Every village in India now has electric power

A headline that was over 30 years past due. But on April 28, 2018, it finally became a reality.

I salute the efforts of all those who worked tirelessly on the ground, including the team of officials, the technical staff and all others, to make this dream of a #PowerfulIndia a reality. Their efforts today will help generations of Indians in the coming years. pic.twitter.com/t8WjZgpNuT

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) April 29, 2018

Of course media coverage of this historic moment is muted, if news channels are covering it at all. It’s not like something big has happened … like Taimur getting potty trained or like Rahul Gandhi managing to spell his own name.

You know when India wins, these are supposed to be moments when we come together and congratulate each other. They are moments when we are supposed to forget partisanship and embrace everyone no matter what their political creed.

Here is my reaction:

Thoo. Aak Thoo!

Yeah, that’s right. My reaction is a load of spit. Because this moment, achieved on Apr 28, 2018 makes me want to spit on the face of the Congress Party and its Bharat Ratna Prime Ministers who have milked this country for 55 years but couldn’t give us 100% rural electrification. They eagerly took their Bharat Ratnas but didn’t care to give us electricity, clean water, schools or sanitation.

Aak Thoo! That’s what those scumbags deserve.

Because the only thing they ever focused on was making sure their sons and daughters would become Prime Minister after them.

In 1950, India became a Republic. Jawaharlal Nehru assumed power as Prime Minister of India. In the elections that followed, the Congress won three-fourths of the seats in the Lok Sabha. They formed the government in every state. The whole country was at their feet. Every form of power was theirs.

In 1950, another thing happened, an event that quite literally no historian, no journalist would have recorded at that time. A little baby boy was born in an ordinary family in Vadnagar in Mehsana district of erstwhile Bombay state. He grew up around the Railway platform in Vadnagar, helping to sell tea.

Who would have thought that Jawaharlal Nehru, that all powerful Prime Minister, and all his children and grandchildren after him would leave the job of 100% electrification unfinished? That it’s the little boy who would grow up to become Prime Minister and finally bring electric power to every village in this country?

Well, for that matter, who could have imagined a lot of the things that happened after 1950? Who could have imagined that newly independent India would spend the next four decades chasing the mirage of Communism and end up as a basket case by 1990? Who could have imagined that all the other countries of East and South East Asia would turn out to be tiger economies while India would remain stuck in the mud?

The Japanese had two nuclear bombs dropped on them. The Germans had their country literally turned to rubble, then carved up and divided between two hostile superpowers. The Israelis got a thin strip of desert to defend and like 4-5 large powerful Arab neighbors determined to wipe them out. The Japanese, the Germans and the Israelis all did fine. In 2014, India still had 18000 villages without electricity.

Who should we thank for this? Which Bharat Ratna winning Prime Minister?

Right now, there is a lively debate in the media about how to “debunk” PM Modi’s achievement. The favorite topic among experts is the official definition of “electrifying” a village.

A village is considered electrified  if just 10% of its households are connected to the grid.

Ridiculous? You bet.

You know what’s even more ridiculous? The fact that even this much could not be achieved in 70 years.

Imagine someone taking 70 years to learn A,B,C,…. It’s ridiculous. I agree. Even Rahul Gandhi could have learned the alphabet in 20-30 years. But knowing A,B,C,…  is better than not knowing anything at all. It is now that we begin the process of learning words by putting letters next to each other.

But you know what is the most ridiculous thing of all? That all these knowledgeable experts who are dissecting the definition of “electrification” today were missing in action until May 26, 2014. The energy they have spent in “debunking” Modi … if 10% of that had been used for due diligence and auditing the performance of Bharat Ratna Prime Ministers, India would have been a much more advanced nation today.

One more thing. When myself and others began talking about this milestone on Twitter, we were faced by a small flock of Pidi trolls. They accuse me (and others on the Hindu right) of deliberately ignoring the work that UPA did towards electrifying villages.

Ha!

So let me make this clear. There is a huge difference between UPA electrifying a village and Modi sarkar electrifying a village. When UPA brings electricity to a village, it is merely compensating, some 30 years too late, for the work that their own leaders Nehru, Indira and Rajiv failed to do!

When Modi sarkar brings electricity to a village, it is picking up the slack for what three generations of the ruling Nehru clan could not do.

So, UPA gets no credit for bringing electricity to a village. Zero. Zilch. Why was there even one village in India that did not have electricity by, say, the year 1990? The only reason UPA has the opportunity to connect a village to the grid is because their own leaders were too lazy and incompetent to do it decades ago. You can’t encash the incompetence of your own leaders into political capital.

But then the Congress is no stranger to this form of argument, in effect taking advantage of its own incompetence. In 1950, the Congress Party set the nation on a disastrous socialist/communist track that ultimately blew up in our faces in 1990. From the early 70s, Dr. Manmohan Singh was embedded in this socialist/communist system and became one of its prime beneficiaries, holding a series of powerful positions. When India’s economy collapsed in 1991 under the weight of Congress policies, the same Congress Party took credit for coming up with economic reforms 40 years late. After supporting Nehruvian socialism and benefitting immensely from it for 20 years, Honorable Dr. Singh decided to take credit for bringing “economic reforms.”

