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Friday, June 19th, 2009
RSS Camp held in Uttarkashi
Hindutva’s battle faces challenges within: Tarun Vijay
Maneri/Uttarkashi, 18 Jun: Addressing a RSS camp on the banks of River Bhagirathi here, Tarun Vijay, veteran journalist and Director, Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation said ( on 15th June 2009) that the politicians had misused and abused the noble concept of Hindutva which was all inclusive and symbolizes the essence of Indian ethos. Hindus were facing the worst ever challenge on their existence by Islamist Jihadis, expansionist Vatican’s proylitisers and atheist Maoists. He added that Hindu influence had been reduced to less than half in the last century and India had shrunk extraordinarily, The Hindu-Land representing the best of the civilization values on this planet was celebrating a state power that’s at war with its Hindu ethos. Vijay observed that the politicians were behaving in the same fashion unfortunately as had been depicted in the character of Shivrashi, (in the famous novel Jai Somnath written by KM Munshi), who had invited Ghazani through backdoor as he was blinded by his personal desires. He said the only solution to this malaise was to follow the path created by Dr Hedgewar that of the Hindu consolidation and an unapologetic pride among the Hindus regarding their Hinduness. That alone could power their sinews to create a strong, stable, prosperous and pluralistic Bharat. Swami Dev Rishi, Mahamandaleshwar, Juna Akhada presided over the function. He extolled Hindus to rise above sectarian divide and fight for the cause of Dharma. “Enough has been the betrayal, now we won’t tolerate anymore”, he said. Pauri Garhwal sanghchalak Narayan Singh Bisht gave the introductory speech. Dr Nityanand, famous scholar and former Head and Reader of Geography Department at Garhwal University is spearheading a unique residential ashram school movement under the aegis of RSS for the poor students of Garhwal region in this Maneri village (13 kms from Uttarkashi) where the Praudh Sangh Shiksha Varga was held. A large number of people from all walks of life had assembled for the valedictory function and the program continued in-spite of incessant rains.
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Martyrdom Day of Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee in Jammu-
RSS Chief to address meeting in Jammu University-23-june
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Sunday, May 24th, 2009
MR. TARUN VIJAY, MADE SOME NOTABLE SUGGESTIONS, – ESTABLISHMENT OF A PRAVASI BHARTIYA CHAIR TO DOCUMENT THE LEARNING’S OF THE INDIAN DIASPORA IN THEIR STAY ABROAD
ENCOURAGE THE STUDY OF INDIAN CIVILISATION THROUGH CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMMES ORGANISED BY THE ICCR (INDIAN COUNCIL FOR CULTURAL RELATIONS) INSTITUTION OF AN ANNUAL PRAVASI YOUTH AWARD THAT COULD BE GIVEN AWAY ON THE OCCASION OF THE YOUTH ICON SWAMI VIVEKANAND’S BIRTH ANNIVERSARY ON JANUARY 12
On the first day of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, a special session based on the theme Diaspora Youth and India, Blueprint for Engagement was chaired by the dynamic and young parliamentarian, Mr. Jyotirditya Scindia. This interactive session drew a lot of enthusiasm from the Diaspora youths. Mr Scindia identified Culture, Education and Health as the three focus areas for development. He stressed on the need for two-way exchange programmes, distance learning programmes and the need for initiating world-class institutes in India. He was of the opinion that the Diaspora youth could lend its support by volunteering their time and effort to developing the health sector as India seeks to create a market for health services and attract private investment in this sector.
In a special address, Mr. Arun Shourie, Minister of Disinvestments and Communications & Information Technology encouraged the Diaspora youth to excel in their chosen field of interest and profession, so as to keep India shining. He urged them to keep their connections alive with India and work in partnership with this country through a healthy transfer and exchange of best practices from across the world in terms of laws, policies, procedures, technology and practices. The session was moderated by the vivacious Ruby Bhatia who summed up saying that youth from both overseas and India need to dispel their illusions and engage in cultural exchange programmes, build a collective identity and consider setting up a Youth Diaspora body. She mooted the suggestion of creating a virtual community with the assistance of a youth specific portal. Other prominent speakers in the session included Mr. Shiren Dewani, Senior Associate, Reorganisation Services, Deloitte & Touche, UK; Ms. S. Mitra Kalita, President, SAJA, USA; Mr. Parag Khanna, World Economic Forum Global Governance Initiative, The Brookings Institution, USA; Mr. Karan Manhas, MLA, Vancouver, Canada; Ravindren C Ponniah, Student Malaysia; Mr. S. Arunachalam, Director, AR International, Hong Kong; Mr. Anand Shah, Indicorps, USA and Mr. Tarun Vijay, Editor, Panchjanya. Each one of the speakers expressed their emotional attachment to their Indian Origin and immense pride in their heritage. They felt that even though they were now natives of other countries, they will be Indians in their heart forever. Mr. Tarun Vijay, Editor, Panchjanya made some notable suggestions, – Establishment of a Pravasi Bhartiya Chair to document the learning’s of the Indian Diaspora in their stay abroad
Encourage the study of Indian civilisation through cultural exchange programmes organised by the ICCR (Indian Council for Cultural Relations) Institution of an annual Pravasi Youth award that could be given away on the occasion of the youth icon Swami Vivekanand’s birth anniversary on January 12 Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2004 is being jointly organised by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Government of India and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) from January 9-11, 2004. The three-day event was inaugurated by the Prime Minister of India, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee and followed by the presentation of Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards 2004. January 9 each year has been chosen as the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas both in India and abroad as it was on this date in 1915 that Mahatma Gandhi finally returned to India after almost two decades in South Africa. The recommendation of celebration of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas had been made to recognise the contribution of the Indian Diaspora in the political, economic, social, academic and cultural fields.
