INDIAN INSTITUTE
FOR RESEARCH INTO TRUE HISTORY
NEWSLETTER NO.
65 OF 16 JUNE 2013
1. NEWS AND
CURRENT AFFAIRS
1.1
Jimmy Savile sex scandal in Britain
Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile, OBE, KCSG
(31 October 1926 – 29 October 2011) was an English
disc jockey
(DJ), television presenter and media personality, best known for his BBC
television show Jim'll Fix It(1975-94), a popular television programme in which he arranged for the wishes of viewers, mainly
children, to come true He was also the first and last presenter of the
long-running BBC music chart show Top of the Pops. He is the subject of a police investigation
into allegations of sexual assault
made after his death.
During his lifetime, he was noted for his
fundraising and support of various charities and hospitals, in particular Stoke Mandeville Hospital near Aylesbury
in Buckinghamshire, Leeds General Infirmary and the Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire.
He was widely described as a philanthropist
and was honoured for his efforts. He was awarded the OBE in
1971 and was knighted in 1990. He is estimated to
have raised some £40 million for charity.
Fundraising,
sponsorship and voluntary work
Savile also worked as a volunteer at Leeds General Infirmary and at Broadmoor Hospital. In 1988 he was
appointed chairman of a task force set up to advise on governing Broadmoor.
Savile had his own room at both Stoke Mandeville and Broadmoor. It was later
reported that Savile regularly sexually abused vulnerable patients at these
hospitals.
From 1974 to 1988 he was the honorary president of Phab
(Physically Handicapped in the Able Bodied community).
Savile was also well known for running marathons (many of
them again for Phab, including their annual half marathon
around Hyde Park). He completed the London Marathon
in 2005, at the age of 79.
After his death in October 2011, claims surfaced that he
had sexually abused young teenage girls at the height of his fame in the 1960s
and 1970s. Police have since described him as a "predatory sex
offender", and there have been public calls for him to be stripped of the honours that he had received during his lifetime. In October
2012, the Metropolitan Police began an assessment of the
allegations, and set up a joint inquiry with the National Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children (NSPCC) into sexual assaults reported to have been carried
out by Savile over four decades. Investigations also began into past practices
at some of the places where he had worked, including the BBC and hospitals.
On 30 September 2012, it was reported by UK newspapers
that up to ten women stated that they had been sexually molested or raped by
Savile during the 1960s and 1970s. One of the alleged
victims was reported to have been aged 14 at the time. The ITV1 documentary Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile
was broadcast on 3 October 2012. It was researched and presented by former
police detective Mark Williams-Thomas,
The Metropolitan Police stated on 4 October 2012
that their Child Abuse Investigation Command would lead a
process of assessing the allegations, which was "not an investigation at
this stage". On 12 October 2012 they announced that they have received 340
lines of enquiry, are dealing with 40 potential victims, and have recorded 12
allegations of sexual offences which date back to 1959.
The question is this – how did he get away with child sex
abuse for more than 40 years? But once the truth comes out there is no going
back
A memorial plaque was placed on the wall of Savile's
former home in Scarborough, but was removed in 2012 after it was defaced with
graffiti. A wooden statue of Savile installed at Scotstoun Leisure Centre in Glasgow
was removed around the same time. A sign on a footpath in Scarborough
bearing Savile's surname was removed. On 9 October 2012, the headstone of
Savile's grave was removed, with his family citing "respect [for] public
opinion". The headstone was broken up and sent to a landfill. (see Sun
11 October 2012)
Our comment – can this happen in Hindusthan?
1.2 Domestic violence in Britain
BBC News – Radio 4 /
Tuesday 21 May 2013. Once again a horrific crime was reported.
Essex: Police
Criticised Over Maria
Stubbings Murder
The Independent Police Complaints Commission says there's a case to answer for misconduct against three Essex officers after a woman was murdered by her ex boyfriend. Convicted killer Mark Chivers strangled Maria Stubbings in December 2008 at her home in Chelmsford.
This second report
from the IPCC finds the force missed a large number of opportunities to
proactively safeguard Maria and her son. It also says the failings of
Essex Police went far wider than the inaction of the three individuals. Marc
Chivers was jailed after assaulting her in July, months after first meeting
her. The IPCC reports although Maria was offered protection while he was
inside for that assault - the support just wasn't there when he got out that
October. She was murdered just before Christmas 2008.
In a statement,
Essex Police says it has accepted the findings of the second report into
the murder of Maria Stubbings and the Chief Constable has offered to meet her
family to apologise for its
failings. The force says the IPCC report shows a combination of factors
including gaps in the law, human error, missed opportunities and
organisational failures
contributed to her murder.
Three officers
identified in the report as having failed in their duties have been subject to
management action in agreement with the IPCC and significant changes to the
policing of domestic abuse have taken place since Maria Stubbings death in
2008.
Chief Constable
Stephen Kavanagh said: "There is
much being done, both internally, and externally with partners to combat
domestic abuse in Essex. It is one of the biggest challenges we face - every
day we deal with an average of 80 incidents, each one complex.
Our comment- Why
Indian Mass media is always silent on such issues?
1.3 What Really Died at Auschwitz (concentration camp)?
An article written by Spanish writer Sebastian Vilar Rodriguez and published in a Spanish newspaper on Jan. 15, 2011 is being circulated among our friends.
In short the author says -
We killed
six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz
we burned a culture, thought, creativity and talent. The contribution
of Jews is felt in all areas of life: science, art,
international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world. These
are the people we burned.
We opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and
ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty,
due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.
They have blown up our trains and turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the
third world, drowning in filth and crime. Shut up in the apartments
they receive free from the government, they plan the murder
and destruction of their naive hosts. What a terrible mistake was
made by miserable Europe. (France alone has 6 million Muslims)
A lot of Americans have
become so insulated from reality that they imagine America can suffer
defeat without any inconvenience to them. Recently, the UK
debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it
'offends' the Muslim population which claims it never occurred. It is
not removed as yet. However, this is
a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and
how easily each country is giving in to it.
How many years will it be before the attack on the World Trade Center 'NEVER
HAPPENED' because it offends some Muslim in the United States?
Our
comments - But have they woken up? NO. Their deep rooted anti-Hindu hostility
has not diminished. Europeans dream of disintegrating Hindusthan by sending
more and more Missionaries there.
1.4 Lord Meghanad Desai questions 'suitability' of
Gita in modern India
On 19 Septmber 2012 a friend from America informed us of a
speech by Meghanand Desai who said: "The Bhagavad Gita has many
flaws and certain questions should be raised by us.” Desai added that there are certain elements in the text of the
Bhagavad Gita which are not suitable in modern India. The Professor Emeritus
said: "In the text, it has been asked to do karma without thinking about
the consequences. How can it be said that we should not think about the
consequences? Whatever we do affects others too. For example, if I start
drinking and then driving without thinking about the consequences, I might
kill many people on the road."
At the lecture organised by Nalanda University, he also talked about women and
observed that women had not been mentioned in the text anywhere.
Our comments - Strange, Desai says nothing about
suitability of the Koran and the Bible. He must be a Hindu.
1.5
Australian PM apologies to un-married mothers Sky News – 21 March 2013 / Australian
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has
apologised
to up to 150,000 mostly unmarried mothers who were forced to give up their
children for adoption during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
The
historic national apology was delivered in front of more than 800 people, many
of them in tears, in Parliament House in Canberra. The apology was recommended
a year ago by a committee in the Australian Parliament's upper house, the
Senate, that investigated the impacts of the now discredited policies.
