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Tensions high in British town after Muslim youths attack white girls
Tensions high in British town after Muslim youths attack white girls A video from earlier this week claims to show a gang of Muslim youths attacking white girls in the town of Ashton-under-Lyne Tensions are running high in the northern English town of Ashton-underLyne after a video circulating online showed a gang of what is reported as British-Pakistani youths attacking young white girls at a bus stop. The incident, which occured in the town just outside of Manchester, has led to a number of groups calling for a march or rally in the town this coming Saturday, with the English Defence League quickly setting up an Ashton-Under-Lyne branch of the group. The video, which has been removed from YouTube but can still be found on LiveLeak, describes the incident last night as, This is a video that has been taken in Ashton Under Lyne, England that shows a gang of Muslim youths attacking a group of white kids. Just before the filming had started one of the muslim youths had punched one of the white girls in the face. This is becoming a regular occurence on the streets of the UK.

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This is what democracy does to Muslim societies


Afghan parliament upholds right to marry children Afghanistans parliament has rejected a measure that would have barred men from marrying girls younger than 16, saying the proposal ran counter to Islamic ideology.

The measure also would have banned baad, [the] traditional practice of buying or selling women to settle disputes, and outlawed criminal charges being imposed on rape victims, Breitbart reported. Rape victims in Afghanistan often are charged with fornication or adultery. President Hamid Karzai reportedly supported the measures, but opponents said they violate[d] Islamic principles, Breitbart reported.

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June 11, 2013 4:38 pm

This is what they do to Hindu women for Muslim votes


Can those Hindu traitors be identified who ordered this operation to ensnare an innocent Hindu religious woman so that they could get Muslim votes to rule over the Hindus? Sadhvi Pragya and the Malegaon mess Vicky Nanjappa Is the Malegaon 2006 blast case doomed? It started off with the Maharashtra ATS arresting several Muslim youth claiming that they were behind this attack and over the years the theory changed and a new set of accused comprising Hindus came into the fray. There was so much hoopla around the arrest of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur who was named as one of the main accused in the case. However what is surprising is that her name does not even figure in the chargesheet which has been filed by the National Investigation Agency which took over the case from the Maharashtra ATS. Sources tell rediff.com that there was not enough evidence on hand to file a chargesheet against Sadhvi Pragya Singh and even if they were to file a supplementary chargesheet her name may not figure in it. The question now is whether Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur will walk free after spending so many years in jail despite her health condition deteriorating. Her legal team says that it is a good sign that her name does not figure in the Malegaon 2006 chargesheet and they see this as a positive. It becomes clear that allegations against were thrown in the heat of the movement and when it finally came to closing the case there was not enough evidence against her. Read More

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June 10, 2013 7:38 am

Christianity & Islam: Politics masquerading as religion


I am a big fan of Sita Ram Goel, a great Hindu thinker and writer who died in 2003. I suggest you read all his books, starting from Jesus Christ: Artifice for Aggression. This will be an eye opener for you as well as Christian monotheists. His other books are available at this link you can read them online. Christianity & Islam: Politics masquerading as religion By Sita Ram Goel

Hindu society has to understand very clearly that what it is faced with in the form of Christianity and Islam are not religions but imperialist ideologies whose appetite has been whetted by running roughshod over a large part of the world. Hindu society is making a serious, almost a fatal mistake, in appealing to these ideologies in the name of reason and morality which are supposed to accompany religion. This sort of appeal is bound to fail because it falls on deaf ears. Sita Ram Goel The Sufi as mystic The story which I am now going to tell is true. I remember it word by word, although it happened twenty-five years ago.[1] A young Muslim sufi from Kashmir was telling us about the teachings of his guru (this was the word he used for his teacher) who had died some years earlier. Pryma was a prominent part of these teachings. This again was the term he used, though he did not know even the Hindi language, not to speak of Sanskrit. The sufi was a very simple and unassuming person. He had had no schooling. And he made his living by the humble occupation of a tailor. But we were fascinated by what he told us about the techniques used by his guru for his spiritual training. His language was straightforward without the slightest touch of pedantry. As the conversation drew to a close someone from among us started to play a record of padvali krtan by one of the few famous femalke specialists from Bengal. The sufi was visibly moved by the pathos in Radhas pining for Sri Krishna who had left Vrindavana for Mathura. Soon after the music stopped, he exclaimed, Ais gn hamn k hazr baras bd sun (I have heard this sort of music after a thousand years). His eyes were brimming with tears which he was trying to hide. We were amazed. He was in his thirties. He could not have been in this world a thousand years ago. What did he mean by that statement? We requested him to explain. He said in a voice full of innocence: Pahle janam m sun hog (I must have heard it in an earlier life). I became agog with curiosity. He was talking of transmigration. So I asked him, p ky is zindg s pahl janam k bt mnat hain (Do you believe in a birth before this present life)? The sufi seemed to be somewhat annoyed. He asked a counter-question in a tone which had a touch of temper: p mazhab k sawl kyo utht hain (Why are you raising a theological controversy)? I was puzzled by his reply, as was everybody else. I had not the slightest intention to annoy him. He was our guest. I had asked the question out of sheer curiosity. So I came forward with a clarification, and said, Sfj, p musalmn hain. Islm k h janam mnat hai. pn pahle janam k bt kah, isliy sawl uThy th (You are a Muslim. Islam recognises only one life. You talk about an earlier life. That is why I had asked the question). He relaxed and explained: Mazhab t wah bt kaht hai. Lekin mai t rz k bt kah rah th (It is true that theology says that. But I was talking of the esoteric way). We were surprised by this distinction. This was a new revelation to us this separation of esoterism from theology. The sufi continued: Rz k bt ham sab k sman nah kaht. Yeh t mai p logo se kah rah th (We do not talk of the esoteric way before everybody. It is only to you people that I was talking about it). All of us asked simultaneously: Kyo (Why)? The suf said, Woh log (those people) and without completing the sentence he put the edge of his outstretched palm on his throat and moved it across. He was trying to convey that those people would cut his throat. We asked him about those people. Who were they? He did not name any. But he became gloomy. It was obvious that he did not like to continue the dialogue, which we dropped immediately. I was sure in my mind that nobody was going to cut his throat these days even if he proclaimed publicly what he believed privately. Times had changed. Moreover, he was a citizen of India, not of an Islamic theocracy. Yet the alarm in his voice was unmistakable. I knew how Mansur al-Hallaj had been tortured to death by an Islamic state prompted by Islamic theologians for saying that he himself was the Haqq (Truth). But that was all. I had not yet read any detailed history of Sufism, nor compared or contrasted the doctrines of Sufism with the dogmas of prophetic Islam. It was years later when I made such a study and came to know of the rishi tradition in Kashmir Sufism, that I was suddenly reminded of that talk with the young sufi that day. He was obviously referring to the tradition of terror which had silenced the sups of the rishi tradition, and forced them to keep in their breasts the best of their knowledge. The memory of that terror, it seemed, was still intact in

the mind of this sufi. The Sufi as fanatic My studies in Sufism also brought back to my mind another encounter with another sufi at about the same time. He was an elderly man. He was quite learned in his own way, and could discuss various religious and philosophical doctrines with some knowledge. He could also manage some English in which language he also wrote an occasional pamphlet. The incident which I shall now relate took place when I met him for the first time, though I had heard a lot about him from a close friend. I was staying by myself in the house of this friend when this sufi dropped in one day. I requested him to stay with me for a few days and give me the benefit of his company. He agreed and we had quite a few fruitful sessions during which we talked about mysticism and the rest, without touching the subject of Islam or Hinduism. I was impressed. His language was quite forceful, particularly when he made fun of atheists, materialists, and mere philosophers. One day I was reading an Urdu translation of Sarmads Persian poems when the sufi came into my room and sat down by my side. I put away the book and had another long talk with him. Then I left the room because I had a few other things to do. When I returned after about half an hour, I found the sufi reading the same book by Sarmad. A few days earlier I had heard him talking about Sarmad with reverence and in a language of fulsome praise. So I sat down quietly in a corner and waited for him to read out and explain some significant lines from that book. But I was taken aback when he suddenly threw the book against the opposite wall with some violence and shouted, Harmzd kfir h th (The bastard was an infidel indeed)! I picked up the book, brought it back to the sufi, and asked him to show me the lines that had enraged him so uncontrollably. He leafed through the book and finally put his finger on two lines almost towards the end. I cannot recall the exact words of the couplet but I remember very well the message that was conveyed. Sarmad had addressed himself as follows: O Sarmad! What is it that goes on happening to you? You started as a follower of Moses. Next you put your faith in Muhammad. And now at last you have become a devotee of Rm and Lachhman. I could see nothing wrong or improper in this couplet. Sarmad was only telling the story of his seeking which had led him from Moses to Muhammad to Rma and LakshmaNa. I had not read the book as fast and as far as the sufi had done. Nor did I know the real reason for which Sarmad had been beheaded in Delhi by the order of Aurangzeb. All I had heard was that Sarmad used to roam about naked on the roads of this imperial city. I had supposed that he had been punished for his impudence in the midst of a polished society which placed immense importance on being properly dressed. It was years later that I learnt the real nature of Sarmads crime. It was apostasy which is punishable with death according to the law of Islam laid down by the Prophet himself during the days of his tussle with the polytheists of Mecca. I have never lost my respect for this second sufi. He is a man of character endowed with a keen mind and a good knowledge of what passes for mysticism in Islam. But he becomes absolutely impregnable, indeed an insufferable fanatic, when it comes to the dogmas of prophetic Islam. His contempt for everything Hindu comes through clearly whenever he publishes a pamphlet. Hindus, he says, are worshippers of kankhajrs (scorpions), khatmals (bugs), gy k gobar (cowdung), and Kl. How he has worked out this combination of four filthy things has always defied my imagination. But one thing becomes obvious whenever he opens him mouth, namely, that he derives immense satisfaction by portraying Hinduism in this picturesque manner. Sometimes I feel that the very vehemence of his language against Hinduism helps him keep the fire of his fanaticism burning. Whenever he is in this mood, it is impossible to have a word edgewise with him, or make him realize that he is being downright ridiculous.[2] The Christian missionary and the mystic I had the same experience an year earlier with a Catholic missionary who was trying to convert me to his own creed. He had taken me to a monastery in a mountainous region, and put me into what the Christians call a retreat. The very first sentence he uttered in his very first lecture was that I should not expect him to give some funny feeling inside you. I did not get the point at that time. Later on I learnt that he was referring to the mystic experience for which we Hindus are supposed to have a special weakness. The Father failed to give me any feeling, funny or otherwise, and the retreat was a total failure. I had started as an ordinary Hindu and came out of it in the same condition. The dogmas of Christianity he had dished out sounded to me, to say that least, rather infantile. But what pained me the most in my meetings with this otherwise lovable man was his contempt for Hinduism which he always equated with the worship of

every bug that bites and every cockroach that crawls around. In later years I met another Christian missionary who made it a point to call on me whenever he visited Delhi. His first fascination in India (he was a foreigner [by name Fr. Henri le Saux better known as Abhishiktananda]) was for Ramana Maharshi. That led him to Vedanta and the Upanishads which fascinated him still more. Finally, he gave up his missionary station in the south and moved to the Himalayas for a quiet life of study and meditation. He was a prolific writer. He died a few years ago. In my first encounter with him I made him feel somewhat uncomfortable by asking him some unconventional questions about Christian theology, particularly about Jesus being the only saviour. Next time we met, he asked me to avoid doctrinal disputation and join him in a deeper communion of minds in meditation. I agreed with him very gladly, and we never discussed theology again. Most of the time I listened to him as he as spoke about the Upanishads, particularly about the experience of Advaita. He had made a very deep study of the subject, and I was nowhere near him in my own knowledge of it. But I was puzzled when I read some of his writings. Here he was trying very heard to reconcile the experience of Advaita with what he called the Christian experience. I referred the matter to Ram Swarup. He told me that Christian experience was the new name which they were now giving to Christian theology. I knew nothing about any experience, advaitic or Christian. Nor do I know it now. But one thing I know for certain is that human experience, whatever its level, is human experience. There is nothing Hindu, or Muslim, or Christian about it as such. The fact that Advaita is a Sanskrit word a language which flourished in India and is now honoured by Hindus as also the fact that it has been discussed most exhaustively in the Upanishads, which are now known as Hindu shastras, does not make it a national or sectarian word. For the word only refers to a state of human consciousness which Kabir has described so aptly as bhar bhtar ekai jn, yh guru gyn bat (it is the same everywhere, whether without or within; this is the secret taught by the teacher). Here was a man who was moved so sincerely and so deeply by his seeking for Advaita. Why could he not concentrate on the experience itself, and forget Christianity for the time being? Why could he not throw his theological luggage out of the window and travel straight to the station towards which the train of his own experience was heading? Why should he look out every now and then to find out if the stations on the way had their nameplates inscribed in a language which he had inherited by the accident of his birth? I could not find at that time any satisfactory answers to these questions. The young sufi was afraid of being slaughtered for saying what he believed to be true. The sincere Christian seeker was trying to stick a label where it failed to stick. Their plight was pathetic. On the other hand, the old sufi was so sure about himself, about his Islam, and about the abomination that was Hinduism in his eyes. So was the Catholic missionary who had tried to save me from perdition. They seemed to know what was wrong, and where. They seemed to know what was right, and how. What was it that made them feel so secure in their beliefs, and so self-righteous in their swearing against Hinduism? Politics masquerading as religion The questions remained unanswered till I had a chance to read the life of prophet Muhammad and the history of the rise of Christianity. I knew a lot of Muslim history in this country, and also abroad. I knew how bloodsoaked it was in all its chapters. I also knew a lot of Christian history in Europe, and America, and elsewhere. I knew what a horrible story it was in terms of death and destruction it brought to many lands. What I did not know for a long time was the genesis of these creeds which had inflicted so much sufferings on mankind. It was only when I looked into the source books of these religions, and examined the character of their founders that I discovered the surika roots from which they had sprung. It was only then that I realized the grave error in recognizing these creeds as religions in any sense of the term. I could see quite clearly that what we were faced with were purely political ideologies inspired by imperialist ambitions. It was only then that all pieces of the puzzle fell into a pattern the theologies, the histories, the swearologies, and the rest. Before I take up the genesis of these creeds I should like to make one point very clear. There are no non-Christian records available about the birth, rise, and spread of Christianity till it captured state power in the Roman empire. Whatever I write below about the genesis of Christianity is based entirely on early Christian records. Similarly, no non-Muslim records have survived about the rise and spread of Islam in Arabia. What I write below about the genesis of Islam is based entirely on Islamic records.

Genesis and character of Christianity Some historians in the West have serious doubts about the very existence of a man called Jesus Christ.[3] And almost all historians agree that if he existed at all, nothing can be known about his person or teaching because all contemporary sources, Christian and non-Christian, are either silent or unreliable regarding the subject. Thus all we have is the Jesus of the Gospels which are now regarded as theological statements rather than a record of historical events. And Jesus of the Gospels is a questionable character. He makes tall claims about himself, and curses all those who do not accept those claims. He denounces his own people as sons of the Devil and killers of prophets. In due course, Christian theology came to proclaim that Jesus was the only-begotten son of the only true god; that he had been sent down in order to wash with his own blood the sins of mankind by mounting the cross; that he had risen from the dead on the third day and appeared to his apostles in flesh and bones; that he was the same as his father whose divinity he shared in full; that those who accepted him as the only saviour had all their sins washed by his blood; that he had entered his apostles as the holy ghost and entrusted them with the mission of saving all mankind from eternal hell-fire; that the Church founded by the apostles and joined by the converts was his body and bride; and that the whole world had been mandated to the Church by the father and the son and the holy ghost. What one finds striking about these ridiculous statements is that none of them can stand the test of human reason or experience. The Church declares them to be mysteries beyond the reach of human understanding. The apostles had tried to sell these mysteries to the Jews in Jerusalem. The only response they met was dismissal with contempt. Next, they tried these mysteries on Jewish communities settled in Syria, Asia Minor and Greece. They had some small success but most of the time met with considerable resistance. Finally, they took this merchandise to the metropolitan mart at Rome where their business found some firm footing for the first time. It was in Rome that the methods of missionary salesmanship were matured over a period of time. The structure of the Roman empire provided a model for the structure of the Church. The missionaries got busy building a state within the state. Constantine the Great In the next two centuries, the Church became a rich and powerful organisation with members in many leading families of Rome. It found many adherents among politicians who wielded power, among military commanders who were superstitious or in need of political support, and among merchants who had money but no brains for philosophical questions. The mother of emperor Severus (222-235 AD) became a Christian. So did emperor Philip the Arabian (244-249 AD). Helena, the mother of Constantine, was also a Christian convert. Now the Church extended the Divine Right to rule as a despot to anyone who was prepared to declare Christianity as the sole state religion and suppress all pagan religions. Constantine who wanted to secure a dynastic succession for his family a practice unknown to Roman politics so far saw his opportunity in this new doctrine, and proclaimed in favour of the Church. The common people in Rome resisted this royal renegade. So he removed his capital from Rome to Byzantium which was renamed Constantinople. The precedent set by Constantine in consolidating a dynastic despotism with the help of the Church was copied by many crowned heads all over Europe in subsequent centuries. The king in pagan societies was only the first among equals. The Church enabled him to become an unbridled autocrat who derived his authority not from the community over which he ruled but from God Almighty. The conflicts which developed between these autocrats and the powerful Church with a Pope at its head, came much later, after the common people all over Europe had been enslaved and deprived of their traditional institutions which safeguarded their fundamental freedoms. For quite some time, the Church cooperated with the kings to convert the common people everywhere into hewers of wood and drawers of water. This was one part of the story. Another was a large-scale destruction of ancient religions all over Europe, Asia Minor, and North Africa where the Church spread its tentacles with the help of despotic rulers. All pagan schools were closed, all pagan temples were demolished or converted into churches, and all pagan images were publicly defiled and destroyed. Pagan books were burnt and pagan priests were killed, mostly by Christian monks who led Christian mobs after lecturing them into fevered frenzy. That is how Christianity triumphed over pagan religions and societies not by the power of its moral or spiritual superiority or the logic of its doctrines, but by the power of the sword wielded by despicable despots. Genesis and character of Islam Muhammad followed in the footsteps of Jesus in making the same sort of claims for himself, cursing his own people in the choicest language of

monotheism, and threatening them with slaughter. He, however, did not have to struggle against a centralized state when he found that his prophethood had no attraction for the people of Mecca. He migrated to Medina which was more receptive to monotheism because of a large presence of Jews in that town, and emerged as a powerful potentate. He ended by exiling or killing en masse the Jewish population which resisted him as soon as he came out in his true colours. Meanwhile, he had amassed much wealth by plundering merchant caravans and scattered Arab settlements. He created the nucleus of a standing army out of the toughs and desperados who flocked to him in increasing numbers for committing crimes and sharing the loot. In short, he built the apparatus of a military state in Medina and used it for imposing his closed creed on the tribal settlements of Arabia by means of armed force. The doctrines of Islam were tailored to the needs of this galloping tyranny, and sold with the help of the sword. And the sword was stamped with the name of an almighty Allah in whose service the ancient religion and culture of Arabia were destroyed root and branch. The mistake made by Hindu society Hindu society has to understand very clearly that what it is faced with in the form of Christianity and Islam are not religions but imperialist ideologies whose appetite has been whetted by running roughshod over a large part of the world. Hindu society is making a serious, almost a fatal mistake, in appealing to these ideologies in the name of reason and morality which are supposed to accompany religion. This sort of appeal is bound to fail because it falls on deaf ears. The menace has to be met by methods and means which are suited to the nature and magnitude of the menace. Hitler had said that if the chicken and geese pass a resolution about peace, the wolf is not convinced. There is little chance that Hindu society will ever be able to contain Christianity or Islam if it continues to regard these aggressive and imperialist ideologies as religions, and extend tolerance to them. Excerpted from Defence of Hindu Society, New Delhi.

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June 8, 2013 6:44 pm

The Joys of Singing in Pakistan


The Pakistani singer hears gunfire-like sound and tries to scoot from the stage, thinking Taliban has come to banish the evil of music from this world, as mandated by Islam. Truly hilarious!

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June 7, 2013 5:18 am

Church funds equal Indian Navys annual budget


Not many people know it, but the church is the second largest land owner in India after Railways. Most of this is temple land confiscated by the British and handed over to various churches. Church funds equal Indian Navys annual budget Panaji: Christians want state laws to govern assets of churches Christians are a mere 2.5 per cent of the countrys population. But, the

Church in India suffers from a case of plenty, says Remy Denis, All India Catholic Union President. Church authorities control funds equivalent to the Indian Navys annual budget. The Church is also the second largest employer after the government, he said. Eduardo Faleiro, a former Union minister and Goa NRI Commissioner, is among the growing number of Catholics like Prof Denis, who support a law to govern Church properties and a far greater degree of transparency in the way the Church manages its earthly assets. The Church is not a symbol of power but service, and democratic laws must apply to it equally. All religions must be kept on the same footing, Faleiro said at a conference called to debate the matter of bringing Church properties under state laws. The laws that govern Church properties in Goa were enacted during the Portuguese regime. The same laws have long since been repealed in Portugal, Faleiro said. Almost all other religions in India have laws enacted to administer their properties, K T Thomas, former Supreme Court judge, said. Hindu temples are governed by laws specifically enacted for each trust and their accounts are subject to judicial review. The Sikhs, one of the smallest religious groups in the country, have the Sikh Gurudwara Act. Muslim trust properties comes under the Wakf Act. I feel the opposition from the Christians is on account of a fear that a provision for judicial scrutiny is likely to expose the expenses and magnitude of wealth of the denomination, Thomas said. The head of the Believers Church had recently acquired a huge plantation in Kerala for Rs 123 crore. This was apart from the vast assets already held by the denomination, he said. The Church in Kerala also runs its own media network. Thomas said there was a misplaced apprehension that the Parliament, through legislation, would grab the properties of the churches. No such law could be passed by Parliament or State legislatures, he said. All religious denominations have the right to own and acquire properties, establish and maintain religious institutions. But, in matters of administration of your properties you have to abide by the law, he said.

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June 4, 2013 4:53 pm

Traitors everywhere
Did Rajeev Shukla meet Dawood Ibrahim when he was in Pakistan? Mumbai: Bharip Bahujan Mahasangh chief Prakash Ambedkar on Monday alleged that Union minister Rajeev Shukla had met Indias Enemy Number One in Pakistan on April 5, 2004, and discussed important security issues with him. Ambedkar produced a two-page document, which he claims was an internal report of the external affairs ministry, to corroborate his allegation. Though Ambedkar didnt specify who Enemy Number One mentioned in the said report was, it is well known that Indian security agencies use the phrase to refer to Dawood Ibrahim. Shukla, however, rubbished the allegations. As per the alleged confidential report, Shukla was part of the BCCI delegation that accompanied the Indian cricket team on the tour of Pakistan in 2004. The document has details of Shuklas alleged meeting with Enemy Number One in Lahore, at the farm house of Atikur Rehman, who is said to be an ISI operative and close associate of Enemy Number One. Bharip Bahujan Mahasangh chief Prakash Ambedkar on Monday produced the alleged internal report of the ministry of external affairss G Desk to corroborate his allegation, which states that Union minister Rajeev Shuklas activities and movements were under the scanner when he travelled to Pakistan in 2004 as a BCCI delegate with the Indian cricket team, which went to play an ODI series with Pakistan at Gaddafi Stadium. The document produced by Ambedkar states, Mr Shukla was at the

stadium with the cricket team till lunch and slipped away from the stadium around 2.30 pm. He went to the farmhouse of Major Rehman, where Enemy Number One was already present. Mr Shukla even handed some documents to Enemy Number One and some copies of correspondence between Mr Shukla and the PMO was part of the said documents. An Indian agent codenamed FAE-31 was also present at the meeting and he later sent a detailed report to the MEA. According to FAE-31, Shukla told Enemy Number One that only four RAW officers were posted in an Indian mission to snoop on underworld dons and hawala racketeers based in Pakistan. Shukla also said that he had written a three-page letter to the Prime Minister and made a pointed reference to RAWs non-planned expenditure having mounted to Rs 100 crores and said that the agency presence in Pakistan is less than half of its sanctioned strength. He also told Enemy Number One that to curb and control RAWs operation in Pakistan he had demanded the institution of a Cabinet committee or a high-powered panel under the Cabinet Secretary to suggest its revamp, the document states With regard to the confidential documents, Mr Ambedkar demanded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh clarify whether Mr Shukla was authorised to meet the Pakistani military establishment. Responding to these allegations, Shukla said the report on the basis of which the allegations are being made is fake and bogus. Its a five-year-old allegation and he has been repeating it over and over again. There is no basis to his allegations. The documents, which he claims to have with him, are fake and bogus. Its nonsense, said Shukla.

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As Aristotle put it tersely, tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society. Therefore never be apathetic and never be tolerant of anti-Hindu forces in India.
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Holy Mother of God man . Where were you ? Subhash Chandra Bose, Sardar Patel, Veer Savarkar, Aurobindo Ghosh, Maharaja Ranjeet Singh, Chanakya and Vivekananda are my heroes. To become like them is what all Indians should aspire for. Absolutely . This country is only obsessed with Bapu and his ways . Seems like the other Heroes you mentioned were never here at all . And I would include Mahapurush Bhagat Singh in this list

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January 6, 2009 at 9:48 am

Wish you all the best! Reply 4.

Arun Pillai

January 12, 2009 at 3:55 am

Keep it up Reply 5.

Dipak Chakrabarti
January 12, 2009 at 8:50 pm

More than an hundred year ago, Swami Vivekananda warned us about the missionaries, we did not take any notice and now we are paying the price. It were the activities of Netaji which led to the independence of India.Netaji Bose was isolated by cunny Gandhi and Nehru. Nehru declared Netaji as a war-criminal.(Back from dead by Anuj Dhar.)Muslim Indians pretended, they could not live with Hindus, country was divided, one part went to Muslims, other part to antiHindu Nehru dynasty, Nehru called himself,a Muslim by culture, Hindu by accident.He had cheek to declare himself as the last Englishman to rule India. Reply 6.

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Incognito

January 24, 2009 at 9:51 pm

The reality is that the mainstream media are thoroughly corrupt manifesting itself in a lack of both conscientiousness and honor which leads to incompetence and duplicity. It deals in half-truths, the suppression of facts, the exaltation of evil and savaging of the sublime, and outright lies all the time This is tragic because the media have a sacred trust. Its a clich, but its said that knowledge is power, and the media are the relaters of knowledge. In fact, we rely on them for even fairly basic information about current events and the world Without a vibrant media, we cannot have a vigilant populace Unfortunately, also powerful is misinformation, as it engenders a misshapen world view. For how can people make correct decisions regarding what policies and politicians to support if they arent given correct information? Why would they defend the good if they were lead to believe it was bad and fight the bad if they were lead to believe it was good? If you convince people that the symptoms are something theyre not, they will make the wrong diagnosis and prescribe a drug that doesnt treat what truly ails us but often has some very nasty side effects. Our matrix media (along with academia and the popular culture) has constructed an all-encompassing faux reality that cannot truly be understood unless you step outside of it. For the average person this means, first, being willing to question all his basic suppositions about political and social reality, as these have been shaped by the matrix media. The second requirement is to embark upon a Reality 101 course on the Internet, where the wheat can at least be found amidst the chaff. You see, unlike the movie, our virtual world is in a way more real than the real world In truth, what is so dangerous about the matrix media isnt so much that theyre akin to a cabal of calculating sentient programs but that they cannot think outside the box themselves. They are like an insane man who knows nothing of the world beyond his insane asylum and thus can relate only insanity. You might say they have become one with their mistaken notions. Some may say that since the media deny us the information necessary to render good decisions, its not fair to claim that people get the government they deserve. But it must be remembered that people get the media they deserve, too. So journalism isnt dead not any more than the readership, anyway. Its just that those practicing the authentic variety are seldom elected to high office. The above are the opinion of an american about american media(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/01/ the_artificial_reality_of_the.html). But it is, surprisingly, quite valid in the case of Indian media too(and the European media as well, I guess). The issue of concern is that the media all over the world appears to be not trustworthy. Is it deliberate or mere coincidence? Marxist thinker Gramsci advocated the concept of cultural hegemony to establish totalitarian Communist regime(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_hegemony)-

.. Gramsci argued for a strategic distinction between a war of position and a war of manoeuvre. The war of position is a culture war in which anti-capitalist elements seek to gain a dominant voice in mass media, mass organizations, and educational institutions to heighten class consciousness, teach revolutionary analysis and theory, and inspire revolutionary organization. Following the success of the war of position, communist leaders would be empowered to begin the war of manoeuvre, the actual insurrection against capitalism, with mass support. The Christian Missionaries in mass media, pseudo-liberal Muslims in mass organizations/NGOs and Marxists in educational institutions have won Gramscis war of position, yet the Hindus do not realise it. Reply 7.

sanjaychoudhry

January 25, 2009 at 10:44 am

Incognito, very insightful post, especially about the war of position and war of manoeuvre. The commies have grown old taking positions in their war of position because their war of manoeuvre is being contested by our CRPF. I do not see war of manoeuvre reaching fruition any time soon. Lal Kila Pe Lal Jhanda will remain a pipe dream of pot bellied and balding Bengali commies. Reply 8.

Nam

February 11, 2009 at 4:05 pm

Hello and congratulations for a wonderful blog. I am a fellow Nationalist Indian, and look forward to reading a lot more of your stuff in the future, and will often link to your articles on my blog (mibodeguitadelmedio. blogspot.com) if thats alright with you! Keep up the great work! Reply 9.

sanjaychoudhry

February 11, 2009 at 4:59 pm

Hi Nam: Thx for the good words. Pls feel free to link to this blog. Reply 10.

duart maclean
February 16, 2009 at 10:54 am

Namaste! I am with you! Actually, I think a court action in Canada against World Vision for misleading advertising is an idea whose time has come. I have forwarded your piece on World Visions covert missionary activities to Dr. David Frawley (Vamadeva), a well known writer on all things Hindu and someone who is deeply concerned by the nefarious activities of prosyletizers among Indias poor and dispossessed. I have written the following letter and sent it to numerous newspapers. My intent is to stir things up outside of India. Canada has laws concerning false advertising, of which it appears World Vision is guilty. This battle will be better won if it is fought both inside and outside of India, particularly in the wealthier nations of North America and Europe: From: duart maclean Subject: conversions To: editor@organiserweekly.com Dear Editor, I am a Canadian and what I dont understand is why the government of India tolerates any form of organized religious prosyletizing anywhere within the frontiers of India. Given the nature of India and her history; given the fact that Hinduism is not a religion that seeks to convert others (in other words, does not enter into competition with the Christians or Muslims); given the fact that Hinduism is more or less contained within India (there really is no pan-Hinduism, as there is pan-Islam and pan-Christianity); given the fact that Hinduism, in addition to being a network of closely related spiritual philosophies based on the Veda, is also a 5000+ year old culture which is the very fabric of Indian civilization why do the people of India allow their government to either tacitly or overtly support the destruction of the very foundations upon which India is built? Please understand me. I am not advocating the suppression of other religions within India (unlike Islam within islamic countries). But let me say that if well financed Hindu organizations started going into Canadian

or U.S. towns, aggressively prosyletizing to the point of creating communal disturbances and violence, there would be a hue and cry. The governments of Canada and the U.S. would find a way to shut down the prosyletizers and their organizations. They would have no choice, otherwise there would be an outbreak of real violence and societal breakdown, which is something no democracy can allow. Duart Maclean Montreal Response from Dr. David Frawley: Namaste Duart! Thanks for sending out such letters. Somehow the West has repackaged aggressive missionary activity as a kind of freedom of religion. India is the main non-Christian country that allows them in. China, Indo-china, and Islamic countries do not allow them in at all. The main reason behind such tolerance is bribery and vote banks. The Christian minority in India is wealthy and has a strong media presence. I am off to India for six weeks. Best Wishes, Vamadeva (Dr. David Frawley) I like would to hear from anyone who is ready to take action. Contact me at: duartmc9@gmail.com Thank you, Duart Maclean Montreal, Canada Reply
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Raju Charles

August 9, 2011 at 4:46 am

Hi Mr. Duart, Why not call for a forum in Canada or UK? I can arrange one in USA, Washington,DC. If you are ready for action! Let us unite and take action to fight the evil forces in the name of our creator, sustainer and redeemer. Raju Charles Reply

JGN

August 10, 2011 at 5:44 pm

Raju Charles, can you pl clarify whom all you want to fight? I think that includes all Pagans/Hathens/ Kafirs and also the rival sections of your own Rligion. Btw your redeemer was not able to save his rear end from the fellow Jews. Then how can he save any one else? Reply

Raju Charles

October 8, 2011 at 7:26 pm

It was Gandhi Jayanti. But young Dalit poet Meena Kandasamy was not ready to spare the Mahatma. Like many other Dalit writers, I have reservations about Gandhi, she said at the DC Kovalam Literary Festival here. He betrayed Dalits several times. Ms Meena added the Poona Pact imposed on the nation by Mahatma Gandhi had effectively blocked the political rise of Dalits. Dr Ambedkar agreed to it since he knew that upper castes would slaughter Dalits otherwise, she said. The young poet literally flung her raw verses on caste, oppression of women and sexuality at the audience. In poetry I can be upfront about what angers me, she said. In prose one has to be subtle. So I

prefer poetry. Many of her poems were subversive re-readings of the tales of women characters in the Puranas including Ahalya, Sita and Surpanakha. Ms Meena, who read out from her latest collection, Ms Militancy, admitted that she was an angry poet. Related Articles Bar may displace Bapu Gandhi was wrong But there are enough reasons for us to be angry, she said. The system is so oppressive. Dalits and women are oppressed everywhere. Answering questions, she said that parliamentary democracy can only throw up Dalit leaders such as Mayawati and Ram Vilas Paswan who were convenient for the system. When asked whether her role model was Mayawati or Arundhati Roy, she quipped: Neither; I identify more with the Naxalite leader Anuradha Gandhi. Reply

Raju Charles

October 8, 2011 at 7:27 pm

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/cities/kochi/%E2%80%98mahatmabetrayed-dalits-often%E2%80%99-082 Reply

ss
October 9, 2011 at 6:27 am

If you are so smart, then why do you believe in monotheism (our god is true, your god is false)? Reply

IndianOcean

August 12, 2011 at 1:15 pm

I think you might be a Hindu and would have modified your name to the country you live. And also I believe that your creator, sustainer, and redeemer refers to Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. Reply 11.

khan
February 28, 2009 at 4:23 pm

Shreeman Sanjayji. NamaHte! Good work. I admire your courage and initiative. So also the efforts and contributions of other Satjans (people). But I would request people to stop talking about India from a foreign perspective. India and Hindoo are alien words. They divide Bharatmata and its people along many faultlines. Should we not give up using these? Whatever the ancestores did and wrote was for the good of the humanity and NOT somebody called Hindoo. Secondly, the use of an extra A at the every word leads to corruption of the origina and anglecised pronunciation. For example Ram is the correct word NOT Rama. Concentious people should stop this practice at once, and also correct others whenever opportunity arises. Perhaps Bharat for the country and Sanatan Dharam for the spirituality are best. Ohers may have better ideas. Lastly, time has come that intellectual and Karmyogis join hands to work for spreading the light of Bharatiy knowledge for the good of the whole humanity. Reply 12.

malathi

March 5, 2009 at 2:39 am

I am proud of you. Good work keep it up and because of you we Indians one day may reap the fruits of your hard work. I am with you and will be forwarding your sites to all my friends. Let us know what are our responsibilities in this process. We need young leaders and guides NOW. Reply 13.

sanjaychoudhry
March 5, 2009 at 8:46 am

Thanks for the good words Khan, Malathi, Duart, Nam and others. Everybody, please hang around. I plan to turn this into a group blog, where everyone will get to contribute their views and other people will get to respond to them. We desparately need a dharmic site that discusses issues related to national security, religions, changes in demography, south Asia, terrorism, political parties and their antics, etc. The discourse should be from a Hindu point of view, without being perverted by the familiar communist / left-liberal rubbish. Reply 14.

sanjayg

March 7, 2009 at 3:49 pm

BHARAT MATA KI JAI ! Reply 15.

Deepak Kamat
March 18, 2009 at 4:17 am

Great work, Sanjay. I noticed your site in my recent referrals. Good that you mentioned my site and book. We somehow have to bring down the goliath of dhimmi Indian media. Reply 16.

duart maclean
March 18, 2009 at 3:04 pm

Namaste everyone! I am happy with this blog. When I was about 5 years old (living in Canada, my birthplace & I am now 58), my father brought home a Life Magazine, which was a monthly pictorial journal. On the front of the magazine and inside were photos of a horrible famine which was gripping India at that time. For the first time in my life, I saw pictures of skeletal women holding bloated, sick babies. It was awful and I cried. I never forgot that memory. As the years passed and I matured, my inner explorations led me to India and her ancient philosophy, particularly the Vedanta. Then, I visited India, twice: once to work in Mumbai and then to spend three wonderful weeks with my spouse at Ramanasramam (the ashram of Ramana Maharshi) in Tamil Nadu. In Tamil Nadu it disturbed me to visit a development project that had been inspired by Ramana Maharshi and to find pictures of Mother Theresa side by side with pictures of Sri Ramana at the childrens school. Not that I hate Mother Theresa, but what is going on in India? Too many of your political and cultural leaders must be totally corrupt. I can only conclude that they are weak, self-serving and sychophantic. Dont get me wrong. I am not advocating violence. However, Indians who care for their heritage must STAND UP AND TAKE INDIA BACK. About Gandhi. I have always admired him for his courage and wisdom. But, one thing that never sat well with me was his insistence that Krishnas exhortation to Arjuna to fight the enemy (in the Gita) was purely metaphorical. Gandhi apparently believed that Krishna was completely opposed to any form of active, physical resistance to oppression. The fact is, Gandhis non-violent approach worked alright with the British who, after all, have some sense of civility and fair play. Hitler, Mao tse-Tung, Khohmani, Pol Pot, etc, would have killed Gandhi outright. And, so would have the jihadis. I think this aspect of Gandhis thought has weakened Hindus in general and India in particular. As for Nehru, he was a communist in spirit, a materialist and he cuckolded a British Lord, which seriously compromised his integrity as a man, a leader and an Indian. In other words, he proved that he could not be trusted. With Nehru as a parent, what kind child could the Congress Party of India be?

