Yet another annual August 15th where we celebrate yet another progressive step towards realizing Nehru’s tryst with tyranny. The nation calls it Independence Day but nobody asks, Independence from what? From British tyranny? To which I question in turn: do you prefer home-grown tyranny over foreign tyranny? Because that’s what we’ve been living under for the past 65 years.
If you think tyranny is an extreme term to use, consider these.
India today is home to one-third of the globe’s poor. In 1947, the average annual income in India was $619. In the same year, China’s stood at $439, South Korea’s at $770, and Taiwan’s at $936. However, in 1999, India’s average annual income was a paltry $1818 while the figures for these countries were: $3259, $13,317, and $15,720 respectively. People attribute this horrific economic retardation to “centralized planning,” “red tape,” and “License Raj” but these are polite terms for state-instigated economic tyranny.
Under the Congress-led UPA, the state has steadily turned into a multi-tentacled monster that has, over the past 8 years, encroached upon individual freedom bit by bit. Cut back to those glorious days where the Congress party secured two-thirds majority election after election, which enabled it to enact any brazen legislation. Those days are over forever for any party today. Hence, the Congress has tweaked the script to keep its tyrannical agenda in tune with the times. The slew of “Right To” legislations that we’ve seen are aimed at achieving three things: keep the poor poor if not poorer, further extend state interference into the private domain, and further divide an already-divided Indian society against itself.
A related area is press freedom. India’s record has gotten progressively, consistently worse on the Press Freedom Index published annually by Reporters without Borders. While it ranked at 105 in 2006, it ranked 131 in 2011. Yet another indicator of how much less free we’ve gotten in just five years. We’re just 30, 27, and 43 ranks away from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and China respectively. And none of these countries are democracies. In the last two or three years, the online media—blogs, and social media especially—critical of the ruling class has faced the fury of Union ministers like Kapil Sibal who had no qualms admitting that he wanted to censor the Internet (hilarious but equally scary). However, press freedom is a little tricky to measure in India given that the mainstream English media is a handmaiden of the ruling Congress party. It has shown on occasions too numerous to count that it willingly self-censors, and brands and abuses opposing or alternate viewpoints. Press freedom impinged by sections of the press itself.
There has been no opposition of any sort to the unconstitutional NAC. It is astonishing that nobody has so far, asked a basic question: under what provision of the Constitution was the NAC set up? Why hasn’t anybody asked who or what law empowers the NAC members to draft legislations that impact the entire nation, especially when every single legislation passed so far has proven to be all-encompassing disasters?
The rule of law is all but dead ever since the UPA took over in 2004. The last eight years have seen the maximum cases of law-breaking at the highest levels. Sitting ministers have gone to jail in unprecedented numbers, a new low inaugurated by the Congress-led UPA. Communal riots inspired by violent ideologies, urban violence, and attacks on women have become everyday affairs. National security has been thrown to the winds—the UPA government is pusillanimous towards Islamic and Maoist terror attacks and it continues to heedlessly encourage illegal immigration.
These are but small samples but are highly illustrative of the kind of tyranny we live under.
The word “tyranny” conjures up images of torture chambers, concentration camps, and deadly jails. However, the best form of tyranny is that which lulls people into thinking that they’re actually living in paradise.
This is the Nehruvian brand of democratic tyranny, which continues to thrive. The Nehruvian legacy must count as the most successful and enduring myth-making exercises throughout the world. He is hailed as a lofty democrat but showed no compunction in holding the Prime Minister’s seat for 17 years and for sowing the seeds of dynastic succession. His democratic sensibilities saw the first ever unconstitutional dismissal of the Left government in Kerala. His intolerance for democratic dissent gave us the free speech-stifling 1st Amendment. His socialist economic planning resulted in perpetuating poverty. His thrust on education stopped at creating the IITs but it equally ensured that primary and secondary education languished forever. His foreign policies ensured that India had no friends (unless you call the erstwhile USSR a friend) in the whole world and worse, had alienated all her neighbours, and created the perpetually-bleeding Kashmir problem. Every nation-building endeavour that has failed has the dark imprint of Nehru’s hand.
And so it is with a mixture of immense sadness and outrage that we notice the fatal results of Nehru’s assays to redeem the pledge he took on behalf of his countrymen at midnight, August 14, 1947.
However, the most disastrous of them all is the fact that Nehru’s tryst with India’s destiny has culminated in having a foreign hand that pulls the strings of the head of the Government of India. The Indian Freedom Struggle characterized as a struggle against British imperialism takes on a new meaning in this light.
