What do you think of this ? STOP DE-HINDUISATION OF INDIA - BY J.G. ARORA

                               

I am copying a forward I received from someone. It seems to be from the RSS magazine. I am not the writer of this, nor do I agree with any of the thoughts presented. At this point I just want to say that not only has Arora got a sick mind, he has go his facts also wrong. Just sharing for comments.. my own response I will put in a separate post.

STOP DE-HINDUISATION OF INDIA -
BY J.G. ARORA
jgarora@gmail.com

Organiser, New Delhi: December 23, 2012

Though as per Mark Twain “India is the cradle of human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grandmother of tradition”,a unilateral war is being waged by anti-Hindu forces to wipe out Hindu religion and Hindu civilization the way other native religions and civilizations have been destroyed in the world.
Bharat Varsha, comprising the entire Indian sub-continent, used to be Hindu land with zero Muslim population till Muhammad bin Qasim’s Arab army attacked Sindh in 711. Despite the heroic defence of their motherland during repeated Muslim attacks over the centuries, Hindus lost Afghanistan in 987, and present day Pakistan and Bangladesh to Muslims in 1947.
But shockingly after 1947, Hindus are fast losing ground both in population percentage and in territory to anti-Hindu forces in truncated India, their Punya Bhumi (sacred land). In six decades since 1947, Hindus have lost more than what they had lost during twelve centuries of foreign invasions before 1947.
During 1989-90, Hindus faced genocide and eviction from Muslim majority Kashmir to become refugees in their own country. Moreover, because of massive infiltration from Pakistan and Bangladesh, Hindus are losing ground as mini-Pakistans and mini-Bangladeshs are being planted on Indian soil at several places.
Many Hindus apprehend that because of higher Muslim growth rate and Pak-Bangla infiltration, Hindus in India will be outnumbered by Muslims in a few decades, and face the misery undergone by Hindus in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh which too used to be Hindu lands.
Hindu heritage is being hammered and erased every day in secular India; and the Union government’s affidavit filed before the Supreme Court in September 2007 rejecting the existence of Bhagwan Ram and Ram Setu de-legitimized Hindu faith itself.
Though the said affidavit was withdrawn after protests, it conveyed a malicious message.
Main reasons for dismal Hindu plight, and its solution, are briefly narrated below.
Outlandish ‘secularism’
Logically in 1947, on India’s partition on religious basis and creation of Pakistan for Muslims as demanded by Muslims, truncated Bharat should have been declared a Hindu republic to re-assert its Hindu identity. However, an outlandish ‘secularism’ was foisted on Bharat where anything which is anti-Hindu, pro-Muslim, divisive, sectarian, and even anti-national is ‘secularism’.
Helped by this spurious secularism, with each passing day, India is being made more Islamic and more Christian and less Hindu.
Though a secular country cannot reward or punish its citizens on the basis of their religion, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asserted that “Muslims must have the first claim on national resources” at National Development Council’s meeting on December 9, 2006.
Though Constitutionally, all the citizens are equal before law, and though the terms ‘majority’ and ‘minority’ have not been defined in the Constitution, Central government and several State governments have provided for special scholarships and schemes, free-ships, incentives and loans for non-Hindus under the pretext of minority welfare.
In no other country in the world, majority community faces such blatant discrimination; and minority community gets such special privileges as in India.
Just a few examples of havoc brought by this phony secularism are given here:
Genocide and eviction of Hindus from Kashmir; countless Pak-Bangla terrorists and infiltrators planting mini-Pakistans and mini-Bangladeshs on Indian soil; global missionary organizations Christianizing India; government control over Hindu temples whereas no mosque or church is covered by such control; special privileges to non-Hindus under Article 30 of the Constitution; special rights to Muslim majority Jammu & Kashmir under Article 370; special benefits conferred upon non-Hindus by many State governments; de-Hinduisation of education and history, and banishment of Sanskrit from education; and provision of Haj subsidy though none of 57 Islamic countries gives any such subsidy are just a few perversities of secular India.
And all self-proclaimed ‘secular’ political parties keep on inventing schemes to safeguard minority community’s votes. Just to cite one example, after coming to power in 2011, West Bengal Chief Minister has announced a number of schemes for the exclusive benefit of Muslims. She has announced the setting up of a minority department in every district, a separate employment exchange for minorities, a new 'Haj House', a new campus of Aligarh Muslim University in West Bengal, and new Industrial Training Institutes and polytechnics for minorities.
Moreover, apart from announcing scholarships for minorities, she has declared a monthly honorarium of Rs. 2500 to each of about 30,000 Imams of West Bengal.
And similar pro-minority schemes have been launched in many other States.
It is no surprise that weird secularism being practised in India has produced Indian Mujahideen and SIMI which want to establish Muslim rule in India.
Conquering India by infiltration