"We apologise," Ms Gillard said. "We
acknowledge your loss and grief."
The
women were either tricked or forced to sign adoption papers by medical and
welfare professionals who believed it was in the best interest of the babies.
There were even cases of women being strapped to their hospital beds or sedated
as their newborn children were taken away.
Gaye
Kelly gave birth aged just 15 and was told if she did not sign adoption papers
her new baby girl would end up in an orphanage. She previously told Sky News:
"I was crying and crying and crying and then the nurse came and said
'what's up with you?' - and I said 'I don't want to give my baby up for
adoption, I want to keep my baby' - and she snapped at me: 'Girls like you
don't keep their babies, stop being silly, pull yourself together' and she
about faced and just left." Gaye tracked down - and was eventually
reunited with - her daughter but only after years of depression and heartache.
"This
apology is extended in good faith and deep humility," Ms Gillard said.
"It will be a profound act of moral insight by a nation searching its
conscience." Ms Gillard said it took courage to say sorry.
"What
we see in that mirror is deeply shameful and distressing," she said.
"A story of suffering and unbearable loss."
In
2008 the then Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised to the so-called stolen
generation, thousands of aboriginal children removed from their parents over
many decades.
Now
Australia is saying sorry again, not only to mothers but to adoptees who were
removed from their natural mothers.
Other
countries, including the UK where similar adoptions were carried out, are
considering taking a similar step.
Our comments – And yet we were told that in 1884 Pandita
Ramabai Ranade of Pune saw how humanely unmarried mothers were treated by
Church Clergy in England. As a result she embraced Christianity. We know for
fact that even as late as 1964 unmarried mothers in Britain were treated as mad
and were given electric shocks.
1.6 Savarkar is for Marathi people only. 3rd Savarkar Sahitya Sammelan was held in
London on 20 April 2013. Previously it was held in Mauritius and Dubai. What
had these two places to do with Savarkar? Nothing. It is astonishing that no
Sammelan was held in Andaman jail where Savarkar was imprisoned for 11 years.
Why? Transport is easily available to Andaman Islands. Worst still there were
no Non-Marathi participants for the three gatherings. Why blame Gandhi/ Nehru
and Congress for being anti-Savarkar? When one considers money spent by each
participant on such gatherings one wonders why money is not raised for
translating entire works of Savarkar into English.
1.7 Hindusthan
(India) has become a Banana Republic
1.7.1 Muslims in position of authority Our friend Narain Kataria of America has informed us, “ Trampling upon
the sentiments of the majority of Indians Mrs Sonia Gandhi has quietly handed
over most crucial and extremely important portfolios to her pet individuals
from Muslim and Christian communities and placed them in highly sensitive
positions in the government. Here are some examples -
Salman Khurshid, Foreign Minister of India;
E.
Ahmad, India’s Minister for External Affairs; Syed
Akbarddin, the spokesman for the Ministry of External Affairs; Minority
Affairs Minister K Rahman Khan
Chief of Intelligence Bureau, Syed Asif Ibrahim; Chief
Justice of India, Altmas Kabir;
Attorney
General of India, Goolam E. Vahanvati; Vice President
of India Mohammed Hameed Ansari; Health Minister Gulam Nabi Aza;,
Union Minister Farooq Abdullah, Sonia Gandhi’s political Advisor Ahmad
Patel all are Muslims. Former
Chief Election Commissioner of India, S.Y. Qureshi was also a Muslim. Sonia
Gandhi, her son Rahul Gandhi, Defense Minister A.K. Anthony, Air Chief Marshall
Norman Anil Kumar Browne all are Christians.
The Governor of Jharkhand Syed Ahmed and the
Governor of Uttrakhand Dr. Aziz Qureshi are both Muslims. There are
unconfirmed rumors that several Congress Ministers and leaders like Ambika
Soni, Manish Tiwari, Anand Sharma, Ajit Jogi, masquerading under
Hindu names are also converts to Islam or Christianity.
Several Muslims officials have been posted in very
sensitive posts in CBI. For example the CBI’s Director of Prosecution
Abdul Aziz was re-employed through a proposal moved by the Department of
Personnel Training (DoPT) after his retirement in July when his status was
equivalent to that of a Joint Secretary. CBI’s Special Director Salim Ali
was specifically appointed to lead the investigation with an eye to fix Narendra
Modi and degrade, demonize and demoralize other Hindu officials of IB.
In this connection, it would be worthwhile to note that
in appointing Sayed Asif Ibrahim as Chief of Intelligence Bureau, the
government had overlooked three officers (Hindus) one year senior to
him in the Indian Police Service.
(http://www.rediff.com/news/special/asif-ibrahim-as-ib-chief-reading-between-the-lines/20121126.htm)
It would not be out of place
to mention here that Sonia Gandhi has composed a National Advisory Council
(NAC). Most of its members are far left guys, leftists, communists,
Muslims and Christians. They have come up with a bill “Prevention of
Communal and Targeted Violence Bill”. The aim of this Bill is also to gag the voice of
Hindus in their own country and terrorize them into submission.
The appointment of Najeeb
Jung, last week, a Muslim Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamis, as
the Lt. Governor of Delhi has sent shock waves all over the Hindu world.
Hindus look at it as a horrendous scheme to promote Islam in India.
Here are some examples of
harassment of patriotic Hindu Police officials. In the past six months
the CBI enquiry spearheaded by Muslim CBI officials has methodically
victimized the Hindu police officers, beginning with the arrest and
incarceration of G.L. Singhal. On June 4, 2013 suspended IPS officer D.
G. Vanzara was arrested by the CBI, from Sabarmati Central Jail in
Ahmedabad, after he was transferred a day ago from a Mumbai Jail, where he was
lodged as he is an accused in Sohrabuddin Shaikh encounter killing case of
2005. Arrest warrants are pending for Gujarat Additional DGP (Crime) P.P.
Pandey, who is in hiding, though he has filed an appeal in the Supreme Court to
get the FIR cancelled. On May 2013, IB
Special Director Rajendra Kumar summoned for interrogation.
Our comments - This is exactly what Savarkar
predicted and warned in 1947! But we secular Hindus considered him a nutter.
See Savarkar’s biography by Balarao Savarkar – Sangata Parva (last chapter),
1986, p12
1.7.2 Shinde for fast-track courts for
jailed Muslim youths, seeks their numbers from states
IANS / Wednesday, May 15, 2013 AT 11:30 PM (IST)
Tags: Shinde, Muslim youths,
The central government has sought from all states the
number of Muslim youths involved in terror cases lodged in jails, home minister
Sushilkumar Shinde said on Wednesday while favouring fast track courts to deal
with such cases.
Responding to a query on the need to set up fast track courts to deal with
cases of Muslim youths held on terror charges, Shinde said his ministry has
sent an advisory to states to find out how many such inmates were in prison and
for how many years they had been there.
"We are trying to find out. It will take some time," Shinde said,
adding that the centre was in
favour of states setting up fast track courts.
Our comments – Law and Order is a state issue. What has
Central Government to do with it?
1.7.3 Congress wants special courts for Muslims
Our friend Sandhya Jain sent us the
following E Mail on 25 March 2013
The
Congress-led UPA has stooped to a new low in its quest to capture the
increasingly uncertain Muslim vote-bank, with a mischievous and deplorable move
to set up 'special courts' for members of the minority community who have been
"falsely implicated" in terror cases. Apart from being a stunning
denunciation of police and intelligence forces in the country, this raises some
fundamental questions.
