Is there Any Attempt for Treason?

For past few days I have been reading the articles on JNU issue by left Libs/JNU alumni which occupy editorials at most of the leading media houses, who have cleverly and successfully diverted the public attention from real issue to right of free speech, and people nowhere seem to be discussing the real issue, since they been tactically positioned as higher form of intellectual discourse no one would want to disagree with them to be labeled as lacking intellect. But I do.  

What did those students actually say that led to this brouhaha in already branded intolerant nation? Well, those people shouted two slogans, first was “afzal hum sharminda hain tere katil zinda hai”, which not so eloquently translates into “afzal, we are ashamed that your killers are alive”. So who are the killers? – The judiciary that sentenced him and/or Indian people, who perpetrated his killing. At the outset it just sounds as a Marxist falsification and propaganda, but it is more than that. It is a slogan to incite people to feel guilty of the hanging of Afzal guru and to take revenge in his name; it’s a slogan for violent reaction against this nation, definitely not a peaceful one. when would they be relived of this feeling of guilt and shame – only when they have brought down the judges/ judicial system or have taken revenge from Indian people. I know most of the Leftist wouldn’t agree with me but majorly people would agree these students who were hell-bent on inciting people aren’t innocent as they are being projected by them through media.

Let’s take it further to the second slogan, which was not ambiguous on any count. “Bharat ki barbaadi tak jung rahegi”, it literally translates into war would be waged until destruction of India. This is not just a slogan but a war cry that talks about waging war not only till India disintegrates but also its land & people are destroyed. How can this be tolerable for any citizen of this country, but unfortunately to a small section of this country comprising of left and some so-called “Intellects” this is mere a slogan not much to be interpreted out of it. Well I might have concurred with Leftist for once that their slogans are hollow and empty as their ideology but on this one I can’t.

Most of the leftist/JNU intellects would say that they are just anti-India slogans, these guys don’t mean it and they haven’t done any harm yet, so why put charges on them and bar them from their freedom of expression. This is what they have exactly propagated in media through their controlled editorials in all leading newspapers be it – The Hindu, The Indian Express, Telegraph, HT and many more. Let me simplify this for my countrymen, if there is a man comes to you and says that one day he is going to murder you, will any man or woman take such person for granted after listening to such outrageous comments? wouldn’t any such person be scared of that person and would complain to the Police for such threats. But Left/JNU and intellects would like you to believe that such persons are “intellectuals” and only voicing their opinions and they should be invited to every home and we shouldn’t obstruct their freedom of expression.Since nobody was harmed there can't be any reason for objecting such slogans. Knowing how much we care about our personal lives and less for the country, their task have become easier to portray this case as that of civil liberties believing that Indian people would relent and let such people go scot-free.

Left /Intellect and media have for past few days have been busy to camouflage this as Anti-Government but not anti-National protest. Congress, left and Kejriwal has been bashing Modi and his government for past two years, has there been any hue and cry? Did common people really give damn when Modi was being bashed-up? No, they knew that it was politics, people can differentiate between anti-national and anti-government slogans. But, this isn’t. This is about nation and much above the day to day pity politics. That’s not all, since last week a deliberate attempt is being made to create an impression of victimization of such people in the hands of so-called “Nationalist”.

In one of the widely distributed vidoes, NDTV’s Ravish Kumar argued that “Nationalism” is creation of 19^th century and too much has been made out of it, people are overly passionate about it anyone give certificate on it and snatch it from other, who has proprietary on Nationalism? Well nobody has, but everyone can make out what is against the nation and what against a party. Strangely he talked about nationalism but nothing on so-called and self-proclaimed intellectuals on everything. Who says that intellectuals can’t say dumb and stupid things in their lives and whatever they say is universal truth. How come left has got proprietary over intellect, truth and poor people. Suddenly you see that left leaning sociologist become intellectual in Economics, History, law and what not.

Now there is attempt to suppress the truth in this case by Left through their usual trick of deceit and denial, spread by the so-called intellects all over the media by nobody shouted the slogans and that the video is doctored. Kanahia himself has admitted on various channels post that event that such slogans were shouted but claimed that he wasn’t involved, Umar can be heard on videos of several news channels that what was wrong in those slogans. Now that leftist are caught red handed, they have let their propaganda machine churn intellectual articles in all forms of media that it is right-wing fabrication and no such thing ever happened.  This is exactly what they did in Nandigram and the gang-rape of poor protesters.    

The same bunch of leftist who have been denouncing Supreme Court for Afzal guru hanging now want Judiciary to decide the fate of fate of students in treason case. These people will again be mocking India’s judiciary if the case goes against them, just as they did it in Afzal guru's case. They are already propagating it as witch hunt and as if whole nation is filled with blood thirsty right-wingers.

The view of left is totally incongruent to the views of most of the people in this country. Anybody in this country who is working so hard would definitely like to see changes, transformation and betterment of everyone in the society.  People want students coming from modest backgrounds with opportunity to study at such institutions to succeed. People like me who pay taxes on almost everything so that education of less privileged people can get funded through such institutions like JNU without bothering about their caste, creed and political affiliation. Those students definitely right to have political views no matter how different from us, but calling for destruction of that very nation and its nationals is just not a change. We people don’t deserve such intellectuals, who fancy destroying the nation and its nationals who are contributing for uplifting their lives.