I am glad that Narendra Modi made rural electrification a priority and finished the task. Otherwise, the Nehru Dynasty, 2-3 more generations down the line, would probably have been taking credit the day India finally achieved this milestone.

 

 

 

Why Rahul could be worse than Sonia and why India cannot afford UPA3

This is Nandini Sundar, a professor at Delhi University.

She is “deeply saddened” by the deaths of Communist terrorists.

But only “saddened” by the deaths of Indian jawans.

Not satisfied with equating the martyrdom of an Indian jawan with a terrorist being neutralized, she goes the extra mile, delivers that extra kick in the teeth to rub it in all our faces.

This is not about one citizen, this is about the fact that she is a professor at Delhi University.  Presumably, she plays a role in nurturing young minds in the classroom. Beyond the classroom, in her role as an academic, she would also play a role in shaping future scholars who will record, analyze and interpret the story of the Indian nation.

Nandini’s husband Siddharth Varadarajan is the mind behind The Wire, whose articles are frequently plugged by Rahul Gandhi himself. In case you have never noticed, between all those Modi bashing articles, The Wire has a separate tag for “The Soviet Century” where writers post their tributes recounting the ‘glory’ of the fallen Soviet Union. Apparently, nobody at The Wire is saddened, let alone “deeply saddened” by 30 lakh people murdered under Stalin, nor by the 300 lakh people (at least) who perished under the Communist boot worldwide.

These are just two members of a much larger class that the people of India have had to carry on their shoulders for decades. They keep pumping their poison into young minds on college campuses. Journalists who are bred in this college environment then push this poison everyday into our living rooms through TV screens, through newspapers stuck under our doors early in the morning, through the computers on our desks and the smartphones in our hands.

In the so called scholarly world, Ram is now referred to as a “pig.” Aurangazeb is being resurrected as a secular and generous ruler, while Swami Vivekananda’s “masculine posture” has been marked out as an inspiration for gangrape. For Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, who wrote Vande Mataram, the situation is even more dire. Everything that we believe in, anything that we hold dear, anything that we cherish is reviled. Our festivals are smeared with fabricated stories of “semen filled balloons.” The slightest form of Hindu self-expression, such as a Hanuman sticker on a car, becomes a target for Hinduphobia.

How much more poison can we Hindus take? At what point does the poison become so much that our civilization finally drops dead.

I fear that the point could be fast approaching. There is a reason Bollywood celebrities rushed in with placards of “Devisthan” and “temple” and “Hindustan” after the Kathua incident. Why would an industry which makes a consumer product that is sold directly to the masses be willing to take such a risk? Because they sense that the poison in our system has finally risen to the level we as Hindus are paralyzed, unable to even recognize our enemies, let alone act.

For India, this form of “rule by the few” is not a new phenomenon. When Nehru opposed the reconstruction of Somnath Temple on grounds that it would be an embarrassment for a so called secular nation, he had nothing but contempt for ordinary Hindus and their sentiments. As the Dynasty tightened its grip on “independent India” that had their colonial masters had gifted to them, they collected around themselves a class of people who ate out of their hands. This was a group that was inherently quite disparate. While some of them fancied themselves as reborn Englishmen, others occupied themselves with a fascination for the Soviet Union. On the well-tended lawns of Lutyens’ Delhi, they absorbed themselves with ideological debates on matters from Guatemala to Vietnam.

There were only two things they agreed upon : hating Hindus and living off the land. In a sense that is almost medieval and pre-French revolution, these people were the “nobles” of India.

The election of 2014 was a revolt by the little Hindu against the ‘nobles’ of Lutyens’ Delhi. The ecosytem suffered a setback. But with nowhere else to go, they decided to stay invested in the Dynasty, considering that the Congress Party had been giving them stable returns for nearly 70 years. In 2019, relying on various Mahagathbandhans and counting on caste based voters to be useful idiots, they are getting ready for a recapture of power.

Here is the difference between Rahul and earlier generations of Gandhis that have ruled India. For autocrats like Indira or Sonia, the ecosystem was a force multiplier, but it was always came secondary to the interests of the Congress Party itself. But Rahul is different. Due to his spectacular lack of leadership skills, he will have to compensate by letting the ecosystem off the leash.

We have seen a trailer of this in Gujarat, where the incompetent Congress had to take a backseat. The lead was taken by forces that were ready, quite literally, to tear the country apart.

Whatever its other faults, it was always in the interest of the Dynasty to at least keep India in one piece, if only to keep its own empire intact. Once the wolves of the ecosystem are off the leash, they will quite literally rip this nation to shreds.

Nobody ever rules alone. Every ruler sits on top of a power hierarchy. When the various chieftains sense that the king is weak and incompetent, that the hand of the ruler is weak, they will pounce upon the opportunity.

