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Friday, May 3, 2013

China, Pakistan & The Cowards Of Our Country



Many people are or have been in some job or other where circumstances and demands of the work compel them to put their mind over their heart. But ironically, whenever an employee needs to improve the employer or the boss generally doesn’t say “use your mind”. The advice or encouragement usually is “put your heart in the work” or as they say in Hindi “thoda dil laga ke kaam karo”. In other words, the suggestion is to put some passion into the work. Sunetra Chaudhary of NDTV would be very different on TV if she were allowed to use her heart. She doesn’t get to do that so she writes in DNA. There was that case over a year ago when she wrote about sexual harassment by a UPA minister which NDTV buried. Recently she wrote another piece from her heart called “Why desi netas will never charm the English media” in DNA. It’s a simple but one of the most honest pieces I have read in print. Sunetra mentions how the nonsense of Salman Khurshid’s “Acne” comment about China’s incursion in Ladakh hardly raised any eyebrows in the English media. She further writes:

So even when he stooped to the level of street fights by saying things like: “I’ve been made a minister so I work with a pen but I can also work with blood,” some of us stepped in to explain to the rest-of-us-language-culture-impaired folks that his words were actually a ‘figure of speech’ and by getting offended by Khurshid’s words, we were just exposing our own lack of sophistication”. You see, all the suave Anglais types can say anything and people are ignorant or lack sophistication if they don’t get it. But if the desi guys say the same things they would be called uncouth, misogynists, uncivilised etc. If Khurshid had made a comment like “a love affair worth 50 crores” that would have been considered poetic but Modi saying “50cr girlfriend” is obviously tasteless. This is how the English media conducts its discussions by licking the feet of those who can speak fluent English, throw a quote or two from English Literature and make a mockery of national issues and national security.

The survival of the Congress party is detrimental to the progress of India is what I wrote in my previous post. A day later, Salman Khurshid, Manish Tiwari and Shashi Tharoor offered more evidence for it in their pronouncements on Sarabjit Singh and other issues of national security. Collectively, these people heap insults on Indians but they do it stylishly in English so it all passes. After his moronic “Acne” remark Khurshid followed it up with stating India is like Muhammad Ali, the great boxer. He was trying to imply that like a boxer India can take a lot of punches and beating but will come out the winner in the end. Meaning Pakistan, China, Bangladesh, Maldives and all their uncles and aunties can keep screwing this country but India will take the blows and come out a winner. Quite heroic, eh? What Khurshid doesn’t know about his idiotic comparison is that Ali always claimed he had a pretty face and never a scar. He floated like a butterfly and the song says “Im Ali.. Catch me if you can”. In contrast every neighbour seems to have caught India by the scruff of her neck and wringing it at will. Khurshid is a coward who is trying humour in a crisis that is debilitating to the self-esteem of Indians.

History has it that most land encroachments and theft of our territories has happened under Congress watch given they have been in power for most of our 65 years of absence of the British. Let’s catch up with history though. Here’s what Rajinder Puri wrote in November 2011 about the Congress and he was being kind in seeking a reinvention of the party:

In 1976 in violation of a unanimous Parliamentary resolution that still stands, forbidding any truck with China until all territory illegally seized by it is recovered, in violation also of a policy decision that unless China agreed to the Colombo Proposals hammered in an international Asian conference India would not talk with China, Mrs. (Indira) Gandhi nevertheless went ahead and established full diplomatic relations with China. She betrayed the memory of her father and the national interest. Why? The only explanation appears to be that around that time America under President Carter was on the point of clinching the process of normalization with China initiated earlier by President Nixon. Like a puppet on a string Mrs. Gandhi somersaulted and went against declared policy and the national interest”.

So Indira Gandhi violated a resolution of the parliament to appease China. Don’t be surprised if China becomes a permanent guest in the encroached land and also makes incursions in Arunachal. Before you know it Mr. Khurshid, the current Mrs. Gandhi may also forget the sins of the grandmother. And Manish Tiwari would happily say NDA did nothing about Indira Gandhi’s appeasement of China. Coward! Hardly floating and stinging like Muhammad Ali, is it? This is the same manner in which Congress appeases Pakistan for vote-bank politics after each of their crime gets bigger and worse.

