I have few concerns genuinely with the whole campaign of Bharat Swabhimaan even though I am a fond follower of Swami RamDevji Maharaj, whom we fondly call Babaji. The intention with which Babaji has started this revolution is undoubted. But entering politics by floating a new party against two major national parties is foolishness. I may be wrong, but I dont want to be proved right. As this would only bring the downfall of our beloved Babaji and waste of lots of donated money (forget about geting back the money from Swiss bank).
Bharat Swabhimaan talks the same language, same intentions, same goals as VHP, RSS and their sister organizations do. But to be politically right, Babaji never utters the word HINDU. I am a proud Hindu and say it everywhere, anywhere, anytime. What Babaji talks and intends to make will ultimately be called a "Hindu Rashtra". Why cant Babaji and Bharat Swabhimaan Andolan act as catalyst to promote BJP openly? We have enough parties in our country. Corrupt people are everywhere, even in BJP. We can take them off through a good Swabhiman Andolan. If Babaji floats a new party say XYZ, it is only going to divide the most precious Hindu votes. Take the example of MNS, Shiva Sena and BJP in MH during the lok sabha election. MNS got maximum votes which used to be Shivsena's votes, BJP faced bad vote percentage. Who won ? Congress!! Actually in the context of this, if only BJP were to be contesting elections without MNS and Shivsena, BJP would have got atleast 25 seats more alone in MH. Which means forming a Govt at the centre. Which inturn means development!! Learning from this lesson which has burnt fingers badly, do u think another party is needed which will split Hindu votes again? Anyway Muslims and Christians are never going to vote for either Babaji, BJP, MNS etc. Small neglible number of such good ppl who do vote, will never be significant. Babaji's party will only mean another term for Anti- National, Dynasty ruled Congress. !!
Coming to the people who will be representing Babaji's party in elections will have to be carefully chosen. History speaks for itself of how people change and become corrupt when they enter politics. More and more power to those people who were never known to be in the public domain or social work will become corrupt easily. Politics of today demands everyone to be a crook, even if you dont wish to be. Look at Yedyurappa's son's landscams!! Whether the CM is involved or not, his close associates and relatives will be. For no mistake of his, the Karnataka CM is given enough nightmares. Do you think the rest of political arena will leave any chances of maligning our beloved Babaji? He may not escape even if there is single but a big scandal from his own associates! Remember, he himself is amongst last big fishes who are still clean. If the Italian born can malign the Kanchi Shankaracharyaji falsely and get him arrested on the day of Deepawali , it can happen to our Babaji too. Babaji is playing his future in the hands of Congress. If the Bharat Swabhimaan Andolan fails to get enough support, it means it looses elections. It also means people who have hugely donated their hard earned and black money will only question the intention on Babaji. Protests, disappointments, anger, agony, pain will all burst like a angry volcano and burn the big dream into ashes. Babaji who is known as the yogic Hero of our times will be reduced to a political Zero. Such a failure can never bring back the fan following in future. Babaji has to recall what He has promised himself and the country, a country free of diseases, starvation, agony, pain and self pity.
One wrong move can potentially lock all doors of the Patanajali Yog Peeth! One wrong move can convert Babaji's followers into his enemies. One wrong move could never get back Babaji's image world over. One wrong move can shatter Babaji's empire and also a country future. A dream of confident, patriotic, scientific, highly educated country will be shattered once again.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Can a HINDU ever become or called a Terrorist?
The Hindu Rate Of Wrath
This article is written not by me but by Francois Gautier. I loved this article and would like to share it with you all. A brief introduction of the author followed by the actual subject.
By Francois Gautier
Is there such a thing as 'Hindu terrorism', as the arrest of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur for the Malegaon blasts may tend to prove? Well, I guess I was asked to write this column because I am one of that rare breed of foreign correspondents—a lover of Hindus! A born Frenchman, Catholic-educated and non-Hindu, I do hope I'll be given some credit for my opinions, which are not the product of my parents' ideas, my education or my atavism, but garnered from 25 years of reporting in South Asia (for Le Journal de Geneve and Le Figaro).
In the early 1980s, when I started freelancing in south India, doing photo features on Kalaripayattu, the Ayyappa festival, or the Ayyanars, I slowly realised that the genius of this country lies in its Hindu ethos, in the true spirituality behind Hinduism. The average Hindu you meet in a million villages possesses this simple, innate spirituality and accepts your diversity, whether you are Christian or Muslim, Jain or Arab, French or Chinese. It is this Hinduness that makes the Indian Christian different from, say, a French Christian, or the Indian Muslim unlike a Saudi Muslim. I also learnt that Hindus not only believed that the divine could manifest itself at different times, under different names, using different scriptures(not to mention the wonderful avatar concept, the perfect answer to 21st century religious strife) but that they had also given refuge to persecuted minorities from across the world—Syrian Christians, Parsis, Jews, Armenians, and today, Tibetans.
