Pseudo-Secularism

Hindu dharma is implicitly at odds with monotheistic intolerance. What is happening in India is a new historical awakening... Indian intellectuals, who want to be secure in their liberal beliefs, may not understand what is going on. But every other Indian knows precisely what is happening: deep down he knows that a larger response is emerging even if at times this response appears in his eyes to be threatening.

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Are the Hindus still colonized?

Anti-Hindu DMK's another agenda to wipe out Hindu dharma from the face of Tamil Nadu

TN bans new year rites, priests fume
M.R. VENKATESH

Chennai, April 12: A pope reformed the Christian calendar but priests here are furious at the DMK government’s revision of the Tamil year.

The administration has told government-run temples not to celebrate the traditional Tamil New Year tomorrow, saying the year began three months ago.

Angry priests said they had received an oral order banning the New Year rites — special pujas and readings from the Tamil almanac, Panchangam — on Sunday.

For centuries, priests have read from the almanac every New Year evening to tell large gatherings how the coming year would unfold — to reassure them about good rainfall and bountiful crops, or warn them of war and pestilence.

Many temples are preparing to defy the ban. “This is needless interference with age-old temple practices,” said a priest at Chennai’s Sundareshwarar temple.

The Tamil year has always begun with the month of Chittirai, in mid-April. But the DMK government got a law passed last February, advancing it to the first day of the month Thai in mid-January.

This was done to pander to Tamil nationalists who claim that the mid-April New Year is a “Sanskritic imposition”.

The mid-January New Year would coincide with Pongal — an “authentic” Tamil festival (though Sankranti is observed around the same time across India).

Also, Tamil saint-poet Thiruvalluvar’s birthday, usually celebrated on January 17, would now virtually kick off the year, which would be logical as the Tamil calendar dates from him, the government said.

“We’ll go ahead with the special pujas for the sake of the devotees,” a priest said.

A priest at the Jambulingeshwarar temple near Tiruchirappalli, however, said his shrine would obey the ban.

The Ramanathaswami temple in Rameshwaram, however, has been spared a difficult choice. Sources said the special pujas would be held since devotees had already paid for them. But the temple’s long-standing custom has been to read the almanac in the month of Aadi (mid-June), so it gets a breather now.

Several Opposition leaders, led by Jayalalithaa and MDMK chief Vaiko, issued New Year’s Eve greetings to the public today, indicating they disagreed with the new calendar law.

A similar reform of the Christian calendar was decreed in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII, but for astronomical reasons. He dropped 10 days from the Julian version of the calendar to correct a miscalculation about leap years.

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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Sonia's anti-Hindu perfidy & Baalu's Dravidian falsehood

V SUNDARAM
newstodaynet.com

There is an unholy and dynastic political marriage between the anti-Hindu perfidy of Sonia Gandhi and the Dravidian falsehood of T R Baalu. More than 800 millions of Hindus in majority in India and several millions of Hindus outside India in different parts of the world heaved a sigh of relief when the VHP, the RSS and other sister Hindu organisations, acting together under the auspices of SHRI RAM SETHU RAKSHA MANCH, DELHI, organized a massive rally on Ram Lila grounds in New Delhi on 27 May, 2007 to protest against the decision of the Islam-embracing, Christianity-caressing and Hindu-hating UPA Government in New Delhi to destroy for ever the sacred Ram Setu Bridge in Rameshwaram which has held the hearts of Hindus captive for trackless centuries. Every self respecting Hindu in India knows today that the dastardly politically criminal plot to blow up the Ram Setu Bridge in order to destroy the soul of India and to demoralize the Hindus of India by making them refugees in their own native land, was taken by the treacherous trio consisting of a non-Hindu called Sonia Gandhi and two known Anti-Hindus belonging to the Periyar anti-Hindu perfidy tradition called T R Baalu and Karunanidhi. For this tricky trio the political survival of the rickety, shaky and shakeable UPA's collusive Coalition in New Delhi is more sacred than the soul of Barath Mata.

Addressing the massive rally, VHP president Ashok Singhal, thundered like Winston Churchill against Nazi tyranny during the dark days of II World War, when he said: �We give an ultimatum to the UPA Government to stop the planned destruction of Ram Setu in Rameshwaram forthwith. The Hindu Saints, Sages and Seers of India have set 22 July, 2007 as the deadline for the Government of India to honourably withdraw from the path of Pseudo Secular Anti-Hindu destruction of Ram Setu, failing which an unprecedented, uncontrollable and unimaginable national agitation, will be launched not only to protect the sacred Ram Setu but also to heroically defend the timeless honour, self respect and dignity of the Hindus of India. There will be a DHARMA SANSAD in Delhi on 22 July, 2007 in which the saints from all parts of the country are expected to participate. The democratic battle cry of all the Hindus today who are firmly committed to the deathless cause of the eternally sacred Ram Setu Bridge can be summed up in these words: unflinching, unswerving, inflexible, indomitable and irrepressible-into broader lands and better days, freed from the draconian anti-Hindu tyranny and dictatorship of the Sonia-directed UPA Government in New Delhi�

Ashok Singhal
Praveen Togadia
Dr Subramanian Swamy

Explaining the conspiracy behind the demolition of Ram Setu, Ashok Singhal said that the people of Europe do not want to recognize the history and culture of Bharat and all of them want to destroy it. That is why they refer to Shri Ram and Shri Krishna as mythological characters. The British in the days of the RAJ treated them as mythological figures and not as historical heroes. And now Sonia Gandhi, with her supreme contempt for Hinduism and all things Hindu, also holds the same colonial and European view. All of them do not recognize the period of Indian history prior to the Buddhist era. They feel that if the history of RAM SETU is accepted, then the historicity of Shri Ram will get proved and established. That is why Gandhi went to inaugurate the SSCP in Madurai on July 2, 2005, keeping in mind her avowed mission of destruction of RAM SETU by hook or by crook through the good offices of T R Baalu and Karunanidhi.. He asked the question: �Why should the Government of India be bent upon spending Rs 2400 crore in a wasteful manner on the SSCP by dredging the Ram Sethu in Rameshwaram? If it adopts the alternate route by digging a canal in the barren land, the project will cost only Rs 1200 crore. Thus there will be a massive saving of Rs.1,200 crore in which the faithless and irresponsible Shipping and Transport Minister is not interested at all.�

While addressing the massive Hindu rally in New Delhi on 27 May 2007, Ashok Singhal rose to great heights by mobilizing the glorious Hindi Language and sending it into battle to save the precious Ram Setu Bridge. The vast concourse of people participating in the rally responded in raucously enthusiastic affirmation to this clarion call of Shri Singhal by loudly shouting the slogan of 'JAI SHRI RAM' and 'JAI SHRI RAM'. According to some of my friends from the Civil Service who were present at the rally, the boisterously violent anti-UPA Hindu mood of thousands of people, was very much reminiscent of the hectic days of the storming of Bastille in Paris in France on 14 July,1789. I am delighted to hear from them that the popular mood of the Hindus at that rally was very much akin in spirit ( if not in letter) to the explosive public mood of the suppressed and oppressed French people during the days of the French Revolution in 1789 and the Russian people during the days of the Russian Revolution in 1917.

VHP general secretary Dr Praveen Togadia declared: �If it were Mohammed Ali Sethu, instead of Ram Setu, the Manmohan Singh Government taking hourly instructions from Sonia Gandhi, would not have dared to touch it. Besides preserving it, the Government would also have declared a special subsidy for the devout Muslims to visit it, drawing inspiration from the politically spiritual message of the disgraceful Justice Sachar Commission. The Government of India is working round the clock to destroy the identity and culture of the Hindus. Ram Sethu is a Punya Teerth for all of us and we will not allow anyone to destroy it at any cost. The Governments of Egypt and China are spending crores of rupees to preserve their ancient sites but our anti-Hindu Government is spending cores and crores of rupees to destroy our ancient sites, which are internationally important�.

Speaking at the massive rally, senior BJP leader and former Human Resource Development Minister Dr Murli Manohar Joshi gave a detailed account of his visit to the site at Rameshwaram and also the indisputable scientific facts about the Ram Setu. He said those who claim that it is not Ram Sethu are the biggest liars.

Janata Party president Dr Subramanian Swamy called upon the people to be ready for a bigger battle. He said: �The main battle today is between 'OM' and 'ROME'. 'OM' (Hindus of India) would defeat 'ROME' (Soni Gandhi). Greatly moved by the inspiring and incandescent words of Dr Subramanian Swami, massive crowds attending the rally went into a state of ecstatic frenzy when he declared in Hindi:

"Aane waala sangharash hoga Om aur Rome ke beech. Jeetega Om. Naash kerenge Rome bhatkti. Vijaysri hogi Om shakti" (The imminent bloody battle is between OM and ROME. We will destroy ROME BHAKTHI! Hail victory for OM BHAKTHI !!)

All the Hindus of India are very happy that Dr Subramanian Swami has issued a clarificatory and self-explanatory, indeed a historic statement, yesterday to the effect that the Government of India are abandoning their plans to breach RAMA SETU. The following facts are seemingly coming to public view following his statement:

1. The Government of India deputed the Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Suresh Pachouri to fly by special plane to Jhoteshwar, Madhya Pradesh to meet Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati, one of the Jagadguru Shankaracharyas at his Ashram. Suresh Pachouri, met him yesterday afternoon to seek the Acharya's help in containing the growing VHP-led agitation for protecting the Rama Setu.

2. It is reliably understood that Pachauri told the Acharya that the Centre has decided to abandon the plan to breach the Rama Setu for the Setu Samudram Canal Project, and that it is seeking 'an amicable way out'.

3. It is learnt from my sources in the Government of India that the Prime Minister has also told the Union Shipping Minister, T R Baalu 'not to touch the Rama Setu'.

4. After a one-to-one talk with Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati at the latter's Ashram at Jhoteshwar near here for about 20 minutes last night, Pachouri told UNI that he would convey to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other Ministers concerned about the discussion he had with the Shankaracharya.

6. After the talks, Swami Swaroopanand told UNI that he was optimistic that the central government would forthwith stop the demolition of the Ram Setu as it is a centre of religious faith for Hindus.

The nation as a whole is highly amused by the reported news item that Sonia Gandhi wants to corner the glory and the credit for saving Ram Setu making the stellar role played by the VHP and the RSS in organizing the country-wide movement for the protection of Ram Setu trivial and insignificant. When Mahatma Gandhi called off the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1922 following the Chauri Chaura Massacre in UP, he called it a HIMALAYAN BLUNDER. He said �If I make a mistake, I will not hesitate to retrace my steps and claim from the housetop that I was wrong.�Thus there was nothing mysterious or nefarious or subterranean about the ways of Mahatma Gandhi He was both moral and humble. We cannot expect Sonia Gandhi to follow Mahatma Gandhi's example because she is neither moral nor humble. She can only re-enact a sham Dandi March or organize the humbug of a World Satyagraha Conference. Today's disgusting and disgraceful Congressmen fall at her feet only because of her such imperious qualities!!

(The writer is a retired IAS officer)

e-mail the writer at vsundaram@newstodaynet.com

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Friday, September 21, 2007

Lord Ram & Ramayana - Science cannot explain everything

Its very very sad
by Pritish Nagaraj, Sep 13, 2007 08:17 AN

Very disappointing day in my life, I'd never thought people can go so cheap for petty politics.

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BE INVOLVED
by Jeffrey Mittal, Sep 13, 2007 08:45 AM

Never just sit and wach this happen. Think globally and act locally. As Swami Vivekanada said " arise and awake" my fellow Hindus. Would any other faith tolerate this. The Indian Media is filled with Hindu Bashers, including this site. So, what can you do?

First BE INVOLVED - not only in posting messages but at the local level, including politics, which has been hijcaked by these pseudo-seculars (read anti Hindu or anti Snatan Dharma) You can sit by, watch and get rolled over or you can stand up for your rights and take back waht is rightfully yours. There will be dangers and challenges. Are you upto it?

2. Instead of following usual (money making) careers such as software, get into jouranlism, even the Indian Beaurocracy to make true cj=hanges, which make Indian cutlure as grat as it is. Tolerance is NOT weakness NOR allowing ourselves to be bullied.

3. Further, as some one mentioned, at least get a basic understanding of the philosohical basis of Sanatana Dharma. There are plenty of resources on the web.

I want to warn you, it does take some effort and time. Above all, take the energy you have built up from reading this and help your fellow man, who believes in the same faith.

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These trators will never succeed. Vedic Civilization can never be destroyed
Sep 13, 2007 08:28 AM

ASI atheists, other atheist politicians, other unwanted religious faiths are bent upon wiping out our ancient Vedic culture from the surface of the earth. One should ask these idiots if they remember or have any scientific proof of the existence of their forefathers. Photos are not proofs. If they dont, we can easily say that all these idiots dont have forefathers, and they were all mythology. Haha!!

Mythology is again a term coined by British to make us believe that our culture and history are unreal. It was a conspiracy to shake our faith and destroy our Vedic civilization just to convert us all. Now, these traitors are exceptionally following British rules being born in thisholy land. What a shame! Ravana and his army of asuras were even more powerful than these stupid atheists. We all know what happened to them.
They were blown away!

So, these traitors also will never succeed. These idiots will be taught a lesson one day!

As people born in this very sacred land of Bharath (I hate to call it India - a name given to us by the mleccha British), it is our duty to rise and smash these irreligious, atheistic traitors and teach them a lesson. Shame on us if we dont!

Let us all also pray sincerely to Lord Sri Rama to eject such unwanted people from the surface of the earth and protect our pure, spiritually powerful Vedic civilization. HE will definitely come! Let there be no doubt about it!

Jai Sri Ram! Jai Jai Sri Ram!

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No evidence to prove existence of Ram, Centre to SC
by sumerendra chauhan, Sep 13, 2007 08:22 AM

The reason why Lord Rama and the Ramayana is so easily dismissed is because no one fears the Hindus. Hindus are seen as cowards because the majority of Hindus will do nothing if something is done against their religion. Most Indians claim to be Hindus but are not in fact Hindus, they go to temples, do their puja but never defend their faith and when other Hindus do stand up to defend Hinduism they are labelled fanatics.

Thus even in India, where the majority is supposed to be Hindu, people can easily stand up and insult Hinduism because they know they can get away with it. Had the Hindus had the same attitude and faith in their religion the way the Muslims have, then no one would dare insult their faith that easily, they would think twice, especially in India. But only in India, so many impotent Hindus live and allow for such insults to take place including MF Hussain's paintings depicting Hindu Gods and Goddesses as naked and having sex.

Shame on the Hindus for allowing such insults to go unavenged! Shame on them for not following the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita which cleary states what is to be done to those who attack your religion!

Shame on India!!! Shame on Indians!!!

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ram sethu bridge
by Mr Abhay Ekbote, Sep 13, 2007 08:30 AM

How can they find evidence of Ram when Ravana's are looking for the evidence. In a country of Hindus, the Ravana's are ruling the roost and causing the greatest harm to the hindus. Appeasement of Minorities at any Cost appears to be their motto to keep their bums on the seats. Lets fight such anti Hindu Pro minorities Ravana's each one in his own way.

This is how Hinduism is systematically being destroyed by the Congis.

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This is how Hinduism is systematically being destroyed by the Congis.
by Ganapati Hegde, Sep 13, 2007 08:47 AM

Through the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment Act, Hindu temples and Maths are taken over by state Governments in the name of better administration, while mosques and churches are completely autonomous. This Act allowed the state governments and politicians complete control over the temples and their property. Many abuses are committed by multiple state governments using the power accorded through this Act.

In Andhra Pradesh under Chief Minister Y. Samuel Rajasekar Reddy, tens of thousands of acres of temple lands are sold away leaving temples with little economic basis. This is done without the permission of the local Hindu community. The state government and the endowments department whose duty is to safeguard the temple properties have turned a blind eye to such encroachments or take overs of temple properties. The state government recently went to the extent of regularizing encroachments at nominal prices. These encroachments are often found to be closely associated to various political parties.

In Andhra Pradesh, Hindu temples, institutions and Hinduism itself are illegally targeted by the crusade of the government. Under the Temple Empowerment Act, about 34,000 temples are under government control. Only 18% of the revenue of these temples is said to be given back for temple purposes, while the remaining 82% is used for other things by the government at their discretion.

