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Akhilesh Yadav abuses journalist, AajTak plays it down

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Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav crassly abused an Aaj Tak journalist after he was asked some routine questions yesterday, while the 3rd phase of polling was underway in the UP assembly elections. This was revealed by Aaj Tak anchor Anjana Om Kashyap and two senior journalists Javed Ansari and Sharat Pradhan, during a live election show from Lucknow.

Mainstream media likes to believe that it is better than our politicians, and they are the ones fearlessly guarding our republic against the foul-mouthed, venal political class. Hence, in the normal run of things, if a politician were to abuse a journalist, you would expect media to go hammer and tongs at the offending politician. However, in the clip above, one can see the senior journalists going easy on Akhilesh Yadav’s atrocious behavior and actually offering excuses for him!

They offer various explanations for the abusive language used by the 43-year-old ‘youth’ icon Akhilesh – “this is just election-related tension, frustration; he has been backstabbed by his uncle; he is rattled by the tough electoral contest, especially in the stronghold of the Yadav clan – central UP; this is not his normal behavior for Akhilesh, said Ansari …he is under tremendous pressure; he has been the most cool & composed in all his rallies, but this phase seems to have shaken him;”

This sort of overt bias towards perceived ‘secular’ forces and corresponding hate for ‘communal’ Hinduvadis is nothing new for AajTak or the India Today group. Incidentally, the same Javed Ansari who defends Akhilesh here, during a 2013 India Today conclave had angrily asked then Gujarat CM Modi why he had never expressed ‘regret’ for the 2002 riots.

Going by reliable sources on twitter, the expletive hurled by Akhilesh (which AajTak anchor Anjana Om Kashyap said cannot be quoted on TV) was “गां** मैं बैंस घुसेड़ दूंगा” (I will stick a bamboo in your a**). It seems that Akhilesh has learnt the language from senior ‘secular’ politician Mamta Banerjee who in 2014 had threatened BJP President Amit Shah with pechone baansh (bamboo up the backside) if he dared to visit West Bengal.

It goes without saying that if any BJP leader  had used similar language, the media would have been all over him like a rash and blown his/her public image to smithereens. In fact, BJP leaders have been lynched on national TV for far-far less – remember Vinay Katiyar who was berated endlessly for an innocuous comment on Priyanka Vadra? But ‘secular’ netas like Akhilesh enjoy great leeway with our media – in fact, the entire left-liberal mainstream media cabal is rooting for the Akhilesh-Rahul Gandhi combine in the hope that they will derail the Modi phenomenon, first in UP and subsequently in the rest of Bharat in 2019.

This is not the first demonstration of the reality that lurks behind the suave, cultured public mask that has been carefully constructed for Akhilesh Yadav by a fawning media. In this video from a few months back, Akhilesh can be seen menacingly snatching the mike away from his septuagenarian father.

In 2014, when a lady journalist had questioned Akhilesh over the rising graph of crimes against women in his state, he angrily retorted, “I hope you have not faced any danger!”

The ugly truth of Bharatiya politics is that almost every young dynast on the scene today is a petulant, entitled, below average, rootless individual – Akhilesh Yadav, Rahul Gandhi, Tejashwi Yadav (Lalu’s son) being symbols of this deep malaise in our body politic.

While every detail of Modi’s life is minutely scrutinised – are his visits to his mother just image-building exercises? why doesn’t Modi keep his mother and the rest of his family with him in the luxury of Delhi? why are Modi and his wife separated? – the left-secular politicians like Yadav clan of SP, Lalu’s dynasty, and the Nehru-Gandhi clan are all given a free pass.

Lets just take a look at the brazen cheering by leading media owners and senior journalists for Akhilesh Yadav – a man who has delivered the worst Government from a law & order standpoint that UP has seen in the last 2 decades. Even recurring murders of journalists in UP in the last few years did not draw any words of condemnation from these media icons –

While Modi was grilled & demonized for over a decade due to his alleged silence on the 2002 riots, Akhilesh Yadav is praised to the skies for building one highway in a 5-year term, overlooking the rapes, multiple riots, lawlessness, nepotism and lack of employment opportunities under his rule.

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Interview with Shilpa Nair – #ReadyToWait campaigner

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#ReadyToWait campaign leader

#ReadyToWait is a campaign initiated by a group of women devotees from Bharat, explaining their willingness to respect the traditions regarding entry to the renowned Sabarimala temple located in the state of Kerala. It started as a social media campaign, but soon it went viral and garnered support from various sections of people.

Shilpa Nair, who is currently the president of “People For Dharma”, is a Malayali entrepreneur based in Dubai. She is the Managing Director and CEO of Blue Bird Packaging Industries LLC. She is also a person who has tasted success in the field of arts, being a trained classical vocalist and dancer. Hindupost got the chance of interacting with her about the #ReadyToWait campaign and issues around it.

Smt. Shilpa Nair, who is leading the #ReadyToWait campaign

Q. When did you decide to launch the #ReadyToWait campaign? How did it start?

A: We started this campaign when a national TV news channel aired a debate asking for the entry of women in Sabarimala with the hashtag #RightToPray following the verdict of Bombay High Court allowing women to enter the Sanctum Sanctorum of Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai. We felt that comparing these traditions is like comparing apples and oranges, for both are different worship systems stemming from totally different concepts of the divine.

Also, the traditional practice in Sabarimala does not ban women from entry totally but only restricts women belonging to a particular age group. This mistake was not only done by the ones opposing the tradition in that debate, but also ones like Rahul Easwar who supported it by distorting the history of Ayyappa using the characters like Vavar, Veluthachchan etc.

Hence we felt that instead of expecting others to protect our traditions, we women devotees who respect and act as per the wishes of our Lord must make our voices heard, and so we started this campaign by posting a photo with a placard saying “ReadyToWait” in the social media explaining the reason for our stand to respect the tradition followed at the temple.

Q. Why did the campaign receive support from women of different political affiliations?

A: Well, no one, irrespective of their political affiliations, will like to see their Lord being insulted with words like misogynist. Also, the common feeling was that the customs of the native civilization should only be left to the devotees of the temple. They didn’t like someone who was probably hearing about Sabarimala and Ayyappa for the first time addressing their Lord as misogynist and asking for the ban of a practice which has its roots in shaastraas and has been followed since time immemorial. The cultural attack here is directed towards the feelings of the devotees of Ayyappa who are not bound to any single political affiliation, and hence when we people described our stand, devotees of Ayyappa started supporting us leaving aside their political differences.

Q. Why do you think the age restriction is present in the Sabarimala temple, and why do you stand for continuing the tradition?

A: Deities in most temples are represented using different concepts. The tradition in Sabarimala is purely based on the fact that Shasta (Lord Ayyappa) of Sabarimala is in the form of a `Kumara’ observing Brahmacharya. One must understand here that Sabarimala Ayyappa is different from other Ayyappa temples. To understand this better, we must look at some of the other associated Shasta temples in the region. Sabarimala is the most prominent of these temples and Ayyappa is worshipped there as Dharma Shasta. But what is interesting is that the deity is the same in three other temples as well – in Kulathupuzha, Aryankavu, and Achankovil.