Meanwhile, Happy Independence Day. Or whatever is left of it.
Excellent, Sundeep.
Rashmi,
You can refer to lectures on Sanatana Dharma by Shatavadhani Dr R Ganesh . Lot of CD’s , of his lectures are available and through that our youth can be educated .
Pratap
Menka,
You asked for solutions.
1> For prescribing a solution you need to know the root of the problem , and mercilessly destroy the root of the problem.
2> Nehru and his policies which have continued till date has been the root of lot of problems which we are facing today. Hence a discussion on how to root it out is absolutely essential for us to grow forward. You cannot ignore history and look at a problem in isolation
Hope this explains why on this forum we are discussing what we are discussing
Have a nice day
Thanks
Pratap
Sp are you on facebook,
contact me in facebook, Second you can contact vedmandir.com, We all are trying best to spread the message of vedas in our capacity. The books are getting translated becoz readers want in vernacular language. Is there any body who can translate these books in there vernacular language? kannada and tamil is in progress. Sandeep i hope you are kannada can you help us. My experience with our vedic heritage is marvellous and yes following it has given me happiness, control of mind and experience of God. Its rightly said styamev jayate.
You ask any secular party about the problem of illegal Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh into North-east states, straight forward answer will be- porous border. They are in the habit of hoodwinking gullible Hindus. Porous mind of all these secular leaders made Indo-Bangladesh border porous since 1971. Only steel frame of mind could make steel fence of the border. Now this policy of Muslim appeasement for vote is creating a kind of civil war.
Please somebody tell how much authentic infos in this site are..:
http://www.sabha.info/history.html
nehru in the course of this speech came up with those immortally stupid lines – when the whole world sleeps india awakens to freedom – the fool did not realise that it was daytime in the rest of the western world when it was midnight in india. probably even indians slept through his speech and have been sleeping ever since.
@Rashmi.
Please Give us link to website if any. Quite eager to participate in this great Yangya.
@Malavika
Agree fully with your views about teaching our children the difference between Bhagwan, God and Allah. My Bhagwan is my Bhagwan, full stop.
@All
In addition, please make sure you know the friends and the families your child studies and socialises with. Strengthen the bonds with devout and religious families of their friends.
We taught our children good values, and only the other day my daughter stopped a colleague of her falling prey to Love Jihad.
Vande Matram.
@ Rashmi, good for you. All effort, no matter how small, is valuable. Ultimately it will add up to a torrent in the long run.
@SP
“The next being making sure that you do not send your children to Catholic School for any education. That is where, I truly believe, brain washing of kids at vulnerable age, starts. The first target of theses schools are Sanatana Dharma.”
Absolutely true.
Also never teach our children that ‘all religions are same’. I refuse to donate to organizations that parrot this nonsense. Teach our children truth regarding Islam & Christianity, based on their age. So as to inoculate them against brainwashing by the Indian establishment.
It is such a shame that most Hindus know that Caste system is bad(it is bad), but very few know that Islam and Christianity gave divine sanction to slavery. It is in Koran and New testament!
Dear sandeep and KP ,
I must tell we must make people aware of our great vedic heritage / One of my friends has done commendable work. This person went to book fairs organised in mysore, chennai, bombay and set a stall of books on vedas. The book vedas a divine light part 1 to 5 is translated in kannada Veda – Divya-Gnana (in Kannada), professional translators were asking too much money by the divine grace of God and Guru a person took omly one rupee and did the job. This book is being translated into tamil. If any one of you is interested in this can contact me. People at bangalore can help us by giving information about book fairs and arranging stalls at various places. Interested people can help us this way. May take my id from sandeep , i request him to do so. This is only the solution at our level. This is the only way i see we can dissemination of our true culture.
the condition of country is very bad in every front economy, socially etc. However our own people are to blame.Since our independence we lost all our precious hindu culture,
the culture of our joint family is lost totally. i have witnessed myself in my fathers house and from mothers side. the culture of greed instead of maintaining blood ties has taken prominence.
Recently my mother told me that in my home town one day early morning a copy of bible was found in all the household in the locality. She is reading bible as it is a updesh. how ignorant. asked her mother what is vedas she is not aware of it.
even educated people are not aware of vedas , etc. Where to start, i dont send my son to a christian missionary school. i decided long time back.
How to awake sleeping counrtry men /wo0men. I am at loss to understand or devise any strategy. we are all limited people with limited resources.
