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India’s Nuclear Marvel…

Indian Nuclear Scientists have created a history on the remarkable days of 11th and 13th of the month of May in 1998 by conducting a series of five advanced Nuclear Tests at Pokhran, Rajasthan. In common man’s term these are described as Simultaneous Explosions, but in scientific language, they are Near Simultaneous Explosions. These explosions were not carried out at the same time, but at very minute interval. The first three N-tests were spaced at some hundredth fraction of a second. Let’s see what we have accomplished on the day and what were the devices & technology used for that.

The first of the three N-tests on the first day was like a big Atom Bomb, which can be carried under the wings of a Fighter Aircraft and can be targeted at the enemy destination. It may be labeled as the ‘Conventional Atom Bomb’. The second one was a very small and can be fitted on the tip of the Missile as Nuclear Warhead. If we call the first one as Hi-tech, the second one may be called ‘Super’ Hi-tech. The third explosion was of Thermo-nuclear type. Commonly it is nicknamed in media as Hydrogen Bomb, but actually the device from which this Hydrogen Bomb can be made is known as Thermo-nuclear device. We have tested it here. The real Hydrogen Bomb cannot be tested on the Earth except in the battlefield. It is an extremely destructive and dangerous weapon.

On the first day, just half an hour after the splendid explosions, the IAF helicopter was surveying the site. It was assessing the air and environment. It gave ‘Safe’ signal to the control room situated just five km. from the test-site about the overall safety. It informed that the atmosphere was calm, there was not any kind of environmental insult the people could move up to the test-site.

On receiving these signals, some of the senior officials and the scientists rushed to the site taking the necessary equipment. Geological and Ecological studies were carried out in detail. Test analysis was going on in the control room. The work was divided in the seventeen divisions. Each was given a target. The data and the other details gathered by each division were analyzed. The conclusion at the end of second hour was that there was not a trace of the nuclear insult by the Radio-active radiations emitted following N-explosions.

Returning from the test-site, people of different departments submitted the respective departmental reports to Dr Kalam, Dr Chidambaram and Dr Kakodkar. The results were wondrous and delightful. The twelve of the seventeen departments had achieved 90-92 % success. The remaining five departments were such that Dr Kalam had eulogized them on their accomplishments. These people had achieved 95-97 % success. It is truly marvelous.

On the whole two things were evident. The tests were successful and there was no insult at all to the environment. The message was conveyed to the Prime Minister of India, Shri Atal Behari Bajpaiji.

On the same day evening, Prime Minister addressed a Press Conference and acquainted the world with the remarkable event. PM came with the Tri-colour in his hand. He proclaimed in the balanced words, “Bharat is now a Nuclear Super Power. India is now a Nuclear Weapon State.” One meaning of the proclamation was that our nation has put forward an important step necessary for its defence requisites on the foundation of indigenous scientific and technological advances.

Although the immediate effects of the explosions were felt in and around Pokhran and in some 125 villages nearby in the form of tremors or shocks similar to earthquake waves, the political and diplomatic tremors and jerks were felt in each and every nook and corner of the world. The derogatory reactions in very stiff, venomous and non-diplomatic languages began pouring in. The questions asked in the foreign and some local media were like, “Are they crazy?” “Are they lunatics?”

In political field usually such antinational and abusive language is avoided. Instead of commending India and the scientists for their extraordinary achievement, there was a battery of insane, derogatory and malicious criticisms. They expressed the fear that it would accelerate the arms-race already going on in South Asia.

But the common man was delighted. Their reactions were authoritative as if one was the eyewitness to the event. After returning back to Pune at the end of May, I was looking into the newspapers and the magazines of 12-14th May and around. In one daily newspaper of 12th May, the caricature was very specific. Two vegetable vendors sitting on a roadside were talking to each other. One tells the other, “I am feeling energized since yesterday.” This reflects the sentiments of a common man. I feel this is the greatest reward for the daring feat displayed by us. On the net, the common man’s reactions have traversed through a variety of sensors and proved enormously eloquent. There were the numbers of opinion polls, which made it obvious that 92 % of our nationals have wholeheartedly and conscientiously welcomed the incident.

The reactions were not confined to India. The CNN channel had organized a series of opinion polls from 12th to 30th May on the subject. The queries were straight and simple. “Do you justify India’s N-explosions? Give reasons.” Though it was destined to last until 30th May, it was abruptly and prematurely concluded on 22nd May. Adil Sopariwala, a political analyst, was associated with the poll as a member of the poll analyzing team. He displayed an interesting analytical report of the poll till the date. He told that they had announced to continue the poll till 30th May, but were winding it up prematurely on 22nd May, because the magnificent and intuitive expressions received till the date were so enormously unilateral that it was impossible to receive the enough contradictory views.

Similar were the reactions of common man in the outside world. They were for greeting the Indian government’s decision. Especially those of the European common men were of felicitating India. The reactions of the non-resident Indians, persons of the Indian origin and the people of those European nations who consider India as their natural friend & ally, were stating that, India that was till 11 May 98, in the list of developing nations, has now put forward a strong and assertive step towards a league of developed nations. They could receive India’s help when needed. Such were the responses of most of the countries.

I am citing an example that elaborates that how encouraging were the common man’s reactions. While returning Mumbai, we landed at the airport late night. We decided to reach Anushaktinagar for night stay and go to Pune in the morning. We had some precious equipments to be delivered at BARC before proceeding to Anushaktinagar. We needed a taxi from airport to BARC then to Anushaktinagar. Usually the taxi fare from airport to BARC is 1.5 times the regular fare. I know the habits of Mumbai taxiwalas. We reached BARC around 2 am. We decided to take vehicle from BARC. The driver listened that. To our surprise he told us that there was no need to change the vehicle as he would take us there. But he kept a precondition. We were surprisingly listening to him. He told, “I won’t take single rupee from you as fare.” We were not known to him. He might have inferred the identity of the persons going to BARC and Anushaktinagar at the midnight in such a way. We refused. But what he told was to me and my colleagues the greatest reward of our exertions. He explained, “As you are doing such an exemplary work for our nation, can’t we do a little for you?” Such astonishing were the greetings from the mass.

Another type of reactions came from the nuclear technocrats. These are very much important for persons like us working in atomic energy field. We were lucky to have an unexpected opportunity to receive such precious views. At Pokhran, our food was arranged by a Sarpanch of nearby village. We were a group of few persons who stayed at Pokhran after 11th May, rest had returned to their respective places. So instead of having meal at worksite, we went to the village for dinner. On our request the Sarpanch arranged for TV. Coincidently around 11pm, there was a press conference followed by panel discussion on BBC. The panel was comprised of three renowned nuclear scientists, the French, a Dutch and a British. They were introduced to the viewers. The French scientist had taken part in more than 200 N- tests of nearly 400 tests carried out by France under the sea water & the ground. He was just like ‘Bhisma Pitamah’ of our field. Such a great authority was evaluating our tests. We were extremely eager to listen to his views. Fortunately the moderator began with him. He asked, “Is it not amazing that India has emerged as a strong contender in the nuclear field after a big gap of 24 years? He was true. After our first test in 1974, we remained dormant for a long period of 24 years. In the field of scientific research, only achievements & evidences are considered. One can spare 5 to 6 years maximum after the first test to do 2nd test in the name of preparations. The nuclear club member countries knowing what did the delay mean, were looking at us contemptuously. So in these circumstances it is not a simple matter to have advanced N- tests and all proving successful. That is why the world was amazed. The first sentence of the French scientist was very commending. He accepted, “it is not only amazing but it is stunning.” He exclaimed that he could not understand that even after not getting any opportunity for N-test in 24 years, how the people could continue working in India. If he would have been told to wait, he could have waited for merely 5 or 6 years only. He would have left the project and joined the nuclear project of some other country. It was extremely amazing for him that we had persons silently working for 24 years without even expecting for N-test of any type.

Obviously this is the fact. Although the people of present generation like me have impressed the world by successfully executing the N- tests, I must sincerely have to admit that the scientists and the researchers of the previous two generations were patiently working in the adverse circumstances. They erected a grand structure with the strong base. We just kept a ‘kalash’ on the top of that magnificent edifice. They worked incessantly in the toughest conditions, faced the difficulties bravely, accepted the financial limitations & other resource scarcity, always encouraged the newer generations and hoped that the future generations, if not they, might get the opportunity. They truly deserve all the credit.

The French added further that as he had taken part in nearly 200 N- tests, he knew the intricacies & risks of even single N- test. It is very difficult to conduct two tests simultaneously. But it was an absolute madness to take the risk of doing three advanced N- tests at a time. Explaining the dangers he added that if any one of the three N- tests went wrong, other two might have gone out of control. The first casualty would be the scientists observing from just five km distance from the test site. They had taken a big risk. Elaborating the possible reason, he told that there was no opportunity in last 24 years and the people were not sure to get another in the future. To transform the only chance in to the success they endangered their lives. He frankly admitted that of 200 tests he participated only six were of thermo-nuclear variety, and unfortunately all had failed miserably, in spite of all resources and equipments provided by their (French) government.

We have to keep in mind that who is confessing this. The well experienced person who had to his credit the splendour of 200 advanced N- tests was telling that they were unable to succeed in super hi-tech thermo-nuclear tests. So it is but natural for him to eulogize the team for the rare accomplishment after a dwarfing break of 24 years.

It is very interesting to know that what our previous nuclear generations had done. Just after India’s freedom the Nuclear Corporation was established in 1948. The Atomic establishment was started in 1951, which after the death of respected Dr Bhabha, was rechristened as BARC- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. An experimental reactor came to us in 1955.

From the very beginning our people realized that if we wanted to advance in this field, extremely diligent persons must be brought in. People trained under the guidance of experienced and learned professors in the university would be needed. So the department of Nuclear Physics was started in the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) and the Allahabad University. If a student of a science faculty is told that the new course of Bachelor degree is started in University but there is no experimental laboratory, and yet not sure when it will, none will seek an admission in such a course. Such were the challenges faced by the brilliant students opting for the study.

We are fortunate that having studying the Nuclear Physics from the Allahabad University and later teaching there, Dr. Murali Manohar Joshi became a minister looking after the department of higher education in the central government. As we think, it becomes apparent that what an appropriate appointment it was, when a person associated with such an important subject from the very beginning was given the charge of nation’s higher education.

The biggest task was to motivate such students to work there even without experimental laboratories and to ask them to face the plenty of challenges in the field. The students came, the professors came. But what could they do without experimental laboratory? Had they been reading books only? But they didn’t bow down to the limitations. They gathered the minute details of researches going on in the outside world in the subject. They studied and were unceasingly considering that whether they could add newer aspects to the subject.

Result was that these western people who felt that our people would know nothing of it, we needed not be given any mean or material and within a year or two the game would be over, their responses started reversing. Due to all those efforts we got an experimental reactor in 1955. But how much vigilance was kept while giving this? Even by mistake we would receive the full fledged reactor and we could make atom bomb, then? Instead of that, give experimental reactor. What would happen by it? Even the electricity generation would not occur. Only the experiments in the laboratory would be feasible. But we accepted it gratefully and our unending success story begins from there.

We had only three reactors till 1974 (first N– test). One of those was able to generate electricity in the limited amount. There was one test site only. Such were the meager resources at our disposal. How much did our capabilities grow steadily upon time? We had advanced having 21 reactors, 8 heavy-water plants and a full fledged most advanced test range by 1990. To do all these was to swim against the stream. But all of us had a strong determination in our minds that we must have to surpass all the peaks of this N- field. It was like a reverse journey of going to Gangotri from Rishikesh, not with the stream!

The nature has created a big obstacle for us. Nuclear grade Uranium essential for all these tests was not available here. It is the wonder of destiny that the world-best uranium mines were unearthed in Karnataka in June after the N- tests were completed in May. It means that the God helps true human efforts. If we sit with folded hands he will also sit in the same way. Surely, thou shall help our efforts. God was testing our essence. We had no other way but to search for the alternative to uranium as no country was going to give it unconditionally. Then what to do? Like ‘Prayatnate Parmeshwar’, on searching for alternative, one option came to us. Of course, the whole process was very expensive and tedious. But there was no other way. What was the option?

There are plenty of Thorium deposits, a radioactive substance, is available in the coastal sands of Kerala, Tamilnadu & Ram-Setu. As it is from the beach sand, it is in plenty and free of cost. The process to convert the Thorium to nuclear grade Uranium is very expensive and complicated. So those having sufficient Uranium had neglected this process. Due to that the Thorium processing equipments were impossible to be acquired from the world market. Our situation was different. We could get the Uranium from nowhere. That is why we proceeded with step by step by carrying out requisite advances on researches out of available resources.

Even till the day, the West was thinking that the something was missing for India to conduct N–tests. India still was the nuclear incapable state. But the reality was different. We had enough resources in relation to the physical need. Only one thing was lacking and that was a will, a will power, a strong will. The moment we were blessed with the Will-Power, we conducted the N– explosions.

The next question asked to the French expert was very specific. He was asked that what would be the devastating capability of the bomb made of this thermo-nuclear device. The known examples of nuclear holocaust are Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A single bomb destroyed a city. The devastation was decisive for the world war outcome. A variety of cancer like diseases and congenital anomalies, which are not hereditary, still afflict newborn babies. Such was the terrible nature of that bomb. Both the bombs were of limited 12 kiloton capability. Our tests were of 55 kiloton capability (energy released was equal to 55000 tons TNT. What would be the heat generated due to this? I read a book named Nuclear drive. I got shivers reading the narration. While studying the effect of bomb in Hiroshima, a human fossil was found on the footsteps of a house, close to the site. It is impossible to get the fossil on the surface. Then how it became possible? It became apparent on studying that at 3200 ℃ heat generated by the N- explosion, granite got melted and a man got burnt to ashes to form a fossil. A small bomb can generate such an extremely devastating heat. Oxygen from the air is very rapidly pulled towards a center, resulting in to an enormous cyclone. The wind velocity in such an explosion is generally 2,700 to 3,200 m/sec. A small pebble of stone of 3 gm weight flying with such a high speed is enough to kill a man. The devastating energy of the atom bomb can be estimated from it while elaborating such known nuclear holocaust. He had told that if such 20 bombs, one bomb every year, till 20 years, were dropped continuously and the condition that results can be created by such one bomb of thermo-nuclear variety.

It becomes apparent from this narration that what would be the destructive capability of this one weapon only. Due to this, the country like China, having ICBM (Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles) and who had developed atom bomb quite ahead of us, but unable to make hydrogen bomb had tacitly avoided giving any specific reactions. Indeed China was dumbstruck. They didn’t know how to react. Who can opine against a nation that has astonished the world by such notable feat at a stretch.

On the contrary, now they have suspicions in their minds that this may be the tip of iceberg. It is not apparent that how much is beneath the water. So the people who were ridiculing India that it was like a closed fist, and would be exposed, now are unable to estimate that what is further in the fist, as India has closed the fist after opening for a while. And this thing is absolutely unbearable to all of them.

It is told that the history repeats. USA didn’t know about 1974 explosions. They were having an intelligence network that time also. USA inquired 24 hours after the test that whether there was something like earthquake in the Rajasthan desert. India politely told “ No, there is no earthquake. This was due to our N -test.” After that event, from 1976 onwards, to keep a close watch and to gather the details of such activities, USA has positioned one Geo-synchronous and 3 Geo-stationary satellites in the Indian sky. Still they could not even smell about any of the five N tests of 1998. That was very hard to digest for them. Explosion was not unnoticeable. That is why American senate asked the president that what CIA was doing, what was the use of big expenditure on CIA. The members ridiculed that whether their watchdog satellites were only show-pieces & asked the government to investigate the matter. A high level committee was formed under the chairmanship of a former CIA president. There were many arguments & criticisms, but they could investigate nothing. Later on I came across an article written by the chairperson of the committee. It is interesting what he is confessing. He accepted that their satellites could not keep a watch on Indian operation. But he regretted that in spite of having ground network or local contacts, they couldn’t convert even a single Indian to their disposal. USA couldn’t get even a single Jaichand & our people collectively conducted such a great & successful marvel. It could be possible only if the minute planning with the foresight was done by the people having the responsibility. Bold decisions were to be taken. PM took the decision to strictly ration the information even for the cabinet ministers on need basis only. How difficult was it for a government surviving on the support of multiple small fractions? It would had been fatal if someone had opposed it. All were taken in to confidence but the information was restricted only on need basis.

I received a letter from the director on 7th April. I was asked to get prepared & report to the airport in two hours. When I reached the airport, some of my colleagues were also present. We were curious, but no one knew anything. A man gave us a boarding pass and told to check the name. There was no mention of place to reach. We asked him but he also knew nothing. We boarded in the plane shown to us. On landing a police officer took us, with our equipments, to another aircraft without any talk. We landed on 3rd day at Jodhpur airport. Now we felt a little where we were going. Such was the veil of secrecy even for those directly linked with the operation.

I was associated with the project since 1990. My marriage took place around that time. But my wife could know about my involvement with the project only after 13th may-98, when I returned home after the second series of tests have been finished and the news of the successful tests became public. I had to face her anger. This is the amount of psychological pressure faced by the people working with the project.

The decision taken by the government was really bold. It was a litmus test for the political leadership. If anything went wrong or a mishap occurred, they would have to be answerable. Only the people who consider the nation the first and power is secondary can take such courageous decisions. A phrase is popular in the armed forces, “It is not the gun, but the hand on it that fights. And it is not the hand on the gun but the mind behind it that fights.” The success depends on the psychological preparedness and the mental involvement in the work.

It is true as reported in the media that all the preparations were made in just one month. We had only a month’s time to work on the test site. We met on 11th April. Dr Chidambaram told us the exciting news that we had got the approval of the central government to test our N- devices. We were very much joyous. But his successive statement froze our enthusiasm. He told, “We have a great challenge. We have only one month and we have to test not one but five devices. We were stunned. We knew that how much efforts were needed for a test in 1974. It was evident to us that how impossible was the task to prepare for five tests in just one month’s time.

Why only one month? It was 11th April. The time and site were of great geographic and climatic challenge to us. We knew the wind pattern. It blows from Pakistan, Baluchistan, then traverses north Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and reaches Bay of Bengal. The wind is up to Pak-Afghan border till mid- May. If the N- tests are done after 15th May, and unfortunately any one goes wrong, the radioactive particles traversing with the wind may create havoc for the country. The tests had to be finished by 15th May.

How were the preparations? The shaft (well) of 200-300 meter depth underground (nearly 60 storey building’s height beneath the ground) is needed for the underground test. There was one old shaft of 1974 test that could be used for one test only. It was decided to have three wells. So, two new wells needed to be prepared. That was not an easy task. The soil was sandy and deep to it was the black stone. Moreover the watchdog satellites spying from sky must be avoided during the work. The digging of the wells only was not enough. It needed a lift to carry men and machines. The equipments and sensors were to be fitted at different levels. We know the difficulty in erecting a lift for 60 storey building. Here, it was needed to go sixty floors beneath the ground. That seemed an impossible task. But we have seen the determination, swiftness and courage of our armed forces in Kargil war. Just like war, at civil requirement also, armed forces’ role is commendable, particularly in such scientific ventures. The Bengal Engineering Troops picked up the challenge.

We had a strong motivating force in the form of our team leaders. Feeling the state of our mind following Dr Chidambaram’s announcement, Dr A.P.J. Kalam rose to break the ice. He grasped the word ‘challenge’ from Dr Chidambaram’s speech and told, “Friends, this is the challenge as well as an opportunity for us. We have to pick it up and convert the challenge in to the opportunity. Else we have no right to be recognized as the scientists.” That was a frank evocation as if reminding Veer Hanuman of the great capabilities. A number of small group meetings followed and the challenge was accepted. We requested Dr. Kalam to fix the date for the N– tests. He was not having a calendar and no one knew that Buddha Jayanti would be on 11th May 98. He just told, “Clock is sounding tick tick. It means thirty. Only 30 days. Calculate the date.” The work began calculating hours, minutes and seconds remaining.

There wasn’t even a single incident when even ten people of 250 working on the site gathered to have tea. The Food was supplied at the work site. A light stream of air would shower much sand to the food. On 11th April, the temperature was 46 degree C. At the end of April in morning 6 AM it was 46 degree C. Around 5th May, at 10 AM it became 48 degree C. On 2nd, 5th, 7th, 9th May, 5 PM it peaked up to 52 degree C. Not to think of AC or fan, even shade was not available while working. In such harsh environment, with youngsters like me, an old man of 68 year, Dr. Kalam was working unceasingly. If a vehicle was not available to move from one place to another he walked in the sand. The sand was so hot as if walking on a burning coal. In such scorching heat, shirt buttons could not be kept unfastened. A touch of a sand particle was enough to develop a bleb and cause tremendous burning. If the body was kept covered, there were dripping sweats. As an antidote, a rickshaw used to distribute ‘gud’ pieces and water from a leather bag (pakhal). There wasn’t any possibility of any more facility and also no expectation at all. Many of us suffered nausea, vomiting and giddiness due to the over work during the day and night in the harsh conditions. But none complained of the sickness. Because one would have to go back if fell ill, and there was no future possibility to get such an opportunity again in the life. So all of us were determined not to return home until the work is completed.

We had an inspiring example. Our team leaders were extremely prompting. A message came during breakfast on 2nd May. The chit went to Dr. Kalam. He read and gave it to Dr. Kakodkar. It was regarding death of Dr Kakodkar’s father in Mumbai. He should return home living the work. Dr Kakodkar went to a lonely place. Dr. Kalam went to him and told him that he should go home. His family needed him. The arrangements were made and Dr. Kakodkar went Mumbai. We thought that Dr. Kakodkar is out of project. But to our surprise he was with us in the next day’s morning meeting. There was no sign of sorrow on his face. The most of our colleagues, who heard late about his going to Mumbai, thought that he might have gone for some BARC task. Most of the people present there came to know about his father’s death only after 15th July, long time after the tests, through an article in ‘India Today’. How can it become possible? Was Dr. Kakodkar made of a different soil? Was he working for a reward from the government of India? There was a synergy among such a great leadership, a team of dynamic youths working with them and the blessings of the seniors (‘Rishis’) who had worked in this field for long years. What a great miracle could be resulted by their combined efforts had been displayed to the world by India on doing these successful N– explosions.

Let us talk of political reaction. The first response was that it was a political decision. I strongly feel that if political leadership were not needed to be consulted, our scientists could have tested the N- devices quite earlier. The question is, “why the previous leadership couldn’t take such decision?” It was not so easy to face the harsh reactions after the tests. It was a fire-test. So the leadership who had a strong determination and confidence of success can take such a serious and historically important decision. And it became apparent that how malicious and derisive were the immediate reactions following the N –tests.

