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Leftist Terror Continues In Kerala – Time for Centre to Wake Up

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In the latest incidents of brazen leftist terror in Kerala, 26 Hindu activists from BJP were injured, 3 of whom are in critical condition, after their peaceful protest march was attacked by CPM workers with stones &  iron rods at Trivandrum yesterday. In a separate incident, Sunil Kumar from Congress was hacked to death by CPM youth wing DYFI activists in Alappuzha. All this, while CPM leaders like Yechury and Karat mouth homilies for ‘freedom of expression’ sitting in New Delhi.

This brazen hypocrisy of a party (CPM) which to this day idolizes a known mass murderer like Josef Stalin should not come as a surprise. But what is surprising is that the media, intellectuals and even the ruling NDA have not turned the spotlight on CPM/CPI and assorted left organizations for unleashing this reign of terror in their two strongholds – Kerala & West Bengal.

The pattern of murderous assaults by CPI(M) cadre on Hindu activists from opposition parties speaks of a well-planned strategy to assassinate and intimidate socio-political rivals, which in all likelihood was hatched at the highest levels of their politburo. It is high time that the Central Government intervenes and assigns an agency like NIA to investigate the #LeftistTerror. Senior CPM leaders like Yechury and Karat need to be grilled to unearth this deep-rooted conspiracy. Just calling for a bandh (strike) will not suffice. When well-known CPM activists & supporters on social media are brazenly issuing death threats and celebrating murders of ‘Sanghis’ (to be read as any self-asserting Hindu), one wonders why the Union Home Ministry is sound asleep?

Open Admission of Murder as Political Tool

In 2012, M M Mani, CPM Idukki district secretary had made a chilling boast at a public meeting on how the party had eliminated politcal foes. A close associate of CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan, Mani went on record saying

“Yes, we have killed the enemies of CPM. We have shot, stabbed and beaten them to death. A hit-list of party enemies was prepared and each of them was executed in that order.”

Recently, CPI-M Kannur district secretary, P Jayarajan, was listed as an accused by CBI under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in connection with the brutal murder of RSS worker E Manoj in 2014.

Marxist supporters on social media cheer Hindu deaths

Below are some tweets calling for the murder of Hindu activists by a well-known Marxist supporter Arun Nambiar on Twitter who’s bio reads “A Marxist. Life’s too short to have the Govt or Religion control it. The Future is the collective! Currently fighting the Fascist Indian Govt and winning!”

Leftist Terror Supporter
Marxist twitter user calling for murder of RSS activists

Are CPM and CPI really different from the banned CPI (Maoist)?

The Communist Party of India (Maoist) is a  communist party  which aims to overthrow the government of Bharat through ‘people’s war’. It was founded on 21 September 2004, through the merger of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People’s War Group, and the Maoist Communist Centre of India (MCCI). The CPI (Maoist) are often referred to as the Naxalites in reference to the Naxalbari insurrection conducted by radical Maoists in West Bengal in 1967.

In 2006, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh referred to the Naxalites as “the single biggest internal security challenge” for India.  CPI-Maoist follows Marxism-Leninism-Maoism as its ideological basis guiding its thinking in all spheres of its activities. Interestingly, Maoist ideologues in Bharat also support Islamist jihadi terror which they view as “a progressive anti-imperialist force in the contemporary world’.

In 2010, leftist students from Democratic Students Union (DSU) and All India Students Association (AISA – the student wing of CPI Marxist-Lenninst) organized a meeting in JNU to celebrate the killing of 76 CRPF personnel in Chhattisgarh. To this day, none of the top ‘mainstream’ communist leaders like Yechury or Karat have condemned the Maoist atrocities or their supporters in university campuses like JNU. On the contrary, the statements of CPM leadership in favor of JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar and other leftist students who shouted slogans for Bharat’s destruction are well known.

This gives rise to the question – is the fundamental ideology of allegedly ‘mainstream democratic’ communist parties like CPI-M and CPI really different from the ‘revolutionary’ Maoists? Or is CPM the public face of the same ideological fraternity, tasked with engaging in democracy as a continuation of the same class war by other means? This incisive MyInd piece on the rise of urban naxals says –

“Naxal violence though predominantly a rural phenomenon, has steadily made inroads in urban areas. Naxalites have created many Front Organizations in urban areas to facilitate expansion of their movement through democratic means. Most of the Front Organizations are led by well-educated intellectuals with firm belief in Maoist doctrine. These ideologists act as masks to cover the violent nature of Maoist Ideology. The important functions of these organizations are recruitment of intellectual cadres, raising funds, creating urban shelter for underground cadres, providing legal assistance to arrested cadres and mass mobilization by agitating over issues of convenience. There’s a strong presence of what is known as ‘Urban Naxalites’ in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) often called den of “Urban Naxalites”.”

So the question must be asked – are leaders like Stephens and JNU educated Yechury the suave media friendly front for an ideology that aims to overthrow the State of Bharat?

Global Left Terror

Who are the CPI-M role models?

Karl Marx

The ideological father of communists of every hue, including CPI-M, is the German Karl Marx (1818 – 1883). Marx’s two prominent views on Hindus and Hindu Dharma are:

1] “That man, the sovereign of nature, fell down on his knees in adoration of Hanuman, the monkey, and Sabbala, the cow” (The British Rule of India, New York Daily Tribune, June 25, 1853). Marx believed that British rule despite its iniquities was a progressive force for India.

2] “England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating – the annihilation of the old Asiatic society, and the laying of the material foundation of Western society in Asia” (The Future Results of British Rule in India, New York Daily Tribune, August 8, 1853).

