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Monday, March 30, 2009

Family legacy and the Varun effect

Those who opposed the Ayodhya temple movement, wore silence over the plight of Kashmiri Hindus, damaged the Ram Sethu and denied Lord Rama ever existed, denied the violence at the Godhra railway station, and embraced the butchers of 1984, are collectively gunning at Varun Gandhi's political life।
Column after column by Padma Shris in the media have created an atmosphere where supporting Varun has become a sin. Why? The simple reason is that the farmhouse of Gandhi-Nehru politics has been broken and a scion of the family chose to speak out as his conscience directed.
More than what Varun said or didn't say, it is the hurt and bewilderment over the loss of a Gandhi to the saffron brigade that has made the media and anti-Hindutva politicos react with such venom and acid. He was not heard, not given a chance to present his case, nor did forensic experts examine the so-called proof in the form of a CD containing his speech.
Varun has suddenly dwarfed the media-supported Rahul।

Monday, March 16, 2009

Advani, Manmohan lead race for India's PM

General Elections 2009 are still to be notified but the race for the top job has already hotted up. Who will be the next prime minister of India is perhaps now an even bigger question than which alliance will emerge victorious these elections. The re-emergence of the Third Front this week means that there are now several contenders for the top post. CNN-IBN takes a look at the prime minister aspirants.
Will Manmohan Singh be the king again or will L K Advani's dream come true at last? Will Mayawati get to move into 7 Race Course Road or will Sharad Pawar from Maharashtra materialise? What are the chances of Rahul Gandhi or Sangh Parivar poster boy Narendra Modi? Will they have to wait till 2014? Will a dark horse emerge this time - Bihar strongmen Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad? Or is there someone else waiting in line?
To try and answer these questions on the panel of experts were political commentator Inder Malhotra; Editor-in-Chief Outlook Vinod Mehta; former editor Panchajanya and Director of the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Research Foundation Tarun Vijay; and Political Editor Telegraph Manini Chatterjee; Editor Thuglak Cho Ramaswamy (L to R) Manini Chatterjee, Tarun Vijay, Rajdeep Sardesai, Vinod Mehta, Inder Malhotra.For complete coverage-see-http://ibnlive.in.com/news/advani-manmohan-lead-race-for-indias-pm/87709-37-single.html

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Aspire and Assert

The Times of India

6 Mar 2009, 1115 hrs IST,

Tarun Vijay

Let the people take over the spirit of the Red Fort and declare from its ramparts: "Honourable leaders, having cheated us for the last six decades and made politics a business of scoundrels, for once give India her due in the form of a nation-centric polity beyond family lords and stinking mafiosi of castiests, extortionists and murderers."

India certainly deserves a better lot to be elected members of a parliament which saw shameful scenes last time when a nuclear deal was being pushed to win the vote.

It’s meaningless to boast of our most ancient civilization, culture and values if we see what we have today. Bragging about a past that has no bearing on our behaviour today is worse than running after a mirage. Only the insecure get into it. Even if you forget all the great leaders of the past and stop reading their memoirs and prescriptions for the nation’s ills but keep a straight spine to live for India’s better future with honesty and transparency that would suffice. We will surely build new leaders but for once please strive to free your beloved nation of those who have survived far too long on peoples' lethargy and inaction.

A Hindu nation never cared who wrote the Vedas, how they were revealed or conceived and who authored the Upanishads. The only element that made us survive the vicissitudes of history was the strength to live the ideals and values that were worth living for this nation called Bharat Varsha.

We have been electing representatives who hardly have an idea of the nation they are tasked to protect and help flower. They have no sense of history, a history of our people and civilization, and do not any idea why we had to go through too many assaults by foreigners and how we were able to resist them so valiantly for centuries. Yet why has speaking about it has become a matter of hesitation for the neo-scholarship? We insult retired decorated soldiers when they are forced to agitate for a mere uniformity in pensions and scales though the lawmakers increase their salaries astronomically at the fag end of the session. That’s our patriotism.

