Monday, July 27, 2009
Bloody Marys Bloody double standards
But some how its dissapointing that she hasn't remained her usual self. :P
I expected her to raise kalam's religion as the reason for frisking him. Or is it because Kalam doesn't have any standing in his community? Kalam is more of a Kafir for he reads the Gita, listens to classical music, visits temple. I am sure if a mullah was meted out the same treatment hell would have broken loose in bloody mary's paradise.
Much worse her double standards are well exposed. She doesn't have a single word questioning the "Royal Family" of India and why they are exempt from being "frisked"?
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Witzel shown the boot
http://www.vijayvaani.com/FrmPublicDisplayArticle.aspx?id=715 . Its quite humorous.
I have not read their books, nor do I care to waste my time on those. 2 well researched books, "Eminent Historians" by Arun Shourie and "Aavarana" by S L Byrappa were enough to convince me of the grave injustice done to millions of Indians by the Nehruvian and Marxist academicians. Interestingly these people and their ilks have not produced any scientific data to counter the arguments of Arun Shorie and S L Byrappa. All they have is expletives like "fascist", "hindutva" etc. Typical "Spit and Run" case.
In fact Dr. B.R Ambedkar though not a professional historian, was the first to propound the theory that 1857 war of Indian Independence was nothing more than a Jihadic attempt to establish an Islamic Republic in India in his book Pakistan. Today things are falling in place and there is a clear case for the same. (Read 1857 Jihad by Prof. SheshRao More).
The underlining point is we need to get these "Eminent Historians" to attend more and more conferences and public debates. Defeat them in their own ball game.
One more funny thing to illustrate how illogical these people can get, when I was discussing the issue of manipulation of Indian History a Gandhian friend of mine during a leisurely talk in office , when he had exhausted all expletives against me said "There are always 50% people on both sides of the argument". :P
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Hillary Clinton's Visit and the debate on Education
Since my team lead left his job to join the TFI program, I got to attend a call hosted by a TFI coordinator. The talk was unimpressive because the coordinator was not in a position to answer many critical questions posed by the audience. They have set for themselves lofty ideals of eradicating illiteracy. But they don’t have a time frame to do so, nor do they have resources. They also don’t seem to know that by the time they teach 500 kids the population in the same bracket of illiterate people multiplies manifold. They also didn’t answer my question on what are they planning to do to overcome the general aversion that kids have for studies? Rich or poor I have not come across a kid who is more than happy to study, do his home-work. Everything answer would boil down to “Yeah we know the problem; there are different ways to look at things. Problems are too complex.” If the problems are too complex, they need to split into simple ones. I don’t think it’s any different from the way we solve complex mathematical problems. The underlining point here is not to demean the TFI, but to say that thorough analysis of the Indian education is the first step. They are only looking at one aspect of lack of good teachers, which is just one of the problems out of a pool of many other issues. Moreover it looks like a blatant copy of Teach for America. Why should something work for India, which worked for America?
Now coming to the TFI interacting session, I did find some of the thoughts of Hillary very relevant and most of what Aamir spoke utter nonsense.
Hillary hits the nail on the head, when she says
“But, every child must get that chance to be able to nourish his/her own future and for me education is a great equalizer and a gateway to opportunity. It does start in a family. ”
Exactly, there should be awareness. We don’t see those wonderful rashtriya saksharta mission ads anymore. So where is the awareness?
Her study of the behavioral patterns during Bill Clinton’s governorship in Texas, based on the economic strata is also laudable. Do we have any such scientific studies done in analyzing the problems plaguing Indian education? It’s unfortunate that our over-zealous HRD minister makes lofty statements on introducing grading system, scrapping of 10th board exams, One India One board. All that he can say is that the system has worked in Germany without any study done in Indian context. It’s a farce to say that grading system will reduce the burden and pressure on students. It’s surely a better way of judging students, but it’s bound to increase the pressure on students with weekly tests etc. But, I am surely looking forward for the Right to Education act. Hope Mr.Sibal doesn’t go back on this. He already made a fool out of himself when he said he will scrap 10th board exams and after much uproar he had to swallow his words and limit his experiments to a few CBSE schools.
