27 August, 2006

Those 12 detainees at Amsterdam - a different perspective

Refer Hindustan Times, Mumbai edition, Saturday 26 August 2006, Front page, positioned at the Top of the page, indicating it as today's headlines
Size 2 cm tall 23.5 cm long (indicative of the emphasis given to the topic)
Header: Holland faces India heat
Sub-header: Envoy expresses regret after being read the riot act over Amsterdam detentions
The news item begins with: "THE TREATMENT meted out to 12 Indians detained and later released after a pilot alert on Northwest Airlines flight in Amsterdam last Wednesday turned into a diplomatic row between India and the Netherlands".

The question that comes to my mind is this:
  • Such significance has been attached to this particular issue by the Central Government and the prominent media
  • Why?
  • Is it because all those 12 people were Muslims?
  • What would have been the attitude of the Central Government and the prominent media if the 12 were Hindus?

To seek an answer to this question, I looked at their recent conduct in the following instance:

  • Not long before, probably it was the last month, when it happened in Malaysia
  • A significant Hindu temple was destroyed by Malaysian authorities
  • The destruction was carried out in full public view when a significanr Devi Puja was in progress inside the temple
  • The devotees present requested the authorities to let the Puja be concluded
  • The least the authorities could have done is to have agreed to that request
  • But they did not
  • They destroyed the temple without letting the Puja be completed
  • What did Central Government of our country do?
  • How much coverage the prominent media in our country gave to this news?
  • You know the answers
  • Both ignored it as if nothing had happened that ever mattered

Remembering this very recent episode a few other questions surfaced my mind:

  • As long as the Central Government and the prominent media are concerned
  • Where their loyalty lies?
  • We hear that our country has some 80% Hindus
  • Does the Central Government care for Hindu sentiments?
  • The answer appears to be a big NO, NOT AT ALL
  • I also hear that our country has some 14-15% Muslims
  • Does the Central Government care for the Muslim sentiments?
  • The answer appears to be a big YES, YES, YES
  • And, what about the prominent media?
  • Who buys their newspapers?
  • Isn't it 80% Hindus?
  • Where does their pay packet come from?
  • Isn't it from the revenue that newspapers generate from their Hindu customers?
  • Then why do they purposefully ignore Hindu interests?
  • And why are they always in the forefront trying to protect Muslim sentiments?
  • At least one good example of that can be found almost every day in our newspapers
  • Should it mean that a bigger pay packet, the hidden one, reaches their pocket coming from rich Muslim countries like Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, etc?
  • Is this the reason their loyalty lies with the Muslims, not with the Hindus?

27 July, 2006

When those people sit on judgment who have superficial understanding of the subject

Many of us have heard that T B Macaulay imposed on us christian missionary english education system six generations ago.

  • Generation after generation we Hindus were systematically removed from our roots, trained to look down upon whatever was ours.
  • We Hindus were made to judge ourselves, putting on dark glasses on our eyes, that they provided us.
  • Muslims, in general, refused to get educated by the christian missionaries, and thus, they managed to remain in touch with their roots.

Today television has wide reach among the masses

  • It is capable of reshaping the thought process of the viewers
  • It can drastically change the value system of a society, even of a nation
  • Script writers of popular TV serials can spread their ignorance to the masses very effectively

Here is a simple example (if you look for them there will be hundreds and hundreds)

  • Tuesday 25 July 2006 Star Plus channel 9-9:30 pm serial Viraasat
  • A powerful drama, well written, acted and directed
  • Recently started, not yet diluted, still holding good impact on audience
  • Raahul, the good guy, the hero, tells Rrishabh, the bad guy, the villain

Raahul tells Rrishabh

  • I and Priyanka had love marriage so it is based on trust (so much so for over-glorification of love marriage, majority of which do not stand the test of time, and soon land in plenty of troubles leading to separations and divorces)
  • whereas,
  • Raam Chandr had Swayamavar (where the bride selects the groom, out of many aspiring to marry her) so Sita had to go for Agni-Pariksha (so much to show Hindu system in bad light just by hearing the tail-end of the story)
  • in this case,
    Producer, unfortunately a celebrity BR Chopra, who did not apply his mind, or may be he simply handed over the reins to Rajiv (Chopra) and the script writer, both being products of such education system, which ensures that Hindus are kept at a great distance from understanding the finer details of the issues involved and the logic that support them

Speaking of that education, very aptly stated by a so-called 'Father' of a christianized school "may be that we won't be able to convert your children to christianity but by the time we are through with them, they won't remain Hindu either".