Elect India this time. People who would try sincerely to make for the lost years of development and raise the value of our citizenship. It must be a matter of great confidence and pride to be an Indian citizen. Leaders and the administration must look at our people with respect and love, which we lack completely today as the nation is still run on British laws and the colonial attitude. No police reforms, no electoral corrections, no administrative changes in the environment of governance. The same hateful arrogance is seen in the bureaucrats and ministers who get a chance to find a seat of power. The way an officer of Emergency fame and thoroughly partisan was chosen, and supported by a section of the media and politicians, to handle elections, ignoring the advice of a man of integrity, speaks volumes of the depths we have fallen to.

Bribing is a matter of routine, piling of files is a thumb rule, small measures of publicity like increasing Haj subsidy or providing Ganga Jal on Shivratri become great milestones of political achievements while primary schools, village health centres and energy and water resources management are left to the mercy of sidelined ministers. The "profitable" departments are coal, mining and rural development, which are less checked and monitored but have enough meat to enjoy. We have a media whose brilliance comes to the fore in trivialities like the Mangalore pub incidence and which is completely hooked to Washington-London mania. We forget that for India the Middle East, Asia and especially East Asia with China taking a natural prominence are the regions that weigh more than anything else.

East is our natural constituency of diplomacy which is nurtured by age-old affinities. Similarly, at home we ignore the northeast. More than English, we must emphasize on learning Japanese and Chinese. That’s the future, not the US. It’s no use saying Hindus were ever a proselytizing religion. Declare with a truly Indian confidence that this world would be a better place to live if it follows the Hindu way of life and send missionaries of Hinduism to make people appreciate the Vedic way of a happy and mutually respectful society. Be a proud missionary yourself and take some inspiration from the times when Asoka the great, who has given us our national motif, sent his son to spread the message of Dharma. Why hesitate now? But we have learnt to live with all wrongs like we lived calmly during the British colonial period. Only a handful, less than 5%, participated in the freedom struggle. That’s the bare bitter truth. Should we not wake up even now?

Should our personal egos and likings be a deciding factor, or in a critical time like this can we rise above them and decide?

I was at Allahabad University sometime ago to address a students’ convention and have a Q&A session that ran for more than two hours in the Deligacy campus. They all wanted change. Give us clean rivers, easily available drinking water (since the advent of the mineral-water bottle culture, which is neither mineral water nor safe ones, one quipped), get rid of illiterate priests and a mindset that feels ashamed at just and rightful Hindu assertions that teaching Vedas is considered a Hindu, and hence, a communal and discardable act. They were enamoured with the youth chant but wanted a leadership that has a spine. In the evening the octogenarian leader of Vishwa Hindu Parishad Shri Ashok Singhal invited me to join a discussion on the agenda for Arundhati-Vashishtha Trust he has created to disseminate the scientific and Indic civilisational knowledge among the people. When we were leaving he said: "It’s time to forget our internal differences for the sake of greater unity among Hindu nationalists." We will be sinning if driven by personal egos, we work to defeat our own ilk. An India led by an Indian nationalist whom we know would be preferable to one led by a lady of a foreign origin.

If that happens we will finally have a post-Nehruvian raj that is more connected with the soil and people's aspirations. Is it too much to ask to have cleaner and honest members of Parliament who would ensure better roads, bridges, primary schools, women’s empowerment and a scheduled caste-scheduled tribe upsurge that will take our nation miles ahead and unshackle us from the redundant ritualism and caste-based differences and atrocities.

Why can’t we have, unhesitatingly the best models of pilgrim centres and temple management that cater to the needs of the young and mobile and do not resist any new reform? Let us have a leadership with spine that will make India the strongest military power on earth without any apologies.

After all, we have a burden on our shoulders to keep India free from traitors and terrorists and defend borders with a few unfinished vows to be completed as directed by the unanimous resolutions of Parliament. The platform people, with one leg abroad and one in the stinking wealth in Swiss accounts can’t do that. Let a new Chanakya create a Chandra Gupta to uproot the denationalized politicians and give us hope.