However, in these three temples, Dharma Shasta is in three different forms, namely Bala (child) in Kulathupuzha, Bharyasametha (with wife) in Achankovil and Tapasa (sanyasi) in Aryankavu. The four shrines are related to each other, but in only one of them is Ayyappa is Naishtika Brahmachari. These four temples denote the four stages of human life – childhood, years as student when one is expected to practice brahmacharya, family and ascetic. These four shrines have to be observed collectively to get the complete picture on Ayyappa. What many overlook is that, except in Sabarimala, where Ayyappa is in his `Brahmachari’ phase, there is no restriction on entry of women in the other three temples or in any other Ayyappa temple around the globe.

The reason behind the restriction on the entry of women of a particular age group into the Sabarimala temple is simple. Pilgrims to Sabarimala are expected to observe strict `Vrata’ of 41 days. It is called ‘Mandala Vrata’. For a woman, this may not be possible as her menstrual cycle, repeats every month and interferes with Vrata. Since, Ayyappa at Sabarimala is a Naishtika Brahmachari, the energy in the temple may create an imbalance in the natural creative energy present in women of reproductive age, if they are repeatedly exposed to those energies over long period. This may in turn prevent grihasta women from effectively doing their duties. Hence, only those who are yet to attain puberty or those who have already reached menopause undertake the pilgrimage.

Q. There is a notion that educated women should be rebellious to old practices, but the women in #ReadyToWait are urban, educated women. Don’t you see a paradox here?

A: No. Educated women must be rebellious to practices which suppress women and deny them their fundamental rights leading to discrimination. But the traditional practice followed here is more about preserving the diversity on which our Sanathana Dharma is based. Just because certain women, who don’t have knowledge about such exclusive traditions prevailing in temples of Kerala, ask for the end of such practices in order to maintain uniformity, we can’t leave our exclusive rights given to us by our Dharma.

The Chakkulaththukkavu Bhagavathy temple has “Naari pooja” performed in which women in large numbers exclusively participate every year. So should women advocate for the banning of such traditions where they are respected and celebrated? Any woman who has complete knowledge about such traditions existing in Kerala temples will not ask for the end of traditional practices where they enjoy special rights, just like men, without any discrimination.

Q. You have joined the Sabarimala case in the Supreme Court. Tell us more about it.

A: Once our online campaign became a hit with women devotees from different parts of the country showing their support, we decided to move forward and enter the case in order to make our voices heard in the Supreme Court. As a part of this process, we, the founders of the campaign, formed a registered society named “People For Dharma” in Chennai through our friends there, along with a few of our supporters. Argument Counsel Sri. Sai Deepak came forward to represent us in the Supreme Court and with his help we filed our application of intervention through Advocate on Record Sri. Suvidutt Sundaram.

We have mentioned in our petition that the devotees of Lord Ayyappa are the more important stakeholders in the debate over faith and not the atheist and agnostic feminists who through their “Happy To Bleed” and “Right To Pray” campaigns are preaching about the non-existing discrimination against women, and are fighting the case in the Supreme Court seeking the entry of women aged between 10 to 50 years in the temple.

Q. What is your advice to the Hindu community about resisting the undue interventions on the matters of religion by the secular state?

A: Today we Hindus are subjected to severe discriminations wherein only our places of worship in temples experience the intervention of the government. But this act of the government, as interpreted by many, is not constitutional and hence we have decided to enter this case currently running in the Supreme Court, for we believe in the constitution which treats everyone equally.

I would like to ask my fellow Hindus that if you feel that you are being subjected to discrimination, instead of waiting for someone to end it, we must act on our own through various means currently available to us. The secular state must act secular, and any act of discrimination against a particular community or its places of worship must be immediately questioned by the people who are attached to it.

Q. Did you face any opposition in standing firmly for culture and traditions?

A: Yes. We did face some harsh criticisms from many so called feminists who are also established intellectuals. Failing to oppose us with facts, some of them resorted to casteist slurs, where Nair caste was insulted with cartoons. The huge support garnered by this campaign was least expected by the intellectuals, who perceive established norms of modernity and progressiveness as the way forward for Hindu Dharma. Their frustration made them indulge in personal slanders. However, we don’t wish to engage with any naysayers because we have our faith in our Dharma and will move forward with our Karma.

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Discrimination against Bharatiyas in the Caribbean

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Immigrants from Bharat in the 19th century celebrating their culture in West Indies through dance and music

Dr. Kumar Mahabir presented a research paper on the marginalisation and exclusion of Bharatiyas by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC – www.cxc.org) in the CSEC and CAPE History and Literature syllabi.

His presentation was made at the “Conference on Inclusive Education: Achieving Education for All” at the University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, on February 15, 2017.  The conference was organised by the School of Education of the UWI  and Potsdam University in New York.

Mahabir is an Assistant Professor in the Centre for Education Programmes at the Corinth campus of the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT).

In his presentation, Mahabir argued that Bharatiyas in the Caribbean constitute about one and a half million persons in the English-speaking Caribbean. They constitute about half of the population in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and Suriname, and form the largest minority in Jamaica, St Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenada.

Using content analysis and Paulo Freire’s theoretical framework, his presentation examined the extent Bharatiyas, and their indentured forebears, have been excluded in Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) CSEC and CAPE History and Literature syllabi.

Mahabir said that in its mandate to pursue socially-just educational practices, The United Nations (UNESCO), the World Forum in Dakar, and the World Conference on Education for All in Thailand, have recommended that minority ethnic groups should not be disadvantaged in receiving an education as well as in being excluded in the content of the curriculum.

The discrimination against people of Bharatiya origin seems to be endemic in the Caribbean. Last year, Dr. Mahabir had shown how the Trinidad & Tobago culture ministry was excluding Hindu cultural events.

Culture Ministry’s exclusion of Bharatiya cultural events

The Ministry of Community Development, Culture and the Arts of Trinidad and Tobago placed a full-page, full-colour advertisement in the daily newspapers (e.g. Guardian June 14, 2016. Page A43). A similar version of the notice was posted on the Ministry’s website. The advertisement was captioned “Our Calendar of Arts, Culture and Community Events” for June, 2016.

The dates included events organized by the Emancipation Support Committee (Annual Yoruba Village Drum Festival, Launch of the Kwame Ture Memorial Lecture Series), Renaissance Productions – G2G (Gospel Concerts), Culture Division (Two Choices: A play by Victor Questel, 3 Band Gallery Hop), The Art Society of Trinidad and Tobago (Mad Hatters Tea Party) and The Faith Christian Fellowship Church (Children’s Free Concert).

The Ministry’s June cultural calendar included seventeen (17) events organised by seven (7) organisations.