In 3,500 years of existence, Hindus have never militarily invaded another country, never tried to impose their religion on others by force or induced conversions. You cannot find anybody less fundamentalist than a Hindu in the world and it saddens me when I see the Indian and western press equating terrorist groups like SIMI, which blow up innocent civilians, with ordinary, angry Hindus who burn churches without killing anybody. We know also that most of these communal incidents often involve persons from the same groups—often Dalits and tribals—some of who have converted to Christianity and others not. However reprehensible the destruction of Babri Masjid, no Muslim was killed in the process; compare this to the 'vengeance' bombings of 1993 in Bombay, which wiped out hundreds of innocents, mostly Hindus. Yet the Babri Masjid destruction is often described by journalists as the more horrible act of the two. We also remember how Sharad Pawar, when he was Chief minister of Maharashtra in 1993, lied about a bomb that was supposed to have gone off in a Muslim locality of Bombay.
I have never been politically correct, but have always written what I have discovered while reporting. Let me then be straightforward about this so-called Hindu terror. Hindus, since the first Arab invasions, have been at the receiving end of terrorism, whether it was by Timur, who killed 1,00,000 Hindus in a single day in 1399, or by the Portuguese Inquisition which crucified Brahmins in Goa. Today, Hindus are still being targeted: there were one million Hindus in the Kashmir valley in 1900; only a few hundred remain, the rest having fled in terror. Blasts after blasts have killed hundreds of innocent Hindus all over India in the last four years. Hindus, the overwhelming majority community of this country, are being made fun of, are despised, are deprived of the most basic facilities for one of their most sacred pilgrimages in Amarnath while their government heavily sponsors the Haj. They see their brothers and sisters converted to Christianity through inducements and financial traps, see a harmless 84-year-old swami and a sadhvi brutally murdered. Their gods are blasphemed. So sometimes, enough is enough.
At some point, after years or even centuries of submitting like sheep to slaughter, Hindus—whom the Mahatma once gently called cowards—erupt in uncontrolled fury. And it hurts badly. It happened in Gujarat. It happened in Jammu, then in Kandhamal, Mangalore, and Malegaon. It may happen again elsewhere. What should be understood is that this is a spontaneous revolution on the ground, by ordinary Hindus, without any planning from the political leadership. Therefore, the BJP, instead of acting embarrassed, should not disown those who choose other means to let their anguished voices be heard.
There are about a billion Hindus, one in every six persons on this planet.
They form one of the most successful, law-abiding and integrated communities in the world today.
Can you call them terrorists?
(The writer is the editor-in-chief of the Paris-based La Revue de l'Inde)
This article is written not by me but by Francois Gautier. I loved this article and would like to share it with you all. A brief introduction of the author followed by the actual subject.
By Francois Gautier
Is there such a thing as 'Hindu terrorism', as the arrest of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur for the Malegaon blasts may tend to prove? Well, I guess I was asked to write this column because I am one of that rare breed of foreign correspondents—a lover of Hindus! A born Frenchman, Catholic-educated and non-Hindu, I do hope I'll be given some credit for my opinions, which are not the product of my parents' ideas, my education or my atavism, but garnered from 25 years of reporting in South Asia (for Le Journal de Geneve and Le Figaro).
In the early 1980s, when I started freelancing in south India, doing photo features on Kalaripayattu, the Ayyappa festival, or the Ayyanars, I slowly realised that the genius of this country lies in its Hindu ethos, in the true spirituality behind Hinduism. The average Hindu you meet in a million villages possesses this simple, innate spirituality and accepts your diversity, whether you are Christian or Muslim, Jain or Arab, French or Chinese. It is this Hinduness that makes the Indian Christian different from, say, a French Christian, or the Indian Muslim unlike a Saudi Muslim. I also learnt that Hindus not only believed that the divine could manifest itself at different times, under different names, using different scriptures(not to mention the wonderful avatar concept, the perfect answer to 21st century religious strife) but that they had also given refuge to persecuted minorities from across the world—Syrian Christians, Parsis, Jews, Armenians, and today, Tibetans.
In 3,500 years of existence, Hindus have never militarily invaded another country, never tried to impose their religion on others by force or induced conversions. You cannot find anybody less fundamentalist than a Hindu in the world and it saddens me when I see the Indian and western press equating terrorist groups like SIMI, which blow up innocent civilians, with ordinary, angry Hindus who burn churches without killing anybody. We know also that most of these communal incidents often involve persons from the same groups—often Dalits and tribals—some of who have converted to Christianity and others not. However reprehensible the destruction of Babri Masjid, no Muslim was killed in the process; compare this to the 'vengeance' bombings of 1993 in Bombay, which wiped out hundreds of innocents, mostly Hindus. Yet the Babri Masjid destruction is often described by journalists as the more horrible act of the two. We also remember how Sharad Pawar, when he was Chief minister of Maharashtra in 1993, lied about a bomb that was supposed to have gone off in a Muslim locality of Bombay.