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Nanu Asari

July 18, 2011 at 7:52 am

In Tamil Nadu it disturbed me to visit a development project that had been inspired by Ramana Maharshi and to find pictures of Mother Theresa side by side with pictures of Sri Ramana at the childrens school. What an insensitive cruel person you are!! Mother Teresa spent all her life time in the service of the poor and the dying in India. We, Indians, regardless of our differences are in awe of her devotion, and leaders of every hue:religious, social and political have only unconditional love, gratitude and adoration for her. And you a non-indian scounderal has the gall to speak against such a mahatma. By hating someone who loved Indians, you only indirectly reveal your hatred for Indians. Reply

duart maclean
July 19, 2011 at 12:30 pm

Mother Teresa was interested in conversion. She gave a significant portion of her organizations donated wealth to the already rich Vatican. Yes, she was compassionate. And, yes, she wanted to convert Hindus to Catholicism. She had a double agenda. At Tiruvanamalai, I found a Catholic priest at the centre of this development organization, which was reputedly dedicated to the memory of Ramana Maharshi. The priest was doing what priests always do, teaching Catholicism under the guise of development. The children were primarily from poor Hindu families. Beautiful kids, my wife and I met them. When I asked the priest how he reconciled Catholicism with jnana yoga he basically had nothing to say and terminated our meeting at the earliest possible. He didnt like my line of questioning, and I certainly understand why its always easier to deal with illiterate, simple and trusting people. You are foolish, or maybe simply naive. The Roman Catholic agenda is purely and simply to convert all of India to Catholicism. And they do this via charity. It is a hypocritical, hidden agenda which is easily perceived by thoughtful people. You are welcome to your innocent fantasies about Christianity, but you will find nothing that you read in the Sermon from the Mount, that you wont find in the Bhagavad Gita. Moreover, in the Gita you will find some serious philosophical thinking, which is utterly lacking in the Bible. As for myself, I deeply appreciate the sayings of Jesus (I skip the rest, including St. Paul). Ive travelled to all the places associated with Jesus in Israel walked the 7 stages that He walked on the way to His crucifixion, visited the crypt of the holy family in Nazareth, read the New Testament while sitting near the Sea of Galilee at Capernaum. No, I am not interested in Catholicism, which is a human invention, nor Protestantism, which is the same thing. As a philosopher once said, There is only one Christian, and He died on the cross two thousand years ago. Reply

Vikram

November 10, 2012 at 12:29 am

Thank you for such a simple yet powerful comment. Most Indians would be branded communal for holding such thoughts, they themselves would feel some guilt. It is time we broke the shackles and revived our once great culture & Dharma way of life. Reply 17.

gajanan

March 19, 2009 at 3:06 am

Conversion to Modernities : The Globalisation of Christianity by Peter van der Veer makes interesting reading. This book is available on google. Just type the title and you will get the book on google. The introduction of the book and the Chapter on BR Ambedkar on page 93 makes interesting reading. This chapter on BRA is written by Gauri Vishwanthan. it is big one. Go thru this chapter carefully and throughly and you will get answers as why a indigenous Indian faith was adopted by BRA and not Abrahamic religions. There is a tendency to quote BRA out of context to gain reservation ( affirmative action) by having an Abrahamic as well as Dalit tag. Since BRA gives reasons for his Buddhist conversion, this must be highlighted. The other controversies with Gandhi , C Rajagopalchari and others with BRA is a separate issue.

Then there is journal article in Religion Compass on BRA . Try to get this article also. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120840716/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 Reply 18.

gajanan

March 19, 2009 at 3:20 am

Any study on Dalits is incomplete without BRAmbedkar. Type in google BR Ambedkar and you will get web sites misquoting BRAs conversion. It is impossible to cite all these web sites. Reply 19.

gajanan

March 19, 2009 at 3:24 am

Duart Another aspect was WWII started in 1939, which made Britain fight the other way. 1941 after Pearl Harbor US entered the fray which lessened the burden on Britain Jallianwala, Dyer . was all before. Reply 20.

Suhas

March 25, 2009 at 7:11 am

TVR Shenoy blasts CPM and the church in Kerala http://election.rediff.com/column/2009/mar/24/guest-the-cpm-duplicity-in-kerala.htm Reply 21.

VoP
April 17, 2009 at 2:46 pm

For next 2 weeks I am promoting your site in my BLOGS FOR BETTER INDIA section. Just an FYI. Great posts. This is a crucial period for India and Hindus. Thanks. Reply 22.

Aashish Singh

April 18, 2009 at 3:56 am

Hi Sanjay, Great job, keep it up!. My new and first blog is under construction and guess what is it about, almost same as yours and many others that im finding while surfing. This task of reviving confidence and belief in India, Indianism and Hinduism has to be done by this generation. My conviction is India has been liberated only physically from under the British raj. The mental slavery is what needs to be abolished and young Indian minds need to be liberated from that. A sense of faith, belief, selfconfidence about our religion, country, culture is what needs to be inculcated sooner than later. Your blog is right on the money i think, and is linked to mine for future. Reply 23.

December 1, 2009 at 10:29 pm

Get onto twitter Reply 24.

duart maclean
December 2, 2009 at 2:07 pm

Namaste.. It seems obvious that India is going through a profound and difficult transformation. In fact, it seems clear that the entire planet is in the throws of radical change. I am not at all sure that the worlds traditional religions will fare well as a result. One thing is certain: there will be no returning to the glory days of earlier epochs. We are awash in a sea of change and the future will look nothing like the past. Hinduism has made and continues to make a huge impact on the West. Yoga, meditation, ayurveda, etc. are having a profound influence on Western consciousness, nevertheless, the word Hinduism is seldom heard! People know, however, that this wisdom is coming from India and her ancient spiritual traditions. They often feel more comfortable with the word, Buddhism because, like the Western religions it has a specific founder who was a great spiritual being. Westerners can identify with the word Buddha, whereas Hinduism has no such alternative to offer. Krishna, Rama, Durga, Shiva, Vishnu, etcpeople get confused; whereas with Buddhism, its Buddha. Simple! Also, Westerners associate Hinduism with untouchability, sati, extreme poverty and this unsettles them. Only those who do some research can come to appreciate the real nature of Hinduism. On the other hand, Indias greatest spiritual gifts yoga, vedanta and the other closely associated systems are transforming Western consciousness. There is no doubt about it. Whatever form Hinduism takes in the coming generations, its essence as opposed to its form will continue to be its real power. Seekers want to taste Reality and when they hear about the Self (atman) for the first time a light goes on within their consciousness. For seekers, from that moment on there is no going back. Without the recognition of Self, we are doomed to hopeless confusion. The notion of the Self, which is specifically and definitely the core concept of Hinduism, is uniquely Indian. This is the ultimate gift that India has to offer the world and this is why India will continue to be the spiritual heart of our planet. Reply 25.

patburg

December 3, 2009 at 10:59 am

It is unfortunate that your site spreads venoms over all other communities except so-called Hindu and even doesnt spare the Indian Constitution.Kindly kick your superstitional emotions and adopt scientific thought and search for truth.Seems your mind is running towards hell,in the point of no-return,if so,sorry perish in your anger. Reply
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Sanjay Choudhry

December 3, 2009 at 11:27 am

Hinduism is scientific thought and search for truth, dude. Did you notice this site never spreads venom about Buddhists, Shintos, Jains, Sikhs, Jews, atheists, tribal animism It is only the our god is true, your god is false ideologies that are the enemy of humanity. Reply
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JGN

December 3, 2009 at 3:36 pm

patburg, those who framed the Constitution never thought that one day the Missionaries would make a career out of conversion business. Pl read Tribal World of Verrier Elwin. The best thing for us the civilized people to do is, to leave the tribals alone. Let them catch up with time in their own pace. We have seen the ill-effects of trying to civilize the tribals in Kerala and some other parts of India. When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said Let us pray. We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land Bishop Desmond Tutu. Reply

duart maclean
October 9, 2011 at 2:57 pm

JNG is right. Indigenous peoples everywhere should be left alone and allowed to follow their own way. Incidentally, these people are the greatest protectors of the worlds environment. We need them! Reply

Aashish Singh

December 5, 2009 at 12:35 am

@ Patburg, your site spreads venoms over all other communities except so-called Hindu I dont know which community you belong to and how much educated you are, to even think of using the phrase so-called Hindus, as if there is nothing like Hindus. For your kind information, Third largest population in this world is of Hindus. I dont think this site spreads venom on any other community. All it does is reflect the venom thrown (in the past and is continued unabated till this day) over Hinduism, Hindus and India by other disgruntled communities, organizations and countries. The hidden agenda of whose when revealed in public starts giving nightmares to them through their stooges siting in India. These stooges who have sold every inch of their Indian-ism when whipped on their arse by other fellow Indians for the treachery they are doing to their nation, run like school boys to report it to their masters to show off their loyalty this is what brings you on this site, i reckon. There are countless websites, blogs, forums completely anti-Evangelical, anti-islam, however people like you do not even go there for posting your senseless comments. PS: You will find thousand of anti-Evangelical, anti-islam website on Internet, but it will be hard to find antiHindu, anti-Jainism, anti-Budhism, anti-Sikhism websites or forum. By the way Jainism, Budhism and Sikhism are tributaries of great Hinduism, which i think you do not know. Reply 26.

duart maclean

December 4, 2009 at 2:45 pm

Namaste, I consider conversion efforts to be a form of violence, only primarily mental/psychological. However, failing the mental method, the physical method has always been a handy alternative used by church and state. Conversion efforts over four centuries in the Americas have totally undermined native cultures, belief systems, spiritual values and social structures. One horrible example has been the forced removal of aboriginal children from their families for re-programming in principally church-run residential schools in Canada and the U.S. (same thing in Australia, as well). Thank God this form of cultural genocide has been stopped. But the damage has been done and as a result, aboriginal peoples as a whole are in a totally wretched condition. Its truly arrogant to assume that we have greater knowledge or wisdom than the person whom we are trying to convert. Its philistine and unnatural. Duart Maclean Reply
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VoP
December 6, 2009 at 11:54 pm

>I consider conversion efforts to be a form of violence Religous conversion is violence and it breeds violence, In converting you are also converting the nonviolent to violent ~ Swami Dayananda Saraswathi On November 6, 1999 Pope John Paul II in his sermon at the Sacred Heart Cathedral of New Delhi, openly stated, Just as in the first millennium the Cross was planted on the soil of Europe, and in the second on that of the Americas and Africa, we can pray that in the third Christian millennium, a great harvest of faith will be reaped in this vast and vital continent [Asia] Christians have always portrayed non-Christian civilizations as backwards, underdeveloped, superstitious, and barbaric. What really underlies all of their criticism is that these cultures do not accept Jesus, the Bible and their western way of life. This is what, in the Christians opinion, deems these cultures as needing their help, when in fact the their fervor to destroy any theistic conception other than Christianity or any temple other than a church shows that they are really the ones who are showing the qualities of barbarians. Today, many are uninformed and believe that mission excesses only took place in prior times and todays preaching works are a good thing. But as long as the basic premises and theology that underly all the abuses that took place in the past are not corrected, the result of mission activities will remain the same: Genocide and destruction of all that lies in its way, replacing it with the superior religion and culture that most missionaries believe they are delivering.

In retrospect, these various ethnic cultures were far better off before the introduction of Christianity, as it had nothing better to offer them. In reality, these cultures were decimated, their histories were erased, their cultural traditions eradicated, their former religions destroyed and they were left more unhappy than before the arrival of Christianity. There have been many revisions in the teachings of Jesus Christ since it first took hold some 2,000 years ago. But until the xenophobic and iconoclastic teachings of the Bible are corrected, mission activity will yield the same catastrophic results. As taught in the Bible, we can know a tree by its fruit, these evangelists need to adopt a more pluralistic theology, recognizing the divinity in other religions and the contributions of other cultures and further recognize that theirs is not the only path to salvation. Suffice it to say, until these things have been corrected, that to label such endeavors for Christ as good works or pious activityis wrong. Otherwise, in this modern age, those deemed with good intelligence, who are advanced in philosophy and science, have no other choice than to condemn these preaching activities worldwide, which seek to destroy ethnic cultures. Mission activities need to be monitored and the conversion agenda needs to be reconsidered. The Pope Must Preach Real Harmony, Not Religious Intolerance. Reply

duart maclean

February 18, 2011 at 4:54 pm

Pope John Paul II said That! In India! What an arrogant imbecile. Reply 27.

duart maclean

December 7, 2009 at 12:30 am

Well said. More people need to read VoPs comments concerning Christianitys misguided and harmful obsession with conversion activities. Reply
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VoP
December 7, 2009 at 2:49 am

duart, Thank you but its not really my comment, its an excerpt in my blog sourced from an excellent web site ( bottom of the page ) http://www.burningcross.net/crusades/christian-missionary-atrocities.html Another Excellent resource on conversions is here http://www.hinduwisdom.info/Conversion.htm Reply 28.

Raj

December 8, 2009 at 2:04 pm

If we do wrong, we will reap for it. Lets start doing good and seeing good in others too. Apni beri ke ber mithe na kaho. There is good in all people and religions. The best policy is Jio aor jino do. Live and let other live. Lets think and work in such a way which builds and not destroys. Reply 29.

Aniel Patel

December 8, 2009 at 4:06 pm

Jai Hind Bhai! I thought that Hindu patriotism was buried under the cloud of colonial consciousness that has Indians feeling as though being Hindu is somthing to be ashamed of. Well screw them lets revive our great land and culture, Sanatan Dharma will revive and Truth will prevail!

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VoP
December 9, 2009 at 2:35 am

> There is good in all people and religions. http://rajivmalhotra.sulekha.com/blog/post/2004/11/myth-of-hindu-sameness.htm Reply 31.

Yam Chand

December 27, 2009 at 10:15 pm

#16 Dear Duart, I like your comments, specially about MK Gandhi that due to their civility the British tolerated him and finally granted India Independence. There you are hundred percent correct, and I would also like to add here that even Indira Gandhi would have found some ways to eliminate Gandhi. During her Emergency Rule in 1975 -77, her cruelty against her oppoments increased to such extent that Sir Winston Churchill once commented about her that the way she was ruling India without caring about Human Rights and other morality the British would have ruled India, if they (British) would have done the same way. Darshan Singh Feruman ended his life on Fast unto Death but this witch-lady (as she was called by Richard Nixon) never gave a damn about his demands. She a high price of greed and power hunger. I personally feel that GOI needs to discourage religeous conversion and adopt forced family planning to Musims asap to stop muslims becoming a majority. In 1947 when the country was divided India had 7 percent muslims and Pakistan had 25 percent Non muslims, but now Palistan has 1. Percent non muslims and due to various appeasement due to Ote bank politics in India mulsims have grown to 20 percent and this trend must stop asap. Reply 32.

Mandodari Sharma
January 12, 2010 at 11:15 pm

This blog is replete with half-baked understanding and reflects a serious inability to think critically. Reply
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VoP
January 13, 2010 at 12:42 am

Thank you Oh Wise Lady! Why dont you spill your full baked understanding that is fully baked in a White mans oven!? Reply

Niki

January 25, 2010 at 8:11 pm

You mean the baked bun in her oven Reply 33.

jayanpsk
February 18, 2010 at 6:15 pm

i am quite disappointed that i dont get to see people in real life, that are on your level guys. Since indians are not lagging anyone in their involvement with web 2.0 , i hope more blogs and networks like these, that also appeal to a wider section of the indian population come about to bring great changes.

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satay
February 22, 2010 at 10:16 pm

I love your blog. satay Reply 35.

duart maclean
February 24, 2010 at 1:05 am

Tolstoy wrote that India is the cradle of the worlds great spiritual traditions, including Hinduism, Buddhism and others. He was aware of the subtle yet powerful influence that India has exerted on the West over many centuries. This fact is more empirically established today that it was when Tolstoy was alive. What distinguishes India among nations is Her extraordinary spiritual & philosophical wealth. If Indians choose to disregard this fundamental historical reality, it will be to Indias detriment and to the detriment of the world. If Indians choose to embrace who they are as a unique people, with a unique destiny and responsibility on this planet then India will shine & prosper, as will other nations and races. If Indians choose to deny who they are as a people and cut their link with their spiritual and philosophical roots in favor of a Western outlook and world-view, then India will become simply another over-populated eastern nation struggling to make it materially, competing for financial and military dominance, while sinking under the weight of an exploding population and a diminishing resource base. My deepest hope and prayer for all of us, Indian and non-Indian, is that India takes the high road that is rightfully hers: playing the leading role for which she is uniquely designed in the transformation and salvation of our struggling, endangered planet. Reply 36.

Mohan

April 21, 2010 at 3:40 pm

Reading through these posts and the blogs, I think I have found a home. Thank you. Keep up the good work. Reply 37.

Bharath

June 12, 2010 at 6:09 am

Thank you for this blog Sir !! Keep up your good work. Still a lot has to be done. Reply 38.

Natasha
August 22, 2010 at 10:24 am

Copy paste by a chaddi no description suits you better. Reply


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sanjaychoudhry

August 22, 2010 at 2:06 pm

Are you the true god, false god types? Reply

duart maclean

August 22, 2010 at 4:44 pm

The world would be better off without Islam. Period. Reply 40.

duart maclean

August 23, 2010 at 11:11 am

Canada is also under threat from Islamic terrorism. The letter below was written to a Canadian-Islamic organization. It is my view on Islam in Canada and why it poses a threat to this nation. My letter to a Canadian-Islamic activist website August 11, 2010 Islam in Canada: Mubin Shaikh & the Toronto 18 Hello, Well, Im not a Muslim, but I have problems with Islam. But then, what the heck, I have problems with most of the worlds religions. Here is my big problem with Islam in Canada. I may be completely off base. But, I doubt it. Gandhi really wanted a One India state that included Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Pharsees, Jains, etc. He fought hard for it. However, when it became clear that the Muslim League, under the leadership of Jinnah, had no intention of supporting the One Nation idea and instead demanded a separate country for the Muslims (now called Pakistan), Gandhi had no alternative but to acquiesce. But he then insisted that if the Muslim minority in India refused to be a part of a One India nation, then all Muslims must leave and go to Pakistan. Why would a tolerant, universally-minded man such as Gandhi insist on such a thing? His response to this question was as follows: If a new India minus Pakistan were to allow Muslims to remain in India (while their fellow Muslims created a separate Islamic state called Pakistan) that would create an Islamic fifth column in India. And Gandhi, who understood the Muslims very well, saw the danger in this. He understood that the large, silent majority of Muslims in India would covertly support the undermining of a non-Muslim state, in this case a Hindu-dominant India. Gandhi had learned that Muslims have a hidden agenda to dominate wherever they live. If they cannot do it directly by force, they will do it indirectly with the death by a thousand cuts approach. Now, what does this have to do with Mubin Shaikh? In an interview with Mubin Shaikh, which I recently read, he commented that after he had told the Canadian authorities about the terrorist intentions of the Toronto 18, he received much criticism, including serious threats, from other members of his Muslim community. The silent ones, no doubt. I would like to be reassured that the Muslims I see on the streets here in Montreal, who are apparently good citizens wishing no harm to Canada, are in fact good citizens. But I remember Gandhis concern in India. What Ive observed about Muslims in general, is that while they do not engage in violent actions themselves, they rarely speak against those amongst them who do plan and initiate terrorist actions. In other words, I seriously suspect that a significant number of Muslims in Canada and other countries in which they are a minority, are silently cheering on those Muslims who are willing to engage in terrorism. Im suggesting that there is an unspoken, implicit agreement among Muslims that Islam must become the dominant ideology anywhere and everywhere Muslims live. And I suspect that the silent ones the majority are secret cheer-leaders for those who would do the dirty work of terrorism. Now, you may protest that I am wrong. But then, how am I to believe you? Does the Muslim majority stand up and vigorously confront and denounce those Muslims who would engage in or advocate violent Jihad? No, there is mostly silence, and just the occasional individual voice of a very courageous Muslim who may well be risking his or her life by speaking out against the perpetrators. Yours truly, Duart Maclean Reply
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VoP
August 23, 2010 at 12:46 pm

Namaste Duart, Please read this one.. The Root of India-Pakistan Conflicts http://rajivmalhotra.sulekha.com/blog/post/2002/02/the-root-of-india-pakistan-conflicts.htm Reply
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Satya

December 30, 2010 at 7:49 pm

The SOURCE need to be destroyed and the weapon is KNOWLEDGE and TRUTH. #KnowTheEnemy This video explains how a Terrorist Mind is created: Reply 41.

Satya

December 30, 2010 at 7:45 pm

Thank you for the blog. Keep up the good work. Reply 42.

duart maclean

December 31, 2010 at 2:34 am

For the past 40 years I have studied much of philosophy and religion. If our planet does succeed in surviving the current age of technology, it is clear to me that Hinduism or the Sanatana Dharma or the indigenous spiritual philosophy of India whatever name makes us comfortable will prevail. Why? Not for any reason other than the fact that the principles and philosophy upon which Hinduism rests will supersede the theologies of all the others. I dont say this arrogantly or to put down other spiritual and religious systems. I say it because I read, and I think deeply about what I read. The culture of Hinduism may change radically, but the underlying philosophy and practices for self-realization will firmly remain. Why? Because they are true and because they work. Its that simple. We will see the spiritually hungry and intelligent people embrace this ancient knowledge and they will naturally spread it by association. Reply 43.

raju

January 8, 2011 at 3:23 am

A case against casteist daily Rakhewal Due to age-old varna vyavastha there is a strong bias against SCs, STs, OBCs, minorities in our society. This bias is reflected in our education system, too. We have also seen anti-reservation agitations against these weaker sections. This attitude is severely affecting prospects of children of marginalized sections. It is a challenge against their right to development. The case filed by Raju Solanki, secretary of Dalit Hak Rakshak Manch (DHRM), against an influential editor of a prominent Gujarati daily has important significance in this regard. Editor of Disha-based Rakhewal daily was arrested under Atrocity Act and put behind bars at least for a day and night. This is the first incident in Gujarat and perhaps in entire country in which a media person is implicated under Atrocity Act for his distorted, derogatory and casteist writing. Though court has given him bail, the message is clear for media fraternity. Stop writing casteist, malicious articles or face judicial actions. Here is the paragraph of the controversial article which was published in Rakhewal daily and for which its editor is being prosecuted: In ancient times parents used to send their children to listen to lectures of saints to provide them good company. Children used to visit forest-school (tapovan) for education. In forest-school virtuous rishi munis shaped their characters. Children, who could not attend forest-school, would learn in village schools, where they were taught lessons of good behavior (sadachar) along with education. In modern times children go to schools, where they come in to contact of children of inferior caste ( ) and learn bad manners. In present day schools children having inherited bad manners ( ) also come to be educated with sons of reputed families ( ). They definitely affect cons of reputed families. In past, only Brahmins were chosen as teachers in pathshalals. Now-a-days, even people of backward caste ( ) also become teachers by getting benefits of reservation. These teachers can not teach good behaviors ( ) to children. Events 19/12/2008 The said article was published in Rakhewal, a local daily having significant readership in D. Banaskantha. 17/09/2009 A case is filed against editor, printer, publisher and owner of Rakhewal daily, Mr. Tarun Amrutlal Sheth by Raju Solanki, Secretary, Dalit Hak Rakshak Manch in Chief Metropolitan Magistrates court no. 2 under section 7 (1) (C) of Civil Rights Protection Act, 1955, sections 3 (1) (9) and 3 (1) (10) of Scheduled castes Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocity) Act and Sections 153 (A), 500 and 505 (1) (G) of IPC. Honble. CMM held the said offense as of serious nature and ordered to send the complaint to Shahibaug Police Station for investigation under section 156 (3) OF IPC and also ordered PI, Shahibaug to submit the report of investigation. Learned advocate Mr. Hirabhai Solanki was present on behalf of DHRM. As the matter was not under its jurisdiction, Shahibaug Police Station transferred the complaint to Madhupura Police Station. FIR was filed in Madhupura Police Station. 04/09/2010 CMM directed ACP, SC-St Cell, Karanj for further investigation on the basis of a written complaint by advocate

of DHRM. It was ordered to submit a report within 60 days. 10/12/2010 The accused moved Gujarat High Court to quash said complaint under section 482 of IPC. Hon. Court gave oral order to dispose the case expeditiously 21/12/2010 As the matter was deferred to hear bail application, accused Tarun Sheth was sent to Sabarmati jail. 22/12/2010 I.C. M.M C.B. Patel gave bail to the accused. 24/12/2010 DHRM sent application to 1) Director General of Police and Chief Police Officer, 2) ACP, SC/ST Cell, Karanj and 3) PI., Madhupura Police Station demanding to include one Mr. Sanjay Vora (columnist Suparshwa Mehta of Gujarat Samachar) as co-accused, whose name has been appeared in bail application of Mr. Tarun Sheth. In the bail application Tarun has confessed that Sanjay Vora has given him that poem (!) to print in his daily!! Rajesh Parmar Co-ordinator, DHRM Reply 44.

Vishvaksenah

January 17, 2011 at 4:08 am

Nice blog. Wish you all the best. Reply 45.

Anonymous

February 7, 2011 at 3:22 pm

such crap Reply 46.

achuthan

February 17, 2011 at 10:05 pm

Thank you for your blog Reply 47.

achuthan

March 9, 2011 at 6:49 pm

dear author, how do I mail you in private. I am so glad to have found your blog. I have so much at heart to pour out. kindly let me know your email Id. Hari om. Reply 48.

duart maclean

March 9, 2011 at 9:54 pm

When Anonymous wrote such crap was he looking in the mirror as he wrote? Reply 49.

VoP
March 10, 2011 at 12:38 am

From a stack of books ( representing knowledge! ) to now Rangoli(?) picture on home page why this change Sanjayji?

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Indian Realist

March 10, 2011 at 5:01 am

got bored of the old pix. I am preparing a new one representing Indian dharma. Reply 50.

DineshC

May 12, 2011 at 1:23 pm

Excellent work, Sanjay, keep it up. Im proud of my being Hindu. Hinduism is the only original religion which has a vast followings. There are also some small ones like Jews and Parsis , etc. Rest all are converts, some started converting 2100 years ago and some about 1430 years ago. Reply 51.

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tomasz

July 7, 2011 at 7:40 pm

a briliant webside, please keep up with good job.. You are just telling the truth India is a great country with great spiritual traditions and culture the more thoughtful individuals of many races/colours and whatever else are just starting to see it;) Reply 53.

miraleen
July 12, 2011 at 6:46 am

you are awesome Reply 54.

Abdul Periyar Dawkins


July 18, 2011 at 12:47 am

Hahahahahaha I too like to call a spade a spade drink two large pegs of cow-piss and shove this blog up your ass. Reply
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ss
July 18, 2011 at 2:19 am

Mohammad used to recommend camel urine to his followers to cure various illnesses. Reply

Abdul Periyar Dawkins


July 18, 2011 at 6:02 pm

@SS, LMAO Well then, have a cocktail of cow-piss and camel urine. It will be double the fun. For a real great kick consume it with all the shit prescribed by all bloody religionists. God will surely cure all your illnesses lolz Reply

ss
July 19, 2011 at 3:23 am

Mentally ill are those who claim Our God is true, your God is false and You are going to hell, we are going to heaven and We are clean, you are unclean. You belong to one of them, dont you? Reply

Kishkindhaa
July 19, 2011 at 4:58 am

Eh joker, My god is true, all others are false idols is the basic premise of monotheism. Pointing this out does not make someone intolerant. This belief of monotheism has resulted in genocide of natives across multiple continents. Where genocide was not possible, deculturization was instituted with utmost guile. I suggest you stop pushing Jesuss (or should I say Titus Flaviuss) vile cult onto the natives who want nothing to do with it. If you are a convert, have some respect for yourself and stop worshipping the people who spit on you and your ancestors. Reply

Abdul Periyar Dawkins


July 19, 2011 at 2:45 pm

@SS, the belief in God itself is a delusion. There is no God. Hence all Gods are figments of human imagination. People believe in God or Gods just to satisfy their emotional needs. People have a need to believe in God or Gods. The priests, molvis/mullahs, clergy, etc. are well aware of this need. They make a good use of the God delusion to manipulate simple and innocent people. Using the God delusion to manipulate the masses, the priests, molvis/mullahs, clergy, and politicians have caused so much bloodshed in the entire world including India. If God really exists then why are there so many different religions in the world? (What is logical according to one religion is illogical according to another religion. The truth is that no religion is based on logic, but on emotions. Not that emotions are undesirable, but reality is independent of anybodys emotions) My dear SS, wake up and smell the coffee! Do you have any logical answers or explanations for the following: => Why cant God prevent evil on this planet? => Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able to do so? In that case he is not powerful. => Is God able to prevent evil, but not willing to do so? In that case he is evil himself. => Is God both willing and able to prevent evil? If that is true then from where does evil come? => Is God neither willing nor able to prevent evil? If that is true why call him God?

=> Who created God or Gods? If you believe that God or Gods can exist all by themselves, or some ultimate creator can exist all by himself, then why cant you believe that the Universe can exist all by itself? What is the difference? => Why didnt Vedas, Bible, Quran, Avesta, Torah, Talmud, or any other holy book lead to the discovery of penicillin, streptomycin, or any other life-saving antibiotic? Was cow and camel urine all that God had to offer us? LOLZ => We have all heard of the so called miracles in which God heals this thing or that thing Why doesnt God heal amputees? Show me one single case in which God or Gods have healed an amputee LMAO >>> I use the word He to refer to God. I could have also used She or He or She, but I used He just to keep things simple and NOT because I am a sexist / male chauvinist. >>> I highly appreciate it that the admin has not deleted any of my posts. Thank you for that. Reply

duart maclean
July 19, 2011 at 2:52 pm

Dear Mr Atheist aka Dawkins (The God Delusion) Dont be so primitive. Every yogi, swami, serious Hindu, etc, knows that God is just another name for Being-Consciousness. And you must believe in consciousness, because you do have enough of it to be able to read, even though, as is evident, you cant think. Reply

Abdul Periyar Dawkins


July 19, 2011 at 3:16 pm

Dear Mr. Duart, So, do you agree that God does not mean a creator (aka dictator)? Reply

duart maclean
July 19, 2011 at 4:04 pm

Whatever the exact nature of being-consciousness it is not accessible via empiricism. Consciousness is not accessible by scientific enquiry, even though its reality is unquestionable. Same thing for Being. Of course, this is beyond the scope of scientist Dawkins British empiricist mind. Only someone who has become able to arrive at a state of no-thought while in a fully conscious state can grasp this. It is known intuitively and directly, not empirically. Consciousness is not a thing which can be observed or measured. But it is not nothing either. When nonreflective people think of God (as a creator) they go to the nearest analogy and assume that God must create in a way similar to how an artist or an artisan creates. Or that maybe God is a dictatorial Intelligence that has a vested interest. Of course, this is child-like thinking. If you are open to digging into some serious Indian philosophy, I recommend reading the Shiva Sutras with commentary by Ksemaraja. Also, anything said or written by Ramana Maharshi is a very worthwhile study as well. Reply

Abdul Periyar Dawkins


July 19, 2011 at 8:22 pm

Dear Mr. Duart,

I appreciate your writings on your blog, Being & Consciousness. I also appreciate your previous reply. Ill come back to that in a minute, but first things first (Let us not deviate from the topic). If this blog (Indian Realist) is about exposing the evil designs of Christian missionaries and Christian fanatics, that is fine. If it is about exposing the evil designs of Islamic missionaries and Islamic fanatics, that is fine. If it is about exposing the evil designs of some other religious fanatics or some other ideology, that is fine too. However, anybody can notice that this blog is trying to justify or mitigate Hindu extremism. Here is an example: Click on August 2008 archive of this blog ( http:// indianrealist.wordpress.com/2008/08/ ). The first post on the page reads, Picture of a Christian victim designed to evoke sympathy. Corresponding pictures of Hindu victims are missing The author of this blog has posted the above in response to http://www.rediff.com/ news/2008/aug/31orissa.htm Dear Mr. Duart, do two wrongs make a right!? Does your hatred of Christian missionaries make you blind to the atrocities committed by Hindu fanatics on this little girl!? If, in your own words, the pictures of skeletal women holding bloated, sick babies made you cry, why doesnt this picture make you cry? I am aware of Muslim and Christian extremism and the pictures of Hindu victims make my heart bleed, but no sir, I cant use one atrocity to justify or mitigate another atrocity. Instead of pandering to peoples hatred, you can also persuade them with love. If you really love India, compare this blog with the teachings and practices of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. I have my own set of differences of opinion with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, but I am trying to point out the sharp contrast between ideologies of love and hate. What can we expect from a blog that tries to justify or mitigate Hindu extremism? It is openly trying to provoke and recruit Hindu fanatics and extremists. Now coming back to your previous reply Dear Mr Duart, if you are open to digging into some serious empirical studies of consciousness and altered states of consciousness I would suggest a simple Google search on electroencephalography (EEG) and consciousness, and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and consciousness. I am fully aware of Transcendental Meditation. May I also suggest Herbert Bensons The Relaxation Response. It is the same thing MINUS the snake-oil of spirituality, divinity, and rituals! Dear Mr Duart, what can be achieved with Yoga and meditation can also be achieved with simple, down-toearth, NON-hallowed-be-thy-name approaches (e.g. Herbert Bensons Relaxation Response, Jacobsons Progressive Muscle Relaxation, Johannes Heinrich Schultzs Autogenic Training, diaphragmatic breathing, visualization, self-hypnosis, flotation therapy, etc. If you want I can go on and on, but that would be off-topic). I am not aware of Shiva Sutras or Ksemaraja. Thank you for telling me. Ill read about that. In a battle of love and hate, I hope love wins . Reply

duart maclean
July 20, 2011 at 12:38 am

Hello Abdul,

Thank you for your heart felt communication. For me, a Hindu is not someone who is born into a Hindu family. A Hindu is someone who embraces the essential teachings of an ancient spiritual/ philosophical tradition commonly referred to as Hinduism. From this perspective, anyone who murders or tortures a child, a mother, a father or any innocent civilian is not a Hindu no matter what he claims or how he dresses or whether or not he performs pujas or who his parent are. In the Gita, Krishna urges Arjuna to fight his battle with the opposing army, because that is his Dharma as a prince and a warrior. Fair enough. Its soldier to soldier for a valid reason, i.e., the usurpation of a kingdom from its rightful monarch. Ahimsa (nonviolence) is the leading ethical principle underlying Hinduism. Therefore, I consider those who harm innocent civilians or abuse innocent animals to be non-Hindu no matter what their race, professed religion or colour they carry. Thus there are some non-violent Muslims who are more rightfully Hindu than some so-called Hindus who engage in violence. Its not about the Name, its about the State of Consciousness! Unfortunately, India has been taken over by crowd of materialists (beginning with Nehru) whose great desire is to see the eradication of Hinduism from Indian soil. It is here that the true Hindus must fight their battle. But this battle should not be physical. It should be fought on a much higher level. Sri Ravi Shankar is fighting the right battle. He is nonviolent, and he is demonstrating love-in-action through his programs of development combined with spiritual practice and teaching. He is showing up as a true Hindu sage/activist. As Jesus said, By their fruits you will know them. Gandhi said the same thing, and all of Indias great sages, rishis and yogis over the past 5000 years would nod their heads in agreement. I believe that the Hindu majority should assert itself in the land of its origins, but not through the use of violence, rather through intelligent debate, nonviolent activism and compassion. Anything less is not the Hinduism which I love and embrace. Best wishes PS No matter how sophisticated medical technology is at this point, it will only be able to address the contents of consciousness and never consciousness itself, because consciousness is not subject to observation or measurement. As Ramana Maharshi emphasized, The only way to know the Self is to be the Self. 55.