Missing in the calendar for the same month of June were the following major Indo-Trinidadian (Bharatiya) cultural events:

  1. June 5: BVS Annual Mela [Fair] 2016 in Aranguez. Organised by Bharatiya Vidya Sansthhaan (BVS) [Institute of Indian Knowledge]
  1. June 11: Kumar Sanu Concert at the Centre of Excellence. Organised by TANK Sound Co.
  1. June 11-12: Baal Vikaas in St. Augustine – The largest school music festival in Trinidad and Tobago. Organised by the Maha Sabha
  1. June 12: Devi Bhajan Mala [Garland of Hymns] at the Divali Nagar. Organised by Trinidad & Tobago Yatra Committee Inc.
  1. June 18: Enchanted – Ravi B’s Fathers’ Day Spectacular in New Grant. Organised by Karma: The Band
  1. June 18: 5th Annual Fathers’ Day Concert in Chaguanas led by Raymond Ramnarine and Dil-e-Nadan. Organised by Missy & R Promotions
  1. June 19: Ganga Dhaara in Marianne River, Blanchissusse Kendra – The continuation of an ancient river festival venerating the sanctity of natural water. Organised by the Hindu Prachaar Kendra
  1. June 19: Yoga on the Boardwalk in Chaguaramas in commemoration of the UN’s declaration of International Yoga Day. Organised mainly by the High Commission of India.
  1. June 26: Krishna Leela Dance Drama Procession in Caroni reverence to Surya Narayaan [The Supreme Sun]. Organised by Caroni Hindu Mandir.
  1. June 26-27: Summer Thumakda Cooler Cruise led by Kavita Maharaj. Organised by Casanova Productions
  1. June 30: Launch of the documentary film, Calcutta to the Caribbean – An Indian Journey, at UWI. Organised by the High Commission of India & UWI’s Film Programme Department.

The omission of eleven (11) major Indo-Trinidadian cultural events is a damning exposé of the narrow conscience/ness of the Ministry of Community Development, Culture and the Arts. The revelation opens a can of worms about the practices and policies of the Ministry. The failure to recognise these events is also an indication that the Ministry is not likely to provide funding to them. The disclosure in the calendar raises a number of critical questions. For example, is there ethnic equity in the top hierarchy of the Ministry’s staff?

Also absent in the June calendar were several Indian Arrival Day celebrations held just after the national holiday on May 30th. The calendar also announced: “Throughout the month of June: The Prime Minister’s Best Village Trophy Competition.”

Not a single Bharatiya-oriented cultural event was included in the Ministry’s cultural calendar. This form of ethnic discrimination can be the discussion of an entire chapter in view of the fact that Indo-Trinidadians comprise the largest ethnic group in the cosmopolitan society (35%, 2011 CSO data).

Writing on “Indian News and Views” (Guardian June 15, 2016), cultural critic Dr. Raymond Ramcharitar stated: “… between 1956 and 1986, Indians fell off the national map. If you look through the newspapers of the 1960s, you’ll barely see a sign of the community. You will see a list of rhetoric about steelpan and nationalism, and Carnival and Black Power.”

It is significant to note that the current Afro-dominated governing People’s National Movement (PNM) came into power in 1956, and was defeated in 1986 by the NAR party. It seems that the more things change, the more they remain the same, or even get worse.

Dr Kumar Mahabir, Anthropologist
Chairman, Indo-Caribbean Cultural Centre Co. Ltd (ICC)
10 Swami Avenue, Don Miguel Road
San Juan, Trinidad and Tobago

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Assault on Kerala Hindus – Part 2

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In our previous post, we looked at historical assaults on Kerala Hindus by Abrahamists and left-liberals. We also established the fact that the culture and heritage of Kerala is purely Dharmic since it’s earliest recorded period.  In this post, we shall look at present day assaults on Hindu culture of Kerala.

First of all, how many know that muslims have been opposing the statue of Thunchathu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan, who is better known as father of modern Malayalam, in his own birthplace? On similar lines, the statue of Adi Shankara in a university named after him in his own birthplace has been opposed by leftist-communists on ‘secular’ grounds. Further, Kerala government has been interfering in usage of elephants in Kerala temples.

The elephants are a fundamental part of Kerala temple festivals and rituals. This tradition goes back at least 2000 years. In Sangam age coins we can see images of elephants with riders on top holding Srivatsa icon representing Lakshmi or Vishnu. This is very similar to modern day processions in Kerala temples were Utsava Murthi or image of deity used for outside is taken atop of elephants for circumambulation. So restricting elephants would mean restricting ancient tradition of Hindu temple festivals and rituals as well.

Around 2000 years old Sangam age Chera coin with image of elephant riders with Srivatsa symbol atop. Detailed sketch and description below. From the book titled Sangam age Tamil coins by R. Krishnamurthy
Modern temple procession with elephants. Source : http://chemmanattappan.blogspot.in/

Similarly, Kerala government also supported entry of ladies into Sabarimala temple, by destroying the Brahmacharya tradition of the temple. If these are not enough, the wealth of Hindu temples has been stolen many times. Let us take the example of the theft of invaluable treasure from the famous Padmanabhaswamy temple

Also, a Sanskrit film on Unnayi Variyar, a 17th century poet and dramatist, was rejected by Kerala State Chalachitra Academy for International Film Festival of Kerala.

So Hindus are being attacked in Kerala from all sides. Within coming decades, we will all probably see more such attacks while the Hindus are in declining stage. Very soon, Kerala shall face similar fate of Kashmir. Already around 21 muslims from Kerala have joined the Islamic state jihadists. Earlier, some muslims from Kerala were found to be involved in recruitment of Lashkar-e-taiba jihadists in Kashmir.

Having said that the history and heritage of Kerala is Hindu, the decline of Hindus in Kerala would mean the decline of Kerala’s own indigenous tradition as well.

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Pakistani Hindus lose daughters to forced Muslim marriages

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Forcibly converted, Anila Dhawan, who is Hindu, with her father outside the court house in Hyderabad after being freed.(Photo: Courtesy of Ramesh Gupta)

Anila Dhawan, 17, was kidnapped last spring from her home in Hyderabad, forced to convert to Islam and marry her abductor.

The police refused to intervene. Her kidnapper told them she ran away from home, and converted to Islam and married him voluntarily. But after her family pressured a court to intervene, she told judges the truth and they freed her.

Forcibly converted, Anila Dhawan, who is Hindu, with her father outside the court house in Hyderabad after being freed.(Photo: Courtesy of Ramesh Gupta)

“Her life was threatened,” her attorney, Ramesh Gupta, said. “She wanted to go back to her parents and the statement (she made to the court) helped to sway the decision in her favor and she was freed to join her family.”

Anila is one of many Pakistani Hindu girls kidnapped because of religious discrimination in a country that is 98% Muslim.

Every year, Muslim men abduct and forcibly convert about 1,000 girls — mostly Hindus, but also Christians, according to the South Asia Partnership-Pakistan, a local human rights group. About 5,000 Pakistani Hindus leave every year for neighboring Bharat — where 80% are Hindus — to escape religious persecution, according to the Pakistan Hindu Council.

Legislation banning such conversions for those under age 18 was passed unanimously late last year by the legislature in the southern province of Sindh, where the Kohlis live, but it never went into effect.

Hard-line Islamic groups objected to the measure, which called for up to five years in jail for those who force a conversion. They threatened protests, arguing the law was anti-Islamic and part of a conspiracy to make Pakistan a secular country.

