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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

BSP: Fallout Of UP Elections.

Finally, the sins have caught up with Mayawati who has been sitting on UP’s fate like a cobra for all these years. She was like an extreme punishment which was not commensurate with the crime of voting for her. A visit to Lucknow is rewarded with unsightly posters singing paeans in honor of Behenji. Huge parks with elephants and her statues assault the senses. Once beautiful and cultured city was first destroyed by the SP Yadavs of western UP and the task has been completed by the BSP. Once ubiquitous politeness has been replaced by rudeness, the Lucknawi attitude by a fear of the unknown and the beauty of the old stands marred by the current day architectural eunuchs (malls). The same story seems to have been repeated all over this once great and cultured state.


Now the state represents corruption and incompetence. Scams are big and mired in worse crimes like murder. Parts of the state have come to represent mini Pakistans. Poverty is worse than that in the sub Saharan countries. People are eating mud to fill themselves up. Laborers are leaving the state in droves looking for work and becoming a source of constant ridicule. You need only say that you are from UP to have your credibility shot to the dust in the rest of the country. That is what UP has become thanks to one incompetent regime after another. Even the BJP led governments did nothing for this unfortunate state. SP rule and then BSP have dug new depths for the state if that were possible. Almost all the BSP leaders should be in jail. Mayawati has finally got her comeuppance. People of UP have voted her out along with her air flown shoes and her food tasters and her private road. That they have brought back the SP will be covered in another post.


Hopefully, the BSP will die in ignominy. Hopefully, Maywati and her cronies will be tried in a court of law. Hopefully, our dalit brothers and sisters will find real leaders who will look out for their interests without pocketing the much needed funds. Hopefully they will find leaders who will not try to pull wool over the dalit aam aadmi by showing him the past rather than making a bright future a reality, leaders who will build to bring prosperity rather than monuments. I hope and pray that such a leader emerges from the BJP. After all, our tallest leader, Bhai Narendra Modi is an OBC as is Uma Bharati. How hard can it be to find the Hindu conservative dalit who will work for the society’s forgotten in the BJP fold? It is a matter of trying and making it a priority. A rather large population of dalits should tell us how urgent it is to find that dalit Narendra Modi.

Congress: Fallout Of UP Elections

Even after pulling out all the stops, indulging in the cheapest of theatrics, pandering to their now lost votebank, eating with the poor and similar tricks, Rahul Gandhi, family name, white skin and all, came up croppers. Of course unlike the shameless BJP leadership, the Congress leaders have started to accept blame for their roles. Rahul Gandhi has accepted his mistakes. Even the despicable Digvijay Singh has apologized. All we are hearing from the BJP leadership is how they have won the all important elections in Punjab (where they have actually lost two seats as compared to the last time) and Goa. No mention of UP elections.

Of course the UP results indicate that the Sins at the center caught up to the Congress in the worst way. Leaders of the party are trying their best to insulate the family from any negative fallout but I don’t think that will be possible. Non family loyalists ( I think they are there. I hope they are there. I pray they are there) will finally begin to question the role of the Gandhi family in Congress’ future. Sonia and Rahul played an important part in uniting the party in the late 1990’s. They may even have helped them will in 2004. However, being part of an extremely corrupt government and relying on shameless sycophants for feedback, the mother and son duo started to believe in the legend. But recent failures (TN, WB, Bihar, Punjab and now UP) show that the magic, if it actually was were there, is now gone. This family has made enough money at the expense of India and Indians and time has come for them to leave (impotent Indian law cannot do anything to them anyways).

Congress has an important role to play in India. It is still the only national alternative to the BJP. If you take out the Gandhi family from that party and let leaders rise to the top due to their merit then you have a party which we all could consider voting for. Surely they are (without the family) a much better alternative to criminal regional parties like AIDMK, DMK, SP and BSP. They are the only party with presence in every corner of India (e.g. Manipur). I wish that the newer generation of Congress leaders would eschew the old votebank politics and delusions of their brand of secularism and do what is right. That way Congress can become the party of Sardar Patel and LB Shastri rather than a party which carried on the worst of the old British traditions.

BJP / RSS: Fallout Of UP Elections

The all important UP results are out and I will try to express my thoughts in a series of articles based upon the party involved. Being a BJP supporter, I will write about them first.

We had written on this blog that there was no way that BJP was going to win the elections in UP. What we did not even dream was that they would perform worse than the last time. Even with a tsunami of anti-incumbency against Mayawati and Congress (all the scams at the center), they dropped their total. WOW!! I thought that Rajnath Singh was a terrible leader. But amazingly Gadkari has outdone him in incompetence. However, what I know of the current crop of BJP leaders, I am not holding my breath for a mea culpa or even a regret.

Since Gadkari has no honor, he will not resign. He needs to be thrown out with extreme prejudice. People responsible for his appointment to the post should own up to that blunder. Yes. I mean the RSS elders. They need to accept full responsibility for Gadkari’s buffoonery. Once again, I am not holding my breath.

We all know what went wrong in UP. Muslims voted in droves for SP. OBC’s voted in droves for SP. Dalits voted for BSP. Leftover votes from the aforementioned groups voted for Congress. BJP voters could not be inconvenienced to come out and vote. Either that or there are no BJP supporters left in UP. What can you expect with leaders like Rajnath Singh and Lalji Tandon. These men could not excite and inspire a group of five year olds let alone blatant casteists and selfish voters of UP. The campaign for UP should have begun five years ago. It is a huge state with a divided polity. BJP does not have any grassroots level support. The RSS cadre support is a myth. The sooner the RSS and the BJP realize that the better it will be for all. To win UP elections in 2017, they need to identify a local leader with ability and charisma. Someone who can connect with the voters and can make a social contract (thank you brother Rajeev Srinivasan) with them. Yes. A UP version of Narendra Modi. Someone who uses Hindutva as a guiding light but focuses on development like Narendra Modi. Someone who is honest and can keep babus around him honest. Like Narendra Modi. Need I go on? The reason why BJP is doing well in MP, Gujarat and Chattisgarh is because they have a strong leader around whom the party workers can galvanize. Such a leader was sorely lacking in this elections. Uma Bharati was brought in too late. It was like putting on a band aid on a gaping wound. I would go one step further. I say that we fire all the older leaders in UP whose egos have been a bigger problem that the Muslim votes. We need a new generation of leaders who are as much dedicated to the cause as they are to their careers.