Michael J J

July 18, 2011 at 6:30 am

Namaste to All, I am a German Catholic , living in India for the past 8 years for research purposes. I have travelled extensively in India and have interacted with various sects. There is no doubt that that certain denominations of Christianity, live evangelists are exploiting Indians and are trying to increase their numbers by promising monetory and non-monetory gifts. The funding to these organizations , which I call unchristian , has to be intensively investigated. Unfortunately , the ruling system in India , doesnt seem to be interested to put their feet down as they could be afraid of a major backlash from a considerable vote bank. It is extremely unfortunate , that many a Hindu feels insecure in their own country,because of such activities. While declaring India as a Hindu nation, like the Islamic world , may not be ideal or realistic because of the vividness of this great country. It is high time authorities act on compelled conversion. The majority feeling marginalized , could lead to a major fight back , which will not only affect the minority groups which indulge in such unholy acts , but also a majority within the minority who are peacefully following their religion. Thanks. God Bless all. Reply

Nanu Asari

July 18, 2011 at 7:33 am

India is a secular country and every religion has its innate right to preach their tenets among themselves and with others. What about Hare krishna groups in Europe? Has Europe banned them? Are Indian Christians offended to see European hare krishna members? Why should a European be offended to see Indian Christians? Of course, cooercion or using unethical means including promising monetory or non-monetory benefits is unacceptable. However, a large number of conversions to Christianity takes place not because of any coercions, but because of spiritual freedom they enjoy through prayers, and deliverance from spiritual bondage. Ive personally spoken to several such converts, some of them finally very well off who dont need any promise of any funds. What they testify is of deliverance from spiritual bondages. This is not to denegrade any other religion, but to speak the truth as to why so many are attracted to the message of Christ Jesus. What you can do is to contact such converts and find out first hand what was the reason behind their conversion, rather than make sweeping accusations against the Evangelicals. Reply

Indian Realist

July 18, 2011 at 5:12 pm

Do Christians recognise the right of non-Christians to proselityse to Christians? Anyway, the spread of monotheistic fundamentalism in place of pluralist paganism is bad for the world. Monotheism is spiritual fascism. Reply

Bhushan

October 15, 2011 at 10:39 am

Yes, I know many converts first hand. They were given money, a bottle of alcohol, asked to eat beef, Hinduism insulted (and whites praised), brainwashed that they will be given jobs and money if they get more people, asked to enjoy women and wine and made to believe that monogamy is for ignorant fools. Sometimes Godman, sodomosing, priests or fathers promised them that they will cure them of their illness, by giving them water with paracetamols 9which they did not disclose). But they remain dalit christians. And yes, officially and legally all of those converts remain dalits on governnment records. Reply
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Sandeep

July 20, 2011 at 8:02 am

@Micahel JJ, I am a German Catholic , living in India for the past 8 years for research purposes. I have travelled extensively in India and have interacted with various sects. There is no doubt that that certain denominations of Christianity, live evangelists aremonetory and non-monetory gifts. The funding to these organizations , which I call unchristian , has to be intensively investigated. Why are you excluding catholics? What if I can prove a major funding of this comes from Germany and all these type of activites are promoted also by Catholic church? Will you be ready to investigate? regards Reply

Sandeep

July 20, 2011 at 8:27 am

1) Name of the organisation: The Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) is a consultancy specialising in media and communications in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific. CAMECO offers its services to local partners, organisations that are active in delivering media assistance, and to donors among them many faith-based agencies.CAMECO is especially concerned with empowering community and development-oriented media initiatives and strengthening the presence of the Church in the media as well as enhancing the importance of the media within the Church. 2) Type of Activites it promotes in INDIA can be gauged from this article : SAMSKRITI: Trying to Fill a Vaccum(http://www.cameco.org/mediaforum_pdf/mf04972.pdf) 2.a) The article describes an organisation aptly named Samskriti (Institute of Cultural Research and

Action) run by a Christian Padre Fr.P.J.Josephs. b) Samskritis laudable objectives are to protect simple local cultures from being eliminated by dominant brahminic dominant culture 3) Please see Page.3 to know their regard for other cultures. Regards Sandeep Reply 56.

duart maclean
July 18, 2011 at 3:57 pm

Nanu Asari. No doubt another anglo-indian who never bothered to study Indian philosophy or scripture with any kind of depth. Reply 57.

Vinod
July 19, 2011 at 12:06 am

@ Nanu Asari, STOP JUSTIFYING PROSELYTIZATION. It is not acceptable in India! Period. Reply 58.

American yogi

July 19, 2011 at 10:58 am

Nanu Ansari, What spiritual freedom are you talking about? Christianity is a dogmatic cult no thinking is allowed. Hence Christian history is replete of burning scientists and anyone who dares to differ or question! Read the book on The Dark side of Christianity By Helen Ellerbe. Reply 59.

Vivek

July 26, 2011 at 8:18 am

Im very very happy to have found your blog!!!!!! I feel the same way as you. we need more people like us in India today. KEEP UP THE FIGHT!!! Reply 60.

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Raju Charles

July 30, 2011 at 10:55 pm

The constitution is the guide,which I never will abandon. George Washington India is failing! Indias failure to uphold its own secular constitution is hurting the political stability of the largest democracy. Freedom of religion is a fundamental right guaranteed under article 25 of the constitution of India. If India wants a seat in the UNSC, please extend affirmative action to Dalit Christians and Muslims! Not just to Hindus and Sikhs. We want freedom of religion like the Hindus enjoy in the West. You dont enter somebodys kitchen and rearrange it. Indian Christians are not asking the holy cow to be barred from city streets or the market place, so how do Hindu fundamentalists come to the West and ask the people remove ten commandments and the holy cross? While the BJP and the Sangh Parivar openly oppose Dalits Christians and Muslims equal opportunities in education and employment, the Communist and the Congress are shedding crocodile tears and oppose Dalit Christians and Muslims from the back. Dalits will not be intimidated by evil forces, we shall over come one day. Look at the old Soviet Union, the resurrection of Christianity. Reply
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Indian Realist

July 31, 2011 at 5:22 am

Do you know what promises Christian leaders gave to Hindu leaders in return for the right to proselytize when the constitution was being written? Their promises are there in the debates in the constituent assembly. Foolish Hindu leaders fell for the trap. Not a single of those promises has been kept.. Reply

Anonymous

August 7, 2011 at 1:13 pm

what promise are you talking about ? Please dont blame Christians for incompetent leaders. Freedom of religion is Dalits birth right. Dalit Christians stand for peace and progress in India. Dalits are not a threat to Hinduism or national security! The casteist/racist, christian hating,neo-Nazi mentality will not help India or save Hinduism.Be fair to all, just like in the west. Native Dalits are not going to run away! We are ready to take on anyone and willing to sacrifice for Christian rights in India. Dalits rights are human right,not just Hindu and Sikhs. Hindus wants freedom from Christianity,holy molly holy cow! Liberty and Justice to all in the American way! Have a smiley day! RC USA Reply

ss
August 8, 2011 at 3:16 am

Do Christians recognize the right of non-Christians to convert Christians? Maybe this freedom of religion thing should start with the church? Reply
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JGN

August 10, 2011 at 5:34 pm

Raju Charles, did any one prevent you from getting educated and persuing your trade/calling? Once having reached Amrika by making the best use of the infrastructure available in India, you guys start balaming all and sundry! What makes you think that Pagans/Hathens/Kafirs in India are sitting ducts and will allow you to slaughter them without any resistance, for establishing the Kingdom of God, when the Islamic Invaders and European Christian Colonizers failed to achieve that in nearly 900 years of their rule prior to 1947? Reply

JGN

August 10, 2011 at 5:39 pm

Pl read as (1)..you guys start blaming all and sundry! 2)Pagans/Hathens/Kafirs in India are sitting ducks Reply 62.

duart maclean
August 7, 2011 at 6:22 pm

The radiance of consciousness-bliss in the form of one awareness, shining in the same way within and without, is the supreme and blissful primal reality whose form is silence and which is declared by jnanis to be the final and incontrovertible state of true knowledge. Muruganar Only humility can destroy the ego. The ego keeps you far away from God. The door to God is open, but the lintel is very low. To enter one has to bend. Ramana Maharshi Reply 63.

Raju Charles

September 4, 2011 at 1:08 am

Caste India for UNSC! Those who dare to violate the ban face abuse, threats from caste Hindus After several years of struggle and agitation, the Dalits of Perali village in Perambalur district say they continue to face discrimination at the hands of caste Hindus. They still cannot ride a bicycle on streets where upper caste members reside. Those who dare to violate the ban face abuse and threats. In 2002, the All India Democratic Womens Association organised an agitation in the village, forcing the district administration to intervene. A group of Dalit boys and girls cycled along the upper caste streets under the supervision of Revenue officials. The freedom was short-lived. Dalits students of the Government Higher Secondary School in the village still cannot take the upper caste streets though it is a shorter, safe route. They have get down from the bicycle and push it or go via the busy Perambalur-Ariyalur High Road , says 49year-old N. Ayyakannu, a real estate broker. Even the postmaster, a Dalit, cannot ride his bicycle on the upper caste streets. After all the representations and agitations many of us are fed up and have come to the conclusion that things will not change, he says. Dalits constitute a minority in the village. Many among them have to work as agricultural labourers for the affluent and dominant caste Hindus and can hardly afford to go against the wishes of their employers. Dalits are not allowed to enter the temple on the upper caste street, says Mr. Ayyakannu. The two-tumbler system is prevalent in some of the tea shops, says Arumugam, a 70-year-old agricultural labourer. The system is followed except in two shops. We cannot even sit as equals with caste Hindus on the benches at the tea shops. Though the village has a library, Dalit youth can only sit on the floor, says Suresh, a Dalit boy. Charge denied K. Padaikathu, president of the village panchayat, who belongs to the upper caste community, denied there was any ban on Dalits cycling through the upper caste streets. When probed further, he conceded that there could be a few minor issues, but maintained there were no major problems in the village. Such problems were there some years back when I was young. But now, we co-exist peacefully. Asked about Dalits being denied admission to the temple, Mr.Padaikathu said there were separate temples in upper caste and Dalit streets and there was agreement that the two communities would worship separately. Reply
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ss
September 4, 2011 at 5:46 am

Hilarious coming from people who wont allow Dalit Christians to be buried in upper-caste Catholic graveyards, where catholics and protestants cut each other throats, declare everyone else as worshipping the devil and curse every race as going to hell. The killers of Red Indians, the slave masters of Blacks and the masters of the Inquisition have taken it upon themselves to teach the world some equality the rest of humanity should be on guard. Reply

Anonymous

September 5, 2011 at 1:59 pm

You are absolutely right these churches must be closed down for good for the sake of humanity. Will you able to organize a protest to expose the evil character of caste christians. Caste is hateful to god . Reply 64.

Avinashk1975@rediffmail.com
September 4, 2011 at 8:14 am

Raju Charles, will the Dalits go to heaven or hell as per the revelations made in the Holy Bible? Reply
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Raju Charles

October 9, 2011 at 3:06 am

Jesus the Dalit ! will you dare to call Krishna the Dalit ? GOd created man in his own image ! In Gods image he created male and female, Adam and Eve ! Caste has no place in Gods kingdom! Heaven is a happy place ! all are children of God ! Please read Revelation the last book of the Bible/Desire of Ages,by Ellen G White . May the undeserved kindness of the Lord Jesus be with you and your family! John 3;16, Gods promise to all of us! Amazing grace! Reply

JGN

October 9, 2011 at 11:12 am

Raju Charles, did I ask u to give me any Bible class? My question is will the Dalits go to heaven or hell as per the revelations made in the Holy Bible? Just answer this question. It is man who created Gawd in his own image; if horse have hands, they will darw their Gawds as Horses only. They will never ever draw their Gawd as Lion or Tiger!!! Reply 65.

duart maclean
September 4, 2011 at 3:48 pm

Any form of prejudice on the basis of caste, race, colour, religion, sex, age, income, education, etc. goes completely counter to the example and teachings of the sages and avatars of all cultures and religions. Such people have no right to call themselves Hindus or Buddhists or Christians, etc. They make a mockery of their respective religions and undermine the very foundations of civil society. Reply 66.

Kumar Iyer

September 6, 2011 at 3:57 am

Per chance stumbled on this site. Great i did. Reply

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duart maclean
October 9, 2011 at 11:48 am

The system of oppression against dalits, women, etc has absolutely no basis in the Upanishads, which form the core of Indian philosophy and spiritual teaching. The very principle of ahimsa (non-violence, non-suppression) is at the heart of Vedanta. So, it is a serious error to project our justified anger at the abuse of dalits and other groups onto Hinduism in its essential form. Those Indians who oppress others in the name of Hinduism are not true Hindus. At best, they are immitators. They are the equivalent of the Catholic inquisitors who tortured and murdered both Christians and non-Christians in the name of Jesus. Reply 68.

JGN

October 9, 2011 at 12:24 pm

Native Dalits are not going to run away!.thus spake a low-life convrt sitting in Yankee land!!!!!!!! Reply 69.

Yam Chand

October 9, 2011 at 3:32 pm

Dalits were not created by any religion, but as practiced then victor Aryans enslaved the local populace. Such system aws prevalent in other societies too during early world history. And later those Aryans in society too who couldnt practice Hindu rituals were condemned to be dalits as punishment. This divide proved to be very harmful to Hindus, as millions of Hindus were defeated by a handful of invaders from NW in all history of India, because only Kshatriya/Rajput were supposed to fight, but Brahmins, Vaishyas and Shudras never cared who ruled them and never took part in wars with invaders, which meant that India was always ruled by some kind of foreigner and Hindus never ruled from Delhi after 1192. Reply
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duart
October 9, 2011 at 4:43 pm

Very interesting! Yet, there have been great Hindu kings in the past. The best way to strengthen Hinduism throughout India and around the world is to study it and live it in its original form, i.e., as understood through the Upanishads. Even as pure and wise a modern sage as Ramana Maharshi has paid great homage to the Upanishads as well as to classical Saivite texts. The emphasis of these teaching is never on rituals or issues of status, but on knowledge of the Self through direct experience and spiritual practice; then. living it in daily life, including political, economic, social and environmental. Reply 70.

JGN

October 9, 2011 at 4:12 pm

Yamraj, the Indian society had shown exceptional unity when it mattered. Present day India is the only place where the followers of two marauding religions failed to completely wipe out the native culture and civilization. Where are the Islamic Invaders and European Colonizers? Have we not driven them out lock stock and barrel? One can understand the Islamic invaders and European colonizers (and their progenies) telling that some Aryans had banged your females before they came here and banged some of our ancestors but why should the Indians in present day India swallow that hook, line and sinker? Reply
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Yam Chand

October 9, 2011 at 4:55 pm

Jagan, Yes, we now have a Vishal-Bharat, thanks to human rights abiding and benevolent British power during Winston Churchil ( sadly we no longer have such gesture in Azaad Bharat, where all opposition leaders including the dynamic JPjee, were put in jail, just to remain in power by Indira Gandhi and Annaji, Ramdev

like Anti-corruption crusaders are victimized now). We Hindus never contemplated having India of the size we have now. British fought Burmese King and had India beyond Assam or other large part of present India, Bangla Desh and Pakistan. Which war we fought by ourselves? Gandhiji and Nehru company never dared to rule India combined with Pakistan with a far and beyond marginalized Hindus in the British Indian army where including Muslim/Sikh/Gorkha numbered more than 68% of the soldiers, whereas Hindu/Christian/Dalit combined numbered only 32%. By this composition of that strong army Gandhi/Nehru/Patel trio only feared coup-de-tat by Muslim majority/Hindu minority army. Which all means that this trio was in reality more responsible of creating Pakistan out of India, not to mention about the death (or murder?) of millions of Hindus and Sikhs trying to migrate to India. This trio is more responsible than Jinnah or the British for that episode. Gandhiji even feared to rule India along with Netaji Subhash and the later was compelled to join hands with the Japanese. Reply 71.

JGN

October 9, 2011 at 5:41 pm

Yam Chand, so the human rights abiding and benevolent Britishers came all the way from U.K. to a Godforesaken-place like the Indian sub-continent for uniting the same and left the place as soon as that task was accomplished!!!!!! What an idea Sirji. Then how come they failed to unite Europe under their own nose and following their own religion? There are many countries smaller than our little Goa in Europe. India was culturally one since time immemorial. Adi Shankara had established his Four Maths at four parts of the Country. If the place was not culturally one, no power on earth would have been able to unite the same. Even when the Britishers left in 1947, there were nearly 600 princely states in India. Credit for merging them all and creating a country called Union of India should go the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, V.P.Menon and millions of freedom fighters. Pl go to the offical web of Pakistan (or search for Chaudhary Rehmat Ali) to know why Pakistan was created. The creation of Pakistan was with the lofty objective of Islamization of the whole of Asia from Moroco to Indonesia, an idea that miserably failed. Religion is NOT a binding factor. Had it been the case, East and West Pakistan would not have become two in less than 25 years. Reply
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Anonymous

October 9, 2011 at 6:38 pm

Jaganbhai, We can take pride only about the ages of Adi Shankacharya or Lord Rama or Krishna, but even during Treta Yug of Rama or Dwapar Yug of Krishna had divided India with so many Kingdoms and classified society of 4 varnas when Dalits were victimised and Lord Rama killed Shudra Shambook for his guilt of reading vedas. None of the Hindus past had India bordering Kashmir to Kanya Kumari and Gujrat to Myanmar, never, only British gave us this on a silver-platter and British always honoured Gandhijis Stayagrah, unlike Indiras Feruman and emergency episode or present day Telangana, Anna, Ramdev episodes, where parties in power never want to allow satyagrah like movement. What about the time when Prithvi Raj Chauhan lost the seat of Delhi for ever for foreigners. Why couldnt we join hands together with Chauhan and fight Muslims? And when british came in India, how was India ruled? There was no sign of Hindu India untill British defeated each and every King, Sultan, Nawab, or prince. You are talking about 600 principalities and states, but which of these 600 Princely state had an army, as they all were ruling under the British Raj and most of these Princely states were taken by us by cheating on the pretext that there will be a Privy purse if they surrendered their states, but this promise was not kept and most of these Princes ended becoming destitutes. I dont think we have a glorious past after 1192 and I give credit to British for making unified India so large. Vande Mataram! Reply

ss
October 9, 2011 at 6:45 pm

You are foolish because you think political boundaries form the basis of a nation state. Reply
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Yam Chand

October 10, 2011 at 12:18 am

Why didnt British try to unite Europe? Well, you need to study European history. Europe was ruled by various strong power houses like Greeks, Romans, French, Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, Danes and not a simple playground like Asia, America, Afrika, Australia. There was a strong competition among all Europeans how to colonize different parts of the world. But the fact is that India was very prosperous/fertile country divided into many parts. Two months tilling in field were enough to feed for a year, whereas there was no food production in the UK climate was very harsh to live in. This was one of the reasons they had to look for land with better climate, better food production and they colonized almost more than half of the Earth. India was very fertile, but this made the people very lazy and non-combatants. They never gave a good fight to invaders and easily accepted them as their rulers no matter who they were. Hindus are still in very large numbers because barring very few rulers all Muslim rulers were not fanatics and never tried to convert locals. And luckily for us British were not Roman Catholics like Spanish/French/ Spanish otherwise they would convert almost all Indians. I stick to my idea that Gandhi/Nehru/Patel combined were not comfortable to rule India combined with Muslim with Muslim majority/Hindu minority British Indian Army. They were paranoid about ruling martial-race or even with Netaji. They campaigned to recruit hundreds of thousand Indians into British army during WW2, even propagated the population that only after you fight bravely for British Swaraj will be gained, meaning that British will give freedom to India only after Indians die for them in WW2. Reply

JGN

October 10, 2011 at 1:29 pm

Yam Chand, I m just wodering which Hisotry Book you have studied. Pl download and read: ASIA AND WESTERN DOMINANCE. BY K. M. PANIKKAR. You will have a better understanding of the motives of European colonizers and who divided the Hindus and Muslims. Reply 72.

duart maclean
October 9, 2011 at 10:47 pm

I find it hard to believe that Lord Rama would have executed a Dalit for looking at the Vedas. That was a long time ago and where, exactly, is any real evidence? The world has changed greatly since the time of the British Raj and many aspects of traditional Hinduism may not be so relevant in modern times. I admit I could be wrong on this, as I am not a born Hindu nor an Indian. The philosophical core of Hinduism is, however, timeless and true. And it is this core that must be brought out vigorously and without apology, because it is a true and fundamental knowledge that is lacking in all of the other world religions and of which science is absolutely ignorant. This core, as represented by the Upanishads, Adi Sankara, etc, is the worlds best kept secret. Our western ontologists such as Sartre, Husserl and Heidegger have tried to grasp the true nature of being and consciousness, but from a biased western view. None of them make any reference to Indian philosophy and their thinking is purely eurocentric. What these ontological philosophers miss in their brilliant but flawed writings is fully captured in Indian philosophy, and not just ancient Indian philosophy. Modern sages such as Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta and Muruganar elucidate a philosophy of being and consciousness that completes what is only partially grasped in the west. This is the real wealth of India and it is a wealth worth fighting for not only for India, but for all of humankind and for the very planet itself. Reply
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Yam Chand

October 9, 2011 at 11:53 pm

Dear Duart, I agree Hindu epics like Ramayana or Mahabharata are just mythology and Hindus trust these books. Ramayana was in Treta-Yug about 1000,000 ago and Mahabharata was in Dwapar-Yug which is said to be 600,000 years ago (As per Hindu belief, Satya-yug is 17, 28,000 years, Treta-yug is 12,96,000, Dwapar -yug is 864,000 years, and Kali-yug is 432,000), so there are no proofs like in modern type of history, but if you believe Ramayana then you have to believe that Lord Rama killed Shudra scholar Shambook, Bali, and Ravana. In some respect all these three so called villains were more ethical than Rama. Only crime Shambook did was he studied books about Hindu religion, Bali was killed from behind without giving a chance of defence, which was against Hindu cult even in the time of King Prithvi Raj Chauhan (Muhammad Ghori was spared by him due to this Hindu culture), and Ravana never tried to exploit Seeta Maiyya against her will. Of course, Hindu religion is the oldest and have many good tenets, but sometimes very impractical, like when Mahmud Gajanavi was looting Somnath temple for 17 times, Hindus never fought but called/prayed their Gods to help. Hindus never attacked enemies after sunset or before sunrise, only kshatriya/Rajput fought and all other three castes (Brahmin/Vaishyas/Shudra) overlooked foreign aggression at all times, which were some of the reasons Muslims, with such a small population with small army, captured India so easily .

Thanks Yam Reply

ss
October 10, 2011 at 3:27 pm

Will you stop spreading your missionary propaganda here? Reply

Yam Chand

October 10, 2011 at 9:49 pm

SS, No my dear, Hindus can never be missionaries, because there is no provision in Hinduism to accept from outside due to class society. Hinduism is a one-way traffic where a Hindu may go out but can come back only as a Dalit and there is no way outsider can convert to this religion. Reply

JGN

October 11, 2011 at 3:22 am

Yamraj, Hindus do not tell anyone that unles you get some dirty water spinkled on your head or get a small portion of your nunni chopped-off, you will burn in hell fire for eternity. They allow every one to reach the Heaven in their own way! As for one way traffic, it is your Pislam that is a one way traffic, you can enter but cannot leave. Death penalty has been prescribed in the Q-Book for any leaving the cult. And of course the Hindus do not engage theequivalent of Missionaries for sellting their culture and civilization to any Tom Dick and Harry. There are some organizations like Arya Samaj, Iskon, etc converting the outsiders to their version of Hindusim. Reply 73.

JGN

October 10, 2011 at 1:48 pm

Mr. Duart, Ramayana and Mahabharata are Epics (Stories) containing some morals and universal truth. They are not records of hisotrical events. There are many versions of Ramayana. I have not read about the killing of any Shambook in the version of Ramayana most popular in Kerala and also doubt whether such an episode is mentioned even in Valmiki Ramayana. Valmiki himself was supposed to be a tribal dacoit. When a triabl dacoit was able to get such a command in Sanskrit language, why any one else at that time would have been denied education or even reading of the Vedas? The world dalit itself was coined very recently. In Vedic Era, the caste was determined by Profession and not vice-versa. Dronacharya was a Brahmin who was teaching Archery to the Pandavas and Kauravas and fought in the Mahabharata war from the side of the Kauravas. His birth as a brahmin did not prevent him from fighting in a war. Lord Krishna was a Yadav who would have been classified as an OBC today. Veda Vyasa was the son of a Rishi (Saint) and a Fisher-woman (Satyavati) , who later became the Queen of Hastinapura and Rajmata also! Dritarashtra, Pandu and Sanjaya were sons of Veda Vyasa. There are dozens of such examples from Indian Epics. Ancient centres of learning in India, viz. Nalanda and Taxshila had students from all over the world. It is hard to beleive that any local student would have been denied a change to get educatted there. Education was NOT a paying proposition till the Britishers started employing Clerks. So there were not many takers for education at that time. Reply 74.

duart maclean
October 12, 2011 at 1:18 pm

When I was younger I was interested in religion, later I became more interested in philosophy. At the core of every theology there must be a philosophy, just as at the core of science there must be philosophy. Philosophy establishes first principles upon which everything else is built. So, as much as I appreciate Indian culture, colour and rituals, my main concern is with Hinduisms first principles. First principles are universal, and so are not subject to cultural and historical conditions. Hinduism is so old and has such a rich literature that we could argue eternally about this and that, and whos right and whos wrong in their interpretation of what Hinduism really stands for. What stands out for me vis-a-vis Hinduism (and it radical uniqueness) are the concepts of Self, Brahman, Sakti, Being-Consciousness, Grace, etc, which are presented so brilliantly, so cogently and with such completeness by great Hindu sages such as Vasista, Adi Sankara and Ramana Maharshi that by comparision, in my eyes at least, western philosophy looks pitiable. The knowledge of these sages transcends culture, history and ritual. Their knowledge is at the Heart of Hinduism, and it is this Heart of Hinduism that I embrace. I can never be an indian in this life-time, but I can dive deeply into this ocean of wisdom and liberation that has been given to me clothed as Hinduism. Thus, in the esoteric sense, I am a Hindu. Reply 75.

Druv
October 12, 2011 at 7:39 pm

i love your spirit, we need to change completely if we wish to save our society from complete destruction that is approaching us. Reply 76.

Jeet Bhargava
November 19, 2011 at 7:45 am

Fantastic Blog. Keep it up. Reply 77.

duart maclean
November 19, 2011 at 1:48 pm

A child is born and it is clothed in a diaper. It becomes a youngster and wears shorts and a T-shirt. As an adolescent it wears jeans and cool shirts. As an adult it dresses in a business suit. As an old man it spends most of its time in pajamas. Religions are like this. They change their outer garb over time. But.the core of the man and the core of the religion never change. This is what we must distinguish in Hinduism the inner significance versus the outer presentation in any given period of history. Hinduism deals specifically with Brahman, Sakti and the timeless, spaceless, causeless, immortal Self: the Being-Consciousness. This is Hinduism in its essence. If Hinduism is to survive and flourish, this fundamental fact must never be overlooked. When we focus on the externals of Hinduism we lose sight of what Hinduism, at its Heart, truly is. As an anglo-Canadian, it is in this sense and this sense alone that I am a Hindu. And it is this essence of Hinduism that the millions of Westerners who have taken up the practice of Yoga, must be presented with. As it stands currently, most Western practitioners of Yoga think that Yoga is primarily asanas and breathing exercises, and this must be corrected. Asanas and pranayama support spiritual practice, such as meditation, but the road to Realization is Self-enquiry combined with a thorough understanding of the ontology at the basis of Hinduism, an ontology that is well presented in the Upanishads, the Gita, the Yoga-Vasistha, Shankaras Crest Jewel of Discrimination and many other similar texts. It is also well understood by Hinduisms true sages, that jnana and bhakti are not fundamentally different from one from the other that is, the practice of jnana yoga is bhakti and the practice of bhakti yoga is jnana. A final note: the principle of ahimsa, which is so fundamental to Hinduism, automatically rules out any form of inequality, discrimination, abuse, ridicule or unkindness. Reply 78.

Vineet Bhardwaj

February 12, 2012 at 2:06 pm

Hi Where are you these days? Nothing after Dec 2011 entry of blog. Keep it going lest people will lose interest. Keep up the good work. Let all the right minded Bharatiyas unite since net is only the best forum for us since Media is dominated by Congress / Left and psuedo secular stooges.

Regards Vineet Reply 79.

Anonymous

February 25, 2012 at 2:55 am

Thank you very much for voicing the concerns of silent majority of India. Reply 80.

kishore

April 6, 2012 at 12:27 pm

Dear director in Christ My heartily greetings to you in the precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you for email; I believe and pray that the Lord would permit you to come to India definitely. You can understand the ministries that have been going well in India for the expansion of thy kingdom. I hope that God open doors to work together to further work in India. I have attached a file which gives you a picture of my ministry in India. I would like to introduce myself to you through this letter once again. I, M.John kishore kumar, pastor and child evangelist in India. TYCHICUS WILL TELL YOU ALL THE NEWS ABOUT ME.HE IS A DEAR BROTHER, A FAITHFUL MINISTER AND FELLOW SERVANT IN THE LORD. COLOSSIANS: 4:7 I am a B.A, student, trained pastor and trained child evangelist from a very long time. I have been visiting about forty neighboring villages in Andhra and Karnataka states of India and spending my time in spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ in all villages and homes with purity of mind. Is not this the kind of pasting I have chosen; to loose the chains of injustice and until the cards of the yoke to set the oppressed free and break every yoke. Is it not to share our food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter when you see the naked, to clothes him and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? Then your light will break forth like the down, and your healing will quickly appear; then you righteousness will go before you and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard. Then you will call, and the lord will answer; you will cry for help and he will here am I? If you do away with the yoke of oppression wioth the pointing finger and malicious talk and if you spend yourselves on behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppression then your light will rise in the darkness and you might will become like the noon day.ISAIAH 58; 6 to 10 In all the villages, I came across a number of poor people, Muslims, Hindus and Christians. To all the villagers, I have always been going on foot and have been serving them all strictly in condolence with the principles of Christianity. Who enjoyed God`s favor and asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob. But it was Solomon who built the house for him. HOW EVER, THE MOST HIGH DOES NOT LIBE IN HOUSES MADE BYMEN.AS THE PROPHET SAYS; IHEAVEN IS MY THRONE AND THE EARTH IS MY FOOTS STOOD WHAT KIND OF HOUSE WILL YOU BUILD FORME? SAYS THE LORD.OR WHERE WILL MY RESTING PLACE BE? HAS NOT MY HAND MADE ALL THESE THING? ACTS 7: 46 TO 50. In all these villages, I came across a number of small dilapidated churches like construction. In some other villages, I have found not even these. The villagers in these places are very pious and God-minded. But they do not have proper places where they can assemble and carry on their prayer. But I do not have the necessary financial stamina to do any thing for them. But I have succeeded in forming groups, dedicated to the service of Jesus Christ. There are in these villages a number of orphans, destitute and illiterate people. However, I have always been praying to Lord for their well being. I therefore, solicit you to help me to construct small churches, so that they might spend some of their time in worshipping Jesus Christ. I TELL YOU THE TRUTH, ANY ONE WHO HAS FAITH IN ME WILL DO WHAT I AM DOING.HE WILL DO EVEN GREATER THINGS THEN THESE, BECAUSE I AM GOING TO THE FATHER.AND I WILL DO WHATER YOU ASK IN MY NAME.SO THAT THE SON MAY BRING GLORY TO THE FATHER.YOU MAY ASK ME FOR ANYTHING IN MY NAME AND I WILL DO IT. JOHN 14:12 Thus therefore these destitute should have a chance to spend some of their time in the praying to the Lord and thus enrich themselves, spiritually. I am sure that this spiritual wealth would help them find a place in the heart of the Lord the savior Jesus Christ. And to this and I need financial assistance from noble-man like you. Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give not reluctantly of under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all times, having all that you need, you will bound in every good work. As it is written. HE HAS SCATTERED ABROAD HIS GIFTS TO THE POOR HIS RIGHEOUSNESS ENDURES FOR EVER. HE WHO SUPPLIES SEED TO SOWER AND BREAD FOR FOOD WILL ALSO SUPPLY AND INCREASE YOUR STORE OF SEED AND WILL ENLARGE THE HARVEST OF YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.YOU WILL BE MADE RIGHT IN EVERY WAY SO THAT YOU CAN BE GENEROUS ON EVERY OCCASSION, AND THROUGH US YOUR GENEROUSITY WILL RESULT IN THANKS GIVING TO GOD. THIS SERVICE THAT YOU PERFORM IS NOT ONLY SUPPLYING THE NEEDS OF GODS PEOPLE BUT IS

ALSO OVERFLOWING IN MY EXPRESSIONS OF THANKS TO GOD. BECAUSE OF THE SERVICE BY WHICH YOU HAVE PROVED YOURSELVES,MEN WILL PRAISE GOD FOR THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST AND FOR YOUR GENEROSITY IN SHARING WITH THEM AND WITH EVERY ONE ELSE.AND IN THEIR PRAYERS FOR YOU THEIR HEARTS WILL GO OUT TO YOU BECAUSE OF THE SURPRAISING GRACE GOD HAS GIVEN YOU.THANKS BE TO GOD FOR HIS INDESCRIBABLE GIFTS. II CORINTHIANS; 9:7 to15. I therefore beseech you to show the way to me to help them to spend some of their time in praying to God at proper places. This way OH: MY DEAR parents Now I am ready to visit you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you, because what I want is not your possessions but you .after all, children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children. So, I will very gladly spend for you every thing I have and expend my self as well. If I love you love me less? You know brothers, that our visit you was not a failure. We had previously suffered and been insulted in Philippi; as you know but with the help of our God we cared tro tell you his Gospel inspirte of strong opposition. For the appeal we make does not spring from error or impure motives, nor are we trying to please men but God. Who tests our hearts, you know we never used flattery, nor did we put on a mask to cover up greed-God is our witness. I Thessalonians: 2:1 to5. This way, Oh: my dear parents will help me to help the forsaken to gain the blessings of the Lord. They will then spend their time protected by the soothing share of the Lord. I am very confident that you, the seal early parents of these unfortunate people, will come to their rescue and thus help them in times to move along right path prescribed by the Savior. I have also been trying my best to give them minimum succor. But I feel and honestly feel that a poor man like I cannot do full service to these forsaken brethren. I will never be properly thankful and profoundly grateful for all these help. I request you to render. All the saints send their greetings II Corinthians 13; 13. Be assured sir, that both the members of our family and myself would ever pray to the Lord to please you all bounteous.I have attached few pictures of my ministry in India. Yours co-laborer in Him M.J.Kishore kumar Pastor and child evangelist Amen. Reply 81.

kishore

April 6, 2012 at 12:28 pm

Dear director in Christ My heartily greetings to you in the precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you for email; I believe and pray that the Lord would permit you to come to India definitely. You can understand the ministries that have been going well in India for the expansion of thy kingdom. I hope that God open doors to work together to further work in India. I have attached a file which gives you a picture of my ministry in India. I would like to introduce myself to you through this letter once again. I, M.John kishore kumar, pastor and child evangelist in India. TYCHICUS WILL TELL YOU ALL THE NEWS ABOUT ME.HE IS A DEAR BROTHER, A FAITHFUL MINISTER AND FELLOW SERVANT IN THE LORD. COLOSSIANS: 4:7 I am a B.A, student, trained pastor and trained child evangelist from a very long time. I have been visiting about forty neighboring villages in Andhra and Karnataka states of India and spending my time in spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ in all villages and homes with purity of mind. Is not this the kind of pasting I have chosen; to loose the chains of injustice and until the cards of the yoke to set the oppressed free and break every yoke. Is it not to share our food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter when you see the naked, to clothes him and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? Then your light will break forth like the down, and your healing will quickly appear; then you righteousness will go before you and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard. Then you will call, and the lord will answer; you will cry for help and he will here am I? If you do away with the yoke of oppression wioth the pointing finger and malicious talk and if you spend yourselves on behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppression then your light will rise in the darkness and you might will become like the noon day.ISAIAH 58; 6 to 10 In all the villages, I came across a number of poor people, Muslims, Hindus and Christians. To all the villagers, I have always been going on foot and have been serving them all strictly in condolence with the principles of Christianity. Who enjoyed God`s favor and asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob. But it was Solomon who built the house for him. HOW EVER, THE MOST HIGH DOES NOT LIBE IN HOUSES MADE BYMEN.AS THE PROPHET SAYS; IHEAVEN IS MY THRONE AND THE EARTH IS MY FOOTS STOOD WHAT KIND OF HOUSE WILL YOU BUILD FORME? SAYS THE LORD.OR WHERE WILL MY RESTING PLACE BE? HAS NOT MY HAND MADE ALL THESE THING? ACTS 7: 46 TO 50.

