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Date sent: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 10:48:03 -0600 This article by Mr Dilip D'Souza is totally biased, and I question his credentials to write this kind of article. It serves no other purpose rather than painting a wrong picture about the National Front minority government which was spineless. Even a Cabinet consisting of uneducated people, taking decisions on their common sense would have performed better. How can Rediff publish such articles on the web without proper investigation? He talks about the Ganga water pact with Bangladesh as being a triumph for India, but does he know the implications of such an accord, and how much loss India will have to bear due to such a pact? All this just for appeasing a neighbour (a Muslim country) for securing Muslim sympathy votes in elections? This is the neighbour whom India liberated from the clutches of Pakistan, and which created enough refugee problems for India. They have been sheltering terrorists who target India. Instead of signing a water pact, did they make any serious effort in sending the refugees back? Of course they will just sign pacts, show it to the public and forget it, never will they make any effort to send these refugees back, who add to our problems. He says the BJP sponsored the destruction of the Babri mosque. First of all, by what authority does he say that it was a mosque? He has been totally biased against the BJP. They never told anybody to destroy this structure. They just exhorted the people to perform kar seva. Everybody knows that A B Vajpayee and Advani were shocked after this act. If they would have known about it, were they foolish enough to be present there? It was just an act spurred on the spot due to pent up feelings and pent up emotions due to minority appeasement policies of the Congress and the National Front governments. Why didn't anybody raise any question when Sardar Patel got the Somnath temple restored to the Hindus? You say the BJP is communal, because you listen only to the first word Hindutva. Please ask Mr Advani what is Hindutva. It is just a Hindi word for Indian ideologies. No political party before and after the BJP asked Indians to be proud of what they are, to respect their ideologies and give it a name -- Hindutva. How secular are these minority appeasing parties? How secular is this BSP spreading the venom of casteism? It was the National Front and BSP who rekindled casteism when India was slowly and surely coming out of it. In the pre Mandal periods, I never knew the caste of my friends. Casteism and corruption are evils given to us by our preceding generations. These parties have perpetuated it. Think of any leader in these parties who has a clean image? I have never found any article in the press indicting the BSP of casteism! Yet, it was the BJP who prevented a vertical divide in the Indian society (Mandal had 100% potential to do so) by spreading the ideology of Hindutva, and you say that they are communal. These parties have been ruling our country for 50 forgettable years.What have we achieved? Till this day only 10% of our population has access to a glass of clean drinking water! And the BJP was in power for only 13 days and we have unearthed so many scandals.
Date sent: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 14:01:43 -0500 There has been wide spread condemning of this act, calling it barbaric, communal and what not. This has gone a lot way in condemning the BJP and RSS as communal, anti-national and what not. To these 'secular' minds, I have a few questions: 1. Where were these 'secular' people when the country was divided and a lot of Hindus and Muslims were being massacred en masse. It was the RSS which without making any consideration helped one and all. 2. Where were these 'secular' people when scores of temples were destroyed in Pakistan, why did they not raise their voices then? 3. It was the CPI/CPM combine which refused to condemn the invasion of China. They have no right to call themselves nationalists, rest alone blame anybody else as anti-nationalists. 4. Where were these 'secular' people when scores of Kashmiri pandits were flushed out of their home land in Jammu and Kashmir? Did anybody apart from the BJP and RSS condemn them? Did anybody visit them or help them? Even today these 'secular' forces are silent about them and refuse to comment on them. 5. Where were these 'secular' people when a complete Muslim district was formed in Kerala, flushing out the Hindus in their own homeland? Why did they not condemn them? There is no concrete proof that the mosque existed in its place without pulling the temple down. The act of destroying was nothing but an expression which echoed after being snubbed inside due to 'pseudo secularism' and 'minoritism'. This sets a precedence as to what might happen if these 'secular' forces continue to uphold their 'pseudo secular ' activities. It is high time that we had one law for everybody in the country. I am sure that Rediff would have got a lot of articles condemning the demolition etc, but will Rediff have the attitude of posting this mail which tries to take a different view? Ajay Gannerkote
Date sent: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 13:14:05 -0800 I don't care what the "pseudos think! What ever happened at Ayodhya was good. Thing to be proud about. A blot on the Indian history has been wiped out. The positive impact of this "great event" could only be realised in the years to come. At least the defeatist and slave mentality of Indians forced on them through centuries of foreign rule will tend to disappear!
