By: M.V. KAMATH
Saturday, 11 October, 2008 , 03:42 PM
When so-called Communalism raises its head and disturbances spread as they have in Orissa, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh in recent times, one can be assured that the first to be condemned would be the Bharatiya Janata Party and, Of course, the Vishva Hindu Parishad.
At the Central Government level thought is given to the imposition of Article 355 which demands better enforcement of vigilance in the State and stricter enforcement of Law and order against rioters. No questions are asked either by the law enforcers or by our high-minded media as to what, in the first place, caused disturbances. The automatic presumption is that Hindu fundamentalists are behind the riots. The BJP is dismissed as natural advocates of Hindu chauvinism. It is in this context that one must make an inquiry into why disturbances took place in Mangalore and some orban areas in North Karnataka. Hardly anybody is aware of the existence of a religious body called ‘My Life’ and a publication called ‘Satya Darshini’ which is distributed among an innocent public. The latest issue carried an atricle that set the first spark of anger. It is a wholesale condemnation of Hinduism and its gods in the most offensive language. To quote a few examples transited from the original Kannada : ‘Urvashi, daughter of Mahavishnu, is a prostitute, Vasishta is this prostitute’s son. He married his own mother. It is this despicable man who Ram, considered by Hindus as a God, chose to be his teacher (Gurn)’.
Quote two : ‘Brahma himself is the one who kidnapped Sita. Brahma, Vishnu and shiva are sex-obsessed and it is these three who are regarded by Hindus as Gods. When such is the case, how is it possible for the triumvirate to give moksha to Hindus?’
A third quote : ‘When a golden deer appeared in front of the hutment of Ram during his vanavaas (life in the forest) and sits asked Ram to get it for her, instead of enlightening her, Ram went after the animal. Isn’t such a man stupid? How can such a man be God?’
The article quotes a stanza from Aranyakanda which quotes Ram as saying that he had committed many sins in his past life and in his current existence, he is paying for them. Says the article : ‘How can such a man be God?’
There are more such insinuations at Hindu Gods. Now there are two ways of treating such kind of various writings. One, as our secularists would recommend, is to laugh and dismiss them as the ravings of ‘Mad Man’. But in reality the sense of enlightened humor of our secularists does not come naturally to many devout Hindus who feel insulted. Their reaction, in the circumstances, is predictable. It has probably never occurred to our secular UPA government that Hindus are also human beings who could say that if hurt, they too would bleed? Some weeks ago The Hindu carried an article from its own correspondent, Praveen Wwami quoting an e-mail sent by the Indian Mujahideen, prior to the serial bombing of Ahmedabad, which said : ‘Oh Hindus, haven’t you still realised the falsehood of your 33 crore mud idols and the blasphemy of your deaf, dumb, mute and naked idols of Ram, Krishna and Hanuman are not going to save your necks, Insha Allah, from being slaughtered by our hands?’
And there is more on those lines. Hindus are expected to have another good laugh at this profanity say our secularists : ‘Why can’t we laugh at such idiosyncracies? Not all Muslims think that ways. Only such ‘Idiosyncracies’ are followed by serial bombings that kill dozens of innocent people. Protestant missionaries get away with any thing. Evangelists are protected by people in power, like George Bush in the United States. Bush is an honest man. He claims to be a born-again Christian and not a Secularist. As late as 29 January 2001 Bush apparently took a faith-based policy decision and established an office for an organisation called Project Joshua whose official mission was conversion in India. According to reports, the office was opened in the White House and was headed by a man Called Jim Howey, who is believed to have been legal counsel to Mother Teresa in the 1980s. In an article by one Bebdas Thakur in The New Indian Express (10 September), a plan was prepared for conversion ‘With military precision’ According to him, ‘all ethnographic information about India’s every nook and corner was made available in the US at the click of a mouse through Transnational Missionary Organisation (TMOs)’.
The aim was to reach out to low caste Hindus and Indian tribals. Are we to believe that Project Joshus was spending billions of dollars out of overflowing leave for scheduled caste and tribal People? Whom is it fooling? What the missionaries get away with is the excuse that they are only ‘propagating’ Christianity and not converting anyone. They point out that the Indian Constitution permits propagation, so what are they doing? We are led to think that if any tribal or dalit family adopts Christianity it is out of sheer goodwill and under no compulsion whatsoever. We are expected to believe it. And we do. The country is hung by its own petard and one can almost hear the loud laughter in the White House on the naivette of Indians and how Indians can be duped through their own laws. In any event no Hindu is expected to complain against missionaries. And the more our secularists indulge in their tomfoolery, the more upset become many Hindus who feel betrayed by their own countrymen. Worse, they have to accept the tag of communalism of the worst kind. It is to this sorry state that we have come to. India’s respect for the law is cleverly and regularly misused.