Bill Clinton was in Germany on that day. He was very furious. He declared from there many punitive measures in form of the sanctions for India. What a need for haste! He couldn’t keep patience even to consult his colleagues before taking such an important decision to completely boycott a nation like India. He went to Burmingham on 12th May. The G-8 nations were to meet there. On landing on airport, while talking with the journalists, his attitude had changed. He requested specifically to the heads of the G-8 nations, “Please don’t try to isolate India.” What does it mean? Yesterday you were talking to boycott India and today requesting others not to do such. What was the reason? He realized the mistake and damage due to his knee-jerk response. Was the decision taken in anger on the previous day rational? There was a beautiful caricature in ‘Sunday mirror’. Standing on a small peanut size piece of land on the globe of earth, Bill Clinton tells the world, “Don’t try to isolate India.” It was apparent who was isolated in reality.

G–8 meet started on 13th May and we carried out two more explosions. The interviews of some of the head of nations were telecasted on BBC that night. The first one was of the French President Jacques Chirac. An interviewer requested him to tell about world affairs of the day. He began telling that many of his friends were talking of isolating India, but he wanted to remind them that the country like India was developing the advanced technology like Thermo-nuclear device on its own. He told the world to notice that the country which had developed the advanced technical expertise in spite of many obstacles and limitations, could do anything and no technical skill was unattainable for India. She could develop the essential requisites on her own. India had left it to the world whether to be India’s friend or foe. He was talking like India’s advocate.

America might be calculating that like Iraq, the decision to put comprehensive sanctions over India could be taken by all the nations in G-8 meet. To their misfortune, France and Russia declared their plans to support India on the very first day. It was surprising that USA’s friends like Australia and England also took neutral position. Such was a miscarriage of proposed resolution of USA. It couldn’t even come on the table for discussion. It was the first insult to America. Clinton returned home on 14th May. Soon the CEOs of some MNCs met him.

In this background, an article by an economist Ms. Rubin came in New York Times. The title of this article was, “If sanctions are imposed, who is going to be affected? India? ” It was a question-mark. In her article she raised the issue that many of US companies/ MNCs had 30–50 % investment in Indian subcontinent. Some industries were establishing, some were in the initial phase. At this time if India retaliates to sanctions by making changes in her import export policy, what would happen? Had the president thought that who would be bearing the maximum shocks of it? Stressing the point further, she wrote that not only the cheaper but the most trustworthy and reliable software were supplied by India. The MNCs had flourished over that support. If the export duty on the software was increased, India can cover up the deficit resulted from the sanctions.

I am not bluffing. You know the well known MS-office software for computer. It is known as user friendly software. There is a word package in it known as MS-word. It is very easy and convenient package. We may not even think that it reached the whole world from Pune. There is a company named Priston engineering. There are only 32 people from peon to MD working in it. This company had done $ 450 million contract for three years with Microsoft. The market of MS-office is about billion dollars every year. Three of the first ten rich people are from Microsoft. Does this company come to India only for cheap material? The most important thing for a company is to establish the trustworthiness in the global market. So it purchases software from India paying $ 400 m. If the export duty of software is raised by 300– 400 %, calculate the figures.

Ms. Rubin brought to the notice many similar possibilities. On that basis, she asked President the question. At the end of the article, she wrote a very bashful sentence to the Americans. “It is an unfortunate part on our side that we will observe one of our presidents surrendering without fighting a war.” It was not like the war with Iraq or Taliban. It was an economic war with a promising economy.

She wrote this in June 98. The things became obvious now. Many roars of sanctions became irrelevant or ineffective. After sometime they proclaimed that they were lifting the sanctions off India in view of Indo–Pak dialogue. What an excuse for face saving! What were the sanctions applied? What were you giving previously that you are threatening not to give tomorrow?

The history is the witness. In 1974, when we did the first N– test, Canada, from where we had received N-technology and N-fuel to establish Atomic energy centre at Rajasthan Atomic power station (RAPS), called back their technologists and materials. This is the characteristic of their aid. None of our work got paralyzed on withdrawal of their help. The people working in the field learnt a lesson. They were determined that we have to arise on our legs if we want to succeed in this field. No one can win the race with crutches. We must be self-reliant to make our progress possible. The ‘Swadeshi Mantra’ was realized. All the experts of our nation working in this field were brought together and the data collected by them were studied. In six months, there stood a new unit. With the inputs from Canada, it would have been of 40– 42 % capacity; ours was of only 21 % capacity. But what is the situation today? The units in Canada run by 62– 64 % capacity, while the two units developed by RAPS are working with 74– 76 % capacity. How did it become possible? We realized what to do. We learnt how it works and we displayed it to the world. That is why we reached where we are today.

Before concluding I would like to request you. Many times ‘Swadeshi’ is derided. But it is very essential to consider it seriously. I am giving a simple logic easily understandable even by school children. Indian government spent Rs.1500 Crore to carry out research in the Nuclear field and to conduct N– Tests during the period from 1985 to 1999. Let us see the other figures. During April-May, most of us take soft drinks. Today no soft drink is ‘Swadeshi’. If our 90% of population drink only one bottle soft drink during these 2 months, we give Rs.900 Crore to the foreign companies. And these are not going to use a single rupee for the welfare of our nation. The substance of the ‘War’ as mentioned by Ms. Rubin in her article is here. When our ordinary shopkeeper, feeling that the MNC goods are unsaleable, needlessly occupying space, will throw them away, we will win the war. This is true for all the products of MNCs. Very useless products drain our thousands of crores of rupees in foreign coffers. On the other side, we had allotted 1500 crores only on strategic technology indispensable for our national security and sovereignty during last 15 years.

It is the time demanding actions, not only thinking. A practical housewife knows that water will be drained out through a small hole in it, and soon finds solution to it. Is it not our responsibility to plug the holes and loopholes in our system? Are we waiting for someone from west to come here and teach us this? Let us start from the self and spread the logic to anyone coming in our contact.

Once I kept the subject amongst the school students. Next day a lady doctor phoned me with an anger. She told that on listening my lecture her son threw ‘colgate’ toothpaste and toothbrush into dustbin. I told her that I would give her son a gift of swadeshi toothbrush and paste. I went to her home and explained the subject. After a good discussion, she was convinced. The result is that now, she used to go to different hotels of Pune daily for an hour and disseminates the subjects to many people. She has distributed more than 20000 copies of the list of swadeshi products.

The statesmen of our nation took one firm step and the whole world is astonished. Bhagavan Vaman had measured the world in three steps only. One step is placed. It is our responsibility to take further two steps and conquer the world. Bharat will be the superpower, scientifically, militarily and economically as well as all the fields of development of life.

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Christianity: West’s Default
Religion
Sandhya Jain
19 December 2009

Switzerland’s recent vote
against the construction of minarets as part of mosque architecture in that
nation symbolises a frontal return of Christianity as the Western world’s
default religion and culture, and a corresponding downsizing of the
discourse on
‘secularism’ and ‘multi-culturalism,’ which gave Islam an opportunity to seize
political and social space in the western public realm.

As other
European nations gear up to challenge the public display of symbols of Muslim
identity – most notably the hijab and
head scarf, though the beard and skull cap may prove more difficult –
a build-up
of religio-cultural tensions is inevitable. Violent outbursts cannot be ruled
out.

It is not a Hindu dharm-yudh

The Swiss
vote has caused a frisson of
excitement in traditional and secular circles in
India , with some
Hindus hallucinating about a ‘natural’ alliance with the Christian West to
mutually crush Islam. This foolish hope once soared after the 2001
attack on the
Twin
Towers in New York ,
and Hindus in particular and Indians in general failed to comprehend why

Pakistan emerged as the West’s
leading non-NATO ally. Dr.. Manmohan Singh is similarly clueless why
two hostile
votes in the IAEA against a friendly
Iran still led to President Obama declaring

China the leading Asian power.

Should
Hindus respond to a Western Crusade against Islam, the result will be
similar to
our experience in World War II, where the 2.5 million-strong Indian
Army won the
war for the colonial West, only to be betrayed back at home. The British
eventually quit India in 1947 only because of the military mutinies inspired by
Subhash Chandra Bose, and they successfully cut up the nation before leaving,
retaining critical territory in the form of a land bank called Pakistan, from
which they (and the US) could overlook (and operate in) Tibet, Central Asia,
China, Russia, and the Gulf. Further, they manipulated the mess in Jammu &
Kashmir, and continue to stir the pot, to our discomfort.

The purpose
of this article is to stress that Hindus lack the agility, self-confidence, or
even stake, to participate in the emerging War of Religions in
Europe . They would do well to keep out of this schism
within the Semitic fold. The West will never support Hindu affirmation and
primacy in India (or Asia),
and will always support Indian (and Pakistani / Bangladeshi) Muslims
and Jihadis
against the Hindu nation and the
Indian
State , for its own geo-strategic
dominance.

Terrorists
David Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana are not accidentally linked to the CIA
and FBI. [Ignore the denials; please understand that a ‘rogue’ CIA
agent is only
a person CIA has decided to ‘sacrifice’ once the job is done; that is, one who
is not a voluntary suicide bomber. Remember that Mumbai terrorist
survivor Ajmal
Kasab revealed that the terrorists were all assured of an ‘exit’ plan, and were
not suicide terrorists – a significant revelation). Similarly, Kashmiri
separatists do not casually visit the United
States and
Britain .

The Jihadi
menace in our part of the world is the direct consequence of Western politics,
which we can ignore only at our own peril. The Sonia Gandhi-led UPA’s decision
to appoint the Ranganath Mishra Commission and examine ways to extend
constitutional benefits of Hindu Scheduled Castes to Christian and Muslim
converts is part of this continuing assault on Hindu dharma and
dharmis in this country. So is the
‘quiet diplomacy’ with Kashmiri separatists; the decision to declare a
Muslim-centric Telengana state in the old Hyderabad domains of the Pak-oriented
Nizam on Sonia Gandhi’s birthday; and the proposal to bring an Equal
Opportunities legislation to push Muslim employment in the private sector.

Hindus must
realise that they will have to fight for their rights vis-à-vis politically
assertive and West-backed minorities (both Muslims and Christians) in

India with their own innate skills
and resources. To outsource legitimate Hindu concerns to the West is abdication
of responsibility, a sell-out.

Hindus have
no stake in a Christian-Islamic confrontation in
Europe (or anywhere else). Indeed, such a conflict, if it
concentrates Islamic energies and resources in Europe, is certain to
reduce jihad in
India . Rising
incidents of jihad in Europe – especially a fight to make Christian Europe an
Islamic Eurabia – could prove a saving grace for
India , similar to the Mongol rush to
Baghdad and Europe that bypassed
India .

Europe’s forked tongue

Notwithstanding Western
rhetoric aimed at undermining non-Christian traditions in the post-World War II
era, religion has always been a marker of political identity. And religion and
culture are intimately connected. In
India , the Hindu religion and culture
rose simultaneously from the same soil and people over the centuries,
and cannot be separated. In Islam, the
Arab tribes, Arabic language and culture centred round the minor
irrigation near
the oases and the caravan trade provided the core structure of the early
community. To this day, Islam is uncomfortable with cultural traits not rooted
in Arab Islam.

Christianity, however, rose as
a political community in Europe long after the death of Jesus, by taking over
the declining Roman Empire . It claims origin
from a man born in Galilee (or Bethlehem , or
Nazareth ); its
culture from the extinct Graeco-Roman civilisation, and has spread by
cannibalizing the traditions and cultures it encountered on its onward march.
The divide between religion and culture is thus
exclusive to Christian tradition, and cannot be extended to the
experience of more homogenous societies and peoples.

Equally
pertinently, Christianity has no native bhumi, much less
a native region or ethnicity to call its own, because Jesus led the
early believers away from his native Judaism and
roots, and opened the doors to other groups. When the fledgling community moved
to Rome , it moved to another continent, and grew
by gobbling up the religion, culture and people of the dying
Roman Empire . The Christian claim to conquer and enjoy the
whole Creation and its creatures, human and non-human alike, is grounded in the
Jewish Old Testament. Ironically, the Jews like their Christian offspring, also
lack a clearly defined place of origin (where was Abraham born, or Noah,
or Moses?); the first kingdom established by Joshua in
Jericho was by conquest
and the complete annihilation of the native population there.

Post Second
World War, Europe (including America) played a complex game to keep the
Christian religion and culture as the default religion and culture of
the world,
while paying lip service to concepts of ‘secularism’ and ‘multi-culturalism’
which, as I have argued before, are nothing but the Masks of the Christian God
to disempower the gods and cultures of other non-monotheistic civilisations.
Hindus in
India , and those who left in search
of financial opportunities abroad, have been willing to make this compromise
with the Christian West.

Islam, which
views itself as an exclusive nationhood, or ummah, is unable to compromise its
religious and cultural identity, especially as hundreds of ordinary
Muslims feel
that the West has politically and economically disempowered the Muslim world by
purchasing a handful of elites in Muslim lands, especially in the late 19th and
early 20th centuries, and made proxy colonies out of them.

In both the
Christian and the Muslim mind, there is little doubt that the current
contest is
a continuation of the intra-Semitic struggle that began with the Prophet’s
launching of his religious mission in Arabia ,
climaxed in the Crusades, and festered thereafter. All religions have a
political facet. But Prophet Mohammad sought political expression and expansion
for his religious community as part of his mission, and thus made Islam both a
political ideology and a religious nationalism. He did not define racial,
cultural, or geographical frontiers, which did not matter in the early heady
centuries of conquest. Today, however, Islam does not know how to cope with
limits to its expansion placed by other peoples and cultures; continuing tribal
and old civilisational identities within Islam, modern nationalism, and the
nation-state.

Yet without
adjusting to the nation-state and the natural limits to its geographical
expansion, Islam will not be able to combat the pro-Western political
elites who
have subordinated and humiliated Muslim countries and peoples to Western
Corporate entities. Without being proud, stable, and ascendant in the Arabian
homeland, Islam cannot hope to survive as a viable entity anywhere in
the world.
The Saudi refusal to permit other religious structures in
Saudi Arabia is
hollow as the dynasty survives on Western support, and operates as a subsidiary
of the Imperial West.

The
brutalized and brutalizing face of Islam in
Pakistan and
Afghanistan
reflects an aridity and brittleness that is doomed to failure. The famed Hindu
resilience after Mumbai 2008 and other less spectacular jihadi assaults is only
an inward understanding of this deeper impotence; Hindus are not afraid of
jihad; the real danger comes from the rampaging and manipulative West.

Crusades continue

Initially,
as Islam spread rapidly westwards, Christian Europe felt the heat. The Crusades
were launched to recover the Holy Land, but more pertinently, to break Muslim
control over the trade routes to Asia .
Christendom lost the Crusades, but Europe’s mercantile class opened the sea
route to the East, and later to Africa , putting
Muslims at bay on two ocean fronts.
Jerusalem was retaken in 1917; Gen. Allenby
famously remarked that the Crusades were finally completed!
Damascus was taken in
1920; the French commander went to the tomb of Salaudin in the Great Mosque and
said: Nous revenons, Salaudin! (We
are back, Salaudin!).

Post Second
World War, the western world encouraged substantial Muslim immigration
for cheap
labour in the wake of prosperity stimulated by the Marshall Plan. Muslim
intellectuals were encouraged to migrate west as ‘dissidents’ against their
respective national regimes (mostly West-supported dictatorships!). Muslim
integration into European civil society was not given a thought then; now
Muslims are a dissatisfied and vocal minority.

Integration
is now seen by both sides as accepting the Default Culture of the West, i.e.,
the culture of Christian Europe, and tailoring Islam to conform to
this culture.
[This formula works with Hindus in
America , Europe, the Gulf, and even

Australia , where Hindus cannot
understand the growing white animosity to their presence there. This is because
most Hindus sundered their links with religion and culture before
leaving the shores of Bharat,
egged on by ambitious parents who valued monetary success above
everything else;
a handful had other reasons].

But Islam is
the last of the Revealed Semitic Faiths – supposedly the Final and most perfect
Revelation – hence marginalised and besieged Muslim groups fight to
retain their
distinctive identity (hijab) and
traditions (multiple marriages, Sharia). Islam challenges western
secularism and
multi-cultural claims with its insistence to live in its own way on soil long
dominated by Christianity; the consequences of this increasing tension cannot
but be volatile.

As part of
its contest with Islam and quest for world dominion, the Christian-Colonial
world made early inroads into the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires. Jesuit
monk Rudolf Acquaviva came to
Agra for religious debates at the invitation of
Emperor Akbar; the Delhi Diocese was established in the reign of Akbar.
Unnoticed by Indian historians, the white missionary and trader were fairly
entrenched in many strategic locations by the time the Mughal Empire formally
declined and the Maratha and Sikh Empires had peaked.

All this
ultimately deepened the religious conflict and triggered revivalist
movements in
Islam, which Europeans proved adept in penetrating and manipulating. Wahabi
Islam and indeed, all militant Muslim movements that have accompanied the rise
of Political Islam in the modern Colonial Era have intensified the de facto
disempowerment of the Muslim world, a reality Muslims cannot wish away, and to
which they accord a frustrated recognition.

Ayatollah
Khomeini’s success in overthrowing the pro-American Pehlavi dynasty failed to
quieten the seething discontent in the Islamic world. As pro-Western Sunni
regimes generally survived the growing radicalization of the Muslim world, the
Khomeini Revolution only intensified the Shia-Sunni divide.

In
India , the traditional
structures of Hindu society (jati,
varna ,
parampara, sampradaya) have the intrinsic elasticity to cope with and
contain sharply divergent cultural streams.
India ’s
unique civilisational ethos has learnt to co-exist with ethnic, racial, and
religious groups (Jews, Parsis, Muslims) that do not desire to be assimilated
into the dominant culture. Muslims have long been negotiating
political space while protecting
their religion and culture. This involved delicate balancing and was possible
only because, as Aristotle observed (Politics), Hindus were the only people
in the world to have successfully made dharma the basis of their public life.
To this day, this remains
India ’s default cultural trait; it
survived the colonial divide-and-rule that inhibited Muslims from
adjusting to a
larger pan-Indian unity.

The
Christian West is incapable of accommodating the growing assertion of
socio-cultural-religious identity by its Muslim population. Hence cultural
pluralism, the suspension of the dominant cultural-civilisational framework so
other groups can find space to define themselves, has to make way for a more
overt assertion of Europe’s traditional Christian identity. In reaction,
pan-Islamism compresses the religious traditions of Muslim groups into a
one-dimensional Arabized identity to respond to the West’s economic-political
hegemony in Muslim countries and regions where Muslims are minority
populations.

As a
corollary, the overt assertion of the West’s Christian identity is a natural
extension of continuing Western economic, cultural, and religious imperialism.
Hence the rising budgets for evangelism in non-Christian countries like India,
Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Myanmar, but also Muslim regions like Pakistan,
Afghanistan, Indonesia (first East Timor, now Aceh), and our own Srinagar
Valley.

It is in
this context alone that one must view the frenzied French ban on head
scarves in
2004, on the plea that it involved the submission of women, and the even more
specious argument that the harsh lampooning of the Prophet in a Danish magazine
in 2005 was about free speech.

Pigeons come home to roost

For
Europe , the pigeons have come home to roost.
After decades of strenuous denial that religion is crucial in shaping national
identity, and that the religion and culture of the majority must
legitimately be
the dominant identity in multi-religious societies like
India , Europe is
in a blue funk trying to manufacture a discourse over national identity without
using the word ‘religion.’ Best of luck.

The truth is
that religion is the bedrock of identity, and religion always expresses itself
in culture. Islam cannot accept Christian culture without accepting Christian
faith.

Another
unpleasant truth is that religion cannot be kept out of the public domain,
because it is not an individual or family affair, but has social and community
aspects that demand expression and respect. The European Union’s 20 million
Muslims are giving goose-bumps to 500 million Christians. Long centuries of
familiarity and common descent from the Patriarch Abraham have failed
to yield a
common ground of mutual respect and peaceful coexistence. One country wants to
put the Cross on its national flag.

Things can
only get worse. The post 9/11 ‘War on Terror’ is viewed by both Muslims and
Christians as another Crusade – a symbol of the West’s failure to separate the
religious from the political.

For Islam,
this is a moment of catharsis and choice. Islam stands at a major crossroad in
its historical trajectory. Hitherto, it has been Janus-faced like the Greek god
who looked simultaneously east and west.

Those days
of luxury – of hating the west and hurting the east – are now over. To survive
as a viable religion, culture, polity, Islam must free its own lands
and peoples
from the vice-like grip of the Crusaders and the Capitalists who are its real
tormentors and oppressors. It must deny itself the temptation of
crushing ‘soft’
targets like
India that have the resilience and
the resources to bounce back and to hit back.

Islam will
do well to concentrate its fight on the Arabian peninsula, the European
mainland, and the United
States . Hindus should think in terms of
restoring the Hindu civilisational frontier up to eastern
Persia in the west,
Myanmar and
Nepal in the east and
Tibet in the
north.

