14 March 2022
KAAFIR
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Dia Mirza as
Kainaaz Akhtar
There are movies galore.
In the movie theatres, on the television and even on the social media. But once in a while there
comes a movie which zooms high into the skies and shines like a mega star .
Sometimes I think what good has religion done to
us. It has provoked wars , murders and hatred. Infact everything opposite to
what religion supposedly stands
for. It has made us inhuman and bigots.
In end I would only add that there is so much in common between the two
countries like language ,history ,cuisine, culture etc so why the hatred and
mistrust.
AUNTY VIDYA
Let me remember . Yes it was the year 1971. I was in Vienna
searching for a job. My visa was going to expire in a few days but I was not
successful in getting a job. I uses to live in a paying guest apartment run by
a Indian lady Vidya. The apartment was located in 3rd district – Landstrasse ,a
sedate locality of Vienna . It was inhabited by middle class people who were
not very well off.
But the rent was reasonable and I could afford it. The apartment
was divided into four parts plus a small room. Vidya gave me this room . The
cheapest I could afford.
She used to take special care of me since I was from India. She
would ensure that I was well fed. And yes she was a fantastic cook. She came
from India with her parents in 1945. Married and settled here. Soon afterwards
her parents died and then some 5 years back her husband also expired. She
became a widow. She converted her apartment into a paying guest accommodation
to sustain herself.
I was not able to find a job and slowly whatever money I had
just vanished. I was in a state of depression .One day Aunty Vidya was watering
the plants on the balcony . I went to her and narrated my ordeal to her. She
sympathically listened to me .
She told me " Ashok, life is not only hard but cruel. There
are people who cannot carry the burden and collapse. But you are brave. I am
sure you would succeed in life. Come with me.
"
She gave me some money and told me that her husband was working
in a Bank in Vienna. She would talk to the Bank Chairman and see whether I
could get a job there. In a few days I got a job. My visa was renewed. I stayed
with Aunty Vidya for 5 years and took care of her.
Due to certain domestic compulsions I had to return to India.
Due to my job experience in Vienna I got a good job in Delhi.
I would always remain indebted to Aunty Vidya for her compassion
and helping me out in my most distressful times. She is no more now but she
would always reside in my heart.
It is 40 years now since I met her . I have tried to paint her
portrait from memory. A tribute to a great soul.
Thanks
ASHOK KUMAR
22.5.19
9 August 2018
RSS
https://www.hindustantimes.com/analysis/why-india-won-t-become-a-hindu-pakistan/story-55hyGT9UvxYsEBtZDkSwrO.html
Dear Mr. Vaidya,
8.8.18
I read your article in the Hindustan Times dated 8.8.18. As a senior member of the RSS you have the right to come out with your version of Hindutva and criticize those who do not agree with your view point. Similarly those who do not agree with the RSS version of how India should run have the right to put forth their views. Rigidity has no place if India has to progress and compete with other nations of the world. Let the people decide what is good for them. Unfortunately RSS is built on the foundation of rigidity and violently reacts whenever it is presented with a view other than its own. Today when RSS/BJP is ruling almost the entire country we see the disastrous results of this blind adherence to a outdated ideology completely out of tune with the modern times. Lynchings and demeaning of minorities. Support of these actions by senior political and RSS leaders. The violent calls for building Ram Mandir after demolishing the Babri Masjid. The introduction of unscientific courses in school curriculum. Introducing of spurious historical texts in school books to show Muslims in bad light.
As a common Hindu citizen I find there is poison in the air. The multi multiculturalism which we enjoyed till a few years back is slowly vanishing being replaced by hostility and hate .
Sir as a learned person you must be aware that no nation can progress under the above circumstance us. The RSS is not serving the country by resorting to revenge for some atrocities committed thousands of years back. It is also not serving the country by trying to revive corpses of ancients texts which are meaningless. It is also not serving the country by making dubious claims of rocket science, organ transplants etc as part of ancient India achievements. Infact this job of glorifying Hindus on the basis of wrong facts is the most dangerous. This injects among the people a sense of false superiority which seriously hinders their ability to absorb new ideas .
Recently the Mughal Sarai railway station name has been changed to Deen Dayal Upadhya .What was the purpose? Can anybody explain? Were not the Mughals a part of India? Did they not rule here for 1000 yrs? Facts are sacred. There is nothing to be ashamed of. We should learn from it rather than try to sweep it under the carpet. The Muslim invasion was successful because of disunited Hindu kingdoms and the lack of notion of a nation. Each Hindu kingdom was a nation in itself. Casteism was the other evil which divided the Hindus. So why blame the Muslims? We were victims of our own drawbacks. Today the RSS instead of reforming the Hindu society and removing useless rituals and caste system is working in the opposite direction. Its main job has become to put the blame on Muslims and if not on Muslims then on Christians for all the ills in the society. RSS is tearing apart society and committing the original sin which facilated the Muslim invasion.
