Modi scores over Buddha

B D Narayankar

WHEN TATAS decided to set up Nano car manufacturing plant in West Bengal’s Singur - that itself was an adventurous foray into a state that had been dominated by the Marxists, who are not known for entrepreneurship.

From being the number one industrial state in the country to becoming an abyss of poverty, illiteracy, backwardness and industrial graveyard, the contribution of Marxists in this direction is immense. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, the West Bengal chief minister, tried everything to change this image. Manna fell from the heavens - Ratan Tata decided to go to Singur to set up Nano plant there. This raised Buddha’s stocks and in fact played a stellar role in making him win the last assembly election.

However, his aura of being a dream merchant was shattered no sooner than later in the political struggle between Mamata Banerjee and the Marxists. In this battle, Ratan Tata lost a whooping Rs 1,500 crore since setting up the Nano plant at Singur.

This fiasco over Nano once again proved that the Marxists and Mamata Banerjee are least bothered about their state’s development. When all sensible state governments in the country have welcomed the project in their states for its cheap economics, both party leaderships indulged in mudslinging politics with an eye to grab seats in the ensuing Lok Sabha elections.

In normal circumstances, the setting up and shifting of a car plant does not evoke nationwide attention. But it did.

It was because of the wasted and frustrating experience of the Tatas in West Bengal.

The fact that Ratan Tata had chosen Gujarat to shift Nano plant from West Bengal speaks volumes of chief minister Narendra Modi. There is a lesson to be learnt from Modi. The saffron leader started wooing investors only after he was sure he had done his homework on infrastructure development thoroughly. There are Congress leaders who have been attempting to woo investors without bothering to improve infrastructure in their states.

Modi is a doer. He has the courage, character and commitment to walk his talk. That Ratan Tata told the media that he could have moved in a day if only he could transport the machinery that fast speaks volumes about the excellent administrative capability of Modi.

From the land of the Left to the land of the Right, Tatas have shown the world the difference BJP could make in India’s march to modernity.

Source: Meri News

Ban Congress, DMK and RJD too

B D Narayankar

IT’S A matter of great concern that while Congress-led central government has miserably failed to curb terrorism, it has trained guns shamelessly on Bajrang Dal. The government has started working towards imposing ban on the nationalistic Bajrang Dal.

Making comparisons between Bajrang Dal and SIMI is uncalled for and is mere foolishness. SIMI’s agenda is to spread terror all over India, which is clearly reflected in their leadership being indicted in countless terror attacks. Banning Bajrang Dal is altogether different as it has not been involved in any terror attacks.

If Bajrang Dal is to be banned, then Congress should also be banned for killing Sikhs in 1980s. We should also ban some mosques, madrassas and churches, because some of their members are terrorists and murderers. Besides, banning Bajrang Dal will not solve the problem. In fact, it will provoke it’s members, forcing them to take up arms.

Shouldn’t Karunanidhi’s DMK, an ally of UPA, banned? In fact, Karunanidhi can easily be bracketed as an international terrorist for giving LTTE militants a chance to use India to launch attacks on neighboring Sri Lanka. He not only harboured LTTE militants, but also funded them.

What about Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad and Mulayam Singh Yadav, who openly support SIMI activities and protested the ban on it. Both leaders are directly or indirectly supporting anti-nationals, who are involved in spreading terrorism in the country. Thus, UPA government doesn’t have any right to call any organization as communal and seek its ban.

In last 15 years, almost all political parties have ruled the country and none of them have addressed the root cause of terrorism. Islamic jihad taught in madrassas has spread terrorism in the country. Madrassas and other places where terrorism is spread should be uprooted to end terrorism like it was done in US and Britain, where madrassa education has been banned.

Blaming entire organisation for wrong doing also is inappropriate. It is illogical to hold a party responsible for wrong doings. Can you imagine anybody blaming entire Congress for burning down Chauri-Chaura police station in pre-independence days? Likewise, entire Bajrang Dal cannot be blamed for the crime committed by few. More so, until and unless the crime is not proved.