Merely ritualizing the "pub bharo" to "Parliament bharo" drills is nothing but further moisturizing the filthy dustbin.

चुनाव भारत-भाग्य बदलने का दुर्लभ अवसर

चुनाव भारत-भाग्य बदलने का दुर्लभ अवसर हैं -
पूरी तरह राष्ट्रीय हितों के प्रति समर्पित राजनीतिक नेतृत्व की जरूरत हैं

पार्टी और विचारधारा को तिलांजलि देकर राजनेता चुनाव की इस तरह तैयारियां कर रहे दिखते हैं मानो भारत की संसद में प्रवेश राष्ट्र पर छाए संकटों के समाधान के लिए नहीं, बल्कि व्यक्तिगत ऐश्वर्य और सत्ता सुख में हिस्सेदारी के लिए हो। जिस प्रकार टिकटों की बिक्री और चुनाव खर्च के लिए इकट्ठा किए जा रहे धन का ब्यौरा सामने आ रहा है उससे तो यही अंदाजा लगता है कि देश अभी भी उन राजनेताओं की प्रतीक्षा में है जो चुनावी अखाड़े को पूंजी निवेश का लाभप्रद क्षेत्र मानने के बजाय अपने हितों को दांव पर लगाते हुए राष्ट्रीय हितों को आंखों में धारण कर सत्ता के सूत्र संभालेंगे। भारत विभाजन के बाद से आज तक राजनीति दुराचरण के धब्बों से कलंकित रही है। 1947 में जब भारतीय सैनिक कश्मीर पर अचानक धोखे से हुए पाकिस्तानी हमले झेल रहे थे तो लंदन में तत्कालीन उच्चायुक्त कृष्णामेनन से जुड़ा जीप घोटाला हुआ। फिर मूंदड़ा कांड, नागरवाला और बोफोर्स कांड, सुखराम मामला, चारा घोटाला, तहलका, पनडुब्बी खरीद, गेहूं आयात घोटाला जैसे प्रकरण राजनेताओं की साख पर आंच डालते रहे।
एक ओर सामान्य नागरिक दुनिया भर में अपनी व्यक्तिगत मेधा और निपुणता के बल पर भारतीय पहचान को श्रेष्ठता का सर्वोच्च स्थान दिला रहे थे और भारतीय कंपनियां विश्वविख्यात ब्रांड अधिग्रहीत कर रही थीं तो दूसरी ओर राजनेता बोरियां भर-भर कर नोट इकट्ठा कर अपनी आत्मा के बजाय तिजोरी के निर्देश पर भारतीय संसद में सांसद धर्म निभाने का परिदृश्य उपस्थित कर रहे थे। क्या ऐसे टिकाऊ और बाजारू लोगों के सौदों पर टिकी सरकार चुनना राष्ट्रहित में होगा? जिस देश की प्रजा अपने शासक को चुनने में लापरवाही बरते या उसका चुनाव जाति, भाषा और धनबल के प्रभाव की कसौटी पर करे, क्या उसका कभी अच्छा परिणाम निकल सकता है?
कुछ ऐसी स्थिति पिछली शती के प्रारंभ में ब्रिटेन में थी, जब हाउस आफ ला‌र्ड्स की सीटें नीलाम हुआ करती थीं। फिर भी वहां की जनता ने अपने देश, काल और परिस्थिति के अनुरूप स्वयं को बदला और एक ऐसे प्रजातंत्र का ढांचा मजबूत किया जो राज-वंश भी परंपरागत रूप से जीवित रखे हुए है और जहां प्रखर राष्ट्रवाद हर नीति को निर्देशित करता है। अमेरिका और चीन भी भले ही परस्पर अत्यंत भिन्न समाज हों, लेकिन अपने देश को दुनिया में सबसे श्रेष्ठ, समृद्ध और शक्तिशाली बनाना वहां की राजनीति का मुख्य धर्म परिलक्षित होता है। भारत के सामने आसन्न चुनावों ने यह चुनौती उपस्थित की है कि जनता ऐसे सांसदों को चुने जो राष्ट्र-धर्म के प्रति सजग और प्रतिबद्ध हों। दुर्भाग्य से वर्तमान चुनाव पद्धति में सिर्फ जीतना ही एकमात्र कसौटी