Rise of the new evil
It has been nearly one year that I have written anything in my blog. But a lot of things have happened in between. India's Chandrayaan mission has helped to find water on moon, the BT brinjal controversy has peaked , food prices has reached an all time high and last but not the least, an evil force has risen in this country.
Fact of the matter is, I should have made a similar entry in my blog last year when the sad incident of Mangalore happened, when some goons beat up a group of girls who had entered a pub, in open daylight.
The reason that I am writing this entry today, is because nobody took sufficient note that day.
What has happened, a set of ultra right activist groups are trying to define how we should speak, whether we can call ourselves Indian first, or are we to remain divided into people belonging to this state and that state.And anybody who defy them or whom they dont like, they simply beat up.
Similarly ,the MNS (maharashtra navanirman sena) and the Shiv Sena are telling people (of all the prople) like Sachin Tendulkar that he must not say that I am an indian first.
They are telling Shah Rukh Khan that you cannot say you are an India first, nor can you say you like the cricket of pakistani cricketers. And they are openly inviting their supporters to throw stones at him (in their mouthpice samna dated 3-2-2010).
They are also telling Rahul Gandhi that he cannot come to mumbai, because he had supposedly insulted the entire maharastrian community (and when did it happen, by the way).
Where my objection lies (about these groups)is not so much in the fact that Shah Rukh or Sachin are right or wrong, but these people want to take away their right to speak freely, because they know both of them stay in Mumbai. And if you stay in mumbai, you have to respect maharashtrian people (by which they mean goons of MNS and Shiv Sena), and you cannot say you are an India first. And of course you cannot say that you like the type of cricket played by pakistani players.
They are saying that maharastrians will have first right to everything in maharashtra.
As some illuminated people (on a TV debate) interpreted this as, the maharashtrian will have the first right to getting into trains and buses and aeroplanes. And how do we identify maharashtrians and non maharastrians?
Simple,by asking non maharashtrians to wear a badge on their chest. So anybody wearing such a badge will be identified as non maharashtrian (like the Jews in Germany in 1933).
Their misdeed is not confined to this much. They openly and publicly felicitated the family of Nathuram Godse for his supposed great deed.
Last year they openly beat up Samajwadi party MLA Abu Azmi inside the maharashtra Vidhan Sabha.
They also forced Jaya Bachan and Amitabha Bachan to apologize for his wife Jaya Bachan advocating the use of Hindi.
The group involved in Mangalore pub attack, is also similar, in ideology if not tactics. It is not my stand that anybody should drink or not, but that if these prople are principally against alcohol, then they should not have singled out women only. But these right wing groups always choose to attack the weakest section of the society. Like the hindi speaking outsiders in mumbai, or the girls in mangalore.
If this country is to remain united, very soon we may have do away with Shiv Sena or MNS and Shri Ram Sene.
I praise Shah Rukh Khan for standing up against these goons and anti-Indian forces.
He refused to apologize and refused to retract his statement.
The entrire bollywood stood up against these goons, and they had no option but to back off.
But my purpose of writing today is not to priase Shah Rukh Khan or Rahul Gandhi or the entire bollywood.
I am asking all citizen of this country - do these incidents remind you of something that happened not so long ago.
I mean HITLER. If you are not aware, you can take a look at history books and look at what exactly happened at Germany (particularly in Munich) between 1927 to 1933.
These were the exactly the same tactics used by HITLER. He started by raising patritic slogans. He played upon the sentiments of German people, blinded them by emotional speech, assured them 100% jobs, blinded them to outside criticism by propaganda, and blamed the Jews for every evil in Germany.
Anybody daring him or his action would be beaten up, killed and will simply vanish from this earth.
That is so similar to the tactics of these right wing vandals, MNS, Shiv Sena and Sriram Sene.
So, I say to my countrmen, beware of this new evil. Or this ignorance will destroy us. I mean this country, and its tolerant culture. Its unity in diversity. And its multi-lingual identity.
