#JNUStories No 13. Karl Marx Good - Kalam Bad.

It is a great opportunity to be part of the audience when someone like APJ Abdul Kalam speaks. I find myself lucky that I heard him when he came to JNU campus on 12th January 2005 and thousands of students gathered in JNU Football Stadium to hear him. Summary of his speech can be read here.(www.thehindu.com/2005/01/13/stories/2005011318630300.htm)

Only thing that still agitates me is the leftist approach on that day. JNU Vice Chancellor Mr. G.K Chaddha requested Mona Das who was JNUSU President at that time to present a flower bouquet to Kalam Saab on behalf of the JNU Student community. JNUSU president not only refused to offer a flower bouquet to President Kalam playing feminist card that women are not meant for such tokenism but also called him a bomb daddy, Mass Murderer being a nuclear scientist and an establishment stooge. leftists shouted slogans and tried to stop the event by showing black flags. Lefties got a befitting reply when student community denounced their antics.


A Man like Kalam does not take birth everyday. He was a true nationalist who lived for this Country. The leftist treatment in the campus was not a single event but it was part of the pattern how commies and Congress boycotted him. The nexus of Communists and Congress has always demeaned the institutions of our nation by bringing disgrace to it.

It is not surprising that far left commies like Mona Das end up becoming professors in Delhi University. Presently, She is Assistant Professor at Satyawati College, Delhi University and married to Inteshar Ahmed who inspite of being a commie works in a Mulitnational company. No wonder the students she shall teach will be brainwashed. The roots of this disease called communism are too deep.

Kalam Saab worked till his last breath and died without any pain. He lived a heroic life and went away like a hero.
Om Shanti!

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#JNUStories no 12. Money Matters!!

There is a slogan that communists often use. "Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh, We shall fight We shall win". The fight can happen on several issues and the fight can also happen with fellow comrades over a few thousand rupees. Communism is very much like christianity, you can find them in different shades and colours. CPI-ML is one such communist party which has never ruled in any state of India but they claim to be purer than other communist parties.

All India Students Association (AISA) is the student wing of CPI-ML and it acts as the nursery from where CPI-ML gets regular supply of leaders. They have presence in several universities of India but JNU is the place where they are the strongest. Many JNU professors are card holding members of CPI-ML.

AISA has won JNUSU President elections several times. Chandrashekhar Prasad alias Chandu who was shot dead in Siwan by goons of Shahabuddin in the phase of Jungle Raj in Bihar, was member of AISA and JNUSU President. Kavita Krishnan is president of All India Progressive Women's Association and also member of polit bureau of CPI-ML. She has also won joint secretary post of JNUSU. Seniority wise, there are many AISA Leaders who are senior to Kavita Krishnan as far as leadership is concerned as she never became the President of JNUSU.

But somehow, she became a public face of communists when she was being regularly invited by NDTV as a women's rights activist. Other channels also followed the trend and she became a popular face of left in India.

Till this moment, everything was going well, she was outraging on every issue related to women and nobody knew her background so she could not be countered for her biased views towards BJP. 

Appearing on TV debates has several benefits. One of them is that News Channels give a cheque of 5000 rupees to every panelist. This helps motivate people to participate again even when they know that they shall get bashed by other panelists. This is the reason why retired pakistani Generals appear on News Hour as they know that getting a mouthful from Arnab Goswami brings an appearance fee.

Kavita ji got addicted to the cheques. Five thousand rupees for appearing on a show of 30 minutes is not a bad deal at all for a comrade who has always talked about 'Das Kapital' but never experienced the warmth of it first hand. The problem started when fellow comrades of AISA got wind of this income. An ugly fight ensued between Kavita ji and other Comrades. Their argument was that Kavita ji was getting that money because of the organisation and all the income should be equally divided between comrades. Being a comrade is not an easy task as life has to be lived via free loading. When all the academic extensions possible in JNU are utilised, Comrades have to leave The hostel and most of the times, Comrades live in the hostel rooms of fellow comrades as PIG(permanent illegal guest). In such case, any hope of some extra income is nothing less than a dream come true.

While comrades asked for the division of the capital earned through appearance on channels run by corporate houses, Kavita ji realised that Marx might have erred while talking about equal division of capital as she argued that she was the one who was doing the labour and that cheque was rightfully hers. But this has led to one repercussion and that is jealousy among fellow comrades. They have started gossiping against her and how she has compromised the cause. She is given less imporance in the meetings, and, a silent boycott by unhappy cash starved comrades is in process.

Her appearances on Television have decreased drastically and other comrades have decided to take the plunge so that future NDTV Cheques bear their names on them and they can also argue how Marx was incorrect when he talked about equal division of Capital.

As they fight over a few thousand rupees, we ridicule communism by paraphrasing their slogan.

"Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh, Chhodo Bharat Jao Cheen"

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#JNUStories No. 11: Geelani and his Advocates

On 17th August, 2004, Democratic Students’ Union planted posters across JNU Campus that said that SAR Geelani was coming to Sutlej Hostel as a speaker to talk on the topic of 'Indian State Repression,POTA and Kashmir'. DSU is a party with a few cadres but they represent the extreme left whose ideology openly talked about freedom from Indian state by using guns. While DSU could not have built the momentum for the meeting, all left parties cheered DSU in the name of freedom of expression. It is DSU which was celebrating the death Anniversary of Afzal Guru this week.