And now Aamir
“We as a country, as a society should be giving so much importance to teaching that every kid coming out of the college should feel like I want to be teacher. It should be the highest paid job.”
Really!! How will you make teaching the highest paid job dear?? Teachers don’t need money dear; they need social security, state patronage and need to have an inherent quality to serve. Our gurukula system fit the bill in all sense because, the gurukulas got state patronage. The gurus had a sense of duty to the society and the parents of the students made sure the guru and his familys daily needs are met by sending a part of their produce. It’s not to say that we need to have kids begging for alms. But we need to decentralize the education system. Dharmapal records that India had more schools before the arrival of British than after based on his study of British archives. The same proposition was professed by Gandhiji in his newspaper as well. Read Dharmapal’s works here http://www.samanvaya.com/dharampal/ . Can’t we devote some efforts in understanding these works? Can we devote some time in understanding how our ancestors dealt with the issue of education?
One more gem from Aamir: P
“What disturbs me more about education in India is that so much emphasis is given on competition? We have to teach our kids to be loving and caring. ”
The problem is not competition. There shall always be competition in all fields, the best always survive. The problem is too that many people take up “hot” topics. During the pre-independence everyone wanted to become a barrister. Early independence, everyone either wanted to be in civil services or study civil engineering and land a job in the Public works department. Presently it’s no more different we all go with the flow to become IT engineers, Financial Analysts. I will be frank to say that I am also a victim of the same “go with the flow” attitude. I am not to be blamed if I want to go with the flow. Policy makers have the onus on them to invest in the not so hot topics in the larger interest of the nation. How many people want to become archeologists, marine scientists etc? Are we creating quality centers of expertise in all these fields?
BTW, what the eff does Aamir mean when he says we need to teach our kids to be loving and caring? With moral science courses and text books full of Gandhisms we have too many who behave like loving and caring ones. He speaks as though our schools are breeding terrorists and hate-mongers.
One of my friend said such sheer exhibitionism doesn’t even affect 0.000000000003% percent of the population. The need of the hour is not such arm chair discussions. We have had enough of it. What we need is thorough scientific analysis of our education system coupled with concrete actions.
Interestingly the much reviled Saraswati Shishu Mandirs are doing exceptionally well in Orissa. (http://www.indianexpress.com/news/sangh-schools-score-high-in-orissa/483926/0). They don’t have any celebrity endorsements or media sponsors.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
DKP no more
DKP's rendition of Shyamala Dandaka - Part I
DKP's rendition of Shyamala Dandaka - Part II
DKP's rendition of Purandara Dasa Devarnama Entha Chaluvage.
May her soul rest in peace.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Liberal absurdity
Monday, July 13, 2009
Vasudaiva Kutumbakam
Monday, July 6, 2009
Why India needs an alternate Mainstream Media
The biggest irony of a democracy is that people who think and vote are accorded the same status as the ones who vote based on caste, money etc. The Indian media has time and again gone ga ga over Indian democracy without editorials dedicated in the praise of the intellect of the Indian voter. When a pro-hindu party gets elected most editorials read the verdict as triumph of communal forces and hence insulting the intellect of the voters. However when secular governments get elected the same people call it the triumph of secular forces and claim the Indian electorate has buttressed the secular fabric of India. These claims are enough to expose the impartiality of the Indian media. Unfortunately the average Indian voter is fairly illiterate and ignorant to take cognizance of the double standards.
Today’s Indian Media must be reminded of the days of Indira and Pandit Nehru, on how media was gagged all through their rule. Take the example of Indian Express, how Ramnath Goenka and Arun Shourie were regularly persecuted by the Indira Gandhi’s regime. If not for the efforts of Arun Shourie and Ramnath Goenka many misdeeds of the Indira regime wouldnt have come to light. It’s an irony that the media freedom which was ushered in post 1990's i.e. the reform era and strengthened after the NDA government has backfired badly on the country and hindus in particular.