With regard to your article I would like to offer the following additional comments :
1.You have expressed your rage against the word Hindu Pakistan. Can you please categorically deny that the primary goal of the RSS is establishing a Hindu Rashtra. The guiding policy of the RSS is a secret document. It has never been revealed. So why not reveal it to the world. What is the hesitation? Everything will become clear. Till then by the actions and the verbal content of the RSS it is clear that the RSS goal is India for Hindus. Many times the RSS leaders have objected to the word secularism in the constitution. What is the meaning of this? India is a country of many religions and many races. Secularism binds all these various elements into one. So the objection with secularism is rather strange. Pakistan is a Muslim state. So a Hindu Rashtra is obviously a Hindu Pakistan. What is wrong with the word?
Dragging the evangical church into this was rather unnecessary without any evidence. It only shows RSS desperate attempts to hide its ineffective antique policies by blaming other communities.
2. There are lots of half truths in your article. I don't know how you have reached the conclusion that students have been deprived of knowledge of Indian culture. This could be true during the British times. Unfortunately your organisation never participated in the freedom movement. There is no evidence of this. Infact many of your leaders pre 1947 even begged for pardon. That time RSS never raised this issue. After 1947 it was the Congress who was in power overhauled the education system. All the historical facts which comprised of Indian culture was introduced in the text books. Even those who studied in missionary schools were studying Indian culture. Ancient Indian studies were also part of the curriculum. Of course fancy imaginations about ancient India which you love was not there. The focus was on multiculturalism and brotherhood .Every religion was given equal importance and the children were taught to respect each other irrespective of religion. That was true Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, a word which the RSS often uses but never believes in. unfortunately this is rapidly vanishing under the BJP/RSS rule.
3. You have stressed a lot on pluralism, tolerance and have claimed that these are the guiding principles of the RSS. But where is the evidence on the ground. Recently a senior leader of yours have said that till people eat cow lynching's will continue. There are so many statements from RSS leaders and leaders of its affiliated organisations threatening the minorities that is difficult to mention each one of them here. In any case it is for everybody to see that on ground the RSS is quite different from what they preach. It almost seems that is a cleverly molded policy of the RSS to cover itself with a angelic cloak hiding a dagger underneath. Ask any common Hindu citizen and he would say the RSS never talks about abolishing caste system and meaningless rituals. They are only good at blaming others and pitting Hindus against other communities. This is not good for the people or the nation.
4. Hindutva has been claimed by you in the article as the way to tolerance and brotherhood. This is entirely false. Hindutva is not Hinduism. All the attributes of Hinduism such as the entire world is a big family and all paths lead to one God has never been practices by the RSS. If this was true then secularism would not be a hate word for RSS. Liberals would not be hated by the RSS. Babri Masjit would not have demolished. Muslim would not have been lynched. Mr. Modi would have refused the skull cap. Churches would not have been vandalized. Mother Teresa would not have insulted. There would have been a atmosphere of peace and love. No Sir you are practicing Hindutva and not Hinduism.
5. Now to the eminent personalities you quoted in your
article to support your false identity as a liberal and secular organisation.
RSS ideologue Dinanath Batra recently asked for removal of works of
Rabindranath Tagore from all text books. This is the respect which RSS has for
a great Indian soul who brought accolades for this nation. Regarding Pranab
Mukherjee let us not forget that Mr. Pranab was part of the
government that banned RSS in 1992 and he authored the Burari resolution which
took strong view on RSS. Apart from this he gave a strong message to the RSS
during his recent speech in Nagpur. He said
"Soul
Of India Is Pluralism, Tolerance"This advise was given by him because obviously the RSS was
not following it. Hope apart from quoting him in the article you would take
active steps to follow his advise sincerely
In the end I would say that the majority of this country are
Hindus and they are faithfully following the tenets of Hinduism. Please don't
enforce upon them your variety of Hinduism which is aggressive,intolerant,divisive
and violent Hindutva. The world regards India for its pluralism and tolerance.
RSS is a product of partition .That does not mean it should forever stick to
this mentality. Please take the nation forward towards progress and scientific
development instead of being stuck in this Hindu Muslim conflict.
With regards.
Thanks
ASHOK KUMAR
23 April 2018
EVERY MAN DIES ALONE
EVERY MAN DIES
ALONE BY HANS FALLADA
22.4.18
I had never heard of Hans Fallada. Recently I went to a book exhibition and out of
curiosity entered a conference room. I sat on a back seat. The topic was great
books written by little known authors. There for the first time I heard the
name of Hans Fallada a German author who lived in Berlin during the Nazi
regime. I purchased his book 'Every man dies alone' written in 1944.
It is a extraordinary story of a old German couple Otto
Quangel and Anna whose only son dies in the war.