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Sunday, April 5th, 2009
GLIMPSES OF TARUN VIJAY
Speaking as the chief guest at the function held at Deedwana (Rajasthan) to present Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Literary Award.
Speaking at on RSS Raksha Bandhan Utsav at Lucknow.
A rare Picture. In an affectionate moment Shri L.K. Advani seems to be speaking something encourgaging to Tarun Vijay , the chief editor of Panchjanya at a Panchjanya authors’ conclave held at Deen Dayal Research Institute, On the dias are (from right to left ) Shri H.V. Seshadri(Sarkaryavah, Rss), Shri Ranga Hari, Prof. Rajendra Singh (Pujya Rajju Bhaiya)(Sarsanghachalak RSS), Shri S. Mallikarjunaiah and Shri Advani.
Tarun Vijay with Shri L.K. Advani at somnath Temple Gujarat.
Tarun Vijay’s pictorial book on his pilgrimage to Kailas Manasorovar was translated into Marathi. It was released by famous cine-artist nana patekar in a function in Mumbai attended by Goa CM manohar parrikar and Union Minister for Culture Jagmohan. The pic shows Tarun Vijay introducing his book.
Film actor Nana Patekar speaking at the release function of the Marathi edition of Tarun Vijay’s book on Kailas Manasorovar in Mumbai. Seen on the dias are (L to R) Tarun Vijay, Dilip Karambelkar(Mg. Editor, Tarun Bharat) and Manohar Parrikar, C.M, Goa.
Speaking at the release function of the book, Resource Convergence- Mantra Model held at the IIC New Delhi. Seen on the dais are UNDP Resident Representative in India, Maxine Olsen , Planning Commission Member Syeda Hamid and Justice S.Rajendra Babu, Chairperson, NHRC. on 14th july 2008.
Distinguished participants at a book discussion on Tarun Vijay’s book Safron Surge at India Habitat Centre Book Discussion Fourm. Noted scholar Shri Koenrad Elst and publisher of the book Shri Narendra Kumar are also seen.
Shri Atal Bhari Vajpayee Prime Minister performing Sindhu Puja at the historic Sindhu Darshan in Leh(Ladakh) festival (L to R) Shri Mukat Mithi (C.M Arunachal Pradesh),Shri Anant Kumar (Union Minister for Culture), Shri L.K. Advani ,Dy P.M, Dr. Farooq Abdullah, CM, J&K, Shri Girish Saxena, Governer J&K(Standing), Shri Md. Fazal Governer Goa, and Shri Tarun Vijay, national convenor, Indus Festival.
Speaking at a media Conference at Ravindra Bhawan, New Delhi.
Tarun Vijay with world renowned painter Raza(middle) and Ambassador TCA Rangachari.
With renowned Hindi authors at World Hindi Conference, London.
Presenting award to the best fancy dress show winner at Raipur at a function organised by a tribal service organisation Vanswar. Shri Gunwant Singh Kothari Gen. Secy. Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram and Shri Ishwar Das Rohani, Speaker, M.P. Assembly are to his right.
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
In utter disregard of the principles of natural justice, the EC has in haste and unusually censorious language, passed an opinion without:
a. Providing me a personal hearing (to which I am entitled even as per the principles of natural justice).
b. Providing me a copy of the report dated 17.3.09 and any materials on which that report is based.
c. Showing me or even seeking out for itself the original recording (if at all it exists).
d. Examining the authenticity or source of the tape that was sent to it which on a cursory glance shows that there has been splicing, repetition and interpolation during the so called editing process as evident from the media logo seen in the footage. The short jumpy sequences also establish that the tape has been edited.
e. Independently applying its mind and conducting a thorough examination of the material (for it cannot be called evidence).
Excerpts from Varun Feroze Gandhi’s letter to election commission.
Those who opposed Ayodhya, wore silence on Kashmiri Hindus, damaged Ramsethu and denied Rama ever existed, denied Godhra and embraced butchers of 1984 are collectively gunning at Varun Gandhi’s political life. Column after column by a Padmashri media created an atmosphere where supporting Varun became a sin. Why? Simple reason is that the farmhouse of Gandhi-Nehru politics has broken and a scion of the family chose to speak out as his conscience directed.
More than what Varun said or didn’t say, it’s the hurt and bewilderment of a loss of a Gandhi to the saffron that has made the media and anti-Hindutva politicos shout with such a venom and acid. He was not heard, not given a chance to present his case, neither the forensic experts examined the so-called proof in the form of the CD. Yet the ‘Badshah’ declared his judgment. Some justice in our age is this.
Yet, Varun has suddenly dwarfed the high-media supported Rahul. Phew!
