Chacha Returns - 2

Chacha Nehru’s foreign policies led to some major failures. His Panchsheel with China collapsed. It led to an invasion in which the Indian Army paid a heavy price. Loss of land to China. Gifting UNSC seat to China. Kashmir issue kept hanging and taken to the UN. His NAM now lies in shambles and meaningless. This kind of generosity still burdens us when PM Modi daringly states “Self interest is not in India’s culture” while addressing a foreign-affairs conference.

Selfishness need not drive us but why should “self-interest” be a bad term in foreign policy? Foreign relations or policy is not an outcome of culture - it is definitely a matter of political self-interest. Nevertheless, unlike Nehru, Modi has been fairly successful in foreign relations and it’s one of the successes of his govt. Thought it must be pointed out that while Modi goes around begging the world to isolate Pakistan, his own govt does not support a Bill to declare Pak a terrorist-state. And then this false belief that development is the solution to all problems is also a delusion. If that were true, then developed countries like US, UK or Germany wouldn’t be facing so much strife. There are still racial problems in the US. Problems of immigrants swamping their culture. Riots were triggered after the recent US elections.

It’s also worth remembering that the ABV govt created more jobs than the UPA of 2004-14. There are many firsts to ABV like the Golden Quadrilateral or the PM Gram Sadak Yojana. The level of satisfaction among people was also higher than previous govts. Notably, ABV didn’t go around begging the world after a near international boycott and sanctions following the nuclear tests of 1998. Yet, BJP lost the election and it certainly wasn’t because of failure on the development front. Part of the reason for loss is sheer arrogance and ignoring their own key constituents.

Chanting the development mantra deludes BJP and the PM and results in glossing over or ignoring social strife. Even the cleansing of politics from criminals promised by Modi has taken a back seat. The BJP is also borrowing politicians who are least aligned with the ideology of the party – if at all there is any ideology left. Here’s what a researcher writes (excerpts):

The common defence by politicians that such cases are politically motivated does not hold water if one is serious about clean politics. And what exactly has Modi done to deal with criminals in politics or corrupt politicians? NOTHING! The BJP guys are very fond of writing books. They released a book on Congress scams. After this book LK Advani expressed regret to SoniaG for naming her. Then the great writers of the BJP again brought out a booklet and CD during the 2014 campaign on Robert Vadra calling it “Damadji”. Well, Damadji is now a happy “expert political commentator” in the media and waltzes around with no action against him. And on the unending Kerala killings of Hindus – the BJP again grandly brings out a book:

The killings of Hindus and even destruction of temples and festivals continue unabated in Kerala, Kashmir and Bengal. And the ModiSlaves keep barking he cannot do anything because he doesn’t have majority in Rajya Sabha or that Law & Order is a State matter. This nonsense of idiotic slaves is the worst crime they deliver to Modi himself. Here are some things that Modi does without RS or the State limits:

The woman who hates the BJP genetically being an Islamic-Terror apologist is in their election war-room in UP. Time and again BJP guys cuddle up to her and the rotten NDTV against whom Modi supporters have waged a long battle against their lies and anti-Hindu, anti-BJP propaganda. Worse, corrupt NDTV which should have been banned or shut down gets 15 crores in govt doles as ads and campaigns. Does this take RS majority to stop? Even if some amounts were pending from the UPA era the whole 15 crores cannot be outstanding to be paid till 2016. And this anti-India channel also filed petitions to stop national projects like Sagarmala. What is the message Modi is sending his staunch supporters? Then you have ministers like Venkiah Naidu who trash Rajputs without investigation against their actions against some Bollywood jerk. You have another minister Menaka Gandhi who calls Makara Sankranti a day of massacre. Are these problems created by lack of majority in RS or State limits? Bengal assaults on Hindus and Hindu traditions get worse every single day:

 

Nothing stops PM Modi from visiting these states and those affected and making strong statements against the killings and violence. What majority in RS does he need for this? I cannot be sure but I can estimate the reasons for such cowardice. If Modi does visit and condemn such violence he will be tarred with his baggage of Gujarat 2002. That is his real fear. There is more. The violent incidents in Kerala and Bengal are not accidental. They are carefully calibrated actions to PROVOKE Modi into doing something and then the Sickulars can play victim and cry “Fedaralism under attack”. But I expect my PM to rise above such fears and do the right thing.