I agree wholeheartedly what Vineet has said. I will add Gandhi had a big ego and he wanted to control the destiny of India. He not only fooled Britishers, but Indians, mainly Hindus, as well. Having said that I must admit Nehru should have been killed than Gandhi. The reason being Nehru was the fodder of Gandhi’s ego.
There are many ways we can unite in our common cause.
The first being boycott everything Islamic. Be ready to pay more for the goods and services, be ready to face hardship but do not support them, at any cost.
The next being making sure that you do not send your children to Catholic School for any education. That is where, I truly believe, brain washing of kids at vulnerable age, starts. The first target of theses schools are Sanatana Dharma.
Love to hear from participants on these two points.
Vande Matram.
Dear Sandeep
Great post. Hard hitting reality.
I was around 11 or 12yrs old (late 80s) when I first heard “Tryst with Destiny” speech. Still distinctly remember that first thing that came to mind was why PM of our country was giving his maiden speech as PM in English and why not in Hindi.
Nehru was a gift from Gandhi to this nation, one of many blunders that the committed. Though I admired Gandhi’s passive aggression to a large extent but his blunders are far too big and horrendous to be ignored :
1. Unnecessarily joining Khilafat movement
2. Calling off Non-cooperation movement following Chauri-Chaura incident
3. Muslim appeasement (biggest sin)
4. Propagating theory of Hindus being cowards and Muslims as natural aggressors (part of muslim appeasement – ignoring riots after riots from Muslim side)
5. His dealing with Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
6. His adamant nature for giving extra to Jinnah
7. Not allowing for complete interchange of Hindus & Muslims
8. No calls by way of fasting to Muslims to end riots started by them under direct action and during partition.
9. and a few more….
Direct or Indirect rule of Congress for over 55years has dealt heavy blows to this country. The Nehruvian/Sickularist/Socialist policy has caused havoc to national psyche and also rendered the government machinery helpless. Some of the achievements of Congress rule (some would be duplicate as given in the post)
1. Low growth rate due to Congressi/Socialists policy of government control
2. Foreign policy disasters
3. Never ending problems of Kashmir, Assam
4. Distortion of History to deliberately showcase Hindus in poor light.
5. Created divisions in Hindu society
6. Bit by bit, governance structure rendered helpless by its politicization. Remember call of dedicated bureaucracy by Indira Gandhi
7. Bowing down before Muslims and Christians
8. Changed the meaning of setting up of Judicial Commission. It now means that the topic is now in cold storage.
9. No administrative / police reforms
10. Judicial mess. Why timelines haven’t been defined for even civil cases is beyond me.
11. State administration should be like iron fist in a velvet glove. Meaning those who abide by the rules will get the velvet touch and those who fight against, state will be firm and hard. Now it is exactly the opposite.
12. Deliberate attempts to announce doles rather than improving ground level infrastructure.
13. Berating Hindus at every given opportunity – when the growth was low, you had Hindu Rate of Growth but same term was not used during period of high growth
14. Many more ..
15. Final and the most important – institutionalizing THE FAMILY
Where we are today and where we could have been…
Regards
@Vinoth
Dont bother about Menka. She follows a policy of spit & run. Cites Karnatka but conveniently forgets Hyderabad, Pune because “sickular” governments are there.
PM also chose to speak to Karnatka CM to showcase that BJP was behind the mischief. Dont bother about her.
On several occasions I and others have told Sandeep to ban this chutiya Menka/Loneranger/etc ….Sandeep has done the needful on many occasions as well… but the chutiya just keeps coming back. And Sandeep has given up.
@Menka You just proving how arrogant you are? You didn’t have any proof about the involvements of BD or VHP but you are damn sure that this is the handiwork of Sangh Parivar. Before criticizing others, Please try to clean up your own dirty preconceived judgment.
@Menka Don’t make a fool out of ME, Its not the work of BJP, I am damn sure its the handiwork of congress and liberals like you, you people just want to deviate the main issue in Assam.
@Vinoth
Look at what your friends in Karnataka are doing. In the guise of being Muslims they are spreading rumors among the north easterners. Though right now, there is no proof that organisations like BD or VHP is behind this cheap mischief but very soon the truth will be out. Dont spread hate.
@Vinoth
I am trying to tell you and your friends that address issues now. Degrading or running down someone else will not solve the problems today.
@Menka People like your kind painting those who ruined our past as glorious leaders, that’s why we are talking about those ‘so called’ glorious leaders. We are making things straight. If you don’t like these comments why are you coming here? There are tons of blogs out there which was dedicated to your kinds, so don’t come up here with your so called ‘righteousness’ to judge us.