The Indian Media has time and again made an average hindu feel apologetic about his hindu credentials. The Indian media was quick enough to come up with the catch phrase "Hindu terror" when sadhvi pragya was arrested, but it never dared to call terrorist attacks all over India as "Islamic terror", nor did it try to paint the insurgency in the north-east as "Christian terror". The Indian media has never highlighted the double standards of the Babri Masjid committe and how it backtracked on its lofty statements of giving up babri masjid if proven that a temple indeed existed there. Many stories have been written about the attacks on christians in orissa since 1999. Let’s look at the baripada rape case which hogged headlines indicting people of a hindu outfit, but medical tests proved the contrary and it turned out the nun was lying to further the cause of the church. The media never reported the outcome of the case, even though it garnered lot of attention and unnecessarily tainted the VHP. Even in the case of graham staines, the media reported him as a social worker but never talked of his missionary activities. Thanks to Arun shourie and likes who exposed these claims. The killer of graham staines dara singh was linked to the VHP and the general perception is the same till day, but again it needed an Arun shourie to disband the connection. The media even today tries to portray Hindu hriday samrat Shri. Narendra Modi as a mass murderer and never reprimanded the people of the likes of teesta setalvad for fabricating evidence. Vir Sanghvi in has nothing but such words for Sri.Modi, however he doesn’t have the people who were at the helm of affairs when close to 4 lakh kashmiri pundits were rendered homeless. Close to 30% of the people who died in the gujrat riots were hindus. Has the media ever taken up the call for justice for the 4 lakh kashmiri pandits, or the kar-sevaks killed in the godhra carnage? It’s a well known fact that NDTV and The Hindu managed by Prannoy Roy and N Ram respectively owe their allegiance to the Communists. The Rajdeep sardesais, Vir Sanghvis make their love for the secular regimes very evident in their editorials and selective reporting of news. The killings of mostly Muslims in Nandigram didn’t sound communal to these holier than thou secularists. It’s also interesting to observe that the Tehelka magazine doesn’t have a single sting operation conducted against the UPA government in the past 5 years. Instead you find Mr. Tejpal singing paeans on the Gandhi family and MMS. The MSM ignored to report the desecration of 3 temples in Mysore and few channels reported it as a law and order situation, but felt it fit to telecast minor clashes in Bangalore all day long when supposedly carcasses of pig were found in a mosque and called it communal and blamed hindu outfits without prima-facie evidence. Such gross digression from journalistic ethics is a curse on Indian democracy. Its cancerous, and before it spreads it’s important that an alternate responsible media is ushered in the main stream. An alternate medium which acts as watchdog of the democracy as well expose the false claims and agenda of the main stream media. Unfortunately such an alternate pole is missing at the national level both in print and media.