The fifty MLAs of the party should be made to really work for their constituents to lay ground work for the next elections (including the general elections in 20140. BJP should wake up to the realities of regional politics. India has been corrupted with local parties which are here to stay. To counter that, the BJP needs to behave a like business conglomerate and treat the state units as wholly owned but almost independent subsidiaries. The central leadership should only get involved when their help is needed. That way, the local leaders who have a better feel of the electorate get what they want. Local BJP leaders wanted Narendra Modi to campaign in UP. After all, none of them were under the illusions about Muslim votes. Instead of listening to them, Gadkari not only ignored Modi but brought in Sanjay Joshi (whose claim to fame is a porn video) who is an outsider to UP politics. There are credible reports that RSS leadership is actively trying to rein in Bhai Narendra Modi so that he does not get the national prominence because he has the chutzpah to do things his way rather than toe the RSS line. What we are seeing is that Modi’s way works but RSS way is failing- over and over.

Of course none of this is going to happen unless the party’s central leadership makes amends for all the foul ups of the last decade. Men like Gadkari, Advani, Sudheendra Kulkarni or anyone associated with the 2009 general election debacle and now the one in UP, should retire. If they do not retire then the party should fire them. Leaders who have won elections and can win them in future should be the decision makers not the ones who take the Rajysabha route.

A business oriented party like the BJP should adopt the tenet of privately owned enterprise – perform or perish. Ability and merit should be the only guiding force. RSS leadership should realize that they are the nations answer to the evil of foreign owned NGOs but that is it. RSS leaders are true patriots but lousy politicians. They should become Professors Emeriti rather than the chairman of the department. That is the only way we will be able to save our party. Otherwise make room of the likes of Maulana Akhilesh Yadav.

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Are Quran and Geeta More Important Than A Human Life?

A Quran gets accidently burned in Afghanistan. Obama apologizes. It was a mistake. Karzai is offended but he accepts the explanation and the apology. But what about the aam aadmi in Afghanistan? What they should have done was gather around the US embassy with placards and shouted slogans. Maybe even burn Obama in the effigy. After that they should have gone home. After all, accidental (or even deliberate) burning of Quran will not shake the foundations of Islam. But what really happened? Taliban from Pakistan entered the picture, the protests became violent and dozens of poor Afghanis died. The topic to ponder is – Is the sanctity of a religious book more important than a human life?

Hindus have gone through centuries of abuse. Muslim marauders destroyed everything we held scared. Our temples were burnt and converted into Mosques. Who knows how many of our holy books were destroyed. Then came the British with their subtle ways of destroying us. They raped us for couple of centuries. They inflicted their culture and ways on us. But, did it destroy Hinduism? No.

Look at the Jews. Their numbers were far less than us. They went through a holocaust. I am sure that the Nazis did not treat their temples and the Tora with any kind of respect. Did that destroy Judaism? No.

The point is that all religions have strong foundations and will be there well after the followers are gone. It is the faith and the belief that makes the religion strong. The religious books, which carry the message, are just that. Books. Their destruction will not harm the religion. What destroys a religion is lack of faith not destruction of books.

What about the emotions and sentiments of the followers? When someone puts a picture of Ganpati on a toilet seat, it is hurtful and we should protest. But there are ways to protest. If a book gets burned, then it can be printed again but a human life is gone forever. With that in mind, our protests in matters of this kind or for that matter all the kind should be one which shows our resolve, faith, strength of character and civility not our inner beast. I wrote the following on our blog in regards to MF Hussain and his depiction of Ma Saraswati.
Even as a Hindu, when I saw the picture of a so called art piece where Jesus Christ was shown immersed in urine, I was offended. The guy who made that had only one thing in mind and that was offending all the religious conservatives in the US. Despite of that grossly offensive piece of puerility, the artist was not harmed in the US. He was just ignored. That is what we should have done to M F Hussain. He should have died an ignominious death in complete anonymity instead of getting feted by the entire left wing of India (of course that speaks volumes of them).
Islam and to some extent Christianity have always been the aggressors. These religions in attempts to expand have inflicted unspeakable cruelty on the non-believers. Christians now have mended their ways and resort to other tactics to meet their ends. They have come to believe that the foundations of the religion are strong enough to withstand onslaughts by liberal perverts. However, Muslims are still very insecure about their religion. Even the slightest provocation brings out the most worst in them. It is upto their religious leaders to correct this. Instead of provoking the Muslim aam aadmi to meet some political end, they should actually respect the lives of their followers and refrain from provocations, which result in deaths. Until that happens, we will continue to see what we are now seeing in Afghanistan.

I would like to remind the Muslims a powerful line in a poem by a Muslim Sufi poet.
Kis-waleya ka Majnu-nu, O teri Laila disdi kaali we!
Majnu ne jawab ditta, O teri ankh wekhan-waali we!
Je tu dekhe meri ankh naal, Teri surat na jaaye samhaali we!
Ved bhi chitta ter Quran bhi chitti, Vich shyahi rakh ditti kaali we!
Ghulam Farid jitthe ankhiyaan lagiyaan, Utthe kya gori, kya kaali we!

The highlighted line means that both Ved and Quran are blank pages until we put black ink in them. Of course the poet is using that line to prove that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder but we could take home a different message from it.

Our blogpost on MF Hussain can be read at: http://thenethindu.blogspot.com/2011/06/m-f-hussain-india-and-freedom-of-speech.html

Bollywood and Indian Culture

Is there anyone out there who believes that Bollywood is a true ambassador of Indian culture? I have never believed it to be the case. Bollywood has not done anything of late to prove me wrong. I will try to make a case here that not only do they not represent our culture but also their desire to peddle to the lowest common denominator of the society to make easy money makes them peddle stuff, which is out to destroy our culture.

Movies made by Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Adoor Gopalakrishnan and their contemporaries in Bollywood made movies that represented India well. Even the Bollywood potboilers prior to the 1990s with its melodrama, seemed innocuous and in tune with sensibilities of a typical house hold. Something happened to Bollywood on it’s way to today. Let us examine.