The other day I read that JNU’s celebrity “students” Shehla Rashid and Kanhaiyya Kumar are eyeing the next Lok Sabha polls. There is no doubt that they see the opportunity and they are salivating. Rahul is weak and incompetent, dependent on making any number of compromises to merely stay in the game against Narendra Modi. This is their opportunity to grab for themselves much bigger pieces of the power pie.

They will demand a much bigger pound of flesh. Which in this case would be the dismantling of our nation brick by brick. Bharat ke tukde.

And what will be the fate of this nation in the hands of the Shehlas and Kanhaiyas? Speaking to Hindustan Times, Kanhaiyya beamed with pride explaining how his hometown is known as “mini-Leningrad.” There you have it folks, this is the vision of the supposed “youth icons.” They want to take us back, one hundred years into the past, to the days of a nation that collapsed into failure decades ago. They want to uproot us from our land and transport us to “mini-Leningrad.” The Hanuman sticker is anathema to them, but they speak fondly of “mini-Moscow.”

The question is whether we can take it as a nation. The wounded civilization of Hindus is still standing despite one thousand years of assault. Who’s to say there can’t be some final death blow out there that will make this much wounded civilization meet its end? Can we afford to lose 2019? I think not.

Tirumala-Tirupati Board incident shows the danger of “CryptoChristians”

I am probably fairly late in responding to this story. But in my mind this is actually an event of great importance and all Hindus should be aware of this.

For those who are active on social media, I probably don’t have to recount what happened. But just in case, here are the bare details. TDP legislator Vangalpudi Anitha was recently appointed by AP Government to the Board that oversees the Tirumala – Tirupati Devasthan (TTD). Almost immediately, this video went viral on social media where Vangalpudi Anitha is giving an interview talking about how she always has the Bible with her.

Vanglapudi Anitha MLA who confesses that she’s a Christian and always carries a Bible with her, is appointed TTD ( Tirumala Tirupati Devstanam) board member by Andhra Pradesh Government.Hindu culture will be killed by excessive appeasement politics.#HindusUnderSiege#WakeUpHindu pic.twitter.com/aa6HhE6WVS

— Geetika Swami (@SwamiGeetika) April 23, 2018

You don’t have to understand Telugu to get the gist : whether her bag or her car, she always has the Bible handy.

After the issue blew up, the TDP legislator offered to resign from the TTD. Here is her letter, where she claims to be a Hindu.

Yeah, I’ll believe that. Because we were all born yesterday. And because the moon is made of cheese.

This is one incident that should make Hindus sit up and take notice. While we chill out as usual, our community is being drowned, slowly and slowly, state by state. The water keeps rising.

First, we have to get an obvious question out of the way. Even if she is a Christian, so what? Why should TTD be so “narrow minded”?

The answer is straightforward. Whether broad minded or narrow minded, the government is not at liberty to make such decisions for Hindus. The government does not own the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthan; the government merely holds it in trust. And when you hold something in trust, you can’t make decisions about it. It’s that simple.

There are a great many complicated issues here. The first is that of sovereign ownership of temples. By taking temples away from the Hindu community and placing them under government boards, the state has committed a clear violation of religious freedom. I have no doubt that if the Indian Constitution had *real* safeguards for freedom of speech, expression and religion, such a despotic takeover would have been quashed by the courts in no time at all.

But, as with freedom of speech, we in India have no clear cut freedom of religion, just some confused mumbo-jumbo that can be interpreted however any government/court wants. So what we have in practice is a poor compromise, a pale shadow of what the right to religious freedom should be. The basic ground rules of this compromise is that while the government takes away the temples, the government also commits to running the temples in accordance with Hindu beliefs.

Appointing a Christian to the TTD Board is a direct violation of this compromise. Not that this kind of thing has not happened before. In Kerala, the CPIM minister in charge of Devaswom participated in a beef festival deliberately to rub it into the faces of Hindus.

Here, I must emphasize that my highest frustration is with the Indian Constitution rather than these individuals. Let the CPIM minister enjoy beef curry. I have no interest in stopping him. Let Vangalpudi Anitha carry the Bible wherever she wants, what right do I have to oppose her choices in life? The root of the problem lies with the fact that the Constitution permits the State to take over a Hindu temple and trample all over the sentiments of Hindus.

The second issue is that of “CryptoChristianity.” Through relentless efforts of the Hindu right and basically observing the brutality of Islamism across the world, the average Hindu today has at least a modicum of awareness of the threat from Jihad. Regarding CryptoChristianity, we are not even off the blocks yet. Which is highly unfortunate, because the Missionaries have been running with the highest zeal for decades.

What is “CryptoChristianity”? Simply put, it is a matter of Christians “passing off” as Hindus. Wearing markers of Hindu religion such as tilak or sindoor while being a Christian. Dressing up Jesus and Mary to look like Hindu deities, saffron clad missionaries and so on.