The couple realizes that the Nazi regime is cruel and that
ordinary people are being killed ,tortured and made to endure endless hardships
just to satisfy the needs of a insane ideology.
The Jews were hunted and exterminated. A extraordinary
censor was imposed on the people. Everyone was being spied upon. The Gestapo
and the SS were a law unto themselves. The courts became a part of the Nazi
regime and instead of dispensing justice
were issuing death sentences to anyone suspected of raising the voice against
the Nazi regime.
The middle classes and the common man just did not raise
enough voices against these injustices. Most of the people remained silent and
did not want to invite any trouble by raising their voices against the policies
and actions of the Nazi regime.
Under these troublesome conditions the old couple decided
that something has to be done to make the people aware that the Nazis were
taking the country to the dogs. Hitler was behaving like a mad person and was
waging war after war and taking over countries. Countless lives were being
lost. All this was being done in the name of German nationalism. A distorted
nationalism which aimed to destroy everything in its path. A nationalism which
had no place for decency and humanity A meaningless nationalism which defined love for the country as hate
against those who do not agree with their definition of nationalism. Following
are some quotes from the book.
1. " Because you could see it with your eyes closed,
the way they were making separations between ordinary citizens and Party
members. Even the worst Party member was worth more to them than the best
ordinary citizen."
2. " But foreman Quangel liked equality and
fair-dealing. To him a human being was a human being, whether he was in the
Party or not.
3. “But the main thing is that we remain different from them, that
we never allow ourselves to be made into them, or start thinking as they do. Even
if they conquer the whole world, we must refuse to become Nazis.”
4.
We are like good seeds in a field of weeds. If
it wasn’t for the good seeds, the whole field would be nothing but weeds. And
the good seeds can spread their influence…
5. “Show me one that isn’t afraid!” said the brownshirt
contemptuously. “And it’s so unnecessary. They just need to do what we tell
them. It’s because people have got in the habit of thinking. They have the idea
that thinking will help them.They need to do as they’re told. The Führer can do
their thinking for them.”
The old couple decided to write small cards educating the
people about the evils of Hitler regime. Their sons being slaughtered in the
unnecessary war waged by Hitler. The injustices being meted by courts by giving
out biased judgments. The hate against the Jews and their killings. The couple
used to enter surreptitiously residential buildings
and office complexes and drop these cards. After some time these postcards came
to the notice of the Gestapo and they started their investigation. And one
day the Gestapo catches up with them. They are arrested.
They are sentenced to death and till the
end remain defiant to the cruel tortures of the Gestapo
.
They die with their decency intact their heads held high.
As I read the novel it reminded me of the current state of
affairs of our nation. It seemed to me we are also moving on the same path
which the Nazi regime treaded some 80 years back. A vicious version of
nationalism which we had never heard before is being thrust upon us. A
religious nationalism in which Hindutva is the God and humans and humanity has
no place in it. Where killings and lynching's of Muslims, demeaning of
minorities are overlooked with a snide smile. Heinous crimes like rapes of
minorities are defended. Perpetuators of genocides of minorities are set free
by the courts. Cases of those involved in such communal crimes are withdrawn.
If anybody questions these acts they are labeled as anti nationals. Judiciary
refuses to hear petitions asking for enquiry into suspicious deaths allegedly
by state actors. Such petitions are termed as insult to the judiciary by the
highest court. Media instead of questioning the rulers questions the
opposition.
I would suggest that you must read this book and decide for
yourself whether you would prefer silence or raise your voice if such a Nazi
like situation is developing in our country. Nazi Germany was ultimately
destroyed but at what cost. Nobody wants that to happen here.
Hans Fallada wrote this book in 24 days and thereafter died
before it was published.
ASHOK KUMAR
27 October 2017
THE CONTRACTOR BY
RAYMOND DAVIS
REVIEW 26.10.17
Way back in 2011 everybody came to know about Raymond Davis when
across the world news was flashed in almost all the newspapers about a American
who shot dead two people in Lahore. The TV channels of Pakistan were bursting with all kind of
conspiracy theories. Pakistanis were simmering with anger that their nation was
being targeted by the brute Americans because they were Muslims. The terrorist
organisations in Pakistan were seeking death for all Americans. Raymond was
arrested for murder and there was a strong public opinion that he be hanged.
The Government of Pakistan was in a quandary. The Americans started to apply
heat on them. The Americans threatened that they would block all funds running
into billions incase their citizen was harmed in addition to punishing them
militarily. Then after a few months news emerged that Raymond was released and
flown back to the US. So what happened ? Everthing remained in wraps. After
nearly 6 years the cover from the mystery was lifted when Raymond Davis wrote
this book and related the inside story about what actually happened.
On 27.1.11 Raymond was driving his SUV in Lahore. He never
disclosed where he was going.
