THE SIGNS OF TIMES
NEW ETHOS OF A NEW INDIA
How many of us have experienced the high of successfully passing off a lie? No please, do not twist your nose and raise your eye brows. Just ponder a moment before you answer.
I am a poor liar and yet as far as I remember, during almost all of my fair number of years, I have, at least once a year, planned and plotted for days to experience the High. The kick and the vicarious pleasure that I got when I could successfully pull it off!!!
You still cannot recollect yours? Well, let me help you. Never heard of the April Fools' Day ? Yes, that's the Day, the one day out 365 days that many of us try our best to experience that kick and the pleasure of successfully pulling-off a fast one. Of course, we always owned up to the lie, immediately experiencing the High.
It is said that a young George Washington, once confessed to cutting down a cherry tree by expressing his inability to tell a lie, but history holds testimony that for many, since ages, lies & deceit held the key to the all too heady cocktail of money, fame, revenge and power, resulting in elaborate hoaxes, perjuries and forgeries, that have had enormously adverse ripple effects on the society and the Nation.
Well, in the India of today, many have turned each passing year to 365 April Fools' days. Do we believe in the addict, "Those who live by a lie, die by a lie"? Lies are more deadly than the sword, for it kills softly, just like the Carbon mono Oxide, without the victim realising that she/he was dieing.
All of us know how a mere Gefreiter came to be revered as the Fuhrer who, with the help of a monstrous propaganda machine, mesmerised the Nation to believe in falsehoods. Among many in History, he takes the cake, but not much behind are a number of other escapists, who were able to fool some for some time, but long enough to achieve their nefarious short term goals.
Homer's Iliad describes how the Trojans, even after defeating the Greeks repeatedly, were finally massacred and comprehensively defeated by just a few hundred heavily armed Greek soldiers, hidden inside a harmless looking huge wooden horse, slily wheeled in to the heart of the heavily guarded Trojan city of Troy. To the Greeks, the end, (Rescue of Helen, the kidnapped Queen of Sparta), justified the means and yet the world has come to equate the phrase, 'Trojan Horse' to deceit from within, to be watchful about.
There are many other examples in History :
Students of Military and Political history will remember the 'Dreyfus Affair' of France in the final years of the 19th century. Titus Oates, with the help of a conniving Major Hubert Joseph Henry, cooked up a sinister plot to drum up hatred for the Jews, with the help of fraudulent documents, accusing Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer of the French Army, of being anti National by selling military secrets to the Germans. The officer was imprisoned, but a large number of French, including the famed novelist Emily Zola, stood up in support and after a long struggle of 10 years, a civil court declared Alfred Dreyfus innocent. Reinstated in the Army, he later fought with distinction in the WW I.
Van Meegeren who made a fortune producing fakes of the celebrated artist Vermeer, comically got caught in his own lies. He did not live to enjoy his ill-gotten wealth, dieing within a few months after being imprisoned by the Nazis.
The polity of today's India not only has a Nazi admirer and follower at the top, it is teeming with Trojan Horses, Oateses and Meegerens. The success formula is to first quietly spread a lie and then grab the opportunity to spread canard at the National level, against political opponents. Every day a new lie is spread which is later proved to be what it is, a lie, but by then the damage is already done. Who cares about the truth. It is the end that matters. The aim is achieved.
While an erstwhile veteran Congressman of UP, was recently trying to prove his loyalty to his changed masters by manufacturing truth at Kairana village, the top most leadership of the Nazi-type party and its Govt, was quick to pick up the threads and paint a desolate picture before the Nation, of the persecution sufferred by the majority community at the hands of the minorities, under the benign gaze of the anti Hindu State Govt. Does not matter if just few days later, the author of the lie, under the relentless scrutiny of a small section of the media, had to eat his own printed list and typically disown its authorship, blaming it on his juniors. The top leadership, who insidiously perpetuated the lie, are, however, yet to apologise to the Nation. Who cares, so long as the nefarious goals are achieved!
Day in and day out, false claims are made about achievements of the Govt, both Nationally and Internationally, with the help of the Parivar, within and outside with the aid of a section of the Diaspora abroad. The opposition is too fragmented and weak to put up a fight. Every effort is made to further fragment it, with the help of lies, lies and more lies, propogated with active help a major section of the prestitute media.
