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China 'sends missiles to contested South China Sea island'

February 16, 2016, 11:15 pm
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China Is Arming South China Sea Island, U.S. Says

By MICHAEL FORSYTHE
The Pentagon has evidence that the Chinese military has deployed surface-to-air missiles on an island in the South China Sea, a United States official said on Tuesday night.
The deployment escalates tensions in the region and comes after officials in Beijing pledged not to militarize islands in the sea, whereChina’s territorial claims are disputed by several nations.
The official said the Chinese appear to have deployed HQ-9 missile systems on Woody Island in the Paracels, which is claimed by China, Vietnam and Taiwan. Taiwan’s defense ministry, in a statement, confirmed on Wednesday morning that China had placed antiaircraft missiles on the island.
The American official, who requested anonymity to discuss intelligence matters, did not comment on when the missiles might have been deployed, how many there were or whether they were operational.
The missile deployment was firstreported by Fox News, which said pictures from ImageSat International showed the missile systems appeared on the island sometime between Feb. 3 and Sunday.
The Chinese-made Hongqi-9 missiles have a range of about 124 miles and are capable of destroying aircraft and other missiles. They are capable of destroying aircraft, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles, according tomissilethreat.com, a website run by the George C. Marshall Institute in Arlington, Va.
Word of the deployment came as President Obama was concluding a summit meeting with leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in California.
Several member nations, including Vietnam and the Philippines, have expressed concern over China’s efforts to construct artificial islands in the Spratlys, low-lying islands, reefs and shoals that lie to the southeast of the Paracels.
Last month, China’s top admiral, Wu Shengli, told Adm. John Richardson, the U.S. chief of naval operations, that China’s island-building in the Spratlys was for civilian, not military purposes.
“The United States continues to call on all claimants to halt land reclamation, construction and militarization of features in the South China Sea,” the Pentagon said in a statement Tuesday.

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China 'sends missiles to contested South China Sea island'

Beijing accused of increasing tensions in disputed area as satellite images appear to show missile batteries on Woody Island, part of the Paracels chain.

The alleged ongoing land reclamation by China on Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, west of Palawan, Philippines
The alleged ongoing land reclamation by China on Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, one of a strings of disputed territories Photo: REUTERS
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3:33AM GMT 17 Feb 2016
China has deployed an advanced surface-to-air missile system to one of the disputed islands it controls in the South China Sea, Taiwan and American officials said, ratcheting up tensions even as President Barack Obama urged restraint in the region.
Major General David Lo, a Taiwan defence ministry spokesman, told Reuters the missile batteries had been set up on Woody Island. The island is part of the Paracels chain, under Chinese control for more than 40 year but also claimed by Taiwan and Vietnam.
"Interested parties should work together to maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea region and refrain from taking any unilateral measures that would increase tensions," said Gen Lo.
An American defence official also confirmed the "apparent deployment" of the missiles.
Images from civilian satellite company ImageSat International show two batteries of eight surface-to-air missile launchers as well as a radar system,according to Fox News.
News of the missile deployment came as Mr Obama and leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations concluded a summit in California,where they discussed the need to ease tensions in the region but did not include specific mention of China's assertive pursuit of its claims in the South China Sea.
China claims most of the South China Sea, through which more than $5 trillion in global trade passes every year, and has been building runways and other infrastructure on artificial islands to bolster its claims.
Construction at Kagitingan (Fiery Cross) Reef in the disputed Spratley Islands in the south China Sea by China Construction at Kagitingan (Fiery Cross) Reef in the disputed Spratly Islands in the south China Sea by China   Photo: EPA
"We discussed the need for tangible steps in the South China Sea to lower tensions including a halt to further reclamation, new construction and militarization of disputed areas," Mr Obama told a news conference.
The United States has said it will continue conducting "freedom of navigation patrols" by ships and aircraft to assure unimpeded passage through the region, where Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines and Taiwan have rival claims.
Mira Rapp-Hooper, a South China Sea expert from of the Centre for a New American Security, said it was not the first time that China has sent such weapons to the Paracels, under Chinese control since 1974.
"I do think surface to air missiles are a considerable development," she said. "If they have been deployed they are probably China's effort to signal a response to freedom-of navigation operations, but I don't think it is a totally unprecedented deployment."
USS Curtis Wilbur passed near Triton Island in the Paracel Islands
A US Navy destroyer sailed within 12 nautical miles of Triton Island in the Paracels chain last month in a move the Pentagon said was aimed at countering efforts by China, Vietnam and Taiwan to limit freedom of navigation. China condemned the US action as provocative.
China has said it would not seek militarisation of its South China Sea islands and reefs, but that did not mean it would not set up defences.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/12160782/China-missile-island-south-sea-Paracel.html
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Tax funding for JNU Rs. 1,300 cr.(2012-16) to mock at Indian State, disgracing free speech. NaMo, nationalise kaalaadhan in Money Bill 2016.

February 17, 2016, 1:20 am
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Despite its cries for freedom, JNU has disgraced free speech 

By KANCHAN GUPTA
PUBLISHED: 00:23 GMT, 17 February 2016 | UPDATED: 00:23 GMT, 17 February 2016

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Any story is the sum total of many stories. So also the Jawaharlal Nehru University story that dominates media discourse emanating from Lutyens’s Delhi at the moment. 

Those defending the indefensible deeds of students owing allegiance to various shades of Red, and united by a common impulse to taunt the Indian state, would want people to hear and believe only their story. 

But the other stories need to be told too, if only for a fuller understanding of what transpires at tax-funded institutions of higher learning in the guise of free thought, free speech and free debate. 
Demonstrators shout slogans during a rally against the JNU students' union
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Demonstrators shout slogans during a rally against the JNU students' union
It would also explain why there’s outrage across the country and little sympathy for students against whom the police have initiated action. That’s irrespective of whether or not the government has overreacted. 

Outrage 

This is not the first time JNU has been the object of popular anger and public scorn. In 1999, in the midst of the Kargil war, leftist students in JNU organised an India-Pakistan mushaira. Abuse and worse was heaped on India and its defence forces. 

When two brothers, both soldiers, who were present, protested, they were set upon. It needed one of them to pull his revolver to escape the mob. 

A decade later, in 2010, leftist students organised night-long revelry to ‘celebrate’ the massacre of 76 CRPF jawans by Maoists in Dantewada. 
The next year, Arundhati Roy, speaking to her admirers at JNU, justified the killing of security forces to loud applause and louder cheers. 

Examples abound of such events at JNU. From pushing the demand for Tamil Eelam to promoting separatism in Kashmir Valley, from expressing solidarity with secessionists in India’s North-East to berating Hindu beliefs, from demonising America to calling for the extermination of Israel, from protecting Islamists on the campus to providing the protective cover of progressive politics to Islamism, everything that appalls common sensibilities and offends mass sensitivities is kosher. 

Free speech, free debate, free dissent and free thought are touted as covers of convenience for everything that militates against the very ideals that were once enshrined as the founding principles of JNU. 
As a distraught teacher rues, an institution that was supposed to be a tribute to Jawaharlal Nehru has, over the decades, become a memorial to Mohammed Ali Jinnah, living up to his infamous threat: “We will either have a divided India or a destroyed India.” 

This transmogrification has been facilitated by teachers who place ideology before academic excellence, students who believe it is their right to fob off the state and live at the taxpayer’s expense while abusing both benefactors, and a debilitated government held hostage to the capricious politics of cynical politicians. 

Intellectuals eager to play the role of useful idiots have no dearth of masters. 
Tradition 

The patently anti-India event of February 9, where slogans ranged from “Bharat ki barbadi” to “Kashmir ki azadi”, was in keeping with the long-standing tradition of leftist students at JNU mocking the Indian state, pushing the envelope, daring authorities to act against them. 

They did so in the smug belief that the state, as in previous years, would not dare respond. They believed wrongly. 

The outpouring of anger in the leftist camp has little to do with the JNU students’ union president being arrested under the law against sedition. It has everything to do with the government daring to touch their bastion. 

The police action has understandably rung alarm bells across campuses: the party is almost over, if not already.

It could be argued that perhaps the government, and the police, could have dealt with the situation in a more sophisticated manner. 

After all, not every student at JNU (or any university with a dominant leftist lobby) carries a tambourine and sings ‘We shall overcome’ or whatever its variants are. Nor does every teacher believe that his or her first loyalty is to the banner of ideology. 

Resentment 

Demonising a university or its community serves no purpose. Cleansing campuses of malcontent silently, effectively, away from the glare of an intrusive media controlled by cheap thrill seekers does. Sadly, the first has happened with amazing speed. 

The resentment against JNU is palpable in the street, in drawing rooms, in offices and in places far and wide. Media hype and hysterical denunciation by the unsettled usual suspects have combined to fan the anger. 

Misplaced support for misguided students has proved counter-productive. 
A last story that needs to be told is about how much we, the people, spend on JNU. Between 2012-13 and 2015-16, nearly Rs 1,300 crore has been paid from the exchequer to this university alone. That’s not exactly loose change. 

Academic freedom and free debate are fine, but surely both teachers and students owe accountability to taxpayers. That accountability is not fulfilled by glorifying terrorists and calling for the dismantling of the very state that affords the luxury of subsidised campus life. 

As for free speech, the leftists need to realise that it’s a two-way traffic. They can’t have for themselves what they deny to others. 

Indeed, harsh as this may sound, the fact remains freedom and leftism are antithetical to each other. No bastion of Left politics can claim to be free. So when JNU leftists cry “Freedom under siege”, one can only feel sorry for them. 
It has been rightly pointed out that JNU needs a reboot. For that, it first needs to be reclaimed from those holding it to ransom. If the government fails in this task, let taxpayers insist they will no longer foot the bill for bogus dissent and spurious revolution.

The writer is a political commentator 


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-3450045/Despite-cries-freedom-JNU-disgraced-free-speech.html

Sanjay Anandram
As a passionate advocate of entrepreneurship and innovation, Sanjay Anandaram is involved with several industry, government and private organizations in fostering entrepreneurship. He has 25yrs experience as corporate executive, an entrepreneur, a VC and a mentor. He writes and lectures frequently on his favourite topic and is associated with several startups, including Swarajya
The Utter Hypocrisy Of Leftist Thought
A damning indictment of the lies, delusions and bigotries of leading Western Leftist thinkers, Roger Scruton’s “Fools, frauds and firebrands” is essential reading to understand the “Left”, while determining the role of an Indian “Right”.
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The raging firestorm in India ostensibly over “intolerance” with academics, activists, artists and public intellectuals of a certain persuasion at the forefront has been well covered. The shrill outrage at the alleged subversion of “freedom”, “liberalism”, “the(ir?) idea of India”, “secularism”, “democracy” was even exported to foreign governments and companies through letters and campaigns. The tragedy is, that increasingly, academia around the world and those that are influenced by it is becoming conformist with a particular intellectual high ground view of the world and society couched in “liberty” and “social justice”.  In other words, being politically incorrect and stating uncomfortable points isn’t acceptable. There is no room for context, purpose, understanding, debate and compromise.
Roger Scruton, the seventy-one-year-old old British philosopher, and unusually, right-wing intellectual and academic should know! In 1985 he wrote Thinkers of the New Left that was greeted with “derision and outrage, reviewers falling over each other for the chance to spit on the corpse. Its publication was the beginning of the end for my university career… the sudden loss of status led to attacks on all my writings, whether or not they touched on politics.” His publisher, Longman, under pressure soon withdrew the book.
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Post 1989 with the collapse of communism, when “it is now common to accept that not everything said, thought or done in the name of socialism has been intellectually respectable or morally right” with even the British Labour Party dropping clause IV (the commitment to state ownership) from its constitution, Roger Scruton has returned, without mincing words, with an updated book cutting through the “nonsense machine” with the addition of the “mad incantations” of the current intellectual hero of the left, Slovenian Slavoj Zizek(who interestingly holds a position at Birkbeck College where Scruton too taught) who is covered in a new last chapter titled The Kraken Wakes, and the late British historian and supporter of the Soviet Union Eric Hobsbawm whose case “illustrates just how far you can go in collaborating with crime when the crime is committed by the left.”
While being provocative and direct, Scruton is also prone to almost lyrical flashes when he dismisses Louis Althusserthus “The axioms of Marxist theory appear in Althusser’s prose like blinding flashes of total darkness, within clouds of grey on grey!” and the impact of Sartre on the radical violent revolutionary ambitions of students like Pol Pot. He appreciates Galbraith’s becoming aware – thanks to his 1961 stint as Ambassador to India – that political institutions, not economic ones, determine the character of the country. To his credit, Scruton is also quick to acknowledge the elegance of language and talent as a scholar of the likes of Hobsbawm.
The very idea of “left” and “right” as a single dimension of political opinions isn’t acceptable to Scruton. Yet he uses the word left to describe anarchists, Marxist dogmatists, exuberant nihilists and American style liberals because the thinkers discussed in the book have identified themselves as such and because it is a remnant of an “enduring outlook on the world.”
Scruton challenges the self-view of the left as champions of a new order that will rectify the ancient grievances of the oppressed. The self-view of the left “allows for nothing to stand in its way. No existing custom, institution, law or hierarchy. No tradition, distinction, rule or piety can trump equality if it cannot provide independent credentials. Everything that does not conform to the egalitarian goal must be pulled down and built again and the mere fact that some custom or institution has been handed down and accepted is no argument in its favour. (There is no room, for instance, forunderstanding Jallikattu and the context of the Sabarimala case).
In this way, “social justice” becomes the barely concealed demand for the clean sweep of history that revolutionaries have always attempted.” The ideas of “liberation” and “social justice” are not compatible any more than liberty and equality are. “If liberation involves the liberation of the individual potential, how do we stop the ambitious, the energetic, the intelligent, the good-looking and the strong from getting ahead?” The left therefore summons old resentments rather than examines what would happen from constraining liberation, and obscures the conflict between them by declaring war on traditional hierarchies and institutions. He shows Marx’s scientific socialism (“laws of historical motion”) to be a utopian joke, its fraudulent claim of being a science where the benefits of legal order exist without law; and social cooperation exist without property rights, and the violence of a totalitarian government therefore required to impose socialist utopias.
He cogently and powerfully makes the case of how language aka Orwellian Newspeak has been appropriated to make “right” a term of abuse and how the intellectual and moral high ground has been occupied by leftist intellectuals. How the human individual has been rendered immaterial by “class struggle”, the only lens through which human interactions are viewed; where abstract “forces” and “classes” and various “isms” collide. Individual aspirations, achievements, ambitions, movements, associations and memberships should, but don’t matter at all.  The role of civil society, institutions and personality (a religious need, Christian in Scruton’s case) are therefore key, in Scruton’s estimation, to preserving liberties and harmony and that is what the Right should work towards.
This is a book that will require careful reading to understand the “Left”, a global force with a largely similar Indian version, while determining the role of an Indian “Right” which has less in common with the Western “Right”.
This piece was published in the February 2016 issue of our magazine.
http://swarajyamag.com/magazine/the-utter-hypocrisy-of-leftist-thought/
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Global scholarly community, made in America 'Indian' leftists and their comical ways -- Radha Rajan

February 17, 2016, 2:23 am
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Global scholarly community, made in America 'Indian' leftists and their comical ways




When you spit at the sun you should not complain when what went up obeys the law of gravity and hits your face on its return journey. As little known facts about Rohith Vemula and the reasons which drove him to take his life appeared in the public domain, the 129 self-proclaimed “global scholarly community” (GSC) who wrote an open letter to the Vice Chancellor, University of Hyderabad (UoH) in less than 48 hours after Vemula committed suicide, probably kicked each other’s derriere for getting it wrong on all counts; and for creating the situation where like the Emperor, they were seen to have no clothes. Their collective spittle instead of landing on the face of the country’s Prime Minister, Minister for Human Resource Development and the Vice Chancellor of UoH as they had intended, came flying down towards their faces under the weight of their scholarly falsehoods. This article is law of gravity in action because Rohith Vemula’s suicide and GSC’s foolish letter precipitated the imminent expose that India’s institutions of higher education – IIT Madras, UoH, FTII, the largest and foulest of them all, JNU and almost certainly other universities and colleges have become the hunting ground for seditionists and secessionists, some abroad, some here with the active and deliberate instigation and encouragement from some members of the teaching faculty.

At the heart of the matter was the fact that Rohith Vemula’s suicide was not a case of dalit harassment by his “political rivals”, meaning ABVP, as deliberately misrepresented by the GSC but the culmination of a series of events triggered by Vemula and his treasonous friends belonging to Ambedkar Students Association (ASA) offering prayers inside the university campus for terrorist Yakub Memon, the day after Memon was hanged to death. But for the GSC, in the war against India, truth was an expendable commodity. While I think the GSC letter is both brash and insolent, as student of English I also find the semantics of their self-anointment both comical and queer. 

Going by the contents of their letter which have been conclusively disproved and discredited, the letter is hardly scholarly and this is not a “scholarly community” global or otherwise. These are 129 college and university teaching staff, which like the teaching faculty in the Humanities in IIT Madras and JNU, have very ordinary minds filled with very ordinary ignorance driven by Hinduphobia - around fifty each from the USA and UK besides eleven from Germany, four from Canada, two from France and Norway and one each from Singapore, Netherlands, Italy, Qatar, Karachi, Denmark and South Africa and one signatory who except for his name has not specified what or from where. While Global Scholarly Community is not quite Order of the Garter, the appellation also suffers from lexical and logical semantics, another sign of ordinariness. ‘Scholarly’ bent of mind we understand and ‘scholarly’ lecture; but “scholarly community”? If 129 individuals in the world call themselves “global scholarly community”, rules of lexical semantics say the rest of the global community is un-scholarly. Or did they actually mean community of scholars as opposed to community of imbeciles? Any which way “scholarly community” is a semantically flawed construct while ‘global’ is a logical semantic flaw. A hundred teachers - fifty each from the UK and USA out of a total of 129 is hardly global and 129 individuals from among the total world population calling themselves “global” is akin to a speck of dust grandly proclaiming itself to be the cosmos. 

Why Indian Leftists are in America and why America allows them to graze on capitalist pastures 

First things first; having chosen to leave India and live in another country of their choice, the Indian origin GSC members (no matter which country’s citizenship they now have) forfeited the right to demand anything from any Indian authority. Aliens may call themselves anything – Global Scholarly Community, Alliance for Justice and Accountability (AJA), human rights activists, USCIRF, or Busybodies without Borders – but Indian officials and Indians in public life including the Vice Chancellor of UoH are accountable only to the Indian people, Indian government, Indian parliament and Indian judiciary. Second, non-Indians in this list are only “global” sewage-inspectors with no locus standi in India. The letter therefore and its contents do not merit any response. This article is about the cringing cowardice, total absence of intellectual integrity and fidelity to truth of these bleeding-heart GSC who have not squeaked or whimpered, forget writing letters to protest against racism in American universities and even relentless persecution; but they did get together ‘”globally” to write to the Vice Chancellor of a university in India because GSC is Left and Vemula’s suicide was an excellent opportunity to beat up Prime Minister Narendra Modi who, the rest of the world, Right, Left and Centrist perceive to be the most successful and powerful symbol of Hindu political assertion. In India, Hindu nationalism is neither Right nor Left; it is Right, Left and Centre and all spaces in between but that is a theme for another essay. 

Emboldened by the fact that neither the state governments of Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu or Karnataka nor the central government had dealt appropriately with student hooligans in FTII, APSC hooligans in IIT Madras, and ASA anti-nationals in UoH who offered prayers for Yakub Memon, students of JNU and their communist faculty mentors decided to prod the BJP worm again. They held a commemorative meeting on the third death-by-hanging anniversary of another terrorist Afzal Guru, on February 9, inside the JNU campus. SAR Geelani, former lecturer in Delhi University and Afzal Guru’s sidekick, was invited to JNU where not only was a film on the dead terrorist scheduled to be shown but anti-India and pro-Afzal Guru slogans were also raised. Later on the same day, SAR Geelani gave an encore performance at the PCI knowing well that he will get his two minutes of notoriety on television channels. The GSC spittle which went up after Rohith Vemula died, and was supposed to gather momentum on February 9 in JNU, came flying down and Kanhaiya Kumar, President of JNUSU was arrested for anti-national activities inside the university and sent to police custody while SAR Geelani has been charged with sedition and several students have now been arrested/detained by the police. 