Vote for BJP and preserve your religion and Cultute.

Jai Shri Ram !!!

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The so called secular organizations are trying to argue based on distorted scientific & historical bases
Kool, Sunday , September 16, 2007

The issue of ASI filing affidavit in SC that there is no proof of existence of Lord Ram & Ram-Setu, shows how in-sensitive the government is. I don't think, any department of this government has guts to even verbally say the similar remarks about other religions like Muslim or Christians. This gives the impression to common Hindu man that the Hindus are soft target by so called secular political parties & government departments working under their rule, which results in Hindus taking extremist view to register their views & provokes them. So, I urge all those political organizations that please do not ignite Hindus in their own country. It is enough now & the water is going over heads. Please stop it for the shake of GOD in which we all believe in form of Ram, Allah or Jesus.

The so called secular organizations are trying to argue based on distorted scientific & historical bases. I wish to ask them, why they are not consistent in arguing for the issues related to other religions also? Just to give an example (please do not take this as an offense to any religion in specific) that Supreme Court has banned the use loud speakers for making daily 'Azans' in Mosque. Why none of government department act and take corrective actions to stop this? This is just an example to give. There are so many issues like that. Why we are so in-sensitive to only Hindus? Why they are soft target? Please stop this discrimination. Please stand up with Hindus which has given so many good things to this globe & try to wipe out the hatred from society.

Regarding Setu-samundram project, My personal opinion is to stop this project. Even if the bridge is not made by Ram, this is having geo-ecological importance. As a common man like me can understand this, why those people who are supposed to have technical brains can not understand this? There are various other issues for developments like connecting the rivers & create water network across country to prevent water shortage.

Thanks

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I see minority rule the majority
Aswathy Nair, Sunday , September 16, 2007

When you say religion is a private matter, true it is, But in the country do you think only BJP is playing politics. Congress is the biggest religious card player than BJP, in Kerala Kerala-congress is the biggest Christian card player, what about Muslim-leeg . So why only target BJP. I am not at all a supporter of BJP but when I see Kashmir and other place I am sure very soon Hindus will become a minority and then we will see if India will remain a democratic country, and how many of you and your children will sit and talk like this in your TV channel. I always want to come back to that beautiful country , but when I see minority rule the majority and the way our politicians conduct and rule the country as if India is there private property, especially congress and Sonia Gandhi , I feel pity of the people in that country. Only God can save that country.


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Lord Ram & Ramayana - Belief beyond India
R.S.Kannan, Sunday , September 16, 2007
Singapore

May I point to my fellow Indians that Ramayana's historical spiritual influence extends way beyond India? The influence of Ramayana can be seen Cambodia. Amongst the many temples there, the Angkor Wat, a very ancient temple, has the times of Lord Ram etched on the walls. Similarly, many countries in S.E. Asia have temples or palaces where the time of Lord Ram has been documented. Thailand is another country where there is abundance of information in Lord Ram’s times.

The ASI has done a bad job. In addition to the resignation of the 2 officials, Ms. Ambika Soni should also resign. Further, the Congress government should make tangible amends to their approach to the majority religion. Their ally, the DMK, is known anti-Hindu party. Mr. T.R. Balu should be asked to step down as well, as he is the primary driver of this insensitive and crude court case.

Instead of staging a road rokos in India, Hindu organisations should quickly document the influence of Lord Ram in Asia and keep the interest alive through cultural and religious programs.

It is pity that parties like Dravidar Kazhagam and its off-shoot, the DMK, are making Hindus in India feel ashamed of being a Hindu.

Thanks

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Science cannot explain everything
Sunday , September 16, 2007

Science cannot explain everything. What if tomorrow, after the project is over, you get enough evidence to show that the setu could have been a man-made one? Can you get it back? Why, for the sake of few crores of rupees, should we dent the faiths of crores of people? Is our society so backward that we fail to respect faiths?

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The war for renaissance of Vedic society is not over
v_raja_ram, Sep 15, 2007 1:19 AM

The GOI has agreed to re-alignment because of fear of losing Hindu votes enmasse and losing the battle in the court. Though it is a battle for protection of Ramar Setu may be won, the war for renaissance of Vedic society is not over. Attack on Ramar Setu is only one of the battles in the war by pseudo-secular, anti-Hindu, Indian terrorists to destroy the vedic fabric of our society. The fact that the war is still on is indicated by the fact that the PM and Sonia have not tendered apologies for hurting the faith of Hindus. After admitting error, what is holding them from apologizing? What non-sense it is that GOI says that to err is human but realize it is divine. They did not realize it when people petitioned but the legal and political reality forced them to. The arrogance and high-handedness of the PM and Sonia in not apologizing for the great affront to Hindu society cannot be forgiven.

We need to understand that Sonia and PM are trying to flee the scene because of the tremendous volume of work done Dr. Kalayanaraman et al in proving the historicity of Ramar Setu, the legal battle by Dr. Subramaniam Swamy et al and the convergence of Hindutva forces on the issue. When beating a retreat to avoid a legal and political debacle, those who terrorized the Hindus are trying to walk the moral high road by talking about Communal Harmony and true secularism. They are trying lick up some of the Hindu votes by exploiting the pacifist tendencies by treating the issue as over.

The war on terror by pseudo-secular, anti-Hindu forces is far from over. We don’t want GOI to honour our sentiments "though there is no scientific evidence". Vedic society is not driven by sentiments but by the synergy of faith, reason and unrelenting pursuit of truth. We don’t want Ramar Setu to be protected if there is no historical evidence of it being a place of worship for Hindus over centuries. We have ample evidence to show that Dwaraka, Saraswati, Ramar Setu etc. have sufficient historical and metaphysical reality. And that is precisely why we ask for protection. And there is enough evidence to show that the GOI intentionally terrorized the Hindus by attempting to destroy the place of worship. They tried to turn a blind eye to truth and carried on mispropaganda that there is no evidence for the Setu. Even now, they are preventing the exploration of truth by trying to close this issue out of fear of legal and political debacle.

If we publicly debate the erroneous beliefs of Muslims or Christians either scientifically, philosophically or historically, we would be arrested on the grounds of disturbing communal harmony. But the GOI officially makes statements such as lack of evidence for existence of Rama or Ramar Setu. They have continuously terrorized Hindus by publishing on their web site the progress of the project when Hindus were fighting it through peaceful means legally, socially and politically. We first need to demand an unconditional apology for this act of state terrorism against Hindus by trying to destroy a historical place of worship. We need assurance that Hindu places of worship will not be destroyed by any State or Central Government. What if the GOI tomorrow undertakes a road project cutting through Govardhan Hill? Do we have to prove to ASI that it was "manually" placed there or that there are human bones.

Second, we should call for freedom of speech to rationally analyze all the religions including Christianity and Islam just as the GOI made "pseudo-scientific" statements about Hinduism.

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It is an act of state terrorism against Hindus to destroy Ramar Setu
v_raja_ram, Sep 14, 2007 12:03 PM

There is ample evidence to show that Ramar Setu was worshipped through Indian history by Hindus and especially Tamils. So it is an act of state terrorism against Hindus to destroy Ramar Setu. This is as violent as attack on Bamiyan Buddha Statues by Taliban and we should project it as such to international community if the GOI does not stop terrorism.

Now, there is no historical evidence what so ever for the existence of Biblical Jesus and there is evidence to the contrary. There is no historical evidence that Quran is a revealed text and there is evidence to the contrary. Let the GOI answer if it is okay to offend their icons on this basis. Just because they are a vote bank, they get all support and reservation to top it. And just because the Hindus are introspective, their icons of worship get destroyed and their systems ridiculed.

Just because ASI says, the issue is not closed that Rama is a mythological personality. They offer three reasons:

1. Argument: There are no human bones / fossils in that area. Response: That actually proves that Ramayana is accurate because there was no deaths in that area. Even in places where there were human settlements, we dont see fossils proportionate to population density.

2. Argument: There are no man made artefacts. Response:That actually proves that Ramayana is accurate because there was no deaths in that area. Even in places where there were human settlements, we dont see fossils proportionate to population density. How does ASI expect to see human remains or fossils?

3. Argument: There is no evidence in the structures to show that it is not natural. Response: This is simply not true and ASI cannot say this because it have not done detailed archaelogical study of the place. There is enough evidence to show that it is not a natural structure which has been discussed in adequate detail in the bok on Ramar Setu.

We can do a computer simulation to show that it is not a natural formation but it would be too costly and it is not even the core point. Does the GOI recognize that it has a duty to protect our historical tradition irrespective of whether it believes in Rama or not?


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There is surely something more to it
rkohri, Sep 14, 2007 12:24 PM

As a rule any affidavit before it is filed in the court is carefully read and re-read by at least 8 to 10 government functionaries.

I have been a government officer and know from my personal that an affidavit to be filed in the Supreme Court is read, re-read and vetted by the Law Department and the Head of the Department -sometime even by the Law Minister.

I do not think this gratuitous insult to millions of Hindus by pouring ridicule on their faith and religious ethos is the fault of some simpleton wisecrack. There is surely something more to it than what meets the eye.

It is also being rumoured that some high level government official had sidelined he objectionable paras and suggested that these should be deleted.

Still the power-that-be decided not to delete the objectionable paragraphs.

What do you make of it?

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Pardon me, but is not secularism about Govt not interfering in Religious affairs?
goodjoke, Sunday , September 16, 2007

Ramachandra Guha,

You have said what other left leaning intellectuals have always said - Religion should be left in private domain and not brought into public domain. Fully agreed. But the problem is that the Non Rightist politicians never practice what they preach.

When you have a entire group of politicians and intellectuals, demanding reservation based on religion , is it not violating this principle? Look at the case of TN, where religious reservation has been introduced for Muslims (yes they may be not so well off) and Christians(who are actually doing much better than rest of population in every social parameter). Why is this not critiqued? Likewise, do politicians who believe in leaving religious debates in private domain, have the right to announce themselves as atheists and publicly ridicule the Gods and Godesses of Hindu Religion in public?

And not to mention Government running of Hindu Temples. Pardon me, but is not secularism about Govt not interfering in Religious affairs? Why should religious institutions be run by people who profess themselves to be secular, irreligious or atheist?

I would like an honest answer from you or your colleagues.It is these kind of contradictions and blatant hypocrisies that aid the Hindu Right to gain more mileage and more popularity. People expect fair treatment and consistency and not hypocrisy. If you really believe that religion and governance should be separated 100% (and I too believe that), let us show it in action. Starting from freeing Temples from Govt control.

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The new Ravana of our times
raj yashwant, Sunday , September 16, 2007

Karunadhi is the new Ravana of our times. He denies the existence of Ram which is what the actual Ravana did when his atrocities reached maximum proportion. That is what is happening In Tamil Nadu today. The demonic forces in the form of DMK and left are ruling Tamilnadu and perpetrating autrocities on the brahmins and weak forward sections of society and creating a litteral hell for nice people to live in Tamil Nadu. All the brahmins and other forward casts are fleeing tamilnadu to save their lives. But one should not fear as Lord Ram will be born again to take destroy DMK and it's demonic forces in the state.

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As long as the present government led by the Congress remains in power, with their appeasement of minorities and vote Bank politics, the truth regarding Ram Stehu would never see the light of the day
J.N. Kini, Sunday , September 16, 2007

Ramachandra Guha, makes a good TV savy " historian " but unfortunately does not make any sense when commenting on matters of the Hindu Gods and the faith. His conclusion that Ram is not acknowledged in South India takes the cake. The historian should have gone into the details of names of Rameswaram, Dhanushkodi, Ramapadam etc., But then again, what is there in a name, one might ask. Most of the names of places in India, are derived from either events local to the place or topography. The Ram Sethu in the interest of the majority of Hindus should remain just that as a matter of faith of the over eight hundred millions of Hindus.Apart from being the majority, Hinduism is what binds India together inspite of being a multilateral society. It is only in recent years (comparatively) thanks to the Dravidian Political movement, where in people were misinformed regarding Ram, specially in Tamil Nadu. To suit them, the DMK made Shri Ram a subject of aryan invasion over the dravidians. As long as the present government led by the Congress remains in power, with their appeasement of minorities and vote Bank politics, the truth regarding Ram Stehu would never see the light of the day. It would meet the same fate as Dwarka and Ayodhya.

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Your historian got it all wrong.
Mohan Nair, Sunday , September 16, 2007

It is factually incorrect to say that Sr Ram is not revered in South India . Your historian got it all wrong. It will be better if the participants stick to truth while discussing sensitive topics.

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Don't think that the science we have today can explain everything.
MPReddy on Sunday , September 16, 2007

For those Scientifically Einsteins and politically Sardarjis who were denying the existence of Rama sethu... First of all do you have scientific evidence to deny it? Don't think that the science we have today can explain everything. Through the ages humanity have lost many ancient arts and sciences. To name a few, we lost ancient metallurgy, pottery, weaponry etc.. Can you bring them back with your so called science? These mentally retarded & corrupted people cannot mutilate truth into a 'false' by shouting loud. Rama is God and his creations are much above the understanding of human beings.

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It is not uncommon to see archeological "evidences" being tempered, tampered and manipulated beyond recognition to suit the thinking of present rulers
Sunday , September 16, 2007

Forward looking intellectuals and journalists" are exceedingly keen to suggest that the past glories and pains should not in any way come to the present material existence and growth and emotions should give way to plain rationalism. Nothing can be more foolish than this. You can carry this logic only to some extent. After all human beings are not made up of just flesh and bone. What you call as "negative emotions" that hinder the present material existence and growth are just the opposite side of the coin i.e. "positive emotions" like intense human relationsships, respect for others and relaionship between humans and environment which Hinduism has ardently stood for. To detach emotions fully from human beings is stupid and impractical idea. If the idea of plain rationalism is to be adhered to, then all the elderly people who do not contribute to the society and sick people with no hope of recovery with the existing medical facilities should be done away with like what Hitle did.

And stories of yesterday's "scientific theories" becoming unscientific after a few years is not uncommon. This is not to deride the scientific advancements in toto. Further it is not uncommon to see archeological "evidences" being tempered, tampered and manipulated beyond recognition to suit the thinking of present rulers.

Every one knows who the real culprits are in offending affidavit drama. But the ruling UPA political establishment is too shy to admit this.It is not Ambika Soni or the law Minister. The two culprits are M.Karunanidhi and T.R.Balu Minister for Shipping and transportation.

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Let us have a RAMRAJYA
sethuraman, Sunday , September 16, 2007

This govt. which is backed by the left, DMK (a minority govt. at the state), RJD, and other parties which really do not represent the real majority, since they totally represent only about 40%, of the votes cast decide the fate of our country.we have seen how MR Karunanidhi -the CM, only interested in advancing his family interest, which was throughly exposed very recently and who does not care for the interest of the hindu population and their sentiments.i only wish these irrelevant parties vanish.how can these people play with the sentiments of a vast majority of poor Hindus, a majority have been silent spectators.let us awake and throw these people, and let us have a RAMRAJYA

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Stop copying west and find out our soul.
Dr Vinod, Tuesday , September 18, 2007

When we stop copying west and find out our soul.

Real Gandhi was not a secularist he declared you cannot take the soul and keep the body alive. That is what exactly todays congress is doing. For vote share and to hung in power under the proud leadership of a foreign person cong lost the right to exist. Cong is expired.

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Thursday, September 20, 2007

Pentagon Sued Over Mandatory Christianity


By Jason Leopold
Tuesday 18 September 2007



A military watchdog organization filed a lawsuit in federal court
Tuesday against the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and a
US Army major, on behalf of an Army soldier stationed in Iraq. The suit
charges the Pentagon with widespread constitutional violations by
allegedly trying to force the soldier to embrace evangelical
Christianity and then retaliating against him when he refused.



The complaint, filed in US District
Court in Kansas City, by the nonprofit Military Religious Freedom
Foundation (MRFF), on behalf of Jeremy Hall, an Army specialist
currently on active duty in Speicher, Iraq, alleges that Hall's First
Amendment rights were violated beginning last Thanksgiving when,
because of his atheist beliefs, he declined to participate in a
Christian prayer ceremony commemorating the holiday.