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Source courtesy "Hitler" by Pip Utton (UK).
Fact of the matter is, I should have made a similar entry in my blog last year when the sad incident of Mangalore happened, when some goons beat up a group of girls who had entered a pub, in open daylight.
The reason that I am writing this entry today, is because nobody took sufficient note that day.
What has happened, a set of ultra right activist groups are trying to define how we should speak, whether we can call ourselves Indian first, or are we to remain divided into people belonging to this state and that state.And anybody who defy them or whom they dont like, they simply beat up.
Similarly ,the MNS (maharashtra navanirman sena) and the Shiv Sena are telling people (of all the prople) like Sachin Tendulkar that he must not say that I am an indian first.
They are telling Shah Rukh Khan that you cannot say you are an India first, nor can you say you like the cricket of pakistani cricketers. And they are openly inviting their supporters to throw stones at him (in their mouthpice samna dated 3-2-2010).
They are also telling Rahul Gandhi that he cannot come to mumbai, because he had supposedly insulted the entire maharastrian community (and when did it happen, by the way).
Where my objection lies (about these groups)is not so much in the fact that Shah Rukh or Sachin are right or wrong, but these people want to take away their right to speak freely, because they know both of them stay in Mumbai. And if you stay in mumbai, you have to respect maharashtrian people (by which they mean goons of MNS and Shiv Sena), and you cannot say you are an India first. And of course you cannot say that you like the type of cricket played by pakistani players.
They are saying that maharastrians will have first right to everything in maharashtra.
As some illuminated people (on a TV debate) interpreted this as, the maharashtrian will have the first right to getting into trains and buses and aeroplanes. And how do we identify maharashtrians and non maharastrians?
Simple,by asking non maharashtrians to wear a badge on their chest. So anybody wearing such a badge will be identified as non maharashtrian (like the Jews in Germany in 1933).
Their misdeed is not confined to this much. They openly and publicly felicitated the family of Nathuram Godse for his supposed great deed.
Last year they openly beat up Samajwadi party MLA Abu Azmi inside the maharashtra Vidhan Sabha.
They also forced Jaya Bachan and Amitabha Bachan to apologize for his wife Jaya Bachan advocating the use of Hindi.
The group involved in Mangalore pub attack, is also similar, in ideology if not tactics. It is not my stand that anybody should drink or not, but that if these prople are principally against alcohol, then they should not have singled out women only. But these right wing groups always choose to attack the weakest section of the society. Like the hindi speaking outsiders in mumbai, or the girls in mangalore.
If this country is to remain united, very soon we may have do away with Shiv Sena or MNS and Shri Ram Sene.
I praise Shah Rukh Khan for standing up against these goons and anti-Indian forces.
He refused to apologize and refused to retract his statement.
The entrire bollywood stood up against these goons, and they had no option but to back off.
But my purpose of writing today is not to priase Shah Rukh Khan or Rahul Gandhi or the entire bollywood.
I am asking all citizen of this country - do these incidents remind you of something that happened not so long ago.
I mean HITLER. If you are not aware, you can take a look at history books and look at what exactly happened at Germany (particularly in Munich) between 1927 to 1933.
These were the exactly the same tactics used by HITLER. He started by raising patritic slogans. He played upon the sentiments of German people, blinded them by emotional speech, assured them 100% jobs, blinded them to outside criticism by propaganda, and blamed the Jews for every evil in Germany.
Anybody daring him or his action would be beaten up, killed and will simply vanish from this earth.
That is so similar to the tactics of these right wing vandals, MNS, Shiv Sena and Sriram Sene.
So, I say to my countrmen, beware of this new evil. Or this ignorance will destroy us. I mean this country, and its tolerant culture. Its unity in diversity. And its multi-lingual identity.
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Source courtesy "Hitler" by Pip Utton (UK).
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