Fishing in treasonous waters, political leaders peddling different political ideologies united by Hinduphobia and their fear of Narendra Modi and led from the front by Rahul Gandhi, descended on JNU in support of students who made martyrs of Yakub Memon and Afzal Guru. If Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister can describe Tipu Sultan and Hyder Ali as freedom fighters then the same twisted logic can describe Yakub Memon and Afzal Guru as martyrs in the cause of the global caliphate. The Islamic State has tasted blood and is certain to want more. Congress, JDU, CPI, CPI (M) and Trinamool Congress are now emerging as India’s domestic political front for jihad against India and apologists for IS. And in a macabre replay of history, just as Imperial London stood by and watched (and covertly supported) Muslim jihad against the Hindus, America is watching from the sidelines as jihad raises its head menacingly yet again. For America like for Imperial London, jihad against Hindus and India serves their geo-political objectives and so long as their backyard is not threatened, they see no need to kill the monster. If anything they are breeding little monsters in their own backyards to be used in target countries; and that is why Washington and London are baying for Julian Assange’s blood. Assange exposed the Generic Church’s military-industrial complex (MIC) crafted world order and the methods used to put that world order in place where 10 Downing Street and the White House are expected to play only supportive roles. MIC is new for old Bretton Woods Bandits. 

These Leftist South Asia “experts and scholars” of the GSC kind are farm-bred creatures who have been domesticated and trained by America for a purpose. These have been bred in captivity by the American political establishment and therefore cannot act independently. Hindu nationalists who accuse them of duplicity should know that America allows Indian Leftists to graze on American university and other pastures only because they produce anti-India, anti-Hindu manure to throw at India and India’s Hindus. These “South Asia” creatures have been permanently genetically modified so that there is an unbroken supply of anti-India quislings who are bred for anti-India dung. Ghadar produced PROXSA which produced FOIL and FOSA which mated to produce Coalition against Genocide which has now spawned GSC and AJA – these are fly-by-night entities and their one-night stand issues begot Angana Chatterjee, Akhila Raman, Shashi Bulluswar Vijay Prashad, Meenakshi Ganguly and countless others. These Made-in-America Indian Leftists and Anarchists who continue to manufacture anti-India dung for the privilege of grazing in America’s capitalist pastures have been trained as South Asia experts, entrepreneurs, and human rights defenders in American farms and Noam Chomsky is the American farm manager. It is Chomsky’s job description to make sure that the dung produced as natural result of grazing on American pastures is not used against America; as America’s official professional dissenter, that is Chomsky’s sole prerogative. While Chomsky may call America the most fundamentalist country in the world, that liberty may not be taken by Indian American quislings; they may however sing hallelujahs to Chomsky. Other South Asia creatures which America breeds in its geo-political factories include Pakistan’s ISI, LTTE’s FETNA, Nepal’s anti-monarchy offspring of Marxist-Missionary cohabitation, Khalistanis, Cubans and Iraqis of the Ahmed Chalabi kind. 

It must mean something that America refused to hand over Headley to India and even if Headley is singing like a canary from American soil and it is a command performance, notwithstanding Headley’s so-called damning indictment of Pakistan’s ISI in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, Barack’s America has finalised the sale of eight F16 fighter jets to Pakistan. But again as mentioned earlier, Presidents and Prime Ministers have little to do in geopolitical games except to support the MIC as it re-arranges the world pecking order to its taste or maintain silence when they disagree. Or if you are India and Barack is your friend you are allowed to squeak in protest, nothing more. It is also the way of MIC world order that Modi’s NSA like P Chidambaram may only send proof dossiers to Pakistan demanding action against 26/11 terrorists but may not send the army or elite commandos into Pakistan to extract and/or exterminate Dawood, Hafeez, Masood and Lakhvi. 

When victims push back – the all-American persecution of Ward Churchill

“We of the global scholarly community make an urgent appeal that justice be done in the most recent case of caste discrimination in Indian higher education, that of the University of Hyderabad’s prejudicial suspension of five young Dalit men pursuing PhDs. It was ordered under political pressure, without even allowing the young men in question to speak in their own defence. It directly contravened an earlier decision made by the University administration itself, which had exonerated them of any charges of wrongdoing - charges which had been trumped up by political rivals opposed to the activism of these young men.” 

The GSC letter on the face of it was about dalit persecution in India’s educational institutions to which we gather they opened their eyes like Aamir Khan and his wife only after May 2015 when Narendra Modi became Prime Minister. They had hoped that their letter which was generously laced with anti-Hindu political prejudice and unsubstantiated innuendos would invite the negative attention of other international predators who ignore overflowing sewage in their backyards but make a living out of interfering in the internal affairs of other countries and who GSC hoped would force Modi and his government on the defensive. This article is about how the dung manufactured by Indian “South Asia” Leftists is India-specific and will therefore take up racism in American universities and the persecution of Ward Churchill as two of the best cases in point. 

Ward Churchill is a Native American author and political activist. He was Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder until 2007 when he was fired for “research misconduct” which is polite for “we cannot admit publicly that Native Americans and African-Americans do not enjoy the same privileges and rights like white Americans but you have to be punished and made a example of for your anti-white American research and books and politically incorrect views on 9/11.” Once in 1995 and then in 2000 I picked up several books authored by important Native American writers, African-American authors and thinkers, books about African-American feminism and eco-feminism. These were books that looked critically, even harshly at the foundations of what is today United States of America – Slavery, Atlantic Slave Trade and the genocide of Native Americans by European Christian hordes from 1492 when Columbus landed in North America until the present day; and because these are written by the victims of White Christian colonialism, the narrative is credible and legitimate. 

The two most definitive and scholarly books on the genocide of Native Americans have been authored by David Stannard and Ward Churchill: The Conquest of the New World: American Holocaust By David Stannard, Oxford University Press, 1992 and A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present By Ward Churchill, City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1997. 

“During the four centuries spanning the time between 1492, when Christopher Columbus first set foot on the “New World” of a Caribbean beach, and 1892, when the US Census Bureau concluded that there were fewer than a quarter-million indigenous people surviving within the country’s claimed boundaries, a hemispheric population estimated to have been as great as 125 million was reduced by something over 90 percent. The people had died in their millions of being hacked apart with axes and swords, burned alive and trampled under horses, hunted as game and fed to dogs, shot, beaten, stabbed, scalped for bounty, hanged on meat-hooks and thrown over the sides of ships at sea, worked to death as slave labourers, intentionally starved and frozen to death during a multitude of forced marches and internments, and in an unknown number of instances, deliberately infected with epidemic diseases.” 

This is just the opening paragraph in the first chapter of Ward Churchill’s gut-wrenching narrative of the American holocaust. David Stannard, the author of the other brilliantly researched book on the genocide, wrote what in my opinion was a farsighted Preface to Churchill’s book. 

“Ward Churchill is a man looking for trouble. Of course, anyone familiar with his voluminous writings during the past two decades – on subjects such as racism in American film and literature, New Age spiritual hucksterism and counterfeit Indians, US government death squads, the damage done to indigenous peoples by the forces of capitalism and Marxism, and a great deal more – know that Churchill quite audaciously has been courting (and finding) trouble for some time now. But with A Little Matter of Genocide he is certain to bring on the enmity of an entirely new and particularly vitriolic collection of critics. And this is a shame because the sentiments of his new book are extraordinarily compassionate and humanitarian, while its overall argument is eminently fair, deliberative, and reasonable.” 

Stannard concluders his Preface thus: 

Like the unholy alliance between Israel and Turkey, in the United States an equally unholy alliance prevails. Here, the partners are the governmental and intellectual protectors of the American image, and the home-grown purveyors of the idea that Jewish suffering under Nazi rule was incomparable with that of any other people at any other time or place. As with Israel and Turkey, it is a brutal alliance of benefit to both parties. 

Only the victims of other genocides suffer. Genocides long past – and officially denied – whose few survivors huddle in poverty and broken health (far and away the worst poverty and worst health of any group of people in the United States) on reservations and in ghettos in the forgotten backwaters of American life. And genocides ongoing – also officially denied – where American client states liquidate inconvenient indigenous people with impunity, so long as such states remain within the US protective orbit. 

So it is good thing that Ward Churchill, with this book, A Little Matter of Genocide, has decided once again to go looking for trouble. He will get plenty of it. But it only because of trouble-makers like him, that the deadened conscience of this nation might someday begin to stir. May his kind multiply.” 

Ward Churchill, carrying the burden of the history of his people in his soul and in his mind, has no reason to look at the world and world events through the prism of white America and is not obliged to put up politically correct polite appearances of equality, fraternity and all that. He did not suffer from Uncle Tom syndrome and therefore refused to toe the official American line on what to think and how to speak about 9/11 and wrote a blistering essay Some People Push Back on September 12, 2001, the very next day after the terror attack. In the essay, Churchill used the phrase “roosting chickens” and called the victims who died in the twin towers of the World Trade Centre as “Little Eichmanns”. Churchill developed the short essay into a book titled On the Justice of Roosting Chickens: Reflections on the consequences of US Imperial arrogance and criminality published in 2003 by AK Press. 

“Roosting chickens” is reference to a speech by Malcolm X in 1963 after the assassination of John F Kennedy where Malcolm X describes the killing as a case of “chickens coming home to roost”. Adolf Eichmann was a dreaded Nazi SS lieutenant-colonel and one of Hitler’s most ruthless organizers of the anti-Jewish Holocaust. According to Wikipedia ‘Little Eichmanns’ “is a phrase used to describe persons participating in society whose actions, while on an individual scale may seem relatively harmless even to themselves, taken collectively create destructive and immoral systems in which they are actually complicit.” In other words, quislings. 

Ward Churchill’s vitriolic reference to the victims of 9/11 as “Little Eichmanns” at the worst may be termed insensitive and injudicious but in “the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave”, Ward Churchill must surely have the right to his views and the right to freedom of speech and expression. But in white America, these freedoms are neither universal nor absolute; Native American victims of genocide and African-American victims of slavery cannot use their right to freedom of speech and expression to “push back” as we shall see. Let us for starters take the phrase “the land of the brave and the home of the free”. It is a part of the “Star spangled banner”, the American national anthem, composed by Francis Scott Key. 

“He wrote those words in 1814 and, ever since 1931, they have been sung as the national anthem of the United States.What is far less known are his views on race. In his career as lawyer and public servant, Key spoke publicly of Africans in America as “a distinct and inferior race of people, which all experience proves to be the greatest evil that afflicts a community.” http://www.theglobalist.com/the-land-of-the-free-and-the-home-of-the-brave/ 

Notwithstanding the fact that the song was authored by a man who was not only a slave owner but had distinctly racist views on African-Americans, a century after the song was written, a Bill was introduced in US Congress in 1930 to make the Star-Spangled Banner the national anthem; a year later in 1931 President Herbert Hoover signed the Bill into a law. The third stanza of this obnoxious song is a racist slur on African-Americans whom Key describes as “foul” in an insensitive reference to African-Americans fleeing the war, failing to find refuge and being killed. The American national anthem sings hallelujahs to black blood washing clean American soil polluted by black footsteps!! 

Their blood has washed out their foul footstep’s pollution 

No refuge could save the hireling and the slave 

From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave 

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave 


Because this article is about the unmitigated insolence of global scholarly community and Alliance for Justice and Accountability arrogating to themselves the right to demand answers from the Indian government, we must wonder if even one of these farm-raised Indian leftists in America who call themselves Indian Americans ever exercised their academic freedom of thought and expression to write a critical piece about America’s unapologetically racist national anthem whose original title was Defence of Fort M’Henry. 

It is perfectly understandable why Ward Churchill views the American establishment in disdain; the focus of all his writings has been about how the white Christian American establishment has dealt with non-white Native American and African-American dissent and anti-establishment critics. There is startling similarity between how the Generic Church dealt with Ward Churchill and Julian Assange. MIC, after using sundry freedoms as weapons in war-by-other-means against every non-White, non-Christian country of the globe could not very well admit that both Churchill and Assange exercised their right to freedom of thought, expression and speech to expose the MIC and the Generic Church for their inherently evil political objectives. So Assange had ‘rapist’ pinned on his lapel while Churchill was investigated for plagiarism and research fraud and misconduct; the intention being throw mud by the tonne and hope at least some of it will stick on Churchill and Assange for the rest of their lives. Typical Abrahamic war strategy and war moves although America’s farm-bred ‘Indian American’ intellectuals are now genetically modified rendering them incapable of even simple honesty and integrity, forget intellectual and academic fidelity of purpose. 

University of Colorado began investigating Churchill for academic fraud in 2005, found him guilty in 2006 and fired him in 2007. From 2007 until 2013 Churchill fought in every American court taking recourse to the hierarchy of appeals. In 2013, Churchill lost the war to reclaim his honour when the last court of appeal the United States Supreme Court refused even to take up his case for hearing. When victims of the Generic Church push back, the Church makes an example of them. Like David Stannard observed pungently in his Preface to Churchill’s book, “in the United States an equally unholy alliance prevails. Here, the partners are the governmental and intellectual protectors of the American image”; and America is the most powerful component of the Generic Church.http://revcom.us/a/006/ward-churchill-persecution.htm; http://english.sxu.edu/sites/kirstein/archives/3251 

It is even futile to ask if GSC, AJA, or the father and mother of all Made-in-America Indian corona virus Vijay Prashad and Angana Chatterji wrote a single letter or article in defence of Ward Churchill’s right to academic freedom of thought and expression or if they addressed themselves to University of Colorado, to Senators and Congress men and women, to the American President in protest against the all-American persecution of Ward Churchill. Did they write about the failure of the American judicial system to deliver justice to Ward Churchill; the judicial system did not even pretend to do justice. The persecution of Ward Churchill began around the same time that Indian Leftists in America were throwing dung at Narendra Modi for the Gujarat riots and persuaded MIC to deny Modi visa to visit the US, a visa which Modi never applied or asked for but then peddling falsehoods is an essential part of Leftist activism; as is taking credit for a non-starter. Alliance for Justice and Accountability, another genetically modified (GM) Indian American farm-bred creature should first turn its attention to America’s backyard and revisit Ward Churchill’s case before throwing dung at India and India’s Hindus. 

Racism in American universities and Indian American silence 

Let us now turn our attention to racism in American universities and if GSC, AJA and other GM creatures grazing on American pastures have used their dung in protest against racism. If Ward Churchill’s persecution happened around the time Indian American Left was gunning for Modi, then campus unrest in protest against brazen racism in University of Missouri began in September 2015 and spread rapidly across the U.S to other universities and became a massive student movement against racism and the shameful racist history of some of America’s premier universities which boast of phi beta kappa chapters. Some of these universities expanded and were funded from blood money through slave trading. To quote Craig Steven Wilder, historian at MIT – “Institutions are a product of their histories, like Georgetown has experienced. We have campuses that are filled with buildings named after founders and early participants in the founding and establishment of universities who both owned and traded human beings. It's difficult and awkward to celebrate diversity while standing in front of buildings that are named after slave traders.” 

The shameful history of slave-owning and slave trading by American universities can be seen here: http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2200:uncovering-the-painful-truth-about-racism-on-american-campus&catid=58:history&Itemid=76. The articles about racism in American universities from Mother Jones has reproduced paper clippings of slave trading by these universities. 

If the persecution of Ward Churchill began around the same time that Indian Leftists in America were targeting Modi, then the campus unrest which engulfed American universities across that country began in September around the same time that student hooligans emboldened by the same Indian Leftist mob in America were testing the waters in FTII, IIT Madras and UoH. But as with Ward Churchill, the made in America Indian Leftists chose not to respond to racism related unrest in America but instead turned to India and Indian universities; we should not bemoan their duplicity because they have been genetically modified to become only anti-India farm creatures. 

It all began on September 12, 2015 when Peyton Head, President of Missouri Students Association posted on his Facebook page that a group of persons repeatedly screamed “nigger” at him when he was walking in the campus. When no action against the racist offenders was forthcoming, the protest movement gathered momentum within the university and soon spread to other universities too. The protests ended only when Tim Wolfe, President of the University of Missouri System resigned on the first week of November after Jonathan Butler, graduate student in the university went on a hunger fast demanding Wolfe’s resignation. Soon after Wolfe’s resignation, Chancellor R Bowen Loftin of the University of Missouri, Columbia also announced his resignation by the end of the year. India would love to know if in the two months between September and November 2015, PROXSA, FOIL, FOSA, Coalition against Genocide, GSC or AJA came out openly against racism in American university with the same precision with which they are throwing dung on India’s face for what they call “anti-dalit” prejudices in Indian universities. But we know the answer to that one too. 

As if to prove Ward Churchill’s book about racist prejudice in American films and literature right, racist bias which colours Oscar nominations and awards has manifested in BAFTA nominations and awards too. This year’s BAFTA red carpet function for the first time saw protests against racial bias in BAFTA nominations.http://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/644052/BAFTA-2016-red-carpet-Black-Out-protests-race-row-nominees 

As pluralism and multiculturalism fail across Europe and America and racist and religious profiling become accepted policies for national security, India’s Hindus and Indian American Hindus must begin to push back and expose the Left in India and Indian American Leftists as serving the anti-India agendas of Jihadi Islam and the Generic Church. On the justice of roosting chickens must become a part of Hindu push-back vocabulary. 

Closing word: Global Scholarly Community concluded its comical letter thus – “We urge the University of Hyderabad to restore our confidence by living up to its obligation to end institutionalized discrimination, to educate all students in a climate of respect and empathy, and to resist political pressures to do otherwise.We are all watching.” We are all watching indeed! As they say, a cat may look at a king. There is no law against that. There is also no law against spitting at the sun. 

Radha Rajan, 
16th February, 2016. 

Sources:


http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2202:global-scholarly-community-made-in-america-indian-leftists-and-their-comical-ways&catid=55:plainspeak&Itemid=71
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NaMo, two things in Money Bill 2016: nationalise kaalaadhan, merge Central Excise & Service Tax (way to bypass GST logjam)

February 17, 2016, 2:57 am
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Items for Money Bill 2016:

1. Overcome the GST logjam by merging Central Excise and Service Tax

Merge central excise duty and service tax in MoneyBill 2016 to overcome GST logjam (GovindRao 2001 report)
http://www.ncaer.org/uploads/photo-gallery/files/1436711357IPF%202015%20Govinda%20Rao%20Conference%20Version%20Draft.pdf

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Research/Files/Articles/2005/7/india-policy-forum/2005_rao.PDF

http://www.econ.hit-u.ac.jp/~kokyo/sympojuly05/papers/Tax%20System%20Reform-Tokyo(india)2.pdf

2. Nationalise kaalaadhan

Money illegally held in tax havens should be brought back into the nation's financial system. Declare all such illicit wealth as national property and declare that the monies should be brought into the nation's financial system within a stipulated time-frame.

The move should be on the lines of the Nationalisation of Private Banks, if necessary, by an Ordinance followed by the Money Bill 2016 grounded on Developmental imperative.

Kalyanaraman
February 17 2016

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LIVE: Kanhaiya Kumar beaten up by lawyers at Patiala House Court, sent to 14 days of judicial custody

February 17, 2016, 3:31 am
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Entire Lutyens Media United, thousands of cameras, But still no VIDEO yet of being brutally beaten?  

Why not show proof?

Published: February 17, 2016 18:37 IST | Updated: February 17, 2016 18:56 IST  New Delhi, February 17, 2016

Kanhaiya was not attacked, says Bassi

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Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi coming out of Prime Minister Office in New Delhi on Wednesday.
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Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi coming out of Prime Minister Office in New Delhi on Wednesday.

Lawyers are officers of the court...use of heavy force would have been inappropriate in this case, says the Delhi Police Commissioner.