Source: Meri News

Indian media's blatant discrimination

B D Narayankar

The national electronic media was at it again, for what they have been best known - Hindu baiting and sympathising with hooligans, belonging to Christian community, who allegedly had murdered revered saint Swami Laxamananda in Orissa's Kandhamal province.

It was a sheer show of blatant anti-Hinduism and unpatriotic sentiments of these channels. They were the ones, who had played tapes of the murder of Graham Staines repeatedly a few years back, but a great silence gripped them, not even uttering a single word when the whole of Orissa was mourning Swami Laxmananda's death. Is the blood of a Hindu so cheap? Shouldn't the respected media clarify this?

And what sort of a person Graham Staines was? A foreigner, who was dividing the tribals and ruining the culture of the country by converting peace-loving and tolerant Hindus into Christians. Why can't a missionary like him visit Muslim areas, for sure they will be hounded out of those areas. They convert Hindus because they are tolerant and submissive. And how could one remember Swami Laxmananda as? He was a social warrior, who sacrificed his desire to attain nirvana and rushed to Kandhamal forests to fight against the cash-rich Christian missionaries penniless and single handedly. He strived to uplift tribals by setting up educational institutions, promoting women’s education, providing healthcare and means of livelihood for the poor and downtrodden. He also launched the most powerful 'return home' movement among tribals, which obstructed the heinous designs of the churches to convert Hindus with coercion and monetary inducements. Is it a crime to protect and preserve Hindu culture? Is it a crime to prevent division in a community? If not, why was then the national hook ups silent on Swamiji's murder? Why did they say it was a murder of another Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) office bearer?

The story did not end there. These channels were desperate to break their silence by pouncing on an opportunity to capture the images of Hindus going on a rampage, in retaliation to Swamiji's murder. After all, Hindus are their much favored grub for frying up crispy headlines.

Their waiting came to an end with the first news of so called arson in a Christian orphanage. The eager media did not waste a moment in preparing a special report of half an hour on it. All the slumbering channels suddenly woke up not to telecast the inhuman slaughter of the Swamiji, but the plight of the Christians in the hands of the Hindus.

This is not the first time that these channels have indulged in blatant discrimination. They have been doing it and still continue to do it in the future - after all they are the products of Macaulay’s educational system, a Bristisher who loathed anything Indian.

It's high time that media did some self-introspection to preserve its credibility, or else no Hindu would take them seriously. This was evident when Narendra Modi staged a comeback and retained his chief minister’s gaddi, inspite of media taking a swipe at him in the aftermath of Godhra carnage.

Denigration of Hindu gods, the real reason for attacks on Mangalore Christians

B D Narayankar

Archbishop of Bangalore Bernard Moras has every right to feel wounded and criticize Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa for the recent attacks on churches in the state.

The Archbishop was furious over Yediyurappa for his government’s failure to curb attacks on churches. In Bangalore, the St James church in Mariammanapalya near Hebbal and the Church of Holy Name of Jesus in Rajarajeshwarinagar were desecrated by miscreants. “What will you do if one of your temples is destroyed?” the Bangalore Archbishop had argued when Yediyuappa called on him.

Any peace-loving citizen of India would sympathize with Bernard Moras for the attacks on churches. But what led to the attacks, the Archbishop should mull over seriously, as no Hindu would go berserk without any reason.

The Western-bent Indian media had so far highlighted the atrocities and attacks on churches perpetrated by Hindus, but no single news channel or English daily has written a word on the high-voltage communal pamphlets "Satya Darshini" distributed by Mangalore-based missionaries of New Life, which denigrated Hindu gods in the foulest of languages. Paper cuttings of these stories are uploaded on http://greathindu.com.

Here are some of the passages -

* Urvashi, Lord Vishnu's daughter, is a prostitute. Vashistha this prostitute's son. He, in turn, married his own mother. Such a degraded person Hindu God Rama's guru. (page 48)

* When Krishna himself is wallowing in darkness of hell, how can he enlighten others? Since, Krishna himself is a shady character, there is a need for us to liberate his misled followers (page 50).