As he reached the busy Mozang chowk he noticed two men
riding on a motorcycle just in front of his SUV. Suddenly the person back
riding turned and whipped out a gun and aimed at Raymond. He perhaps was not
aware that the CIA man was a well trained shooter. In a flash Raymond pulled
his Glock 17 and fired several shots. The bullets travelled through the wind
shield leaving a hole and hit precisely the man aiming at him. He was killed
instantly. The motorbike skidded. Another bullet hit the rider and he also
collapsed. Raymond was later arrested in the market and then handed over to the
ISI the dreaded intelligence wing of the Pakistan military. Later it was known
that the assassins name were Haider and Faheem. They were from the LeT a known
terrorist organisation whose Chief is Hafeez Sayeed. The same terrorist organization
which targets India and is part of Pakistan security establishment. However
Pakistan never accepted that these two assassins belonged to the LeT.
The entire episode exposed the sham judiciary system of
Pakistan, the hand of ISI in every institution, Pakistan shameful dependency on
a foreign country, the powerful hold of terrorist organisations on the Govt and
public opinion.
The book draws attention to the following issues relating to
Pakistan :
1. Mr Butt was the public prosecutor. Raymond states that the
first time he was produced in the court the prosecutor told the judge that “Your honor, Mr. Davis shot two armed men
who tried to shoot him.milliseconds away from
doing just that."
The second time he told “Your honor, Mr. Davis shot two armed men, but they
meant him no harm."
The third time he claimed
that the two men David shot were ISI agent.
The fourth
time Butt claimed that the
two men on the motorcycle didn’t even have guns.
So what kind of court proceedings is this? Why the Judges
just keep quiet and does not question the prosecution in cases relating to
terrorists? Their conduct clearly shows that as Judges they are least bothered
to discharge their duties honestly to dispense justice. The few who perform
their duties have to run away from Pakistan. Remember the case of Mumtaz Qadri.
The judge Pervez Ali Shah who pronounced the death sentence fled the country.
The judiciary system of Pakistan is a junk show. Judges are threatened and they
encourage delaying tactics. Even dreaded terrorists like Lakhvi, Hafeez Sayeed,
Masood Azhar could not be convicted and are roaming free. No nation or citizen
is safe where such a tattered form of judiciary exist.
2. Pakistan heavy dependency on the US for funds have made it
a slave state. Sort of servant status who is ready to do anything provided he
is compensated. The total aid to Pakistan has crossed $80 billion. A staggering
amount. The worrying part is that most of this has never been utilised for the
purpose for which it was given. A major part of the billions were siphoned off.
Some went into the pockets of the Generals and some to raise and support the
terrorist organisations. The US never seriously demanded a explanation for
these fraudulent acts. Now Pakistan has become so dependent upon these generous
dole outs that it can even sell its self respect.
3. Jinnah is the Father of the Nation of this Islamic state.
However Jinnah's was just opposite to what a true Muslim should be. Jinnah wore hand-tailored suits and silk ties. He drove
imported cars. He never wore a beard. He drank whiskey. He ate pork. He mainly
spoke English. He married a non-Muslim. Apart from this Jinnah ideology was
communal. He divided India on the basis of religion in which one million were
killed and 20 million were displaced. Such a person has no right to be
respected and there you make him Father
of the Nation !
4.The Islamization of Pakistan
further took it into the dark ages. The book describes
"During his eleven-year
reign, Zia succeeded in changing life in Pakistan from the ground up. He used
government funds to build thousands of madrassas, religious schools that
teach an austere form of Islam and often promote jihad. Books that were
considered un-Islamic were heavily edited or removed from libraries. Western
culture was vilified. The national television network PTV replaced music videos
with patriotic songs. Theaters that showed Western films were shut down. Women
were ordered to cover their heads while in public, restricted from attending
school or playing sports, and saw their value in the eyes of the law literally
reduced to a fraction of a man’s. And every Muslim adult was required to pay zakat,
giving a small percentage of his wealth to his community’s poor each year"
A sort of Talibisation.
It is these thousands of Madrassas
which are factories producing extremists on a daily basis endangering the lives
of people not only in Pakistan but all over the world. Baitullah Mehsud the
creator of TTP also came out from one of these radical Madrassas.
5.The entire legal system was
changed by Zia.
" Zia
created the Federal Shariat Court and the Shariat Appellate Bench of the
Supreme Court and empowered them to decide cases based on the teachings of the
Koran. Overseen exclusively by Muslim judges, these courts could review any
existing law for its conformity with the injunctions of Islam and invalidate
those that didn’t pass muster."
Murder laws
were finally modified and the Qisas and
Diyat Ordinance, which required murders to be tried under Sharia law, was
adopted."