Under fire over violence in the Patiala House court complex, Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi on Wednesday denied that JNUSU leader Kanhaiya Kumar was “beaten up” and defended the handling of the situation, saying use of “heavy force” against lawyers would have been counter-productive and inappropriate.
“I do not think he was beaten up. There was lot of jostling. We expected jostling and considering that he was escorted by a requisite number of police officers. He was taken care of by our officers.
“I do not think you can call the situation (in the court complex) today went out of hand,” he told reporters after the Delhi Police’s handling of the situation at the Patiala House court complex came under intense scrutiny from the Supreme Court in the wake of attack on Kumar and journalists by a group of lawyers.
He said the officers covered him physically and was protected from being assaulted. Scuffled took place on two occasions.
Replying to questions, he said use of force would have been counter-productive. “Lawyers are officers of the court.
JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar arrives at the Patiala House Court complex. Video: ANI
When we are dealing with officers...use of heavy force would have been inappropriate in this case.”
Mr. Bassi cited earlier instances of violence involving lawyers in Madras High Court, Allahabad High Court and elsewhere to buttress his point that lawyers are to be handled carefully.
“We have managed the situation. There was no breach of peace. We have followed norms of prudent policing,” Mr. Bassi said.
He said he had no idea as to what the Supreme Court-appointed lawyers have said in their report. “If they find me guilty, then I have a right to rebut.”
Referring to Monday’s violence in which a group of lawyers had attacked journalists, JNU students and teachers, Mr. Bassi said three lawyers including V K Chouhan and BJP MLA O P Sharma have been summoned for questioning.
He expressed hope that they will appear before the investigating officer and give their version of the events.
Printable version | Feb 17, 2016 8:38:19 PM | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/jnusu-leader-kanhaiya-kumar-was-not-attacked-says-bassi/article8249010.ece

LIVE: Kanhaiya Kumar beaten up by lawyers at Patiala House Court, sent to 14 days of judicial custody

By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: February 17, 2016 4:59 pm
Laywers protesting outside Patiala House Court on Wednesday. (source- ANI)Lawyers protesting outside Patiala House Court on Wednesday. (source- ANI)
JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested on sedition charges, was allegedly beaten up by lawyers on Wednesday while he was being produced at Patiala House court. Despite the Supreme Court putting restrictions on who can enter the court during his appearance, a group of lawyers assembled inside the complex shouting slogans. The lawyers have also allegedly beaten up a journalist and student.
Taking note of fresh ‘violence’ at Patiala House, the apex court have appointed a five-member team to assess the ground situation and report back to it. The top Court on also asked Delhi Police commissioner BS Bassi to submit an explanation by tomorrow on his failure to ensure law and order at Patiala House today. The court asked Bassi to take responsibility or else its would issue orders to stop the law and order situation at Patiala court from spiraling out of control.
Here are the LIVE updates:
4.45 pm:
4.32 pm:
4.30 pm:
4.29 pm:
4.28 pm:
4.25 pm:
4.24 pm: Police will not object to bail for Kanhaiya Kumar: Bassi.
4.24 pm: BJP MLA OP Sharma has also been summoned by police: Delhi Police chief BS Bassi.
4.23 pm: Lawyer Vikram Singh Chauhan, who was part of assault on journalists, JNU students, summoned by Delhi Police: Commissioner BS Bassi.
4.22 pm: I don’t think he (Kanhaiya Kumar) was beaten up: Delhi Police chief BS Bassi.
4.15 pm:
4.10 pm:
4.00 pm:
3.45 pm:
3.35 pm:
3.30 pm:
3.15 pm:
3.14 pm:
3.12 pm:
3.10 pm: Supreme Court appoints five-member team to visit Patiala House court and report back to it.
3.00 pm: Kanhaiya Kumar beaten up by lawyers at Patiala House Court.
2.52 pm: SC says it may appoint local commissioner to take stock of situation at Patiala House Court complex.
2.51 pm: SC asks counsel to tell Delhi Police Commissioner to take action against those indulging in violence irrespective of their profession.
2.50 pm: SC asks Delhi Police senior advocate to find out situation at Patiala House Court and get back to it in ten minutes.
2.45 pm:
2:37 pm: JNU is a very premier institution of India. It’s widely respected also: Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.
2:31 pm: Both the matters are under investigation, so I can’t comment. JNU has produced great academicians & public figures: RS Prasad.
2:31 pm: Allahabad HC agrees to hear PIL filed against Rahul Gandhi for his support to JNU students. Matter to be heard in March.
More security deployed at Patiala House court complex. (Source: ANI)
2:00 pm:
1:50 pm: Men in black robes beat up a man, raise slogans in Patiala House court, ahead of hearing on sedition case against JNU student leader Kanhaiya.
1:45: More security forces deployed after Patiala House Court.
1:35 pm: Protest by lawyers outside Patiala House Court leads to clashes among two groups. Journalist reportedly roughed up.
1:25 pm: Lawyers protest outside Patiala House Court raise slogans of “Vande Mataram” & “Bharat Mata Ki Jai”.
1:25 pm: PIL filed against Rahul Gandhi for his support to JNU students in Lucknow bench of Allahabad HC.
1:15 pm: NHRC notice to the Home Secy, Chief Secy, & Delhi Police Commissioner, on allegations of beating of journalists & students outside Patiala House Court.
1:10 pm: Extreme views would destabilise the nation, people should be moderate in their approach: SC on Patiala House Court scuffle.
(with ANI inputs)
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/jnu-delhi-police-kanhaiya-kumar-patiala-house-court-india-news/
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Appeal to political parties NOT to interfere in JNU -- VC Jagadesh Kumar. Terror of Bamboo Mamata and CPM nursing.

February 17, 2016, 3:17 pm
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Vice Chancellor Appeals To Political Parties Not To 'Interfere' In JNU RowFile Photo: JNU Vice Chancellor Jagdeesh Kumar was a former professor at IIT Delhi.

NEW DELHI:  Amid the raging row at JNU, its Vice Chancellor, M Jagadesh Kumar today appealed to "all" political parties against "interfering" in the matter and said the varsity is capable of dealing with such issues internally.

"I appeal to all political parties to not interfere in this matter. The university can deal with these issues internally," he said.

Condemning the attack on students and teachers at Patiala House Court complex, Mr Kumar said, "It was brought to our notice that some of the teachers were manhandled. The university condemns the alleged attack on them and is of the view that the law should be allowed to take its course."

Asked about reports regarding the hacking of the JNU website, the Vice Chancellor said the university is looking into the matter.

"I have also been told that the website of the university has been hacked. We are investigating the matter," he said.

Mr Kumar said a high-level JNU committee is investigating the February 9 incident in which anti-national slogans were raised and the eight students who were found to be involved in it have been debarred from the university after a preliminary inquiry.

Amid criticism over the Vice Chancellor's contradictory statements on alleged "police crackdown" on campus, Registrar Bhupinder Zutshi said, "There has been no contradictory stand on the police permission".

"We never called the police, we just cooperated with them. The permission granted to them to enter was not an anti-student move," the Vice Chancellor had said.

Anti-India slogans were raised at an event at JNU on February 9 after which its students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar was accused and arrested in a sedition case.http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/vice-chancellor-appeals-to-political-parties-not-to-interfere-in-jnu-row-1278511

| Thursday , February 18 , 2016 |

State CPM nurses elbow-room hope

- Alliance prospects dim, hunt for salve
Our Special Correspondent
CPM politburo member Brinda Karat addresses Jawaharlal Nehru University students on the campus on Wednesday. Picture by Ramakant Kushwaha
New Delhi, Feb. 17: The CPM central committee appeared set to strike down any official alliance with the Congress in Bengal but last-minute efforts to give some leeway to the state unit for a tactical handshake on the ground are in the works, sources said.
Before the central committee session resumes tomorrow, the sources said the politburo was likely to meet to prepare a resolution that would give some freedom to the Bengal CPM to face the challenges posed by the "extraordinary" political situation in the state. The resolution will be placed before the central committee for its approval.
The resolution, according to the sources, will take into account the arguments placed by the central committee members from Bengal at today's meeting. The Bengal leaders stressed that the situation in the state was "extraordinary" and that there was tremendous pressure from the ground for wider Opposition unity against Trinamul.
"If we ignore the people's voice, the party will suffer heavily in the state," a central committee member from Bengal was quoted as saying at the meeting. The other speakers from the state echoed him.
"A formal alliance with the Congress was never under consideration. But given the extraordinary situation in Bengal, the party will take measures to ensure that the people of the state are able to overcome Trinamul's terror and come out to vote," a politburo member said, hinting at a tactical alliance with the Congress on the ground.
The politburo member said the resolution would see to it that the political-tactical line finalised by the party congress in Visakhapatnam last year was not violated, but at the same time the Bengal unit got some freedom to "respect the people's voice".
Most of the 54 central committee members who spoke today argued against the Bengal unit's proposal for an alliance with the Congress. The main reason for opposing the idea was that such a tie-up would go against the political-tactical line. Tomorrow, 11 more members will speak before the final decision is taken. The committee has 91 members.
Members from Kerala, which is well represented in the central committee, vehemently opposed the Bengal unit's plea, the sources said. The response from representatives from other states was mixed, but tilted a little towards not aligning with the Congress.
The sources said the only person who broke the Kerala ranks was V.S. Achuthanandan, who placed a note before the central committee supporting Bengal's proposal.
Gautam Deb, the first speaker from Bengal, argued forcefully in favour of an alliance. He drew attention to instances of "terror" being unleashed by Trinamul and underlined the need to join hands with the Congress to save the CPM in Bengal.
Despite the majority voice in the central committee against an alliance with the Congress, the Bengal comrades appeared hopeful that they would be able to have their way.
"Everything is going in the right direction. The path for Mamata's defeat has been finalised," an excited Deb told reporters while leaving the meeting venue a little early to catch a flight to Calcutta.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1160218/jsp/frontpage/story_69934.jsp#.VsT8_FR97tQ
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Bacchi hai, jane do. Ye saare dalle hain, stain on the young man's trousers, law enforcement lessons not to forget in this life.

February 17, 2016, 4:04 pm
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 Feb 16
teachers investigation has confirmed complicity of JNU president in subversive demonstration-Not so innocent as RahulG wd hv us believe
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Just saying:Amazed at this Kavitha krishnan-she is some times activist/BBB without BB/Politbureu member of CPIML/ now journalist marching:)
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If you care about press freedom, perhaps it’s time to boycott Arnab Goswami? via
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Just saw pictures of Kavita Krishnan in Journalists protest march? Clear where the sympathy lies & what is the agenda.
  2.  12 hours ago
    Violence at Court unfortunate but anger in public over "Liberal"& Journalists who lost their objectivity in Love for Pakistan & Afzal Guru.
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  3.  12 hours ago
    Entire Lutyens Media United, thousands of cameras, But still no VIDEO yet of being brutally beaten? Why not show proof?
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  4.  14 hours ago
    What's relevance of pictures of lawyer with BJP leaders? No Politician says No nowadays to people requesting pic.


    Vikram Chauhan, on camera beating people, leads the charge at Patiala Court again today. Boasts of pix with slew of prominent BJP leaders
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    Excellent article by . Contributes to the larger debate on sedition etc.


    Think US has unfettered free speech?Doesn't have sedition law?Think again.They crack down hard when needed.My piece.

Vicious assault on Kanhaiya

Imran ahmed siddiqui

Kanhaiya Kumar in the Patiala House Courts complex on Wednesday. (AFP)
New Delhi, Feb. 17: Kanhaiya Kumar was kicked and punched so viciously inside a court complex today afternoon that what appeared to be urine stained the young man's trousers.
Half an hour later, the JNU students' union president, arrested on a sedition charge, was beaten up again - this time in a room near the courtroom earmarked for his bail hearing, according to lawyers.
Hundreds of policemen, who should have thrown a protective ring around the JNU students' union president as soon as he was brought into the Patiala House Courts complex, did so only after the first round of assault had run its course.
The back-to-back attacks took place in spite of a directive by the Supreme Court to ensure full security and less than 48 hours after the very same assailants had pounced on teachers, students and journalists in the same court complex.
Around 10 lawyers pounced on Kanhaiya on the court premises while he was being led to the courtroom. The attackers had a free run for several minutes before a few policemen tried to shield him with their riot gear.
The police had ample warning in advance. As soon as 10 policemen escorted Kanhaiya from the gate to the court complex, a group of lawyers started shouting " Desh ke gaddaron ko/Goli maro saalon ko (Shoot the traitors)".
The police did nothing. The lawyers went berserk.
They punched and kicked Kanhaiya all over his body. A large crowd of lawyers egged them on, mouthing expletive after expletive.
Kanhaiya tried to shield himself from the blows, sitting on the ground and repeatedly saying: " Main deshdrohi nahin hoon (I am not anti-national)."
But there was no let-up and soon the stain appeared on his trousers. It was then that the policemen threw a security ring around him.
The policemen whisked him inside the court building and bolted the door. But the lawyers continued to abuse him, threatening to kill him on the premises for allegedly shouting anti-national slogans during a march on the JNU campus on February 9.
One group was waving the Tricolour, chanting in unison " Bharat Mata ki jai" and " Vande Mataram".
Around 30 minutes later, while Kanhaiya was seated in a room opposite the court of metropolitan magistrate Lovleen where he was to be produced, a lawyer identified as Surendra Tyagi reportedly barged into the room and punched and kicked him in his abdomen and pulled his hair in the presence of policemen. The lawyer and others bragged about this outside. The account was corroborated by a lawyer for Kanhaiya.
Several lawyers were seen congratulating each other for teaching Kanhaiya "a lesson he will not forget in this life".
"We are so proud of you. This calls for celebration," Tyagi shouted to his colleagues. Others clapped and embraced one another.
"People are calling us goondas while the anti-nationals are being hailed as heroes. We will continue to fight for our motherland. If anyone casts aspersions on our Mother India, we will gouge their eyes out," said Vikram Chauhan, a lawyer who had led the attacks on Monday as well as today. Chauhan describes himself as a BJP sympathiser. (Picture on Page 4)
The celebration and slogan-shouting continued but the police did not intervene. Officers, led by deputy commissioner Jatin Narwal, stood poker-faced.
Kanhaiya broke down before the magistrate Lovleen while narrating his ordeal inside the court complex. He added that he was innocent and was being framed.
"I am an Indian and I have full faith in the Constitution as well as the judiciary of the country. I have said this earlier too," Kanhaiya told the magistrate. "The media trial against me is painful. If there is any evidence against me that I am a traitor, you please send me to jail."
The magistrate asked the police to call doctors. Two doctors from Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital examined Kanhaiya inside the room opposite Lovleen's court.
"There were minor injuries, only minor abrasions on his face, nose and both the legs," a doctor told reporters.
During the court proceedings, the police told the magistrate that they did not require Kanhaiya's custody and he may be sent to judicial custody.
Siddhartha, one of the counsel for the student leader, alleged that the police connived with the group of lawyers who attacked his client.
"The police were mute spectators when my client was being assaulted. It was in clear defiance of the apex court order. The cops connived with the lawyers," he said.
Kanhaiya was sent to judicial custody for 14 days. "We did not file a bail petition today as we think he is safer in jail than in police custody," the counsel said.
The group of lawyers continued to protest and stood outside the courtroom gate. "We have so many of our notorious clients in Tihar. We will ask them to look after him well," Tyagi said, drawing applause from other lawyers.
Acting on information about the violence, the Supreme Court had rushed six senior lawyers led by Kapil Sibal. The lawyers in the Patiala House complex did not spare the delegation either.
The lawyers showered the visitors from the Supreme Court, a little over a kilometre away, with expletives, particularly targeting Sibal. While the team was on its way back, a shoe was hurled at the former Union minister. It missed him.
Earlier in the day, the same group of lawyers had attacked a journalist belonging to FirstPost, a news portal, and thrown stones at journalists who were standing outside the court premises.
But Delhi police commissioner B.S. Bassi said he did not "think" Kanhaiya was beaten up. "I do not think he was beaten up. There was only jostling and our men managed to take him to the courtroom safely. We expected jostling and considering that, he was escorted by police officers, including two ACP-rank officers and two inspectors, who managed to take him to the courtroom safely," he said.
Defending the police response, Bassi added: "Any use of heavy force against lawyers would have led to collateral damage."
He said the officers shielded Kanhaiya physically. "We managed the situation and there was no breach of peace. We have followed norms of prudent policing," Bassi said.
The police chief said three lawyers, including Chauhan, and BJP legislator O.P. Sharma had been summoned for questioning in connection with Monday's incidents. http://www.telegraphindia.com/1160218/jsp/frontpage/story_69943.jsp#.VsUEXlR97tQ

JNUSU PRESIDENT KANHAIYA KUMAR SENT TO JAIL TILL MARCH 2

Wednesday, 17 February 2016 | PTI | New Delhi

JNU students' union President Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested in a sedition case in which anti- India slogans were allegedly raised in the university premises on February 9, was today remanded to judicial custody till March 2 by a Delhi court.
Kanhaiya was produced before the court, after the expiry of his police custody remand, amidst tight security and sloganeering by lawyers inside the court premises.
During the hearing before Metropolitan Magistrate Lovleen, only six lawyers representing Kanhaiya were allowed to be inside the court room along with a JNU professor and five journalists.
Kanhaiya was attacked by a group of persons when he was being escorted by police from the vehicle to the court room during which even the cops with him were beaten up.
A visibly shaken Kanhaiya was brought in the court room at 2.45 pm where an unidentified person tried to assault him.
During the hearing, which commenced at 3 pm, advocates Vrinda Grover and Sushil Bajaj, who appeared for Kanhaiya, told the magistrate that despite the Supreme Court direction, the police has failed to maintain the law and order as their client was assaulted inside court premises and even outside the door of the court room by the person.
The lawyers claimed that despite Kanhaiya asking the police officials to apprehend the person, who was trying to assault him near the gate of the court room, the police allowed that person to go scot free.
At this juncture the magistrate told the lawyers that he will call the doctors from the Patiala House Court dispensary to medically examine Kanhaiya inside the court room itself.
During the hearing, the investigating officers moved the application requesting the court to send Kanhaiya to judicial custody, saying he was not required for any custodial interrogation.
The court allowed the plea and remanded Kanhaiya to judicial custody till March 2.
During the hearing, Kanhaiya's counsel moved an application seeking direction to the jail superintendent to ensure safety and security of their client in the prison.
The court ordered the DCP (New Delhi) Jatin Narwal, who was present in the court room, to take appropriate action to ensure that Kanhaiya is being taken to the jail safely and also directed the jail authorities to ensure his safety there.
During the hearing, Kanhaiya's counsel apprised the Magistrate that the Supreme Court has appointed some senior advocates as court commissioners and they are on their way to Patiala House court.
The six member team of lawyers comprised Kapil Sibal, Rajeev Dhavan, Dushyant Dave, A D N Rao, Ajit Sinha and Harin Raval.
At around 3.25 pm, the team of SC-appointed commissioners came in the court and asked Kanhaiya and their counsel as to what has happened with the accused in the court premises today.
Initially, advocate Vrinda Grover briefed them about the assault and later on the commissioners asked Kanhaiya about the incident.
Narrating the incident, Kanhaiya told the commissioners that he was attacked by a group of mob while he was being escorted to the court room.
The commissioners then called DCP Narwal and asked him to explain about the failure of law and order despite the Supreme Court directive.
Narwal, however, told them that when the mob attacked Kanhaiya, even police personnel were beaten up and one of the cops was attacked with blade by those persons.
After 1.30 pm a group of men dressed as lawyers were shouting slogans and also tried to manhandle 3-4 persons during which the police intervened and escorted them out safely.
http://www.dailypioneer.com/top-stories/jnusu-president-kanhaiya-kumar-sent-to-jail-till-march-2.html


Emboldened by inaction, lawyers beat up JNUSU president & journalists at court in 2nd attack in 3 days

TNN | Feb 18, 2016, 02.08 AM IST

Police intervenes as advocates clash with the JNU students who were protesting against the arrest of JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar at Patiala House Courts in New Delhi on Monday (PTI photo)




Police intervenes as advocates clash with the JNU students who were protesting against the arrest of JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar at Patiala House Courts in New Delhi on Monday. (PTI photo)Police intervenes as advocates clash with the JNU students who were protesting against the arrest of JNUSU Pre... Read Mor
NEW DELHI: The Patiala House courts -- equidistant from the police headquarters and the seat of the Union government -- saw an unprecedented breakdown of law and order, for the second time within three days, on Wednesday. Unbelievably, the goons in black robes who had terrorized reporters and others on Monday, returned to do a repeat amidst heavy police presence. Waving the Tricolour and shouting slogans, they ran berserk, thrashing reporters, clashing with other lawyers and, finally, assaulting JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, who was being produced for a hearing on the sedition charges against him.