The writer
is Editor, www.vijayvaani.com

http://sites.google.com/site/hindunew/indian-nuclear-deterrent

Implications for credible minimum deterrence: PK Iyengar and other
signatories

By Express News Service

* 19 Dec 2009 01:29:00 AM IST***

SOON after the Pokhran-II tests on 11 May 1998, the scientists of the two
organisations concerned _ the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and the
Defense R&D Organisation (DRDO) _ had jointly evaluated the success of the
two tests _ the fission device (A – bomb) and the fusion device (H – bomb).
While former device performed perfectly, including creating a crater of the
expected size, the fusion device failed on many counts _ very low yield, no
crater etc.
International monitoring centres also recorded low intensity of shock waves,
resulting in low yield estimates _ estimates that were more in consonance
with the DRDO numbers. This was discussed among the BARC and DRDO scientists
involved _ and resulted in a dispute between them.
A detailed report submitted by DRDO to the Government fully corroborated its
original assessment ,viz. ,that, while the fission device worked
successfully as expected, the fusion device did not.
The recent revelations by K Santhanam, who was in charge of all of DRDO’s
activities at the site, testifies to this. By all accounts _ geological,
radiochemical as well as seismic – it is now quite clear that the fusion
device yielded a very low value of explosive power.
The articles by K Santhanam and Ashok Parthasarathi in `The Hindu’
(September 17 , 2009) and P K Iyengar in `Outlook’ (October 26, 2009) go
into considerable technical detail and present a credible case, beyond all
reasonable doubt, that the H – bomb tested on May 11, 1998 failed.
These findings are extremely serious for the security of the nation,
particularly in the context of our pronouncement of being a nuclear weapon
power, along with our enunciated doctrine of ‘no first use’ and our
‘unilateral voluntary moratorium on nuclear testing’. They strike at the
root of our weaponisation capability and compromise our strategy of Credible
Minimum Nuclear Deterrence.
“Soon after the Pokhran-II tests, the then government almost succumbed to
the western pressure to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)
backing off only at the last moment due to an outcry in the country against
doing so. The refusal of the US Senate to ratify the CTBT then released the
pressure on the government. The renewed pressure from Obama on us in recent
months to sign the CTBT is causing the issue of our signing the CTBT to be
raised again. We strongly urge the present government to remain firm in its
opposition to our doing so as the Prime Minister has publicly assured the
nation more than once in recent months.’’ Obama has actually gone further
than trying to secure universal adherence to the CTBT, and secured a UN
Security Council Resolution urging such adherence to the Nuclear Non
Proliferation Treaty (NPT) also. Not signing the highly discriminatory NPT
has been an article of faith of all our governments – irrespective of hues –
since the Treaty was drawn up in 1968. The present government, we strongly
urge again, should continue that policy steadfastly, despite whatever
threats and blandishments are applied to it. Even the slightest succumbing
would convert our ‘voluntary moratorium’ into an involuntary, permanent,
cessation of nuclear weapon testing and so forever deny us our legitimate
place in the great powers’ league.
The international political and diplomatic aspects as set out in the
previous para apart, the grave situation we are in regarding our
Thermonuclear (H-bomb) Capability.
It demands resolute, speedy and comprehensive corrective action.
We are well aware of the nature, sources and scales of nuclear threats the
nation faces. To meet that threat effectively, an indepth analysis of our
real capabilities in terms of: Command & control systems, nuclear weapon
delivery systems and the types, character and numbers of nuclear weapons
needing to constitute our nuclear arsenal and the keeping of that arsenal
up-to-date, is essential – indeed acutely pressing.
To address these issues and take well informed competent and speedy
decisions instead of depending entirely on the existing bureaucracy,
administrative, military and scientific, it is essential to have the
involvement, on a continuing basis, of a wide variety of opinions and
assessments from scientists, strategic analysts and defense & diplomatic
personnel with a deep understanding of the many complex issues involved,
including the technologies needed to be developed, and the minimum timescale
in which this can be achieved.
While secrecy is crucial, an open mind and willingness to learn are equally
important. We therefore, strongly urge the government to immediately set up
a high-level, independent, broad- Based Panel of Experts to define and
monitor the implementation, on a continuing b sis, of an effective course of
action, in the realm of thermonuclear weapons, so central to our national
security.
All of us have worked on different aspects of this problem with a sound
understanding of the harsh ground realities and the immense magnitude of
what is at stake. It is now for the government to take the call – and
without losing a minute more – as its counterparts in our adversaries have
and are continuing to do so.

Signatories to the statement

# P K Iyengar, former Chairman Atomic Energy Commission, Director BARC and a
key architect of the Pokhran I nuclear test of May 18, 1974 and
internationally acknowledged as India’s top nuclear weapons expert;

# A N Prasad, former Director, BARC and Member (R&D) of the Atomic Energy
Commission, a Senior Adviser on nuclear weapons to the International Atomic
Energy Agency, Vienna for many years and a key member of our original
weapons grade plutonium extraction technology development dating back to
1960;

# A Gopalakrishnan, former key expert in our Advanced Technology Vehicle
(ATV) project, which developed the nuclear submarine Arihant and former
Chairman, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board,

# C K Mathew, former head, Radio Chemistry Division, BARC and Director
Chemistry Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam; Jaipal
Mittal, Raja Ramana Fellow and former Director, Chemistry Group, BARC,

# A D Damodaran, former Director, Special Materials Plant, Nuclear Fuel
Complex and former Director, Regional Research Laboratory,
Thiruvananthapuram,

# S R Valluri, former Director, National Aerospace Laboratory and first
Director General of the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), the
organisation specially set up to design and develop the Light Combat
Aircraft – Tejas;

# Capt S Prabhala, Indian Navy former Chairman & Managing Director Bharat
Electronics Ltd.;

# Rear Admiral J J Baxi, former Director, Weapons and Electronics Systems
Organisation, Ministry of Defense and Chairman & Managing Director Bharat
Electronics Ltd., and

# Brigadier M R Narayanan former Director, Army Radio Engineering Network,
Ministry of Defense; K S Jayaraman, formerly Nuclear Physics Division, BARC,
Science Correspondent of the PTI for many years, Science Correspondent for
South Asia for leading international journal ‘Nature’ and President Indian
Science Writers Association.

http://tinyurl.com/yehvpyp

The evidence marshaled by Dr. BB Lal is emphatic. (B.B. Lal, 2008, Rama: his
historicity, mandir and Setu: evidence of literature, archaeology and other
sciences, New Delhi, Aryan Books International.)

There were temples below the structure where Babari dhaancha stood.

The chapter in BB Lal’s book is titled: ‘Was there a temple in the
Janmabhumi area at Ayodhya preceding the construction of the Babari Masjid?’
See the vivid photos and read the remarkable Chapter II of BB Lal’s work URL
reference: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/19288715/Chapter-2ayodhyabblal

K.V. Ramesh’s note on Ayodhya Vishnu-Hari temple inscription on a stone
slab 115 cms x 55 cms. Read
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/19263264/ayodhya1 Appendix
from BB Lal’s book (Inscription read by KV Ramesh) This is Appendix II
referred to in Chapter II of BB Lal’s book.

BB Lal’s summing up is emphatic and unambiguous, expressed in anguish, but
in subdued tones: “The evidence presented in the foregoing paragraphs in
respect of the existence of a Hindu temple in the Janmabhumi area at Ayodhya
preceding the construction of the Babari Masjid is so eloquent that no
further comments are necessary. Unfortunately, the basic problem with a
certain category of historians and archaeologists – and others of the same
ilk – is that seeing they see not or knowingly they ignore. Anyway, in spite
of them the truth has revealed itself.”

kalyanaraman

Govt. should file affidavit in SC: Swamy.

December 11, 2009.

*Statement of Dr. Subramanian Swamy, President of the Janata Party. *

The Report of the Liberhan Commission of Inquiry, unwittingly and
ironically, supports the VHP’s case for a Ram temple in Ayodhya.

In Chapter 15 (Recommendations), Page 978, Para 176.5, the Commission
states: “…..The question whether a structure was a temple or a mosque can
only be answered by a scientific study by archaeologists, historians and
anthropologists.” This is precisely the VHP’s stated position for the last
25 years.

The Allahabad High Court on VHP’s petition in the year 2002 got
extensive investigation done at the disputed site through scientific GPR
Survey and archaeological excavations. Vide orders, dated August 01, 2002
and October 23, 2002, the High Court Bench asked the Archaeological Survey
of India (ASI) to carry out Ground Penetrating Radar Survey/Geo-radiology
Survey (GPR) of the disputed land, so as to ascertain possibility of proof
of remnants of some earlier structure. In compliance of these orders, the
ASI, with the help of Tozo Vikas International Pvt. Ltd. undertook this
exercise.

The High Court thereafter *suo moto* passed a detailed order on March
05, 2003, issuing a commission to ASI to investigate into the matter by
excavating the relevant area of the disputed land. The ASI took about five
months in carrying out the excavation work and thereafter submitted a bulky
report in two volumes together with 45 site notebooks, 12 albums containing
329 black & white photographs, 28 albums having coloured photographs, 11
video cassettes, 6 DVD cassettes, registers of pottery, unsealed bones,
architectural objects stored in tin-shed at the excavated site, individual
list of 9 boxes containing bones, glazed wares, antiquities, day-to-day
registers, antiquity register etc., etc..

In this excavation report (Ayodhya 2002-03, Vol.1 text, Chapter-X,
Summary of Results, Page Nos. 268-269, 270, 271 and 272), the ASI states in
the last paragraph: “…….Now viewing in totality and taking into account the
archaeological evidence of a massive structure just below the disputed
structure and evidence of continuity in structural phases from 10th Century
onwards up to the construction of the disputed structure along with the
yield of stone and decorated bricks as well as mutilated sculpture of divine
couple and carved architectural members including foliage patterns, Amlaka,
Kapotapali, Door Jamb, and semi-circular plaster, broken octagonal shaft of
black schist pillar, lotus motif, circular shrine having Pranala (water
chute) in the North, 50 pillar bases in association of a hue structure, *are
indicative of remains which are distinctive features found associated with
the temples of North India.**”*

Other observations of the Liberhan Commission too support the VHP case
for a Rama temple at the disputed site:

In Chapter No.2 (Ayodhya & its Geography) page No. 23 the Liberhan Report
says:

Para 9.1: “Ayodhya is accepted in popular Hindu tradition as the birthplace
of the Hindu God Rama and is therefore regarded as a holy and historical
city.”

Para 9.2: “Ancient Ayodhya was traditionally the epitome of Hindu life,
culture and a paradigm of coexistence of a multi-religious society. It was a
peaceful place with a regular influx of visitors pilgrims, Sadhus and Sants,
monks, travelers, tourists.”

9.3: “Ayodhya was also known variously as Vishala, Khosla (sic) or Maha
Khosla, Ikshvaku, Ram Puri, Ram Janam Bhoomi.

9.4: “Ayodhya is of special and specific importance for the sect of Ram
believers or those loosely term as the Ramanandis in Hindu Religion. The
place was the place of unequaled pilgrimage for Hindus, Monks, travelers,
pilgrims, sadhus & sants irrespective of their region & faith.”

9.5: “This place had become emotive issue owing to its position as the birth
place of Ram, a theme present in every facet of the culture, connecting the
past with the present & the future, this religious fervour had kept the town
for centuries alive after successive rulers had gone by”.

Page 25, Para-10.3: “On the East of Ayodhya is Faizabad town with a
population of about 2,10,000. It has large number of temples mostly
dedicated to the Hindu God Vishnu.”

Page 26, Para-10.10: “The town is currently inhibited (sic) (means
inhabited!) with a multi-religious population consisting of Muslims,
Buddhist, Sikhs, Christians, Jains, etc., but the majority of the population
is Hindu. The temples were open to public of all denominations.”

Page 29, Para 12.1: “There are large numbers of temples, mosques, shrines,
tombs, gardens and other religious monuments spread over a large area:
rather, metaphorically it is said that in Ayodhya every house is a temple.”

Page 29, Para 12.2: “Prominent temples were Sankat Mochan Mandir, Shakti
Gopal Mandir, Shesh Avatar temple, Ved Mandir, Maniram Ki Chawni, Hanuman
Garhi, Pr3eethi Ke Thakur, Kanak Bhawan, Rang Mahal, Anand Bhawan, and
Kaushalya Bhavan…….”

Paga 32, Para 12.12: “The topography and facts about Ram Katha Kunj, Ayodhya
town or the Ram Janambhoomi complex or Ram Katha Kunj or the disputed
structure are however not disputed. The facts are corroborated by NC Padhi
in his statement with no contradiction.”

Hence, since the Union Government has accepted the Liberhan Commission
Report and this Report, read with the Supreme Court’s 1994 Constitutional
Bench judgment in the Farooqui case, that a mosque *is not an essential part
of Islam *but a facilitation center for reading of namaz, hence any
government can acquire any mosque for a public purpose and even demolish it,

I demand therefore the Government file an affidavit in the Supreme
Court declaring that it will acquire the disputed area in Ayodhya and hand
it over to the sants and sadhus associated with the VHP enable Hindus to
organize a Rama temple restoration at the original birth site of Lord Rama.

(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

The Chapter 2 of BB Lal’s work ‘Was there a temple in the Janmabhumi
area at Ayodhya preceding the construction of the Babari Masjid?’ has
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Ayodhya, the evidence

The UPA government led by Sonia Gandhi with spokespersons like P. Chidambaram may get away with their half-truths and avoiding the core issue of Rama Mandiram in Ayodhya, by claiming that the issue of rebuilding Shri Rama Mandiram in Ayodhya is subjudice. Maybe subjudice, but it does not prevent the citizens of India from asserting the evidence about two destroyed Hindu temples by muslim jihadists, an area where the Babari dhaancha was later built.

The evidence marshaled by Dr. BB Lal is emphatic. There were temples below the structure where Babari dhaancha stood.

It is a travesty of justice that the justice system in Hindusthan is still dithering and not rendering justice to the Hindus who demand the building of Rama Mandiram at Ayodhya. There is no bar in Sharia law to relocate masjids, even assuming that Babari dhaancha was a masjid. Saudi Arabia and other Islamic countries do such relocations of masjids on a regular basis.

K.V. Ramesh’s note on Ayodhya Vishnu-Hari temple inscription on a stone slab 115 cms x 55 cms. Read http://www.docstoc.com/docs/19263264/ayodhya1 Appendix from BB Lal’s book (Inscription read by KV Ramesh)

This is Appendix II referred to in Chapter II of BB Lal’s book. The chapter is titled: ‘Was there a temple in the Janmabhumi area at Ayodhya preceding the construction of the Babari Masjid?’ Read http://www.docstoc.com/docs/19263282/ayodhya2 Chapter II of BB Lal’s work

His summing up is emphatic and unambiguous, expressed in anguish, but in subdued tones: “The evidence presented in the foregoing paragraphs in respect of the existence of a Hindu temple in the Janmabhumi area at Ayodhya preceding the construction of the Babari Masjid is so eloquent that no further comments are necessary. Unfortunately, the basic problem with a certain category of historians and archaeologists – and others of the same ilk – is that seeing they see not or knowingly they ignore. Anyway, in spite of them the truth has revealed itself.”

Arun Shourie devotes a complete chapter to DN Jha, one historian of this category of historians. Read http://www.docstoc.com/docs/19263243/ayodhya3 Arun Shourie on DN Jha

Is it worth the effort to debunk a self-styled historian who says 1. that Lord Indra is ‘rowdy and amoral’; 2. that the God Krishna has a ‘rather questionable personal record.’; 3. that Lord Shiva is just ‘a development of phallic cults.’; 4. that bhakti is just the reflection of ‘the complete dependence of the serfs or tenants on the landowners in the context of Indian feudal society’. This Marxian view of history lead historians of the ilk of DN Jha to a pathetic, perverted state requiring only psychiatric help. Anyway, Arun Shourie has demolished the bogus interpretative frauds perpetrated by DN Jha in the name of history.

Sitaram Goel has analysed the state of communists writing Indian history.

The following extracts from Arun Shorie’s and Sitaram Goel’s books speak for themselves and expose the historian ilk of the DN Jha type:

EXTRACTS FROM THE BOOK: “EMINENT HISTORIANS: THEIR TECHNOLOGY, THEIR LINE, THEIR FRAUD ” – ARUN SHOURIE – RUPA & CO

THE DOUBLE SPEAK ON THE “INDIAN COUNCIL OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH” (ICHR)
INTRODUCTION

1. “In JUN-JUL, 1998, progressives kicked up quite a racket. The government has packed the ICHR with pro-Ram-Mandir historians, they shouted. It has surreptitiously altered the aims and objectives of the Council, they shouted.” AS IS THEIR WONT,THEY SPARKED THE COMMOTION BY GIVING WIND TO A CONCOTION. As is their wont too, THEY WERE CHARGING OTHERS WITH ‘planning’ to do in‘some undefined future’what they had themselves been actually doing for decades- that is WRITE HISTORY TO A PURPOSE”

2. “The commotion led me(ARUN SHOURIE) to look into their record-to look at what they had made of an institution like the ICHR, and to read textbooks they had authored. They have used them to have a COMFORTABLE TIME, of course. They have used them to puff up each other’s reputations, of course. But the worst of it is that they used THEIR CONTROL OF THESE INSTITUTIONS TO PERVERT PUBLIC DISCOURSE, AND THEREBY DERAIL PUBLIC POLICY.”

3. “ They have made out India to have been AN EMPTY LAND- filled by successive invaders. They have made present-dayIndia, AND HINDUISM more so, OUT TO BE A ZOO- AN AGGLOMERATION OF ASSORTED DISPARATE SPECIMENS. NO SUCH THING AS ‘INDIA’, just a geographical expression, just a construct of the British, NO SUCH THING AS HINDUISM,just a word used by the Arabs to describe the assortment they encountered, just an invention of the COMMUNALISTS to impose a uniformity- THAT HAS BEEN THEIR STANCE. For this they have BLACKENED THE HINDU PERIOD OF OUR HISTORY, AND, STRAINED TOWHITEWASH THE ISLAMIC PERIOD.They have denounced ancient India’s social system as the epitomy of oppression, and MADE TOTALITARIAN IDEOLOGIES OUT TO BE EGALITARIAN AND JUST. They have belittled OUR ANCIENT CULTURE AND EXAGGERATED SYNCRETISTIC ELEMENTS which survived and made them out to have beenAN ENTIRE CULTURE, THE COMPOSITE CULTURE, as THEY CALL IT. AND ALL THE WHILE THEY HAVE TAKEN CARE TO HIDE THE CENTRAL FACTS ABOUT THESE COMMON ELEMENTS IN THE LIFE OF OUR PEOPLE: THAT THEY HAVE SURVIVED IN SPITE OF THE MOST STRENUOUS EFFORTS SPREAD OVER A THOUSAND YEARS OF ISLAMIC RULERS AND THE ULEMA TO ERASE THEM, THAT THEY HAVE SURVIVED IN SPITE OF SUSTAINED EFFORTS DURING THE LAST ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF MISSIONARIES AND BRITISH RULERS TO MAKE US FORGET AND SHED THESE ELEMENTS, THAT THESE ELEMENTS HAD SURVIVED THEIR EFFORTS TO INSTEAD INFLAME EACH SECTION TO SEE ITS ‘IDENTITY’ AND ESSENCE IN FACTORS WHICH, IF INTERNALISED, WOULD SET IT APART. Most of all, these INTELLECTUALS AND THE LIKE have completely diverted public view from the activities in our day of organizations likeTABHLIGI JAMAAT and the CHURCH which are exerting every nerve, and deploying unaccounted resources to get their adherents to discard every practice and belief WHICH THEY SHARE WITH THEIR HINDU NEIGHBOURS.”

4. “ These intellectuals and their patrons have worked a DIABOLIC INVERSION: the inclusive religion, the pluralist spiritual search of our people and land, they have projected as INTOLERANT, NARROW-MINDED AND OBSCURANTIST; and THE EXCLUSIVIST, TOTALITARIAN, REVELATORY RELIGIONS AND IDEOLOGIES- ISLAM, CHRISTIANITY AND MARXISM-LENINISM-THEY HAVE MADE OUT TO BE THE EPITOMES OF TOLERANCE, OPEN-MINDEDNESS, DEMOCRACY, SECULARISM!” THAT,IS THEIR CRIME!

THE DOUBLE-SPEAK ON ICHR

AND

THE MEDIA SPIN

THE OLD AND NEW PALL-BEARERS

5. “ ‘RATIONAL vs NATIONAL’, screamed the headline of the new pall – bearer of secularism, the magazine OUTLOOK. Fresh evidence available with OUTLOOK reveals that NOT ONLY has the ICHR beenpacked with sympathizers, the story announced, but a new statement of objectives or resolution has been added, changing certain key words from the original Memorandum of Association of 1972, legitimized by an Act of Parliament. While the original Memorandum of Association states that ICHR’s aims would be to give ‘rational’( please MARK this word, as it assumes importance as this narrative progresses)direction to historical research and foster ‘ an objective and scientific writing of history’, the new resolution, which will be included in theGAZETTE of INDIA, states that ICHR now seeks to give a ‘national’( please mark this word also!)direction to an ‘objective and national presentation of history’. So, ‘RATIONAL’ has been CHANGED TO ‘ NATIONAL’, and ‘SCIENTIFIC’ too has been CHANGED TO ‘NATIONAL’—-.” (MY COMMENT: WELL DONE MR. (SECULAR) VINOD MEHTA)

6. “ ‘TAMPERING WITH HISTORY’, proclaimed theold pall – bearer, THE HINDU.

‘ Apprehensions of this kind ( that the fabled SANGH PARIVAR is out to rewrite history) have been substantiated by a related decision. The resolution by the Ministry of Human Resources Development- nodal Ministry under which the ICHR comes- that details new nominations carries with it an amendment to the Memorandum of Association by which the ICHR was set up; while the institution was set up ‘ to foster objective and scientific writing of history such as will inculcate an informed appreciation of the country’s national and cultural heritage’, the new Government’s mandate is that ICHR will give a ‘NATIONAL DIRECTION’ to an ‘OBJECTIVE AND NATIONAL PRESENTATION AND INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY’. This amendment is certainly NOT JUST A MATTER OF SEMANTICS. Instead, one can clearly see in this AN INTENTION ON THE PART OF THE BJP-LED GOVERNMENT TO REWRITE HISTORY’—-.( MY COMMENT:THUS SPOKE MOUNT ROAD MAHA VISHNU!! AS THIS NARRATIVE PROGRESSES THE READER WILL CLEARLY SEE THE ‘FRAUD’ PERPETRATED ON THE CITIZENS BY THE SECULAR ENGLISH MEDIA!! THE 21STCENTURY ‘PALL-BEARERS’ OF SECULARISM!!)

7. “ The next issue of the CPI (M) mouthpiece PEOPLE’SDEMOCRACY , reproduced this editorial! (MY COMMENT: of THE HINDU- ANY WONDER THEN DR. KOENRAAD ELST CALLS THE HINDU-A COMMUNIST NEWSPAPER AND THE FRONTLINE A MARXIST PUBLICATION!!) And carried with it an Article by ONE OF THE RING LEADERS, K. N. PANIKKAR. ‘SAFFRONISATION of HISTORICAL RESEARCH’, proclaimed the heading. Panikkar repeated the charge of the word ‘RATIONAL’ having been replaced by ‘NATIONAL’. He added another: the Memorandum of Association of the ICHR mentions five objectives, he said, but the RESOLUTION PUT OUT BY THE SAFFRON BRIGADE MENTIONS ONLY TWO.” (MY COMMENT: PLEASE NOTE THIS ALSO- 5 BECOMES 2!!)

8. SUMMARY OF THE ‘SECULAR’ CHARGE SHEET!! “ Thus

the charge rested on three bits of ‘evidence’: that the Memorandum of Association of the ICHR had BEEN CHANGED; SECOND- that a WORD- ‘RATIONAL’- in the Resolution announcing the new members of the ICHR had been SURREPTITIOUSLY replaced by another WORD-‘ NATIONAL’; THIRD- that while the original Memorandum of Association had specified five objectives for the ICHR, the new Resolution CUT OUT THREE of these.” (MY COMMENT: THE GREAT INDIAN ROPE TRICK-FIVE TO THREE!!)

SHOURIE’S INVESTIGATION.