So today as matter stands the
legal system of Pakistan instead of being in line with modern times has been
shifted to medieval times. In such a situation a alleged victim can never
expect a fair trial when the entire system is heavily wrapped in a religious
fervour. Adding to this is the blasphemy law which can be applied any time to
victimize Non Muslims.
6. The hand of the all powerful
ISI even controls the Judges. Specially in terrorist related cases the Judge
trying the case has to pronounce judgments as per the instruction of the ISI.
Davis describes his final hearing in the court as under
"One of the few people allowed to stay behind was General Pasha, who’d
been continually texting Ambassador Munter, updating him about the court
proceedings. I imagine that at least one of his texts described the entrance of
a man in a suit, whom I recognized but whose name I couldn’t recall. As soon as
this man entered the courtroom, the room went silent. No one spoke a word. If a
cell phone rang, the person to whom it belonged got up and walked outside to
answer it. The only thing you could hear was the ceiling fan. The response this
man’s presence got was strange but also oddly familiar.
Carmela and my team of attorneys were sitting directly in front of the
cage, and I leaned forward, got Paul’s attention, and pointed to the man in the
suit. “Who is that guy?”
“Him? He’s an ISI colonel. Why?”
I nodded. “Yeah, I thought so. He questioned me at the police station in
Cantonment the day of the incident. I figured he was ISI. Why’s he here?”
“He’s a fixer.”
What else is required to prove that Pakistani Courts are
Kangaroo courts. The ISI man talks to the Judge then changes the Court to
Sharia court. Under the Sharia law a murderer can be tried under Diyat and so
Raymond was tried under it .
6. In all civilized society a murderer is tried for
murder and given punishment. In Pakistan a murderer can get away by paying money to relatives of
the murdered man. Isn't it strange? This is called blood money and is allowed
under Diyat of Sharia laws. Life is so cheap in Pakistan. Almost all honor
killings and terrorists escape punishment through this Diyat route.
Under pressure from the US the Pakistan
Government took this face saving route to free Raymond and instructed ISI to
implement it. However this requires consent of all the relatives and the ISI
ensured this on gun point. Each relative was paid $130,000
each for a total of $2,340,000, the largest amount of blood money ever awarded
in Pakistan.
The origin of
this hefty amount paid were never disclosed.
“The United
States did not pay any compensation,” Clinton reiterated.
Technically, what
she said was true. According to the New York Times, ISI paid the money,
and the US government later reimbursed the Pakistani government.
This book exposes
the jungle raj which is prevails in Pakistan.
Do read it to get
a idea of how Pakistan is a sinking country and how the terrorists rule there
with impunity.
ASHOK KUMAR
14 September 2017
THE LAST DAYS OF HITLER
THE LAST
DAYS OF HITLER BY TREVOR ROPER 13.09.17
There are tons of books on Hitler. Mostly they are centered
around his military conquest of Europe. Between 1939 and June 1941 the German army invaded and occupied many
countries, including the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg,
France, Denmark, Yugoslavia, Greece, Norway
and Western Poland. However there are few books which describes the last
days of Hitler and fewer which are authentically based on credible research.
This particular book belongs to the latter category. The author of this book
Trevor was a intelligence officer in the British intelligence service and
actively served in the British occupied
portion of Berlin in 1945. At that time it was widely rumoured that Hitler
never died in his bunker but escaped with his mistress Eva Braun to some
western country. The Russian Army which was first to enter his bunker claimed
that they never found his body and it
was they who said that he had probably escaped. In order to put to rest all
type of speculations regarding Hitlers death the British Army decided to officially
appoint Trevor to investigate the matter and unravel the truth. Trevor went
through thousands of war documents and interviewed hundreds of German military
officers including those who were present in the bunker during the last days.
This is what the book is all about.
History is a wayward
maiden. Its interpretation vary according to the political beliefs of the
person handling it. The actual events are either distorted or changed to arrive
at a particular conclusion depending upon the political leaning of the person.
However the results and affects of events cannot be hidden since it is there
for everybody to see. For example the deaths and cruelty carried out by Nazi
Germany easily proves that Hitler was a psychopath but some describe him as a
nationalist. I have tried to give below some of the highlights of the book and
their significance in understanding the issues which they represent .
1. As the Russian army
closed on Berlin in the last days of August 1945 Hitler holed himself in a
bunker 50 feet below the Chancellery. The man who roared liked a lion became a
mad roaring lion. He was not able to digest his defeat and constantly rebuked
and abused his Generals and close associates. He began blaming the Nazi Army
which he said was a bunch of cowards and lacked the qualities of a true Aryan.
The army has let him down. The fact was that there was never a structure in
place which decided the course of war and strategies by discussions and consensus.
A sort of Military High Command. It was Hitler and only Hitler which decided
and issued orders. The rest were just minions. If anybody suggested anything
contrary to Hitler decision he was rebuked by him.