New Delhi: No action was taken against the lawyers, who had a free run of the place, though the policemen did sporadically intervene to escort people out. Late at night, amidst widespread outrage and condemnation, Delhi Police registered an FIR under sections of assault on the basis of a statement by Kanhaiya which he recorded in the presence of the judge. Police sources said he has identified one of the attackers in the statement. The police are likely to register a second FIR taking suo motu cognizance of the ruckus created by the lawyers through the day.
Kanhaiya had been brought to the court around 2:40pm through Gate No. 4. While he was being escorted to the court room, a group of 80-100 lawyers surrounded the police team accompanying him and rained blows and punches on him. The policemen managed to push back a few of them but were overpowered. However, soon more cops arrived and managed to rescue him. Some lawyers tried to attack Kumar outside the court room as well but the police managed to stop them. The lawyers later bragged before the cops, "We have done our bit, we have slapped him." Some were heard discussing they could finish the job if they were arrested and sent to Tihar.



Later in the evening, around 5:30pm, the lawyers once again began gathering in large numbers in the court premises and raised slogans, saying Kanhaiya wouldn't be spared. By 6:30pm, the police had asked all journalists to leave, citing security reasons. Amidst a lot of drama and through a rarely used entrance, Kumar was finally escorted out around 6:55pm and taken to Tihar Jail.

This was only the culmination of utter lawlessness for three hours during which everyone, except the agitating lawyers, were asked to leave the court premises. Two reporters, Tariq Anwar from Firstpost and Kundan Jha from Millennium Post, along with two lawyers defending Kumar, were punched and manhandled. Many others, including Meenakshi of Times Now, were heckled, manhandled, threatened and abused. The journalists who tried to use their phones incurred the wrath of the bullies and were greeted with slogans like "Media ko phaansi do, media murdabaad." Police commissioner B S Bassi, later, glorified these goons in black by calling them "law officers of the court".

The first signs of chaos were seen around 1pm when the two lawyers, along with some AISF supporters, entered the court premises to verify the timing of Kanhaiya's appearance before the judge. They ran into the protesting lawyers, including Vikram Chauhan, who has been accused of thrashing reporters earlier as well. The two were beaten up brutally near the lawns. Reporters Anwar and Jha were taking pictures of these agitating lawyers with their mobile phones. According to Jha, the lawyers first tried to force them to stop and within minutes a group started heckling them. "While I managed to escape, the mob thrashed Tariq and damaged his phone," said Jha.




Around 2pm, some lawyers gathered at the lawn and started pelting stones at the media personnel standing outside. "It was a riot-like situation...we were cowering behind parked vehicles to escape from the stones being flung at us," said Azan Javaid of DNA newspaper. A court staffer who had tried to take a photograph of this was also thrashed by the lawyers.

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Later in the day, the TOI court reporter was also abused when lawyers saw her sending tweets. This happened around 6:30pm when the policemen were getting ready to escort Kumar out of the court complex. The goons came close to punching the reporter but a lawyer known to her and a policeman managed to save her. He pleaded with them: "Bacchi hai, jaane do (She is a kid, please spare her)." The reporter was then forced out of the court premises.


Supreme Court had taken note of the mayhem by then and directed Delhi Police to take necessary action against the protesters. The cops present inside the courtroom managed to push the goons into the barricaded zone. They were shouting slogans all through.


The apex court also sent a team of six lawyers, including former union minister Kapil Sibal, to assess the situation, but this group too was heckled by the goons. The team had arrived around 3pm to take stock of the situation. Spotting them, the lawyers started raising slogans against Sibal and shouted "ye saare dalle hain. Aaj sab ko theek kar denge." (They are all pimps, we will fix all of them today). Empty bottles and stones were hurled at the group but no one was injured. Again, shoes and flower pots were hurled at Sibal when he was leaving the court premises. Senior Delhi Police officials had to intervene to rescue him from a mob that was following him.

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Dear JNU Students, We Fund Your Studies, Not Your Politics -- Mohandas Pai PLUS 279 comments

February 17, 2016, 9:13 pm
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Dear JNU Students, We Fund Your Studies, Not Your Politics

Mohandas Pai February 15, 2016 10:02 IST
JNU has been a controversial university for quite some time. Professor Nurul Hasan, as HRD Minister, made sure that it became a bastion of the Left. Faculty who had alternate views were not hired or encouraged and sometimes hounded out. Wherever the Left has tried to assert itself, it has sought to infiltrate and control universities to ensure it dominates intellectual discourse.

Based as it is on an exclusivist centralised dogma, it left no room for new thoughts and vibrant debates and sought to shut out all voices except its dogma. The Left Front rule in West Bengal is a classic example of the capture of universities and their decline as centres of vibrant intellectual thought. Today, universities in West Bengal are a pale shadow of what they once were.

This strategy was also based on creating student unions which espoused the Left cause, and created a cadre of storm troopers in case of need and future cadres for the party. Since the Left itself is splintered, the extreme left - the CPI (ML) - tried to dominate student unions based on its espousal of causes which were archaic, often violent and always extreme.

There was no shortage of causes in India as there were issues of caste, land, disparity and much else. Much of the faculty were Left sympathisers who enjoyed the freedom and perques of a secure government job with almost no accountability and a ready cadre of students on whom they could work.

Students were often the worst sufferers as studies were sidelined. The faculty and the students always held themselves out as liberals except that they did not allow the flowering of alternate views, nor outsiders who could challenge them. They were a shut shop, a world in themselves. With a sympathetic government, they even rewrote our history. There is no better example today in India of the capture of a university by an ideology than JNU.

This is not to say that we need the Right to now capture universities and do the same. What we need are universities which are more open, where faculty is hired on merit not ideology, and where there is a healthy interaction of ideas and views. There should clearly be no single ideology or view which will dominate very much the principle on which our civilization is based.

In India, JNU is on top of the totem pole of Left-captured institutions, based as it is in Delhi, the heart of political power in India, funded fully by the government and focused on social sciences. A closed state-controlled economy provided the ideal environment for much angst within. Liberalisation in 1991 opened JNU to a changing ecosystem in India and, soon, globally. The decline of the Left all over the world, the increase in jobs for students, a growing media which asked questions, and economic prosperity started changing the equation. The Left has been in decline in India too with the advent of a thick layer of the middle class which is socially liberal and economically conservative, and which does not believe is the distant promises of failed revolutions.

The recent incident of Leftist student unions indulging in "anti national" activities, shouting slogans against the Indian Union, calling the hanging of Afzal Guru a judicial killing is symbiotic of an out-of-date ideology trying to regain its prominence. JNU is changing, becoming more open, collegial and more universal, and the Left is resisting change, using students to provoke extreme action by the State to keep itself alive. Students and their future have become a pawn in this ideological fight between a declining Left and an assertive Right, specially after the Right has come to power.


Prodded by an enraged public opinion offended by the anti-national slogans, the government's response has been unduly harsh, slapping sedition charges on students, arresting the student union leader and sending the police into the campus.

Of course now the Congress, the Left and the JD(U) have waded in, clearly showing this as an ideological fight, dividing  the faculty and the students. The Congress seems to have lost its moorings with its Vice President Rahul Gandhi supporting those who call the Afzal Guru hanging a judicial killing, knowing fully well that its own government executed the hanging.

One would have hoped that the government would be more magnanimous, allowing the university  to enquire and take any disciplinary action, rather than wading  in and arresting students, thereby escalating this conflict. Such arrests are worrisome because we do not want any government to intrude on our freedom of speech or our freedom of association even when people have "extreme" views - so long as there is no violence or a call to violence.

A sedition charge is outdated in a liberal democracy. The US has tackled such issues much earlier, even stating that the freedom of speech includes the freedom to burn the national flag! This has not hurt the US in any way but has considerably enhanced personal freedom. We need a more mature state in India, irrespective of government, where citizens can freely dissent, even promote archaic declining political ideology, so long as there is no violence, threat of  violence etc.

As for JNU, it is time the government asked students to pay the full cost of education; in case students wish to focus on politics and not on their studies, there is no case for taxpayers to subsidise extreme views or an archaic Left. Freedom does not include the right to misuse tax payers' monies. Further, the faculty issue also needs to be tackled. Too much of the faculty is indulging in politics, forgetting their primary duties - note the quality of research going down. Universities have to be held accountable for their output and research, not judged on their political ideology or political activism.

(Mohandas Pai was the CFO and then the head of HR at Infosys. He is now Chairman, Aarin Capital Partners.)

  • LK | 1 day ago
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    Mr. Pai - Universities ARE supposed to be where every issue relevant to life and living is debated - that means politics is central. NOTHING is apolitical - not even the curriculum or institution itself. Claiming something is apolitical is a political statement. It might shock and horrify you to know that political activity on US campuses is alive and thrives...be it protests against interventionist policies, or against the Wall Street banks for collapse of the financial system and getting away with it all, or even events afar (in solidarity with Arab Spring, say). Given your esteemable knowledge of all issues in this world, I thought I should write and let you know this fact - lest someone tells you that you don't know what you are talking about. After all, you have never travelled outside India or interacted with academics in US universities, and I am SURE after you read this comment of mine, you will wisely change your views. 
    Sincerely,
    (Sarcasm intended).
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    Myview Point | 1 day ago
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    This very Pai is a head of a private educational institution in India and abroad. Bright students in India are supported and will be supported by the Government. You better concentrate on US students to satisfy your greed.
  • Seshagiri Sriram | 1 day ago
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    The issue is never with the politics - you may choose to disagree with me and I, with you. The problem stems when there is no intention of meeting people mid way to arrive at solutions instead of indulging in "adda" discussions. On a different note, the Government has not shown any sensitivity and maturity in handling this - it could have chosen to take a high path and instead has only shown an inclination to indulge in "goodaism" of its own. The last point on subsidy should apply to all higher education institutions, not just the JNU - after all the IITs have been churning out mediocrities for some time now.
  • Kopila Pandey | 1 day ago
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    JNU has been the one of the manufacturer of terrorist for the neighboring countries and more than hundred thousand have given their lives or displaced from their land within the Indian territories also. India should not at least demolish JNU right now because it will be good for them and for the neighbors also.
  • fatequirky | 1 day ago
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    For long JNU was the training school for the politicians of Left and Congress and occasional BJP. Nothing wrong. But, a 1000 acre campus, annual tuition and all fees of rs400 and less.... This is worse than the PSU banks NPA; this is a relic of USSR era; the Berlin Wall has fallen, USSR broke in to pieces, Venezuela threw it socialist party, China follows market economy... Where is the relevance of the JNU to fester and continue to be a parasite on rest of India? The Indian political leaders progenies and aspirant communists and socialists can go to North Korea.
  • fatequirky | 1 day ago
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    Thanks Mr. Pai! You called a spade, spade. The annual fees today an undergraduate at JNU pays is about Rs370 and a post graduates and M Phil scholars pay is about Rs393. I checked their website. The sons and daughters of who is who in Indian politics, particularly the Left and Congress attend this school. About 4 decades ago from a rural Tamilnadu out of merit cum means scholarship I paid more fees in a mofussil college that what these richie rich of Indian society pay. What is worse a large number of these communist, socialist, Congress students end up in UK and USA Ivy League and none in science or technology but in these so called fashionable nonsense areas of humanities. A corporation school kid in namma Bengaluru spends more than that. Stop this subsidy to this elite institution which has no respect for Indian Constitution but is a funnel to radicalism, improve primary education and health in rest of India.
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    Akella Srinivasarao | 1 day ago
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    I totally agree with you Mr. Pai. I just had a message on this issue ad would like to share with you
    "JNU has room rent @ Rs 11/- per month. Annual fee is Rs 219/- per year payable in 2 installments. Mess bills are subsidised through free manpower and infrastructure. More and more hostels are being made to loot the taxpayer's money and further worsen the problem. 11 hostels were there in1990 now 22. More outsiders and illegal can now stay in hostels at night.

    One professor for every 15 students , Rs 3 lakh per student the govt spends for each student of JNU out of our Tax for shouting anti India slogans and pro Pakistan slogans ? How tolerant we fools are !!
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    Edathuajose Teejay | 1 day ago
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    A university education has done you no good.What a waste...the rest is silence.
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    Chetan Chudasama | 1 day ago
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    Neutral analysis by Pai
  • jagar singh | 1 day ago
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    Capitalist wants to debar poor from education by asking cost.He is possibly not aware of the selection system in JNU.
  • Concern Indian | 1 day ago
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    Mohandas must have received the cheque from Goonda Party BJP. There are so many stooges in media Arnab Goswami Mohandas Pai etc. who are supporting RSS/BJP/VHP for money. Shameless people
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    Ikshaku Bezbaroa | 1 day ago
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    What makes you think they are there to study and nothing else? They are there to become thinking adults with minds of their own, and if you are unhappy with that, you should open your own school where you can make robot replicas who will agree with what you want them to say and do research to fatten your belly
  • Milind Kumar Dange | 1 day ago
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    Mr.Pai has overreacted. Media should seek comments from persons associated with the happening or the event. Just for the sake of filling up panelist they invite all and sundry with a blinkered view, this will happen.
    And Mr Pai it would be better if you follow Mr Narayan Murthy who does not open his mouth un necessarily.
  • Jawahar D | 1 day ago
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    WOW. Mr. Pai what you are saying is that there because the college is funded by tax payers money, the college should always toe the line of the majority in the country. Are you not saying that ideas contrary to that of the majority of the tax payers should be stifled? It is because of this mentality of the rich to look down on others that we are still a developing country. Should not every idea be debated and the bad ones thrashed out and the good ones adopted? Or should all policy be dependent on where the funds come from? I guess we see the accountant side of you in this article. You should learn to enjoy an orchestra instead of whining on the wastage of having a dozen violinists instead of just one and an amplifier.
    Just as human love, freedom is always conditional, but to make a bounds with money is just another form of slavery.
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    Ashok Chawla | 1 day ago
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    Great!! For the first time, someone has come out so openly on the facts about JNU. So well said, Mr Pai. There is just one clarification for the benefit of readers. Though the article reflects so, it needs to be highlighted that it is not all students, but only a small batch of few tens of students guided by highly privileged select faculty, which enjoy around 2 lac salary plus huge perks from taxpayer's money, that is always bothered about any issue on the earth, may it be related with running of US or even bigger power on the earth or even space, with no answerability of any sort. Aggressive and offensive counter-questioning is their strength. Faces of most of these students are seen only when some demonstration is to be done. On the other hand, larger chunk of students just casually enjoy suspension of classes without even understanding the issue. Interestingly, this phenomenon, including the process, has been continuing for decades. I hope, the students, whose dreams and ambitions get diluted in the process, will wake up and question the blatant intolerance displayed by this small group by 'not letting the academic activity continue' and ask them to organise all the demonstration or protest related activities outside the class hours. Once students are alarmed, their guides will follow the suit.
  • KK | 2 days ago
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    I don't agree with this statement. Colleges have been funded by governments since last 65+years. That doesn't mean you cant discuss politics. Where did all these politicians came from?
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    Praveen Saldanha | 2 days ago
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    Does this apply to ABVP
  • Martin David | 2 days ago
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    Mr.Pai, where was your voice when the PSU's bailed out Vijay Mallya?? Was that only my money and not yours?? And are you not blind to the money paid to the politicians by the large corporations to help policy changes and tax deductions/exemptions???...Sad to note that people of your stature to be so selective in opinion! If you had given a disclaimer that you were aligned to a particular political establishment then I would taken your comments with a pinch of salt.
  • Zinia Baruah | 2 days ago
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    "Students were often the worst sufferers as studies were sidelined. The faculty and the students always held themselves out as liberals except that they did not allow the flowering of alternate views, nor outsiders who could challenge them. "
    It is strange that this is being said about the one place in India where we had complete freedom of speech, and there was a culture of free debates instead of violent suppression of alternate views. Events were organized as much by ABVP as by other students parties, disruption often being caused by ABVP in events organized by the left.. and never vice versa. The entrance examinations were purely academic with no questions on left leanings, and the system of deprivation points and subsidised education gave students from poorer backgrounds better opportunity than afforded in any other Indian University. Yes the University is an island of freedom in a nation where dissenting with mainstream views can lead one to a lifetime in prison. It is a place where students learn to question, they learn to debate and think freely. It is strange that someone should argue in an article that students should not used subsidised education to engage in politics, it seems they believe education is about a single minded focus on a single subject rather than the overall development of free thought and personality in a human being. Rather than preparing students to be full participants in India's political and social life, they want robots who will focus solely on their job and leave the political battlefield to the mostly uneducated goons that fill our political sphere, so that corruption and crony capitalism can continue forever. It isn't much of a surprise though that the article is written by someone in the corporate sector, because the prevailing political scenario in India is perfect for them. Slap sedition charges on any protestor and continue with the political-corporate nexus to loot the country while the robots immerse themselves in their work. No they don't want enlightened citizens, they want worker ants to work in their colony. 
    I respect the opinion of the author, but I beg to differ on his thoughts on politics as being separate from education. No education can ever be complete without the knowledge of politics.
  • praveen | 2 days ago
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    Mr pai comes with a head gear that he is an intellect .I will say that he is not he should not unnecessarily comment and speak on the issues which he dosen't hold any command . he is just mediocre. no indepth analysis .

    universities all around the world are laboratories for democracy . here is a place where there lots of discussion including politics and all the issues takes place . so that solutions can come out .there is a lot freedom for such activities and esp when young blood is involved .and in universities its notch more so that unique solutions comes out
  • R | 2 days ago
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    MPai:

    The government funds universities. Intellectual thought is encouraged in all universities exploring all aspects of life, be they political or social or scientific. You cannot tell students, discuss social aspects but not political. Free thinking is a right. By funding education, you cannot impose on students what they should study and think. 

    R
  • RAW | 2 days ago
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    @varun or whatever ur real name is...so far any thing any left leaning "intellectual" has done is just for achieving some foreign scholarship or recognition...have they promised u too...
  • bbchoudhary | 2 days ago
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    The taxpayer money you are claiming your's is poor mans' money which mostly is dwindled by capitalists. JNU type facility for poor are now very few which are being attacked by capitalists' stooges,
  • anon | 2 days ago
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    dear mr pai - havent you enjoyed the benefits of huge subsidies that the government has provided for IT firms such as infosys that you were once a part of?
  • Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    Well said fantastic article
  • Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    Very well written. I'm sure that's the view of every neutral citizen
  • Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    It seems that universities are being invaded by political outfits with the vested interest of cultivating their future patry workers. This to stop. Kick out political outfits from our university campuses
  • Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    Really shame on people who gave anti India slogans, scares me how much hatred people are.
  • praghn | 2 days ago
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    To all those with "We Fund You" attitude.
    You don't fund anybody the truth is 
    "the society funds you and your life style".
    You might at Pmost rob or steal others labour or
    steal others share of earth and it's environment.

    For example robbing infosys employees of their true income
    and stealing an innocent child's carbon share by using AC or a car
    without asking.

    Too difficult to deduce then meditate like swami vivekananda
    Hope realization will come in this birth itself.
  • KK | 2 days ago
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    @varun: I guess you have no idea.. Once you take anti-national slogans (with whole lot of preparation) the university cannot manage it internally. It becomes a police case which will go thru the normal course of court and decisions. Remember this meeting emblodened a second meeting in press club few days later.

    If you think University can handle it, you just need to look at Hyderabad central univ. The Rohith suicide is a tragedy.. but beats me why he would commit suicide if there weren't other reasons.. So many students get their studies terminated or thrown from hostels for indiscipline but most of them go on with their lives.

    The result when University adminstrators handle is they are accused of casteism, favoritism, ABVP supporters and then thrown out of the University. In no time, OfficeofRG, Kujliwal and jobless politicians (sorry - oxymoron), professional protest organizations will descend on the Univ to throw the admins out. 