9. “ Having been educated by THE HINDU that the ‘nodal ministry’ for the matter was the Ministry of Human Resources Development, I (SHOURIE) rang up the SECRETARY of that Ministry. Has the Memorandum of Association of the ICHR been changed?, I asked.NO, he said. IT HAS NOT BEEN CHANGED, he said.”

10. And what of the WHODUNIT MYSTERY- RATIONAL BEING CHANGED TO NATIONAL?!! SHOURIE writes. “ I have before me the statement of the Ministry of Human Resources Development ( NO: F-30-28/86-U3) Dated 06 OCTOBER 1987, THAT IS ELEVEN YEARS AGO. It gives the text of the Resolution of the Government of India announcing the new members- announcing, among other things, that Irfan Habib is being appointed as Chairman with retrospective effect from 09 SEPTEMBER 1986. The corresponding expression in it is, ‘ TO GIVE A ‘NATIONAL’ DIRECTION TO AN OBJECTIVE AND NATIONAL PRESENTATION AND INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY’( MY COMMENT: AND WHAT DID THE OLD AND NEW PALL BEARERS WRITE ABOVE? THE SECULAR FRAUDS!!) AGAIN. “ I (SHOURIE) have before me the statement of the Ministry of Human Resources Development ( NO: F-30-13/89-U3) dated 15 MAY 1991. It gives the text of the Resolution of the Government of India announcing the new members- announcing, among other things, that Irfan Habib is being re-appointed as Chairman with retrospective effect from 12 MARCH 1990. The corresponding expression in it is, ‘ TO GIVE A NATIONAL DIRECTION TO AN OBJECTIVE AND NATIONAL PRESENTATION AND INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY’. To test my hypothesis yet again, I looked for and obtained the immediately preceding statement of the Ministry. It bore the number F-30-3/94-U3 dated 08 SEPTEMBER 1994. Like the others, it furnished the text of the Resolution of the Government of India announcing the new members- announcing, among other things, that RAVINDER KUMAR, another ‘historian’ of the SAME HUE, was being appointed as Chairman with retrospective effect from 08 SEPTEMBER 1990. The corresponding expression in it was, ‘ TO GIVE A NATIONAL DIRECTION TO AN OBJECTIVE AND NATIONAL PRESENTATION AND INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY’ (MY COMMENT: WHAT AN HONEST AND A ‘SECULAR’ ENGLISH MEDIA WE ARE BLESSED WITH!!)

11. On a request from ARUN SHOURIE, the Secretary in theUnion Ministry of Human Resources Development, traced the RESOLUTIONS of the EARLIER YEARS-UPTO 1978. AND-EACH OF THEM CARRIED THE SAME WORDS!! (MY COMMENT: THE ‘COMMIES’ ARE INVETERATE ‘LIARS’. THAT’S THE LESSON TO BE LEARNT. I LEARNT IT MANY YEARS AGO IN THE ERSTWHILE U.S.S.R.)

12. THE CAUSE OF THE ERROR. “ The research of the Secretary and his colleagues established that- to reproduce the word of the Secretary used- the whole mystery had arisen from a

‘ TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR’: some typist banging away on his typewriter some TWENTY YEARS AGO typed ‘RATIONAL’ as ‘NATIONAL’! As each typist, when asked to type the subsequent Resolution,COPIED THE PRECEDING ONE, THAT WORD CONTINUED TO BE TYPED AS ‘NATIONAL’ YEAR AFTER YEAR!! THE LEFTISTS INFERRED NO CONSPIRACY. But lo and behold, now that a BJP Government was in power, inferring conspiracies- to use their favourite phrase- WAS A HISTORICAL NECESSITY. IT WAS OBJECTIVE HISTORY! IT WAS PROGRESSIVE METHODOLOGY!!

13. THE RESPONSE OF OUR ‘SECULAR’ AND HONEST(?)

EDITORS.!! “ I (SHOURIE) rang UP Vinod Mehta, the Editor of OUTLOOK and PRESIDENT OF THE EDITORS GUILD OF INDIA. ‘ But the reporter says she has the text and everything,’ he said. I narrated what I had found. He promised to check and get back to me. When we talked again he said he had sent me the text of the Resolution. BUT THAT WAS THE CURRENT ONE. My point had been that the ‘change’ on which OUTLOOKhad built its story had existedin all the Resolutions for at least TWENTY YEARS. HE SAID HE WOULD GET BACK TO ME. HE NEVER DID. NOR DID THE SENIOR JOURNALISTS OF TWO OTHER PUBLICATIONS THAT HAD BUILT THEIR STORIES ON THE FABRICATION, AND WHO, AFTER I REQUESTED THEM TO ASCERTAIN THE BASIS OF THEIR ACCOUNTS, HAD PROMISED TO GET BACK TO ME.”( MY COMMENT: THE SECULARISTS LIE THROUGH EVERY PORE IN THEIR ANATOMY!!)

14. AND WHAT OF ‘FIVE’ BECOMING ‘TWO’? “ The exact same thing held for THE FABRICATION of K.N. PANIKKAR: about five objectives having become two. In every single one of the Resolutions- including the 1994 Resolution under which PANIKKAR had himself been nominated to the ICHR, a Resolution he can find printed at page 32 of the GAZETTE of INDIA, 22 OCTOBER 1994, THE EXACT SAME SENTENCES HAD BEEN USED: ONLY THOSE OBJECTIVES HAD BEEN MENTIONED AS WERE MENTIONED IN THE RESOLUTION ISSUED IN 1998!!! And another thing: If an RSS publication publishes even an interview with me (SHOURIE), that is further proof of my being COMMUNAL; but so tough are the hymen of these progressives that, even when they contribute signed Articles to publications of the Communist Party, THEIR VIRGINITY REMAINS INTACT.”

THE OTHER CHARGE- ICHR PACKED WITH ‘RAM BAKHTS’!!

15. “ The associated charge, repeated in the OUTLOOK and all the other publications, was that historians who had now been nominated to the ICHR were the ones that supported the proposition that there had been a Ram-temple at Ayodhya before it was replaced by the Babri Mosque. Assume that the charge was entirely correct. What about the members who had NOT BEEN RE-NOMINATED? THEY WERE THE INTELLECTUAL GUIDES AND PROPAGANDISTS OF THE BABRI MASJID ACTION COMMITTEE. Not only were these ‘historians’ the advisers of the BABRI MASJID ACTION COMMITTEE, its advocates in the negotiations, they simultaneously issued all sorts of statements supporting the BABRI MASJID ACTION COMMITTEE’S case-WHICH WAS THE CASE THEY HAD THEMSELVES PREPARED! A well- practiced technique, if I may say so: THEY ARE FROM A SCHOOL IN WHICH MEMBERS HAVE MADE EACH OTHER FAMOUS BY APPLAUDING EACH OTHERS BOOKS AND ‘THESES’!!( MY COMMENT: A CLASSIC CASE OF ‘YOU SCRATCH MY BACK- I SCRATCH YOURS!!)

16. “And these very ‘historians’ are ‘cited’ as witnesses in the pleadings filed by the SUNNI WAQF BOARD in the courts which are considering the Ayodhya matter!!!

– Witness number 63: R.S. SHARMA.

- Witness number 64: Suraj Bhan

- Witness number 65: D,N. Jha

- Witness number 66: Romila Thapar

- Witness number 67: Athar Ali (since deceased)

- Witness number70: Irfan Habib (ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY)

- Witness number 71: Shireen Moosvi ( also AMU)

- Witness number 72: B.N Pandey (since deceased)

- Witness number 74: R.L. Shukla

- Witness number 82: Sushil Srivastava

- Witness number 95: K.M. Shrimali

- Witness number 96: Suveera Jayaswal

- Witness number 99: Satish Chandra

- Witness number 101: Sumit Sarkar

- Witness number 102: Gyanendra Pandey

17. “ Their deceitful role in Ayodhya- which in the end harmed their clients more than anyone else- was just symptomatic. FOR FIFTY YEARS THIS BUNCH HAS BEEN SUPPRESSING FACTS AND ‘INVENTING LIES’. How concerned they pretend to be today about the objective of the ICHR- to promote objective and rational research into events of our past! The capture of institutions like the ICHR has been bad enough, but in the end it has been a device. The major CRIME of these ‘historians’ has been this partisanship:SUPPRESSO VERI, SUGGESTO FALSI.”
CONCLUSION

18. “ But these are not just partisan ‘historians’. THEY ARE NEPOTISTS OF THE FIRST ORDER. I had documented several years ago the doings of some of them in regard to appointments in the ALIGARHMUSLIM UNIVERSITY.THEIR DOINGS IN THE ICHR WERE TRUE TO PATTERN.How is it that over twenty-five years persons from their school alone had been nominated to the ICHR? How come Romila Thapar had been on the Council four times? ( MY COMMENT: ‘COMRADE HARKISHEN SURJEET, IN HIS LATEST MISSIVE IN THE ‘PEOPLE’S DEMOCRACY’, THE ONE THAT GAVE ANUPAM KHER THE ‘BOOT’. WANTS ROMILA THAPER BACK AT THE ICHR!!) Irfan Habib five times? Satish Chandra four times? S. Gopal three times?- – - The same pattern held for the post of the Chairman.”

19. And what was their response when their ‘fabrication’ was ‘nailed’? “ As unlike Shourie, who, a resident of Delhi, is a BJP M.P. from U.P.( MY COMMENT: SO WHAT? MANMOHAN SINGH IS AN M.P. FROM ASSAM!!) I am not a Member of Parliament, wrote their spokesman, Panikkar, ‘I HAVE NO MEANS TO ASCERTAIN FROM THE MNISTRY’ whether WHAT SHOURIE HAS WRITTEN IS TRUE!!!!!”( MY COMMENT: IF I AM A ‘COMMIE’- I HAVE UNTRAMELLED RIGHTS TO ‘LIE’ AND IT WILL BE CARRIED BY THE ‘SECULAR ENGLISH MEDIA’ FAITHFULLY!! BUT WHEN SHOURIE ‘NAILS’ ME I CANNOT ASCERTAIN HIS TRUTHFULLNESS!! ONLY THE ‘COMMIES’ ARE VESTED WITH SUCH A CONVOLUTED THOUGHT PROCESS!! REMEMBER THEIR PERFIDY IN ‘THE ONLY FATHERLAND’?)

20. “ A much favoured device: when caught peddling a ‘lie’, insinuate the other man is privileged!! And that, as you from the ‘toiling masses’, you cannot ascertain whether the facts he has stated are true. THEREFORE, WHAT YOU STATED MUST STAND AS FACT. Q.E.D.!!!!” (TO BE CONTINUED)

EXTRACTS FROM THE BOOK: “PERVERSION OF INDIA’S POLITICAL PARLANCE” – SITA RAM GOEL – VOICE OF INDIA

“ THE LANGUAGE OF COMMUNIST IMPERIALISM.’

1. “ The language of ‘COMMUNIST IMPERIALISM’ started trickling into Indiasoon after the BOLSHEVIKS seized power in Russia in November 1917. ‘LEADING WESTERN SCHOLARS LIKE BERTRAND RUSSELL HAVE IDENTIFIED COMMUNISM AS A CHRISTIAN HERESY’. SMALL WONDER THEN THAT THE LANGUAGE OF ‘COMMUNIST IMPERIALISM’ IS THE SAME AS THAT OF ‘CHRISTIAN IMPERIALISM’,EXCEPT FOR THE Marxist trappings in which Lenin has disguised it. This becomes obvious when we contemplate the following features:

- FORCES OF PRODUCTION, MATURING IN THE WOMB OF HISTORY, FOUND A MATCHLESS MIDWIFE IN COMRADE LENIN, AND A FIELD FOR THEIR FULLEST FREE-PLAY IN SOVIET RUSSIA AFTER THE REVOLUTION IN 1917.

- HISTORY, WHICH HAD SO FAR BEEN A ‘HISTORY OF CLASS OPPRESSION’ AND ‘CLASS STRUGGLE’, NOW TOOK A ‘DECISIVE TURN TOWARDS A CLASSLESS SOCIETY’.

- The whole world includingIndia became a battle-ground between ‘FORCES OF FUEDAL AND CAPITALIST REACTION’on the one hand, and, ‘FORCES OF PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION’ on the other.

- The ‘PROLETARIAT’ in every country, including India, became part of an ‘INTERNATIONALE’ COMARADERIE’ WHICH AHD NO USE FOR ‘NATIONALISM’ IN ANY SHAPE OR FORM. (MY COMMENT: I had received on the NET from another e-group a disturbing message in the recent past. It involves the outcome of a debate in the J.N.U. The subject of the debate was “CHINA IS WRONG IN DEPICTING PARTS OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH AS ITS TERRITORY”. THE MOTION WAS ‘DEFEATED’ THANKS TO THE STUDENTS FEDERATION OF INDIA (SFI) A COMMUNIST STUDENTS UNION VOTING EN-MASSE AGAINST THE ‘MOTION’. DIDN’T OUR COMRADES DO THE SAME DURING 1962?)

- History has mandated the whole earth, including India, to the ‘COMMUNIST INTERNATIONALE’, THE VANGUARD OF THE WORLD PROLETARIAT, AND IT WAS THE INALIENABLE RIGHT INTERNATIONALE’ TO PROMOTE A PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION IN EVERY COUNTRY.

- The victory of the INTERNATIONALE’ was inevitable, and its sections in different countries should endeavour to expedite the end.

- History had pronounced as outmoded all existing political, social, cultural and economic institutions in India, and the COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA, a section of the COMMUNIST INTERNATIONALE’, SHOULD SMASH THEM SO THAT THE LAST VESTIGES OF FUEDALISM, CAPITALISM AND COLONIALISM WERE WIPED OUT.

- THE FEUDAL LORDS AND CAPITALISTS IN INDIA HAD CONSPIRED WITH BRITISH IMPERIALISM IN ORDER TO KEEP THE INDIAN PEOPLE ENSLAVED, AND THEY DESERVED TO BE DESTROYED TOGETHER WITH THEIR POLITICAL CONSPIRACY, – ‘THE INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS’.

2. “ This is not the place to tell how the CPI has functioned as a fifth-

column of Soviet Russia for nearly sixty seven years. ( FOOTNOTE: The author writes ‘ THIS WAS WRITTEN IN 1984. SINCE THEN THE SOVIET UNION HAS COLLAPSED). What is relevant in the present context is that, although the COMMUNISTS have failed to consolidate any substantial political base beyond West Bengal and Kerala, the spread of the language of COMMUNIST IMPERIALISM has been phenomenal . By now, this language has become the standard language of ‘SECULARISM IN INDIA’, whatever be the names by which various political parties and factions describe themselves.”

3. “ What is still more significant, the language of COMMUNIST

IMPERIALISM operates in close cooperation with the languages of Islamic, Christian and Western imperialism and has succeeded, for the time being, in silencing or putting on the defensive whatever is still left of the language of INDIAN NATIONALISM. This becomes crystal clear when we examine the history and role of the LEFTIST LANGUAGE EVER SINCE IT INVADED India in the early 1920’s.”

12 Dec. 2009

http://www.dailypioneer.com/221767/Love-Jihad-is-real-says-Kerala-High-Court.html

Love
Jihad is real, says Kerala High Court
VR Jayaraj | Kochi
Wants law to stop forced conversions
The Kerala High Court on Wednesday stated that forced conversions,
termed as Love Jihad or Romeo Jihad, and efforts for that were a
reality in the State despite the arguments by the Kerala Director
General of Police, and Union Home Department to the contrary.
Stating that the State Government had the responsibility to check
forced conversions, the court asked it to formulate legislation on the
lines of the other States.
Rejecting a petition for anticipatory bail in a Love Jihad case filed
by Shehenshah, a Muslim youth, who had allegedly forced a non-Muslim
MBA girl student of a Pathanamthitta college in the name of love, the
court said that campuses should not be turned into venues for forced
conversions through false love affairs.
Justice KT Sankaran also rejected another petition seeking a ban on the
use of the terms Love Jihad and Romeo Jihad.
Earlier, Kerala DGP Jacob Punnoose had submitted in the court that no
evidence was available to prove the existence of an organised movement
in the State, specialising in converting non-Muslim girls into Islam
through treacherous love affairs. Subsequently, the Union Home
Department told the court that it had no information of any movement
anywhere in the country specialising in such conversion methods.
Justice Sankaran also pointed out that the reports submitted by top
police officials in the State were of contradictory in nature. The DGP
had told the court that there were no “actionable” evidences to suggest
that such a conversion campaign was on in Kerala but indications of
possibility of such a programme was there. The court also said that 14
out of the 18 reports from SPs on the matter, submitted by the DGP,
were of no value or use.
However, police reports themselves had made it clear that forced
conversions through love affairs as a movement had been going on in
Kerala since 1996. The judge said that the police reports had indicated
that about 4,000 conversions had taken place through love affairs in
the past four years, and 2,800 girls of other religions had undergone
conversion into Islam in this period.
He also said that 1,600 such conversions had taken place in four
northern districts, including Malappuram, Kerala’s Muslim-majority
district. It was evident from the report submitted by the DGP that
outfits like Islamist Popular Front of India (earlier NDF) and its
student wing, the Campus Front, were behind the organised campus-based
conversion programme, said Justice Sankaran.
He added that the DGP’s report had also indicated that Muslim
conversion centres had been functioning in Kozhikode district.
Though the Constitution guaranteed equal rights to all religions, the
right for faith should not be used for forced conversions and
conversions through treachery, the judge said. Mixed marriages could be
promoted but such marriages should not be used as tools for forced or
treacherous conversions, he pointed out.
He also said that several other States had formulated legislations for
preventing forced conversions and the people and the Government of
Kerala should consider formulation of such legislation in view of the
particular context.

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[On 9 December 1992, three days after the historic demolition of the Babri Masjid, Girilal Jain wrote a seminal piece in The Times of India, which silenced all intellectual opposition or exposed that there was no legitimate intellectual argument against this spontaneous decision by nameless and faceless Ram bhaktas.

As a media hostile to Hindu concerns again debates the relevance of the Rama Mandir movement in the wake of the leaked/released Liberhan Commission Report, it is obvious that much has changed in the 17 years since that fateful December.

The Babri demolition represented free India’s first decisive step to reject what she could not endorse. Stuck for five centuries like the poison in the throat of Neelkanth, the Babri structure was never accepted by Hindu society. The struggle to reclaim this sacred space continued doggedly for centuries, and much Hindu blood was sacrificed; even one year before the demolition, kar sevaks fell to the bullets fired by the Mulayam Singh Yadav regime. 6 December 1992 was a logical response to that bloody affront.

Post-Babri polity rushed to appease Muslims, and denied voice to the simultaneous brutal expulsion of Kashmiri Hindus from home and hearth. But events took the Muslim world on a trajectory of confrontation with the rest of the world. Personally I believe Islam is one of the worst victims of western colonialism. But Islam has only itself to blame – its rulers subordinate land, resources and self-respect before Western capitals for false power – and Islam allows itself to be manipulated to attack soft targets like Hindu India, rather than confront its real tormentors.

Islam has inevitably run into a dead end. It is not a viable political force anywhere in the world today. Pakistan was a Western manipulation, coming heavily unstuck, and Hindu fear of jihadi warriors is non-existent except among the effete political elite.

Hindus will not compromise on the Ram temple. The era of attempting to present evidence (under Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar), negotiating (P V Narasimha Rao appointed mediators), is over. Some say they await a court verdict, but Hindu society unequivocally rejects a verdict against the Ram Mandir. As sugarcane farmers effectively demonstrated recently in New Delhi, Hindu public opinion has a way of making itself obeyed.

Mahakala, the deity Time, has again showed His face, appropriately at a moment when once again a shameless surrender of the Kashmir Valley was being contemplated by an unrepresentative regime, only to waver in the face of sharp differences among the separatists and secessionists.

The Supreme Court directed archaeological excavations at Ayodhya, during the Vajpayee regime, have thrown up conclusive evidence about the existence of two Hindu temples below the Babri structure. So a court judgment that does not respect the Hindu claim to the site will be laughed out of court. The leakage of the Liberhan Commission Report to the media, allegedly to break opposition unity in Parliament on pressing problems facing the nation, has performed the same role as unlocking the Ayodhya temple gates did under Rajiv Gandhi – it has brought the civilisational issue to the fore, and that too, at a time when the world has lost patience with the Armies of Allah.

If Rajiv Gandhi was perceived as a man without knowledge, feeling or understanding of religion, the Italian-born Congress president Sonia Gandhi will not receive such a benefit of doubt. Her daughter is married to a Christian, and her son for years moved around with a South American Catholic. The family’s alienation from the nation’s Hindu ethos – emphasised by measures like trying to secure reservations for Christian and Muslim converts via the Ranganath Mishra Commission Report – will polarise Hindu opinion in favour of the temple when they are forced to resist it.

Girilal Jain was one of the rare Hindu intellectuals who stood by the Rama Janmabhoomi as a movement of Hindu affirmation and quest for civilisational identity. He stood equally and sincerely for the beleaguered Kashmiri Pandit community, at a time when it was politically incorrect to do both. He died on 19 July 1993. As the Hindu quest for Sri Rama’s birthplace springs to life again thanks to Justice Liberhan, we republish Girilal Jain’s seminal article for the new generation of Hindusthan. Much has changed, much remains the same – Editor]

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Ayodhya: A Historical Watershed

Girilal Jain

1992 will doubtless go down in Indian history as the year of Ayodhya. This is so not so much because recent events there have pushed into the background all other issues such as economic reforms and reservations for the ‘other backward castes’ as because they have released forces which will have a decisive influence in shaping the future of India.

These forces are not new; they have been at work for two centuries. Indeed, they were not even wholly bottled up. But they had not been unleashed earlier as they have been now. It is truly extraordinary that the demolition of a nondescript structure by faceless men no organization owns up should have shaken so vast a country as India. But no one can possibly deny that it has. These forces in themselves are not destructive even if they have led to some violence and blood-letting. They are essentially beneficent. They shall seek to heal the splits in the Indian personality so that it is restored to health and vigour.

Implicit in the above is the proposition that while India did not cease to be India either under Muslim or British rule despite all the trials and tribulations, she was not fully Mother India. And she was not fully Mother India not because she was called upon to digest external inputs, which is her nature to assimilate, but because she was not free to throw out what she could not possibly digest in the normal and natural course, This lack of freedom to reject what cannot be assimilated is the essence of foreign conquest and rule. The meaning of Ayodhya is that India has regained, to a larger extent than hitherto, the capacity to behave and act as a normal living organism. She has taken another big step towards self-affirmation.

All truth, as Lenin said, is partisan. So is mine. I do not pretend to be above the battle, or, to rephrase Pandit Nehru, I am not neutral against myself. But partisan truth is not demagogy and patently false propaganda, which is what advocates of ‘composite culture’ have engaged in. Two points need to be noted in this regard.

