Operation Terminate Modi: Ver 2.1
Thursday, 10. May 2007 - 7:41 PM
The child of today is the soldier of tomorrow. I can’t get any profounder than that–but it’s entirely consistent with Barbar Indian’s predictions.
We’re talking about Gujarat.
Tehelka has kicked off the Congress partys’ election expedition in its typically hyperbolic style. While other secular papers and channels are trying their best to get the highest price find that one damn link to implicate Modi, Tehelka has delivered yet another chilling coup d’ etat using the most powerful bomb in their arsenal: the H-Camera.
- Wonder where they plant their spycams.
- Wonder how only Tehelka manages to obtain live access to such pernicious conspiracies where other, far more powerful and wealthy media houses fail.
- Wonder why Tehelka waited for Sohrabuddin and his wife to get killed before releasing the gory evidence.
Tehelka is brilliant. They stand to gain from both ends: a handsome booty from one end, and with an explosive headline like that, they’ll sell a few hundred thousand copies more. They actually deserve more for all their exertions to save Indian Secularism.
11. May 2007 - 9:29 AM
I got the missing link
Modi was “in gujrat” when sohrabuddin was killed “in gujrat”,
i bet even thsi would be enough for pseudos to implicate modi
11. May 2007 - 5:38 PM
Gujarat happens to be a festering sore in the secularists’ eyes and they would use any means to upstage the achievements in Gujarat. Much of it seems to be publicised by the kangress or else the media would find no other reason to browbeat such an issue.
Nevertheless, I wanted to share thoughts of common interest which cannot be made out in the public on a public fora. Kindly email me your address. I am looking forward for it.
11. May 2007 - 5:53 PM
Abhishek,
sanwriter AT GMAIL DOT COM.
14. May 2007 - 8:16 PM
Man! Bet you these guys just love riots.They would do all the things under their control to keep stroking the ambers.And do they not eagerly wait for that ?!!
All this in the name of ‘Secularism’?!!!
Sandeep,I say this with some authority,that these guys love riots and only Hindu Muslim ones.I dare call it riot “tourism”.
These guys are sick minded and very very sick.
Bet me this Republic day,RajDeep would get Padma award just as teesta managed this year.
And they call ME communal!
I say fuck off! I m better this way.
PI
14. May 2007 - 9:36 PM
You won’t find Tehelka writing like this. TR Jawahar on the latest tamasha in TN.
http://newstodaynet.com/point.htm
12 May 2007
Blood on their hands
T R JAWAHAR
The dream weavers of the Dravidian movement used to spin tales of milk and honey flowing in Tamilnadu if only they were voted in. But ever since their rise to power in 1967 even water has become scarce. However, two things have flowed consistently in this State, thanks to decades of dominance by Anna’s DMK and its various off-shoots: Blood and flattery! The week ended has seen the confluence of both: The ruling Nero not only looked the other way when his kin spilt innocent blood, but also played the hero, drowning himself in a deluge of solicited praise.
When it comes to playing personality politics, the Dravidian party leaders are without peers. And flattery is the fuel that propels them. But, they are their own fans first, drunk in their own glory. I suspect, every morning they would be looking into the mirror and saying ‘hail, myself’ before walking out to hear some such similar chantings from their hapless co-borns. Perhaps, this is what they mean by ‘self’-respect. But such self-obsession can be forgiven if it is just a passing private passion that most political leaders have a weakness for; however in TN, pampering perennially to those pompous personalities is public policy. And the public pays for all these ego-tickling exercises.
Normal humans would feel embarrassed if such fulsome flattery comes their way. But these leaders are insatiable super-humans, whom none dare address by their cradle names. They all have special titles, respectful prefixes and suffixes, and even doctorates extracted while in power. Not a day has passed in these past decade and more without somebody or the other calling on the prevailing CM seeking blessings and benediction. And the leaders themselves never tire of playing divine benefactors. They would not demur if someone twice their age prostrate before them or cringe at their own posters and cutouts on every street. They would rather wink at all that as they pass by and probably suggest some better poses and profiles. And their partymen and hangers-on, having thus been updated on their leaders’ appetites and tastes, proceed forthwith to feed them.
And these leaders are uniformly paranoid.With egos fattened by flattery, they can neither tolerate a slight, real or perceived, nor can they stand another power centre, within their party or elsewhere. Naturally, families, extended families, adopted families, trusted friends, foster sisters et al are considered safe bets instead of die-hard comrades-in-arms, who are deemed potential competitors. Political succession, then, becomes an in-house affair. After all, the party having become private property, the ‘estate’ should legitimately go to the legal heirs. But what if there is ‘heir’-splitting? Well, the first family’s torment is bound to put the State in turmoil as we witness now.