है, चरित्र और गुण का स्थान यदि कभी आया भी तो बाद में आता है। फलत: ऐसे सांसद चुने जाते हैं जिन्हें न अपने देश के इतिहास का ज्ञान होता है, न भूगोल का और न ही राष्ट्रीय संघर्ष के विभिन्न सोपानों से वे परिचित होते हैं। वे भूल जाते हैं कि उनसे पहले भी अनेक मंत्री हो चुके हैं, जिनमें से कोई भी अपने धनबल और असीम ऐश्वर्य के कारण यशस्वी नहीं हुआ। केवल पैसा और पद कभी प्रतिष्ठा नहीं दिला सकते।
जिन लोगों को सत्ता के लिए ईस्ट इंडिया कंपनी के बाबू और रायबहादुर बनने में शर्म नहीं आई, वैसे ही लोग आज विदेशी हितों और विदेशी मूल के नेतृत्व के सामने झुककर राष्ट्रीयता दांव पर लगा रहे हैं। जिस देश में पांच लाख देशभक्त नागरिक निर्वासित कर दिए गए हों, जहां एक करोड़ से अधिक विदेशी अवैध घुसपैठिए वोट बैंक राजनीति का संरक्षण पा रहे हों, जहां शासक को पुलिस, प्रशासन और चुनाव पद्धति में सुधार की कोई आवश्यकता ही महसूस न हो, बल्कि ब्रिटिश काल के कानून आज भी देश में लागू हों, ऐसे देश में यथास्थिति के दब्बूपन के बजाय जन-विद्रोह के परिवर्तनकारी स्वर बुलंद होने चाहिए। देश को ऐसी राजनीति चाहिए जो शत्रु के प्रति निर्गम और प्रतिशोधी हो, जो देश को सैन्य दृष्टि से विश्व में सबसे सबल बनाने के लिए प्रतिबद्ध हो तथा नि:संकोच भाव से अपने अगल-बगल के क्षेत्र पर ऐसा प्रभुत्व स्थापित करे ताकि वहां की अराजकता और तालिबानी शरारतों का हम पर असर न पड़े। चारों ओर से पाकिस्तान, नेपाल, बांग्लादेश और श्रीलंका जैसे असफल और अराजकता ग्रस्त देशों से घिरे भारत को आंतरिक और सीमावर्ती शांति के लिए ऐसा सैन्य और कूटनीतिक प्रभुत्व स्थापित करना ही होगा जिसे देखकर विरोधी भयभीत रहें। आज तो पाकिस्तान और बांग्लादेश ही नहीं, श्रीलंका व नेपाल तक हमारी सुरक्षा और संवेदना की कद्र नहीं करते।
चीन के बढ़ते क्षेत्रीय विस्तार के प्रति राजनीतिक दलों में कोई दीर्घकालिक सर्वसम्मत चिंतन ही नहीं है। तीस करोड़ से अधिक भारतीय आज भी गरीबी रेखा से नीचे पशुवत जीवन बिताने पर विवश हैं। गत दस वर्षों में दो लाख किसान आत्महत्याएं कर चुके हैं। खेती में रासायनिक खाद और जीन अंतरित बीज के जहर फैल रहे हैं। देश की कृषि योग्य भूमि पर सिनेमा, होटल और कारखाने लगाने की अनुमति देकर अमीरों को और ज्यादा अमीर तथा भूमिपति किसानों को स्लमडाग बनाया जा रहा है। ऐसे ही सांसद फिर चुने जाएं तो किस प्रकार के भारत का वे निर्माण करेंगे? भारत एक ऐसे नेतृत्व की प्रतीक्षा में है जो सबसे बड़ा तीर्थत्व गुण और शक्ति संचय में माने, जिसके प्रेरणा केंद्र और मन भारत में हों, जो दरिद्रता निवारण और विज्ञान-प्रौद्योगिकी प्रसार को देवालय निर्माण जैसा महत्वपूर्ण माने, जिसके सर्वोच्च आराध्य भारत के नागरिक हों। वर्तमान चुनाव हमें भारत भाग्य बदलने का दुर्लभ अवसर दे रहे हैं-एक ऐसा भारत भाग्य विधाता चुनें जो सच में जन-गण-मन का अधिनायक बन सके।
क्या हम परिवर्तन के लिए तैयार हैं?

