INDIAN INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH INTO TRUE HISTORY
NEWSLETTER NO. 45 OF
1. NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS
1.1
Rationalism of Veer Savarkar.
1.1.1
1.1.2 Shree Barjorbhai
Avari, on behalf of
1.2 Ayurveda
in
While in
Hindusthan on holiday in December 2005/January 2006 Godbole came across a paper
cutting. It read –
On behalf of
Dr Avinash
Bedekar had presented a paper on ‘haemorrhage during pregnancy due to mental
stress.’ He was given a gold medal for his paper.
Both Doctor
Khadilkar and Bedekar could not be present in
Dr P H Kulkarni
was in the chair. He said, “350 herbs found in
Ustad Usman Khan
said, “Aryuveda and Bharatiya music are gifts of our civilisation.
Professionals working in both fields can proudly say so in the world.”
Comment – Were
you aware of
1.3 Miracles
do happen.
1.3.1
Blind man ‘cured by his prayers.’
On
A blind man
claims he regained the sight in one eye through the power of prayer. John Jones
said he got down on bended knee before going to bed to ask for sight back. When
he woke up next day, his sight was restored. ‘It was a miracle. I am on cloud
nine,’ he added. The 74-year-old, from Warminster, Wiltshire, lost his left eye
as a child and was left totally blind by disease last year.
1.3.2 Power of
brotherly love
On
For five-year-old
Joshua Westwell, nothing seemed able to stop cancer attacking his body three
times in a row. Gruelling chemotherapy and radiography had failed to stop
tumours growing on his liver and lungs.
His parents Karen
and Paul were told there was little hope for him.
But when Mrs
Westwell fell pregnant, Joshua wished he could have a baby brother to play
with. And, since little Lewis arrived last August, he has been given a new
lease of life.
Joshua has
received the cancer all-clear and the bond with his brother has made him
stronger. Mrs Westwell, 25, of Bacup,
1.4
Visit to Hindusthan.
Mr and Mrs
Godbole visited Hindusthan in November/December 2005 and January 2006. They
stayed mostly in Pune, Thane, and Mumbai.
Very briefly Mr
Godbole did the following –
* Delivered
lectures at three places on how Indian History has been twisted.
(Institute for
Oriental studies, Thane - 2 December 05,
Yadnyavalka Ashram, Kalyan, 3 December 05, Dnyan Prabhodini, Pune, 1 January
06)
* Made a slide
show on his Special London Tour. (Kalyan, 3 December 05)
* Made two slide
shows on Taj Mahal: Facts and Fantasies.
(Prof Asnani’s
residence in Sindhi colony, Aundh, Pune - 4 December 05, Sarswat Colony, near Pune
Railway station, 10 December 05)
* Delivered a
lecture on “Some problems of working on London Underground Railway.” At the
Institution of Engineers.
In Pune, Godbole
met Shree Shyam Apte an old RSS worker, along with Ashok Athawale (a life long
friend). Shree Apte asked, “You have done some wonderful work. What next?”
Godbole replied,
“One person cannot do everything. I have done the basic research and have laid
down foundation. Any one can build on it.”
Shree Apte then
proposed to send copies of Godbole’s work to Bharat Itihas Sankalan Samiti,
which he did. And eventually Godbole and Athawale met Dr Hebalkar of the
Samiti. He requested Godbole to keep on sending his research work to him and he
will ensure that copies of relevant sections are distributed to appropriate
persons.
Already Godbole’s
work – British Historians, Muslims and Tragedy of India, has been distributed
to many scholars.
Shree Apte had
also suggested that slides of Godbole and Athawale should now be put on a CD.
One Mr Pawaskar came to know of Godbole’s work and he contacted Mr Revankar who
has put the slides of both Godbole and Athawale on a CD.
Some observations
–
* Huge network of
roads has been built, North-South (Shreenagar to Kanyakumari) East-West (
However, the
roads in the cities are in poor condition. Crossing roads is a nightmare. At
one time Mrs Godbole was escorted by a policeman! One of her relations was
knocked down while crossing road near her house and had to receive hospital
treatment for broken bones.
