Tarun Vijay

तरुण विजय की पुस्तक ‘‘इंडिया बैटल्स टू विन’’ का विमोचन

प्रख्यात लेखक और पत्रकार तरुण विजय की पुस्तक ‘इंडिया बेटल्स टू विन’ का आज संसद के सभागार में विमोचन हुआ।

पुस्तक का विमोचन संघ के सर-संघचालक श्री मोहन राव भागवत जी द्वारा किया गया। पुस्तक ‘इंडिया बेटल्स टू विन’ का विमोचन करते हुए संघ के सरसंघचालक श्री मोहन राव भागवत जी ने कहा कि श्री तरुण विजय जी की खासियत यह है कि वे जो लिखते हैं, दिल से लिखते हैं और इसी कारण उनकी लेखनी सीधे पाठक के दिल को छू लेती है। उन्होंने कहा कि मैं खुद श्री तरुण विजय जी के लेखों को पसंद करता हूं, मैं उनका रसिक पाठक हूं, लेकिन ऐसा इसलिए नहीं कि उनमें हमारी विचारधारा झलकती है, बल्कि इस कारण क्योंकि श्री तरूण विजय जी की लेखनी में ईमानदारी होती है।

श्री भागवत जी ने पुस्तक ‘इंडिया बेटल्स टू विन’ का चर्चा करते हुए कहा कि आज वास्तव में देश को आगे बढ़ना है। लेकिन भारत का अमेरिका या चीन बनने के बजाए एक संपन्न भारत ही बनना है। भारत की विजय भारत बनने में ही है। ऐसा भारत बनने में जो दुनिया के हित के लिए समर्पण कर सके। उन्होंने कहा कि तरुण विजय जी हमेशा स्वस्थ लेखन करते हैं। उनकी यह पुस्तक वास्तव में बहुत उपयोगी सिद्ध होगी।

पुस्तक विमोचन कार्यक्रम में अतिथि के तौर पर पधारे इंडियन ऐक्सप्रेस ग्रुप के संपादक श्री शेखर गुप्ता जी ने श्री तरुण विजय की पुस्तक ‘इंडिया बेटल्स टू विन’ और उनकी लेखनी के बारे में कहा कि श्री तरुण विजय जी की खासियत है कि हम उनके कंटेंट से एक बार असहमत तो हो सकते हैं पर उनकी राष्ट्रवादी सोच सभी को प्रभावित करती है। उन्होंने कहा कि संवाद हमेशा जिंदा रहना चाहिए। श्री तरुण विजय जी के लेख की भाषा और प्रस्तुतीकरण इतना उत्तम होता है कि देश उनके विषयों को पूर्ण रूप से समझ पाता है।

इस अवसर पर दैनिक जागरण समूह के सीईओ श्री संजय गुप्ता जी ने कहा कि मैं पुस्तक के विषय पर कहना चाहूंगा कि सही में आज देश को संघर्ष कर आगे बढ़ना है। मैं तरुण विजय जी से आग्रह करूंगा कि वह निरंतर लिखते रहें। अभी वह देश की सच्ची समस्याएं उठा रहे हैं पर मैं चाहूंगा कि वह इनसे निपटने के समाधानों पर भी विस्तृत रूप से लिखें। उन्होंने कहा कि श्री तरुण विजय जी की भारतीयता सर्वोच्च है की सोच, को मैं सही मानता हूं। आज हमें तय करना है कि आखिर हमें कहां जाना है। और श्री तरूण विजय जी की यह पुस्तक ‘इंडिया बैटल्स टू विन’’ इस दिशा में बहुत उपयोगी सिद्ध होगी।

मंचासीन टाइम्स इंटरनेट के चीफ एडिटर श्री राजेश कालरा ने कहा कि श्री तरुण विजय जी की लेखनी की सशक्ता इस बात से पता चलती है कि आज देश ही नहीं वरन् विदेशों में भी उनके लेख अत्याधिक पढ़े जाते हैं। इंटरनेट पर उनके लेखों की लोकप्रियता जबर्दस्त है। वे एक अच्छे लेखक होने के साथ साथ एक ऐसे सज्जन व्यक्ति भी हैं जो सत्तालोलुपता से सदैव दूरी बनाए रखते हैं। मैं वयक्तिगत रूप से श्री तरुण जी को एक दशक से जानता हूं और उनकी ईमानदारी का कायल हूं।

डॉ. श्याम प्रसाद मुखर्जी शोध अधिष्ठान के निदेशक श्री तरुण विजय जी ने सभी का आभार प्रकट करते हुए कहा कि यह पुस्तक मेरे लेखों का संकलन है। उन्होंने कहा कि मैं वही लिखता हूं जो मुझे सही लगता है। मैं हिंदुत्व की बात करता हूं लेकिन साथ साथ ही पाखंड और छुआछूत जैसे विषयों की खुलकर आलोचना भी करने में झिझकता नहीं हूं। मैं जेहादियों, आतंक के खिलाफ निरंतर लिखता हूं और लिखता रहूंगा। मैं अत्याचार के खिलाफ चुप्पी नहीं साध सकता हूं। उन्होंने ने कहा कि मैं श्री अरविंदो जी के कथन कि भारत की तकदीर बनाने वाले लोग इस देश में विभिन्न संगठनों में काम कर रहे हैं, से सहमति रखता हूं।

श्री तरूण विजय जी ने कहा कि मैंने संघ से ही सीखा है। हम आज भी यही कहते हैं कि मानवता ही सबसे बड़ी पूजा है। संघ ने हमेशा यह सीख दी है कि हम सब हिंदुस्तानी हैं और इसीलिए हमें किसी से कोई बैर नहीं है। श्री तरुण विजय जी ने विमोचन के दौरान पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री श्री अटल बिहारी बाजपेयी जी, पूर्व सर-संघसंचालक श्री रज्जू भैया, सर-संघसंचालक श्री मोहन राव भागवत समेत अनेक लोगों का जिक्र करते हुए कहा कि सभी के सहयोग और आर्शीवाद से ही मैं आज इस मुकाम पर पहुंच पाया हूं।

विमोचन कार्यक्रम में रा.स्व.संघ के सह-सरकार्यवाह श्री सुरेश सोनी, क्षेत्रीय संघचालक, रा.स्व.संघ श्री बजरंग लाल गुप्त, प्रांत संघचालक, रा.स्व.संघ श्री रमेश प्रकाश, भाजपा राष्ट्रीय उपाध्यक्ष श्री बाल आप्टे, भाजपा प्रवक्ता रविशंकर प्रसाद व श्री प्रकाश जावड़ेकर, नेता प्रतिपक्ष, दिल्ली विधानसभा श्री विजय कुमार मल्होत्रा समेत बड़ी संख्या में गणमान्य हस्तियां मौजूद थी।

William Dalrymple has hit where it hurts the most: the unchronicled history of the Hindus, their amazing quality of forgetfulness and scourge of disunity. When V.S. Naipaul points to these areas of darkness, he speaks as one of us. But Dalrymple looks no different from other white Mughals or their munshis for whom India is no more than a mass of koi hai people and places to be enjoyed, ruled and to write memoirs about.

In most cases, the invaders brought loot, rape, plunder and the spread of Islam in one package.

As stinking and rude as Macaulay’s pen, Dalrymple wants to convey two things—(a) Sir Vidia has fallen because he came to the bjp office; and (b) his lament on the fall of the great centre of Hindu civilisation Vijayanagara is meaningless, because, like Godhra, this too was either a case of self-destruction or an inconsequential mark in the long history of Hindu-Muslim brotherhood epitomised in the Islamicised clothing of the Vijayanagara kings. Then, he goes on to quote western scholars and juxtaposes the great peace missions of Ajmer Sharif and Nizamuddin Chishti, who to many noted historians were nothing more than ’scouts and guides’ to the invading ‘ghajis’ only to be rewarded at the end of the invasion.