Josef Stalin

Joseph Stalin was a brutal dictator who ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953.  Between 1934 and 1939 he organized and led a massive purge of the party, government, armed forces and intelligentsia, in which millions of so-called “enemies of the working class” were imprisoned, exiled or executed, often without due process. After the Soviet Union dissolved, and evidence from the Soviet archives became available, official records revealed 799,455 executions (1921–1953), around 1.7 million deaths in the Gulag and some 390,000 deaths during kulak forced resettlement – a total of about 2.9 million officially recorded victims in these categories. The final number of deaths caused by Stalin’s regime is said to be around 20 million.

This same Josef Stalin is a revered leader for the Left in Bharat. This is what the CPI-M site has to say about Stalin –

“The CPI(M) rejected the approach which, in the name of correcting the personality cult, is negating the history of socialism. The uncontestable contribution of Joseph Stalin in defence of Leninism, against Trotskyism and other ideological deviations, the building of socialism in the USSR, the victory over fascism and the reconstruction of the war-ravaged Soviet Union, enabling it to acquire enough strength to check imperialist aggressive moves, are inerasable from the history of socialism.”

EMS Namboodirpad

EMS Namboodirpad, was an Indian communist politician and theorist, who served as the first Chief Minister of Kerala state in 1957–59 and then again in 1967–69. In 1964, he led a faction of the CPI that broke away to form the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM). It now emerges that EMS once said “the communists’ project in participating in India’s parliamentary institutions was to wreck the constitution from within“!

Media Silence

Our media, who doesn’t tire of shouting from the rooftops that they represent a liberal & tolerant outlook, routinely runs to CPM leaders and their associates in civil society for news bytes, but have they even once turned the spotlight on a party and ideology that uses murder as a tool  for political ends?

The ball is now firmly in the central Government’s court. People voted decisively for this Government in 2014 to ensure the rule of law prevails in all parts of the nation. The law & order situation in Kerala, West Bengal, and parts of UP has witnessed a sharp deterioration. Their will be howls of ‘fascism’ from the usual suspects, but the Government must intervene and take meaningful action – the very integrity of the Union of Bharat is at stake.  

Nuclear Security Summit and South Asia

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In his speech in Prague in 2009, President Obama touched on an important subject for the first time. He talked about security against nuclear terror, meaning securing nuclear arsenals against falling in the hands of non-State actors. A year later, the first meeting of Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) numbering no fewer than 53 stakeholder countries, was held in Washington DC to deliberate and gradually inch towards a consensus formula of how nuclear arsenals could be safeguarded.

The fourth and perhaps the final meeting of the NSS, to which Bharat and Pakistan have also been invited, is to be held again in Washington DC from 31 March-1 April, 2016. President Putin of Russia has declined to participate. Bharat and Pakistan, two nuclear countries in South Asia count fairly well in the deliberations and in the decision likely to come out of the final round of talks.

In a news briefing in Washington in the third week of October 2015, Pakistan foreign secretary, Aizaz Chaudhury disclosed for the first time that his country had made low-yield nuclear tactical weapons “for use in the event of a sudden attack by its larger neighbor.” Two days later, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met with President Obama. Reports are that they talked about Pakistan’s nuclear programme including Afghanistan and militant groups such as the Haqqani network and Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, both on banned organizations list of the US.

Quoting Pervez Hoodhbhoy, a nuclear physicist and independent security analyst based in Lahore, BBC reported in a news commentary on October 21, 2015, “The fact that Pakistan was making small tactical nuclear weapons was clear to the world from the day Pakistan started its missile programme. It meant that Pakistan had developed low – yield nuclear warheads to be delivered by those missiles at short ranges in a battlefield having localized impact, unlike big bombs designed to destroy cities.”

Experts say that the 2011 testing of nuclear-capable Nasr missile by Pakistan with a 60 kilometers range was an indication that Pakistan was building an arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons for use in a theater of war. Hasan Askari Rizvi, a Lahore-based expert on defence and security issues, suspects that Pakistan may have designed even smaller nuclear weapons, capable of being shot from a specially-designed gun.

Objectively speaking, battlefield weapons could be more dangerous than larger weapons because in the event of a conflict, they will need to be spread out, deployed at multiple locations closer to the targets, and would need to be fired at short notice. BBC made the cryptic remark that “evidently, Pakistan has acquired this technology from China and it is not possible to block that pipeline.”

The question is whether nuclear command and control procedures will always be adequately ensured for all the missile units deployed across the theatre? In addition to this concern, should not western powers and the US in particular take note of the fact that Pakistan developed these weapons despite nuclear-related international sanctions in force since 1998 after it carried out its first nuclear test?

US reaction to the situation in Pakistan in the context of NSS programme

Let us put it succinctly. Speaking during a hearing on Pakistan convened by House Foreign Affairs Committee, US Special Representative for Af-Pak, Richard Olson said that Obama administration shares the concerns of lawmakers particularly about the development of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal. “We are concerned most by the pace and scope of Pakistan’s missile program, including its pursuit of nuclear systems”, he said.

Replying to a question from Congressman Brian Higgins, Olson said that the US was concerned a conventional conflict in Southwest Asia could escalate to include nuclear use as well as the increased security challenges that accompany growing stockpiles. He said the US had a very active dialogue at the highest levels with the Pakistanis in which US’ concerns were stated. US official circles assert they have urged Pakistan to restrain her nuclear weapons and missile development that might invite increased risk to nuclear safety, security or strategic stability.