Such sychophancy automatically breeds violence. The cadres would burn the State at the hint of a challenge or insult to the supreme leader or those close to him and the leaders themselves nurture and reward such traits. At any rate, that has been the dreadful dravidian legacy here. While hate-mongering and verbal violence were endemic ever since the advent of the DK and DMK, power played catalyst in converting such rhetoric into real time ‘action’. Be it self-immolation by unsuspecting party cadres (as during the anti-Hindi agitation) or death of innocent public or destruction of public property, Anna’s successors have left a mind-boggling trail of blood in their wake.
A few samples: In the seventies, a student Udayakumar floated dead in a swimming pool after protesting the conferment of doctorate on Karunanidhi. Indira Gandhi was almost killed by rampaging DMK mobs in Madurai railway station. K’s dalliance with the LTTE cost Rajiv and scores of others their lives, though the Congress would not want to remember it now. Several died at the Mahamaham stampede when J and her friend went for a dip in the holy tank. Again, a bus in Dharmapuri went up in flames along with its human cargo when J was convicted in a case. Attacks on Advocate Vijayan, murders at the Tharasu magazine office, violence let loose on media men during a protest rally, and the most recent corporation poll violence etc are a few other instances of Dravidian excesses, that may have slipped from public memory but yet need brushing up, to see the present in perspective. Which is that one of the political mafias, Madurai, Madras or Mannargudi will get us for sure!
The latest Madurai murders is in keeping with the Dravidian political trend of consuming innocent lives for the leaders’ personal causes. What’s on is an ugly fratricidal war that has nothing to do with people, politics or the press. The warring right arm and the left arm, both belong to the person of Karunanidhi. K should take the moral blame for both Marans’ mischief and Azhagiri’s aggression. The hapless victims did not die for a cause, they did not sacrifice, were rather ‘sacrificed’ in a family feud, as were the hundreds mentioned above all of whom died ‘for the sake’ of one or another leader. But as with many such monstrous crimes, the leader can be expected to get away with this too. And even celebrate fifty years of such a blood-soaked legacy. And the sad thing is there is not a word here on the 150th anniverssary of the Sepoy uprising that the rest of the nation is agog with. Clearly rationalism has nothing national about it!
And media be warned, there is no press freedom issue involved here. Dayanidhi is a DMK minister and Sun TV functions from Anna Arivalayam. To dub them as media is a travesty. The sympathy for the dead should not morph into any kind of support for the Marans. The mediamen should be careful not to get entangled in the battlelines drawn by K’s bloodlines to carve up the State and spoils. May be now the situation is such that if Azhagiri were to meet the Marans, the army has to be called in. But things may change, the family may bury the hatchet, close ranks, have a settlement under K’s sanguine patriarchal presence and live happily ever after. Or if the battle escalates, Azhagiri may even contemplate starting his own newspapers and claim protection under press freedom like his nephew now! Where would that put the real media and the masses they cater to?
Indeed in TN any talk of freedom, press or personal, is futile. At least, as long as the Kazhagams and their kanmanis rule the roost in media as well as politics. If anything, there is freedom only to praise them and of course, die for them.
18. May 2007 - 3:34 PM
And all this while I was thinking it was the private news channels who were being one – sided in this (and other) issues.
But last night, the Govt owned DD-news channel broke all records and in a half hour program, virtually declared Modi as a criminal and Sohrabuddin an “innocent victim”. With the melodramatic commentary dripping with filmi style sarcasm at any of the Gujarat govt/ police actions, the report had clippings of interviews of people only from one side – hardcore Modi baiters like Shabnam Hashmi!!! And not one word from the other side of this “debate”!
Looks like this govt controlled medium is back to the good old Indira-Rajiv days when it was no more than a Congress propoganda machine!
18. May 2007 - 6:58 PM
As an aside, this article in the new business newspaper “Mint” is interesting!
http://www.livemint.com/2007/05/18001105/Measuring-poverty-Gujarat-mod.html
“Struggling with the Centre’s inability to force a national consensus on revising the country’s poverty level, which was last defined 34 years ago, the state has tweaked standard socio-economic measures to assess the number of its own poor, grading them by their level of deprivation.
A senior official of the Planning Commission, who did not wish to be identified, said the apex planning body had been so impressed by Gujarat’s effort that it is now recommending that as the standard for all the other 28 states.”
Why does the mainstream media choose to ignore/ brush aside the achievements of the State?