No body has ever heard any dynasty-member to say with an understandable assertion that he or she is a Hindu. Rather they always tried to look differently. They banned Hindu organisations, imposed emergency, deleted basic human rights, abused and caricatured learned judges, never willingly facilitated Sikh massacre probe, rewarded the hardest ever accused criminals, made alliances with those who were convicted for murder or were facing scandalous charges, had the ‘India-divider’ Muslim league join the government first time after partition. Yet they are nice, decent, peace-loving, patriotic democrats who love to suggest others-‘go read Gita’.
When Indian soldiers were fighting Pakistani marauders in 1947, they didn’t have enough jeeps. So orders were placed with its British company and supply demanded immediately. Our High commissioner Krishna Menon, a blue eyed boy of Pt. Nehru messed it up. Jeeps reached a year late and with a taint of hot money exchanging hands.
That was the first scandal of the independent India.
We lost Gilgit, Baltistan and Skardu. We lost Aksai Chin, because government at Delhi didn’t know the exact boundaries and no patrolling was taking place.
In total we have lost one lakh twenty-five thousand square kms to the Pakistanis and Chinese during Congress rule.
And we had a bad dream called 1962.
At that time our ordnance factories were making coffee machines as Pt.. Nehru has openly opined against having well equipped large army for defence. Who is going to attack us? He asked.
And people still remember mysterious ‘murder’ of Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee in Srinagar, who simply wanted Kashmir to be a part of India like Bihar or Bengal and permit system to enter valley be abolished. There were two rulers in Kashmir; the Chief Minister was called Sadre Riyasat or ‘head of the state’. Two flags and two laws for the valley. Mookerjee’s martyrdom compelled the Nehru govt. to remove the permit system and two heads for the state. Then we had Mundhra scandal, Nagarwala case, L.N.Mishra murder. Janasangh’s fast emerging leader Deendayal Upadhyaya was murdered.A Congress leader canvassed openly against the official presidential candidate and supported her own choice as an independent nominee. The original Congress symbol was a pair of oxen. After the official Congress was broke into two, they got hand as a temporary symbol till the case is decided. It would never be.
Opposing Sonia ‘s sudden rise in the politics only on the grounds of her foreign origin were leaders like Sharad Pawar and Sangma. Old Congressmen still feel sad that they lost dynamic and promising leaders of real substance like Rajesh pilot, Madhav Rao Scindia and Jitendra Prasad, who could have steered the Congress to take an entirely different and strong nationalist course. And a veteran Sitaram Kesari was humiliated to no end. The only Prime Minister they had running government for full five years successfully was insulted even in his death and his body-in-state was not allowed to enter the Congress headquarters in New Delhi and an airport in his home state was opposed to be named after him by Congress men though the proposal was put forth by an opposition leader. This is how they treat their party leaders not belonging to their family.
They amended, abused and twisted the Constitution, put the entire opposition behind bars for an undisclosed period and revenged harshly on the unyielding masses.
Yet, they are the democrats and secular lighthouses of freedom of expression and liberty to choose.
They kept India backward in such a planned manner that even after sixty-two years of independence we are yet to have a spacious functional airport in the national capital, seventy thousand farmers committed suicides in one year, brave decorated soldiers returned their medals in protest and a movie on our poverty stricken ‘slum dogs’ fetches a British Oscar in 2009. And loved the illegal Muslim infiltrators just for the sake of their votes- and still they say they are the inheritors of a freedom struggle that demanded ouster of the aliens.
No electoral reforms, no police reforms and strengthening their morale and weapons, administration is still run the way it functioned during the Sahebs and having won a well applauded war in 1971, we couldn’t settle Kashmir issue or control an unleashed Jihadi tail wager in the neighborhood.
Minorities (read Muslims) were so well supported in the Congress regimes that in the sixth decade they felt a need to provide special crutches for them. Bring the ‘M’ card and get a privilege became the new secular psalm further shrinking space and opportunities for the condemned majority.
More than anything else they tried to wreck the morale of the assertive Hindus who have been facing the onslaughts of the invaders for the last twelve centuries with unparalleled brevity showing an invincible spirit to protect their culture and the fragrance of the land. They deserved to be comforted most after a fractured independence and a massacre that was thrust upon them by a weak Congress leadership. Yet a large section of the Hindus today feel cheated and anguished. They form governments in twelve states, prove they can run the country beautifully with a coalition of twenty-five parties having diametrically opposed ideologies. And one of their swayamsewaks unfurled tricolour six times from the ramparts of the Red Fort, as the Prime Minister of the nation, impressed the word leaders and international media with a record of infrastructure building, communication revolution and women empowerment, chose a Muslim to be the President of the state and had the Pokaran -2 failing the CIA ‘eyes’, resisted extraordinary world pressure and sanctions. Yet they are called ‘anti-development, anti-women, even anti-social. In not a single so-called mainstream media their views are published but every news item is scanned to hurl stones on them editorializing the front-page news items.
Still they are very objective face of independent media.
The choicest abuses, used by ‘decent, guaranteers of the freedom of expression’ columnists and editorial writers can be collected as bouquet of India’s uncivilized lexicon, yet their films against the very spirit of Hindu nature get widely supported by a regime that survives on Hindu money and votes.
