Liberate us from Liberals

In India - LIBERALS are a strange breed.

In their world, LIBERALISM is all about rights of Muslims. Hindus be damned. This, in a country of overwhelming Hindu dominance. Someone famously said - Liberals will exist in India till Hindus have their way. If ever, God forbid, India becomes a Muslim dominated country - that will be the death of Liberals. What Liberals forget is that Islam is a patently orthodox religion that does not brook dissent. For a Muslim a non-Muslim is an Infidel. For a Muslim salvation lies in eradicating Infidels. If a non-Muslim converts to Islam, it is of course divine intervention. If a Muslim converts to any other religion, especially in the fount of the religion Saudi Arabia, the result is the death penalty. I think Indian Liberals should go and stay for sometime in a Muslim dominated country. They will soon realise the difference between Muslims and Hindus and come running back with their tails between their legs.

When I read about the fracas in Chennai around a painting exhibition that depicted Aurangzeb to be a killer and destroyer of Hindus, I was amused to no end. The painting exhibition abruptly closed because some character called the Nawab of Arcot protested and said that it hurts Muslim sentiments. As usual our Liberal Brigade has not uttered a single word in protest because they are SCARED of Muslims and the Muslim backlash. Since Hindus will not necessarily come onto streets in hordes shouting Allah U Akbar for the slightest provocation, it is good for Liberals to defend M F Husain or any other charlatan who merrily insult Hindus and Hinduism.

The painting exhibition in Chennai depicted the truth. Aurangzeb WAS a bloodthirsty ruler whose main ambition was to convert everyone in sight to Islam. He brutally murdered Hindus and Sikhs (including one of the Sikh Gurus). If a painting exhibition depicts the bloody truth, why do Muslims get sensitive? Why does the Nawab of Arcot get sensitive? Do they still believe that they are destined to rule India? They have to accept the fact that Muslims were invaders. They ruled over the Hindu subjects for ages and Hindus resented it. The Mughal Emperors were not Indians but they were invaders. Many Hindus converted to Islam because of the terror unleashed on them, and not ONLY for the caste inequities as is made out to be by Marxist historians.

But this is India. It is therefore a matter of shame that there is a prominent road named after Aurangzeb in New Delhi.

In India Freedom of Speech is not enshrined in the Constitution as a Inviolable Right like the United States. Even newspapers are propounding the use of Sec 153A of the IPC to curb "hate speech". We need Freedom of Speech. It cannot be conditional. It should apply to all equally without fear or favour. Only then we can say that we believe in the rights of people. Will the Liberals dare to fight for this? I don't think so. The Liberals in India are Liberals only in their eyes. They do not and cannot accept different points of view; especially if it is the Hindu viewpoint. It is a national shame that such people are occupying powerful positions in Government and Media. We need a freedom movement to liberate us from Liberals.

Jai Hind.

The curious ways of English media in India

SOLD OUT - thy name is English media in India.

How else can I describe the almost fawning treatment the English media (print and TV) accords to the current Central Government (also known as the UPA Government; UPA = Ultimate Pusillanimity in Action :-)).

Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav is now accorded the same status as one would to Jack Welch or Azim Premji or NRN or Mukesh/ Anil Ambani. He is credited with turning around the Indian Railways. I do not grudge him one bit - may he perform his job even better. However when you see half baked analysis of the Railway Budget on the front pages of prominent newspapers and see positively fawning "celebrity" anchors falling over each other to congratulate the Minister without any critical analysis, you wonder whether Media in India is free and fair anymore.

The Minister announced fare cuts in various categories. What the media failed to highlight was the many ways in which the Railways overcompensated for these fare "cuts" - some of which are listed below:

Reservation and cancellation charges have increased

Many old trains have been converted to "superfast" trains; there is now a superfast surcharge payable when a passenger travels by these trains. Superfast trains and broadband speeds are similar in India - they are superfast or broadband on paper only. The average speed of any superfast train in India is 60 kmph; a non-superfast train runs at 50 kmph!

Reservations for trains open 90 days in advance - up from the earlier 60 days - an additional months of revenue is good for projecting great numbers.

The tamasha did not stop with the Railway Budget of course. The Finance Minister's budget was an exercise in populism gone to the extreme.

Rs 60,000 cr loans to be written off - sounds too good to be true. One wonders where the money will come from? One wonders what happens to the farmers who took loans from money lenders instead of banks? One wonders how much of the Rs 60,000 cr to be written off actually benefits the sugar barons of Maharashtra - who take loans from their own cooperative banks and almost never pay them back on time? One wonders what happens to farmers now that they need working capital to start their lives afresh? One wonders why Muslims should get special treatment in a country that is not only overwhelmingly Hindu but professedly secular? The UPA Government is the most communal Government we have ever had because of its hatred towards Hindus and its undying love towards Muslims and Christians.

Have you seen any of these questions being asked in the Budget specials of any newspaper or TV channels? One channel posed such questions to the Finance Minister and he chose to walk off (albeit briefly). So you can't take tough questions Mr Finance Minister?

The next day, there was no mention of this episode in most newspapers. I was thinking of the day when Mr Narendra Modi walked off Karan Thapar's show and the way media pounced on Mr Modi and gave lenghty sermons on why he should not have walked off. I did not see such sermons for Mr P Chidambaram.

Have the media owners sold themselves out to the UPA Government? I would really want to watch the fun when the BJP Government comes to power!