Movies of today make you uncomfortable if you are with your parents or children. Sleazy dances with white women (what is with the Bollywood obsession with white women? Is it our slave mentality at work here?) are all over the place. The lifestyle depicted in these movies is often that of unbridled promiscuity. If a non-Indian watched these movies, they would think that pre and extra marital sex in India is as common as smell of garam masala. However, it seems that promiscuous behavior has become common in our urban areas. The young Indians seem oblivious to the emotional and health cost associated with this kind of behavior. We are already seeing a dramatic increase in divorces. AIDS is already an epidemic with Hepatitis C ready to claim the throne of the biggest killer. Cervical cancer is also associated with unprotected sex. Can I really claim that Bollywood is causing our young to divorce and have promiscuous sex? NO! However they are not helping the matter by repeated portrayal of this kind of behavior as the norm.

Idol worshipping goes hand in hand with movies. In Amitabh Bachchan’s heydays, you could see youngsters copying his hairstyle all over the place. Emulating his clothes and mannerisms were part of one’s growing up. However his movies were still tame compared to the smut being peddled today. It is one thing to copy the hairstyle and entirely different to copy the lifestyle of the stars. Idol worshippers try to copy the easy and not the hard stuff. No one got inspired to take on twenty men because he did so in Deewar. However, one cannot claim the same about the unbridled sex shown in today’s movies.

Stars of yesteryear were not exactly paragons of virtue. Maybe it was because of lack of media coverage that Indians were protected from their bad behavior. Today’s stars like Salman Khan are nothing short of criminals. In any other country, the man would have served significant amount of time in jail for vehicular manslaughter or domestic violence but not in India. He has gone from strength to strength thanks to our ever-forgiving audience including the Hindu middle class. We are bearing witness to Saif Ali Khan’s violent behavior (what else do we expect from a man whose name means sword of Ali). He seems to be an unstable person with a violent temper. However he has the money and star power, not to mention a mother with ties to the pseudo secular politicians. I can bet that the Indian establishment is going to ensure an honorable exoneration from his latest violent escapade and audience are going to forgive him and make his forthcoming movie a success. Bravo India!!



Then we have the reality shows, which seems to have lowered the level of sleaze if that were possible. Now we have porn stars becoming mainstream celebrities thanks to shows like Bigg Boss. Sonny Leone has now been hired to act in a mainstream movie by Mahesh Bhatt who never ever misses an opportunity to spew venom against the Hindu aspect of our culture. This sleazy bastard made one good movie and since has done nothing but soft-core porn. Of course if he is still in business then we only have the audience to blame.

We have always had Muslims dominating Bollywood. However in days past, they kept their fanaticism under wraps. They looked and talked like everyday Indians. But in today’s India, they seem to be emboldened by the power of pseudo-secular establishment. Shah Rukh Khan seems to be dropping his Insha-Allahs all over the place. In the latest Filmfare awards (what a crock of shit that was), he greeted AR Rehman with Asalaam Aleikum and was greeted back the same way. Rehman went on to say Alhamdulillah on the stage, which is essentially the same vein as Allah Ho Akbar. I wonder what would the reaction if someone went Bajrang Bali Ki Jai ho on such a stage? If anyone has seen Anurag Kashyap’s Black Friday to the end, you know what the reaction would have been. A true blue leftist liberal, Kashyap depicted the Kar Sevaks around Babri Masjid as caricatures of Hanumanji. Essentially Monkeys. Of course he showed the bombers of Mumbai as men who were normally reacting to the goings on in Ayodhya.

Therefore in my opinion, majority of crap coming out of Bollywood is not representative of Indian culture at all. If anything, they are either actively destroying it (like Kashyap and Nandita Das) with their unfair and biased portrayal or indirectly like today’s mainstream moviemakers who are peddling smut.

Of course the ultimate responsibility of this perversion lies with the aam aadmi. If no one watches these movies then the moviemakers will be forced to respond. If we boycott the movies of criminal stars then the producers will get the message. If we do not fulfill our responsibility and succumb to Salman Khan’s antics then we have no right to be outraged by his bad behavior. After all, we enable him.

The image is from: http://www.indiamarks.com/guide/Ruling-Khans-of-Bollywood/595/

Monday, February 20, 2012

Should India Help Baluchistan?

It is clear to all but the liberals and the jhola brigade that all our security problems are due to Pakistan. They are behind every hot spot either directly or indirectly. They helped misguided Sikhs in the 1980’s to their nefarious ends. Now they are using the Maoists, which was confirmed by Assam CM who is a Congressman. It is also clear to all but the ideologically blind that our government has no clue of how to deal with. Vacillating between hollow threats and repeated and unrequited peace overtures, they are confused.

Instead of threatening a crazy nuclear armed country with no political will to back it, we should strengthen RAW and their dirty tricks department. We used to have an extremely effective RAW but that pakiphile IK Gujral dismantled it. What a mistake that was. It takes years to develop human intelligence capabilities and misguided liberals undid it. A department like that can raise the cost of doing terror for the Pakistanis. It is the old “you send one of mine to the hospital, I will send one of yours to the morgue” adage. A country like Pakistan is rife with fault lines waiting to be exploited. We have written on that topic on this blog. I proposed a division of Pakistan into five parts (of course in discussion with my friends) long time ago. Later on, security experts and journalists after 9/11 expressed the same sentiments. After getting railroaded by the Pakistanis, US lawmakers are now proposing that Baluchistan is a candidate for freedom. That state has been abused and destroyed by the Panjabi dominated Pakistani establishment and military. They have used heavy weaponry against Baluchi insurgents. They have been doing this since the formation of the country. Except for India, the world stood by and did nothing. Eventually we also abandoned them.

The Americans have turned a blind eye to every one of Pakistan’s crimes. Now that they are feeling the effects of it, they are proposing an alternative approach. Dana Rohrabacher, who used to be extremely pro-Pakistani, said the following:

"Baluchistan deserves our attention because it is a turbulent land marked by human rights violations committed by regimes that are hostile to America's interests and values," Congressman Dana Rohrabacher said at a Congressional hearing.

Stating that Islamabad has refused to concede any legitimacy to Baluch nationalism or to engage the Baluch leadership in serious negotiations, Rohrabacher said:"Its response has been based on brute force, including extra-judicial killings." Congressman Ted Poe from Texas said that the current situation in Baluchistan fits into the category of self-determination.