In all these villages, I came across a number of small dilapidated churches like construction. In some other villages, I have found not even these. The villagers in these places are very pious and God-minded. But they do not have proper places where they can assemble and carry on their prayer. But I do not have the necessary financial stamina to do any thing for them. But I have succeeded in forming groups, dedicated to the service of Jesus Christ. There are in these villages a number of orphans, destitute and illiterate people. However, I have always been praying to Lord for their well being. I therefore, solicit you to help me to construct small churches, so that they might spend some of their time in worshipping Jesus Christ. I TELL YOU THE TRUTH, ANY ONE WHO HAS FAITH IN ME WILL DO WHAT I AM DOING.HE WILL DO EVEN GREATER THINGS THEN THESE, BECAUSE I AM GOING TO THE FATHER.AND I WILL DO WHATER YOU ASK IN MY NAME.SO THAT THE SON MAY BRING GLORY TO THE FATHER.YOU MAY ASK ME FOR ANYTHING IN MY NAME AND I WILL DO IT. JOHN 14:12 Thus therefore these destitute should have a chance to spend some of their time in the praying to the Lord and thus enrich themselves, spiritually. I am sure that this spiritual wealth would help them find a place in the heart of the Lord the savior Jesus Christ. And to this and I need financial assistance from noble-man like you. Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give not reluctantly of under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all times, having all that you need, you will bound in every good work. As it is written. HE HAS SCATTERED ABROAD HIS GIFTS TO THE POOR HIS RIGHEOUSNESS ENDURES FOR EVER. HE WHO SUPPLIES SEED TO SOWER AND BREAD FOR FOOD WILL ALSO SUPPLY AND INCREASE YOUR STORE OF SEED AND WILL ENLARGE THE HARVEST OF YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.YOU WILL BE MADE RIGHT IN EVERY WAY SO THAT YOU CAN BE GENEROUS ON EVERY OCCASSION, AND THROUGH US YOUR GENEROUSITY WILL RESULT IN THANKS GIVING TO GOD. THIS SERVICE THAT YOU PERFORM IS NOT ONLY SUPPLYING THE NEEDS OF GODS PEOPLE BUT IS ALSO OVERFLOWING IN MY EXPRESSIONS OF THANKS TO GOD. BECAUSE OF THE SERVICE BY WHICH YOU HAVE PROVED YOURSELVES,MEN WILL PRAISE GOD FOR THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST AND FOR YOUR GENEROSITY IN SHARING WITH THEM AND WITH EVERY ONE ELSE.AND IN THEIR PRAYERS FOR YOU THEIR HEARTS WILL GO OUT TO YOU BECAUSE OF THE SURPRAISING GRACE GOD HAS GIVEN YOU.THANKS BE TO GOD FOR HIS INDESCRIBABLE GIFTS. II CORINTHIANS; 9:7 to15. I therefore beseech you to show the way to me to help them to spend some of their time in praying to God at proper places. This way OH: MY DEAR parents Now I am ready to visit you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you, because what I want is not your possessions but you .after all, children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children. So, I will very gladly spend for you every thing I have and expend my self as well. If I love you love me less? You know brothers, that our visit you was not a failure. We had previously suffered and been insulted in Philippi; as you know but with the help of our God we cared tro tell you his Gospel inspirte of strong opposition. For the appeal we make does not spring from error or impure motives, nor are we trying to please men but God. Who tests our hearts, you know we never used flattery, nor did we put on a mask to cover up greed-God is our witness. I Thessalonians: 2:1 to5. This way, Oh: my dear parents will help me to help the forsaken to gain the blessings of the Lord. They will then spend their time protected by the soothing share of the Lord. I am very confident that you, the seal early parents of these unfortunate people, will come to their rescue and thus help them in times to move along right path prescribed by the Savior. I have also been trying my best to give them minimum succor. But I feel and honestly feel that a poor man like I cannot do full service to these forsaken brethren. I will never be properly thankful and profoundly grateful for all these help. I request you to render. All the saints send their greetings II Corinthians 13; 13. Be assured sir, that both the members of our family and myself would ever pray to the Lord to please you all bounteous.I have attached few pictures of my ministry in India. Yours co-laborer in Him M.J.Kishore kumar Pastor and child evangelist Amen. Email ID; e2dearkish@gmail.com Reply
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April 7, 2012 at 4:15 am

Kishore (Director of delution in Christ) You are trained Robo and you dont know what you are doing. You are allowed to think only within Bible. You yourself cheating your mind that your path is correct and what you are doing to our nation is not bothering you. You people are in delusion of praying a dead man in wooden stick. One third of the world population is in this delusion and your kind of idotic robos working for money are the hell for our country. The another one third population is under monotheistic delusion and spoiling every culture on the earth. Reply
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May 7, 2012 at 6:55 pm

I made a sincere attempt to understand your comments but could not make much headway. Since you are quoting statements of BIBLE and seems to talking that language, I feel so disconnected with article. I wish I could understand you. What is the meaning of co-laborer ? And PROPHET is not alive..so all that your quoted is WHAT HE MIGHT HAVE SAID A LONG TIME AGO. Write in simple sentences. Believe me, simple language constructs can also convey deep meaning! Reply 82.

duartmaclean
April 6, 2012 at 4:29 pm

Delusional and ungrounded. Means well but creates confusion and unclarity. Unbalanced. Adds to the general mess. Makes me think of the missionaries to Canadas native people who did so much to destroy the very fabric of their cultures and ways of life, as well as creating deep confusion and self-doubt at a personal and family level.. Evangelism does not work! Reply 83.

NIRMAL LAUNGANI
September 7, 2012 at 5:50 pm

TO INDIAN REALIST Please check the server. All my posts had been ready since 3 hours. Messages #1 #7, could sent them quick. But, the rest of the 7 messages couldnt sent. Now, 6 of the pending 7 were already sent out. But I am unable to send the last one. Could you please check what is going on? My replies to Vicjags #12 WHY I AM NOT GOING TO BE ON THIS BLOG FOR THE NEXT 3 MONTHS Its taken me one and a half days to go through Vicjags extremely lengthy, repetitive and boring posts and to reply them. I have not been able to do any other work. Is it worth it? Is Vicjags worth my time? The answer is a clear NO. What has he done so far? The same criticism of Hindu Dharma with more abusive words. Has he thrown any new insights? NO. Does he listen to the answers we provide him. NO As I have said before, the only 1 PERSON that he would have convinced by the time he quits this blog will be himself. Convincing the convinced will be lauded as a great achievement. Sure, Indian Ocean is the only one who thinks that you have something to offer but that also comes with some conditions. Remember he himself hints that other Christians do not listen to him. He is a paper tiger, he does not represent anybody. For me, Vicjags is a coward who abuses Hindu philosophy but does not answer any questions about Christianity. That speaks a lot, because I am not generally used to making such strong statements. As far as I am concerned, I have a lot of business responsibilities I have to leave for a long business trip from next month. Besides, I have other social and religious commitments. I also actively work for two orphanages. Vicjags messages are not something that you can have a look in the morning, reply and continue to work. On the contrary, they take up a lot of time, not because of anything useful inside, but a dreadful style of writing and repetitiions / lamentations, etc.. He is not worth my time. About Hindu Dharma, I will say boldly, HE KNOWS NOTHING, HE CAN OFFER NOTHING. So rather than wasting my time and get provoked by his messages and getting tempted to reply to him, with immediate effect, I prefer to stop reading Indian Realist, and concentrate my time on useful things. However, Vicjags has hinted that in a few months, he will present his Christian worldview dont know if it is true. But, around mid December, I will browse this blogsite. If I find something which is enlightening, I can join, otherwise I wouldnt bother Thanks for your time, Nirmal Reply 84.

Brajesh

October 24, 2012 at 8:04 am

Muslimo ko kaise bhi ho maro kato kyoki agar tum aisa nahi kar paye to ve tumhe m ar kat denge yahi unka niyam he Reply 85.

pradeep

December 1, 2012 at 5:46 pm

Fantastic blog. Great service to Hinduism, My friend i jst have this to tell you.May Lord Shiva bless you Reply

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Afghan parliament upholds right to marry children Afghanistans parliament has rejected a measure that would have barred men from marrying girls younger than 16, saying the proposal ran counter to Islamic ideology. The measure also would have banned baad, [the] traditional practice of buying or selling women to settle disputes, and outlawed criminal charges being imposed on rape victims, Breitbart reported. Rape victims in Afghanistan often are charged with fornication or adultery. President Hamid Karzai reportedly supported the measures, but opponents said they violate[d] Islamic principles, Breitbart reported.

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Can those Hindu traitors be identified who ordered this operation to ensnare an innocent Hindu religious woman so that they could get Muslim votes to rule over the Hindus? Sadhvi Pragya and the Malegaon mess Vicky Nanjappa Is the Malegaon 2006 blast case doomed? It started off with the Maharashtra ATS arresting several Muslim youth claiming that they were behind this attack and over the years the theory changed and a new set of accused comprising Hindus came into the fray. There was so much hoopla around the arrest of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur who was named as one of the main accused in the case. However what is surprising is that her name does not even figure in the chargesheet which has been filed by the National Investigation Agency which took over the case from the Maharashtra ATS. Sources tell rediff.com that there was not enough evidence on hand to file a chargesheet against Sadhvi Pragya Singh and even if they were to file a supplementary chargesheet her name may not figure in it. The question now is whether Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur will walk free after spending so many years in jail despite her health condition deteriorating. Her legal team says that it is a good sign that her name does not figure in the Malegaon 2006 chargesheet and they see this as a positive. It becomes clear that allegations against were thrown in the heat of the movement and when it finally came to closing the case there was not enough evidence against her. Read More

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I am a big fan of Sita Ram Goel, a great Hindu thinker and writer who died in 2003. I suggest you read all his books, starting from Jesus Christ: Artifice for Aggression. This will be an eye opener for you as well as Christian monotheists. His other books are available at this link you can read them online. Christianity & Islam: Politics masquerading as religion By Sita Ram Goel Hindu society has to understand very clearly that what it is faced with in the form of Christianity and Islam are not religions but imperialist ideologies whose appetite has been whetted by running roughshod over a large part of the world. Hindu society is making a serious, almost a fatal mistake, in appealing to these ideologies in the name of reason and morality which are supposed to accompany religion. This sort of appeal is bound to fail because it falls on deaf ears. Sita Ram Goel The Sufi as mystic The story which I am now going to tell is true. I remember it word by word, although it happened twenty-five years ago.[1] A young Muslim sufi from Kashmir was telling us about the teachings of his guru (this was the word he used for his teacher) who had died some years earlier. Pryma was a prominent part of these teachings. This again was the term he used, though he did not know even the Hindi language, not to speak of Sanskrit. The sufi was a very simple and unassuming person. He had had no schooling. And he made his living by the humble occupation of a tailor. But we were fascinated by what he told us about the techniques used by his guru for his spiritual training. His language was straightforward without the slightest touch of pedantry. As the conversation drew to a close someone from among us started to play a record of padvali krtan by one of the few famous femalke specialists from Bengal. The sufi was visibly moved by the pathos in Radhas pining for Sri Krishna who had left Vrindavana for Mathura. Soon after the music stopped, he exclaimed, Ais gn hamn k hazr baras bd sun (I have heard this sort of music after a thousand years). His eyes were brimming with tears which he was trying to hide. We were amazed. He was in his thirties. He could not have been in this world a thousand years ago. What did he mean by that statement? We requested him to explain. He said in a voice full of innocence: Pahle janam m sun hog (I must have heard it in an earlier life). I became agog with curiosity. He was talking of transmigration. So I asked him, p ky is zindg s pahl janam k bt mnat hain (Do you believe in a birth before this present life)? The sufi seemed to be somewhat annoyed. He asked a counter-question in a tone which had a touch of temper: p mazhab k sawl kyo utht hain (Why are you raising a theological controversy)? I was puzzled by his reply, as was everybody else. I had not the slightest intention to annoy him. He was our guest. I had asked the question out of sheer curiosity. So I came forward with a clarification, and said, Sfj, p musalmn hain. Islm k h janam mnat hai. pn pahle janam k bt kah, isliy sawl uThy th (You are a Muslim. Islam recognises only one life. You talk about an earlier life.

That is why I had asked the question). He relaxed and explained: Mazhab t wah bt kaht hai. Lekin mai t rz k bt kah rah th (It is true that theology says that. But I was talking of the esoteric way). We were surprised by this distinction. This was a new revelation to us this separation of esoterism from theology. The sufi continued: Rz k bt ham sab k sman nah kaht. Yeh t mai p logo se kah rah th (We do not talk of the esoteric way before everybody. It is only to you people that I was talking about it). All of us asked simultaneously: Kyo (Why)? The suf said, Woh log (those people) and without completing the sentence he put the edge of his outstretched palm on his throat and moved it across. He was trying to convey that those people would cut his throat. We asked him about those people. Who were they? He did not name any. But he became gloomy. It was obvious that he did not like to continue the dialogue, which we dropped immediately. I was sure in my mind that nobody was going to cut his throat these days even if he proclaimed publicly what he believed privately. Times had changed. Moreover, he was a citizen of India, not of an Islamic theocracy. Yet the alarm in his voice was unmistakable. I knew how Mansur al-Hallaj had been tortured to death by an Islamic state prompted by Islamic theologians for saying that he himself was the Haqq (Truth). But that was all. I had not yet read any detailed history of Sufism, nor compared or contrasted the doctrines of Sufism with the dogmas of prophetic Islam. It was years later when I made such a study and came to know of the rishi tradition in Kashmir Sufism, that I was suddenly reminded of that talk with the young sufi that day. He was obviously referring to the tradition of terror which had silenced the sups of the rishi tradition, and forced them to keep in their breasts the best of their knowledge. The memory of that terror, it seemed, was still intact in the mind of this sufi. The Sufi as fanatic My studies in Sufism also brought back to my mind another encounter with another sufi at about the same time. He was an elderly man. He was quite learned in his own way, and could discuss various religious and philosophical doctrines with some knowledge. He could also manage some English in which language he also wrote an occasional pamphlet. The incident which I shall now relate took place when I met him for the first time, though I had heard a lot about him from a close friend. I was staying by myself in the house of this friend when this sufi dropped in one day. I requested him to stay with me for a few days and give me the benefit of his company. He agreed and we had quite a few fruitful sessions during which we talked about mysticism and the rest, without touching the subject of Islam or Hinduism. I was impressed. His language was quite forceful, particularly when he made fun of atheists, materialists, and mere philosophers. One day I was reading an Urdu translation of Sarmads Persian poems when the sufi came into my room and sat down by my side. I put away the book and had another long talk with him. Then I left the room because I had a few other things to do. When I returned after about half an hour, I found the sufi reading the same book by Sarmad. A few days earlier I had heard him talking about Sarmad with reverence and in a language of fulsome praise. So I sat down quietly in a corner and waited for him to read out and explain some significant lines from that book. But I was taken aback when he suddenly threw the book against the opposite wall with some violence and shouted, Harmzd kfir h th (The bastard was an infidel indeed)! I picked up the book, brought it back to the sufi, and asked him to show me the lines that had enraged him so uncontrollably. He leafed through the book and finally put his finger on two lines almost towards the end. I cannot recall the exact words of the couplet but I remember very well the message that was conveyed. Sarmad had addressed himself as follows: O Sarmad! What is it that goes on happening to you? You started as a follower of Moses. Next you put your faith in Muhammad. And now at last you have become a devotee of Rm and Lachhman. I could see nothing wrong or improper in this couplet. Sarmad was only telling the story of his seeking which had led him from Moses to Muhammad to Rma and LakshmaNa. I had not read the book as fast and as far as the sufi had done. Nor did I know the real reason for which Sarmad had been beheaded in Delhi by

the order of Aurangzeb. All I had heard was that Sarmad used to roam about naked on the roads of this imperial city. I had supposed that he had been punished for his impudence in the midst of a polished society which placed immense importance on being properly dressed. It was years later that I learnt the real nature of Sarmads crime. It was apostasy which is punishable with death according to the law of Islam laid down by the Prophet himself during the days of his tussle with the polytheists of Mecca. I have never lost my respect for this second sufi. He is a man of character endowed with a keen mind and a good knowledge of what passes for mysticism in Islam. But he becomes absolutely impregnable, indeed an insufferable fanatic, when it comes to the dogmas of prophetic Islam. His contempt for everything Hindu comes through clearly whenever he publishes a pamphlet. Hindus, he says, are worshippers of kankhajrs (scorpions), khatmals (bugs), gy k gobar (cowdung), and Kl. How he has worked out this combination of four filthy things has always defied my imagination. But one thing becomes obvious whenever he opens him mouth, namely, that he derives immense satisfaction by portraying Hinduism in this picturesque manner. Sometimes I feel that the very vehemence of his language against Hinduism helps him keep the fire of his fanaticism burning. Whenever he is in this mood, it is impossible to have a word edgewise with him, or make him realize that he is being downright ridiculous.[2] The Christian missionary and the mystic I had the same experience an year earlier with a Catholic missionary who was trying to convert me to his own creed. He had taken me to a monastery in a mountainous region, and put me into what the Christians call a retreat. The very first sentence he uttered in his very first lecture was that I should not expect him to give some funny feeling inside you. I did not get the point at that time. Later on I learnt that he was referring to the mystic experience for which we Hindus are supposed to have a special weakness. The Father failed to give me any feeling, funny or otherwise, and the retreat was a total failure. I had started as an ordinary Hindu and came out of it in the same condition. The dogmas of Christianity he had dished out sounded to me, to say that least, rather infantile. But what pained me the most in my meetings with this otherwise lovable man was his contempt for Hinduism which he always equated with the worship of every bug that bites and every cockroach that crawls around. In later years I met another Christian missionary who made it a point to call on me whenever he visited Delhi. His first fascination in India (he was a foreigner [by name Fr. Henri le Saux better known as Abhishiktananda]) was for Ramana Maharshi. That led him to Vedanta and the Upanishads which fascinated him still more. Finally, he gave up his missionary station in the south and moved to the Himalayas for a quiet life of study and meditation. He was a prolific writer. He died a few years ago. In my first encounter with him I made him feel somewhat uncomfortable by asking him some unconventional questions about Christian theology, particularly about Jesus being the only saviour. Next time we met, he asked me to avoid doctrinal disputation and join him in a deeper communion of minds in meditation. I agreed with him very gladly, and we never discussed theology again. Most of the time I listened to him as he as spoke about the Upanishads, particularly about the experience of Advaita. He had made a very deep study of the subject, and I was nowhere near him in my own knowledge of it. But I was puzzled when I read some of his writings. Here he was trying very heard to reconcile the experience of Advaita with what he called the Christian experience. I referred the matter to Ram Swarup. He told me that Christian experience was the new name which they were now giving to Christian theology. I knew nothing about any experience, advaitic or Christian. Nor do I know it now. But one thing I know for certain is that human experience, whatever its level, is human experience. There is nothing Hindu, or Muslim, or Christian about it as such. The fact that Advaita is a Sanskrit word a language which flourished in India and is now honoured by Hindus as also the fact that it has been discussed most exhaustively in the Upanishads, which are now known as Hindu shastras, does not make it a national or sectarian word. For the word only refers to a state of human consciousness which Kabir has described so aptly as bhar bhtar ekai jn, yh guru gyn bat (it is the same everywhere, whether without or within; this is the secret taught by the teacher). Here was a man who was moved so sincerely and so deeply by his seeking for Advaita. Why could he not concentrate on the experience itself, and forget Christianity for the time being? Why could he not throw his theological luggage

out of the window and travel straight to the station towards which the train of his own experience was heading? Why should he look out every now and then to find out if the stations on the way had their nameplates inscribed in a language which he had inherited by the accident of his birth? I could not find at that time any satisfactory answers to these questions. The young sufi was afraid of being slaughtered for saying what he believed to be true. The sincere Christian seeker was trying to stick a label where it failed to stick. Their plight was pathetic. On the other hand, the old sufi was so sure about himself, about his Islam, and about the abomination that was Hinduism in his eyes. So was the Catholic missionary who had tried to save me from perdition. They seemed to know what was wrong, and where. They seemed to know what was right, and how. What was it that made them feel so secure in their beliefs, and so self-righteous in their swearing against Hinduism? Politics masquerading as religion The questions remained unanswered till I had a chance to read the life of prophet Muhammad and the history of the rise of Christianity. I knew a lot of Muslim history in this country, and also abroad. I knew how blood-soaked it was in all its chapters. I also knew a lot of Christian history in Europe, and America, and elsewhere. I knew what a horrible story it was in terms of death and destruction it brought to many lands. What I did not know for a long time was the genesis of these creeds which had inflicted so much sufferings on mankind. It was only when I looked into the source books of these religions, and examined the character of their founders that I discovered the surika roots from which they had sprung. It was only then that I realized the grave error in recognizing these creeds as religions in any sense of the term. I could see quite clearly that what we were faced with were purely political ideologies inspired by imperialist ambitions. It was only then that all pieces of the puzzle fell into a pattern the theologies, the histories, the swearologies, and the rest. Before I take up the genesis of these creeds I should like to make one point very clear. There are no non-Christian records available about the birth, rise, and spread of Christianity till it captured state power in the Roman empire. Whatever I write below about the genesis of Christianity is based entirely on early Christian records. Similarly, no non-Muslim records have survived about the rise and spread of Islam in Arabia. What I write below about the genesis of Islam is based entirely on Islamic records. Genesis and character of Christianity Some historians in the West have serious doubts about the very existence of a man called Jesus Christ.[3] And almost all historians agree that if he existed at all, nothing can be known about his person or teaching because all contemporary sources, Christian and non-Christian, are either silent or unreliable regarding the subject. Thus all we have is the Jesus of the Gospels which are now regarded as theological statements rather than a record of historical events. And Jesus of the Gospels is a questionable character. He makes tall claims about himself, and curses all those who do not accept those claims. He denounces his own people as sons of the Devil and killers of prophets. In due course, Christian theology came to proclaim that Jesus was the onlybegotten son of the only true god; that he had been sent down in order to wash with his own blood the sins of mankind by mounting the cross; that he had risen from the dead on the third day and appeared to his apostles in flesh and bones; that he was the same as his father whose divinity he shared in full; that those who accepted him as the only saviour had all their sins washed by his blood; that he had entered his apostles as the holy ghost and entrusted them with the mission of saving all mankind from eternal hell-fire; that the Church founded by the apostles and joined by the converts was his body and bride; and that the whole world had been mandated to the Church by the father and the son and the holy ghost. What one finds striking about these ridiculous statements is that none of them can stand the test of human reason or experience. The Church declares them to be mysteries beyond the reach of human understanding. The apostles had tried to sell these mysteries to the Jews in Jerusalem. The only response they met was dismissal with contempt. Next, they tried these mysteries on Jewish communities settled in Syria, Asia Minor and Greece. They had some small success but most of the time met with considerable resistance. Finally, they took this merchandise to the metropolitan mart at Rome where their business found some firm footing for the first time. It was in Rome that the methods of

missionary salesmanship were matured over a period of time. The structure of the Roman empire provided a model for the structure of the Church. The missionaries got busy building a state within the state. Constantine the Great In the next two centuries, the Church became a rich and powerful organisation with members in many leading families of Rome. It found many adherents among politicians who wielded power, among military commanders who were superstitious or in need of political support, and among merchants who had money but no brains for philosophical questions. The mother of emperor Severus (222-235 AD) became a Christian. So did emperor Philip the Arabian (244-249 AD). Helena, the mother of Constantine, was also a Christian convert. Now the Church extended the Divine Right to rule as a despot to anyone who was prepared to declare Christianity as the sole state religion and suppress all pagan religions. Constantine who wanted to secure a dynastic succession for his family a practice unknown to Roman politics so far saw his opportunity in this new doctrine, and proclaimed in favour of the Church. The common people in Rome resisted this royal renegade. So he removed his capital from Rome to Byzantium which was renamed Constantinople. The precedent set by Constantine in consolidating a dynastic despotism with the help of the Church was copied by many crowned heads all over Europe in subsequent centuries. The king in pagan societies was only the first among equals. The Church enabled him to become an unbridled autocrat who derived his authority not from the community over which he ruled but from God Almighty. The conflicts which developed between these autocrats and the powerful Church with a Pope at its head, came much later, after the common people all over Europe had been enslaved and deprived of their traditional institutions which safeguarded their fundamental freedoms. For quite some time, the Church cooperated with the kings to convert the common people everywhere into hewers of wood and drawers of water. This was one part of the story. Another was a large-scale destruction of ancient religions all over Europe, Asia Minor, and North Africa where the Church spread its tentacles with the help of despotic rulers. All pagan schools were closed, all pagan temples were demolished or converted into churches, and all pagan images were publicly defiled and destroyed. Pagan books were burnt and pagan priests were killed, mostly by Christian monks who led Christian mobs after lecturing them into fevered frenzy. That is how Christianity triumphed over pagan religions and societies not by the power of its moral or spiritual superiority or the logic of its doctrines, but by the power of the sword wielded by despicable despots. Genesis and character of Islam Muhammad followed in the footsteps of Jesus in making the same sort of claims for himself, cursing his own people in the choicest language of monotheism, and threatening them with slaughter. He, however, did not have to struggle against a centralized state when he found that his prophethood had no attraction for the people of Mecca. He migrated to Medina which was more receptive to monotheism because of a large presence of Jews in that town, and emerged as a powerful potentate. He ended by exiling or killing en masse the Jewish population which resisted him as soon as he came out in his true colours. Meanwhile, he had amassed much wealth by plundering merchant caravans and scattered Arab settlements. He created the nucleus of a standing army out of the toughs and desperados who flocked to him in increasing numbers for committing crimes and sharing the loot. In short, he built the apparatus of a military state in Medina and used it for imposing his closed creed on the tribal settlements of Arabia by means of armed force. The doctrines of Islam were tailored to the needs of this galloping tyranny, and sold with the help of the sword. And the sword was stamped with the name of an almighty Allah in whose service the ancient religion and culture of Arabia were destroyed root and branch. The mistake made by Hindu society Hindu society has to understand very clearly that what it is faced with in the form of Christianity and Islam are not religions but imperialist ideologies whose appetite has been whetted by running roughshod over a large part of the world. Hindu society is making a serious, almost a fatal mistake, in appealing to these ideologies in the name of reason and morality which are supposed to accompany religion. This sort of appeal is bound to fail because it falls on deaf ears. The menace has to be met by methods and means which are suited to the nature and magnitude of the menace. Hitler had said that if the chicken and geese pass a resolution about peace, the wolf is not convinced. There is little chance that

Hindu society will ever be able to contain Christianity or Islam if it continues to regard these aggressive and imperialist ideologies as religions, and extend tolerance to them. Excerpted from Defence of Hindu Society, New Delhi.

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June 8, 2013 6:44 pm

The Joys of Singing in Pakistan


The Pakistani singer hears gunfire-like sound and tries to scoot from the stage, thinking Taliban has come to banish the evil of music from this world, as mandated by Islam. Truly hilarious!

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June 7, 2013 5:18 am

Church funds equal Indian Navys annual budget


Not many people know it, but the church is the second largest land owner in India after Railways. Most of this is temple land confiscated by the British and handed over to various churches. Church funds equal Indian Navys annual budget Panaji: Christians want state laws to govern assets of churches Christians are a mere 2.5 per cent of the countrys population. But, the Church in India suffers from a case of plenty, says Remy Denis, All India Catholic Union President. Church authorities control funds equivalent to the Indian Navys annual budget. The Church is also the second largest employer after the government, he said. Eduardo Faleiro, a former Union minister and Goa NRI Commissioner, is among the growing number of Catholics like Prof Denis, who support a law to govern Church properties and a far greater degree of transparency in the way the Church manages its earthly assets. The Church is not a symbol of power but service, and democratic laws must apply to it equally. All religions must be kept on the same footing, Faleiro said at a conference called to debate the matter of bringing Church properties under state laws. The laws that govern Church properties in Goa were enacted during the Portuguese regime. The same laws have long since been repealed in Portugal, Faleiro said. Almost all other religions in India have laws enacted to administer their properties, K T Thomas, former Supreme Court judge, said. Hindu temples are

governed by laws specifically enacted for each trust and their accounts are subject to judicial review. The Sikhs, one of the smallest religious groups in the country, have the Sikh Gurudwara Act. Muslim trust properties comes under the Wakf Act. I feel the opposition from the Christians is on account of a fear that a provision for judicial scrutiny is likely to expose the expenses and magnitude of wealth of the denomination, Thomas said. The head of the Believers Church had recently acquired a huge plantation in Kerala for Rs 123 crore. This was apart from the vast assets already held by the denomination, he said. The Church in Kerala also runs its own media network. Thomas said there was a misplaced apprehension that the Parliament, through legislation, would grab the properties of the churches. No such law could be passed by Parliament or State legislatures, he said. All religious denominations have the right to own and acquire properties, establish and maintain religious institutions. But, in matters of administration of your properties you have to abide by the law, he said.

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June 4, 2013 4:53 pm

Traitors everywhere
Did Rajeev Shukla meet Dawood Ibrahim when he was in Pakistan? Mumbai: Bharip Bahujan Mahasangh chief Prakash Ambedkar on Monday alleged that Union minister Rajeev Shukla had met Indias Enemy Number One in Pakistan on April 5, 2004, and discussed important security issues with him. Ambedkar produced a two-page document, which he claims was an internal report of the external affairs ministry, to corroborate his allegation. Though Ambedkar didnt specify who Enemy Number One mentioned in the said report was, it is well known that Indian security agencies use the phrase to refer to Dawood Ibrahim. Shukla, however, rubbished the allegations. As per the alleged confidential report, Shukla was part of the BCCI delegation that accompanied the Indian cricket team on the tour of Pakistan in 2004. The document has details of Shuklas alleged meeting with Enemy Number One in Lahore, at the farm house of Atikur Rehman, who is said to be an ISI operative and close associate of Enemy Number One. Bharip Bahujan Mahasangh chief Prakash Ambedkar on Monday produced the alleged internal report of the ministry of external affairss G Desk to corroborate his allegation, which states that Union minister Rajeev Shuklas activities and movements were under the scanner when he travelled to Pakistan in 2004 as a BCCI delegate with the Indian cricket team, which went to play an ODI series with Pakistan at Gaddafi Stadium. The document produced by Ambedkar states, Mr Shukla was at the stadium with the cricket team till lunch and slipped away from the stadium around 2.30 pm. He went to the farmhouse of Major Rehman, where Enemy Number One was already present. Mr Shukla even handed some documents to Enemy Number One and some copies of correspondence between Mr Shukla and the PMO was part of the said documents. An Indian agent codenamed FAE-31 was also present at the meeting and he later sent a detailed report to the MEA. According to FAE-31, Shukla told Enemy Number One that only four RAW officers were posted in an Indian mission to snoop on underworld dons and hawala racketeers based in Pakistan. Shukla also said that he had written a threepage letter to the Prime Minister and made a pointed reference to RAWs nonplanned expenditure having mounted to Rs 100 crores and said that the agency presence in Pakistan is less than half of its sanctioned strength. He also told Enemy Number One that to curb and control RAWs operation in Pakistan he had demanded the institution of a Cabinet committee or a highpowered panel under the Cabinet Secretary to suggest its revamp, the document

states With regard to the confidential documents, Mr Ambedkar demanded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh clarify whether Mr Shukla was authorised to meet the Pakistani military establishment. Responding to these allegations, Shukla said the report on the basis of which the allegations are being made is fake and bogus. Its a five-year-old allegation and he has been repeating it over and over again. There is no basis to his allegations. The documents, which he claims to have with him, are fake and bogus. Its nonsense, said Shukla.

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June 2, 2013 5:10 am

Islams War Against Buddhism


Islams War Against Buddhism By Dhammajarat FrontPageMagazine.com | Wednesday, April 04, 2007 Allahu Akbar! The tinny P.A. system tore asunder the pre-dawn peace and quiet. I was jolted in my mind, almost like experiencing a car wreck, suddenly and without any warning. This totally incongruous sound intruded upon and encompassed everything, causing even the birds to rustle in the darkness. It was just after 4 a.m. I was seated underneath the holy Maha Bodhi Tree in Bodh Gaya, in the state of Bihar in India. It was a few days past the full moon of May 2004, a few days past Veesak. This was my second visit to this unparalleled location, the site of the Lord Buddhas attainment of full Enlightenment over 2,500 years ago. Now, towards the end of my 10 day stay, I had applied for and been granted the great honor of permission to spend the night within the Maha Bodhi compound. My plan was to spend the entire night practicing seated meditation, walking meditation, and circumambulation of the great Maha Bodhi Stupa. The air was warm and my practice was going very well as I alternated between the three practices, as the hours passed. The beautiful waning full moon light filtering through the glistening leaves of the Maha Bodhi Tree, the soft fluttering of the leaves, the serene quiet, took me back to that time long ago when the Buddha himself had sat very near this same exact spot. Or so I thought. The musseins call to prayer for the faithful of Islam, here in this most sacred location to all of Buddhism, ripped me back to modern reality. I was stunned! How could this be? Here in one of the most significant spots of Buddhism, loud speakers come on at four in the morning every day, to shock and intrude upon meditators and Buddhist practitioners using this spot for that which it has to offer in its most special way? How could this be allowed? It is The Muslim call to prayer seemed to go on and on..20 minutes to a half-hour later, the scratchy recording thankfully ended and quiet returned. My concentration was thoroughly blown. Instead of following my breath, I found myself looking at the great distraction and paradox I had just experienced. I thought about Mecca! Could any other religion intrude itself there in the holiest of places to Islam, as the tenets of Islam had so intruded itself here in the holiest place of Buddhism? No way! I could imagine immediate death being visited upon anyone that would even try that is, if they would be admitted anywhere close to the Muslims holy

Kabah let alone be allowed to set up a loud public address system that would broadcast the message of another religion across the courtyards of the Grand Mosque, or any other Moslem religious site. The hypocrisy was astounding. After awhile, I ceased to be so shocked and began to calm down. I began to see that this was merely a continuation of a long and sad trespass against Buddhism perpetrated by the faith of Islam. In my previous visits to India, I had visited every site that was specific to the actual life of the Lord Buddha. At every location the pattern was the same: Just the partial foundations remaining of what had once been great Stupas or elaborate religious universities of Buddhist learning and practice. Even the place of the Buddhas birth had been destroyed and buried, with modern day excavations only now giving some restoration. I had learned from guides on location, and then from further studies once I returned home, that these locations had all been laid to waste in the early Moslem invasions of India, starting in the 900s by Turkic hordes issuing forth from what is now Afghanistan, and continuing for over a thousand years until the Mughal era. A prolonged and calculated assault, an assault designed to wipe an entire belief, an entire religion, off the face of the Earth. The long history of Islam, being spread by the sword and by fire, had left its indelible mark on these wonderful peaceful, harmless, legacy sites of Buddhism. I learned how the monks and nuns and religious students were slaughtered without mercy and piled up and burned, and all terrified survivors were driven like dry leaves before a strong wind, out of the region of India entirely, wherever this Islamic wind blew. I was told this is how Buddhism actually came to Tibet and Southeast Asia, by Buddhists fleeing for their lives! My faith had been rendered a refugee faith via the tender mercies of Islam. I learned how Islam was particularly unkind and brutal to Buddhists, because to Moslems the Buddhist represented the most reprehensible type of human personality: the atheist holding no monotheistic God image as their object of worship and veneration. We were worse even than the far more numerous Hindus, with their vast pantheon of multiple gods. The Buddhists, to the Muslims, only worshipped the image of a man, and no God higher. Apparently they did not bother to look into the philosophies of Buddhism any more deeply. That was enough for the sword to come down and the fire to be applied. And so they have over the centuries until today. I remember, some years back, before the gripping situations that we face today had quite come in to focus for many of us, I followed the story of the great Buddhas of Bamiyan, in sad and war torn Afghanistan. The Russian war was over, and the rein of the Taliban was in full force, but they were not content to merely rule the people with an iron hand by the strictest applications of Sharia law. They had to physically erase the infidel past, as well. I remember shedding tears as I saw the footage of those magnificent Buddhas, the tallest ancient statues in the world, being reduced to rubble by explosive charges and artillery shells. I remembered hearing on the news footage, that same cry of Allahu Akbar! as the dust of Bamiyan settled to reveal the emptiness of the destruction. The same cry that destroyed my meditative absorption under the Bodhi Tree. Now, I pray we never hear this call in this our home, America. Not until and unless Islam totally and completely reforms itself after over a thousand years of ravaging and sweeping all others before it. I feel, through my direct experiences of it, that Islam has not changed its ways in the least. In fact it has become more aggressive now than at any time since its period of greatest expansion in the 900s to the 1200s. Modern Islam seeks to return humanity to those very same times a revival of the dark ages of Islamic slaughter, mayhem, and pillage all in the name of Allah. We Buddhists must realize that we, and our cherished practices, would be swept away entirely and crushed utterly, should Islam ever gain ascendancy in this world in which we live. Islam is the only belief that propagates itself thus by the sword. And it is very patient. Satu.