Monday, March 9, 2009

Elect those who choose India as life force

Elect those who at least know a little bit of India and love her people. A leader that wouldn't hesitate to serve from South Block even if it means incurring personal monetary loss, but inspiring newcomers to stand and live proudly on their earnings through labour and merit. Living on peoples' money must come to an end. Forget the temples, mosques and churches for a while and just concentrate on two basic factors, removing illiteracy and bringing every fellow Indian above the poverty line with a one-year period as deadline. It has to be on a real war footing to make up for the losses due to a lethargic, vision less and self-serving leadership.Turn Eastward, learn Japanese and Chinese. Explore India in Far East and South  and make England in India an obscure,forgettable dream.Trust me, we can do it if we have the will. Have courses in science, mathematics, engineering and technology upgraded, spread out and quality marked. We terribly lack in the manufacturing sector because there is not enough engineering talent available.

The last 100 years has seen India shrinking to half and the Hindu population being overwhelmed by a demographic invasion that hates to see Hindu dominance in any sphere of life.  And we fight over sackfuls of currency notes as we saw during trust vote on the nuke deal and are busy winning votes through dramas like a night's stay in a Dalit home.

There are those who still believe that Pakistan will, or it can, or it may become brotherly to us. Perhaps Uncle Sam, now Chacha Obama, will help.

Even Gods refuse to help such worms.

And they must have the sinews to expand militarily unabashedly. India must show a will and the power to control her region.  State policy makers must be clear in their mind that sometimes revenge is the only word the enemy understands and why must we not avenge the brutal killings of our patriotic citizens?

Rediff.com

http://www.rediff.com///news/2009/mar/09guest-elect-those-who-choose-india-as-life-force.htm


Elect those who choose India as life force

Tarun Vijay

March 09, 2009 | 17:37 IST


Surrounded by failed States and terror dens, India needs a strong leadership that will not hesitate to take punitive action against the erring State or non-State 'player' and organise the strength to withstand a spillover. Wars and inner conflicts are not won with machines. You got to have a heart that's firm and courageous. The war machine's role is secondary.

India was never so vulnerable and foolishly spineless as it stands today. Not because we do not have the power to defend our people and land but because of a leadership that's a delight of the alien invaders and petty boat infiltrators. Our leaders join politics to earn money and sell conscience -- they have no credentials except to boast of a family name or caste and muscle power. We have a galaxy of non-political leadership but that too boot polishes the nincompoop rulers in search of reflected glory. These holy men and women are so detached from the realities of their nation's pains and agonies that they go on a six-month long world tour for establishing peace in Palestine and Iraq and show off their pictures in the galleries of the United Nations as proof of their expanding influence. And surely they get quite a number of gullible people to believe they are great.

And we are increasingly surrounded by a Nepal, once a Hindu nation and now a threat for Hindu survival. We have a Pakistan and Bangladesh that have bled us continuously for the last three decades of intermittent terror wars -- Khalistan, Operation Topac, the jihad in Kashmir and the ignominious forced exodus of Kashmiri Hindus.