Date sent: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 13:20:58 -0500 Thank you for this report. We have to hear the BJP side of the story too so that we can assess the truth, or otherwise, of the happenings which led to the demolishing of the mosque. Would you also now consider factual reports on: 1. The Bombay blasts --who were involved? 2. The Bombay riots 3. The causes for the unrest in Assam -- the role of political parties in allowing Bangladeshis to settle in Assam and make the Assamese into a minority. Ven Hari
Date sent: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 10:41:16 -0700 First of all, the foundation of this nation was rocked when Jinnah talked of the two-nation theory. The foundation of this country was rocked when this country was divided in 1947. The foundation of this country was rocked when "Meenakshipuram" was changed to "Rahamat Nagar". The foundation of this country was rocked when Hindus were butchered in a communal frenzy in Meerut. The foundation of this country was also rocked when Kashmiri pandits were driven out of their homes and their women raped. I am assuming that none of the writers of this excerpt is a Kashmiri pandit. The products of Western culture do not go to Kashmir, and write a book about that, but will offer condolences when the disputed structure collapses. In any other nation this would have been hailed as a landmark event. But we are capable of self-flagellation. They blame the BJP-VHP-RSS leaders projecting this as a CIA-like operation. Why don't they blame the court which sat on the dispute for 47 years? And why don't they blame Narasimha Rao, who played a hypocritical double-game? I urge Rediff to break free from the "secularist" mentality that plagues the media in general. Time to call a spade a spade. Thank to the BJP-RSS-VHP the communal frenzy that we saw in Coimbatore last week has not engulfed the whole nation. Instead of projecting the RSS as the only patriotic organisation today, you still indulge in a subtle hate campaign against it. Regardless of what you think, the RSS has captured the imagination of an average Hindu, and is here to stay for a long time. Sameer
Date sent: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 00:28:01 -0600 In his article, Dilip D'Souza throws barbs at K R Malkani for the ISI agent infiltration theory. D'Souza is so obsessed with the BJP and the Sangh Parivar that he has forgotten that it was Arjun Singh, then a Cabinet minister in the Rao government, who propounded the ISI role in demolition theory. Malkani, by reinstating a Cabinet minister's statement, is merely holding a Cabinet minister responsible for those statements. After all cabinet ministers are privy to intelligence information. Why did Arjun Singh make such a statement in the first place? The onus is on Arjun Singh and Narasimha Rao to explain the ISI-among-karsevaks theory. And it is D'Souza's responsibility to hold Arjun Singh accountable for his statements. The BJP did not demolish the Babri structure, the RSS/VHP/Sangh Parivar did not do it, it was Hindu society which did it, and no amount of putrid self-flagellation will bring it back. Pran Lal
Date sent: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 12:57:28 -0600 I have just read a few lines in this article, and I am pretty convinced that Dilip D'Souza wants to write a story, not an article, using his own imagination, and with few facts which makes this story far from reality. Probably he is not aware of the fact that there was no looting nor killings across the country after this event directed at that cause, it was just some politically motivated actions, you can't say that this came from the public. There can be murders even on Mahatma Gandhi's birthday, that is the shameful state of India today, but are you going to say that the general public is doing all that? No it's all politically motivated. Kiran
Date sent: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 14:14:10 -0500 What we saw Mr D'Souza on December 6th, was the frustration and anger of Hindus on the five decades of Congress rule in alliance with your intellectual comrades -- the Socialists and Marxists. What came crumbling down on December 6th was a dilapidated structure called a mosque -- built over the ruins of a Hindu temple and also pseudo notions called socialism and secularism. The vandalism that followed was the result of encouragement given by ilk of your kind to Muslim fundamentalists to riot, loot and arson. The rioting in Coimbatore last week shows that they don't exactly need a reason. Where was your disgust and nausea when half a million Hindus were ethnically cleansed in Kashmir in the name of Islam? Where was your disgust and nausea when thousands were killed in the name of Naxalism, another form of terrorism? Your selective nausea reeks of ideological chest beating. Please save your nausea when the signs of slavery in Mathura and Kashi come tumbling down.