Rajdeep Sardesai had vowed not to tweet on politics after being trashed on Twitter. Well, can’t keep the “Numero Uno political analyst” off politics for too long. After Sarabjit was butchered to death he came up with the lamest statement indirectly justifying his killing claiming he was calling “a spade a shovel”. He tweeted that while talking about Sarabjit we shouldn’t forget under-trials in our own prisons. I had to remark that this was the equivalent of saying that because the crime of land encroachment is widespread in India it justifies China’s encroachment and incursion in Ladakh. Such is the stupidity of Rajdeep who has a twisted sense of justice that even in a crime by the enemy he wants to find faults with India. I guess he is what Arnab Goswami referred to as “Pak apologists” on the Newshour on May 2. Sadanand Dhume explains to Rajdeep that an equivalent would have been our butchering of a Pak prisoner. I wonder if Rajdeep gets it. We actually treat our foreign prisoners like royalty. Feed them endless biryani and allow them to go home to even vote or celebrate Christmas. The coward that Rajdeep is, he won’t see this and will keep drawing wrong parallels.

Rajdeep is the Oxbridge guy. If he had said the same nonsense in Hindi or some Indian language the whole media would have butchered him verbally. While at it, how can we forget another Oxbridge type? This one is probably the biggest hypocrite floating around in India and he goes by the name of Shashi Tharoor. Like Manish Tiwari he asks why no govt had done anything about Sarabjit earlier. He even recalls, as a patriot, the incidents of Kandahar and Coffingate over the Sarabjit murder and how sick he feels. This is Congress moronery at its best. For the number of times the Congress recalls Kandahar not one Gandhi-slave from the party has ever mentioned how he would have handled it differently. The Kandahar episode was in a difficult terrain across two hostile countries and saved lives. In the case of Congress Indians are being killed or beheaded when there was abundant warning. Tharoor talks of Coffingate. This is another lie. The Coffingate scam was investigated and even George Fernandes was cleared of any wrong doing. And then stooges like Manish Tiwari and Tharoor will scream “let’s not politicise it” but that’s exactly what they do.

It has become a trick for the Congress and their channels like NDTV, CNN-IBN, Headlines Today that when the Congress failure is exposed they will scream “let’s not politicise” when in fact they will politicise everything. Mr. Golden Spoon or Mr. Pappu or Rahul Gandhi as he is also referred to, rushed to Dalbir Kaur’s house to hug her and put up a drama for the cameras. Till Sarabjit’s murder RahulG didn’t have one word to say about him or to the Pakistanis. Pappu usually doesn’t have anything to say on anything, so he is a consistent coward. But death is such a great opportunity for the Congress and the media to scavenge. The simple truth is that this Congress and its spineless PM have more Indian blood on their hands without a shot being fired than any other govt in the past has. This very Shashi Tharoor was moderating a debate on “Aman Ki Asha”, with Paki journalists, a day after the LOC beheadings in January 2013. That’s the concern and sympathy he has for soldiers killed in defending us. There isn’t one sweat that drips off the brow of Tharoor that isn’t filled with hypocrisy. I have called him the “Happy-tongue Hypocrite”.

Slammed by everyone around him, Tharoor finally explains that his remarks were because Narendra Modi blamed UPA for the killing of Sarabjit. All that Modi said was that it was an extra-judicial killing because prisoners sentenced to death are kept in isolation and not with other inmates. And why shouldn’t the UPA be blamed? What exactly is the UPA responsible for in this nation if its foot soldiers are going to blame the NDA or BJP for all its crimes? I would sort of agree. The UPA is the most irresponsible govt we ever had.  Fact remains, despite all their so-called education Tharoor and Rajdeep are in reality a Laloo in English. That’s the only difference. Their moronery is now well established and beyond compare and instead of facing up to the truth these cowards peddle BS all the time. Naturally, I am tempted to call them the cowards of our country.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Terror Is Not The Enemy, Wilful Blindness Is


I suppose it will take something really terrible, something even worse than 26/11 to wake up our government. Maybe something as dramatic as 9/11 attack with thousands dying might stand a better chance, although I can’t be so sure anymore. Nothing else can explain the pussyfooting on terrorism by the Congress. Let me first warn you – those who say “don’t politicise terror, terror has no religion, nation must unite, we will not succumb” are the ones most misleading the nation. The worst of these has to be “bombs don’t know who they kill”. These pearls of wisdom have been so drilled into our minds that people in charge and in the media have even stopped asking the right questions. A larger war is being confused for terrorism. A larger master-plan is being cleverly cloaked by frequently invoking Hindu terror by politicians and the media. The term ‘Islamic Jihad’ has even disappeared from the lexicon of the media and government. Instead, the media wilfully sings the same song as the Congress to spread a fear of Saffron terror. Rahul Gandhi even sets the agenda by suggesting Hindu Terror is more dangerous than LeT. His mentor, Digvijay Singh, takes many steps forward by clouding every terror incident by pointing fingers at Hindu terrorists.