Central and State governments, main stream media and major political parties are silent spectators when India is being grabbed and conquered bit by bit by Pak-Bangla infiltrators every day without weapons and without war.
Both Pakistan and Bangladesh (which used to be Hindu lands) have been declared as Islamic countries, and have driven out most of Hindus and Sikhs. However, most of Indian Muslims who had demanded Pakistan and exchange of population did not go to Pakistan. Rather, the present percentage of Muslim population in India is much higher than that in 1947.
Pakistan’s army which is anti-Hindu and anti-India actually rules Pakistan; and nurtures terrorism. In their bid to dismember and bleed India through “a thousand cuts”, Pakistan and Bangladesh have sent countless terrorists and crores of their nationals into India to plant more Pakistans and Bangladeshs on Indian soil.
Despite the Supreme Court’s judgements dated July 12, 2005 and December 5, 2006 to deport infiltrators, the government has done nothing in this regard though “demographic conquest” of any territory is the permanent conquest. Rather, Pak-Bangla nationals are infiltrating into India every day.
And instead of being deported, infiltrators have been given voting rights; and they enjoy a decisive role in a number of assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies.
NGOs and conversions
If Pak-Bangla combine wants to Islamise India through terrorists and infiltrators, missionaries want to Christianise India through unlimited foreign funds.
On 7th November, 1999 in New Delhi, Pope John Paul II gave a call to convert Asia to Christianity as follows:-
“Just as the first millennium saw the Cross firmly planted in the soil of Europe, and the second in that of America and Africa, so may the Third Christian Millennium witness a great harvest of faith on this vast and vital continent.”
Hindus in India and Nepal are special targets for this ‘harvest of faith’. And in 2006, Maoists, missionaries and Pakistan’s ISI have divested Nepal of its Hindu identity.
Having conquered North-East India, many global missionary organisations are sending huge funds to NGOs in India for converting Hindus to Christianity through fraud and allurement.
And Joshua Project is a war-like project to invade and Christianise India. All over India, Churches are being built even in remote villages to Christianise the local populations.
Most dangerous falsity
The most dangerous falsity propagated by many Hindu religious leaders is that all religions are the same and deserve same respect (sarva Dharma sam bhav). This absurd declaration betrays ignorance about Hinduism; and also about other religions. This falsehood strengthens anti-Hindus, and facilitates fraudulent conversion of Hindus. Those claiming all religions to be the same are either ignorant or hypocrites.
Besides, unilateral Hindu slogans like “vasudhaiv kutumbakam” (entire world is one family) and “ekam sat viprah bahudha vadanti” (‘truth’ is one but has many names) also suppress danger from anti-Hindu forces which are bent upon finishing Hinduism. As a result, de-Hinduised by ‘secular semantics’ and Macaulayan education, and ignorant of basic tenets of various religions, many Hindus are proclaiming that they respect all religions, and are being converted and married to Non-Hindus.
Moreover, internationally, India has been following the policy of unilateral magnanimity, instead of ‘reciprocity’.
Since no Hindu temple can be built anywhere in Saudi Arabia, there is no reason to allow Saudi Arabia to fund the building of mosques and Madrassas in India.
Way out
Fake secularism has brain-washed, intimidated and subjugated Hindus; displaced them from their roots, and made them self-alienated. Hindus’ hypnotic surrender before pseudo- secularism is leading to gradual liquidation of Hinduism and de-Hinduisation of India.
Fake secularism has made Hindus submissive and victims of discrimination. Hindus have to be liberated from this affliction; and transformed into a strong, united and formidable force.
Since bogus-secular India has been a disaster, it must be transformed into a genuinely-secular Hindu Bharat to give justice to all and to appease none; and to protect Hindu religion, Hindu heritage and Hindu identity of truncated India.
And there should be no apprehension, whatsoever, about Hindu Bharat. Since Hinduism is all-embracing, Hindu Bharat will give same rights to every citizen. In really secular Hindu Bharat, there would be one law and one nation; no distinction of majority and minority, and no discrimination against any community. It will also dismantle fake-secularism, and liberate the nation from Pak-Bangla terrorists and infiltrators.
Hindu Bharat will implement Uniform Civil Code as stipulated in Article 44 of Indian Constitution to make India a really secular and united country. Besides, since Article 370 has encouraged separatism and has resulted in genocide and eviction of Hindus from Kashmir, it would abolish Article 370 to bring Jammu and Kashmir’s complete integration with the rest of India.
And Hindu Bharat will remember M.A. Jinnah’s ‘Two Nations’ theory expounded in Lahore in 1940; and will prevent the creation of more Pakistans and Bangladeshs on Bharat’s soil.
All nationalist individuals and organizations should join hands to transform fake-secular India into a really secular Hindu Republic of Bharat by all peaceful, constitutional and lawful means.
No one can object to the concept of Hindu Bharat when all the 57 Muslim majority countries are declared as Islamic countries.
Sustained efforts to achieve the desired goal will certainly succeed as Atharva Veda proclaims, “Kritam may dakhshine haste, jayo may savya aahitah” (effort is in my right hand, and victory in my left).
Collected By:P.R.Malleswara Rao.