Date sent: Thu, 4 Dec 97 05:43:19 UT Such articles convince me even more that we need a war to eliminate all secular Hindus. Otherwise people like me have to live with these kind of insults. Accusing the BJP is equal to accusing a large section of the population which voted for it. Does the author realise that? Or are the Muslims are more important for him than those who voted for the BJP?
Date sent: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 18:59:05 -0800 I don't know if Dilip D'Souza is a Hindu or not, but having read many rants such as his, I have the following observation to make. As a Hindu from somewhere other than India, it pains me to see the pitiable state of the Hindu minds in India. Whether the destruction of Babri was justifiable or not, I find it ludicrous that these same Hindus who are up in arms about this issue are not at the very least equally vociferous about the destruction of temples in Kashmir, or the state of Hindu Kashmiris and Bangladeshis. It is this slave mentality coupled with a lack of unity that no other nation in the world has allowed Hindus to be the whipping boys of all history. This will not change ever until Hindus take a serious look at themselves, ascertain their common heritage, take pride in it, and guard against others before fighting amongst each other. Madhukar
Date sent: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 11:14:59 +0530 Mr Dilip D'Souza, whatever your views regarding the BJP, its ideology may be right. But Rao cannot be blamed for the debacle. Any instigation at that time would be a disaster to India, can you expect the Indian police/army to kill fellow Indians? Think of ordering the CRPF/army taking the command? And also consider the phase India was passing through when Rao took up the prime ministership. It was only because of him and Manmohan Singh that India tided over the situation. Now please look at Manmohan Singh -- he doesn't even have the courtesy to stand by his mentor. And if you look into the assets of Rao, it's no way in comparison with any of the Congress MPs starting from Sitaram Kesri to Jaffer Sharief or even Bangarappa. Rao was fully committed for development of technology, otherwise Rediff would be nowhere in the picture. Rajiv Gandhi was attracted by technology but he did not know how to get the same done in India.
Date sent: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 00:10:23 +0800
From: "Revendran"
You are a Christian by faith, and will never really understand what the
original temple stands for. Just as the Christians silently
support a separate Jewish settlement in Palestine.
Date sent: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 12:20:16 +0530
I wish Mr Gurumurthy gets his article and other deliberations
of the meets he has attended publicised widely for the people
at large to appreciate, and come away from the clutches of
misleading politicians. I also wish that he comes out of
the RSS and speaks as a 'nationalist,' so that he has a wider platform
and is not repelled by the so-called secular minded people
and the press. Truth in any other garb is not palatable to many.
Date sent: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 17:17:08 -0800 (PST)
Dilip D'Souza says the events of December 6, 1992 were vandalism. If
demolishing the symbol of a nation's slavery is vandalism, then
demolition of the Berlin Wall was also vandalism.
Germans, especially the East Germans will disagree with D'Souza.
Mahadevan Shezian
Date sent: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 11:46:17 -0800
What happened has happened. How long you have to
cry on this? Hope that it will not continue as Gandhi jayanti
or Nehru jayanti every year.
Instead of writing such stupid articles, write more professional
ones on the same issue like what kind of evidence is submitted
by the Babri Structure Action Committee, and VHP to either prove
or disprove the existence of the temple.
When the government itself writes it as "Babri structure" why
do you have to phoo phoo it as "Babri Masjid." Still you intellectuals
have to come out of intellectual slavery. Who cares if something
is published in some international journals? The bottom line is
they didn't come to protect the so-called "Babri Masjid."
Nagaraj
Date sent: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 19:49:37 -0800
The series of articles in these columns depicting the destruction of Babri
Masjid are quite
engrossing, if not lurid.
I am curious as to why the same vivid description is not given for any
religious riots, say
when the Muslims killed at least ten people in the recent riots in
Bangalore, for a paltry and
a very silly reason.
One does not condone the spread of hatred among people, one does not
condone acts of
violence at targeted populations and minorities, but one cannot but help
laugh at the double
standards of pseudo-secularists.
SM
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