To him, creative harmony means ‘Hindu kings’ wearing Islam-inspired costumes (whatever that means), a Muslim sultan using a rudraksha rosary. Why did he forget to mention other examples of such harmony? Like Akbars marrying Jodhabais and mosques on the razed Hindu-Jain temples like Qutub Minar and Kashi? Kashi could be the best example of such Hindu-Muslim brotherhood where we can see the great Islamic structure dancing over the lotus designs of the erstwhile Shiva temple. No digging required to get proofs of such milk ‘n honey relations, he could very well have concluded with ‘Christianised Indians’—as most of them today wear Christendom-inspired costumes like pants, shirts and ties. Now, the problem for us ‘conflict-inviting’ bad Hindus is, where do we put the so-called (for Marxists and gora munshis like Dalrymple) martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur, two sons of Guru Gobind Singh or Ghallu Ghara? Like white Mughals and their whiter masters, ‘black’ and ‘copper’ Mughals too ravaged, raped and enjoyed the local bounties of the battles. Some Indian Dalrymple is needed to chronicle their pains and anguish. What about the stories of Chittor’s jauhar and Padmini’s tryst with fire? All cooked up? Dalrymple also forgot to mention why despite such a ‘glorious’ example of sweet relations with Muslims, the destruction of Vijayanagara never found even a cursory mention in the unending stories of R.K. Narayan?

Hundreds of examples can be quoted from books by Muslim scholars on how every Muslim invasion was a part of Islamic jehad. Refer to Tarikh-i-Firishta translated by John Briggs as History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India, first published in 1829 (Vol 1, pp 27-28).

Sultan Ahmad Shah Wali Bahmani (1422-1435 AD) conquers Vijayanagara. “Ahmad Shah, without waiting to besiege the Hindoo capital, overran the open country and put to death men, women and children wherever he went. Whenever the number of slain amounted to twenty thousand, he halted for three days and celebrated the bloody event. He also broke down the idolatrous temples and destroyed colleges of the Brahmins.” No literature is required to show the brutal destruction of the temples by ‘ghajis’ and ‘butshikans’. Yet, Dalrymple and his cartel would portray them as mere local feuds over financial gains. This is what the white Mughals do to their ex-colonies. And there never will be any dearth of ’supporting quotes’. After all, the East India Company thrived not on the Britons’ valour, but on the cowardice of the colonised natives. They will never accept R.C. Majumdar, Jadunath Sarkar, Sita Ram Goyal, Sri Aurobindo or even Vivekananda. Their sources will always be in the hate-India pits of the Marxist dens.

Despite some rare examples, the stark truth is that invaders brought loot, rape, plunder and the spread of Islam in ‘one package’. It has continued till this date and our times are also witnessing the rape and killings of Hindu women in J&K and Bangladesh at the hands of Islamic zealots. But Dalrymple and his Marxist cartel of Romila Thapar, Satish Chandra or Nurul Hasan would weep at a distant Palestinian sprain rather than feel the pain of the Hindu neighbour. Naturally, they feel peeved at Sir Vidia’s plainspeaking. I wonder why Rushdie’s piece about it hasn’t appeared yet.

It is the great sagacity of the Hindu heart that despite such continuous trails of Islamic barbarism, we have never treated Muslim society as a dushman of our land or dharma. Rahim, Raskhan, Jaysi, Taj Bibi, Ghalib remain on the most respected pedestals of Hindu reverence. The Khans are ruling Bollywood and a Muslim is our head of state. He may well prove to be the most popular head we ever had. We fought together under Bahadur Shah Zafar and none lamented. Dalrymple should not be worried about good Hindu-Muslim relations. After all, neither Raskhan’s position in common Hindu households nor the Khan era in the same Bollywood where once Muslim actors had to adopt Hindu names was because of the efforts of Dalrymple’s ilk. Instead, it was because of the inherent Hindu sense of goodwill, even for those appallingly hateful. It’s different from the culture Dalrymple belongs to. Therefore, he should confine himself to his patriotic concerns.

In short, leave the Hindus to their pain and sorrows for our coming generations—who would surely rise soon with a better spine than we see today.

President Pratibha Patil is in London to receive a baton from Queen Elizabeth II on October 29. She has already received a tasteless joke from the duke of Windsor about Patels . And then the President is all ready to get  the dubious distinction of the first-ever head of state of a Commonwealth country  to receive the baton from the Queen Elizabeth. It’s a ‘baton’ that’s customarily given to the host country of the Commonwealth Games. The Commonwealth has 53 member states including Nauru, .. etc and none of them ever thought it prudent to be so obsessed with the colonial hangover that their head of the state would go and be a durbari in the former coloniser’s palace.

And our sportsmen like Kapil Dev gave a statement expressing a feel of pride for having found their names in the invite list to be in the queue and get introduced to a lady who hardly knows  about their land except that her predecessors once ruled them with a barbarity that is reminiscent of the dark ages (her knowledge about us won’t be better than that of the duke of fatigue and follies who slipped over the Patels) and she never expressed any regret or remorse over what the British did to us.

Any surprises on the Indian spinelessness?

We are a nation that produced a large number of rai bahadurs and sirs and rao sahebs while ‘crazy deewane’ were becoming Bhagat Singhs and Rajgurus and Sukhdevs. There were a large section of our Indians who thought it prudent to keep a silence on Jalianwala Bagh, honour the butcher Dyer even after the gruesome incident. It’s another matter that we had those Casablancas too who preferred gallows to knighthood.

Pratibha Patil  and Kapil Devs have joined the ranks of those who have no sense of history, leave aside a sense of pride in the sacrifices of revolutionaries who fought the British. We are the world’s greatest living democracy, much larger and with a better civilisational background and track record of humanity than the British. Why should a head of a democracy present herself before a queen, a symbol of a decaying, old tradition, which has lost all relevance to the contemporary values of civil society? Shouldn’t they be raising questions that why the lady occupying Buckingham Palace must remain the head of the Commonwealth? The most logical and contextually correct thing would be to have a head of a democratic sovereign as its chief and not a titular icon of a royalty that stinks with the blood of our revolutionaries and whose wealth is built on the loot of India?

Pratibha Patil hasn’t found time to visit Hussainiwala , the memorial to Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev. Or the Jalianwala Bagh. London seems to be more inviting to her. What a shame that India should send a large contingent of sportsmen along with her.

The first question that has to raised before the lethargic neo-rai sahebs is the logic of still clinging to the Commonwealth comity? What great achievement we envisage by spending more than $1.6 billion on organizing the Commonwealth Games, which were originally conceptualized to keep the British colonial legacy alive and still require the queen to distribute largesse and announce the beginning of the games as its head. Since its inception in the new garb in1952, there has not been anyone else except the queen to head the games and it’s incumbent upon the members, all former subjects of the empire, all who had been slaves of the queen, to go to London and receive the ‘baton’ from Her Majesty so that the games are launched formally.

Here are some gems of information taken from the official website of the games.

The Queen’s Baton Relay

The Relay traditionally begins at Buckingham Palace in London as a part of the city’s Commonwealth Day festivities. Her Majesty the Queen entrusts the baton to the first relay runner. At the Opening Ceremony of the Games, the final relay runner hands the baton back to her Majesty the Queen .

History

The Relay was introduced at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales. Through the 1994 Games, the Relay only went through England and the host nation.

The history of The Games

In 1911, the ‘Festival of Empire’ was held in London to celebrate the coronation of King George V. As part of the festival, an Inter-Empire Championships was held in which teams from Australia, Canada, South Africa and the United Kingdom competed in events such as boxing, wrestling, swimming and athletics.

