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Monday, October 26, 2009 |
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Radical Suzie | |
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Is Suzanna Roy becoming too radical for the mainstream media to handle? After giving her celebrity status, why are the views of mainstream intellectuals and opinion makers beginning to diverge from those of Roy? Arundhati Roy's famous spat with historian Ram Guha is well known. Now even anti-Hindutva champion Harsh Mander has spoken out against Roy's openly batting for Naxals. One could easily see the discomfiture of TV personalities when they recently interviewed Roy. In an interview segment, CNN-IBN's Suhasini Haider called Roy out on her bald faced lie that Naxals never kill civilians - however it appeared Rajdeep Sardesai restrained Haider before it got too heated. The same TV channels that happily endorsed and echoed Roy's views on Kashmir seem to be chickening out as far as the Naxals are concerned. The answer can be found in the genesis of India's intellectual class and a key point where Roy differs from them. The TV personalities, intellectuals who adorn the pages of The Outlook India and hog most of the editorial space mostly have domestic aspirations. Even if they do have international aspiration, it is strictly in the context of reporting for the country - maybe a Pulitzer or a Magsaysay etc. Roy on the other hand wants to break out into the international arena - she wants to play with the big dogs. Thus, while Roy still favors the secular party, she is not under the inertial and territorial compulsion of the rest of the intellectual class. A Harsh Mander, for instance, will still bat for NREGA at the end of the day, although the program has done nothing for the most dispossessed of the tribals - the kind usually within the firing range of Naxals. The second problem with India's opinion makers is accidental - you see, being concerned about poverty and misery was never part of the program. It is by sheer accident that BJP came to power and all the fake obsession with Human Development Index etc. started then. Otherwise, India would be a fully feudal single party society and according to TV channels, a land of milk and honey. The poverty part would be swept under the rugs like it was under Nehru. CNN-IBN and NDTV would be extensions of Door Darshan - running fancy ads on NREGA. Anyone wishing to contest this view should check out the textbooks of the 70s and the 80s. They all but lamented that India is destined to be poor for lack of natural resources. As a matter of fact, even now the consensus view is that people actually want to be farmers. A quick recent example: Shekhar Gupta wrote a scorching article about Maharashtra (The Maha Crater) - a massive indictment of the ruling coalition - after the Maharashtra assembly elections. So the line the media was almost forced to adopt is that India still remains poor but Government is doing "something". Now, doing "something" is simply not cool enough for the type of international anti-establishment street-cred Roy covets. There is a reason the extended family feels nervous about the war on Naxals - after the first war, West Bengal completely switched over to the communists. This is also the reason they feel nervous about Roy. So, don't they care about the violence? Let's just say the set we have been talking about do not bring work to the cocktail parties.
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Sunday, October 25, 2009 |
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Maharashtra's maladies | |
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 Image courtesy: ZIM/Offstumped.The recent elections in Maharashtra which the secular parties won, brought out in full view the malignant tumor that is growing across the country. The poster above was used in election campaign by one Sayyad Abdul Qadir Aamir (Qadir Maulana) - who stood on a Cong/NCP ticket from Aurangabad. His message promises to bring back the era of Amanulla, erase the signs of Shiv Sena from the city (with "Hindus" in parenthesis to avoid any confusion). He also claims to have been sent by Allah to hoist the Islamic flag over the land of Aurang(abad) - perhaps the last point refers to the Mughal emperor after whom the city was named. At this point the clueless types will ask: what was the Election Commission doing? The answer is elsewhere in the blog. While Qadir Maulana did not win the election, another Imam did:
The electorate at Malegaon, terror struck or otherwise, certainly was not lovestruck with the secular party despite the party's constant overtures to them. Despite being Muslims, the candidates from two secular parties lost out. Another way of looking at it is that the electorate chose a candidate who is fundamentally closer to religion, being an Imam and all that. While the TV pundits etc. continue to peddle English press friendly analysis, the sad reality is that we may not really have the right conditions for the sort of secular society they have in mind. The secular party is just an interim arrangement of convenience - when they have the numbers, they will create a future they envision - not the one the TV Pundits want them to.
posted by barbarindian at 6:10 PM Permalink
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Monday, October 19, 2009 |
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NGO: Government is their middle name | |
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Come to think of it, "Non-Governmental Organization" is a pretty lame moniker for these agencies. All private companies are non-Governmental too. "Non-profit" is a better fit. Perhaps the name signals that these agencies will fill in cracks in Governance. In any case, NGOs are slowly becoming a central feature of our Government. It is remarkable that our Government cheers on and cedes power to agencies that reflect its failure. Just how bad is the NGO "problem"? The Government's own portal of NGO Partnership system lists over 200,000 NGOs. They are categorized under different heads, for example: Minority Issues: 3609, Youth Affairs: 4806 etc. This does not however truly reflect the religious nature of a lot of NGOs - many of them as we all know are religious organizations in the guise of "development" and political groups in the guise of "human rights". Now the Government is planning to outsource the NREGA scheme to NGOs. It is clear that the UPA Government is anxious to bypass local and state Governments. Part of the reason is that they want to make sure the political advantage from the schemes accrue only to the secular party. It is well known that in states like Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat the electoral benefits appeared to accrue to the local incumbent parties. The second aspect to it is less savory - it reflects the command and control, central planning based approach the party has always favored, only to cede reluctantly to a more federalist approach post-liberalization. NGOs do not reflect progress and the employment it generates is illusory. Adding Government to the mix will merely transfer a lot of productive human capital into non-functioning areas. Already we see that NGOs are everything about profit - political patronage abounds, and so does corruption and pilferage. NGOs have also allegedly diverted funds for Naxals and terrorists of other hues. Worse - they have actively participated in distributing cash on behalf of political parties during elections. NGOs can completely skew public opinion and destroy public mandate. Imagine when welfare schemes are cornered by religious institutions. These organizations have a policy of denying their private services to people who refuse to convert - what are the guarantees they will change their ways armed with a booty of Government cash? The NGO culture being unleashed on us reflects the pathologies of the secular party and its cheerleaders - the socialists. Nothing good will come of it except more social disharmony. Of course, that may be by design.