We have lost more than 60,000 Indians in terror attacks directly sponsored and encouraged by Pakistan -- whether its army or Inter Services Intelligence or the sheepish conspiratorial silence of their leaders, only the naive would make a difference and absolve the culprits. The simple arithmetic is that Pakistan, a creation of intense hate against Hindus, has always felt a sadistic pleasure at our discomfiture. It's the very basic element of Pakistan that has not let us live in peace since August 14, 1947.

But we refuse to see history and continue to lose geography.

Post-1947, we have lost more than 1.25 lakh square kilometres of land to Pakistan and China and Indian Parliament had passed a unanimous resolution to take the lost land back.

But not a single political party would dare to mention in its election manifesto that if voted to power it would strive its hardest possible to implement Parliament's resolve.

Why?


Cats would remain cats unless they are born as tigers.


The last 100 years has seen India shrinking to half and the Hindu population being overwhelmed by a demographic invasion that hates to see Hindu dominance in any sphere of life. They have vanished from Kabul, Balochistan, Pakhtunistan, Multan and Dhaka, humiliated in Kathmandu, killed, converted and incapacitated in Sri Lanka, turned invisible in Sindh, Rawalpindi, Lahore and Chittagong, driven out of their last bastion in the saffron valley and increasingly reduced in Nagaland, Arunacahal, Mizoram and Jammu. And we fight over sackfuls of currency notes as we saw during trust vote on the nuke deal and are busy winning votes through dramas like a night's stay in a Dalit home.

That's India of today -- reduced to an Orwellian play by murderers and bribe-seekers who are again seeking an entry to Parliament by investing huge chunks of money.

There are those who still believe that Pakistan will, or it can, or it may become brotherly to us. Perhaps Uncle Sam, now Chacha Obama, will help.

Even Gods refuse to help such worms.

Elect those who at least know a little bit of India and love her people. A leader that wouldn't hesitate to serve from South Block even if it means incurring personal monetary loss, but inspiring newcomers to stand and live proudly on their earnings through labour and merit. Living on peoples' money must come to an end. Forget the temples, mosques and churches for a while and just concentrate on two basic factors, removing illiteracy and bringing every fellow Indian above the poverty line with a one-year period as deadline. It has to be on a real war footing to make up for the losses due to a lethargic, vision less and self-serving leadership.

Trust me, we can do it if we have the will. Have courses in science, mathematics, engineering and technology upgraded, spread out and quality marked. We terribly lack in the manufacturing sector because there is not enough engineering talent available. Even the best of engineering colleges are facing a serious dearth of proper faculty and it results in less than appropriately equipped students. It's good to see a number of technology and engineering colleges, institutes and private universities that have sprung up in most of the cities and metros that must be the envy of even a developed nation. But are they really providing what they announce and do they have the right kind of facilities and infrastructure to produce credible graduates confident enough to start a swadeshi enterprise of world class standards?

If a post-World War America, Japan and Europe can rebuild their ravaged countries into models of modern development and human endeavour, why can't we? Why can't we set our own goals and standards that must make the most developed nation too follow us? Swami Vivekananda said all expansion is life and all contraction is death. Barring politics, we have shown the world the extraordinary capabilities and the astounding acumen to achieve the impossible in recent years. It happened, as is said, in spite of bad politicians. Let a new crop of good politicians take over Parliament and change its fossilised and stinking contours to a vibrant new hope commensurate with the professionalism being exhibited by Indians elsewhere.

And this is not at all age related but only needs a mind and heart that works for the nation.

And they must have the sinews to expand militarily unabashedly. India must show a will and the power to control her region. We are bled because of a meaningless large-heartedness that makes jihad factories on both sides of our territory send mercenary self-destructionist lunatics who kill and maim and destroy our people and city life. Bangladesh and Pakistan have got to be brought to their senses through instilling fear in them, a genuine and serious one. They have to be made to think twice before being silent or encouraging an anti-India terror policy. State policy makers must be clear in their mind that sometimes revenge is the only word the enemy understands and why must we not avenge the brutal killings of our patriotic citizens?