War on terror? Even the media keeps harping - War on terror! Hmmm! You cannot win or wage a war if you don’t even know who your enemy is or refuse to acknowledge the reality of the enemy. And that is Jihad.

In response to the 7/9 Delhi blast the PM stated “it’s a cowardly act”! Seriously, it’s not the jihadis who are cowards anymore. The cowards are those who are wilfully blind to Jihad.  The jihadis are willing to die for their cause just as a soldier in uniform is willing to die for the nation. The Jihadis go back and report to their masters another successful battle. What do our ministers report? They send out messages to the people that are becoming increasingly unbearable to tolerate for us as their bosses. The people, unfortunately, have to tolerate both – the jihadis and an incompetent govt. It’s a lose-lose proposition for all citizens.

For the sake of argument let’s assume Hindu terror is a bigger threat as Rahul Gandhi, Digvijay Singh and P. Chidambaram would have the nation believe. What exactly is the objective of Hindu terrorists? Do they want to conquer India? Do they want to over throw a democratically elected government? At worst, these could be revenge-thirsty elements of the Hindu fringe. In contrast the Jihadis have a long term plan. And terrorism is just one part of their entire plan of action. I repeat, terrorism is just one part of their overall plan.

There are pockets in India like Deganga (Bengal) where Hindus and their temples are being repeatedly attacked and they are being forced out of town. There are places like Miraj (Maha) and Adoni (AP) where Ganesh pandals are frequently attacked. There are places like Ahmedabad where Rath Yatras are frequently stoned. Sure, let’s dismiss all this as mere communal incidents. There is a news item today which reports the Muthoot group, a finance company, which has ordered dress codes and banned wearing of ‘bindis’. How do you explain that? There are pockets in Kerala which administer Sharia justice by chopping off arms. In response to the Batla house encounter some years back there were those who smeared brave police officers. One prominent media favourite even went to suggest muslims are like jews under the Nazis. So on hand you have the politician-media nexus which covers up the jihadi truth and then you have pockets where you have creeping sharia. Why? The motivation is vote bank politics.

It is weird and even absolutely idiotic to think that every nook and corner of a vast country like India can be secured by policing and technology. It is impossible. Security at strategic locations is a must but you don’t win wars by defending. You win wars by taking the offensive to the enemy. It’s as simple as that. So who is the enemy? Terror is a strategy, it is not the enemy by itself. Col. Allen West of the US army (now a Congressman) put it brilliantly when he asked – “How intelligent would it be during second world war if we identified Blitzkreig as the enemy”? Blitzkreig was a strategy, the enemy was Hitler’s Nazi. Similarly, terror is a strategy. You cannot wage a silly war on terror, you have to wage it against the enemy. The enemy here is the Jihadi. And this is where the govt is wilfully blind and repeatedly fools the nation.

Strangely the PM again made a silly statement: “Terrorists are using loopholes in our security”. What the hell is that supposed to mean? That one day you will eliminate all loopholes? Is that even possible? And the media can’t stop screaming that every terror attack is a wake up call that we need ‘fool-proof’ security. Is there really anything like fool-proof security? The dunderheads that the media assembles after every terror attack do more damage to the morale of the nation than reassuring it. “The objective of terrorists is to strike fear” says HM P.Chidambaram. And you didn’t get that in over 20 years of terrorism?

The truth of the matter is that the seeds of the Jihad were sown when the 1971 war ended. Bhutto had then declared a 1000-year holy war against India. What you’re seeing now is that war being prosecuted by the Jihadists. Terror is one of their tools. The jihad started 40 years ago. The one person who has correctly identified this enemy in the media is prominent journalist M.J. Akbar. In July 2010 he wrote an article titled “Only 960 years left”. That’s right, of the 1000-year holy Jihad 960 are left to go. That is when terror will end. When the Jihadists might manage to finally overthrow India’s democracy and establish India as an Islamic Republic. The PM did say “it will be a long war”! It is just that he doesn’t know who the war is against. Terror is not the enemy. Jihadists are.