To the country’s disadvantage, missionaries sneak into India. Does anyone remember a man called Kenneth Haywood, living in an apartment in Mumbai’s suburbs whose cover was recently blown up by an extremely smart Islamic terrorist group that backed into his internet connection? Why was he given a visa to visit India in the first place? The man has since apparently returned to United States. The police found out that he had links with a radical Christian Group called Door Christian Centre which is part of the Pentecostal Christian Fellowship Ministries and which avers that ‘every believer has a personal responsibility to win souls into God’s Kingdom’, which, in plain language means one should get as many converts as possible into the Christian fold by any means possible. The tragedy is that our own laws are used to damn us, which, one supposes, serves us right. That does not matter to secularists. Like God’s children, secularists can do no wrong. Only devoted Hindus are to be downright blamed for their communalism. We live in a world of inverted logic.
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
A Secular Protocol
By Tarun Vijay
Patience is the key that defines facilitating others’ survival more than your own. Earth, mother we call her, symbolises that element of life. She le ts the barbarian exploit her boons and the bliss , and waits for a millennium to show she is angry.
Indian society, which believes in the values of the civilisational flow so painstakingly preserved and handed over to us, is being subjected the same kind of test of patience by the forces that represent the colors of Roman and Arab ancestry.
Like history can’t be understood through secondary or tertiary sources, original references have to be consulted, watershed incidents in a nation’s life have to be analysed through original events. Hence after Meenakshipuram, the forced exodus of Kashmiri Hindus, Godhra and Kandhmal murders, its now the turn of Bodo Hindus in Assam to face Muslim attacks.
So far 40 Hindus have been reported killed and 76,000 people have left their villages out of fear and taken refuge in 32 state government camps in Udalguri and Darrang. Twelve villages have been burnt. In Jhakuapara village the gaon budhaa (village head) was burnt alive along with his mother and sister. It all began after local Hindus resisted the forcible occupation of their lands by Muslims. The area has suddenly seen Bodo Hindus reduced to a minority and a spurt in the activities of the All Assam Minority Students Union (AMSU), SIMI, All Assam Muslim Chatra Parishad and Muslim Students Association (MUSA). Now, having burnt Hindu villages and forced them to flee, Muslims are occupying the villages vacated by Hindus.
The Assam United Democratic Front (AUDF - Badruddin Ajmal’s Muslim Political Party) MLA Rasul Haq Bahadur and AAMSU president Abdul Aziz have been demanding a separate autonomous area for the Muslims in lower Assam. The recent violence is considered as a ‘warming up’ exercise’ to chase away Hindus from their traditional hamlets.
Saw any report or interviews of the victims or front page ’shame’ editorials condemning the roasting alive of Hindus, or making them refugees in their own land? Got any call from Vatican or admonishment from Paris? Sorry, the victims happened to be Hindus so we can devote our space and time on matters more earthly like ICL cricket and red alerts in the stock exchange.
Hate sells. The more you add poison to it, the more you get elevated on the scales of leadership and fame. They say terrorism is the main issue. But do you think any one wants to fight it? All that appears on the list are a few ghastly pictures of the terror-struck common people, a few ‘good’ slogans, emotional lines of poetry and the election plank is ready. Greed, intolerance, revenge and bigotry of the secular kind have taken centrestage to constitutionalise a hate regime that thrives on disrobing India of her unique characteristics. Anything that defines that uniqueness is under assault and like a colonial dispensation; this has become a business of profit and comfort. Grants, awards and fellowships are reserved for those who yield and say yes to the secular protocol that defines India as a non-Hindu entity, using terms like ’shackled in the old’, ‘outdated’, ‘obscurantist Brahmanism’ and ‘weird ritualism which makes the practitioner rigid, backward looking’ and ‘pot-bellied, unintelligent creature with a tuft’.
The sultans of this secular protocol define an assertive Hindu as anti-women, anti-minority (read Muslims and Christians), Hindi chauvinist, having a fossilized vision that tries to revive a dead language like Sanskrit, worshipper of snakes, rats, cow, phallus, trees, who uses cow urine, cow dung for various purposes including medicine. They light fire and throw some herbs to please gods, who are elephant-shaped, and use peacocks, oxen and owls as their vehicles. They have to be civilized. And to do that they get grants from the ministry of culture.
Patience is the key that defines facilitating others’ survival more than your own. Earth, mother we call her, symbolises that element of life. She le ts the barbarian exploit her boons and the bliss , and waits for a millennium to show she is angry.
Indian society, which believes in the values of the civilisational flow so painstakingly preserved and handed over to us, is being subjected the same kind of test of patience by the forces that represent the colors of Roman and Arab ancestry.
Like history can’t be understood through secondary or tertiary sources, original references have to be consulted, watershed incidents in a nation’s life have to be analysed through original events. Hence after Meenakshipuram, the forced exodus of Kashmiri Hindus, Godhra and Kandhmal murders, its now the turn of Bodo Hindus in Assam to face Muslim attacks.