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5:02 am

Monotheism has to die if humanity has to live


I am of the firm belief that if this world has to live, monotheism has to die. The Philosophical Ramifications of Biblical Monotheism on Religious Pluralism by Bryon Morrigan Introduction Throughout the history of humanity, religion has always been a factor. However, until the advent of Christianity and Islam, the concept of religious exclusivism, and the attendant need to convert others to the correct religious belief, was essentially anathema to most cultures. The concepts of monism, pantheism, or the belief that all gods were essentially one god, had been around for some time, but the idea of Biblical monotheism, the idea that not only was there a single god, but also that only one religious belief was true, and all others false, is a philosophical distinction that has serious ramifications for humanity as a whole. This paper will examine these issues from historical, philosophical, and moral points of view. Note: For the purposes of this paper, unless otherwise specified or qualified, the term monotheism will be used in reference to the idea that there is one god and one true religion, and that the deities and religious systems of other religions are false. Often, the term monotheism is used to refer to belief systems which would more accurately be described as monist, pantheist, or universalist, but the author of this paper finds that such usage is counterproductive and fosters confusion. Also, the word orthodox will be used simply as an adjective describing rigid adherence to belief, as opposed to the various Orthodox churches in Christianity. History In contrast to the commonly held belief that the ancient Hebrews were the first historically monotheist religious group, the concept actually originated with the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep IV, later renaming himself as Akhenaton, approximately 3500 years ago (Kirsch, 2004, p. 22). But Akhenaton did not just invent monotheism. He used the full force and power of his status as absolute ruler to coerce and force his subjects into adopting this religious stance, even though they were thoroughly opposed to the new doctrine (Kirsch, 2004, p. 4). But upon the death of the pharaoh, the Egyptians returned to their original polytheist roots. Egyptologist Jan Assmann and Sigmund Freud have both written extensively regarding theories that Jewish monotheism was born from the failed experiment of the pharaoh, with Freud going so far as to opine that Moses himself was actually an Egyptian priest himself (Freud, p. 16, pp. 31-32). Yet even in the Old Testament, there are many passages which exhibit the concept of henotheism, which is the worship of one god, while acknowledging that other gods exist (Kirsch, 2004, pp. 29-30).But it is during the period of the Old Testament, from Moses onwards, that the small core of exclusivist monotheists begin to enact wars, murder, terrorism, and all manners of wicked behavior, with the sole purpose being the enforcement of the new doctrine of exclusivity. As Kirsch notes, the core value of monotheism is not contained in the few passages extolling caring and compassionate behavior. On the contrary, the primary essence of Biblical monotheism is exclusivism. He notes of the authors of the Bible: They do not define wickedness and sin in terms of moral and ethical conduct. Indeed, they are far more concerned with the purity of religion than with the pursuit of justice. The very worst sin of all, as they see it, is not lust or greed,

but rather the offering of worship to gods and goddesses other than the True God. Whenever a biblical author is moved to call something abominable, he is using a code word for every ritual and belief other than his own (2004, p. 35). Throughout the historical record, there is a fairly clear conflict between the concepts of pluralism or universalism, and the concept of exclusivist, Biblical monotheism. While there were certainly battles between the ancient polytheists of the classical world and the Hebrews, the lack of a necessity for conversion or proselytism in Judaism ensured that they eventually came to a kind of dtente, where groups like the Romans were able to broker a kind of cessation of hostilities between them. Of course, Jewish resistance to the Greeks and Romans had a great deal more to do with the ancient Hebrews not wanting to be subjects to another people than it had to do with religious intolerance, but even then, the Romans for example, did much to attempt to foster some kind of compromise, such as the attempt to bring the Hebrew god Yahweh into the Roman pantheon (Fox, 1986, p.261). But this kind of olive branch could only be one-sided, as Kirsch states: Precisely because the monotheist regards the polytheist with such fear and loathing, peaceful coexistence between the two theologies is possible only from the pagans point of view and never for the true believer in the Only True God (2004, 12). And here then, is the root of religious intolerance. Its not the simple idea that there is only one god, but rather the idea that there is only one true god. Essentially, if one believes in a single deity, then one can adopt a myriad of different ways to deal with the ideas of other religions, ranging from the radical universalist view of accepting all beliefs as valid, exemplified by William James in his book, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, to the exclusivist view of narrowly viewing ones own deity as the only valid deity, and ascribing to all others the motive of evil or falsehood, as in orthodox Christianity or Islam. Sikhs, for example, believe in only one god, but they also believe in a pluralistic world-view, allowing for the concept that other religions are also serving the same deity in different ways. Even though Sikhs have often been known for their martial prowess,there has never been a war to convert others to Sikhism, or a Sikh inquisition, or any of the other negative characteristics associated with Biblical monotheism. Indeed, Assman has explored this concept extensively, noting that: For these religions, and for these religions alone, the truth to be proclaimed comes with an enemy to be fought. Only they know of heretics and pagans, false doctrine, sects, superstition, idolatry, magic, ignorance, unbelief, heresy, and whatever other terms have been coined to designate what they denounce, persecute and proscribe as manifestations of untruth (2009, p. 4). Philosophy So if the core of this intolerance is not simply belief in a single god, is it then possible that a more philosophical component drives this kind of violent and coercive behavior on the part of Biblical monotheists? To continue to use the comparison between Sikhs and Biblical monotheists, there are two major issues that come to the fore. One is the belief in reincarnation, which could be viewed as having a calming effect on the need for proselytism. Religious groups that believe in reincarnation generally adopt a more laissez-faire attitude to conversion, owing to the idea that one will have many chances to get it right, as opposed to the time-critical necessity of conversion inherent in groups like Christianity and Islam, where they believe that failure to adopt the correct religion prior to death will result in eternal, supernatural torment. The other issue is the conflict between inner and outer spirituality. Eastern religions, like Sikhism, Buddhism, and Hinduism, are primarily concerned with the inner spiritual journey of the person, whereas much of Christianity and Islam is concerned with outward actions. This is, of course, a bit of a simplification, but it does explain the difference between the spiritual goals of the average Sikh, Buddhist, or Hindu, as opposed to the missionary zeal of the Christian or Muslim. Generally, the Eastern philosophy is centered around the idea that one must seek enlightenment of their own volition, whereas the Biblical monotheist philosophy is often centered around spreading the good news and attracting new converts. Of course, there are many exceptions to this theory, such as the monastic orders of Christianity, and the Hindu missionaries of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, otherwise known as the Hare Krishnas. However, the missionary activity of non-monotheist religions has never reached into the realm of coercion or warfare, in the way that it has for Biblical

monotheist faiths. The 20th century Hindu writer, Sita Ram Goel, discussed the idea of monotheism as an inherently coercive force in his book, How I Became a Hindu: I had an occasion to read the typescript of a book [Ram Swarup] had finished writing in 1973. It was a profound study of Monotheism, the central dogma of both Islam and Christianity, as well as a powerful presentation of what the monotheists denounce as Hindu Polytheism. I had never read anything like it. It was a revelation to me that Monotheism was not a religious concept but an imperialist idea. I must confess that I myself had been inclined towards Monotheism till this time. I had never thought that a multiplicity of Gods was the natural and spontaneous expression of an evolved consciousness (1993, p.92). Morality Furthermore, the moral absolution of orthodox Biblical monotheism in regards to faith is one extreme obstacle to religious tolerance. For example, if one truly believes that he/she is acting on the will of God or Allah, and that conversion, by any means necessary, is the only way to save humanity as a whole, then one is unlikely to make any kinds of concessions or compromises with people of other faiths, regardless of how reasonable they may seem to the non-zealot. Indeed, this abhorrence of compromise is a long-standing tradition, celebrated in the Bible, and extending from antiquity to the present. One incident from the distant past that stands out is the plea for tolerance and pluralism in the letter from the Roman senator, Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, to the Christian emperor, Valentinian II, in 384 CE, as the persecutions against the polytheists were in full swing: And so we ask for peace for the gods of our fathers, for the gods of our native land. It is reasonable that whatever each of us worships is really to be considered one and the same. We gaze up at the same stars, the sky covers us all, the same universe compasses us. What does it matter what practical systems we adopt in our search for the truth. Not by one avenue only can we arrive at so tremendous a secret (384, p. 41) To most non-exclusivists, that passage would evoke extreme sympathy. But to the orthodox Biblical monotheist, like Valentinian II, there is no moral quandary in denying these pleas for civility and tolerance. Their weltanschauung is welldefined by these words of the bishop Fulgentius, written approximately a century later: Of this you can be certain and convinced beyond all doubt, not only all pagans, but also all Jews, all heretics and schismatics will go into the everlasting fire which has been prepared for the Devil and his angels (Quoted in Clendenin, 1995, p. 71). How can one truly expect a person who fully believes the above passage to seriously entertain any kind of pluralist or tolerant society? For that matter, how can one argue for tolerance a nd pluralism with one who believes that blowing up ones self and killing innocent people will be heartily rewarded by Allah in the afterlife? Both of these kinds of world-views originate with the same kind of orthodox monotheism, even if neither can recognize the same kind of fanaticism in the other. The Christian terrorist who blows up an abortion clinic does not see a kinship with the Islamic terrorist who blows up a liberal mosque, but their ideology and morality stems from the same root, and many times even from the same Old Testament passages. So what then is the solution? Is Biblical monotheism forever doomed to be the source of all religious intolerance? As noted before, the Sikhs have shown that the belief in a single god does not necessarily require hatred for all faiths that do not embrace ones chosen deity and form of worship. Perhaps the only way the Biblical monotheism can be reformed into a religion that respects thehuman rights of all people will be through example. Certainly, it cannot be done through brute force,which would be counterproductive, to say the least. For example, many Christians in the West have become inspired by the Hindu saint known as Mahatma Gandhi. One of the greatest symbols of Christian tolerance and morality in the 20th century, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., based much of his political philosophy upon the example of Gandhi. And yet Gandhi himself has spoken extensively regarding the problem of aggressive monotheism, saying: It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the worlds progress toward peace. Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man? (1991, p.87) Indeed, when Gandhi pointed out his belief that such doctrines presented such a great danger to humanity as a whole, one might think that this would have been noticed more by the Christians that he criticized, but unfortunately, this

statement was not immortalized on t-shirts and bumper stickers in much the same manner as many of his other, safer, statements. But that is one of the central paradoxes of modern Christian thought. On one hand, Jesus is heralded as a figure of great love and selfless humanitarianism, while on the other, he is used as a bludgeon to smash upon the infidels and establish rigid adherence to a whole host of religious, political, and moral absolutes. Of course, this type of thinking is certainly not limited to Christians, as can be easily seen by comparing the more pluralist world-views of Sufi Muslims to that of the Taliban or Wahhabi-influenced sects of Islam. Conclusion In conclusion, it is not the belief in one god that is the source of religious intolerance, but rather the belief that there is only one true god, and that all other religions or forms of worship are false, combined with the perceived necessity for proselytism. Proselytism itself, and the seeking of converts, is in fact a destructive action which undermines tradition and culture, and destroys families. It starts from the position that the person to be converted is inherently wrong, and seeks to replace his/her belief system with the correct one. As the great Hindu saint, Swami Vivekananda said at the Parliament of the Worlds Religions in 1893: If we Hindus dig out all the dirt from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean and throw it in your faces, it will be but a speck compared to what your missionaries have done to our religion and culture (Quoted in Gautier, 2000, p. 61). But monotheism alone, even the belief that there is only one god, is not simply enough to create intolerance. The Sikhs and modern Jews are proof of this point. Nor even is proselytism itself, without being accompanied by a belief in true and false religion, as is shown by the example of the Hare Krishnas. It is only the combination of these two concepts that create religious terrorism, holy wars, jihad, theocracy, and religious hatred. If Christianity and Islam are to survive the next thousand years, they will need to mature into philosophies that can learn to live with their neighbors, without forcing them to change their beliefs, cultures and traditions. The Jews learned this approximately two thousand years ago, and its high time that the other religions of the book follow their example.

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June 1, 2013 7:36 am

Call of Shri Meenakshi Temple in Madurai: The beginning of a search


A very interesting article by Dr. Prodosh Aich, the celebrated author of Lies with Long Legs: An Expose of Indologists of the Raj and their Gurus. Read the entire article by clicking here. Call of Shri Meenakshi Temple in Madurai A documentary film on Ancient History A time will come when this ambitious project will be materialized. It needs besides governmental support also funds. We have not been able to mobilize funds. We do not claim copyright. I publish the project also as a call for forthcoming social scientists. The major objective of this empirical research project is to initiate a discussion on the ancient history of a vast area stretching out from the Himalayas to the Pacific Ocean. In this project we will make use of audio-visual media in the field of research instead of pen and paper to collect data. We shall select our protagonists, we shall put questions to them, but we shall refrain ourselves from expressing our own views or drawing conclusions. The whole material will then be processed and edited. The outcome is of course a documentary film with very few verbal

commentaries. Now, what is history? The mainstream of modern historians does claim that history is a part of empirical social science. The philosophy of empirical science is based on mathematical theories of probability. Even if empirical findings appear to be identical throughout a period of continuous observation, they do not prove anything. If continuous observations are made in identical situations, i.e. when all variables are kept under control, it can be assumed with high probability that the next observation will be identical to as it had been so far. For natural sciences there is an advantage that in a laboratory more and more variables can be kept under control and thus having facilities of experiment. But human society is not a laboratory. Therefore there is no facility of experiment. Accordingly, social events and social processes have to be observed as exactly as possible, defining variables in the process of observance of similar events and processes. No social process can be repeated. Therefore, the evaluation of social events and processes does not and cannot achieve a similar degree of precision as in natural sciences. On the top of it, the chance of observation of social events and processes for social scientists is extremely limited. But social scientists do have facilities to collect narrated perceptions of social events and processes, to get statements on motivational drives of participants and to locate their interest, to assess and weigh statements of those who gain and of those who loose in those events and processes. It is equally valid that there are too many possibilities of committing uncontrolled mistakes. In case of historians, by its very nature, things become more complicated. Historians have to work on the basis of available documents of the past without knowing exactly whether they have access to the totality of available documents. Moreover they never know whether the totality of available documents is a biased selection of the totality of ever produced documents. Generally they are tempted to be satisfied with accessible documents only, and more so, if they can construct a certain degree of plausibility in their own understanding of social processes and in communicating it to others. To cut a long story short, we are trying to point out that the so called science of history is mingled with subjective perceptions and social prejudices, wishful thinking, speculations and ideologies. The probability is indeed very high that the available documents are distorted and/or manipulated. And the probability is even higher that the available documents are partially selected. Unfortunately the historians who have contributed to the ancient history of the region stretching out from the Himalayas to the Pacific Ocean have not been rigorous enough to examine their sources, as we shall see. And we are apprehensive that in general modern historians do not examine their sources of information rigorously enough. Methodologically they could at least assume that all available documents are fake till it can be assumed after rigorous scrutiny that there is a high probability of genuineness. This would correspond to the basic philosophy of empirical science. But the methodological practice of historians is exactly the opposite of it. They assume that all documents they can get hold of are genuine, till the one or the other can be proved to be fakes. Thereby they forget one basic fact of life. History does not evolve by itself; it is made by persons in a society. Documents are also manufactured by persons. The producers of documents have to live and survive. They get material returns for their work from those who are in a position to engage them to manufacture documents. They buy those documents only if the orders are being executed to their satisfaction, if the documents are acceptable and palatable to them. So the producers of documents, the story tellers, the historian, have always to keep an eye on the sellable qualities of their documents. Whether we like it or not, whether the historians like it or not, this is life. Keeping this in mind we have focused our attention on modern history in general and on the history of this vast area, once called Bharatavarsa, which is now almost universally called India. Since when? No one knows exactly. Foreigners have given this name to this ancient land in the past and only about fifty years ago it was also adopted officially. Not even the historians are eager to discover, when, how, why and by whom ancient Bharatavarsa was renamed and what the consequences of this remarkable metamorphosis are. What had been the history of the country prior to this metamorphosis? It has almost become a non-issue. We are tempted to make an issue out of this. Therefore we shall not refer to India, we shall refer to Bharatavarsa, as this region was called in ancient times. What do we learn from modern history? We (Dr. Gisela Aich, economist, German national and Dr. Prodosh Aich, social scientist, Indian national, university-

teacher in Oldenburg, Germany), we learn, first of all that there are two major epochal periods in the development of human beings: pre-historical and historical. Modern history begins for all practical purposes after the emergence of the Semitic religions. More precisely, after the emergence of Christianity. Historical dates are fixed as before or after Christ (BC and AD). A world-wide spread of this practice cannot be denied. As regard to Bharatavarsa we learn from all world-wide recognised reference books as well as from standard volumes in history, anthropology and indology that the vast area stretching out from the Himalayas to the Pacific Ocean was inhabited by a human race called Dravidian. Since when? No one tells us. And this question has also not been an issue yet. This period falls into the darkest category of pre-history. Modern historians are occupied with history only and not with pre-history, because only history is a part of social science and science do not deal with speculations. Science deals with proofs. So, what we learn from modern history about Bharatavarsa is that approximately 3500 years ago a superior race called Aryans, belonging to a culture of pastoral nomads, living in the steppes of central Asia, had arrived from the north conquering the land of the Dravidians. How was this dating fixed? We do not know. No one tells us. Does it matter? These falling-in Aryans were tall, fair-skinned and blue or grey-eyed people. The Dravidians were of small stature, dark-skinned and dark-eyed. The superiority of the Aryans were proved by the fact that they were able to drive out the Dravidians from the entire north to the south and then take possession of the whole of the north. Is it important to figure out the size of the Dravidian population or that of those new-comers? Obviously not. No details of this incident are known. There is no history, no literature, no mythology, and of course there are no archaeological evidences of this so important historical event. Modern historians do not miss them and consequently are not perturbed. It would be waste of time to get involved in pre-historical periods. Therefore our questions regarding details of the war remain unanswered. It is almost universally accepted that high quality of literature like Vedas, Upanishads, Brahmanas, Sutras, Puranas, epics like Mahabharata and Ramayana were created during the pre-historic period in this vast region. These works are in Vedic Sanskrit or in Sanskrit. And Sanskrit were not be the language of the Dravidians. How could it be determined? We do not know. But this is what we learn from modern historians. And they do not tell us, how they could have determined this. Once this premise is accepted, it logically follows that this literature could have been created by Aryans only, naturally after their arrival nearly 3500 years ago. Consequently, the accountable cultural history of Bharatavarsa had begun only thereafter, so we are taught by modern history. And there is another remarkable date. There are quite a few indications in different areas and at different levels that around 2600 years before our time a teaching called Jainism had emerged. It is told in reference books that Vardhamana, who is also known as the first Mahavira (Great Hero), is considered to be the founder of Jainism. It is also said that Vardhamana was almost contemporary to another renowned historical figure, Siddhartha Gautama, though senior by around 40 years. Siddhartha Gautama, the later Buddha, is the founder of a teaching which has later been called Buddhism. Siddhartha Gautama also belonged to the same region of Bharatavarsa, not very far away from the place where Vardhamana had lived, in the State of Bihar. It appears to have been universally accepted that both of these two teachings are post-vedic. Jainism has been propagated in Prakrit language and Buddhism in Pali. We learn from the same sources that both these languages were spoken Sanskrit. How do they know? We dont know. No one tells us. From there, it has been logically concluded by modern historians that the ancient literature in Bharatavarsa had been created at least 2600 years ago. No other conclusion is possible as the history thereafter at least of the northern part of Bharatavarsa is well documented. So the implicit conclusion is that Vedas, Upanishads, Brahmanas and Sutras had been accomplished in Sanskrit during a period of around 3500 and 2600 ago. The other implicit conclusion is that both Vardhamana, the first Mahavira, and Siddhartha Gautama, the later Buddha, were offshoots of Aryan invaders, as Sanskrit had been their language. Having arrived at this point of historical account given by the modern historian our curiosity was directed to the question: Who are the Dravidians? Normally we should have assumed that the Dravidians were inhabitants of a region called Dravidia. But we learn from books in modern history that Dravidian is the name of a race that lived in an area, from the south of Himalayas down to the Pacific Ocean. Then the Aryans came from the north and conquered them. And

we remember that these invaders were tall, fair-skinned and blue or grey-eyed people. The Dravidians, so to say the aborigines, or primitives, were obviously defeated by the superior Aryan race. Later this theory of invasion had to be refuted due to archaeological evidences. Instead of discarding the whole theory of the superior Aryan race, the modern historian had taken resort to an amendment. Invasion was replaced by migration. Thereby one obvious question did not come to their mind. How the new-comers could have been able to displace the Dravidian so radically from the north to the south of Bharatavarsa? Why did they not give thought to this obvious question? We dont know. No one tells us. Thereafter the Aryans settled down comfortably, displaced or ousted the Dravidians to the south, and then were able to accomplish cultural achievements like composing Vedas, Upanishads, Brahmans, Sutras, Puranas, epics like Mahabharata and Ramayana, studies in Nature and Cosmos in around nine centuries. All in Sanskrit, a language which they had brought with them. So the historical narration continues. As this historical account has not yet been challenged by outstanding modern historians we had also accepted the theory of Aryan invasion or migration, the theory of two races and the theory Aryan-Dravidian divide in Bharatavarsa. Till, yes till, we had visited the Meenakshi Temple in Madurai in the remote south of Bharatavarsa. We were told and later we also found in the literature concerned that this temple is one of the finest specimen of Dravidian architecture of temple building. It naturally struck us that logically there should be a counterpart, namely, Aryan architecture of temple building. And we were extremely surprised to note that there had not been even a hint of such a category in the literature. Then we started a journey through the recently published books on history of Bharatavarsa. Thereby we undertook a rather simple exercise. We wanted to know from the scholarly authors how they knew what they believed to know. What had been their sources of information and of knowledge? Who were their authorities? The same procedure we have applied to the bibliographical references as well to those books. The result of our exercise is depressing, though also revealing. The methodology of the modern historians is as simple as effective. Accept the published facts as facts. Accept the established theories as final. If there is a new aspect, prove your ability in producing history as social science in integrating your aspect into the established historical theories. Get hold of as many books as necessary and be satisfied with them. Get hold only of the books you think you need and which you consider necessary, not of all books, not even of as many books as possible. Dont be after inaccessible sources. Make economic use of even of the accessible sources to be fast enough to be competitive. You have to be selective, depending on the special purpose, and as soon as certain aspects appear to have gained enough sellable qualities, go and publish it. Publish it without much discriminations and scruples. After all, scientific works do not carry any value unless they are published. And publishers depend on judgements of established experts. If one questions the works of these experts, there would be no publication. No publication means no career. Validity tests? Does it matter? Once it is published, it is also valid. Modern historians are masters of selective scribing and copying from old sources. The so called science-based history does reproduce itself. This specific culture of writing history has become universal thanks to the norms and values of the prevailing institutions of higher education, of the universities. World wide. This culture of the universities is a part of the overall culture which has been dominating us for about 250 years. This culture has been named and renamed so often. One may recall the various names. For example: Christian, Occidental, European, Western, Modern, Democratic, Industrial, Post-Industrial, Information-based and so on, and so on. The invention of names had depended on specific purposes. Though this list is incomplete, it shows that this culture is still being in search of an identify, because none of the names have been able to characterise it adequately. None of those names actually describes this culture. Therefore we have adopted a different approach. We were in search of the basic constitutive elements of this culture. We have identified four basic features. Accordingly we prefer to call this blonde-blue- eyed-white-Christian culture. These four basic characteristics describe this culture unambiguously, as we feel. All other names, which had been or have been given to this culture, do conceal these constitutive elements and thus make it vague, make it false. We would like to exemplify our statement by sticking to the history of Bharatavarsa. This history had been written and been successfully propagated under the control of British colonial rulers. How do we know? Well, it may be

recalled that the history of Bharatavarsa is well documented over quite a long period. At least since the emergence of Jainism about 2600 years ago. There are literal as well as archaeological evidences over continuous changes in society and lives since then. Many foreign travellers had been in Bharatavarsa since centuries. Their reports are universally considered to be authentic and valid. Amongst them, for example: The Greek Megasthenes, the Roman Pliny, the Alexandrian Ptolemy, Persian Al Biruni. There is no mention of Aryans or Dravidians. Then, in Jainic, in Buddhistic literature beginning about 2600 years back there is no mention of Aryans or Dravidians. During the last 1400 years Islamic invaders had appeared in Bharatavarsa to rob accumulated wealth and then ultimately had established their reign around 600 years ago. In their literature also there is no mention of Aryans or Dravidians. And roughly 500 years before our time Christians had started to come to Bharatavarsa. Therefore we have to make a caesura between the last 500 years and the earlier period. The Aryan-Dravidian issue is entirely absent prior to the arrival of persons belonging to the blonde-blue eyed-white-Christian culture in Bharatavarsa. During our library studies and in the process of systematic traceback to the original source of information used by modern historians we did not find any older source beyond the letters of Filippo Sassetti (1540 1588), a trader, left Florence at the age of 38 for Seville, Madrid and Lisbon, reached ultimately the Malabar coast 5 years thereafter, i. e. in 1583, 415 years ago. His letters carry information on the richness of languages in the south of Bharatavarsa, especially of Sanskrit and on some affinity of these languages with Latin, so it is said. But in the original letters there is no mention of affinity at all. Filippo Sassetti mentions that a few numbers and snake are similarly pronounced in and around Goa as in his language. He also mentions that vast literature is available in a language which is no longer spoken, but is recited at all important social events by learned people, who learn this language in seven/eight years similar to the contemporary Italians who acquire Latin. Traders like Sassetti were followed by missionaries, mainly sent out by the Jesuit Order. This Order was founded in Rome in 1534. One of these first missionaries, Roberto De Nobili (1577 1656), is considered to be an authority. At the age of 28 only he arrived in the south. He was so impressed by the prevailing culture and literature there that he had started to collect materials on culture and literature of the south, an activity which was publicly condemned in Rome, because knowledge of such materials could become a danger for Christian belief. He is however considered to be one of the early experts of Tamil, Telegu and Sanskrit. Heinrich Roth (1620 1668), German born and brought-up, another Jesuit missionary, also reached the Malabar Coast. His curriculum vita reveals how narrow the demarcation lines are between adventurers and scouts, mercenaries and missionaries. After fleeing the Swedish army at the age of 19 he entered the Jesuit Order. He left for Ethiopia by sea route via Smyrna (Turkey), and an overland route to Isfahan (Persia). As Ethiopias boundaries were closed for Catholic missionaries, he incidentally reached Goa in 1652. Ultimately he was able to enter the Mogul court of Agra around 1660 where he learnt Sanskrit. So it is said. He had working contacts with fellow Jesuit fathers who were engaged to explore China, Tibet and Nepal. Roth and one Johannes Grueber, explorer of Tibet, later reached Rome on foot exploring a land route and reported to the Vatican. Unfortunately the Portuguese had already established a sea route by then. Roth was the first European to write a grammar for Sanskrit. It was a simpler version of Paninis grammar. Panini would not have felt an urge to claim Copyright as it was not a practice within the culture of ancient Bharatavarsa. This rather a little lengthy example should also indicate the interaction of institutions and individuals leading ultimately to colonisation with all known implications. Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg (1682 1719), German by birth and education, was on the payroll of King Frederick IV in Denmark and Norway, posted in a military colony leased to the Danish East India Company by the Raja of Tanjore, thereafter founded an orphanage and a school and learnt indigenous languages. He wrote a Tamil grammar and the first Tamil dictionary in 1716. His writings were not very palatable to Europeans, as he felt and expressed his view, that Hindu books should be studied with as much profit as Aristotles. Mission authorities asked him to propagate Christianity in India and not Hinduism to Europe. He died quite early just like Heinrich Roth. Though Ziegenbalgs books were not published during his lifetime, his contributions to the development of colonialism had not been less valuable as warning example for others.

The French Jesuit Gaston-Laurent Coeurdoux (1691 1779) wrote the first Telegu dictionary and had also found out analogies between Sanskrit and Latin, Greek, German and Russian. It is remarkable to note that of all those later authorities for the modern historians, who had arrived in Bharatavarsa up to the end of the 17th century, did have their first encounter with the south. Another striking fact is that an obvious question has not been put yet. Why these traders, missionaries, adventurers, mercenaries and scouts got interested in a language which had not been spoken for at least 2600 years? Spoken Sanskrit during the period of emergence of Jainism and Buddhism were Prakrit and Pali. We would like to leave it at that. We dont want to speculate over an answer or divert our attention to the fact, that an obvious question has not been put yet. We have also not yet come across a discussion on the qualities of dictionaries which were coming up rather systematically. Had they been adequate? Did the authors possess qualifications to write dictionaries? What had been their psychosocial background, their prejudices, their interest, their ideologies? Had they been conscious of the responsibility of possible inadequate or wrong standardisation? What had been their cultural background? What had been the relationship between this missionary zeal and other passions on the one hand and the tradition of the Christians on the other hand manifested in crusades (specially between 11th and 13th century), in reconquista (specially between 13th and 15th century), in Inquisition, in genocide (between 16th and 18th century) in the continents called America and Australia or a sub-continent called Newseeland, and in slave-trade? The next century is characterised by the appearance of soldiers, administrators and so called diplomats on the scene. But surprisingly enough, they did not have any impact to strengthen the influence of those who had been collecting first hand experiences in Bharatavarsa. A new interest-group had emerged at home who were diligently engaged in producing translations of Sanskrit literature on the basis of rapidly composed dictionaries and grammars. We have not been able to find any discussion on the quality, on probable inadequacy of these works. The French Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron (1731 1805) did not complete his theological training. Instead he learnt languages: Hebrew, Arabic and Persian. Later he also picked up the language of the Parsis in the western part of Bharatavarsa. The English William Jones (1746 1794) obtained a judgeship in the Supreme Court of Judicature in Bengal. He devoted himself to Sanskrit whose startling resemblance (It is remarkable to note that the false term affinity has been transformed to analogy and then to resemblance!) to Latin and Greek he was the first to point out in 1787, only four years after his arrival. How did he find time? The English Shoemaker William Carey (1761 1834) became a Baptist missionary to arrive in Bengal in 1793. He wrote grammars and dictionaries for Bengali, Sanskrit and Marathi (How did he manage to do it?). The English Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1765 1837) came as a colonial administrator and also composed a Sanskrit grammar in 1805. There was a significant change thereafter. Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767 1835), a German diplomat, picked up Sanskrit in Paris and in London together with Franz Bopp (1791 1867), another German around 1822. August Wilhelm von Schlegel (1767 1845), a German academic and a renowned translator of Shakespeare into German, was Press Secretary to the Swedish crown prince Bernadotte. Then at the age of 48 years he met Franz Bopp (1791 1867), picked up Sanskrit to become a renowned indologist within five years. His younger brother Friedrich (1772 1829) started to study law and then turned to philosophy and philology. He was 34 when he met a prisoner of the Napoleonic wars, British naval officer Alexander Hamilton, was the only person in Paris who knew Sanskrit. And this Friedrich von Schlegel is the father of the theory of Indo-German linguistic. In his third book Schlegel deals with older migrations of people and the Indian colonies, as he called people with languages related to Indian language. This was in 1808. How did he know? Is it important to know how he knew? The period thereafter can be characterised as an era of ideology-production and the era of consolidation of blond-blue eyed-white-Christian culture. Antoine Lonard de Chzy (1775 1832), a French diplomat, an expert of Egyptian manuscripts, must also have learnt Sanskrit from the same British naval officer, Alexander Hamilton. He became a teacher of Sanskrit in Collge de France, and he taught such renowned persons as August Wilhelm Schlegel, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Franz Bopp and Eugne Burnouff (1801- 1852). Franz Bopp became a central figure as he was recognised as the best Sanskrit scholar of that period. All these scholars did not feel any urge to meet scholars in Bharatavarsa and get firsthand experience and knowledge of the language.

The bachelor Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 1859) was to develop as the intellectual parent of the theory of Aryan race: At the age of 34 he became legal advisor to the Supreme Council of India with a salary of 10000 British pounds and sailed to Bengal. A year later he delivered quite a few speeches on Indian Education. There we find the purpose of educational institutions and of education in the colonies precisely worded: We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions we govern, a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and intellect. This policy was implemented through the introduction of blond-blue eyed-whiteChristian educational institutions, supported by many aristocrats within the country, specially by Bengali aristocrats like Raja Ram Mohan Roy. Another year later Thomas Babington Macaulay wrote in a letter to his father: It is my belief that if our plans of education are followed up, there will not be a single idolater among the respectable classes in Bengal thirty years hence. And this will be effected without any efforts to proselytise, without the smallest interference with religious liberty, by natural operation of knowledge and reflection. He was knighted in 1857 and died in 1859 as the 1st Baron Rothley. In Chamberss Biographical Dictionary we can read about him: Maccaulays reputation is not what once was he has been convicted of historical inaccuracy, of sacrificing truth for the sake of epigram, of allowing personal dislike and Whig bias to distort his views of men and incidents. But as a picturesque narrator he has no rival. And in Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macaulays reputation, immense during the last decade of his life, fell steadily in the 50 years that followed. His undisguised political partisanship, his arrogant assumption that English bourgeois standards of culture and progress were to be forever the norm for less favoured nations, and the materialism of his judgements of value and taste all came under heavy fire from such near-contemporary critics as Thomas Caryle, Matthew Arnold and John Ruskin. Though there had been quite a few British academics, attached to the colonial administration as advisers, who had acquired workable knowledge of the Sanskrit language, a few of them had also been engaged in translating Vedic literature, Thomas Babington Macaulay, was in search of an appropriate academic personality, in search of the right scholar, all over Europe, who was to be commissioned to translate the Vedas. After a long search Macaulay was able to identify the right person about 134 years back (in 1846), a young man 23 years of age only. He was a student of Franz Bopp and of Eugne Burnouff. He was not asked to visit the country and meet the indigenous scholars of Sanskrit to become proficient in the language. Obviously this exercise was not needed to fulfil his explicit assignment. His task had been to translate Vedas in such a way that the newly educated Indian elite would see the difference between the inferior Vedas and the superior New Testament of Bible. This young scholar was a German. His name: Frederick Maximilian Mller (1823 1900). He was also funded with a princely sum of 10000 British pounds, paid by the East India Company. Only 3 years later he had already successfully established and propagated the theory of Aryan race, theory, of Aryan invasion on the basis of available linguistics findings and had attributed to the Vedic adjective arya racial connotations by converting the adjective to a noun Arya, connotations of that kind, which ultimately lead to the genocide of Jews in Germany. After Macaulays death he was convicted of historical inaccuracy of sacrificing truth for the sake of epigram, of allowing personal dislike and Whig bias to distort his views of men and incidents. But as a picturesque narrator he has no rival. At a later period, after the damage was complete, Frederick Maximilian Mller had to withdraw the racial part of his propagated translation publicly. Naturally with no effect whatsoever. The theory of Aryan race is still going strong, as ever. Till the 14th century the word race, etymologically still obscure, meant movements, different types of speedy movements, strong current in river, channel in which something moves or slides, contest of speed between runners, ships, horses dogs, etc. and later: race was combined with other words also, like racecourse, racehorse, racemeetings and so on. Then the word was used as a noun, as a verb and as an adjective. From racehorse to horse bred or kept for racing purpose was a tiny step. From that point on it was quite logical that the different racing quality of different breeds of horses or dogs came into focus. Race was also used in the area of mechanics meaning move at full speed, go at

full speed, move, revolve with full speed, and so on. Early Biologists started using the term race to characterise a group of animals or of plants of common stock, to characterise any great division of living creatures, as a matter of convenience, as a matter of analytic differentiation, as nothing really existing, just for analysis only. Race as sub divisional characteristic of one species, race as a category to differentiate Mankind, was introduced by the French Nobles in the 14th century to justify their privileges, their supremacy in comparison to other social segments. From here to racism, to theories, that distinctive characteristics, abilities etc. are determined by race, was again a tiny step, almost inevitable in societies with extreme unequal distribution of wealth, societies producing members with weak ego, producing members with inferiority complex, members obsessed to prove their superiority knowing exactly definitely subconsciously, very often consciously that they were inferior, obsessed to perform any exercise which could be quoted to prove their superiority, though in reality it took around 5 centuries. Joseph Arthur Gobineau (1816 1882), a French noble, orientalist and diplomat, wrote The Inequality of Human Races at the age of 40 and it was picked up by the German August Pott (1802 1887) who wrote, though partly disagreeing, The Inequality of Races from the point of view of Linguistics. This is the spirit of the culture which we describe as blond-blue eyed-white-Christian culture, manifested in the crusade, reconquista, Inquisition, genocide and slavetrade on the one hand and preoccupation and prejudice, opportunism and untruthfulness, brutality and greed, urge to manipulate and to lay wrong track on the other hand. In Vedic as well as in classic Sanskrit the word arya had (and has) nothing to do with the concept of race in Europe. Arya meant and means only individual and personal attributes like civilised, cultured, humble, noble, gentle and has nothing to do with common physical heredity leading to common physical attributes; not only in Sanskrit, also in all regional languages in Bharatavarsa up to our time. But in the area of blonde-blue eyed-white-Christian culture obviously a specific need was felt to differentiate Mankind according to the physical features and appearances. And then individuals, academics in the main, were set to work on that. The results are known. A whole branch of so-called science was created. Unfortunately we and our contemporaries are always too busy or too forgetful to enquire, how it started, who pushed, who financed, what the purpose was and what qualities of individuals were to be set to fulfil the purpose. In fact, there is no specific need for such questions and therefore, there is no demand. A law of market economy. There should not be any misunderstanding on one point. We, the authors, do belong to the blonde-blue eyed-white-Christian culture and have internalised the values of this culture. Unlike Gisela Aich my physical appearance does not show any of the three given characteristics and I am not a Christian. Yet I belong to this very culture. Culturally. Adolf Hitler and Josef Gbbels were extreme examples of Arian personalities formed by blond-blue eyed-white-Christian culture. I was culturally cloned during my school and college years in the educational institutions installed by the British colonisers. One last example to show the efficiency of these educational institutions. Though there is no mention of anything like Dravidian race anywhere in the literature prior to the ascendancy of historians belonging to blonde-blue eyedwhite-Christian culture, we can read in Dravidian Encyclopaedia, published in 1995 by The International School of Dravidian Linguistics in Madras, under the heading, Dravidian Civilisation: The Dravidians with an ancient civilisation were in India long before the advent of Aryans. The Rig Veda gives a record of Aryan tribes, their cultural ideals, and social system. When the Aryan arrived a virile people were living in a well organised society with ideals and pursuits of a progressive race, in thought and in organisation and had certain peculiarities of their own. () Dravidian civilisation is akin to and part of the Mediterranean civilisation. When a branch of these people came to India, they brought their native civilisation also with them to their new homes. () The Dravidian civilisation has contributed to the growth and advancement of the composite Indian culture from the beginning of history. Here is the complete bibliography which has served as a source of knowledge for the writer of this item: A. L. Basham, A cultural History of India, Oxford University Press, Madras, 1971. And we learn from Dravidian Encyclopaedia 1995: The present population of Bharatavarsa is a composition of foreigners only. This learning is reinforced, when we consult the latest edition of

Encyclopaedia Britannica to deepen our knowledge in history of Bharatavarsa: The population of present-day India thus includes a number of ethnic groups descended from several different ancient racial stocks that collectively have come to be called the Indian or Indic geographic race. This designation is based primarilyk on biochemical means (e.g. blood types) rather than on external physical attributes (skin colour among Indians, for example, ranges from fair to very dark). Within the larger whole, groups maintaining a certain degree of breeding isolation (e.g. the Dravidian speaking peoples) constitutes local races and microraces. To cut a long story short, since our visit to the Meenakshi Temple we have been afflicted by many doubts and many unanswered questions which have been fixed in a long synopsis describing the paths and passages of our search for identity. All questions which could not be answered by scholarly literature, would be put to the following four protagonists. As it has already been stated, the answers would be recorded in audio-visual media. The evaluation of this audio-visual material will naturally result into a documentary film, which we would like to title: Call of Shri Meenakshi Temple. It is an endeavour to get answers to questions related to the ancient history of Bharatavarsa as well as a history of writing history. Read more about the Four Protagonists here

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May 30, 2013 4:48 pm

Universities: The last refuge of communists


Universities are the last refuge of the communists, but nice to see other people begin to object about too much of Marx opium being fed to students. The commie professors would not easily desist from their mischief in sociology and history books. Delhi University: Too much Marx in sociology syllabus? NEW DELHI: While passing the syllabi of final two courses, Delhi Universitys Academic Council on Tuesday asked the sociology department to revise their syllabus as some members believed it included more than necessary number of papers on Marx. The AC asked the department to review the syllabus and incorporate the changes within three months. The syllabus appeared biased in content and ideology. There was so much literature on Marx even where it was not required, said Sanjay Kumar, a council member. We suggested the inclusion of Indian thinkers like Ambedkar. Other council members, including Rudrashish Chakraborty of Kirori Mal College, maintained that teachers were intent on brow-beating the head of the sociology department into deleting any liberal progressive values from the syllabus, especially those belonging to the left. The history syllabus was also passed but, again, with several members registering protest. There are too many selective readings, as many as 40 in some cases. Also, there are few Hindi medium books, says Kumar. Ajay Bhagi, another AC member, also objected to the over emphasis of Marxism in the syllabus. History is a major subject and we were given less time to make an informed choice. Moreover, we found that the syllabus was designed keeping in mind the fourth-year exit. There is a structural flaw as it doesnt cover all relevant topics for a student who would like to exit in the third year, says Bhagi. We also asked for the deletion of topic on communalism and ideologies which named institutions like RSS, Hindu Mahasabha and Muslim League.