To begin with, how does one arrive at a definition of "false
implication" until and unless a trial is held, the offence or offences
against the accused proved, and the verdict pronounced by a court? To be sure,
it is the legal defence
of all defence advocates that the accused has/have been 'falsely implicated,
but for a Government to set up special courts for 'false cases is to presume
that the normal judicial process is either biased against the accused or
otherwise incapable of delivering justice.
On March 24, 2013, a major national daily reported that the Union Ministry of
Home Affairs has agreed to set up special courts to conduct speedy trials in
cases where 'innocent youth' of the Muslim community are falsely implicated in
terror cases, arrested and jailed.
Minority Affairs Minister K Rahman Khan wrote to Home Minister Sushil Kumar
Shinde with this proposal last month, pointing out that in some cases, young
men were incarcerated for 10 to 14 years as under-trials and then finally
acquitted by the courts. Shinde has agreed, though as yet no time-frame has
been decided for setting up the courts. The proposal includes 'strong action'
against officers responsible for filing such cases. The Home Ministry will also
take up cases of innocents charged with terror cases with the States when they
are brought to its notice.
The special courts are a long-standing demand of Muslim organisations such as the All India
Muslim Personal Law Board, which have also been demanding compensation for
victims and lodging of cases against officers who have falsely implicated them.
This has been supported by opposition parties such as the Samajwadi Party,
which has a major stake in the Muslim vote-bank. The party's government in
Uttar Pradesh released 400 minority youth from the State's jails earlier this
month.
A sensational case of false accusation pertains to journalist Muthiur Rehman
Siddiqui and DRDO scientist Aijaz Ahmed Mirza, who were arrested by the
Bangalore Police for involvement in an alleged terror plot seven months ago. On
March 5 this year, they were given statutory bail and released after the
National Investigation Agency failed to file charges against them.
Rahman Khan proposed that the special courts dispose of cases within a year;
compensate and rehabilitate innocent victims, and take action against
responsible officers where the court finds the evidence concocted or
misrepresented to implicate innocents. While agreeing to special courts, Shinde
pointed out that issues of compensation would have to be decided on individual
merit, as sometimes acquittal could happen due to lack of sufficient evidence
to prove the charges or because of improper investigation. Hence, the matter
will be left to the courts.
While it is nobody's case that innocent persons of any group should be targeted and falsely
implicated in terror or other crimes, the setting up special courts for cases
against a particular community possibly infringes Article 14 of the
Constitution, which ensures 'Equality before Law and Equal Protection before
the Law', as this benefit is being denied to other citizens.
As an example one may site the case of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur and others
accused in the Malegaon bomb blasts of 2008, who have been languishing in
jail for four and half years, without any serious movement in the case. Worse,
the Sadhvi has consistently been refused bail even after being diagnosed with
cancer, though bail and parole (including two holidays abroad) were whimsically
given to the Italian marines accused of murdering to Indian fishermen off the
Kerala coast last year. This magnanimity exploded in the Apex Court's face when
the Italian government said it would not send the men back. It took some
desperate diplomacy, including shameful promises, by a seriously embarrassed
government to bring the men back.
In the case of Sadhvi Pragya, a look at the prosecution document shows that the
main allegation against her is of allegedly providing a scooter to the
absconding accused and providing two men to Col. Prasad Shrikant Purohit. Both
allegations are 'disproved; by the prosecution document itself, as she had no
control over her vehicle for over two years prior to the blast. This is amply
reflected in the statement of a witness and the Investigating Officer (IO) who
records that Ramji was using her two-wheeler for more than two years prior to
the blast.
So, does not the charge sheet itself show prima facie that she is being
'falsely implicated? Even if she is guilty, even if all the accused are guilty,
why is the Maharashtra government not capable of conducting a speedy trial
against the Sadhvi, Col. Purohit, Dayanand Pande and others?
If special courts are reserved only for the Muslim community, it is not
tantamount to saying that terror has a religion because all terrorists belong
to one religion only? Supposing the next demand is that the courts be staffed
exclusively by members of one community?
What about persons accused and jailed for being Naxalites? Will they have the
right to access the special courts?
Congress is clearly establishing a very dangerous and unwarranted precedent
which has the potential to fragment the nation and create serious internal
fissures in the judicial fraternity as well. The special courts should be
re-designated as fast track courts and mandated to deal exclusively with terror
cases, regardless of the ethnic or religious affiliation of the accused.
1.7.4 German bakery blast: Lone arrested Himayat Baig convicted in Pune
PTI / Tuesday, April 16, 2013 / Tags: German bakery blast, Himayat Baig
The sole person arrested for his alleged involvement in the
2010 Pune German bakery case was today convicted by a Sessions court on charges
of being involved in the blast. Mirza Himayat Baig (30), a resident of Beed,
was convicted on charges of being a conspirator in carrying out the blast in
the bakery that was packed with customers, killing 17 persons, including
five foreign nationals, reported CNN-IBN.
The operative part of the
judgement will be made available later and the prosecution and defence will argue on the
quantum of sentence. The arguments over the quantum of punishment will now take
place on 18 April.
Sessions Court Judge N P Dhote held Baig, a resident of Beed district in
Maharashtra, guilty under sections 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder), 435
(mischief by fire or explosive substances), 474 (forgery), 153(A) (promoting
enmity between different groups on ground of religion, race, place of birth,
language and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony) and 120(B)
(criminal conspiracy) of IPC.
He was also convicted under various sections of Unlawful Activities Prevention
Act and Explosive Substances Act. Special public prosecutor in the case Raja
Thakre said that the court had granted time for Baig and his counsel to finalise their arguments
over the quantum of sentence to be awarded. “Under five sections that he has
been convicted, the maximum penalty is the death sentence. Therefore, time has
been given for them to decide their final arguments,” Thakre told reporters
outside the court.
The state Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) arrested Baig on 7 September, 2010.
Investigators say they found 1,200 kg of explosives from his home in Udgir in
Latur district.
During the course of the argument, the defence maintained that Baig was falsely implicated by the ATS
in the case. They claimed that Baig was attending a wedding in Aurangabad on
the day of the blast. The prosecution has said in court that the blast was
planned at a meeting in Colombo in 2008, where Baig was trained to make a bomb.
He assembled the bomb at his cyber cafe in Udgir.
The charge sheet filed in court names five others as conspirators – Mohsin
Choudhary, Yasin Bhatkal, Riyaz Bhatkal, Iqbal Bhatkal and Faiyaz Kagzi. However,
all of them are still at large.
The blast conspiracy was allegedly hatched in Colombo in Sri Lanka in 2008 and
the blast took place in 2010. It was around 7 pm on 13 February, 2010, when the
powerful blast ripped through the eatery packed with visitors. Five foreigners
were among the 17 killed in the terror attack — the first after the 26/11
attacks of Mumbai in 2008.
It was the first major terror strike in Pune that dented its reputation of
being a safe, peaceful city. The ATS had claimed it to be the handiwork of
Indian Mujahideen and Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Our
comments – but people of Pune are proud that performances of the notorious
drama Ghashiram Kotwal continue unabated for more than 40 years. A year ago,
Sharad Pawar, the Brahmin hater congratulated the Brahmin actors of the drama!