In the evening, ABVP decided to protest against it but the mode of protest was not getting finalized. Older students were in favor of showing black flags and the young lot was adamant that Geelani should not be allowed to enter the campus. We had decided to assemble at Ganga Dhaba which was located close to the main gate. It was my second year in JNU Campus and I had started giving French tuition to school children to fund myself. The 615 bus that ran between CP and JNU dropped me at Ganga Dhaba and we had no time to have dinner and return. With no plan of action at hand, the young cadres had decided to let the things be and handle whatever befell as they deemed fit. Basically, adrenaline was the only factor taken into consideration. In fact, even we had no idea what we were going to do.

Often, in such situations, when people realize that scuffles between groups can't be ruled out, many disappear from the scene. We were hardly 30-40 students shouting slogans and straining our vocal chords. Students’ meetings at JNU usually took place post dinner when the dining halls were cleared and no mike etc was used. A dining hall at JNU could easily accommodate 400 people. While we were proceeding towards Sutlej Hostel, we saw around 500 activists from SFI, AISF, AISA, DSU and NSUI barricading the Hostel gate so that Geelani could arrive for the meeting.

Now, who is SAR Geelani! Geenlani is a Kashmiri professor of Arabic Language in Zakir Hussain College, Delhi University. He’s the one who trained the suicide bombers who had attacked the Indian Parliament on 13th December 2001 by preparing them for death by giving  them Quranic lectures. His telephone calls were traced while he was talking with Afzal Guru, Saukat Guru and others. In 2004, he was still an accused. Later on he was acquitted as the proof against him was not sufficient. It is always difficult to find proof against a terrorist who brainwashes suicide bombers who are already dead. Many security personnel died in that attack and it led the Vajpayee Govt. mobilize the biggest army attack team in the deserts of Rajasthan for almost eight months.

Coming again to the night of 17th August, we were shouting slogans against Geelani, and, although our group was small, we were motivated enough that whatever it might take, Geelani shall be chased away. The adrenaline levels were so high that none of us were thinking about our future, like, in case we would be expelled from JNU, or, even if we ended up getting hurt badly, even getting killed in the process as we foresaw a mob of leftists charging towards us.

Around 9:30 PM, SAR Geelani came in a black Scorpio car belonging to Nandita Haksar, another Human Rights’ Activist living in a posh locality of South Delhi. As the car carrying Geelani approached, every one of us charged at it, without thinking again. A few of us jumped on to the bonnet of the car, while some surrounded it and Geelani could only see us banging our fists on the car windows and body. Communists were pushing us away and many of us had our shirts ripped apart by the end of it all. Geelani tried to hide himself in the car and the driver also panicked and hit the reverse. Within a few seconds, the car was speeding towards JNU Main Gate and we were running behind it to chase it out of the campus. Enough chaos and confusion was created and we being new to the campus, were not seasoned leaders of ABVP. Even leftists were unable to take stock of the situation.

After chasing SAR Geelani away from the JNU campus, we retreated to Ganga Dhaba and continued shouting the slogans. As more joined the protest, a ‘Victory Juloos’ was planned. Meanwhile, a security guard of Sutlej Hostel, who was sympathetic to our cause called one of us to inform that Geelani had returned in a burqa and was giving a speech. As it was announced, all of us started running towards Sutlej Hostel which was around 200 meters from Ganga Dhaba. Leftists were still standing at the gate and this time many groups of guards were put to stop us from entering the hostel mess. As the entrance gate was blocked, we started moving towards the hostel boundary wall. Since there were those protective pieces of broken glass lining the top of the wall, we looked for and found an empty sack and put on top of it. Commies did not expect that we could take such a step. When almost ten of us jumped into the hostel garden area, there began the chaos, again. Geelani panicked as the sounds of loud shouting of slogans approached him, and he was taken out from the hostel via the backyard.

Once Geelani was gone, leftists were so enraged that they started pushing us. A few of us lost our eye glasses, shirts were torn, but this episode led to one thing that I can never forget. Many of my batch mates who were earlier supporting NSUI under the influence of their seniors, all of them participated in our victory march and loud chants of ‘Vande Mataram’ were resonating in JNU Campus.

Most students returned to their hostels by 1:00 AM. Meanwhile, another source informed us that left had filed an FIR against twenty people. Now this could create issues for all of us. We took autos and reached Safdarjung Hospital. We had to file a counter FIR for which we needed a medical certificate. We stayed in the Hospital till the next morning and returned to Vasant Vihar Police Station with a counter FIR against twenty leftist student leaders. Senior police officers did not bother much but the constables brought tea for us and they could not hide their happiness as many of their colleagues had lost their lives in the Parliament attack.

The next day media reported this issue in different way. The Hindu took a pro- left stance, The Indian Express declared that Geelani had not come which was a lie nailed by the picture used by The Hindu. The Pioneer reported the facts.