I have never been politically correct, but have always written what I have discovered while reporting. Let me then be straightforward about this so-called Hindu terror. Hindus, since the first Arab invasions, have been at the receiving end of terrorism, whether it was by Timur, who killed 1,00,000 Hindus in a single day in 1399, or by the Portuguese Inquisition which crucified Brahmins in Goa. Today, Hindus are still being targeted: there were one million Hindus in the Kashmir valley in 1900; only a few hundred remain, the rest having fled in terror. Blasts after blasts have killed hundreds of innocent Hindus all over India in the last four years. Hindus, the overwhelming majority community of this country, are being made fun of, are despised, are deprived of the most basic facilities for one of their most sacred pilgrimages in Amarnath while their government heavily sponsors the Haj. They see their brothers and sisters converted to Christianity through inducements and financial traps, see a harmless 84-year-old swami and a sadhvi brutally murdered. Their gods are blasphemed. So sometimes, enough is enough.
At some point, after years or even centuries of submitting like sheep to slaughter, Hindus—whom the Mahatma once gently called cowards—erupt in uncontrolled fury. And it hurts badly. It happened in Gujarat. It happened in Jammu, then in Kandhamal, Mangalore, and Malegaon. It may happen again elsewhere. What should be understood is that this is a spontaneous revolution on the ground, by ordinary Hindus, without any planning from the political leadership. Therefore, the BJP, instead of acting embarrassed, should not disown those who choose other means to let their anguished voices be heard.
There are about a billion Hindus, one in every six persons on this planet.
They form one of the most successful, law-abiding and integrated communities in the world today.
Can you call them terrorists?
(The writer is the editor-in-chief of the Paris-based La Revue de l'Inde)
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Paneer aur Dal ki Tikki
Ingredients:
1. Paneer (cottage cheese) 200 gm (Grated or finely chopped)
2. Chana dal 200 gm (Soaked for 3-4 hrs)
3. Ginger 1 About an inch in size
4. Green chillies 2 - 4 (Fine chopped)
5. Turmeric powder 1/4 spoon
6. Garlic 3-4 cloves
7. Curd 1 cup (Unsweetened and unsalted)
8. Onion 1 cup (Finely Chopped)
9. Garam Masala Powder 1 Tbsp
10. Chat Masala 1 Tbsp
11. Oil 1 cup ( for shallow frying)
12. Coriander Leaves handful (Finely chopped)
13. Salt to taste
14. Lemon Half (Lemon Juice)
Method:
1. Grind ingredients 2 to 6 into a semi solid paste. Do not grind into fine paste. Make sure its a bit grainy. Its must be thick enough and grainy to make patties. Look at the pic provided below.
2. Add Paneer + Curd + Onion + Garam masala ( you can avoid Chat masala if u dont prefer with Garam Masala) + Salt + Coriander leaves into the mixture made in Step 1. Mix uniformly.
3. Make small Tikkis (patties). Cookie size.
4. Shallow fry in a non sticky pan till golden brown on both the sides. Check my pics below.
Server with a dash of lemon juice on them. Goes well with Tomato Ketchup and Pudina (Mint) Chutni. This serves 4 people for a nice evening snack.
Enjoy :) !!
1. Paneer (cottage cheese) 200 gm (Grated or finely chopped)
2. Chana dal 200 gm (Soaked for 3-4 hrs)
3. Ginger 1 About an inch in size
4. Green chillies 2 - 4 (Fine chopped)
5. Turmeric powder 1/4 spoon
6. Garlic 3-4 cloves
7. Curd 1 cup (Unsweetened and unsalted)
8. Onion 1 cup (Finely Chopped)
9. Garam Masala Powder 1 Tbsp
10. Chat Masala 1 Tbsp
11. Oil 1 cup ( for shallow frying)
12. Coriander Leaves handful (Finely chopped)
13. Salt to taste
14. Lemon Half (Lemon Juice)
Method:
1. Grind ingredients 2 to 6 into a semi solid paste. Do not grind into fine paste. Make sure its a bit grainy. Its must be thick enough and grainy to make patties. Look at the pic provided below.
2. Add Paneer + Curd + Onion + Garam masala ( you can avoid Chat masala if u dont prefer with Garam Masala) + Salt + Coriander leaves into the mixture made in Step 1. Mix uniformly.
3. Make small Tikkis (patties). Cookie size.
4. Shallow fry in a non sticky pan till golden brown on both the sides. Check my pics below.
Server with a dash of lemon juice on them. Goes well with Tomato Ketchup and Pudina (Mint) Chutni. This serves 4 people for a nice evening snack.
Enjoy :) !!
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