There is a important
lesson to be learnt here. We now more clearly understand what a dictator is and
the extent of damage he is capable of inflicting on the nation. In a democracy at
least we have the option to reject leaders with such tendencies during polls.
Here in India we know the present PM liking for controlling everything. The
various Ministries cannot take decision by themselves. They have to obtain
clearance from PMO for every matter which means the PM is behaving as some sort
of a dictator. No wonder he sleeps for 4 hours only as his propaganda team
says. This however is not good for the nation.
2. Propaganda played a
crucial role in the Nazi setup. When the regime is cantered around a single individual
and the people have vested their entire trust on him then it has to have a
continuity without any breaks. Failures cannot be disclosed and defeats cannot
be publicized .
The myth that the
leader is impregnable has to be sustained at all costs. In the end of 1941
everybody started realising the Germany defeat was not far. The Russians were
aggressively dominating the Nazi army. The US had entered the war and the Allied
forces were mercilessly bombarding German cities. In the middle of 1944 the Russian
army was knocking at the doors of Berlin and D-day was not far off. The
collapse of Hitler Germany was written large on the wall. Goebbel was the head
of the propaganda ministry. Imagine a Ministry for propaganda !!
The Ministry at that
stage was busy churning out false information that the Fuehrer was in control
of everything and victory was imminent. Infact Goebbel declared that any talk
of defeat will be punished by death. At no stage the people were informed that
Germany has lost the war.
The height of deception was reached when the
Nazi government announced death of Hitler on 1st May 1945 when Hitler was
already dead on 30th august. There was no mention that he had committed suicide.
This organised
propaganda machine in hiding facts and relaying a false narrative contributed
vastly to the massive destruction of lives and material. It took the war to a
suicidal end which could have been prevented. Today the same kind of organised
propaganda machinery is being created by the BJP. The BJP has a exclusive IT
cell to spread false news. It is reported that it is manned by around 1000 personnel's.
Some of the false news spread by this wing can be found here https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-top-fake-news-spread-by-BJP-IT-cell-in-2017.
This IT cell of BJP is constantly trying to spread communal hatred and even
defend killers. The moment anybody expresses a opposite opinion he would be attacked by thousands of abuses.
Sexiest remarks against women and independent thinkers are a daily occurrence.
Recently on the death of Gauri Lankesh by RW Hindutva goons the IT cell of the
BJP released thousands of responses celebrating her murder. One even wrote “A bitch has died a dog’s death and now
all the pups are whining in one voice". Incidentally PM is following this
person on twitter and he has obstinately refused to unfollow him. So the
message is clear from the highest quarter of the Government to BJP followers
that continue the dirty propaganda.
As
in case of Nazi Germany this form of governance where truth is suppressed and
falsehood is encouraged is going to heavily damage the nation.
3.
Trevor states that Hitler had a incredible will-power, whose hypnotic influence, compelled even his critics to worship and obey.
How did he achieve this? There was Dr Morell his personal physician who
concocted many drugs which produced hypnotic and delirious effects. He
confessed after the war that these drugs were daily given to Hitler. Hitler was
a master in oratory and combined with his hypnotic powers was able to cast a
spell on the audience. Somewhat similar to what Mr Modi does. I don't mean that
Modi takes drugs but people get trapped into his oratory and are unable to sift
the truth from the lies. Here is a lesson to be learnt. Instead of being misled
by his oratory one should discover and acknowledge the ground realities. For
example Modi speeches leads you to believe that demonetisation was a great step
whereas the ground reality is that it was a disaster. The personality of a
person should never be allowed to over shadow the real events.
Trevor writes and
I quote
"There used to be a school of historical thought which held that
the course of human history
was determined largely by political and economic factors rather than by the characters and actions of individuals. My own experience during this last war
has emphasized to me
the immense, and in some cases decisive
influence exercised on the course
of events by
individual personalities."
4. Hitler enjoyed
absolute power and the Nazi party led by him ruled every segment of the German
society. No man can escape the corruption of absolute power. With all
opposition voices mercilessly silenced and intolerance at its peak it was
futile to suggest any course correction. There was only one view point which
was correct and that was of Hitler. Anything contrary was considered anti
national. This drove the fate of Germany into a blind alley from which there
was no return. Slowly the entire nation was sinking and ultimately destroyed
with Hitler committing suicide. We are today passing through a similar phase.
The RSS/BJP juggernaut tearing across India like a hurricane is demolishing all
resistance to its advance. This is a very worrisome development and may end up
destroying India like Germany under Hitler. The absolute power of Modi has
certainly unleashed violence , communal hatred and even killings of independent
thinkers.
5. It is
interesting to know that Hitler was a vegetarian and even had a separate
vegetarian kitchen in the bunker and a vegetarian cook. I mention this because
there is a notion in our country that vegetarian food generates higher
consciousness and non violent temperament and inner peace. 6 million Jews were
exterminated under Hitler rule and more than 10 million perished in the war.