So far 40 Hindus have been reported killed and 76,000 people have left their villages out of fear and taken refuge in 32 state government camps in Udalguri and Darrang. Twelve villages have been burnt. In Jhakuapara village the gaon budhaa (village head) was burnt alive along with his mother and sister. It all began after local Hindus resisted the forcible occupation of their lands by Muslims. The area has suddenly seen Bodo Hindus reduced to a minority and a spurt in the activities of the All Assam Minority Students Union (AMSU), SIMI, All Assam Muslim Chatra Parishad and Muslim Students Association (MUSA). Now, having burnt Hindu villages and forced them to flee, Muslims are occupying the villages vacated by Hindus.
The Assam United Democratic Front (AUDF - Badruddin Ajmal’s Muslim Political Party) MLA Rasul Haq Bahadur and AAMSU president Abdul Aziz have been demanding a separate autonomous area for the Muslims in lower Assam. The recent violence is considered as a ‘warming up’ exercise’ to chase away Hindus from their traditional hamlets.
Saw any report or interviews of the victims or front page ’shame’ editorials condemning the roasting alive of Hindus, or making them refugees in their own land? Got any call from Vatican or admonishment from Paris? Sorry, the victims happened to be Hindus so we can devote our space and time on matters more earthly like ICL cricket and red alerts in the stock exchange.
Hate sells. The more you add poison to it, the more you get elevated on the scales of leadership and fame. They say terrorism is the main issue. But do you think any one wants to fight it? All that appears on the list are a few ghastly pictures of the terror-struck common people, a few ‘good’ slogans, emotional lines of poetry and the election plank is ready. Greed, intolerance, revenge and bigotry of the secular kind have taken centrestage to constitutionalise a hate regime that thrives on disrobing India of her unique characteristics. Anything that defines that uniqueness is under assault and like a colonial dispensation; this has become a business of profit and comfort. Grants, awards and fellowships are reserved for those who yield and say yes to the secular protocol that defines India as a non-Hindu entity, using terms like ’shackled in the old’, ‘outdated’, ‘obscurantist Brahmanism’ and ‘weird ritualism which makes the practitioner rigid, backward looking’ and ‘pot-bellied, unintelligent creature with a tuft’.
The sultans of this secular protocol define an assertive Hindu as anti-women, anti-minority (read Muslims and Christians), Hindi chauvinist, having a fossilized vision that tries to revive a dead language like Sanskrit, worshipper of snakes, rats, cow, phallus, trees, who uses cow urine, cow dung for various purposes including medicine. They light fire and throw some herbs to please gods, who are elephant-shaped, and use peacocks, oxen and owls as their vehicles. They have to be civilized. And to do that they get grants from the ministry of culture.
By Tarun Vijay
Patience is the key that defines facilitating others’ survival more than your own. Earth, mother we call her, symbolises that element of life. She le ts the barbarian exploit her boons and the bliss , and waits for a millennium to show she is angry.
Indian society, which believes in the values of the civilisational flow so painstakingly preserved and handed over to us, is being subjected the same kind of test of patience by the forces that represent the colors of Roman and Arab ancestry.
Like history can’t be understood through secondary or tertiary sources, original references have to be consulted, watershed incidents in a nation’s life have to be analysed through original events. Hence after Meenakshipuram, the forced exodus of Kashmiri Hindus, Godhra and Kandhmal murders, its now the turn of Bodo Hindus in Assam to face Muslim attacks.
So far 40 Hindus have been reported killed and 76,000 people have left their villages out of fear and taken refuge in 32 state government camps in Udalguri and Darrang. Twelve villages have been burnt. In Jhakuapara village the gaon budhaa (village head) was burnt alive along with his mother and sister. It all began after local Hindus resisted the forcible occupation of their lands by Muslims. The area has suddenly seen Bodo Hindus reduced to a minority and a spurt in the activities of the All Assam Minority Students Union (AMSU), SIMI, All Assam Muslim Chatra Parishad and Muslim Students Association (MUSA). Now, having burnt Hindu villages and forced them to flee, Muslims are occupying the villages vacated by Hindus.
The Assam United Democratic Front (AUDF - Badruddin Ajmal’s Muslim Political Party) MLA Rasul Haq Bahadur and AAMSU president Abdul Aziz have been demanding a separate autonomous area for the Muslims in lower Assam. The recent violence is considered as a ‘warming up’ exercise’ to chase away Hindus from their traditional hamlets.
Saw any report or interviews of the victims or front page ’shame’ editorials condemning the roasting alive of Hindus, or making them refugees in their own land? Got any call from Vatican or admonishment from Paris? Sorry, the victims happened to be Hindus so we can devote our space and time on matters more earthly like ICL cricket and red alerts in the stock exchange.