Their love for development and secularism is so deep that they can send dredgers to destroy a million years of faith and marine life because that was Ram Setu but wont ever dare to touch a six feet by six feet fake dargah built in the middle of the road blocking the highway and causing accidents, for fear of annoying a vote bank.
And then they say, they are the future of India.
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Saturday, February 28th, 2009
The only place on this planet that the Hindus can rightfully claim they belong to is Hindustan or India. And the only people on this earth who feel hesitant to speak for their dharma or the basic identity too are Hindus. In Indian politics, run and financed by the Hindu majority, taking up Hindu issues means an extra effort to stand and face the charges too acidic. It pays to be a non-Hindu in a Hindu majority Hindustan, frankly.
Hence it’s time when the followers of the legacy that began with Dr. Hedgewar founding the nationalist school of thought known as the RSS must assert and justify their birth, first in the form of Jana Sangh and later re-incarnated as the Bharatiya Janata Party. I was there when the first-ever convention of the newly-formed BJP took place in Mumbai, in 1980, christened as Samata Nagar. And the star attraction in that meeting was none else other than Mohammad Karim Chagla, the octogenarian scholar and statesman. The BJP could have adopted a pure saffron flag as its new motif, like the old Jana Sangh, but it chose the green and saffron. Jana Sangh too, in early fifties could have been a Hindu Sangh, but the stalwarts in those times chose a name that would represent all –any one who is an Indian, no matter what his faith is, without compromising on the basic characteristics of the nation i.e. Hindu.
A nation is defined not by the forex reserves or the military prowess but by the contours of her civilisational traditions and the collective struggles and sufferings. We are, unquestioningly and unapologetically Hindu in our national colours as much as the USA is Latin Christian and the UK works for all communities still adhering as a state to the spiritual umbrella of the Church of England. An Obama taking oath of the presidential office on the Bible doesn’t become a communally hateful ruler for the other faiths. So is with us. A Hindu-majority India remains the only guarantee of a pluralistic and democratic nation. The moment we accept the de-Hinduisation process of the nation as a sign of secularism and an acceptable factor in polity, we are not only doomed as an Indian nation but also invite Talibanisation of the society. And then, who says to be a Hindus means looking backward or approving obscurantism? The only people on earth who virtually worship Luxmi, the wealth, and have prosperity as an inseparable part of their life -cycle are Hindus. In fact to be Hindu means to be rich, brilliant and happy. The most important factors, however, as was explained by Prof. Rajendra Singh, the third RSS Chief, (who was head and reader, dept. of Physics, Allahabad University) remain wisdom and character. We forget that exactly for her power, happiness and wealth, Hindu India was the eye sore of the barbarians when they assaulted us calling this land as ‘Sone Ki Chidiya-the Golden Bird’. We have shown the world the best of Hindu architecture in our thousand year old temples in Ellora, Ajanta to Ang kor Wat, the Vedic poetry, the invention of numerals and zero, life sciences and geometry to trigonometry and the deep knowledge of cosmos and the most scientific grammar and script and language. We are those Hindu people who gave the world the concept of ‘world is one family’ (Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam) when the semitic faiths were launching Crusades and Jihads.And an inborn attitude to respect the different view point so much so that an athiest Rishi, scholar monk, Charvak was given an honoured place in the highest exalted order of six philosophers. To be a Hindu means saying no to Gulags and accepting a Galileo with appreciation. Even today the best of the economic developmental models in the states are indisputably seen in states where BJP is ruling. Still seculars deny that, showing a pathological hatred for the Hindu word and world view.
Money, riches, industrialisation, military arrogance couldn’t save the mighty Soviet empire. You need a little more to live as humans, which the Communists refused to accept. The IT power and the strength of brilliance coupled with loyalty to the adopted land (we do not bomb the land we adopt- a trait Hindus are known and respected for the world over) is making them use force to reckon with- as Thomas Freidman too discussed in his celebrated book The World is Flat. But that alone won’t suffice to define the nation that has been known since millenniums world over as the land of the Hindus.
It’s the so-called secular flabbiness of the neo-rich and subjugated colonised English-speaking elite that has taken up the place left vacant by British sergeants and colonial masters. Hate Hindu- is their new professional slogan. Anything Hindu is despicable and arrogantly dismissible. Destroy Ram Sethu, arrest Kanchi Shankaracharya on Diwali night, ignore the brutal killing of an 80-year-old monk on Krishna Janmashtami night in Kandhamal, simply delete the memory of Godhra and never answer why 59 men, women and little kids were burnt to death in a steel compartment, on February 27 seven years ago, never ever mention the 290 Hindus murdered during what is known as Gujarat riots, never discuss the forced exodus of five lakh Kashmiri Hindus after their women were raped and children killed by ‘brave’ Nizam-e-Mustafa’ Ghazis.
That’s the new order, which has to be exposed and dismantled if India has to survive.
They insult and demand the abolition of a language without which their birth can’t be celebrated, marriage can’t be solemnised and even in death, the same language is used. That’s Sanskrit. Like they can denounce their motherland’s fragrance, they also humiliate the language of their birth and death. That’s their morality and honesty.