* Roads –saw
grass and shrubs being grown in the central reservations. This is quite good.
At times I even
saw men wearing orange shirts while working on maintenance of roads. This is
quite a good safety measure.
There are going
to be two serious side effects– Railway travel is affected. If one can travel
faster by road, why would you travel by Rail? Middle classes have become rich
and have plenty of money to spare. Many can afford to have cars.
Criminals can
also travel fast by roads. There is growing insecurity among middle classes. I
was astonished to read many daylight thefts and robberies
That did not use
to happen until recently.
* Air Transport
Air travel is
also on the increase. The cost is comparable to Rail travel cost, i.e. it is
affordable. Once again it is going to affect Rail travel badly. If you can
travel by air in 2 hours, why would you spend 12 hours travelling by Rail?
* Pollution
Air pollution has
reached alarming level. Sakal paper of Pune monitors and publishes
pollution levels in Pune. The actual level is 3 times the desirable!!
This is bound to
have serious repercussions for health in years to come.
River pollution
is just as bad. The rivers Mula and Mutha of Pune are full of algae. One cannot
see water at all. Famous river Yamuna (
* It was
astonishing to read cases of artificial colouring applied to fruits and
vegetables!! This was never heard of before.
* Destruction of
heritage
During various
constructions no care is taken to preserve our heritage.
Two cases were
noted. One was water supply works at the time of Maratha Peshawas. Other one
was rocks of special Geological importance near Pune. Both have been completely
destroyed during construction of Roads and Bulidings..
*
Unsafe/unauthorised buildings.
Balcony of a
building collapsed killing 3 people. When the picture of the failed balcony
appeared in the papers, it appeared as if there was no reinforcement. There
were also cases of other buildings declared unsafe. Where would the residents
go? They had used all their life savings to acquire the flats.
* Many buildings
in Ullahsnagar (near Mumbai) were unauthorised and the Mumbai High court issued
orders to demolish them. The state government intervened, passed a law to
legalise the unauthorised buildings!! Those who profited by such illegal acts
were NOT punished.
These problems
exist all over the country.
* Increased
prosperity in
* Modern Technology : Mobile
telephones / cameras/ CDs
Mobile telephones
are widespread. Even Rikshawalas use them. Similarly Digital cameras are also
in common use. Many of the computers do not have any facility to use floppies
at all. They all use CDs.
* Ramdevbaba’s Yoga and Pranayam Classes.
Godboles attended
these classes and were impressed by Baba’s approach. He has his ashram in
Haridwar, manufactures Aurvedic medicines and helps people of all classes to
improve their health. He also exposes the designs of Multinational drug and
medicine companies. As a result false accusations were made against him. But
recently (May 2006) all the charges have been proved to be false.
* TV and papers
TV has gone down
in quality and is as useless as the one in
On the other
hand, quality of Newspapers and their supplements has improved remarkably. For
example, Men serving in the Armed Forces are quite young when they retire.
Until now they were only offered jobs as Security Guards, but now they have
many skills such as Mechanical Engineering or IT. They should be offered jobs
to suit their training and experience.
*Medical matters
* Donation
of bodies- I was surprised to know that two women (my relatives) had donated
their entire bodies for medical research, after their death.
* Dental
treatment is simply wonderful, and is far more advanced than in
* Many surgical
operations are successfully carried out. What is lacking is post –operation
treatment.
* Communists crush poor people in
Hand rickshaws
were a common sight in
* Memorial to Savarkar
This is erected
on the spot in Pune where Savarkar organised a bonfire of English clothes to protest
against partition of
While in Pune,
Godbole met a Reporter working for a major newspaper. He is deeply involved in
erecting a memorial to Phadake who tried to revolt against the British Rule in
the 1870s. Godbole had a long discussion with the reporter who was impressed by
Godbole’s research work on Savarkar and other revolutionaries.