Hitler personally ordered the killings of many of his close associates who became his critics. Even Hermann Fegelein the
brother-in-law of Eva Braun was shot on orders of Hitler one week before Hitler
committed suicide . So when vegetarians assume a sort of superiority complex
and look down on meat eaters I point my finger towards Hitler !
6. Everybody is familiar with the old
saying " Those whom the gods wish to destroy they
first make mad" or "विनाश
काले विपरीत बुद्धि". From 1935 to 1941 Hitler
achieved spectacular victories occupying nearly half of Europe. He started believing
that he is a military genius and specially sent by God to earth to rule the
world. He attacked Russia and made his biggest blunder. The Russian bear with
all its power chased him to the bunker and destroyed him. The second mistake he
made was by appointing himself as the commander-in-chief of the army and
refusing to heed advise of his Generals on crucial matters of war. He declared
war against the US and further exposed himself to attacks. In his madness to
destroy Britain and Russia simultaneously he opened two fronts and was sandwiched
between east and west. There are many other reasons for his defeat but essentially
all of them stemmed from his ego centered personality and his lunatic
conviction that he was invincible. The biggest lesson we learn here is that a
nation should never be lead by a megalomaniac. This lesson is relevant in today's
political climate prevailing in India.
7. Amidst all this vicious and bloody carnage
which Hitler waged for nearly 10 years one thing stood steadily and nobody
could defeat it. It was love. Love of Eva Braun for Hitler. She suffered
ignominy,insults ,discomfort and finally accepted the poison pill without a
murmur which Hitler gave to her. No matter what the world said she never
demurred from her duty to take care of Hitler and ultimately gave her life for
him. Just one day before they both committed suicide Hitler married her and
gave her the satisfaction at last to be officially designated as Mrs Fuhrer.
There is one stream of historians who believe
that Hitler killed Eva Braun and he himself escaped to Argentina. Neither
Hitler nor Eva Braun bodies were ever found.
8. Everything thing ended when Hitler
committed suicide on 30April 1945 at about 3PM after taking his lunch. The
Third Reich collapsed like a pack of cards. All the top high ranking officials
of Hitler coterie committed suicide or were killed.
Hitler The Fuhrer
Blew up his head with a pistol
Eva Braun Hitler's wife Took
poison pills
Joseph Goebbels Reich Minister of Propaganda Took poison
pills together with his
Wife & 6 children
Albert Speer Reich Minister of Armaments
20yrs imprisonment
Thus ended the era of a evil genius who
played the communal and nationalism card to satisfy his never ending hunger for
power and in the process destroyed his nation. This book can be considered a
authentic version of events during the last 10 days of Hitler and plays a
crucial part in deciphering the state of mind of Hitler during his defeat.
All those who are interested in history
of WW2 would find this book very interesting and informative.
ASHOK KUMAR
3 April 2017
RAM MANDIR
RAM MANDIR
04.04.17
I had gone through the article
written by Chetan Bhagat( Times of India dated 02/04/17) batting for building
of a Ram Mandir at Ayodhya at the disputed site where a mosque stood and was
demolished by goons of the Sangh Parivar. The article is basically not worth
the paper on which it is written. It is a childish attempt to trivialize a
issue whose outcome would have a large scale effect on the future of our
republic. It will decide whether we are a civilised society believing in laws
and the constitution or a banana republic which runs on whims and fancies and
religious sentiments. It will decide whether the country is to be run by majoritarianism
dictates which bull dozes the respect and honor of the minority communities and
pushes them into second rate citizens. It is clearly not a issue of building a
temple. It is a political issue for the Sangh Parivar and a step toward
realising the dream of the RSS in making India a Hindu Rashtra. All this talk
about Hindu sentiments is a facade to hide the intentions of the right wing
Hindutva sections of our society to destroy the cultural harmony of our
multicultural heritage. There is no doubt that this Chetan Bhagat is a
important link of this network of sick minds who rides the Hindu religious
wagon in pursuance of a goal which has nothing to do with development.
Nevertheless he has a right to his views no matter how obnoxious it is. In this
particular article he has given three arguments against building of the Ram
temple ( Though there are many more ) and then proceeds to demolish them. Let
us examine his logic ,if there is any, since he relies more on sentiments.