“We will not remain silent on this controversial law,” said Hafiz Saeed, a leader of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, a self-described charity that the United States has labeled a terrorist group.

The measure was vetoed in January by Sindh Gov. Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddiqui, who died a few days later. The legislative defeat was a major setback for human rights in Pakistan, activists say.

“The problem of conversions is real,” said Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, a mewmber of the Pakistan Hindu Council and parliament. “We are not against the conversion of religion as a result of research or preaching. But why are only underage Hindu girls in Sindh changing religion?”

For example, Ameri Kashi Kohli’s 14-year-old daughter was abducted from her home in southern Pakistan one night last summer as she slept.

The Hindu farm worker was aghast when she discovered what actually happened to her daughter soon after. “She had been converted to Islam and became the second wife of our landlord,” Kohli said. Her landlord falsely claimed the teen was compensation for a $1,000 debt the family owed him.

Making it even worse, the police refused to help. “They just said forget your daughter, she has converted,” Kohle explained. They said “my daughter Jeevti is now known as Fatima.”

Some say the defeat of the bill shows definitively that religious hardliners have too much power in the country.

“Government after government, military and civilian, have caved in to pressure from the extremists,” said Farahnaz Ispahani, a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., who specializes in Pakistan’s minorities. “It is imperative for the government to stand by the people it represents. The bill to stop enforced conversion must be passed unaltered.”

She said Muslim leaders oppose extending new protections to Pakistanis who belong to religious minorities, especially women.

“Muslims in Pakistan will never treat Hindus as their own,” said Meera Bai, a Pakistani Hindu immigrant in New Delhi. “For them, we will always remain the ‘other.’”

Meera Bai, a Pakistani Hindu immigrant in New Delhi, says “Muslims in Pakistan will never treat Hindus as their own.” (Photo: Naila Inayat)

“We escaped religious and cultural persecution when we came to India,” she added. “We are happy here. At least here we know that no one will steal our cattle or our young daughters.”

As for Kohli, she says her daughter is lost. Soon after the abduction, the landlord produced an affidavit from the teen stating she purposefully ran away, converted and married, something her parents say she was forced to write. She’s not allowed to meet with her family or friends, according to her husband’s rules.

Kohli said her daughter’s plight underscores the uncertain future that Hindus face in Pakistan.

“There (are) many Fatimas in this country,” Kohli said. “But does this country have place for a Jeevti?”

(Source URL: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/02/15/pakistani-hindus-lose-daughters-forced-muslim-marriages/97013614/)

HinduPost Comment

The world is waking up to the harsh reality of life in Islamic Republic of Pakistan for hapless minorities like Hindus, Sikhs and others. HinduPost has earlier covered the entire gamut of atrocities meted out to Pakistani Hindus, and the scale of the institutionalized discrimination that they are subjected to.

Yet, our left-liberals continue to peddle lies and some actually claim that condition of minorities in Bharat is worse than the situation in Pakistan! This piece by extreme-left ideologue Shivam Vij, talks about a ‘Pakistani Hindu friend’ of his who he claims told him that ‘Pakistani Hindus are better off than Indian Muslims’. Self-proclaimed ‘secularists’ like Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyer and senior journalist Shekhar Gupta continue to preach a policy of appeasing Pakistan.

Our Pakistan-loving Bollywood crowd (Shahrukh, Anushka Sharma, Mahesh Bhatt, Naseeruddin Shah etc) maintains a stoic silence about the pathetic state of Pakistani Hindus – all they care about is the ‘love & affection’ showered on their movies in form of box-office collections, & the great reception they receive when visiting film festivals in posh areas of Karachi.

The gross human rights violation of minorities in Pakistan is reason enough for Bharat to snap all ties with that country, even if one were to forget the Pakistan-sponsored terror that has ravaged every part of Bharat.

Steve Bannon, the World and US

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It wouldn’t be misplaced to remark that other than Donald Trump, the current president of United States of America, the other person most talked about in his staff is White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.

Bannon earlier used to head Breitbart News before joining Trump’s presidential campaign and now his administration. While FOX news ostensibly sticks to the Right side of the political spectrum, Breitbart News can be said to be actually sticking to the ideology more strongly, with more clarity about its purposes and aims.

It is all but apparent that Bannon has a strong influence on policy matters in the current administration and while it is but natural for the Left to heap scorn on Trump and Bannon, we must analyse the ideological underpinnings of Bannon’s worldview and what it could mean for us.

Expectedly, leftist mainstream media has begun scaremongering and preparing opinion to thwart Bannon. As far as I see, this will not only be ineffective but also counterproductive because they’re giving free publicity and wide dissemination through established media to the ideologies influencing Bannon.

Those who voted Trump would only like to see their reasons reaffirmed, and the opponents don’t have the brains to digest the matter; those who do might be won over.

Analyzing Bannon, I realized why the Left dreads him the most amongst those in the Trump administration. The man is sharp, smart, highly intelligent and articulate, has a clarity of purpose and an ideology guiding him. They don’t mind a cleanup of governance, plugging of leaks, some taps running dry. They’re afraid that governance will have an ideological basis as long as Bannon is there. Trickle down economics may have not worked, but an ideological basis at the top does trickle down into the masses over time. This would, of course, scare the Left. 

The Left is ideologically fragile. Strong men have left the Left. It is now a den of sleazy despots deriving power through control of media and academia and financial controlling of the ecosystems.
A few strong men well versed in ideology and with a clear vision is all it takes to detox the system. In Bannon and his team, they see the detox of the system and very likely, the populace.

A lot of reporting has been done on Bannon. Many pieces have been written with his quotes and snippets, but this is one piece which provides most coherent reporting of Bannon’s worldview – it is a link to a conference which was hosted in Vatican where Steve Bannon comprehensively articulated his worldview about US and the world.

Two things should strike us about this. First, I think, sensing the undercurrent of nationalist movements, the Vatican has decided to throw its weight behind nationalist movements. Which is why after hearing all the views in that conference – which included sworn globalists, liberals and leftists as well – they let BREXIT happen, and then most evangelical votes went to Trump. He won Ohio by a mile!

The second thing is, Bannon correctly identified neo-liberalism as being a carbon copy of precepts of Marxism except that instead of ‘state’, it is state plus the oligarchy which controls the system. This oligarchy comes in various forms: entrenched lobbies in political factions, corporate houses and their various nexuses.

In the real world, the neo–liberal strand is a combination of corporatism and Ayn Rand’s Objectivism.
This means that while the Left dreads Bannon, the established networks on the Right don’t like him very much either, because Bannon represents the strand of thought which calls for detox from all the entrenched lobbies. Many of the so-called elements of the Right feel threatened by this, a sort of existential threat, which would explain their near unanimous reticence in endorsing Trump during his campaign.

Now, given what Bannon believes to be the right epoch for humanity, i.e. the “Enlightenment Era”, we can say we may be looking at an increase in US imperialist tendencies, even though Bannon has repeatedly talked against the old treaties and globalist factions. What Bannon recognizes is there can be only one imperial, either the white West or Islam. But owing to the underlying monotheistic/Abrahamic framework of the West itself, after they defeat Islam they will hardly want to let go of colonialism.