Last week Al-Jazeera, a channel more known for putting on air Osama and Al Jawahiri statements took my interview, ‘to present the true colours of Indian culture’ as its Canadian correspondent requested. When the show was aired, it showed Hindu right activists as simple monsters and barbarians and dishonestly juxtaposed their prejudices to ‘justify’ their pre-decided views. That’s what this small minority of money wielding de-culturised slave class of the dollar world does anywhere it gets a little dominance -a Gulag at every desk.
Against such elements of hate, the Saffron is fighting a democratic battle through a new generation of IT-savvy saffronite youths. In the blog world, Facebook, internet battles, the Saffron is reigning high and the way we get their responses from California to Bangalore and Kolkata to Chennai via Santa Fe, it’s simply bewildering and a great morale booster.
There are hundreds of them. Mostly post-graduates, engineers, MBAs, fresh IITians and doctors of philosophy, who have left the lure of the lucre and chose to work in the remote regions of the Andamans, Changlang, Diphu, Aizawl and the Nilgiri hills. From Wynad to Wakho and Leh to Lalganj, there is not a single block or tehsil or district where various workers and organisations inspired by the RSS are not active. For the first time in the history of this nation, a non-monastic order of the socially dedicated young men and women has taken roots which puts the nation before everything else, work like a sanyaasi without an ochre robe. They run village development projects, water harvesting and production of bio-foods and hospitals and schools and slum-area service projects. One such organisation, Vidya Bharati, has become the largest academic institution without government help having more than one lakh teachers and twenty-four lakh students in literally every nook and corner of the nation. B.M.S has claimed a membership of 84 lakhs, to be the biggest labour organisation of the land. Amongst students, teachers, politicians, religious clergy, doctors, and even visually-challenged people, RSS-inspired organizations are active and moving fast to get the top slot.
There is hardly a stream in the national life which is not touched and influenced by the ideology espoused by this Saffron movement which began just a year before almost the year Communist movement took shape in India. Though the Communist movement remained confined to a few corners and split in more than 24 various splinter groups, Sangh-inspired organisations are setting the agenda in their respective fields and one of their Swayam Sewak unfurled the Tricolor at the Red Fort six times in continuation. Can any hateful, divisive organisation get this kind of response from the people year after year? How can ill-feelings towards another community inspire young professionals continuously for the last eight decades to devote their life and forget the attractions of a glamorous career just for the cause of rebuilding the nation? Can any other organisation, specially the secular and the Left variety, show its positive and harmonious contribution for the development of the society in comparison to the RSS work?
Against all odds, to oppose political families turning India into their personal fiefdom, to stop India becoming a dharamshala for foreign infiltrators and putting an end to the endless pusillanimity against Jihadi terrorism, a party has to come to power that has the guts to call a spade a spade and strengthen the sinews to provide security and ensure prosperity. Enough is enough.
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
पतित पावनी कलिमल हरिणी माँ गंगा यमुना एवं सरस्वती की अविरल धारा प्रयाग विश्वविद्याल के निराला सभागार में राष्ट्रीय स्वंसेवक संघ का बिद्यार्थी सम्मलेन श्री तरुण विजय के ओजस्वी उद्हबोधन के साथ संपन्न हुआ |..
इस अवसर पर विश्विद्यालय के हजारो छात्रो के साथ हिन्दुत्व राष्ट्रीयता एवं स्वामी विवेकानंद विषय पर श्री तरुण विजय ने सीधा संबाद स्थापित किया | प्रथम सत्र को संबोधित करते हुए तरुण जी ने कहा समस्त प्रकृति के साथ अपनत्व ही हिंदुत्व है| दुनिया में लोक तंत्र और वैचारिक स्वतत्रता हिंदू विचार की देन है जिसने चार्वाक जैसे भौतिकवादी को आचार्य और ऋषि कह कर सम्मानित किया | उन्होंने स्वामी विवेकानंद को बिद्रोही सन्यासी बताते हुए कहा की उनके गुरु रामकृष्ण, आदि शंकर, और विवेकानंद का दर्शन चुनौतियों का सामना करना और उन्हें परास्त करना सिखाता है| स्वामी जी के जीवन पर विस्तार से प्रकाश डालते हुए श्री तरुण विजय ने उन्हें भारत का आदर्श प्रतिनिधि और युवाओ का सर्वश्रेष्ट आदर्श कहा |
