The sun rises in the West for self-righteous no no sapiens

There is one unmistakable class of people around the world that wouldn’t accept anything that doesn’t suit their desire. They resort to wishful thinking and they want things to happen in a certain way. They create opinion, dominate public debate and invade every pseudo-intellectual forum just to propagate their notion of how things should be. They even begin seeing the world moving as per their wish, albeit whatever be the reality. But when things do happen differently, their faith in the world crashes to the social abyss.

And since they cannot handle this heartbreak, they paint doomsday for the world with whatever just happened. They just cannot accept anything that is not in line with their wish; it could be a mandate in democracy, a ruling of the supreme judiciary or the wisdom of the best minds. This group of people wouldn’t accept anything that is not their wish—No No Sapiens!

Consider Brexit. While the majority of British had leaned towards it, particularly the Scottish people being in no doubt about it, the No No Sapiens decided it was bad for England. They rallied against it, created opinion, took to public debate and did everything possible in their capacity to scuttle what finally was the actual public opinion. And when the power of democracy took a decision, they saw apocalypse happening at their front door. They derided democracy and lamented for being the only few who knew what was best for their world.

Trump election followed a similar path. In a democracy, what is chosen is people’s voice and not an academic distinction of what is right or what is wrong. The American people rallied behind Trump, right from the very beginning. He won most public polls and debates. But No No Sapiens saw the sun rising exactly in the opposite direction and defended their own skewed vision. When they saw in the results of the election their absolute failure to stay in touch with reality, they began professing how historically a mistake has been made by the oldest democracy of the world. Their self-righteousness is far from being proven. But they do feel most righteous when they are least right.

The case with this elite class that has dominated Indian media and talk clubs is no different. The No No Sapiens are among us in every visible forum of the nation. They painted Narendra Modi as the incarnation of the worst demon when he began moving upwards in people’s heart three years ago. They professed a sooth that India will break into a million pieces in religious unrest and anarchy, should he come to power as the Prime Minister. They said that he will never make it to the Lutyens’ Delhi. But when the people of India proved them hugely wrong and exercised their power of choosing their date with future, the No No Sapiens felt unsettled. But they took to every means and media to keep trumpeting their sooth that every decision the popular Prime Minister took was an inch closer to national disaster.

But what we are today and what kind of tryst we have with the destiny is all a clear pinnacle of coveted opportunity that we cherish and feel proud about. The world over, India’s march into future and glory are a matter of contemporary envy. India is firm-footed and fiercely progressive. The criticism of those with their weird vested interest keeps falling by the wayside into the insignificance of our national life.

The New Indian Express Link Below:

http://www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/2017/jan/15/the-sun-rises-in-the-west-for-self-righteous-no-no-sapiens-1559654.html

V K Saxena

My reaction to the article "Are we ready to trade personal freedoms for cashless nationalism" by Sagarika Ghose in Times Of India dated 11Dec 2016.

Yes, some people always oppose. Even when you offer them their choicest pudding after their most sumptuous meal ever, they would look at it queerly and blame its texture. Something has to be wrong in everything for them. Sagarika Ghose is one of theme.

Calling them skeptics is giving them a psychological positivity, which isn't what it is because they don't bear the rationality of a skeptic. Calling them intellectuals is an abuse of mind power as their opposition comes from instinct and not intellect. Calling them cautious is unreal as they don't have the responsibility of finding a direction. They are just imprudent, wrongly determined and negative to the core. They lend a constant opposition to everything big and small. No matter how genuine an opinion, political will, development, social initiative, economic reform or justice, they would quickly get behind the back and begin to stab. They are an eternal irritant to any effort of honestly transforming the society. Einstein once said, "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." Yes, they are as timeless as being reckless. And they have this quirk DNA - Determined Negative Attitude.