    The right thing is for powerful HM and Police to step in.
  • Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    I agree with Pai
  • Siddharth | 2 days ago
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    I think this article - particularly the headline - completely misunderstands the role of the academic institution in public life, especially one like the JNU whose coursework is meant to create future leaders and thinkers. All over the world, students in universities like the JNU have sparked off larger movements for justice. Student movements in Berkeley and Sorbonne in the 1960s played a key role in expanding civil rights and personal freedoms in their respective countries, Tiananmen Square in 1989 was essentially a student revolution on the political right. The role of institutions like JNU in India is the same: to ask questions to the system and bring change. 

    For that matter, IITs and IIMs also use taxpayer money to subsidise education. A large majority of those students practice a different kind of politics - one that allows them to benefit from subsidised education and leave the country blaming "the system". Atleast the JNU students are here, and doing something about a system they don't like.
  • Kumarpushp | 2 days ago
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    India is being ruled by Pai relatives who are holding ,foreign ministry, ministry of defence,and ministry of Finanace.time has come 120 million dalits should join with 120 million muslims and other minorities to throw the hindu led government from India
  • Babu Rao | 2 days ago
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    Well Said Mr Pai. We need this type of voices loud and clear in media.
  • Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    If universities don't have politics we will always have local goons as our politicians.
  • Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    Mr. Pai, Parents of JNU students also pay their taxes for education for all and not sly bank funding of Adani and Ambani.
  • rameswar pattanayak | 2 days ago
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    Good analysis. The left oriented faculty should be transferred out from JNU to perform administrative duties in states. That will make the things settle and students get to study.
  • Indian Student | 2 days ago
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    And what about the freebies you and your mentally wicked friends from the CII,NASCOM & ASSOCHAM keep on begging from the government?? First pay your own dues SIR.(The Tax Foregone). A Right wing capitalist crook like you shouldn't question the patriotism of THE INDIAN STUDENT. You and your pals keep yourself from paying taxes and burden the general public with the hefty indirect taxes. So the exchequer's money you are so concerned about is actually not yours. The only thing that right now stands in between you sick greedy capitalist thieves are those so called Anti Indian leftists. And on any given day i'll support them instead of you, an RSS crook.
  • anonymous | 2 days ago
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    Dear Narendra Modi,
    We pay tax to your government to provide us better education and standard of living, and not to engage in hooliganism in our educational institutions.
  • Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    agree - agree and agree . Students who fail twice should be deprived of scholarship and all free bees
  • Sachin | 2 days ago
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    Excellent article, kudos to Mohandas Pai for showing the true ugly face of politics played by congress and left.
  • Krish | 2 days ago
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    Well said Mr Pai. After this I am expecting a similar article from you about how we voted BJP to give us good governance and development and not stifle dissent and promote muscular nationalism
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    Salim Sayani | 2 days ago
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    Mr Pai.. respect u a lot .. but humbly may i raise simple point.. in JNU case you have concluded without knowing full facts.. let police n court do their one after d facts r clear n d court pronounces guilty.. u can do d postmortem.. but plz dont conclude without u knowing facts,.. v respect u a lot..
  • saroj | 2 days ago
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    well written, thanks mr. pai.
  • Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    ....guess BJP/ABVP is the new Left raising concerns over non issue....on the issue of Subsidy first the Parliamentarians subsidies should be revoked on the extent of politicking without output.... ..
  • Amod | 2 days ago
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    True, because the only objective of education is to make opinionless drones who will serve the interests of the government in power. I shudder to think what great "reforms" you'll initiate when the government rewards you with a nice, shiny gold star
  • Arun Patil | 2 days ago
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    This guys is a chartered accountant who has decided to double up as a historian of university politics in India!! And look at the supposed 'facts' that he has put with such conviction without any source!! Everything based on hearsay or perhaps what he has received from his bosses in BJP. I have listened to his views on various news channels and he has been consistently anti-poor and without fail most retrograde on his social views. Typical upper caste, rich guy who thinks rest of the world is stupid.
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    Soumya Dev | 2 days ago
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    Mr. Pai 1.5 lakh crore in Bad Debt. Try to find a solution for it. You people are fleecing the country in the name of development. Don't try to support the government to divert the attention form the economic woes of the common man (who was promised the acche din)
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    Abhishek Kumar Singh | 2 days ago
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    Thank you sir, awesome article
  • Indianin TN | 2 days ago
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    Exactly sir, that is what the students also want. They do not want intervention from any political party including the RSS and BJP through ABVP.
  • Ravindra Kumar Sharma | 2 days ago
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    There is a difference between a protest and a crime against nation. What has happened in JNU is a crime against nation. Every concerned citizen of India is surprised, worried and in a state of shock. If such thing happens in govt funded universities, I would like to send my children in some private college in Tamil naidu, were apart from normal academics students are also taught discipline. Perhaps JNU is the only university in this world were faculty members are taking side of a particular group of students and joining, Infact provoking students to do strike.Also this highly learned faculty members (lecturers) must understand that, if leftist ideas were so good then the then USSR would not have failed & their citizens would have not rejected the leftist ideology. We all know, how the leftist have killed lacs of their own citizens in their own country on the name of ideology. Today the leftist talk about freedom of expression but when they were in power in Bengal they newer allowed this very idea to flourish. It is time to free the JNU and all other universities from the clutches of such facility members añd students who induge themselves in dirty politics rather then studies.
  • Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    Fund them..give more money to buy smuggled weapons instead of pakisyan terrorists we have in delhi..the thick skin people..who only need something insyead of giving good to India
  • Animesh Mridha | 2 days ago
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    Worth reading, thank you so much. Really we need to develop our country, we need people like you who can show us the right direction. Pappu, Yeachuri, all are against our country & our children students.
  • RJ | 2 days ago
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    A very balanced and neutral article.
  • Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    Yes What Pai sir said is right, we Indian tax payers, corporate fund for study not for playing politics.
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    Janardhan Dabbiru | 2 days ago
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    I think Congress is becoming jittery now that there's a whiff of progress in the air. These guys believe in keeping India perennially poor and dependent on government doles(mai baap ka sarkar!). The simple strategy is to keep the people under BPL and then magnanimously hand out largesse at the time of elections. So when things start looking up, you start those little bush fires and hope that they would become forest fires. Those in govt shud avoid falling into these traps. Definitely a developed India is not in their interest. Of course this applies to left as well...only for them development is an existential question, because then they will become redundant. And as for BJP, wish they would steer clear of fanatic and fascistic elements in their party and rein them in firmly.
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    Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    We would have not been surpriseD if mr.pai had suggested that to get admission into a school for higher education a student should be well versed with the Philosophy of RSS.it is a pity that instead of public funding of education he advices the self financing model.it is archaic intellectuals like Pai who foster and emboldened the present day government to unleash terror in the name of patriotism.beware hitler is on the prowl with his variety of fascism.
  • Dayanidhi Pradhan | 2 days ago
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    Mr. Pai is absolutely right. Students are being manipulated by all political parties. Ask a Father who is supporting his son/daughter's education by spending his hard earned money. Do a father want his son/daughter to participate in Dharna or to involve in such activities that are happening in JNU? 

    Because of this incidence study of other innocent students are being hampered. Who is responsible for this? 

    There are enough scope for students to join politics once they complete their education. 

    Abhi hungama karoge to padhoge kab??? dusron ki padhai bhi bhandh kyon kar rahe ho????

    Do dharna or strike or simple todh podh on road not inside the campus. 

    Being a responsible citizen of India I request all those students to concentrate on studies. These political bosses are never your friends. You are simply like use & throw tools for them.

    Grow up & think about our Country!
  • avatar | 2 days ago
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    Mr Pai raised good questions. Students are there to learn and become good citizens rather then entering in politics. Any anti Indian comments or call for destruction by ABVP or Left or congress dhould not be allowed.
    Why even these students are discussing the death penalty of terrorist. If they were not terrorist lets fight case in the court.
    How many students demonstrated in front of Pakistan embassy after the 26/11 or Pathankot and other every day shooting of our soldiers on borders.
    Shame on these students and their views. Pai is right we taxpayers pay for their education not for politics.
    JNU is a respected place and they should produce scientists, researchers and philosophers.
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    Bhogendra Thakur | 2 days ago
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    Mr. Mohandas Pai, cheerleading is an art. Not easy to master. One more thing, you don't fund India. You have been CFO of Infosys. I hope you understand that data.
  • Vichar vimarsh | 2 days ago
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    Who asked this fool his opinion? Has he made huge do donation to opine or is he a alumni of the prestigious JNU. Intellectual debating in campus paves path for our future... Instead of debating using force is unwelcome.
  • JK | 2 days ago
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    "India spends around only 2% of the GDP on education. It is even lesser than some of the poorer countries in Africa and neighbouring countries.
    1. Education is a right, not a privilege. By privatizing education you are going to make it inaccessible just like health care system in India.
    2. Not every one has resources backing them to go to private universities , give donations. And if you are talking about resources, then also talk of resources being systematically being drained from tribal areas and nothing given back to them. 
    Where are you getting your wood, coal, metals from? Delhi ya Mumbai mei toh nahi ugtaa ye sab.
    3. And just because public education is paid from tax payers money you have not bought people. They can have an opinion which might not agree with your conformist view.
    4. And if you have so much problem with subsidy, also have problem with government giving subsidy to private sector like writing off loans for corporates, giving away land to corporations for peanuts. Who is benefitting from this? Clearly not the masses.
    Also you can clearly compare education policies in other countries who you aspire to be like - e.g US. Students are in debt for all their life because education is privatized. Students across US have been protesting against this.
    But oh how will you analyze all this because you want to shut down universities !!!"
    - A friend, SM, research scholar, on my Facebook.
    Plus sir, they are also studying political science- not just practicing politics. The study of political science, along with other subject of the humanities and social sciences are important. People who study society come out with perspectives informing their work towards nation-building too. You see practical examples in education, policy, journalism, the development sector - to state a few, prima facie.
  • DREAMCHASER | 2 days ago
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    WHO IS HERE THE 'WE'! IT IS THE TAX PAYERS MONEY AND THE TAX PAYERS INCLUDES PEOPLE FROM OPPOSITION PARTIES ALSO. IF THEY REALLY CHANTED ANTI INDIA, THEN THEY SHOULD BE JAILED. BUT THE PICTURE HERE IS NOT CLEAR. IN THIS WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY ANYONE CAN BE TARNISHED WITHIN A FEW MINUTES. THERE ARE A LOT OF EXAMPLES FOR THIS. SO TAKE ACTION IN A PROPER MANNER.
  • Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    Why do such incidents happen when bjp in power.
  • Sujith Sudhakaran | 2 days ago
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    Lets first get the taxes we pay to fix the infrastructure of the nation and then pick on the students.
  • Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    ABVP is group of goons. RSS forcing ideology in colleges through ABVP gundagardi.
  • Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    Pai wants Padam award next time. Good article for bhakts.
  • Raghu Reddy | 2 days ago
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    Pai its worrisone that you are saying that unvs shouldnt be discussing ,debating ideas, isntead they should be arresting someone for an opinion? What a shame for Padma Bhakt award.
    There are many institutes where right wing opinons are propogated.
    According to you only ABVP can indulge in student politics but left shouldnt ?
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    Kps Rao | 2 days ago
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    These students involved in anti national activities should be banned from university.costs also to be recovered from them.kick them out
  • Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    Superb Article. You are 100% sir
  • Biswajit | 2 days ago
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    Pai, do you pay for the actual cost of the food served at your fine dine? IN OUR COUNTRY TAXPAYERS STILL DO NOT PAY FOR THE ACTUAL LABOUR THAT GOES INTO FOOD PRODUCTION. Food prices are state controlled to keep the wages low!

    And I sincerely hope-- to acquire his educational empire, Pai has taken absolutely no state subsidies in land allotment, electricity and other inputs!!

    Moreover, you are biased towards privatizing the higher education to the disadvantage of poor and rural students like me. We called your bluff.
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    Binod Sinha | 2 days ago
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    I am only interested that my tax must not be used on anti national elements.
  • Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    Thank you sir, exposing the real truth
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    Naren Kini | 2 days ago
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    Terribly simplistic analysis hitting out at the leftists. The emphasis and beginning of the piece should have been on how outdated the sedition law is and how the US is not worse off with flag burning being allowed. And the part that government messed up by arresting the boy (who clearly said nothing objectionable). All this came too late in the blog and diluted the message. And if his advise to the leftist protesters is to study and not involve themselves in politics why are the ABVP guys interested in playing not politics but dirty politics and using the government machinery to arrest the boy for no good reason? 
    Mohandas Pai ... am totally disappointed by you.
  • Sunil Chadha | 2 days ago
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    Fully agree.
  • soma | 2 days ago
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    Thank you Pai. You with Infosys created more jobs and wealth than all the Commies and Congis put together did for the country.
    And definitely its a shame that our tax payers money goes to support these goons.
    I feel not only should subsidies be removed , but also that the Indian army should run these Univs, in case subsidies cant be removed.
  • anwesh | 2 days ago
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    If students don't engage in politics, then who will drive new social thought? IT doesn't drive thinking nor outlook. Just saying, we fund politics as well. And frankly, sick and tired of old farts in the government.
  • Chundi Somasekhar | 2 days ago
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    Thank you Pai. You with Infosys created more jobs and wealth than all the Commies and Congis put together did for the country.
    And definitely its a shame that our tax payers money goes to support these goons.
    I feel not only should subsidies be removed , but also that the Indian army should run these Univs, in case subsidies cant be removed.
  • For A Better India | 2 days ago
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    If only Mr Pai would come out and say that he is a closeted RSS/ BJP activist.....atleast, we can then credit for standing up for his party ideology. His claim to be this independent entrepreneurial mind is such a hogwash - else, I cant see any reason why he always seems to sing from the same hymn sheets as the jan sangh. If he really wants to lecture students about studying rather than politics, then, start with his own house....i.e., abvp. Lead by example. Show the world that students need not form unions that are politically backed. if not, then, its time for him to stay quiet and give the rest of us relief from his constant verbal assaults on anything that is diametrically opposed to the bjp/rss.
  • vish | 2 days ago
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    Very Good Article and an eye opener by Mr.Mohandas Pai . When will our leaders learn this ? Why congress has lost all its wisdom in understanding what is right and wrong . They think anything and everything to oppose the Govt.action is the right thing to do . They don't understand what harm they are doing to this country . Atmosphere is Vitiated , people will loose confidence and focus , no investment will come , foreigners will see from surface and conclude that this is a chaotic country so how the employment will get generated . Congress should work with Positive attitude to come to power , at least demonstrate by Improving one institute or one adopted village , now it is two years for the opposition to have to come to power and not a single good thing have been done by Congress in their party ruled state , why they are not speaking against the Anarchy of Mamta and Nitin state ? 

    It is Indeed a great shame that our National Party is playing cheap politics at the cost of Civilians .
  • vikcy | 2 days ago
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    Sir You are respectable Figure in Corporate as well in Education. I always belief that University is place for study, not for Politics. What every happened in JNU, it is shocking. 
    We are as Tax Payer, contributing in studies by paying Tax. My personal Opinion is that all universities should discards Student union. Such Union's always been used by Political Parties for their Political agenda. In JNU case those who were involved should remove 
    with immediate effect and should recover money which spent on his studies.
  • Parrys | 2 days ago
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    I always thought being from an organization that has never intruded in the sphere of castism and politics but Mr. Pai showed that small rewards from the government of the day will defuse the philosophy of an organization and its belief. Mr. Pai certainly wants a bigger pie in years to come and has his own vested interest in writing such headless articles.
  • VS | 2 days ago
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    Fundamental Duties must come before Fundamental Rights.

    The fundamental duties are defined as the moral obligations of all citizens to help promote a spirit of patriotism and to uphold the unity of the Country.
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    Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    "As for JNU, it is time the government asked students to pay the full cost of education; in case students wish to focus on politics and not on their studies, there is no case for taxpayers to subsidise extreme views or an archaic Left. Freedom does not include the right to misuse tax payers' monies. Further, the faculty issue also needs to be tackled. Too much of the faculty is indulging in politics, forgetting their primary duties - note the quality of research going down. Universities have to be held accountable for their output and research, not judged on their political ideology or political activism"......... Excellent !! Very well said Sir
  • Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    very right sir
  • Prasad | 2 days ago
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    Universities are like Temples in any Country. Remove all student organization , cast/religious union from all Universities/Colleges . We need only quality eduction. Fill staff which are fully qualified in there areas.
  • sk | 2 days ago
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    Well said Mr. Pai! The government should tackle this situation with an 'Iron Fist'. Also the nation should ask strong questions and demand answers from the leaders like Rahul Gandhi, Anand Sharma, Ajay Makan, D. Raja, Sitaram Yechury. If they think they can try to keep fooling people then they are absolutely wrong. These are the leaders who must have hand in "encouraging' such miss-guided students just for their interest in gaining their lost power. It is a fact that JNU has been a center of such activities just because of such political protection. No one should be allowed however powerful that person may be even holding any political position. The political parties should get a CLEAR message that Enough is Enough and this will not be tolerated when our defense forces have given their lives to save all of us. We can not allow anyone to play with our fallen Jawan's blood!
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    Joseph Mathew Daniel | 2 days ago
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    Dear Mr, Pai please recognise the importance for allow dissent. Else our universities will produce 'Sheep' who will not be fit to work at Infosys.
  • Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    I think Mr. Pai should just stick to what he understands, IT and maybe funding of start ups. Students are expected to be aware of and alert to their socio cultural and political environment. The term politics is not equivalent to politicking. If in a post graduate college or a university one does not express one's opinion when is it done, Mr. Pai. When they are at your stage of life. Many of our politicians in the parliament and outside have been student leaders. Mr. Jaitely of BJP is a good example of student politician. Political awareness does indicate an alert mind. Not agreeing with someone's views cannot be basis for condemning the process itself. This is lack of tolerance; an indication of a closed mind.
  • c p upadhyaya | 2 days ago
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    There was no need of any Disclaimer as we very well know that NDTV can not have such progressive and unbiased viewpoint.
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    Meera Menon | 2 days ago
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    well said Dr. Pai.why should JNU be subsidised? only when parents are made to pay will students study and not indulge in politics. use the money saved to subsidise Dalit students education in the university.
  • asad iqbal | 2 days ago
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    dear bhakt, we pay for your politics, not riots
  • Gopal | 2 days ago
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    So the blame is only on left based organizations and no other organizations. All other organizations are allowed to do whatever they want?. I come from a college which is dominated by ABVP. When the Parliament was attacked in December 2001 there was a strike by ABVP. We were asked to come to protest the attacks on Parliament. Some of my friends planned to skip the protest and go to the movie 'Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham'. I told that we can't go to a movie when soldiers are fighting terrorists. When the student leaders came to know that my friends were not joining they slapped my friend. I was about to go to the protest but slapping my friend made me angry. Why should someone prove their patriotism?. I went to the movie with my friends to prove a point to the ABVP leaders. There are no holy student organizations. Either we allow everyone or allow no one in colleges. Most of our political leaders are student leaders in their college days. Should we ask them to return their college fees with interest?.
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    Sanjay Gupta | 2 days ago
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    Mr Pai

    People like you and me and all the tax payers also fund all corporate and political corruptions (the government hand in glove with corporate just written off more than 400000 crore as bad loans). Compare this corporate corruption before we think that we fund educational institutes just to study. In any institutions including Parliament and Assemblies there are good and bad people. and if we judge our political institutions by the same stick our money is mostly wasted in assemblies and parliaments and not educational institutes of any brand; and if we equate all JNUItes with some bad elements, then our Parliament and all assembles are full of murderers, corrupt people, rapists and thugs.
  • anonymous | 2 days ago
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    sir, ur funding doesnt means you owns their freedom of expression or to live a normal individual...
  • Rajeev | 2 days ago
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    Mr Mohandas and people of your ilk, 
    Universities all over the world are centres of political discussions, forum for training young ones in issues of public importance. The problem with you tech professionals is that you have a very limited view, though you people have added heft with your money power in the current scheme of things. Please use your good offices to somehow stop your tax money channeled to JNU, I am sure you have enough friends in the current government to help you out. There are people in good numbers who don't mind some sloganeering here and there. JNU shall and will remain a liberal centre, providing a yeoman service to the maturing of Indian thought process. And this social media rant aginst JNU is by those people who have not got enough exposure, so its better to ignore them. 
    Note: Anti-national activities are condoned by none, but sedition for slogan shouting is like going too far. See history, such cases never stood the scrutiny of higher courts. They will have a hearty laugh. Go after Hafiz and other such people, not after your own.
  • Durgadas | 2 days ago
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    True very True rightly said
  • sk | 2 days ago
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    This shows more or less the correct picture of JNU.
  • ashu | 2 days ago
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    tax payers money doled out to big corporations .NPAs of industrialist are cleaned up from heaven's money..?
  • atkt | 2 days ago
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    Mohandas Pai has turned to a H.M.V.of RSS. For sometime, he was kept out by the RSS. Again they are pushing him to write articles like this. Just because he was someone in Infosys, he thinks the people will accept what he says. Pity for this blind supporter of RSS.
  • Observer | 2 days ago
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    Simillarity with Jadavpur University, The faculty is a vested interest group using students in their proxy fight against the administration. Only Mamta knows how to reign in these elements. Central Govt should have the resolve to see the end of it.
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    Ramakrishna Ps | 2 days ago
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    Poor Mohandas Pai, you also fell to the spin of RSS & BJP! By now, with the unfolding of events in Patiala court, you must be regretting, why you wrote this blog!
  • Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    Congress and left is showing its true color. Excellent article sir. We can see who is intolerant clearly. Certainly as a tax payer, I do not want the money to be wasted like this. We do not see these so called revolutionaries in private colleges as their own parents are paying for their education. Lets unite against these thugs...I am surprised that NDTV allowed this to be published...They are trying to be tolerant as well :)
  • Soundash | 2 days ago
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    Wonderful article... The title speaks volumes.. wish channels like NDTV step up being impartial and always find faults everything BJP does
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    Siddharth Sreenivas | 2 days ago
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    exclusivist centralised dogma? Almost seems as if you're referring to the sangh agenda. Mr. Pai I don't pay taxes just so that businesses and businessmen could cut corners and circumvent the system and add to the mounting NPAs of our PSU banks. Its tax payer money too. Lets talk about that for a change. 

