Mischievous messengers of the media machine: peddlers of irrelevance

Sagarika Ghosh tweeted that Mr. Modi performed Ganga Aarti and prayed at Kashi Vishwanath Temple, but failed to visit  Mosque.  With this absurd and mischievous observation, she attempted to suggest that Mr. Modi is not secular.  How irrelevant and deliberately inciting this observation is!  If one belongs to a particular religion, he cannot be branded communal.  Being religious is not being communal.  Any person having faith in his religion would visit the shrine of his faith to pay respects to the almighty for the success he received.  Thanking divinity is a personal practice of faith and is not an act of communalism.  Being religious is not being religion-neutral.

The peddlers of irrelevance could have also taken objection to Mr. Modi's visit to his mother, immediately after the success at polls.  It is surprising they did not question his not visiting a motherly person of Muslim faith or another faith.  Submission to a mother and practicing a faith, are matters of personal choice and culture and have nothing to do with secularism or communalism. Highlighting one of these in an irrelevant  manner is a mischievous exercise of creating an un-necessary opinion and rift in the country.

Two English news channels ,  time and again proven its alignment with Congress and its elitist attitude, covered in mischief.  When reporting on Kashmir, they give undue importance to Mr. Lone and his divisive view points.  When debating the Naxal issue, they lionize Binayak Sen and his seditious dogma.  When analyzing the developmental needs, they groom Medha Patkar and her western supported agenda of anti-development.   

 The recent vote has marginalized the media created debate on secularism and communalism as irrelevant.  The majority of under-35 voters of India and the surge of 100 million new voters in the country do not care for the Congress peddled obsolete thoughts of casteism, secularism, communalism and the upper caste Vs dalit debate.  They know that Mr. Modi signifies the aspiration of the country and its developmental needs, beyond  such  mischievous incitements .  They know that you are free to practice your religion and pursue your faith in this new order of governance and society.  They know that it is shameful to try and derive two meanings from every word uttered or every action made. 

Peddlers of irrelevant thoughts should know that the old baggage of Congress ideas does not mean a thing to the new generation of India, whose only demand is development.  And Development is culture neutral, which brings in social equality and an equal opportunity for life.

VK Saxena

NCCL

Ahmedabad

Nitish ka 'Bhi haar'‏

It is often said - 'in the game of the fool, it is tragedy for the poor'.  Bihar has come to be that.  Governance in Bihar has become a game of the fool, alternating between Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar, with its people remaining poor and denied of any reasonably good livelihood. This resource rich state has been run as if an underworld enterprise is run by mafia lords.  Even in the election propaganda, their main issue was each other.   In fact, the JDU and RJD have held Bihar like their own inherited fiefdom.  The State that once was the seat of our ancient civilization has been reduced to an under-developed backyard of the nation, lorded by an insensitive and arrogant Chief Minister.

Nitish Kumar's arrogance did not end at lording his State to misery.  He often day dreamt of becoming India's Prime Minister.  Without a shred of ideology, he hobnobbed with Mulayam Singh , Mamta Banerjee and the likes, exhibiting an opportunistic political behavior and calculating his chances of occupying South Block.  He befriended Pakistan in order to appease the Muslims of the State.  He failed to address the Naxal threat or understand the needs for holistic development.  Carrying forward the legacy of RJD, he kept Bihar as one of our most backward States and denied it the benefits of 21st century India.

In spite of all the foolishness he exhibited, he might have been among the first people in India to recognize that Mr. Modi could surely become the Prime Minister.  I think that was the reason why he so violently protested when Mr. Modi's name was announced by the BJP as its Prime Ministerial candidate.  Then he made his worst political mistake of severing ties of JDU with BJP, mainly because his own ambition of becoming the PM would not be supported by the NDA as BJP had already announced their choice for the PM.  He over-estimated himself and grossly under-estimated Mr. Modi.

And now that Mr. Modi has swept the nation with his wave of patriotism and developmental vision, Nitish Kumar slid down the hill of despondency and resigned.  His resignation does not come in the background of any ideology or in acknowledgment of his inability to change the fate of Bihar.  It comes from his personal disappointment that Mr. Modi would now be the PM and from his personal embarrassment of not being able to face Mr. Modi in Delhi.