Being a Chacha and letting Hindus die or release stupid books is not the answer. Just as he deployed CRPF in Kolkata to protect BJP offices and officials, he can do the same with Kerala and Bengal. Maybe he can even invoke AFSPA in certain areas where ordinary Hindus live their lives under daily threats. It is the PMs job to attend to these social issues and no amount of development can compensate for lives being lost and traditions being lost. I don’t buy that. ABV, President Kalam and even SoniaG visit Gujarat after the 2002 riots. What stops our PM from Bengal and Kerala? He has shown guts to slam “Gaurakshaks” but Hindus being killed means nothing? Even Christian Missionary fraudulent-conversions merrily continue with no action.

Let’s come to Demonetisation. It heaped misery on millions of Indians with the cash-crunch. We still supported that move as a daring move. Is that the only way to fight black money? No! That would have been great if he had not allowed political parties to escape with their black money. I explained this in “Noteban Blackhole”. Still, instead of only demonetization had a few corrupt politicians and black money hoarders been prosecuted severely that would have sent a larger message. As it stands, not a single corrupt politician fears ModiSarkar and roams around free. Modi is the one who said he will “punish the corrupt”. But what does ModiSarkar do? Sharad Pawar, perceived as one of the most corrupt politicians, is honoured with a Padma award. Go to hell people – I care two hoots about what you think; politics first for me! That’s the message Modi is giving you.

Let’s take another social issue – Jallikattu. The BJP had supported it. Nirmala Sitharaman spoke in its favour in early 2016 too. Yet the deep slumber of ModiSarkar led to agitations in TN. Is your development mantra going to assuage sentiments of people? BJP was made the villain of the whole piece. The true anti-Jallikattu villain, the Congress, on the contrary was mouthing nonsense in support of it. It took 7 days for Venkiah Naidu to even state that it was Congress in 2011 that initiated the Jallikattu-ban. Modi was sleeping and so also his TV-hugging spokies. Such disasters fueled more by the media against BJP are lost on Modi, but he funds NDTV for their anti-Hindu, anti-India, pro-terrorist nonsense.

Last year, a Muslim school principal in Kolkata, Kazi Akhtar was attacked and thrown out for teaching his children the national anthem. Are we to be ashamed of our own national anthem? What stops Modi condemning such actions and demanding that this principal be re-instated in his school? NOTHING! No majority in RS is required. In contrast, when the bogus “attack on Christians” fraud was perpetrated by the media he quickly established a helpline for Christians. Why is there no such helpline for Hindus in Kerala or Bengal? Are they to die like goats? Hindutva has nothing to do with all of this. This is just demanding that all citizens be treated equally and fairly. Oh! But “Development” is the solution to all problems. YES! Enjoy that development when your family head or member is DEAD.

When BJP MP Hukum Singh reported over 300 families from Kairana (UP) were forced to leave their homes and town by Muslim goons not one BJP member, MP or MLA stood by him. The media trashed it as lies. The Opposition claimed it was communal fear-mongering. Now, during UP elections, Rajnath Singh tells us such exodus will never happen again. Just as Ram Mandir crap before UP elections such bogus promises are held out. Why didn’t the HM go to Kairana and resolve issues? That Hindus will be safe ONLY if BJP is in govt? Is that the stupid logic? We have seen that Hindus suffer even when the BJP-Centre is voted with great majority. And no less than the SC has ruled that it’s the job of the State and the Centre where communal conflicts happen:

As a PM, Modi needs to assert himself and send out a clear message that such nonsense will not be tolerated. But he has no words for such issues. That development will solve these problems. No they will not. Year after year in his “Mann ki baat” Modi sermonizes students to stay free of exam-pressure. Never mind that. But what stops him from dramatically changing the education system that creates such pressures in the first place? NOTHING! Instead he has ribbon-cutting ministers on education. There is more endorsement for the anti-Hindu RTE Act and no effort to modify it at all. There are reports that many schools have closed down due to the RTE discrimination. But worse are reports of falling standards of education due to RTE which cannot be denied. It will take only ONE STROKE to dramatically reduce the pressure of exams on students. It can be done. There is no need for a million sermons or psychologists who are in this business.

World over, countries like US, UK and others in Europe are waking up to Islamic Expansionist plans while our GOI slumbers over it. Kairana is only one small town. The plans to resettle KPs in Kashmir are being constantly thwarted. But Muslim refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh are swamping some of our major towns to create a demographic imbalance, including in J&K:

 

Modi calls our Constitution a “Holy Book. Even Americans don’t call their Constitution that. A Constitution that has been savaged by the Congis over the years through hundreds of amendments. If indeed it is, why are Mullahs issuing Fatwas so frequently? Why are some Muslims claiming their Sharia or Quran is above our Constitution? Make a law that warrants a punishment for any Mullah issuing a Fatwa or anyone abusing the Constitution. It cannot be holy unless ALL Indians are taught to respect it.