    Or how about talking about the fact that freedom of speech and expression, even if not absolute, should allow for peaceful right to dissent. And let me add that the PDP has called Afzal Guru's hanging a travesty, now maybe we should also be questioning "opportunistic" BJP for tying up with a seditious movement?
  • Ari | 2 days ago
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    You speak the language of your boss. Lets face the fact, You are part of group called Manipal group, which runs one of the largest private university called Manipal University. What is the criteria of admission ? Money Money and Money. As a ex student of Manipal student, I can confirm it. I have not seen a single students from any deprived sections. Fees in your medical colleges, Mass Com college and all other courses are highest and unimaginable even for any middle class. But you are getting ad taking all discounts and privilages from state to fulfill the fund of your boss. Shame on you.
  • Kishor | 2 days ago
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    Pai'sahab' ask this same question to Brahmin-bania students of IIT, IIM and AIIMS who are studying on taxpayers money and getting settled in USA? How are they helping India?

    Atleast JNU students are known to raise issues related to casteism, brahmanical hegemony, environmental degradation, corporate loots. May be this discomforts you.
  • fxg | 2 days ago
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    Mr Mohandas Pai, Can you please answer a question? ..If you don't allow student in politics, Who will enter into politics then?? Only illiterates & goons??
    We are funding students not only to study but also to stand against any injustice. You like it or not they are the force who will change the future.
  • NEERAJ THAKUR | 2 days ago
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    Police action is absolutely correct..why our money should get waste to develop cadre for a party or generate sensation by defunct leaders who are actually principle-less,illogical and irrelevant in current scenario of our federal state.I agree that university should take disciplinary action against bunch of jokers instead police.
  • Surendra Shetty | 2 days ago
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    Mr. Pai,
    The most important point to ponder over is 
    1.Is it needed to have any association afflicted to any political party in campus?
    2. If there would be one then that association must merely confined to the activities of helping students to help in academic field but not real time politicing in connivance with political parties.
    Because this very politics of political parties hand in glove with students destroyed peace, mutual love & respect between students.These political parties used these few disgruntled, few ambitious and few other innocent students as their pawn and destroyed the academic carrier.
    Best thing govt must do is dismantle all association with political afflictions & allow only those associations which are catering to students needs.
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    Surbhi Gupta | 2 days ago
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    politics is part of learning and growing up. but monopoly shoud be tackled with n an open minded approach should be encouraged. Anti national behavior n slogans can by no means b acceptable whether it b from faculty ,students or anyone anywhere in d country.
  • Tadit Kundu | 2 days ago
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    Dear Mr. Pai, how did you assume that you had the right to speak on behalf of all taxpayers?? I am also a tax-payer and what hurts me more is when you and your cronies get bailouts from public sector banks. I would rather see my taxes spent on promotion and strengthening of democracy rather than to fill the pockets of crony capitalists.
  • ak.dev | 2 days ago
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    After reading many pro left articles, views of Mr. Pai are balanced and refreshing. He has made several important statements that echo the views of most Indians. It would be better for left student unions not to resist change by shouting anti-India slogans. This activity has ruined their credibility among Indian public. They have to come to terms that JNU is not a left play ground any more. Government must now pay attention to removing faculties who are indulging in extreme politics rather than preparing students with balanced views of Indian politics.
  • Ashish Yadav | 2 days ago
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    Very well articulated and balanced views. But I disagree that freedom of expression should have no limits and we need not follow US. If you speak or act against national interest then be ready to the music and its going to get louder.
  • Chetan Dutt | 2 days ago
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    But we fund politicians of this country too. Food for thought Mr Pai
  • kpvidya1999 | 2 days ago
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    NDTV really frustrates - One side a brilliant well thought out article by Mohandas Pai and the other- an article which is incoherent in thought and content by a imbecile MA Aiyar. This iyer is a blot to the fair name of iyers. he should vchange his name to Chamcha Mani.
  • Vishal Ganjoor | 2 days ago
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    I support u Sir. Ban all elections from colleges. Root cause of this enmity and hatred
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    Sri Krishna Prasad Katta | 2 days ago
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    Mohan always exhibits a righteous than thou and superior than thou attitude. What he means that he is not paying taxes to fund people's politics. Did he meant only a particular orientation which he subscribes? Or ruling party orientation. 
    Political orientation is driven by one's innate sense of justice. Politics is different and political orientation is different.just because I am paying taxes I cannot ask a student to subscribe what I think he should. Nor to do only mugging of books. . I have no right to ask a person as to how he should think. 
    Universities are meant not for just mugging of books but to encourage clash of ideas, through debates seminars and symposiums. They evolve a thought process. May be ahead of time. In that sense students are expected to do much more than studies in a university. Otherwise it is a waste. I found left orientation a lot better rather than the right orientation which always cited supremacy of bhrahmanism / forward Casteism under the garb of religiousity while studying in university, polluting the minds with religious hatred and hierarchy and arbitrary privileges of a select few at the expense of a larger social strata. 
    Stop wearing your infosys supremacy forever mohan. World has moved forward.
  • masa | 2 days ago
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    Thank you for sane advice to political parties, Newspaper editors, NDTV anchors and government. The JNU has become a den of anti national activities. In all this din the students of JNU who had come to study are being denied education, the fact the agitating professors are forgetting conveniently. As for the traitors, the state is duty bound to act against traitors and put them before court of law. Let the court decide the case.
  • msms | 2 days ago
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    Only Bhakt from South India
  • bssrao | 2 days ago
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    india is shortly going to be Communists MUKTH Bharath Thankfully. These feloow just like Congress which is also near extinction taking these kind of issues in universities where they think they can fool students easily. They are mistaken and it will be evident in a few years
  • Pallav | 2 days ago
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    Mr Pai, are you OK with paying Gajendra Chauhan's (FTII) salary from the tax payer's money? Note the quality of Gajendra Chauhan movies.
  • suneelgzp | 2 days ago
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    About quoting US democracy 'stating that the freedom of speech includes the freedom to burn the national flag!' I must say that US does not have Kashmir and we must know how much freedom they give to their minorities. Also we must know, how do they react to attacks on their country (as we have experienced attack on Sansad).
  • Robin | 2 days ago
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    I am not able to understand theory of "taxpayers money/funding", is it only middle class that is paying taxes? only 2% people pay income tax. All other taxes are paid by every citizen irrespective of their income. Does our country run on taxes sole, then who takes the money extracted from natural resources like minerals and spectrum? what ever tax people like Mohandas pays, it returns to their pocket itself as subsidies to industrialists and middle class.Remaining money governments spends to provide security to you all people. Students and general people just gets the tiny of the money extracted from the natural resources on which every citizen has their part.
  • Vinod N | 2 days ago
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    I would like to highlight the points raised by you. The faculty appointment in JNU is not based on merit, but based on ideology. The leftists never allowed anyone else to enter the campus. 

    We have seen videos circulating the protests happen in JNU. It is very clear that the students were shouting slogans against India. OMG, it is height no other Indian citizen will dare to shout such slogans. If this incident happened with this intensity, I assume there may be many such incidents might had happened inside the campus. I have heard reports on the celbration happened in campus, when many CRPF Jawans were killed by maoists in Chattisghat. 

    keeping this is mind, How can internal inquiry will find out who are culprits? The slogans were intensely anti national and cannot be tolerated. Let the police inquire it.
  • buddhachrome . | 2 days ago
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    Brilliant stuff Mr Pai! However JNU is a public institution with great national importance and of international stature. Despite its politics it has produced an outstanding alumni who have contributed to the growth of modern India. It was tax payer's money well spent. On the other hand I wonder, how much of the tax payer's money went to fund the private and for profit company in which you were working? Why was it that Infosys is unable to open shop anywhere without the benefits of SEZ facilities? How much export duty did your company not pay? How many labor laws have you violated within your precious SEZs? Why does your company not pay the fair price to the governments on land acquisitions?
    I bet, by lobbying with politicians, the money you have saved by depriving the Indian exchequer is far more than the government grants that JNU receives!
  • sangathya | 2 days ago
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    Sir,very well written..and of balanced opinion..
  • Umeed | 2 days ago
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    sir education without debate is not a dynamic education and students are pulse of this nation they are the future, if they don't learn about their nation and leave at mercy of few of few, imagine a young population who does not know how to run this nation. Imagine doctor learning all the theory but not does not know how the real kidney or heart looks like.
  • Raja | 2 days ago
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    The most important message from Mr Pai's article is stop wasting the tax payers money to run a leftists factory. If the really want to do that, let them at their own cost or at least with the help of their parent's hard earned money. I cant agree more on this statement.
  • Umeed | 2 days ago
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    sir education without debate is not a dynamic education and students are pulse of this nation, they are the future, if they don't learn about their nation and leave political discourse at the mercy of few of few, imagine a young population who does not know how to run this nation. Imagine doctors learning all the theory but not knowing how the real kidney or heart looks like, so if we do not practice and understand the constitution what is the point in merely mugging up.
  • ksahu | 2 days ago
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    Universities have to be free from leftist Ideology. This ideology is outdated and will never succeed. I support Govt. action of sedition charges. Also these JNU students should pay their full fee. We do not want to pay for their politics.
  • lastfakir | 2 days ago
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    Coming from a person whose entire net worth has been made from tax free income of Infosys and free / concessional land for campuses...yu milked the government and then had tax free capital gains to boot... now yu talk of withdrawing support to educational institutions.. are yu suggesting that India's Foreign Secy who i think is from JNU as well is a leftist..

    People like you who have gorged on government largesse and then pontificating need to be exposed behind the veneer of being grand and objective.

    Every single IVY league univ in America had students protesting against Vietnam war - did that make it communist... 

    shameful Mr Pai- shameful.
  • s | 2 days ago
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    Very good analysis by a person who has always spoken his mind.Taxc payers money should not be wasted on hooligans and anti nationals .Those who don't like India should shift their base to North Korea.
  • Well wisher. | 2 days ago
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    Let the government remove subsidy on fees,hostel charges and canteen facilities of JNU students and teachers and you will find these anti-nationals will leave the JNU within no time. It should be applied to all.
  • Ramana | 2 days ago
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    Mr Pai has succinctly captured what most Indians feel about the antics of these privileged students. I certainly would like the Taxes I pay to go to the Rural schools where it can be put to better use. The funding of Universities by Government out of the Taxes we pay has to be stopped and all higher education should be left to the Private enterprise. Of course there will be hue and cry from these free loaders to such proposals but we have just had enough of these parasites.
  • Shashi | 2 days ago
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    India has bigger and better priorities than fund Marxism,Maoism with the my tax money. Request the government to stop central funding of such institutions and concentrate on bigger priorities
  • Sar | 2 days ago
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    Unless one happens to be promoting Bajrang Dal, VHP, RSS ideology. In that case the ideology can be funded by tax payers!
  • Ashok | 2 days ago
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    Pai is right. JNU students should be made to bear the full expenses of running the university so that any disruption comes at their cost. This includes dalit students as well. And suitable entries made in the conduct certificate of each student activist who misuses the JNU for political issues.
  • Vivek Arunachalam | 2 days ago
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    Mr Mohandas Pai ... Right wing support makes a person and speak illogical.... Kindly note industries are also supported and funded by tax payers yet they are into politics... Defaulters of bank as pointed out by Rbi are many including Adani and Adag... Students cannot study with eyes closed... Free thinking should be encouraged and if you feel politics should not be a part of education system then, what is ABVP's role here ? Sadly ur speaking for the party you are aligned with than logical talks....
  • Indradeb Pal | 2 days ago
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    Dear Mr. Mohanda Pai, 
    Burning the National Flag is an act of Violence. 
    You need to grow up and have sensitivity to this issue.
  • Indradeb Pal | 2 days ago
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    Reform Steps for JNU:
    Step 1: All students - whether from Reserved, Foreign or General category must pay at least the actual fees - no subsidization by Tax Payers money. The source from which the students (Indian or Foreigh) take loan to study at JNU must be completely above board. (We do not want terrorists and NGOs to fund students at JNU).
    Step 2: Clean JNU of the communist ideology professors. They are a waste with further potential of waste to India.
  • sham lele | 2 days ago
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    I do not understand the logic of our people like Mohandas Pai. Just because crime has been committed in University campus it does not mean police should not take action. Why these people want to treat our Police force as undesirable element? It is not the question of education.
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    Vimlendu Jha | 2 days ago
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    As per you we should also stop funding IIT's as most of them either leave engineering or end up working outside India. Right Mr Pai?
  • Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    Very well said. Thank you Sir
  • SChalapa | 2 days ago
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    r u coveting Padma?
  • Soumya | 2 days ago
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    It does smell a rat. Wikipedia search shows T.V. Mohandas Pai is the Chairman of Manipal Global Education. A Chairman of a private institution in higher education is sounding foul on a Government run renowned University and talking about tax payers money. Which is absolutely a different debate. Though I fully agree with his point of view, the timing is suspect. It's purely fishing in troubled water. The issue is not restricted to the leftist ideology dominance in JNU. It is about the effort of replacement of leftist ideology dominance by right wing fundamentalist ideology. The article would have been appropriate on a different context, but today it may be taken up as a support to the right wing fanatics who are getting increasingly embolden under the present government. The results of fundamentalists taking central stage in country's politics can be found all over the not so peaceful today's world.
  • Praveen | 2 days ago
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    Cute that you who built a company using crores of tax sops would lecture the students about meagre funding on their education. It is but natural that you would want apolitical beings who would raise no questions for your corporate sweatshops. Care to lecture to ABVP students?
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    Ravi Krishnamurthy | 2 days ago
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    Mohan. At last a balanced article somehow makes it to NDTV. Student unions must be restricted to education only. No subsidisation of post grad and PhD. However I feel the crackdown on the sloganeers was inevitable. Today terrorism is charged in our skies. Daily jawans losing life fighting terrorists. The Govt has rightly slapped charges of sedition though it wl be struck down by a judiciary pristinely bound to a freedom of speech which is turning contextually dangerous. But Simultaneous reforms of University to rid of party affliated unions necessary. Well done Mohan. Timely article.
  • ajkmr | 2 days ago
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    Dear Mohan Das Pai, This is the first time I realize you are a fool.
  • Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    Thank you very much for calling a spade a spade. Wish the leftist politicians understand that Communism is dead even in Russia, one is free to do politics for real outside the campus not inside. It hurts me to know the kind of subsidies these jholawala leftists enjoy at my expense.
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    Dp Mishra | 2 days ago
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    Thanks You Sir !! It is not only one of the case in JNU..look into other key universities . All are suffering the same problem . The solution could be :-

    1) Self funding of higher education like 'Easy Education loan' after all they are the bright student hence they got the chance to be a part of such institute .

    2) No Quota in Govt Job after getting admitted thru Quota to the universities or either one of it of his/her choice.

    3) Freedom of expression dose not means burning of national flag /ranting anti national slogan /Poster. If it so it has to be dealt by Courts & found guilty should be dismissed from Universities with immediate effect.

    4) Police in University is not a shame . Police can be anywhere in the country where is LAW & ORDER has an issue .
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    Sudip Guha Ray | 2 days ago
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    I don't want my money to be spent on JNU students ! Give subsidy only to economically backward students across university.You cannot do Tamasha to make China- Pakistan happy at our cost.
  • N Srikanth | 2 days ago
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    It is time politics is weeded out of all colleges and universities. By encouraging such a trend we are only putting to hardship those students who are ken on curricular pursuits. Any politics should be off campus. And for JNU, it is the leftist breeders delight ...will D Raja ever manage a seat in any other university let alone his RS membership for the qualities he espouses
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    Manoj Hans | 2 days ago
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    HiHa this happened in PAK , such anti-nationals would 've been shot dead or pur behind bars for yrs.

    The Delhi police has simply detained a few students and questioning them. There are manay more who were involved.

    The admin of JNU is a nix. It should ve expelled these students but it kept watching.

    Those who are saying that voice of students is being suppressed are out to create disturbance in RS and lick minority asses for votes.

    It is truly said, GOD is taking care of this country. Politicians are out to server there vested interests
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    Sriram Gopalan | 2 days ago
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    One of the most balanced articles I have ever read. The Congress regimes under Nehru & Indira were Left oriented. It suited them to encourage such elements so that they occupied the intellectual and journalistic space in the English Media. Most of the teaching fraternity of JNU,DU,Ambedkar University,JMI,AMU university were also members of many commissions,UGC,AICTE and other central govt undertakings and scientific bodies.This resulted in spreading of such ideologies to other state universities also.The result was withdrawal of necessary support for indology,indian culture,indian languages,oriental languages like Sanskrit,Prakrit and Tamil etc rewriting of Indian History to suit the needs of Nehru & Indira etc. I have seen one university which houses 10000 copies of one Book- Marx & Engels.Even one copy is not read or loaned.It is time the present Government scraps UGC, Asks Universities to fund for themselves and raise their own resources. Why should the tax payers money be spent on Non issues and ideological battles. Students should be students...It is their job to study and research....If they want to be politicians let them join a political party and carry on activities.Please Home Minister... Let the action be the strictest you can take......Send a clear message that the place where Saraswati resides is meant for study and acquiring knowledge and not to indulge in Street politics.
  • shankaracharyulu | 2 days ago
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    mohan das pai we did not know you are another boot licking paid troll. may be bharat ratna is your price. i am sure god is watching you and your punishment feom god will come at the right time
  • patel | 2 days ago
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    Absolutely Pai, all entities government or otherwise need to confine themselves to the purpose they were setup. Also need to note that Government is yet not happy with its own ability. It fears that extreme ideas can quickly go out of hand and lead to up bigger trouble. It is the citizens duty to make sure their government is always supreme; ie it has the capacity to handle any situation while it is government's duty to make sure that it is liberal enough to allow people express its views, sometimes extreme, without feeling insecure. Here is a lesson for all of us. Citizens need to make the government feel secure by making sure that extreme views don't go out of hand and government needs to build some more muscle, in terms of police force, communication skills etc which will allow it to feel somewhat secure. Also a secure government should be more liberal in allowing citizens to express itself. I am afraid till a better equilibrium is attained, the current situations will repeat and is to be expected. Hopefully the government will get stronger and better quickly.
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    Jayendra Lakhmapurkar | 2 days ago
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    This should apply to all universities and non political institutions
  • shankaracharyulu | 2 days ago
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    annexe it to manipal foundation and enjoy collecting fees
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    Jayendra Lakhmapurkar | 2 days ago
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    This should apply to all universitie
  • Anand | 2 days ago
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    Mr.Pai has given a factual opinion on the ground reality in the JNU issue.Nobody can keep quiet on a incident where leftist are using the students to rein their ideology .It is the tax payers money these faculties and students are indulging in cheap gimmicks to survive on out dated ideologies and strong arm tactics.Govt should buckle to their pressure and if neeed be students themself to give a befitting reply to the leftists hooliganism. Best option to the govt is to ignore the activities and let the students themself settle it with out any police interference. ABVP is capable of handling the SFI and leftist goondas and let them handle it .Sitharam yechuri or Raja is not going to succeed in their effort to prop up a dead horse.We can only pity on a moron like rahul as he is not even aware that the Afzal Guru was executed by their govt and asking for freedom of expression now is height of his stupidity.
  • DMIS | 2 days ago
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    Very well said.
  • Krishna Padmanabhan | 2 days ago
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    The communists at it again. They have lost China and the former USSR, even Cuba and West Bengal, and these bearded charminar smoking idle bones are without moorings - like drug addicts whose supply has been cut off. It is time JNU is reformed so that it works as a University and not a leftist degenerate regressive medeival coffee club.
  • Krishna | 2 days ago
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    Please underline freedom does not include 'Freedom to misuse tax payer's money'.... Stupid politicians have taken India for a ride on two counts... they have taken tax payers for granted and they pay too much of attention to 'non-tax payers' either who have loads of black money or who do not have much money but have the ability to 'cash in' on their votes once in 5 years (rolling)... These political parties are a pain in the wrong place for the 'TAX PAYER'. The question is how can the Tax payer really become a vote bank in an era where only vote banks work....
  • Tanveer Pratap | 2 days ago
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    Silly article because JNU is the top university for social science and humanities ..so of this isn't a good use of taxpayer money I don't know what is.
  • Soubir Bose | 2 days ago
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    Anti-national ! Sedition !! Half the people who write here can't differentiate between sedition and sedimentation. I always seems that anybody with a contrary voice against the political entity called India, is an anti-national and a seditionist.
    But not a politician who skims off crores of rupees, or whose faulty decisions lead to hundreds of deaths or even the disruption of parliament. Why is that not anti-national ? why is name calling and chair throwing in parliament a "democratic protest?" 