All this would just be harmless fancy dress if the impact was not so huge and the agenda so insidious. Passing around pamphlets saying that “Jesus is the god of lower caste people.” The Breaking India agenda delivered on a platter, but sugarcoated to make it seem like it’s part of Indian Hindu traditions.

Believe it or not, there are now “Puranas”  being passed around that speak of the Christ.

The idea is simple : first tell them that you are just one of them, draw them in, digest their traditions. Dissolve the Hindu religion from the inside.

I myself was not aware of this problem until maybe 2-3 years ago. When I saw some of the merchandise at first, like diyas you can light for Jesus, I was tempted to laugh. I can assure you that even today the average Hindu will laugh at you if you try to explain the phenomenon of “CryptoChristianity.”

Sadly, this is no laughing matter. And honestly, I don’t really know what we can do about this situation except creating awareness among Hindus, no matter how much we get laughed at. It is clear that the CryptoChristian missionaries is doing nothing violent, nor illegal. Ironically, this is exactly what makes the problem so difficult to solve. Because it is not easily observable, nor easily explained to the average Hindu who just wants to get on with her/his life.

Oh…and be sure to follow the Twitter handle @noconversion, if you aren’t already. It will open your eyes.

Calling death penalty for child rape a political gimmick is height of liberal hypocrisy

(Important Note : I have changed my Twitter handle from @CW_Dynastycrook to @SujoyGhosh1729 …I will repost this message for a few days to make sure it reaches everyone). 

On April 21 morning, Prime Minister Modi returned from the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Europe. Hours later, the 68 year old Prime Minister held a Cabinet meeting and approved an ordinance allowing for death penalty in cases where children below the age of 12 have been raped.

Since that day, there has been a rash of stories in mainstream media outlets calling the move a ‘political gimmick’ and trying to run it down. I present here only a few samples from outlets that are usual suspects.

Yes, indeed, everyone got the memo.

In itself, this is not surprising. The mainstream media has reflexively criticized almost every decision that the Modi government has taken in the last four years. Depending on the situation, liberals have opposed everything : low inflation, high inflation, economic reforms, lack of economic reforms, Supreme Court, World Bank, IMF, EVM, RBI, Yoga day, Pythagoras Theorem, just about anything to oppose Modi. On some particularly bad days, ‘liberals’ have even come out in favor of open defecation simply because they hate Modi so much.

However, it takes a special kind of hypocrite to cry wolf when the government brings in death penalty for rape of children below 12 years of age. Even if they think it is a political gimmick. First they opportunistically and cynically politicize the rape of an innocent child for your gains. When the other side responds with a political solution to something that *they* turned into a political issue, they cry foul!

When the Kathua incident rocked the national conscience, liberals were perfectly happy to let the single incident dominate the headlines to the exclusion of everything else. Anybody who dared to say a word about rapes of other children around the same time in Assam or Bihar, for instance, was silenced with angry howls of “whataboutism.”

We understand that as a matter of practicality, not every crime can receive the same amount of coverage in a nation of 1.3 billion people. But how do you explain the  hostility of the liberal elite at the mention of other similar injustices across the country? If they really cared about the issue of child rape, wouldn’t they welcome people trying to bring other such acts to attention?

When you mention the rape of a child in Bihar, their response was not, “That’s horrifying. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Tell me more. What can we do to help ensure speedy justice?”

Instead, their response was “Shut up.”

It’s like they wanted people to hear about Kathua *only*. Why? Because their target was Modi, not sexual crimes against children.  If that means using the rape of an 8 year old for political gains, so be it.

When you play a game this dirty, you can’t whine when the other side comes up with its own political response. I personally feel that death penalty in matters of child rape is a moral imperative. You may be cynical and you may see it as a political gimmick.

But at least don’t whine. You reap what you sow.

 

Justice Loya case: NGO tail is wagging the Congress dog

Important notice : I have renamed my Twitter handle from @CW_Dynastycrook to @SujoyGhosh1729 

So, spoiled rich kid cannot get the judgement he wants in the Justice Loya case. Which is not surprising, because there never was a case to begin with. From beginning to end, the Loya case was a hitjob against Amit Shah, nothing more, nothing less. And when the court came down hard on the rumour mongers, their anger knew no bounds.

I must say I have never seen the ecosystem quite so shocked as it was on the day the Loya judgement arrived. Every word chosen by the court, every rebuke was so sharp and stinging that it had to hurt. You have to understand that they aren’t used to this. Because they don’t see themselves as ordinary people, but rather as the Mai-Baap of this country. One of their cronies gets caught red handed stealing money collected through public donations and spending it on her personal booze habits. Within minutes, she gets bail on the phone. This is the kind of regal treatment they are used to.

Side note : There are widespread allegations that  Kathua case has seen substantial amounts of money being siphoned by one well known JNU “student.” I am willing to bet this is going to come back to haunt her. 

So, when the court judgement didn’t go their way, they yelled out: kick that goddamn CJI out of office. Doesn’t he know who we are?