"Immediately after plaintiff made it known he would decline to join
hands and pray, he was confronted, in the presence of other military
personnel, by the senior ranking ... staff sergeant who asked plaintiff
why he did not want to pray, whereupon plaintiff explained because he
is an atheist," says the lawsuit, a copy of which was provided to
Truthout. "The staff sergeant asked plaintiff what an atheist is and
plaintiff responded it meant that he (plaintiff) did not believe in
God. This response caused the staff sergeant to tell plaintiff that he
would have to sit elsewhere for the Thanksgiving dinner. Nonetheless,
plaintiff sat at the table in silence and finished his meal."


Moreover, the complaint alleges that on August 7, when Hall
received permission by an Army chaplain to organize a meeting of other
soldiers who shared his atheist beliefs, his supervisor, Army Major
Paul Welborne, broke up the gathering and threatened to retaliate
against the soldier by charging him with violating the Uniform Code of
Military Justice. The complaint also alleges that Welborne vowed to
block Hall's reenlistment in the Army if the atheist group continued to
meet - a violation of Hall's First Amendment rights under the
Constitution. Welborne is named as a defendant in the lawsuit.


"During the course of the meeting, defendant Welborne confronted
the attendees, disrupted the meeting and interfered with plaintiff
Hall's and the other attendees' rights to discuss topics of their
interests," the lawsuit alleges.


The complaint charges that Hall, who is based at Fort Riley,
Kansas, has been forced to "submit to a religious test as a
qualification to his post as a soldier in the United States Army," a
violation of Article VI, Clause 3 of the Constitution.


The Military Religious Freedom Foundation said Defense Secretary
Robert Gates is named as a defendant in the lawsuit because he has
allowed the military to engage in "a pattern and practice of
constitutionally impermissible promotions of religious beliefs within
the Department of Defense and the United States military."


The lawsuit seeks an injunction against Welborne from further
engaging in behavior "that has the effect of establishing compulsory
religious practices" and asks that Gates prevent Welborne from
interfering with Hall's free speech rights.


Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom
Foundation, an organization that seeks to enforce the law mandating the
separation between church and state in the US military, said the
lawsuit would be the first of many his group intends to file against
the Pentagon.


"This landmark federal litigation is just the first of a galaxy
of new lawsuits that will be expeditiously filed against the Pentagon
in a concentrated effort to preserve the precious religious liberties
guaranteed by our beautiful United States Constitution," Weinstein said
Monday. "Today, we are boldly stabbing back against an unconstitutional
heart of darkness, a contagion of fundamentalist religious supremacy
and triumphalism noxiously dominating the command and control of the
technologically most lethal organization ever created by humankind: our
honorable and noble United States armed forces."



A Pentagon spokesman said he could not comment on the lawsuit because he has not yet seen it.


Weinstein, a former White House attorney under Ronald Reagan,
general counsel H. Ross Perot and an Air Force Judge Advocate (JAG),
has been waging a one-man war against the Department of Defense for its
blatant disregard of the Constitution. He published a book on his
fight: "With God on Our Side: One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup
in America's Military." Weinstein is also an Air Force veteran and a
graduate of the Air Force Academy. Three generations of his family have
attended US military academies.


Since he launched his watchdog organization nearly two years ago
months ago, Weinstein said he has been contacted by more than 5,000
active duty and retired soldiers, many of whom served or serve in Iraq,
who told Weinstein that they were pressured by their commanding
officers to convert to Christianity.



The lawsuit also includes examples of other alleged constitutional abuses by Pentagon officials.


Last month, the Pentagon's Inspector General responded to a
complaint filed last year by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation
alleging that Defense Department officials violated military
regulations by appearing in a video promoting a fundamental Christian
organization.


The Inspector General agreed and issued a 47-page report that
was highly critical of senior Army and Air Force personnel for
participating in the video while in uniform and on active duty.


The report recommended that Air Force Maj. Gen. Jack Catton,
Army Brig. Gen. Bob Caslen, Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, Maj. Gen. Peter
Sutton, and a colonel and lieutenant colonel whose names were redacted
in the inspector general's report, "improperly endorsed and
participated with a non-Federal entity while in uniform" and the men
should be disciplined for misconduct. Caslen was formerly the deputy
director for political-military affairs for the war on terrorism,
directorate for strategic plans and policy, joint staff. He now
oversees the 4,200 cadets at the US Military Academy at West Point.
Caslen told DOD investigators he agreed to appear in the video upon
learning other senior Pentagon officials had been interviewed for the
promotional video.


The inspector general's report recommended the "Secretary of the
Air Force and the Chief of Staff of the Army take appropriate
corrective action with respect to the military officers concerned."


The Army generals who appeared in the video appeared to be
speaking on behalf of the military, but they did not obtain prior
permission to appear in the video. They defended their actions,
according to the inspector general's report, saying the "Christian
Embassy had become a 'quasi-Federal entity,' since the DOD had endorsed
the organization to General Officers for over 25 years."


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Kalaignar has lost the plot

by Balbir K Punj
The Pioneer

While the Archaeological Survey of India has withdrawn the blasphemous affidavit on Ram Setu from the Supreme Court, subsequent events have once again underlined the duplicity of the 'secularists'. Union Minister TR Baalu has been continuously repeating the contents of the offensive affidavit. His mentor M Karunanidhi has been adding insult to injury by his vitriolic remarks against Lord Ram. These statements are more dangerous than the disowned affidavit. Ironically, neither the Prime Minister nor other 'secularists' have protested his remarks.

The DMK's rant against Lord Ram is inspired by commerce, its ideology of atheism and political expediency. The Sethusamudram Shipping Channel Project involves huge investment of Rs 2,427 crore. This is enough money to be shared between the dredging company and those pushing the project. Right from the days of EV Ramaswami Naicker, the DMK cadre have been fed on an anti-Hindu diet. So the DMK leaders are abusing 'Ram' to pander to their traditional constituency in order to boost their sagging electoral fortunes in the State.

During the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, the BJP was accused of communalism because the movement was about Lord Ram. The 'secularists' charged the party for mixing religion with politics and using Lord Ram's name to garner votes. That artificial label, 'communal', is conveniently used by the 'secularists' to forge and break political alliances and is also the UPA's raison d'être.

For 'secularists', mentioning Lord Ram's name is 'communal' but abusing him for political ends is not. A movement for the reconstruction of the Ram temple at Ayodhya is considered a threat to the 'secular' fabric of the country. But they happily extend their covert and overt support to a state-funded project to demolish Ram Setu.

The 'secularists' selectively apply a perverse logic of 'rationality'. The mere theft of an Islamic relic from the Hazratbal shrine in the 1960s had led to countrywide riots till the relic was restored. Lal Bahadur Shastri was sent in haste to Srinagar to pacify the community. Nobody at that point in time spoke about rationality. When someone approached the Calcutta High Court against the contents of the Quran, a law officer was rushed to that city to tell the court - and rightly so - that it is none of the court's business to sit in judgement on religious texts.

The pseudo-secularists believe that Hindus can be easily pacified no matter how much they are offended. The same thinking enables the Government to ignore the protests against a famous painter portraying Hindu goddesses naked, while it hastens to ban books, portrayals and representations of what Muslims consider blasphemy.

What prompted the Government to ignore the sentiments of Hindus altogether in sanctioning a project that destroys Ram Setu? If rationality and scientific thinking were reasons to go ahead with the project, it could be understood. But the fact is that the same Government does not think rationally when it sanctions a hefty sum as subsidy to help some other religion's followers to go for what they believe is a mandatory pilgrimage one must undergo at least once in his/ her lifetime.

The secular mascot of southern India, Mr Karunanidhi, spearheading the Ram Setu demolition squad, has forgotten one important thing. Carnatic music is dominated by saint composer Thyagaraja. Almost all his thousands of kritis (compositions) of devotional songs are sung in honour of his beloved deity, Thyagaraja or Lord Ram. The Lord is named as the king of sacrifices because he readily agreed to give up his claims to the throne as the eldest son to honour a promise that his father had made to one of his three queens. Saint Thyagaraja is at the heart of Tamil culture that Mr Karunanidhi praises so much. So by opposing Lord Ram, Mr Karunandhi has contradicted himself.

An important comparison: Soon after the Prophet's death, a war of succession broke out among his followers. The Mughal period saw the princes fighting among themselves for the throne, soon after the emperor's death. In the fratricidal war, Mughal emperor Aurangzeb emerged victorious after murdering his brothers and imprisoning his father.

Apparently, Mr Karunanidhi has no quarrel with this culture. Conferred with the title 'Kalaignar' - man of (Tamil) culture - he also conveniently overlooks Kamban, the great ancient Tamil poet who wrote his own version of Ramayan. This version is popular in the State even today and is hailed as a literary masterpiece. So much for the Kalaignar's love for Tamil culture!

Mr Karunanidhi and several other dyed-in-the-wool secularists of his ilk frequently ask for evidence supporting Hindu beliefs and the events mentioned in Mahabharat and Ramayan. How will the evidence surface? Over 1,000 years of Muslim rule witnessed massive destruction of countless symbols of Hindu culture and traditions. The British did some archaeological studies but they were usually subordinated to their imperial interests. The establishment of independent India, moulded in the mindset of the British, has shown little interest in finding evidence to substantiate Indian traditions.

Compare this to the interest Western archaeologists showed in finding out whether the Biblical reference to a flood and Noah building an arc in anticipation of it and stocking it with birds and beasts, one pair of each species as directed by god, was true or not. Lots of money was spent and ultimately some evidence was dug out that showed that there indeed was a flood and that a huge boat was really built whose remnants were found.

The Western scholars did not dismiss the Noah story as mere 'faith' because they were completely absorbed in the Biblical tradition. They respected their tradition and sought to enrich it. Our 'secularists' are adept at denouncing their own culture: Forget Kalidas and Kautilya and study Marx and Gorky or Shakespeare and Burke.

The blatant disrespect shown to Lord Ram has stirred the conscience of some Congressmen as well. Coming close on the heels of the indefensible civil nuclear deal with the US, many leading Congressmen - who have remained tight-lipped for long - are waiting for the opportune moment to blow the whistle. The UPA Government has crossed all limits of hypocrisy. Its boat is about to sink. It is hoped it will find a respectful place in the waters of the Gulf of Mannar.

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Saturday, August 04, 2007

Kerala Government targets Hindu Ashrams

8/3/2007 3:32:40 PM HK

Kottayam: Communist Government’s hypocrisy against Hindus is breaking all limits. When acres of land are encroached by Church and Communist Mafia, Government is penalising Hindu Ashrams and Temples raising faulty allegations.

In a recent move, Government directed eviction notice to legally owned land of Sri Rama Krishna Ashram in Mannakadu, Kottayam. 2.25 Acre land owned by the Ashram where, herbal garden and hospital is situated is now targeted by the Anti Hindu Government. The above said land is transferred to Ashram authorities by the special interest of Former Prime Minister Smt. Indira Gandhi. Ashram is paying land tax since then.

Ashram Madathipathi Peethambara Acharya, SC-ST Aikya Vedi Chairman Aithyur Surendran condemned the new Government move to take over the Ashram land.

When the indisputable encroachment cases against AKG Centre,Church and Mosques in various parts are being toppled up, Government is trying to humiliate Hindu Ashrams with such illegitimate moves.

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Sunday, July 29, 2007

Acharya convicted before trial

By Anil M. Dave


The nation’s media has been preoccupied with various controversies
related to the Shankaracharya of Kanchi Kamkoti Peetham for the last
couple of weeks. The entire media apparatus seems all afluster to
ensure that investigation into the accusations levelled by the Tamil
Nadu police against Shri Jayendra Saraswati may not contain any
lacunae.


A unique example of ‘Trial by Media’ has been presented before the
country. This flurry has successfully planted a doubt in the minds of
millions of readers and viewers and converted the Shankaracharya from
an accused to a convict. As a corollary, another doubt, that the
religion of the majority in this country has decayed and its centres of
faith are crumbling, has taken root. These doubts are amply
demonstrated in the initial statements of political parties who seem
defensive about the accusations levelled against the Shankaracharya
while the treatment meted out to him is being made a point of debate.
If anyone has questioned the veracity of the accusations, the sphere of
such queries has been within the bounds of Tamil politics.


Our police, famous for handling ordinary bureaucrats and Lilliputian
politicians with timid subservience, did not think twice before
launching a crusade against a centre of faith! Behind the obvious legal
tangle, are there any larger invisible issues which must be brought
forth by investigative scribes and reporters?


Those who negate the primacy of Kanchi Kamkoti Peetham are probably
ignorant of the fact that Adishankara, that unique organiser of India’s
cultural integration, had consecrated a ‘yoga lingam’
here and shed his mortal coils. The Mutt has a history of
two-and-a-half millennia. Even those who dwell eternally in coffee
houses and smoke away thousands of years of legacies, recognise the
progressive nature of the present Shankaracharya. In his tenure, the
Mutt has come forward as an institution working against inequality and
the caste system.

The Truth of Kanchi



Shri Jayendra Saraswati is the first Shankaracharya to partake of the hospitality of the downtrodden. He propagated the ‘tat twam-asi’ (Thou art He) theory of Adishankara which underlines the thought that no Hindu is partita
(fallen). A backward-looking orthodox section of the Hindu society was
forever annoyed with this revolutionary Shankaracharya for his
enthusiasm to embrace all and sundry. This however did not deter the
intrepid sanyasi in his efforts to make the Kanchi Mutt an institution of universal appeal.


Shri Jayendra’s leadership facilitated the proliferation of the
disciples of the Mutt all over the world. Through its various trusts,
the Mutt runs almost two hundred schools, various hospitals including
the world-famous Shankara Nethralaya and the Child Trust Hospital in
Chennai and Guwahati respectively, twenty-five colleges and a deemed
university. There is an international library in the deemed university,
which has material on every religion in the world for research. This
network of education and healthcare has spread not only in south India
but in states like Gujarat, Assam and other deprived areas also,
particularly those inhabited by forest-dwellers (Vanvasis).


There is a saying that a daughter-in-law when annoyed with her
mother-in-law hits her child instead. The onslaught on Shri Jayendra is
in a similar vein. The largest theocracy in the world is being run by a
superpower who uses economic and religious weaponry to realise its
military ambitions. This theocracy is now colluding with another—a
palace-state. This coalition, after an effort of a century, has
succeeded in converting 80 to 90 per cent of Indians in the north-east
to Christianity. They would not allow any doors to open for the
re-entry of these converts in the mainstream. The sinister designs of
this coalition were aptly discussed in a Delhi-based journal, Tehelka in its first issue. The questions raised therein are worth pondering upon.


If the Shankaracharya of Kanchi tries to open this closed door with the
instruments of education, health and service, is he not inviting
international vendetta? We have got used to the irritation of our
neighbour on the Kashmir issue. We still do not recognise the umbrage
this coalition takes at the new winds blowing from the mainstream in
our north-east.


Reduction of votes scares our political leaders and disturbance of law
and order terrifies our administrators. We have umpteen examples of the
above. The warrants against many a religious leader, criminal dons,
politicians rot in the police stations for years, waiting to be served.
The assurance behind the courage of Ms. Jayalalithaa must be probed and
understood by the one billion Indians.


Shri Jayendra made an honest effort to solve the Ayodhya question. He
is not one of those political flag-bearers of religion who wishes
merely to be seen or published. His desire for a solution has been
sincere and his attempts were innocent and proactive. This certainly
could annoy those who wished to keep India in a limbo of disturbance.
It is a proof of Shri Jayendra’s magnanimity that besides the Hindus, a
large number of Muslim religious leaders voiced their concern for his
case and pledged their support. No one else batted an eyelid. Why
wasn’t a candle lit by those who take out candle-lit processions over
minor issues, when a major spiritual centre of the country’s majority
is under attack?


Attacks have changed their character in modern times. Their targets are
hither but the bombing is thither. India’s powers-that-be and all
Indians must recognise these hidden attacks. The East India Company
employed the same strategy of pitching Indians against Indians and
through this covert war ruled our country for a hundred and ninety
years.