1.7.5 Pakistani troops violate ceasefire
again along the line of control
PTI / Saturday, June 01, 2013
In yet another ceasefire violation, Pakistani troops fired
at Indian positions along the line of control in Nawgam sector of Kashmir
valley but there was no causality.
"Pakistani troops opened firing on our positions this evening, using small
firearms and RPGs in Nawgam sector," an army spokesman said here. He said
the Indian Army exercised total restraint and did not retaliate to the
unprovoked firing from the other side. (they have always done that). The
spokesman said vigil along the LoC has been increased as the ceasefire
violations could be a diversionary tactic to push militants into the Valley
from Pakistan occupied Kashmir. This is the third ceasefire violation within a
week by Pakistani troops along the LoC in Kashmir, he said.
1.7.6
India POWs still languishing in Pakistani prisons.
On 12 May
2013 Global Marathi gave us shocking news. Indian officers and jawans captured
during Bangladesh liberation war of 1971 are still languishing in jails in
Pakistan.
Hemant
Mahajan reported, “Among those captured were 6 Majors, 1 Commander, 2 Flying
Officers, 5 Captains, 15 Flight Lieutenants, 2 Second Commander, 3 Squadron
Leaders 1 Navy pilot, 3 lans-naiks and 3 soldiers.
Father of
Major Ashok Kumar Suri has proof that his son is still in Pak prison. In a
letter smuggled by Major Suri it is mentioned that there are 20 Officers along
with him. Mohanlal Bhaskar who was released from Paki prison has stated that he
saw Wing Commander H S Gill. Flt Lieutenant Vijay Vasant Tambe was captured
alive by Paki forces and reported in Pakistan Observer on 5 December 1971.
During investigation of Bhutto’s execution it was revealed that Indian POWs
were in the same prison and were tortured.
Names of
some Maratha officers
Flt
Lieutenant Ashok Dhavale (Pune), Flt Lieutenant Manohar Purohit, Flt Lieutenant
Shreekant Mahajan.
Our
comments - When 94,000 Paki POWs were released by Government of India it did
not care for return of Indian POWs. And yet we have people who praise Indira
Gandhi and Field Marshall Manekshaw to the hilt. It is a disgrace that Vajpayee
did nothing for their release when in power and L K Advani never raised
question about them in Indian Parliament. Present generation feels no shame in
playing Cricket with Pakistan. What a disgrace!!
1.7.7
Bankrupt Britain advises (Hindu) India on human rights.
‘Yesterday
in Parliament’ 1 or 2 March 2013. BBC Radio4 around 08:30
During this
programme it was stated that the British Parliament has advised India to
abandon the death penalty.
Our M M
singh does not have guts to tell Britain to mind her own business.
Of course,
Britain does not have courage to tell Islamic countries to stop stoning women
to death. She does not advise America or China to abandon the death penalty.
But she can advise (Hindu) India.
1.7.8
Now UN advises India on her security policy
Following
letter is self explanatory
DIVERSITY-USA
A National Democratic Think Tank on Minority Issues
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Mr. Ban Ki-moon
Secretary General
United Nations Organization Date 12, 2012
UN HQ NY, NY
Sub: United Nations
betrayal of the people of Jammu & Kashmir, India
Ref: UN demand that
India repeal the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from militant and terrorist infested areas.
Dear Secretary General,
In a recent public statement Mr. Christof Heyns, a U.N Special Rapporteur, has demanded that India repeal its security related law, “The Armed Forces Special Powers Act” (AFSPA), from militant and terrorist infested areas in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) State and in its other States in the North Eastern Region since such laws had no role in a democracy. Like scores of other UN officials who previously visited Kashmir from the West Mr. Heyns also ignored the existing ground realities and favored Jihadists and terrorists as against the people craving for peace and normalcy. Here we would like to deal with J&K since the UN has been debating and dealing with the Kashmir issue ever since the formation of India and Pakistan. To state briefly, the role of the world body relevant to this issue during the past 63 years has been disgustingly poor, irrational and hugely guided by the wishes and desires of the cold war antagonists. In its latest initiative asking India to repeal AFSPA, which in actuality means restoring the freedom of terrorists, Islamists and militants, the UN has betrayed the peace loving people of Kashmir who have waited for more than six decades for the removal of occupation of their territory by the external aggressors that include Pakistan and China and for unification of the State. The patriotic people of Kashmir have suffered enormous losses of lives and properties at the hands of terrorists yet the UN wants India to restore their freedom. It is clear from this policy that the UN does not hesitate to support terrorists, Islamists, murderers and plunderers if its manipulators ask it to do so.
Sincerely yours
Dr. Jagan N Kaul, Chair
Dr Pravin Togadia of VHP commented ( drtogadia@gmail.com)
Rather than dismissing the total UN report outright that ridicules Bharat’s democracy, Union Home Minister in an official statement says, “There are some positive & some negative statements in the UN report. Certain sections in AFSPA need amendments…”
1.7.9
Kashmir gone?
In
March/April 2013 a British tourist was killed in Shrinagar. One European
suspect was arrested. But did you watch the TV news? All the reporters said –
this happened in Indian administered Kashmir.
Look at
earth globes made for use of school children in Britain. Kashmir is shown as a
separate state (not even a disputed territory!) Manmohan Singh does not mind.
1.7.10
Hindu trust denied tax exemption
On 2 January
2013 our friend Sandhya Jain sent us the following shocking news.
URL: http://www.niticentral.com/2013/01/hindu-trust-denied-tax-exemption.html
In sharp
contrast to the solicitude shown towards religions of foreign origin, income
tax authorities are discriminating against Hindu temples, while tribunals which
exercise quasi-judicial powers are introducing bizarre claims into their
decision-making process making a mockery of the Constitution and the country’s
native majority community.
In 2008, the
Shiv Mandir Devsthan Panch Committee Sanstan, Nagpur, applied for income tax
exemptions under section 80G(5)(vi) of the Income-tax Act, 1961. Giving details
of income, it listed its total expenditure on various items. The Commissioner
Income Tax said the expenses for building maintenance, free food, festival
prayer & daily expenses related to religious object and only a small sum of
Rs 6,700 was incurred for non-religious objects. He ruled that as the
expenditure on religious object exceeds five per cent of the total income of
the assessee trust, it was not doing ‘charitable activities’ and was working
for the benefit of a particular religious community and was hence not entitled
to exemption.
The Devsthan
Committee moved the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, Nagpur, saying that the
temple is open to everybody irrespective of caste or creed or even without
faith in the deities. The tribunal’s order (vide judicial member DT Garasia and
accountant member PK Bansal) gave the trust the desired exemption, but
seriously compromised the dignity and unity of the Hindu community. It is also
at odds with the Constitution and established jurisprudence of over a century,
and deserves correction.
The order of
October 2012 pronounced that “Hinduism is a way of life of a civilised society” and “as such is not a
religion”. It cited TT Kuppuswamy Chettiar vs. State of Tamil Nadu (1987) 100
LW 1031 wherein it was held, “The word ‘Hindu’ has not been defined in any of
the texts nor in judgement made law. The
word was given by British administrators to inhabitants of India, who were not
Christians, Muslims, Parsis or Jews. The alleged Hindu religion consists of
four castes — Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Sudras belonging ultimately to
two schools of law, mitaksharas and dayabhaga. There is, however, no religion
by the name ‘Hindu’. It only shows that so-called Hindu religion has been
called for convenience.”