Make no mistake. In this game, the Congress Party is as much the tail as it is the dog. Even though they cooperate with each other, the exact priorities of the NGO ecosystem and the Congress are slightly different. The extreme Left NGO ecosystem and the PIL industry is actually turning a healthy profit even though the Congress Party’s income through corruption is down. The NGO ecosystem wants Congress support to keep the money flowing in from donations, while the Congress needs the NGO ecosystem to maintain the noise level against Modi.

The problem is that this NGO ecosystem has a penchant for focusing on the wrong issues, i.e., those with little resonance among the wider public. This is not altogether surprising, because NGOs are not in the business of fighting elections. During the Queen’s decade, the Congress had the perfect symbiotic relationship with NGOs. The NGOs made their healthy profits, but were always kept on a tight leash by the Congress. The Congress Party’s electoral interests came first. The NGOs served as force multipliers; sometimes as forums for testing out new ideas.

But now with a true idiot running the show in the Congress, the NGOs have sensed their moment. Now it is the NGOs who make the decisions, set the agenda and the Congress throws its weight behind them.

Take the Rafale Deal. A lot of effort was put into raising a stink of corruption in the matter. Same with the assets of Amit Shah’s son. And with the Justice Loya case. These were excellent trial balloons from the Congress Party’s point of view.

But the thing is that these trials balloons failed. As much as they tried, people simply weren’t buying the idea of Modi taking suitcases full of money. The image that Modi keeps a tight grip on his government endured. At worst, people were willing to believe that the government screwed up, like with Nirav Modi. Nobody was ready to believe that one of Modi’s ministers would dare to put his hand in the cookie jar.

I believe that in an earlier era, the Congress would simply have absorbed the feedback from these trial balloons, analyzed the lessons and moved on in search of new issues. The present Congress under Rahul Gandhi is not doing that. The tail is wagging the dog.

No matter how little people believed the accusations in the Rafale deal, or the Jay Shah case or the Justice Loya case, the Congress decided to commit 100% to a sure shot losing cause.

Nothing shows this better than the Judge Loya case. After a stinging rebuke from the Supreme Court, you would have expected the Congress to fold up, make an official retreat from the matter and pretend like they had no hand in pursuing the matter through dubious PILs.

Instead, out comes Randeep Surjewala, exploding all over the court decision in his press conference. All he achieved is confirm the Congress Party’s complicity in this spurious case. Within hours, Kapil Sibal, the Congress bulldog, is asking for the CJI to be impeached.

Disaster for the Congress. I have seen some low level Congress minions among journalists squirm on social media as they realized how badly their boss was miscalculating.

There goes the Congress again, picking up an issue with zero resonance among the public, with egg-on-face guaranteed at the end of it. Because the Congress is letting the tail wag the dog.

Letter to the disempowered Hindu : Use your energy fruitfully

This morning a tweet came to my attention:

I have blacked out the name of this person because the ecosystem is out to destroy his life over this. And they will most likely succeed, given the amount of power they have.

Predictably, those on the “liberal” side of social media were licking their lips, getting ready to chew him up. I found the reaction from the “Hindu right” on social media much more interesting and it is to them that I address this letter.

In particular, many on the Hindu right were asking: What about similar posts that have been all over social media recently, where “liberals” proudly show off their hatred for Hindu drivers of Uber and Ola, especially those who chose to wear markers of their religion, such as a Hanuman sticker on the back of the car or on the dashboard? Why didn’t the ecosystem condemn that?

First of all, everybody knows the answer to that question. Because, in India, the pain caused to a Communist or to a Muslim is considered more important than pain caused to a Hindu. India is an apartheid state. You really should know that much by now.

So forget that. I want to address the sense of disempowerment that would lead an ordinary Hindu to lash out with the kind of behavior described in this tweet. The ordinary Hindu gets sick and tired of constant humiliation, of the endless double standards … and finally decides to lash out. How? By taking out the frustration on a completely innocent Ola Cab driver.

DON’T DO THIS.

First of all, because it is wrong.

Second, because it is a complete waste of your energy.

Third, because it is counterproductive.

So what should the disempowered Hindu do with his helpless sense of anger?

We live in a democracy. Well, more or less. Which means that the large majority of Hindus can still make a difference.

Your anger is an asset. It gives you the energy to bring about change. Use this energy wisely.

Are you angry about how the ruling class, the academic, intellectual and media narrative consistently demonizes Hindus? So am I. So are a lot of us. Let’s pool this energy together and get something done on the ground. How are they able to push the anti-Hindu narrative down the throats of a nation that is still almost 80% Hindu? Let’s work on organizing for change.

Don’t take the easy and completely useless way out by discriminating against a completely innocent person from another community.

And the change I am talking about is not just about voting. Again, that’s an easy solution. How much effort does it take to press a button, honestly?