Godbole pointed
out that it was reported in contemporary papers that Phadake was charged with –
waging war against Queen
After coming back
to England Godbole found the reference in The Times (of
"Wassadoo Bulwant Phadake has been committed for trial
on the charges of conspiring to wage
war against the Queen, of collecting men and arms to wage war, of exciting
disaffection against the Government, and of committing
dacoities. He has reserved his defence."
Very important words indeed.
Memorial to Chaphekar
brothers.
During the plague
outbreak of 1897, in Pune, the British authorities resorted to measures, so
oppressive that the people thought the death was better than humiliation by
British soldier, who resorted to looting, insensitive handling and even
molesting of women some of whom committed suicide.
After realising
that nothing will bring the British Administrators to their senses Chaphekar
brothers shot dead Mr Rand, the Collector of Pune, on the day of diamond
jubilee celebrations of Queen
The house where
Chaphekar brothers once lived in Chinchavad, (about 20 miles from Pune) has
been preserved and is now being converted into a Museum. Godbole donated a
small amount of money for this valuable work.
It was
interesting to note that the descendants of Chaphekar brothers are still alive
and meet at the memorial once a year.
The memorial
depicts activities of other revolutionaries also.
After returning
to
Gopal Godse, the
last of the accused in Gandhi’s assassination in 1948, died of heart attack in
Pune on
1.6 DVD in
film on Savarkar
This is now
available from all well-known music shops in Mumbai /Pune. Godbole has some
copies at his home in
1.7
Museum dedicated to Indian Revolutionaries.
While in Pune,
Godbole came across a poem sung by INA soldiers of Subhashchandra Bose – Kadam,
Kadam Bdhaye ja, Khushike geeta gayeja.
He has scanned it
for preservation.
1.8 Sources of
Information
British
Library,
At times it is
important to know if a book exists and is kept in British Library. There is one
way to find out.
Go to Internet
Google
British Library
Integrated
Catalogue
Now type in what
you know – title/author and you can search from then onwards.
Sometimes only a
part of title is known. For example – ‘by an eyewitness.’
If you put this
for your research you will get 231 entries and then you choose which entry you
want. I wanted Crucifixion by an eye witness
There are two
editions of the book. I got the catalogue numbers also. Next time I go to
British Library I can order the book quickly.
1.9 Soldier sentenced to death for grenade
attack on comrades
The trial is subject to review by a high ranking
military officer, who could approve the sentence or reduce it, officials said. After that
review, the case will be automatically appealed to higher
"Sgt
Hasan Akbar was sentenced to death by a military panel here," Port
Bragg
officials said yesterday. The charges stemmed from nighttime attack at
Akbar was accused of rolling grenades into
soldiers' tents and firing a rifle at those who emerged. Captain Christopher
Seifert and Major Gregory Stone were killed and 14 others were wounded.
Akbar's mother and military lawyers said he
had snapped in the
face of ridicule of his Muslim faith and
harassment by fellow soldiers.
There were three possible sentences - death, life in
prison with a possibility of parole or life without parole.
1.10 Religious groups are
exploiting Aceh chaos
DOZENS of Muslim
and Christian groups are exploiting the chaos wrought by the tsunami in the
Indonesian
Many religious
charities are offering purely humanitarian aid and have policies against
proselytising but some have made blatant attempts to win hearts and minds.
An American
missionary organisation has claimed to have flown out large numbers of orphans
to be looked after and educated in
of thousands are
without adequate food, shelter and medicine.
The
Virginia-based group WorldHelp said on its website in an appeal for funds that
it had airlifted 300 "tsunami orphans" to
their faith in
Christ could become the foothold to reach the Aceh people," it said. The
appeal said WorldHelp was working with Indonesian born Christians who want to
"plant Christian principles as early as possible", reported The
Washington Post.
After WorldHelp
was contacted by the newspaper, it removed the appeal. Aid workers in Aceh said
they had not heard of the organisation or the removal of large numbers of
children.