Albeit, no one shall have the gall to subjugate India ever again, but
we must not lose any of our fronts. These assailants from beyond our
boundaries take advantage of our constitutional system and expand with
the help of our own establishment. Once their expansion becomes
sustainable, they break the bonds of the Constitution and become
anti-establishment, resulting in terror tactics and violence. We have
seen this technique employed in Kashmir and the north-east. If our
leaders remain tongue-tied for fear of votes and ignore these breeders
of disquiet, despite realising their designs, then the people have no
option but to turn the applecart upside down.


There is a psychological problem with the majority in this country, as
accepted by many sociologists. We, Indians, fall prey to self-pity with
alacrity; we love self-criticism and lose faith easily. If we do not
free ourselves from this slipping into a sad mode, all dreams of
development shall die as mere plans. The silence of our society over
the arrest of Shri Jayendra Saraswati is a dangerous signal. The
British had no inkling in 1857 on how youth sprouted in the old veins
of India and a terrific movement shook the foundations of White rule!
It is necessary to ponder on all aspects of this subject. It is time to
recognise the truths and facets of covert and overt assaults, to search
for solutions and to ensure the defeat of all nefarious designs.



(The writer is a former adviser to Madhya Pradesh government.)


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Saturday, April 21, 2007

Is it a conspiracy to destroy Hindu heritage?

by Dina Nath Mishra

In India we have been callous towards our heritage and legacy. Destruction of setubandh has already started. International companies have been engaged. One should not be surprised if Ram setu is totally destroyed

What is Setu-Samudram project? The project envisages a path for ships between India and Sri Lanka by creating two sea-canals. Total length of the canal would be about 89 km. The cost of the project is Rs 24 billion. It would be managed by Setu-Samudram Corporation. Twenty per cent of the aid would come from the Centre.

Some contribution would come from four Tamil Port Trusts. The implementing authority would be the Tuticorin Port Trust. Public issue of Rs 3 billion would be managed by UTI Bank. Central Government would guarantee all loans raised by the Corporation. Navigational financial benefits are the moving force behind it. Increasing foreign trade, Indian ambition, as well as Tamil Nadu's development are cited as reasons for the project. Additional reasons being strategic needs.

There are objections to the project from Kerala as it saved Kerala from big apprehended loss of human life due to Tsunami, for the setubandh mellowed the Tsunami thrust. Environmental issues are also involved. The fishing community fears drop in their income. The biggest factor, which would play its own role, is that Setu-Samudram would destruct Ram setu, the invaluable human heritage. That apart, sentimental attachment of Hindus with Ram setu is also very relevant and they too are raising their voice against its destruction. This ambitious project is hanging in the balance for over a century. The NDA Government had also cleared it but the plan remained untouched. But when Manmohan Singh launched this project, it had under gone changes, which included destruction of Setu-Samudram.

The destruction of setubandh Rameshwaram is being carried out by foreign contractors. The Ramayana depicts this bandh vividly. It is a great center of Hindu pilgrimage since it was constructed by Shri Ram. Hindus are agitated over its ongoing destruction.

Setubandh might have been dismissed as mythology. But a few years back NASA based report released by PTI stated, "The NASA Shuttle has imaged a mysterious bridge between India and Sri Lanka, as mentioned in the Ramayana. The evidence, say experts matter of fact, is in the Digital Image Collection. The recently discovered bridge, currently named as Adam's Bridge and made of a chain of shoals, 30 km long, in the Palk Straits between India and Sri Lanka, reveals mystery behind it. The Bridge's unique curvature and composition reveals that it is man-made. Legend as well as Archeological studies reveal that the first signs of human inhabitants in Sri Lanka date back to about 1,750,000 years ago and the bridge's age is also almost equivalent."

However, the fact is that Hindu cosmogony contains descriptions of jal plavan or pralaya followed by total destruction. A small number of survivors had to perform the task of recreation unto them. The tectonic movements of plates also changed geography of the earth and impacted the history of human civilisation. After the great revelation of NASA, the Setubandh Rameshwaram has to be preserved as one of the greatest human heritage. The UN bodies care for such heritage. There are a number of international laws to preserve it. In Australia, the aboriginals as per their faith believe in some mountains to be as sacred as god. The Australian Government had to recognise their faith in mountain gods and the construction of national high way passing over these mountains was shifted.

Even before NASA's discovery, the existence of the setubandh was known. But NASA's revelations enthralled Indian heart and soul with a sense of pride in its history and civilisational development, including science, technology and architecture of ancient India. Had such discovery been related to any developed country, it would have opened floodgates of research. As per Hindu cosmogony it was during treta yug when the Ram setu was constructed. NASA has assessed the time frame as 17,50,000 years old.

In India we have been callous towards our heritage and legacy. The destruction of setubandh has already started. International companies have been engaged. One should not be surprised if Ram setu is totally destroyed in the name of building Tuticorin sea-port and a sea-canal between the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. There can be ways to save the setubandh as well as go ahead with the development.

But who cares for preservation of Hindu - heritage and sensitivities. About a month back, a person called Krishna Swarup Pandey came to me and showed me some documents. I was amazed, as the way the Government did every thing in a hurry. After Shankaracharyas and other saints started speaking on it, 140 Tamil Nadu organisations launched an agitation to save it. They are now approaching the Supreme Court with a PIL to save this great Indian heritage.

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Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Don’t destroy our heritage

Sethusamudram Channel Project in Tamil Nadu has become a rallying point for Hindus, once again highlighting the total disregard of the UPA government to Hindu sensitivities. For the last three years Hindu organisations led by Hindu Munnani under the respected leader Shri Ramgopalan have been campaigning for the protection of Ram Sethu, which is the most ancient underwater bridge, believed to have been built by Shri Ram.

It is sacred for the Hindus. It is a living legend of our great heritage. And the gripping description of this astounding human endeavour has become the folklore of the great Hindu tradition.

The Valmiki Ramayana has a scintillating narrative of the marvellous saga in great details. The architect who led the construction was Nala, and this fact is referred to in the Mahabharata by Veda Vyasa.

Modern studies including satellite imageries of NASA have established the existence of the remains of the bridge. The dredging work for the Sethusamudram Project had to be abandoned thrice because of the machine getting damaged at the seabed hit by the mountain-like rock formations. The organisations demanding suspension of the Sethusamudram Project in its present format submitted a memorandum signed by over a million people to the President of India Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam in November last. With every passing day the popular outrage over the destruction of Ram Sethu is getting louder.

The demand for a relook into the Sethusamudram Project is not confined to religious leaders and Hindus. Millions of families of fishermen who eke out a living by the sea have formed a protest group under the banner Tamil Nadu Fishermen Sangh headed by Shri Kuppu Ram. Scientists and environmentalists are apprehensive of the huge damage the destruction of Ram Sethu can do to the mainland. It is believed that the tsunami impact was largely absorbed by this protective rock shield in the seabed. These scientists argue that a similar underwater quake in the Indian Ocean in future, in the absence of such natural protection, can submerge large parts of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. This will prove a cynical man-made tragedy, if in the name of development such natural protective wall in the sea is wantonly destroyed. Natural scientists are worried over the irretrievable loss of flora and fauna. It is feared that the Project will prove a calamity to large number of rare species in the sea. Archaeologists have expressed their desire to undertake further study on the authenticity and historicity of Ram Sethu.

Citing all these reasons the former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK leader J. Jayalalithaa has opposed the Sethusamudram Project in its ongoing format. Thus opposition to the project has come from all quarters, political, religious, scientific, archaeological and environmental.

The BJP has appointed a committee under the former union HRD minister and senior party leader Dr Murli Manohar Joshi to ascertain the facts about the widespread apprehension and resentment at the impending destruction of the sacred monument. After visiting the site, speaking to a large cross section of people and assessing the economic and environmental impact, Dr Joshi in a letter to Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh asked for the immediate suspension of work at the project site till it is redesigned incorporating the alternative plan to save the ancient structure.

Now what is it that makes the UPA so adamant as to not give any heed to these pleas? Is it enjoying a vicarious pleasure from the latent Hindu anguish? Or is it that it is determined to do anything and everything only to damage and destroy all traces of the great Hindu tradition? It is impossible to fathom that the government has not thought it prudent enough on its part to invite all the parties concerned and address the issue afresh and give it a relook, to satisfy all sections involved in the agitation. This is the least it can do as the organisations asking for a re-evaluation have a scientific and viable alternative plan.

But the government has taken a grand standing on the issue as if it is a matter of prestige. So far the agitationists have been peaceful and they have only been asking for negotiations. But this government, it seems, will retreat only in the face of Nandigram type of pro-active action.

The government’s intention is suspect because it has in the last three years either denied support or shelved a series of projects which would have richly added to our understanding of the past and writing, rather reconstruction of our history. This attitudinal allergy has done immense damage to the hallowed heritage site of Hampi, the UPA has folded up the ambitious Saraswati River Project on purely political considerations. As commented on a number of occasions on these columns, it refused funding to the prestigious and path-breaking Dwaraka offshore archaeology excavation project. In the budget session of Parliament, Minister for Culture Smt Ambika Soni informed the Rajya Sabha that she was not aware and was not interested in finding out if there was a Ram Sethu off Rameshwaram, though Hindus all over the world believe and worship it. What is the message that one gets from all these? Is it that the government is uninterested in preserving and studying India’s ancient heritage? Or is it wary of their political significance? And more plainly put, is it also part of UPA’s vote bank agenda? Whatever be the consideration, the Sethusamudram episode has once again brought the central government face to face with the national resolve to protect Ram Sethu.

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Wednesday, August 23, 2006

The mess the UPA is creating

The Moving Finger Writes
By M.V. Kamath

An earnest prayer to the UPA is: Kindly stop dividing people. It is unbecoming of you. The British in their time did it and we know with what consequences. Let it not be said that like the Bourbons, the Congress has learnt nothing and forgotten nothing.

It is painful to say so, but it has to be said before it is too late. The Congress-led UPA government is leading the country into a mess from which, if immediate action is not taken, it may become very hard to extricate ourselves. This is stated more in sadness than in anger. To the ordinary citizen it is not which party is in power but which party is exerting to keep the people together in the pursuit of peace, prosperity and national unity above all.

In this regard the Congress failure is writ all over its face. And the reaction is, to state it in plain terms, frightening. National unity is not achieved through dividing society into castes, forward, backward or scheduled. It is not achieved by insisting on reservations to particular castes or communities not only in educational institutions but even in private enterprises. That is not government. That is plain dictatorship. It only spurs deep resentment and discontent among people to no one’s advantage. To openly talk about increased appointment of Muslims in the Armed Forces is to make Muslims more conscious of their religious attachments and create a sense of unwantedness in their minds.

Alienation among Muslims is growing to the point that in Uttar Pradesh, a group of Muslim outfits have launched their own Islamic political party misleadingly called Peoples Democratic Front. Their charge is that all these years Muslims have been treated as a vote bank by various political parties and they will not stand it any longer. Muslim separatism is raising its ugly head all over again.

It may be worth remembering that the last time the Leftists were in power in Kerala they helped redraw district boundaries so that within the State there will be at least one district which has a Muslim majority. Now a section of Muslims in Andhra Pradesh is demanding that should the State be further divided with the creation of Telangana, then Hyderabad city must be given the status of a ‘City State’, presumably with a Muslim majority. People have stopped thinking of themselves as Indians. They are coming to think of themselves as Muslims or members of this or that community.

Even as the proposed Peoples’ Democratic Front(PDF) was getting organised, its self-appointed chairman, Maulana Kalbe Jawwad, a prominent Shia cleric was talking of how the Uttar Pradesh government of Mulayam Singh Yadav was biased. As Jawwad saw the situation, in recent times as many as 1,800 constables were recruited by the State of whom nearly 1,000 were Yadavs and only 30 (thirty) Muslims. Jawwad is reported as saying: “If the seven per cent Yadavs in the State and 12 per cent Dalits can occupy power in Uttar Pradesh, why can’t the 22 per cent Muslims do so?” This exclusiveness is spreading and is getting the support of important Muslim leaders like the Shahi Imam of Delhi’s Jama Masjid, Ahmed Bukhari who has been named as the PDF’s patron. At this rate we will soon have parties not based on economic ideologies, but on caste, creed and religion.

The move to form a separate Islamic political party should not be treated lightly. The message will spread fast. Attending the meeting held to establish the PDF were some important Muslim leaders like the Imam of Masjid Teela Shah, president of the Jamat-e-Islami, President of the Majlis-e-Mashawarat, President of the All-India Muslim Forum, President of Parcham Party and President of the Indian National Muslim League.

The original Muslim League led by M.A.Jinnah went about systematically to destroy the unity of India that was eventually to lead to Partition, wholesale bloodshed and ethnic cleansing in what became Pakistan and that decades-old hatred has still not died out. What the PDF will do is anybody’s guess. But the nation is warned.

The Muslim League did poorly in the 1937 elections to the Legislative Assemblies. It is also true that in the late thirties and early forties it was the British raj that was in power and which encouraged Islamic separatism. But when Muslims continue to think of themselves as a neglected minority and apply themselves to the task of demanding all sorts of benefits, rightly or wrongly, the nation will be forced to pay a heavy price.

Minoritism is an evil that should under no circumstances be tolerated. Caste or religion-based political parties should be immediately banned. They are a menace to the unity of India.

The UPA government has stooped to such a low level of politicising religion that the Union Minister for Minority Affairs, Shri A.R.Antulay seems determined to impart—or impose—minority status on Jains, who have not even asked for it.

As recently as August 2005, a Supreme Court Bench, comprising of then Chief Justice, Shri R.C.Lahoti and Justices D.M.Dharmadhikari and P.K.Balasubrahmanyam had directed the national and State-level Minority Commissions to find ways of first reducing and ultimately ending the listing of notified minorities, rather than increasing them. In India there are no minorities. There are only Indians. And any political party based on religious grounds must be immediately banned, no matter under what misleading title it is formed.

The trouble is that the Congress appears to have lost all sense of direction. Knowing what led to Partition, the Congress should have been the first to discourage minoritism under any guise. Even to have a Minority Ministry is itself symbolic of a mindset out to divide people.

The PDF wants to know how come so few Muslims were chosen as constables in Uttar Pradesh. It should have first checked out how many Muslims did, in fact, apply for the jobs in the constabulary and of them how many were eligible. It is sixty years since India became free. In these sixty years what did the Muslim leadership do to create jobs for Muslims? Was it necessary to set up madrasas in every town and village when the demand is increasingly not for knowing how many passages from the Quran one can recite but how good is the youngster at mathematics? When will Muslims understand that to get on in life one must get on with modernity?

The UPA government must spend lavishly on setting up primary schools and encourage every low-income family to send its sons and daughters to get higher education by providing financial incentives. In due course—say, a couple of decades—minority students, so-called will be able to gain self-confidence and get seats in institutes of higher learning in their own rights. For a nation some 10,000 years old, a couple of decades count for nothing. An earnest prayer to the UPA is: Kindly stop dividing people. It is unbecoming of you. The British in their time did it and we know with what consequences. Let it not be said that like the Bourbons, the Congress has learnt nothing and forgotten nothing. This is not a party matter. It deals with the vary essence of national unity and concerns all of us determined to stop further divisions of the country.

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Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Hindu bashing in Tamilnadu

8/8/2006 3:27:34 PM HK

Chennai:DMK led Tamilnadu government planning to take harsh actions against Hindu festivals. The move is part of Minority appeasing agenda and to tarnish the Hindu sentiments.One cannot witness this sort of Hindu bashing even in any of the of the countries, were Hindus are minority.

For the upcoming Vinayaka Chathurthi following rules have been issued to appease the Muslims and Christians in Tamilnadu.

1)The procession should not stop before mosques and churches.

2)The procession time should not be delayed so as to stop before the namaz time in mosques.

3) The Vinayaka idols should be taken only on a tractor or a lorry.

4) Persons should not walk behind the idol in procession.

5) Only ten persons can go with the idol in a lorry and only five persons will be allowed if the idol is taken in a tractor.

6) Clay idols alone will be allowed to be taken in the procession. Vinayaka idols made of plaster of Paris will not be allowed.

7) No one should use firecrackers during the procession.

8) None should take with him colour powders or fireballs.

9) Loud speakers should not be used.