Let me give you some real challenges to use that energy towards. Have you noticed that the anti-Hindu brigade rules this country by taking advantage of divisions among Hindus? Well, do something about that. Get out there, reach out to other Hindus, inside and outside your caste/linguistic group.  Make them aware of the threat.  Tell them that if we don’t hang together, we will all hang separately.

Some of the people you talk to will certainly mock you or heap scorn on  you. Can you take the hit to your ego and still keep working?

The real challenge is to get out there and organize. For example, are your children’s textbooks anti-Hindu? Is your school punishing children for celebrating a Hindu festival? Well, do you have the courage to get out there and call the school management and demand justice? It may be hard for you alone. Do you have the time, patience and sheer grit to reach out to parents of other kids and get together to pressurize the school?

There’s more. Do you suspect that the “scholars” got together and edited out the sufferings of Hindus from official history? Well, get out there and get informed about what has been scrubbed out. Luckily, we live in an age of social media and information has never been easier to obtain. It is all out there if you go looking for it.  Find out about the Goa Inquisition, for instance, something I heard about from Shefali Vaidya’s lectures on the subject. Once you find out, tell others. Build opinions and influence others in your community.

When Hindus reach out to each other, cutting across lines of caste and language, they find out each other’s stories. We and our ancestors have all suffered under the jackboot of Communism and Islamism. Unfortunately, most of us think that this suffering was localized to our region and/or caste because we don’t talk to each other enough. But when we start talking to each other, we realize the problem in it’s entirety. We realize that we Hindus have been at the receiving end of a single unified assault. It’s called Breaking India.

So, let us use our energy wisely. The ecosystem is counting on each one of us to stay in our own bubbles, not reaching out to our fellow Hindus nor hearing the stories of their suffering. So, let’s talk.

 

Mamata to ban university professors from criticizing the government

I am Bengalistan and I am ashamed.

Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal has drafted new rules that govern which opinions professors and college teachers at state government run institutions are allowed to express in public:

According to the draft rules :

No employees of state government run universities will be allowed to express anything that amounts to “adverse criticism” of any policy or action of the government.

There are many chilling aspects about this, but there are two that I find especially disturbing, which is why I have underlined them in red.

The first is that criticism of the government is to be banned both anonymously and otherwise. The paranoia over anonymous criticism adds that extra bit of draconian edge to these censorship rules; and indicates that she is dead serious about implementing the gag order.  In TMC’s Bengal, academics should not feel safe merely because they dared to criticize the Chief Minister from behind a veil of anonymity. The government is making it clear that they will be hunted down, their anonymity stripped away and the dissenters will be punished.

The second is that the rules bar employees even from making “statement of fact” that has the effect of criticizing the government. A ban on facts!

Absolutely breathtaking in its ruthlessness. Academics, researchers, who are supposed to dig up the truth, who are required to present the unvarnished, unadulterated truth as part of their profession are now to be banned in Bengal from stating any facts that would have the effect of criticizing the government!

Notice the deliberately loose language which shows just how broad the sweep of these new rules are going to be. The ban is not just on criticizing the government but on expressing any fact or opinion that would have the effect of criticizing the government.

In other words, no more stating the facts and letting the reader make up their own mind. As long as some reader could use the facts presented by you to criticize the government, you are still liable to be punished.

Dictators in every age have clamped down on opinions, but Mamata Banerjee might just have pioneered a ban on facts along with opinions.

I hope that the youth icons, academics and intellectuals of our great nation will unite and speak up in one voice to defend democracy from the clampdown of Mamata Banerjee. I hope there is going to be a flood of open letters and angry articles in various enlightened “news” portals, not to mention journalists and students hitting the streets nationwide.

Azaadi!

I wouldn’t count on it though.

Average Hindu has not realized how much the ecosystem hates them

Here is the front page of Jagran today:

For friends who might not be able to read Hindi, the headline reads : “Rape did not happen with the child in Kathua.”

The story then goes on to describe the post-mortem reports. Not one but two post-mortems were performed. The first report said there were six wounds on the body and the second report spoke of seven wounds. There is no mention of any rape. Further, (warning: graphic!) there is no fracture to the skull and one wound about 2 cms long by the ear, the kind that would be caused by a fall. This is heavily at odds with the claim by Crime Branch that the child was hit with a stone to the head.

When the Kathua story hit the headlines, almost 3 months after the actual headline, the average Hindu took to social media and the streets to express shame and anger. The few people around who were asking others not to jump to conclusions were hopelessly outnumbered. They were branded as partisan hacks and worse : as rape defenders with no humanity left in them.

The average person wanted to drop everything else and join the outrage. Don’t let politics dictate your reaction to a horrendous crime against a little eight year old child.

Here’s the thing though. The average Hindu has not realized just how much the ecosystem hates them and the lengths they can go to defame Hindus, our temples, our religious festivals, etc.

You know that line that you think no civilized human being is capable of crossing? You know that level about which you would say: Nobody could possibly sink any lower than this.

Here’s the thing. They are perfectly capable of sinking well below that line. In fact, liberal propaganda begins several notches below that line and goes lower not only than we imagine, but much lower than we can imagine.