At a relief camp
in the grounds of the mosque in Darussalam, five miles outside Banda Aceh, the
provincial capital, a volunteer from a conservative Muslim boarding school
claimed that an Islamic political party had removed 20 orphans to
Downstairs four
foreigners in
Christine
Knudsen, a child protection officer with Save the Children, said the radical
Islamic groups that have moved in from Java were at odds with Acehnese
tradition. Devout but tolerant, the Acehnese Muslims have turned
away hardliners
in the past. But with their society devastated by the tsunami, and the militant
groups receiving the implicit backing of the Indonesian military, observers
fear that the Acehnese will be unable to resist attempts to impose more hardline Muslim values.
Note – This just
shows how blind to reality we Hindus are even today! Muslims and Christians
want to increase their numbers by any means, even at a time like Tsunami!!
We recently saw
one example of how the American Democracy works in practice. On
The White House
faced fresh accusations of a clandestine propaganda campaign yesterday after it
emerged it granted regular access to a rightwing blogger with a habit of asking
President Bush easy questions. Jeff Gannon, who represented a rightwing site
owned by a Texas-based Republican activist, had been a regular at White House
briefings since 2003 but aroused reporters' suspicions after posing
ideologically loaded questions.
The fake White
House correspondent quit his job at the Talon News site on Wednesday after
liberal bloggers found he had been operating under a
pseudonym, and
that he was linked to several gay pornographic web domain addresses under his
real identity, James Guckert.
The White House
spokesman, Scott McLellan, has dismissed charges that Gannon was part of an
underground propaganda effort as "just a wild conspiracy theory".
But
questions remained yesterday about why the White House suspended the normally
rigorous vetting process to issue daily passes to an organisation rejected by
the Senate last year for not being a legitimate media outlet.
The extent of
Gannon's links to an earlier White House scandal — the leaking of the name of
the CIA agent Valerie Plame — also remained unclear yesterday. Gannon has been
targeted for questioning in that case.
"It's just
common sense that the White House knew who Jeff Gannon was, and they were
waving him in for a reason," said David Brock, director of Media Matters
for America, the liberal monitoring group which named the
reporter last
week.
Gannon's
unmasking comes only weeks after the Bush administration admitted paying
handsome sums to three conservative commentators to promote its social
programmes in print, radio and TV, and has led to calls from Democrats for an
explanation.
"It appears
that Mr Gannon's presence in the White House press corps was merely a tool of
propaganda for your administration," the Democratic congresswoman Louise
Slaughter wrote in a letter to Mr Bush.
In its
investigations Media Matters for
It also
discovered a disturbing pattern at White House press conferences during the
year or so when Gannon was a regular fixture.
"You could
see there was a pattern in which the White House press secretary, Scott
McLellan, would be getting a more aggressive and less friendly question, and
then would seem to call on Jeff Gannon to change the subject.
And when he did
he got a softball question in return," Mr Brock said.
The fake
reporter's downfall came last week when he attracted suspicion with a
particularly loaded question to the president on how he would enlist Democratic
support for his social security reforms.
After falsely
attributing quotes to Democratic leaders, Gannon asked: "How are you going
to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?"
Mr Brock then
launched his investigation. Subsequent inquiries by liberal bloggers uncovered
Gannon's links to gay porn domain addresses under his real name, and a posted
photograph of a man posing in his underwear with
his initials. The
exposure prompted Gannon to resign his job at Talon, although he has shown no
remorse about his conduct at the White House.
"I asked .a
question at a White House press briefing and this is what happened to me. If
this is what happens to me, what reporter is safe?" he
told a newspaper
in his hometown in
Meanwhile, Talon
News was looking for a replacement correspondent on its website yesterday.
guardian.co.uk/usa
On
Over the past few
days millions of Italians have been watching dramatic scenes of ethnic
cleansing on their television screens. But the images are not of the Holocaust,
Yugoslav
communists towards the end of the Second World War just for being Italian.
