Intolerent Indians

Intolerant Indians

Well, the ruling party members scoff at their detractors for manufacturing a protest and staging the drama of award wapsi. Some have gone to the extreme calling them sleeper cells of anti BJP forces.

It is also a fact that certain elements will continue to be critical of anything and everything that BJP and its leadership may do be it some of the so called secular leaders, the main opposition party that is presently deep in dumps, and most of die hard communists. It is unfortunate that despite their claims of being secular or plain and simple atheists or rather anti religion, communists are communalists of the worst kind. Also, one can not expect the darbari mandali of old regimes to praise NaMo and BJP.

Someone accused Nayantara Sehgal of starting it all and it prima facie appears true too and one can not rule out the allegation in entirety but then there is another facet which says that Nayantara Sehgal is more like her illustrious mother, who had an ambivalent relationship with her niece Indira Gandhi. Vijaylaxmi Pandit was never seen with Indira Gandhi as was the case earlier when her brother Pandit Nehru was in power. In those days, Ms Vijaylaxmi Pandit was once even seen in high chair at UNO. Nobody has ever seen Nayantara Sehgal taking sides with Congress or its reigning first family.

It is said that PUCL (decidedly one of the premier institutions fighting for civil rights and liberties in India), has a deep connect with both the mother and her worthy daughter. Still, one would like the lady and her ilk to come forward and initiate a dialogue with the parties she is opposing or rather, talk to them about the actions, and the policies that, in their view, needs to be opposed and stopped.

A free for all is not in anybody's favour, and must stop immediately. With the passing day, it is getting internationalised and our enemies are looking at it with glee. Already, the portents are not good since a purely financial body like the global credit rating agency named Moodys has come out with what can be seen as political statement that looks like a repeat of the common accusations flying around.

So guys, bury the hatchet now for the sake of Mother India and its millions of poor children, please.

Is it true that Modi is attacked for being "Desi" (not of privileged class)

A newspaper headline goes like this,"Modi is not privileged class, thus faces attacks: Chetan Bhagat".

If he (Mr Bhagat) has actually said what the newspaper website says he has said, then it may be a point worth considering. I wish to thank Mr Chetan Bhagat for speaking out what was in my mind for some time. Actually, I have mentioned this in few of my previous posts here in this blog itself.

Times Group too deserves praise for publishing the article and for baring the truth. It has been seen time and again that similiar or worse incidents have happened under the previous regimes and keep happening in opposition ruled states but somehow the blame is invariably and so incorrectly being directed at NaMo & BJP. Somehow, the idea of manufactured dissent raised by BJP seems to be so much true / genuine. Somehow, it will still make sense if one declines to accept an award but the very idea of dismissing an accepted award and honour earned by virtue of hard work makes no sense.
  

It has been a notable aspect of elections of 2014 that BJP fought and won under the leadership of someone who is essentially not a career politician. Mr Namrendra Modi had never been in the mainstream politics and never even contested an election before being anointed as Chief Minister of Gujarat in Oct 2001. Thus, it was people's wish that BJP rules the country for the next five years. 

Besides, to me it holds much higher significance that BJP fought and won this election under the leadership of an ordinary person, that is someone who is son of poor parents, who used to earn their livelihood through a hard days toil. His parents were no royals, no feudal landlords, no industrialists, no traders, no contractors, not even local advocates or even influential Sarpanch of the area. 

For the first time, people had a candidate who genuinely gave his entire life to social work and this enthused the  people. Besides, it is also seen that having no offspring of his own, he did not have the burden of securing the future of his heirs. This is seen as a really big plus point in our political scene.

Besides, in my view, what appealed to the youth was his unbelievably good health, high level of motivation and dynamism unseen till now, his ease with the computers, technology and the gadgets. His team came up with innovative uses of technology to reach out to maximum numbers of voters.

And then, in the end, it is his ease with words, that makes him a unique inspiring leader of masses. Fact is that he is communicator par excellence and even his detractors are forced to acknowledge this.

Hence, the opposition parties and the intelligentsia should refrain from too much criticism, or else, the critics of this regime will sooner or later loose credibility and it will turn out to be like the story of the shepherd boy and the wolf. Constructive criticism is fine but too much carping is not justifiable.

Talking of intolerance and returning of awards

Talking of intolerance and returning of awards

Much has been said about the rising intolerance in society and also about the act of returning of the awards by some eminent persons who are considered to be greats in their respective fields of work.

Before we move ahead, let it be clear that lynching by mobs was so far heard in parts of Bengal, and in some other pockets where poor old ladies were killed by falsely labeling them as chudail or dayan.

It is hard to see such things now happening in places like Dimpaur in Nagaland and Dadri in NCR. Also, it is heart rending to see that in both the cases, at least one member of the victim's family was serving with the security forces. While, one victim was labelled as 'foreigner', and the investigations seem to confirm that both the victims were falsely accused of the 'crimes' that they never committed.

Such is the guile and cunning of the perpetrators of these crimes that ever since the political parties and people worth a name in this society are indulging in mud slinging and bad mouthing each other.


Print media has already wasted paper worth several millions in discussing this topic and has still not reached anywhere. The issue is all over the television screens and can not be missed either on the net.

But what is the truth. Are these people really interested in what they seem to say or whether they are just the hit-men of some political parties who have lost elections but do not wish to give up as yet.

Being abused by opposition is not new for BJP and its present face, Prime Minister Narendra Modi. As such, some of the so called men of wisdom, self appointed champions of secularism, have always been critical of BJP and particularly that of NaMo. Both are anathema to some sections of the so called intelligentsia. The secularists just can not tolerate them both. Strangely, even some of their own people, usually estranged from the present regime, have been critical of their own government.
These days, it has become difficult to believe the written word, be it on net or in newspapers. Almost everyone seems to have an axe to grind and thus, a genuinely honest opinion is difficult to come by.

Hence, talking of intolerance and to comment on return of awards, by some authors, is a difficult proposition for an onlooker but one may also not ignore some points raised by BJP sympathisers.

NaMo came to power after BJP gained a simple majority on its own and this has happened after long long time indicating that people were fed up with the past regime and also did not want a coalition.

It is not if we have any dearth of eminent personalities who are genuinely disturbed at the growing chasm between the different sections of the society but it is also true that the last regime was the most corrupt, its leaders have cornered oodles of money that can easily buy some of the opinion makers.

What adds significance to the BJP's stance of it being manufactured dissent is the fact that it started with the lady named Nayantara Sehgal, and everyone knows her ancestry and the political lineage.

Despite doubts, let us assume they are all genuinely concerned but still, the question is whether they are going to achieve any tangible results by doing what they are doing. Let all of them think over it.