Communalism is an important topic but how can an academic institution say these are communal organizations? asks Bhagi. There were 10 dissents on the history syllabus five from a group opposing the four-year programme and others on communalism. In addition, there were six dissents against the nature of the proceedings. The teachers protested against vitriolic attack on Prof Satish Deshpande, sociology HOD, in the council meeting on Monday for incorporating a reference to the uneasiness and problems faced while preparing the syllabus.

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May 27, 2013 3:47 pm

How Christians created their persecution mythology Candida Moss


How Christians created their persecution mythology Candida Moss There is an overpowering myth that Christianity was built on violent persecution by the Roman emperors. But that is very bad historyand sets a dangerous precedent for hyperbolic accusations of a war on Christians today. Prof. Candida Moss For Christians, the crucifixion is the event that changed everything. Prior to the death of Jesus and the emergence of Christianity most ancient people interpreted oppression, persecution, and violence as a sign that their deity was either irate or impotent. The crucifixion forced Jesuss followers to rethink this paradigm. The death of their leader was reshaped as triumph and the experience of persecution became a sign of elevated moral status, a badge of honor. The genius of the Jesus movement was its ability to disassociate earthly pain from divine punishment. As a result Christians identified themselves as innocent victims; they associated their sufferings with those of Jesus and aligned the source of those sufferings with the forces that killed Jesus. From the very beginning, victimhood was hardwired into the Christian psyche. The enduring impact of this idea is evident in the rhetoric of modern-day Christians. In the weeks that followed the recent papal resignation, Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles, who was accused of participating in the coverup of sexual abuse by priests, described himself in terms appropriate to a martyr: as a scapegoat who suffered like Jesus. Because of the nature of the crimes for which he is suspected, Mahonys claims that he is being persecuted have been universally dismissed, but other similarly hyperbolic instances of American Christians crying persecution slip into the public square. The belief that Christians are continuously persecuted has a basis in Scripture. In the Gospel of Mark, Jesus instructs his followers to take up their cross and follow him and predicts that his followers will be persecuted for his name. Then again, in the very same passage he predicts that some of those standing before him will not taste death before the arrival of his kingdom in glory. Why do we accept the prophecy of persecution when the statement about the disciples living until the last judgement clearly failed? The reason why Jesuss statements about persecution have had such a pronounced impact on the formation of Christian identity is that this prophecy is believed to have been proven in the experiences of the early church. The church has suffered since the beginning, the argument goes, and we are persecuted now as we have always been. But what if Christians were not always persecuted? What if there never was an Age of the Martyrs? When we look at the evidence, it becomes clear that the

stereotype of cruel Roman emperors persecuting innocent Christians is a myth. From the Roman side, there is scant evidence for the persecution of Christians. It is not even clear that the Romans knew about the existence of Christians until the early second century. Even then they didnt see Christianity as a religion. They describe it, rather, as a foolish superstition that could potentially harm local economies. Christians undoubtedly died as a result of legislation passed during the reign of the emperor Decius (ca. AD 250), but not because he was targeting them. Intriguingly, not a word of our Roman evidence for his legislation refers to Christians. With the exception of the Great Persecution of Diocletian (AD 303-305), when Christians were indeed actively persecuted, it is difficult to find any examples of Roman emperors behaving as Christians typically portrayed them. Apart from this comparatively brief period, and an even briefer one during the reign of Valerian in 257-58, Roman emperors never targeted Christians for attack. At the beginning of the second century, the emperor Trajan actually stipulated that Christians were not to be sought out. Roman emperors simply dont appear to have been that interested in Christians. For most of the first three centuries of their existence Christians flourished: they held lofty political positions, and were so comfortable under the Romans that they even constructed a prominent church across the road from the imperial palace in Nicomedia. The overwhelming majority of Christians idealized martyrdom and suffering like Jesus, but very few of them died violentlyand even fewer died as the result of the kind of persecution described in Sunday school. Romans had good reason to be concerned about Christians. Scandalous rumors of Christians participating in incestuous orgies and practicing cannibalism were widely circulated. More important, Christians sounded a lot like revolutionaries. In courtrooms they stated that they were unable to respect anyone but Christ, their new emperor. Roman officials had no problem executing political subversivesthis was a world in which Jon Stewart would be executed for his institution-challenging satire. Ancient empires were accustomed to reshaping the religious identities of those they bested in war. The Romans magnanimously allowed conquered groups to maintain their own religious traditions and implement their Julian the Apostate presiding at a conference of Christians.own law at their own discretion. But this generosity ended when it became socially disruptive or politically subversive. Christians threatened the stability of the empire, and when we look at their interactions with Roman authorities, we might even find ourselves sympathizing with the Romans. Given that the Roman evidence for persecution is so thin, the origin of our misunderstandings about the early church must, and does, lie with the early Christians themselves. There are literally thousands of stories of Christians martyrs being brutally tortured and killed, but the overwhelming majority of these were written long after the events they claim to describe. Who is responsible for these misunderstandings about history? And why did they alter the historical record? One of the reasons is the explosion of the cult of the saints, the passion for collecting and displaying holy relics, in the fifth century and beyond. Everyone wanted a piece of the action and innumerable stories about martyrs were fabricated to support local churches and to attract pilgrims to particular towns. In fact he never got to Rome and is not buried in St. Peters Basilica.Even the earliest, most ostensibly trustworthy, martyrdom stories have been edited and reworked. The authors of these accounts borrowed from ancient mythology, changed the details of events to make the martyrs appear more like Jesus, and made the Roman antagonists increasingly venomous. Peeling back the layers of editorial work is like watching textual plastic surgery; even small changes radically alter our understanding of the subject. Legend maintains that the Apostle Peter asked to be crucified upside down out of humility, but comes from a sixth century rewriting. Fascinatingly, the earliest version of the story gives a very different and almost mysterious explanation. Other ancient authors were less artful. Lazy biographers of the saints sometimes pasted together the story of a martyrs death from the writings of his colleagues and we can pull these apart without difficulty. We need not accuse the priestscribes who created these accounts of any malicious deception, as these kinds of literary practices were fairly common at the time, but nor, certainly, can we conclude that theyre giving us the historical facts. Even if Christians choose to venerate individual martyrsregardless of whether the stories are true or notwe should not leap to the conclusion that ancient Christians as a collective whole were constantly persecuted. We simply lack the necessary evidence to support such a claim. Faith in martyrs is one thing; historical claims about persecution

are quite another. Claims about violent persecution may not be historically accurate, but in the hands of ancient Christian writers they did valuable work shoring up the authority of the church. The fourth-century historian Eusebius was able to use the stories of the martyrs to combat heresy and to establish the succession of bishops in the early church. When the origins of the episcopacy in France were clouded, Eusebius invented an anecdote in which Gallic martyrs wrote to the bishop of Rome recommending a particular candidate. When he wanted to demonstrate the errors of a particular heresy, he would cleverly tell a story in which a martyr denounced the schismatic groups leader. This fascinating invention of the history of persecution set a precedent. Later generations of medieval copyists would do the sameinserting doctrinal formulae into the mouths of expiring martyrs. Eusebius began a long-lived tradition of equating dissent and disagreement with persecution. He argued that the church is fundamentally under attack and that, just as Roman officials attacked her in the past, now heretics attack her in the present. The essential idea is polarization: us against them, good against evil. Once Constantine allowed Christianity to become a state-sponsored religion in the fourth century, some Christians went on the offensive. They sought out pagan temples to destroy, with high hopes of dying and becoming martyrs. The memory of authentic persecution under Diocletian did not make Christians forgiving and generous toward the now disenfranchised pagans. The rhetoric of persecution perpetuated by early Christian writers, rather, created a polarized view of the world that only heaped violence on top of violence. This idea of constant attack and Christian victim-hood is grounded in the myths of the early church, but it endures to this day. It is evident in the rhetoric of modern American media pundits, politicians, and religious leaders who proclaim that there is a war on Christianity in modern America. The problem with identifying oneself and ones group as a persecuted minority is that it necessarily identifies others as persecutors. It is certainly the case that Christiansand members of other religious groupsaround the world endure horrifying violence and oppression today. But it is rarely those voices or calls for action on their behalf that reach our ears. On the contrary, these experiences are drowned out by louder, local complaints. Instances of oppression, violence, and persecution do not need a history of persecution or a commitment to victim-hood to support them. The mistreatment of Christians in modern India, for example, is not wrong because it is part of a history of persecution. It is just wrong. Nor is it somehow more outrageous than violence against Muslims or Hindus there. [Sic: Christians in India are not and have never been mistreated. It is an absurd statement for the learned author to make. Christians are a very privileged minority community in India with social and political influence far exceeding their numbers. Isolated attacks on missionaries by exasperated Hindu individuals in Orissa and Madhya Pradesh, provoked by the aggressive conduct of the missionaries themselves, cannot be extrapolated into a "mistreatment of Christians in modern India". In fact from the 8th century to Francis Xavier SJthe 16th century, Christian refugees from West Asia and Persia, then Portuguese pirates and missionaries from Europe, were the perpetrators of the most heinous crimes in India including the destruction of Hindu temples in order to build St. Thomas churches, forced conversions to Christianity and conversions by stealth---inculturation---and the establishment of the most notorious and cruel Inquisition in Goa brought by Francis Xavier. -- Ishwar Saran] Most importantly, the myth of persecution can actually generate violence. At the beginning of the First Crusade, Pope Urban II promised Christian soldiers the rewards of martyrdom if they died in the conflict. The historical factors are complicated, and medieval European Christians did see themselves as under attack, but their actions cannot be dismissed as self-defence. This is a cautionary example for us. There is always the possibility that we have no sense of our own position in a conflict. Even though we cast ourselves as martyrs, we might be crusaders. The example of Jesus that hangs at the centre of Christianity encouraged his followers to embrace suffering and to stand firm in times of persecution. But even if Christians are called to embrace suffering and victimization, we can do without a story of persecution that is inaccurate, unproductive, and polarizing. Nor should we build our interpretation of the present on errors about the past. The Daily Beast, 31 March 2013

Candida Moss is Professor of New Testament and early Christianity at the University of Notre Dame and the author of The Myth of Persecution. Note by Ishwar Saran: Bardesanes wrote the Acts of Judas Thomas, the source of the St. Thomas in India legend, as a moral fable to instil sexual discipline in his Edessene Christian congregationthe Church has always had a problem with sexual profligacy. He set the story in India as being the place of all kinds of exotic religions that he had heard about from travelling Brahmins and Buddhist monks. In his tale he has Judas Thomastwin brother of Jesus no lesscheat a Persian king of large sums of money by promising to build him a palace. After he is caught, imprisoned, and later released, Thomas runs away and has a number of exciting adventures including a fight to the death with Satan. He meets another Persian king, who, initially showing him great kindness and generousity, loses patience with his wicked deeds and has him executed for abducting women and practising black magic. This king, Mazdai by nameindicating a devotee of Zarathustras god Ahura Mazdahas Thomas buried in a royal tomb on a mountain in a desert country that is never named. Later in the 4th century, when West Asian Christian refugees brought the tale from Edessa to the Malabar Coast, Thomas is identified with India rather than Persia and even made the missionary of Nambudiri brahmins in order to give the new Christian community caste status. In Kerala the tale of Thomas grows and evolves with new additions made by new Christian migrants from Persia. It no longer reflects Bardesanes moral fable but rather a concocted mythology of Indian Christian identity. These Syrian Christians as they are still calledare great travellers and merchants, and Marco Polo hears the tale from them, probably in Constantinopleas scholars now doubt that he ever went to China. The story of Thomass deathby accident according to Marcoand internment is included in his famous adventure book Il Milione published in Europe in the 13th century. Marco places Thomass tomb on the Coromandal Coast in an unnamed Tamil village rather than on a Persian mountaintop as in the Acts of Thomas. From this popular piece of travel fiction there is no going back, and the tomb of St. Thomas is identified with the great Kapaleeswara Shiva Temple in Mylapore by the Portuguese in the 16th century. They invade Mylapore, a prosperous port with a good harbour, have the Kapaleeswara Temple destroyedit seems to have taken them fifty years to do this evil deed by encroachment and vandalism, and because they are resisted by the native Hindu population until it is overwhelmed by superior Portuguese firepowerand build a fake St. Thomas tomb out of materials brought from Goa. Soon after the empty tomb is established a new St. Thomas Church is built over it by Dominican monks, where no church has ever stood beforethen back-dated 1500 years to the 1st century! The pious fable of a Christian apostles persecution and death at the hands of a Hindu raja and his jealous brahmin priest is now established in South India and the world. The Christian community can claimby the grace of Portuguese pirates!to be the followers of the original Christian religion brought by Thomas to the Tamil people. They can and do solicit recognition and money for it from the world Christian community. More important, the Hindu community that has generously hosted the Christian community in India since the 4th century, can be maligned and spiritually discredited as the vicious assassins of a Christian apostle and saint. The fact that no scholar of Christian history, starting with the Early Church Fathers Clement and Origen, and the first official Christian historian Eusebius, to the learned historians of the last two hundred years including Pope Benedict XVI, subscribe to the details of this fable and support it as true, does not matter to the Indian Christian community in the least. They have got their dearly loved persecution tale with its blood and gore, and they are not going to let go of it even for the Pope in Rome

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May 26, 2013 3:59 am

Maoists are now ready for final assault to overawe India


Maoists are now ready for final assault to overawe India By RSN Singh, Canary Trap An analysis of recent events related to Maoist terrorism shows that the fourdecades-old phenomenon has entered its most dangerous phase. The abduction of two Italian nationals, Paolo Bosusco and Claudio Colangelo, on 18 March, the deportation of 10 French tourists from Bihar in the last week of April, the abduction of the Odisha MLA Jhina Hikaka on 24 March, and the abduction of Alex Menon, the Sukma Collector in Chhattisgarh and the killing of his two bodyguards on 21 April may appear ostensibly disparate occurrences, but are linked. When pieced together, they suggest that Maoist terrorism has entered a critical phase wherein a final assault is being made on the political fabric Indian democracy. Crucial to this assault are the international benefactors of the Maoists and their over-ground elements in the cloak of intellectuals and social-activists. In fact, this assault was discernible some years ago and the foreignhand was quite evident when members of the European Commission descended on Raipur, the capital of Chhattisgarh, to witness the trial of Binayak Sen in the high court. The internal hand was also quite evident when subsequently an outrageous step was taken to appoint Binayak Sen as a member of a health committee of the Planning Commission. The idea was to cock a snook at one segment of the Indian establishment even while another segment was hopelessly engaged in restraining the Maoists. It was meant to be an assault on the psyche and morale of the security forces. The anti-national agenda of the white-collared Maoists triumphed over the patriotism, sacrifice and diligence of the security forces. The collaborative or dismissive or nonchalant attitude of the Indian establishment continues to sink to abysmal depths. While politicians, bureaucrats and media personnel make a beeline to the house of Alex Paul Menon, the abducted collector who was recently released, the sacrifices of two policemen guarding him have gone altogether unsung. One of them was 28-year-old Amjad Khan. He was shot three times from point-blank range. This three-bullet treatment by the Maoists was because Amjad had retaliated when his colleague Kujur, the other jawan, was killed. Amjad belonged to the minority community and Kujur was a tribal. The BJD MLA from Laxmipur in Odisha, Jhina Hikaka, is also a tribal. It was the tribal who voted him to the Assembly. He is the peoples representative. In a Kangaroo Court, the Maoists allegedly extracted a promise that he would resign from the assembly. This was said so by a Maoist leader calling herself Aruna in an audio message aired by a local television channel. Ironically, in the forefront of the abduction operation of Alex Paul Menon in Chhattisgarh was also a woman. One of the Italians, Paolo Bosusco (right), had visited the area several times before and enjoyed the hospitality of the Maoists. His being taken hostage was a staged drama to humble the Indian state. The Maoist leaders have, over a period of time, created such terror that women have no option but to become tools of violence and sex in the service of male cadres. Villages are being terrorised to donate at least one child from each family to the cause of Maoist terror. This is the story of the liberated zone of the Maoists. Those who resisted formed the Salwan Judum (peace-march) only to find security in the non-liberated zone of the Maoist or government-controlled territory. But our so-called intellectuals, or white-collared criminals supporting the Maoists, gave the Salwan Judum movement a totally new meaning. They, and the international benefactors of the Maoists, went on an overdrive in every conceivable public platform, importantly the media and the judiciary. Coming back to the Maoist assault on the political fabric of India, only six months ago the Maoists had gunned down another BJD legislator, Jagabandhu Majhi, and his security guard . He was a popular tribal leader and represented the Umerkote constituency. He was wheelchair bound as a consequence of an attempt on his life by the Maoists in 2004. All his life Jagabandhu had fought for the land

rights of tribals. Ironically, the MLA was killed while distributing land ownership papers (pattas) to landless tribals. He was killed because the Maoists were unnerved by the feeling that their constituency was being weaned away. The Maoists do not brook any element or organ of the state which seeks to dilute their sway over the people in liberated zones. The only people who can end their captivity under the Maoists are politicians, particularly elected representatives, whatever their worth. That they are desperately looking for windows of opportunity to break away from Maoist shackles is substantiated by their participation in elections despite the diktat of the Maoists. Most small-time and influential local politicians in the Red Corridor have either been eliminated or terrorised by the Maoists. Such has been the level of Maoist terror that in the panchayat elections in Jharkhand and Odisha, a large number of seats went in favour of the Maoists uncontested. There were many other seats wherein victory for the proxy candidates of the Maoists was ensured by sheer terror. With large sums of money now being allocated by the government directly to panchayats, a situation has now arisen wherein the government will now be directly funding Maoist terror. Having eliminated or terrorised local politicians, it was only logical for the Maoists to begin targeting MPs and MLAs. As per a released press statement during the hostage drama of Jhina Hikaka by the Andhra-Odisha Border Special Zonal Committee (AOBSZC) of CPI (Maoists), all MPs and MLAs of Koraput district are on their hit-list. As per a member of parliament of the Congress party from Odisha, about 70 MLAs and 10 MPs are under constant Maoist threats. This constitutes half the elected members from the state, the total number of MPs being 21 and MLAs 149. The Maoists have spread their influence in 24 of the 30 districts in the state. This is a growing phenomenon in the entire Red Corridor spanning Andhra, Maharastra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Bihar. During elections, in most Maoist-affected areas, there is no polling after 3.00 pm notwithstanding the large presence of para-military and police personnel. Odisha is now serving as the pivot for the political subversion of India by the Maoists. kIt was rather very intrepid of a Union minister to visit the worst Maoist-affected areas in Jharkhand (Latehar District) on a motorcycle during this period of heightened threat. Two months ago, the minister had visited Gadchiroli, a Maoist stronghold in Maharastra. His visit was answered by the Maoists three days later by way of a mineblast in which 12 CRPF personnel were killed. The minister had after all visited the area with the agenda of development! And so did Vinil Krishna, the collector of Malkangiri, who was abducted by the Maoists in February 2011. It is another matter that consequent to his release he had no qualms in allowing himself to be garlanded like a war hero. He now serves as the private secretary to the Union minister. His appointment, if some press reports are to be believed, was recommended by professional interlocutors, who offer their services whenever there is a hostage crisis involving the Maoists. The Congress party in Odisha had dubbed the abduction of Krishna as a well-planned drama and had demanded a CBI probe. Where does the truth lie? I leave it for the readers to decide. In February 2012, the Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda confessed that it was the Maoists who indeed killed Odisha MLA Jagbandhu Majhi in September 2011 and Swami Laxmananda Saraswati in 2007. The killing of the latter was motivated by the religious discourse in Maoist terror that has pervaded Kandhamal district. It is intriguing, rather revealing, that the two Italians chose to travel to Kandhamal area ignoring the travel advisory of the Italian government and warnings by the Indian government. One of the Italians, Paolo Bosusco, had visited the area several times before and enjoyed the hospitality of the Maoists. His being taken hostage was a staged drama to humble the Indian state. Paolo is a member of an Italy based UltraLeftist organisation, Party of Committees to Support Resistance for Communism (CARC). In December 2011, the Maoist Communist Party of Manipur in a press release had acknowledged its association and support of some foreign based ultraleftist outfits. They are: Communist Party of Philippines, Association for Proletarian Solidarity, Italy (ASP), Maoist Communist Party of France, Revolutionary Communist Party Canada (PCR RCP), and Party of the Committees to Support Resistance for Communism (CARC), Italy. Some of the western countries had played a very dubious role in fanning Left Wing Extremism (LWE) in Nepal to facilitate religious conversion. Kandhamal district of Odisha suffers from the same paradigm. Nepals example should not be lost out on India.

As far as military prowess of the Maoists goes, there is evidence of AK-47s being supplied by the United Wa Army in Myanmar. The AK-47 manufacturing facility has been provided by China to the said insurgent outfit. The Maoist-ISI-LeTmilitant groups nexus in Kashmir and the North-East is fairly well established. The Chinese, according to a national television channel, have also begun to supply sophisticated signal equipment with encryption capabilities to the Maoists. The war is on. In this war the adversary has a deadly cocktail of ideology, foreign support, religious agenda, armed cadres, criminal financing and terror. It would be anti-national to treat it as a law and order problem. The assault is now on Indian democracy and the unity of India. Let us unite and fight because now in question is the very air-of-freedom that we are breathing.

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May 20, 2013 4:37 pm

Congress redefines Indian flag


In a Congress ad, the upper strip of India national flag has turned orange from saffron. And the entire flag becomes green. Is there no low that these traitors with Hindu names wont plumb in their hatred of the Hindus? Filed under Uncategorized 10 Comments

April 21, 2013 3:22 pm

The Real Karl Marx


The Real Karl Marx John Gray In many ways, Jonathan Sperber suggests, Marx was a backward-looking figure, whose vision of the future was modeled on conditions quite different from any that prevail today: The view of Marx as a contemporary whose ideas are shaping the modern world has run its course and it is time for a new understanding of him as a figure of a past historical epoch, one increasingly distant from our own: the age of the French Revolution, of Hegels philosophy, of the early years of English industrialization and the political economy stemming from it. Sperbers aim is to present Marx as he actually wasa nineteenth-century thinker engaged with the ideas and events of his time. If you see Marx in this way, many of the disputes that raged around his legacy in the past century will seem unprofitable, even irrelevant. Claiming that Marx was in some way intellectually responsible for twentieth-century communism will appear thoroughly misguided; but so will the defense of Marx as a radical democrat, since both views project back onto the nineteenth century controversies of later times. Read More

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April 19, 2013 5:35 pm

Narendra Modi faces assassination threat, tweets Madhu Kishwar


Narendra Modi faces assassination threat, tweets Madhu Kishwar Well-known journalist Madhu Kishwar has also tweeted that Congress and its NGO pals are instigating Jihadis against Modi. This behaviour of Congress charlatans is nothing new it has been a rabid enemy of all Indian nationalists and patriots, from Savarkar and Subhash Bose to Shyama Prasad Mukherjee and now Modi. Congress represents monotheistic interests and remains hostile to Hindus. So why do many Hindus vote for it? Are they blind or simply idiots? Madhu Kishwars brilliant expose of anti-Modi forces after her investigations: Filed under Uncategorized 123 Comments

April 17, 2013 4:30 pm

Are Indians buying back their own knowledge from the West?
Rajeev Malhotras brilliant lecture at IIT Mumbai last month.

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April 13, 2013 6:54 pm

Ugly truth behind Nitish Kumars posturing against Narendra Modi


JD(U) General Secretary Shivraj Singh telling the ugly truth about why the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is against Narendra Modi the JD (U) is receiving foreign funding from countries hostile to India. It may be recalled that Nitish Kumar had last year traveled to Pakistan on a goodwill visit. Filed under Uncategorized 2 Comments

April 6, 2013 5:39 am

Boss, read the true history of India before speaking


Boss, read the true history before speaking By S Gurumurthy 06th April 2013 07:41 AM Nine years after advent in public life, Rahul Gandhi addressed the Confederation of the Indian Industry [CII]. Media conferred on him the title Boss. The Boss told captains of industry: They used to look at India and say, Boss, the Hindu rate of Growth. They have been saying like this for 3,000 years. Now the Hindu Rate of growth is like the European rate of growth. This less serious comment calls for serious response. Otherwise illiteracy about India will continue to persist for lack of literacy among Indians who speak for India. But, it calls for a peep into the world and the Indian economic history which most Indian academics, particularly economists, seem to be least interested in and therefore less aware of. The label Hindu rate of growth was coined by Professor Rajkrishna, a socialist establishment economist, in 1978 to rationalise why India was growing slowly despite following the socialist prescriptions. Raj Krishnas label was original but its philosophy was borrowed. It all originated in the colonial discourse on India. A notable victim of colonial discourse on India was Karl Marx. Even before he brought out his magnum opus Das Kapital, Karl Marx wrote an article on the Indian economy [June 25, 1853] in New York Harold Tribune. In his article, he was generally positive about the distinct Hindoo Indias village system of agriculture and manufacturing which, he said, gave to people their independent organisation and social life. But he said that that had made India changeless for two thousand years. So the British, he said, were doing the right thing, though painful, causing a social revolution by demolishing the village system which Marx described as semi-barbarian and semi-civilised. Why semi-barbarian and semicivilised? Not because the village economic model was wrong per se, but, because, Marx said, the Hindoos were worshipping cows and monkeys and were even claiming antiquity greater than Christianitys! Karl Marx, who never came to India, never met any informed Indian, nor read any worthwhile Indian literature dismissed India as a semi-barbarian. His knowledge about India was limited colonial records on India. Then came Max Weber. He had theorised that only Protestant Christian societies could progress under modern capitalist model since Protestantism alone promoted individualism and enterprise. He was entitled to his comment because he had studied the rise of America and European protestant nations as compared to the Catholic countries which had stagnated. But he impertinently wrote in late 1920s that India and China, which followed HinduBuddhist faiths, would not succeed under capitalist model because they believed in karma, rebirth and caste. He too never went to India, perhaps never met a proper Indian, but still adversely commented on Hinduism and Buddhism. Studies have established that the Marx and Weber theories had exerted the greatest influence on Indian academic, sociological and economic thinking. In the same stream of thought, Winston Churchill called Indians anarchic and barbaric. After freedom J K Galbraith described India as a functioning anarchy. Professor Rajkrishnas remark was the Indian affirmation of this thought stream that held Hinduism guilty for keeping semi-barbaric and under-developed. This is what the Boss also has recalled in his CII speech. But this colonial theory was proved fake in 1983 exactly five years after Rajkrishna trashed Hinduism for Indias low growth. In that year Paul Bairoch, a Belgian economist, came out with his study of the world economy and his findings astounded the West. He said that in 1750 Indias share of world GDP was 24.5 per cent, Chinas 33 per cent, but the combined share of Britain and the US was believe it just two per cent. Yes only two per cent! Indias share, Bairoch found, fell to 20 per cent in 1800; to 18 per cent in 1830; and finally crashed to 1.7 per cent in 1900, while Chinas crashed to 6.2 per cent from 33 per cent. In these 150 years, the combined share of Britain and the US

rose to from 2 per cent to over 41 per cent. Bairoch shook the West by saying that in middle 19th century, the West had a lower standard of living than Asians read Indians and Chinese. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD], network of rich nations, forthwith constituted a Development Institute Studies under Angus Maddisson, a great economic historian, to conduct a comprehensive research into economic history the implied agenda was to prove Bairoch wrong. Angus Maddisson postulated, if Bairoch is right, then much more of the backwardness of the third world presumably has to be explained by colonial exploitation and much less of Europes advantage can be due to scientific precocity, centuries of slow accumulation, and organisational and financial superiority. After two decades of hard work, Maddision published his studies titled World Economic History A Millennial Perspective in 2001. His study confirmed Bairochs study of 150 years and more, as Maddisson studied the entire 2000 years economic history. Maddisson showed that India was the leading economic power of the world from the 1st year of the first millennium till 1700 with 32 per cent share of worlds GDP in the first 1000 years and 28 per cent to 24 per cent in the second millennium till 1700. China was second to India except in 1600 when China temporarily overtook India. India again overtook China in 1700. The global economic play was in the hands of India and China till 1830. And two nations disqualified for development by Weber for following Hindu and Buddhist religions. Maddison confirmed, actually confessed, that [Hindu] India fell only due to colonial exploitation. Now the Maddisson study, endorsed by OECD, is the most authentic economic history of the world. What does it prove? The Hindu rate of growth had kept India going as the most powerful economy of the world for 1850 years out of 2000 years. That is why William Dalrymple described the rise of India as the empire striking back meaning that Indias rise was not rags to riches story. The Bairoch-Maddisson studies have sealed the discourse decades back. Their studies have also been corroborated by other studies and records. Some of them are: studies into the Mayuran export-led economic Model Hindu India [American Journal of Economics and Sociology April 1993]; study into consumption during Akbars regime as being higher than in Europe by Centre for West Asia Studies Jamia Milia Islamia University; the Economic History of Greco-Roman World which described how two thousand years ago India was bankrupting Roman Egypt of its gold reserves by its export surplus; the history of Indian merchant navy which had a fleet strength of 40,000 ships in Akbars time and as many as 34,000 ships before the British arrived and the Bank of International Settlements [BIS] Annual report of 1934-35 which said that between 1493 and 1930 India absorbed 14 per cent of world gold production which meant that it earned that much export surplus for five centuries continuously. QED: Hindu rate of growth had made India super power. Colonialism did India down to poverty. Nehruvian socialism made it stagnate even after freedom. The slow growth of India was due to Nehruvian socialism. But thanks to Rajkrishna the label Hindu rate of growth was globalised by the World Bank President Robert McNamara in 1980s. He said that India would always be in need of aid and it would ever be a burden on the world. Another person who carried on the tradition of Marx-Weber-RajkrishnaMcNamara to trivialise Hindu India was Montek Alhuwalia who endorsed Rajkrishnas description of India even after the 21st century opened. The only exception in the present establishment is Shiv Shankar Menon, the National Security Adviser, who profoundly called Indias rise re-rise. Will the Boss begin learning the true history of Hindu rate of growth, not repeat the spurious history when he talks to the FICCI or elsewhere later? S Gurumurthy is a well-known commentator on political and economic issues. Email: comment@gurumurthy.net

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March 30, 2013 4:46 pm

Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State


Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State Award-winning book by Canadian writer Tarek Fatah on the shallowness of the Islamist Agenda for an Islamic State that is the driving force behind todays Islamist movements ranging from the Muslim Brotherhood to the Taliban, AlQaeda and the numerous North American fronts of these jihadi movements. Click on the link to read the book online. Filed under Uncategorized 7 Comments

7:07 am

Narendra Modi through the Eyes of Gujarati Muslims, Christians and


MODI NAMA 1 Narendra Modi through the Eyes of Gujarati Muslims, Christians and By Madhu Purnima Kishwar Brilliant article by Madhu Kishwar about what Muslims and Xians actually think about Modi. Filed under Uncategorized 2 Comments

March 29, 2013 5:27 pm

Origins of the Wharton Fiasco


Brilliant presentation and collection of facts about the charlatans behind the Wharton fiasco. Filed under Uncategorized 2 Comments

12:02 pm

The scenes Muslims witness as a child


What does so much cruelty and bloodshed to animals would be doing to minds of little Muslim children?

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6:55 am

How CNN-IBN decieved its viewers


How CNN-IBN deceived viewers in its Face The Nation show. The husband-wife team of Rajdeep Sardesai and Sagarika Ghose is the most shady specimen ever to disgrace the Indian media landscape. That idiot Katju is too busy getting people convicted on terrorism charges pardoned, to actually bother about the job he was hired for to curb unethical practices in the media. Look-Live Lies Wednesdays episode of Face The Nation: Indias Best Presented News Show on CNN-IBN was epochal. It started deceiving the viewer in the first three words, and went downhill from there. Joining us tonight, began Sagarika Ghose of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. Except, as everyone now knows, he wasnt joining us that night. He had been interviewed that afternoon by a local correspondent, and his statements edited and spliced into the discussion. But I get ahead of myself. Joining us tonight, to ask if spiritual gurus should participate in the fight against corruption, IS that word bellowed at us, as if to defy us to challenge the tense spiritual guru and founder of the Art of Living, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. And we see Shankar, and immediately sense somethings wrong. After all, FTN is broadcast after dark; but Shankars sitting with the left half of his face bathed in radiant sunlight, the sort of phenomenon that might cause even the most hardened sceptic to imagine there is something miraculously saintly about the man.