The Abrahamic framework positions the ruler as an owner rather than a nurturer. Which means there is no organic alliance between the ruler and the ruled, and they can only be brought together against a common enemy. A second characteristic of this framework is that it must exist as a monopoly, which has been described as Western Universalism by various authors, something which I agree with. So we may expect US to help Bharat, but they will be looking at every chance to sabotage us.

I wouldn’t trust Trump’s appreciation of Modi or Hindus to have much effect on US policy regarding Bharat. Ultimately State Department and CIA will find Bannon’s approach more aligned to their current goals and situation, than whatever Trump may have thought. But in the near term we can expect State Dept and US popular culture to be rapidly cleansed of the Clinton faction and Clinton promoted SJW’s (social justice warriors), equality warriors, ‘gender is fluid’ and the like rhetoric.

We will see a strengthened effort to send a deluge of Xmas, Thanksgiving and Halloween culture our way. It helps them gain control, not only of the mindspace and a foothold, but also earns them a financial windfall.

“That centre-right revolt is really a global revolt. I think you’re going to see it in Latin America, I think you’re going to see it in Asia, I think you’ve already seen it in India.”

Perhaps that’s the reason why the US State Dept. let Mrs. Gandhi cool her heels in 2014, although UPA was more to their liking. But they will try their best to get UPA back in reckoning for 2019. This should be in our minds while we deal with the new administration.

“Because at the end of the day, Putin and his cronies are really a kleptocracy, than an imperialist power that want to expand.”

Very cleverly, Bannon does not mention that the Alt-Right west is imbued with the same imperialist tendencies; since he couldn’t bring himself to say in response to a question, that to completely defeat Islam they will have to lose themselves as well, as in go beyond their own monotheistic underpinnings.

One essential difference between Trump administration and our current administration is the sort of ideological clarity provided by Bannon which is in line with their civilizational ethos. We lack a clear and overt ideological basis and bias still, and need a coherent civilizational voice and perspective in policy making role in the administration.

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Calendar Praising Kashmiri Terrorists Distributed Among AMU Students

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Calendar hailing Kashmiri terrorists like Burhani Wani and Afzal Guru, distributed among AMU students. Courtesy: uttarpradesh.org

Calendar celebrating Kashmiri Islamist terrorists distributed in premier Muslim University – no big deal. Calendar featuring PM Modi instead of Mahatma Gandhi issued by an obscure Government organization – WAR. That, ladies and gentlemen, is the moral compass of our mainstream media and Lutyens’ elites.

After the mountain out of a mole hill ‘controversy’ over PM Modi appearing in the annual KVIC calendar (probably an act of an over-eager bureaucrat), comes news of another calendar – one featuring Kashmiri Islamist terrorists such as Burhan Wani and Afzal Guru – which was distributed among students of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).

Calendar hailing Kashmiri terrorists like Burhani Wani and Afzal Guru, distributed among AMU students. Courtesy: uttarpradesh.org

As per regional news portal uttarpradesh.org, this calendar was recently distributed among students of AMU and features Kashmiri terrorists like Burhan Wani, Afzal Guru, Maqbool Bhatt and separatist leaders like Masarat Alam, besides others.

The portal claims that both State and Central authorities are aware of this dangerous development, but while central intelligence agencies have already shared an interim report with Home Ministry, UP State Government and police are downplaying the incident. UP anti-terrorist squad chief Asim Arun (IG IPS) was unreachable for comment.

Reality check on ‘progressive’ AMU

AMU is the premier Muslim minority institution in Bharat, along with Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi. It is touted as the fountainhead of progressive, modern, enlightened Muslim thinking in the country. Originally established by Syed Ahmad Khan as Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College in 1875, it later became Aligarh Muslim University in 1920. AMU’s motto is ‘allam al-insān-a mā lam yaʻlam’ – Taught man what he knew not (Qur’an 96:5).

While Syed Ahmad Khan is known as an Islamic reformist and promoter of Western-style scientific education, what is less well known is that it was he who coined the two-nation theory influencing Allama Iqbal & Jinnah. AMU was one of the main factors that led to the communal Partition of Bharat. All through his life, Syed Ahmed Khan extended unflinching support to the British invaders against those struggling for the reestablishment of indigenous rule. He tried to inculcate in the minds of the Muslims the feeling that they constituted a distinct superior nation, and stridently opposed the ‘Hindu’ Congress. He once claimed that “Urdu was the language of gentry and Hindi that of the vulgar.” His educational and political work was centred around and exclusively for Muslim interests.

While fearful of the loss of Muslim political power owing to the community’s backwardness, Syed Ahmed was also averse to the prospect of democratic self-government, which would give control of government to the Hindu-majority population.

The Muslim supremacist streak still persists in AMU, which despite being funded entirely by taxpayers’ money still desires a ‘minority’ tag. Even the original stress on developing scientific temper has given way to rising influence of Islamism, as this article by noted analyst Tufail Ahmed shows –

“Its (AMU’s) negligible role in scientific innovation, original research in social sciences, or excellence in other fields reflects the following: a comprehensive failure to recruit and promote meritorious teachers, lack of progressive culture and free thinking among students, inability to promote a culture of debate and questioning on campus, and the like. In that sense, AMU mirrors the wider Muslim society. 

In India and abroad, it is understood that universities should be administered by academics who better understand their needs. However, it seems that Muslim societies have a predilection for Islamism and authoritarianism, factors evident in the governance of leading minority institutions like the AMU and the Jamia Millia Islamia of Delhi. Regionalism, feudalism and Islamism are undermining north Indian Muslim educational institutions, combined with a failure in the voluntary education sector. P K Abdul Aziz, a southerner from Kerala [state of India] who did not speak Urdu and did not bend to the pulls of the feudal, Islamist and regional lobbies of north Indians on the AMU campus, was accused of being an enemy of Urdu and forced to quit as VC.

AMU vice chancellor retired Lt Gen Zameer Uddin Shah pledged to turn the university into an “intellectual powerhouse” but Shah has recently shunned the path of setting up expert committees to recruit academics. Instead, he has misused emergency powers to appoint professors, notably in the departments of West Asian studies, English and electronics engineering—one of them being a retired major general with no teaching experience in West Asian studies, another an Islamist ideologue with no research experience in English and a third from the Tablighi Jamaat with no degree in electronics. Shah, a former deputy chief of Indian Army, has relied on recruiting retired military officials to key offices, notably Brig Syed Ahmad Ali as pro-VC, Gr. Captain Shahrukh Shamshad as registrar and another as an intermediate college principal.“

In a recent article ‘Is Aligarh Muslim University, once again, leading a campaign for Partition of India?’, Tufail Ahmed shows how AMU is once again at the forefront of Islam-based advocacy by demanding reservation for Muslims in order to eradicate their “social and educational backwardness.” That such sectarian demands are emanating from the likes of AMU pro-vice chancellor Brigadier (retd) Syed Ahmad Ali, who served 35 years in the Indian Army, is doubly worrying.