During his term, ABV too tried to be a Chacha and win accolades from his worst enemies – the Commie media and Sickulars. I see the danger of this happening all over again. We voted Modi to ensure Nehruvian concept of Sickularism and sluggish economic conditions disappear. The Chacha slaves even labeled his economic failures as “Hindu rate of growth”. When criticism is offered, the ModiSlaves rant “Oh, so you want Congress back”? No! The criticism is more to seek ModiSarkar to face realities so that Congress doesn’t return as it did in 2004. That’s the danger of Chacha returning again. And Hindus are not seeking special privileges but that they are treated at par with all others.

Poisoning Kids - 2

Please read the first part of “Poisoning Kids” before proceeding, in case you haven’t already read it.

Just before I-Day in August 2016, a school in Allahabad banned the national anthem forcing the principal and a group of teachers to quit. In a previous case, the principal of a Madrasa in Kolkata was beaten up and sacked for teaching students the national anthem. He was beaten up by neighbouring Muslim goons for not being a “proper Muslim” and singing the anthem. The principal had appealed to the “Islamic Govt” of Mamata Banerjee but got no justice. These are reports that came out in the public but we do not know how many such instances in schools do not see the light of the day. My guess is there might be many. Where the subjects of history and civics are concerned, schools have been grounds for poisoning young minds with hatred, contempt for India and prolonged continuation of fake and bogus history.

At an institute where I was recently invited to speak to a student-group I was informed that a senior faculty member objected to my presence and my lecture. The reason given was “he is a right-winger and communal”. It appears that Commie Pigs believe the right to speak or the freedom of expression is purely and solely theirs – to abuse Hindus, to abuse the country, shout anti-national slogans and spread contempt for our democracy. I don’t believe I am a “right winger” but even if I were to be one, what exactly is wrong about that? And how does that make me communal? Only because I am a Hindu and I speak and write about Hindu issues? This is a virus that Commies have spread deep into Indian society and, particularly, Indian education system. Kamlesh Tiwari was jailed in UP for comments against Mohammad but the frequent abuse of Lord Ram or other Hindu icons are secular and fall under FOE. This guy, a former IAS officer, believes he has the right to slap Ram with his slippers:

And the guy justifiably carries the “Gandhi” name and being a former IAS officer you can imagine how deep the rot of anti-Hindu tirade and sentiments run. While ModiSarkar is grappling fairly successfully with many other problems, it turns a blind-eye to this hatred for Hindus. We have had a bunch of nincompoops as HRD ministers who refuse to attend to historic crimes in education and are dancing happily over the discriminatory RTE law.

The most disturbing thing has to be the continuation of the Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT) as part of history in school books. This myth and hoax created by westerners and endorsed and entrenched by our Commies needs urgent correction. This hoax was meant to create an Aryan-Dravidian divide and to justify the Westerners bogus logic that India had been occupied by invading forces for eons. Despite this myth being disproved many times over, the Commies ask “what is the proof AIT is a hoax”? Some reading here, here, and here might help but that is only academic. There are hundreds of other sites based on research that debunk the AIT. While the Commies ask what’s the proof AIT is a hoax, nobody ever asked them what’s the proof that the AIT is fact.

The great scientist Richard Feynman had a great answer to the test of theories. He stated that a theory maybe born out of insight, research or imagination but the next step is testing it and proving it right. And he went to state that merely because a theory is not proved wrong, does not make it right. For a theory to be accepted it must be tested and proved right. The nonsense of AIT has never been tested and has never been proved to be right and, therefore, on that grounds itself it has to be rejected. Even so, researchers have provided abundant evidence that AIT is nonsense created by Westerners and Commies and perpetrated on indigenous Indians to divide them into races.