 Hence choose those who choose India as their life-force and not just a platform for money making and dying like dirt. The choice is yours to practice in the coming elections.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

This planet needs Hindu ethos

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Tarun Vijay

The only place on this planet that the Hindus can rightfully claim they belong to is Hindustan or India. And the only people on this earth who feel hesitant to speak for their dharma or the basic identity too are Hindus. In Indian politics, run and financed by the Hindu majority, taking up Hindu issues means an extra effort to stand and face the charges too acidic. It pays to be a non-Hindu in a Hindu majority Hindustan, frankly.

 Hence it's time when the followers of the legacy that began with Dr. Hedgewar founding the nationalist school of thought known as the RSS must assert and justify their birth, first in the form of Jana Sangh and later re-incarnated as the Bharatiya Janata Party. I was there when the first-ever convention of the newly-formed BJP took place in Mumbai, in 1980, christened as Samata Nagar. And the star attraction in that meeting was none else other than Mohammad Karim Chagla, the octogenarian scholar and statesman. The BJP could have adopted a pure saffron flag as its new motif, like the old Jana Sangh, but it chose the green and saffron. Jana Sangh too, in early fifties could have been a Hindu Sangh, but the stalwarts in those times chose a name that would represent all --any one who is an Indian, no matter what his faith is, without compromising on the basic characteristics of the nation i.e. Hindu.

 A nation is defined not by the forex reserves or the military prowess but by the contours of her civilisational traditions and the collective struggles and sufferings. We are, unquestioningly and unapologetically Hindu in our national colours as much as the USA is Latin Christian and the UK works for all communities still adhering as a state to the spiritual umbrella of the Church of England. An Obama taking oath of the presidential office on the Bible doesn't become a communally hateful ruler for the other faiths. So is with us. A Hindu-majority India remains the only guarantee of a pluralistic and democratic nation. The moment we accept the de-Hinduisation process of the nation as a sign of secularism and an acceptable factor in polity, we are not only doomed as an Indian nation but also invite Talibanisation of the society.

 And then, who says to be a Hindu means looking backward or approving obscurantism? The only people on earth who virtually worship Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, and have prosperity as an inseparable part of their life-cycle are Hindus. In fact to be Hindu means to be rich, brilliant and happy. The most important factors, however, as was explained by Prof. Rajendra Singh, the third RSS Chief, (who was Head and Reader, Dept. of Physics, University of Allahabady) remain wisdom and character. We forget that exactly for her power, happiness and wealth, Hindu India was the eye sore of the barbarians when they assaulted us calling this land as 'Sone ki Chidiya - the Golden Bird'. We have shown the world the best of Hindu architecture in our thousand-year-old temples in Ellora, Ajanta to Ang kor Wat, the Vedic poetry, the invention of numerals and zero, life sciences and geometry to trigonometry and the deep knowledge of cosmos and the most scientific grammar and script and language. We are those Hindu people who gave the world the concept of 'world is one family' (vasudhaiva kutumbakam) when the semitic races were launching Crusades and Jihads. And an inborn attitude to respect the different viewpoint so much so that an atheist Rishi, scholar monk, Charvak was given an honoured place in the highest exalted order of six philosophers. To be a Hindu means saying no to Gulags and accepting a Galileo with appreciation. Even today the best of the economic developmental models in the states are indisputably seen in states where BJP is ruling. Still seculars deny that showing a pathological hatred for the Hindu word and world view.

 Money, riches, industrialisation, military arrogance couldn't save the mighty Soviet empire. You need a little more to live as humans, which the Communists refused to accept. The IT power and the strength of brilliance coupled with loyalty to the adopted land (we do not bomb the land we adopt- a trait Hindus are known and respected for the world over) is making them use force to reckon with- as Thomas Freidman too discussed in his celebrated book The World is Flat. But that alone won't suffice to define the nation that has been known since millenniums world over as the land of the Hindus.