From 1930 to 1950 the Games were known as the British Empire Games, then the British Empire and Commonwealth Games until 1962. From 1966 to 1974 they took on the title of British Commonwealth Games and from 1978 onwards they have been known as simply the Commonwealth Games. The Commonwealth Youth Games are also known as Friendly Games in the English speaking provinces of the Commonwealth.

In the baton relay, after the president receives the baton from the Queen, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) chairman Suresh Kalamdi, and Olympic gold medallist and ace shooter Abhinav Bindra will then start the Queen’s Baton Relay,

The Queen’s Baton relay is one of the oldest traditions of Commonwealth Games since it was first done in the 1958 Games in Wales

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 1994

The Baton was fashioned from sterling silver and was engraved with traditional symbols of the creative artists’ families and cultures, including a wolf, a raven and an eagle with a frog in its mouth.

Kuala Lumpur, 1998

Malaysia placed their own flavour on the Games, with the Queen’s Baton being carried into the stadium on an elephant. The baton was presented to Prince Edward by Malaysia’s first ever Commonwealth medal winner Koh Eng Tong, a gold medallist in weightlifting in 1950.

Manchester, 2002

The baton has special significance as it marks the Golden Jubilee of Her Majesty The Queen and was designed to symbolise the uniqueness of the individual and the common rhythm of humanity.

Opening ceremony traditions

•         From 1930 through 1950, the parade of nations was led by a single flag bearer carrying the Union Flag, symbolising Britain’s leading role in the British Empire.

•         Since 1958, there has been a relay of athletes carrying a baton from Buckingham Palace to the Opening Ceremony. This baton has within it the Queen’s Message of Greeting to the athletes.

•         All other nations march in English alphabetical order.

•         The military is more active in the Opening Ceremony than in the Olympic Games. This is to honour the British Military traditions of the Old Empire.

So we have a queen and her representatives to be honoured who hardly get a serious glance in their own country except when a scandal brings them to the front page of a tabloid, we have to follow the English, and run with a baton which has symbols we do not know why-“a wolf, a raven and an eagle with a frog in its mouth.” And then we have to honour the “British Military traditions of the Old Empire.” Because they killed our patriots? Someone must file an application under RTI to know how many millions have been allocated just to finalise the theme and the tamasha to start a function that would be a joke to the sacred memories of our freedom fighters.

Why can’t we spend half the money we are spending on the  Commonwealth Games for training and building better and permanent facilities to identify indigenous sports talent and prepare them for the next Olympics? Why can’t we have a commonwealth of the proud, patriotic sovereign countries which would make sure that they do everything in line with the honour and pride of their  language, customs, traditions and salute their patriots taking the baton from a freedom fighter who had fought the savagery of the British empire rather than go to London and bow before the British queen?

पिछले तीन दशकों से जम्मू-कश्मीर में जारी आतंकवाद के दौरान पांच लाख से अधिक हिंदुओं को उनके घरों से उजाड़ कर दर-दर भटकने के लिए मजबूर कर दिया गया। घाटी में जो सात सौ से अधिक मंदिर हैं, वे सब सूने हैं। वहां कोई दीया जलाने वाला भी नहीं जा पाता। परंतु इस देश के राजनेता और कलम का धर्म निभाने की जिम्मेदारी लिए लोग इन पांच लाख हिंदुओं की करुण व्यथा भूल गए। ऐसे आत्म विस्मृत समाज में क्या कोई आशा कर सकता है कि जम्मू में आंचल (जिसका विवाह के पूर्व का नाम अमीना था) के घर दीवाली नहीं मनी तो उसके कारण जाने जाएं? आंचल के पति रजनीश शर्मा का अमीना से प्रेम हो गया और दोनों ने शादी कर जिंदगी एक साथ बिताने का निश्चय किया। दोनों ने जम्मू आकर 21 अगस्त को शादी कर ली। 29-30 सितंबर की रात को कश्मीर से आई पुलिस ने चुपचाप रजनीश के घर दबिश दी और उसे उठाकर श्रीनगर ले गई। रजनीश फिर जम्मू नहीं लौटा। उसकी लाश लाई गई, जिस पर भयंकर यातनाओं के निशान थे। कश्मीर पुलिस ने कहा कि रजनीश ने थाने में आत्महत्या कर ली, लेकिन आंचल उर्फ अमीना ने बहादुरी से अपने दिवंगत पति को श्रद्धांजलि देते हुए कहा कि उसके मां-बाप ने कश्मीर पुलिस को रिश्वत देकर रजनीश की हत्या करवा दी। हैरानी की बात है कि इस हृदय विदारक घटना की देश में कहीं भी गूंज सुनाई नहीं पड़ी। वे मानव अधिकारवादी, जो कोलकाता में रिजवान की घटना पर इतना चिल्लाए थे जितना चीन की घुसपैठ पर भी नहीं बोले, रजनीश और अमीना अर्थात आंचल की शोकांतिका पर चुप रहे। आखिर क्यों? यह भी ध्यान देने की बात है कि क्या कहीं भी किसी स्त्री अधिकार संगठन ने महिला आयोग को कार्यवाही के लिए पुकारा? जो महिला आयोग राखी सावंत के फिल्मी स्टंट पर तुरंत सक्रिय हो उठा था, वह अमीना या आंचल की करुणामय कथा पर चुप्पी क्यों ओढ़े हुए है? यह घटना भारतीय शासन और राजनीति में व्याप्त सेक्युलर विद्रूपता का प्रमाण है जो हिंदू हनन को ही अपनी पहचान बना बैठा है। कश्मीर घाटी सामान्य हिंदुओं और बौद्ध समाज पर अत्याचार करने वाली सत्ता का प्रतीक बनी है। कुछ समय पहले श्री अमरनाथ भूमि के लिए हुए असाधारण आंदोलन ने यह तथ्य प्रकट किया ही था और उस समय श्रीनगर की अहंकारी सत्ता को झुकना पड़ा था। फिर भी जम्मू के लिए घोषित केंद्रीय विश्वविद्यालय को श्रीनगर ले जाया गया। हिंदू-मुस्लिम संबंधों पर भी कश्मीर की सत्ता का घोर सांप्रदायिक दृष्टिकोण बार-बार प्रकट होता रहता है। लद्दाख के बौद्ध समाज की भी यही शिकायत रही है। उनकी लड़कियों को भगाकर श्रीनगर ले जाया जाता है और उनका मतांतरण कर दिया जाता है। कश्मीर घाटी भारत में सांप्रदायिक विद्वेष और भारत द्रोह का उदाहरण क्यों बना है? उल्लेखनीय है कि भारत में केवल जम्मू-कश्मीर ऐसा प्रांत है, जो पूरी तरह से मुस्लिम बहुल है। एक मुस्लिम बहुल प्रांत अपने राज्य में अल्पसंख्यकों के साथ कैसा व्यवहार करता है, इसका ज्वलंत उदाहरण जम्मू-कश्मीर सरकार के कामकाज से प्रकट होता है। भारत में ही नहीं, दुनिया में जहां भी मुस्लिम अल्पसंख्यक होते हैं वहां वे अपने लिए विशेष अधिकार, अतिरिक्त आरक्षण और मजहबी कानून आदि की मांग करते हैं और हासिल भी कर लेते हैं, परंतु जहां वे स्वयं बहुसंख्यक होते हैं, वहां गैर-मुस्लिम समाज के अल्पसंख्यकों के अधिकार समाप्त कर देते हैं और उनकी आस्था एवं जीवनशैली की स्वतंत्रता को कुचल देते हैं। श्रीनगर में बैठे शासकों का हिंदू-कश्मीरियों तथा जम्मू निवासियों के प्रति व्यवहार इस बात का प्रमाण है। आंचल ने बड़ी हिम्मत से इस विभीषिका का सामना किया है। उसने कश्मीर सरकार की अनुकंपा राहत राशि भी अस्वीकार कर दी है और कहा है कि अगर उसको या उसके दिवंगत पति के परिवार को कोई हानि होती है तो उसकी जिम्मेदारी उसके पिता और कश्मीर शासन पर होगी। आंचल ने यह भी आरोप लगाया है कि उसके पति रजनीश को इस्लाम कबूल करवाने के लिए श्रीनगर के एक थाने में भयंकर यातनाएं दी गईं, नाखून उखाड़े गए, घुटने तोड़े गए और बिजली के करंट भी लगाए गए। फिर भी उसने अपना धर्म बदलना स्वीकार नहीं किया। आंचल ने मांग की है कि हमें सरकार से केवल एक ही मुआवजा चाहिए और वह यह कि दोषी पुलिसकर्मियों और आंचल के पिता मोहम्मद यूसुफ मेराजी तथा भाइयों के खिलाफ धारा 302 के अंतर्गत हत्या का मुकदमा दर्ज करे। यह घटना भारत की और अधिक विकृत होती पंथनिरपेक्षता की प्रतीक बन गई है। क्या वास्तव में इस देश में अब हिंदुओं को न्याय नहीं मिल सकता?