* It was Brahma himself who kidnapped Sita. Since Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva were themselves the victims of lust, it is a sin to consider them as Gods (page 39).

* When the Trinity of Hinduism (Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva) are consumed by lust and anger, how can they liberate others. Their projection as Gods is nothing but a joke (page 39).

* When Vishnu asked Brahma to commit a sin, he immediately did so. How can such an “evil Brahma” be a Creator of this Universe? How is it possible for both the sinner and the entity which provoked the sin to be gods? (page 39).

• God, please liberate the sinful people of India who are worshipping False Gods that believe in the pleasures of illicit ‘Vyabichari’ relationships (page 39).

In this scenario, Indian citizens, especially Hindus, would like to know from Bangalore Archbishop about what he feels about denigrating Hindu gods by New Life missionaries. Aren’t the New Life missionaries provoking majority Hindus? The Archbishop should explain.

The distribution of these pamphlets caused the Hindu backlash in Mangalore. Though the Christian community may distance itself from New Life activities, they are supporting it by protesting in a big way as if to condone their unethical activities.

Miltant Hindus - what a joke!

B D Narayankar

It's become a trend with the news channels to pounce upon a Hindu on rampage, ignoring the very cause of retaliation. I am referring to Orissa violence, where Christians were targeted and brutally assaulted. At many places even their homes were set on fire.

While there were millions of bytes and words flying around, castigating Hindus for being violent, no channel has thought of highlighting the atrocities perpetrated against the Hindus in Kandhamal by the state administration and the Christian missionaries, especially following the murder of Swami Laxmananda Saraswati. They have been targeted; their families have been threatened by other communities. They have no shelter and no food to feed their families. Their houses were burnt by the criminals, who did not even allow them to earn their bread and butter.

These conditions of the innocent Hindus were recorded by a high-level delegation led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), MP, Jual Oram, which visited Kandhamal district on September 4, to assess the situation after Swami Laxmananda Saraswati’s murder.

Always the Indian media, especially the electronic media, represents the Hindus as militants and persecutors that is really disturbing and sad. These news channels behave in most unpatriotic manner and report the stories like most of the foreign correspondents do, who lack understanding of India.

A peep into the history books will reveal how different religions profess militancy. It is necessary for the Indian media to bring forward a more balanced view of the sensitive problems. The gory past of Christian atrocities is forgotten now but history will never forgive culprits like Alfonso de Albuquerque who carried out the persecutions of Hindus in 1510. He burnt ’heretics’, crucified Brahmins, used false theories to forcibly convert lower castes and razed the temples to build churches upon them.

How can one forget one of the most fiery communal statements ever made against the Hindus. Claudius Buccchanan, a chaplain attached to East India Company, said, “Neither truth, nor honesty, honour, gratitude, nor charity, is to be found in the breast of a Hindu”. What a comment on a nation, that had welcomed these merchants because of the Hindu philosophy of universal brotherhood. This communal agenda of Claudius paved the way for British to trap the poor and simple tribals for conversion and bury their cultural identities for ever.

Coming to the recent violence in Orissa, the police, even before it could visit the spot where Swami Laxmananda Saraswati was killed, claimed that the murder was committed by the Naxals. Even media played up the story. The fact of the matter, however, is that there is a lot of enmity between the converts and the non-converts. The non-converts are furious over the Christian missionaries hogging up their lands to propagate Christianity and converting them through cash inducements and other ugly means. Missionaries, on the other hand, are frustrated over the hurdle created by Swami Laxmananda Saraswasti’s movement of bringing back the converts to the Hindu fold. Swamiji’s murder was a result of the simmering emotions between the converts and non-converts.

Sometimes back, it was claimed by the media that the burning of churches in Andhra Pradesh was the design of ’fanatic’ Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, but later it was proved that it was the handiwork of ISI to foment hatred between the Christians and the Hindus. Yet, the Indian media that went berserk at the time of the burnings, mostly kept quiet when the true nature of the perpetrators was revealed.