But now, we have gone on to even worse crimes in schools. Other than banning national anthem or banning “Vande Mataram” kids are being poisoned with extreme nonsense of religious conversion. This from a book in a Kerala school has to horrify parents and sensible people across the board:

Suppose your friend has decided to become a Muslim? What names s/he should acquire? This is the crap being taught in schools? And there are other schools where Bible is now part of the text books in social science. Many schools have become the playgrounds of contempt for Hinduism and Hindus. Girls are punished for sporting a “Bindi” or colleges don’t allow students to celebrate Holi or some Hindu festival. Systematically, Hindu kids are being taught to nurture contempt for their own religion, culture and traditions. And this is further aided by Bollywood crap and TV shows. This has reached alarming proportions and ModiSarkar cannot afford to sleep on it anymore. We have textbooks glorifying unethical characters like Barkha or chapters written by fraud-stars like Teesta Setalvad about the 2002 riots. And there are biographies of Pappu with Q&A on the duffer. Such is the filth and poison being fed to children.

So what is the answer? I believe the following measures are now inevitable:

# We need an Education Minister separate from the HRD ministry. The HRD ministry has proven incompetent and incapable of handling educational issues.

# As it is for movies, there should be a Central Board of School Text Books which should certify publication and use of books in schools – both by private publishers and govt publishers. This cannot be left to NCERT anymore as it is no more than a bunch of Hindu-hating Commies.

# ModiSarkar must find the courage to modify the RTE to eliminate discriminate against Hindus and against schools run by Hindu-management.

Finally, the burden of removing the poison from the heads of young minds falls on the parents. Kids normally put immense trust in their teachers. If a parent corrects a bad spelling or sentence kids even react with “No… my teacher said so and she must be correct”. But Hindu parents must still take interest and ensure their kids learn true Hindu culture and traditions and our great history. Many of our schools glorify Mughal murderers or are “Jesus salesmen” in disguise. Young minds are like sponges that absorb the filth that such schools pour into their heads. Although ModiSarkar has a serious responsibility on its hands, un-poisoning kids can no more be left to govts. Like “Buyers Beware” it is now “Parents Beware”.

Self-Righteous Shill & RTE

Here’s a profound statement from none other than Rajdeep Sardesai: “Bless social media! Power with zero responsibility! Have a good day”. (Twitter April 17, 8.41 am). I can use this particular statement for many debates. That can wait. In a ‘friendly fire’ article Firstpost, the online sidekick of CNN-IBN, dismissed Rajdeep’s silly tweet as sweeping generalisation. Alright, in another tweet (Wee hours of February 5, 12.14 am) Rajdeep says “Tonight time to say F off to those who call us ‘paid media’.We are journalists, not sensationalists or elitists. Gnight”. Hmm! Just months back one of Rajdeep’s colleague, Pallavi Ghosh, tweeted: “..That’s the unfortunate part, came to know yesterday that some journos who I work with closely in Congress are on their payroll”. Pallavi’s tweet was made at 9.53am on October 14, 2011.

Now, would Rajdeep and Pallavi make those statements on their TV channel? I doubt it. But that’s how journos themselves use social media and then complain about it. In response to my post IWJ-2012 another prominent journo tweeted it was “hate”. I asked her how she categorised “lampooning” as hate. She responded stating it was contained in the mail that forwarded her my post and not her own statement. Well, if one stored up all the quotes of journos, most of them would find it hard to believe they actually said those words. Self-righteous shills usually forget what they said or did in the past. That is what brings me to the RTE Act. While much has been said and written about the SC upholding the constitutional validity of the Act it really hasn’t been debated as well in the MSM as it has been in the social media. So Rajdeep would do well not to dismiss social media as having “zero responsibility”. Many of the analysts and writers on social media are far superior to the ones in MSM. Those in the MSM have typically discussed the RTE in a literary flourish rather than with cold logic and facts. Do read on…

“Otherwise, let's be honest - we had become the sort of people who were inured to the sight of a barely-clad shivering child, his tiny stomach ballooned into hugeness by the absence of nutrition, as we indifferently drove past the sight of him huddling with his mother for warmth on a tiny patch of pavement every night. At the traffic lights - where our cars came into enforced confrontation with poverty - and we saw a small hand stretched out for alms, or a disabled man trying to wave a red rose or a magazine at us, imploring us for help - we would barely look up from behind our over-sized designer sunglasses. We would, in fact, sink back into the plush leather of our seats and be extra determined that the story of India would no longer be told in picture-postcards of poverty….  Over the many years that we - the upper middle class - have lived in aggressive denial of the inequalities in our social order, we have become more and more cocooned by our elitism. … That is why the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the constitutional validity of the Right to Education law for all schools - even in unaided private schools - is such a potentially seminal moment for us as a people. And nowhere is our intuitive social snobbery more apparent than in our resistance to the idea of an economically and socially heterogeneous, inclusive classroom…. Others have cloaked their subliminal social biases in apprehensions of a so-called clash of cultures or possibilities of social maladjustment….” Do I hear applause? Thank you!