It was the Congress Government and ultimately nothing happened against the leftist parties. We had to report to a fact finding committee for almost two years and we remained under constant threat of expulsion. Finally we were given letters threatening us of action if this was repeated again and we could finish our degrees. FIRs had been dropped against all of us as the Police gave a clear message to leftists that if they (The leftists) perused their FIR, they (The Police) shall be under the obligation to pursue our FIR as well.

Now when I see this incident after 12 long years, SAR Geelani has been arrested, no nationalist student has been expelled and leftists are under arrest too. It is a moment of pride.

The wheel of time has turned.

Vande Mataram! Kashmir Ho Ya Guwahati, Apna Desh, Apni Maati!

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#JNUStories no 10. Dalit Cannon Fodder and Left Agenda.

A young dalit boy from Patna joined as my class mate in JNU. He got his hostel room within a week as per the norms of University that gave preference to SC/ST category for hostel allotment. As I had no room of mine for a couple of months, his room became a hangout place. We would share tea, eat mid night maggi from same plate to save money and often sleep on the same bed. Nobody could guess our caste or category by our brotherhood. We would study our course work together and he showed a lot of potential in the class. 

In following months, he was lured by a left leader to become part of a theatre group called IPTA. As he was interested to join theatre as a hobby, He started frequenting the open air theatre where rehearsals would be done and without him even realising the fact, he was surrounded by the left brigade. 

The gradual brainwash was so strong that the same friend who used to fight for last spoon of maggi started talking about the dalit oppression by brahmanical system and how I should feel ashamed that Dalits were tortured by the upper caste hindus. In my opinion, being informed about the malaise of our society is applaudable but the way it is done by left is such that a normal person with a bright future falls into victimhood mode forever.

Within few months he drifted away from me and fights for last spoon of maggi transformed into fights for last puff of cannabis laced cigarettes with his leftist comrades while discussing the regressive hindu culture. His grades deteriorated and a brilliant student that he was, he could not maintain minimum grades to continue his studies and he had to drop out. 
Even after not being a student, he stayed in the campus as illegal guest and often due to problem of money he was forced to search for half burnt cigarettes in road side dustbins and eat leftover food of his comrades. He wasted five years of his life and then he realised how he had been sucked into the leftist system and spitted out with no blood left.

In the very same way, another dalit batchmate from gaya who was in another centre, got into the whirlpool of left activism. While left leaders in their Ph.d had all the time in their hands, they would take him for protests to different places on daily basis. For him, palestine's independence became a priority and he would often bunk his classes so that he could assemble in front of Embassy of Israel, USA etc. Same story repeated, he failed to complete his graduation. He realised his mistake after few years and then regained himself. He joined JNU again after three years, got scholarship and went abroad for further studies.

When we see a group of few hundred students protesting in front of MHRD, or in front of American Centre to protest against 'american neo-imperialism', there are hundreds of micro stories of failures being written right at the protest location but they get ignored under the corus of sloganeering of "Inquilab Zindabad". The vultures of left gobble on these young men and use them as foot soldiers or rather cannon fodder for pushing their agenda of bygone era.

It is quite common that dalit students who come from prosperous families who have never faced any serious discrimination, they end up being brain washed to such extent that they get into a victimhood mode which hampers their normal growth. The inferiority complex is force fed in such way that before someone realises, a young boy who has never cared about his caste, becomes caste consious and finds it difficult to make friends from other castes projected by left as opressors. But the funny part is that left keeps ranting about brahmanical tyranny but when you check the core of left parties i.e Polit Bureau, No Dalit has ever been allowed as a polit bureau member. So much for dalit upliftment. Brinda Karat was the first woman and only woman till date to join polit bureau of CPI-M, so much for "women's upliftment".

In the meanwhile Hindi Sahitya Academy gives awards to writers like Udai Prakash for showcasing this victimhood in worst possible manner. Udai Prakash wrote a mediocre Novel named 'Peeli chhatri waali ladki'. The plot of the story revolves around a dalit boy and his brahmin girlfriend. When the couple share their intimate moments, the writer points out how every thump of the boy is a hammer shot against oppression of centuries. A couple wants to get married and elopes from a small town but this story is used by the writer to push the victimhood narrative of left. For left, no man or woman can have a normal relationship, it must be seen with the tinted glass of agenda.

JNU left brigade has started a new game of celebrating Mahishasur Day and depicting Goddess Durga as a whore who killed the great dalit king Mahishasur. There need not be any authenticity in such story but it serves a purpsose. Forward press which is church funded publication house, publishes such articles and a whole narrative is being built so that dalits feel outcast and become easy prey for jesus vultures.

JNU left brigade does not stop at JNU itself. The mafia of academics which is so well organised that Modi may have to win four times continuously to clear the mess if he chooses to play a fair game. The mafia ensures that left oriented Ph.d students join as professors in different universities of India and act as recruiters of left brigade. Hyderabad University which was IFLU earlier and its new avatar is only few years old, majority of the faculty that joined It is from JNU. And in this way, the virus of left gets spread to Hyderabad university. Otherwise, students wing of a bengal based Party winning student union elections in Hyderabad makes no sense. The solution to this menace is to create a dalit leadership which understand the evil designs of left and gives proper direction to the dalit youth which is full of energy and ready to serve the nation.