10)The procession should conform to existing traffic rules and should keep to the left.

11)Musical instruments should not be taken and made use of during the procession.

12) The organizers should issue identity cards to those participating in the procession.

This outrageous move is a challenge to our constitution which grants equal treatment to its entire citizen irrespective of what religion you follow, This Minority pampering step is a challenge to all followers of Hinduism in the country.

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Saturday, August 05, 2006

Four-fold menace - A nexus of enveloping evil


In an era of 'Publishing abundance' unfortunately ushered in by our perverted democracy and technological explosion, looking for needles in hay stacks has become the full-time occupation of a conservative reader who still clings to the old-fashioned belief that quality is all, I don't feel ashamed to confess that I am a conservative in regard to my reading habits and I am immensely happy now that I have found 'a needle'.

An explosively revolutionary book entitled 'NGOs, ACTIVISTS AND FOREIGN FUNDS: Anti-Nation Industry' jointly edited by two fearless journalists and writers Radha Rajan and Krishen Kak has recently been published by Vigil Public Opinion Forum (VPOF) in Chennai. This forum came into being in Chennai in 1982, as a result of Shri Shivramji Jogelakar's visionary and persistent efforts to unite persons who wrote regularly 'Letters to the Editor' columns in the English and vernacular Press on various public issues from time to time. His whole life was committed to looking for and then bringing together people who are committed to public cause and who dedicated their time to serve a social cause. During the last 25 years, Vigil has emerged as a vibrant and courageous public opinion forum committed to the principle of establishment of truth at any cost.

This revolutionary book exposes the evil anti-national designs of some NGOs and activists operating in India.

They are all committed to their supreme objective of De-Hinduising the Indian State which means rendering the Hindu identity to any aspect of our national life illegitimate and irrelevant in public life and public discourse, with the subterranean objective of eroding the 'Hindu Consciousness' in the Hindus and finally wiping out the Hindu face of the nation. Against this dangerous background, Radha Rajan superbly summarises the consequential position: 'Thus arises the demand for a ban on cow slaughter, the demand of Hindu bakthas that government withdraw from temple administration and stop usurping temple money and temple revenue, the demand for the right to administer their temples and utilise temple money in the interest of Hindu Dharma, the demand that governments take cognizance of growing religious demographic imbalance, the demand that governments acknowledge the consequences of foreign, State-powered and funded religious conversions, demands for an accurate and honest writing of Indian History and the stubborn 'secularist' refusal to admit that all terrorism leading to secession is either Christian or Islamic terrorism, only attests to Hindu powerlessness in the face of political conduct which derives from a twisted definition of secularism.'

Nehruvian secularism is committed to the cause of de-nationalising and de-Hinduising Indian polity. De-nationalising involves the processes of devaluing both nation and nationality. De-nationalising the Indian State, Radha Rajan asserts, has resulted in deadening our consciousness to the ignominy of the rise of a foreigner in Indian polity who aspires to become our Prime Minister.

What emerges from this book can be summarised in the following equation: Mohammedanism + Missionaryism + Marxism + Macaulayism + Nehruvian Secularism = Promotion of Terrorism in India.

In the light of this axiomatic equation, several NGOs and their activities have been analysed with facts and figures which is a wake up call for all the nationalist Hindus of India who subscribe to the philosophy and ideals of Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo and Bal Gangadar Tilak. It is a veritable mine of information on many anti-national and anti-Hindu NGOs. And certain high-profile individuals who are found to be in the forefront of anti-India and anti-Hindu propaganda on various issues. Based on a careful analysis of the activities of many NGOs, this landmark book establishes a tangible relationship between the anti-India and the anti-Hindu dimensions of these sinister organisations. In the view of Radha Rajan and Krishen Kak, there can never be any Indian nationalism that is contrary to or separate from Hindu nationalism. It is a natural corollary that the continuing attempts to de-Hinduise our polity by these NGOs and their activists have implications for the national security and the relationship of so-called religious minorities in India with Hindus and the Indian State.

The focus of this book is on the following issues:

a) How these NGOs are de-nationalising the Hindu consciousness in a cold and calculated manner with the covert and overt help from the government of India?

b) A scrutiny of the loose coalition of opportunistic (only in respect of India) anti-Hindu Christians, Muslims, Communists and Nehruvian secularists who are guilty of advocacy of secular sedition when they dismiss Indian nationalism with contempt and hatefully deny the concept of Hindu India's territorial integrity.

c) Politically and socially criminal attempts to use history and social science to indoctrinate the young and impressionable minds with the agenda to de-root the Hindu community from its cultural enclave of geographical nationalism. Islam-embracing, Christianity-coveting, and Hindu-baiting UPA government has carefully planted all the activists belonging to the anti-Hindu category as Members in the Central Advisory Board on Education (CABE) and National Integration Council (NIC). This also includes the Archbishop of Delhi! Many of the activists under the scanner in this book under review find place in both CABE and NIC. This fact is not incidental but fundamental. The dastardly aspect in this context is that there is not a single member in CABE or NIC to represent Hindu interests while Muslims, Christians, Marxists and Nehruvian Secularists and page boys of Sonia Gandhi have been nominated exclusively to represent all these interests in general and the overriding sovereign anti-Hindu secular interests.

Radha Rajan observes with biting sarcasm: 'The activists profiled in this book share Edgar Williams' colonial contempt for the sanctity of the concept of nation and national border and his pathetic ignorance about pre-colonial history and geography of nations, and so they treat the territorial integrity and inviolability of nations and States with the same contempt. Edgar Williams' opinions in his article are self-illustrative of American arrogance and the country's relentless pursuit to fulfil its white Christian neo-colonial and neo-imperialist delusions. The anti-nation, anti-Hindu 'peace' and 'human rights' activists have the same contempt for all Hindu organic and traditional social structures and group identities as they have for the nation and national borders; so they denounce family, varna, jathi and kula, religion and nation as 'upper caste' and 'patriarchal' constructs. 'The ultimate intent of their activism is to damage the Hindu social fibre and weaken social cohesion by de-Hinduising large segments of Hindu society.'

What is most amazing is that Radha Rajan and her colleagues are also incisive Chartered Social Accountants! The following table gives details of the payment and receipt relating to Indo-Pak Peace March Expense Account of Sandeep Pandey on page 251:


I know only about the Dandi March in Indian History. Perhaps Indo-Pak Peace March might be world famous in global pseudo-secular history! An amount of nearly Rs.34,900 has been incurred on petrol and diesel and conveyance. Passport expenses account for Rs.75,000.

Mahatma Gandhi, to the best of my knowledge, did not incur such expenses. At any rate, he did not go on Dandi March in order to collect money from funding agencies abroad. The nation owes a deep debt of gratitude to Radha Rajan and Krishen Kak for bringing out several dimensions and aspects of the truth about several anti-Hindu and anti-India activists and NGOs plotting with gay abandon against the territorial and spiritual integrity of India.

Magicians through the ages have never been able to control their angels or their demons until they discovered their names. The origin of all literature lies here. We have the literature of knowledge; we have the literature of interpretation and the literature of escape; we also have the literature of power. Radha Rajan and Krishen Kak have edited a book of 'power' called 'NGOs, ACTIVISTS AND FOREIGN FUNDS: Anti-Nation Industry'. I pay my tribute to this great book in the following words of Mathew Arnold: 'Books are man's rational protest against the irrational, man's pitiful protest against the implacable, man's ideal against the world's real, man's word against the cosmic dumbness, man's life against the planetary death, man's revelation of the God within him, man's repartee to the God without him. Whoever touches a book touches not only a 'man' but 'MAN.' Karl Marx and Engels produced the 'Communist Manifesto' in 1848. Radha Rajan and Krishen Kak have produced this great book which I call 'Save Hindu Manifesto.' Their clarion call to us all Hindus is: HINDUS OF THE WORLD UNITE! You have nothing to lose but your chains - chains of Mohammedanism, Missionaryism, Macaulayism, Nehruvian Secularism, Marxism and Global Terrorism.



The weapon of Ahimsa which Mahatma Gandhi used against the British was a complex weapon which he used with mixed results. Viewed in retrospect, no one can doubt that it did put the colonial British Administration in a tight spot on many occasions. At the same time, no one can also question the fact that it dampened the fire of resistance, characteristic of Hindu society which had waged a relentless war of resistance and survival for almost 1200 years against the successive waves of Muslim invasion and occupation.

The method of Ahimsa also proved completely ineffective as a tool of engagement with the Muslims. As Radha Rajan puts it succinctly: 'Gandhiji's unflinching insistence on Ahimsa as the only tool in the war for freedom robbed the Indian resistance movement of its ferocity and sting because Hindu nationalists who tried to make the British pay with their blood for the sins of their Christian-colonial Rule were morally de-legitimised. The Congress' accommodation bordering on self-destructive (for Hindus only!) indulgence of Muslims in the Indian National Congress and their growing clout in national politics was the direct fall out of disarming and disempowering the Hindus. Along with Nehru's perverted indulgence of the Muslims of Jammu and Kashmir, this dealt the Hindus two mortal blows, one resulting in the vivisection of India and the other culminating in the genocide of Hindus of Jammu and Kashmir. Hindus paid the price for their forced powerlessness; Hindu baiters tasted blood.'

After the bloody partition of 1947, the sovereign mission of de-Hinduising our nation continued in the guise of Nehruvian Secularism or Nehruvian Stalinism. This essentially anti-national and positively pro-Nehru family philosophy has been accorded the status of high philosophy, even superior to the 'communal' Advita philosophy of Adi Sankara!

While the Congress Party under Nehru and Indira Gandhi were committed to the philosophy of de-Hinduising the nation and de-nationalising the Hindus, several NGOs backed by global forces of Christianity and Islam and several Western powers like Britain and USA entrenched themselves in India after 1955. Later, the Communist Parties of India came to realise the significance of the role of NGOs in modifying or altering the basic structures and contours of our polity and consequently several NGOs wedded to the philosophy of Marxism on paper also joined the fray in this game of de-Hinduisation of India and de-nationalisation of the Hindus. The avant-garde book edited by Radha Rajan and Krishen Kak: 'NGOs, ACTIVISTS AND FOREIGN FUNDS: Anti-National Industry' brings out the solid truth that many of these NGOs and activists functioning cosily under the safe umbrella of so called peace and human rights activism, cleverly cloak their deep political ambition and objectives - political ambitions not just restricted to participating or influencing electoral politics but aimed at shaping the character and direction of Indian polity in a manner which flows from their warped anti-Hindu, anit-Sanatana Dharma notion of the Indian Nation. Their political ambitions and activism are essentially undemocratic and anti-Indian Nation. Their grass roots activism in many instances is only a fig-leaf for political activism, well funded through an inflow of foreign money. Eminent scholars like R Vaidyanathan, Veera Vaishnava, Narayanan Menon Komerath, Krishen Kak, Nirupama Rajan, George Thondiparambil, Vishal Agarwal, B Raman, and Arvind Lvakare have contributed seminal articles on the subterranean role of national sabotage being played by many of these famous NGOs and the great activists who have won all the global awards excepting perhaps the Nobel Prize. These fearless scholars expose the political and anti-national agenda of some very well-known NGOs and activists and clearly reveal their foreign sponsorships, donors and funds. It proves their double-standard and their total absence of public accountability and stress the urgent public need for the Government of India to ensure a vigorous mechanism to counter this anti-nation and anti-national industry which has spread to all parts of India like the most virulent form of terminal cancer. The NGOs that have been brought under scrutiny include FOIL, AID, ACTIONAID, PARIVARTAN, and ASHA.

One of the essays in this igniting book is by R Vaidyanathan entitled 'NGOs: Description and Regulations'. According to him, one of the largest members of the Indian Economic Action Scene is the NGO sector - what is known as the Third Sector (other than Government and Private) in academic circles. What is a non-Government organization (NGO)? A NGO is any voluntary, non-profit, service-oriented citizens' group which is organized on a local, national or international basis. It can be registered as a Society, Trust or Section 25 Company. The following tables (Table-1 to Table-4) give a synoptic view of the NGO landscape as a whole in India today (pages 41 to 44 of the book under review):

Source: India's Invisibles; RBI Bulletin, March 2005.

We don't have exact figures relating to the number of persons employed in these nearly 28,500 NGOs in India. One estimate puts it at 19.4 million with West Bengal (1.52 Million), Tamilnadu (1.49 Million) and Delhi (1.03 million) in the forefront.

We should not forget the fact that the total number of Government employees is roughly only 20 million in India (Central, State and Local Bodies).

Vaidyanathan rightly concludes: 'The type of activities in which the NGOs are involved are mind-boggling.

It indicates that the range of concerns of the Third Sector of the NGOs is as large as that of sovereign States'.

All the essays in the book under review bring out the unknown aspects of truth about many of the known Kaikayees, Thadagais, Duryodanas, Dushasanas, Kamsans, Hiranya Kasubus and other such globe-trotting Rakshasas and Rakshasis in the world of Indian NGOs today.

I can see from the material presented in this book that many of them would eminently qualify for the following historic testimonial to the contemporary members of the Democratic Party in his time in USA, given by Walt Whitman (1819-1892), the great Poet of American Democracy: The members who composed it (any Democratic Party National Convention prior to the Civil War) were seven-eighths of them, the meanest kind of bawling and blowing officeholders, office-seekers, pimps, malignants, conspirators, murderers, fancy-men, custom-house clerks, contractors, kept-editors, spaniels well-trained to carry and fetch, jobbers, disunionists, terrorists, mail-riflers, slave-catchers, pushers of slavery, creatures of creatures of the President, creatures of would-be Presidents, spies, bribers, compromisers, lobbyers, sponges, ruined sports, expelled gamblers, policy-backers, Monte-dealers, duelists, carriers of concealed weapons, deaf men, pimpled men, scarred inside with vile disease, gaudy outside with gold chains made from the people's money and harlots' money twisted together; crawling, serpentine men, the lousy combinings and BORN FREEDOM-SELLERS of the earth.

This is not the end, not even the beginning of the end, but only the end of the beginning.


Islam-embracing, Christianity coveting, Hindu-baiting UPA government is in a state of both voluntary and involuntary coma today. In a recent interview with Karan Thapar, our National (In!) Security Adviser M K Narayanan has proudly proclaimed with professional aplomb that Le-T of Pakistan is responsible for all the terror in India! He has declared with Magisterial Ineptitude: 'I know I will be ex-communicated!'

He can afford to be sloppily vocal on vital matters of national life and death. The Prime Minister is silent; the Defence Minister is silent; the Home Minister is silent. The de-jure Prime Minister of India Sonia Gandhi is also silent with Catholic compassion and trans-national sympathy if not loyalty. Outside most of the Missionary, Marxist, Islamic, pseudo secular Nehru-sponsored NGOs are working round the clock to balkanize India with gay and insidious abandon.

Against this dark and gloomy background of planned national destruction and decimation with secular enthusiasm, the biting truths about the nefarious anti-national and treasonable activities brought out in their fire-brand book NGOs, ACTIVISTS AND FOREIGN FUNDS - ANTI-NATION INDUSTRY edited by Radha Rajan and Krishen Kak should become a prescribed text-book for all the officers in the Government of India and the State governments responsible for national security and public safety. To quote the acid words of Radha Rajan in this vital context: 'The Congress-led UPA coalition defined itself as a 'Secular' (as opposed to 'communal' Hindu ) group and so rewarded these anti-Hindu activists (the noble NGOs!) who made anti-Hinduism the key-note of their political activism. These individuals and groups distort history and historical truths, negate the nation's Hindu civilizational moorings and deny the primacy of Hindu culture and ethos to propagate the twin falsehoods that there is no 'Hindu' community and that India has always been a 'Pluralist' country. Only by secularly declaring India as a 'Pluralist' country can all these NGOs rooted in the western imperialist ideology of attack, plunder, pillage and loot of Countries can they create a geographical platform / space for their occupation and nefarious actions.

The Indian Marxists have learnt two vital lessons from USA and other Western Nations. By funding and supporting NGOs in India, these western powers are influencing social trends and political and economical policies in India. Secondly, they have understood the urgent public need to start their own flourishing anti-national industry called NGO-activism which would enable them to surreptitiously clothe their socially disruptive anti-Hindu activism in a facade of global respectability.

