Commie Columnist Comes Out of Hiding
Tuesday, 6. June 2006 - 11:52 AM
Commentator Extraordinaire C Raja Mohan drops all pretensions of being a cloak-and-dagger communist with this singular article. He wants a Nepal without strings; roughly translated, he implies that now that Nepal is quickly becoming a Communist secular state, he wants New Delhi to stop interfering. The same lies, redux:
Steeled in the fire of a successful pro-democracy movement, the Himalayan Kingdom is now in the middle of a complex transition to a republic in all but name…. Nepal has changed irrevocably in the 19 days of the pro-democracy agitation. That the Nepalese stood up bravely against the shoot-at-sight orders of King Gyanendra and refused to compromise with the monarchy despite the advice from India and the international community, has injected a new sense of self-confidence in Kathmandu.
While he completely ignores the protests staged by Hindus to preserve their tradition, which stands threatened by the Maoists now in power. But this news is hardly published by the secular Indian media for obvious reasons.
Understandably, Raja Mohan doesn’t want India to what he calls “paternalize” Nepal: there’s plenty precious at stake, which Indian interference may upset. The Maoists are only now taking toddler steps to figure out how to damage manage the country. A senile–there’s no other way to describe him–Koirala is therefore the perfect choice as PM, while thug-leader Prachanda works behind the scenes before–if he has his way–usurping total control. Of course, Raja Mohan doesn’t have a single word–critical or otherwise–on Prachanda.
Frankly, India should really have paternalized during the Gyanendra mess; it didn’t: a probable reason is the Left’s inordinate influence over the UPA. When it could have stemmed the Nepal crisis, it didn’t. But Raja Mohan wants us to believe otherwise. I am yet to read Raja Mohan write a single article critical of the Chinese massacre of Tibet. I suppose that doesn’t qualify as Chinese paternalizing–it’s actually more than just paternalizing. But I forget, it is entirely consistent behaviour on his part: he wants Nepal to become a satellite state of Communist China.
6. June 2006 - 12:43 PM
Sandeep
The man stands exposed indeed. Finally. But rather than call him a Marxist – he merely represents the supine policies of Manmohan Singh. This explains his support for the Indo-United States nuclear deal.
Best regards
6. June 2006 - 2:21 PM
” I am yet to read Raja Mohan write a single article critical of the Chinese massacre of Tibet”
And I am unable to find a single post of yours critical of Narendra modi inspired Gujarat pogrom
6. June 2006 - 3:03 PM
Pankaj,
Please… Narendra Modi has been pronounced guilty largely by the media. For the record, hundreds of Hindus also died in the Gujarat riots. So do we blame Modi for that? I also suspect you haven’t closely followed the spate of articles that have demolished the secularist myth of Modi is Guilty.
In the same vein, I don’t see you mentioning the 58 people who where torched for no fault of theirs in the train bogie? Or do numbers only matter to you: 1 dead is nothing, a 1000 muslims dead, and you yell, “murder!” Or has Lalu-inspired Banerjee “report” convinced you?
I don’t want to reopen this debate here so you have your way, I’ll have mine.
6. June 2006 - 3:23 PM
On the contrary it is the hindunazis who are busy creating the myth that Modi is innocent.
Here is Ashish Nandy on Modi (thanks to Chandrahas Choudhury http://middlestage.blogspot.com/
“Modi, it gives me no pleasure to tell the readers, met virtually all the criteria that psychiatrists, psycho-analysts and psychologists had set up [for] the authoritarian personality. He had the same mix of puritanical rigidity, narrowing of emotional life, massive use of the ego defence of projection, denial and fear of his own passions combined with fantasies of violence… I still remember the cool, measured tone in which he elaborated a theory of cosmic conspiracy against India that painted every Muslim as a suspected traitor and a potential terrorist. I came out of the interview shaken and told [Achyut] Yagnik that, for the first time, I had met a textbook case of a fascist and a prospective killer, perhaps even a future mass murderer.”
6. June 2006 - 3:36 PM
Pankaj
Please do not use words like Hindu Nazi – it is like using the word Muslim pigs. You insult us!
Criticize Narendra Modi but do not attack the religion as India’s secular media does.
I like Ashis Nandy who despite his Christian beliefs is able to present a Hindu perspective in his scholarship. But I do not think he has the last word on Gujarat.
6. June 2006 - 3:42 PM
Pankaj,
Classic case of using a logically fallacious argument: appeal to authority rather than reason. I don’t really care what Ashis Nandy or any other “intellectual” thinks. For the record, most of what the likes of Ashis Nandy writes baffles commoners like us, clouded as it is with generous doses of academic words. More importantly, it is Nandy, and most modern-day “intellectuals” who are in the state of “denial.” Denial of the real threat of Islamism that haunts not just India but the entire globe.