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#JNUStories no. 09. Filthy face of left academia.

Few months ago, a horrible incident happened in the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus which lies in the heart of the capital of India. This story is about a professor of ROP community. He has done his Ph.d in sociology from JNU. He was a faculty in Jamia Milia Islamia before joining JNU sociology centre. he was accused by his student of sexual harassment. The girl is persuing her m.phil from centre for social systems under the guidance of this professor. He asked her to meet him in his Flat to discuss the course work around mid-night. The girl belongs to a neighbouring country with no local guardian in India. She could not understand the necessity of discussing course work at night but still she trusted her professor. She went to meet him post dinner. This man forced himself on her and sodomised her in his house. She filed a sexual harassment complaint against him in GSCASH (Gender sensitisation committee against sexual harrassment). She abandoned her studies midstream and returned back to her country. He was suspended few months back and the suspension continues till date. Prima facie, he was found guilty and JNU administration is planning to terminate his job.

The above paragraph is not the main story. It is an incident that demanded for fair enquiry and exposure of that rapist. The main story is the hypocrisy of the left intelligentsia which goes to any extent to protect its brotherhood. The rapist himself is a cardholder of CPI-ML. The same party Kavita Krishnan belongs to. She runs an organisation called AIPWA (All India Progressive Women's Asssociation). She knows about the incident very well. JNU teachers community is silent on this issue as it puts the left brigade under bad light. The woman who shouts daily on national television about women issues is not only silent but hands in gloves with a gang of few JNU teachers who are trying to save this man. Left gang does not want to antagonise the ROP vote bank and this must be a reason, they are not taking any action against the culprit. Same Kavita Krishnan was leading a mob of thousand of people at Raisina hills to oppose against Nirbhaya rape case but this case is not grave enough for her. Even media which is full of journalists who have studied in JNU, is silent. No news paper has covered the story and no television channel has given a single minute to this criminal act.

The same set of teachers who are protecting this professor are also harassing a dalit student and a girl student by accusing them of doing havan and reciting mantras in their hostel room. Is JNU not part of India where every citizen has fundamental right to follow and practice his/her religion?

The left academic gang is trying to save this commie rapist by hushhushing the news and it won't be surprising if he ends up working for another university as no legal action is going to be taken.

If an ordinary criminal rapes a woman, he shall end up in jail for several years. Then why a professor should be given soft treatment by suspending him or terminating him from his job. This issue seems like a déja vu of the Tarun Tejpal incident. 

Do the commies have got a divine right to commit any crime and remain untouched from the indian legal system?

Can we expect a fair trial and proper punishment to this man. If the indian government pursues this case, they shall be able to get the name and all other details from GSCASH of JNU.

JNU Teachers commmunity should be ashamed that they are protecting a rapist for the sake of their sick ideology. How can they be torelant towards such inhumane acts. The hegemony of left to commit any crime and walk free is getting challenged and this is the reason the whole intolrance tamasha is going on.

Isabelle's Indian connection.

It is a story of 2004. It was my second year of graduation in JNU. I used to work as tour leader to cover my expenses. My job was to travel around several cities with French speaking Europeans, to take care of them and to act as French interpreter.

I was assigned a group of nine French citizens as they had to visit Delhi, Agra, Jaipur and Udaipur. As informed by the company staff, I had to meet them at Hotel Imperial situated at Jan path, New Delhi. Our Company representative introduced me to the group and left us to continue the tour. The group had four couples and one single lady, her name was Isabelle. As usual, I gave a small introduction and explained dos and don'ts before commencing the itinerary of eleven days.

we were indulging in small chitchat to make ourselves comfortable. While I was talking to her, She made a remark that the Hotel was 'magnifique'. Imperial Hotel is one of the most beautiful Hotels available in Delhi. I replied without much thought, 'pas comme vous', Not as beautiful as you.

This small remark of mine created a spark in her beautiful eyes. She blushed and thanked me for the compliment. It made me realize that an honest compliment can make a woman blush at any age. she was joyous for the day. We spent eleven days together and the group treated me like a boss. I would give them instructions and they would follow it verbatim. While we would travel from one city to another city, the journey was spent by singing songs and cracking jokes. By end of the trip, all those people who had never met before, we felt like a big family.

I was taking particular care of Isabelle as she was single in the group. As you may have noticed the stairs of Indian Monuments, how scary the steps are. She would climb each of those steps by holding my arms. Isabelle and I developed an emotional bonding. She would tell me how she had one son who had died and she was living a life of solitude. She would pour out stories of her life, she would even tell me about her love affairs when she was young. Her husband had died in World War II.