Dynasty and downfall !

Dynasty and downfall !

This comes after seeing the movie Agnipath.. the one with Hrithik Roshan.

History repeatedly tells us of the downfalls of dynasties. In the older times it was only the dynasties of kings that were in evidence. But nowadays we see political and business dynasties too. What is about them that makes them fail ? 

There is a lot of research , specially on business dynasties and one popular theory is that typically  it takes 3 generations for the rise and fall. The first generation creates it, the second sustains and the third helps it demise. Rather like Brahma , Vishnu and Mahesh. Some of the reasons recorded for the downfall are lack of professionalisation/ nepotism and  complacence.  Post independence we have seen many “reputed” business families go into oblivion. The DCM group, and Escorts group are well known examples.. but there are probably  many more. I saw an article sometime back which said it was the “curse of the sons” .. which meant that businesses had to be divided to keep the sons in good humour and thereby the companies lost significant advantages. The Birla family was cited as an example.  DCM and Escorts certainly fit this theory. As a counterpoint, the article noted, the TATAs had prospered because in the last 2 generations the head of the business did not have any children.

Indian business families, have not yet learnt to separate ownership from day-to-day control, something western business families have done.

Coming back to Agnipath.. it is a horrible movie. The story, if there is one, has so many flaws that it looks like a patchwork with millions of squabbling incidents. The performances, barring Rishi kapoor , are mediocre. The Amitabh Bachan version was much better.

So how is this connected to dynasties..? Because Bollywood is mainly a dynasty business. Unfortunately genes have a will of their own and oftentimes  the child of a good actor parents might not be able to repeat the performance. I have said elsewhere that Bollywood will continue to churn out mediocre stuff till we have Kapoors, Khannas and Malhotras running it. Add to it Khans too. In fact the only good hindi films I have seen in recent times have been by “outsiders” like Anurag Basu , Anurag Kashyap, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Dibakar Banerji,  etc.