The best example of a state where a significant presence of an alternate media house which has helped citizens form informed opinions has undoubtedly been in Karnataka. Despite Karnataka hogging the highlights in the national media for all wrong reasons be it the attacks by rama-sene, attacks on the church and the charlie chaplin episode the bad press didnt have any impact on the electoral outcome. Reason being a few news papers in Karnataka have time and again exposed the hollow claims of the seculars. During the rama sene fiasco the local newspapers were the first to point out the presence of the husband of a congress councilor amongst the hooligans who hit the pub going females. Papers were vociferous in exposing the double-speak of seculars like Girish Karnad and U R AnathaMurthy. The national media never reported these facts. After the scholarly work of SL Byrappa on Tipu Sultan in Avarana, a secular organization like "KaraVe" had to protest against naming the Bangalore International airport in the name of a Jihadi like Tipu Sultan. A section of media in karnataka had been instrumental in exposing the true colors of missionaries when they clearly exposed the contents of the blasphemous book Satyadarshini, which defiles all Hindu gods and traditions. The National media never highlighted the FIRs and the requests for banning the book that have been lodged since 2006 by the Bajrang Dal. But if someone had made such disparaging remarks on prophets of other religions Rajdeep Sardesais and Sagarika Ghose would have cried foul. What else explains the fact that despite heavy minority turnout and Mangalore being the hub of hindutva politics for close to 2 decades now, the seculars had to face defeat infront a novice like Nalin Kumar Katil. The opposition cried foul when Yeddiyurappa's government took a revolutionary decision to free the Gokarna temple from governmental control and transfer it to the Ramachandrapur mutt. It needed a scathing article by Sri.Pratapsimha to silence the opposition. Unlike the Vir Sanghvis, Tarun Tejpals who have nothing but eulogy for the seculars, the same journalists in Karnataka have been extremely critical of the Yeddiyurappa government on various issues. Such synergy and alternate viewpoint undoubtedly creates a medium of debate and helps citizens to make informed choices.
However a state like Tamil Nadu presents a different case. The main reason why a state like tamilnadu hasnt been able to overthrow the bigotic karunanidhi is the fact that they control most of the tamil media. There have been repeated attacks on hindus in kanyakumari by christians, There have been repeated protests against removal of hanuman statue in kanyakumari. There have been repeated protests by the locals in madurai against installation of the statue of Ramaswami naiker (a hindu baiter and atheist) in front of the meenakshi temple. But nevertheless people outside these local areas donot know the ground realities. Never was karunanidi reprimanded for his hate speech against the brahmins, but the media is ready to jump the gun and proclaim Varun Gandhi guilty. It needed a brave man like Subramaniam swamy to put a full stop to the anti-brahmin fusillade of Karunanidi. All that Mr. Swamy had to do was to remind ThiruKa that Ravana whom ThiruKa eulogizes was born in Brahmin caste. It was Mr.Swamy who took up the case of kanchi acharya Jayendra Saraswati, it was the same Mr. Swamy who took up the case of rama-sethu and exposed both TR Balu and ThiruKa. Interestingly the main stream media never actively followed the spectrum allocation scam running into crores by the IT minister D Raja. At the end of the day Mr. Swamy is a one man army, you cannot expect any more.
Karnataka and Tamil nadu present contrasting examples of how media can make or mar public opinion. With people like Baba Ramdev getting into media business, it just gives hope at the end of the road that the issues concerning the Hindu samaj and the demonization of hindu organisations like VHP,attacks on hindu institutions, illegal detention and false cases against our dharmic gurus like Asaram Bapu, Acharya Jayendra Saraswati etc are pursued with vigor to protect our dharma from the external aggression. India today needs responsible media which follows by the tenets of “Satyam vada, Dharmam Chara”.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Netaji Bose: Mystery around his death
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose has been one of the greatest sons of Mother India. He has inspired millions during and after the freedom struggle . Netaji was the most reviled personality by the British Raj. They saw Netaji as an imminent threat to British supremacy. Netaji through his Indian National Army (INA) set out to do something as different and diamterically opposite as Gandhijis satyagraha. It invoked great response amongst the Indian military cadres in the British raj that formed close to 90% majority. The INA venture is regarded as a big fiasco in our history books which has been written mostly by communists and congressmen to further their ideological cause. Nevertheless the reasons for INA's failure have never been discussed to make an average Indian aware of the impact that Netaji had on the freedom struggle. Indeed INA didn’t succeed in its goal of freeing India, nor did Gandhijis Dandi march or the Quit India movement. INA did set a trend, culminating in Royal navy mutiny of 1946. The reasons the then PM of Britain Clement Attlee enunciated for making India an independent nation does mention the economical instability due to World War-II, loyalty of Indian armed forces etc. Clement Attlee in a debate with Winston Churchill on the issue of Indian independence in the House of Commons asked Churchill if he could assure the loyalty of the British-Indian armed forces to the Raj. Churchill didn’t have an answer. Thanks to the communist and the congress propaganda these facts have never been reported.