Quite entertaining bunch here I must admit. Always ready to run down people, spread rumors, whip up hysteria and indulge in abuses. Always ready to talk about the past and the magnify any minor issue. Its all very nice. When it comes to solutions, everyone wants someone else to do the dirty job.
Whether nehru or anyone was pathetic ruler is subjective but if there are issues which needs to be addressed, then one must provide solutions on how to address them but here everyone is in the race to talk ill about someone or run down someone in the past. Nice parameter to prove oneself as a nationalist.
@Pralay Kumar Bal, He’s not a politician nor a saint. He is a kind of ardhanarishvara inheriting negative’s from both politician and saint. Once I have a great regard for this man, but when I come to know how pathetically he acted during the partition, I changed my mind. This man closed his saintly eyes when Hindus butchered like cattle in both sides of then India. May he rot in hell.
In 1946, at the time of electing Congress president, 11 out of 15 pradesh congress committees were in favour of supporting Sardar Patel. But Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi wanted extremely amenable Nehru to become president of the party and he coaxed members of 11 committees. All the committees fell in line and Nehru won the election. But why was Mr. Gandhi so worried about election of congress president? Two reasons come to my mind. M K Gandhi came to realize that India would get freedom within a year or two. As I said earlier, Nehru was extremely amenable and obedient to Gandhi, unlike Iron Man Sardar Patel. Nehru was best bet for cunning Gandhi. This is the first reason. Second was the defeat of Pattabhi Sitaramaiyah, Gandhi’s candidate for congress presidency in 1939,against Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Mr. Gandhi’s animosity towards Bose was so great that he had to concede Pattabhi’s defeat as his own. How he kicked out Bose has become history. This episode proves that Gandhi was intolerant of any other power center in Congress. The same tradition is going today and party leaders have become accustomed. In 1946 Gandhi could not take any chance. This man was more of a politician than a saint.
Neither Anna ji, nor Swami Ramdev are addressing any of such larger issues. And still they have a large following mostly Hindus. It only goes to show most of us in general and Hindus in particular, are escapist and waste our frustration on frivolous issues. If any of them takes up real issues, they will have similar following which may not be visible immediately. But their is under current we all are waiting to be channelised.
@g, I’m strongly inclined to agree with you. But there still needs to be some directed effort to “remind” Hindus of their unparallelled heritage. There are far too many still languishing in the dark, and many others who are too far gone to overcome their brainwashing.
Maybe online blogs like this one, along with the many clued-up comment contributors, are a small (but significant) cog in the larger machine that, in the long-run, eventually mobilises the resurrection of the Hindu consciousness. In any case, that resurrection is ultimately inevitable – it’s just a question of when and how.
All credit goes to MK Gandhi. Congress wants to select strong man Patel for the post of Prime Minister but Gandhi’s choice was Nehru. I don’t know what kind of democracy that we got from the very start, most of the men wants to select Patel but their request had been turned down by a single man. popular & alternate opinions was the basic blocks of democracy, Both Gandhi and Nehru are against all kind of alternative & popular opinions, it simply shows us that both of them are very arrogant & self centered.
If MK Gandhi depart from this world early before 1946, our history will be very different. Once Gandhi told that he wants to live in this world until the age of 125, I wonder how much disasters that he would inflict on us thro’ his wiliest methods along with his friendo Nehru if he lived that long. That very thought send chills down my spine. Thank god for not letting that ‘Nightmare’ happen.
There is a reason why Nehruvism succeeded in India.
Sita Ram Goel wrote in his How I became a Hindu,
“Today, I view Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru as a bloated Brown Sahib, and Nehruism as the combined embodiment of all the imperialist ideologies Islam, Christianity, White Man’s Burden, and Communism that have flooded this country in the wake of foreign invasions. And I do not have the least doubt in my mind that if India is to live, Nehruism must die.”
“It may be remembered that Pandit Nehru was by no means a unique character. Nor is Nehruism a unique phenomenon for that matter. Such weak minded persons and such subservient thought processes have been seen in all societies that have suffered the misfortune of being conquered and subjected to alien rule for some time. There are always people in all societies who confuse superiority of armed might with superiority of culture, who start despising themselves as belonging to an inferior breed and end by taking to the ways of the conqueror in order to regain self confidence, who begin finding faults with everything they have inherited from their forefathers, and who finally join hands with every force and factor which is out to subvert their ancestral society. Viewed in this perspective, Pandit Nehru was no more than a self alienated Hindu, and Nehruism is not much more than Hindubaiting born out of and sustained by a deep seated sense of inferiority vis a vis Islam, Christianity, and the modern West.”