The tribunal
declared that ‘Hindu’ consists of a number of communities having different gods
who are worshipped in a different manner, different rituals, different ethical
codes, who have little in common except a “vague faith in what may be called
the fundamentals of the Hinduism”. It said, the word ‘community’ means a
society of people living in the same place, under the same laws and regulations
and who have common rights and privileges. This applies to Christianity or
Islam but not to Hinduism. Hence, it cannot be said that Hindu is a separate
community or a separate religion.
According to
the tribunal, the pertinent clause in the law stipulates that the institution
or trust must not be for the benefit of any particular religious community or
caste. It ruled that the trust was not promoting any particular religion, and
that Lord Shiva, Hanumanji, Goddess Durga do not represent any particular
religion and are merely regarded to be the super power of the universe. On this
bizarre logic, it granted the trust the desired exemption.
The tribunal’s
ruling is clearly faulty and insulting to the Hindu majority. It is well known
that the word ‘Hindu’ is a Persian mispronunciation of Sindhu (Indus), and
‘Hindustan’ the land beyond this river. Though originally geographical in
nature, the word Hindu had an ancient lineage centuries before the British
advent. When monotheistic faiths entered India and practiced exclusivity, the
term came to be applied to the Sanatana Dharma and its native adherents.
Sanatana Dharma is inclusive and respectfully accommodates all the village,
jati/ kula, regional, and pan-Indian gods and goddesses. The proper equivalent
of caste is jati, and Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Sudras are not castes
but varnas (categories of social
organisation).
The tribunal
noted that all Hindus follow one of two schools of law – mitakshara and
dayabhaga, and this is the crux of the matter. The tribunal should know that
Hindu religious customs were codified into law by the British, and Hindu law is
an intrinsic part of the country’s legal framework, which is why we have the
Hindu Code Bill and the Hindu Marriages Act. Hence the argument that ‘Hindu’ is
not a religion is legally untenable. Second, if the myriad Hindu groups follow
either the mitakshara and dayabhaga school of law, it debunks the claim that
Hindu is not a distinct religion or people.
The tribunal
has asserted that the plethora of jatis (clans claiming descent from a common
ancestor) that worship specific village deities (grama devata), clan gods (kula
devata), territorial deities (sthan devatas), personal gods (istha devata), or
regional deities (such as Jagannath of Puri), all of whom are worshipped with
different prayers and rituals, do not comprise the Hindu religion and people.
Actually, all divinities in Hindu tradition are linked to the major gods of the
pan-Indian pantheon. Hinduism’s greatness lies in not erasing the numerous
natal traditions to create a monotheistic edifice with uniformity of worship
and custom. To pronounce that there is no Hindu religion or community is a form
of iconoclasm as it privileges creeds that are not native to the soil.
It is learnt
that the Income Tax Department is likely to challenge the tribunal’s decision
before the High Court. Hindus fighting to retain the tax exemption for the
trust must fight for honourable recognition
as the native religion and civilisation ethos of
India.
1.7.11
Rich India gives $10 billion to Europe
On 22 June 2012 we received many E mails on this subject.
Here is the summary
What
has motivated Dr Manmohan Singh, Indian PM to announce India's
$
10 Billion / Rs.56,000 Crore offer to bail out sick European economies? (this
amount was donated without any discussion in Indian Parliament)
If the
opposition is so serious of this unilateral decision of PM to donate such huge
sum of US$-10 Billion to the affluent EU (to bail out countries like Greece),
when the Centre is starving States of the needed funds to develop
infrastructure like power-plants etc, or to bail out Mamta of WB of the huge
debts accumulated by earlier CPM Govts, all these opposing groups should come
together and challenge the Govt. with a No Confidence Motion for the
anti-National action by the PM.
We
continue to be victims of western greed and profligacy. ‘Rising India’
unfailingly rises to the bait when it comes to the West’s financial sharks. Be
it when President Obama comes asking for $ 16 billion worth of orders for US
companies or when the PM goes to the G20 Summit, they ask and we give.
Our
comments – How much did China contribute for the Eurozone crisis? Nothing!
1.7.12
US court summons Congress party on 1984 riots case
In
2011 and 2012 we received many E Mails on this subject
http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.in/2012/06/us-court-summons-congress-party-on-1984.html
NEW YORK: A US court has issued summons to India's Congress party to answer
charges of "conspiring, aiding, abetting and carrying out organized
attacks on Sikh population of India in November 1984."
The US district court for the southern district of New York issued the summons
on Tuesday in a class action law suit filed by Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), a US
based community group along with several Sikh survivors of the 1984
attacks.
The compliant against Congress alleges that in November 1984 the
"organized killing" of Sikhs took place only in states where Congress
was in power, according to SFJ legal advisor Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.
According to the government of India's record a total of 3296 Sikhs were killed
while a total of 35,535 claims for deaths and injuries were received throughout
India, he said.
But "The gravity, scale and specially the organized nature of these
attacks was concealed by the Indian governments' portraying them as 'November
1984 Anti-Sikh Riots of Delhi,'" Pannun said.
These attacks were neither "riots" nor were they confined to Delhi
alone. In fact, during November 1984, Sikhs were attacked in 18 states and more
than 100 cities of India in an identical manner and the attackers were led by
Congress (I) leaders, the complaint alleged. Indian National Congress, the
political party in power then and now, committed the crime of Genocide against
Sikhs as defined in Article 2 of UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment
of the Crime of Genocide, 1948, it said.
The government of India, by painting the attacks on Sikhs in November 1984 as
"riots" instead of "Genocide" and by failing to punish the
leaders of Congress (I), violated its duties under Article 1 the Genocide
Convention, Pannun said.
Seeking relief under Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) and Torture Victim Protection
Act (TVPA) is motivated by an interest in seeking some form of justice for the
victims of November 1984 Sikh Genocide, he said.
It will raise awareness to the international community regarding denial of
justice to the victims and is a means of holding parties in power accountable
for their gross violations of human rights - while also offering the potential
to deter future abuses, Pannun said.
The SFJ complaint also refers to the February 2011 discovery of "mass
grave" of Sikhs who were killed in November 1984 in Haryana.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/US-court-summons-Congress-party-on-1984-riots-case/articleshow/7608822.cms
Our comment – How can any US court have
jurisdiction over citizens of India? We have not heard any comments from
Government of India.
1.7.13 India to supply power and cattle to Pakistan On 25 January 2012 Sanjeev Nayyar of Mumbai sent us following E Mail.
DAWN editorial
Pakistan will soon issue tenders
for import of 500 MW from India. This article by Pervez H tells you how bad the
power situation in Pakistan is. Earlier UPA had permitted export of cattle from
India that has helped contain prices in Pakistan and is the source of raw
material for exports to Saudi Arabia.
It appears that India has both
surplus power and cattle!
http://tribune.com.pk/story/368395/americans-and-saudis-hands-off-pakistans-pipeline-please/
1.7.14 Counter-terrorism: US special forces stationed in
India, reveals Pentagon / PTI
On 2 March
2012 S Kalyanaraman sent us a disturbing E Mail
US Special Forces
teams are currently stationed in Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives, as
well as India, a top Pentagon commander has disclosed.
WASHINGTON: US Special Forces teams are currently stationed in five
South Asian countries including India as part of the counter-terrorism
cooperation with these nations, a top Pentagon
commander has disclosed.
These teams have been deployed by US Pacific Command as part of its effort to enhance their
counter-terrorism capabilities, in particular in the maritime domain,
Admiral Robert Willard, the PACOM Commander
said on Thursday.