It could be that the Americans are trying to threaten the Pakistanis with the second division of the country hoping to force them into compliance. It also could be that if Baluchistan becomes a free country then that would open another route to Afghanistan, which will bypass the Pakistanis. Of course the Americans are doing it for their self-interest. Now the bigger question is, should we also do the same i.e. do something for our self-interest?

Yes we should. Baluchis (and to some extent the Sindhis) have always been friendlier with us than the Punjabis. There are still functional Hindu temples in Baluchistan but none in other parts of Pakistan. If Baluchis form their own country, Pakistan’s coastline becomes a lot smaller and thus makes them vulnerable to a superior naval force such as ours. Pakistan will lose a lot of their natural resources and thus will become more amenable to trade.

Even bigger question is- what can we do to help the Baluchis? All we need to do is to look at old reports of the RAW. Moreover, if the US does the heavy lifting then we should be there to help them out especially if we can do it with enough deniability. Continued diplomacy with the US, Iran and Afghanistan will also be beneficial. Other than that, I am sure that the IFS guys, who are much smarter than I, can come up with other ways. It is important for our Baluchi friends. It is important for India.




Saturday, February 18, 2012

The Importance Of Muslim Votes In India

High growth rates and a tendency to congregate has given rise to areas with a high Muslim percentage. Add illegal migration from Bangladesh and you have a recipe for disaster. Border areas of West Bengal aka Poschim Bongo now have Muslim majority areas, which used to be Hindu majority. A report says:

In Malda, Muslims stood at about 50 percent of the total population in 2001, Hindus at 49. In North Dinajpur, Muslims constituted 47 percent and Hindus 52 percent. Murshidabad has Muslims at 64 percent far outnumbering Hindus at 36 percent . In the 1951 census they were 55 percent and Hindus 45 percent . In Malda, too, the share of Muslim population has risen over the years from 37 percent in 1951.For the state as a whole, the percentage of Muslim population grew from 20 to 25 percent between 1951 and 2001. That of Hindus dropped from 78 to 72 percent . Among the districts, Birbhum has 35 percent Muslim population and South 24 Parganas 33 percent , both higher than the state average.

We have similar population dynamics in Bihar and to a somewhat lesser extent in the entire country. There are reports that the Communists in Poschim Bongo encouraged illegal immigration because Muslim dominated areas were their votebanks. Needless to say that this makes the Muslim votes very crucial to win elections because a typical Muslim vote is not decided by the voter but by the demagogue leader he or she follows. We are seeing examples after examples of that in UP which is the most crucial election before the 2014 elections. As I have said on this blog that no trick is too cheap, no low is too low for politicians to win that votebank.

Salman Khurshid and his wife have single handedly violated any and every norm of fair elections by promising reservations for Muslims. They have to do it. They are realizing that if they do not form the government in UP, Rahul Gandhi’s chances of becoming the PM in 2014 become infinitesimally smaller. He has been a major disappointment to the average Congress worker. The very fact that Priyanka Gandhi is out there with her children asking for votes. A sleazy and a cheap trick indeed. Speaking of shamelessness, what about the pronouncement that Sonia Gandhi bitterly cried when she saw the pictures of Batala house encounters? That was done to appease the Eastern UP Muslims where they have enough votes to influence the outcome.

Besides reservation, the Congress refused a VISA and protection to Salman Rushdie with an eye on UP elections. They have unleashed yet another investigation on Bhai Narendra Modi. Another sleazy trick to win the Muslim votes. Mr. B Raman whose analyses are always apolitical says the following:

It is no longer a case of the law taking its own course, but one of malicious witch-hunt against a political leader by his political opponents and by sections of the media and lawyers and others who are not well disposed towards him. Even after having failed to prove the charges before the SIT, they are determined to keep their vicious campaign alive for political reasons and not for reasons of natural justice.
I have never been an uncritical admirer of Modi. Nor am I in the ranks of his perpetual demonisers. I have always sought to judge him as objectively as I can. It is my view that the demonization campaign against him must stop now.


I happen to be in Lucknow on the day (2009) when Samajwadi Party was holding a massive rally in protesting sanctions against Iran. Most SP voters and workers will have difficulty-finding Iran on the map and yet here they are protesting something they have no clue about. The reason – Muslim votes.

Why have we never ever caught an Indian sympathizer of Paki inflicted terror? Why do we keep on talking diplomacy with the Pakis while they keep us bleeding? Why did we not intervene in Maldives? The same reason! Now we are being told that the Home Ministry is treading delicately on the latest bombing of the Israeli interests and not blaming the Iranian involvement is because we are buying oil from them. Even if went in full support of Israelis we will still be able to buy Irani oil because they need the money and our support in matters of Afghanistan. You see, they do not want the return of the Sunni Taliban in their neighborhood and we are the only major country who would help them out in that matter. So why is Chidambaran shying away from naming the Iranis? Any guesses?

This is extraordinarily bad. It is one thing to have domestic agenda based upon Muslim votes. Now we have to forge our foreign policy because the pseudo-secular parties want the Muslim votes? This is a very slippery slope. At this rate we are going to have Sharia laws in another 50 years or so. The votebank politics will achieve what Pakistani terrorism could not do.
The B Raman article on Modi can be read at:
http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers50/paper4911.html
The article on mushrooming Muslim population can be read at:
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2005-06-24/kolkata/27837880_1_muslims-hindus-west-bengal
Report on Sonia Gandhi crying can be read at:
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/sonia-gandhi-cried-bitterly-after-seeing-batla-house-encounter-images-salman-khurshid-in-azamgarh-175042
The cartoon is from: http://twocircles.net/2010oct23/tcn_cartoon_muslim_voters.html
An eye opener on Muslim vote percentage can be read at: http://www.islamicvoice.com/april.98/FEAT2.HTM#DIV

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Are Religious Minorities Victims?

We have discussed Hindu-Muslim relations on this blog a number of times and have strongly believed that the Muslims are not the innocent victims as described in the media and our history books (thanks go to our Macaulayite education system). What we have never discussed are the Hindu-Christian relations because the Christians have kept a low profile and try to propagate their religion under the guise of charity and education (Convent Schools and colleges like ST. Stephen’s). Their agenda is no less insidious especially because they have the blessing of our UPA bigwigs and our middle class who are enamored by “Convent Educated Children” who can speak English fluently.