So, are these products of an alien culture inherently hostile to ours, always seeking to destroy our culture but their friendly mask never lets Hindus see it.

Anyhow, neither the writer not the producer (or, director in this case) thought it necessary to get himself better educated on the topic. The least they could have done was to view Late Shri Ramananda Sagar's immortal creation Raamaayan (beware of the later day creations by his christianized_hindu children, to name a few, Sai Baba, Prithiraaj Chauhan, where they give ample testimony of their own ignorance of our history, culture and value system, though they have many good points as well, which makes the script a hotchpotch, which sells the wrong packaged well with the right).

So, when these so-called artists work on the psyche of the masses through their creations they pass on their own massive ignorance to the audience, and thus keeping adding substantially to the already-enough corruption in understanding of our culture and value-system.

A society must be careful not to allow people with superficial understanding of deeper issues to sit on judgement, based on their borrowed knowledge from those, whose basic objective (carefully hidden) is to destroy our culture and, for that, the simple rule they follow is to keep us separated (from our very childhood under the pretext of educating us) from understanding whatever is ours.

11 July, 2006

Islam's Motto: "We draw Blood for Blood but thousand times more" w.r.t. Serial Bomb Blasts 2006-07-11

Snowball effect of Bhiwandi police firing
Prior reading: Entry 1 and 2 of same date
We were going to Dentist's Clinic. As we approached nearer we found the road blocked ahead, police not allowing any traffic towards station.
As long we sat in the Clinic and waited for our turn, NDTV kept repeating the same news and the same video clipping for almost half an hour. Churchgate - Borivali bound train had a bomb last between Khar and Andheri. People jumped out of train from 2nd class compartments which were far from the 1st class compartment in which fire was sighted. There were no deaths reported. There three blasts.
As we went inside Dentist's chamber we learned that landlines and mobile phones had been jammed to avoid spread of message.
As we went to collect prescribed medicines from the Chemist and some new cells for the phone from another shop, we learned the total count of blasts had reached to eight, and many people died in Borivali as well as other places named. I told them that TV reported no deaths about half an hour ago, to that reply was 14 dead bodies already taken out from one location (I forget the location, it was somewhere in the city). News nevertheless kept reaching thro people returning home. An hour later TV reported six blasts at different locations in the city. That showed well-planned execution. The Chemist told me ShriNagar had bomb blast earlier in the day and now its Mumbai's turn as the day comes to a close.
And, today morning newspaper had carried the news that Abu Azmi, the instigator of Bhiwandi, was given extra protection by government, security enhanced to save the guy. And now TV says Bhayandar, Borivali, Andheri, Joshwari, Bandra, Mahim, Matunga all had bomb blasts. It all happened during the peak hours when people return home by train after the day's work. It has been a working day and trains were full to the hilt.

One thing was clear in my mind, it wasn't a Sena job. Shiv Sena can down the shutters of shops, can gather crowd, can make noise, and if they get too angry they can at the most hold up a bus here or there, empty it of people, and then set fire on it but they are not capable of systematic killing, mass murder and genocide, only Muslim organizations specialize in that. They have done it for centuries, they are doing it today. Their ideology is very simple: Blood for Blood and much more than That. One Muslim dies, thousand Hindus must die. With that train compartments must burn and plenty other property must be destroyed. This is all for the life of two Muslims lost life in police firing. And look at the speedy response. They were all ready, organized, waiting for an excuse.

Let's examine how English media values lives of Police men and their grieving Families

2 slain-mutilated police men by Muslims after 2 Muslim men died in police firing because Muslims did not want Police to build police station on the land that belonged to the Government

Ref: Hindustan Times, Mumbai, 7 July 2006, front page, top
The entire breadth (from left to right) of the newspaper front page top covered one photograph - burka clad Muslim women looking at the bodies of two Muslim men who died in police firing. On HT Metro page (page 3) at the top there is a 8"x5" photograph covered thousands of Muslim men surrounding the coffins of 2 Muslim men who died in police firing. Two-third of the whole page was covered with the story.