Without making this too long, let me just point out that dynasties in politics might even be the downfall of our country if we allow them to rule us.

Corruption and Governance in India Part II >>Democracy, Corruption and Literacy

Democracy, Corruption and Literacy in India.

warning: Its a long post.. read only if the issue interests you.

Now before we go further, let us define “good” governance. Governance is good if the following happen

• Improvement in basic social development indicators like infant mortality rate, longevity, nutrition, literacy , availability of electricity and water,etc.
• Social justice and Low violent crime rates
• Poverty reduction/ growth in per capita GDP.
• Low or zero corruption at all levels

Interestingly , the first three above can co-exist with corruption, though not high levels of corruption.

So when we Indians discovered that chanting WLD dos not work, we started wondering why because according to time honoured Indian tradition chanting is supposed to work ..in fact it is known to have worked miracles in the days gone by. .. and has a lot of support even today. One can see it on various websites, including this one.

So we theorized that democracy has not worked for India because the voters are illiterate and therefore ignorant of the value of their vote and can err in making a choice. There may be something in that argument, or was till 20 years ago. The current (2011) literacy rate in India is 74% with many states showing a higher percentage. In fact the literacy rate on a nation-wide basis has been 50% or above since 1991 which was a good 20 years ago. So do we have people who are literate and still ignorant ? Probably yes, because literacy in India has been defined with a very low standard and data collection on literacy has had errors.

So can we hope for better governance (and less corruption) when people become literate AND are not ignorant ? From empirical evidence , the answer is encouraging but not entirely encouraging. The two states of Kerala and West Bengal have had high literacy and political awareness for quite sometime now. Interestingly both are also high on social development indicators and have low violent crime rates . Both states have also had Communist governments. But they have not shown economic development much above the national average. Both have virtually no organized industry, partly because of the strong trade unions particularly Communist-backed Trade unions.

There is also the fact that in Kerala, many social reforms (especially in education and equality of women) were initiated by the local ruling family before democracy came. It is therefore difficult to isolate the impact of democracy on good governance in Kerala.

But even if we overlook the pre-democracy interventions in Kerala, political awareness working with democracy has managed to improve life / reduce corruption at the basic needs level but has not contributed to economic growth.

The silver lining is that, multiple research studies across Indian states have established a clear relationship between high literacy rates and low corruption (at the level of obtaining basic government services). As can be expected Kerala has the lowest corruption index.

Bengal , however, is somewhere in the middle for corruption rankings. So again there is some missing factor (besides high literacy and awareness) which contributes to lower corruption.

Several things must also be however noted

• Higher literacy has resulted in low corruption for basic services. But higher literacy rates alone might not be able to stop corruption at the Central govt level (like 2G, CWG etc) or even at the state level like the Adarsh scam in Mumbai or Robert Vadra case in Haryana..
• In terms of governance, Delhi is a good (or bad) example . Literacy is high, but governance in Law and Order is very poor. We have seen a spate of rape cases in the last few months.
• Another glaring example .. Bangalore Municipal Corporation . The people who elect corporators are literate and politically aware , but we don’t see much governance happening. Garbage clearance is a major challenge, forget about good roads

So , while I wanted to end this part on an optimistic note, I am back to square one, i e , we have no clue how to stop corruption and improve governance. Higher literacy / awareness might help in basic services, but will not help elsewhere.
Democracy, Corruption and Literacy in India.

Corruption and Governance In India Part I > WLD

The World's largest Democracy.
I recently attended an event on Corporate Governance. There was a lively talk by the keynote speaker and in the networking afterwards animated discussions took place. The central theme was how do we get rid of corruption. Frankly, though we were all very well-educated and well-intentioned people, no one had a clue on how to prevent / reduce corruption. That’s the trigger for this post. Not everything, mentioned here comes out of that event though.