"We have currently special forces assist teams - Pacific assist teams is
the term - laid down in Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka,
Maldives, as well as India," Willard told lawmakers at a Congressional
hearing in response to a question on co-operation with India on
counter-terrorism issues.
"We are working very closely with India with regard to their
counter-terrorism capabilities and in particular on the maritime domain but
also government to government, not necessarily DOD (department of defence) but other agencies assisting them in terms
of their internal counter-terror and counterinsurgency challenges,"
Willard said.
Willard said, Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (Let)
is a very dangerous organisation. It not only has very good operational security, but also a lot of
international design in terms of their aspirations.
"So it is a very important threat, and we're working very closely with the
nations in the region to help contain it," he said.
The PACOM commander was responding to a question from Congressman Joe Wilson as to what effort is being made to counter
threat from LeT. In his prepared statement, Willard told lawmakers that
the US and India are working together on contain LeT.
"Responsible for many attacks in India, including the horrific attacks
into Mumbai, LeT is
headquartered in Pakistan,
affiliated with al-Qaida and other VEOs, and contributes to terrorist
operations in Afghanistan and
aspires to operate against Asia, Europe and North America,"
Willard said.
He said Pacific Command's Indian Engagement Initiative that resourced and
hosted Mumbai counter terrorist specialists for training exercises and
exchanges throughout the US, together with capacity-building activities with
South Asian partners are mainly focused on containing LeT and contributing to
counter-terrorism self-sufficiency of the sub-region's militaries.
Willard said, South Asia as a whole is of major strategic importance to
the US. Anchored by India and containing major sea line of communication for
the transport of energy and other commerce to Asia and the America from
the Middle East and Europe, South Asia security partnerships
are increasingly vital to USPACOM's mission.
"South Asia is home to a confluence of challenges, including nuclear armed
rivals India and Pakistan, numerous transnational VEOs such as Lashkar-e-Taiba,
piracy, trafficking in narcotics and persons, disputed borders, and insurgent
movements that have plagued India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka," he said.
USPACOM engages throughout South Asia, assisting its militaries to counter and
contain VEOs such as LeT, cooperating in maritime security activities such as
countering piracy, conducting disaster response planning and training, and
exercising extensively, service to service, he said.
Bangladesh, he said, has emerged as a particularly effective partner in the
fight against terror, cooperating with India as well as the US to counter VEO
activity by actors such as LeT.
Further, Bangladesh's military is advancing its capabilities and contributes
broadly to UN peacekeeping operations, he added.
"Also, the Bangladesh army
is primarily responsible for and has achieved major advancements in the
protection of its citizens during the annual cyclone season and the inevitable
flooding and related disasters with which Bangladesh repeatedly contends,"
he said.
1.7.15 America poses its nose again
in Indian affairs
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 4:35 AM, S. Kalyanaraman wrote:
Anti-Hindu Bias at U.S. Commission / Washington Post, Aseem Shukla
This week, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom
(USCIRF) placed India on its "watch list." By this designation,
India, the largest multi-ethnic and multi-religious democracy joins a motley
cabal comprised of the likes of Afghanistan, Cuba, Egypt, Somalia and
Venezuela. Countries like Bangladesh, that so recently forced the exodus of
thousands of Hindus under an Islamist government, enjoy higher status with the
Commission than India. How is this possible?
The watch list defines those countries that the USCIRF believes are in danger
of being listed among the worst offenders of religious freedom. The government
of India reacted predictably to this rather dubious distinction,
"regretted" the action, said India guaranteed freedom of religion and
aberrations are dealt "within our legal framework, under the watchful eye
of an independent judiciary and a vigilant media."
A closer look at the India designation, however, shows the Commission's innate
bias, lack of insight, absence of understanding, and loss of credibility.
Worse, putting India on the watch list will be perceived as a self-defeating
and egregious act that needlessly complicates relations between two diverse,
pluralistic and secular democracies.
Created by Congress in 1998, the Commission can only advise the State
Department, which has its own list of countries of concern and amiably ignores
the Commission's recommendations. But the Commission's pronouncements still
carry the symbolism of an official government entity judging the fitness of
another's country's human rights record.
There is power in symbolism, and the attention credible human rights groups
bring to a cause gives succor to the oppressed and isolate the oppressor. But
therein lies the rub-- credibility- -and the USCIRF, in its composition,
methodology and ideology, is running low on gas.
Let's begin with the India chapter in the USCIRF report itself. In its 11
pages, the document details three specific episodes to justify slamming India:
Riots between Hindus and Muslims in the state of Gujarat that broke out after a
Muslim mob torched a train full of Hindu pilgrims killing 58 in 2002; riots
between Hindus and Christians that left 40 dead in the state of Orissa in 2008
after a Hindu priest, long opposed by fanatic missionaries, was murdered; a
brief incident where miscreants attacked "prayer halls" built by the
New Life Church -- a revivalist Protestant group -- that had distributed a
pamphlet denigrating Hindu Gods and Goddesses and allegedly engaged in mass
conversions of Hindus.
These three episodes in a country of a billion condemn an entire nation?
Incredibly, the Commission's India chapter paints a portrait of minority
religions on the run in India, pursued by a rabid Hindu majority!
A terrible riot that left hundreds of Muslims and Hindus dead and occurred
closer to a decade ago mandates an entire section, but the ongoing attacks by
jihadis in India's Kashmir targeting Hindus; several recent bombings in Hindu
temples carried out by Islamists, and Hindu temple desecrations in Christian
Goa; and an analysis into the incendiary results of attempts to convert Hindus
by coercive means fail any mention at all.
Indian Americans know the story of the subcontinent, and without an exploration
of these original sins that sparked riots, is to tell half a story--a problem
now wholly the Commission's.
India's history--beginning with the bloody partition of the country by religion
into East Pakistan (1947)/ Bangladesh (1971) and Pakistan in 1947 --created a
tinderbox of tension. But a land that gave birth to Hinduism and Buddhism--a
Mahatma Gandhi and a synergetic Muslim emperor like an Akbar centuries before
were both defined by these traditions-- offered a unique experiment that sought
to replicate what our own Founding Fathers did here: create a secular,
inclusive democracy.
That experiment is put to a singularly arduous trial by the machinations of
Pakistan that sees its identity as an Islamic nation threatened by India's
pluralism -- its adventures in Mumbai in 2008 and Kashmir massacres are
examples. And a small minority of Indian Muslims choose the ideology of the
Taliban rather than embrace that of the great Pashtun, Abdul Ghaffar Khan, the
patriot whose non-violent struggle against the concept of carving a piece of
India into Pakistan is legendary--reaction any Hindu groups form and trouble
brews. It is in this context that terrible riots too often validate devious
provocateurs- -and a point that sadly eludes the USCIRF.
Then there is the explosive issue of coerced conversions in India. Today, the
largest aid donor to India is not the government of any country. Nearly half a
billion dollars are sent to India under the auspices of Christian missionary
organizations. … The New York Times famously reported on evangelical tsunami
aid organizations disproportionately lavishing help on those communities that
agreed to convert. Legions of converts testify to the pressure they received in
the form of a job, medical aid, and education -- if they just agreed to change
their faith. Families are turned against families and communities -- a potent
brew that also raises tensions that can escalate. And when these evangelical groups
proclaim their work and their scores of new converts couched in colorful videos
at suburban mega-churches, the dollars flow and enrich itinerant missionary
mercenaries -- a fact blithely ignored by the Commission.