Missionaries, especially, the Indian priests, would like us to believe that democracy includes the freedom to convert by any means. But in France, a Christian nation, has a minister who hunts down non-Christian sects. The system is so ruthless that even the Scientology Church, favoured by some Hollywood stars such as John Travolta, is mercilessly hounded out. And what America, which is recognised as the largest democracy in the world, did to Osho movement in Arizona, or how innocent children and women were burnt down by FBI in Waco Texas, because they belonged to a dangerous sect?

Isn’t it surprising that India had been invaded by so many sects around the world, yet it did not lose its cultural identity.

In fact, the aggressors had imbibed some of the cultural aspects of this great nation, which was deeply engrossed in spiritual philosophy and universal brotherhood. But will it survive the present Christian offensive? Many Hindu religious leaders feel that Christianity is a real threat today. It is therefore, necessary that Indians themselves become more aware of the danger that their culture and unique civilisation is facing at the hands of missionaries sponsored by foreign money. It is also necessary that they stop surfing and reading the Marxist-influenced English media, who defend the rights of the Christian missionaries to convert the innocent Hindus.

Does Christianity believes in democracy?

B D Narayankar

The tragic turn of events in Kandhamal in Orissa and Mangalore in Karnataka has brought the ugly topics of all - conversions - to the fore yet again. And there was the same reaction from the central government - hardly doing anything to curb conversion activities carried out by Christian missionaries. This gives ample scope for speculations that the UPA government, led by a respected Italian lady, is working towards realizing late Pope John Paul's wish to change the 'structure' of South Asian countries, more so India.

Not far behind is the evangelist-owned India media, which is becoming a powerful tool and a mouth-piece for Christian missionaries. Look at the way they conduct the 'Big Fight' and similar such programmes. They have become masters in diverting the tone of the issue. How swiftly they justify conversions on grounds of freedom of religion or social services provided to poor Hindus.

Don’t these pretexts debunk the myth of 'voluntary' conversion? If the argument of social service can justify religious conversion, can such facile pleas justify treason against one’s country? Can a soldier sell confidential security papers to a neighbour and claim immunity on the grounds that he felt discriminated by welfare schemes launched by central government.

Conversion to any other religious faith involves an immeasurable loss of culture, tradition, and multiple levels of religious belief. And surely Sanatana Dharma is a religion and a civilisation.

There certainly is a political ambition of the rich-Christian nations to create a 'political constituency in India' laced with religious fervor. They are providing huge funds to evangelists for carrying out conversions on a large scale in remote areas, targeting poor Dalits and Tribal population. See, how Israel and Timor were created - they dumped European Jews on Palestine and converted Muslims on a large scale.

Christianity does not have a notable reputation for tolerance and respect for other religions. Christian missionaries' failure to honor other religions, particularly non-biblical traditions, is well known, with Christians still denigrating the sophisticated yogic traditions of Asia as mere superstition, idolatry and polytheism.

Christian missionaries have had a reputation for using methods to promote conversion that are not always honest, including employing military and political force during the colonial era.

In the modern secular world, Christians along with Muslims, now demand conversion as a democratic right, even though their religion is authoritarian, and not democratic, accepting only one way, and not honoring pluralism in approaching the Divine. Europe had to reject the church and Christian dogma in order to become democratic over the past several centuries,

Considering this, Christian churches should not be talking about democratic rights. It's merely a smokescreen for promoting their own agendas, spreading their authoritarian and exclusivist beliefs, recklessly eliminating other cultures and religions along the way.

The Christian missionaries, instead of becoming a reason for heart-burning and cultural anxiety in their endeavor to convert Hindus to Christianity, they would do better if they stop worrying about poor Hindu lives and turn their focus on improving the lives of Dalit and Tribal Christian converts.

According to stats furnished by the Poor Christian Liberation Movement (PCLM) convener R L Francis, who has been waging a battle against the Church for discrimination, oppression and false promises made to Christian converts, none of the 40,000 educational institutions run by the Church gives admissions to the children of Dalit Christians. Hardly a few complete primary education. He also flays the Church, which is the largest employer after Government of India, for failing to provide compensation to poor neo-Christian converts by providing jobs in Christian educational and medical institutions.