The two most famous names in the anti-Hindu NGO-activism industry in India are Sandeep Pandey and Aruna Roy - telling examples of Marxists marching into NGO activism. Sandeep Pandey's nexus with Communism started coming out when, within months of accepting a Magsaysay Award in 2002 when he announced to the world that he will be returning the money US $ 50,000 - component of the Award. He made this declaration because he felt awkward after having called the US a terrorist State.

According to Radha Rajan, the Communists used Sandeep Pandey to deliver the first punch at the 'Imperialist' US and the Ford Foundation. Nirmala Deshpande and Admiral Ramdas of Pakistan India People's Forum For Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) have already earned their Magsaysays for dabbling in Kashmir and hard selling peace with Pakistan. Sandeep Pandey has original ideas on nationalism and, of course, the status of Kashmir.

This truth-gun-powder like book titled NGOs, Activists and Foreign Funds, Anti-Nation Industry edited by Radha Rajan and Krishen Kak brings under the scanner international tycoons in the NGO Industry in India like Teesta Setalwad, Praful Bidwai and Achin Vainaik, Martin Macwan, Arundhati Roy, Nirmala Deshpande, Angana Chatterjee, Akhila Raman, Sandeep Pandey, Raju Rajagopal and Harsh Mandar. For theses people Hinduism only means sati, dowry, caste and untouchability.

Planned destruction of Hinduism is the royal gateway for global liberation. The main objective of this coalition of Muslims-Missionaries-Nehruvian Secularists is to write Indian history in a manner that places large sections of Hindu Society outside the Hindu fold and another important section as aliens who invaded / migrated into the country from the Steppes of Central Asia. Their only aim is to de-Hinduise the nation by propagating the following theories summarised in a capsule form by Radha Rajan on page 32 of the book.

'Hinduism is Brahminism. The Brahmins are Aryans who are not native to the nation but who first invaded and later migrated into the country, subjugating the native 'Dravidians' and the Adivasis. And therefore what goes in the name of Hinduism is as alien as Islam and Christianity and so there is no basis to the claim of Hindu nationalists that the life-breath of this territory is the Hindu civilization or a Hindu Nation. Dalits and tribals are not Hindus. Modern India was created by the British and it is pluralistic.'

When great saints, sages and seers of India like Swami Vivekananda, Shri Aurobindo, Dr Hedgewar and Guruji Golwalkar describe India as a land of UNITY amidst DIVERSITY, they are referring only to the underlying threat of Hindu civilization and Hindu culture. That is very different from the puerile pluralism being bandied about by a handful of cultural marauders in the NGO industry trying to sell the soul and territory of India to the four menaces of Islamism, Christianity, Communism and Nehruvian secularism. This fundamental point has been brought out with facts and figures by all the contributors to the book under review.

Another striking fact that comes out from this pioneering book on the nasty NGOs in India is that many of the dubious individuals and organizations have played a major role in the promotion of the politics of minorityism - politics of Nehruvian Secularism. These very people and organizations like Osama bin Laden in the field of global terrorism, joined together to create an anti-Hinduism and an anti-Hindu Nation alliance named Coalition Against Genocide (CAG). The US State Department disgraced itself before the Bar of the World and the higher Court of Time when they denied a visa to Narendra Modi. All the Hindus of India should view this US State Department's treatment of Narendra Modi as an affront to the dignity of Bharath Mata and Hindu Nationalism. All the true patriots of India should be very proud of the fact that two brave and fearless independent journalists, Radha Rajan and Krishen Kak, have declared with conviction in this book: 'This book is intended to serve notice on this anti-Hindu coalition and its masters'.

Most of the players in this NGO industry atop every organization look like Government departments wherein a substantial portion of developmental expenses are spent on wages and expenses like telephone, travel (both domestic and international) etc. Another disturbing factor is that the people of India do not have a full picture of how these anti-Hindu and anti-nation NGOs raise their funds from domestic sources. While the Central and State Governments are subject to the audit of Comptroller and Auditor General of India, these NGOs are not subject to any such review. Radha Rajan writes with anguish 'This writer has tried unsuccessfully for nearly three years to get the annual report including annual accounts of three leading NGOs in this country, who have a very high media presence in newspapers and TV channels. Many of these global cultural terrorists swarming in the NGO industry arrogate to themselves unfettered authority to criticize the Central Government, State Governments and other responsible Public Bodies having a clear, categorical and defined structure of duties and responsibilities under the laws of the land.

Many of these NGOs control most of the VIPs in Government in New Delhi and the States. The Government has no control over them. Some of them are more dangerous than terrorist groups like LeT and yet they are given a free run by the Government of India. I am mentioning this to show that the Government of India have abdicated their responsibility for maintaining the territorial integrity and safe-guarding the national security of India. In this context I have to mention that Russia has recently approved a Bill that introduces stringent control over the activities of foreign-funded nongovernment and non-commercial organizations in a move designed to prevent any 'Coloured Revolution' in the country. In USA there is an Act called 'Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA)' and it provides for penalties up to ten years in jail for anyone acting as a foreign agent without notification to the Attorney General. It has to be noted that this FARA was originally passed in 1938 to prevent the spread of Nazi Ideas and Propaganda.

I fully endorse the following view of Vaidyanathan in his essay NGOs: Description and Regulations in this book: 'We would rather have NGOs create a self-regulatory body, or the community creates a body, which is a creature of their own and to which they are accountable. They can co-opt eminent citizens in this body. This becomes important since it is perceived that some of the NGOs are engaging in religious conversions in a rather aggressive fashion and some others are using the NGO banner from blackmailing well-functioning Corporate and Government entities'.

NGOs are multiplying like locusts. These self-styled, now turn-key and now turn-coat, contractors for farming the national conscience and national destiny of India frequently shout from the house-top demanding transparency and regulation and full disclosure from

Corporates and Government. And yet most of them function as secret terrorist organizations owning accountability to none.

Public policies in the Failed State of India today are determined and laws made by small criminal minorities playing upon the fears and imbecilities of the mob - sometimes minorities of intelligent and small men, but usually minorities of rogues.



In the trailblazing book entitled NGOs, ACTIVISTS AND FOREIGN FUNDS - ANTI-INDIAN INDUSTRY edited by Radha Rajan and Kishen Kak, the nationally destructive role being played by many of the NGOs armed with free flowing supply of foreign funds, under the protective umbrella of pseudo-secularism held aloft by the UPA government, has been presented in a clinching manner by several scholars. Veera Vaishnava in a seminal essay titled SOCIAL MOVEMENTS TO TOTALITARIANISM : THE ROLE OF NGOs clearly states that his essay is about those NGOs that by words and deeds have so far not been truthful, nor accountable for their actions. To quote his sharp words in this context: 'Many social policies espoused by NGOs reflect sensibilities, feelings of guilt, morals, concerns, preferences and values. They are further armed with a gloomy view of a 'Hindu India' and, not surprisingly, this set of sensibilities is the exact reflection of a cadre of 'Civil Society' protagonists ? extremely well-funded internationalists, social / political activists, missionaries, Islamists, intellectual crooks / pimps, academic entrepreneurs, politicians and wealthy foundations of affluent countries'.

The great and global managers in the anti-nation and anti-Hindu NGO industry in India like Teesta Setalvad, Praful Bidwai, Achin Vanaik, Arundhati Roy, Aruna Roy, Nirmala Deshpande, Angana Chatterji, Akhila Raman, Sandeep Pandey, Raju Rajagopal and Harsh Mandar are all self-appointed guardians of an undefined civil society that has been allowed in India to determine, define and decide what ought to be our national goals 'political, economic, moral, ethical and practical' and to proclaim with authority from the housetop what other immediate knock-down priorities of our society and our nation should be ignored and discarded with vibrant secular contempt in the larger NGOs' interest of de-nationalising the Indians and de-Hinduising the nation. The might of the UPA Government and the Congress Party is placed at the feet of these global personalities and the mighty NGOs they represent for achieving their undeclared objectives of selling five prime products in India??Terrorist Islam, Compassionate Christianity, Menacing Marxism, Noxious Nehruvian Secularism and Serpentine Soniaism.

Winston Churchill described Russia as a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. We can use the same terms with reference to the concept of undefined 'Civil Society' sordidly being paraded for sale by most of the self righteous and self-seeking contractors of national morality in the NGO industry in India today. What is Civil Society? Civil Society refers to the totality of voluntary civic and social organizations and institutions that form the basis of a functioning society as opposed to the force-backed structures of a state (regardless of that state's political system). Most of the most powerful NGOs in India cannot survive without the political support of the UPA Government and the ideological ballast of Sonia Gandhi. The National Advisory Council is the strategic umbilical chord between many of the anti-Hindu NGOs and the Islam-embracing, Christianity-coveting and Hindu-baiting UPA Government in New Delhi.

NGOs have been the agents of imperialism throughout the world during the colonial period. They are so even today. James Petras, the sociologist, in his article 'NGOs-In the Service of Imperialism', writes as follows: 'Throughout history ruling classes, representing small minorities, have always depended on the coercive State apparatus and social institutions to defend their power, profits and privileges. In the past, particularly in the Third World, imperial-ruling classes financed and supported overseas and domestic religious institutions to control exploited people and deflect their discontent into religious communal rivalries and conflicts. While these practices continue today, in more recent decades a new social institution emerged that provide the same function of control and ideological mystification, the self-described NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS (NGOs).'

'Today (1999) there are at least fifty thousand (50,000) NGOs in the Third World receiving over $10 billion in funding from international financial institutions, Euro-US-Japanese Governmental Agencies and Local Governments. The Managers of the biggest NGOs manage million dollar budgets with salaries and perks that are comparable to CEOs. They jet to international Conferences, confer with top Corporate and Financial Directors and make Policy decisions that affect in the great majority of cases adversely millions of peoples especially the poor, women and informal sector working people.'

Veera Vaishanava says that almost all the NGOs indulge in vague rhetoric, packaged to appeal to all segments of the citizenry, 'as they seem very noble', and some of the catchy words viewed as issues for calculated NGO action(!) are Peace, Empowerment, Sustainable Development, Displacement, Forest Land and Tribals, Child Rights, Women Empowerment, Right to Food, Animal Rights, Human Rights, Environment, and Capacity Building. When I hear this pit-a-pat of the rain of vacuous and empty words, I am only reminded of one of the characters in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus(1833) called Professor Teufelsbrockh who asked the question: What are your Axioms and Categories, and Systems and Aphorisms? Words, words. High Air-Castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well-bedded also in good Logic-Mortar, wherein, however, no knowledge will come to lodge'. Be not the slave of words'.

Most of the UPA Government aided and abetted NGOs in India are interested only in parading an orchestra of panoplied falsehood of words like 'we work among the poorest, the lowliest and the lost'. W.H.Auden had our NGOs in mind when he wrote the following lines of poetry:

Let mouths beware

Of words, for

With words we lie

Can we say peace

When we mean war

Foul thoughts speak fair

And promise falsely


All the NGOs issue pompous mission statements; announce mass campaigns; organise meetings and speeches; and bring out publications and writings. They indulge in underground and over-ground domestic and international fund-raising. Yet at the same time they are without an enforceable Code of Ethics in addition to Transparency, Accountability and Accuracy. Veera Vaishnava says with anguish: 'it is impossible to hold them accountable for their actions and consequences on society, particularly in a nation whose nationhood is continuously under attack both from within and from without, by the same NGOs or their sponsors or allies 'home-grown or foreign'.

The bed-rock, the foundation and the underlying structure of most of these dubious NGOs is anti-Statist, anti-Nationalist and blatantly anti-Hindu. While they lack specific solutions to any problem, the fact that they are focused specifically against Hindus and Hinduism is patently clear.

I fully agree with Veera Vaishnava when he asserts that these NGOs are totally unrepresentative, undemocratic and totally unaccountable groups which have gained prominence during the last decade. They are supported by some nation-states, globalists and groups (both secular and religious) that have trans-national ambitions, in order to have a reach into various other nations and to have access to peoples. To expect accountability and intellectual honesty from these NGOs is rank foolishness. Countries like England and America are using these NGOs (faith-based groups) to undermine the national integrity of India. These groups follow the following tactics:

a) Ganging together under a master NGO such as COALITION AGAINST GENOCIDE (CAG) to protest against Narendra Modi's visit to the US. They act as central players, setting the agenda, drafting documents, writing in the media, parading mercenary activists as scholars, lobbying diplomats and Governments.

b) Speed is the essence of their approach. The Blitzkrieg manner in which they unleash propaganda limits the opportunities for dissent and understanding. Further, one can never verify every claim (lie!) made by a Master NGO supposedly working for the 'poor and downtrodden'

c) All the efforts of the new NGO activities are described in woolly words like Peoples Participation, Sustainable Development, Empowerment, and Consensus etc. These words are designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

We can clearly see from the inexorable logic outlined in Veera Vaishnava's article that while the declared proclamations of the NGOs like FOIL, ASHA, AID etc any be noble, yet it to be a matter of serious national concern that they do not disclose their methods of operation, their balance-sheets, tactics and strategies. Since they are all anti-Statist, anti-National and anti-Hindu, all of us have a right to know the truth about many of the NGOs operating in India. They are acting on behalf of external forces and ideologies, while making profits in social 'markets' of a weak Hindu Society. It is indeed an arduous task to keep track of such NGOs (social movements!) as they spin off under different names and banners much like Jihadi Groups in Pakistan that overlap and network with the divisive agenda of others.

Basically, an ideal society envisioned by all these Nation-Sabotaging NGOs is the one dominated and controlled by the State, and opposite of what democracies have and aspire for?a society dominating the State. However, the law is not binding on them because the captains of NGOs Industry see it only as a means to achieve their final end destruction of Hinduism and Hindu India. With this end in view they have succeeded in achieving total control of mass media in India.

To conclude in the appropriate words of Veera Vaishanava; In their shrill shrieks for humans rights, civil society, minority rights etc, there are these three words one will never hear Responsibilities, Rapprochement and Reconciliation. After all, wouldn't that be a commonsensical solution without tearing up a society?.....It is the Hindu Society that needs a wake-up call to undertake the mission of re-building a truly progressive and inclusive society. It is the Hindus alone who can strengthen the society without unduly pandering or yielding to anti-nationals who want to destroy the Indian Identity and Sanatana Dharma by promoting narrow identities- ethnic or religious or caste or class.



In books dwell all the demons and all the angels of the human mind. Many great books serve as an arsenal of explosives, an army of revolutions, an opium-den of reactions. A book is a powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drug-store of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, and an island of sirens. Books are the idea of things before things begin. Books create worlds and destroy worlds. Books are the mirrors of light and the mirrors of darkness in which the universe sees its own face. These are the rush of ideas which flooded my mind when I read the highly inflammatory, instructive and inspiring article by Krishen Kak tilted 'SCORING AGAINST PAGANISM: UNTANGLING THE MANDERWEB' which forms a part of the recently published highly explosive book 'NGOs, ACTIVISTS AND FOREIGN FUNDS ANTI NATION INDUSTRY' edited by Radha Rajan and Krishen Kak.

In this incisively polemical essay Krishen Kak exposes the shady if not wholly fraudulent track record of NGOs like ACTION AID, MAZDOOR KISAN SHAKTI SANGATHAN (MKSS), SAHMAT, ANHAD, PARIVARTAN etc. He describes in graphic detail the lives and achievements of selfless workers with an established record of shining self sacrifice and self abnegation in the NGOs Industry ? global giants like Harsh Mander, Arudhati Roy and Aruna Roy, national giants like Shabnam Hashmi, N C Saxena and Shekhar Singh, the real and sacred salt of the NGO earth ??? and the calculated reverence with which the UPA Government in New Delhi, British Government in London and the American Government in Washington treats them. Krishen Kak raises a shout against these NGOs and their Paramatmas and seems to tell us with gusto - Consider these facts of mine! Have regard for this theory of mine founded on solid facts and figures! Let me dominate you with the magic of my logic! Let me liberate you with my imagination! Let me seduce you with my subtle impressions! Let me take you out of your dull Hindu tamasic self-complacency with my whimsies, my fancies, my humours and hammers.