The empowerment of Christians began during the British days when they were targeting the dalits and the tribals for conversions. In Orissa, we have Kandha tribals who are and have been more prosperous and thus powerful than the Pana tribals. Of course the Baptist Christian missionaries converted the Pana tribals who saw their new found religion as a way to empowerment. Of course the whole thing dovetailed with the British “divide and rule” policy because the Kandhas and Panas are still fighting. A lot of the Christian tribals have become Maoists and are raising hell all over the place. Christians in the west think of their religion as a bulwark against Communism. I hope they find this ironic. The point to note is that Kandhas and Panas were fighting before the Panas became Christians. Yet their fights have been declared a war by the Hindus on helpless Christians. What else remains buried is that aside from help from men like the late Swami Lakshmanananda (who was assassinated by Christians) no one helps the Hindus. However, the Christians have the entire media, Congress machinery and western propaganda and money behind them. Of course the Hindu cause was not helped by the unforgivable and extreme brutality shown by Dara Singh towards the family of Graham Staines.

We keep reading these reports where as many as 1000 churches have been attacked in the BJP ruled Karnataka. In an interview with Vicky Nanjappa (I have become a reluctant fan of this guy), P N Benjamin, a minorities commission member and coordinator of the Bangalore Initiative for Religious Dialogue Says the following:


It is not correct (accusation of 1000 attacks). It is just an exaggeration. I feel there have been a handful of attacks, which were instigated by some fringe Christian groups.


He goes on to say that the bigger the exaggeration the more the money these groups get from American and other western religious groups. When asked about threats to the Christian communities from Hindus, he says:

The real source of danger to the Indian Christian community is not the handful of Hindu extremists but the self-styled saviours of Christianity who assert that they alone are the holders of valid visas to heaven and paradise.

This all sounds very familiar. You replace America and the western religious groups with Saudi Arabia, you replace Convent schools with madarsas, you replace the various dioceses with Dar Ul Uloom and you have the entire Muslim story repeated down to an identical political dynamic.
The biggest misconception that we have had so far did that despite all, the Christians are a peace loving community. But with examples of the Maoists and extremists in South India and Orissa (the ones who killed Swami Lakshmanananda that misconception must be laid to rest. With the help of top UPA leadership and the Communists in Kerala, the Christians are anything but helpless victims in India.
With what we know about Christians now and what we have known about Muslims, is there anyone out there who thinks that Religious minorities are victims of any kind. To those who disagree with me I would like to point out that if you really want to see religious minorities as victims then you should look at Buddhists in China or Hindus and Christians in Pakistan. Now those are really helpless victims.


The story of Swami Lakshmananada's assasination can be read at: http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/aug/28orissa1.htm

A short history of the so called religious violence in Orissa can be read at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_violence_in_Orissa

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

What Is Wrong With IAS Officers?

The British did not do anything in India for Indians. Even educating us was done to sustain a bureaucracy designed to better rape India. So when the Indian Administrative Services were initiated, it was definitely not to serve the Indians. The IAS officers were brown clones of the Gora Sahibs with all the hangups. The British left but they left these Bhura sahibs to continue their traditions. Now the same IAS officers are being used by our corrupt politicians to systematically rob the nation. Of course these babus are willing partners in that robbery. Before we go any further, let us take a look at two key provisions in the sytem. As per Wikipedia:

1. The Constituent Assembly of India intended that the bureaucracy should be able to speak out freely, without fear of persecution or financial insecurity as an essential element in unifying the nation.

2. While the respective State Governments have control over them they can not censure or take disciplinary action against IAS and other All India Services officers without consulting the Union Government(Central) and the UPSC.

Our shameless and corrupt politicians have no respect for laws of the society or humanity let alone the constitution. A good officer is hounded and transferred around until he or she relents. Of course the other side of the coin is that a corrupt babu cannot be punished. Wow! What a system! Does this sound like a system, which would serve the aam aadmi in anyway at all?

Ideally the system should work and it does to a large extent. If it were not for the smart IAS officers, our ministries often ruled by abject morons will cease to function. That way a lot of governance is due to the IAS officers. However, they do not seem to be accountable to anyone and are often law unto themselves in their own realms. The IAS officers are setting records as far as stealing is concerned. There are officers with hundreds of crores of illegal wealth all over the country. They use the government machinery for personal use without any inhibition or fear. Their wives use official cars and “chapraasis” like their personal property. Recently, one of these heartless harpies slapped a policewoman when refused a pass to watch cricket.

Dan Rostenkowski was one of the most powerful Congressmen in the US who was sent to prison for scam worth $50,000 worth of stamps and misuse of official vehicles. Imagine. If we were to impose our laws with that degree of strictness, then almost all our class 1 officers would be behind bars.

The point to ponder is – how does a smart and idealistic (I am assuming that all young people have some degree of ideals) person degenerates into their current avatar? I guess it is the system, which takes them in and chews them into the corrupt crooks that we see now.

I have no suggestions, only concerns. The system, which was founded, to rule and rape India needs to be re-invented. Accountability needs to be imposed. The guilty must be fired and punished. Meritorious must be rewarded and promoted. Just like the rest of us. The IAS officers should not become demigods. They are public servants. They should never forget that.



Saturday, February 4, 2012

Is Hindu Terror Real?

Vicky Nanjappa fancies himself as a crack reporter on terror and security matters. In his latest he tries to figure out why National Investigation Agency (NIA) remains clueless while probing “Hindu Terror” cases. This is what this man says in his article:
The National Investigation Agency has ascertained that the ammunition for the blasts in Nanded, Modasa, Samjautha Express, Ajmer, Malegaon and Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad were all procured from Mhow in Madhya Pradesh.

The NIA has many suspects in custody; but there are others who are absconding. It has been almost a year since the NIA was handed over the charge for the above mentioned cases, but there appears to be something wrong with the manner in which the probe is taking place as there is no concrete breakthrough yet.