Incidentally, AMU vice chancellor Lt Gen (retd) Zameer Uddin Shah is the brother of noted Bollywood actor Naseeruddin Shah who believes that India ‘bullies’ Pakistan and that ‘Indians are being brainwashed into believing Pakistan to be the enemy.’

The reason that institutions like AMU & ‘liberal’ Muslims like the Shah brothers escape critical questioning is because in the politically correct ‘secular’ world, raising such questions is tantamount to hate-mongering and stereotyping of Muslims. So Hindus are told to dig their heads in the sand, and let the AMU mindset breed in its silo.

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Christian Activist John Dayal is lying about Arunachal’s Hindu Heritage

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The Congress allegation that “BJP is trying to convert Arunachal Pradesh into a Hindu state” has triggered a much-needed debate and brought into sharp focus the destruction of indigenous cultures and religions in the North East of Bharat.

Union Minister of State for Home Affairs and MP from Arunachal Pradesh, Kiren Rijiju, rebuked the Congress and tweeted that “Hindu population is reducing in India because Hindus never convert people. Minorities in India are flourishing unlike some countries around.” Predictably, this tweet kicked off a major ‘controversy’ for mainstream media. During one such debate on a TV news channel, Dr. John Dayal, a controversial Christian political activist and Secretary-General of the All India Christian Council, claimed that “In 1911, there were no Hindus in Arunachal Pradesh.”

Demographic Change in Arunachal

Before we see whether Dayal’s statement is true or not, it will be useful to understand the demographic changes afoot in Arunachal and other North Eastern States. Does the Congress allegation about a BJP ‘conspiracy’ to make Arunachal a Hindu state, carry any weight?

Lets refer to the detailed analysis of the Census 2011 data produced by Dr. J.K. Bajaj of the Centre for Policy Studies. This is an excerpt from his analysis of the census figures for Arunachal –

“Arunachal Pradesh constitutes one of the main stories of the Religion Data of Census 2011; in the course of the last decade of 2001-11, the proportion of Christians in the population of the State has risen from less than 19 to more than 30 percent, and they now form a majority or near majority of the population in several districts. The share of Christians in the Scheduled Tribes population of the State and the districts is even higher.

Arunachal Pradesh, unlike other hill States of the northeast, had escaped widespread Christianisation until 1981 and, to a large extent, even until 1991. Christian presence in the State began to acquire serious proportions in 2001; the Religion Data of Census 2011 indicates that the State is now well on its way towards nearly complete Christianisation of the Schedule Tribes population as it happened within the first decade or two of Independence in Nagaland, Mizoram and Manipur and, to a significant extent, in Meghalaya.”

Arunachal population since 1971 census; Source: cpsindia.org

According to the 2011 census, Christianity is now the state’s largest religion. Christians – bulk of them Roman Catholics – account for 30.26% of the state’s 1.3 million people. Hindus were pushed to the second spot at 29.04%, while ORP (Other Religious Persuasion) i.e. the indigenous faiths such as Donyi-Polo and Rangfra were at 26.2%. In a span of just 40 years, Christian population in Arunachal has witnessed an astounding growth from 0.79% in 1971 to 30.26% in 2011!

Arunachal was the third Indian state after Odisha (1967) and Madhya Pradesh (1968) to enact an anti-conversion law. The Arunachal Pradesh freedom of religion act of 1978 was aimed primarily at checking Christian proselytization. The Arunachal anti-conversion law, unlike in the other states, has been ineffective because its rules have not been framed. There is speculation that the BJP government led by Pema Khandu (a Buddhist) might frame the rules to check missionary activities.

Arunachal politics has been dominated by Congress. Nabam Tuki, a Roman Catholic, led the last Congress Government for close to 5 years. In Jan 2016, the Tuki government was dismissed after 30 Congress MLAs defected to regional party People’s Party of Arunachal – after a long political crisis, most of these MLAs joined BJP and at present there is a BJP Government in power in the state under Pema Khandu.

Missionaries had a field day in Arunachal during Congress rule, especially under Sonia Gandhi & Tuki, and their preference for a Congress Government can be gauged by this article “Church Flourishes in India’s ‘Land of Rising Sun’” which appeared in 2012 in a Christian website, National Catholic Register.

To summarize, the same Congress which enabled the dramatic rise of Christianity in Arunachal Pradesh in the 1981-2016 period, today accuses the 1 month old BJP Government of trying to Hinduize the state! And no one in media is calling out this utter hypocrisy.

Were there really no Hindus in Arunachal in 1911?

The claim that Arunachal Pradesh has no Hindu past is a bare-faced lie by John Dayal, and this was proved in a series of tweets by @TrueIndology –

https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/831350401983197186

Edward Gait was an administrator in the Indian Civil Service who rose to serve as Lieutenant-Governor of the Bihar and Orissa Province in the Bengal Presidency of British India.

Activists like John Dayal are the front of evangelical missionary organizations working with the single-minded goal of spreading the ‘Kingdom of Christ’ across Bharat. They know how to manipulate the media & political system in Bharat, and have perfected the art of carrying out their Western-funded soul-harvesting work under the guise of human rights and social justice.

This in a nutshell is how the proselytization game is played by John Dayal and co – (1) Depict the Hindu masses, especially Dalits, as constant victims of oppression by Brahminical Hinduism (2) Harp upon the dubious Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT) to show that Hindu Dharma was actually imported into Bharat by outsiders i.e. Aryans. Use AIT to promote fault lines between North Indian ‘Aryans’ and South Indian ‘Dravidians’, disregarding all sorts of archaeological, literary and scientific evidence that prove common Dharmic roots of all Bharatiyas. (3) Present Christianity as the sole medium of emancipation for the poor and dispossessed classes of Hindu society, ignoring the logical question of why Dalits should not turn to Buddhism or other Indic religions if Hindu Dharma is really as rotten as claimed by missionaries (4) In a breathtaking act of jugglery, work to eradicate complex, inter-woven tribal cultures & belief systems that have evolved over millenia, and in the same breath claim to be protectors of tribals from Hindu majoritarianism! (5) Use massive funds pumped by the global Church to silently carry out mass conversions to Christianity, all the while claiming to be perennially persecuted by Hindutva fascists. (6) In another dazzling trick of subterfuge, claim to be defenders of tolerance, national integration, secularism, communal harmony & religious freedom, while doing exactly the opposite.

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Mythman Devdutt Strikes Again – More Lies on Bhagwan Ram

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One of the sepoys of the gatekeeper’s cabal, Devdutt Pattanaik (DP) strikes again. This time it was an article about Buddha, but interestingly titled to propagate his own lies. The New Year began with the myth manufacturer shedding more of his dark wisdom, or rather peddling his duplicitous perverted distortion as if it were absolute truth.

To his credit, DP has authored many popular books and is popular in the media. Still, he publishes his half-baked ideas only in places where comments are either regulated or not published. This artificial protection, he perhaps feels gives his writings a scholarly touch. Or is it really? He has made a career by writing his own bungled ideas and passing them for mass consumption.