And it is strange that this DNA has increased leaps and bound in the past two and half years in India , since one of the most efficient governance in the history of independent India was established by Mr. Narendra Modi. Throughout the election process, when these pseudo-urban and pseudo-intellectual english speaking community, comprised of members of polity, press , bolly wood and public saw the emergence of a new democratic force, they tried to negate the imminent change by projecting imaginative human rights, environmental degradation and freedom of speech cases that were never found substantiated even by the highest courts of the land.

When with sustained speed the Government laid out a progressive developmental agenda, they screamed of charges that they themselves could not clearly articulate. When in the recent times a determined anti-corruption and anti-black money drive began with unprecedented resolve, they tried instigating people against the move. These people with the quirk DNA want at any cost to paint a picture of tyranny, anarchy and chaos in the country and are immensely active in all the three 'P's of India - Press, Public and Parliament. However, people see through their hollowness in all these fora and laugh at them, bearing in mind that whatever seemingly difficult situations that are created by the progressive policies of this Government are only ephemeral, transient and for the larger public good in time.

The lesson is bright and bold. Quirk DNA does not lead you to progress. It will not lead you to national transformation. It will only lead you to historical gloom that will snatch the support from under your children's feet. These people, who are out to wreck the nation irresponsibly should realize that DNA should mean a different thing - Develop National Answerability

VK Saxena

NCCL

Ahmedabad

Who wants a Shabana certificate!

So, Shabana Azmi does not want to pass Mr Narendra Modi as a Prime Ministerial candidate. 

She gave her usual eccentric and forensic point of view that he has blood on his hand.  She even quoted an absurd reasoning that since he is still denied US visa, he cannot be a Prime Minister for India.  With that, she has joined the select band of US agents in India, whose loyalties belong partially in Osama-land and then in Obama-land.  

Shabana Azmi and  her husband Javed Akhtar appear to think of the country as some kind of talent contest on prime time television, where they often sit as judges and pass remarks.  They have their own strange sense of judgement and they take their seats in the gallery far too seriously.  And being true to their allegiance to Pakistan and Yankeestan, they always hide behind the name Godhra, even after the Supreme Court of India has cleared the matter. Javed Akhtar is a Trustee of the infamous 'Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) and Sabrang Trust run by Teesta Setalwad.   CJP and Sabrang Trust goes with a begging bowl to foreign countries  and  collects donations by showing its own country in poor light.   They bleed India from outside its soils and eat away its integrity from inside in a combined 'leach and termite' effect.  Denying India the benefit of development by worming through its poor intestine is their pastime.  So, they search for blood even where there is none.  For the eyes that are bloodshot, every hand appears to have been dipped in the red.

It is strange that this famous pair does not raise its voice when Akbaruddin Owaisi wages war against the country through his inflammatory speeches, when M.F. Hussain paints an Indian goddess in nude to humiliate millions of Indians or when the Pakistani troops in J&K hack the head of an Indian soldier and throw away his body for the vultures to eat.  

And what is Shabana's formula for a person to be a Prime Minister?  Perhaps, he should have a US visa, should ensure that she gets another nomination to Rajya Sabha and should not come from Gujarat.  She neither cares for development of this country nor for people's voice.  It is for her to judge, after all - since her family has this experience of judging on prime time television.

Javed spins stories and Shaban acts.  For them, the nation is a theater. But it is different that people hardly take their views seriously.

V.K.Saxena

President

National Council for Civil Liberties

Ahmedabad.

Rahul Vs Modi : Comparing the in comparables, the fateful choice of a pitiable nation

The nation has to make its choice of choosing a leader that leads its people on the path of prosperity.  It is a time to establish that we as a nation make the right choice by upholding our highly cherished democratic norms.  It is a time to prove to the world and etch in history that we are not a monarchy in disguise, we are not a land of feudal lords and we are not a nation that hangs by the branches of a banyan tree planted by the grandfather just for the reason that it bears his name.  We need to progress in a competitive world, protect ourselves from our enemies, refocus the power of youth, build bridges for a prosperous tomorrow and erase incompetence, complacency, corruption and internal conflicts.  We live in a testing time.  As such, we need to seriously weigh our choices.