Lets turn it over to Sri Sri Ravi Shankar at the very outset, says Ghose, continuing to happily deceive her viewers. She then asks Shankar a long, convoluted, hard-hitting question: Are you effectively launching a political campaign? You, for example, havent taken up an anti-graft campaign in your home state of Karnataka, but have chosen UP Damn, you go girl, you think. Speaking truth to power. How will Shankar respond to that telling point about Karnataka? UP trip is happening well, extremely well. Lakhs and lakhs of people are coming, he says. (OK, had said.) Wow, you think, as he burbles on, talking about rallies and satsangs, hes stonewalling. Its almost as if hes answering a completely different question! But that couldnt be. Because Ghose just asked him about Karnataka. Didnt she? Ghose looks deeply dissatisfied with Shankars refusal to answer the question she was asking several hours after his answer was recorded. She proceeds to tear Shankars claim of distance from the Sangh Parivar to shreds. So forceful is she that if he wanted to retain a semblance of credibility about his neutrality, he would have to interrupt her. But no! He stays right there on our TV screens as she launches into him silent, smiling beatifically, even agreeably. Amazing. Ghose has got him to admit, through his consenting silence, to her allegations. What superstar journalism! (Of course, anyone keeping an eye on Shankars little window as the discussion continued would notice that he, in strangely reptilian manner, keeps on moving his head to the left towards the, haha, CNN-IBN Live in the top right corner and then blinking slowly and rhythmically. Either he is dancing along to some internal music only sadhu-types can hear, or CNN-IBN, for a 28-minute programme, kept on looping the same six-second shot.) Meanwhile, Ghose hands things over to some guy in Pune at least, thats what is claimed under Live, in the top right-hand corner; who knows with IBN, perhaps he was actually recorded in Nashik in 1997. Pune/Nashik guy tears into Shankar, too. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, respond to that, orders Ghose, supremely confident that her command will be followed by FTNs Managing Splicer. Are you simply trivialising corruption? You know, says Shankar reflectively, I am not here to comment on what may be election material in 2012, it is for politicians and media to decide. Damn, hes ducking the question again. Every swami must be neutral. You know, youre saying you have to be neutral, says Ghose, in a voice presumably piercing enough to shatter the glass wall of time and be heard seven hours earlier and half a state away. And so on for 28 minutes. Unsurprisingly, given how amateurish and egregious IBN was about their deception, they got caught. Ghose and IBN responded with the Three Stages of Damage-Control. First: What Problem? Ghose told everyone to google look-live and sim-sat. Standard broadcast practice, she implied. I duly googled them. Look-live is for when the beginning of a reported segment features a reporter standing outside. Or when it ends with back to you, Sagarika, although it was recorded earlier. It definitely doesnt mean you edit an interview with someone to make it sound like hes participating in a discussion or answering questions he hasnt heard. Does anyone really believe that IBNs UP correspondent asked the hard questions that Ghose pretended to be asking Shankar? IBN, want to retain some credibility? Release that unedited, original video. Let us judge. The only hit for sim-sat is a column by Vir Sanghvi from two years ago explaining how one person can be on three live discussions at the same time. He called for a debate on the deceptive practice. I wish Id read it earlier; it would explain why I once saw Rajiv Pratap Rudy on two different channels simultaneously wearing totally different multi-coloured kurtas. (Though he was saying exactly the same thing on both while apparently answering two different questions.) At the time, I hastily poured the remainder of my whisky down the drain and went to bed early. The second stage of damage control: Everyone Here Does It. OK, I believe that though perhaps not this obviously. And, finally, the apology: We carried a pre-recorded interview without explicitly mentioning that the interview had been recorded a couple of hours earlier in the day. Actually, IBN, you explicitly claimed the opposite. There was absolutely no malafide intention on our part

Congratulations, India, news TV has progressed to the point at which deciding to actively mislead viewers does not count as a malafide intention. I give up. mihir.sharma@expressindia.com

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March 28, 2013 3:07 pm

Vivekanandas Ideas Two revolutions in Western Thought


Author Rajiv Malhotra wrote an important article on Swami Vivekananda that has information which is not well known about his importance to western philosophy today. This is one of the few articles selected by the headquarters of Ramakrishna Mission in their official book commemorating Swami Vivekanandas 150th anniversary. That book was launched recently in Belur Math by the President of India. It is hoped you will read it and circulate it to others. Click to read: Vivekanandas Ideas Two revolutions in Western Thought Read the article to see how Swami Vivekanandas ideas are being plagiarized by Western thinkers and being repackaged as their own original thought. PS: I have opened a Twitter account @IndianRealist I suggest all Hindu nationalists open Twitter accounts and follow each other. There is lot of Indian leftist / communist garbage on Twitter and we have to clean it up. Filed under Uncategorized 4 Comments

March 24, 2013 4:53 am

Asymmetric warfare against Hindus


Asymmetric warfare against Hindus: Wharton and Modi Dr Gautam Sen The gratuitous insult recently against Gujarat chief minister, Narendra Modi by some jumped students of the Wharton India Economic Forum, who possibly imagine they commune with the gods the moment the divine imprimatur of white certification brushes against them, raises some deeper questions. There is something irredeemably malicious and untenable about the role of an overwhelming majority of academics of Indian origin in the US and Europe, who repeatedly disparage all Hindu political aspirations. The majority of these extraordinarily privileged members of Western academia have accorded themselves exclusivity in representing all the worlds purportedly oppressed. And their unbearably arrogant self-ascription insinuates inviolable righteousness because, once again, they have gained approval from within the heart of great imperialist power centres. Not for nothing did aspirants for fame

and fortune in the ancient world of Rome feel obligated to seek endorsement in its imperial capital city. Yet, as in most human activity, barring rare individual eccentricity, when recurrent social phenomena are evident mundane, self-interested reasons underlies it. Unsparing scrutiny is required of these morally bankrupt, but selfimportant mediocrities, harbouring hysterical animus against the unwashed Hindu masses, who dare question a hostile status quo. It would be quite erroneous to impute to these rascals, precisely what they are, motives of misguided, liberal sentimentality. Nor is it the case that these derisive, selfpromoters are exhibiting a Gandhian counterpart of the Stockholm syndrome because they are victims of a civilisation accustomed to instinctive submission, as a result of the bitter historical experience of defeat. Their derived personal authority from membership of Western academia, mercilessly wielded at any hint of Hindu self assertion, and tremendous affluence demands analysis of objective situational parameters. It is very difficult for individuals who seek to challenge the essential contours of power and interest to survive in such academic institutions, which are deeply implicated in the multifarious criminal activities, at home and abroad, of their government. Some dissidents are disingenuously tolerated to give an impression of liberal hauteur and tolerance. But that is also a cynical ploy to feign credibility. These academics of Indian origin in US academia are, ultimately, surrogates of US official policy though their servitude status is somewhat circuitous and indirect. In order to comprehend their real motives for periodic hyperactivity against any Hindu protest it is necessary to recognise their unswervingly selective conscience and associated displays of contrived outrage. Apparently, two incidents have robbed India of its reputation for all time to come and Hindus of any vestige of their human rights. The moment some Hindus demolished the disused Babri structure, the slide down the slippery slope to moral oblivion apparently began unstoppably. Big deal is what common sense might have posited, the one commodity absent when determinedly framing Hindus is the name of the game. When the grim episode of communal violence and the killing of innocents followed, in retaliation for burning to death of 59 Hindu pilgrims, mostly women and children, it ensured that hell fires would burn for any Hindu with the temerity to raise eyes in its aftermath. The mere demand for the prosecution of M F. Husain, the covert Jihadi, Hindu-baiter, for depicting Hindu goddesses engaged in bestiality, was the icing on the cake that implicitly prompted demands to inflict capital punishment for any Hindu dissent. The meek demand for legal sanction by Hindus has since been routinely compared to Islamist death threats against numerous authors and journalists considered to have insulted the Prophet. No other episode causes such hysteria and fury, not even the killings of thousands of innocent Sikhs following the assassination of Indira Gandhi, not even the chilling murder of their children, who had petrol poured into their throats and set alight. Shockingly, hardly anyone was punished, and the now anointed saint, Rajiv Gandhi, who, unlike Narendra Modi, gave virtual public approval to these horrendous crimes, is being reverentially celebrated, with innumerable government programmes and symbols named after him. Yet, the exoneration of Narendra Modi by the Supreme Court, SIT cuts no ice and a mass of completely fabricated evidence continues to assert its Talmudic verity. As for communal riots, despite the efforts of Anglo-American, Cold War academics (e.g. Paul R. Brass) to discover a Hindu angle to every outbreak of communal violence in independent India, Congress governments were almost always in the saddle and cynically indifferent. But no disapprobation is aimed at them because they worship a demented circus animal called secularism, the vile clarion call for Islamic Jihad and Christian assault against everything sacred to Hindus. These improbable, Left-leaning loonies, occupying hallowed chairs in supposedly august American universities, smugly sport their badges of imagined, timeless probity and high-mindedness. Yet almost no reputation survives passing sober scrutiny. One particularly perverse specimen from Chicago University, apt to flaunt friendship with Indias Congress President, wrote an extraordinary article in the Los Angeles Times, confessing to fears for the safety of all Indian Muslims in the aftermath of the 26/11 Mumbai carnage. Not a word of sympathy was expressed for its victims or apology proffered when the retaliatory communal killings, across the length and breadth of Hindu fascist, India, she confidently predicted, failed to materialise. Significantly, a Maoist leader from Kolkata publicly applauded the Mumbai carnage, only regretting that any Muslims were

killed. China had brokered a deal between Indian Maoists and Pakistan once they became allies and its common interests converged with those of the US in that model of responsible nationhood, the fountainhead of the contemporary global terror business. Most of the Indian Left, China and the US had joined hands with Pakistan against an Indian State that refused to kowtow to the West. The redoubtable Iqbal Singh, editor of Londons India Weekly, termed this a second front in the Cold War. As a consequence, one of the greatest human rights violations since the holocaust in the former East Pakistan during 1970-71 enjoyed the public support of the Sino-American alliance, with the Indian Left also acquiescing. This is the same the Indian Left that migrated en masse to the very green pastures of the US, to universities across the country, from Harvard and a Madrassa called Columbia to Chicago, Penn and hundreds of others. Their usefulness to US Cold War aims had arisen from their unrelenting hostility to the Indian State. It was palpably prompted in the case of the cadre of the dominant Bengali Left by the added instinct of pure ethnic parochialism, masquerading as deep thought and augmented by a smattering of Hegel, Marx, etc.! Others, usually from modest socio-economic backgrounds, were sodden in immediate enrichment on joining US faculties and rendered harmless for use as catamites as well. Their mission was to bait the Indian State and its entire evil works and excoriate all manifestations of Indian nationalism, which they rather exaggeratedly associated with contemporary Hindutva. They remain in situ today, usually at the margins of intellectual life, like Ania Loomba and another member of the sisterhood in Columbia. They comprise the pitiable beneficiaries of affirmative action appointments to the professoriate of non white females. They pontificate sagely on race and gender issues rather than anything mainstream of universal significance in their subject areas. Others of this tribe are unequal to the task of rising to cosmopolitan intellectual life and become interlocutor coolies, interpreting perceived Hindu religious mumbo jumbo and of course caste oppression. All of it endeavours to make a passing show that justifies their handsome salaries. Unfortunately, for them, the US is somewhat less agitated of late by India now, which it had compared to Tojos Japan after WWII. Narendra Modi is all they have left to get a rare high, while they manfully ignore human rights violations of their own adopted country that would have relegated Imperial Japan to a mere apprenticeship. They tolerate Islamic terrorism, fraternise with its ideologues, and have nothing to say about genital mutilation and the worst Islamic violations of womens fundamental rights that could be conceived. Nor are they willing to even recognize that constant abductions, rapes and murders by Muslims in many parts of West Bengal and the brutal suppression of Hindus in contemporary Bangladesh. Once Modi is elected prime minister of India even US church lobbies, calculatedly approving of Islamic Jihad to keep Hindus off balance, will be unable to prompt the withholding of a visa though he might wish to give the country a wide berth. Some poor Hindu sod will have to put their reputation on the line to keep these pathetic, self-serving creatures in the business of irrelevant mischief.

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February 26, 2013 5:03 pm

White Paki William Dalrymples Views about India


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February 17, 2013 9:49 am

Indias rice revolution


Indias rice revolution In a village in Indias poorest state, Bihar, farmers are growing world record amounts of rice with no GM, and no herbicide. Is this one solution to world food shortages? Sumant Kumar was overjoyed when he harvested his rice last year. There had been good rains in his village of Darveshpura in north-east India and he knew he could improve on the four or five tonnes per hectare that he usually managed. But every stalk he cut on his paddy field near the bank of the Sakri river seemed to weigh heavier than usual, every grain of rice was bigger and when his crop was weighed on the old village scales, even Kumar was shocked. This was not six or even 10 or 20 tonnes. Kumar, a shy young farmer in Nalanda district of Indias poorest state Bihar, had using only farmyard manure and without any herbicides grown an astonishing 22.4 tonnes of rice on one hectare of land. This was a world record and with rice the staple food of more than half the worlds population of seven billion, big news.

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February 16, 2013 7:04 pm

Yoga history from punk historians of the West


It is amazing how Yogas history as a Hindu tradition is being distorted right in front of our eyes by so-called Western experts. Now, they are claiming Yoga as we know it today arose because of Western influence. Physician Heal Thyself: An Interview with Yogas Michaelle Edwards Historian Mark Singleton has documented in his book Yoga Body, that most of what we know as Hatha yoga is derived from the global fitness culture that emerged in the early 20th century in the wake of the Industrial Revolution. The seated lotus position, bow and cobra can be found in ancient texts from around the 14th century, but many of the standing poses, sun salutations, inversions, arm balances, and bound twists were influenced by Western physicality such as military drills, womens gymnastics and contortionism. Really, do these people have no shame? Historian Mark Singleton has documented Yoga is derived from global fitness culture of early 20th century. Lo and Behold! This conclusively proves to these loony Western historians that the roots of Yoga lie in the West no further discussion is necessary, especially with the Hindus. Such dishonest and shameless turds They are trying hard to digest Yoga and claim it as its own. Filed under Uncategorized 5 Comments

12:26 pm

The Dominance of Angreziyat (English) in Our Education


The Dominance of Angreziyat in Our Education Destroying Minds and Skills: The Dominance of Angreziyat in Our Education By Madhu Kishwar Societies which have put vast amounts of energy and thinking into providing good quality education and opportunities for acquiring diverse skills for their people are today not only prosperous but also well ordered. We seem to have done the very opposite. On the one hand our policy makers have helped destroy through wilful neglect and contempt the vast reservoir of indigenous skills and knowledge systems acquired and nurtured over centuries by our own people. On the other hand they have failed to create a viable system for the acquisition of modern skills and education for all those who are abandoning their traditional occupations. Consequently, it is not just corruption but also sheer incompetence which is leading to a breakdown in our society. The New Colonisers So far the world knows India primarily as a country which has earned the dubious distinction of producing the largest number of illiterate people in the world. In the next 50 years we will also be able to claim that we are among the distinguished few nations of the world which has the largest number of people illiterate in their own mother tongue! By retaining English as the medium of elite education, professions and government functioning, even after being formally freed from colonial rule, we have ensured that the schism that was deliberately created by our colonial rulers between the English-educated elite and the rest of society has grown even further and acquired deadly dimensions. A hundred years ago our intelligentsia, even when it learnt English, still remained rooted in its respective regional languages and mother tongues. Tagore knew English but chose to write in Bengali, thereby nurturing his language as well as the overall intellectual climate of Bengal. Likewise, Mahatma Gandhi could express complex ideas in English more simply, elegantly and effectively than most British. Yet he wrote with even better grace in Gujarati and even Hindustani. However, the greatgrandchildren of our Tagores, Ranades, Premchands and Gandhis are today all writing mostly in English. Worse still, even our scriptures and ancient literary texts are read by our educated elite mainly in English. Consequently, the mental, emotional and intellectual colonisation has proceeded with greater rigour and pace in post-Independence India than during colonial rule. The brown sahibs of the British era spoke English only in office. The brown sahibs of today have let English become their language for love making, talking to their infant children and even scolding their pet dogs! However, this does not mean that they have acquired enough proficiency in the language for it to act as an effective instrument of knowledge aqcuisition and communication. Far from it. Teaching quality is so poor even in our Englishmedium schools that, barring a few exceptional institutions, too many of our students are ill-equipped to make sense of even newspaper reports, leave alone read serious books in English. The few who have a good command over the English language consequently behave and get treated like an imperial race, and the others who cannot are viewed as a sub-human species. The former are largely cut off from the lives, feelings, problems and aspirations of the non-English knowing population. Their aspirations are directed either towards migrating abroad or attempting to create small pockets of affluence for themselves so that while being situated, for example, in New Delhi, they can pretend they are living in New York. In well-functioning societies, the educated elite tend to provide intellectual leadership to the rest of the society. In our case, our colonised intelligentsia is so alienated from its own people that it has made our society resemble a body whose

head has been severed from its torso. However, the head is arrogant enough to pretend it can manage on its own. In reality, both are rotting, the headless body and the bodiless head. This communication gap exists not just between the different strata of society but also within families. The elderly, especially grandparents, have traditionally played an important role in the socialisation of children, giving them sanskars and an initiation into their communitys culture, values and knowledge systems. Todays English-educated children tend to treat their non-English speaking relatives as ignorant and illiterate. Tarzan comics and cartoon films are taken more seriously than grandmothers stories. Thus the future generations of the educated minority may be more information-rich about computers and business opportunities, but will grow up lacking wisdom which can best be imbibed from a close intergenerational interaction. This dual system of education has taken away so many opportunities from the vast mass of our people that the new generation which is being denied good quality English education is going to grow up feeling even more demoralised, incompetent and inferior than the present cohort. In the next few decades, as India integrates more with the global economy, the lifestyles of the Indian elite will become even more alienated from the rest of the people. Since the moneyed elite of today flaunt their opulence more and more before the deprived through television, cinema and even the print media, the anger and rage of those excluded are going to get far more explosive than at present. They will avenge themselves in the Laloo Yadav way through politics. A person who knows no English at all is virtually unemployable except as a peon or labourer. However, he/she can, like Phoolan Devi, become an M.P., or like Yadav, hope to become a Chief Minister and get power and money through politics because he/she cannot hope to get it through education and talent. Deskilling of India The tragedy we have created for our society through this educational policy is of epic proportions. India was not too long ago known the world over for its industrial skills and crafts. Indian steel was world famous and so much in demand that ancient Roman historians are known to have expressed concern that their coffers were getting emptied buying steel swords (and silks) from India. Our architectural tradition created many more wonders than the famous Taj Mahal, the temples of Khajuraho and Konarak, perhaps more than the rest of the world put together. Our weavers produced fabrics which have been the envy of the world for centuries. Our craftsmen produced jewellery, icons and art objects which are unparalleled in beauty of design and exquisite workmanship. Yet none of our engineering colleges would condescend to admit sons of lohars even as students, leave alone teachers, in their metallurgy departments. This, when their practical knowledge, honed through centuries of practising that craft would be far superior to that of our formal degree holders. Why? Because they do not have the English education necessary for studying todays science and technology books. Likewise, our traditional sthapathis who inherited the skills required to design and make architectural wonders like the Jantar Mantar, the beautiful ancient temples, havelis and palaces found in every corner of India that too made with environment-friendly materials have no place in modern colleges of architecture. They have been degraded to the level of masons, mistris and labourers at the lowest rung of our building industry only because they do not have access to English-medium public schools. Similarly, our traditional weavers capable of designing and making fabrics of a spectacular variety, do not find jobs as textile designers and engineers in the modern factories because they could never hope to get the degrees required for those jobs. Our agricultural universities can be blissfully ignorant about the vast knowledge reservoir of our farmers whose produce long staple cotton, varieties of spices and fruits, wheat and rice have eager buyers in the world market. Their knowledge of food storage, soil conservation, use of safe pesticides, biodiversity and medicinal values of plants has hardly any takers in the scientific establishment because they cannot write research papers in English. We learn to value neem and turmeric only when the international scientific community endorses their many wondrous qualities. Thus, by making English education the hallmark of qualification for careers, we have marginalised and impoverished all those who carried the rich legacies of our traditional skills and technologies. We have destroyed the self-respect of the majority of our people, making them feel worthless and despised. All we are giving by way of social justice to a few among these deprived millions is reserving a few thousand government jobs of peons and clerks. The children of these skilled technologists are deserting their inherited

occupation at a rapid speed because they earn pitiful wages in them. The makers of Kanjeevaram sarees would rather have their children get a peons job in a government office. Children of our traditional metallurgists have taken to menial unskilled jobs like rickshaw-pulling and street vending. Those who merely buy and sell gold, make crores of rupees, but a skilled goldsmith, after 20 years of being on the job, even in a city like Delhi, would not be earning more than Rs. 3,500 a month. A bank clerk earns at least four times as much. His only advantage: he has acquired a smattering of the English language. When sons of skilled weavers turn rickshaw-pullers, children of sthapthis become bus drivers, and skilled shipbuilders take to vegetable vending, it amounts to a genocide of skills. Stalin destroyed the economic base of his country by physically exterminating the peasantry in the name of collectivisation. We may not have physically killed our farmers and other skilled groups, but we have, by undermining their skills and knowledge, destroyed their self-respect, marginalised them economically and destroyed their capacity to compete by making English the magic key which opens the doors to opportunity. If we take away the disadvantages that ignorance of English brings with it, our traditional technologists ironsmiths, weavers, carpenters, sthapathis and other metallurgists would fare much better in gaining entrance to scientific and engineering institutions as well as in the world of manufacturing. The Costs of Neglect The entire society is paying for this crime. Our modern architects functioning with borrowed knowledge make unlivable and ugly buildings and homes. Our modern offices need to use artificial lights even in broad daylight in a country where sunshine is abundant. There is no provision for ventilation, with windows sealed for air conditioning in a country where power breakdown is a daily occurrence. All these stupid buildings result from simply copying designs from western books and magazines. Our Ambanis and Singhanias produce fabrics whose designs are either straight copies of western designs or so garish that their own wives would not be seen dead in those sarees. In fact, they are seen proudly wearing the ethnic chic produced by our traditional weavers. It is not a coincidence that only the products of our illiterate or semi-educated, poor artisans have eager buyers in the international market. Indias foreign exchange earnings come primarily from exporting cottage crafts, handloom textiles, traditional jewellery, leather goods, handmade fabrics, spices, raw cotton, mangoes, basmati rice and other farm produce. It is our traditional artisans products which act as reminders that we were once a great civilisation. The famous iron pillar of Qutab Minar in Delhi made centuries ago by our traditional lohars still stands proudly without rusting or corroding. The steel being produced by our modern degree-holders is of such poor standard that even the not too quality-conscious Railway Ministry has alleged that tracks made of SAIL steel crack up and corrode within months of installation, causing numerous rail accidents. Temples and houses made by our traditional sthapathis have withstood the ravages of centuries. Even as ruins, they look aesthetic and grand. The housing colonies designed and constructed by our modern degreeholding architects look like eyesores from the day they are built and start falling apart before they are occupied. The modern sector of our economy is not an earner but a guzzler of foreign exchange. Our industries have become a dead weight on our economy and dare not face international competition. They are either grovelling for government protection or foreign collaborations often both, and yet not able to put their act together. This is the reward our western educated elite get for treating their own people like colonial subjects. There was a time when only the West treated us with derision and contempt. Today, even our Asian neighbours laugh at the pretensions of our educated elite. The Japanese, Chinese and Korean elites may not speak as good English as the products of our Doon School and St. Stephens, but they communicate much better with the world and are more respected in international fora than our self-styled representatives. After all, what do they represent? Grovelling poverty, mass illiteracy, a sickly malnourished population, a rich land turned into one of the worst environmental disasters, an inefficient and corrupt government! And its a callous elite which does not even believe in sharing a language with its own people, leave alone wealth and education. Today, we are merely ridiculed and spurned in international forums, treated as pompous failures and self-righteous beggars. If we continue in the same manner, we will be treated as virtual untouchables by the rest of the world. Our leaders will be put through quarantine before being allowed to attend international meetings for fear that they may be carrying the many deadly disease germs India is so famous for. Today, our educated elite laugh at and express disdain for the likes of Laloo

Yadav, his rustic manners, his dehati accent, his strong-arm tactics, his semiliterate wife brought in as a dummy Chief Minister. If we dont start fixing our education system immediately, we will be saddled only with such tragi-comic figures for our leaders. Our Chidambarams and Jaswant Singhs might as well forget about coming to political power through the electoral route. After all, a man like I. K. Gujral could not win a seat in the parliament on his own strength. He has to be beholden to Laloo Yadav for his present seat and to Akali Dal for winning his previous election. From Clerks to Peons Actually, the problem is not just that the educated elite are divorced and alienated from their countrys people. Our education system is poor even from the point of view of the elite themselves. The British are accused of having introduced a system of education designed primarily to promote an army of clerks, Indian in colour, but English in habits, tastes and values. They at least functioned to a purpose and produced efficient clerks. However, our post-Independence schools and colleges are not even producing clerks, but people whose skills dont qualify them for anything more than a peons job. The following extract from a letter we received from the secretary of an NGO gives an idea of the communication skills of our college educated: Yours consolidary and collaboration may kindly be solution to the [XYZ] Yuvak Sangha. Which works in the filed of education, Adult Education, pre School Health and Family Planing. Forest and Environment to check the Environment polltion, Sport and cultural activities, Social developments, Women development, Youth activities and tribal development etc. For the wide spread functioning of the above said activities. The organisation seeks your concolidation and collboration in the above said activities. If your organisation is going land with hand. Intimation maybe requested to Yours sincerely, XYZ Many of our court judgements similarly sound like total gibberish. The following sample is an extract from a judgement by a sessions judge in a case of child sexual abuse: Besides all these, how it seems to be unnatural that the thing for concealing to which the accused was hiding himself here and there and was frightened in coming home, on call only he came to the house, on coming not before anybody else, except before those persons who were bent upon to punish him immediately and further were furious on him and tried to assault him, and who chould have sent him in jail for the statement givenby him against himself, has confessed before them his offence willingly. In the back ground of this, the accused who is not only literate but is doctor and is living in the present atmosphere, and confession of such offence by him in this manner seems to be unnatural in itself More unnatural to these all is the confession of the offence before his father which he made before his father in presence of five persons stated above. The family of the accused is also the family of the learned persons. On account of the last nights incident they would have not become purturbed rather they had so much time they would have come under the influence of the shock as of the family of Madan Gopal Kakkar and would have thought of the saving themselves, and out of them atleast one would have been who would have not admitted the offence again. In this way the story of confession of the offence by the prosecution by the family of Kakkar and Bhasin family is wholly unnatural, fabricated, and product of legal advice. This could not at all be trusted. One can well imagine what brilliant grasp of law such a linguistic genius would have acquired. This particular judgement, in fact reads as if the honourable judge neither knows nor respects the ABC of law. It is not surprising that he went out of his way to exonerate a medical doctor accused of child rape. Very few of our policemen know how to register an F.I.R. in legible hand leave alone one that is factually accurate and grammatically correct. Their ignorance of the law is frightening though expected. Their low educational skills make it virtually impossible for them to read and understand even bare acts leave alone legal treatises in antiquated Victorian English. But they take no time to pick up those provisions of law which help them fleece money. A linguistic analysis of the petitions filed by our lawyers even at higher levels, leave alone district courts, reads like products of a deranged brain. Here is an extract from an F.I.R. drafted by a Chennai lawyer in a murder case: two members going to received the moneyat the Time of medicine of mind effect and drinking methyl Alcohol for compulsory husband over drinking..This

person Elumalai over drinking and tired staying my house. Again Drinking of Methyl Slcohol for my husband. After my husband wanted meals please take it by Anunchalam. But overtake of again and again attacked the Neg. Suddenly my husand Rolled to Land and earth. Retenched husband again and again attacked. Over attack for snag for my husband placeHusband sounded stoned some place. Ramarajawarming Drinking of person attack for Arunchalam unattack of call to go and Sang removedFive members joined attacked for my husband Head, mouth nose, attacked things of goods for stones. Some place suddenly number of husband My husbands sister Lands of aggiculture lands buying try to Arunchalam. But my husband overtake same Land buying my husband another sisters husband for 9 months. The problem dated warning for my husbands dated 27th April 1993 murder to my husband. The 5 members of speeches of my husband murder to doing ease for you. Also warning for me. My husband murders above 5 members promised. Related persons but deployed for me. Department of police something rupees alloted for received anybody. No action and Responses. Respected Sir, this problem solved for me. The murder of my husband and brother Annamalai warning. Enquired for the problems solved please, Sir, Thanking you[XYZ] Linguistic Cripples I hear similar gibberish even in elite business chambers and ministerial pronouncements. Most of us Indians sound mentally retarded when we propound our ideas in English. We are today becoming a nation of linguistic cripples which is an important reason why the work calibre of our professionals is so shoddy. A person who cannot handle any language competently is unlikely to be able to handle concepts or ideas required to think things through. Most of even our MBBS doctors are so poorly equipped in English that they cannot possibly follow the latest medical information already available in international journals even if they are inclined to access it. Therefore, too many of them practise quackery after having procured medical degrees of doubtful worth. While we are churning out millions of unemployable matriculates, B.A.s and M.A. s, the country is facing a real shortage of skilled electricians, plumbers and a host of such technicians because we are simply not investing any money or energy into this area. Under our traditional occupation-based caste system, every child picked some or the other valuable skill from his parents, a skill which had been developed and perfected through generations. Today, everybody wants to be a white-collar pen pusher because that alone brings status and money. Only those who cannot make it, take to blue-collar occupations, but without the required skills for them. The electrical wirings in our public buildings are a virtual death trap; our water treatment plants are a scandal; our power stations are forever breaking down, our municipal sewage pipes frequently leak into water pipes. Most of those actually operating these services could not spell the word hygiene leave alone know how to provide a clean water supply. The fault is not theirs. The children of our impoverished farmers and artisans learn what they can by simply watching other ill-trained people. Their own educational skills are not such that they can acquire this knowledge through self-study. Our colonial rulers could at least run their exclusive enclaves efficiently and provide functional civic amenities for Civil Lines areas. Our post-Independence elite cannot even ensure clean water supply or regular electricity in the opulent and exclusive New Delhi areas. Frequent tragedies like mid-air collisions of planes, collapse of newly-built bridges, breakouts of fire in public buildings, power breakdowns, dysfunctional telephones and general civic chaos are as much the products of sheer incompetence and inefficiency as they are the offshoots of corruption. Destroying Minds Thus while our policy makers have destroyed the traditional skills of our people, they have denied them good quality modern education and opportunities for acquiring new skills necessary for running todays economies. The sarkari school system meant for the poor is a mockery in the name of education. These schools function mainly to provide naukris for the teachers and a host of babus of various grades who man our education departments and ministries. Consequently, there is very little teaching going on in them today. The little that happens is of such poor quality that anyone who has gone through 11-12 years of that exercise has for all practical purposes become a dysfunctional human being, and is unlikely to be able to think coherently on any subject except those areas of life not touched by school education. To top it all, they acquire contempt for any manual work. A son

of a farmer or lohar who has studied up to matriculation or B.A. is likely to despise his fathers occupation even while he himself is skilled for no other, and therefore, likely to end up adding to the large army of unemployable youth. Among the many very saddening exposures to how our schools are destroying brains, I would like to cite one. While I was on a visit to Vitner village of Maharashtra some years ago, the people there proudly introduced me to a teenage boy as the brightest and most diligent student of that village. I asked him to write an essay on himself and the boy sat down dutifully to do the exercise. After about 45 minutes, he brought a two-page neatly written essay on Mahatma Gandhi. I was puzzled and asked him why he didnt write about himself. Somewhat embarrassed he told me that they had not taught him to write on that topic in school. If this is what our school system is doing to our brightest and most hard-working, we can well imagine the fate of our not-so-bright and less-than-average students. I have been experiencing the products of this devastation year after year in the Delhi University college where I teach. As with that village student, my first assignment to even my B.A. students is an essay on themselves. Most of them (except the few from really well-functioning schools) look as bewildered as that village boy and many simply cannot write more than 6-7 lines that do not go beyond giving the students name, fathers occupation, the area he/she lives in and a couple of other identification points. Their excuse is the same: this topic was never a part of their curriculum. Over the years only a handful have given me something resembling an essay. This was the case even though many of them came from non-sarkari schools. Even our private sector in education functions abysmally because of the very low standards set by government schools. Most of the private schools, especially those that have mushroomed in small towns and villages are worse than teaching shops because, for all the money they charge, they give students very little in return. Brain Drain Nehruvian socialism has wrecked our economy with its policy of nurturing the supposed commanding heights of our economy by exploiting and depressing the farm sector and other segments of the vast unorganised sector. Its counterpart in education was the belief that a handful of institutions like Mayo College and St. Stephens will provide us the talent to run our entire society and economy for one billion people. The result is there for all to see. The few talented people this country produces are desperate to find a foothold in foreign countries largely because they feel threatened and choked by the inefficiency and corruption all around. If we do not begin to put our act together in the field of education, think beyond a few elite schools and colleges, and aspire to high quality secondary level education for every child in this country and opportunities for acquiring real skills, in a few years we will need to start thinking of importing skilled manpower and well-trained professionals to run even our basic services and civil amenities, as well as our universities and colleges, perhaps even our primary schools. Our leaders have given us a sickly legacy of substituting ideology for ideas, using radical rhetoric as a substitute for sensible politics. We, the educated elite, not only swallowed phoney rhetoric avidly but were deeply mesmerised by it as long as it was being mouthed in the correct Oxonian English. Today, when Laloo Yadav or Rabri Devi use similar rhetoric of social justice we feel outraged because they are speaking in dehati tones that we so despise. No democracy can be made to function meaningfully by a tiny informed elite who shut out all information and knowledge from others by speaking, reading and writing in a language no one outside their charmed circle understands. Those who feel convinced that the country cant manage without English should at least have the good sense to ensure that it becomes the language of mass literacy and education, and that there are enough schools and teachers available to provide quality English education to our people. Todays ruling elite may not know how to manage our economy and society, but at least can appear as respectable suited-booted beggars before IMF and the World Bank and do a bit of crisis management. Tomorrows ministers and bureaucrats will not even know how to write a coherent letter to various aid agencies asking to be bailed out. Fifty years from now we might have to hire foreigners to beg on our behalf just as today we hire western professionals to lobby with foreign governments because our diplomats know little diplomacy. Dependent Yet Estranged: My Growing Discomfort with English

This article will look strange coming from someone who earns her living teaching English literature, does most of her writing in English, edits Manushi in English, and could not keep alive its Hindi edition for more than nine years. Closing Hindi Manushi was a source of great grief for me. Its publication had to be suspended because we could neither mobilise enough subscriptions for it nor get good writing to fill up its pages. As long as it survived, the Hindi Manushi lived off the English edition. Most of the articles were translated from the English edition; its printing and related costs were also subsidised from the funds mobilised by the English edition. Had we kept it going longer, it would have killed the English edition as well. However, this set back with the Hindi edition cannot simply be attributed to Manushis failure. The last 15 years have seen the progressive collapse and closure of almost all serious magazines in Hindi Dinman, Dharmyug, Saptahik Hindustan, Sarika, Ravivar and so on. Even a half serious magazine like Vama could not be kept alive by the Hindi world. Many small magazines in Hindi were started, but died prematurely. Today, apart from Hans which is indeed an important and serious literary forum for the Hindi readers, the market is dominated by magazines that cater to the needs of housewives or supply gossip about film stars or semi-pornographic sensation mongering types of glossies. We too could have kept Hindi Manushi going if we had opened our doors to grants from the government or international aid agencies. However, I am convinced that the long-term consequences of taking that route are more harmful, even though in the short run it seems to pay off. Hindi and other regional languages will become vehicles for serious thinking, learning, analysis, higher education and planning only if English is put in its proper place, as a language of communication and understanding developments in different countries of the world, a language for accessing the latest in science and technology. The Chinese, Japanese, Thais, the Koreans and the Germans all use English in that way without becoming slaves of it as we have become. I came to understand the full implications of the great harm being done by the dominating position of English in India as I went through the process of acquiring proficiency in it. For all my English-based education, I find myself a linguistic cripple. Even today, despite years of working in it, writing or even speaking in English does not come easily to me. I make all kinds of silly mistakes and find myself groping for words, unable to fully express my ideas and thoughts in English. I rarely make such mistakes when I write or speak in Hindi or Punjabi. English has not become the language of my dreams, my prayers or even humour. I find it really hard to crack a joke in English. At the same time it has seriously impaired my ability to write in Hindi or my mother tongue, Punjabi because most of the information giving material on important issues as well as literary writings from other languages are available only in English. Hindi and regional languages starve for want of such material. As someone educated in English-medium public schools, I too grew up thinking that the English language opened many new windows to the world, and took for granted a whole range of new opportunities it provided to those of us who acquired some skill in using it. Yet, I was not prepared to downgrade learning Hindi as well as my mother tongue, Punjabi in the way our school system encouraged us to do. For instance, we were given black marks every time any of us was caught speaking in Hindi. I got golden stars for everything else, but persevered in earning occasional black stars for relapsing into Hindi while conversing with friends. This was still the way convent and other elite schools operated, even when the days of Irish nuns were over and we were being taught by South Indian sisters. This discouragement was institutionalised in other ways too. As a school affiliated to the Indian School Certificate system modelled after the British Senior Cambridge exam system, we were offered a choice of lower or higher Hindi on reaching class IX. The lower Hindi course was the obvious choice of all my classmates because it was absurdly easy as though designed to give a smattering of knowledge of Hindi to a foreign tourist. Therefore, it was easy to score high in it for those who had a working knowledge of Hindi. I insisted on opting for higher Hindi even though my school refused to provide me a teacher for the relatively far more difficult course. From class IX to XII, I studied Hindi on my own, and scored very well despite lack of any guidance. Even before this option of lower Hindi was offered to us, I was among the very few in my class perhaps the only one who chose to read serious Hindi literature for pleasure while most of my classmates swooned over Mills and Boon romances or school girl comics. That made one feel somewhat isolated, but I did not think much of it nor aggravated myself over the issue. Till then I saw studying

or reading Hindi a matter of personal choice and did not interpret its downgrading as a serious political issue. In fact, I enjoyed reading English literature as well, and opted for the English Honours course when I joined Miranda House as a B.A student. It was then that I was first jolted into recognising the many harmful effects of the dominance of the English language in our society. Our school had a somewhat homogenous population. Virtually every child came from middle or upper middle-class families, and somewhat similar cultural backgrounds. Therefore, intermixing was easy and smooth. In Miranda House, I experienced for the first time the bringing together of a relatively heterogeneous group of people with enormous differences in their familys income and educational levels, cultural background and social status. We had students from extremely affluent, westernised, high status families brought to study under the same roof with daughters of bus conductors, small shopkeepers, clerks, scooter drivers, low level government employees, and even wealthy merchants. The divide was not merely economic, but also cultural. The symbol of that divide was the English language. It was not enough that you be able to speak and write in English the accent in which you spoke, the slang you used, the kind of school you learnt your English in mattered much more than being a diligent student, just as the neighbourhood you lived in and the social status of your family mattered much more than how you performed in class. The contempt of the English-speaking elite for the Hindi speaking behenjis of Miranda House and their near total refusal to have any interaction with the latter was far more deadly than the inequities of the traditional caste system. These new Brahmins were more arrogant and far less useful for our society. They behaved as though India was a little island off the coast of England. Too many of them were outraged when, as President of the Miranda House Union, I began to address all general body meetings in Hindi and conduct most of the Union business in Hindi. The manner in which English literature was taught and the attitudes sought to be inculcated through it left me thoroughly disgruntled. But since our university system is not flexible enough to allow switching courses mid-way I had to stay stuck. After my B.A, I tried changing to history, but my application was not entertained because I had not studied History up to then. It was only after getting my Masters degree in English that I could secure admission in M.A. History. But in well-functioning universities, even Indian History is taught only in English. Our ancient India expert, an internationally famous historian, was proficient in neither Sanskrit nor any other Indian languages modern or ancient. My job as a teacher of English literature in a Delhi University college has only deepened my conviction that the domination of English is causing enormous damage to the people of our country. It is systematically undermining their selfconfidence. For example, most of my students have very poor skills in the English language; most of them cannot function efficiently in it, leave alone use it as a vehicle of creative thinking. At the same time, they have almost stopped reading anything even vaguely worthwhile in their respective mother tongues because acquiring skills in those languages brings no reward. None of my English honours students this year was even aware of the Tulsi, Balmiki or any other literary versions of the Ramayana though they had seen Ramanand Sagars TV Ramayan. Their knowledge of English literature is confined to reading and mugging up guide books. Not one of them has seen or used a standard literary text. They could not follow those texts without help, even if they tried. If six poems of Donne or Shelley are prescribed in their course, they will never read a seventh even from the guide book. Thus the system has effectively destroyed their intellectual curiosity and undermined their own linguistic and cultural identity. They know only khichri Hinglish. Lack of deep roots in any language has impaired their ability to handle ideas, nuanced thoughts, or even emotional, cultural complexities. Consequently, the thing is put in neat watertight categories of moral vs. immoral, good vs. bad. They have forgotten how to ask serious intellectual questions and, therefore, are not likely to find answers.

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5:19 am

The Bibles Buried Secrets: Did God Have a Wife?


The documentary investigates the shaky foundations of monotheism and how it began by suppressing the truth. I have always wondered why the God of monotheists doesnt allow any women in his house. Filed under Uncategorized Tagged as Early Christianity, God, Wife 6 Comments

4:53 am

Prisoners of a White God


A documentary film about a mountain ethnic group in South East Asia, the Prisoners of a White God tells the story about a researcher, who investigates the activities of christian missionaries and international development among the Akha peoples. Prisoners of a White God received the Grand Prixes at RAFF Film Festival, at Ecofilm Festival, at Festival of the Mountain Films, at Its Up To You Film Festival and the Main Prize at Ekotopfilm in 2008!