PCML also blames monopolization of Church funds and property by a handful of priests and bishops for the sharp deterioration of the conditions of neo-converted Christians, who are living in a pitiable condition, deprived of basic necessities.

The unnecessary Christian blurt

B D Narayankar

It was the unkindest cut of all, Archbishop Barnard Moras of Bangalore berating Karnataka chief minister B S Yediyurappa in full public glare. It was a strange, uncivilised, unexpected and unwarranted behaviour on the part of the godman.

COMPARE HIS behaviour with that of the Hindu religious leaders, who did not misbehave with government authorities, in spite of any number of provocations in Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam and Jammu and Kashmir. Hindus incurred huge losses and even had to flee. Why did Barnard Moras behave in such a manner? What was the necessity to burst out in front of TV cameras? Was it a political stunt? Probably he wanted to show the world that Christians were being attacked in BJP-ruled states. He hardly realised that the outburst against Christians resulted from provocation on the part of Evangelists, who distributed blasphemous literature, deriding Hindu gods.

Christians, instead of levelling charges against the BJP-ruled government, should be thankful to Yediyurappa for not allowing the law and order situation to go out of hand. Other than isolated incidents of localized vandalism in which both Christians and Hindus were involved, there was not a single instance of organised violence in Karnataka. The CM also showed enough courage to initiate an investigation into conversion activities perpetrated by evangelists, instead of succumbing to the tirades launched by evangelist-owned news channels.

Historically, Evangelical churches were branches of foreign governments that incited colonial wars against the Hindus for centuries. Virtually every major European country justified wars of colonial conquest as a prelude to loot and genocide in the name of Christianity as any moderately well-informed observer will acknowledge.

To make up for the ignominy that losing direct control over India in 1947 brought about, the Evangelists are doing everything on earth to regain control. In fact, they are running the Indian Union with the heinous support of human rights organisations and television channels, which are airheads. The Evangelists are on a mission to achieve India’s political transformation through conversions. Conversion is a means to blunt the possible revolt of Indians on matters such as Hinduism and Hindu culture.

The Evangelists are working towards creating a docile native constituency through conversions that will comply with the wishes of powerful Christian nations like America, UK and Rome, among others. There is nothing saintly about it; it simply is a demoniac pretext to subvert Hinduism and subjugate the Hindus. That some educated and well-connected Indians support their activities only means that traitors exist and should be treated as such.

India is known for its spiritualism and religiosity and the evangelists are aiming to sabotage this very fabric that has made this country unique; a country to look up to during a moral crisis. Unfortunately, the pseudo-secularist parties, instead of curbing these provocative activities, grab any chance coming their way to sympathize with the minorities for votes.

Look at the DMK and CPM, who never tire of castigating the BJP for not protecting the minorities although, comparatively speaking, instances of attacks on Christians and their churches are more in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. In fact, the BJP’s record in maintaining inter-religious harmony is much better than that of the other so-called pro-minority parties. Sensible sections of the minorities acknowledge this.

So, what is the way out to tackle religious subversions? Should India imitate Joseph Stalin’s ruthless, unforgiving campaign against the Nazi attempt to wipe out Russia and its Slavic people? Stalin executed dissenters and collaborators without pity and eventually crushed the Nazis in epic struggles in recorded history. This has to be debated.

The ugly face of New Life evangelists

B D Narayankar

USUALLY TRIVIAL incidents like bursting of crackers on Pakistan’s victory in cricket matches, eloping, teasing or incidents like organising religious procession, used to trigger communal violence in Mangalore. But, now, new reasons have emerged for the communal tension in and around Mangalore. Christian missionaries, apart from carrying out their routine conversion activities, have indulged in deriding the Hindu gods and goddess. This is something new in communal-prone Mangalore region.

There is prima facie evidence against New Life missionaries, indulging in illegal activities, including conversions and denigrating Hindu gods. New Life, one of the 20 missionary centres of Karnataka Missions Network, started missionary activities six years ago in the coastal areas of Dakshin Kannada district. It is actively propagating Christianity not only in India, but also in few other foreign countries through publications, advertisements and through its website.