On this basis US lawmakers have asked their government to be tough on Islamabad “as it does not seem to be sincere in improving ties with India and has accelerated the pace of arsenals’ production.” According to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Pakistan could have 350 nuclear warheads in the next decade, becoming the world’s third biggest nuclear power, outpacing Bharat, France, China and the UK.  Expressing himself forcefully on the subject, Higgins said, “We have to call them (Pakistan) out  on this double game they have been playing, not this year, not last year, not five years, but for the past 15 years …. Pakistan, let’s be truthful about this, plays a double game. They are our military partner, but they are the protector and the patron of our enemies. US aid to Pakistan economic and military has averaged USD 2 billion a year.”

“NSS and particularly, the US, have to know that Pakistan with 189 million population — many of them Islamic extremists— has nuclear weapons. To have Islamic extremists with nuclear weapons is a primary goal of al-Qaeda and it would be a major victory for them and the outgrowth of al-Qaeda namely the Islamic State,” avers Higgins.

Covering the strategic dialogue between high powered- Pakistani delegation led by Adviser Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz, with their American counterpart in Washington, the Webdesk reported on 9 March that “Sartaj Aziz insisted that Islamabad would not accept any unilateral curb on its programme. Any reduction must also apply to India and it must address the conventional imbalance between the two countries.” He pointed out that Pakistan did not have the resources to match India’s ever-increasing arsenal of conventional weapons and was forced to depend on non-conventional means to defend it.” Another important statement which Aziz made on that day was that Pakistan was hosting some Taliban leaders…

It is clear that Pakistan has decided to use nuclear option in case of war with India and that it is not ruling out the possibility of hosting Taliban for whatever purposes. What then should be the foremost agenda of the 4th NSS meeting in Washington on 31 March? Obviously, it should be a detailed review of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal in the backdrop of how Islamabad tries to justify its relentless effort of increasing nuclear stockpile including limited tactical nuclear weapon.

US double-speak on Pakistan

However, deeper study in the scenario throws up contradiction in the words and practice of the US. The joint statement issued by Kerry and Sartaj after the conclusion of strategic dialogue belies the stated intentions of the US. The joint statement is a long eulogy on the “achievements” of Pakistan in meeting the challenge of the terrorists in the northern part of the country. John Kerry had full-throated praises and encomiums for Pakistani army fighting the “terrorists” in Pakistan’s north but not a single word or hint about the terrorist engines on Pakistani soil working against Bharat and Afghanistan. Proliferation of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal and induction of tactical nuclear weapons in that arsenal did not figure in their joint statement.

Newsdesk of February 29, 2016 referred to a transcript released in Washington showing Secretary Kerry arguing in two congressional hearings that “the US has been working really hard” to advance a rapprochement between Islamabad and New Delhi. In one statement he indirectly confirmed media reports that the US was quietly encouraging the two prime ministers to hold bilateral talks.

How he looks at the stand-off between Bharat and Pakistan, is reflected in his statement that Pakistan has deployed 150,000 to 180,000 troops along the Pak-Afghan border and in case of a conflict with Bharat, Pakistan will have to redeploy bulk of its forces on her eastern front. Thus what Kerry actually wants Pakistan to do is to fight against the Al Qaeda and Taliban outfits on her western front and keep the so-called non-state actors active on her eastern front against Bharat.

The Webdesk of March 9 said that unlike it did with Iran the US does not want Pakistan to shut down its nuclear programme. But it does want Islamabad to reduce the size of its arsenal. During a testimony in the Senate where the bill against sale of 8 F-16 to Pakistan was defeated by 71 to 24 votes, Secretary Kerry passionately defended sale of Lockheed Martin Corp F-16 nuclear fighter jets to Pakistan, saying that US is committed to boosting Pakistan’s strategic capabilities in its war against terrorists.

In other words Kerry means to say that only the Taliban and Al Qaeda outfits who are fighting against Pakistan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP)  region are the terrorists Pakistan should fight against, and the scores of other terrorist groups in Pakistan are outside the pale of terrorism. Mumbai attack and recent attack on Pathankot airbase are no terrorist activities for him.

Sale of nuclear powered 8 F-16s apart, the Obama administration in February 2015 asked the US Congress to provide more than $ 1 billion in aid to Pakistan including a six fold increase in foreign military financing. The budget proposal described Pakistan as a “strategically important nation” and the proposed US assistance “will strengthen its military in fight against extremism, will increase safety of nuclear installations”

This lays bare the double speak of the US on much trumpeted Nuclear Security Summit to which President Obama has invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to participate. All this notwithstanding, BBC said in its commentary of 9 March that there are suggestions that US may offer Pakistan membership of the Nuclear Supplies Group, with legitimate access to available research and technology, in return for some curbs on fissile material production an its missile programme. Sartaj Aziz already reacted by saying that Pakistan will not accept any unilateral curbs unless same are applied to India.

(The writer is the former Director of the Centre for Central Asian Studies, Kashmir University.)

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Ethics Committees of our Parliament: Mallya and Rahul

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I am sure many of you may be smiling on seeing Ethics and our Parliament in the same sentence. But believe me, both houses of Parliament have ethics committees and the Rajya Sabha one is oldest.

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Hindu Leader K Raju Hacked To Death In Mysuru

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Raju hacked to death

A Hindu activist, Kyathemaranahalli Raju (37), who also happened to be a BJP leader, was brutally hacked to death in Mysuru on Sunday. It is said that Raju was standing near a tea stall at Udayagiri extension when a gang of four to five attacked him with lethal weapons.