If you see the video footage
of the demolishing of the Babri Masjid any civilized person would be shaken at
the goondaism which was openly
perpetuated under the leadership of senior leaders of the BJP. It was a
matter of destroying a place of workship. More than that it was intended to
hurt the psyche of the Muslim community and to show them their place. Instill
in them fear and make them realise that they have no place in this country. It
was all pre planned including the plan to say sorry when the mission was
accomplished. I don't see any parallel of such brutality against a place of worship
anywhere in the world. And please don't quote Pakistan since we are not
Pakistan. Saying sorry afterwords with a
glee is like rubbing salt in the wounds. The right thing would have been to
build the Masjid again. This would have served the end of justice. The Hindutva
right wing instead of repenting for its deeds is now demanding that the Muslims
should forget and voluntarily hand over the land for building the temple. First
you break their mosque and them have the temerity to ask for handing over the
land for building the temple. In the name of harmony between communities !! If
tomorrow Mr Chetan Bhagat house is razed to the ground by some land mafia and
then they demand the land to be handed over for building a plaza would he
agree. Certainly not. He would demand his property to be restored and his house
built again. That is what justice demands. But in this case Mr Chetan cleverly
circumvents justice by taking the sentimental path. He claims that there is
proof that there was a temple below the masjid and Ram was born exactly at the
same place. Even the Allahabad High court did not consider this claim while
issuing its verdict. There is no historical evidence to substantiate this
argument. The Babarnama (Chronicles of Babur) does not mention either
the mosque or the destruction of a temple. Tulsidas, who
began writing the Ramcharit Manas in Ayodhya on Rama's birthday in
1574 (coming there from his normal residence in Varanasi)
mentioned the "great birthday festival" in Ayodhya but made no
mention of a mosque at Rama's birthplace. Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551–1602), who
wrote Akbarnama, completing the third volume Ain-i Akbari in
1598, described the birthday festival in Ayodhya, the "residence of
Rama" and the "holiest place of antiquity", but made no mention
of a mosque. The fact is that Ayodhya is the birth place of Lord Rama as
ancient books and scriptures mention. To say that that Lord Ram was born
exactly where the Babri Masjid stood is mischievous. Ram mandir can be built
and that too a grand one at any place in Ayodhya and this would not reduce its
majesty or lessen the faith of the believers.
Mr Chetan writes that there are thousands of mosques build
over temples by the Mughals. How does Mr Chetan knows this? Has he any evidence
or is he fanning communal hatred? This seems to be a veiled threat. Surrender
or they may also become target of the Hindutva demolishing squad. It is sad
that a educated person who has written books ( Which nobody reads) behaving
like a street ruffian. Go one step ahead and he is offering a grand Masjid in
lieu of the demolished one. I mean how childish a person can become. Offering
toys in return for surrendering ones honour. The contention of Mr Chetan that this is the demand of all Hindus in India
which are nearly 100 crores is entirely misleading. As a Hindu I can vouch that
majority of Hindus are secular and respect all religions. They never want a
Mandir after breaking a mosque. Their faith just not allows this. After all
then what difference will remain between a group of blood thirsty marauders and
a civilised,law abiding people. It would be better if Mr Chetan refrain from
self appointing himself as the leader of all the Hindus in this country.
We are living in the 21st century with a strong and vibrant
India. Let us not live in the past and waste our time in trying to restore past
glory of bygone centuries. We have to make our future strong by building strong
technology and not by building Mandirs on imaginary disputed sites.
" But even well-known
archaeologists involved in the excavation are doubtful about the findings. Says
Sita Ram Rai, former director of the Bihar Archaeology Department who spent a
fortnight during the excavation in Ayodhya: "The ASI has carved pillars
out of the excavated floor to draw some inaccurate conclusions.
It has released its report with motivated suggestions and willful omissions, making it clear that its saffronised heart is in the right place." Rai, who was summoned by the Allahabad High Court bench (where the ASI report was opened) to make his observations, said no structure had been demolished before the construction of the mosque.
He and three other archaeologists, who made a detailed study of the method of excavation and the artefacts recovered from the site, believe that there was no temple at Ayodhya. Clearly, neither the VHP nor its vocal supporters are listening. "
It has released its report with motivated suggestions and willful omissions, making it clear that its saffronised heart is in the right place." Rai, who was summoned by the Allahabad High Court bench (where the ASI report was opened) to make his observations, said no structure had been demolished before the construction of the mosque.
He and three other archaeologists, who made a detailed study of the method of excavation and the artefacts recovered from the site, believe that there was no temple at Ayodhya. Clearly, neither the VHP nor its vocal supporters are listening. "
It is therefore still disputed that there was a temple below
the Babri Masjid. To insist that the Ram Mandir should be built there only is
motivated by mischievous designs. By the way what is wrong in stating that God
resides everywhere. It seems that Mr Chetan sees God only on that particular
spot where Babri Masjid stood. If this is the behavior of a educated person
then there is seriously something wrong with our education system. The Hindu
always sees God even in a particle. And I assume that Mr Chetan is a Hindu. I
mean the right type not the fanatic type.
Meanwhile just allow Ram mandir to rest till the SC gives
its decision in the matter or build a hospital there.
ASHOK KUMAR
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