The missionaries began publishing and distributing literature Yesu Suvarthe containing glories of Jesus Christ among the Christians in Kannada language, but slowly they indulged in conversion activities by enticing Hindus through monetary inducements and jobs. They also started deriding Hindu gods through their literature, coxing Hindus to convert to Christianity. Such communal incidents have been reported in the local Kannada newspapers, the clippings of which are uploaded in ’thegreathindu’ website.

Interestingly, conversion activities are not being propagated from the portals of churches, but from illegal prayer halls and churches around Karnataka. For instance, Karnataka government seized a shed belonging to agricultural department in Bada village in Davanagere district, which was illegally occupied by the New Life missionaries for conversion activities. The government had confiscated the property when New Life missionaries failed to prove their ownership of the land being alloted for religious activities.

According to intelligence sources, New Life has been carrying out its activities in Raichur, Bellary, Mangalore, Davanagere, Udupi, Chamarajanagar, Gadag, Chitradurga, Kolar and Chikkaballapur districts. Noted writer Dr M Chidananda Murthy also revealed that as many as 16,000 Hindus, mostly belonging to Lingayat community, have been converted in Davanagere district alone. There were 34 churches about five years ago in Davanagere district. Now there are 384 churches where the Christian population is hardly negligible. This is the sinister design of the expansionists Christians.

In fact, Bajrang Dal leader Mahendra Kumar has also said that he has been waging a war against the illegal churches and not against the Christians. He has been reported as arguing that a church can be built with the approval of diocese on the land bought by the trust or donated by the government. But New Life activists had been taking government buildings and sheds for a purpose, and later on used the same for religious propagation. This was not approved either by the government or by the diocese.

Congress, wake up before it is too late!

B D Narayankar

IT’S HORRIFYING that Hindus who have accepted and given shelter to Muslims, Christians, Parsis, Jewish, Armenians, Bangladeshis, Iranians or Tibetans, have become targets of terrorism. It wouldn’t be a surprise to even say they have become a refugee in their own country.

To kill innocent people at the busy roads of Delhi is a crime and killers should be brought to the book and awarded capital punishment. There shouldn’t be any mercy shown to these merchants of death. But one is perplexed at the ’mal-handling’ of the present Congress-led United Progrssive Alliance (UPA) government to root out terrorism. Whenever Hindus are hit, it looks the other way. It happened when many were killed in terrorist attacks over a period of time and over Sri Amarnath Shrine Board land transfer issue. Compare it with Britain and Madrid - they swiftly nabbed terrorists involved in the train bombings.

Blaming ’outsiders’ has become a fad in India. Whenever there is a blast, UPA blames Pakistan or America. Blaming Pakistan for all ills is unacceptable. Don’t you think it’s UPA’s clever ploy to divert attention from the bitter truth - that there would be no Delhi, Jaipur and Sabarmati Express blasts, without the support of Muslim minority in India?

More worse than politicians is the Indian media, who are deeply influenced by psuedo-secularist ideas of western media. They are anti-Hindu. This is quite reflected in the way they had covered Hindu sufferings in the past.

It makes an issue of a Hindu genocide on Muslims in Gujarat, but forgets to mention that the rioting against Muslims was in reaction against the murder of 58 innocent people, who were burnt alive in a train by a Muslim mob, only because they were Hindus. Doesn’t this embolden terrorists to carry out nefarious activities in future?

Most of the Indian journalists are at par with western media. They are cognisant with western literature and the latest trends there. They not only are ignorant of Indian culture and greatness of Bhagavad Gita, but also use their skills to oppose them with their pens. These intellectuals are the product of Macaulay, who was known as a pope of British schooling in India and having scant respect for Hinduism and Hindu education. Just look at what this education has done to the Indian youth. They go on dating with anyone or everybody, wear T-shirts, eat Kentucky chicken and swear by pseudo-secualrism. After a few years, these are the ones who would write books and articles to run down their country on every front.

To save Hinduism from this degradation, it is necessary that Indian children are brought up more on the values of Ramayana and Mahabharata.