देश के समक्ष मौजूद चुनौतियों की चर्चा करते हुए उन्होंने भारत और चीन के वामपंथियों की तुलना की और कहा की भारतीय वामपंथी देशभक्ति के विरोधी है जिनकी आस्था ,दर्शन और प्रतीक विदेशी है | संस्कृति पर अघात करना और माटी के प्रति विद्रोह इनका चरित्र रहा है | इनके विपरीत चीन के वामपंथी देशभक्त और राष्ट्रवादी है | चीन के तीब्र आर्थिक विकास के पीछे उनकी फर्स्ट चाइना पालिसी राष्ट्रवाद से प्रेरित है | चीनी वामपंथी आज भी कुमारजीव को चीन का पहला शिक्षक मानते है | वही भारतीय वामपंथियों के देशद्रोही स्वभाव ने देश की एकता और अखंडता को प्रभावित किया है |बिगत २०० वर्षो में भारत आधा हुआ है और १०० वर्षो में चीन दोगुना हुआ है |
युवाओ का आह्वाहन करते हुए उन्होंने चुनौतियों का सामना करने को कहा | आप खूब स्वाध्याय कीजिये , अपने बिषय में प्रभुत्वा स्थापित कीजिये और राष्ट्र के समक्ष विद्यमान चुनौतियों पर प्रतिक्रिया व्यक्त कीजिये | उन्होंने स्वामी विवेकानंद को उधृत करते हुए कहा की कमजोर की बलि चदा दी जाती है ,कमजोर व्यक्ति ,समाज अथवा राष्ट्र का सत्य भी स्वीकार नही होता अतः हमें मजबूत बनाना होगा |आज एक अमेरिकी डालर में ४८ रूपये मिलते है ,हम इतने मजबूत राष्ट्र का निर्माण करे की एक रूपये में ४८ डालर मिले | यह चुनौती स्वीकारनी होगी और यह संभव है | मराठी में कहावत “याची देही याची डोला” हम अपने इसी शरीर से इसी जीवन में कर दिखाए
विद्यार्थियों के एक प्रश्न की भूमंडलीकरण उदारीकरण के इस युग में स्वदेसी की क्या प्रासंगिकता है ? श्री तरुण जी ने इसे भारत के संकल्प और स्वाभिमान से जोड़ा | इस्राइल का उदहारण सामने रखते हुए कहा की १००० वर्षो के संघर्ष के बाद यहूदियों को इस्राइल प्राप्त हुआ और उन्होंने स्वभाषा , स्वदेश को सर्वोपरी रखते हुए श्री बेन कुरियन को इस्राइल का पिता कहा एवं अपनी हिब्रू भाषा को ही राष्ट्र भाषा स्वीकार किया |
अपने धारा प्रवाह उदबोधन में उन्होंने कहा की भारत ने सभी धर्म , मत , पंथ , विचार का स्वागत किया | यंहा सभी को पुरी स्वतंत्रता और सम्मान प्राप्त हुआ ऐसा हिंदू जनसँख्या और उसके सर्व धर्म समभाव के कारन है |हमारी यही बिशेषता कुछ बिधर्मियो को रस नही आती और हिंदू जनसँख्या पर मुहम्मद बिन कासिम से लेकर मुंबई के ताज तक लगातार हमले होते आए | हमने अनेको युद्ध लड़े आज़ादी के बाद हमारे उपर तीन तीन युद्ध थोपे गए अब यदि एक और युद्ध हमारी इच्छा से हो तो हर्ज क्या है ? उन्होंने कहा “हु फीयर वार, वार गेट डेम” अतः शान्तिपूर्वक रहने की पहली शर्त है सदैव युद्ध के लिए तैयार रहना | विश्व में शान्ति की स्थापना तभी हो सकती है जब हम परम वैभवशाली , अजेय ,अपराजेय , शक्तिशाली भारत का निर्माण करे | यही कार्य राष्ट्रिय स्वयमसेवक संघ पिछले ८५ वर्षो से अहर्निश करता चला आ रहा है |उन्होंने संघ को पृथ्वी का नमक “साल्ट आफ अर्थ” कहा |
विद्यार्थियों से अपने देश के प्रति का रिश्ता रखने का आग्रह करते हुए इस बिन्दु पर विस्तार से प्रकाश डाला और प्रत्येक के लिए सैनिक प्रसिक्षण अनिवार्य माना | जिहादी विचारधारा और आतंकवाद पर युवायो को झकझोरते हुए उन्होंने इसे भारत की सनातन संस्कृति पर हमला कहा और जैसे को तैसा नीति अपनाने को युग धर्म कहा | हम सबको राष्ट्र को ललकारने वाली इन चुनौतियों को स्वीकार करना होगा और उनको परस्त करना होगा |
कार्यक्रम की अध्यक्षता करते हुए अंग्रेजी विभागाध्यक्ष डॉक्टर कृष्ण गोपाल श्रीवास्तव ने कहा की भारतीय सभ्यता ५००० वर्ष पुरानी नही बल्कि इसकी गड़ना ही असंभव है | हमारे वेद्, उपनिषद हमारा ज्ञान विज्ञानं विश्व में सर्वश्रेष्ट और बेजोड़ है | आज भी भारत के पास विश्व का मार्गदर्शन करने की क्षमता मौजूद है | कायक्रम का सफलता पूर्वक सञ्चालन कार्तिकेय ने किया | मंच पर विभाग संघ चालक श्री राम शिरोमणि , डॉक्टर गिरीश , डॉक्टर रना कृष्णपाल एवं पूर्व छात्र संघ अद्यक्ष लक्ष्मीशंकर ओझा उपस्थित रहे |कार्यक्रम की व्यवस्था में विभाग प्रचारक श्री अरविन्द जी आरम्भ से ही सक्रीय बने रहे |
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
‘The only place I call home’
7 Mar 2008, 1654 hrs
This letter was written by a Times of India.com reader who chooses to be called ‘Asa’ in response to a recent article (“ Allah’s will and US strategy ”) on our website by our regular columnist Tarun Vijay. The lucidly written letter, which provides a fascinating glimpse into the lives of Hindus living in Pakistan, is reproduced in its entirety below.