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Changing Demography Has Turned West UP Into A Communal Tinderbox

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West UP Riots

A recent trip to West U.P., my ancestral homeland, brought the kind of clarity which only direct experience can bring. Having heard reports about the growing lawlessness in the region –  frequent riots, political goondaism, targeted attacks on women – it still required a visit to the region to understand the gravity of the situation.

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Ex-Tehelka ‘Journalist’ Fakes RTI Reply to Claim Government Discriminates Against Muslims

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AYUSH Fake News

Yet another media hit-job on the NDA Government, this time by an ex-Tehelka ‘journalist’ writing for Milli Gazette (which claims to be ‘Indian Muslim’s leading newspaper’), got exposed today. The reporter Pushp Sharma had filed an RTI query about the Muslim teachers and trainers recruited by the AYUSH  Ministry for foreign assignments during the World Yoga Day last year. AYUSH is the abbreviation of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy. He claimed that AYUSH Ministry’s reply contained an ‘Annexure -1′ with the statement “As per government policy – No Muslim candidate was invited, selected or sent abroad’.

But the Ministry of AYUSH has issued a categorical statement that the ‘Annexure 1’ claimed by Pushp Sharma is fabricated. Below are the relevant excerpts from the statement issued by Ministry of AYUSH

 Clarification regarding RTI of Shri Pushp Sharma

The Ministry of AYUSH has noted with anguish certain mischievous misinformation being spread in certain section of media and Social media quoting a reply to an RTI by mentioning a fabricated draft as Annexure I to that letter, which has never been issued by the Ministry of AYUSH or any of its agencies.

The Ministry strongly condemns this piece of misreporting, clearly aimed at causing chasm between different sections of Society and promoting disharmony and mistrust with ulterior motives. The ministry further clarifies that RTI request dated 17.09.2015 was received in the Ministry, from one Shri Pushp Sharma…

..On receipt of the query, Ministry forwarded this RTI request to its three agencies namely Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga, Central Council for Research in Yoga and Naturopathy and International Cooperation wing of the Ministry vide letter dated 08.10.2015. This is a simple forwarding letter under section 6(3) of RTI Act and therefore does not contain any reply to the queries. The same forwarding letter of the Ministry has been used by a section of the media in this matter, but with a non-existent, fictitious“ANNEXURE- I”, (which has never been issued by the Ministry).

The contents regarding religion based data in the so-called Annexure- I are not only fabricated but factually incorrect also. The response of the International Cooperation Section of the Ministry clearly said that invitations were sent to yoga experts/enthusiasts without reference to their religions. Replies sent to the applicant by MDNIY, CCRYN are also enclosed for ready reference.

The Ministry is initiating appropriate action in the matter.”

Media outlets ignore basic fact checking 

AYUSH Media Lies
Various media outlets propagating the fake news created by Milli Gazette

The usual suspects in media eagerly repeated this piece of ‘investigative journalism’ by Pushp Sharma without adhering to basics of journalism like validating the veracity of the RTI reply by contacting the AYUSH minsitry for their view. The confirmation bias to prove their projection of Modi as a ruthless fascist dictator is driving many big names in media over the edge into outright illegal acts like slander, fabrication of news & fanning communal sentiments. Some prominent outlets and celebrity ‘journalists’ who were brutally exposed today were –

1.) The Wire – one of the breed of plush with funds new digital media outlets that have cropped up in the last 18 months, but which are managed  by the same old tired, largely discredited mainstream media voices. Others in this category are Scroll, Catchnews, and Qz. The one common factor that binds these outlets together is their visceral anti-Hindu and anti-Modi bigtory.

2.) The Wire was founded by Siddartha Vardarajan, a US citizen and controversial ex-editor of left-wing newspaper The Hindu who resigned in 2013 after even the anti-Hindutva family owners of The Hindu became uncomfortable with Vardarajan’s blatant anti-Modi bias. Beside running The Wire, Vardarajan these days also runs a weekly news show and is a prominent face on talk shows for RSTV (Rajya Sabha TV) – a public news channel managed by the Rajya Sabha speaker’s office (currently Deputy President Hamid Ansari).

3.) Samar Halarnkar (former Hindustan Times’s national editor, current columnist with the same paper & editor of IndiaSpend.com) was also quick to propagate the fake news story. This same gentleman has been accused of plagiarism in the past, and is a well known Modi-baiter.

AYUSH false news

AAP mouthpiece Janta Ka Reporter also predictably joined in spreading the spurious news item.

Criminal antecedents of  ex-Tehelka ‘journalist’ Pushp Sharma

It has now emerged that ‘investigative journalist’ Pushp Sharma was arrested for fake stings and blackmail in 2009 by the Delhi police. Read this police report titled ‘Extortionist reporter alongwith associates, who used to extort govt. officials on the pretext of conducting fake sting operations arrested’. Incidentally, Pushp Sharma previously worked with the ideological fountainhead of dubious ‘sting journalism’ – Tehelka (founded by rape-accused Tarun Tejpal). It is not surprising that junior reporters like Sharma have such poor journalistic ethics when senior Tehelka journalists like Ashish Khetan (now an AAP leader) have been accused of writing a planted story for Tehelka in defence of the Essar Company as a quid pro quo for several crores sponsorship by Essar for the Tehelka ‘Thinkfest’ event at Goa.

Final Blow To The Fake Story – AYUSH Ministry does have Muslim employees!

But, sadly such false media narrative do find some buyers even among educated citizens. The media antipathy for Hindus and consequent silence over Islamist and Christian extremism ends up dividing society by giving rise to false victim-hood in minorities.

Why is Lutyens’ Delhi So Angry With Narendra Modi?