I do not know the facts in the Kathua case. That is for the legal system to decide. What I do know is that the ecosystem is perfectly capable of creating a false rape narrative to defame Hindus, our temples, our Devis. It was completely obvious in the way they went for the jugular with using the word “Hindustan” in the context of this case and spreading the most vile Hinduphobic cartoons.

They made up ‘saffron terror.’ They made up semen filled balloons so that they could defame our festival. They made up stories of lynchings linked to beef so that they could mock the reverence that millions of Hindus have for the cow.

When they couldn’t defame Hindus as terrorists, they defame Hindus as rapists. They are perfectly capable of that.

How come I say that they can sink lower than most people can imagine? Because we mostly do not know the kind of exclusive luxuries the elites enjoyed at our expense while the Dynasty was in power. The news about them comes out in bits and pieces. Access to the Prime Minister’s plane, private channels celebrating their fests at Rashtrapati Bhavan. A prominent elite journalist last year wrote fondly about the good times they had with Indira Gandhi, a hearty breakfast at the PM’s table, followed by going with her to Rashtrapati Bhavan to catch a movie. The journalist made no bones about the fact that this was their life in 1976 at the peak of the Emergency.

Do you realize what that level of exclusivity feels like? To have a sumptuous meal with the dictator, sharing light moments with her at the President’s Palace, while the rest of Indians struggle to breathe under her boot?

Just like we cannot imagine that level of exclusivity, we cannot imagine the hatred they must feel for Prime Minister Modi and the hundreds of millions of Hindus who voted him to power.

When Modi came, he booted them out of the PM’s official plane. He threw literally hundreds of squatters out of Lutyens’ Bungalows.

And they will do absolutely *anything* to get back in. Please remember that.

 

 

‘Saffron terror’ and five more fairytales for Hinduphobes

In January 2013, at a grand AICC meeting in Jaipur, then Home Minister Sushil Shinde made the following extraordinary statement :

“Reports have come during investigation that BJP and RSS conduct terror training camps to spread terrorism… Bombs were planted in Samjhauta express, Mecca Masjid and also a blast was carried out in Malegaon… This is saffron terrorism that I have talked about. It is the same thing and nothing new. It has come in the media several times,”

More than the ‘saffron terror’ part, Shinde was never grilled on providing exact locations of these terror training camps.

It made no difference to India’s Home Minister that he was diluting India’s stand against global terrorism by saying that the BJP runs terror camps. If the BJP, which was running multiple state governments at the time, is a terrorist organization, then how are we different from our uncivilized neighbor that we accuse of “state sponsored terrorism”?But then, Sonia ji and her puppets have never cared much about such things. In the aftermath of 26/11, Shri Digvijay Singh went personally to release a book on “26/11 : An RSS conspiracy?” The world pointed the finger at Pakistan, but our Indian National Congress pointed a finger at RSS.

Who needs enemies?

In the last few days, we have seen that the bottom has fallen out of the ‘saffron terror’ theory on close judicial examination. After feeling the heat from (partial) Hindu unity in the last General Election, the Congress Party, as of 2018, no longer backs the ‘saffron terror’ theory through official channels.  Presumably that dirty work has been outsourced to the broader ‘secular’ ecosystem of journalists, intellectuals and academics beholden to the party.

But ‘saffron terror’ is only one of the many heads of this monster. It failed precisely because it was too outrageous; it had too much poison. It’s sting was so powerful that it managed to wake up even the Hindus. The real strategy of the ecosystem is to slow poisoning … through multiple channels … keeping Hindus in a depressed condition of self-hatred.

So, I decided to collect five other times this poison was spread through the media cum rumor ecosystem. Perhaps seeing more of the poison in one place will make a difference to people’s understanding of the gravity of the situation.

(1) A boy called Junaid.

He was only 15, with everything in life ahead of him. Alas! His life was cut short on a Mathura bound train when people lynched him to death on an accusation of being a beef eater.

Read and weep for what our nation has become

And now, read and weep for what our media has become.

Beef was nowhere in the picture. But make no mistake, the ecosystem has done its job. Notice that the original article has 27000 shares on Facebook, while months later, when the truth came out, there were just 9000 shares. The ecosystem wins as long as the lie stays one step ahead of the truth.

(2) Semen filled balloons on Holi

Remember this?

From saffron terror to Holi terror. The “news” went viral, with celebrity journos asking random men on the internet why they thrown semen filled balloons at women. All this was achieved before the truth could get its pants on.

Falsehood is a fast swimmer.

(3) Man attacked for carrying leather bag

The guy simply made it all up. It is not known whether this story was a part of a Final Year Project at Journalism School before elite newspapers come over to conduct campus interviews.

(4) Intolerant Hindus rape 71 year old Christian nun in Bengal 

It was not a warning but a symptom. A symptom that media is committed to spreading unsubstantiated rumors in its propaganda war against the Modi government.