Rajneesh was a small trader from Jammu often going on business trips to Srinagar. He fell in love with a girl and married her.

He wanted to be faithful to his beloved from Srinagar, who was beautiful and had unflinching trust in her life partner. It’s difficult, if not impossible, to have love bloom between Jammu and Srinagar. But it was more than that. The boy from Jammu was a Hindu and the girl from Srinagar, a Muslim. Ameena was her name and she changed her name to Anchal Sharma after marriage.

A month after the marriage the boy was picked up from his Jammu house by the Kashmir police and taken to Srinagar for “investigation”. The police never registered his name, Rajneesh Sharma, as the accused who is being taken to Srinagar, but instead named his brother Pawan Sharma in police records, to confuse and hide the real identity.

The smell of a plot was there the moment they took the boy hustled in a jeep and covered with a blanket.

The boy never returned home to celebrate his first Diwali with Anchal nee Ameena.

He was found dead hanging with an iron grill in his Srinagar cell. Police said he committed “suicide”. An inconsolable Anchal alleged that her parents bribed police to murder her beloved because he dared to marry a Muslim girl from the valley. Anchal’s father works in Srinagar’s police department, hence the influence was obvious.

This week Anchal would have been celebrating Diwali with her husband Rajneesh but for if this ultimate Taliban act. Surprisingly the incident, so brutal and tragic hasn’t found an echo in the elite human-rightist circles of Delhi and the self-righteous media which had taken up the Rizwan case of Kolkata at a greater war footing than it has shown regarding Chinese incursions.

Rajneesh’s “murder” in a police post in Srinagar wouldn’t have occurred if Rajneesh was a “Rizwan” and the girl had remained an Ameena.

The writerati, who declare love’s supremacy whenever the boy is someone else and the girl is a Hindu (the final test one has to pass to be declared secular in this land of self-flagellation) are maintaining a studied silence. None has spoken so far. None has tried to invoke the wrath of the Women’s Commission, none has bothered to take a delegation of women to Jammu in the name of secularism and its prophets. And none has found it a deserving case for a heated debate on the sparkling channels discussing who should win — love or the colour of your faith?

Why?

Because the girl was a Muslim turned Hindu and the boy, unfortunately happened to be Hindu. Because the culprit in this case is Srinagar, the reservoir of all that is sacred in secular pantheon and the boy belongs to the Hindu Jammu and hence anything that would demand a condemnation of the Taliban in Srinagar must be held back and forgotten?

The girl, Anchal nee Ameena, said sobbingly in Jammu that the Srinagar police tortured her husband just for his crime of marrying a Muslim girl. The mother of the girl knew about the affair but insisted the boy convert to Islam, which Rajneesh refused. Anchal says Rajneesh was tortured in the police custody putting pressure on him to convert and when he refused consistently, he was murdered. The Jammu papers have reported quoting the postmortem report that police tortured the boy in custody, broke his legs, crushed his knee, gave him electric shocks and peeled his nails before declaring his “suicide”. In cold blood.

In Srinagar. In a police post. He was married on August 21, “picked up” without an arrest warrant on September 29 and was found dead in police custody on October 4. Though a magisterial inquiry was ordered, no FIR was lodged till yesterday, that is, October 14, when a chief judicial magistrate in Jammu ordered an inquiry against 11 accused persons in Srinagar.

The Buddhists of Ladakh and the Hindus of Jammu have been complaining for long that Srinagar has become an alien land for them. It discriminates against them on the basis of religion. The Amarnath Shrine agitation is a recent pointer to what Srinagar does to its minorities. The forced exile of half a million Hindus from the valley is another example of the attitude that the only Muslim-majority state of India has exhibited towards non-Muslims. For a detailed factsheet regarding Srinagar’s blatant communal bias against Jammu, please see my column.

A couple of years before, the Buddhist Association of Ladakh gave a memorandum to the central government. A part of it said:

1. During 1992-99, 24 Buddhist girls from Leh district were converted to Islam and a majority of them were taken to Kargil and Srinagar.

2. Twelve villages with hamlets of Buddhists, comprising 651 families (numbering approximately 5,000) located at 40km to 60km from Kargil town were targeted for conversions. Till 2002, 72 boys and girls were converted to Islam, according to the survey conducted by the Ladakh Buddhist Association.

3. Muslims of Kargil are not allowing the LBA to repair and reconstruct a 40-year-old Gompa comprising three rooms and lying in a shambles.

4. Cremation of dead Buddhists is not allowed at Kargil and the body has to be moved at a remote Buddhist area.

5. No Buddhist sarai is allowed to be constructed at Kargil though there has been a demand for the last 35 years.

6. Kargil has 20% Buddhist population. Yet (a) only one Buddhist was appointed patwari out of 24 patwaris, the rest were all Muslims. (b) In 1998, 40 employees for Class IV were appointed in the education department; out of these only one was Buddhist, that too after his conversion to Islam.

Similar complaints, with proven statistics were given regarding discrimination against Buddhists in the area of Kashmir Administrative Services (KAS), admission to medical and engineering colleges and allocation of development funds received from the central government.

That’s Srinagar.

So who is going to help Anchal? She seems to be a courageous beloved of her “slain” husband and has been facing media crews with grit. She has refused an ex gratia grant by the state government and has demanded a CBI inquiry. The state leaders, who made a beeline to Shopian, have not bothered to say even a word of sympathy, leave aside visiting her.

Her only “crime”: she loved Rajneesh.