Examine the makeup of the USCIRF: Six members are Christian, one is Jewish
and one Muslim. Not a single non-Abrahamic faith is represented. The chair is
Vice President of the far-right Federalist Society, and another commissioner is
an executive at the evangelical Southern Baptist Convention, which publishes
material which calls Hinduism grand festival of Diwali "devil
worship."
Finally, Hindu Americans are wondering today if there is quid pro quo at work.
The USCIRF was denied a visa this month to travel to India for a
"fact-finding" trip. But the Commission was clear that it would not
visit Kashmir (because of threats by Muslim terrorists) nor the Northeast of
India where militant Christian terrorists are displacing Hindus and fighting
for separatism. It would not look into Hindu temple desecrations in Goa and
other attacks. It only wanted to visit Gujarat and Orissa. The Government of
India said, "thanks, but no thanks." The USCIRF was outraged at the
denial, and we can only ponder whether this was payback.
By Aseem Shukla | August 14, 2009; Associate Professor in urologic surgery at
the University of Minnesota medical school. / Co-founder and board member of
Hindu American Foundation.
Apr 29, 2011
Washington - The decision of the US Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) to place India in the 'Watch List' of countries along with Russia, Afghanistan and Cuba raises questions of bias and flawed methodology, a Washington-based eminent Hindu group said here.
"USCIRF's decision to club India in with a dozen or so of the worst violators of religious freedom in the world, while overlooking others, again raises questions of bias and flawed methodology," Prof Ramesh Rao of the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) alleged.
"The Commission's censure of India in 2011, despite that country's celebrated pluralism and absence of any significant recent religious discord -- despite provocative terror attacks -- seems based more on a disagreement over some states' effort to monitor coercive and forced conversions," Rao said.
The USCIRF decision, however, was not unanimous. Commissioners Felice Gaer and William Shaw dissented, describing the listing of India on the watch list as "ill-advised and inappropriate".
HAF was the only organization invited to testify by USCIRF that demanded India's removal from the watch list and its arguments were echoed by the two commissioners in their public dissent.
Besides Rao, the author of HAF's annual Hindu human rights report, Suhag Shukla, HAF's Managing Director and Legal Counsel testified before the USCIRF Commissioners in Washington last month arguing that India did not belong on the watch list due to its robust human rights mechanisms and independent judiciary that comprehensively probed incidents of inter-religious violence. They insisted that the "predatory proselytizing" supported by many US churches vitiates inter-religious harmony in India as well as other countries and must be considered in any comprehensive analysis of international religious freedom, a media release said.
"We are disappointed that the compelling evidence we presented did not move the majority of commissioners away from their deeply flawed assumptions about India," Shukla said. "But continuing to call out bias within quasi- government bodies, such as USCIRF, that lack Hindu, Buddhist, or Sikh representation and bringing to light the damaging role that predatory proselytization plays in inter-religious relations around the globe are guiding principles and imperative for HAF," Shukla said.
1.8 Universities in US & China are getting lessons on human values from the great
epic – Ramayana
Recently
we received an interesting E Mail from Sudhir Srinivasan <ar_sudhirkumar@yahoo.com>
Wise sayings from Valmiki's text are being adapted by
the universities teaching Hindi in China and are being made relevant to the
current world situations. At least six leading universities in China including
the prestigious Peking University, the Beijing Foreign Studies University as well as colleges in different
parts of China are teaching Hindi, which has become a popular foreign language
in China.
"We are taught verses from Ramayana as part of
literature classes at the university," said Eric Huidram, a student-turned
Chinese translator and interpreter from Manipur.
Several universities in the US have
included reading the Ramayana as part of comparative humanities and literature
sessions on Asia.
It was through the efforts of Chinese Indologist Ji
Xianlin that many Chinese learnt the language of Sanskrit and the epic
Ramayana. Ji, who founded the Department of Eastern Languages at Peking University,
translated Ramayana from the original Sanskrit to Chinese in poetry form. Ji's
translated work of Ramayana and Mahabharata will be displayed at the culture
park being planned at Kailash Mansarovar by India China Economic and Cultural
Council (ICEC).
"The Chinese version of Ramayana will be kept in
a library at the park for visitors and researchers to read. We will also run it
in the in-house television at the culture park," said Jagat Shah,
convenor, Kailash Mansarovar Cultural Park and chairman, ICEC-Gujarat. The
project is being handled by Shah from his office in Ahmedabad.
Besides a library, the cultural park will have a
museum, a research lab for studying the geographic impacts and the changes that
have occurred in Kailash Mansarovar over a period of time, a language centre to
learn about and share different cultures and religions and an information
centre.
At a recent summit to discuss about logistics of the
park, ICEC also invited people who have already visited Kailash Mansarovar to
understand the journey from the pilgrims'
point of view. [Of course, in Secular India Ramayana and Mahabharata are
communal]
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/To-learn-Hindi-Chinese-turn-to-Ramayana/articleshow/16961092.cms#write
1.9 Taj
Mahal
1.9.1 There
is a possibility of making a documentary on the subject. Godbole has been
approached by two persons. One from England other from Australia.
Let us wait
and see.
1.9.2
Historian Datto Vaman Potdar, Taj Mahal and Shivaji
In previous
Newsletters we have exposed hypocrisy and cowardice of this well known
historian when it came to Taj Mahal. Potdar was going to write a biography of
Shivaji but it was never completed. Dr Kamal Gokhale had written a book about
what that biography might have contained. On detailed examination we feel that
it was good that Potdar’s biography of Shivaji was not published.
He seems to
hold Shivaji in utter contempt. In days of Shivaji people of Hindusthan did
communicate with each other despite various languages. We did not require the
British Raj for that.
In Pune
Shivaji carried out a daring attack on Shaistakhan, uncle of Aurangzeb, on 5
April 1663. Shaistakhan would have died but escaped with 3 cut fingers. What does Potdar say? News of such
a minor nature (evadhi chhoti goshta) spread even in Assam.
Of course
when it came to Taj Mahal Potdar was tongue tied. For him two coronations of
Shivaji (one Vedic one Puranik) were more important matter of historical
research.
Historian D
2. SPECIAL LONDON
TOUR OF PLACES ASSOCIATED WITH INDIAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS
Godbole
conducted two tours.
First one
was on 1 June 2013. Initiative was taken by Mandar Kanitkar of Harrow. Eight
people participated. Two Marathi speaking, three Kannada speaking, three Hindi
speaking. Six were in their early 30s
Second one
was on 15 June 2013. Initiative was taken by Jaydeep Puranik of Croydon.
Fourteen people attended. All Marathi speaking. One doctor travelled from
Newcastle, rest came from London area. 7 were in their early 30s There were two
small children in prams and despite rains it went very well.
Some
excused on the grounds of ICC Champion Trophy between India and Pakistan on
that day!
In May 2013
Sau Shaila Dabhe from Paris came to London and wanted to see at least the house
where Savarkar lived (65 Cromwell Avenue, London N6). She with her 5 year old
son walked from Highgate tube station. She was pleased to talk to one female
resident of the house
* Savarkar
Sahitya Sammelan was held in London on 20 April. Despite repeated E Mails from
Godbole, the organisers showed no interest in Godbole’s Special London Tour.
So, which places did the participants visit? One of them from Nagpur replied –
We were shown the following places during his London visit.
The past residence of Swatantryaveer Savarkar
Madam Tussad's Wax Museum
Piccadilly Circus
Trafalgar Square
Buckingham Palace
Eye of London
& The City Tour of London.