Independence Day for a Lousy Guy

It was aug15, I woke at 9am and switched on my tv, flag was hoisted and speech was delivered. I saw all that and speech of our Weakest Prime Minister who told us how strong the citizens are, braving all the govt.’s apathy and calamities. Then I switched to the patriotic songs for some time, even that didn’t last long. There was no flag hoisting in my apartment (there is no provision and nobody thought of it). I was left with nothing to do for a day that seemed endless. My roomie woke up and suggested we go out. I panicked, after all there was threat on my life and on everyone else, and who wants to become Shahid on that day, but we ventured out as my roomie hates crowded place.

So, we ended up at a shopping mall which was luckily empty (coz of terrorist threat). I thought, this was the opportunity to do something for nation’s economy – buy something and make it strong (that’s all this generation does in the masquerading for self consumption) - there were discounts and I could have bought something but then I heard something.(No, not sound of a bomb blast). This mall was playing patriotic songs, I wondered why? But after listening “takat watan ki hamse hai” (have you ever heard it?), manoj kumar & sunil dutt patriotic songs, I was finally nailed by “aiye mere watan ke logon”. I didn’t know what happened but I just didn’t buy anything though my roomie asked me several times. Then I realised something!

I don’t know how many people have ever noticed the difference in the way a person’s perception and meaning of days like Independence Day (or national days) change. But I thought about it this time, though I used to remember how it used to be in childhood. I remember that when there used to be holiday on ID, it was celebrated in our housing colony.

I never realised the fact that I used to take bath to go to flag hoisting ceremony. I mean, it’s only RELIGIOUS Festivals when you take bath to purify yourself to go for a ceremony. Our INDEPENDENCE DAY had such significance that it was considered inappropriate to go for flag hoisting without bathing. I mean, mathematically INDEPENDECE DAY = RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL!!!
And you are not worth it if you didn’t do it properly. In those days, I would wake up early and get ready to make sure that I don’t miss the ceremony and specially those Jalebi and Samosas. Yeah, but that was not the only thing, I never understood the rationale why kids used to keep running for hours with national flag in their hands, but who cared, even I used to run. Watching parade on TV was a family affair (tv was new those days and there was hardly anything to watch).

But when such celebrations became compulsory in school, I had to do little more than the usual to get those Samosas, sometimes parade, and sometimes cultural program. But that running with flag thing went off though I used to catch up with the Independence Day celebrations around the country on TV. One thing that added up to my list was the “Gandhi” movie, which was broadcasted every year, no matter how it bored me - I still used to watch it. By the time I was in college I lost some passion about Independence Day, I would wake up but only watch the ceremony on tv (bathing and preparing was gone), only exception was MBA days when I did go to flag hoisting like my school days.

Now that I’m working, I do watch the whole Independence Day coverage and the remixed desh bhakti songs on it, but hardly care about going to flag hoisting or even putting effort for that( may be some day I would do that again). I seldom realise how less we care and value our independence - take everything for granted. Faith is probably still alive within coz I still put that tiny flag on my shirt.

Mumbai 7/11: Resilience, Apathy and Myopic Concerns

Man, Mumbai’s bomb blast made each of us angry. Why can’t we stop such acts happening again and again? Mumbai’s 7/11 could have been averted if the police and intelligence people hadn’t failed to crack the arms seizure. Those guys just claimed the success and forgot every thing. I don’t know why police and government have such adhoc concern towards terrorism when the whole country is suffering from it. What saddens me is that I heard at least filmi guys taking local trains next day to show support to the common man but not about any MP or MLAs.

Resilience and Courage
I remember the last year july26 rainfall, when the mumbaikars showed their resilience, their camaraderie and their binding for the city and its people by giving helping hand, when needed the most. Rich, poor, labourers, students and every one on the street, took care of unknown, showing directions, distributing food and whatever one could do. Those gestures touched every one in the city, but I also had a few colleagues ( from delhi) who though had witnessed the wrath but were adamant that only poor people come to help as they don’t have much to loose. Now a year later, when the blasts occurred in Mumbai on 7/11, mumbaikars showed their courage and resilience once again and came out in full support for fellow mumbaikar at time that counted most. This time my new colleagues from delhi were flattered at the courage of mumbaikars. One of them said “people talk and communicate a lot in delhi, but nothing like this happens in such kind of situation”. I loved everyone’s appreciation for the people of Mumbai and was smirking at those Raspberry people who maligned the city by awarding ‘the rudest city in the world’; those guys will always remember courage and camaraderiship of mumbiakars as sh*t on their face.

Normalcy- need or compulsion
Everyone asks how come Mumbai gets back normal so early; well, there are several raison d'être to it. Mumbai is the business hub and the financial capital of the nation. It generates billions of rupees and dollars of business every day. If Mumbai is shut down for one working day, it leads to loss of billions of rupees which both the government and corporates don’t want to loose. Mumbai’s economic strength has become its compulsion, the compulsion to continue no matter what happens. But there is another aspect too. Mumbai may look glamorous and rich to outsiders but in reality is made largely of labourers who contribute to the mumbai’s economic strength. Earning livelihood is a compulsion for such people and it is this compulsion which forces people to return back normal so soon. It this economic strength that terrorist like to target and it’s the need for normalcy that politicians take for granted.

Myopic Concerns
News channels can never stop amusing you even if it is a moment of grave concern. They gotta do something to make you bang your face on the wall. Instead of covering hidden angels to the 7/11 blasts they were out to the Janta with some really thought provoking analysis – what was the astrological pronouncement, what was the numerological significance to the day and event. Not leaving behind was one news channel that broadcasted ‘blasts and the bollywood’ to make our day. Thankfully, there was no karan johar explaining the relation between his new movie to blasts.