When we finished the tour and took flight back from Udaipur to Delhi, I was sitting next to Isabelle and out of affection, she was holding my arms and sleeping with her head resting on my shoulder. I could not move for the duration of the journey fearing that it may disturb her sleep.

when we reached Delhi Airport, the group had one day to relax before taking flight to Lyon. the first thing that she did was to make a phone call to the travel company and she requested them for my presence till their Airport departure. Isabelle was not a woman who would take No as an answer. She had already called our Swiss Travel agent for making the arrangement.

I spent full day with her, sitting next to the swimming pool at Imperial Hotel. We talked about random subjects. In the evening, I took the group for dinner at Chor-Bizarre restaurant in Old Delhi which is famous for its Kashmiri cuisine. Post dinner, I dropped them at the airport. She hugged me before entering the gates and showered me with many sweet kisses on my face. I was overwhelmed and we cried for a small moment. It felt like I was in arms of my grand mother I had no memory of.

They reached Lyon next day. She emailed me about her safe arrival. we remained in touch for almost two years through emails. She often told me to come to France to meet her as she could not travel anymore and I would give excuses about my incomplete studies. I received her last email in December 2006. I wrote two different mails to wish her for Christmas and New Year but I did not get any reply. I believe she forgot the password of her email id due to her old age.

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DEATH vs DIGNITY

Whenever “Sati” is discussed, the first thought that comes to mind is of an obsolete custom in which women chose to or were expected to jump into the funeral pyres of their husbands.

Mata Sati is a reincarnation of Goddess Shakti and also known as Dakshayeni, the youngest daughter of Daksha the son of Brahma. She fell in love with Lord Shiva and married him against her father's will. She immolated herself at a Yagna hosted by Daksha when Daksha insulted Shiva unjustly. One can find a temple dedicated to this story near Haridwar called Daksheshwar Mahadev.

Vedas do not mention "Sati Pratha" nor do the Dharmasutras or Upanishads talk about it which obviously means that it wasn't prescribed by Vedic texts. The earliest mention of Sati is in Mahabharat. Madri the second wife of Pandu committed Sati. But in her case the act stemmed from a strong sense of guilt for being responsible for her husband’s death than the tradition.

The practice of Sati was mostly associated with the Brahmins and Kshatriyas which eventually trickled down as is the case with most social evils. It was reported mostly from Rajputana, Awadh, Madhya Pradesh and Bengal for a variety of social reasons.

Still, Sati was an uncommon practice followed by a handful of royal families. But it became a regular practice after the Islamic invasions began. The brute force of these invasions was mostly borne by North-Western India and it had impact on social customs in these places. In a bid to save their women from dishonor & servitude, families started forcing widows to commit Sati.

“Sati Pratha” was highly romanticized amongst the Rajputs who till date remain amongst the biggest worshippers of such 'chaste' women and also built a lot of commemorative temples or marked stones at their cremation sites which were frequented by people wanting “Darshan”. Down South, Sati was a rarity which was observed by very few families.

It took strong effort from social reformers to wipe out Sati especially since people had begun to revere it. 

“Jauhar” was a culturally similar practice to Sati and emerged around the same time that the islamic invasion of India began. It was mostly limited to the Rajputana kingdoms though there have been a few isolated incidents down South and elsewhere.

Jauhar is derived from two Sanskrit words, Jiv meaning "life" and Har meaning "defeat". The difference between Sati and Jauhar (Saka) is while the former is practiced by widows only; the latter was committed by both men and women during war time.

The process involved the self-immolation of the royal women and young children to avoid being captured by the invaders in the face of imminent defeat. One of the reasons that it started was because Hindu kingdoms could not deal with the barbarity of the Islamic hordes and on occasions when a few Rajput kings had surrendered, their entire families had been slaughtered and women enslaved for sexual barbarity. Hence they decided to follow Jauhar to prevent capture and dishonour to the clan.

The earliest recorded instance of Jauhar happened in the era of Alexander and the people were most likely Agnikula Kshatriyas who having lost to the Macedonians committed Jauhar rather than face servitude.

Ideally Jauhar would take place in the night amidst Vedic chants; women dressed in their bridal finery would jump into huge pyres made for them along with their young children to commit suicide. The next morning, the men would follow this sacrifice by carrying out “Saka” in which they would wear saffron clothes after taking a bath and smear the ashes of their wives and children on their forehead and put a Tulsi leaf in their mouth and head out to war. The men would fight till death avoiding capture, to annihilate or get annihilated.

There are numerous instances of Jauhar on record starting from the times of Alauddin Khilji  Tughlaq. the Jauhar of Rani Padmini of Chittor is very famous & has inspired a lot of folklore in Rajasthan. It was after her brave act that suicide became something of a “virtue”. There have been 3 instances of Jauhar at Chittor & various across Rajasthan but it wasn’t restricted to the Rajputana only. There have been a few incidents towards the South also to avoid capture and enslavement. One can still find the vermilion smeared hand imprints of the women who committed Jauhar at Chittor Fort.

The bravado of these women who would readily jump into a pyre along with their young children gives me goosebumps. While some may call it a "glorified suicide", for me it remains as the final act of defiance against dishonourable invaders. Fact that these women chose a dignified death is thought provoking and it always left the enemy camp impressed, be it the Macedonians or the Muslims.