It is the
hardest-hitting part of a government campaign to draw attention to a little
known event, which was marked for the first time yesterday 60 years on, with a
national day of remembrance.
Parliament
observed a minute's silence and the foreign minister, Gianfranco Fini, and
other dignitaries attended a military ceremony in the north-eastern city of
Red, white and
green lapel ribbons and 3.5m special stamps were issued by the newly formed
10th February Committee.
Between 1943 and
1945 thousands of Italians living in
About 300,000
Italians had been forced to flee the area by 1947 and estimates of the number
killed vary between 6,000 and 15,000.
After the war the
massacres were swept under the political carpet as
Most of the
so-called foibe killings have never been properly investigated. Italian
history books have traditionally portrayed communist partisans as national
heroes who fought to free the country from fascism. Italian communists and
today's hard left have long tried to bury the matter, out of embarrassment.
But the
centre-right government of Silvio Berlusconi, who personally considers
communists a lingering threat to
In the run up to
the memorial day, more than 10 million people watched the first film on the
subject, II Cuore nel Pozzo (Heart in the ditch) which cost the state
television service RAI €4.5m (£3.09m) to produce.
The film shows
the atrocities through the eyes of a group of children who manage to escape,
though the priest accompanying them is shot. "If we look back to the 20th
century we see pages of history we’d prefer to forget” Mr Berlusconi said in
advance of yesterday's events. "But we cannot and should not forget."
The
communications minister, Maurizio Gasparri, a member of the National Alliance,
which traces its roots back to Mussolini's fascist party, said: "We must
pull from this abyss of lies a truth hidden by the imposition of a cultural
bias." The party has openly supported II Cuore nel Pozzo, which had its
premiere in a conference hall built for Mussolini outside
While the Italian
hard-left has long tried to bury this part of the country's history, centre left
politicians have agreed that it is time to face up to the past
Last week the
mayor of Rime, Walter Veltroni, went to the killing grounds to pay homage to
the dead. "The Holocaust was a
tragedy without equal, but it
was not the only
tragedy of the 20th century," he said. "What is certain is what I
have seen here is witness to a guilty silence; even involving the left, the
communists."
But critics argue
that the film fails to address all sides of the story. The region around
henchmen.
The Slovenian
foreign minister, Ivo Vajgl, criticised the making of the film last year as an
"offence and provocation" to
the Slovenian people.
guardian.co.uk/italy
2. AROUND
Godbole conducted
one show in a Junior College in Kalyan (Hindusthan) on
2.2 Photo
addition
Mrs Mohini Kelkar
of
2.3
* In May 2006, Dr
Agarkar of Kalyan had led a group of boys and girls below the age of 18 from
Hindusthan. They stayed at
* Computer
Engineers have problem attending arranged tours. They are suddenly called to
work at weekends. Shree Bagul of Ipswitch therefore requested for a special
tour for him and his wife. Godbole obliged on
[Note – Public
toilets maintained by the Westminster City Council were free until recently.
These are now operated by a private company and there is a charge of 50p per
person.]
* Some managers
of Godrej (Mumbai) have expressed interest in attending such a tour, when they
come to
3. BEHAVIOUR OF CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS TODAY
In The
Guardian of
The
The children were
entrusted to the church's care to save them from the death camps. But if the
parents survived the war and came forward to reclaim their sons or daughters,
the children were only to be returned, "provided [they]
have not received
baptism", the
The instructions,
contained in a letter dated
The letter ends
with 'the words: "Please note that this decision has been approved by the
Holy Father." This may well have been a warning to the
then Monsignor
Roncalli, who, in his previous job as the pope's nuncio, or ambassador, in
excessively
pro-Jewish outlook.
The letter deals
a new and crushing blow to the reputation of the wartime pope, Pius XII.
Research for a
film released two years ago by the documentary maker Aviva Slesin concluded
that fewer than 10% of the 1.5 million Jewish children living in
sons and
daughters, many parents made arrangements with Christian couples or left them
in orphanages.