At the foundation of the 1000 year jihad is Pakistan. One of the finer security experts in the media, Maroof Raza, has correctly analysed our dealings with Pakistan as the cause of the mayhem that is continuing and will continue. There cannot be any peace, any aman (As TOI preaches) with a country that is hell bent on destroying India. You have the violent strategy of terror executed by some warriors. The non-violent warriors are executing things like ‘Love-Jihad’ in Kerala. The govt fears revealing or even dealing with the truth due to electoral concerns. So is terrorism going away soon? Forget it. Someday it might be your turn and mine.

It is a strange irony that the first major security response to the Delhi blast has been to enhance the security of P. Chidambaram. The pussyfooting of the govt over issues of security and terror is best brought out by former CBI Director, Joginder Singh. In his article “The silent invasion of India” he states “Illegal immigration from Pakistan and Bangladesh poses a serious threat to our internal security. Thanks to vote-bank politics, our politicians are indifferent.” That illegal population may have many enemies within. The multiple strategy of the Jihadis – terror, demographics, cultural terror, electoral badgering and playing victim. Before you know  it, these illegals may well be regularised by the UID scheme of the govt. Brilliant strategy! Of these, terror gets the most attention because it is violent, causes death and is dramatic for the media. The other not so visible parts of this Jihad is not so visible on your screens all the time. That is a war that is being prosecuted covertly.

The govt appoints NIA and other such outlets which have been used more to spread the canard of saffron terror. We are yet to see at least 3 visible and result-oriented actions by the govt. It can start by conducting a massive combing to flush out illegals, cutting off all dialogue with Pakistan no matter what the compulsion and declaring an official war against the Jihadis. The war against terror is as much bullshit entertainer as your usual saas-bahu soaps on TV. And most of all, Congress should get rid of a monumental nation-divider like Digvijay Singh. It takes patriots to fight wars, not communal nation-dividers like Digvijay.

If all that is not enough you have a bunch of specially appointed interlocutors for Kashmir who want to restore the state to pre-1953 status. Well, that is precisely what the Jihadis want too, don’t they? They want to restore India centuries back to Islamic rule. Many citizens have woken up to this reality. It is our govt and the compliant media that continues to suppress the reality of the war.

The first step to winning a war is identifying the enemy. The govt and the media will repeatedly carry us through the maze of nonsense like more CCTVs, more beat cops, police reforms, technology … all of that can only be of moderate defence. You don’t need “intelligence” anymore to tell you Islamic Jihadists are your enemy. They have been so for over two decades. Going after them is the only answer. Will the govt do so? I doubt, and so many more will die and acts of terrorism will continue.

The Congress and the govt seem to exist not to serve the nation but the care-taking of the dynasty and to concote election-winning populist measures and vote-banks. The secrecy of Sonia Gandhi’s illness, protecting her from any criticism, protecting Rahul Gandhi from every failure. If that is the chosen agenda where will the govt find the time to even start to fight the terrorists. Tavleen Singh writes: “Dynastic democracy has so derailed democratic processes that we have been ruled by an unelected prime minister since 2004. He was appointed by a lady whose own entry into public life was based wholly on marrying into the right dynasty. In recent weeks, it became blindingly clear that what India needed most was a real prime minister…”.

Strategy expert Brahma Chellaney  tweets: "When a nation fails to execute for years a man sentenced to death for attacking its Parliament, it will only make its courts a terror target." Those are targets they managed to hit. Many others may very well be on their table.

Terror is not the enemy. It’s a strategic tactic, the Jihadists are the enemies. Will the govt have the courage to acknowledge that and begin the real war? If they don’t, we will just have to grow up or die! 

Friday, February 4, 2011

K. Subrahmanyam - Our Gratitude & RIP

Defence strategy Guru, K. Subrahmanyam passed away in Delhi on Thursday, February 3, 2011. 


Subrahmanyam, a prominent international strategic affairs analyst, journalist and a former Indian civil servant, headed the Kargil Review Committee and was the founding director of the security think-tank, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses.

Our TV news channels, too occupied with the drama in Egypt, did not find a minute to report or mourn the loss of a man whose contribution to national security is immense. If one considers the days in which India was still a relatively new, free and independent nation, the man's contribution is phenomenal. An interesting article on him is available here at Rediff

The man who declined the Padma Bhushan award in 1999 is on record to have stated: "...that bureaucrats and journalists should not accept government awards". One hopes they learn. We owe Subrahmanyam our deepest gratitude. RIP