At a time like this and while making the right choice, we need to capitalize on experience, efficiency and effectiveness of a leader that has proven his worth in the society.  The choice that we make for the nation is the choice that we make on the future of our children.  While people are frustrated with the indecisive rule of Congress that is fraught with senility and sycophancy and are getting excited about the prospects of  Narendra Modi leading our nation, Congress is positioning  Rahul Gandhi as a future Prime Minister.  

What a choice of leader the Congress puts forward!  

Rahul is a Gandhi by name.  It is a great name that is unconnected to the great one but was acquired by an insignificant quirk of fate after his grandmother married a man by that name and then passed on these precious six alphabets carefully through the generations.  This Gandhi who lent his family name to Rahul did nothing worthy of that name that we so fondly cherish, but very unknowingly, he created a mammoth brand capital to the family and to a political party that has nothing else to pride about but the name.  Well, what's in a name?  In this case, much of everything that is not in the person who bears it.  The name bears a powerful recognition which may perhaps mesmerize and confuse the younger generation of India.  It has that power which keeps a tight leash on the largest political party that no longer has an idealism or vision to lead the country and even give promotion to those facing serious corruption charges . It has the allure of making an ordinary Indo-Italian man into a crown prince and heir-apparent of extraordinary fortune.  It has that amazing historical value that easily turned an Italian woman on Indian soil into a 'Regent' and the Indian National Congress into a 'Regency'.  It is a name that when misplaced on a fortunate lad - shamed the democratic norms and legitimized a 'monarchy' with a sugar coat of democracy.

Modi is not a Gandhi by name.  Except that he comes from the soil, which bore Gandhi, he too is unconnected to the great one in lineage.  He does not have the fortune of the insignificant quirk of fate that endowed the head of the Prince of Congress with the halo of power.  He had no illusions of rising to power through thumb-sucking childhood on a political landscape where regents would wait on his steps.  He has worked his way up by serving the people for decades, delivering goods that matter in the everyday lives and binding the individual fates of the 6 crore  people of Gujarat to a smiling destiny of a better tomorrow.  He did not rise in power as a namesake or for the namesake.  He bore a vision of delivering power to the peoples' arms, so that they could earn their meal, quench their thirst, raise their children, live in honour and build a society of health, happiness and hope.  What's in his name?  Nothing that brings power or some beneficial confusion that the name 'Gandhi' brings.  But what's in his deeds is what matters.

Under Modi, peace has reigned in Gujarat with a record of no communal riots in a decade of his rule while the other parts of country have faced recurrent riots.  AP, UP, Bihar and Maharastra  have seen repeated events of communal disharmony.    Modi does not pursue an appeasement  policy  as he targets  development for all.  UK's most influential  Muslim MP, Lord Adam Patel, who is the founder of Council of Indian Muslims , a UK-based organisation that was formed to campaign against Gujarat riots, met Modi on 24th Jan 2013 to show solidarity. Adam, who played a pivotal role in organizing protests during Modi's visit to London in 2003, has now reconciled to the fact that Modi is a friend of all communities alike and has invited him to London

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In the recently concluded Election of Gujarat, 11% Muslim voted in favour of BJP which is a significant change in the thinking and proves against a common belief that Muslims do not favour him.  Time magazine has held high the message of Brand Gujarat and it now looks like the model that should cover the entire republic of India.  Against such tall accomplishments of development and communal harmony, what is being compared is a person of no vision, experience, accomplishment, public acceptance or even relevance to our society.

If Rahul Gandhi is the choice before us against the prospect of Narendra Modi, it plainly is a choice between inexperience and experience.  It is a choice between someone who has never held an office against one who has led a state for over a decade and established a model of exemplary development.  It will be a choice between upholding monarchy against voicing for democracy.  

And if Rahul is the choice, it is a fateful choice of a pitiable nation. 

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