The
care.
"Children who have been baptised may not be entrusted to institutions that
are not in a position to guarantee them a Christian upbringing," it said.
The position with
regard to un-baptised Jewish children was more complicated.
The
The revelation
represents a fresh setback for the cause of Pius XII's canonisation. The
present Pope is known to have wanted to beatify his predecessor as a first step
towards declaring him a saint. But the process was halted by a host of
articles, books and films questioning Pius XII's failure to speak out against
Nazism, and, in particular, the Holocaust.
His record is
still a matter of heated dispute and the controversy surrounding him is
unlikely to be resolved until the
Note – that is
the inhumane character of the Roman Catholic Church today. They just want to
increase their numbers by hook or crook.
3.1.2 Boy
barred from church school over late baptism
On
A FIVE-year-oId
boy, whose parents are practising Roman Catholics, has been refused a place at
his local Catholic school because he was not baptised early enough.
His parents, who
say they have attended mass in the parish for eight years, have fought for a
year to get him into St Bernadette's RC primary school in
According to his
parents, Alexander was disqualified because he was not baptised until after the
age of two.
They have
appealed unsuccessfully to the governors, the local authority, the education
authority, the education ombudsman and the Church.
3.2
Horror in
Despite so much
publicity of horrors in
On 20 July
2004Jeevan Vasagar and Ewen MacAskill from
Arab
women singers complicit in rape, says Amnesty report.
While African
women in
The women singers
stirred up racial hatred against black civilians during attacks on villages in
Amnesty
International collected several testimonies mentioning the presence of Hakama
while women were raped by the Janjaweed. The report said, “Hakama appear to
have directly harassed the women (who were) assaulted and verbally abused
them.”
During an attack
on the
The chief said
that the Arab women also racially insulted women from village; “You are
gorillas, you are black, and you are badly dressed.”
The Janjaweed
have abducted women for use as sex slaves, in some cases breaking their limbs
to prevent them escaping, as well as carrying out rapes in their home villages,
the report said.
The militiamen
“are happy when they rape. They sing when they rape. and they tell that we are
just slaves and that they can do with us how they wish.” a 37-year-old victim,
identified as saying in the report, which was based on more than 100
testimonies from women in the refugee camps in neighbouring Chad.
Pollyanna
Truscott, Amnesty International’s
The UN estimates
that up to 30,000 people have been killed in
Another human
rights organisation, Human Rights Watch, today published alleged Sudanese
government documents showing that it was much more closely involved with the
Janjaweed than it has so far admitted. The documents, which Human Rights Watch
said it had obtained from the civilian administration in Darfur and are dated
February and March this year, call for “provisions and ammunitions” to be
delivered to known Janjaweed militia leaders, camps and “loyalist tribes.” One
document orders all security units in the area to tolerate the activities of
Mussa Hilal, the alleged Janjaweed leader in north
Peter
Takirambudde, the executive director of Human Rights Watch’s African division
said; “These documents show that militia activity has not just been
specifically supported by Sudanese government officials.” The official
government line is that it did not arm or support the Janjaweed, though its
presence was useful in helping to combat rebels in
>>
Questions and comments-
(1) Behaviour of
Muslim women is nothing new. Savarkar had pointed this out in his writings in
the 1930s, but we regarded him as a Hindu extremist.
(2) Muslims and
Christians are such wonderful people. So, why are they killing each other in
the 21st century?
(3) Arab Muslims
have NOT spared African Muslim women. So, what happened to Islamic brotherhood
of man? It is simply a mirage.
On
Divers have found
more evidence of an ancient Indian port revealed by December’s (2004) tsunami.
Man-made stone structures were seen on the seabed off the coast of
Other ancient cities discovered.