‘The only place I call home’ Asa Karachi bears the symptoms of Mumbai. It has the Arabian Sea where the hordes go to breathe because the ceiling is so high, hopeful youth walk briskly on the roads to seize the day and of course fail, beautiful women travel in the quiet isolation of the backseat with a man they know as driver, eternal Parsis fear that they are all dying. And, incredibly, Shiva, Lakshmi and Vishnu have encroached on prime real estate. Outside one such temple in the posh Clifton neighbourhood, on a distant Monday four years ago, stood a man in pathan suit. His name was Jayanti Ratna. He was wielding a stick and surveying the large crowds that were trying to enter the temple. “Jai Shiv Shankar,” he kept screaming. Occasionally, he stopped some people by placing his stick horizontally around their chests. “Muslims are not allowed,” he said to them. He stopped me too. “Are you a Hindu,” he said, “Muslims are not allowed inside.” That was the first time during the two month tour of Pakistan that my religion was asked. And it was outside a Hindu temple. He was shown the passport. His eyes softened. “Christians, too, are not allowed. But then you are an Indian.” It was inevitable that he would let me pass. Wasn’t it dangerous for a man to stand in the heart of Karachi, outside a temple, and ask Muslims to get lost? “Not at all,” he said, “I was born here. I belong here. I’ll exercise my right to serve my faith.” The next day, outside the Lakshmi Narayan temple, a small austere shrine that stood at the edge of a creek, four Pakistani girls were stopped at the gate by an ageless Gujarati woman called Bani. “Muslims aren’t allowed,” Bani told them angrily. “We just want to walk around and look,” Rumi, one of the girls said. “Then go to the zoo,” Bani told them. The girls were not outraged at all. They pleaded in between giggles. “We just want to pray,” one of them said. From inside the temple emerged, Hirakumari, a young woman who was related in a complicated way to Bani. She shouted at the girls, “Go pray to your god. You eat cows, make fun of our gods, ask if our gods don’t feel cold being naked…” But Hirakumari would eventually tell me that deep down she loved the Muslims. “They will feed us for the rest of our lives, if it comes to that. Pakistan is the only place I call home but how can we let them inside the temple?” Pakistan’s Hindus number somewhere between 2.5 million (an official estimate which is suspect) and 5 million (the figure granted by Hindu politician Kishinchand Parwani). Over 95 percent of them live in the Sindh province, chiefly impoverished farmers and labourers. Some of them are visibly rich though, and they are allowed to be rich without peril. Like fashion designer Deepak Perwani who had a Ganesha tattooed on his right arm, and whose red dyed hair often perplexed urchins. His analysis of the Indo-Pak divide was, “Indians can’t cut a salwar to save their lives and Pakistanis can’t cut a churidar .” Ten years ago, when he wanted to open a store in Karachi, his friends asked him not to flaunt his name on the door. He didn’t listen. “There’s been no trouble, not a single incident outside my shop,” he said. Since Partition, the only time the Hindus of Karachi felt insecure was in the aftermath of the Babri Masjid demolition. But Perwani, once Pakistan’s cultural ambassador to China, did have a problem. The Sindhi community was small and it was not easy for him to find a suitable girl. “The girl has to be imported,” he said, “since I am doing too well here to be exported.” His mother Renu, an amicable and efficient woman said, “People in India don’t want their daughters to live in Pakistan. It’s a mindset.” As she considered the various options for her son, her eyes turned a bit severe. “I will never accept a Muslim girl in my house.” The simple aggression of Pakistan’s Hindus was just one of the many things that confused the Indians who toured that country in the merciless summer of 2004. The visible life on the streets of a nation that was almost always governed by the military and of another that glorified democracy, was the same. The roads and the slums looked the same. Even there, lazy cops stood in street corners without poise. People drove like fools. Pedestrians ran across the road and giggled at the end of the effort. This place was home. Our plight was the same. Our hereditary memory was common. True, pork was hard to find here and beef easily available. Every hotel room, no matter how cheap, had a bidet. There were no pubs, and emasculated newspapers said, “Pakistan and India” instead of “India and Pakistan”. But we had expected much grander things to separate the two nations. After an unscathed life in Pakistan, a Hindu in Karachi becomes dust in a crematorium that lies beside a Muslim graveyard. The crematorium has a room called the ‘library’ where there are no books. Just bundles of ashes of men and women who have become memories. These ashes will stay here, sometimes for years, until the relatives are granted visas to let them immerse the remains in Ganga.
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
‘If you sow the seed of poison you will reap hate’ -Tarun Vijay
‘Onkar Singh in New Delhi March 03, 2008 14:18 IST
Two decades ago Tarun Vijay was asked by then Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh sarsanghchalak Professor Rajendra Singh to edit Panchjanya, the RSS Hindi weekly. It was a job Vijay accepted gleefully as it coincided with his views of strengthening Hinduism.
On February 25, Vijay relinquished the editorship of Panchjanya to take over the directorship of the Bharatiya Janata Party think-tank, the Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Research Foundation.
In an interview with Senior Associate Editor Onkar Singh in New Delhi, Vijay says the India of his dreams is one where everyone gets an opportunity to flower just like the Jews who found solace in India while they were being persecuted elsewhere in the world.