Hate sells. The more you add poison to it, the more you get elevated on the scales of leadership and fame. They say terrorism is the main issue. But do you think any one wants to fight it? All that appears on the list are a few ghastly pictures of the terror-struck common people, a few ‘good’ slogans, emotional lines of poetry and the election plank is ready. Greed, intolerance, revenge and bigotry of the secular kind have taken centrestage to constitutionalise a hate regime that thrives on disrobing India of her unique characteristics. Anything that defines that uniqueness is under assault and like a colonial dispensation; this has become a business of profit and comfort. Grants, awards and fellowships are reserved for those who yield and say yes to the secular protocol that defines India as a non-Hindu entity, using terms like ’shackled in the old’, ‘outdated’, ‘obscurantist Brahmanism’ and ‘weird ritualism which makes the practitioner rigid, backward looking’ and ‘pot-bellied, unintelligent creature with a tuft’.
The sultans of this secular protocol define an assertive Hindu as anti-women, anti-minority (read Muslims and Christians), Hindi chauvinist, having a fossilized vision that tries to revive a dead language like Sanskrit, worshipper of snakes, rats, cow, phallus, trees, who uses cow urine, cow dung for various purposes including medicine. They light fire and throw some herbs to please gods, who are elephant-shaped, and use peacocks, oxen and owls as their vehicles. They have to be civilized. And to do that they get grants from the ministry of culture.
Patience is the key that defines facilitating others’ survival more than your own. Earth, mother we call her, symbolises that element of life. She le ts the barbarian exploit her boons and the bliss , and waits for a millennium to show she is angry.
Indian society, which believes in the values of the civilisational flow so painstakingly preserved and handed over to us, is being subjected the same kind of test of patience by the forces that represent the colors of Roman and Arab ancestry.
Like history can’t be understood through secondary or tertiary sources, original references have to be consulted, watershed incidents in a nation’s life have to be analysed through original events. Hence after Meenakshipuram, the forced exodus of Kashmiri Hindus, Godhra and Kandhmal murders, its now the turn of Bodo Hindus in Assam to face Muslim attacks.
So far 40 Hindus have been reported killed and 76,000 people have left their villages out of fear and taken refuge in 32 state government camps in Udalguri and Darrang. Twelve villages have been burnt. In Jhakuapara village the gaon budhaa (village head) was burnt alive along with his mother and sister. It all began after local Hindus resisted the forcible occupation of their lands by Muslims. The area has suddenly seen Bodo Hindus reduced to a minority and a spurt in the activities of the All Assam Minority Students Union (AMSU), SIMI, All Assam Muslim Chatra Parishad and Muslim Students Association (MUSA). Now, having burnt Hindu villages and forced them to flee, Muslims are occupying the villages vacated by Hindus.
The Assam United Democratic Front (AUDF - Badruddin Ajmal’s Muslim Political Party) MLA Rasul Haq Bahadur and AAMSU president Abdul Aziz have been demanding a separate autonomous area for the Muslims in lower Assam. The recent violence is considered as a ‘warming up’ exercise’ to chase away Hindus from their traditional hamlets.
Saw any report or interviews of the victims or front page ’shame’ editorials condemning the roasting alive of Hindus, or making them refugees in their own land? Got any call from Vatican or admonishment from Paris? Sorry, the victims happened to be Hindus so we can devote our space and time on matters more earthly like ICL cricket and red alerts in the stock exchange.
Hate sells. The more you add poison to it, the more you get elevated on the scales of leadership and fame. They say terrorism is the main issue. But do you think any one wants to fight it? All that appears on the list are a few ghastly pictures of the terror-struck common people, a few ‘good’ slogans, emotional lines of poetry and the election plank is ready. Greed, intolerance, revenge and bigotry of the secular kind have taken centrestage to constitutionalise a hate regime that thrives on disrobing India of her unique characteristics. Anything that defines that uniqueness is under assault and like a colonial dispensation; this has become a business of profit and comfort. Grants, awards and fellowships are reserved for those who yield and say yes to the secular protocol that defines India as a non-Hindu entity, using terms like ’shackled in the old’, ‘outdated’, ‘obscurantist Brahmanism’ and ‘weird ritualism which makes the practitioner rigid, backward looking’ and ‘pot-bellied, unintelligent creature with a tuft’.
The sultans of this secular protocol define an assertive Hindu as anti-women, anti-minority (read Muslims and Christians), Hindi chauvinist, having a fossilized vision that tries to revive a dead language like Sanskrit, worshipper of snakes, rats, cow, phallus, trees, who uses cow urine, cow dung for various purposes including medicine. They light fire and throw some herbs to please gods, who are elephant-shaped, and use peacocks, oxen and owls as their vehicles. They have to be civilized. And to do that they get grants from the ministry of culture.
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