Not just the opposition, every effort is being made to divide our great Nation on sectarian, religious and economic lines. Dalits Trojans are launched against Dalits, Muslim Vibhishans against Muslims and pliant economic powerhouses are being created to do the ruler's biddings.
During their days in the Opposition, the present Party in power, planned and plotted to defeat the giant. They opposed every reform bill by every means, fair and foul and then justified its methods most blatantly by declaring it as a legitimate weapon of the Opposition. Later, on coming to power, with the mirage of development, an unfairly discredited opposition and a master orator, when the opposition tried to emulate them, the erstwhile opposition went to town with band, baja and barat and declared the opposition to be Anti-National, their Brahmastra.
Yes, the repeated charge of anti-Nationalism is the flair of the season.
You criticize the Govt in power, its members or its policies, you are an anti-National.
You may say 'Jai Hind' or 'Hindustan Zindabad', but if you don't say, 'Bharat Mata ki Jai', you are an anti-National. What will the soldier do with his mandir, masjid and girja all side by side and addressing each other, from the top most General to the lowly sepoy, with 'Jai Hind'?
If the anti-National tag fails to stick, an all out attack is launched to prosecute the individual(s) with the help of a subserviently conniving police force. The all out personal attack on the top opposition leadership, be they of any party, by embroiling them in imaginarily cooked up cases, filed by nondescript members of the party in power. Whereas the charges against members of their own party are prevaricated upon, FIRs are filed posthaste on the cooked up charges against the opposition leaders.
With three of its own Chief Ministers and a number of top Central and State leaders and Ministers under cloud of corruption, (Even for diverting PDF rice meant for the BPL families), the Govt in Power and its leaders are out to paint their rivals with brush of corruption.
In certain cases, the orders of the Judiciary too leaves one in wonderment, like the latest judgment in the Gulbarga Massacre case, where the Court declared that the murdered victim, an opposition MP, brought it on himself by opening fire on the mob. Hello! Were the marauding thousands, there to enquire the welfare of the victim? They were attacking to kill him and burn down his house, just as they did in a number of other cases. What does a single man do in such a case? Stand still like a 'Bali Ka Bakra'? It was a desperate bid of Ahsan Jafri to save his own life and that of his family. The Judge, however, declared that the latter provoked the (Peaceful!) crowd .
The revered Gaumata is taken to the village/subarban weekly market for finding a suitable mate and then, in full view of hundreds of amused viewers, a stud bull is let go on her in the name of mating; the spectacle is enacted over at least a hundred meters. It is a scene this author has seen many a time since his childhood.
Once her usefulness is over, the same revered Gaumata is abandoned on the streets, even urban ones, unfed, uncared, becoming a traffic nuisance. She is allowed to die by choking on all the plastic swallowed from the garbage bins, but you cannot kill her to alleviate her sufferings in her sunset years.
I have asked this question before and I ask it again, "What was the destination of the old cows that Vajashravasa of the Kathopanishad used to annually give away for free?
Notwithstanding the above, beware, if you dare raise a finger against the revered Gaumata, you will be declared an anti-National.
How many times of late are we seeing incidents at the grass roots, where lies are first spread and then in a preplanned manner attack is launched on a predetermined target, to either kill or maim, reputationally and at times physically!
How many times have we witnessed the man at the top pretending to be selectively deaf and dumb, while his minions go around attacking the vary ethos and ethics of India, we have valued since time immemorial. These real anti Nationals are later rewarded with plum posts and at times even felicitated publicly.
Fear of intolerance has been deliberately spread through a few dastardly acts, which have never seen the light of the law of the land. The fear is palpable. Brother and sisters are turning against each other; friends are revelling in a new role as enemies; colleagues are turning against colleagues; The D-Company methods have been refined; first a seemingly well meaning friendly 'advice', followed by a threat or two and finally the coup d'e tat. 'Khallas'. Chanakyas theory of 'Saam, Daam & Dand' being applied in letter and spirit.
The word RSS is now a prized badge on expanding chests. Just a couple of days back, a govt MoS, boldly declared to the Nation, "We will saffronize education as required". Supposedly, the last General Elections were won with a massive majority on the plank of 'Saffronisation'! Was it!