The NIA probe into cases involving 'Hindu extremists' went wrong from day one. The Nanded blasts, which is considered to be the mother of these acts of terror, was badly investigated, making it tough for NIA sleuths to make a start.

Today the NIA faces the herculean task of cracking all these cases which are inter-linked. Sources in the agency told rediff.com that the foundation of the case itself is extremely weak, which is why they are finding it hard to give it closure

He considers the Nanded blast as the fount of these terror acts. Nanded is in Maharashtra which is ruled by Congress. No one can blame the BJP of impeding the investigations. In fact with UPA government at the center and secular P Chidambaran in charge of Home no one can blame lack of political will and support in all these cases. Is it incompetence? If one or two cases were bungled due to incompetence then PC would have stepped in and ensured better investigators. Then what is the reason? Nanjappa does a lot of hand waving and tries to show that somehow he has managed an answer but he has come up with a huge ZERO. I would like to remind Nanjappa of a saying by Arthur Conan Doyle who through is creation, Sherlock Holmes says the following: How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

So what is the possibility that Nanjappa and others seem to be hell bent on ignoring? Maybe there is no case. Maybe Hindus did not commit any of these blasts and the UPA government to bolster their secular credentials, want to create this specter where it is possible that Hindus are as likely to indulge in terror as Muslims. When it comes to brutality and treason, Hindus have demonstrated a remarkable propensity. But terror? From the evidence or lack thereof, it seems improbable. On the other hand the evidence to the contrary does exist.

In the most celebrated of these cases, the one that the Pakistanis do not tire of quoting was the Samjhauta Express bombing, Swami Aseemanand was arrested. The UPA government tried their best to tie him to the RSS. They thought that they would get away with blaming some hapless Hindu for this dastardly act until an American investigation and report showed otherwise. In an eye-opening article, Mr. B Raman who has stayed politically neutral says:
Thus, according to American investigators the LET and Al Qaeda were responsible for the Samjauta Express blast and the HUJI for the Mecca Masjid blast. If the American investigators, who have better sources in Pakistan, are correct, how can our investigators claim that some arrested Hindus were responsible for these incidents? Justice and fairplay demand a thorough investigation into the two different versions that have emerged from Indian and American investigators. While the American investigators have blamed the LET, Al Qaeda and the HUJI, Indian investigators have blamed the Abhinav Bharat. Both cannot be correct.
There you have it. The real reason for lack of progress in the Hindu terror cases is that the concept of Hindu terror only exists in the diseased imagination of our pseudo secular politicians who in attempts to secure their votebank and divert the attention of Hindus in the matters of extreme corruption have victimized innocent Hindus. The Hindu voters need to stop being defensive for political correctness and lay the blame where it really belongs: On the UPA government.

The Nanjappa article can be read at:
http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-probing-hindu-terror-cases-why-nia-remains-clueless/20120203.htm
The Raman article can be read at: http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers40/paper3971.html
Our blogposts on the topic can be read at:



Sunday, January 29, 2012

A Strong Finish In UP Is A Must For BJP

Sahara India owner Subrata Roy is very very close to Samajwadi Party. He is a close friend of ex SP strongman and moneyman Amar Singh. This cabal systematically robbed UP. Roy’s welfare is directly proportional to that of SP. He would want SP to win in UP. So when his company’s poll (supposedly the most exhaustive poll in the history of elections in UP) projected the SP as the next winner, no one should be surprised. But what is surprising is the second place finisher. The poll claims that the BJP would increase their vote percentage from 17% to 24%. If true, that is really remarkable. With 17% the BJP won 50 seats. With 24% the number of seats should be a lot more especially because the Muslim votes is going to get divided badly this time. In a fractured mandate it is very possible that the BJP may even finish first.

For that to happen, a few things are important. The campaign has to be intensified. Entire force of the party should be behind the start campaigners. Local BJP leaders should be heard and helped. If they want Narendra Modi to campaign then by all means he should. If senior leaders are showing dissension because of selfish reasons, then the party seniors should shut them up. Key areas of strength should be indentified and clear and precise messages should be delivered. Performance should be highlighted. Local leaders should go door to door and ensure a high voter turnout, which may even increase the vote percentage beyond the projected 24%. A strong finish is needed. A victory in UP followed by a glimpse into what the BJP can do will ensure a good performance in 2014 .

Our responsibility should be to go out and cast our votes. Laziness or weather or any other excuse should be shunned. This is a chance to exercise our right and flex our muscles. If we do not do so now, we should not complain. EVER.

The article on the Sahara Samay poll on the UP elections can be read at: http://www.rediff.com/news/report/saharas-sensational-up-polls-survey-creates-ripples/20120126.htm

Real Encounter But Fake Case Against Narendra Modi

David Headley alias Daood Sayed Gilani told the visiting NIA sleuths that Ishrat Jahan was an a suicide bomber recruited by LeT operative Muzamil. We wrote about this on our blog long time ago. In case you have forgotten, Headley is an US born Muslim with Pakistani origins who was doing reconnaissance missions in India leading up to the 26/11 bombings in Mumbai. The question to ask is: Why would Headley lie about Ishrat Jahan? If anything, he would lie about the complicity of a fellow Muslim.
These are the excerpts from an article about the matter:

In what would come as a great relief for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Gujarat police, David Headly has said Ishrat Jahan, the Mumbai college girl who was gunned down last year was an fidayeen, or suicide bomber.

Jahan was killed along with Javed Sheikh alias Pranesh Pillai and two Pakistani nationals -- Amjad Ali and Jishan Johar Abdul Ghani -- on June 15, 2004. As per police records, they were intercepted on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, travelling in a car. When they were confronted, an encounter ensued in which all were shot dead.

The new revelation by Headley has come as a big contradiction to what a Ahmedabad court had ruled last year that the killing of Ishrat Jahan was a "fake encounter."
An embarrassing probe had revealed horrifying details of how Ishrat Jahan and three others, who were proclaimed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives on a fidayeen mission to kill Chief Minister Narendra Modi, were actually gunned down in cold blood a day before they were actually shown as killed in a police encounter.
A day after the report by Ahmedabad metropolitan magistrate S.P. Tamang, state government spokesperson and cabinet minister Jay Narayan Vyas had told reporters that the inquiry report was "bad in law and so the state government will challenge it".