The brutal killings and beheading of security personnel and common citizens in Jharkhand and Maharashtra must make all Indians stand up in unison to defeat the Maoists. We must shun all our differences on such occasions. Home minister P Chidambaram must get full support in his war on the Maoists. Those who know and have been interacting with him can vouch he is willing to do another Siddhartha Shankar Ray in spite of a strong pro-Naxalite lobby in Delhi. He snubbed them on one occasion and in clear words termed Maoists as ‘cold blooded murderers’. Indians, performing their duties and living as law abiding citizens can’t be allowed to be beheaded by the beastly gun wielders who say they are secular revolutionaries. Till June this year, according to home ministry sources, 1,127 incidents of Maoist violence occurred in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Andhra, Maharashtra, Orissa and Bihar. In these, 457 citizens were killed including a two-year-old. Two hundred of those killed were security personnel and 27 special police officers, the common citizens who offer their services to help the security network. Many were killed after being declared ‘police informers’. The Maoists have destroyed 172 schools, hospitals, roads, railway stations, police posts and similar public property in the above-mentioned period. In the last 10 years the figure of the killings by the Maoists has crossed five thousand. Their sources of funds and ammunition lie in the territories of India’s sworn enemies and their boys get training in jungle warfare too by the intelligence agencies of the neighbouring countries. So, those who act to destroy our social fabric and create insurgents, those who are our enemies are their friends.
See some of the news reports about their ‘acts of bravery’: (a) Last year hundreds of them took over a town in Bihar and freed nearly 400 inmates from a jail, including many supporters, (b)This year they stole 19 tonnes of explosives from a state mining operation in Chhattisgarh, and killed more than 50 people by setting off a landmine under a truck in February, (c) The home ministry says nearly 1,000 people died in Maoist-violence last year, while a senior police officer told Reuters there were more than 20,000 armed rebels backed by hundreds of thousands of supporters, and (d) According to villagers, (in Bihar) the victims were killed after they defied Maoists and refused to hand over their land to them.”They claim our land to be theirs and the incident took place at the disputed land site. They came at midnight. They caught all he people and shot at their heads from a close range,” said Jawahar Singh, a villager.

Still in Delhi, one may find a number of so-called intellectuals of the secular variety trying to raise support and a respectable space for them. They base their sympathies for the Maoists on two counts: they are working for the emancipation of the poor and the downtrodden, people who are voiceless against the repression of the state apparatus, and secondly their motive is secular, they want development for people’s progress and an equitable distribution of resources which the corrupt state machinery and political system doesn’t provide. Hence their fight is for the higher motives of public good, so state power must try to understand them and provide good infrastructure in the areas they are ‘active’. That alone will help people to appreciate the noble virtues of the government and they will stop helping the Maoists.

Nothing can be farther from the truth than these manufactured premises. It’s a sham apology for the murderous exploiters of the poor and downtrodden. They work in unison with the country’s enemies and hence are nothing but traitors and antinational insurgents. Nobody has any sympathy for the corrupt and lethargic policemen, politicians nor would any sane person support the lackadaisical speed of development and lack of infrastructure in the poorer, distanced pockets of rural India where the Naxalites thrive. The rich get richer and the poor get the election dates. Hospitals, schools, roads, an administration that delivers has remained a dream, still we are marching ahead and the resilience and individual brilliance of an Indian is making the nation move ahead. A lot remains to be done but is the beheading the only acceptable method to achieve that and to cleanse the system? Then how many heads must roll before the final heaven of the proletariat revolution materialises? It’s also false that the Maoists enjoy public support. Most of their cadres are drawn at gunpoint or compelled to join their ranks through threat. If the Maoists are so confident of massive public support why don’t they contest elections and make the ugly, corrupt politicians leave the space for the Red angels?

The security personnel may be as good or bad as are the pen-pushers of Delhi and Kolkata who provide intellectual shields to the murderers of Red Land. Francis, who was beheaded in Jharkhand or any other person in uniform, is also a victim of a rusted system. Policemen are ill equipped, poorly paid, asked to do difficult duty hours, and yet not given the respect they deserve. They come from lower or middle income group families, the men in white, the netajis, put tremendous pressure on them for political purposes, at the end they are held responsible for any mistake or failing to contain the lawbreakers while the politicians enjoy dinners with them in circuit houses as we saw in the last Lok Sabha elections when the same Maoist leaders were entertained by Congress leaders to ensure electoral victory in their areas of ‘influence’ in Andhra. The men in khaki are expected to protect the citizen. It’s a tall order for which they are never trained. The police and security set-up in India remains prisoner to a colonial vision. Prakash Singh, the renowned police officer, took up the issue and got orders from the Supreme Court too, but no state has shown any interest in implementing the orders. None in India has shown that he has a stake in reforming the police set up because the corrupt and rusted machinery serves vested interests. Reforming and making the men in khaki enjoy a certain degree of autonomy, better arms and modern training in guerrilla warfare and of course better salaries is on nobody’s agenda.

One has to have an intense hate and a ruthless violent mind to behead a person or to kill children.

Ruldu Ram (not the real name but the story is true), a tribal student from Chhattisgarh is the youngest child in his family. He has a younger brother and a sister. His father was a farmer, having a small piece of land in the remote part of Dantewara. For him the life remained a constant struggle, agriculture was not enough to provide for the family needs and he had to go for labour work, quite often. Still he was getting notices of demand from the local Maoist outfits: pay a thousand, or sometimes five thousand or part with your land. He was afraid but couldn’t do anything. Neither could he inform the police. The men in khaki were as unreliable. The news would soon reach the Naxalites and they would have him killed on charges of being a police informer. One day the Maoists, six of them, came to his house to demand money. He was simply unable to pay. His children and wife were all seeing him begging for his life. The Naxalites wanted money or instead asked him to join their ranks. They get new recruits like this, at the gun point. The father showed them his children and wife. Who will look after them if he goes to the jungle to take up guns for the red revolutionaries about whom he knew nothing? No idea why they are fighting, for whom and to serve what purpose. Angry Naxalite warriors beheaded him before the eyes of wailing children and a helpless wife.

This year, when the brother of Ruldu Ram’s slain father too refused Maoist’s demands, he was beheaded in his house.

Ruldu Ram is with us, a few friends who are helping children like him pursue studies and maybe he would become a police officer. His mother, with blank eyes, works in her village, often as a labourer and tries to ensure food and some education for Ruldu’s brother and sister. She has only one dream: to see children grow up and get married. She doesn’t know that her husband was slain for the cause of ‘the poor, downtrodden and proletariat’. Those who killed were ‘revolutionaries’ working to bring about a ‘change in the statecraft, which is anti-people, anti-development and anti everything that their philosophy, Maoism, another name for the Communism as was practiced by Stalin and Mao’, approves of. She is ignorant. She didn’t read Das capital.

There are more than 5,000 such stories. Stories of poor, ignorant, farmers and labourers, teachers and students, infants and school-going children. All of them were killed for a ‘revolution’. To bring about a change. They were either labeled police informers or were killed because they wore uniform. They were agents of the state. Hence deserved to be murdered.

And then these, the revolutionaries who killed small and petty farmers and villagers and recruited new members not through convincing them about the greatness of their ideology, but at gunpoint,’ join us or get killed’ had a number of influential dreamy eyed drawing room chocolate cheeked supporters who would discuss the poor at International addas of passionate debates and say how Naxalsim is directly connected to the lack of development and increasing corruption and anti-people policies of the government. They would say the gun wielders are not criminals, they have a dream for the emancipation of the common people, they want to serve the poor and the downtrodden and the farmers and the women.

Those providing a shield to the Maoist murderers should also be held as much responsible for the killings as are the Maoists.

Chidambaram has rightly refused to get into this ‘tackle Naxalism-Maoism through development’ trap. In a civil society, development, democracy and a strong sense of respecting pluralism can have no place for violence. We are suffering too much from the bloodshed of our own people — Islamic jihad is on one side and on the other side has emerged the threat of Maoism. Both are two faces of the same coin. Both must be dealt with an iron hand. Hence, Chidambaram needs India’s support crossing all barriers of parties and ideologies.