Somewhere in small print I had read that two policemen were killed by the Muslim mob and their bodies were mutilated. However, slain police men's photographs did not find place in the newspaper. Perhaps the newspaper space was too valuable to be used for policemen slain by Muslims. More significantly, the wives and children of those slain policemen also did not find any place in the Hindustan (or, Muslimstan) Times.

Few questions came to my mind:
  • There was ample place for so many burka-clad Muslim women some of whom may not have been related to the two Muslim men killed in police firing but being Muslim they found place at the top front page
  • There was no space whatsoever for those for the wife and children of two slain policemen whose bodies were also mutilated
  • So, in the eyes of self-proclaimed secular journalists, there was no value for the lives of policemen and the grief of their family members
  • This happens to be the character of our English media newspapers

Let us analyse how Biased English media reporting is

Desecration of MaSaheb Minatai's Statue at Shivaji Park Mumbai and other issues

Read, for example, Hindustan Times, Mumbai edition of 11 July 2006 and 10 July 2006 for comparison in the way they present news material to manipulate public impressions; and, as the time goes I shall demonstrate by different examples that this is not an one-time event, but it happens to be a consistent practice with self-proclaimed Secularist media.

On page 7 (11 July) at the bottom of the page, there is news item. The header read as "Teacher convicted for student's rape". Many readers do not bother to read the details. They form an impression in their mind by looking at the header and proceed with other items. The reason: time is a scarce commodity for people in rat race of metros like Mumbai.

However, if you happen to read the details, you learn the following:
  • The rapist used to teach the girl at the premises of a Mosque at Dharavi
  • His name was Zulfikar Shaikh (age 25) (he was a Muslim)
  • The girl was a minor (studying in the third standard)

Points to note:

  • The news item header did not draw the attention of the readers that the rapist was a Muslim and that the rapist was a teacher in a Mosque (nor there was any photo with the news item showing a Muslim or a Mosque)

In comparison to that:

  • The same newspaper HT, the earlier day 10-7-2006 on page 8, carried an item with more space, the header of which read as "Nayak to Khalnayak: Heros all the way"
  • The item was supported with a photo by some "Durga (a respected Hindu name)"
  • Photo showed a suited-booted well-trimmed guy with a rifle in his hand
  • Most conspicuous was his head with a big vertical red "Tilak" on his forehead
  • The details covered several names like Shah Rukh, Saif, Aamir, Sanjay Dutt, DJ Aqueel and Gautam Singhania
  • All these names except one appear to be Muslim names, but the photo which draws instant attention is with conspicuous Hindu "Tilak" on forehead, whereas to look for the names you have to search from the small prints

Think about it:

  • What kind of image the English media is trying to project?
  • What kind of images it is trying to build?
  • What kind of impressions it is trying to leave in readers minds?

Now look at the same newspaper HT of the same day 11-7-2006:

Minatai's Statue at Shivaji Park was desecrated. Mud has been put on her face. Minatai was like mother to all Shiv Sainiks. They went on rampage. Got the shutters down for shops. Crowds gathered. Noise and bit of confusion. Some odd places they put torch to empty buses, not many. TV channels called it shameful. Hindustan Times was very vocal.

  • Front page has header in bold "Proof may embarrass Sena, says Deputy CM"
  • Followed-up by full page coverage on page 5
  • With large photographs
  • With carefully crafted highlights
  • Creating an impression in the readers minds that it was Shiv Sena itself which arranged to put mud on Meenatai's statue

And what was the line of reasoning based on which such impression was built:

  • Was there any definitive proof?
  • No, not yet
  • All that seemed to be available were few assumptions
  • That: why Shiv Sena failed to protect the statue it built from being desecrated?
  • That: Sena is yet trying to prove that it has some strength left
  • That: Sena is trying to establish that Rane and Raj's exit hasn't made Sena helpless
  • That: they probably did it to get poilitical mileage

So, what is their modus operandi:

  • Self-proclaimed Secular newspapers have a well defined strategy
  • When it comes to Muslims, play it down carefully
  • When it comes to Hindus, blow it up out of proportion
  • Doesn't matter if you must fuel an unproven hypothesis to attain your goals
  • Who cares what comes as the final proof so long they are able to build an anti-Hindu sentiment by wide publicity of various assumptions?
  • Initial impressions will live long with them
  • By the time proof comes, it will be in some obscure corner of the newspaper, if it is found to favor Sena
  • But if it turns out to be against Sena then it will be blown up again to cement the images in public mind