The damning report had put pressure on Modi, which named 21 cops, including retired DGP Kaushik, as the people behind the gunning down of innocent persons by branding them terrorists.

All in all, it looks like yet another attempt at trying to bring down Modi. Gujarat still has a lot of staunch supporters on Congress in State machinery. They hate Modi enough to concoct all kinds of cases against him. One would have thought that after Headley’s revelation, the matter would end but thanks to pro Congress leftists and similar NGOs, the case has been brought back to life. Javed Akhtar (a man who fancies himself as an Urdu poet but cannot do more that rhyme), social activist Shabnam Hashmi (who seems to be the new avatar of that despicable and discredited liar Teesta Setalvad) and some journalist called BG Verghese have filed two writ petitions. Yes. Two Muslims and a Christians have taken it upon themselves to lie and cheat on the behalf of Congress to bring down one man who Congress has been desperately trying to ruin for a long time but have failed. I can see the journalist filing some thing like this because they may have dug up something (what can refute Headley’s revelation is still beyond me) but what can Akhtar and Hashmi know?

This is yet another ploy of Congress who often throws a lot of things at their enemies hoping that something would stick. This is a repeat of the attempts by the leftist cabal to associate Modi with the riots, which happened after the Godhra station massacre. I can almost predict that the next attempt will be some witness who will come out in favor of Congress but they retract as it happened with Setalvad who was bullying some poor Muslim into lying against Modi.

Congress is a failed and a frustrated party. It seems like they are going to place fourth in UP elections as well. If that happens then the Sonia’s dream of Rahul’s coronation would be shattered. This is a cheap ploy to besmirch the biggest leader in the BJP in hopes of winning state elections including the ones coming up in Gujarat. Hopefully the voters will see through these lies and reject Congress with extreme prejudice.

As far as worms like Akhtar and Hashmi are concerned, one can only wonder why do they not speak for fellow Muslims when they are killed in non-BJP run states. We all know that these so called communal riots happen a lot more in the non-BJP run states. Why have they not filed writ petitions asking for enquiries into the so-called Batla house encounters?

Justice Aftab Alam wants all the encounters in Gujarat between 2002 and 2006. What about encounters in the rest of the country, your honor? And here I believed that the Supreme Court of India was beyond any pressures.

This is shameless and hopefully, the Indian voters will reject the rancor in the media and resolve this issue by voting out the worst possible government our unfortunate country has had the misfortune of dealing with.


The following urls are relevant to this post:
http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4115029&page=0
http://thenethindu.blogspot.com/2010/07/narendra-modi-victim-ishrat-was-to-kill.html
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/ishrat-wouldbe-modi-assassin-was-an-let-f/642435/
http://in.news.yahoo.com/fresh-setback-modi-probe-ordered-more-fake-shootouts-145819244.html

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

UP Elections: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

The good:
1. Gadkari has been reined in. Modi has agreed to campaign in UP. That should boost the sagging spirits of the BJP grassroots workers in UP. As we have said on this blog, grassroots workers always respect people with achievements rather than recommendations in their bags.

2. Uma Bharati is definitely making a difference in Western UP. She is a very capable leader who works very well independently. She is an extremely valuable asset and should be handled properly by better leaders than Gadkari.

3. Akhilesh Yadav’s ascent should be a lesson to incapable senior leaders of all parties. This guy has brought SP back from the dead. He seems to be sincere and connects well with people. Hopefully he will be less corrupt than his father and really secular. This is what meritocracy is all about. A younger, more capable leader must be allowed to shine on his or her own.

4. Voter awareness seems to be on the rise. In an article, Seema Mustafa writes about this BJP leader from Badaun (of course she left his name out): In a significant development, not often heard in UP in the past, voters are quite happy to denounce or praise a candidate for the work he or she has done regardless of the party. In Badaun, for instance, the Muslim voters were full of praise for the local BJP candidate who was described as "good man" and as they put it, "a leader who will rush here on his cycle within minutes if he call him." Yet another example of a leader with great promise being held back in anonymity.

5. People are not falling for cheap tricks (4.5% reservation for Muslims or forgiving the farmer loans). Muslims have so far rejected any overtures from Congress. Rahul Gandhi is a complete non-factor. He has been ill treated in some constituencies. In fact things have become so bad that his sister has to come out to save him.

6. Mayawati is destined to lose her power (BSP will not win as many seats this time) but her dalit votebank seems to be holding fast for her. Hopefully the urban and semi rural middle class and others will go out in droves to vote against her.

7. We all hope that Team Anna and Baba Ramdev will also come out and raise their voices against the status quo. These people received a lot of support from UP. It is time to repay the favor.

The Bad:
The 1. As we have said on this blog many times that UP is such a big prize that these elections are bringing out the worst in all the parties. The BJP has shown that they are not averse to fielding criminal candidates if they can help them. Whatever happened to the “party with a difference” thing?

2. Mulayam’s promises (hopefully he will remain as far from the CM’s seat as he is today) will bankrupt the state. These people have not learned anything from the mistakes made by politicians in Andhra and Tamilnadu.

3. From the looks of it, no single party will enough seats to form a government on their own. This means a coalition government. Some leftist fan of BSP is predicting a BJP-BSP government. All that means is that UP will remain mired in the same shit as before. But the responsibility of that will be on the voters of UP. It took voters of Bihar about 25 years to break free from Lalloo Yadav’s talons. Let us see how long does it take the UP’ites to break free from BSP / SP combine.

The Ugly:

1. Congress is trying to win their Muslim votebank by offering them 4.5% reservation. This is going to really polarize UP. Of course the helpless residents of the state are going to pay the price not the Crown Prince.

2. BJP’s leadership issues are going to hurt the party badly. No sooner did the party start to look good than Kalraj Mishra started to make statements saying Uma Bharati cannot be the CM candidate because she is an outsider. Wow! As Akshay Kumar said in Hera Pheri (I am paraphrasing): the buffalo is grazing and this guy has already started to sell yogurt / curd. Then of course you have Rajnath Singh who is trying to impose his son on the State BJP, a move that has already caused problems. Both Singh and Mishra have been in charge of UP for the last fifteen years and have done NOTHING to improve the party’s stature in the state. What right do these two have to demand anything? My advice to them is to shut up and let those people take over who are decidedly more capable. On this blog we have repeatedly proposed the name of Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi. I hope that strong leaders would prevail in UP and not let this “top job” issue derail the party.