Let us analyze the third-rate gibberish branded by the elite cabal as scholarly. For this analysis we will merely centre the discussion on just the title – ‘Why is Ram misogynist, but not the Buddha?’ The entire article can be proven to be a delusional motivated one.

DP claims of being a scholar: A gross falsification!

Let us first consider the lineage of peddled lies. Wendy Doniger, the guru of Devdutt is ignominious for her Freudian views of misinterpreting Hindu Dharma. She is infamous and very unscholarly for portraying Mother Kali as a prostitute and for making ridiculous comments about Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa as a homosexual. So it is no wonder that as a true disciple and maintaining the traits of a good sepoy, DP resorts to ostentatious methods to cover his lack of real expertise in Bharatiya tradition.

None of these western scholars study our shastras with either Bhakti or Shraddha. Just because one can either read a language or understand certain alphabets, can one interpret with total abandon? Not only do they ignore our traditional scholars or their interpretations of several millennia, but also bring a complete personal slant. Wendy brings a defunct Freudian sex prism to all her Hinduphobic studies. Sheldon casts a political motive, social oppression angle to all his Indology versions. Worst amongst these categories is the one DP represents – the one focused on spreading lies, manufactured delusions.

As a self-certified mythologist, he seems to have misunderstood that generating myths is the role of a mythologist, as he launches into repeated lies, gross misinterpretations and deliberate peddling of bunkum. He can be congratulated on having a long public tenure in this devious role.

Why he is not a true scholar in my eyes:

  • First of all, as a scholar why is he not open to publishing on platforms where comments can be posted or rebutted. Of course, it is easier to peddle lies from safe forts with guarded entries.
  • Analyze the pattern of lies – With such a spurious title, which is a blatant lie, and the contents not related to Bhagwan Rama, he can achieve two objectives – Claim to make two truths (both are in fact lies) and also get away easily as people will not focus beyond the title. It also gives him ammunition to recycle this garbage as a fact as he had published it for future reference.
  • This cheap trick of building layers of fabrications has been perfected by the likes of Sheldon Pollock. Of course DP’s level of cheap understanding and motivated stone throwing can only operate many notches below that of Pollock’s scholarliness, which he most definitely lacks. DP is neither a historian, nor a scholar of Hindu granths. This pop writing with manufactured artificial understanding and a strong proclivity to his Guru parampara is very dangerous, unless questioned.

Is Rama a Misogynist? – A cheap trick to pass a manufactured lie as a fact in the title

“The world is conditioned to see the Ramayana and Manu-Smriti as anti-women, but not the Buddhist lore.” – Devadutt

We will focus the remainder only on exposing the lie that Rama was a misogynist. If we can prove that, DP can be clearly showed to have either very bad motives or absolute lack of scholarly understanding, or both. The title gives an illusory feeling that if Rama is a misogynist, why not Buddha, thereby implying both are.

We will let Valmiki’s writings emasculate the lies of DP. Let us parade the leading women who were in contact with Rama and his attitude towards them and for the sake of authenticity, stick to only Valmiki Ramayana.

Three Queens – Kausalya, Sumitra and Kaikeyi: Rama did not differentiate between his biological mother and the other two queens. Despite Kaikeyi being the reason behind his exile and his father’s death, Rama’s affection, love and respect towards her is unflinching. He sternly reprimands even Lakshmana and Bharata when they even attempted to talk ill about her. Even the lady who does the maximum damage to him by snatching his rightful kingdom, sending him, his wife and brother to the forest to lead an ascetic life only receives respect and love. If there is any claim that Rama is a misogynist, it dies right here.

Tataka: This is perhaps the first time Rama had to take a dharmic stand. He hesitates to raise a weapon against the attacking rakshasa, Tataka, because she is a woman. Maharishi Vishwamitra had to convince him that she was a Yakshi who got cursed by Maharishi Agastya to become a rakshasa. Vishwamitra had to guide the perplexed Rama that his duty is to first protect the ones who need his protection before getting mired in unwanted questions like if the aggressor is a rakshasi. We see the same theme in Bhagavad Gita with Krishna’s message. So for doing the dharmic activity, there are no hurdles like gender, jati, status, relationship and the like. Does that sound like misogyny?

Ahalya: Rama’s grace was the antidote, suggested by Gautama Rishi, to his wife Ahalya’s curse. Again, self-appointed experts who specialize in twisting up facts with motivated opinions under the garb of being a scholar, will showcase Ahalya as a case of patriarchal domination and misogyny. The same Sarga ends with Gautama Rishi appearing when Ahalya resumes her original form and accepting her as his rightful wife. If we corner them with the correct story, they will ask the next question – how can a stone become a person? Couldn’t that have been a metaphor of her repenting? No one in their senses will claim that helping a lady is misogyny.

Shurpanaka: Panchavati is perhaps the turning point in Ramayana, next only to Kaikeyi’s
episode of sending Rama to exile. Shurpanaka falls into deep lust for Rama, at a mere glance. Rama patiently explains his married state to her. Rama points that Lakshmana is the one who is not having a wife around and Shurpanaka finds this a wonderful compromise only to get informed that he is a mere daasa of Rama. Seeing her obstacle as Sita, she menacingly moves to kill and eat Sita, at which point Lakshmana chops off her nose and ears.

Firstly, she was a Rakshasi and no offense was meted to her as long as she did not become a threat to Sita. Yet the same Shurpanaka when asked by Khara, behind the cause of her sad plight, sings several verses of slokas in praise of Rama-Lakshmana. (Valmiki Ramayana slokas- 3:19: 14 -17) Unlike Tataka who was far more powerful and dangerous to society, Rama-Lakshmana deemed her not a major threat to society. So they spared her life after teaching her a lesson. One must remember this was the same solution given by Vibhishana to spare Hanuman’s life by setting fire to his tail. We are again seeing extreme restraint on part of Rama- Lakshmana and only mirroring the same level of response as the threat. Is that misogyny, DP?

Sabhari: Perhaps the best example in Ramayana to prove all the critics wrong is Sabhari’s episode – an aged ascetic from a tribal society and her guru Matanga Rishi, both from Shudra varna, something which most critics are ignorant about. Rama partakes the food she offers, despite knowing pretty well that she has partly eaten the same fruit offered. In those times, one could only eat food that has been eaten by Father, Guru, elder brother and I assume wife. But Rama cared less for such societal prescriptions as he could only see the huge bhakti of Sabhari. So misogynist mythology propagators fall flat on their face.

Tara: We have dealt about the case of Vaali vadha in detail elsewhere. But the case of Tara, the wife of the fallen warrior, Vaali, provides ample insight about Rama’s grace. (In Valmiki Ramayana, she doesn’t get remarried, atleast explicitly, like in the more popular versions like Tulsi or Kamba Ramayana). In spite of variance, we find Tara morphing from seething rage at Rama to praising his glory, at his mere sight. This is not due to fear of the opponent, but due to her clarity of mind. Being a pious and intelligent lady, the one who counseled Vaali not to confront Sugriva on account of Rama, she was able to see the divinity in Rama. We also see Rama comfort Vaali on the future of Angada and Tara. Again, DP is caught lying.