posted by barbarindian at 12:35 AM Permalink
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Sunday, October 11, 2009 |
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Bleeding cops and bleeding heart activists | |
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 Until you opened up the box, you couldn't really tell the cat was a Maoist. This cat is showing lots of signs, he has become a veritable spokesperson, traipsing around the country talking about "structural violence" etc.The Kabuki theatre that ensued when the dude was thrown into jail had to be seen to be believed. It had all the elements, including the obligatory letter signed by Nobel laureates. They made up a complete profile - an innocent Doctor who just happened to do social work and was at the wrong place at the wrong time when the wrong kind of Government happened to be in power. From this imagery one would think the bugger would head back home with his tail tucked between his legs and never venture out. Instead we have a folk hero of sorts in the making. As a matter of fact, the Disaster Causing gentlemen (and women, sorry Ishrat) of the other variety could take issue with the fact that for them, mere association with certain organizations is incriminating. Here we have cheerleaders, but you couldn't do a thing to them. Herein lies the big dilemma of Chidambaram's war against Naxals. There is no easy way to separate the grain from the chaff. In this war, Chidu walks alone. The Prince doesn't want to fight it, eminent historians do not want to fight it, the Church does not want any part in the war and of course the clever cats are saying the war is not going to be of help. The fact is that the secular party does not want to fight any war against the Naxals. The Naxals exist in a complex ecosystem delicately balanced on one end by secularism of a certain type and the firepower of the leftist intelligentsia on the other, which proved to be so crucial for the secular party in fighting the "communal" forces. As long as this perception of electoral benefit does not go away, the secular party is not likely to do anything. So, we will see more cops lose their heads (literally), more tribals massacred, more tribal women gang raped.
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009 |
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Secularism cuts one way | |
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(Click on image for a larger version)  The rape happened on September 10, the journalist was arrested and remanded in Police custody. The court rejected his bail. As the article search (see image) on South China Morning Post reveals, Abdi is back in business. He has written another article on 22nd September. We do not know what happened, newspapers did not bother to provide any updates. The same newspapers that publish hourly updates on body fluids of 13 year old female victims did not consider this a sensational enough news. But then again, in secular land, this is expected, isn't it?
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Kadapa: Renamed | |
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That is all.
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Monday, October 05, 2009 |
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History is written by seculars, you know | |
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Genocide Suzie says:ARUNDHATI ROY: Well, Kashmir—Kashmir was an independent sort of kingdom in 1947 at the time of independence and partition. And when—I mean, just to cut a very complicated story short, when partition happened, both India and Pakistan fought over it and hived off parts of it, and both now have military presence in this divided Kashmir. But to give you some idea of the military presence, it’s—you know, let’s say the US has 165,000 troops in Iraq. India has 700,000 troops in Kashmir. The "you know" count of the entire transcript is a whopping 82. No, we don't really know. These people have it really good. They hate us and make money off of us. Normal rules do not apply to them - they can make treasonous and traitorous comments, spread communal hatred and propaganda which often include grotesque and false stories. When it comes to their own cabal, they put their blinkers on. What has happened and still openly happening in Kerala, Andhra, Assam, parts of UP, West Bengal, Orissa etc. is nothing short of systematic genocide and ethnic cleansing. Yet these transparently evil and bigoted people never bother to speak about those victims. Stranger still is their reading of history. Perhaps she gets her facts from Noam Chomsky & Co. Even if one were to stipulate that the Kashmiri Muslims, who are perpetually on a short fuse these days, actually accepted a brutal discriminatory regime of a Hindu king while help was readily available for liberation, why stop there? The history of Kashmir doesn't just extend to the Hindu kings and stops there. But for the likes of genocide Suzie, that's enough to rake in book sale percentages. Forget history, aside from picking up her anecdotes (we suspect she makes up a lot of those), she has very little understanding of what is going on in Kashmir. If she did, she would have to conclude that India is no constraint for the Azadi issue. Just a few days ago, a young Kashmiri woman retaliated and killed militants when they attacked her home to forcibly "marry" her. In her articles, Genocide Suzie has rhetorically considered whether Kashmiris would perhaps favor a theocratic society to Indian rule. Clearly that young Kashmiri woman does not. That is the essence of Kashmir situation today - there are simply too many undecided people. Of course a bigger problem for Kashmir people is Genocide Suzie's favorite country Pakistan. It is a given that they will gobble up Kashmir as soon as it is liberated. Given the current geopolitical situation, they will get the full backing of China. Genocide Suzie does not speak for Kashmiri people. She speaks against a certain people she hates. And it shows in each syllable she utters.
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