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लुटियंस दिल्ली Barkha Dutt

That Delhi had sunk into a deep morass of sleazy deal-making during the UPA era became clear the moment the RadiaGate scandal broke in 2010, spilling the beans on how media, politicos, bureaucrats, corporates, and others were part of a mutually beneficial cabal. But how deep the rot went is becoming clear only now. This same nexus (what we refer to as Lutyens’ Delhi) is feeling the pinch since the present Government has largely shut off access to Government corridors for these power brokers and is allowing the law to take its own course with regards to their misdeeds. This is one big factor driving the manufactured outrages we see over matters like JNU, Dadri, Church ‘Attacks’, Yakub Memon, Intolerance etc.

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A Protest For The Heck Of It

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Parin Shah
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Manusmriti

Amidst the ongoing JNU controversy, the news of a few rebellious ABVP activists burning Manusmriti as a mark of protest, for allegedly being ‘anti-woman’, at the JNU campus posed a serious question before me. Although it is not for the first time and it will, in the foreseeable future, not be the last time that Manusmriti was burnt as a mark of protest against so-called Brahminism whenever the Leftist forces are a stakeholder in any protest. It has to be said that such acts, of burning a copy of Manusmriti or any other scripture belonging to any faith, does fall well within the realm of the freedom of expression which has been evolved as one of the most crucial human rights over the past few decades.

Having said that, one does have the right to question the rationale behind such protests, for a protest just for the heck of it is nothing more than a lamentable exercise of thoughtless and needles show of strength. We have witnessed a ramped up surge of such protests ever since a government of the Bharatiya Janata Party led National Democratic Alliance has been elected on May 16, 2014.

Now coming to the rationale, the most potent argument to be dished out in support of such protests is that the Manusmriti is an allegedly misogynistic and anti-dalit scripture which supposedly advocates the Brahminical supremacy. Of those who come up with such frivolous arguments, few have even actually attempted to read up the content of Manusmriti. Also it is another matter that an overwhelming majority of Brahmins today say that Manusmriti has never been discussed in their homes or they’ve never heard of it before political stunts such as burning copies of Manusmriti started taking place.

So, why are they keen on burning copies of Manusmriti, a scripture which is neither followed nor discussed even by Brahmins who are accused of imposing the Brahminical supremacy through that very scripture? Or, like some suggest, will the anti-Hindu forces relent and stop making vicious attacks on Hindu scriptures if Hindus publicly disown Manusmriti, a scripture which is neither followed nor discussed by Hindus? The answer to both the questions is a big NO. We must understand that the real target is not Smritis but the Shrutis themselves and hence if Hindus cede even an inch they will lose the ground forever.

Some background on the Manusmriti

Manusmriti is the popular name of the work, which is officially known as Manava-dharma-shastra. It is attributed to the legendary first man and lawgiver, Manu.

  • Of over fifty manuscripts of Manusmriti which are now known, the earliest discovered, most translated and presumed authentic version since the 18th-century has been the “Calcutta manuscript with Kulluka Bhatta commentary”.  However, modern scholarship states that this presumed authenticity is false. The various manuscripts of Manusmriti discovered in Bharat being inconsistent with each other, and within themselves, raise concerns of its authenticity, insertions and interpolations made into the text in later times.
  • It is variously dated to be from 2nd century BCE to 3rd century CE, and it presents itself as a discourse given by sages Manu and Bhrigu on topics such as duties, rights, laws, conduct, virtues and others.
  • It was one of the first Sanskrit texts translated during the British rule of Bharat in 1794, by William Jones, and used to formulate the Hindu law by the colonial government.
  • The text’s fame spread outside Bharat, long before the colonial era. The medieval era Buddhist law of Myanmar and Thailand are also ascribed to Manu, and the scripture had an influence in past Hindu kingdoms in Cambodia and Indonesia as well.
  • Most scholars consider Manusmriti a composite scripture produced by many authors put together over a long period of time.

The core values of Manava-dharma-shastra

There are 2669 verses in the modern version of Manusmriti (some scholars claim that the original text had around 100,000 verses). Manusmriti covers four broad areas in its 12 chapters viz. creation of the world, source of dharma, the dharma of the four social classes, law of karma, rebirth, and final liberation.

While most of the Left-liberal commentators repeat ad-infinitum a few verses which align with their Hinduphobic agenda, they overlook the core of the scripture. Some hidden facets of Manusmriti are as follows:

  • The structure and content of Manusmriti suggest it to be a document predominantly targeted at the Brahmins (priestly class) and the Kshatriyas (ruling class). The scripture dedicates 1,034 verses, the largest portion, on laws for and expected virtues of Brahmins and 971 verses for Kshatriyas. The statement of rules for the Vaishyas (merchant class) and the Shudras (artisans and working class) in the scripture is very brief.
  • Rules of Action for a King (7.1 – 9.324) contains 960 verses, including description of institutions and officials of state, how officials are to be appointed, tax laws, rules of war, the role and limits on the power of the king, and long sections on eighteen grounds for litigation, including those related to non-delivery under contract, breach of contract, non-payment of wages, property disputes, inheritance disputes, humiliation and defamation, physical assault, theft, violence of any form, injury, sexual crimes against women, public safety, and others; the section also includes rules of evidence, rules on interrogation of witnesses, and the organization of court system. Fair taxation guidelines are described in verses 7.127 to 7.137.
  • Manusmriti lays out the laws of a just war, stating that first and foremost, a war should be avoided by negotiations and reconciliations. If war becomes necessary, states Manusmriti, a soldier must never harm civilians, non-combatants or someone who has surrendered, that use of force should be proportionate, and other rules.
  • Manusmriti lists the recommended virtues to be, “compassion, forbearance, truthfulness, non-injury, self-control, not desiring, meditation, serenity, sweetness and honesty” as primary, and “purification, sacrifices, ascetic toil, gift giving, vedic recitation, restraining the sexual organs, observances, fasts, silence and bathing” as secondary.
  • Manusmriti has numerous verses on duties a person has towards himself and to others, thus including moral codes as well as legal codes.
  • Manusmriti in verses 3.55-3.56, declares that “women must be honored and adorned”, and “where women are revered, there the gods rejoice; but where they are not, no sacred rite bears any fruit.”
  • Verses 9.72-9.81 allow the man or the woman to get out of a fraudulent marriage or an abusive marriage, and remarry; the text also provides legal means for a woman to remarry when her husband has been missing or has abandoned her.
  • Manusmriti provides a woman with property rights to six types of property in verses 9.192-9.200.