    As for Mr Pai's opinion.. he's bang in the middle of the road... very safe, very safe.
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    Krishnan Nagaratnam | 2 days ago
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    Mr.Mohandas Pai's views are balanced and should form the basis for politicians who take diametrically opposing positions on a sensitive issue.One joins University for higher education.If one carries an axe to grind it is definitely raising the issues who is funding and what is the purpose
  • Mark Underwood | 2 days ago
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    Dear Mr Pai,

    I fully endorse your view but here is a suggestion.

    Can we file a RTI to find out how many students in JNU continue to stay at JNU - without giving any exams or continue to fail !!

    A JNU student once told me " the best and the cheapest way to stay at JNU was to join and course and never complete it . Where else can you get such great accommodation in south Delhi and food at subsidised rates "

    It will be interesting to get this fact. I hope I am wrong .

    Regards
  • Rajesh Sahoo | 2 days ago
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    It is not only you paid Tax Mr. Pai to JNU or any other university. I and rest of India also paid why you are try you show that you only represent as only Indian Tax Payer. I know your Manipal Global Education collect a huge amount of money from student. If you only is running the JNU why don't you waive up the fees and make it a free.
  • Tanveer Pratap | 2 days ago
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    In spite of the politics..what a miracle that JNU is the only Indian non tech university to rank anywhere in world rankings
  • Vishwanath Natarajan | 2 days ago
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    @pilimat .. With respect . I wish to completely disagree with you on all points. 1) You say "It is quite possible that you are expressing the need of industry, in terms of how their future employees should be- all subdued and without any sort of political awareness". What you really want is an army of automatons" -- you are very mistaken if you believe that people who dont wear jholas and wave placards are not politically aware. This is the kind of mistaken vanity that leftists are very much prone to. It is not that people who study science or engineering are politically unaware, We think with our heads instead of leaving it behind and shouting mindlessly on the streets. 
    Again you say "It should be a place where a young chap matures into somebody who can think and make right choices in life. Universities should be places where there is active debates and discussions, a place where students learn to respect and accept contrasting views, a place where they learn to look around and see what is happening in their midst" -- I wish to ask you this .. if JNU is such a liberal institution that has active debates and is a platform for conflicting views then the evidence of that is pretty well absent. It is a leftist bastion where the debates are between the left, extreme left and the ultra left. Any place that screens faculty for their political leanings and takes in only left leaning faculty can hardly be called "liberal" and the debates taking place in there hardly tolerate any genuine "alternate" view-points. Your views of Manipal, Lovely university is in extreme bad taste and typically reflect the distorted way of India's leftist thinking with its misplaced sense of intellectual superiority and righteousness which in turn is a facade to mask a deep seated inferiority complex. I have a suggestion . let us have a poll amongst Indian taxpayers on whether we want to continue funding JNU or not. My vote is no, but I will democratically accept the verdict.
  • Rajive | 2 days ago
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    Well said Mr. Pai! But then you forget that days of privatisation and corporates are on decline in very home of US. If students will not do/learn politics in Universities then where they will harness this talent, which is needed all the time. Even in organisations, one is paid to do job but still they have to play out politics. All these you know very well. By the way with the logic of tax payers, why the hell we the citizens have to feed corrupt and criminal politicians. Though I am not sure of "anti-nationalism", but what I know there is an organisation which did not hoist Indian National Flag at thier HQ but they define "nationalism" for us.
  • Tanveer Pratap | 2 days ago
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    Wow.. In spite of the faculty wasting all their time in politics..its a miracle that jnu is the only India non tech university to rank high in global rankings.I wonder what's stopping other Indian universities which apparently do much better job of using government money to achieve a status of excellence.
  • Goldie | 2 days ago
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    Every effort which is against nation should be punished without a second thought. Not only students their parents and teachers and all who are responsible to give rise to such thoughts should be pulled to court.
  • dutta | 2 days ago
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    I think one of the very few opinions which can be said that has hit the bull's eye, now there will be many with different views and would like him to be shown close to BJP , but he has written the truth . left has no love for the country and it is a dead ideology and almost all political parties use students for their selfish gains, we can see the plight of education in bengal its in mess created by the left govt.
  • Anantula jaikrishna | 2 days ago
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    An eye opener for many. The argument is sound and unbiased. Height of stupidity by left parties and leaders and of course our prince in waiting juvenile Rahul Gandhi. He reaches places without even bothered to thing as what nonsensence he is creating. It would be prudent say here that Nehru onwards the congress party and its governance did everything to destroy the rightist mindset for very obvious reasons using leftist policies looking convenient. Nation progressed much much slower than required . With given population explosion making India most populous nothing was done to provide enough opportunities for the aspiring people even on simple sustenance. Nation lost heavily on account of unionism which gave rise to unaccountability and irresponsibility. Left was happy offering helping hand to many congress governments. West Bengal is classic example of under development. Now threatened by Modi/Bjp to govern for a longer period, fearing out of power these two parties are foolishly and unwisely promoting, supporting elements expressing serious anti nation views. The selfish mentality is loathing and needs to be checked.
  • PSM | 2 days ago
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    JNU has been established with objectives that it produce world class scientists/ historian/economist etc. What is happening, no world class research, no scientists/ historian/economist except some left leaning historian and third class leaders. JNU even cannot compete with our any average universities in terms of achievements.
  • Vinod A | 2 days ago
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    collage campuses should concentrate on studies , not strikes.
  • Sathyanarayana V | 2 days ago
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    I think the whole incident has been manufactured by left to paint Modi as a fascist notwithstanding their own track record in WB and Kerala.
  • SRAJ | 2 days ago
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    Very well said article. Tax payer money being used to create anti-national elements in JNU !!!. Dear indians don't trust the political party which supported incident happened in JNU.
  • Arijit | 2 days ago
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    Dear Mohandas Pai isn't understanding and taking positions on politics an essential part of democracy...what is the harm if students participate in that..its a democratic principle....only studying for oneself and getting rich maybe ur idea of a ideal student but not everyone else....participating in politics and hence democracy is my idea and of giving back to society....also u can go on berating the left as archaic worldover people do not think so till poverty and human misery remains left thougts will remain and the 1% rich like u cant do anything about it
  • Amit | 2 days ago
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    Elections in univs should be held online. No congregation, sloganeering, ...express online...put your views as much as you want... Press the voting button online...take out your frustrations in sports field...
  • Bhaskar D | 2 days ago
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    For the first time, I see some good balanced article on NDTV. Very balanced opinion by Mr Pai. I am personally not a fan of Infosys but I appreciate this article. These so called agitating students in JNU come and spend the hard-earned money of their parents as well ( not only to that of the tax payers). Well, everybody is entitled to their opinions but the folks who cannot do justice to their responsibility towards the parents and family, what can you expect them to do towards country? It is better to burst their balloons and throw these faculties/students out of JNU for ever. It is the decaying culture that the Left has contributed in the educational institutions in Calcutta just to successfully destroy all of them and now JNU is the last bastion they are trying to protect ...I am just amazed how a student has so much time and resource to waste instead of doing what he is supposed to do in an university !! It is no wonder that the so called left netas who are enjoying the comfort, luxary and privileges of Rajyasabha are making statements and so is Mr Rahul Gandhi who has enough billions in bank and had to never indulge in any kind of mentionable education in his whole life ...
  • Shivaraj | 2 days ago
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    I agree with you Mr.Pai that Govt. of the day has overreacted in JNU case..There are certain aspects you said in your aricle is not at all right, for E.g, you said JNU and its faculties are of Leftist so according to you if a student, faculty or student is leftist then he/she is not a broad-minded..This is not right way to look at it Mr.Pai because we are democratic country we should be open to the ideas. Even Pandit Nehru belived in pricnciples of Socialsim and INC fought Britishers for freedom struggle along with Left parties..Mr.Narayan Murthy was also a believer of socialism before he beginning his journey in Infosys.
    We should think of bringing change in the system of JNU in more appropriate way rather than making sweep comment that We fund money for studies not for politics if samething we would have said way back in 1905 when Swaraj Movement began that students have to focus on studies than politics may be we would not have free nation even today.
  • Anand | 2 days ago
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    Dear Sir
    Very Balanced article and indeed very thought provoking.
    But I have one point to make, I think Government should take action against ppl who make anti-India statements and moreso who vow to destroy India.
    I think the students should not blindly follow their teachers/professors,,,,they should think and decided as to where they are getting into.
    If somebody is much dissatisfied with India, they should leave India....and then let them shout as much as they want against India..It is such a shame that when we are loosing soldiers ..these ppl are shouting against India....
  • Vc John | 2 days ago
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    Is it time to challenge ABVP to a debate on nationalism? Will they even get past the definition stage, even if they agree to something that is intrinsically democratic - a debate!
    The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad has a long list of taboo subjects that it considers outside the purview of discussion and contestation. To engage with these subjects or ideas is to violate the ABVP's idea of the sacred. What has precipitated the crisis in universities is that the Bharatiya Janata Party's student wing also wants to impose its notion of the sacred on all students and teachers.
    The tendency of one group to impose its idea of the sacred on others has its origins in the caste system, which, as we all know, is organised on the principle of purity and pollution. Any violation of the ABVP's idea of the sacred now runs the risk of encountering violence, or invites punishment from the authorities, or both. This too is a feature of the caste system.
    Taboo topics
    The ABVP does not want students to discuss the hanging of Yakub Memon or Afzal Guru, or the inclusion of beef in the mess menu. It believes a seminar on human rights violations is akin to supporting Maoism, which is deemed anti-national. It opposes seminars on Hinduism unless these are unequivocally in its praise. The list is long and forever evolving.
    Just how this form of imposition is linked to the caste system can be illustrated through an example. The higher your caste, the less polluting your occupation – but you would be defiled in case you were to shake hands with those whose very touch is polluting, or dine with him, or partake of beef, or remove the carcass of a dead animal.
    You can choose to refrain from certain activities. That is your decision. You can, for instance, get another person to remove the carcass from your compound. You can, obviously, abstain from eating beef.
    But you also have to depend on others to subscribe to caste rules for preserving your purity. What are you to do if the pariah insists on touching you? What if the outcaste draws water from the tap you too use, or demands to drink tea from the same tumbler as yours?
    Either you will adjust to this reality or you will dissuade him from polluting you by striking the fear of retribution or punishment in him. This is often at the root of horrific caste violence in the country. Indeed, for caste rules to have salience, it is vital not only for you but also for others to adhere to them as well.
    Caste ethos
    It is this caste ethos, and arrogance, the ABVP brings to universities, more fiercely now because the BJP government rules at the Centre. Ideas designated as sacred can't be violated and what the ABVP views as profane must be shunned. In case some choose not to, the ABVP would pressure the authorities to take punitive action against them. It is on the fear of punishment (or violence) that the caste system breeds
    Discussions on ideas that the ABVP considers taboo cannot defile its members. Whom does it defile then? It is the Mother, the deity that is India, whom we must worship. Her spirit infuses all spaces, more so the campuses. Just as Dalits were (and are still) proscribed from entering temples, certain ideas have attributes that defile Mother India.
    This was indeed the theme of the statement Union Minister Smriti Irani issued following the arrest of protesting students at Jawaharlal Nehru University. Ideas of purity and pollution and religiosity are fused in the politics of ABVP, as is true of the entire Sangh Parivar.
    The ABVP's list of taboo subjects can be arranged in a hierarchy. The most profane is the idea of self-determination. Try conducting a seminar on the issue on campus. It is bound to get disrupted by boys who will later be discovered to be belonging to the ABVP.
    Ask for a just trial of terrorists – and every word spoken in favour of it will lead to the defilement of Mother India. Try to get Delhi University's Law Faculty to organise a talk on the need to withdraw the Armed Forces Special Powers Act. It won't, because that is a taboo subject, as is the issue of observing human rights in Chhattisgarh.
    Proscribed from university campus are even those whom the AVBP considers Naxalite sympathisers. To check this hypothesis, Delhi University should invite writer Arundhati Roy to address the students. It was the reason the ABVP cited to deny journalist Siddharth Varadrajan from speaking at Allahabad University.
    Historical personalities can be assigned to a higher or lower order of profanity depending on the location of a university. It is taboo to make a critical appraisal of Shivaji in Maharashtra or Rana Pratap in Rajasthan. It is taboo, as students of Hyderabad Central University have repeatedly discovered, to demand that the college serve them beef. Outside metros, you periodically hear of the ABVP demanding a dress code for girls.
    Lost ironies
    The ABVP's obsession with its list of taboos creates hilarious situations at times. The ABVP vociferously protested against philosopher Ashok Vohra at Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur. The reason: he had addressed an audience of around 100 on The Religious Dialogue: The Need in the Contemporary Times. The ABVP claimed he had insulted Hinduism.
    Vohra had done just the opposite – he had criticised western Indologists, such as Wendy Doniger. In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vohra wrote,
    "To evaluate theories supported by these scholars one has to use their vocabulary, their descriptions and their interpretations. I chose this because American writers speak very derogatorily of Hindu gods and goddesses… (But) if you want to rebut an argument, you must quote it."
    The poor philosopher, quite clearly, missed the point. They protested against him for much the same reason as the higher castes disallow the Dalit groom to mount the mare in a wedding procession. It may not violate the principle of purity, but it certainly conveys Dalits assertion. It is possible they could feel emboldened to infringe caste rules in the future, just as a few in Vohra's audience could become intellectually curious about Doniger and learn to question the Hindu religious tradition.
    In the ABVP's imagination, Mother India is dressed in the fabric of nationalism and Hinduism. To question either is to defile her. It is of little significance to the ABVP that its activists don't contest these two ideas. This is because it believes Mother India would be defiled anyway because of those who are willing to debate the taboo subjects.
    The ABVP has now taken upon itself to teach them a lesson for their audacity, in much the way, the dominant castes punish the transgressor of caste codes in villages. This is why our universities are now in tumult.
  • Joe | 2 days ago
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    Mr Pai imperiously says "We fund ..." Hello? You are one person, please speak for yourself, if you are speaking as a taxpayer, every other person also has a voice in this matter. You are neither a spokesperson for the government, neither are you one for the funding public. In my opinion, we fund each and every student, period. We do not fund their education, we support them as persons, flesh and living human beings with their own thought processes, we fund them as they are the future of this world and this nation. We fund them so that their "... minds (are) without fear and their heads are held high...". We want them to lead the youth power of India with diverse opinions where "... clear stream of reason has not lost its way in the dreary desert sand of dead habit ...". This is the great tradition of the great universities of the world, modern and ancient. They admit students whom they think are worthy of those portals and let them start the journey of life work and let them be. Please let them be Mr Pai.
  • Sandeep Kumar | 2 days ago
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    Thanks you Mr Paid putting context around JNU event!! Left and Congress are parasite and can not survive without being in power. India will do better by keeping them at arm length.
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    Vinod Pe | 2 days ago
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    Well said. But shouldn't the elements that cry we will destroy India be investigated
  • Mukul Goyal | 2 days ago
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    A very nice article by Mohandas Pai on the situation today in JNU.
  • shaturya | 2 days ago
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    We shouldn't start applauding the act of arresting a left leaning student on sedition charges just because he is drowned in a frenzy of so called 'patriot-traitor'cacophony. The larger issue is 'do we really value freedom of expression and individual freedom in general ?'. The history of JNU and past misdeed of certain gentleman or regime just shouldn't count. The freedom of expression shouldn't be limited to political leaders alone. The meek citizen should enjoy the freedom. The sad part is that our journalists and media also take sides.One should always remember 1976 whenever we are in doubt about individual freedom. (also , we shouldn't be selective in applying the law. Something more serious happens in Srinagar and it conveniently escapes the attention of Delhi)
  • Vijay Chawla | 2 days ago
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    You apparently present Rahul's behaviour as double standards with the words, "The Congress seems to have lost its moorings with its Vice President Rahul Gandhi supporting those who call the Afzal Guru hanging a judicial killing, knowing fully well that its own government executed the hanging." Actually Rahul has opposed crushing the voice of dissent which you also defend by giving the example of America, where you say "…the freedom of speech includes the freedom to burn the national flag!" In fact, among all parties in India, Congress has seen the largest number of good leaders dissenting and parting ways with it without suffering any personal or political harm. I don't think we can keep politics away from universities because of the very nature of social sciences subjects they teach. But you are right in expressing concerns about the students' and faculty's obsession with politics. All parties must form a common stand on raising the quality of education and research in the institutions of higher learning.
  • A V Akhilesh | 2 days ago
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    Rightly said Mr. Pai. It is high time our University campuses focussed on their "core competence" which is teaching. Universities should be temple of learning and centers of excellence and not become training grounds for politicians.
  • pilimat . | 2 days ago
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    Sir, with all due respect let me state something.

    Your expectation of students is deeply flawed and probably reflects your poor understanding of the idea of education. It is quite possible that you are expressing the need of industry, in terms of how their future employees should be- all subdued and without any sort of political awareness. What you really want is an army of automatons, coming out of an assembly line which people mistake as a "University"

    What is expected of a university is much more than learning and research. It should be a place where a young chap matures into somebody who can think and make right choices in life. Universities should be places where there is active debates and discussions, a place where students learn to respect and accept contrasting views, a place where they learn to look around and see what is happening in their midst. NOT a place like Manipal, Lovely or SRM, where they churn out graduates in their thousands, who are totally bereft of any social or political thought. 