Good riddance.  Bihar is liberated now from the likes of Nitish Kumar and Lalu Yadav.  Bihar too can now share the delight of joining Indian resurgence and hope to elect a development oriented Party and Chief Minister in the next election for the State Assembly.  A beginning has already been made by wading into the Modi wave and kicking out an opportunistic Chief Minister.

VK Saxena
NCCL
Ahmedabad

Faith and Filth - Varanasi's double extraordinary parade‏

I returned from Varanasi on 13^th, which rallied behind our future Prime Minister.  While people of Varanasi have given   a smooth road to success for the 15th Prime Minister of India, it is truly a bumpy road for those who trudge everyday in those lanes and by-lanes of this holy city.

A gynecologist relative of mine in Varanasi spoke about the hazards of reaching a pregnant woman to the hospital without risking an untimely abortion.  The potholed roads, unfinished bridges, bamboo poles for power lines, broken water pipes, dilapidated buildings, smell of roadside feces.... well, the city where the dead are cremated is a direct hell for those who live there.  In all the years of our independence, it does not appear that anyone truly governed and developed this city.

 If anyone wants to describe Varanasi in just two words - it is our capital of faith and filth.  Millions of Indians descend on the city to bathe in the holiest of our rivers and pray in one of the holiest of our temples.  They spend a lifetime planning for this pilgrimage and parade the streets in the intoxication of immense faith.  That is one aspect of Varanasi.  On the other hand, filth too parades the streets, the river and every open space of this holy city and the sights and smell appall you all the while.  By far, it is one of the most  filthy cities of India that I have known.

The cities of faith the world over - Vatican, Mecca, Karbala, Mashaad, Jerusalem, Bodh Gaya are all incomparably cleaner to Varanasi.  Our own Somnath, Mathura, Amritsar, Ajmer are far more cleaner and receptive to pilgrims than this high symbol of Hinduism.  With its metaphysical image of faith and physical image of filth, Varanasi is an injustice to the nation delivered by the successive Governments of  UP.

It appears that this city of faith waited to repose faith in the future Prime Minister of this country, to deliver it from filth to modernity.

V K SAXENA
PRESIDENT
National Council for Civil Liberties, Ahmedabad -

Physics of Law: Kapil Sibal's end game scholarship‏

Kapil Sibal  has invented a new stream of scholarship called the 'physics of law', wherein he uses words from physics to give a devious meanings to law, but finds himself vanquished by the 'momentum' of democracy.

He recently called Mr Modi a 'potential' accused in the so called snoop gate matter.  With the word 'potential' he nearly rewrote the fundamentals of jurisprudence.  For a senior lawyer and a law Minister to use the word 'potential', it is a disgrace in respect of the sense of justice.  He basically held Mr Modi accused by that word and also expressed subtly that he had the intention to hold  Mr Modi accused.  This is putting judgment before the judicial process.  If he were to have a longer tenure as the Minister of law than just 10 days that are before him, he would also find the 'kinetics' of his persecution on the 'potential' accused.

 Sibal came up with another word from physics, the 'spin'.  Just being unable to bat the spin that is being bowled at his party by the people of India, he has called Modi the spin master.  That confirms he accepts Modi wave and he now acknowledges that Mr Modi has conveyed through the people of India the spin of falling fate of Congress.

Kapil Sibal has also been caught in the 'dynamics' of his faux paus.  He advocated the so called snoopgate with such an enthusiasm that he even declared that he will appoint a judge to investigate Modi on the 'penultimate' day of his Party's rule.  The 'spin' of his 'potential' inappropriate 'action' caused many unfavorable 'reactions' for him.  His coalition partners isolated him and his party is in the 'orbit' of licking the wounds.  Before the Supreme Court, the woman who was supposed to have been snooped at, made a startling declaration  yesterday that she had sought for the protection of surveillance.  

Kapil Sibal fell to earth like a stone by his own 'gravity'.

VK Saxena

NCCL

Ahmedabad