Loss in battle was often followed by the plundering of forts and massacre of the civilians. Akbar  the "Great" massacred 30000 innocent residents of Chittor after defeating them. Temples were destroyed and idolaters were beheaded or forced to convert to the “true faith”. The Hindus were made to pay the mandatory “zaziya” tax for being infidels. The people who got captured faced a different hell, quite similar to the methods that the modern ISIS follows in treating Yezidis and other prisoners.

The captured women were raped/enslaved or sent off to be sold in the Middle Eastern slave markets as all of them were treated as property irrespective of whether they were married or single. Muslims had the sanctions for all of these acts in the Quran which allows Slavery, sexual abuse, mutilation of POW’s (4.3, 4.24, 23.6, 23.50, 70.30). The captured men were usually castrated before being sold and sometimes used as guards for Harem's.

Point to be noted is that intellectuals might claim that ISIS isn’t Islamic but the truth remains that they follow the same methods which their ancestors i.e the Mughals etc used centuries back. The beheading of infidels and the enslavement of their women which are distributed amongst their men as spoils of war is not at all different from what happened in our country.

The most recent example of such barbarity against Hindus was at the time of partition where trains from what wasn’t yet Pakistan started arriving with the mutilated bodies of Hindus and Sikhs trying to cross the border back into India. Women were usually dragged off of these trains to be raped and tortured by the Muslim attackers. In many cases when attacked, fathers/husbands or brothers would kill the women of their families to protect their dignity. The women who were caught were sold to brothels, some were forced to convert and get married to their rapists. Only the lucky ones would die a quick death.

Unfortunately our history texts don’t do justice to the tortures that were meted out to the Hindus to keep up the secular facade of our society. While we continue to suffer from Islamic influences in our social system, like the “Ghunghat (veil) system” in the North.

The Irony is such that a lot of us don’t know about these historical incidents and continue to blame the Hindus but the truth remains that our Vedic social structure started unravelling with the advent of Islam in India. Most of us choose to ignore the suffering & sacrifices of our ancestors & coincidentally, history is repeating itself with the advent of ISIS today.

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Modi's package: Bribe or Indemnity.

Las Vegas makes an average of 90 billion dollars per year with 150,000 hotel rooms with 85 percent occupancy throughout the year. How was this city built? labourers working for Hoover dam would spend their free time gambling. Small gambling dens opened in Las Vegas to serve them. By 1935, Hoover Dam was completed and thirsty soil of Nevada could get soaked in the water of Colorado River and huge business empires were built with regular supply of electricity and water.

After devastating Floods in Bihar in 1954, Second dam similar to Hoover dam was to be built by India to protect the fertile plains of Bihar from constant risk of flooding by Kosi River. Suitable location for Kosi Dam lies in Nepal and high handed treatment by Nehru or economic embargo of Nepal by Rajeev Gandhi did force Nepalese rulers to keep this project awaited till now. 73% land of Bihar is under constant threat of flood as it is plain land with all the rivers originating in Nepal. While Kosi Dam building was being planned, Nehru took abrupt decision to shift the funds for construction of Bhakra dam. There could be many reasons behind this decision.

He may have wanted to compensate Punjab for its division. Punjabi lobby may have affected the decision of Central Government. If Koshi Dam had been built, it would be in Nepal technically and Nehru could not boast of it as "India's modern temples" in his own words or he could not build his goliath height statue at the entry gate as he built at Bhakra dam. May be because of his anger against Bihar for 1947 riots when Bihar was the only place where Muslims were at receiving end, or may be because of his ego tussle with Bihar CM Krishna Singh. There can be many speculations but end result is that Bihar remained far below in the priority list of Congress.

Even British penalised Bihar for having a defiant approach towards their Government. While they used Bihari labour force around the world for agriculture. The reason many countries like Mauritius and Fiji have bhojpuri as its second language. Still British never invested money for development of Bihar or for basic amenities like health and education.

At present, average per capita income of Punjab is 4 times higher than Bihar. If you survey the farms of Punjab, majority of the farm labourers come from Bihar. When NREGA income stopped labour migration to Punjab, Labour shortage in punjab was a common news in papers and punjabi farmers would offer free train ticket, higher wages etc to lure them to Punjab. 
An article written by ex deputy chief of Planning Commission Mr. N.K Singh shows more light to the issue of Step Motherly behaviour of Centre towards Bihar. you can read it here.

When Bihar was still not divided, it was one of biggest producers of minerals and coal which was transported to different cities of India. While cheaper raw material at source  and cheap labour force could help establish factories in Bihar and Jharkhand and give leverage to compete with States having upper hand because of access to seaports etc as they could easily earn revenue through import and export.  

In 1948, the then Finance Minister T.T Krishnamachari introduced Freight Equalization policy. Under this policy, basic raw materials were made available at the same price across the nation. The stated objective of this policy was to encourage development nationwide. But when have good intentions trumped market realities! This policy made sure that industries found no incentives whatsoever to invest in mineral rich but extremely poor states like Bihar. It subsidized the cost of transporting raw materials and thus nullified the advantage of Bihar and other such states.