It was well known that Nehru and Bose didn’t see eye to eye on various issues. Nehru always considered Bose as a political adversary. Despite immense popularity of Bose in India, the congress governments of Nehru-Indira didn’t consider it fit to unveil the portrait of Bose in the parliament house. It took the janata government headed by Morarji desai and efforts of parliamentarian Samar Guha, a die-hard Bose fan to accord due recognition to Bose 30 years after Indian independence by unveiling his portrait in the parliament house. Even today the pariah status of INA veterans is appalling. It’s also a fact that even after 60 years of Independence Netaji’s death is shrouded in mystery and the subsequent governments never had the urge or political will to enliven debate on the issue and bring a logical conclusion to the same.
I happened to chance upon the book “Back from the Dead- Inside the Subhas Bose Mystery” written by Anuj Dhar when I was casually browsing the internet. This book caught my attention and without much ado I ordered the same from Manas publications. It took close to a fortnight for me to read this book 400 page book carefully. The book is well reserached. Anuj Dhar deserves accolades for his efforts in demystifying the Netajis death mystery. The book also reveals some shocking outcomes of his investigation. This investigation was published in the Hindustan times but nevertheless it never caught the attention that it indeed deserved through other media houses.
I will list some of the important takeaways from the book.
- The myth that he died on Aug 17th 1945 in a plane crash at Taipei is complete farce and no such plane crash took place.
- Why would Nehru always jump the gun and declare Netaji dead, whenever the issue propped up during parliamentary debates?
- Why did the Shah Nawaz and Khosla committe do such a shoddy job on investigating the issue? How could a commission that is investigating the plane crash theory ascertain a plane crash without visiting the site of crash?
- Why is it that all files related to Netaji got destroyed in the governmental archives? Who destroyed them, why and how??
- It’s clear that Netaji orchestrated his death with Japanese help. If so where did he proceed to? It’s likely that he went to Russia through Manchuria to meet Stalin. Why is it that our government has not been willing to approach the Russian authorities now that the communist regime is dead and Russians are more than willing to part with information?
- Why is it that Capt Lakshmi Sehgal, an INA veteran who all through her life didn’t accept the plane crash theory suddenly change color to support the plane crash? Does it have something to do with her nomination for presidential post against Dr.Kalam?
- Why did the government of Manmohan Singh reject the findings of Mukherjee commission set up by the NDA government which clearly ruled out the plane crash theory without citing any reasons?
- Its believed that Netaji died in 1985 as Bhagwanji alias Gumnami baba alias dashnami baba in Faizabad. How is it that Bhagwanji was in possesion of many items related to Bose?
- The interesting twist is that the handwriting of Bhagwanji matched with that of Bose. Thanks to Anuj Dhar and Hindustan times for the same. Why has the government not taken cognizance of this fact?
- Why is the government not willing to get DNA test done on the ashes believed to be of Netajis housed in Renkoji temple, Japan?
- Why did the PV Narasimha Rao government jump the gun and declare Bharat Ratna “posthumously” to Netaji when there was no conclusive evidence of his death?
- Did pranab Mukherjee meet Bose's daughter in germany? Did that make her change her stance on Bose's death and comply with the plane crash theory?
- Letters written by RSS chief Golwalkar highly eulogizing Bhagwanji were found. What is the link between an obscure Baba and the RSS chief?
There are many such loopholes that Shri. Anuj Dhar has pointed out and one needs to read the book to get the real feel for it. As they say that "Truth can never be suppressed". Anuj Dhar’s work is the starting point. The need of the hour is to bring awareness amongst fellow Indians about the same and hence coerce the government to take a stance on this issue and close the matter at once and bring a logical conclusion to the same. India deserves to know what happened to the greatest son of Mother India.