A Bangladeshi native by the name of Nazrul Islam. Wonder which casteist, pro-Hindutva RSS shakha he was working with?

(5) Church attacks

Remember when the Prime Minister of India was facing questions over a theft of Rs 8000 from a school? Apparently, local police constables were all on vacation, leading media to pose questions on petty crime directly to the Prime Minister. What else does Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis have to do with his time than to find out who threw a stone at a church in Navi Mumbai?

So much so, that ex-Mumbai Police Commissioner Julio Ribeiro wrote expressing his pain and insecurity as an Indian Christian and got 19000 Facebook shares for it.

Turns out that all these assorted incidents were just petty crimes strung together to form a narrative. The story of “church attacks” had no staying power and faded away soon enough. The story had peaked right before elections in Delhi. You can see that it served its purpose very well.

These are just five fairytales that the ecosystem told Hindus to make them feel ashamed of themselves, their country and their culture. It’s the slow poison designed to keep Hindus distracted while the real horror story is being written. It’s a waiting game that the ecosystem is playing till the demography overwhelms us in its natural course. By the time Hindus wake up, it might be too late.

 

Why Tripura win is more satisfying than likely win in Karnataka

Slowly but surely, the media consensus on Karnataka has started “evolving.” A month ago, they were sure of winning. Which was very puzzling to me. Because I simply could not see how the math was adding up for the Congress Party. This is when I wrote my post on “Why I am cautiously optimistic about Karnataka.” The media was getting carried away with dreams of Siddaramaiah’s “masterstroke” over Lingayats.

The math is still what it was. BJP needs a mere 1% vote swing to win Karnataka. And going by history, no matter how poorly an Opposition campaigns, it always gets at least a 1% positive swing. Add it to the fact that Karnataka has not repeated an incumbent since 1985 and the fact that Congress has a terrible vote:seat conversion in the state. I see no way Siddu can come back.

A month later,  Siddaramaiah’s overconfidence has eroded. The first opinion poll of some credibility has come out (India Today – Karvy) and they are giving Congress about 95 seats and BJP about 85 seats. In vote shares, the BJP gets 35% and Cong 37%. Clearly they screwed up the vote:seat conversion, because the geography of Karnataka dictates that BJP @35% will cross 110 seats.

The mood in the media has also changed a lot. The false bravado is gone and media reports have become circumspect about Karnataka.

I am now ready to upgrade my feeling about Karnataka from “cautiously optimistic” to “likely win.”

And yet, if in Dec 2018, you would ask me what is the best thing that happened in politics this year, I would enthusiastically say TRIPURA (unless the BJP pulls off a miracle win in Rajasthan, somehow).

But why Tripura? How can Tripura be bigger than winning Karnataka or even Madhya Pradesh?

Because it is not about winning elections. It is about hurting the ecosystem. It is about making them cry.

Of course, a BJP win in Karnataka would make the celebrity journos, Bolly retards, academics and intellectuals upset big time. No doubt about that. But I can tell you with confidence that it won’t hurt them as much as the defeat in Tripura did.

Because people are not robots. There are some things that matter more than money. A BJP win in Karnataka would hurt celebrity journos in the pocketbook for sure…. and make no mistake, every article, every tweet, every TV rant from every celebrity journo that you have seen is paid for. Either paid directly on the spot or left as an IOU to be redeemed as and when the Congress comes back to power.

But there are some things that matter even more than the pocketbook. The day the BJP steamrolled the Commies in Tripura, I saw the pain in their eyes. On an average day, a journalist is like a vending machine : you put coins in, choose your topic and the propaganda rolls out. Their outrage has that same repetitive, mechanical sound that a vending machine makes while rolling out the candy you selected.

But on March 3, the day the BJP won Tripura,  they were different. The vending machines suddenly became living breathing human beings, capable of real feelings. Because the BJP had crushed the Commies. Like the children’s stories where the life of the rakshasa is in a parrot. And when the BJP touched the parrot, the rakhasas began writhing in pain on the floor.

They may work for the Dynasty. But their real heart and soul lies with the Commies. And when that statue of Lenin came crashing down, it brought out a very primal cry from within the ecosystem. Even from the ones who are allegedly “right wing.”

It is because of the system they were brought up in. It is because of the journalism schools they went to. It is because of how deeply they had accepted Lenin into their hearts. This includes the ones who masquerade as right wingers now, trying to earn a quick buck while Modi is PM.

In front of their eyes, the statue of Lenin bit the dust. Their god…their Lenin… the infallible one. Imagine their pain as  young Indians put their feet on the head of Lenin’s broken statue and kicked it around. To a journalist it must have seemed like the end of the world.

For the JNU scum, working for the Congress is just a job. It is Lenin who is in their hearts.

The pain … oh god… the pain in their eyes.

And it filled my heart with joy.

I am sorry, but try as I might, I can’t feel that much joy from a win in Karnataka. Maybe one day when we win Kerala. But otherwise not.  Can you?