First, no living culture is ever wholly autonomous; for no culture is an airtight sealed box; Indian culture, in particular, has been known for its catholicity and willingness to give as well as take. It withdrew into a shell when it felt gravely threatened and became rigid; but that is understandable; indeed, the surprise, if any, is that Indian culture survived the Islamic and Western onslaught at all.

Secondly, a culture, if it is not swallowed up by an incoming one, whether by way of proselytization or conquest or both, as the Egyptians and Iranians were by Islam, or if it is not destroyed as the Aztec was by the Portuguese and the Spaniards, must seek to recover; even Indians in Latin America have not given up the effort. Surely, since no one can possibly suggest that Indian culture was either swallowed up or destroyed; it is only natural that it should seek to recover its genuine self. Surely, this is neither an anti-Islamic nor anti-Western activity.

Pandit Nehru almost never used the phrase ‘composite culture’. His was a more organic view of culture and civilization. He believed in, and spoke of, cultural synthesis which, if at all, could take place only within the old civilizational framework since Islam did not finally triumph. Pandit Nehru also wrote and spoke of the spirit of India asserting itself again and again. Surely, that spirit could not be a composite affair. In the Maulana Azad memorial lecture (mentioned earlier) he also spoke of different cultures being products of different environments and he specifically contrasted tropical India with the deserts of Arabia. He even said that a Hindu-Muslim cultural synthesis had not been completed when other factors intervened. Apparently he was referring to the British Raj.

This should help dispel the impression that the Nehru era was a continuation of alien rule intended to frustrate the process of Indianization of India. This charge is not limited to his detractors. It is made by his admirers as well, though, of course, indirectly and unknowingly. They pit secularism against Hinduism which is plainly absurd. Hindus do not need the imported concept of secularism in order to be able to show respect towards other faiths. That comes naturally to them. For theirs is an inclusive faith which provides for every form of religious experience and belief; there can be no heresy or kufr in Hinduism.

For Nehru, secularism, both as a personal philosophy and state policy, was an expression of India’s cultural-civilizational personality and not its negation and repudi­ation. Secularism suited India’s requirements as he saw them. For instance, it provided an additional legitimizing principle for reform movements among Hindus beginning with the Brahmo Samaj in the early part of the nineteenth century. It met the aspirations of the Westernized and modernizing intelligentsia. Before independence, it denied legitimacy to Muslim separatism in the eyes of Hindus, Westernized or traditionalist. If it did not help forge an instrument capable of resisting effectively the Muslim League’s demand for partition, the alternative platform of men such as Veer Savarkar did not avail either. After partition, it served the same purpose of denying legitimacy to moves to consolidate Muslims as a separate communalist political force.

Pandit Nehru’s emphasis on secularism has to be viewed not only in relation to the Muslim problem which survived partition, but it has also to be seen in the context of his plea for science and of India’s need to get rid of the heavy and deadening burden of rituals and superstitions, products of periods of grave weakness and hostile environment when nothing nobler than survival was possible. Seen in this perspective, the ideologies of socialism and secularism have served as mine sweepers. They have cleared the field of dead conventions sufficiently to make it possible for new builders to move in. Sheikh Abdullah exaggerated when he charged Pandit Nehru with Machiavellianism, but he was not too wide off the mark when he wrote in Aatish-e-Chinar that Nehru was “a great admirer of the past heritage and the Hindu spirit of India…. He considered himself as an instr­ument of rebuilding India with its ancient spirit” (quoted in Jagmohan, My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir, Allied Publishers, New Delhi, 1991, p. 138).

The trouble is that self-styled Nehruites and other secularists are not able to recognize that India is no longer the convalescent she was not only when Gandhiji launched his first mass movement but also when she achieved independence with Pandit Nehru as the first prime minister. The two leaders have helped nurse her back to health as have their critics in different ways. That is the implication of my observation that the energies now unleashed have been at work for two centuries.

Only on a superficial view, resulting from a lack of appreciation of the history of modern India, beginning with Raja Rammohan Roy in the early nineteenth century, can the rise of the Ramjanambhoomi issue to its present prominence be said to be the result of a series of ‘accidents’: the sudden appearance of the Ramlalla idol in the structure in 1949 and the opening of the gate under the Faizabad magistrate’s orders in 1986 being the most important. As in all such cases, these developments have helped bring out and reinforce something that was already growing — the 200-year-old movement for self-renewal and self-affirmation by Hindus. If this was not so, the ‘accidents’ in question would have petered out.

Similarly, while it cannot be denied that the RSS, the VHP, and the BJP have played a major role in mobilizing support for the cause of the temple, it should also be noted that they could not have achieved the success they have if the general atmosphere was not propitious and the time not ripe. Indeed, not to speak of Gandhiji who aroused and mobilized Hindus as no one had before him, fought the Christian missionary assault and successfully resisted the British imperialist designs to divide Harijans from Hindu society, it would be unfair to deny Nehru’s and Indira Gandhi’s contributions to the Hindu resurgence that we witness today. A civilizational revival, it may be pointed out, is a gradual, complex, and many-sided affair.

Again, only on the basis of a superficial view is it possible to see developments in India in isolation from developments in the larger world. Nehru’s worldview, for instance, was deeply influenced by the socialist theories sweeping Europe in the wake of the First World War and the Soviet revolution in 1917. By the same token, this worldview, which has dominated our thinking for well over six decades, could not but become irrelevant in view of the collapse of communist regimes in eastern Europe, and the disarray in the Soviet Union itself. This cannot be seriously disputed even on rational grounds. Intensification of the search for identity in India today is part of a similar development all over the world, especi­ally in view of the collapse of communist ‘universalism’. But if it is a mere coincidence that the Ramjanambhoomi issue has gathered support precisely in this period of the disintegration of Soviet power abroad and the decline of the Nehruvian consensus at home, it is an interesting one.

At the conscious level, the BJP, among political formations, has chosen to be an instrument of India’s cultural and civilizational recovery and reaffirmation. As such, it is natural that it will figure prominently in the reshaping of India in the coming years and decades. But others too will play their part in the gigantic enterprise. V P Singh, for instance, has already rendered yeoman service to the cause by undermining the social coalition which has dominated the country’s politics for most of the period since independence.*

When a master idea seizes the mind, as socialism did in the twenties, and as Hindutva has done now, it must usher in radical change. In the twenties and the decades that followed before and after independence, conservative forces were not strong enough to resist the socialist idea. Similarly, conservative forces are not strong enough today to defeat the Hindutva ideal. There is a difference, though, for while the socialist ideal related primarily to economic reorganization and was elitist in its approach by virtue of being a Western import, Hindutva seeks, above all, to unleash the energies of a whole people which foreign rule froze or drove underground.

When a historic change of this magnitude takes place, intellectual confusion is generally unavoidable. The human mind, as a rule, trails behind events; it is not capable of anticipating them. But it should be possible to cut through the mass of confusion and get to the heart of the matter.

The heart of the matter is that if India’s vast spiritual (psychic in modern parlance) energies, largely dormant for centuries, had to be tapped, Hindus had to be aroused; they could be aroused only by the use of a powerful symbol; that symbol could only be Ram, as was evident in the twenties when the Mahatma moved millions by his talk of Ramrajya; once the symbol takes hold of the popular mind, as Ram did in the twenties and as it has done now, opposition to it generally adds to its appeal.

An element of subjectivity and voluntarism, typical of a modern Westernized mind, has got introduced in the previous paragraph because that is the way I also think. In reality, the time spirit (Mahakala) unfolds itself under its own auspices, at its own momentum, as it were; we can either cooperate with it, or resist it at our peril.

Historians can continue to debate whether a temple, in fact, existed at the site of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya; whether it was, in fact, a Ram temple; whether it was destroyed; or whether it had collapsed on its own. Similarly, moralists and secularists can go on arguing that it is not right to replace one place of worship by another, especially as long as the foregoing issues have not been resolved. But this is not how history moves and civilizational issues are settled.

Pertinent is the fact that for no other site have Hindus fought so bitterly for so long with such steadfastness as over Ramjanambhoomi in Ayodhya. There is no rational explanation for this and it is futile to look for one. All that is open to us is to grasp the fact and power of the mystery.

In all cultures and societies under great stress flows an invisible undercurrent. It does not always break surface. But when it does, it transforms the scene. This is how events in Ayodhya should be seen. The Patal Ganga, of which all Indians must have heard, has broken surface there. Human beings have doubtless played a part in this surfacing. But witness the remarkable fact that we do not know and, in fact, do not care who installed the Ramlalla idol in the Babri structure and who demolished the structure on 6 December 1992.

While almost everyone else is looking for scapegoats, to me it seems that every known actor is playing his or her allotted role in the vast drama that is being enacted. We are, as it were, witnessing the enactment of a modern version of Balmiki’s Ramayana.

* On the face of it, the contest has been, and is, between ‘communalist’ Hindus, who equate Hinduism with nationalism and ‘secularist’ Hindus who believe that India has been, and is, larger than Hinduism. In reality the picture has been made more complicated inasmuch as ‘secular’ nationalism in India has been underwritten, at least partly, by casteism. All parties have been fairly attentive to ‘caste arithmetic’. The competition, as a shrewd Congress leader once said to me, has been between ‘communalism’ and ‘casteism’.

[From The Hindu Phenomenon, UBSPD, New Delhi, 1994, p. 113]

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“RAMA: HIS HISTORICITY, MANDIR AND SETU : EVIDENCE OF LITERATURE, ARCHAEOLOGY AND OTHER SCIENCES” –

BY DR. B.B. LAL

ARYAN BOOKS INTERNATIONAL, NEW DELHI (2008)

Thanks to Shri H. Balakrishnan for this note appended.

Kalyanaraman

“ARCHAEOLOGY COMES INTO THE PICTURE” – (pp-15)

When the Britishers left India in 1947, there was an yawning gap in our knowledge of ancient Indian history. We had at one end of the scale the Harappan Civilization which, in its Mature Stage, ranged in date from circa 2600 to 2000 BCE, and on the other the period of Sodasa Mahajanapadas (Sixteen Big States) beginning around the sixth century BCE.

Archaeologically, very little was known about the intermediary period and thus it was loosely termed as the ‘Dark Age’, although there was nothing ‘dark’ about it. It was indeed a great challenge for Indian archaeologists. (pp-15)

- – - . The readers will kindly forgive me for this seemingly unwanted and long introduction. But I thought it was necessary to let the readers know how, encouraged by the results (though by no means immense) of my excavation at Hastinapura [ that established the historicity of the Mahabharata ], I embarked upon my next project, namely ‘Archaeology of the Ramayana Sites’. Though conceived while in the Survey [ASI], I could not undertake it since as the Director General almost all my time was taken up by administrative and other allied matters. It was only after my voluntary retirement from the Survey [ASI] in 1972 that I could plan to take up this project, to begin with at the Jiwaji University, Gwalior, and later with full attention at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study at Shimla. The Survey [ASI] helped me in the field work which ran from 1977 to 1986, by deputing staff of its Excavations Branch, which for most of the time was headed by Shri K.N. Dikshit..(pp-19)

“WAS THERE A TEMPLE IN THE JANMA BHUMI AREA AT AYODHYA PRECEDING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE
BABRI MASJID?” (pp-54)

As mentioned earlier (pp-20), excavations were carried out in the Janma-Bhumi area at Ayodhya as part of the project ‘Archaeology of the Ramayana Sites’. Of the trenches laid out in this area, one was immediately to the South of and almost parallel to the boundary wall of the Babri Masjid, the intermediary space being hardly four metres. (pp-50)

- – - . Attached to the piers of the Babri Masjid there were twelve stone pillars which carried not only typical Hindu motifs and mouldings but also figures of Hindu deities (Figs. 2.3 and 2.4). It was self evident that these pillars were not an integral part of the
Masjid but were foreign to it. Since, as already stated, the pillar-bases were penetrating into the Masjid complex, a question naturally arose whether these bases had anything to do with the above mentioned pillars affixed to the piers of the Masjid.(pp-55)

- – - However, since these pillar-bases raised a question about their relationship with the pillars affixed to the piers of the Masjid, which evidently had originally belonged to a Hindu temple, these did draw public attention. The first reaction that came up from a
certain category of historians [Eminent Historians] was to deny the very existence of these pillar-bases. Their approach was simple: if there were no pillar-bases, the question of their relationship with the pillars affixed to the piers of the Babri Masjid became automatically redundant. These historians took recourse to publishing all sorts of unsavoury comments in the newspapers. However, when they were told that the pillar-bases were not someone’s fancy but their photographs (along with the negatives), taken at the time of the excavation, did exist in the photo-archives of the Excavations Branch of the ASI, they gave up their first exercise in denial, of which more would be said later. (pp-55)

– - -. Curiously, events take their own course. On December 6, 1992, the Masjid was demolished by the Kar Sevaks who had assembled in large number at the site. The demolition, though regrettable, brought to light a great deal of archaeological material from within the thick walls of the Masjid. From the published reports it is gathered that there were more than 200 specimens which included many scuptured panels and architectural components which must have constituted parts of the demolished temple. Besides, there were three inscriptions, of which two are illustrated here (Figs 2.5 and 2.6) (pp-61)

Of the above mentioned three inscriptions, the largest one is engraved on a stone-slab measuring 1.10 x .56 meters, and consists of twenty lines (Fig 2.5). It has since been published by Professor Ajaya Mitra Shastri of Nagpur University in the Puruttatva No. 23 (1992-93), pp-35. (Professor Shastri, who unfortunately is no more, was a distinguished historian and a specialist in Epigraphy and Numismatics). The relevant part of the paper reads as follows: ‘The inscription is composed in high-flown Sanskrit verse, except for a small portion in prose, and is engraved in chaste and classical Nagari script of the
eleventh-twelfth century A.D. It has yet to be fully deciphered, but the portions which have been fully deciphered and read are of great historical significance for our purpose here. It was evidently put up on the wall of the temple, the construction of which is recorded in the text inscribed on it. Line 15 of this inscription, for example, clearly tells us that a beautiful temple of Vishnu-Hari, built with heaps of stones and beautified with a golden spire unparalleled by any other temple built by the earlier kings was constructed. This wonderful temple was built in the temple-city of Ayodhya situated in the Saketamandala showing that Ayodhya and Saketa were closely connected, Saketa being the district of which Ayodhya was a part. Line 19 describes God Vishnu as destroying King Bali (apparently in Vamana manifestation) and the ten headed personage (ie Ravana). (pp-63-64)

The inscription makes it abundantly clear that there did exist at the site a temple datable to circa 11th-12th century CE [A.D.]. The sculptures and inscribed slab that came out from within the walls of the Masjid belonged to this very temple.(pp-64)

It has been contented by certain historians [Eminent Historians] that these images, architectural parts and the inscribed slab were brought by the Kar Sevaks from somewhere else and surreptitiously palced there at the time of the demolition of the Masjid. This contention is absolutely baseless. – - – On the other hand, a reputed journal India Today, published in its issue dated December 31, 1992, a photograph (Fig 2.7), which shows the Kar
Sevaks carrying on their shoulders a huge stone-sculpted with a long frieze, after having picked it up from the debris. (pp-64)

The above mentioned historians have also alleged that the inscription has been forged. This is behaving like the Village School Master of Oliver Goldsmith, who, ‘though vanquishedwould argue still’. So many eminent epigraphists of the country have examined the the inscribed slab and not even one of them is of the view that the inscription is forged. [Note: Emphasis as appearing in the book] Anyway, to allay misgivings, I append here a Note from the highest authority on epigraphical matters in the country, namely the Director of Epigraphy, ASI, Dr. K.V. Ramesh (Appendix II). In it he first gives a summary of the inscription, then an actual reading of the text and finally an English translation thereof. While many scholars may like to go through the Note, it maybe straightaway here that according to it this temple was built by Meghasuta who obtained the lordship of Saketamandala (i.e. Ayodhya) through the grace of the senior Lord of the earth viz Govinda Chandra, of the Gahadavala dynasty who ruled over a vast empire, from 1114 to 1155 CE. (pp-66)

In this entire context, it also needs to be added that there exist hundreds of examples, all over the country, of the destruction of temples and incorporation of their material in the mosques during the mediaeval times.For example, right in Delhi there is the Quwwatu’l-IslamMosque (‘Might of Islam’) near the Qutb Minar, which incorporated parts of a large number of temples that had been wantonly destroyed by Qutub-ud-din Aibak. Fig. 2.8 shows, standing within the mosque complex, a colonnade which was constructed by using sculpted pillars of the demolished 27 Hindu and Jain temples. This was a matter of glory for the conqueror as has been recorded by himself in an inscription still existing on inner lintel of the eastern entrance of the mosque (Fig. 2.9). Its English translation, by Maulvi Zafar Hasan, is as follows: ‘ The fort was conquered and this Jami Masjid was built in (the months of) the year 587 [1191-92 A.D.] by the Amir, the great and glorious commander of the army, (named) Qutub-ud-daulat-wa-d-din, the Amir-ul-umara Aibak Sultani, may God strengthen his helpers. The material of 27 temples, on (the erection of) each of which 2,000,000 Deliwals had been spent, were used in (the construction of) this mosque. May God the great and glorious have mercy on him who should pray for the faith of the founder of the good (building) (pp-66).

To sum up, the evidence presented in the foregoing paragraphs in respect of the existence of a Hindu temple in the Janma Bhumi area at Ayodhya preceding the construction of the Babri Masjid is so eloquent that no further comments are necessary. Unfortunately, the basic problem with a certain category of historians and archaeologists – and others of the same ilk – is that seeing they see not or knowingly they ignore. Anyway, in spite of them the truth has revealed itself. (pp-68)

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COMMENT:

Authenticating Prof Lal is this statement of Shri K.K. Muhammad , Deputy Superintendent Archaeologist ( Madras Circle ) as appeared in the English daily, Indian Express on 15 Dec 1990 :
“ I can reiterate this (ie. The existence of the Hindu Temple before it was displaced by the Babri Masjid) with greater authority – for I was the only Muslim who had participated in the Ayodhya excavations in 1976-’77 under Prof. Lal as a trainee. I have visited the excavation near the Babri site and seen the excavated pillar bases. The JNU historians have highlighted ONLY ONE PART OF OUR FINDINGS WHILE SUPPRESSING THE OTHER.”

Muhammad went to add: “ Ayodhya is as holy to the Hindus as Mecca is to the Muslims; Muslims should respect the sentiments of their Hindu brethren and voluntarily hand over the structure for constructing the Rama Temple.”

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ABOUT DR, B.B. LAL

The blurb states:

“A world renowned archaeologist, Professor B.B. Lal was the Director General of the ASI. His excavations cover a very wide range. At Kalibangan, Rajasthan, he unearthed a prosperous city of the Harappan Civilization. The excavations at Hastinapura have established that there was a kernel of truth in the Mahabharata, even though the epic is full of interpolations. The excavations at Ayodhya have shown that the Ramayana too has a basis in history. In 1961 he conducted excavations in Egypt too.

The President of India has honoured him with Padma Bhushan.

The Blind Talking To The Deaf

By Rajinder Puri The Statesman
December 6 & 7, 2009

Recently Chinese troops threatened Indian workers building a road in Ladakh. They enforced stoppage of work. The Chinese themselves are building air strips for strategic purposes on the border. China curtly dismissed Indian protests. “China has a dispute with India on the border issue. The two sides should work together to ensure peace and stability in the border area until the pending dispute is resolved,” China’s foreign ministry spokesman told the media.

The Minister of State for Defence, MMP Raju, told reporters that China was merely building infrastructure, there was nothing to worry. Home Minister Chidambaram advised the media that only after studying the Chinese response will “the government take a view”. Can capitulation be more shameless? The questions are: Why is China acting in this manner? Why is China succeeding in having its way? Let us address both questions in that order. The short answer to the first question is that China acts the way it does because of Tibet. Until it obtains total success in achieving its goal in Tibet it will not relent. Its Tibet policy has served it exceedingly well for six decades. Why should China change it? Tibet is crucial for totalitarian China. The minorities in China are roughly 8 per cent of the population. The land mass they occupy is almost one-third of China. Tibet and Xingjian are China’s two largest sparsely populated provinces. China is especially paranoid about retaining Tibet because it forcibly annexed it as recently as 1959. Thereby Tibet ceased to be a buffer between China and India, which is the only Asian state that can potentially balance China.

The annexation of an independent Tibet is irrefutably outlined in Claude Arpi’s book, Tibet: The Lost Frontier, which was published last year. Arpi, a Frenchman based in Auroville, is arguably India’s most effective communicator of the Tibetan cause. He displays the research of a scholar and the insight of a strategist. This year he has written a follow-up book, Dharamsala and Beijing : the Negotiations that Never Were, published by Lancer Publishers. The book is an eye-opener. It meticulously describes the entire farcical engagement since inception between Beijing and the Dalai Lama’s aides. It also exposes the pathetic conduct of America and India that witnessed this dialogue.

In 1947 there was no India-China border. There was only the India-Tibet border. Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai hoodwinked Pandit Nehru. From then up till now the Chinese brazenly lied, indulged in doubletalk and blandly denied self-evident truths. From then up till now India and America lamely accepted such contemptuous treatment. In 1954 India and China signed a treaty for eight years by which among other things India recognised Tibet to be part of China. Beijing violated the assurances given in that treaty by transgressing the border. A confused Nehru decided to keep Parliament in the dark. He persisted with secrecy about Chinese encroachments during the following years. That was when this reviewer through an article in 1960 demanded Nehru’s resignation. As a junior he made this reasonable demand when media doyens critical of Nehru’s China policies such as S Mulgaokar and Frank Moraes could not bring themselves to state this. No wonder it took a child to blurt that the Emperor wore no clothes! Zhou told Nehru that he was ignorant about the McMahon Line until he studied the border problem. And today China claims Arunachal Pradesh to be part of China!

Beijing and Tibet broke ice. Beijing allowed fact-finding missions from Dharamsala to visit Tibet and view its progress. The Chinese genuinely thought that better roads and infrastructure had made Tibetans happy. The frenzied reception given to the Dalai Lama’s representatives by the Tibetans stunned them. Four succeeding missions were doomed to fail. I think the Chinese fail to empathize with Tibet because Tibetans believe in God. Most Chinese don’t. In 2005 former Defence Minister, Army Chief and Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, Chi Haotian, said in a speech: “Maybe you have now come to understand why we … promulgate atheism… if we let all Chinese people listen to God and follow God, who will obediently listen to us and follow us?”

Meanwhile, many rounds of border talks between India and China were also held. These talks led nowhere. The door to China was opened in February 1976. Indira Gandhi during the Emergency ignored the parliamentary resolution forbidding dealing with China until it vacated all illegally occupied territory. She established ambassadorial relations with Beijing. Why did she do this with a country that had betrayed her father and humiliated India ? Was it not simply because by that time through Kissinger’s exertions America had opened up to China?