Ah well, my momentary flash of literary genius has to be exposed though. I didn’t write the paragraph above, it was another literary classic from Barkha Dutt. Extracts from her article “Writes of passage” in Hindustan Times, April 13. That is how you discuss a matter of an Act of Law: in literary flourishes devoid of much logic or cold facts. And pray who is “WE”? Add “Designer sunglasses” and “Plush” leather seats in cars. Is that “WE”? When champions of MSM like Barkha want to transfer their personal life experiences as being of a larger population you don’t need sound logic or arguments for any discussion or article. That is where social media wins and does a better job.

Being in the education domain and one who has interacted with more than 3000 schools, thousands of teachers, thousands of children and parents I do know a little bit about schools and their problems. I was associated with an organisation whose directors built one of the finest schools in India from scratch. The school has become a near pilgrimage for any education professional who visits my city. That school wasn’t built by Barkha’s ‘elites’ for the elites. It was built by a group of IIM-Ahmedabad graduates who set up new standards for schooling and even for teacher education. Even before RTE that school had a practice of enrolling a certain number of slum children along with other students from upper classes. One of the founders lived in a slum for months to understand their needs. And no, they aren’t ‘Jhollawalas’ or NGOs and they don’t wear “designer sunglasses”. Those guys started another organisation with negligible capital to improve the quality of school education in India which is helping schools and even State govts. In another case, a sinking Municipal school was taken over by a private body and turned into a well-functioning school now known as ‘Mahatma Gandhi International School’. To me, the RTE Act is more a political act rather than any real act for ensuring education for all children. And just like child-labour laws it is destined for failure. Why? Govt failures cannot be passed on to private citizens by strangling their freedoms and enterprise.

But let’s get back to Barkha Dutt. She is the Group Editor of NDTV and while writing so passionately about changing caste and other equations and our “middle-class” biases she forgets what her own organisation does for schools and people. If you go back to first few paras of this post you will be reminded how journalists often forget what they did or said in the past. Barkha forgot to remember that in recent times NDTV joined Coca-Cola in some school campaign. Now, would they have done the same campaign if Coca-Cola weren’t involved and some other body without similar financial muscle had undertaken it? I doubt it but still, it’s fine if, by the campaign, some good comes to some schools somewhere.

Barkha forgets something else too; NDTV does promote a certain set of schools – Elite, Rich, Luxurious schools. More than just promote, NDTV is the ‘media-partner’ in that campaign. Yeah, it’s called “Good Schools of India” and NDTV promotes them through the directory. The news-channel had also carried a number of advertisements promoting the directory. And what’s the directory about? It’s a directory about the best residential schools in India. Ever visited any of these schools? I can assure you most of them are luxury schools which will be the biggest opponents of the RTE Act. These are hardly the very "..economically and socially heterogeneous, inclusive classroom" in schools that Barkha talks about. However, most of them won’t even be affected because no ‘disadvantaged or poor’ parents would even remotely think of sending their children to these schools. So while the MSM, like Barkha, sheds tears over the poor and disadvantaged, they haven’t really debated the finer points of the RTE at all. Like in most other cases they failed to do their job.I wonder what Rajdeep would call that: "Zero responsibility" plus hypocrisy?

So, as my answer to Rajdeep Sardesai who claims social media has zero responsibility I would recommend that he read the following posts by different writers on  RTE and evaluate the quality of the discussion. It’s far superior to what one will find on TV channels and newspapers:

Is the Right to Education quota really for the poor ?  and On the EWS category in the Right To Education act both by @RealityCheckInd and another one Analysis of the RTE Judgment:Part I – The Question of Severability by Dilip Rao (CentreRight India). Also (update) a great analysis by Sudhir Kumar: Right to Education Act - The Devil is in the Detail.

There are many frivolous and even bad laws that get enacted because the MSM does not do its job. Next time you see a child working at a tea stall or restaurant, next time you see a child buying cigarettes or tobacco products from a pan-shop, next time you see a child buying alcohol for another from a shop remember the worthlessness of the related laws. The biggest Act of ‘Rights’ that the govt should pass is irreversible one that ensures they never intrude in the lives and activities of private citizens and entities. The govt’s courage to do the opposite is partly driven by the self-righteous shill in the mainstream media who have nothing at stake and who, like Rajdeep and Barkha, look down on ordinary people as much as the govt does.