Organiser,16.12.2012 This refers to the articles,‘Karnad cannot whitewash Muslim atrocities’ by MV Kamath, and ‘Karnad’s political diatribe against Vadia is totally unacceptable’ by Shyam Khosla in Organiser. These articles only reply to unwarranted comments of Girish Karnad on the eve of honouring VS Naipal in Mumbai literary festival. Karnad has not been able to tolerate the facts given by Naipaul in his book on Muslim atrocious rule where Hindus has suffered. There is no denying of the fact of Muslims contribution in Bharatiya sangeet, missile development, etc. But their good work cannot be accepted, as a cover up to inhuman deeds of Muslim rule in the past. The moot point is, whether present is different now? Today, whole of the Middle East is in turmoil. In Pakistan jehadi terrorists are leading and are being guided by ulemas and Islamic erudités.
This is a holy war for them. In India all ulemas are sectarian and only talk for Muslims in the guise of minority, and not for country. They are ignorant of the mantra Sarva Dharma Sambhava, propagated by Gandhi. Congress has replaced this by another one ‘Minority appeasement’, under Sonia Gandhi whereas Hindu dharma gurus (Sri Sri Ravi Shanker, Babu Ram Dev, Morari Babu, Satpal Maharaj, etc) preach ‘Manav Dharma’, to take care of all human beings. This ideology develops healthy human mind with tolerance for each other.
If Karnad is uncomfortable with the past history, then he must look into the present. Taliban means students. Students who are taught intolerance, hatred, bloodshed of mankind. The sad incident of mutilated body of late Capt. Sourabh Kalia handed over to India from Pakistan’s captivity, is Taliban’s mentality. Gandhi never preached such religious intolerance. Girish Karnad needs soul searching. The whole of Indian subcontinent is under threat. The present is no different of what VS Naipaul has written about the past Muslim history.
HS MEHTANI, 89/7, East Punjabi Bagh New Delhi-26
Fought casteism Muslim fanaticism and Pak lobbying (Organiser, 2.12.2012); RSS Sarsanghachalak Shri Mohan Bhagwat and various leaders of Sangh Parivar have paid glowing homage to Balasaheb Thackeray, which appeared in Organiser dated 2.12.2012. Certainly, there was no other Hindu leader, so bold and plain speaking, as he was. India needs at least one Balasaheb Thakeray in every State to guide the Hindus according to the needs and politics of that State.
In this connection, I would like to mention, boldness of my mother. It was in May 1947, quite terrible period in West Punjab as Hindus and Sikhs were being looted and slaughtered, that our family travelled from Darya Khan, a small railway station in extreme west of West Punjab, to Lahore. My mother and sisters were in ladies compartment. At some station, one Muslim lady boarded that compartment, and loudly started blaming and abusing Hindus, that Hindus were killing Muslims in Bihar.
All other ladies were Hindus and Sikhs, but all were afraid and kept mum. My mother could not tolerate that situation and promptly told that Muslim women, that the Muslims were the first to start killings of the Hindus in Calcutta and Bengal. When Hindu refugees reached Bihar there was reaction. After hearing this bold reply, that Muslim woman kept silent throughout the remaining journey. Hindus should take inspiration from Balasaheb Thackeray to save the country from destruction by the Muslims and Pakistan.
ANAND PRAKASH, 72/Sector-8, Panchkula-134 109
Karnad cannot whitewash Muslim atrocities (Organiser, 16.12. 2012);This refers to the article titled ‘Karnad cannot whitewash Muslim atrocities’ by MVKamath in Organiser.
I completely endorse and agree to the views and opinions of the writer.There are certain personalities who take utmost undue advantage and misuse the situations to gain cheap publicity and perhaps Girish Karnad is one among them.He had played the same gimmick in Bengaluru in the year 2007,when final verdict of Cauvery Tribunal was declared, by baselessly criticising the protesters.
Later when they cornered him,he apologised. The history is crystal clear that we faced a series of atrocities from the Muslims from ages and this hositilty prevails even upto this day.With a couple of such Karnads,our secularism will become insecurism.
SETURAM ASPARI,
email: asparam@rediffmail.com
Grant refugee status and citizenship to Pak Hindus Migrant Hindus of Jammu and other places in India due to persecution, cannot get refugee status unless they cry before the Parliament in an organised way as they are not from minority community of India. They better approach British consulates with a prayer to accept them as erstwhile British citizens of British India. Congress India ignores them being heartless to such people. Even United Nations may have mercy on them for their present predicament . God save the lot.
VENKATAGIRI,
Sahakar Nagar, Bengaluru
Electronic media creates unnecessary controversies The role of the electronic media particularly 24×7 English channels in the post election analysis of Gujarat was disgusting. Many of the panelists of the Left leaning were reluctant to give credit to Narendra Modi for his hat-rick in Gujarat. Perhaps the only saner element turned out to be Shekar Gupta former Indian Express Editor-in-Chief who was trying to bring some sense into the debate. Narendra Modi rightly calls this as an “intellectual debauchery”. Thus English electronic media deserves to be dismissed with the contempt it deserves. Modi bashing has almost become a fashion in electronic channels.
For the electronic media ,every evening from about 8 pm to 10 pm the TV channels seem to delight in creating controversies where none exist, make panelists fight against each other by inciting them, paint India as a disaster zone for investment, highlight burglaries ,murders to show India as unsafe territory and lastly the anchors between them have the solution to each and every problem the nation faces. It was amusing to see many discuss the future of Narendra Modi more earnest than Modi himself. Less said the better about a channel that fielded a political science professor of JNU who predicted that Modi would find it difficult to cross even 105 seats basing on the early trends .
Her authoritative estimates would have even paled into insignificance the best of the psephologists. Some panelists were splitting venom against Modi and even questioned his choice of candidates. A lady in question was debating over the exclusivity of Muslim candidates as if Narendra Modi deserved to take her endorsement while preparing list of party candidates to be fielded during elections. One fails to understand, is BJP obliged to respond to these bleeding hearts even on the day BJP won convincingly.
The Leftist discourse is based on the premise that constitutionalism is inherently anti-intellectual, and so therefore, obviously, attracts less intelligent adherents. Leftists condescendingly recite the evidence for their own intellectual superiority. They claim to be deep thinkers. Media should save itself from these Left predators where the credibility of the media house vanishes into thin air.
VANI NAGARAJ,
12-11-1394, Raghavendranagar, Secunderabad-61
Callous Delhi Police On Delhi Police vehicles it is clearly written, ‘With You, For You, Always’. But is this slogan really put into practice? Recently, when I called 100, instead of Flying Squad, the local police station called me back to know the problem. The date was 18-12-12 and time19-41. I told them my problem. My room was full of unexplained smoke. Which was choking me and hurting my eyes. After, say, about an hour, the local thana represented by an officer and a jawan made their appearance.
The room was full of choking smoke and all of us could hardly breath.After inspecting the room they said that the smoke was coming out from electric board. And the officer unplugged the wires to support his point. But no smoke came out of the board. Then the officer pointed to a bundle of clothes meant for washing and said that bundle must be responsible for the smoke. Then they left, promising swift action. I am still waiting for that action to materialise. The smoke still persistently comes in my room and hurts my eyes.
Dr S KUMAR MAHAJAN, Delhi
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