On
Lost city is
found on seabed
DIVERS have found
submerged ruins thought to be the remains of a mythical city swallowed up by
the sea 2,000 years ago. They made the discovery in 75ft of water about a mile
off the coast of
The structure is
shaped like a huge horseshoe, with a perimeter of 250ft. Its walls stand up to
6ft above the seabed. 'The ruins include walls, steps and stone blocks. The
structures have been severely damaged over the years
but are clearly
man-made,' said a spokesman for the British-based
Scientific
Exploration Society.
Local legend
tells of a great city containing seven temples, which were so beautiful jealous
gods, sent a flood to engulf it. Author Graham Hancock, an expert on early
civilisations, insisted yesterday it was this lost city's
remains, which
have been found. He told a
The 25-strong
team of divers, from
existed in the
Ice Age but were wiped out when the ice melted. The remains have been dated at
between 1,500 and 2,000 years old.
The paper then
gives details of some other cities recently discovered.
(1) December 2001
Remains of
6,000-year-old, eight square mile city discovered in the
(2) May 2001
Remains of
ancient city 120ft below sea level and almost 9,500 years old
discovered in the
(3) August 2000
1,000
-1,500-year-old remains of huge temple discovered beneath
pre-lncan road
and a 2,300ft wall, ceramic artefacts.
(4) June 1999
2,500-year-old
ruins of ancient Greek city Heralkleion discovered off the coast of
>> Note -
Our ancient religious texts have stated that the earth was flooded and almost
all life was wiped out. Afterwards, life appeared again. This happened not just
once but several times. We therefore find such ancient cities being discovered
all over the world. Is it not time we looked at our religious texts in new
light?
On
The brief in the Evening
Standard reads –
Questions have
been raised about the historic accuracy of the biblical account of Jesus’s
death since it was written, with many modern theologians seeing the
resurrection as a poetic metaphor rather than a historical account.
This documentary
investigates the suggestion that Jesus did not die on the cross – apparently
evidence shows that it was possible for a person to survive a first-century
crucifixion. But, if he didn’t die, what happened to him? Among the theories
explored is the legend that he escaped to the South of France with Mary
Magdalene or fled to
>> Our
comments - We mentioned research work on Jesus of Babarao Savarkar (elder
brother of Veer Savarkar) in our newsletter some 15 years ago. This is what he
said in 1942 –
(1) Where was
Jesus from the age of 12 to 30? Bible does not give any answer. In 1894 came a
shocking news. Notovich Nikolai a Russian scholar
had carried out
extensive research on the subject and came to the conclusion that Jesus was in
Hindusthan and studied under guidance of Vedic and Buddhist scholars. He even
went to
Publisher was G W
Dillingham of
(2) Jesus did not
die on the Cross. He was presumed to be dead, was taken down from the
cross, given massage and herbal medicine. When he was revived he was taken to a
secret location and from there he escaped to
Full details are
given in the book The crucifixion by an eye-witness published in 1907. A
copy exists in British Library. In 1925, another edition was published by Arya
Samaj in 1925 (Swami Dayanand Centenary series No. 8)
Babarao’s
research is of considerable importance and one needs to study above two
reference books.
Adam Sherwin wrote an important article in the Times of
Skeletons will
tumble out of aristocratic cupboards when the first Burke’s Peerage for 30
years hits the bookshelves today. The illegitimate children of the great but
not-so-good are included for the first time in the publication’s 173-year
history. With an estimated 10,000 of the 60,000 strong “old aristocracy” born
“on the wrong side of the sheets,” the 106th edition of Burke’s
Peerage and Baronetage has finally acknowledged the illegitimate and those
descended from children born out of wedlock.
The change of
heart means that Viscount Drumlanrig, son of 12th Marquess of
Queensberry, can take his place in the pages. He was born in 1967, two years
before his father, the Marquess of Queensberry, married his mother.
…. Lady Cosima
Somerset, once a close friend of Diana, Princes of Wales, has recognised her
claim to be the illegitimate daughter of Robin Douglas-Home, nephew of the
former Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home.