I come back to the Gefreiter, who ruled his great and powerful Nation with elan. What was behind it? All those who have read Mein Kampf, will agree that its abiding message is of aggressive ultra Nationalism. He fired the imagination of the German's of all ages with his aggressive rhetoric. There was the all pervading iron hand of the Gestapo. All but a handful, admired the ethnic cleansing, much admired by the acknowledged Guruji of the Parivar. With most of the Nation behind him, The Fuhrer brooked no dissent. Marshals and Generals bowed to him and some even became sycophants.
The Fuhrer espoused the supremacy of the Aryan Race. Barring the ethnics in the Southerns parts of the Country, the land of Bharat is the land of the Aryans. The HM of our Country, however, says that Aryans did not come from outside. May be once upon a time Germany and Bharat were joined at the hips. May be Tilak got it all wrong. Actually there was a reverse migration, i.e., Aryans migrated from Baharat to Germany. Be as it may, there is a conviction that we share a race. Why not then share History too; the past of one running into the present of the other?
The Signs of the Times :
An aggressively ultra Nationalistic Hindu Rashtra in
the making, in the image of the aggressively ultra
Nationalistic Nazi Germany. The Fuhrer led his great
Nation to its ultimate destruction. The Nation,
however, rose like a giant from its ashes to tower in
the economic World. May be we too will, similarly
rise from our ashes, which seem scattered on the
near horizon.
Homer's Iliad describes how the Trojans, even after defeating the Greeks repeatedly, were finally massacred and comprehensively defeated by just a few hundred heavily armed Greek soldiers, hidden inside a harmless looking huge wooden horse, slily wheeled in to the heart of the heavily guarded Trojan city of Troy. To the Greeks, the end, (Rescue of Helen, the kidnapped Queen of Sparta), justified the means and yet the world has come to equate the phrase, 'Trojan Horse' to deceit from within, to be watchful about.
There are many other examples in History :
Students of Military and Political history will remember the 'Dreyfus Affair' of France in the final years of the 19th century. Titus Oates, with the help of a conniving Major Hubert Joseph Henry, cooked up a sinister plot to drum up hatred for the Jews, with the help of fraudulent documents, accusing Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer of the French Army, of being anti National by selling military secrets to the Germans. The officer was imprisoned, but a large number of French, including the famed novelist Emily Zola, stood up in support and after a long struggle of 10 years, a civil court declared Alfred Dreyfus innocent. Reinstated in the Army, he later fought with distinction in the WW I.
Van Meegeren who made a fortune producing fakes of the celebrated artist Vermeer, comically got caught in his own lies. He did not live to enjoy his ill-gotten wealth, dieing within a few months after being imprisoned by the Nazis.
The polity of today's India not only has a Nazi admirer and follower at the top, it is teeming with Trojan Horses, Oateses and Meegerens. The success formula is to first quietly spread a lie and then grab the opportunity to spread canard at the National level, against political opponents. Every day a new lie is spread which is later proved to be what it is, a lie, but by then the damage is already done. Who cares about the truth. It is the end that matters. The aim is achieved.
While an erstwhile veteran Congressman of UP, was recently trying to prove his loyalty to his changed masters by manufacturing truth at Kairana village, the top most leadership of the Nazi-type party and its Govt, was quick to pick up the threads and paint a desolate picture before the Nation, of the persecution sufferred by the majority community at the hands of the minorities, under the benign gaze of the anti Hindu State Govt. Does not matter if just few days later, the author of the lie, under the relentless scrutiny of a small section of the media, had to eat his own printed list and typically disown its authorship, blaming it on his juniors. The top leadership, who insidiously perpetuated the lie, are, however, yet to apologise to the Nation. Who cares, so long as the nefarious goals are achieved!
Day in and day out, false claims are made about achievements of the Govt, both Nationally and Internationally, with the help of the Parivar, within and outside with the aid of a section of the Diaspora abroad. The opposition is too fragmented and weak to put up a fight. Every effort is made to further fragment it, with the help of lies, lies and more lies, propogated with active help a major section of the prestitute media.
Not just the opposition, every effort is being made to divide our great Nation on sectarian, religious and economic lines. Dalits Trojans are launched against Dalits, Muslim Vibhishans against Muslims and pliant economic powerhouses are being created to do the ruler's biddings.