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February 14, 2013 2:44 am

Battered Person Syndrome


Battered Person syndrome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battered_person_syndrome The syndrome develops in response to a three-stage cycle found in [] violence situations. First, tension builds in the relationship. Second, the abusive partner releases tension via violence while blaming the victim for having caused the violence. Third, the violent partner makes gestures of contrition. However, the partner does not find solutions to avoid another phase of tension building and release so the cycle repeats. The repetition of the violence despite the abusers attempts to make nice results in the abused partner feeling at fault for not preventing a repeat cycle of violence. However, since the victim is not at fault and the violence is internally driven by the abusers need to control, this self-blame results in feelings of helplessness rather than empowerment. The feeling of being both responsible for and helpless to stop the violence leads in turn to depression and passivity. This learned depression and passivity makes it difficult for the abused partner to marshal the resources and support system needed to leave.[7] Feelings of depression and passivity may also be created by lack of social support outside of the abusive situation.

Describes Gandhis philosophy and behaviour with respect to Muslims very accurately. That is why Hindus must shun it completely it is the path of selfdestruction. Gandhis philosophy is rooted not in any great insight into human nature, but in self-guilt and the fear of the bully.

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February 7, 2013 4:54 pm

Hindus: The Weakest Link in India Chain


Never knew I will see such a strong blog calling a spade a spade on Times of India website. Muslims must be the only people in the world who, wherever they are in a minority, keep threatening the majority with annihilation. An Indian conundrum: A nincompoop Hindu versus an aggressive Muslim Ramesh Khazanchi 05 February 2013, 09:04 PM IST Events as they occur in quick succession beget the generic search to find the least common denominator in the sequence of such an occurrence. So begins the quest to find the weakest link in the chain before it snaps. The recent episodic ban on screening Kamal Haasans film Vishwaroopam in Tamil Nadu theatres; the putative blacklisting of redoubtable author Salman Rushdie at Jaipur and Kolkata litfests; and the war-mongering by Owaisi brothers in Hyderabad, threatening 80 per cent Hindus with decimation by 20 per cent Muslims in a matter of hours if the police were not to intervene, unambiguously point to the least common denominator in the chain of events. That the aggressive Muslim is the least common denominator in the chain of which the Hindu is the weakest link. This very indoctrinated Muslim has been the highest common factor of blood and gore at places such as Kashmir from where they have succeeded in hounding out Hindus, threatening extermination. Like Vande Matram the title Vishwaroopam is per se un-Islamic for the Muslim bigot who loathes the very nomenclature of both words for they are sanskritised in etymology. The bigot fails to comprehend Vishwaroopam (the cosmic beauty) is universal to humankind just as Vande Matram (bow to motherland) is a manifestation of Madre Watan (the Urdu equivalent of motherland). In essence the objection is semantic than substantial. The protests by Islamic protagonists and bolstered by political demagogues under the pretext that the film has an incidental reference to the Quran and portrays Muslims in a bad light is a travesty of justice, to say the least. The portrayal of violence by Islamic zealots on the celluloid is as real as it gets on the ground; why grudge reality when the religious zealots have wreaked havoc on the earth from Kashmir to Kabul, from the far east to the Middle East to Europe, America and Africa? Litfests at Jaipur and Kolkata, declaring Salman Rushdie persona non grata, speak volumes of forsaking the genuine pursuit of the arts, literature and culture for political expediency. The captive Muslim votebank is the mantra to an electoral victory, be it Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Rajasthan or for that matter any state in India. What an irony! Firebrand Mamata Banerjee caters to the Muslim clergy, announcing a handsome wazifa (scholarship) for imams of mosques in West Bengal, ensuring the Ummah (Muslim citizenry) votes en masse for the Trinamool.

On the contrary, the leftist Hindu Bengali always cries wolf when it comes to political alignment with the nationalist Hindus, saying the communal forces must be kept at bay. The state projects the Hindu as an enemy of the nation from within as made expilicit by his Hindu terror remark recently by no less a person than Sushil Kumar Shinde in his official capacity as the countrys home minister, not as a private individual. So it seems the state is on a warpath with the nation. The aggressive Indian Muslim has thus been emboldened by the state to the bizarre yet ominous extent that Hyderabad-based MLA Owaisi makes no bones in threatening on a public platform the mass annihilation of majority Hindus by minority Muslims if the state were to play deaf-mute. Earlier, sundry Muslim politicians from Uttar Pradesh, too, had threatened majority Hindus with dire consequences if the latter dared them. Of late, an all-girl rock band in Kashmir has been handed a fatwa by the valleys grand Mufti a la Saudi Arabian decree, forbiding music as haraam (taboo) under the Sharia. The band has reportedly been disbanded following lifethreatening calls by Kashmiri Muslims to the singer trio. Is Indian Muslim following the footsteps of his aggressive Kashmiri counterpart? Will the meek Hindu Indian meet the fate of Kashmiri Pandits? The answer is not too far to seek. God save the nation if the weakest link in the chain gives way under state patronage.

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February 6, 2013 2:37 pm

Modis Awesome Speech at Delhis SRCC College


This speech was given by him on Feb 6, 2013, to students of Delhis SRCC college. Hear it yourself: Click here for full transcript of the speech. Filed under Uncategorized 28 Comments

February 1, 2013 5:39 am

Business Empire of the Church


An article by a Dalit Christian that exposes the rampant discrimination against converted Dalits in Christianity and shows how the church is nothing but a business empire. Should be an eye-opener for converts to monotheism. Church Should Publish a White Paper on its Business Empire By RL Francis

Catholic and Protestant churches, across the country, are celebrating December 9, 2012, as the Dalit Liberation Sunday. Catholic Bishop Conference of India (CBCI) and National Council for Churches in India (NCCI) have suddenly become worried for their Dalit brothers. Both of these churches work under Vatican and the Geneva-based World Council of Churches. In October month of this year (2012), Catholic Church has organized a congregation under Pope Benedict-XVI, which has advocated for faster evangelization considering the changing scenario of the world. It is under this theme that Indian arms of churches have thrown slogans like Break the barriers Build the world of equality for Dalit brothers. But, the reality is that church has just tried to put old wine in a new bottle. They have demanded to include dalit Christians in the scheduled caste on name of Dalit Liberation Sunday They have criticized Manmohan Singh government to break their promises in this regard. The slogan looks pleasant from the hindsight, but reality lies in stark contrast to the words. When church has not been able to create equitable order for 2.5 to 3.0 crore dalit Christians, how can they do justice to non-Christian dalits? The big question on the entire church organizations is- If after conversion over hundreds of years, their situation is as good as Hindu dalits, then what church has done for them over this long period? Despite 70 percent of total converted Christians coming from dalit framework of Indian society, but their role in the church establishment is almost non-existent. Discrimination is persistently increasing within the church system. Church is trying to shift the blame on Hindu system. Christianity does not believe in discrimination of any kind. This was the main reason our dalit ancestors have opted for this faith. Even Catholic Bishop Conference of India (CBCI), in its resolution passed in 1981, had said that there was no place for caste-based discrimination in Christianity. This is a bad system. The study of father Anthony Raj also proves this fact. Vatican severely criticizes caste based discrimination and untouchability. But, dalit Christians face this at every step. Handful of clergy controls all the resources of church. Through this demand of including dalit Christians in the scheduled castes category, church has played double game. They have successfully diverteed the anger of dalit Christians towards government and secondly, they have time and money to spend on more conversions, which will help them to firm their roots. Welfare of dalit Christians has never been an agenda for the church. They have just been tool for the expansion of the church empire in India. This can be understood through an example. There are 168 Bishops in India but there are just four who come from the dalit community. There are 13,000 diocese priests, onelakh nuns and 5000 brothers in India. However, merely few hundred of them are from the dalit community. Recently, only dalit priest from Delhi Catholic Archdiocese, Father William Premdas Chaudhry, has described the agony of his dalit father in his autobiography, An Unwanted Priest. There is a common feeling that church has highest amount of land after government of India and they have land in the posh colonies. In India, church has some constitutional rights. Regulation must be imposed to control church and their institutions. There are 480 colleges in only Catholic Church, 63 medical colleges, 9500 secondary schools, 4000 high schools, 14000 primary schools, 7500 nursery schools, 500 training schools, 900 technical schools, 263 Professional institutions, six engineering colleges and 3000 hostels, 787 hospitals, 2800 dispensaries and health centres currently being run by Catholic Church. If institutes are being run by Protestants are included, then number reaches to 45 to 50 thousands. Now, my question is, how many deans, teachers, professors and doctors are from dalit Christian community in this huge empire of church? How many of them are doctors in medical hospitals? How many dalit Christians are director of social institutions of church, which gets crores of foreign funds for the welfare of converted Christians. Before celebrating Dalit Liberation Sunday church should answer these questions. Church should tell that how many dlit Christian students gets education in their convent schools? Reality is that church has become business enterprise and now it is being driven by profit motive. If church has guts, they should bring a white paper on the issue. It is a harsh truth that many people wont believe, that condition of Hindu dalits has considerably improved and Christian dalits are now left in this race. Hindu dalits have started Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry to help entrepreneurship among dalits. But, I want to ask why any such model for

development of Christian dalits has not come from church despite having ample resources? I demand instead of ridiculing dalits, they should first create a system which gives them proper rights and justice in the present system. R L Francis

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January 30, 2013 5:38 pm

My Name is Kaul, Not Khan


A nice write-up by Taurn Vijay dating back to 2009. I thought I will post it again in the light of Shahrukh Khans diatribe about how it feels to live in India as a Muslim. These guys are experts are biting the hands that feed them, and they never talk about how they are finishing non-Muslims wherever they get a majority. My name is not Khan, I am Mr Kaul Tarun Vijay 22 December 2009, 08:55 AM IST I am not Khan. My name bears a different set of four letters: K A U L. Kaul. As those who know Indian names would understand I happened to be born in a family which was called Hindu by others. Hence, we were sure, we would never get a friend like KJ to make a movie on our humiliations, and the contemptuous and forced exile from our homeland. Its not fashionable. Its fashionable to get a Khan as a friend and portray his agony and pains and sufferings when he is asked by a US private to take off his shoes and show his socks. Natural and quite justifiable that Khan must feel insulted and enraged. Enough Masala to make a movie. But unfortunately I am a Kaul. I am not a Khan. Hence when my sisters and mothers were raped and killed, when six-year-old Seema was witness to the brutal slaughtering of her brother, mother and father with a butchers knife by a Khan, nobody ever came to make a movie on my agony, pain and anguish, and tears. No KJ would make a movie on Kashmiri Hindus. Because we are not Khans. We are Kauls. When we look at our own selves as Kauls, we also see a macabre dance of leaders who people Parliament. Some of them were really concerned about us. They got the bungalows and acres of greenery and had their portraits were worshipped by the gullible devotees of patriotism. They made reservations in schools and colleges for us. In many many other states. But never did they try that we go back to our homes. They have other priorities and love your jihadi neighborhood programmes. They get flabbier and flabbier with the passing of each year, sit on sacks of sermons; issue instructions to live simply and follow moral principles delivered by ancestors and kept in documents treated with time-tested preservatives. They could play with me because my name is Kaul. And not Mr Khan. I saw the trailer to this fabulous movie, which must do good business at the box office. There was not even a hint that terror is bad and it is worse if it is perpetuated in the name of a religion that means Peace. Peace be upon all its followers and all other the creatures too. So you make a movie on the humiliation of taking off shoes to a foreign police force which has decided not to allow another 9/11. The humiliation of taking off the shoes and the urge to show that you are innocent is really too deep. But what about the humiliation of leaving your home and hearth and the world and the relatives and wife and mother and father? And being forced to live in shabby tents, at the mercy of nincompoop leaders

encashing your misery and bribe-seeking babus? And seeing your daughters growing up too sudden and finding no place to hide your shame? No KJ would ever come forward to make a movie, a telling, spine-chilling narration on the celluloid, of five-year-old Seema, who saw her parents and brother being slaughtered by a butchers knife in Doda. Because her dad was not Mr Khan. He was one Mr Kaul. Sorry, Mr Kaul and your entire ilk. I cant help you. Its not fashionable to side with those who are Kauls. And Rainas. And Bhatts. Dismissively called KPs. KPs means Kashmiri Pandits. They are a bunch of communalists. They were the agents of one Mr Jagmohan who planned their exodus so that Khans can be blamed falsely. In fact, a movie can be made on how these KPs conspired their own exile to give a bad name to the loving and affectionate Khan brothers of the valley. To voice the woes of Kauls is sinful. The right course to get counted in the lists of the Prime Ministers banquets and the Presidents parties is to announce from the roof top: hey, men and ladies, I am Mr Khan. The biggest apartheid the state observes is to exclude those who cry for Kauls, wear the colours of Ayodhya, love the wisdom of the civilisational heritage, dare to assert as Hindus in a land which is known as Hindustan too and struggle to live with dignity as Kauls. They are out and exiled. You can see any list of honours and invites to summits and late-evening gala parties to toast a new brand. All that the Kauls are allowed is a space at Jantar Mantar: shout, weep and go back to your tents after a tiring demonstration. Mr Kaul, you have got a wrong name. A dozen KJs would fly to take you atop the glory posts and gardens of sympathies if you accept to wear a Khan name and love a Sunita, Pranita, Komal or a Kamini. Well, here you have a sweetheart in Mandira. That goes well with the story. And you pegged the movie plot on autism. I wept. It was too much. I wept as a father of a son who needed a story as an Indian. Who cares for his autistic son, his relationship with the western world, his love affair with a young sweet something as a human, as someone whose heart goes beyond being a Hindu, a Muslim or a proselytizing Vatican-centric aggressive soul. Not the one who would declare in newspaper interviews: I think I am an ambassador for Islam. Shah Rukh is Shah Rukh, not because he is an ambassador for Islam. If that was true, he could have found a room in Deoband. Fine enough. But he became a heartthrob and a famousl star because he is a great actor. He owes everything he has to Indians and not just to Muslims. We love him not because he is some Mr Khan. We love him because he has portrayed the dreams, aspirations, pains, anguish and ups and downs of our daily life. As an Indian. As one of us. If he wants to use our goodwill and love for strengthening his image as an ambassador for Islam, will we have to think to put up an ambassador for Hindus? That, at least to me, would be unacceptable because I trust everyone: a Khan or a Kaul or a Singh or a Victor. Who represents India represents us all too, including Hindus. My best ambassadorship would be an ambassadorship for the tricolour and not for anything else because I see my Ram and Dharma in that. I dont think even an Amitabh or a Hritik would ever think in terms Shah Rukh has chosen for himself. But shouldnt these big, tall, successful Indians who wear Hindu names make a movie on why Kauls were ousted? Why Godhra occurred in the first place? Why nobody, yes, not a single Muslim, comes forward to take up the cause of the exiled and killed and contemptuously marginalized Kauls whereas every Muslim complainant would have essentially a Hindu advocate to take on Hindus as fiercely as he can? If you are Mr Khan and found dead on the railway tracks, the entire nation would be shaken. And he was also a Rizwan. May be just a coincidence that our Mr Khan in the movie is also a Rizwan. Rizwans death saw the police commissioner punished and cover stories written by missionary writers. But if you are a Sharma or a Kaul and happened to love an Ameena Yusuf in Srinagar, you would soon find your corpse inside the police thana and NONE, not even a small-time local paper would find it worthwhile to waste a column on you. No police constable would be asked to explain how a wrongly detained person was found dead in police custody? Because the lover found dead inside a police thana was not Mr Khan. No KJ would ever come forward to make a movie on My name is Kaul. And I am terror-

struck by Khans. Give me back my identity as an Indian, Mr. Khan and I would have no problem even wearing your name and appreciating the tender love of an autistic son.

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January 26, 2013 5:37 am

Monotheists spreading peace


Muslim monotheists in Kolkata trying to spread peace a few days ago in response to Kamal Hasans movie Vishwaroopam. Bengali Hindus are soon going to be cured of their secularism.

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January 24, 2013 4:30 pm

Modi and NDA ahead in the election race


Some good news finally of people being totally fed up of the Islamist-ChristianMarxist cabal that is currently ruling India and calling Hindus as terrorists.

UPA-2 popularity depletes fast; Modi leaves Rahul far behind as desired PM, finds India Today survey This might deal a blow to the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) as it comes nearly a year before the country goes to election, but the current regime has been on the downhill of its popularity and the slope is only getting steeper for the government. Be it the ever relevant issues of corruption and inflation or a host of social issues, particularly womens safety, the UPA-2 has failed to meet peoples expectations miserably, findings of India Today-Nielsens latest biannual opinion poll Mood of the Nation suggest. Modi versus Rahul The survey found that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has become more popular over the last six months, even as Rahul Gandhi emerged as a strong candidate within the Congress for prime ministers post. Even as their respective parties have repeatedly refused to draw a comparison between the two, India Today asked people whom they wanted to see as prime minister the Gandhi scion or the Gujarat BJP heavyweight. The outcome was not surprising. As many as 57 per cent people spoke in favour of Modi, while only 41 per cent supported Gandhi, who was recently elevated as the second-in-command of the Congress by occupying the position of vice-president. To a question on Gandhi as Congresss prime ministerial candidate, as many as 52 per cent said yes, while 36 per cent respondents said no. In a similar question for Modi as the BJPs candidate, 54 per cent were in his favour and 26 per cent against. Manmohans report card The Manmohan Singh government failed to meet peoples expectations on almost all the key issues the nation talked about in the last six months. Ironically, the UPA-2 regime saw politicians (58 per cent) being declared more corrupt than police (24 per cent). Asked about the prime ministers performance in last three years, 39 per cent people rated it as average, 27 per cent as poor and 26 per cent as good. The overall performance of the government stood a little better with 42 per cent people giving it average rating, followed by 27 per cent poor and only 23 per cent as good. The governments economic reforms got a big thumb down with 49 per cent people saying they were not satisfied, while 37 per cent people found it satisfactory. As many as 40 per cent people did not welcome governments decision to increase the FDI limit in multi-brand retail. NDA versus UPA Despite periodic infighting within the BJP as well as the NDA, they gained at the cost of the UPA. However, the UPAs loss did not seem to be transforming into complete gain for the NDA alone as others shared the benefit significantly. The latest survey gives NDA 203 seats out of 543 as against its actual 2009 Lok Sabha election result of 159. The UPA tally dropped from 259 to 157 during the same period, while others shot to 183 from 125. Vote percentage-wise, however, the NDA did not gain much as compared to 2009 results. The survey indicated its gain at just 1.6 per cent to be at around 27 per cent. UPA finished ahead of NDA at around 28 per cent, a fall of 7.7 per cent from 2009. Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/india-today-mood-of-thenation-syrvey/1/247462.html

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January 23, 2013 4:12 pm

How Monotheists Brainwash


Monotheism is gutter ideology that no right thinking man will fall for. So monotheists have come up with very sophisticated brainwashing techniques to take away the thinking capabilities of people and make them do their bidding. Communists, Christians and Muslims all use the same scientific technique of brainwashing to convert. Here it is: Liftons Brainwashing Processes Robert Jay Lifton was one of the early psychologists to study brainwashing and mind control. He called the method used thought reform. From an analysis of two French priests who had been subjected to brainwashing, he identified the following processes used on them: Assault on identity Aspects of self-identity are systematically attacked. For example the priests were told that they were not real Fathers. This has a serious destabilizing effect as people lose a sense of who they are. Losing the self also leads to weakening of beliefs and values, which are then easier to change. Guilt Constant arguments that cast the person as guilty of any kind of wrong-doing leads them to eventually feel shame about most things and even feel that they deserve punishment. This is another piece of the jigsaw puzzle of breakdown. Self-betrayal When the person is forced to denounce friends and family, it both destroys their sense of identity and reinforces feelings of guilt. This helps to separates them from their past, building the ground for a new personality to be built. Breaking point The constant assault on identity, guilt and self-betrayal eventually leads to them breaking down, much as the manner of the nervous breakdown that people experience for other reasons. They may cry inconsolably, have convulsive fits and fall into deep depression. Psychologically, they may effectively be losing a sense of who they are and hence fearing total annihilation of the self. Leniency Just at the point when the person is fearing annihilation of the self, they are offered a small kindness, a brief respite from the assault on their identity, a cigarette or a drink. In those moments of light amongst the darkness, they may well feel a deep sense of gratitude, even though it is their torturer who is offering the kindness. This is another form of Hurt and Rescue, albeit extreme. The compulsion to confess Having being pulled back from the edge of breakdown, they are then faced with the contrast of the hurt of potential further identity assault against the rescue of leniency. They may also feel the obligation of exchange in a need to repay the kindness of leniency. There also may be exposed to them the opportunity to assuage themselves of their guilt through confession. The channeling of Guilt The overwhelming sense of guilty and shame that the person is feeling will be so confused by the multiple accusations and assaults on their identity, that the person will lose the sense of what, specifically, they are guilty of, and just feel the heavy burden of being wrong. This confusion allows the captors to redirect the guilt towards what ever they please, which will typically be having lived a life of wrong and bad action due to living under an ideology which itself is wrong and bad. Re-education: Logical Dishonoring The notion that the root cause of their guilt is an externally imposed ideology is a straw at which the confused and exhausted person grasps. If they were taught

wrongly, then it is their teachers and the ideology that is more at fault. Thus to assuage their guilt, further confession about all acts under the ideology are brought out. By mentally throwing away these acts (in the act of confession) they also are now completing the act of rejecting the whole ideology. Progress and Harmony The rejection of the old ideology leaves a vacuum into which the new ideology can be introduced. As the antithesis of the old ideology, it forms a perfect attraction point as the person flees the old in search of a contrasting replacement. This progress is accelerated as the new ideology is portrayed as harmonious and ideally suited to the persons needs. Collegiality and calm replaces pain and punishment. The captors thus contrast in visible and visceral ways how wonderful the new ideology is as compared to the sins and the pain of the old ideology. Final Confession and Rebirth Faced with the stark contrast of the pain of the past with the rosy glow of the future that the new ideology presents, the person sheds any the final allegiance to the old ideology, confessing any remaining deep secrets, and takes on the full mantle of the new ideology. This often feels, and has been described by many, as a form of rebirth. It may be accompanied by rites of passage as the person is accepted and cemented into the new order. The rituals will typically include strong statements made by the person about accepting the new ideology fully and completely, swearing allegiance to its leaders. Saluting flags, kissing other artefacts and other symbolic acts, all solemnly performed, all anchor them firmly in the new ground. When you see monotheists brainwashing someone to gain control over his mind, remember the above. Filed under Uncategorized Tagged as conversions 21 Comments

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Afghan parliament upholds right to marry children Afghanistans parliament has rejected a measure that would have barred men from marrying girls younger than 16, saying the proposal ran counter to Islamic ideology. The measure also would have banned baad, [the] traditional practice of buying or selling women to settle disputes, and outlawed criminal charges being imposed on rape victims, Breitbart reported. Rape victims in Afghanistan often are charged with fornication or adultery. President Hamid Karzai reportedly supported the measures, but opponents said they violate[d] Islamic principles, Breitbart reported.

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Can those Hindu traitors be identified who ordered this operation to ensnare an innocent Hindu religious woman so that they could get Muslim votes to rule over the Hindus? Sadhvi Pragya and the Malegaon mess Vicky Nanjappa Is the Malegaon 2006 blast case doomed? It started off with the Maharashtra ATS arresting several Muslim youth claiming that they were behind this attack and over the years the theory changed and a new set of accused comprising Hindus came into the fray. There was so much hoopla around the arrest of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur who was named as one of the main accused in the case. However what is surprising is that her name does not even figure in the chargesheet which has been filed by the National Investigation Agency which took over the case from the Maharashtra ATS. Sources tell rediff.com that there was not enough evidence on hand to file a chargesheet against Sadhvi Pragya Singh and even if they were to file a supplementary chargesheet her name may not figure in it. The question now is whether Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur will walk free after spending so many years in jail despite her health condition deteriorating. Her legal team says that it is a good sign that her name does not figure in the Malegaon 2006 chargesheet and they see this as a positive. It becomes clear that allegations against were thrown in the heat of the movement and when it finally came to closing the case there was not enough evidence against her. Read More

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New Delhi : National Investigation Agency or NIA is likely to file a supplementary chargesheet in 2006 Malegaon blasts naming Aseemanand and Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur. The chargesheet filed yesterday in a Mumbai court did not name the two. NIA sources told NDTV that although the two right wing leaders do not figure in the first chargesheet it should not be read as a clean chit to either of them.12 accused, including Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit and Aseemanand are already in jail for a blast that occurred in Malegaon, a communally-sensitive town in Nashik district of Maharashtra, in 2008. Aseemanand is also facing charges in the 2007 blast in Hyderabads Mecca Masjid.The NIA had on Wednesday filed a chargesheet against four people who were arrested in connection with the 2006 blasts. Lokesh Sharma, Dhan Singh, Rajendra Chaudhary and Manohar Narwaria were arrested in December last year. The current chargesheet deals with the operational aspect. The decision to file the chargesheets against the four accused arrested in December was taken to prevent them from getting out on mandatory bail, the sources added. According to the existing law, a suspect is entitled to bail automatically if formal charges are not pressed.Aseemanand and others cannot walk out on bail yet since there are several cases against them. We will in all probability file a supplementary chargesheet in this case as well, the sources confirm to NDTV.The chargesheet also does not name the nine Muslim youth who were arrested for the 06 blasts, seven of whom were granted bail only in November 2011. ( Read more )The blasts it says was a revenge attack planned by the four men from Indore, for attacks on Hindu temples and Shramjeevi Express. The multiple bomb explosions in Malegaon had occurred near a mosque on September 8, 2006, killing 37 people and injuring over 100. Reply 2.

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Ohh. She is so beautiful. She can give Katrina Kaif a run for her money. I feel sorry for her. Reply
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June 12, 2013 at 3:19 pm

Katrina Kaif is mixed breed. I like fatima b more! Reply

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June 12, 2013 at 3:44 pm

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Sorry, I only look at a human being as just another human being. Not his race, not his religion, not his caste. By the way can you name one person in this world who is not a mixed breed? Mixing is going on for thousands of years. Reply 3.

Vineet

June 12, 2013 at 8:27 am

Imagine what would have happened if a Maulvi or a Padre was imprisoned for 6-7 years without any evidence. Where are the Women right groups. We hindus are to be blamed for not taking to streets for this. The society that does not respect its women is doomed. the society that cann Reply 4.

Cynical
June 12, 2013 at 9:28 am

You are right. We shoud blame hindus. Reply


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June 12, 2013 at 3:21 pm

Actually Brahmins are responsible for all this mess. Lower caste hindus are just like Muslims and Christians. Reply

Cynical
June 12, 2013 at 3:58 pm

Not only Brahmins. Ashrafs are no better. Ask anyone who is a Ajlaf or a Arzal or a Ansari. Reply

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June 12, 2013 at 5:34 pm

What about non-believers? Reply

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June 13, 2013 at 7:25 am

Dear Sarfaraz, The much maligned Brahmin this side. The stories of Brahmins being overly oppressive is figment of imagination of Communist/Nehruvian/Secularist historians to break hindu society since lower castes form the bulk. For your kind information, Portugese when then entered Goa, had banished, killed Brahmins so as to break the knowledge base of the society and the fact that Brahmins were respected by one and all. Yes social evils would have crept in Brahmins as well over a period of time but still they were respected in this society. If any figures or facts are asked for the historian jokers categories listed above and add to that Kancha will give astronomical useless numbers without any basis. I would blame my creed of Brahmins in not being voiciforous enough against Nehruvianism brand of Secularism in India. Conversion to communism by a lot of Brahmins in greed of plum postings have made it worse. Hindus whether lower or higher caste can never be like monotheists because no Hindu says my God is right and yours is wrong. It is a pity that in India, thanks to joker historians, which included a few Commie Brahmins as well, Islamic invaders who killed hindus in name of religion, Christians too did the same are known as secular and those who raise voice against it, backed by facts are called Communal. No wonder growth of such social scenario of unlearned, corrupt, ones with no morals ruling the country were mentioned as pointers for Kalyug. Nehru/Gandhi took out the fight from Hindu society, they made us more sedate. Far more sedate than that is required. Too much of non-violence is bad. And here the hindu society has failed which has emboldened monotheists to say things. Reply 5.

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I will admit being a Congi paid troll, if you admit that you are a Bajrangi paid troll. No problem. Reply 6.

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Here is something for your light reading: 100 amazing & unknown facts! # Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our nose and ears never stop growing. # The Barbie dolls full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. # The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. # Ants never sleep! # When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less. # Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his wife or mother because they were both deaf. # An ostrichs eye is bigger than its brain. # I Am is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. # Babies are born without knee caps actually, theyre made of cartilage and the bone hardens between the ages of 2 and 6 years. # Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted. # Butterflies taste with their feet. # A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. # It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. # Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. # Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit. # No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. # Shakespeare invented the words assassination and bump. # Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. # Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. # The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. # The sentence, The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog uses every letter in the English language. # The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. # The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. # The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. # Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand. # TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. # You cant kill yourself by holding your breath. # Money isnt made out of paper. Its made out of cotton. # Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself. # The dot over the letter i is called a tittle.

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# A ducks quack doesnt echo. No one knows why! # The spot on the 7-Up comes from its inventor who had red eyes he was an albino. 7 was because the original containers were 7 ounces and UP indicated the direction of the bubbles. # Chocolate can kill dogs, as it contains theobromine, which affects their heart and nervous system. # Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster. # There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: abstemious and facetious. # If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. # Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow film down so you could see his moves. # The original name for butterfly was flutterby. # By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand. # Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed. # Charlie Chaplin once won the third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. # Sherlock Holmes NEVER said Elementary, my dear Watson. # The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries. # Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. # The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is feedback. # All Polar bears are left-handed. # In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. # Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters mt. # Almonds are a member of the peach family, and apples belong to the rose family. # Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. # The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. # In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10 # Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. # Alfred Nobel, in whose name the Nobel prizes are instituted, was the inventor of dynamite. # The planet Venus does not tilt, so consequently, it has no seasons. It is the only planet that rotates clock-wise. # Honey is the only food that doesnt spoil. # The word set has more definitions than any other word in the English language. # Molecularly speaking, water is actually much drier than sand. # Human tonsils can bounce higher than a rubber ball of similar weight and size, but only for the first 30 minutes after theyve been removed. # US President John F. Kennedy was an accomplished ventriloquist. # Coca-Cola was originally green. # Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake. # Contrary to popular belief, the white is not the healthiest part of an egg. Its actually the shell. # Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine. # Hot water will turn into ice faster then cold water. # Rhythm is the longest English word without a vowel. # Like fingerprints, every persons tongue print is different. # No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times. # The tongue is the only muscle that is attached from one end only. # Pumice is the only rock that floats in water. # Camels milk does not curdle. # Your foot is the same length as your forearm, and your thumb is the same length as your nose. Also, the length of your lips is the same as the index finger. # Natural pearls melt in vinegar. # Buttermilk does not contain any butter. # The human brain is 80% water. # Mens shirts have the buttons on the right while womens shirts have the buttons on the left. # Human fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails. # The Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt holds a constant temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit. # The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma. # Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age. # It takes approximately 2 million flowers for a bee to make 1 pound of honey. # Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water. # It is physically impossible to urinate and give blood at the same time. # The letter J does not appear anywhere in the periodic table of the elements. # The right lung of a human is larger than the left one. This is because of the space and placement of the heart. # Watermelons, which are 92% water, originated from the Kalahari Desert in Africa. # The hair of some cancer patients treated with chemotherapy can grow back in a different colour, and sometimes even be curly or straight. # The markings that are found on dice are called pips. # 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 # The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. # Leonardo Da Vinci never signed or dated his most famous painting, the Mona Lisa. # The ampersand (&) was the last letter of the Latin alphabet. # The palms of your hands and the soles of your feet cannot tan, or grow hair. # Dolphins can swim and sleep at the same time, as they sleep with one eye open.

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# Each nostril of a human being registers smell in a different way. Those by the right nostril are more pleasant than the left. # The longest single-syllable word in the English language is screeched. # The word Checkmate in chess comes from the Persian phrase Shah-Mat, which means the king is dead. # Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades King David, Clubs Alexander the Great, Hearts Charlemagne, and Diamonds Julius Caesar. # In Gullivers Travels, Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered! # If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

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331 Responses to 100 amazing & unknown facts!


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avishek bhattacharya
May 12, 2013 at 12:11 pm

river,together rhymes with silver.But there it is given silver does not rhyme with anything. Reply
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Shashwat Markan
May 13, 2013 at 10:59 am

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Anonymous

May 26, 2013 at 9:37 am

no river would have to be rilver for it to match but Wilber rhymes!!lol -_-

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Shashwat Markan
May 13, 2013 at 10:58 am

These facts are totally awesome and I like it very much. It is intresting and also increases knowledge. Reply
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Ankit Dolui

June 12, 2013 at 11:49 am

its INTERESTING AND NOT INTRESTING Reply 3.

ojas

May 13, 2013 at 1:58 pm

These facts are really too good Reply 4.

Akshay j thomas
May 13, 2013 at 4:04 pm

Superrrrrrrrrr. Reply 5.

sai teja

May 15, 2013 at 3:09 pm

these are the sources of knowledge and also Reply 6.

Aikansh

May 16, 2013 at 10:11 am

but the shortest complete sentence in english language is GO and not I AM! Reply
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Indian Realist

May 21, 2013 at 2:27 am

A sentence is a set of words that is complete in itself, typically containing a subject and predicate. By definition, a sentence cannot be made up of a single word. Reply

Anonymous

May 22, 2013 at 4:25 pm

In the sentence Go., the subject is the (assumed) word you. Reply

james!

May 27, 2013 at 5:41 pm

how about, I DO? Reply 7.

Rochak
May 19, 2013 at 4:45 pm

Your site is very good for all and me. I visit first time your site. These all facts is very interesting. Reply 8.

Jayanta das

May 21, 2013 at 6:37 am

superb and knowledgeable collection.. its fine. I like it very much.. Reply 9.

Bagga Singh

May 22, 2013 at 9:57 am

awesome Reply 10.

Anonymous

May 22, 2013 at 3:47 pm

Most of these are great. Some of them are wrong, though. No. is a complete sentence. Butterfly was not originally flutterby. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly#Etymology

Water is not drier than sand. There may be others. These are just the ones I spotted without doing any research. Reply
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Louise Donovan
May 22, 2013 at 4:15 pm

using Wikipedia as a source for an argument will not get you any credibility Reply
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Tony

May 24, 2013 at 6:03 pm

No is not a sentence,at least not in english becasue it has no pronoun to make it a sentence. as the I in I am, is a complete senctence Reply 11.

Leo

May 22, 2013 at 3:59 pm

Perpetuity is as long as Typewriter and can also be written on one row of the keyboard. Reply 12.

Anonymous

May 22, 2013 at 4:16 pm

# The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. not north america nor south america Reply 13.

Anonymous

May 22, 2013 at 4:20 pm

The Ampersand was not the last character in the Latin Alphabet, it was Omega Reply 14.

Caity

May 22, 2013 at 4:56 pm

# The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with (N)orth Americ(A) (S)outh Americ(A)

Nope. Reply
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Anonymous

June 11, 2013 at 10:10 am

they mean just america Reply 15.

Roger

May 22, 2013 at 5:27 pm

The length of time of a Jiffy depends on context, and scissors were not invented by leonardo da vinci. Reply
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muskaan gupta

May 26, 2013 at 12:28 pm

these are totaly faboulous Reply

Ankit Dolui

June 12, 2013 at 11:54 am

TOTALY or TOTALLY Reply 16.

Hvbairagi

May 24, 2013 at 7:20 pm

Education does also have all five vowels Reply


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Anonymous

June 7, 2013 at 11:06 pm

but there not in order Reply 17.

Sudhanshu Ranjan
May 27, 2013 at 3:03 am

very goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood Reply 18.

harry
May 27, 2013 at 5:07 pm

i have seen these facts and i m glad 2 know about them . these r been an extra ordinary facts. Reply 19.

Anonymous

May 28, 2013 at 5:22 am

wowwwwww amzing fact i lyk itttt. Reply 20.

Anonymous

May 28, 2013 at 8:48 am

timepass Reply 21.

Anonymous
May 30, 2013 at 6:55 pm

purple poop Reply 22.

harikrishna

June 2, 2013 at 10:20 am

if u r doing something first of all make sure that it is wrong or write,,,,,,,,,, any way it is too good .. thank you. Reply 23.

Zmuqtar
June 2, 2013 at 1:51 pm

Nce info..

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RD

June 3, 2013 at 5:02 pm

Get Known About the FASCINATING FACTS In The World Only @ http://www.worldwidefacts.in Reply 25.

Anonymous

June 5, 2013 at 3:36 pm

Ducks sound has echo proved by nat geo with experiment Reply 26.

sambhavi
June 7, 2013 at 11:23 am

please uplode right information Reply 27.

sakshi
June 7, 2013 at 11:27 am

fully boring and stupid all known and copied in classmate notebooks Reply 28.

Kisu
June 8, 2013 at 2:43 pm

Dis facts r 2 gud really gud Reply 29.

HEROJ SAHU

June 10, 2013 at 1:23 pm

Very needy Reply 30.

Anonymous

June 11, 2013 at 3:54 am

I EXPECT EVEN MORE Reply 31.

AARTI

June 11, 2013 at 4:39 pm

You said that ,LETTER J DOES NOT APPEAR ANYWHERE IN THE PERIODIC TABLE OF ELEMENTS. ButQ is also dont appear in the periodic table of elements. Reply 32.

Ajax

June 11, 2013 at 6:12 pm

great knowledged me lot Reply 33.

Ajax

June 11, 2013 at 6:13 pm

great knowledged me lot,.. Reply 34.

punam

June 12, 2013 at 11:33 am

Greatthese are amazing Reply 35.

Ankit Dolui

June 12, 2013 at 11:44 am

I really like them Reply 36.

Anonymous

June 12, 2013 at 1:23 pm

Hard facts sai hai boss !!!

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Ajith

June 12, 2013 at 5:13 pm

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