In words of Arnab Mukherji and Anjan Mukherji,(1) "The asymmetry was acute, since there were no reciprocal benefits in terms of either industrial or agricultural goods and services that Bihar might have needed but did not have. There was no parallel industrial incentive given for capital to enter Bihar either. In the process, for a period slightly longer than four decades, the policy environment directly hurt industrialization and growth possibilities in Bihar and other mineral-rich states and created the paradox of a mineral-rich state also being among the poorest in incomes."

This policy was totally biased and still our central leaders drunk with socialism could not raise finger against it. No compensation was ever paid to balance this gap. While Bihar could have many factories but this policy ensured the decline of Bihar.

As this table shows, Bihar was never allocated the amount of money as per projected plan allocation on basis of national average. It has been compared with Punjab which is also a land locked state with agricultural economy. The source of this table is : Central Planned Inequality by Mohan Guruswamy which you can read here.

Another major factor for backwardness of Bihar was volatile political situation. Congress high command never allowed any CM to last for 5 years after 1961. From year 1961 to 1990, in 29 years there were twenty three chief ministers and 5 presidential rule. Due to this highhandedness of Congress, socialist parties formed by leaders who were output of JP movement gained power and Laloo Yadav became chief Minister. By his second term, he had become ruthless. He formed his own party and won elections after elections with help of Gundaraj and MY equation. If a stable Government was allowed to rule Bihar, it would be a different   story.

Bihari labour force worked in Punjabi farms for several hours under effect of opium added in the tea by the Punjabi landlords to get more work and many would die or end up on sick bed for years. After the rise of BJP, Bihari voters got another option and alliance of JDU and BJP won handsomely. But the period when Bihar was being ruled by NDA, India was being ruled by Congress led UPA. They had no interest in Bihar as Congress has negligible presence in Bihar. It is a Congress mukt state in true sense. Nitish Kumar dumped BJP because of miscalculation that Modi won't be able to win. Nitish did not want to disturb his Muslim vote that he had nurtured for a long time.

"Centrally Planned Inequality:  - Centrally Planned Inequality: Before liberalization, center through Planning Commission was the main engine of economic growth in India. As we will see the data, Planning Commission discriminated among states in granting outlays and funds. As Dharma Kumar succinctly summarize it, "the financing and assistance given by the central government over the first three plans were ad hoc and based on the need of ongoing schemes, many of which were initiated by the central govt. In fact, much of the distribution of resources continued in the line with the same sharing norms that existed before independence; the colonial past institutionalized inequality and uneven regional development, and the immediate post-independence period only accentuated it further, much to the detriment of Bihar"source: Chapter 12 "The Fiscal System" of book "The Cambridge Economic History of India Vol 2" by Dharma Kumar

Recently Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a package of 125,000 crores for development of Bihar. It created unease in few people from other developed states with complains of unnecessary favour for Bihar. This state has got most fertile Gangetic plane but not of use because of regular flood fear, It has potential to become the food bowl of India. With such fertile land and hard working labour force, Bihar can produce 6 crops a year and same farmers who are forced to become rickshaw pullers in Delhi and die of tuberculosis, they can afford a good life too. This amount is very small if compared to the budget difference of last 60 years and losses due to freight equalisation policy. 

If Koshi Dam project had not been shelved, Bihar would serve as backbone of India. Talent pool of Bihar is strong to get big margin of seats in IITs, UPSC and other engineering colleges. If BJP wins, this will be the first stable government which will be  in Centre too. It will help change the face of Bihar. It is most important to note that package announced by our PM is not an electoral bribe but a long awaited reparation for all the wrongs that Bihar faced. It is time to help this state get its share of honour, the state which gave birth to religions, the state which gave great emperors like Ashoka and Chandragupta Maurya. The state of Kautilya. Time has come to regain the lost glory.

Hope is one thing Biharis have never abandoned.

Kill Theory and Bihar.

In a 2009 Hollywood Movie 'Kill Theory',a psychopath creates a situation for few close friends that they end up killing each other to  prove the theory of survival of the fittest. The same drama was being played long before this film was produced in a place thousands of miles away from Hollywood. That Place was Bihar.

Last week, there was a report by Cobrapost related to Ranvir Sena which gave insight into how politicians supported it. The timing of this expose is suspicious as this was planted to break the social harmony by scratching the old wounds and help anti BJP alliance. But it also reminded of the future, if Lalu Yadav wins this time, a major class war is waiting to happen in Bihar. 

And this time, Laloo shall be even more brutal to break the opposition against him. These attacks will not even be reported in our media as this is what many psychopaths sitting on that high table want. Class war amongst Hindus makes secularati feel better as they believe divided Hindus are good for India as it helps avoid Hindu majoritarian state of their imagination. Christian missionaries use this to grab opportunity of conversion. Church-Maoist links are well documented.