चीन की ओर से मिल रही चुनौती के संदर्भ में भारत की प्रतिक्रिया को असंतोषजनक मान रहे हैं तरुण विजय

भारत-चीन सीमा विवाद गत छह दशकों से लगातार चल रहा है। 1956 में चीन ने जम्मू-कश्मीर क्षेत्र में अक्षय चिह्न (अक्साई चिन) क्षेत्र का 43,180 वर्ग किलोमीटर इलाका धोखे से हड़प लिया था। इसके बाद 1963 में पाकिस्तान ने गुलाम कश्मीर का 5180 वर्ग किलोमीटर क्षेत्र चीन को भेंट कर दिया था। इसके अलावा चीन भारत में अरुणाचल प्रदेश में लगभग 90 हजार वर्ग किलोमीटर क्षेत्र पर अपना दावा करता है और अरुणाचल प्रदेश के किसी भी व्यक्ति को चीन यात्रा के लिए वीजा देने से यह कहते हुए इनकार कर देता है कि वहां के लोग तो चीन के ही हैं, इसलिए उन्हें वीजा लेने की आवश्यकता नहीं है। 20 अक्टूबर, 1962 को चीन ने मकमहोन लाइन को भारत-चीन सीमा मानने से इनकार करते हुए लद्दाख और नेफा (वर्तमान अरुणाचल प्रदेश) पर हमला बोल दिया था। एक महीने बाद चीन के एकतरफा युद्ध विराम के बाद यह युद्ध बंद हुआ, परंतु भारत को अपार क्षति हुई। भारत ने तिब्बत स्वायत्तशासी प्रदेश को चीन का अविभाज्य हिस्सा मानने की भयंकर भूल की है, जबकि चीन के नक्शों में अभी तक सिक्किम को स्वतंत्र देश व कश्मीर को विवादास्पद क्षेत्र दिखाया जाता है। चीन के साथ सीमा विवाद सुलझाने के लिए वार्ता के 13 दौर हो चुके हैं, परंतु अभी तक ये बेनतीजा रहे हैं। यही नहीं, हर वर्ष भारतीय सीमा में चीन की घुसपैठ और शरारतें बढ़ती ही गई हैं। लद्दाख सीमा के भीतर चीनी सैनिकों की घुसपैठ और मील के पत्थरों पर चीन लिखने की खबरें अखबारों में छाई रहीं, परंतु प्रधानमंत्री मनमोहन सिंह और विदेश मंत्री एसएम कृष्णा ने इनको विशेष महत्व नहीं दिया। वास्तव में यही चीन की सफलता है। उसने भारतीय सीमा में अपने दावों को भारतीय सहनशीलता के दायरे में ला दिया है। धीरे-धीरे उसने अरुणाचल पर चीनी हक का दावा ठोंक दिया। चीन की छोटी-मोटी घुसपैठ, जो उसकी वृहत्तर रणनीति के महत्वपूर्ण कदम हैं, भारत की सत्ता में दो कारणों से चिंता का कारण नहीं बनती। एक तो सरकार सोचती है कि चीन की तो यह आदत ही हो गई है। इसे नजरअंदाज करना ही ठीक है और दूसरा कारण यह कि भारत चीन से नाराजगी मोल नहीं लेना चाहता, क्योंकि न तो उसकी चीन की तुलना में सैन्य तैयारी है और न ही पाकिस्तान के साथ-साथ वह चीन को भी सक्रिय शत्रु की श्रेणी में ला खड़ा करना चाहता है। चीन का आर्थिक और सैन्य बल भारत की तुलना में कई गुना बढ़ गया है। 1980 में भारत की प्रति व्यक्ति औसत आय 917 डालर थी और चीन की 556 डालर। अब 8.5 प्रतिशत विकास दर के साथ चीन ने प्रति व्यक्ति आय 4,766 डालर तक पहुंचा दी है, जबकि 5 प्रतिशत विकास दर के औसत से भारत की प्रति व्यक्ति आय 2,534 डालर तक ही पहुंच सकी है। चीन का सैन्य बजट भारत से चार गुना अधिक है। इस कारण पिछले एक वर्ष से भारत के प्रति उसका दुराग्रही और आक्रामक रवैया अधिक मुखर हुआ है। इसके पीछे चीन का अपनी शक्ति के प्रति विश्वास और भारत की दुर्बलता के प्रति तिरस्कार है। कुछ समय पूर्व मुझे चीन के सिचुआन विश्वविद्यालय में आमंत्रित किया गया था। वहां भारत-चीन संबंधों पर मेरे तीन व्याख्यान हुए। उन्हीं दिनों अरुणाचल के संदर्भ में चीन के दिल्ली स्थित राजदूत का बयान चर्चा में था। मैंने कहा कि यदि चीन अरुणाचल पर अपना दावा बनाए रखता है तो भारत को उसके साथ व्यापारिक और सांस्कृतिक संबंध बढ़ाने में कठिनाई होगी। जिस आधार पर चीन अरुणाचल पर एक भ्रामक दावा पेश करता है उससे कहीं अधिक प्रबल दावा भारत का कैलाश मानसरोवर क्षेत्र और त्रिविश्टप यानी तिब्बत पर बनता है। मेरे व्याख्यान के बाद वहां के एक वरिष्ठ समाजशास्त्री मेरे पास आए और बोले, मेरे मित्र, चीन को पूरा आत्मविश्वास है कि वह एक दिन अरुणाचल ले लेगा। क्या वजह है इस आत्मविश्वास की? चीन को अपने प्रखर राष्ट्रवाद की ताकत और निरंतर लक्ष्य के प्रति अविचलित निष्ठा से बढ़ते जाने की नीति पर भरोसा है। वह भारत के राजनीतिक दलों की आपसी लड़ाई और माकपा जैसी पार्टियों के परोक्ष-अपरोक्ष समर्थन से उत्साहित है। उसे विश्वास है कि भारतीय लोकतंत्र में जिस प्रकार व्यक्तिगत महत्वाकांक्षाओं का प्रभाव बढ़ा है और दलीय स्वाथरें की वेदी पर राष्ट्रीय हितों की बलि दिया जाना सामान्य बात हो गई है, उस कारण कभी भी ऐसा मौका आ सकता है कि जब वह वार करे और भारत के कमजोर शासक हक्के-बक्के होकर इधर-उधर से मदद मांगने जाएं, लेकिन नतीजा वैसा ही कुछ निकले जैसा 1958 में अक्साई चिन पर चीनी सैनिकों की गश्त और कब्जे के बाद निकला था। हम हाथ ही मलते रह गए थे। यदि पूछा जाए कि दुनिया में वह कौन सा ऐसा देश है जो अपनी संसद द्वारा सर्वसम्मति से पारित किए गए संकल्प को दोहराने में भी लज्जा का बोध करता है तो वह देश भारत ही है। यह विडंबना है कि भारत चीन से अपनी जमीन वापस लेने के संसदीय संकल्प का जिक्र भी नहीं करता। भारत को चारो ओर से घेरने की रणनीति के अंतर्गत चीन, नेपाल, पाकिस्तान, बांग्लादेश, म्यांमार, मालदीव और श्रीलंका में सक्रिय हुआ है। दूसरी ओर भारत में सक्रिय अलगाववादी संगठनों के साथ चीन की साठगांठ चलती है। नगालैंड में सक्रिय नेशनल सोशलिस्ट काउंसिल आफ नगालैंड (इसाक-मुइवा गुट), असम का उल्फा और मणिपुर नेशनल लिबरेशन फ्रंट को चीन से हथियार व अन्य सहायता मिलती है। भारत के अत्यंत संवेदनशील द्वीप अंडमान निकोबार से सिर्फ चालीस किलोमीटर दूर म्यांमार स्थित कोको द्वीप में चीन ने अपना सैन्य अड्डा बनाया है। इन परिस्थितियों में भारत की राजनीति का गैरराष्ट्रीय, आत्ममुग्ध, विलासी चरित्र चीन के पक्ष में है। चीन की नीति सुलझी हुई, दीर्घकालिक, स्थिर और एकनिष्ठ है।

An important report about our meeting held at JNU on 19th.

