Pratibha Patil Talks to Dead People
Monday, 2. July 2007 - 10:33 PM
Says Tavleen Singh in this amazing column. Read it fully.
Good she discovered Rajiv Malhotra but sad she discovered him this late.
And eminently surprising that Indian Express allowed this on its pages.
The future president of India speaks to dead people. This is almost worse than her shady past. And very worrying that India’s first citizen should represent the obscurantist and weird underbelly of the Hindu religion instead of its magnificent philosophy and enlightened idea of faith. That idea simply put is: ‘This is our understanding of the way the cosmos works, but if you have a better idea, please come and tell us.’ In these jehadi times, when Islamists run around the globe killing innocent people to prove that their Prophet and their book are the best, now and forever, the Hindu idea becomes even more relevant. What grander idea of faith can there be than that everyone is entitled to their own truth? What we do not need is a president who sees dead people and makes it sound as if this is routine Hindu practice.
2. July 2007 - 11:09 PM
>>In these jehadi times, when Islamists run around the globe killing innocent people to prove that their Prophet and their book are the best, now and forever, the Hindu idea becomes even more relevant. What grander idea of faith can there be than that everyone is entitled to their own truth?
Did she really say that????Brilliant!!
And did that REALLY APPEAR IN IE(of all papers)??
Shekhar Gupta was drugged before he approved this.
I’m bloody damn sure.
3. July 2007 - 12:59 AM
I had a couple of years ago an email exchange with Tavleen Singh after reading her column. The exchange was on the subject of whether anti-Hindu English journalsits are mere bleeding heart liberals or they are rabid commies?
She supported the former position, to which I replied that calling these rabid commies as mere leftists is like calling a dagger a nail cutter. I also exhorted her to defend in her columns every faith that has sprung from the salt of this country and protect them from the Semitic predators.
I also told her that even if she considers herself as a Sikh and not a Hindu, she has the duty to defend all Indic faiths which emerged from the same womb, because if Semitic faiths gain in India, nothing will be safe, be it Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism or Jainism.
It was a nice exchange and I remember it fondly. I humour my ego by thinking that that exchange affected her somewhat and after that I could see her concentrating on civilisational issues faced by India and her indigenous culture rather that mere municipal and infrstructure issues that she used to focus on earlier.
3. July 2007 - 11:21 AM
Sandeep,for the benefit of your readers let me share some information.(As you know once i too had been a part of this crazy media circus,have some sources who provide me some juicy details ever now and then.)
My understanding of this sustained campaign against Pratibha by the Indian Express (Till yesterday) which pride is some self proclaimed Journalism of Courage (!? My foot) is this…
This campaign was launched from pmo under the direct lead from sanjay baro (media adviser to PM in pmo) and since sanjay has been the closest pal to Shekhar gupta in IE ( if u remember sanjay was relieved by shekhar immediately…against the policy of IE which requires a notice period of three months at least).IE had been in forefront against Pratibha.
Now it seems either the cash bags have reached the right places or PMO has been suitably warned by we know who.IE has taken her off from it’s front page.
no need to add the info was provided suitably by another patil.
PI.
m busy digging some more info,shall keep u updated.
have some more info on what swapan hinted yesterday in pioneer…getting some more …
PI.
4. July 2007 - 11:42 AM
The good news is the book that is coming out next month. Seems to be a must read.
4. July 2007 - 8:12 PM
The book is already available at amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/invading-Krishnan-Ramaswamy-Antonio-Banerjee/dp/8129111829/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-3442802-6742565?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1183560098&sr=8-1