A state in India which was always out of favour of the kings sitting on the throne of Delhi because of its defiant nature and it had to pay for it by remaining backward thanks to criminal negligence of Leaders of India. A state with an agrarian economy where half of the Bihar is affected by Flood and half of the Bihar is affected by drought. Any agrarian society creates two classes of people. Either you are a landowner or a farm laborer. A farmer never gets good price for his crop as major share is earned by hoarders and middlemen. But as far as landlords are concerned, they have to face the grudge of laborers because of their paltry wages. No government support or other job opportunities ensures that farmers never use modern and economical farming techniques to keep their cost of production low. This system works since centuries with allegations of exploitation which were always blamed on landlords even when British would charge heavy taxes on landlords to fill their coffers.

In Early eighties, Maoist movement began to spring up in pockets around India. They are a very strong force in few states which requires a whole army of Paramilitary forces to fight them with modern weapons, helicopters etc and still they are prospering by killing policemen, collecting levy from every person with a little money in pocket and holding kangaroo courts for punishing police informants.

Somewhere in the world, A gang of psychopaths sitting in their comfortable sofa decided to push maoist agenda in India. Indian intelligentsia drunk on marxist literature chose to be their foot soldiers. Poor adivasis and Dalits were recruited to fight the gun battles. 

Now we return to Bihar, how it affected the whole populace of this state, the ruler of Bihar forgot his Raj Dharma and decided to use maoist movement for his own political agenda. More the Maoists would harass the landlords, more he would raise the pitch of social justice. Turning two classes of the society against each other was helping Laloo Yadav rule Bihar with impunity. The landlords were being killed or their crops stolen by force or they would find a red flag in their farmland one day and that would mean that their land was gone. An average apartment in Mumbai may cost enough for 10 landlords to sell all of their land and even after that, they won't be able to buy that urban property. Land prices are worth nothing and average holding of a so called landlord is not more than an area of a football field which is always at risk of getting drowned under the flood water.

As maoist harassment got serious day by day, many farmers who were at the receiving end, they had no place to go for justice. Police won't file an FIR, Political leadership would do open sloganeering of killing the upper caste farmers and opposition was running for its own life. People would do night duty at house roof with country made guns to protect their villages from maoist attacks and random deaths continued. Figuring out the caste in a public place was a serious risk and you could die because of it. This gave birth to a very interesting social change. A whole generation of Biharis can be found with their official names with no surname which can hint to their caste. Kumar is the most common surname.

It would often happen that there would be murder of someone in the night and next day hundreds of policemen would come to the village looking for the culprits. They won't find the men so the wooden butts of their guns would be used to hit the women in places no one can describe. One old woman was thrashed so brutally that she died but before dying she sent her broken bangles to her son. The resentment boiled up to the extent, people who were at receiving end of maoists decided to die fighting in place of being lined up and shot by a firing squad. Youth was anyway jobless so people started gathering guns and self defense became the key word.

But as it was shown in the movie Kill Theory, the real culprit were not on the front of the battle, they were sitting in their cosy homes in Delhi or somewhere else sipping coffee which a common villager of Bihar would have never tasted.. Maoist foot soldiers would attack at night, mingle in the crowd by day and no police investigation would happen. As it has always happened, when state fails to deliver justice to the people, they take law in their own hands and these hands are not trained to reach the culprit, they kill randomly.

In this process, several private militias were formed in which Ranveer Sena got the maximum press coverage. After mass murder of landowners, retaliation happened and it was so brutal even the supporters of retaliation squirmed with pain. There was no proof of association of those Dalits killed in the retaliatory attack and even when FIRs were filed, random names were given in absence of any evidence. The reason these prosecutions failed to punish anybody from both sides. 
 
Lalu Yadav had no intention to stop these attacks as it suited his politics very well. He was in touch with both sides and making fight each other so that many upper caste landowners would abandon their land for peanuts and migrate to Delhi, Kolkata, Assam and where not. Lalu's henchmen would grab that land. Under the garb of Maoism, Lalu was making his foothold stronger. He knew peace in the society would force him to deliver prosperity and jobs which would go against his politics.

Lalu Yadav was not the only psychopath who was running this puppet show in which one puppet was killing another puppet. But he was sharing the table and he forced the people who were living peacefully for centuries to become enemies.Many of us find fault of Ranvir Sena for the massacres, Many of us support Ranvir Sena and justify its brutal acts because of the simple reason that they did not start this class war. Many of us would also blame those People who joined maoist forces and decided to kill people at night at orders of maoist leadership.  The interview of Brahmeshwar Mukhiya gives an interesting insight of that period. Now the question is- Are they the real culprit?

Or they were similar to the characters of Kill Theory who were best friends and one day they had to kill each other for the sake of their own survival. Should we punish the psychopath Puppeteer or those people who were recruited to fight for maoist ideas and their role was nothing more than cannon fodder or those Militias who would get access to people's sympathy and young blood to commit those barbarous crimes. And this time, It is in the hand of Biharis if they want to be the puppets killing each other or they want to be responsible citizens contributing to our Nation's development. 

Think over it!!

To read about the general law and order situation of Bihar you can read this post http://aimless-walker.blogspot.com/2013/03/bihar-untold-story.html

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