… Harold
Brooks-Baker, the American publishing director of Burke’s Peerage, said: “The
aristocracy have never hidden their illegitimate children from the society.
They are expected to have them. It is only the middle classes who attached the
stigma of disgrace.”
Our comments -
The truth about the British society is revealed at last. One note of
clarification. ‘Illegitimate child’ means a child born to parents who are
living together without getting married, but it also means children of
mistresses.
British
Aristocracy could get away with immorality because of their power and position.
The poor could not afford morality. It was only the middle classes who were
worried about morality. One can imagine what the social conditions were like in
18th and 19th century
It is time to
reflect at our history and learn the true reason why we lost to the British. It
certainly had nothing to do with morality.
Three interesting
letters appeared in the Times of
From Mr Steven
Carr
Sir. Dr Jonathan Sacks (Register August 14) writes that "the
God of
Abraham is a God
of love, not war"
Joshua xi, 20 says
For it was the
Lord himself who hardened their hearts to wage war against Israel, so that he
might destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the Lord had
commanded Moses.
1 Samuel xv, 17-18 says:
The Lord anointed
you king over
make war on them
until you have wiped them out
Is that really the work of a God of love?
Yours sincerely,
STEVEN CARR,
Prenton,
stevencarrwork@hotmail.com
August 14.
Sir, Usually I
enjoy Jonathan Sachs's rabbinical whimsy but patent self-
contradictions
must not go unnoticed.
He is selective
in defence of religion, citing forgiveness, humility, compassion, though these
are virtues espoused by all enlightened free-thinkers. And God of the Old
Testament never passed up an opportunity to wreak fearful revenge.
Fundamentalists
won't agree that “any system of belief can go wrong." By contrast,
scientific “laws” are provisional, continually open to testing and
Revue. As for
forgiveness, it took three and a half centuries for a Pope to
"forgive”
Galileo.
Yours sincerely,
NEIL HENRIKSEN,
16
neil.henriksen@virgin.net
August 14.
From Mr Ralph
Blumenau
Sir; I am glad
that the Chief Rabbi is trying to rescue the meaning of
"fundamentalism"
from abuse. We all have, or should have, fundamental beliefs. Unfortunately the
word "fundamentalism was originally coined for the belief that every word
of a sacred text is divinely inspired and is therefore to be taken as the
literal truth. For this idea I think we should use "literalism"
Then we should use "fanaticism" to
describe the attempt to impose either
one’s fundamental
beliefs, or one's literal interpretation of a religious text
on others by
force.
Yours faithfully,
RALPH
rkblumenau@aol.com
August 14.
4.5
How Women were treated in British society.
Despite our
association with
On
People who did
not belong to the Church of England had only been
accepted 30 years
earlier, in 1854 and as a result of The University Act.
The University
had instituted special exams for women in 1875, but in1884 these were
abolished, when
By 1894 the
remaining courses had also been thrown open to women.
Note – Once
again, Marathas losing to the forces of the English East India Company in 1818
had nothing to do with the status of women in our society. The English had
superior military machinery and were more advanced in Physical sciences than
us. The earlier we realise the better.
4.6 British
Historians, Muslims and Tragedy of
We mentioned this
research paper of Godbole in our newsletter 41 of
First part shows
how the Muslim rulers and their ruling class (e.g. Governors, Generals,
Officers) were FOREIGNERS who utterly despised NATIVE Indian Muslims. It also
deals with how the British rulers put into minds of Muslims that they (Indian
Muslims) were the rulers before British.
Second part deals
with the disastrous consequences of the above falsified Indian history.
It is
surprisingly that, today even staunch Hindus also have the foolish concept that
Hindusthan was ruled by Muslims for 1,000 years and that until the British
period, Indian Muslims were the rulers.
The research can
be sent to you by E Mail.
4.7 Taj Mahal
: Simple Analysis of a Great Deception
Above research
booklet by Godbole was published in April 1986. Much more information has come
to light since then. He is therefore updating this work.
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