3. In the same article, Seema Mustafa also says about the much loved BJP leader from Badaun:." Their (Muslim’s) dislike for the BJP will prevent them from voting for him directly, they say, but they will be quite happy if he wins on his own vote as he did last time. This is really pathetic. On this blog, we pride ourselves in being “India First” conservatives. If we think that a non-BJP / non-Hindu can make a difference then we have not shied from proposing their names. Readers of this blog know that we do not care about who brings about the positive change as long as it is positive. We have proposed names of religious minorities, Congressmen and other based totally on merit. We wish that these Muslims would get over their aversion and vote for the right person no matter the origin.

The Seema Mustafa article can be read at: http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-up-elections-2012-which-way-will-the-tide-turn/20120121.htm
The picture is from: http://freepressjournal.in/news/32998-UP--KURUKSHETRA.html

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Salman Rushdie VS M F Hussain

One of the things I absolutely admire about the US is their passionate love and respect for freedom of speech. It is protected no matter who the speaker. When M F Hussain wanted to come back to India here is what I wrote on this blog:

Even as a Hindu, when I saw the picture of a so-called art piece where Jesus Christ was shown immersed in urine, I was offended. The guy who made that had only one thing in mind and that was offending all the religious conservatives in the US. Despite of that grossly offensive piece of puerility, the artist was not harmed in the US. He was just ignored. That is what we should have done to M F Hussain. He should have died an ignominious death in complete anonymity instead of getting feted by the entire left wing of India (of course that speaks volumes of them).

Having said all that, I would like to say that a puerile man with a diseased mind, M F Hussain should have been protected by strong Indian laws. He should have remained unthreatened. You see, Hinduism, which is the greatest religion in the world, can survive a worm like Hussain. He is gone and will get what he deserves in the afterlife but Hinduism will remain strong and the only guiding light to India. We should ignore annoyances like him and worry about what is truly important. India and what she stands for.

As a patriotic Indian, I respect the laws of the land and expect that all of us adhere to it like our lives depend on it. This is why; I may have sounded like someone who was taking sides with the liberals and the pseudo-seculars on this matter. Of course this is where the similarity between people like me and the liberals ends. I strongly believe that Salman Rushdie has every right to visit India and expect the Indian laws to protect him. On the other hand, the timid response of the liberals and pseudo-secular crowd is flabbergasting. The entire English language media has not made a peep against the Muslim clerics and other Muslim leaders on this matter. No sarcastic comments are coming from the leftist luminaries. You could not shut these people up when they were railing against the Hindus who were angry with M F Hussain.

Here is Digvijay Singh on the matter:

"Who has stopped him? He does not need a visa to come to India," he said, adding that "there is no law" to stop the author from visiting the country.


Wow, such innocence! Of course he dare not say the real reason with UP elections so close. This is nothing but blatant subversion of Indian laws and basic human rights in the name of minority appeasement and votes. But then accusing these people of hypocrisy will be very naïve on my part.


Tuesday, January 17, 2012

What Is A National Shame, Mr. PM?

Caste system is a national shame. Dowry is a national shame. Female feticide is a national shame. Child labor is a national shame. Regionalism is a national shame. It is a long list but the common element is that in all these is the society. We all share the blame for these ills. But when it comes to an issue like Hunger and malnutrition, the society is not to be blamed. It is the system ergo the government which is to be blamed. So when our esteemed PM goes on record dubbing malnutrition as a national shame (over 40% of our kids are malnourished) I shake my head in dismay. Does this man even know what he is talking about? Our farmers grow enough food to feed us all. If not then we can import food. We can do away with wastes like Commonwealth games and use that money to buy food. We can stop waste of food by building better storages (we have gone hoarse on this blog on these matters). We can step in and stop corrupt practices to ensure the implementation of programs in place. My question to Manmohan Singh is – What can the society do about this? Isn’t this the government’s fault?

Congress has ruled us for more than fifty years of our independent lives. They are always too quick to take the credits for successes. Every achievements gets the Gandhi family name associated with it. But when it comes to failures, the nation gets the blame. It is not national shame Mr. PM, it is your shame. It is your party’s shame. Be a man for once. Accept your missteps.

This government has no right to be in power. They lost any moral authority long time back with just the economic scams. In most countries that would have been enough. I just want to express my outrage at the ineptness of these politicians who are only interested in their Kursi and ensuring the continuation of the Gandhi family rule.

Another small example of such a shame has come to our notice. British tourists shot video footage of semi naked tribal women in exchange for food in Andaman. After this came out the government babus went into a damage control mode. This is what was said in a report:

The Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council had reported sexual exploitation of Jarawa women and recommended action six years before the current furore over a video of half-naked, dancing Jarawa girls. However, it took more than five years — and letters from Sonia to the home and tribal affairs ministries — for the Centre to consider some action in the shape of amendments to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Protection of Aboriginal Tribes) Regulations, 1956.

So what this report wants you to believe is that Sonia Gandhi’s NAC sent a report to Central government a report six years ago and no action has been taken yet. The implication is that Sonia Gandhi is some helpless person with her heart in the right place trying her best to get this inept government to do something about this tragedy. WOW! Step back. Take a breath. Analyze this. IF there ever was a bigger pile of dung then I have not seen it. Everyone knows that the real power rests in the hand of Sonia Gandhi and her chamchas aka NAC. If they want a problem taken care of they can get it done. They mobilized our army to fix the broken bridge to ensure the success of Commonwealth games. If they had a report on the Jarawa tribal issues and no action was taken then it is because they did not give it any priority. Now this is their shame. All the spin to protect the Rajmata is a farce.

My appeal to this government is that please stop talking. If you are not going to do anything then don’t. But please do not speak with forked tongues and add insult to the aam aadmi’s injuries. That is cruel and unusual.

The information for this post was taken from these url’s
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/pm-manmohan-singh-kids-go-hungry-malnutrition-krishna-tirath-icds/1/168377.html
http://newsbullet.in/india/34-more/24513-Six-year%20sloth%20on%20Sonia%20panel%E2%80%99s%20Jarawa%20call