During their days in the Opposition, the present Party in power, planned and plotted to defeat the giant. They opposed every reform bill by every means, fair and foul and then justified its methods most blatantly by declaring it as a legitimate weapon of the Opposition. Later, on coming to power, with the mirage of development, an unfairly discredited opposition and a master orator, when the opposition tried to emulate them, the erstwhile opposition went to town with band, baja and barat and declared the opposition to be Anti-National, their Brahmastra.
Yes, the repeated charge of anti-Nationalism is the flair of the season.
You criticize the Govt in power, its members or its policies, you are an anti-National.
You may say 'Jai Hind' or 'Hindustan Zindabad', but if you don't say, 'Bharat Mata ki Jai', you are an anti-National. What will the soldier do with his mandir, masjid and girja all side by side and addressing each other, from the top most General to the lowly sepoy, with 'Jai Hind'?
If the anti-National tag fails to stick, an all out attack is launched to prosecute the individual(s) with the help of a subserviently conniving police force. The all out personal attack on the top opposition leadership, be they of any party, by embroiling them in imaginarily cooked up cases, filed by nondescript members of the party in power. Whereas the charges against members of their own party are prevaricated upon, FIRs are filed posthaste on the cooked up charges against the opposition leaders.
With three of its own Chief Ministers and a number of top Central and State leaders and Ministers under cloud of corruption, (Even for diverting PDF rice meant for the BPL families), the Govt in Power and its leaders are out to paint their rivals with brush of corruption.
In certain cases, the orders of the Judiciary too leaves one in wonderment, like the latest judgment in the Gulbarga Massacre case, where the Court declared that the murdered victim, an opposition MP, brought it on himself by opening fire on the mob. Hello! Were the marauding thousands, there to enquire the welfare of the victim? They were attacking to kill him and burn down his house, just as they did in a number of other cases. What does a single man do in such a case? Stand still like a 'Bali Ka Bakra'? It was a desperate bid of Ahsan Jafri to save his own life and that of his family. The Judge, however, declared that the latter provoked the (Peaceful!) crowd .
The revered Gaumata is taken to the village/subarban weekly market for finding a suitable mate and then, in full view of hundreds of amused viewers, a stud bull is let go on her in the name of mating; the spectacle is enacted over at least a hundred meters. It is a scene this author has seen many a time since his childhood.
Once her usefulness is over, the same revered Gaumata is abandoned on the streets, even urban ones, unfed, uncared, becoming a traffic nuisance. She is allowed to die by choking on all the plastic swallowed from the garbage bins, but you cannot kill her to alleviate her sufferings in her sunset years.
I have asked this question before and I ask it again, "What was the destination of the old cows that Vajashravasa of the Kathopanishad used to annually give away for free?
Notwithstanding the above, beware, if you dare raise a finger against the revered Gaumata, you will be declared an anti-National.
How many times of late are we seeing incidents at the grass roots, where lies are first spread and then in a preplanned manner attack is launched on a predetermined target, to either kill or maim, reputationally and at times physically!
How many times have we witnessed the man at the top pretending to be selectively deaf and dumb, while his minions go around attacking the vary ethos and ethics of India, we have valued since time immemorial. These real anti Nationals are later rewarded with plum posts and at times even felicitated publicly.
Fear of intolerance has been deliberately spread through a few dastardly acts, which have never seen the light of the law of the land. The fear is palpable. Brother and sisters are turning against each other; friends are revelling in a new role as enemies; colleagues are turning against colleagues; The D-Company methods have been refined; first a seemingly well meaning friendly 'advice', followed by a threat or two and finally the coup d'e tat. 'Khallas'. Chanakyas theory of 'Saam, Daam & Dand' being applied in letter and spirit.
The word RSS is now a prized badge on expanding chests. Just a couple of days back, a govt MoS, boldly declared to the Nation, "We will saffronize education as required". Supposedly, the last General Elections were won with a massive majority on the plank of 'Saffronisation'! Was it!
I come back to the Gefreiter, who ruled his great and powerful Nation with elan. What was behind it? All those who have read Mein Kampf, will agree that its abiding message is of aggressive ultra Nationalism. He fired the imagination of the German's of all ages with his aggressive rhetoric. There was the all pervading iron hand of the Gestapo. All but a handful, admired the ethnic cleansing, much admired by the acknowledged Guruji of the Parivar. With most of the Nation behind him, The Fuhrer brooked no dissent. Marshals and Generals bowed to him and some even became sycophants.