The puppeteer could make the puppet somersault. On subsequent contacts Vajpayee, Rajiv Gandhi and Narasimha Rao needlessly kept repeating that Tibet was part of China. Claude Arpi’s book exposes the painful repetitiveness of all contacts between China and Tibet, between China and the rest of the world. Tibet was like a woodpecker trying to penetrate a block of steel. The Chinese refused to countenance the slightest change in Tibet. In 1988 Dalai Lama made the Strasbourg Proposal and adopted the Middle Way, demanding autonomy instead of independence. Beijing kept calling him a ‘splitter’. China continued to lie and deceive the world to keep talks going. Only once in 60 years did a senior Chinese official speak the truth. In 1980 CCP General Secretary Hu Yaobang admitted: “Our party has let the Tibetan people down. We feel very bad!” Very soon he had to eat his words and fall in line. The world kept hoping for China to change. It was a futile hope.

Why have the Chinese succeeded in bringing the rest of the world to its knees? It is because the world is dominated by what I described in 2004 as the Real Axis of Evil comprising corporate America and China.

Arpi’s book recalls the closed door dialogues between the Americans and Deng Xiaoping when relations were thawing. The contemptuous references to India was what bonded the two sides. Kissinger was nauseatingly cloying as he sucked up to the Chinese. President Gerald Ford, not the brightest President, intervened in the talks with no impact. Ridiculing him Lyndon Johnson once said: “Ford needs both hands to find his ass!”

The architect of the evil axis on the American side was Henry Kissinger, once described widely as a war criminal but ending up as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. A little after Sino-American trade blossomed following Deng’s reforms, Kissinger Associates Inc. took birth. It was a consultancy that acted as facilitator of deals between China and corporate America. Kissinger became the central adviser for the Business Coalition for US-China Trade which has 1000 of the largest American corporations as its members. Kissinger helped set up China International Investment Corporation (CITIC), the Chinese government’s banking merchant for doing business with the US. Kissinger Associates roped in top level former officials including Alexander Haig, former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft, former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger, international economist Alan Stoga, and investment banker T. Jefferson Cunningham III. No wonder fierce public protest blocked Bush from appointing Kissinger to head the 9/11 Commission. Kissinger was forced to back out. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked Kissinger: “Kissinger Associates… has not… detailed the work it does. There is the possibility of a conflict of interest?”

Kissinger replied: “No law firm discloses its clients. I will discuss my clients fully with the counsel of the White House…” Kissinger was comfortable with the White House regardless of which administration governed America. For instance, President Obama’s trusted Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner worked for three years with Kissinger Associates before occupying his current post. Over the years Kissinger Associates has grown exponentially with a reach in all continents. Among other giants the American International Group (AIG), condemned for squandering millions as executive bonuses, is a strategic partner with Kissinger Associates. Kissinger is reputed to be one of the key benefactors of the stimulus bailout after the recent economic meltdown. Kissinger Associates is the shadowy centerpiece of corporate America and business partner of China. Totalitarian China is opaque for foreigners. But it has free access to democratic nations. It creates strong vested interest in their biggest business firms. In democracies big business influences politics. Ergo, China influences policy in democratic nations. With a five to one adverse balance of trade with China, with trillions of dollars held as US Treasury bills by China, is America in any position to confront Beijing? Why, the US dare not confront even China’s proxy, Pakistan! Claude Arpi at the conclusion of his book expresses hope that China will change. He points to individuals in China who speak the truth about Tibet, such as Phunwang, the Tibetan communist who led Chinese troops into Tibet. Subsequently he spent years in jail because he tried to faithfully follow Marxism. He was released and was invited to administer Tibet. He refused. He knew how that would end. He stayed on in mainland China. There are Chinese intellectuals like Zhang Boshu and Wang Lixiong who speak objectively and constructively about Tibet.

One begs to differ with Arpi.

China will not change unless it is compelled.

Given the Axis of Evil little hope might be placed on America. Only if India summons the will to detach itself from the coattails of Uncle Sam can China be compelled. After 1962 only once did India assert itself against China. In 1986 Chinese troops encroached into Sumdorong Chu in NEFA, now Arunachal Pradesh. Army Chief General Sundarji airlifted an entire brigade in what was called Operation Falcon to counter the Chinese. Deng Xiaoping warned that China would “teach India a lesson”. War seemed imminent. Sundarji was criticized The General stood firm and was prepared to quit. The government buttoned its lip. The Chinese backed down. Today there are effective ways of calling China’s bluff to enforce its climb down without resort to military action. It is futile to outline them given a government incapable of independent action. Until India summons the will to act independently it must live with a reality that is worse than pathetic. It is tragic.

(The writer is a veteran journalist and cartoonist)

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Mr. Singh & Soniaji, please save India pride.
Think Indian & throw away US kowtowing & head bending policy.

N- deal has failed to generate strategic & political advantage for India.

For US, on strategic issues, China is an important ally. It has a significant role to play in Asia. Obama’s expressions about China’s reign over Tibet & its role in India-Pak relations have serious geopolitical implications for India’s regional affairs.
Our policymakers have to accept that US foreign policy over Asia is mainly Sino-centric as well as Pak- supportive.
Delicious dinner is not an achievement in strategic issues. Respect showered by US to an individual or some people is much different from geopolitical and strategic partnership.
Britishers were giving a few the title Raibahadoor, who in turn were so enthused that they helped Briton to rule over India. Modern Raibahadoor Singh & Sonia are doing the same by letting US & Europe dictate India’s affairs.
Not dinner, we want the Sinner, terrorist harbinger & heaven Pakistan. Mr. Singh must tell this boldly to Obama. The insult that Mr. Singh assigned to Indian pride & interests is the price we had to pay for dinner.
Mr. Singh could not make US to sign N fuel reprocessing agreement.
N accident liability bill accepted by government shows how sheepish we are. In case of any N accident occurring in the plant, operator, i.e. Indian states are responsible, not the supplier or dealer of the technology or reactors. Onus of liability is not on the trader or producer, but on the user. How ridiculous? Nationalist MPs must block this bill in the Parliament.

N energy is of great importance to India. Its military & strategic value can never be underestimated. But it must be centered on indigenisation & self-reliance must be the aim. Technology and fuel may be imported, not at the cost of sovereignty, self-reliance, reprocessing rights, freedom to develop new technology like fast-breeder reactor, thorium based reactors. Rethinking on shameful End- user agreement, which gives right to US to track anywhere, any site in India, which could have used any part of technology, is the need of hour.
It is also true that electricity generated from these plants may be available after 10-15 years, and that too at a very exorbitant cost. For energy needs, alternatively, non-conventional sources of energy like solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, etc. – must be given importance.
People advocating the deal argued it to be a merchant deal – commercial deal & US having no strategic evil designs over India’s N capabilities. Wrong. US strategic decisions are overwhelmed by its commercial interests. Here they have more interest in China & Arab world.

So it is apparent that the N deal was oversold. It is time to renegotiate the deal & regain the lost pride.

DR. YOGESH G. PATEL

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Islamic politics targets song

S. Gurumurthy

First Published : 25 Nov 2009 12:23:00 AM IST

Last Updated : 25 Nov 2009 01:19:15 AM IST

The story of Vande Mataram first shows how, citing religious text, a society, otherwise one, could be set on the boil and divided. It also shows how, once the process of division based on a religious text starts, it does not stop at dividing a society into this or that religion. And how after the division it enters the body of the divided religious society to tear it further apart as the Pakistan situation demonstrates.

See how the advent of the song Vande Mataram, as common to both Hindus and Muslims, is captured by a Muslim writer in an Islamic website: “In 1905 came Curzon’s announcement of the partition of Bengal, and suddenly Vande Mataram turned into a national mantra, rending the skies with the protest against the partition of Bengal. Reacting quickly, the British government banned the song or even raising it as a slogan.. Peasant leader Abdul Rasul, was presiding over the Bengal Congress provincial conference session of 1906 when hundreds were struck down and grievously injured for singing Vande Mataram. This brutality at Barisal popularised the song overnight. According to Bengalee of May 23, 1906, ‘an unprecedented procession of Hindus and Muslims singing national songs and crying Vande Mataram and Allah-o-Akbar passed through all the principal streets of the town. Both Hindus and Mussalmans carried Vande Mataram flags. It is interesting to know that while Vande Mataram was banned in Bengal, the British government allowed the Bengali Regiment to attack German trenches during the First World War with Vande Mataram on their lips.”

The quote is not a century old, but is dated May 2004 (‘The history and Politics of Vande Mataram’ by Shasul Islam published in The Milli Gazette — Indian Muslims’ leading English newspaper www.milligazette.com).

The agitation against the partition of Bengal was not an accident or isolated event in respect of Muslim comfort with Vande Mataram.

The Calcutta session of the Congress in 1896, where Tagore first sang the song was presided over by Rahamatullah Sayani. The song became a regular feature in all later Congress conventions. It was again the lead hymn in Karachi in 1913 with Nawab Syed Mohammed Bahadur presiding. It was the inaugural song in the Bombay Congress in 1918 when the president was Syed Hasan Imam. Hakim Ali Khan, a founder of the Muslim League, left the League and joined the Congress in 1920 and became president of the Ahmedabad Congress at which again the song was sung as the invocation hymn. Abul Kalam Azad, who became president of the Congress in 1940, had presided over the special session of the Congress at Delhi in 1920 when the song was the inaugural hymn. In the Nagpur Congress in 1920, where, for the first time, a large number of Muslim delegates, as much as 1,050 out of 13,532, participated, Vande Mataram was as usual the lead song. M A Ansari was president of the Madras Congress in 1927 where too it was the lead song. Again, when Frontier Gandhi Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan led his redshirt Pathan Muslim volunteers into the Karachi Congress chanting Vande Mataram (See — ‘Vande Mataram and Islam’ by Aurobindo Mazumdar pp 66-71).

The solitary objection was by Maulana Mohammed Ali (at the Kakinada Congress in 1923) who termed it as idolatry — a charge that remained unsupported by anyone till Jinnah, the political, not religious, Muslim, repeated it in October 1937. Surprisingly, three years earlier Maulana Ali was present at the Nagpur Congress in 1920 when the song was sung and did not raise any objection. (ibid.p67)

Why then the perceived Islamic objection to Vande Mataram which was acceptable to the Muslims till 1937? Answer, in a couple of words: divisive politics. It was not Islamic theology, but Islamic politics, the politics of partition that targeted Vande Mataram. Curzon lured the Muslims with the partition of Bengal, and result was the birth of the Muslim League. But it remained a marginal force for almost three decades. Jinnah, who led it, had almost given up, left India and almost settled in London in 1929. He was brought back to India in 1936 to resurrect the League. Despite his efforts, the League lost the 1937 elections even in Muslim majority provinces. But a hurt Jinnah then moved into top gear to separate Muslims from Hindus. He targeted Vande Mataram in 1937 and projected it as a Hindu religious and anti-Islamic song. Jinnah’s idea was to club Hindus and India, not just to divide Hindus and Muslims. Jinnah’s aim was to show that the Congress represented only the Hindus and only the League represented Muslims.

In the next couple of years Jinnah succeeded in what he set out to do, namely, make large sections of Muslims feel they had nothing to do with Hindus, therefore with India, which Jinnah had successfully clubbed with the Hindus in the Muslim mind.

In pre-Partition India, Islamic politics smuggled itself as respectable Islamic theology. The sequence of theology-led politics divided the Darul Uloom Deoband chapter in Pakistan as Darul Uloom Karachi, and the Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind wing in Pakistan separated as Jamiat Uema-e-Islam in Pakistan.

The urge to seek text-defined purity in the faith and in the people has now made Darul Uloom Karachi and the Jamiat in Pakistan extremist in their views and part of the terrorist ideological infrastructure in Pakistan. And Pakistan, which was forged by the use of religious text for mass appeal, is now the springboard of global terrorism. So, divisive Islamic politics, which started with Vande Mataram and other icons that integrated India and Indians, did not stop at dividing Hindus and Muslims.

It has infected the body of Islamists and started dividing Muslims in Pakistan. The Muslim leaders who divided the pre-Partition Indians on the basis of their text as pure Muslims and impure Hindus now divide the Muslims in Pakistan as who, according to their text, are true Muslims and those who are not.

The Bhasmasur of Islamic separatism that Jinnah created and successfully employed against India in 1937 is testing its powers on the Islamic society in Pakistan in 2009, threatening civil war and chaos.

But, on the Indian side, Jinnah’s poison of Islamic separatism is now almost an integral part of India’s secular politics. Will Indian Islamic leaders and writers who are continuing the process of dividing Indians on the basis of what their religious texts say stop for a moment and look at what is happening inside Pakistan?

PS: Copying Muslim leaders, the Sikh body, SGPC, first opposed Vande Mataram on September 4, 2007, but, within 48 hours, it turned back and asked the Sikhs to sing the song. (http://ibnlive.in.com dated September 6, 2007).

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VISHVA HINDU PARISHAD

Sankat Mochan Ashram, R.K.Puram-VI, New Delhi-110 022

ANY SYMBOL OF HINDU HUMILIATION IS A NATIONAL SHAME

HINDUS ARE PROUD OF BABRI DEMOLITION

VHP is committed to Sri Ram Temple at Ayodhya

-Dr Pravin Togadia

New Delhi, 24th November, 2009

Reiterating the stand of VHP about Sri Rama Janma Bhumi at Ayodhya, Dr Pravin Togadiya, Secretary General of VHP said, “Any symbol created, built or otherwise, by any foreign invader in Akhand Bharat is a national shame. It never happens in any nation that a majority is consistently humiliated, hurt & persecuted. If it so happens anywhere then it is a national shame. A structure built by Babur cracking & destroying majority Hindus’ place of worship & place of utter faith can never be glorified in Bharat. Whoever tries to do so are putting Bharat at a risk of losing again to the modern day methods of foreign invasions like Jehadi attack, economic exploitation etc. Therefore, falling of Babri is the proudest moment of Hindus in Bharat.”

Dr Togadiya further reassured, “A magnificent Sri Ram temple will be built at the site. It is a socio-religious, cultural & legal right of the Hindus of Bharat who worship Bhagwan Sri Ram for ages even before the invaders’ religions were even born. Playing with Hindu religious sentiments has become a fashion these days. But over 85 crore Hindus in Bharat & many millions of Hindus internationally have been waiting for the glorious Sri Ram temple at the site. VHP is fully committed to it & to the Hindus. Sri Ram Janma Bhumi movement is not just a one off event & the movement has been taking place for over 450 years in different forms. With millions of Hindus, VHP does Sankalp to prevent any invaders’ structures to be rebuilt again to humiliate Hindus & is also committed to building great Sri Ram Temple at the site. Reports like Liberhan Commission report & others come & go, leaders come & go, governments come & go, but Hindu culture of protecting Hindu heritage & worship places has been going on for ages. It will go on for ages. Therefore, irrespective of political parties, governments & a limited biased people’s chatter box debates, HINDUS STAND TALL IN BHARAT & WITH VHP in the Sri Rama Janma Bhumi movement. Bharat recently saw similar Hindu unity in Rameswaram Ramsethu movement, in Amarnath movement & in Gouraksha movement. This Hindu unity will make wonders for Bharat & stand up against any odds. Hindus & VHP are ready for any sacrifice for building Sri Ram temple at the site.”

Mother, I bow to thee!
Rich with thy hurrying streams,
Bright with thy orchard gleams,
Cool with thy winds of delight, Dark fields waving, Mother of might,
Mother free.
Glory of moonlight dreams,
Over thy branches and lordly streams,
Clad in thy blossoming trees,
Mother, giver of ease,
Laughing low and sweet!
Mother I kiss thy feet,
Speaker sweet and low!
Mother to thee I bow.

Who hath said thou art weak in thy lands,
When the swords flash out in twice seventy million hands,
And seventy million voices roar,
Thy dreadful name from shore to shore?
With many strengths who are mighty and stored,
To thee I call, Mother and Lord!
Though who savest, arise and save!
To her I cry who ever her foemen drive,
Back from plain and sea,
And shook herself free.
Thou art wisdom, thou art law,
Thou our heart, our soul, our breath,
Thou the love divine, thou the awe,
In our hearts that conquer death.
Thine the strength that nerves the arm,
Thine the beauty, thine the charm,
Every image made divine,
In our temples is but thine.

Thou art Durga, Lady and Queen,
With her hands that strike and her swords of sheen,
Thou art Lakshmi lotus-throned,
And the Muse a hundred-toned,
Pure and perfect without peer,
Mother, lend thine ear.

Rich with thy hurrying streams,
Bright with thy orchard gleams,
Dark of hue, O candid-fair,
In thy soul, with jeweled hair,
And thy glorious smile divine,
Loveliest of all earthly lands,
Showering wealth from well-stored hands!
Mother, mother mine!
Mother sweet, I bow to thee,
Mother great and free!

‘Vande Mataram’ translated by Sri Aurobindo. This note of his about this translation is very significant: “It is difficult to translate the National Anthem of Bengal into verse in another language owing to its unique union of sweetness, simple directness and high poetic force.”
[Quoted in Bhabatosh Chatterjee (ed.), Bankim Chandra Chatterjee: Essays in Perspective, Sahitya Akademi, Delhi, 1994, p. 601.]

Our Nuclear Scientists have created a history on the remarkable days of 11th and 13th of the month of May in 1998 by conducting series of five advanced Nuclear Tests at Pokhran, Rajasthan. In layman’s term these are described as Simultaneous Explosions, but in scientific language, they are Near Simultaneous Explosions. These explosions were not carried out at the same time, but at very minute interval. The first three N-tests were spaced at some hundredth fraction of a second. Let’s see what we have accomplished on the day and what were the devices & technology used for that.

The first of the three N-tests on the first day was like a big Atom Bomb, which can be carried under the wings of a Fighter Aircraft and can be targeted at the enemy destination. It may be labeled as the ‘Conventional Atom Bomb’. The second one was a very small, can be fitted on the tip of the Missile as Nuclear Warhead. If we call the first one as Hi-tech, the second one may be called Super Hi-tech. The third explosion was of Thermonuclear type. Commonly it is nicknamed in media as Hydrogen Bomb, but actually the device from which this Hydrogen Bomb can be made is known as Thermo-nuclear device. We have tested it here. The real Hydrogen Bomb cannot be tested on the Earth except in the battlefield. It is an extremely destructive and dangerous weapon.

On the first day, just half an hour after the splendid explosions, the IAF helicopter was surveying the site. It was assessing the air and environment. It gave ‘Safe’ signal to the control room situated just five km. from the test-site about the overall safety. It informed that the atmosphere was calm, there was not any kind of environmental insult, and the people could move up to the test-site.

On receiving these signals, some of the senior officials and the scientists rushed to the site taking the necessary equipment. Geological and Ecological studies were carried out in detail. Test analysis was going on in the control room. The work was divided in the seventeen divisions. Each was given a target. The data and the other details gathered by each division were analyzed. The conclusion at the end of second hour was that there was not a trace of the nuclear insult by the Radioactive waves emitted following N-explosions.

Returning from the test-site, people of different departments submitted the respective departmental reports to Dr Kalam, Dr Chindabaram and Dr Kakodkar. The results were wondrous and delightful.
The twelve of the seventeen departments had achieved 90-92 % success. The remaining five departments were such that Dr Kalam had eulogized them and prided them on their accomplishments. These people had achieved 95-97 % success. Truly Marvelous.

On the whole two things became apparent. The tests were successful and there was no insult at all to the environment. The message was conveyed to the Prime Minister of India, Shri Atal Behari Bajpaiji.

On the same day evening, Prime Minister addressed a Press Conference and acquainted the world with the remarkable event. PM came with the Tri-colour in his hand. He proclaimed in the balanced words, “Bharat is now a Nuclear Super Power. India is now a Nuclear Weapon State.” One meaning of the proclamation was that our nation has put forward an important step necessary for its defence requisites on the foundation of indigenous scientific and technological advances.

In fact, the immediate effects of the tests were felt in and around Pokhran and some 125 villages in the form of tremors or shocks similar to earthquake waves. But the political and diplomatic tremors and jerks were felt in each and every nook and corner of the world. Soon the reactions in very stiff, venomous and non-diplomatic language began pouring in. The questions raised in the foreign and some national media were like, “Are they crazy? Are they lunatics?”

In political field usually such antinational and abusive language is avoided. Instead of commending India and the scientists for their extraordinary achievement, there were a battery of insane, derogatory and malicious criticisms. They feared that it would accelerate the arms-race already going on in South Asia.

But the common man was delighted. Their reactions were authoritative as if one was the eyewitness to the event. Look at this. After returning back to Pune at the end of May, I was looking into the newspaper and the magazines of 12-14th May and around. In one daily of 12th May, the caricature was very specific. Two vegetable vendors sitting on a roadside were talking each other. One tells the other, “I am feeling energized since yesterday.” This reflects the sentiments of a common man. I feel this is the greatest reward for the bold exploit shown by us. On the web, the common man’s reactions have traversed through a variety of sensors and proved enormously eloquent. There were the numbers of opinion polls, which made it obvious that 92 % of our nationals have wholeheartedly and conscientiously welcomed the incident.

The reactions were not confined to India. The CNN channel had organized a series of opinion polls from 12th to 30th May on the subject. The queries were straight and simple. Do you favour India’s N-test? Give reasons. Though it was destined to last until 30th May, it was abruptly and prematurely concluded on 22nd May. Adil Sopariwala, a political analyst, was associated with the poll as a member of the poll analyzing team. He displayed the beautiful analytical report of the poll till the date. He told that they had announced to continue the poll till 30th May, but were winding it up prematurely on 22nd May, because the magnificent and intuitive expressions received till the date were so enormously unilateral (lopsided) that it was impossible to receive enough contradictory views.

Similar were the reactions of common man in the outside world. They were for greeting the Indian government’s decision. Especially those of the European common man were of felicitating India. The reactions of the non-resident Indians, persons of the Indian origin and the people of those European nations who consider India as their natural friend & ally, were stating that, India that was till 11 May, 98 in the list of developing nations, has now put forward a strong and assertive step towards a league of developed nations. They could receive India’s help when needed. Such were the responses of most of the countries.