Here is a mish-mash of facts, myths, opinions, hopes and theories.. even nonsense. I leave you to decide .. sift the fact from opinion and nonsense.
India is the world’s largest democracy (shortened to WLD) . And so it is. We all know it. The world knows it. Of late even the US Presidents have been singing this tune (Obama and Bush, both said that when they came to sell stuff to us). Other visiting Heads of State too routinely chant it…unless of course they are heading countries which are not themselves democracies.

Now, if only by chanting this WLD mantra (a la the Gayatri mantra) we could help all Indians to get a decent life !! Alas the gods did not want it so easy for us. But many of us anyway chant it. I guess we have so little positive happening at the moment that “India is the world’s largest democracy” is the one of the few things we can feel good about. The other perennial is of course “India is a 5000 year old civilization”.

So what does it mean for the common man ? This being a part of the WLD ? Very little I am afraid: A visit from politicians at election time and for the poorest, some minimal government support/ subsidy.

The point I am making is that while democracy may be better than monarchy, it has not been doing much good in India for quite some time now.. and one needs to ask why. The alternate model of Single party rule, as in China , seems to have yielded better overall results for the common man.

I have no answers for why democracy is not doing well in India. But I have a viewpoint. It is something I read in a book.

What we have is not the WLD , but the world’s largest election-o-cracy. We have election after election which are mostly fair, but that’s it. The less said the better about what happens before elections ( dynastic candidates, candidates with criminal backgrounds, use of black money funding, etc) and after elections (more corruption, and yet more corruption).

Aum WLD , aum WLD, aum WLD… repeat after me … aum WLD !!

An estimate of the cost of corruption in project cost in India.. it was 15% about 20 yrs back. It is now 45% ! Aum WLD, aum WLD !!!

To be continued…

Nostradamus meets Joan of Arc in Switzerland

Nostradamus meets Joan of Arc in Switzerland

I suspect that this post may make me look “superior” or holier-than thou, but the intention is not to look down on anyone. This is something really funny that happened and I am compelled to recall the anecdote.

I had just changed trains at some small place in Switzerland. It was a weekday and afternoon and the train was nearly khali (completely un-occupied). In the cubicle next to me were 3 Indians: a couple and one man, all in late 20’s or early 30’s. It seemed that they were not traveling together. They seemed to be techies from the south, but not from the same state as they were conversing in English and not Tamil or Telugu or Malayalam or Kannada.

Since I was sitting quite close to them and was not otherwise busy with anything other than the Swiss scenery, I could not avoid hearing them talk. It looked like both the couple and the single man ha been to Paris separately and were comparing notes. One of them mentioned the beautiful church they ha seen and was trying to recall the name of the place. After a few seconds he said Nostradamus, when he obviously meant the cathedral of Notre Dame. I had some trouble stopping my laughter, but I managed.

Their conversation then moved on to some other tourist spot. Now someone mentioned the beautiful and grand arch which looks like India Gate in Delhi. The same guy who had resurrected Nostradamus, now Said Joan of Arc, when he obviously meant Arc de Triomphe !! Now this double-promotion converted the simple event to an anecdote…and here it is.

The (very) positive side of this is, as India integrates with the global economy, and especially in the IT sector, more and more Indians get a chance to travel and see the world and gain a wider perspective. So the people who mix Notre Dame with Nostradamus might well (and in all likelihood will) BE the parents of future global Indians.

Incidentally Nostradamus is not all that far from Notre Dame. He was French and in French the name is spelt as Nostredame (Michel de Nostredame).

Mr. Agrawal, I presume !!

Mr. Agrawal, I presume !!

It is my habit to watch people, especially at airports and railway stations.  TO look at their faces and guess where they come from. Or to look at their clothes and guess what they do for a living. I have also met several people who also do this people-watching.

What I try and do is to look at someone and guess where (which state/ region) the person comes from. Over a period of time I think I am correct about 70% of the time.  In the case of women, I find it easier to guess if they haven’t cut their hair short.

I have mentioned my guessing-game and my results (of 70 %) to several friends, but most have been skeptical about this. Now I am clear it is not a psychic ability. It is more like observation and logic put together.