Even before Sonia Gandhi joined the spiritual company of Mahatma Gandhi in 2004 after sacrificing the easily available post of a Prime Minister, a great son of India who can be ranked with Aadhi Shankara and Ramanuja, if not Jesus Christ (!) called Harsh Mander figured in a centre-page piece tilted 'Hindustan Hamara' in the Times of India issue dated March 20, 2002. This story propelled its author Harsh Mander into the very first rank of our country's conscience-keepers. Like Winston Churchill roaring in the House of Commons against the atrocities of Hitler and Nazidom during the II World War, Harsh Mander had ranted about the communal violence that had rocked Gujarat after a Muslim mob incinerated 58 Hindu children, women and men in a train leaving Godhra station. His savage remarks against Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat and his Government acquired an unimpeachable authority because he made them as a serving senior member of the elite Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and 'Hindustan Hamara' was rapidly broadcast over the USA, the UK and the Darul Islam as an authoritative eye-witness account of the post-Godhra violence in Gujarat.

Even as Mahatma Gandhi went to London to participate in the second Round Table Conference in August 1931, this neo-Gandhi globally famous as Harsh Mander, went on a tour of the West and waxed in choking eloquence?? imitating the manner of Mahatma Gandhi ? his inner anguish for the Muslims (and Muslims only!!) who died in Gujarat. Later he declared that he resigned from the IAS on moral grounds because he was overwhelmed by the anguish following communal violence in Gujarat. He said he wanted to separate himself from an administration that he declared had sponsored the violence against Muslims. All the national English language Nehruvian-secular media made a hero of him. He was lionised especially on Muslim websites. Muslim organisations hosted and sponsored him all over the USA and he publicly declared - over the BBC his deathless infatuation for the Muslims and for all things Islamic. In all his public utterances in the West, he gave inflated figures about the hundreds of thousands of Muslims killed in Gujarat. He was theatrical and unrestrained in his use of words like 'Pogrom, Genocide' and 'Communal Fascism' and the Hindu-hating mafia of English mass media in India promoted Harsh Mander as a man of conscience, principles and secularism. Krishen Kak brings out the deeds and misdeeds of Harsh Mander in his capacity as Chief of Action Aid India, a NGO promoted and sustained by the British Government as part of its unstated but well understood global evangelization efforts under the label of 'Development'.

Action Aid, a global 'Child-sponsorship' business which is fully supported by the British Government as a charity is really a tool of its Foreign Policy. The fact that Action Aid CHEATS both its donors and its beneficiaries was revealed in 1999 by independent investigators and is now a matter of public record. Binu Thomas in his clearly presented piece, 'The Ugly Side of Child Sponsorship' exposed the sinister side of this 'Prestigious Charity' in India which included Harsh Mander's initiative and involvement in promoting in India its foreign agenda of humane (!) rascality and deceit. Krishen Kak rightly concludes 'That Action Aid has a communal agenda for our country?evidenced by its complete silence over the liquidation of Hindus in the Islamic States of Pakistan and Bangla Desh (in Bangla Desh Hindus by Law and in practice are 'enemy')?is also a matter of public record. That Action Aid's resources supported Harsh Mander's notoriously communal piece in the Times of India occasioned only a flat denial by Action Aid??and Harsh Mander himself, an open letter to him notwithstanding, never publicly denied the use of these resources.'

This British NGO called Action Aid through its strategically planted subterfuge called Harsh Mander drawn from the Indian Administrative Service released vast amounts of money to network over 300 Voluntary Agencies, one private limited company and their nears and dears. According to Krishen kak, among Harsh Mander's nears and dears who benefited from Action Aid's patronage bonanza in India are his fellow adventurers and comrades in arms like Aruna Roy of the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) and the National Campaign of Peoples Right to Information (NCPRI), and Sekar Singh of the NCPRI, apart from Dimple and Suroor Mander.

The following facts emerge from Krishen Kak's expose of Action Aid in India and its VISWAKARMA cast in the mould of a Mahatma Gandhi according to his faithful admirers:

Firstly Action Aid is rabidly communal, with one standard for Islam against Hindus in Pakistan, Bangla Desh and India and another standard for Hindus fighting back for the survival of their culture and religion in India.

Secondly Action Aid shamelessly intervenes in a cavalier manner in our country's national politics and its Plenipotentiary in India Lord Harsh Mander has publicly asserted its right to do so in all his public orations in India and abroad, particularly on the transcendental glory and relevance of Pan-Islamism. This inalienable right to dabble in politics claimed by Action Aid and its Indian Bearer-in-waiting, in Hindu majority India, strangely enough, is not claimed by them in Islamic States like Pakistan and Bangla Desh

Thirdly Action Aid India initiated a study to examine the social, economic and educational conditions of Muslims in India. No enthusiasm or interest was shown by Action Aid to make a similar study of the shattered and battered Hindus in Pakistan and Bangla Desh. Action Aid treats Hindus of India, Pakistan and Bangla Desh on a footing of equality and in the larger interest of equity (!) and natural justice (!!) as KAFIRS as enjoined in the KORAN.

Fourthly, Action Aid, like the Communist Parties of India, always functions as an extended non-governmental arm of the Congress Party. It has never criticized communal violence let loose by the Congress Party against the Sikhs in New Delhi in 1984. It has never bothered to comment on massive Bangla Deshi Muslim illegal immigration into Assam cleverly organised by the Congress Party and the consequent Nellie communal carnage.

Fifthly, Action Aid cleverly avoided giving any reply to the charge that it received a grant of Rupees Three Crores from the Congress Government of Chattisgarh even while Harsh Mander I.A.S. of that cadre was on deputation to Action Aid India.

ixthly, Harsh Mander in his capacity as country head of Action Aid India, in an International Forum in the USA, publicly supported Sonia Gandhi's eligibility to rule India.

Seventhly Action Aid was rewarded with Indian Tax-Payer Largesse from secular Congress Governments of Rajasthan, Chattisgarh and Delhi. Krishen Kak hilariously concludes that Harsh Mander was along with Teesta 'BEST FAKERY' Setalvad rewarded with the secular Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Award by Sonia Gandhi's Nehruvian-Secular Rajiv Gandhi Foundation.

To sum up we have a foreign agency in India. promoting a communal agenda, managed by a serving IAS Officer, openly promoting the Congress Party and its Supremo Sonia Gandhi, and the return to it included an award and a financial nexus between the foreigner and at least three Congress Governments in our country. Krishen Kak brilliantly observes: 'Unstructured organizations are accountable to no one and within India the incestuous web of Manderians who promote them are accountable only to themselves. They are co-adventurers in the business of selling out our Pagan Land.'



Though books, as John Milton says, may be the embalming of mighty spirits, they are also the resurrection of rebellious and boisterous spirits! And just because books are the repository of all the redemptions and damnations, all the sanities and insanities, of the Divine anarchy of the soul, they are still, as they have always been, an object of suspicion to every kind of ruling authority. A great book sets the prophet against the priest, the prisoner against society, the has-nothing against the has-all, the individual against the universe! Books are more than a second Nature. They are an-under Nature and over-nature. They are Nature in her appalling universality, strained through the divine diabolic sieves of every type of human imagination. It seems as if there is darkness and light, evil and good, in any great human book; yes, and clarity and obscurity too. Sometimes I am tempted to think that a supreme work of polemic narration cannot exist without an element of appalling obscenity. Even the most idealistic of great books often dips deep down into the mud, deep down into that abysmal silt at the bottom of the ocean without which reality would not be reality. The over-sweetness of pious optimism comes at last to smack of death, till the bitter antidote of desperate pessimism galvanises it back into life. The great books are the books that create a world, a world to which, with its atmosphere, its situations, its characters, you can compare the haphazard chances and casual impressions of real life as they cross your path.

These boiling intellectual and emotional reactions besieged my soul when I was reading the recently published book titled 'NGOs, ACTIVISTS AND FOREIGN FUNDS-ANTI-NATION INDUSTRY' edited by Radha Rajan and Krishen Kak. In this gun-powder book Krishen Kak has written a brilliant article SCORING AGAINST PAGANISM: UNTANGLING THE MANDERWEB in which he describes the anti-national activities of some unscrupulous individuals of global fame in the NGOs Industry in India. In this context, he has coined an exciting word called Manderweb which would smoothly slide into the slot of any cyber-space concerned with international fraud, both as a cause and effect of NGOs Industry in India.

Who are the leading players in the revolutionary firmament of The Manderweb? Of course the unquestioned leader with a tremendous clout here, there and everywhere, now and always, is Harsh Mander, the former Chief of Action Aid India. He functioned as a paid Intelligence Agent of the British Government in India. He has arrogated to himself the role of Lady Katherine Mayo who in her scandalous book called 'Miss India' blasphemed India and her people in the middle 1920s. Mahatma Gandhi dismissed her report as a Drain Inspector's Report. Harsh Mander has done the same in regard to Narendra Modi and the Hindus of Gujarat and India in all his perorations abroad during the last five years. Krishen Kak brings out the fact that Harsh Mander and the Times of India violated almost every instruction of the Press Councils' Guidelines on the reporting of Communal violence.

Harsh Mander was condemned by the Press Council of India (decision 14/106/02-03 dated 30 JUNE 2003, Dr Krishen Kak v/s TIMES OF INDIA) for spreading false rumours about alleged Hindu atrocities in his famous column 'HINDUSTAN HAMARA' in TIMES OF INDIA dated 20 March 2003; incidentally a title borrowed from a poem by Mohammed Iqbal, who claimed 'OUR INDIA' for ISLAM and became the spiritual father of Pakistan.

To quote the most appropriate words of DR KOENRAAD ELST in this context: 'Distortive or even totally false reporting on communally sensitive issues is a well entrenched feature of Indian journalism. There is no self-corrective mechanism in place to remedy this endemic culture of disinformation. 'These days, much acclaimed characters like John Dayal, HARSH MANDER and Arundhati Roy lie in waiting for communal riots and elatedly jump at them when and where they erupt. They exploit the anti-Hindu propaganda value of riots to the hilt, making up FICTIONAL stories as they go along to compensate for any defects in the true account.'

After exposing the gigantic fraud underlying Action Aid India and its secular non-saffronized cosmopolitan and globe-trotting plenipotentiary acting in the manner of a KARMA YOGI, Krishen Kak directs his highly 'communal' laser beam to Aruna Roy's NGO which goes by the grandiloquent name of Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS). He does it with unique pungency and poignancy. It is clear from Krishen Kak's mathematical analysis that Aruna Roy, as a matter of NGO right, expects integrity and public accountability from everyone excepting herself. As a Gandhian, she would not take any foreign help in cash but would not mind accepting free air-tickets for her frequent travels around the world. In this respect Aruna Roy and Harsh Mander supplement each other and not supplant each other. Like Harsh Mander, she also once belonged to the IAS and what was an irreparable loss to the IAS became an indispensable gain to the secular anti-Hindu NGOs Industry in India. Krishen Kak graphically brings out how she became an irreplaceable asset to the international forces of fraud and deceit in India??Global Islam, Global Christianity and Evangelism, Marxism and overtopping them all Nehruvian Secularism.

An American Body called Association for India's Development (AID), hosted Aruna Roy and her colleague Sankar Singh as the key-note Speakers to America. Arunaji and Sankarji gave their heartfelt testimonials to Narendra Modi and the Hindus of Gujarat as the joint sponsors of State organized violence against the compassionate and innocent Muslims of Gujarat. The Hindu men, women and children who were burnt alive in a railway carriage at Godhra were not even mentioned once in their public speeches.

Aruna Roy's duplicity was exposed by a fellow-participant at the World Social Forum (WSF) in Mumbai. There Aruna Roy said 'When we say another world is possible, we are saying that we want development and globalisation that is people-centric, that puts people first rather than Corporations or profits' . No doubt even in her own NGO industry MKSS, she puts 'people' first, and so she tells the world. But her air tickets to the USA and all her travel costs and hospitality abroad are eventually paid for by her American sponsors' earnings from 'Corporations and Profits'. As Beena Adhik observes : ' The NGOs who are flocking to WSF, have no ideology and are themselves totally dependent on foreign funding which in turn comes from multi nationals.'

What is the conclusion of all this NGOs tamasha ?? sordid, sinister, sadistic and showy ?. Krishen Kak delivers his sombre and condign verdict : 'But then, as the Volcker Report, the Mitrokhin and Benediktov papers, and the Quattrocchi saga reveal, Aruna Roy and her kind are aligned to a political lineage that flatters itself on it's 'crystalline honesty' even as it grovels and fattens itself on anti-national foreign largesse'.

Aruna Roy assets with pious pomposity that 'we cannot stand by and watch the failure of Government and civil society, the breakdown of law and order, of democratic human values. It is a question of whether Indian democracy will survive at all'. As a known Marxist, she will not talk about West Bengal where the communists systematically rig the elections so much so that 'Democracy and Bengal' are two mutually exclusive concepts. She will not talk about the Hindu genocide in Kashmir systematically carried out with the help of Islamic J & K Government by the saints and sages of compassionate Islam !. She will not talk about parts of Bihar which became a 'Pakistan Mohalla' during the Chief Ministership of Lallu Yadav and his redoubtable Rabri Devi, both of whom functioned as Nehruvian secular Commission Agents of global terrorist Islam !. She will not talk about Kishenganj district in Bihar which has become a mini-Pakistan area thanks to 'tainted minister' Taslim Ahmed in Dr Manmohan Singh's Cabinet. She can go all the way to America to cry to Americans about Hindus who are not compassionate etc etc, but she hasn't the guts to go to the Jammu refugee camps that are described as hell-on-earth and tell the Hindu refugees there of vicious and wicked Muslim terrorists who are not so compassionate etc etc. For her, Government of Gujarat is always more culpable than the Government of Jammu and Kashmir. This is Congress sponsored, Sonia-supported and sustained Nehruvian secularism at its noblest, truest, sublimest best !

Like Aruna Roy, Shabnam Hashmi of the Nehruvian-secular SAHMAT lied about foreign help in cash but not in kind, nor about the Islamic interests that, for the same purpose as Aruna Roy's, paid for her travel to and in America for Hindu-baiting and Narendra Modi-baiting in America !. The other great actors on the international stage of machinating , mendacious and malicious MANDERWEB, apart from Harsh Mander and Aruna Roy, are K N Panikkar, Shuba Mudgal, Arudathi Roy, Shekar Singh and N C Saxena.

These Nehruvian Secularists are appeasers. They preach compassion, understanding and tolerance to the Hindus. But they dare not preach to Christian missionaries or Muslim Mullahs values of compassion, understanding and tolerance towards the pagan Hindus.

These unscrupulous pseudo-secular deceivers are the most dangerous members of our society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature and violate the most sacred obligations with pan-Islamic, pan-Christian and pan-Marxist contempt, solidly supported by the mafia of mass media in India. Hindus of the world unite ! You have nothing to lose but the chains of these deceivers !!



Richard de Bury brilliantly observes: 'Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferrules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.' The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. There is a kind of physiognomy in the title of books no less than in the faces of men, by which a skilful observer will know as well what to expect from the one or the other. Helen Keller welcomed the arrival of a new book in these words: 'Truly each new book is as a ship that bears us away from the fixity of our limitations into the movement and splendour of life's infinite ocean'. I would like to welcome the new time-bomb book titled NGOs, ACTIVISTS AND FOREIGN FUNDS ANTI-NATION INDUSTRY edited by Radha Rajan and Krishen Kak in the same manner and with the same enthusiasm.

Radha Rajan, Krishen Kak have thoroughly exposed the Himalayan fraud of the NGOs Anti-Nation Industry and the despicable men and women who plague this industry??many of them international liars who often make falsehood appear like truth and end with making truth itself appear like falsehood. Samuel Johnson said, 'fraud generally lights a candle for justice to get a look at it, and a rogue's pen indites the warrant for his own arrest'.

Radha Rajan's expose of VIP men and women in the NGOs industry clearly brings out the blazing truth in Samuel Johnson's observation.

This book ferries all the patriotic and enlightened citizens of India who are deeply concerned about the very survival of India as a nation across the muddied and swirling waters of anti-nation and anti-Hindu activism of NGOs, mainly funded by foreign funds and operating under the devilishly chosen banners of 'Social Equality, Peace, Democratic Rights, Human Rights, Emancipation of Women, Gender Rights' and 'Religious Freedom'.