The concluding verses of Manusmriti state,

एवं यः सर्वभूतेषु पश्यत्यात्मानमात्मना।

स सर्वसमतामेत्य ब्रह्माभ्येति परं पदम् ॥

(He who thus recognizes in his individual self (atma), the universal atma that exists in all beings, becomes equal-minded towards all, and enters the highest state, Brahman.)

Mahatama Gandhi had said, “I hold Manusmriti as part of Shastras. But that does not mean that I swear by every verse that is printed in the book described as Manusmriti. There are so many contradictions in the printed volume that, if you accept one part, you are bound to reject those parts that are wholly inconsistent with it. (…) Nobody is in possession of the original text.” A Louis Jacolliot translation of the Calcutta version of “Law of Manu” was reviewed by Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche deemed it “an incomparably spiritual and superior work” to the Christian Bible.

In order to comprehend Manusmriti, it is essential to view the scripture in a correct perspective. While protesting against it, people often forget that neither Manusmriti is the jurisprudence in Bharat, nor is any demand being made to enforce a jurisprudence based on Manusmriti on the people of Bharat. The fact that Manusmriti is a scripture of historical importance and not a relevant contemporary document blunts all the arguments of those who burn copies of that scripture in order to express their ‘solidarity’ with the feminist cause or the dalit cause. It has been almost 70 years since we gave a constitution to ourselves, and it can always be amended if found lacking in running our affairs smoothly.

Secondly, being a historical document, any commentary on the Manusmriti must weigh upon the prevalent circumstances when Manu composed his Manusmriti. It being the first ever legal text, Manusmriti marks a milestone of our glorious civilization. It is a benchmark to which we shall compare our social progressivity and be proud of the miles we have traversed from Manusmriti to reach where we are today… So what if someone finds Manusmriti primitive or obsolete in today’s context? Just because today we possess advanced missile technology, is it fair to mock or abuse Von Braun and his V2 rockets? Or is it fair to denigrate the ingenuity of Von Braun just because the missile technology has evolved to what it is today?

To sum up, even if one finds anything objectionable in Manusmriti, s/he can at least find solace in the fact that unlike other faiths, Hindus are not pressing on enforcement of any particular Canon Law; rather they have pledged to adhere to the secular constitution the people of Bharat gave to themselves. Those who squander their efforts and energy in burning copies of Manusmriti, which is neither followed nor discussed anymore, should make some real efforts in woman empowerment and uplifting those who are oppressed and marginalized. Let’s move beyond theatrics and photo-ops.

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Islamofascism Rears Its Ugly Head Again in Kerala

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Islamofascism in Kerala

Mathrubhumi, a leading Malayalam daily in Kerala, put out an apology on its front page today after it printed a purportedly offensive comment on the founder of Islam in its Kozhikode and Thrissur editions on Wednesday. The apology came after enraged Muslim organisations held protests outside the newspaper’s offices. Radical Islamist group Popular Front of India (PFI) said the comment “hurt the sentiments of the community.”

A screenshot of the front page of the Mathrubhumi newspaper on Thursday apologising for a purportedly offensive comment on the founder of Islam
A screenshot of the front page of the Mathrubhumi newspaper on Thursday apologising for a purportedly offensive comment on the founder of Islam

The newspaper in its apology said the comment, that was picked up from social media, was added as a reaction to the speech made by Justice Kemal Pasha on the topic ‘Law against domestic abuse’ at a seminar. The judge also faces heat from Muslim scholars for saying that Muslim women faced discrimination under the Muslim personal law.

See the video of the ‘protests’ where the crowd can be heard chanting ‘Allah-o-akbar’ (Allah is Great) & ‘Pakistan Zindabad’

പ്രവാചകനെ അവഹേളിച്ചതിൽ പ്രതിഷേധിച്ച് കോഴിക്കോട് മാതൃഭൂമി ഓഫീസിലേക്ക്  പോപുലർ ഫ്രണ്ട്  skssf  പ്രവർത്തകരുടെ പ്രതിഷേധം …

Posted by Shajahan A Changanacherry on Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Grovelling apology by Left-Leaning Newspaper

“We understand the comments hurt the sentiments of followers. We apologise deeply for the error,” the newspaper said. Mathrubhumi also confirmed that it would take appropriate action against those responsible for the ‘careless’ mistake. The newspaper management additionally requested the state government to take appropriate action against such comments that are posted on social media.