The logic goes something like this. In a crowd of people of mixed races (White, Caucasian, Blacks, Indians, Chinese, Japanese etc) it is easy for anyone to make out the Mongoloid people (the most prominent feature is slit eyes). They would usually be from China, Japan, and Korea etc. Now most of us Indians can go no further than the Mongoloid identification. But a Chinese person can distinguish Chinese from Japanese from Korean because each has a bone structure/ skin colour / etc which is slightly different from the other. For instance the Chinese have round faces and a yellowish skin, whereas the Japanese have flatter and longer faces and a whiter skin.

As an example closer home, for most people, it is easy to identify Bengalis in a crowd. The logic is that each ethnic type shares a very high percentage of DNA which results in facial similarities. Interestingly we more easily recognize the similarities in people most dis-similar from us. So Europeans/ Americans think all Japanese people look alike, but to the Japanese all (white) Americans look alike.

I will end this post with a personal experience.

I was at Bangalore airport several years ago on a waitlisted ticket. It was waitlist 4. In those days it was the practice that about 30 minutes before flight departure, check-in would close for confirmed passengers and any available seats then would be allotted to waitlist people. The person at the check-in counter would call out the names of the waitlisted passengers, and if the passenger was present she would identify herself and get a seat.

Along with me I could see several more waitlisted passengers (You could always identify the waitlist passengers by their desperate, expectant and hungry look). There was one person there whom I noticed. He was wearing a jacket and must have been about 45. I looked at him and said to myself, this man has to be an Agrawal.  Soon the girl at the counter started announcing the waitlist.

Mr. XYX.. Mr. XYZ, waitlist Number 1. Well this XYZ had not turned up.

Mr. Agrawal, waitlist 2. Mr. Agrawal, Waitlist 2.

And the 45 yr old Mr. Agrawal in a jacket immediately raised his hand and rushed to the check-in desk!

Rural washing machines and Urban Haircuts

Rural Washing Machines

Some weeks back, in early October, I drove to Mysore from Bangalore. . Unfortunately it was the day that the farmers in Mandya/ Ramanagar were agitating over the Kaveri water dispute with Tamil Nadu. The Bangalore Mysore road was in-accessible after Ramanagar and the police folk diverted us to a Malavalli to reach Mysore. It took an extra two hours (with a few barricaded points) and some bad roads but we reached in one piece.

The agricultural prosperity of the area around Ramanagara/ Malavalli is amazing. The greenery is breathtaking. No wonder the farmers are so agitated over a reduction in the supply of water for irrigation.

The other thing I noticed as we drove through small hamlets, settlements and villages is that a lot (probably most) of the womenfolk wash clothes by hand. I am sure it takes a considerable amount of time and energy. Wonder why the washing machine guys haven’t reached there? The basic models don’t cost much and if a few families joined together they could afford a washing machine. A social (and marketing) revolution is crying to happen. I even thought of writing a short story on this.

Haircut (W)  Vs Haircut(M)

My haircut used to cost Rs 40/- till a couple of months back and now it is Rs 50/-. The barber I go to is admittedly not high-end, but the place is closeby and it’s clean. In contrast a woman’s haircut in Bangalore costs at least 250/-. I have often wondered why there should be so much difference. Someone mentioned a supply-demand situation is responsible, but there are two reasons why this is not correct. Firstly the demand for women’s haircut in Bangalore or any other city in India is about 10 percent of the demand for men’s haircuts. So the demand cannot be pushing up the cost. Secondly there are no barriers to entry of new players and the investment is not high. So a supply constraint is also not the cause for the price difference.

On more thinking, I came to the conclusion that it is a brand thing. For some reason in India a man’s haircut is considered to be a utility whereas a woman’s haircut is fashion.

Anyone else can shed some light on this? And just for the record, women’s haircuts cost   more (usually twice or more) also in USA, Canada, UK and Switzerland.