Thus, the Savarkar-premis DID NOT visit the former residences of
Mazzini, Shyamji Krishnavarma,
Swami Vivekanand, Tilak or Dhingra.
They DID NOT visit University College where Dhingra studied for
Diploma in Civil Engineering.
They DID NOT visit Grays Inn where Savarkar studied law.
They DID NOT visit Pentonville prison where Dhingra and Udham
Singh were executed,
or Brixton prison where Dhingra, Savarkar, Udham Singh were
imprisoned.
They DID NOT visit Bow Street Police station and Magistrate's
Court
They DID NOT visit famous Caxton Hall
They DID NOT visit India Office (now Foreign and Commonwealth
Office)
They DID NOT visit Houses of Parliament where we paid tribute to
Savarkar in Committee Room No 10 during his birth centenary.
They DID NOT visit Imperial College, site of former Imperial
Institute where Dingra shot and killed Sir Curzon Wyllie.
Here
are some useful numbers
Maharashtra
Mandal, London has 700 life members. Every year each member gets at least 4 or
5 guests from Hindusthan. So, for last 25 years 70,000 people could have
participated in this Special Tour (700x25x4 = 70,000). How many did?
You
know the answer.
Why
curse Congress and Sonia Gandhi?
** Godbole has
received a query about the tour from an English student of Darwin College,
Cambridge
3. BEHAVIOUR OF
CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS TODAY
3.1 The Christians
Extent of Child sex abuse by Christian priest (especially Catholics) is astonishing. Every day brings some horrifying revelations. One needs to compile all the details over last ten years. Observer paper of 7 April 2013 carried an article in its supplement by Catherine Deveney. It reads – ‘God doesn’t like boys who cry’
A shocking investigation into the Catholic Church’s attitude to the victims of its abuser priest.
It is astonishing that even nuns had molested young boys and girls.
3.2 The Muslims.
3.2.1
Shias being massacred in Pakistan
http://dawn.com/2013/02/17/time-for-shias-to-leave-pakistan/
(18 February 2013)
/ Murtaza Haider |
It is a massacre alright. Sunni extremists, aligned with
Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, are killing Shias by the dozens in Pakistan.
I was yet to compile the list of the 106 (mostly Shias) killed in the twin
bomb blasts in Quetta last month, that the news of another
bomb blast killing yet another 84 (mostly Shias) in Quetta came
over the wire. As the Shia massacres in Pakistan gain momentum, the State,
including the Superior Courts, appear completely impotent.
In such troubling times some Shias may have a choice. They
may sit and wait for a messiah or relocate to a Shia-exclusive enclave
elsewhere, or to escape from Pakistan altogether. It may sound harsh, but it is
an inescapable truth that Pakistan has been run over by the extremists and life
is going to be even tougher for the minorities and moderate Sunnis in the near
future.
In the two consecutive months this year, bomb blasts have
killed hundreds of Shia Hazaras in Quetta, a Garrison town where each and every
street is manned by intelligence operatives. Still, the militants operate with
impunity. Saturday’s bomb blast, which has killed over 80 and injured hundreds,
occurred almost within a month of the last bomb blast that delivered even a
higher death toll.
Space is fast running out in Shia graveyards in Quetta. It
may be the time for Shias to relocate to protect their next generation.
Many naively believe that peace will prevail in Pakistan and
Afghanistan after the scheduled withdrawal of Nato troops from Afghanistan in
2014. While I vehemently oppose prolonging the stay of the NATO forces in the
region, still I believe this would spell even a bigger disaster for the
minorities in Pakistan. The battle-hardened veterans of the Afghan war will return
to Pakistan to target Shias, Ahmadis, and other religious minorities. Even
Barelvis may not escape the wrath of the mostly Deobandi-led militancy.
There are reasons for my pessimism. I saw the same happen in
the late nineties when the Afghan war veterans were pushed into
Indian-administered Kashmir. The resulting militancy left over 70,000 dead in
Kashmir but failed to make any tangible progress towards the resolution of the
dispute that has pitched India, Pakistan, and Kashmiris in a deadly decades old
conflict.
What looked like a gory beginning of a new millennium in
Indian-administered Kashmir, the security landscape however suddenly
transformed in 2002 when the militants started to relocate to Pakistan and
Afghanistan to join the Pashtun Taliban. The result was a decline in militancy
which is evident from the graph below that shows the drop in the number of news
reports about militancy in Srinagar starting after 2002.
A spike in militancy in Pakistan however is observed at the
same time when militancy subsided in Indian-administered Kashmir.
Shias and other religious minorities are the most targeted
in Pakistan. No city is safe anymore. The past few weeks saw the targeted killing
of Shia lawyers, doctors, and other professionals in Peshawar. Shia legislators
were shot dead in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi. While the State is
struggling to suppress violence against Shias, the deep-rooted support for
militants in society and the inadequate judicial system in Pakistan has created
the situation where hardly any terrorist has been convicted of sectarian or
other terrorism in Pakistan. In the past few years, several known militants
have been set free by the courts because of the archaic judicial system that is
incapable of convicting those involved in the modern-day guerilla warfare.
Some, not all, Shias have a choice. They can abandon the
death traps in Quetta and Peshawar by relocating to the Shia majority areas in
Karachi, Lahore, and other cities. A better option is to plead with the
embassies in Islamabad for asylum for the Shia, especially the Hazara, youth.
Seeking asylum abroad may not win the approval of Pakistan’s
superior courts, who have recently mocked those who held dual citizenship.
However, it is better to be alive in exile than to be splattered on a wall in
Pakistan.
Murtaza Haider, Ph.D. is the Associate
Dean of research and graduate programs at the Ted Rogers School of Management
at Ryerson University in Toronto.
Our comments – This is exactly what was foreseen by
Savarkar On 3 November 1927 he wrote
about atrocities on Hindus of North West Frontier Province. He wrote, “After
the Hindus were hounded out Sunnis said – These Shias are also Kafirs and must
be hounded. Once the process started Shias screamed murder and protested. Even
Khanbahadur Sir Sayyad Ismail condemned the atrocities of Sunnis. But the Shias
did not raise a finger when Hindus were being persecuted. Now it is their turn.
They do not accept Khalifs after Ali (adopted son of Prophet Mohammed). They
regard Ali as equal to Prophet Mohammed. So, Sunnis will cut their throats.
Where Shias are in majority they will turn on Sunnis.
When Shias are finished there will be bloodbath between
Sunnis and Sunnis as they too have many factions, sects and religious
practices. The well known slogan is Maro Badmash ko (kill the impure Muslim).
Such feuds had erupted in the past.
After Shias it will be the turn of Khojas who are despised
by both Shias and Sunnis. Many times Khojas are not allowed inside mosques of
Sunnis and Shias. The reason is this. Muslims detest any suggestion that any
human are re-incarnations of God. But Khojas believe that descendents of
Agakhan are re-incarnation of God and therefore they deserve devotion and
worship. Recently there has been a reform movement of Khojas. They have
published an open letter to Agakgan which was widely circulated. In it the
reformers say – Present Koran has so many objectionable portions.
Muslims say that Muhammed was the last Prophet. But Khojas
say that First Agakhan was also a Prophet and present Agakhan has stated that
it will take him six months to compile unrevealed Koran. Such words are quoted
by his followers and therefore they dispute which is the true Koran. That has
led to bitter dispute with Shias and Sunnis.