Silence of the Intolerance Brigade

Not one of our Lutyens intellectuals who talk 24×7 about the alleged intolerance and fascism  unleashed by the NDA Government, have a word to say about this real, dangerous and blatantly anti-national intolerance. Has Kerala now turned into a full-fledged Sharia zone, where one can’t even talk about reforming Muslim personal law – a topic well within the bounds of the Constitution? Should we pardon these ‘minority’ activists also for sloganeering ‘Pakistan Zindabad’, as their freedom of expression?

While Manusmriti is being burnt in JNU and Hindu-bashing events like ‘Mahishasur Day’ are held, will the ‘brave & revolutionary’ students and their professors at JNU fight for the freedom to criticize Islam as well?

Rise of Islamo-fascism in Kerala

This latest incident of Islamist fury is not new to Kerala, which has seen a gradual build up of extremist Islamist elements slowly tightening their grip over the Kerala Muslim population.

Dec 2015: Kerala Muslim Rafeeque’s studio burnt after he slams the burka on a WhatsApp Islamic forum

Nov 2015: Kerala Muslim woman journalist Rajeena threatened, FB account blocked after post on child sexual abuse in a Madarassa

Sept 2010: Kerala Muslim girl gets death threats for refusing burqa, wearing jeans

July 2010: Islamists from PFI chopped off Christian professor’s hand because he set a grammar exam question about a character called Mohammed.

(This article has been curated from the following news sources – 1)

Is this the Congress Way of Supporting Free Speech?

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Sonia Gandhi and her motley crew of Congressis have over the last 18 months been complaining to whoever will lend them an ear, that the present NDA Government is fascist, dictatorial and out to suppress dissent and freedom of expression (FoE). Here are a few samples of the kind of invective that Sonia, her son, and their loyal henchmen have used for PM Modi or RSS in the recent past –

  • Dec 8, 2015: ‘Down with dictatorship’: Angry Congress MPs shout slogans, paralyse Parliament
  • Nov 14, 2015: Modi is being ‘dictatorial’: Sonia and Rahul Gandhi hit out at PM
  • Oct 13, 2015: The blood-dimmed tide of fascism is loosed in Modi’s India (by M.K. Bhadrakumar, ex-diplomat and Congress apologist)
  • Nov 5, 2013: Modi’s fascism is no different from Hitler’s Nazi Germany: Jairam Ramesh, Congress MP
  • Jan 10, 2016: RSS promotes dictatorship: Rahul Gandhi

If one were new to Bharat, they would end up believing that Sonia Gandhi & her Congress party are true defenders of free speech in this country. But those with some knowledge of this country and its polity know that double-speak & hypocrisy are core characteristics of the post-independence Congress. Hence it comes as no surprise that the Congress has filed FIRs against two individuals who dared to question the one true God of the dynasty led Congress – Jawaharlal Nehru.

As per this news report,

“The Congress has lodged an FIR against two persons who had allegedly made derogatory remarks against Jawaharlal Nehru in the visitors’ book at the Netaji Birthplace museum here (Cuttack).

Confirming that a named FIR had been lodged against two visitors by Cuttack district unit of Congress, Darghabazar police station Internal Investigation Command (IIC) Anil Kumar Beuria said today, “We have registered a case under section 292(a) of IPC for publicly speaking ill of somebody using obscene language and have started investigation.”

“Since the museum was closed on the day, we could not verify the visitors’ book,” Beuria said, adding that the CCTV footage would also be verified to ascertain details. Using offensive language against Nehru, one of the two visitors in his remarks on Sunday afternoon said, “Netaji could not get his due recognition because of Nehru.“

The visitor, accompanied by a woman, then urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to declassify all the files related to the disappearance of Netaji and went on signing his name, his postal address, E mail ID and telephone number below his remarks. The two visitors were from Bhubaneswar according to the address given, police said.

Incidentally, the comments caught the attention of visiting senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh shortly afterwards on the same day and he took strong exception to the “distasteful” language used against Nehru, the freedom fighter and the first Prime Minister. Ramesh read the comments while signing the visitors’ book after going round the museum on Sunday evening, Congress sources said here.”

It is still not clear what was so ‘offensive’ about what was written in the visitor’s log book that enraged Jairam Ramesh so much that he had to resort to such legal bullying? The recently declassified Bose files show that there is substantial evidence to indicate that Nehru had written a letter to then British PM Clement Attlee referring to Bose as ‘war criminal’. Moreover, Nehru’s vindictive approach towards demeaning the legacy of Bose are common knowledge. So what exactly is the Congress grouse if some citizen of Bharat values Bose’s contributions to the nation higher than Nehru?

Congress should learn from Hindutva adherents – we don’t expect half-read, ignorant 44 year olds like Rahul Gandhi to understand the visionary thinking  & sacrifices of men like Savarkar, hence we ignore his stupid rantings and mocking of the freedom fighter on the floor of Parliament. Now, that is true freedom of speech – that even a wastrel like Rahul Gandhi can mouth anything he wants for Savarkar, a man who had achieved more by age 30 than Rahul Gandhi can hope to achieve in his entire life!

Predictably, none of the Award wapsi  supporting ‘intelligenstia’ like Nayantara Sehgal, Romila Thapar, Keki Daruwala, Zoya Hasan etc. have uttered a single word exhorting their liberal messiah Sonia to pardon the 2 ordinary citizens from Orissa.