I am citing an example that elaborates that how encouraging were the common man’s reactions. While returning Mumbai, we landed at the airport late night. We decided to reach Anushaktinagar for night stay and go to Pune in the morning. We had some precious equipments to delivered at BARC before proceeding to Anushaktinagar. We needed a taxi from airport to BARC then to Anushaktinagar. Usually the taxi fare from airport to BARC is 1.5 times the regular fare. I know the habits of Mumbai taxiwalas. We reached BARC around 2 am. We decided to take vehicle from BARC. The driver listened that. To our surprise he told us that there was no need to change the vehicle as he would to take us there. But he kept a precondition. We were surprisingly listening to him. He told, “I won’t take single rupee from you as fare.” We were not known to him. He might have inferred the identity of the persons going to BARC and Anushaktinagar at the midnight in such a way. We refused. But what he told was to me and my colleagues the greatest reward of our exertions. He explained, “when you are doing such an exemplary work for our nation, can’t we do a little for you? Such astonishing greetings came from many people.

Another type of reactions came from the nuclear technocrats. These are very much important for persons like us working in atomic energy field. We were lucky to have an unexpected opportunity to receive such precious views. At Pokhran, our food was arranged by a Sarpanch of nearby village. We were a group of few persons who stayed at Pokhran after 11th May, rest had returned to their respective places. So instead of having meal at worksite, we went to the village for dinner. On our request the Sarpanch arranged for TV. Coincidently around 11pm, there was a press conference followed by panel discussion on BBC. The panel was comprised of three renowned nuclear scientists, a French, a Dutch & a British. They were introduced to the viewers. The French scientist had taken part in more than 200 N- tests of nearly 400 tests carried out by France under the sea water & the ground. He was just like ‘Bhisma Pitamah’ of our field. Such a great authority was evaluating our tests. We were extremely eager to listen his views. Fortunately the moderator began with him. He asked, “ is it not amazing that India has emerged as a strong contender in the nuclear field after a big gap of 24 years? He was true. After our first test in 1974, we remained dormant for a long period of 24 years. In the field of scientific research, only achievements & evidences are considered. One can spare 5 to 6 years maximum after the first test to do 2nd test in the name of preparations. The nuclear club member countries knowing what did the delay mean, were looking at us contemptuously. So in these circumstances it is not a simple matter to have advanced N- tests and all proving successful. That is why the world was amazed. The first sentence of the French scientist was very commending. He accepted, “it is not only amazing but it is astonishing.” He exclaimed that he could not understand that even after not getting any opportunity for N-test in 24 years, how the people could continue working in India. If he would have been told to wait, he could have waited for merely 5 or 6 years only. He would have left the project and joined the nuclear project of some other country. It was extremely amazing for him that we had persons silently working for 24 years without even expecting for N-test of any type.

Obviously this is the fact. Although the people of present generation like me have impressed the world by successfully executing the N- tests, I must sincerely have to admit that the scientists & the researchers of the previous two generations were patiently working in the adverse circumstances. They erected a grand structure with the strong base. We just kept a ‘shikhar’ on the top of that magnificent edifice. They worked incessantly in the toughest conditions, faced the difficulties bravely, accepted the financial limitations & other resource scarcity, always encouraged the newer generations and hoped that the future generations, if not they, might get the opportunity. They truly deserve all the credit.

The French added further that as he had taken part in nearly 200 N- tests, he knew the intricacies & risks of even single N- test. It is very difficult to conduct two tests simultaneously. But it was an absolute madness to take the risk of doing three advanced N- tests at a time. Explaining the dangers he added that if any one of the three N- tests went wrong, other two might have gone out of control. The first casualty would be scientists observing from just five km. distance from the test site. They had taken a big risk. Elaborating the possible reason, he told that there was no opportunity in last 24 years and the people were not sure to get another in the future. To transform the only chance in to the success they endangered their lives. He frankly admitted that of 200 tests he participated only six were of thermonuclear variety, and unfortunately all had failed miserably, in spite of all resources & equipments provided by their (French) government.

We have to keep in mind that who is confessing this. An well experienced person who had to his credit the splendour of 200 advanced N- tests was telling that they were unable to succeed in super hi-tech thermonuclear tests. So it is but natural for him to eulogize the team for the rare accomplishment after a dwarfing break of 24 years.

It is very interesting to know that what our previous nuclear generations had done. Just after India’s freedom the Nuclear Corporation was established in 1948. The Atomic establishment was started in 1951, which the death of respected Dr Bhabha, was rechristened as BARC- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. An experimental reactor came to us in 1955.

From the very beginning our people realized that if we wanted to advance in this field, extremely diligent persons must be brought in. People trained under the guidance of experienced and learned professors in the university would be needed. So the department of Nuclear Physics was started in the Banaras Hindu University ( BHU ) and the Allahabad University. If a student of a science faculty is told that the new course of Bachelor degree is started in University but there is no laboratory, and yet not sure when will it be, none will seek an admission in such course. Such were the challenges faced by the brilliant students opting for the study.

We are fortunate that having studying the Nuclear Physics from the Allahabad University and later teaching there, Dr. Murali Manohar Joshi became a minister looking after the department of higher education in the central government. As we think, it becomes apparent that what an appropriate appointment it was, when a person associated with such an important subject from the very beginning was given the charge of nation’s higher education.

The biggest task was to motivate such students to work there without laboratories and to ask them to face the plenty of challenges in the field. The students came, the professors came. But what could they do without laboratory? Had they been reading books only? But they didn’t bow down to the limitations. They gathered the minute details of researches going on in the outside world in the subject. They studied and were unceasingly considering that whether they could add newer aspects to the subject.

Result was that these western people who felt that our people would know nothing of it, we needed not be given any mean or material and within a year or two the game would be over, their responses started reversing. Due to all those efforts we got an experimental reactor in 1955. But how much vigilance was kept while giving this? Even by mistake we would receive the full fledged reactor and we could make atom bomb, then? Instead of that, give experimental reactor. What would happen by it? Even the electricity generation would not occur. Only the experiments in the laboratory would be feasible. But we accepted it gratefully and our success story begins from there.

We had only three reactors till 1974 (first N– test). One of those was able to generate electricity in the limited amount. There was one test site only. Such were the meager resources at our disposal. How much did our capabilities grew gradually upon time? We had advanced having 21 reactors, 8 heavy-water plants and a full fledged most advanced test range by 1990. To do all these was to swim against the stream. But all of us had a strong determination in our minds that we must have to surpass all the peaks of this N- field. It was like a reverse journey of going to Gangotri from Rishikesh, not with the stream!

The nature has created a big obstacle for us. Nuclear grade Uranium essential for all these tests was not available here. It is the wonder of destiny that the world best uranium mines were unearthed in Karnataka in June after the N- tests were completed in May. It means that the God helps true human efforts. If we sit with folded hands he will also sit in the same way. Surely, thou shall help our efforts. God was testing our essence. We had no other way but to search for the alternative to uranium as no country was going to give it kindly. Then what to do? Like Prayatnate Parmeshwar, while searching for alternative, one option came to us. Of course, the whole process was very expensive and tedious. But there was no other way. What was the option?

There are plenty of Thorium deposits, a radioactive substance, is available in the coastal sands of Kerala, Tamilnadu & Ram-Setu. As it is from the beach sand, it is in plenty and free of cost. The process to convert the Thorium to nuclear grade Uranium is very expensive and complicated. So those having sufficient Uranium had neglected this process. Due to that the Thorium processing equipments were impossible to be acquired from the world market. Our situation was different. We could get the Uranium from nowhere. That is why, we proceeded with step by step by carrying out requisite advances on researches out of available resources. Even though till the day, the West was thinking that the something was missing for India to conduct N –tests. India still was a Nuclear incapable state. But the reality was different. We had enough resources in relation to the physical need. Only one thing was lacking and that was a will, a will power, a strong will. The moment we were blessed with the Will-Power, we conducted the N– tests.

The next question asked to the French expert was very specific. He was asked that what would be the devastating capability of the bomb made of this thermonuclear device. The known examples of nuclear holocaust are Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A single bomb destroyed a city. The devastation was decisive for the world war outcome. A variety of cancer like diseases and congenital anomalies, which are not hereditary, still afflict newborn babies. Such was the terrible nature of that bomb. Both the bombs were of limited 12 kiloton capability. Our tests were of 25 kiloton capability. What would be the heat generated due to this? I was reading a small book named Nuclear drive. I got shivers reading the narration. While studying the effect of bomb in Hiroshima, a human fossil was found on the footsteps of a house, close to the site. It is impossible to get the fossil on the surface ( land surface, open land ). Then how it become possible on? It became apparent on studying that in 3200 ℃ heat generated by the N explosion, granite got melted and a man got burnt to ashes to form a fossil. A small bomb can generate such an extremely devastating heat. Oxygen from the air is very rapidly pulled towards a center, resulting in to an enormous cyclone. The wind velocity in such an explosion is generally 2700 to 3200 m/sec. A small pebble of stone of 3 gm weight flying with such a high speed is enough to kill a man. The devastating energy of the atom bomb can be estimated from it while elaborating such known nuclear holocaust. He had told that if such 20 bombs, one bomb every year for 20 years are dropped constantly and the condition that results can be created by such one bomb of thermonuclear variety.

It becomes apparent from this narration that what would be the destructive capability of this one weapon only. Due to this, the country like China, having ICBM ( Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles ) and who had developed atom bomb quite ahead of us, but unable to make hydrogen bomb had carefully avoided giving any specific reactions. Indeed China was dumbstruck. They didn’t know how to react. Who can opine against a naton that has astonished the world by such notable feat at a stretch.

On the contrary, now they have suspicions in their minds that this may be the tip of iceberg. It is not apparent that how much is beneath the water. So the people who were ridiculing India that it was like a closed fist, and would be exposed, now are unable to estimate that what is further in the fist, as India has closed the fist after opening for a while. And this thing is absolutely unbearable to all of them.

It is told that the history repeats. USA didn’t know about 1974 explosions. They were having an intelligence network that time also. USA inquired 24 hours after the test that whether there was something like earthquake in the Rajasthan desert. India politely told “ No, there is no earthquake. This was due to our N -test.” After that event, from 1976 onwards, to keep a close watch and to gather the details of such activities, USA has positioned one Geo-synchronous and 3 Geo-stationary satellites in the Indian sky. Still they could not even smell about any of the five N tests of 1998. That was very hard to digest for them. Explosion was not unnoticeable. That is why American senate asked the president that what CIA was doing, what was the use of big expenditure on CIA. The members ridiculed that whether their watchdog satellites were only show-pieces & asked the government to investigate the matter. A high level committee was formed under the chairmanship of a former CIA president. There were many arguments & criticisms, but they could investigate nothing. Later on I came across an article written by the chairperson of the committee. It is interesting what he is confessing. He accepted that their satellites could not keep a watch on Indian operation. But he regretted that in spite of having ground network or local contacts, they couldn’t convert even a single Indian to their disposal. USA couldn’t get even a single Jaichand & our people collectively conducted such a great & successful marvel. It could be possible only if the minute planning with the foresight was done by the people having the responsibility. Bold decisions were to be taken. PM took the decision to strictly ration the information even for the cabinet ministers on need basis only. How difficult was it for a government surviving on the support of multiple small fractions? It would had been fatal if someone had opposed it. All were taken in to confidence but the information was restricted only on need basis.

I received a letter from the director on 7th April. I was asked to get prepared & report to the airport in two hours. When I reached the airport, some of my colleagues were also present. We were curious, but no one knew anything. A man gave us a boarding pass and told to check the name. There was no mention of place to reach. We asked him but he also knew nothing. We boarded in the plane shown to us. On landing a police officer took us, with our equipments, to another aircraft without any talk. We landed on 3rd day at Jodhpur airport. Now we felt a little where we were going. Such was the veil of secrecy even for those directly linked with the operation.

I was associated with the project since 1990. My marriage took place around that time. But my wife could know about my involvement only after 13th may, after the second series of tests have done and the news of successful tests came and I returned home. I had to face her anger. This is the amount of psychological pressure faced by the people working with the project.

The decision taken by the government was really bold. It was a litmus test for the political leadership. If anything went wrong or a mishap occurred, they would have to be answerable. Only the people who consider the nation the first and power is secondary can take such courageous decisions. A phrase is popular in the armed forces, “it is not the gun, but the hand on it that fights. And it is not the hand on the gun but the mind behind it that fights.” The success depends on the mental preparedness and psychological involvement in the work.

It is true as reported in the media that all the preparations were made in just one month. We had only a month’s time to work on the test site. We met on 11th April. Dr Chindaram told us the exciting news that we had got the approval to conduct the N- tests. We were very much delighted. But his successive statement froze our enthusiasm. He told, “We have a great challenge. We have only one month and we have to test not one but five devices. We were stunned. We knew that how much efforts were made for a test in 1974. It was evident to us that how impossible was the task to prepare for five tests in just one month’s period.

Why only one month? It was 11th April. The time and site were of great geographic and climatic challenge to us. We knew the wind pattern. It blows from Pakistan, Baluchistan, then traverses north Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and reaches Bay of Bengal. The wind is up to Pak-Afghan border till mid- May. If the N- tests are done after 15th May, and unfortunately any one goes wrong, the radioactive waste traversing with the wind may create havoc for the country. The tests had to be finished by 15th May.

How were the preparations? The shaft (well) of 200-300 meter depth underground (nearly 60 storey building’s height) is needed for the underground test. There was one old shaft of 1974 test that could be used for one test only. It was decided to have three wells. So, two new wells needed to be prepared. That was not an easy task. The soil was sandy and deep to it was black stone. Moreover the watchdog satellites watching from above must be avoided during the work. The digging of the wells only was not enough. It needed a lift to carry men and machines. The equipments and sensors were to be fitted at different levels. We know the difficulty in erecting a lift for 60 storey building. Here, it was needed to go sixty storey beneath the ground. That seemed an impossible task. But we have seen the determination, swiftness and courage of our armed forces in Kargil war. Just like war, at civil requirement also, armed forces’ role is commendable, particularly in such scientific ventures. The Bengal Engineering Troops picked up the challenge.

We had a strong motivating force in the form of our team leaders. Feeling the status of our psyche following Dr Chidambaram’s announcement, Dr A.P.J. Kalaam rose to Break the ice. He grasped the word ‘challenge’ from Dr Chidambaram’s speech and told, “Friends, this is the challenge as well as an opportunity for us. We have to pick it up and convert the challenge in to the opportunity. Else we have no right to be recognized as the scientists.” That was a frank evocation as if reminding Veer Hanuman of the great capabilities. A number of small group meetings followed and the challenge was accepted. We requested Dr. Kalaam to fix the date for the N– tests. He was not having a calendar and no one knew about the Buddha Jayanti falling on 11th May,98. He just told, “Clock is running tick tick. It means thirty. Only 30 days. Calculate the date.” The work began calculating hours, minutes and seconds remaining.

There wasn’t even a single incident when even ten people out of 250 working on the site gathered to have a cup of tea. Food was supplied at the work site. Food was very specific. A light stream of air would shower much sand to the food. On 11th April, the temperature was 46 degree C. At the end of April in morning 6 AM it was 46 degree C. Around 5th May, at 10 AM it became 48 degree C. On 2nd, 5th, 7th, 9th May, 5 PM it reached up to 52 degree C. Not think of AC, fan, even shade was not available while working. In such harsh environment, with youngsters like me, an old man of 68 year, Dr. Kalaam was working incessantly. If a vehicle was not available to move from one place to another he walked in the sand. The sand was so hot as if walking on a burning coal. In such scorching heat, shirt buttons could not be kept unfastened. A touch of a sand particle was enough to develop a bleb and cause tremendous burning. If the body was kept covered, there were dripping sweats. As an antidote, a rickshaw used to distribute gud (jaggery) pieces and water from a leather bag ( pakhal ). There wasn’t any possibility of any more facility and also no expectation at all. Many of us suffered nausea, vomiting and giddiness due to the over work during the day and night in the harsh conditions. But none complained of the sickness. Because one would have to go back if fell ill, and there was no future possibility to get such an opportunity again in the life. So all of us were determined not to return home until the work is completed.

We had an inspiring example. Our team leaders were extremely prompting. A message came during breakfast on 2nd May. The chit went to Dr. Kalaam. He read and gave it to Dr. Kakodkar. It was regarding death of Dr Kakodkar’s father in Mumbai. He should return home living the work. Dr Kakodkar went to a lonely place. Dr. Kalaam went to him and told him that he should go home. His family needed him. Arrangements were made and Dr. Kakodkar went Mumbai. We thought that Dr. Kakodkar is out of project. But to our surprise he was with us in the next day’s morning meeting. There was no sign of sorrow on his face. The most of our colleagues, who heard late about his going to Mumbai, thought that he might have gone for some BARC task. Most of the people present there came to know about his father’s death only after 15th July, long time after the tests, through an article in ‘India Today’. How can it become possible? Was Dr. Kakodkar made of a different soil? Was he working for a reward from the government of India? There was a synergy among such a great leadership, a team of dynamic youths working with them and the blessings of the seniors ( ‘Rishis’ ) who had worked in this field for long years. What a great miracle could be resulted by them combined together had been displayed to the world by India on doing these successful N – tests.

Let us talk of political reaction. The first response was that it was a political decision. I strongly feel that if political leadership were not needed to be consulted, our scientists and executives could have taken the decision quite earlier. The question is, “why the previous leadership couldn’t take such decision?” Reason is, it was not so easy to face the harsh reactions after the test. It was a fire-test. So the leadership who had a strong determination and confidence of success can take such a serious and historically important decision. And it became apparent that how malicious and derisive were the immediate reactions following the N – tests.

Bill Clinton was in Germany on that day. He was very furious. He declared from there many punitive measures in form of the sanctions for India. What a need for a haste! He couldn’t keep patience even to consult his colleagues before taking such an important decision to completely boycott a nation. He went to Burmingham on 12th May. G 8 nations were meeting there. On landing on airport, while talking with the journalists, his attitude had changed. He requested specifically to the heads of G8 nations, “Please don’t try to isolate India.” What does it mean? Yesterday you were talking to boycott India and today requesting others not to do such. What was the reason? He realized the mistake and damage due to knee-jerk response. Was the decision taken in anger on the previous day rational? There was a beautiful caricature in ‘Sunday mirror’. Standing on a small peanut size piece of land on the globe of earth, Bill Clinton tells the world, “Don’t try to isolate India.” It was apparent who was isolated in reality.

G–8 meet started on 13th May and we carried out two more explosions. That night interviews of some of the head of nations were telecasted on BBC. The first one was of the French President Jacques Chirac. An interviewer requested him to tell about world affairs of the day. He began telling that many of his friends were talking of isolation, but he wanted to remind them that the country like India was getting the advanced technology like Thermonuclear device on its own. He told the world to notice that the country which had developed the best technical knowledge in spite of world’s objections and obstructions, could do anything and no technical skill was unattainable for India. She could develop the external requisites on her own. India had left it to the world whether to be India’s friend or foe. He was talking like India’s advocate.

America might be calculating that like Iraq, the decision to put comprehensive sanctions over India could be taken by all the nations in G-8 meet. To their misfortune, France and Russia declared their plans to support India on the very first day. It was surprising that USA’s friends like Australia and England also took neutral position. Such was a miscarriage of proposed resolution of USA. It couldn’t even come on the table for discussion. It was the first insult to America. Clinton returned home on 14th May. Soon the CEOs of some MNCs met him.

In this background, an article by an economist Ms. Rubin came in New York Times on that day. The title of this article was, “If sanctions are imposed, who is going to be affected? India? ” It was a question-mark. In her article she raised the issue that many of USA companies / MNCs had 30–50 % investment in Indian subcontinent. Some industries were establishing, some were in initial phase. At this time if India retaliates to sanctions by making changes in her import policy, what would happen? Had the president thought that who would be getting the maximum shocks of it? Stressing the point further, she wrote that not only the cheaper but the most trustworthy and reliable software were supplied by India. The MNCs had flourished over that support. If the export duty on the software was increased, India can cover up the deficit resulted from the sanctions.

I am not bluffing. You know the well known MS- office software for computer world. It is known as user friendly software. There is a word package in it known as MS word. It is very easy and convenient package. We may not even think that it reached the whole world from Pune. There is a company named Priston engineering. There are only 32 people from peon to MD in it. This company had done $ 450 million contract for three years with Microsoft. The market of MS office is about billion dollars every year. Three of the first ten rich people are from Microsoft. Does this company came to India only for cheap material? The most important thing for a company is to establish the trustworthiness in the global market. So it purchases software from India paying $ 400 m. Suppose the export duty of software is raised by 300 – 400 %, calculate the figures.

Ms. Rubin brought to the notice many similar possibilities. On that basis, she asked President the question. At the end of the article, she wrote a very bashful sentence for the Americans. “It is an unfortunate part on our side that we will observe one of our US president surrendering without fighting a war. ” It was not like the war with Iraq or Taliban. It was an economic war with a promising economy.

She wrote this in June 98. The things became obvious now. Many roars of sanctions became irrelevant or ineffective. After sometime they proclaimed that they were lifting the sanctions off India in view of Indo–Pak dialogue. What an excuse for face saving! What were the sanctions applied? What were you giving previously that you are threatening not to give tomorrow?

History is the witness that in 1974, when we did the first N– test, Canada, from where we had received technology and fuel to establish Atomic energy centre at Rajasthan Atomic power station ( RAPS ), called back their technologists and materials. This is the characteristic of their aid. None of our work got paralyzed on withdrawal of their help. The people working in the field learnt the lesson. They were determined that we have to arise on our legs if we want to succeed in the field. No one can win the race with crutches. We must be self-reliant to make our progress possible. The ‘Swadeshi Mantra’ was realized. All the experts of our nation working in this field were brought together and the data collected by them were studied. In six months, there stood a new unit. With the inputs of Canada, it would have been of 40 – 42 % capacity; ours was of only 21 % capacity. But what is the situation today? The units in Canada run by 62 – 64 % capacity, while the two units developed by RAPS are working with 74 – 76 % capacity. How did it become possible? We realized what to do. We learnt how it works and we displayed it to the world. That is why we reached where we are today.

Before concluding I would like to request you. Many times ‘Swadeshi’ is derided. But it is very essential to consider it seriously. I am giving a simple logic easily understandable even by school children. Indian government spent Rs.1500 Crore to carry out research in the Nuclear field and to conduct N– Tests during the period from 1985 to 1999. Let us see the other figures. During April-May, most of us take soft drinks. Today no soft drink is ‘Swadeshi’. If our 90% of population drink only one bottle soft drink during these 2 months, we give Rs.900 Crore to the foreign companies. And these are not going to use a single rupee for the welfare of our nation. The substance of the ‘War’ as mentioned by Ms. Rubin in her article is here. When our ordinary shopkeeper, feeling that the MNC goods are unsaleable, needlessly occupying space, will throw them away, we will win the war. This is true for all the products of MNCs. Very useless products drain our thousands of crores of rupees in foreign coffers. On the other side, we had allotted 1500 crores only on strategic technology indispensable for our national security and sovereignty during last 15 years.