The Fuhrer espoused the supremacy of the Aryan Race. Barring the ethnics in the Southerns parts of the Country, the land of Bharat is the land of the Aryans. The HM of our Country, however, says that Aryans did not come from outside. May be once upon a time Germany and Bharat were joined at the hips. May be Tilak got it all wrong. Actually there was a reverse migration, i.e., Aryans migrated from Baharat to Germany. Be as it may, there is a conviction that we share a race. Why not then share History too; the past of one running into the present of the other?
The Signs of the Times :
An aggressively ultra Nationalistic Hindu Rashtra in
the making, in the image of the aggressively ultra
Nationalistic Nazi Germany. The Fuhrer led his great
Nation to its ultimate destruction. The Nation,
however, rose like a giant from its ashes to tower in
the economic World. May be we too will, similarly
rise from our ashes, which seem scattered on the
near horizon.
I agree with much of what you say, even if overstated at times.
ReplyDeleteNot a word written in the Blog, states something that has not already happened. Inf fact, space has restricted much more that can be said.
ReplyDeleteOnce a Congress Minister, now no more, so I would not name him, said on the floor of the Parliament, after the Bofors scandal broke out, that corruption is part of India.
That as it may be, intolerance has never been a part of the Indian ethos. It has no place in a civilised nation.
India or Bharat, was never a Hindu Nation. Wars were for power and pelf, not for religion. The primary goal of even the Muslim hordes that continually attacked, looted and destroyed temples. We continued to live peacefully thereafter. Maharana Pratap had a Muslim chief of his Army and Akbar's Army Chief was a Hindu.
I was born a Brahmin Pandit. By becoming a Christian, my religion has not changed, for neither Hinduism, nor Christianity are religions. They are communities. One community, however, large or small, cannot exterminate another. Both are inheritors of the Heritage of Bharat. Peaceful coexistence is the demand of a civil society.
Instead of scaring every one, every day with the battle cry of 'Hindu Rashtra', the Govt should have the balls to legislate that the existing demographic balance cannot be allowed to be changed by one community for the sake of vote politics. At the time of Independence, the proportion of the largest minority changed from 24% to 8%. We paid with the blood of many of the largest community for that division of Bharat. And yet today the proportion of the largest minority community has risen to nearing 20%, under the benign watch of successive govts of all hues of all shades. While Lebanon is being re-enacted in the Indian subcontinent, all that the Parivar can think of strife in the name of 'Hindu Rashtra'!!!
Today, our choice is between corruption and destruction of the very ethos of the Nation, the bedrock on which Baharat has stood tall among the comity of nations.
ReplyDeleteSir,
ReplyDeleteYour build up was fair and coherent. I wish to understand as to why ultra - nationalism has become a fad; be it NMo or Donald Trump? Could there be other reasons apart from deceit, lies and corruption to gain power to rule?!
I read each of your blog for its patient and well built thought! Kudos to you.
Thx Surendra. We appreciate. This Blog site is for whole of Bharat to read and understand what is going on in the Country and which direction are we moving.
DeleteDear Surendra,
DeleteAbt your query on ultra-Nationalism, if you read my Blog again, you will understand because i have brought it out in detail.
the revered Guruji of the Parivar, M S Golwalkar, in his published book, 'Bunch of Thoughts' has admired the way the Nazis operated; their ultra-nationalism and even the ethnic cleansing. Infact he wrote that India has lessons to learn from the Fuhrer.
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ReplyDeleteThere is a sudden the vacuum in the leaders, statesmen and role models in our country since independence. Ethical values in all age groups slowly corroded over decades, specially after globalisation. Tolerance is a value despised by every sphere in our society. Thus we live lives with self-drawn boundaries forgetting that we are all social animals to live together. Only a miracle will bring in all religions, caste and creed together to live in peace and prosperity of the yore.
ReplyDeleteMorality, the flag bearer of Bharat for centuries has been flushed down into the gutters of all pervasive 'Chalta Hae' attitude pumped up by intolerance, the bed rock of Bharat's culture from beginning of its existence from antiquity. We have to thank ourselves for this tectonic change of Bharat.
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