Another very unfortunate thing was that not only Nehru was intolerant of any democratic dissent but he was culturally bankrupt and had no knolwedge of what India was. A martyr who fell to the foolishness of idiot Nehru and for a cause was Amarajeevi Sri Potti Sriramulu. It is to him that we owe our cultural identify post independence. He fasted STUBBORLY for 58 days, I repeate 58 days, for a Telugu speaking state (resulting in linguistic states which is currently the case) and died. He died because the hare brained Nehru had no idea of how powerful the concept of cultural identity was and what it meant to its people. He rubbished the whole concept of diversity and cultural identity. All that he knew was India was hindi and hindi was India.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potti_Sreeramulu
Today we nowhere see in our history books who this man was, why & how were we linguistically divided. The reason is not hard to decipher. It still stumps me how could such a man hold on to PM’s post for 17 years. Power with no accountability which, is still the case.
When it comes to this family, I could go on with many more such accounts like emergency, genocide of the sikhs, butchering of the Tamils, leaving Bhopal gas victims to their fate, etc.,
The reason we have home grown tyranny is there is no worth while opposition to the congress. People want a party which gives them hope for a better tomorrow not a party full of goons or a party full of religious zealots or a party of fascists.
It is really sad inspite of so many years of freedom from the British , the people have no viable alternative and hence keep on voting for the lesser of the many evils.
I believe the pre-requisite is “Know thyself and be thyself”. Disunity arises from the Hindu’s forgetfulness of his own heritage. Remind him of it, let him care for it and that will motivate him to work for it and unite with others that are like him to fight for it and ultimately liberate his country from every opposing and oppressing force. Congress etc. will be consumed like so many dry twigs in the path of an inferno. This same truth is at work even behind the Modi phenomenon and you will find it wherever there is any kind of Hindu awakening and some form of Hindu-Hindu unity.
Freedom from British Tyranny?? what would have been our opinion about freedom if British were liberal/sympathetic in their attitude towards indians?Should Indians have accepted them as our masters?
Sri Aurobindo gave the call for total independence before many others. he said it does not matters if british are tyrant or sympathetic, India as a civilization has a right to express itself culturally which is not possible under foreign rule.
But are we expressing ourselves culturally? or are we mindlessly westernizing ourselves, shunning everything traditional, Indian.. while adopting everything supposedly cool, postmodern? The youth of this country is hell bent on fulfilling McCauley ‘s dream.
The point being, what is the prerequisite for Hindus to finally unite? Does this require Congress to be removed first, or is their removal contingent upon Hindu unity?
The exit of the British was certainly a prerequisite – but *not* the only one. Hindu civilisation remains heavily shackled in multiple ways, with those most urgently in need of removal being internal in nature. But before we can start addressing these many other prerequisites to the recovery of our rightful glory, amongst those the soulless communists (of various unpleasant shades), Islamists and missionaries with their pathological drive to impose their backwardness on us, and all manner of little self-hating sepoys with a desperate need for validation from and acceptance by the white man, the number one tumour that needs to be irradiated once and for all is the filth-ridden Congress Party with all its excesses, corruption and cynical exploitation of division. Without this, and without the establishment of decent leaders who want to serve their country and their people with all the necessary strength and integrity, progress on other fronts will be severely hindered if not halted.
Kudos to Sandeep once again. The heart weeps and the mind thrills reading these burning lines of anguished patriotism. The first step to a solution is to take responsibility. Nehru is long dead, and Mahomed dead for much, much longer than that. Yet Hindus continue to wallow day after day in helpless victim-hood to the depredations of the followers of both great men. Who is really to blame here? The simple truth here is that Hindus need to get their act together. The ghosts of the Nehrus and the Mahomeds of the world will no longer haunt India, and that part of her progeny which is possessed by their ghosts will be effectively exorcised and liberated… This is an independence movement that is still underway. August 15th is not IMHO a commemoration of a past achievement, but an opportunity to rededicate oneself to the future possibility that this achievement has opened for us. The exit of the British was an essential prerequisite for the resurgence of Hindu civilization, it was not a guarantee. As in the Upanishadic story, the lion that mistook itself for a helpless lamb needs to stop bleating and start roaring. One can hear that sound already on this blog as on others like it.
This character Nehru is the parting gift of MK Gandhi to India.If a man who was not qualified to run even a municipality is imposed on newly independent nation,this is what we get.Unfortunately on this so called Independence Day,this is the lesson India should learn and other nations can derive from it.