And your “Hindunazis” had me in splits: you really know how to crack a joke. I deliberately refrained from responding to you but I had to draw the line at some time. Here it is:
Please get an education Pankaj, if you are serious about having a meaningful debate, that. You’re otherwise always welcome on this blog to rant.
6. June 2006 - 3:54 PM
All I care about the danger of hindunazism which haunts India as a sceptre with thier MacCarthyte hatred of communism ,islam ,christianity ,liberals etc as “anti national” while the islamists are just a pin prick to India .
It is you who need to get and education and read more about Gujarat .May I suggest Ashish Nandy’s articles as a start ?
6. June 2006 - 4:14 PM
BTW I have nothing against hinduism per se.
But I don’t accept hinduvta and believe it is a danger that should be fought tooth and nail.
These hindunazis have created a false culture of victimology when Hinduism is alive and kicking.
6. June 2006 - 5:05 PM
Pankaj,
>>It is you who need to get and education and read more about Gujarat
Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way. It was you who began the tirade over Gujarat and Hindunazis (not just in this post, but several others, earlier) and the rest. The burden of proof therefore rests on you, hence my remark on getting an education.
7. June 2006 - 3:01 PM
Pankaj is anti-Hindu and selectively attacks the extremism in that religion while conveniently ignoring the fascism of Islam and Christianity. He is anti-Indian.
It is he who should be fought tooth and nail. This is not debate – it is pure and simple hatred of Hinduism.
I think this blog should delete his hate-mails.
7. June 2006 - 3:14 PM
Sandeep & Anonymous
It is better to ignore Pankaj who seems to be a clever secularist. He is simply throwing wild comments and expecting us to fall into his trap. On a discussion on Nepal, he has managed to bring in Modi, Hindutva and Gujarat. We can continue to argue with him till the cows come home or do a sensible thing which is to ignore his rantings
7. June 2006 - 3:51 PM
Niketan
Good point indeed. Pankaj is an anti-Hindu extremist. Best to ignore him and focus on the issue.
8. June 2006 - 9:17 AM
Yes I am a anti hindunazi extremist who believes that the hinduism of Gandhiji than than the hinduism of Nathuram Godse and his current camp followers
8. June 2006 - 10:55 AM
Pankaj
You would have been more effective had you placed that last caveat upfront i.e. your belief in Gandhi and not Godse when you initiated the debate!
This said, Niketan had a point. We are talking Nepal here, not Gujarat.
Best regards
8. June 2006 - 11:50 AM
Why has this pankaj nut not said a single word about the genocides perpetrated by Muslim fascists down the centuries, and being perpetrated as we speak? I respect the Islam of APJ Kalam, of Taslima Nasrin, but not the Islamofascism of Musharrafs, Syed Shahabuddins, Shabana Azmis and Javed Akhtars.
8. June 2006 - 11:54 AM
Aslo, note that the Pankaj nut has not said a single word about the religio-fascism of the communal outfits like Catholic Bishops Conf of India, which are making a lot of noise about Da Vinci Code, but not about the genocide and ethnic cleansing of non-Christians in the North-East. I respect the Christianity of Jesus H Christ, but not the Christianity of these Christianazis.
8. June 2006 - 5:01 PM
Anon,
Brilliant term – Islamofascism and the Catholic Bishops Conference of India.
29. July 2006 - 4:41 AM
Pure plagiarism.
Islamofascist is a term used by GWB on many occasions. Anon is a plagiarist!
6. February 2010 - 4:32 PM
i don’t know if it is even worth it to say anything. The moment i’m going to criticise naredra modi, i will be pronounced guilty of ignoring the crimes of Mao, Lenin, Stalin……….closer home……islamic jihadists, the christian missionaries, those who burnt sabarmati express and so on. It is such an absurd and standard argument used to avoid any kind of argument upon crimes commited by the most masculin of all “hindus”(is there a hindu in the sense there is a muslim or a christian? i think not) the great NARENDRA MODI. How much time will it take us to come out of this denial mode and to confront the truth of the brutality of gujarat riots which were justified as a reaction to the train burning incident.
9. February 2010 - 2:31 PM
somitra(looks like you have forgotten how to spell your name, shouldn’t it be saumitra/soumitra), rather than fulminating and ranting here why don’t you file a case in the courts against Modi and then we can play the guilty/not guilty game. I don’t know about the legal procedures in pukistan where jungle law is prevalent but in India we follow – “innocent until proven guilty.”
10. February 2010 - 1:38 AM
C Raja Mohan is kissinger chair guy.
He is US intelli mouthpiece, not a commie. From a geopolitical point of view secular Nepal is very useful to US vs. Hindu nepal. Rapid conversions happening in Nepal too.
The world is very murky. Many of the communists of Indian Subcontinent & South East Asia get their oxygen from unkil & Aunty