It is the time demanding actions, not only thinking. A practical housewife knows that water will be drained out through a small hole in it, and soon finds solution to it. Is it not our responsibility to plug the holes and loopholes in our system? Are we waiting for someone from west to come here and teach us this? Let us start from the self and spread the logic to anyone coming in our contact.

Once I kept the subject amongst the school students. Next day a lady doctor phoned me with an anger. She told that on listening my lecture her son threw ‘colgate’ toothpaste and toothbrush into dustbin. I told her that I would give her son a gift of swadeshi toothbrush and paste. I went to her home and explained the subject. After a good discussion, she was convinced. The result is that now, she used to go to different hotels of Pune daily for an hour and disseminates the subjects to many people. She has distributed more than 20000 copies of the list of swadeshi products.

The statesmen of our nation took one firm step and the whole world is astonished. Bhagavan Vaman had measured the world in three steps only. One step is placed. It is our responsibility to take further two steps and conquer the world. Bharat will be the superpower, scientifically, militarily and economically as well as all the fields of development of life.

Conclude

P. Deivamuthu,

The coming elections to Parliament and State Assemblies (especially, Andhra Pradesh) are the most crucial for the country and for Hindus. It is a DOOR-DIE election for Hindus.

Think very carefully before you cast your vote. Ponder over the issues and the risks. If you make a wrong choice you, your children, your grandchildren and all the future generations will be doomed forever.

If you vote for anti-Hindu, pseudo-secular parties, you can be assured that there will be no Hinduism left for the next election.

.Before you make a decision as to which party to vote for, answer these questions:

Do you want the terrorist attacks to continue, with the government taking no action to appease the Minorities?

Do you want to live always in fear of life and security?

Do you want that terrorists sentenced to death by the highest court of India not hanged just to appease the minorities?

Do you want terrorists to be released by the Government for electoral gains?

Do you want Hindu Swamijis, Sanyasins and other Holy Persons to be branded as Hindu Terrorists and subject to utmost cruelty and harassment, just for heinous political gains?

Do you want reservations in education and jobs for Muslims and Christians on the basis of religion?

Do you want India to be converted into a Christian country as the Pope has ordained? (More than 5,000 foreign Christian Missionaries are , working round the clock to convert India to Christianity. Billions of dollars of’ foreign money is pouring in. Conversion is the gravest danger that India is facing. Yet, no political party, except BJP is talking about Conversions.)

Do you agree that Hindus are so imbecile and impotent that a few foreigners with the collusion of some ‘Secularists’ can convert the oldest religion and culture?

Do you want a Government of ‘the Christians, by the Christians, and for the Christians’? Do you want all the important government positions to be filled by Christians?

Do you want Hindus to be totally marginalized in government posts? (In ‘ 2004 when the UPA govt. was formed the President, Prime Minister, UPA chairperson were non-Hindus. Pseudo- secularists and pseudo-intellectuals hailed it as a triumph of ‘Secularism”. But, it is an ultimate humiliation for Hindus. Can it happen in any Western democracy? Hindus have to ponder over it.)

Do you want Christian symbols I to be printed on currency notes and I coins?

Do you want your children and grandchildren converted to Christianity by fraud, deceit and bribing? Do you want your daughters to I commit suicide when they are forced to convert to Christianity by the Vice Chancellor and other officials of the University? (Mrs. Veena Noble Das, I V.C. of Padmavati Mahila University in Tirupathi forced the students to convert and some girls committed suicide.)

Do you want all the Hindu temples destroyed by the state governments through Endowment Act?

Do you want your contributions to Hindu Temples spent on Haj for Muslims and for building Churches?

Do you want Hindu Temple lands grabbed by politicians and Churches built on those lands?

Do you want Lord Venkateswara be confined to only TWO HILLS (if Congress comes to power again, they will reissue the GO. to that effect)

Do you want Churches built all over the Tirumala Hills?

Do you want all the Maths and Ashrams taken over by the Government?

Do you want a situation in which you will be ashamed or afraid to call yourself a Hindu?

Do you accept the humiliation meted out to His Holiness Sri Sankaracharya of Kanchi?

Do you want that all iconic symbols of Hinduism such as Ram Sethu, Amarnath etc. be destroyed?

Do you want famous temples like | Chidambaram to be destroyed by anti-Hindu governments?

Do you want Hindu Gods like Lord Krishna depicted in Government text books as thief and womanizer?

Do you want the Government of India to submit an affidavit in Supreme Court to declare that Lord Rama is a myth and Ramayana is just a story? Can the Government dare declare that Jesus is a myth?

Do you want great patriots like Bhagat Singh and Veer Savarkar described as “terrorists”? (Bhagat Singh was described as terrorist in UPSC examination)

Do you accept “Secular” government honoring painter M.F.Hussain who depicts Hindu Goddesses and Bharat Mata in nude and obscene poses?

Do you want India to be fragmented again on the basis of religion?

Do you accept banning of ‘symbols like tilak on forehead for Hindu soldiers and no such restrictions for Muslim and Christian soldiers?

Do you want quota for Muslims and Christians in Armed Forces and Police?

Do you approve special budgets and special funding for Muslims?

Do you agree with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s statement that Muslims have a first stake in India’s assets?

Do you want to live like a Third-class citizen in ‘Secular India’?

If the answer to any of the above questions is YES, then you can vote for Congress and other “Secular” Parties. If your answer is NO and if you want to protect your Religion and Culture, think carefully and vote for the Parties who respect Hindus and Hinduism.

(Dear Readers, Please make at least 10 copies of this page, and distribute them among your friends and neighbours. This would be a timely National service. Tell him also to do so, so that the chain continues.

P. Deivamuthu,

Editor,

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After 26 years as a nun, Jesme Raphael gave up her robes and walked out of the Congregation of the Mother of Carmel, the Catholic order in Kerala, India, that had been her home for three decades. Two years later, Raphael, now 53, has come out with her memoirs, Amen: An Autobiography of A Nun, cataloging lurid details of bullying, sexual abuse and homosexuality in the oldest Catholic women’s order in the idyllic coastal state in southern India. Shocking as it is, the book is only the latest in a long series of accusations and scandals afflicting the Catholic Church in the state with the largest population of Christians in India.

“All the brothers here send you greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss [1 Corinthians 16:20],” Raphael quotes a priest as telling her, after she confronted him with allegations that “he kissed almost everyone who went for one-on-one meetings.” In other episodes, she tells of a forced lesbian encounter, being forced to strip in front of a naked priest who then masturbated, and being accused of being mentally unstable on complaining to her superiors. (See pictures of young nuns in the U.S. who have taken their vows.)

Since the book’s release on January 30, publishers DC Books have already sold all 3,000 copies, and a reprint has been ordered. The Catholic church is miffed. “There is no dearth of anti-religion people in Kerala society,” says Dr Stephen Alathara, deputy secretary of the Kerala Catholic Bishops Council. “They are using this for their anti-social, anti-church activities.” In 1957, Kerala elected the world’s first democratically elected communist government, and it has been under communist rule since the last state elections in 2006.

A spokesperson for the Syro-Malabar order of the Catholic Church, Father Paul Thelakkat, adds that Raphael’s allegations stem from “some wounded feelings” which Raphael should have raised with the church instead of “maligning the life of religious nuns”. He goes on to add that Raphael’s allegations are “not especially serious”. “The church never claims there’s no sin within the church,” he says. “We’re not angels, we’re human beings of flesh and blood, so some omissions and failures can happen. But the church is perennially on a path of renewal and reformation; we’re trying to deal with these problems and such allegations.” (See pictures of India’s floods.)

There has been no shortage of them in recent months. On February 11, Sister Josephine, a nun in the Daughters of Mary congregation in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala’s state capital, was found dead in her room in an apparent suicide. Members of the congregation said the 38-year-old nun had been under treatment for depression. After news of the incident spread, a crowd gathered around the house and shouted slogans alleging that harassment had led Sister Josephine to kill herself. The police had to intervene, and an inquiry into the case was later ordered. Six months earlier, on August 11 of last year, 23-year-old Sister Anoopa Mary had been found hanging in her room in St Mary’s Convent in Kollam, north of the capital. In what was purportedly her suicide note, she had said she could no longer withstand the senior nuns’ harassment. Her father, a cook in the local Bishop’s house, charged that sexual exploitation had led his daughter to take her life. The convent has denied the allegations, though a court investigation is still ongoing.

See pictures of Pope Benedict XVI visiting America.

Read TIME’s cover story, “The Secret Life of Mother Theresa.”

Recently, there have been expulsions and other disciplinary action in response to other cases of misconduct within the Church. In June last year, a nun in a Christian hospital was expelled after a video of her having sex with a driver was circulated over mobile phones and the Internet. In October, Pope Benedict XVI suspended a bishop in the coastal city of Cochin after his adoption of a 26-year-old woman as his daughter raised questions. The bishop has denied any wrongdoing, and said he adopted the woman out of fatherly love. But the church took him off all duties and instituted an inquiry.

“Such problems have been there in almost all convents [in Kerala],” says Joseph Pulikunnel, a veteran Syrian Catholic social reformer who edits Osanna, a magazine aimed at Kerala’s Catholic community. “The convents are closed to the public; we don’t know what is happening inside.” He says India’s Catholic church, which accounts for 70% of all denominations among India’s 25 million Christians, owns vast properties across the country, including over 30,000 educational institutions and 6,000 hospitals. In Kerala, the Church runs 60% of the private educational institutes. The state’s near 100% literacy — a singular case in a country where the average adult literacy rate is just about 60% — is thanks largely to the church’s zealous missionary activity. Yet critics claim this gives the church a high degree of political and economic power. Church reform activists also say the affairs of the Catholic church — to which 60% of Kerala’s Christians belong — should be brought more directly under the control of Indian authorities to make its workings more transparent. As of now, church affairs are under the stewardship of the Pope. (See pictures of spiritual healing around the world.)

In recent months, the church has been more forthcoming about the problems it faces. Sathyadeepam, Kerala’s Catholic weekly, released a report in January that said almost 20% of the region’s nuns — the church says there are about 45,000 — feel “insecure or unaccepted” in their convents. Cases of nuns speaking up like Raphael are still rare, but there may be an avalanche building up due to the changing social scene. Earlier, girls from disadvantaged families embraced the vows, finding that life in a convent, while hard, saved them from the worst of deprivation. But once in an order, they found it difficult to complain or leave. “They simply had nowhere to go,” says Pulikunnel, “If they quit the convent, they’d be thrown out penniless, and their families wouldn’t take them back.”

But times have changed. Churches around the world have been coming to grips with legacies of quiet abuse, and Indian society, too, has evolved. There is no longer a stigma attached to giving up the robes and returning to the laity. There are plenty of well-paying jobs — nursing has proven particularly attractive for Kerala women as it is seen as a passport to a foreign job and big bucks — and many youngsters are not up for a lifetime of celibacy and a religious vocation. Although figures have not been collated, activists claim a steady decline in the number of young people taking the vows, or, like Raphael, renouncing their vows.

But to stem the rot that has set in, the church will first have to admit the real nature and extent of the problem. If Dr. Alathara’s reaction is anything to go by, that candor is a long way off. When asked about the numerous allegations of sexual abuse in the church, he says, “[Alleging sexual abuse] is an old tool of hitting at the ecclesiastical society. It’s nothing new. It happened 2,000 years ago too.” Father Thelakkat’s reaction is somewhat similar — though he doesn’t deny Raphael’s allegations, he refuses to acknowledge their seriousness either: “The incidents may be true, but they are isolated cases.” Clearly, it’s time to connect the dots, and see the bigger picture.

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Bankimbabu’s “VandeMataram” depicts BharatMata in human form.
Santans of BharatMata revere personified expression of BHARAT.
This is the Spirit of the Poem & the will of Poet.

Muslims of undivided India had reservation for this song.
They objected to “VandeMataram” citing that Islam do not permit Muslims to worship personified deity.
Congress, to appease Muslims, chop down the National Freedom Movement Song.

Similarly, JaiHo… expresses reverence for some personal figure.
It may be JaiHo…Sonia amma ki, JaiHo…Rahul baba ki, JaiHo…Indira nani ki, JaiHo…Nehru chacha ki, JaiHo…Priyanka Robert Vadhra didi ki, JaiHo…Panja (Hand) ki, or JaiHo… BharatMata ki, or surely, BharatMata ki JaiHo….
SlumdogMillionaire child artist Azharuddin shouted at Sonia — JaiHo…SoniaAunty.

Does Quran permits JaiHo….
Muslims are to recite JaiHo…. or oppose it, let Maulavis, Madarasas decide.
Will Islam be selective in its approach to personification of Deities or Deitification of persons.

This Election will tell us.

JAI HO.. BHARATMATA KI.

Yogesh

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PRESS RELEASE IN SUPPORT OF VARUN GANDHI
The Indian American Intellectuals Forum expresses regret at the no-holds-barred campaign of vilification and calumny unleashed by the entire ‘pseudo-secular’ establishment of India on Varun Gandhi, the BJP candidate for Parliament from Pilibhit in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Varun Gandhi is reported to have said in an election speech that “if someone thinks that Hindus are weak and leaderless… if anyone raises a finger towards Hindus – then I swear… I will cut that hand.”
This rare display of utter fearlessness and exemplary courage from the young BJP leader has echoed the simmering feelings of millions of Hindus all over the globe. For coming out openly to speak the truth, the Indian American Intellectuals Forum congratulates him.
Judging from the unchecked spate of terrorist attacks on large metropolis like Mumbai, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Jaipur, Varanasi, etc., in which the Hindus incurred the maximum financial damage and the huge loss of lives, there is a widespread feeling that the Hindu Nation is in a ‘State of Siege’ in its own country.
Despite the bitter condemnation from the English language press, Varun Gandhi is being lauded all over India in the vernacular media. We suspect the slanderous crusade against Varun Gandhi is backed by certain anti-national elements for the sole purpose of demoralizing and demonizing this young would-be MP.
It is worth noting that at the moment Hindu Nation is neck deep into an unprecedented crisis because of the double whammy of Islamic jihad on one hand and the pseudo-secular Congress Party politicians protecting even the high profile terrorists like Mohammad Afzal Guru, the convicted mastermind of Parliament attack, on the other.
It is not hard to look around and see that most Hindus have already been religiously cleansed from the neighboring Pakistan; they have been either converted to Islam or simply killed. The same thing is fast happening to the Bangladesh and Kashmir Valley.
In many other parts of India, Hindus are under attack from the Jihadists in collusion with the Maoists, Naxalites or other Marxist terrorists. (The recent murders of Swami Lakshmananda Sarasvati in Orissa and other prominent Hindus in Kerala are the gruesome reminders of this deadly combination).
We have to understand that Varun Gandhi’s Pilibhit Parliamentary constituency is up north near the Nepal border. Thousands of Muslim mosques and madrasas have sprung up in the area. An extreme fear psychosis is created by Jihadi forces in the region. Several young Hindu girls have been molested and raped in recent times. Cow slaughter is going on recklessly on the streets in open.
In the conditions, Hindus find themselves very unsafe. They feel persecuted. The local Hindu population is in a state of shock and bewilderment.
All the above things are, obviously, happening under the very nose of young and vigilant Varun Gandhi. Instead of attacking him thoughtlessly, his speech describing the Muslim terrorist activities in the area should, on the contrary, be analyzed from the national security point of view.
We do not see anything wrong with Varun Gandhi’s statement. Actually, his assertion that “I am a proud Hindu, I am a Gandhi and I am an Indian” should come as a breath of fresh air for all Indians in the suffocating pseudo-secular politics of India.
We look upon Varun Gandhi as valiantly fighting like Veer Abhimanyu, the brave son of legendary Arjun of Mahabharatha. Our modern Abhimanyu has been encircled in a chakraviyuh (the deadly maze) and is being viciously attacked by Kauravas.
The role of modern Kauravas is played by an unholy combination of the pseudo-secular politicians of country led by Congress party and other anti-national elements directly or indirectly shielded by this Grand Old Party of India.
As such, we appeal to the Non-Resident Indians in general, and the Indian public in particular, to solidly stand behind Varun Gandhi, the gutsy young leader of the modern India.
It is essential that patriotic Indians provide this dynamic Gandhi all necessary support by sending him congratulatory emails at gandhim@sansad.nic.in.

Narain Kataria
President

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Why should VARUN apologize?

What are his Crimes?

• Opposite to Congress.

• Against Sonia.

• Favouring HINDUTVA.

• Protecting Hindu Dharma.

• Challenging ANTI-HINDUS, ANTINATIONALS.

• Showing love, duty & respect for Nation.

He had not uttered a single word against any sect or ideology.

He is not the first to use rhetorics in politics.

If he would have been Muslim and spoken similar for Islam, he would have been praised by all Seculars.

Benzir talking of chopping down Jagmohan into pieces at a public speech, SP MLA announcing big reward for one who behead Danish Cartoonist, Bukhari, Mufti, Mehbooba, Madani, Musharraf, and many more.

VARUN TALKED OF HINDU PRIDE.

ALL HINDUS MUST BE FEELING GOOD.

Hindu must be specific in this poll to select those who make them Proud.

Hindu candidates, please ……………..

talk of HINDU PRIDE,

work for HINDU DHARMA

dream for HINDU RASHTRA,

fight for HINDU SAMAJ.

You will certainly WIN, WIN, WIN.

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Kumar Uttam | Jammu (August 21, 2008)

The sun is about to set on the city and the roundabout is deserted. A youth suddenly emerges from one of the bylanes, carrying a National Flag in his hand and shouting slogans of “Bharat Mata Ki Jai“. Soon, the solitary protest at Kacchi Chhawani Chowk in ‘paralaysed’ Jammu turns into a mass frenzy as hundreds join him to express solidarity for a cause that has gone far beyond the Amarnath land row.

In fact, the Tricolour has united people in this winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir to fight the “neglect” they faced in the last 60 years. The controversy over allotment of a land plot to Shri Amarnath Shrine Board was a mere flashpoint. “We raised the Tricolour and were greeted with bullets. They (separatists) in Kashmir hoisted Pakistan‘s flag and brought the Government to its knees. It will not be allowed to continue any more,” thunders Subhash Dogra, a protester.

Everyone in Jammu has suddenly turned leader, brushing aside allegations that “communal elements” are controlling the movement. “We are leaders in ourselves. Nobody is leading us. We are ready to face problems today to ensure a better future for the generations,” adds Gurpreet Singh, owner of a few taxis. Though he has been getting no business for 50 days, he is ready to bear the losses for “many more months” but not the humiliation at the hands of the Government.

Everyone in Jammu has just one complaint. “Kashmir wants freedom, we love our country. They got everything, we were left empty-handed,” people living in the Mishriwalla refugee camp on the Jammu-Akhnoor highway say.

A senior employee in the Divisional Commissioner’s office revealed more. “You don’t get promotions on time if you are not from the valley. Jammu has more population and area, but Kashmir gets better representation in all Government bodies and organisations. Jammu contributes the most to the State’s exchequer, but Kashmir reaps the benefits. Electricity dues are more in Kashmir, but Jammu faces power cuts,” he told The Pioneer.

The Amarnath controversy has come in handy for all those who nurse the “wound of neglect”. They are in no double minds — the Government revoked the allotment of the land to the shrine board for a Hindu yatra under pressure from the same separatists whom they have been appeasing since Independence.

“We have to restore the pride of Baba Amarnath and that of Jammu. We are not going to be defeated at the hands of the anti-nationals. We will be on the roads until the target is achieved,” says 80-year-old Anil Sharma, as he and his grandson Ankit raise slogan of ‘Bam Bam Bhole‘ outside Sarwal police post in Rewari locality.

Police have lost public sympathy (they allegedly fired at peaceful protesters and manhandled many) and the Army faces a situation it never confronted before. “How can you expect us to fire at them or even wield a lathi when they come with a Tricolour in their hands and shout slogans in favour of us?” says an Armyman posted in the most sensitive Kacchi Chhawani Chowk of Jammu.

Jammu has been simmering for the last 60 years. It for the first time they have been heard.

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The Prime Minister is absolutely right when he says that political parties should be mindful about the situation that prevails in Jammu & Kashmir and rise above partisan politics to tackle an issue of national importance. There is, however, a problem with such assertions: Unless those who preach a non-partisan approach to solving national problems practice it themselves, they tend to be ignored. Hence, it is not surprising that the Prime Minister’s comments have not fetched a supportive response, either in Delhi or in Jammu, leave alone Srinagar. For, the Prime Minister appears to be unmindful of the fact, either deliberately or due to lack of comprehension, that his own party has played the most duplicitous role ever since trouble erupted over the Jammu & Kashmir Government’s decision to allot — and not hand over — 97 acres of land at Baltal to the Sri Amarnath Shrine Board, a creation of the same Government, for setting up temporary facilities for pilgrims who trek to the hill shrine every year. Rather than stand up to the separatists and Islamists who blew the entire issue out of proportion, described the annual yatra as an unwanted ‘Hindu cultural’ intrusion, and claimed it was aimed at diluting the Muslim majority character of the Kashmir Valley, the Congress chose to appease them through a pliant Governor eager to please his political patrons in Delhi. Having committed that original sin, it now pretends great surprise at the fallout in Jammu and elsewhere in the country, while the Prime Minister waxes eloquent on the need to rise above partisan politics, slyly hinting that the problem is the creation of ‘others’ and not the Congress. Worse, instead of feeling contrite for its monumental blunder, the Congress continues to poke nationalists in the eye, describing the Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti and the All-Party Hurriyat Conference as the two sides of the same coin. Are we then to believe that the Congress, to which the Prime Minister owes his job, cannot distinguish between the Indian tricolour and the Pakistani flag? For, while the protesters in Jammu — including Muslims — have been proudly holding aloft the Indian tricolour, the Hurriyat’s followers have been waving the Pakistani flag and carrying posters of Mohammed Ali Jinnah. Nationalists and separatists, common sense would suggest, can never be the two sides of the same coin. But such is the decline of the Congress that even common sense eludes the party; as for the Prime Minister, who is given to thinking out of the box, he is happy to indulge in banalities and thus believe he has done his job.

If such be the attitude of the party that rules India and the Prime Minister who presides over the Union Government, then we can only look forward to further grief. It would be futile to expect the Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti to scale back its protest and sit across the negotiating table. It would be equally futile to expect the separatists to be told where they get off. The fact of the matter is that the Prime Minister’s perception of Jammu & Kashmir is at variance with India‘s belief that it is an integral part of this nation. The Congress has no perception other than abiding faith in it capacity to appease Islamic fanatics; it perceives capitulation before separatists as a solution to the problem, rather than strengthening those who hate India and despise the very idea of India. The least that is expected of the Prime Minister and his party is that they will desist from ridiculing nationalist Indians.

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