Sonia Free Speech

Sonia Gandhi’s dictatorial mindset and intolerance for Free Speech

This article by S Gurumurthy truly captures the dictatorial mindset of Sonia Gandhi who oozes contempt for this country, it’s institutions, its people and its history –

“Compare how the ‘democratic’ Sonia behaved after the National Herald case caught up with her, her son and her family loyalists. Here is the National Herald case in brief. In November 2012, Dr Subramanian Swamy exposed how Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi have grabbed properties of National Herald worth thousands of crores through a convoluted criminal strategy. After that, this newspaper carried a detailed article, National Herald Affair: It’s Fraud All The Way (TNIE, November 8, 2012), explaining the fraud. In January 2013, Dr Swamy filed a criminal complaint against Sonia, her son and family loyalists, including Motilal Vohra, the Congress party treasurer, charging them with conspiracy, fraud, cheating, and criminal breach of trust to rob the shareholders and the public of thousands of crores.

All this happened when the UPA was in power. Rahul Gandhi threatened to file a defamation suit against Dr Swamy. Swamy challenged him but Rahul ran away. In June 2014, a Delhi criminal court took cognisance of the offence and issued summons. Forthwith, Sonia Gandhi and other five accused, including Rahul, filed petitions in the Delhi High Court to quash the criminal proceedings. They kept delaying the hearing till they thought they got the judge they felt comfortable with. One judge recused himself and so did the next. The matter went to the third judge, who Sonia and her co-accused did not like, and he too recused himself. All the accused petitioned to have the matter heard by the second judge who had recused himself earlier. The case was posted before the very judge, who Sonia and her co-accused felt comfortable with. It is that very same judge, who decided on December 7, 2015 that the lower court has rightly ordered their trial and summoned them, and asked them to appear before the metropolitan magistrate. Still, hell broke loose. The very next day the Congress president was seen instigating her MPs to stall Parliament. When the Speaker asked them why were they disturbing the House, they shouted they saw in the National Herald case “political vendetta” and “democracy in danger”. When the Speaker asked them to spell out what they want and offered to allow them to raise the issue and speak in the House, they ran away from speaking in the House. Obviously, they only had instructions to stall the House. The same theatrics were repeated in the Rajya Sabha. Not that they did not talk in the House. They couldn’t.”

Other instances which reveal the way Sonia led UPA subverted Bharat’s institutions and well-established norms are:

  • Overriding IB (Intelligence Bureau) and Home Ministry bureaucrats’ professional assessment in Ishrat Jahan case, resorting to torture of intelligence officials…all this just to fix their political opponents completely disregarding long-term damage to national security (or was that the goal all along?).
  • Using extra-constitutional Sonia led NAC (National Advisory Council) to pressurize the Union Home Ministry to launch a parallel probe into Gujarat riots.
  • Legislating the draconian section 66A of the Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008, which came into force in 2010. Section 66A, which was struck down in 2015 by the Supreme Court, made punishable with three years in jail posting online ‘any information that is grossly offensive or has menacing character.’ Under the law, a  non-bailable arrest warrant could be issued if you upload information that you knew was false, but you posted it only to cause ‘annoyance, inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred, or ill will.’
    • This law was used to arrest an aam aadmi who tweeted that the then Union finance minister’s son Karti P Chidambaram has amassed more wealth than Robert Vadra. Today, the same Karti Chidambaram is indeed facing IT-ED investigations for amassing dubious wealth across the world.
  • In Aug 2012, UPA used the pretext of Assam riots to block twitter handles (including those of journalists) and sites critical of it – this led to twitterati trending #Emergency2012 and #GOIblocks and adopting black DP (display pictures) in protest.
  • Reducing the CBI to a ‘caged parrot’ – in the words of no less than the Supreme Court of Bharat.
  • Despite tom-tomming the RTI (Right to Information) Act as one of the major achievements of UPA, Sonia or her son have never come clean on the mysterious illness she is allegedly suffering from, or their frequent secretive foreign trips.
  • Denying a second term as President to the universally respected APJ Abdul Kalam and forcing the disastrous Pratibha Patil on the nation instead.

Sonia'a commitment to free speech doesn't extend to her family

At a personal level too, Sonia’s intransigence and intolerance for free speech and criticism is exemplified by the below cases, which barely made it to the national news cycle –

  • May 18, 2008: A Gurgaon based IT professional Rahul Vaid (22) was arrested, brought to Pune (where the complaint was filed by a Congressi) and thrown in jail. His crime? Allegedly uploading ‘obscene and derogatory text’ about Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi on an Orkut community group.
  • June 21, 2008: The Pune police arrested one more person for posting derogatory content about Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi on an Orkut community. Police identified the accused as Nithin Chkravarthi Suresh Sahha (22), a resident of Sharan Apartment, Begum Peth in Hyderabad.
  • July 2, 2013: Another youth, Sandeep Bhalla, was arrested in Jalandhar for posting a morphed picture of Sonia Gandhi on Facebook.
  • June 2010: Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi’s legal firm filed a defamation case against Spanish writer Javier Moro for his biography on Sonia Gandhi “The Red Saree: When Life is The Price of Power”. Moro used reliable sources to write two passages which didn’t go down well with the Congress-
    • One passage shows Sonia wanting to go back to Italy with Rajiv and their children after the electoral drubbing Indira Gandhi got in 1977.
    • The second passage relates to the pressure on Sonia from her mother, Paola Maino, and her elder sister, Anushka, to leave the country and settle down in their home town, Orbassano, near Turin in Italy, in the aftermath of the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi on May 21, 1991.
One cannot hope that Lutyens media, especially English language press, and our compromised intelligentsia will inform common citizens about these fascist traits embedded deep within the Congress eco-system, so it is incumbent on each one of us to spread these facts far and wide. Let truth alone prevail, not untruth.

Disclaimer: This article represents the opinions of the Author, and the Author is responsible for ensuring the factual veracity of the content. HinduPost is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, suitability, or validity of any information, contained herein.

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