 It's the so-called secular flabbiness of the neo-rich and subjugated colonised English-speaking elite that has taken up the place left vacant by British sergeants and colonial masters. Hate Hindu- is their new professional slogan. Anything Hindu is despicable and arrogantly dismissible. Destroy Ram Sethu, arrest Kanchi Shankaracharya on Diwali night, ignore the brutal killing of an 80-year-old monk on Krishna Janmashtami night in Kandhamal, simply delete the memory of Godhra and never answer why 59 men, women and little kids were burnt to death in a steel compartment, on February 27 seven years ago, never ever mention the 290 Hindus murdered during what is known as Gujarat riots, never discuss the forced exodus of five lakh Kashmiri Hindus after their women were raped and children killed by 'brave' Nizam-e-Mustafa' Ghazis.

 

That's the new order, which has to be exposed and dismantled if India has to survive.

 They insult and demand the abolition of a language without which their birth can't be celebrated, marriage can't be solemnised and even in death, the same language is used. That's Sanskrit. Like they can denounce their motherland's fragrance, they also humiliate the language of their birth and death. That's their morality and honesty.

 Last week Al-Jazeera, a channel more known for putting on air Osama and Al Jawahiri statements took my interview, 'to present the true colours of Indian culture' as its Canadian correspondent requested. When the show was aired, it showed Hindu right activists as simple monsters and barbarians and dishonestly juxtaposed their prejudices to 'justify' their pre-decided views. That's what this small minority of money wielding de-culturised slave class of the dollar world does anywhere it gets a little dominance -a Gulag at every desk.

 Against such elements of hate, the Saffron is fighting a democratic battle through a new generation of IT-savvy saffronite youths. In the blog world, Facebook, internet battles, the Saffron is reigning high and the way we get their responses from California to Bangalore and Kolkata to Chennai via Santa Fe, it's simply bewildering and a great morale booster.

 

There are hundreds of them. Mostly post-graduates, engineers, MBAs, fresh IITians and doctors of philosophy, who have left the lure of the lucre and chose to work in the remote regions of the Andamans, Changlang, Diphu, Aizawl and the Nilgiri hills. From Wynad to Wakho and Leh to Lalganj, there is not a single block or tehsil or district where various workers and organisations inspired by the RSS are not active. For the first time in the history of this nation, a non-monastic order of the socially dedicated young men and women has taken roots which puts the nation before everything else, work like a sanyaasi without an ochre robe. They run village development projects, water harvesting and production of bio-foods and hospitals and schools and slum-area service projects. One such organisation, Vidya Bharati, has become the largest academic institution without government help having more than one lakh teachers and twenty-four lakh students in literally every nook and corner of the nation. B.M.S has claimed a membership of 84 lakhs, to be the biggest labour organisation of the land. Amongst students, teachers, politicians, religious clergy, doctors, and even visually-challenged people, RSS-inspired organizations are active and moving fast to get the top slot.

 There is hardly a stream in the national life which is not touched and influenced by the ideology espoused by this Saffron movement which began just a year before almost the year Communist movement took shape in India. Though the Communist movement remained confined to a few corners and split in more than 24 various splinter groups, Sangh-inspired organisations are setting the agenda in their respective fields and one of their Swayam Sewak unfurled the Tricolor at the Red Fort six times in continuation. Can any hateful, divisive organisation get this kind of response from the people year after year? How can ill-feelings towards another community inspire young professionals continuously for the last eight decades to devote their life and forget the attractions of a glamorous career just for the cause of rebuilding the nation? Can any other organisation, specially the secular and the Left variety, show its positive and harmonious contribution for the development of the society in comparison to the RSS work?

 Against all odds, to oppose political families turning India into their personal fiefdom, to stop India becoming a dharamshala for foreign infiltrators and putting an end to the endless pusillanimity against Jihadi terrorism, a party has to come to power that has the guts to call a spade a spade and strengthen the sinews to provide security and ensure prosperity. Enough is enough.