Mandodari: The primary queen of Ravana, laments and finds the flaws in her fallen husband, yet when she sees Rama, she is not able to find one fault. Rama reprimands Vibhishana who refuses to perform obsequies to Ravana, thereby according respect to even the departed enemy. Following Dharma was critical rather than taking revenge on a fallen warrior’s family. Does that sound like misogyny? Irrespective of Mandodari’s post Ravana period, she holds Rama in high esteem and only faulted Ravana for not reining in his senses. DP’s pants on fire again?

Sita: Sita is the most central figure in Ramayana and in fact Ramayana is also called as Sitaya’s charitam mahat. Rama lets her convince him with her logic on why she must accompany him to the forest. We see numerous glimpses of an ideal householder relationship between Rama and Sita throughout their stay in the forest. Ravana kidnapping Sita brings to us the human side of Rama. He is unconsolable, and many sargas are filled with only his weeping. Unlike his father Dasaratha, who weds many, Rama is setting the role model to all of us by being eka patni vrta. We find Rama so overwhelmed when Sugriva shows the jewelry which may possibly have been from Sita. The episodes of lamentation continue throughout Kishkinda Kanda.

When Hanuman meets Sita after his long ordeal, the information exchanged to validate his authenticity and also the incidents narrated by Sita to be relayed back to Rama, confirm the deep love and respect Rama had for Sita. Even the best of romances written cannot match a fraction of the love Rama expresses for Sita over and over. Yet he shocks everyone, including Sita by abandoning her and giving her freedom to go anywhere. One must remember that Rama does not ask her to jump into fire to prove her chastity, which was Sita’s choice. The last words by Rama in this regard gives us ample clue as to slighting himself for not being able to see her chastity. Refer sloka 6:115:17 of Valmiki Ramayana.

Whenever pious people of impeccable character resort to making an odd choice, it shocks the Sages and Devatas, who rush to the scene to make amends to restore Dharma. We find a similar incident in the Mahabharata on Day 15 of the war. Drona starts violating every agreed upon code of conduct in the war. He uses Brahmastra on defenseless foot soldiers. He uses all sorts of divyastras to attack the Pandava army. We find great sages appear to confront and advise him.

Similarly, when Rama created a situation which forced Sita herself to jump into a fire, all Devas and Brahma and Siva appear. Agni brings her and vouches for her chastity. Rama never doubted it, but used this as an opportunity to compel his departed father Dasaratha to revoke his words. Rama wanted Kaikeyi and Bharata to be accepted back by Dasaratha, which he obliges. Dasaratha pleads and advises Sita never to repudiate Rama for the Agnipariksha episode (Sloka 6:119:35), as it was done to prove her chastity to the world.

Misogyny propagandists immediately resort to their last salvo – why did Rama abandon pregnant Sita? While this needs an elaborate discussion, it must be sufficient that when the Devatas, Brahma, Siva and his own departed father have given a strong statement about Sita, it must be remembered that Rama has no reason to doubt Sita again based on some ill-informed citizen. Rama bites the bullet for the sake of his citizens, yet makes the personal sacrifice. Even today, we slight only Rama and do not question Sita.

We have taken a quick look at the different woman characters and the way Rama interacted with each one of them with love and respect. So which version of Ramayana are these mindless motivated characters talking about – the one they wrote? Or the one written by their sex frenzied Guru Wendy? Or the super scholar who knows good Sanskrit, to bend and twist it to his narrative, Sheldon?

Mythman DP, if you like myths, the one you should worry about is that of Pinocchio. If that story were to be true, you could end up with the longest nose ever in the history of the universe.

From a simple exercise of walking through Valmiki Ramayana, we have proved that all these myth creators revel in our ignorance. Can we crack open our own Itihasas and study it periodically? Can we do more Svadhyaya daily? Fair warning, you may grow spiritually over time, if you do so.

The only reasons why such cheap interpretations can even exist are-

  • Motivated authors pursuing selfish gains – Question them on every platform.
  • Tamas of the masses not to read itihasas – Read. Daily svadhyaya will evolve us spiritually.
  • Lack of enough education to rebut the motivated misinterpretations – I am hopeful more are coming along to counter. Watch out for Swadeshi Indology Conferences.

Om Tat Sat

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Muhammad Shafi from Kerala posed as NRI doctor and sexually assaulted over 30 Hindu women

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30-year-old Muhammad Shafi, who was arrested for sexually assaulting more than 30 Hindu women in Kerala after deceiving them by posing as an NRI surgeon, stated that he would not target Muslim women since they belong to his religion. He is also accused of stealing more than Rs. 50 lakh from the women he trapped and exploited.

Shafi is a high school dropout, but to trap the women he disguised himself as a Hindu doctor named Satish Raghavan working in Dubai and made matrimonial ads to get in touch with Hindu women. He mostly targeted nurses or nursing students, even befriending their friends and relatives on the pretext of getting them jobs in his hospital. He took the women who fell for him to posh hotels and molested them there. He took nude photos to blackmail his victims later and ask for money. He would even physically assault some women and burn them with cigarette butts. While assaulting the victim, he would shout saying, “you are no more a virgin. I have deflowered you.”

He would acquire Rs. 1-3 lakh from the victims by claiming it for visa processing. If he had close contact with a woman, he also used to make bank accounts in her name using her ID proof and acquire ATM cards along with mobile sims.

He used to give fake visiting cards created under the name of hospitals in Dubai to his victims. The fraud was realized when the victims who were friends told each other about their marriage proposals and showed the same visiting card to each other. After this they filed a complain with the police.

Shafi used to frequently travel aboard and stayed in luxury hotels, using the money of his victims. He never deposited the money he stole into his own main account. For this reason police found it difficult to trace him. The police only had his details from the matrimonial sites. To trap him, a policewoman disguised herself as a nurse and called him to her home where the police was waiting to arrest him. When he was arrested, he had Rs 3 lakh, 1006 dirham, 4 mobile phones, 17 sim cards, a camera, letterheads of various hospitals, seals, expensive watches, perfumes, expensive cloths and gold jewelry etc. with him.

So far there are 12 complaints filed against him in various police stations. 4 of these are from Ernakulam, one each from Puthoor, Thodupuzha and Pathanamthitta. Many victims are still not filing complaints fearing the loss of their reputation.

Shafi, who failed 8th class and stopped studying, had earlier been a bus driver and conductor. After that he studied for a nursing course. With the certificate he gained from the course, he traveled to North Bharat and got a job in a hospital there. There, he gradually learnt Hindi and English. From North Bharat he left for Dubai over 6 years ago. He started his deception when he was working at an electronics shop there.

What shocked the investigators is his choice of victims. When asked why he chose only Hindu girls, he said he can’t trick girls of his own community. “A devout Muslim, he thinks it is a sin to molest a Muslim girl,” said an investigator. Investigators said he never felt any remorse, as the victims were Hindus.

Meanwhile, the Kerala police are trying to downplay the incident by saying that the accused is mentally unsound. But his modus operandi suggests that he is a shrewd criminal & religious fanatic.

(Sources – Source 1, Source 2 – archived here, Source 3)

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