ABVP celebrates Navratra in JNU-Tarun Vijay inaugurated the first day Manthan on nationalism

Those who fear demons have no right to worship Durga-

India’s nationality is Sanatan Dharma as was envisioned by Sri Aurobindo-says Tarun Vijay, noted thinker and Director, Dr. Mookerjee Foundation

From Santosh Pathak, JNU

A history of sorts was created at the JNU campus when Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad held a unique discussion on the first day of Navratra on the 19th September 2009 at Periyar hall in the JNU. The chief speaker was noted thinker and renowned journalist Shri Tarun Vijay who mesmerized the students with his invigorating speech on the cultural nationalism and the Dharma of student community in the task of national rejuvenation.

In a public meet of full house organized by ABVP (JNU unit), on a very auspicious occasion of the first day of ‘Navaratra’ Sri Tarun Vijay made the students of the university feel the fiery spark of Nationalism, establishing that every country has its own characteristics and civilisational moors. Along which it develops and prospers and for India it is non-other than the ‘cultural nationalism’.

In his over an hour long speech, he touched upon a number of references to bring out multilateral vigorous dimensions of Indian Nationalism. Quoting Sri Auribindo he said that ‘nationality of India lies in Sanatan Dharma’. India is not simply a conglomeration or compilation of rocks, rivers, buildings or roads but it is live Bhawani Bharati, Maa Durga, hence unlike other nations who call their birth-land as fatherland we relate ourselves with Bharat Bhumi as her children and proudly call it as Motherland.

He said that nationalism for us is not merely a political programme; contrarily it is a way of life, a Dharma for us, that has come from Vedic rishis. Nationalism is a creed, which we shall have to live. Bharat that is India remains our supreme God and we must live to justify our belonging to her.

He said that due to colonial mindset and hangover, historians have adopted the ill habit of maligning our own glorious history. The most notorious amongst such Indian heritage haters are the communists who have distorted the glorious past of the nation to suit their mentors abroad and prove their extra territorial loyalties. He said we celebrate Vijayadashmi because Ram had returned to Ayodhya after annihilation of the unrepentant wicked forces represented by Dashanan Ravan. He is not worshipped because he made a compromise with the evil. His stature id highest in our heart and soul because he never compromised even at the cost of a 14 years long Vanavas-exile and he organized peoples’ Shakti to end the cruel rule of the barbarians. The significance of ‘returning to Ayodhya’ leaving behind the attractions of the Golden and prosperous Lanka is to be understood in today’s circumstances when the lure of the lucre is deviating people from the hard path of ideological commitment.

He said that like Rama’s return to Ayodhya, all Indians will have to return to their Chiti, meaning the core values of Sanatan Dharma which ha s a universal mnessage of peace, mutual coexistence and a respect for the nature.

Through spiritually inspired nationalism and divinity of motherland we develop a close and affectionate relationship with nature. We are a civilization, which has never been an exploiter of nature. Our holy land Bharat whose religion is Bharatiyata has three pillars ‘Karuna, means compassion, Maitri means harmonious relationship, and kshama’, means being good to all except the wicked.While the Western culture is based on brutal state power and intolerance for the different view point. He exemplified it with, citing post Columbus massacres in America.

Explaining the basic principles of ‘Integral Humanism’ the core philosophy given by Pt. Deendayal Upadhyay, he said that all atrocities, sorrows and miseries that we face today is because we have alienated ourselves from social concerns and turned individualistic entities, which is a complete reversal of our philosophy of life, which is largely based on collective and communitarian mode of life.

Questioning the moral and ideological stand of communists, he said that their belief system has been of based on intolerance, resulting in inhuman killings,and unprecedented massacres from the regime of Stalin to Mao and Pol Pot. Their history has been a pathetic story of inhuman, barbaric actions in Russia, China, Cambodia and Vietnam. How can they justify the brutal killings of common poor people, teachers and young mothers in the name of any ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ or any kind of so called ideology of socialism. They have never been loyal to this great Indian nation. Over two hundred fifty of senior communist leaders were were charged with sedition and jailed in the aftermath of 1962’ war with China when China had attacked us while on the other hand RSS swyamsevaks were invited by the Pt. Nehru’s government to join the republic day parade in full RSS uniform as recognition of their patriotic services to the motherland. That’s the difference we must understand.

We are also the sons of Gurugovind Singh, Jhalkari Bai , Lakshami Bai and Shivaji, whose blood runs through our arteries and muscles of our arms and at any cost we can’t let our Nation look down from any foreign ideological invasion.Be a proud Indian citizen, going beyond the differences of religion, caste or creed and let the Bhagwa flutter over the defeat of the red terrorists.

The hall reverberated with the slogans of Vande Mataram and Bharat mata ki Jai and it was an unprecedented celebration of Indian values after a long time in JNU.

Shri Praveen garg, reader in Shradhananda College and President of Delhi state ABVP presided over the meeting. He said in his presidential address about how the ABVP took roots in the JNU and it’s the hard work and ideological commitment of the workers that has shown us the continous strenghthening to he unit in this campus.

Shri Rajesh Ranjan, President of the JNU unit of ABVP welcomed the students. After the programme all the students went to offer puja at the Durga Pandal, established in the campus after a long drawn battle with the so-called secularists.

Report by

Santosh Pathak, Vice President, ABVP, JNU.

Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation organizes

A report by Santosh Pathak

India’s silence is providing China with a nicking edge to turn even more aggressive around the LAC in Arunachal Pradesh and Ladakh. What I find shocking is the fact that, although we do retaliate and backfire at Pakistan and Srilanka (1989) but turn mum on China which has been the most contemptuous violatator of the border norms. Thus said Prof. P. Stobdan, senior fellow of the IDSA and former member of National Security Council at a round table discussion on ‘India China Border-the Current Situation’ organized at the India International Centre by Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee research Foundation (SPMRF) on 24th September. The round table attracted a large number of scholars and diplomats from as many eighteen countries in a Jam packed hall with participants from politics, academics, social work and media like Prof Srikanth Kondapall, Chaiman Chinese studies, JNU, Mohan Guruswamy Senior Sinologist and Director CPA, Ram Madhav from RSS,Balbir Punj National Secretary BJP, Tapir Gao former M.P. Arunachal Pradesh, Lt.Gen. (Retd.) Shankar Prasad, former Director General Infantry, Indian Army, Bishnu Pada Ray, M.P. Andaman & Nicobar Islands and Former Ambassador TCA Rangachari.

Prof. Stobdan said that in around three and half decades, since Deng’s emancipation to power in China, it has taken away India’s land inch by inch under its forward policy programme. He added that he belonged to Ladakh and has been a witness to the Chinese aggressiveness .What is most concerning to India is that they are strategically developing the region just 50 mtrs away from the LAC. Under Chinese protest India agreed to dismantle a bridge over river Indus near Demcchok. He added that Chinese want the Indus region to be the main border and that goal in their eyes they are pushing us through south.

Shri Ram Madhav Central Executive Member of the RSS, said that Chinese has been arguing that they do not consider Mcmohan line as actual control line, as it is drawn by imperial power. He said that the two neighbors India and China have gone through a series of talks to resolve the border since 1950, but all of them have been downplayed by China. and the reason for this prolonged unsettlement is that time after time China catches up with some particular area and renames it calling it disputed territory and in the wake of that stakes claim over it. Likewise it did in 1950 in Aksai Chin, 1962 Sikkim and 1987 Arunachal Pradesh. He put forth a question to political class that do we still honor 1962 resolution of getting back our land which are under the illegal control of China? He raised that, we have adopted the diplomatic virtue of not talking about Tibet, but should not we start thinking for Tibetan people now?