Radha Rajan in her bold essay titled NGOS AND ACTIVISTS SINGING FOR THEIR SUPPER clearly proves that the primary objective of some of the foreign-funded NGOs and other activists is to keep the Hindus in a continuing state of disempowerment, to de-Hinduise and de-nationalise the Indian state. She describes the anti-Hindu coalition of Marxists, Muslims, Missionaries and Nehruvian Secularists, lists the organisations that belong to this coalition and also reproduces word for word what these activists have written and said about Nationalism, Hinduism, the RSS, Partition, Indo-Pak relations, the Gujarat riots, India's nuclear programme and of course, Jammu and Kashmir.

She neatly brings out the fact that the Indian State and India's civil society are threatened by three inimical international terrorist groups?Islamic Jihad, Evangelical Christian Terrorism in the North-East and Communist/Marxist/Maoist/Naxalite Terrorism. These organized terrorist forces can be dealt with only by a determined State and a strong and well organized society?both of which are non-existent in India today.

Radha Rajan demonstrates through established facts and figures that anti-Hindu and anti-India activism of certain NGOs and individual activists thrives and grows only in the context of Hindu powerlessness.

Radha Rajan declares: 'This chapter (Essay) will feature, among others, Martin Macwan and his white Christian patron saint Kathy Sreedhar, Arundhati Roy, Sandeep Pandey, Akhila Raman, Praful Bidwai and his tweedledee Achin Vainik and Nirmala Deshpandey and her tweedledee Admiral Ramdoss. Much as I would have liked to have similarly profiled Shabnam Hashmi (sister of Safdar Hashmi) and her two Organizations first SAHMAT and now ANHAD, Ram Puniyani and Teesta Setalvad and her COMMUNALISM COMBAT, I have chosen to focus attention on those who have been bestowed foreign awards and why I think they were thus rewarded'.

The anti-Nation, the anti-Hindu 'Peace and Human Rights' activists have the same contempt for all Hindu organic and traditional social structures and group identities as they have for the nation and national borders. So they denounce family, varna, jaati, kula, religion and nation 'upper caste' and patriarchal constructs. The main aim of NGOs activism is to prise apart important segments of Hindu Society like women, tribals and the so-called Dalits from their family, community and cultural, religious and national moorings. The ultimate intent of their activism is to damage the Hindu social fibre and weaken social cohesion by de-Hinduising large segments of Hindu society.

When Non-Resident Hindu and Nationalist Indians were organizing themselves and gaining considerable social status in the US after 1998, COALITION AGAINST GENOCIDE was created in USA by a group of anti-Hindu Yankee Indian Leftists to work against the interests of the rising tide of Hindu nationalism. In order to counter the nationalist appeal of The Pravasi Bharatiya Divas organized by the NDA Government to encourage NRIs to visit India in December/January of every year, The Promise of India led by evangelists like Raju Rajagopal moved to organize their own conference of pseudo-secularists in India every year in January. PROMISE OF INDIA organized a conference 'Linking Peace and Development in January 2004. Known Hindu baiters like Raju Rajagopal, Nirmala Deshpande, Admiral Ramdas, Aruna Roy, Harsh Mander, Tarun Tejpal, Professor Imtiaz Ahmed, Swami Agnivesh and Father Cedric Prakash participated in the conference. The second conference was dedicated to the theme 'Making Peace With Diversity and Development'. Radha Rajan comments with sarcasm - You cannot accuse these worthies of originality. They recycle the same words, the same ideas and same issues in new permutations and combinations. Known pseudo-secular chewing gum of the mind heart and soul indeed!! Socrates said that religion is MAN'S dialogue with his soul. For these mercenaries of pseudo-secularism religion is man's sodomy with himself!!

The Indian Muslim Council (IMC) USA is one of the organizations of the Coalition Against Genocide. This organization rewards or gives awards mainly to anti-Hindu pseudo-secular Hindus. The IMC-USA crowned Shri.Kumar Poddar with the Bahadur Shah Zafar Award - for promoting pluralism and community harmony in India. The mind-boggling 'Peace' and 'Human Rights' Industry in USA is as big as the 'For Profit' Arms Industry that creates the conditions for conflict resolution in the first place round the world.

The popular misconception about the Magsaysay Award is that it is an Asian Award. It is not. It is an American Award for Asians constituted in the late 1950's by the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation in memory of Ramon Magsaysay, the former President of the Philippines. The Magsaysay Awardees Gallery includes the following anti-Hindu pseudo-secularists :

  1. Aruna Roy (2000)
  2. Martin Macwan
  3. Sandeep Pandey (2002)
  4. Nirmala Deshpande and Admiral Ramdas (2005)
  5. Arvind Kejriwal (2006)

Admiral Ramdas, Nirmala Deshpande and a retired General of the Pakistani Army, one Karamat Ali, founded the PAKISTAN INDIA PEOPLE'S FORUM FOR PEACE AND DEMOCRACY (PIPFPD). This Peace Organization conducted several Conventions in the cities of India and Pakistan and issued 'Declarations' at the end of every Convention. THE PESHAWAR DECLARATION stated that the Indian Army was guilty of raping Kashmiri women in Kashmir. Overnight Admiral Ramdas and Nirmala Deshpande became national heroes in Pakistan. They are greater heroes in the eyes of UPA Government today than Shri Bal Gangadhar Tilak or Aurobino Ghosh. Nirmala Deshpande has taken more Avatars than Mahavishnu. Harijan Welfare, Womens Welfare, Education, Peace and Democratic Rights, Rural Development?you name it and you have it. She calls herself a Gandhian. She is basically anti-Hindu and pseudo-secular and with a little amount of luck she should get the award of Bharat Ratna in the near future!!

Sandeep Pandey got the Magsaysay Award in 2002. Only after he got the Award, the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation came to know that Sandeep Pandey was a Communist. Radha Rajan brings out his capacity for deception, dissimulation and prevarication. He heads the grisly gang of pseudo-secular anti-Nation and anti-Hindu VIPs fully documented by Radha Rajan, Krishen Kak and others.

Arundhati Roy is known for her fervent patriotism. The communal Bal Gangadhar Tilak said that Swaraj is my birthright. To turn to the deathlessly inspiring words of Arundhati Roy: 'I am no flag-waver, no patriot, and I am fully aware that venality, brutality and hypocrisy are imprinted on the leaden soul of every state'. A great and a noble soul indeed in the line of Saint Theresa of Avilla.

To sum up, all these unreasonable if not treasonable, self-styled leaders of India proclaim the following casual and cavalierly revolutionary views on Jammu and Kashmir in one voice:
  1. 'NATION' is a patriarchal construct
  2. 'NATIONAL BORDERS' are negotiable and irrelevant
  3. 'THE TERRITORY' of a nation is a mere real estate
  4. 'DEFENDING' the nation's territorial integrity is 'TERRITORIAL AND MILITANT' nationalism
  5. Muslims of Jammu and Kashmir have the right to self-determination which includes the right to secede
  6. The people of Jammu and Ladakh do not have the right to self-determination which asserts that Jammu and Ladakh are an integral part of the Indian nation.
  7. While the Sunni Muslims of the Kashmir valley have the right to self-determination leading to secession from the Indian nation, the people of Jammu and Ladakh do not have the right to self-determination seeking separation from the valley and integration with the rest of India.
  8. Kashmiri Hindus have no right to self-determination seeking full integration of Jammu with the Indian Union.
  9. For the Sunni terrorists of Jammu and Kashmir, their demand for secession must be viewed as an integrate demand including the voices of the Hindus of Jammu and the Buddhists of Ladakh. This vital Jihadic principle is not applicable to the rest of India.
Are not these NGOs acting as the main conduits of hate and fratricide?




Organized evil exists in the world not to create despair but fearless activity.

- Malthus

The silent influence of books is a mighty power in the World; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm ?? silent, passive and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes and change the order of nations. The recently published book NGOs, ACTIVISTS AND FOREIGN FUNDS - ANTI-NATION INDUSTRY edited by Radha Rajan and Krishen Kak is bound to have a decisive impact upon government policies relating to the functioning of NGOs in India and the flow of foreign funds to the NGOs sector.

George Thundiparambil's essay titled CLOSING WORD: Who is afraid of the Hindu nation? has given a graphic description of how many NGOs in India function as instruments of hate and fratricide. To quote his appropriately lethal words in this context: 'For Indians who are aware of the anti-Hindu agendas of Christian, Islamic and Communist organisations in India and abroad, it is neither shocking nor surprising that numerous NGOs have sprung up throughout the Country, which act as sole-agent for these alien and hostile organisations.'

The password to international success in the World of NGOs is to choose the flag of Anti-Hindu. Start your career by unleashing a tirade against the Hindus and Hindu civilisation. In order to become an effective and successful mercenary, start an NGO and visit the USA and tell the Christian fundamentalists there what they want to hear: How evil and backward, how superstitious and ignorant the unconverted pagan Hindus are. Compare them with Nazis and then on the way back home, make a stop over in Pakistan and talk 'peace' and mention the 'atrocities' committed by Indian soldiers in Kashmir. As George Thundiparambil hilariously puts it: Punch the Hindu on the nose whenever you can, and if you have accrued enough points, you will start winning international awards. When the NGO accounts are in the mess, close shop and start another NGO. Nehruvian secularists with Hindu names are preferred for the NGO Industry. THE PASSWORD IS ANTI-HINDU.'

Nirupama Rajan and Radha Rajan in their essay 'ASHA PROJECTS: Where does all the money go?' have carefully and critically analysed the available descriptive and statistical data relating to 1538 projects being implemented by ASHA in India. Most of these projects appear to be vague, undefined, and mysterious. The only point of clarity is in respect of the exact amount of debasing and debauching US dollars received / allotted for each project! The FCRA (Foreign Contribution Regulation Act) Department in the Union Home Ministry in New Delhi functions as an executive arm of anti-Hindu and anti-Nation agencies like ASHA which are beyond the purview of all scrutiny by all the Enforcement Agencies of the Government of India!

Under the heading FELLOWSHIPS, many Fellowships have been handed over to many people by ASHA of whom three are Pandeys. Sandeep Pandey himself, Mahesh Pandey and Vallabhacharya Pandey (page 266 of the book under review).

YEAR 2005 Mahesh Pandey DC chapter $ 3000 The reason for the Fellowship to Mahesh Pandey is explained as follows:

Project Description:

This Fellowship support is to allow the Fellow to focus on region's development through education, income generation, right to information, projects development and co-ordination, site visits to projects, project accounts and audits and other relevant activities in the interest of ASHA for Education.

YEAR 2005 Vallabacharya Pandey Silicon valley $ 3000 The reason for the Fellowship is stated as follows:

Purpose/Grant :

Fellowship of Vallabhai allows immense support of ASHA India and ASHA for Education activities world-wide. Purpose of this Fellowship is to benefit from his capabilities in Projects co-ordination, projects audits and accounting, and monitoring and evaluation activities.

Comment: While there is at least a brief account on the purpose of the above two fellowships, SANDEEP PANDEY'S own Fellowship comes with no stated purpose or description: (page 267 of the book under review) Is not Sandeep Pandey , like the king of England, definitely above the Law ?.

Funding info:

2001 Silicon Valley $ 800.00

2002 Silicon Valley $ 800.00

2002 General Funds $ 250.00

TOTAL = $ 1850.00

Comment: This is what the Magsaysay Award Citation for Sandeep Pandey had to say: 'SHA's teachers take no pay. Instead, they support themselves with sidelines such as making candles and greeting cards from hand-made paper'.

Sandeep Pandey is the Fuehrer of ASHA. Sandeep Pandey is to the funds of ASHA what Sonia Gandhi is to the funds of the Congress Party. Radha Rajan pays her inimitable tribute to this pseudo secular, anti-Hindu, anti-Nation cosmopolitan and global Leonardo Da Vinci of India in these words', Sandeep Pandey is a man of many parts, all of them skin-deep and each of them carefully and calculatedly crafted to feed his gargantuan appetite for Mammon. American greenback Mammon, that is. He walks, he talks, he writes, he protests - for his version of 'peace' against Indian mukes, for Kashmiri and other terrorists, for the terrorist state of Pakistan, against Hindus and their nationalism, against Coca-Cola and for the 'poor' 'destitute' children of India who don't go to school which fact this IIT graduate confesses in an interview to the Milli Gazette, he came to know late in his life, only during his years in the US from a book published by MIT in 1991 titled 'The Child and The State in India' Sandeep Pandey has so far picked only those issues for his money-making activism which will keep him in media limelight. As I said, each one of these many parts of Sandeep Pandey is intended to make money from anti-national disruptive activism.

Skin-deep San-Deep's activism is intentionally anti-Hindu and anti-Hindu nation which is why the US and its client States, were willingly deceived into patronising the man with awards, media attention, with talking tours in foreign universities and with Magsaysay award. Only now the US establishment has come to know that he is a stooge of the Communist party. Sandeep Pandey, the pseudo educationist, the pseudo social-activist, the peace-activist, the pseudo anti-nuke activist ?? all of these pseudo-beards disguise from public gaze ?? Sandeep Pandey, the committed and vocal supporter of Marxist-Leninist Naxal terrorism. And skin-deep Sandeep is mortally afraid the false beard may fall off and that his Naxal proclivities may come under the US State Department scanner. That is why Radha Rajan concludes that he is a communist in Blue Funk. Sandeep Pandey by his extraordinary success in the field of activism of NGOs Industry has proven Winston Churchill right who said - A Master Craftsman indeed!! Craft is common both to skill and deceit'.

The following dangerous conclusions emerge from the point of view of National security from this highly incandescent book NGOs, ACTIVIST AND FOREIGN FUNDS ANTI-NATION INDUSTRY edited by Radha Rajan and Krishen Kak :

a) The network of anti-Nation, anti-Hindu, NGOs and activists comprising Marxists, Nehruvian Secularists, Muslims and Missionaries is well-entrenched in the US, particularly American universities.

b) There is a powerful network of donor agencies which include foreign Governments, Foundations, Trusts and other Chuch Charities which work with Marxist and Christian Indian NGOs in India with well-defined political objectives among the Dalits, women and tribal communities within Hindu society.

c) The Indian Government's Home Ministry through which all foreign funds must be routed has no fool-proof mechanism to inspect and verify if the projects mentioned by NGOs on paper exist in reality and also to check whether the foreign money received has been used for the purpose for which it was brought in and for no other anti-Nation and anti-social purposes.

d) The Indian Government has not cared to haul ASHA or Sandeep Pandey over hot Coals for such vaguely mysterious and poor maintenance of their accounts clearly brought by Nirupama Rajan and Radha Rajan .

e) A safe general inference can be drawn that most of the other dubious NGOs will be no different from ASHA in respect of maintenance of accounts and utilisation of funds.

f) All these anti-Nation and anti-Hindu NGOs only talk of grassroots activism, which in many cases is only a fig-leaf for political activism. Persons like Sandeep Pandey, Harsh Mander and Aruna Roy, besides the hundreds of Christian and Marxist NGOs associate themselves with several political parties and political agendas, essentially anti-Hindu in character. Foreign funds cannot be used for political activism and there is a Constitutional ban on receiving foreign money for political activities.

g) If head-count on the basis of religion can be thought of in regard to the Armed Forces, the same approach can also be thought of in regard to the NGOs officially approved by the Union Home Ministry under the FCRA (Foreign Contribution Regulation Act) for purposes of State- sponsored Pseudo-secular Evangelism in India. This head-count will surely bring to the broad sunlight the murky nature of political scoundrelism of the anti-Hindu and anti-Nation UPA Government in New Delhi.

The Government of India must immediately ensure that a strong and effective organisational machinery is created to keep a continuous watch over the anti-Nation and anti-Hindu NGOs and their cohorts. But to do that, we require a strong, effective and well-meaning patriotic Government ?? not the ever faltering and surrogate UPA Government ?? that does not depend on these NGOs to campaign in its favour and against its political opponents.

(The writer is a retired IAS officer)
e-mail the writer at vsundaram@newstodaynet.com

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