A journalist since 1976, he began his career with Russi Karanjia at the Mumbai-based tabloid Blitz and then as a freelance journalist for major dailies and magazines before spending five years as an RSS activist in the country’s tribal areas. He was the youngest member of the then home minister’s advisory committee during Indira Gandhi’s government before joining Panchjanya.
Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee once said about him: ‘Tarunji looks small in physique, but his brilliance and sharp intellect, his logical writings make a deep, very deep impression on the readers.’
An avid photographer he has covered the Himalayan region extensively and his pictorial book An Odyssey in Tibet has been well received. His photographs on the river Indus had been exhibited in Bangalore, Chennai, New Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai. He also led the first Indus expedition from Demchok to Batalik.Why is Indian society becoming so intolerant?
I must admit that intolerance is everywhere. This kind of apartheid is due to the Leftist influence in politics and the intellectual arena. Though Charvak spoke against the Vedas he was given a high pedestal of a Rishi by Indian society. He was called one of the six most exalted Rishis. So intolerance against other religions is an un-Indian attitude.
The Indian ethos believes in a million flowers and a million fragrances. The growing intolerance is because of jihadi assaults and the wrong policies of the government which thinks that anything that is linked to Hinduism has to be ignored. It pays to be a non-Hindu in India. There are endless examples like special universities for non-Hindus, special loans for a particular community. If non-Hindus are in trouble the government and the media gets perturbed.
Has the establishment ever thought of including Hindus in Kashmir in this list?
Do you think Hinduism is under attack?
Hinduism allowed all the religions of the world to flower in India. But now the very core of Hinduism is under attack. It is our responsibility to make society awaken to such dangers.
Are you saying that Hinduism must be strengthened?
Certainly so. We must have free and fair society which believes in coexistence, in Vasudeva Kutumbam (The world is one family).
Do you believe that the BJP has a chance to win the next general election?
The present atmosphere gives us hope that the BJP will come to power in the next Lok Sabha election provided the party continues to stick to its ideological moorings. I feel that people have trust in the party. It is a party which believes and propagates the nationalist ideology.
Did the BJP commit a mistake by giving up the Ram Mandir issue?
The construction of a Ram temple is a one hundred per cent certainty. Whether the BJP does it or someone else does it is hidden in the future. The Hindu is the first enemy of Hindu issues. The Ganga is polluted by Hindus. The majority of cow slaughter houses are run by Hindus. Many exporters who export meat including beef are Hindus. Those who give reservation to non-Hindus are Hindus. They find it politically beneficial to assault Hindu issues. This situation has to be reversed.
And this can be done only through Hindu reforms. We must show Hindu solidarity which is the key to most of the problems that we face today. Those who visit temples do not keep them clean. People do not ensure that the priests recite the right shlokas and that the pronunciation is correct. We have to ensure that the priests do not loot pilgrims. This is a kind of reform that has to come from within.
The youth of today must take the initiative and we cannot blame others.
Hindu solidarity is not against any minority and it would be beneficial to all minorities including Christians and Muslims. It is for the national good.
Are you turning into a hardliner once again?
To be a Hindu one is essentially liberal. My liberalism is inherent in being a Hindu. It is part and parcel of my Hindu religion. I would like everyone to share this thought including Muslims and Christians. According to me, if water and education is not provided to everyone and if the women are not empowered there is no Hindutva — it means that every citizen of India, whichever religion he may belong, achieves progress.
What was the RSS’s reaction when Mr Vajpayee announced that he was going to Lahore in 1999?
We were the first to welcome it and I was invited to join the party. Nawaz Sharif, then the prime minister of Pakistan, was there to receive the Indian prime minister. Pakistan has been created on the basis of hate and this must go. Pakistan should not be Arab-centric. This is civilisational disorientation in Pakistan. India and Pakistan have the same roots and just because we worship God or Allah should not make us enemies.
What is your solution to the problems faced by the BJP?
Any organisation needs water to bind it and the answer lies is Bhagwakaran (saffronisation). India’s greatness would lie in Vidya (knowledge) and Charitra (character) , Rajju Bhaiya (Professor Rajendra Singh) once told me. I believe he had a point.
My job is to have a manthan (discussion) where both friends and those who do not subscribe to our theory can come together.
Can you emerge from the shadow of leaders like Mr Vajpayee and Mr Advani?
I don’t have to. In fact, I do not even think in such terms. I am fortunate that these stalwarts are there to guide me. My post may be director but I will be a student seeking their advice, guidance. I will be providing inputs on ideology and governance. All policies would have to be looked at from our point of view and interpreted accordingly so that they can apply in the areas of their influence. We will be setting up chairs in the name of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya in areas where our nationalism is being challenged and assaulted. This is a very critical period.
What about the nationalism of the kind that Raj Thackeray propagates?
If you sow the seed of poison you would reap the hardest of hate. The fragmented polity of the country provides this kind of space that further divides society and fragments it. It is beneficial to those who are looking for such opportunities to get votes.
In Jammu and Kashmir and the north eastern states you cannot buy land despite the fact that you are a citizen of India. Things like Article 370 create problems.
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