Prof. Srikanth Kondapalli, Chairperson Chinese studies in the School of International Studies, JNU, made powerful presentation to show how China is moving forward with a motive to engulf Indian. He showed that how China has settled its land disputes with more than seventeen small and relatively weaker countries, but does not show any tendency for the same with India, which is large as well as has sea shores in three directions of its map. He said history shows that China has settld border disputes with other countries only when they were weak . China wants India to remain confined within its territory engaged in its internal contradictions. For the reason it keeps provoking multilateral border conflicts. Jammu & Kashmir and Sikkim are independent lands not the part of India in Chinese maps. He showed thatChinese incursions have been continuously on an increase but due to some strange reasons Indian government is trying to play it down.

Mohan Guruswami who also is a senior sinologist and Director of CPA confined himself to the trajectorial study of Indo-China border histography.

Tapir Gao, from Arunachal Pradesh was very upset the way security issues have been ignored in the North-Eastern States by the political and ruling class sitting in New Delhi. He said that Arunachal Pradesh assembly’s speaker was denied a Chinese visa and government of India did not utter a single word. He added that P.M. was to go to Tawang, but returned from Itanagar under Chinese pressure. He said that if P.M. is not able to move in his own territory, what protest can he make if a speaker, that too of Arunachal was denied a Chinese Visa? He said Chinese are engaging cadre of NSCN and ULFA to act as its political propagandists and agents on a regular basis. Out of twelve airports in Arunachal Pradesh, only two are working under lame duck situation.

Lt Gen Shankar Prasad(RETD) said that the Army should not be blamed, but the government and its officials are the major hurdles and they ought to be blamed for what is happening around the border. He also said that in contrast to China developing its strategic weaponry and position, and we are running miles behind their preparedness. Rangachari maintained that water is the major reason of dispute. We also need to assert and strike out our interests.

Bishnu Pada Ray Member of Parliament from Andaman and Nicobar Island proved through a well researched presentation that the oil finds in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands have attracted China to push its strategic interests through its bases in Coco Islands of Myanmar, which are just 40 kms from the shores of Andamans.

Balbir Punj M.P. Rajya Sabha and national secretary BJP was particularly thrashing at the government. Commenting on the response made by government on recent Incursions at Indo-China border, that this is the most peaceful border, he said that ‘It obviously would be a peaceful border if someone walks in year region, slaps on your face and in response you keep quiet, how can there be any intense situation. Chinese he said use selective history. He argued that basic problem is that some political parties and people in India have been speaking on behalf of Chinese Interest. China to us is a visible enemy, but the people hiding within the Bharat and acting and speaking on behalf of Beijing needs to treated and penalized first.

Director of the Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundationa and a scholar on Chinese affairs Shri Tarun Vijay said that China needs a deep study and not a knee jerk reaction. We should look at China through Indian eyes and not through US or French news agencies. He said Chinese are very confident because the fragmented Indian polity and a lack of consensus amongst Indian leaders on China policy help it. He emphasized to have a nationalist strong policy towards China rising above the petty party lines.

Shri Bala Saheb Apte, President of the foundation and national vice president BJP welcomed the participants. In his scholarly comments he discussed the various other factors like Islamic terrorism and Chinese belligerance as major threats. Dr. Harshvardhan , Secretary of the foundation, gave a vote of thanks. Acharya Giriraj Kishore, member advisory board of Vishwa Hindu Parishad, and several MPS were also present.

“On February 26, 2000, Ilyas Kashmiri reportedly conducted a guerrilla operation against the Indian Army in Nakyal sector after crossing the LoC with 25 militants. He surrounded a bunker and threw grenades inside. He was able to kidnap an injured Indian officer whose throat he later slit, the report said. Ilyas came back to Pakistan with the head of the Indian officer and presented it to top army officials, including then army chief Gen Musharraf, who gave him a cash award of Rs1 lakh.”

This was reported by PTI in a story from Islamabad.

That’s Pervez Musharraf, the darling of Delhi’s media and a trusted friend of India’s politicians of all hues and denominations. The butcher of Kargil has been getting too many audiences in Delhi. Now is the time to look back, salute the martyred soldiers and declare Musharraf India’s war criminal to be tried by an Indian army court. Before Kasab gets a fair justice, Musharraf needs to be brought to the question box, minus media cameras.

A state that can’t take revenge for the butchering of its soldiers and fails to assure the mothers that the life and honour of their children is the first priority of the government, no amount of advertising asking Indian youths join the forces would work. Indians don’t join the Army for the lure of the lucre. For most of our families and us, it’s a tradition and a mark of pride to wear the soldier’s uniform, fight the enemy and live and die for India. It’s the ugly politician who never sends his children to fight for the motherland that compromises and bends backwards for Washington’s money and support. Make him feel ashamed of his spineless overtures and build public pressure to demand Musharraf’s extradition so that his butchering skills can be brought to book. And by us. Our criminal must get our justice.

Ilyas, who slit the throat of our army officer was not killed by Indian government’s action but by US drones.

We depend on Washington for everything. Even the black box of the ill-fated helicopter that killed YSR was sent to the US for examination. We don’t have any sense of shame that even this much can’t be done in our labs. So we hope that one day the US will teach Pakistan a lesson, it will see that Pakistan behaves and stops terrorism against India. Why can’t our leaders take US passports and join electoral battles for a governorship a la Bobby Jindal and make the Indian soil a little relieved? Something that an average Indian knows that India’s battle has to be fought by India on Indian shoulders and Indian strength, can’t be understood by the leaders who are supposedly responsible for protecting the Indian honour and lives.

The National Security Adviser speaks a language of a fearful person and not one who instills confidence and courage into the minds of citizens. The newspapers have reported under the headline “Fear of 26/11 attacks”, his exact words like this, “Narayanan said that he lives in daily dread of a repeat of the November 26 Mumbai terror attacks, though he added that now India is better prepared.”

Fear should have been transported to Pakistan and it should have been for the ISI chief to say that he lives in daily dread of an Indian revenge. Pakistan must be made to live in constant fear of India’s justifiable punishment rather than the victim shivering in cold fear of an unrepentant aggressor.

That’s what we have been turned into.

No sense of pride in the soldiers’ bravery and achievements.

No war memorial, not a single memorial worth its name for Kargil’s heroes. Ratherm the government abandoned all celebrations for the Kargil Vijay Divas and has also forgotten to continue with the Bharat Vijay Divas commemorating the 1971 victory resulting in the creation of Bangladesh.

And then the complaint is, we are in the dire need of competent soldiers and officers for our forces. Ha!!

Defence minister A K Antony informed Parliament in July this year that the Indian Army is short of over 11,387 officers, While the Navy was short of 1,512 officers, the shortage in the Air Force was 1,400.

And then what are the measures to attract youths? He said, in a written reply that, “The implementation of the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission, with substantial improvements in the pay structure of officers of the Armed Forces, will go a long way in making the services more attractive.”

Does he seriously think that money without honour goes a long way to make a job in the forces more attractive? Does this mindset synchronize with the longstanding traditions and the civilizational moors of a nation where a soldier never dies but is martyred, he is a veer, the brave and having served his motherland goes to the Surya Lok, the highest exalted region of the mighty Sun? Should he be comparing the job of a soldier with that of the babus and the traders and the politicians? It is this attitude that has downgraded respectability for the soldiers’ lives and services.

The officers of the forces were forced to sit on a dharna at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar and demand parity with civilian officers, and implementation of “one rank, one pension” principle. Their memorials are ignored, victory days are left uncelebrated, their families run from pillar to post to get their children admitted to good schools, and the entire structure still remains shackled to the ritualism of the pre-Independence British colonialism. Their killers and hate groups are accorded state honours, sent dinner invites and given security at the public expense and then the complaint is, we are not getting enough good stuff for soldiering the nation.

Make soldiering India a matter of honour and respectability. Ensure those who rule India send the best of their children to serve the forces and have guts to take revenge on those who have ill-intentions for our brave.

Surely, bringing Musharraf to Delhi, this time as a war criminal for a trial, will make amends for the past mistakes.

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