biryani and now it is bombs. If Jihadi John is beheading American and Israeli journalists and a British muslim woman is running a brothel with Yazidi girls for the muslim terrorists of ISIS amongst other atrocities, then what is the culpability of the British government?

If this were not bad enough another example of bad British policies has reared its ugly head in the town of Rotterham. This what was said in a report by John 'O Sullivan: 

Britain has felt real shock and horror over the report that 1,400 young women in the South Yorkshire town of Rotherham had been groomed, raped, prostituted, trafficked, and brutally abused in almost every possible way by a criminal gang for the last 16 years.

This what was said in another article:

The researcher, who was seconded to Rotherham council by the Home Office, was told she must "never, ever" again refer to the fact that the abusers were predominantly Asian men.
Speaking to the BBC's Panorama programme under the condition of anonymity, the researcher said that she identified more 270 victims of trafficking and underage prostitution by mainly Muslim gangs in Rotherham.

One only has to read any one of the dozens of articles written to read about the brutality inflicted on these girls. These girls may have been wayward and unloved at home but they deserved better. They were collectively let down by the British society in the name of political correctness. Hindus are quite capable of inflicting unspeakable cruelties as was witnessed in the Nirbahaya Rape case. However, the way the Pakistanis carried out this systematically is what blows one’s mind. We can see that in some articles which try to point the blame at vote-bank politics of Muslim appeasement in England (sounds familiar?). Labor party is like SP / BSP / Congress / CPI of England. It for this reason that the British liberals refer to the Pakistanis as Asians, grouping them with Indians and Chinese.

So what is my problem? Britain raised terrorists are beheading westerners but they will eventually get to us. Will the stiff upper lipped, self-righteous British society stand up and accept their culpability in these beheadings?

Why am I upset about the rapes perpetuated on British girls? It is because all this while they kept saying that Asian gangs are committing these atrocities. It is only now that some of them are getting up and saying that Pakistani men are carrying out these systematic and brutal atrocities. My appeal to the Brits is as follows: Indians in England (on an average) doing better than the white natives. You know what and where the Pakistanis (on an average) are. So please differentiate between Indians and Pakistanis. We are not the same. You should know. You created the two countries.

What started off with Biryani let to Bombs and beheadings and now “Balaatkaar”? The British are responsible for what is going on in their country. I am not taking pleasure in all this but I could not pass up an opportunity to say – I told you so!

Articles mentioned above can be read at:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/387428/1400-english-girls-raped-multiculturalism-dennis-prager
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11069178/Rotherham-researcher-sent-on-diversity-course-after-raising-alarm.html

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/386648/rotherhams-and-englands-shame-john-osullivan

Hindustan , India and Bharatvarsh !

(This article was written by a friend of the
 blog)

Every Independence Day, our August 15th, brings with it a moment to reflect about being a Hindu, an Indian and a Bharatiya! History tells us that once upon a time the undivided Bharat extended as far as Takshila and Gandhar in the west, what we now know as Afghanistan and Baluchistan, with references in the holy Hindu texts to prove the fact. We all know that with the passage of time, invasions, occupation by foreign invading forces, Bharat kept cutting away various parts of its body allowing the creation of countries that did not exist before -Afghanistan , Pakistan and Bangladesh, all declared as Islamic nations. India had to suffer the ignominy of being ruled by Mughals and the British from as early as 1200 AD onwards only to gain full freedom on August 15, 1947 because we lost various wars since we were not united as a nation and due to the policy of Ahimsa, became a non-warrior community.

There was no Hindustan or India until the invasions disrupted life in an otherwise peaceful and prosperous region where the key principles of Hindutva was a way of life! Amongst so many kernels of wisdom and guiding principles of Vedanta and Sanatan Dharma, two most well known are : "Sarvay bhavantu sukhina , sarvay santu niramaya ...." and the much known and quoted phrase of "Vasudhaiva kutumbakam". The recorded history tells us that a peaceful and prosperous Bharat became victim of religious wars and expansionism of Islam and Christianity (also known as the crusades and jihads) and the accessing the rest of the world by the western imperial powers for economic plunder and destruction. Every Indian today must know its glorious past as also the inglorious moments in history. It is these invaders who gave us the names of India and Hindustan , depicting thereby a country inhabited by Hindus !

Therefore, a question that nags me all the time is why a country of over 1.2 billion people of which over 80% are Hindus, the original inhabitants, does not call itself a Hindu nation? I recognize the politics of it all as the politically correct word "secular" got in the play ever since Independence and the Nehruvian Fabian socialism! As a result of which a country which is home to the largest population of Hindus cannot call itself as a Hindu state because somehow it will lose its secular credentials if India calls itself as such! In reality, theory and practice, Hinduism is the most liberal, democratic, religious and secular social practice in the world that somehow got lost in translation. Among the warring and aggressive Christian and the Islamic faiths the world is divided as Christian and Islamic countries. We now once again see a resurgence of the clash of civilizations with ISIS calling to raise its flag on the White House itself ! While the democratic form and reforms of governance has brought social shifts in accepting the principles of human rights, separation of the church and political governance in the western world, Islamic nations continue to remain within the shackles and impositions of conditions of Sharia.

The question therefore is what about us Hindus? Are we going to, once again, get caught in the battle between Christianity and Islam as a victim or remain an unwilling mute and a marginal player? Or we will have the courage to emerge as courageous nation (not nonaligned) and act or get to really establish and claim the rightful place in the world teaching, spreading and inculcating the values of the Sanatan Dharma and Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam in true sense of the word? That too without ANYONE having to convert himself from his original faith he/she was born in? Hindus and Indians must assert themselves, an act they seem to have forgotten, about how religious acceptance as practiced by Hindus is far superior to the policy of religious tolerance ! Bharat was welcoming of all faiths from all over the world and the practices of Hinduism allowed people to follow their own consciousness to pray to whoever and whatever they wanted to if that is what got the best out of them as human beings. The worshippers of Ram do not insult Krishna worshippers. Arya Samajis have no quarrels with Brahmo Samajis . Ganesh celebration has no clash with Durga worshippers and Hindus visit temples whether it is Guruvayoor or Mahabalipuram in the South or Krishna temple in Mathura or Pashupatinath in Kathmandu !

The world is in terrible religious and political conflict on the one hand, and war today, on the other. It is incumbent on us Hindus to assume our rightful place in the world as the mediator of peace. As Indians it is our obligation and duty to share with the world that there has never been a war between two sects or followers of Hindu beliefs. Shiva worshippers do not kill Durga worshippers and most often every temple is home to all incarnations of various Gods. If Shia and Sunnis accept Hindu principles and practices, it will mean that so many innocent children and people will not have to lose their lives and become an unwilling victim in all the conflicts threatening the world peace. If Christianity is threatened by Jihadis/ISIS extremists in the Middle East , let us collectively condemn the act of religious conversion as an act against God's original wish. If God wanted me to be a Christian or a Muslim, He would chosen my parents accordingly as well ! But He chose a Hindu family and I am so grateful to Him. Thank you God for making me a Hindu.
I hope India, that is Bharat, assumes the role that is waiting to happen.

New York based Vibhuti Jha is President, Human Potential Project. Prior to joining HP2, he was a senior officer with A m e r i c a n Express Bank International.