    And about the subsidized education. The money being spend for subsidized education in India is not even one tenth of the corporate tax sops and other benefits. And its quite ironic that a beneficiary of all those corporate tax subsidies, is now arguing for cutting down educational subsidies. And talk about accountability coming from the sacred mouth of a corporate honcho who ruled over a company (read infosys) notorious for squeezing the last drop out of their employees, is nothing but OXYMORONIC
  • kamala swami | 2 days ago
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    Agree with Mr Pai , If students want to do politics , It should be at their own cost , not with taxpayer money :)
  • sri | 2 days ago
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    Corporate men will never understand the importance of having universities free from intervention from the Govts. They will measure everything in the quantity of money. From independence to anti-emergency struggles, everything was done by idealistic people who did not go behind money.
  • kallu | 2 days ago
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    it suprising to see this Article in NDTV :)
  • Amal Bhattacharya | 2 days ago
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    Sir
    Thanks for writing a sensible article in todays environment completely hijacked by a corrupt intellectual society. I am expecting a deafening silence from the so called intellectuals as if you or your writing does not exist. Or terming you someone who is trying to get favour from Gov or someone who is an agent of capitalist. Dont take them seriously. Neither do we ( I also work in an IT industry and find very little participation of best of the intellects in any media)
  • Raghuveer | 2 days ago
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    Great article ingrained not with sensationalism but truth.
    While we all like freedom of expression we have to draw a line somewhere. Protesting against hanging of terrorists though deplorable but can be understood however call to Destroy India is way beyond the line.
    Opinion here is tainted with money from left or foreign sponsers. Can we be sure that the opinions expressed by these students are free? Does expression right trumps all other rights including right of education of other kids who are suffering because of a dozen or college politicians? Does it triumph national integrity? There are limits to all rights and no one can expect to get financial support from the same govt they are trying to subvert.
  • kuranjivelu | 2 days ago
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    Pai is incoherent in what he wants to say. He should note one inportant thing: JNU has churned out some of the best students in the country who now head major institutions and political class. Many of them are proud professors in top institutions. One important attribute of the institutes curriculum (unwritten)is the freedom of expression. That is being attempted to be throttled. Sad.
  • Indian | 2 days ago
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    Bingo.......

    We need only the education... not the politics.. both ABVP and commies of all shades should keep away...
  • KBN | 2 days ago
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    Mr.Mohandas you have now become enemy no 1 for all anti BJP parlies especially Left. WHat you have written is right. JNU had become totally anti India, pro left, pro maxist, pro nauxalite. But recently because of ABVP things have changed. Govt response can be termed as harsh but till date nobody has had the guts to take action inspite of these incidents happening regularly. And there is no difference between the these anti national students and terrorists and Rahul Gandhi or AK.RaGa has become a permanent audience in every protest happening in India as he does not have any work.
  • Jagat Sherry | 2 days ago
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    we also pay for other universities, not the JNU alone. We also pay to the banks and to the income tax department to facilitate the banks to provide loans to big corporates (including Infosys) and smaller companies and individuals, certainly not for creating bad loans and NPAs. Universities spawn ideas.They turn students into active citizens with grand socialization of education, training, thinking and urge to participate in the nation's growth. History is not left alone with the exalted intellect of Mr. Pai to tell what is best for the students to think and which way to think. And if they must pay for their studies in case of their participation in the nation's political practice, then first ask FICCI and ASSOCHAM to put their horses together and to pay back all the bad loans and NPA, and then earn the right to think in the way he has written. Education, and free education, health and freedom of thinking and speaking are the basic entitlements and rights of the citizens and there is no denying to that only some Pais do not like the way students participate in the national politics. This comment pertains only to the issue of Mr. Pai's pain for the exchequer which he sees getting wasted on free education to the children of the country, and nothing else.
  • Ob Server | 2 days ago
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    Hear, Hear! O' you mindless RSS-wallahs!. Listen, when one of your own well-wishers tells you to practice a little bit of self-restraint. The exercise of political power is a zero sum game. If you expend your strength on trivialities, you will have nothing left when the real challenges come up, which they will, as sure as night follows day!
  • Puneet Sharma | 2 days ago
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    The author has rightly pointed the biased approach taken up by the Heads of Universities for their political affiliation.

    As per my personal view these political ideologies(left/communist, religion based) should be banned in educational institutions.

    Allowing one ideology and stopping others from expressing what they feel is Intolerance.
  • Dr. Satish | 2 days ago
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    Excellent viewpint, Mr. Pai.
    Today, unfortunately JNU is producing totally un-productive lot. They believe more in chaos than have some megalomanic and grandeuristic delusions about themselves...a feeling of being super-intellectuals.
    Worthless fellows !
  • V.RAGHURAMAN | 2 days ago
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    Excellent analysis. There are simply too many self proclaimed intellectuals who are sitting in prime positions with no accountability. Cleaning up will take some time.
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    Common Man Man | 2 days ago
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    Perhaps we should start a new trend - leftist anti nationals should go to China! Lol
  • LK | 2 days ago
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    ABVP seems to be trying to take over from the left in the Universities. And it seems to have the full backing of the Home Minister - who appears to see Hafiz Saeed every time someone says something he doesnt like....
  • SWS | 2 days ago
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    An excellent assessment!! Thanks Mr. Pai for bringing in balanced view in the ongoing chaos!!
  • pyaar Kumar | 2 days ago
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    Good observation. JNU should be free from intolerant left goons. Let there be freedom of expression in JNU. Left and congress should stop being so intolerant to patriotism
  • KSN Murthy | 2 days ago
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    Well said Sir, It is the politicians creating mess in JNU
  • Yaadi | 2 days ago
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    Thank you Mr.Pai for a balanced view. It may give a wrong signals when we call out that louder asking students to pay full fee than asking the root causes for this mess to happen. Should we be asking the root cause or should we be asking the victims!! Left could be left and right will always be right, but, center pieces are being used and thrown in the bin. I feel, we should question the so called GOVT, Politicians and university professors failing to control, guide and mentor healthy environments within campuses. Every citizen should get free education than classifying rate of subsidy and taking such incidents to threaten poor students in that way! We have not seen anyone asking to do council to the students who raised anti-nation slogans in order to understand their reasons and educate. Some of our greatest journalists/media can only do opportunistic emotional act in front of camera to only benefit thyself. Wish, we keep questioning such elements, wish we keep standing against such opportunists, wish we hold tight to question the causes than the victims..........!!!!
  • TwoCents | 2 days ago
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    Thank you Mr. Pai for putting context around JNU events! While everyone is entitled to their own opinions, the discourse still needs to be sane and civil! Unfortunate to see students organizations aligning with the political parties - be it with left, congress or BJP. Its perfectly ok for students to have the organizations; but it's purpose and practice needs to confine to its constituents - that is Students, faculty and related matters. If you want to align or dissent with a political party's views or a judicial decision, there are several other avenues - and college campus is not one of them.
  • vishnurAtha | 2 days ago
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    This is an excellent articulation of the deceit and politics of Left.For too long now, the Left and its idealogical fraternity have a disgusting and shameful relationships with nation-state and governaments. On the one hand, they expect the State to provide money,job, housing and all the sundry necessities of life and yet dont have a shred of shame in ranting against the state breathless. For too long, the sham of leftists assault on the civilization, culture and tradition of this country has been tolerated.It is time that the culture of truthfulness, openness and truly liberal faculty and management takes over JNU
  • Normal | 2 days ago
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    Very Right said sir. Students who are wishing to make their carrier as a politician should pay full fees. it is time the government asked students to pay the full cost of education; in case students wish to focus on politics and not on their studies, there is no case for taxpayers to subsidize extreme views or an archaic Left. Freedom does not include the right to misuse tax payers' monies. For the faculties -indulging in politics, forgetting their primary duties - note the quality of research going down. Universities have to be held accountable for their output and research, not judged on their political ideology or political activism.
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    Partha Saha | 2 days ago
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    first time they made a good article.plz think about country first. as there is no NDTV if there is no India.
  • Atal | 2 days ago
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    Mr Mohandas Pai. We also fund your industries when we allocate subsidized land and other tax benefits. Can we then demand you to follow the labor laws of the land, reservation and other facilities? You are well within your right to question the politics in JNU but why this selective entitlement over your tax money?
  • TwoCents | 2 days ago
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    Thank you Mr. Pai for putting context around JNU events! While everyone is entitled to their own opinions, the discourse still needs to be sane and civil! Unfortunate to see students organizations aligning with the political parties - be it with left, congress or BJP. Its perfectly ok for students to have the organizations; but it's purpose and practice needs to confine to its constituents - that is Students, faculty and related matters. If you want to align or dissent with a political party's views or a judicial decision, there are several other avenues - and college campus is not one of them.
  • Ravindra Babu | 2 days ago
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    Dear Sir,

    Well written and balanced opinion. There is well planned strategy to bleed government's energy by creating such issues in universities. Government should not fall into this trap. These issues will automatically stop if government starts ignoring them and continue focus on development.
    Ravindra
  • Jai Hind | 2 days ago
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    well said Mr. Pai.

    Public sector banks, companies, educational institutions, government offices have become the playground of politics, wasting the country's wealth. There is no reason for them to depend on Government funds. Let them depend on themselves, then the true 'isms' will come out.
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    Shanmuga Sundaram | 2 days ago
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    good thought from the author..... he should have courage tell same to politicians that they are elected to run parliament...and politicians can't steal funds of tax paid to govt... in the name of "govt transfer favoured -the corruption, drainage pipe-size laying corruption and unethical useless govt practices that just waste time instead of supporting people in-time e.g. RTO process... all tax payer money paid to govt staff for their useless "delayed" work in RTO between different Indian states... but we celebrate 15A and 26J...
  • P S Ramakrishna | 2 days ago
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    What is ABVP doing, to make it right?
  • Vikram Sinha | 2 days ago
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    Starts with you pai, you head universities and educational institutions, set an example yourself by shedding your hindutva scales.
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    Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    Well observed. Congress , rather, Rahul Gandhi wants to look sheepish without realizing that it was The UPA government which sanctioned the hanging of Afsal Guru !
  • abhijit | 2 days ago
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    Great article by Mr. Pai. Somebody had to say this loud & clear even if politically incorrect. When important Academic & Admin posts were filled by Leftists & Socialists (Read Anti-BJP) & when complete atmosphere was Dogmatic, no "SECULAR LIBERAL FREE THINKING" Intellectual of the "CIVIL SOCIETY" objected to that INTOLERANCE. But when BJP awarded a few posts to people following its ideology, all have started beating their chests shouting "INTOLERANCE". Its high time their bluff is called.
  • rajeev lala | 2 days ago
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    Dear Sir, very calm and composed arguments you have made. I applaud your honest and clear thinking on this matter. As an inactive student of JNU (I have taken a break from my PhD), i am glad you are asking the right questions. When i was a student there, even i wondered why are we so spectacularly subsidized and while we are, who gives us the right to indulge in politics on tax-payers money? 

    Thank you for your incisive thoughts.
  • Not a Fkn bigot | 2 days ago
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    why don't you first start cleaning your own house a.k.a ABVP, moralistic hypocrite Mr. BJPai ?
  • Sujai Gopal | 2 days ago
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    Good one sir. Left is going even to the extend of being anti national to keep themselves alive
  • Rajneesh | 2 days ago
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    Thanks for the nice article and putting the subject in correct perspective. JNU Teachers should focus on academics and not on politics
  • Mayank R | 2 days ago
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    I went to an NIT which is a heavily subsidized university. I got a fairly decent education for less than Rs 1 lakh (from 2003 to 2007) and I am very grateful to the country and to the tax payers for that. Since I have been a beneficiary of subsidized education, I am one of the few on the right who support funding of higher education by government. However, there has to be a mechanism in place where the funding is contingent on output from universities. There is no harm if students want to follow active politics and get heavily involved in political activism. However, swift action should be taken if they are deemed to hinder the academic progress of other students.
  • sri.s | 2 days ago
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    Comparing India & US is wrong. A rich superpower nation providing doles to its citizen can't be compared with poor India with so many different complicated issues. People who compare India with US forget the history of US since their independence from british colonial rule. How they treated the 'dissent' the civil war. They have come a long way and which India has to travel to. No one can instigate americans to go against their nation to break it up because they know what does it mean to be american. But the same is not applicable here. Here any tom-dick & harry politicians can block rail tracks, roads for months or burn train just like that to demand quota or burn police station, crate riots just because they didn't like someone's comment. Most amazing thing is when the left media, leaders[not talking about Mr. Pai] talk about 'freedom of speech' they give example of USA not of any leftist nation!!!
  • Tejkumar | 2 days ago
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    Well said Mohandas Pai. Wish more voices such as yours come out in the open. Surprised that NDTV featured your article; was it by mistake?
  • Indian | 2 days ago
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    A smart voice. Thanks uncle Pai :)
  • JustAPoint | 2 days ago
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    I have just three words after reading this. WOW!! Did you write this to whichever political party you support when they were disrupting parliament or inciting riots? Shame on you Mr. Pai.
  • Nikhil | 2 days ago
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    I liked the idea of asking students to pay full tuition fee if they decide to focus on politics rather than studies.
  • Guest4321 | 2 days ago
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    Well said. Left rule in Bengal was a disaster and the most atrocious in Independent India. Most good students would go to college in BHU as there were no good colleges/universities in Bengal. Left totally dominated the ideological landscape and any different point of view was met with a harsh suppression where the left party cadre along with police and other wings of administration participated. Left has perfected the art of violence globally and in India this takes the form of state suppression in their bastions and naxal/maoists violence elsewhere.
    JNU should either be dis-banded or purged of anti-national and leftists elements to make it a contributor to national resurgence and development.
  • Sandhya | 2 days ago
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    thank you. i couldn't have expressed it better myself.
  • Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    JNU is not infosys where human resources can be 'moulded' into machines producing dollars. Ascertain facts completely before commenting sir.
  • Kushal Bangabash | 2 days ago
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    Well, you have expressed our thoughts adequately. Left is now gaining support from Congress on this issue and hurts me as a citizen how they can turn this in politics and forget #IndiaFirst... Shame on Rahul and Sitaram
  • Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    Dear Sir, you DO NOT have the luxury of using the word "WE".. You are not an elected representative!
  • Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    Well said Mr Pai. The deep malaise fested in these institutions have to be eradicated.
  • Bearded Indian | 2 days ago
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    The entire JNU needs to be re-hauled and the faculty there needs to be made accountable for their student's academic performance
  • grrao | 2 days ago
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    I AGREE FULLY WITH THE VIEWS OF MR. PAI. The arm chair revolutionaries need not be and should not be funded from tax payers moneys. Rahul Gandhi is becoming irrevelant by the day by supporting such anti national activities and making all silly comments because the press is giving him a mike.
  • Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    You are correct. Infact we can fund your political views as long as you are a student of political science and on a serious thesis or if you cease to be anti - India.
  • singhgx | 2 days ago
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    Dear Sir, we fund even ABVP students for their studies and not for politics. What's your opinion about them?
  • Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    Dear Mohandas Pai,

    You have a point of view and it is from the discontent of young people new movements have grown. If in your institute politics is never discussed and fought over then people like you will never lose their positions in power. So politics is essential as much as studies to make citizens aware that some of the actions that you take are hindrance to the overall growth of the society at large.
  • Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    In a country where my patriotism is measured by forcing me to hear and stand for the national anthem played at a movie, all parties are responsible for the divisive mess being created. I'm no less a patriot but I don't need to wear it on my sleeve just as I don't have to prove my religious beliefs. Being a good human being is universal not showing off.
  • Madhu Venkatesan | 2 days ago
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    Thanks for a Very fair and objective commentary, Mr. Pai. This was badly needed in this whole issue which was getting out of control.
  • Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    An ex HR manager can only have a limited view on a university and it shows. Did you ever study in a proper university or know the role of universities esp those focusing on liberal arts in a modern society?? Cash machines like Manipal do not build a country, central universities do. Wannabe thought leader trying to cash in!!
  • Jups | 2 days ago
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    Absolutely valid question, lets ask all these hooligans what grades do they get in their studies, and have them been clearing all their exams with good grades...

    Mr. Pai, with all due respect, the anti-Nationals are becoming more and more brazen. There is a need to broden the definition even more to ensure that no Anti-National act goes unpunished. There is a limit to nonsense that can be tolerated in the name of freedom of speech, which even the SC says is not absolute.
  • Indian | 2 days ago
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    Yes study in college. Why Hyderabad students, Osmania students, JNU students are behaving like this.
  • Navtej Singh | 2 days ago
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    Mohan Pai are you showing true colors? Were you funding politics of NSUI and ABVP for so long? All of you are belong to 13% of ruling elite.
  • Anonymous | 2 days ago
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    Another waste fellow waiting to get some award.
  • Abhishek Anand | 2 days ago
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    Very balanced article....The world has left the Left way behind...This is pure frustration...Soon they will loose JNU too....It is the proverbial "Last flame-burst before the candle extinguishes" and extinguish it will....
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    Libral Culture | 2 days ago
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    Rahul Gandhi or Left organisation is not support anti national slogan, they are opposing the arbitrary arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar and the attempt to muzzle the dissenting voice. I do not agree with your view points, but I will NEVER EVER say that you go and concentrate on your profit making organisation.
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    Libral Culture | 3 days ago
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    Dear Mr. Mohandas Pai, We fund the government to carry out the administrative and welfare task, WE DO NOT Fund Their POLITICS.
  • Anonymous | 3 days ago
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    Well said Mr. Pai. However, students' addiction to politics is not desirable with the present day scenerio and hence nipping such anti national activities in the name of freedom of speech is the need of the hour. A harsh treatment is the only option to deter others from indulging in antisocial and anti national activities. Any delay in such treatment may result in the cancer spreading all over the nation.
  • Anonymous | 3 days ago
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    Perfectly said Mr Pai, this joker Raga and other leftist do not understand. Raga will not understand as he does not slog to get his monthly salary nor would pay appropriate taxes, probably he does not even understand what is taxes. They need to complete the studies and get to politics ti take India to next level and not talk against the nation
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    Vikram Vel | 3 days ago
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    A very sensible write up by someone who obviously understands how universities and student communities think and work.....As a tax payer my heart burns seeing my hard earned money being used to fund those with anti national views and archaic, impractical ideologies....really hope the faculty, students of JNU and last but not the least the govt machinery including our ministers read this article.........May good sense prevail all around....
  • Jahar | 3 days ago
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    Nice article Mr.Pai. But what do the faceless "tax payers" want? A set of robotic students who are unaware of their surroundings and incapable of debate and introspection? Do you think the unacceptable behaviour of the State would ever be in focus if everyone minded their business? Finally is dissent allowed in public universities of the West, and has democracy been damaged by this?
  • Ajay Goyal | 3 days ago
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    First sensible opinion posted by NDTV. Not of sick left or sick faculties of JNU. i totally agree with Mr Pai.
  • Anonymous | 3 days ago
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    Well said Mr.Pai... We fund your studies, not your politics.. Well said!
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    Kavya Nathan | 3 days ago
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    Mr Pai, speak for yourself. As a tax payer, I prefer subsidizing education in JNU or HCU, as all in India cannot afford the fee that Manipal Education Services run institutions charge - which is run as a business to make money. Everyone who studies in the 70's know that the manipal university used to take huge donations...so please refrain from making sweeping comments. You are not an expert in any field, you & others just were out-sorucing developers and later day body-shoppers.
  • Dinesh Bhat | 3 days ago
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    A tight slap on Left ideology & their Award Wapsi brigade. Their intolerance to another ideology is the reason their monopoly in JNU since many decades. Time to thrash them. If Supreme Court verdict in favor of them then time to take law in to our hand.
  • seenivasan | 3 days ago
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    rightly said and request to yetchuury,raja,brinda to read the above article along with pappu.
  • Prof. | 3 days ago
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    Mr Pai, you're the greatest abuser of 'taxpayers' money.

    You brain drain our brightest engineers to the US and Europe who are trained at taxpayers' expense. The US/ Europe govts and taxpayers are happy since you're in collusion: they get cheap high-skilled labour and you pay Indian engineers very low; and in the process you become very very rich indeed!
  • krshna | 3 days ago
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    well said Pai, its high time we need to remove these sops on students who do not add any value to society. they live/study subsidies provided by country and then say thwy wants barbaadhi of same country. im really upset with kind of ideology these ppl are carrying. not sure what all they are thought in universities. why just they cant study and do something useful for country instead of these unions etc stuff, govt shld ban student unions be it abvp or sfi or nsui everything,
  • Pooja | 3 days ago
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    Dear Mohandas Pai, just because you "fund" something, does not mean you get the right to control it. That is called funding with an agenda. 
    Also, what do you mean by "fund"? Assume you are referring to tax payers' money, not yours or the ministers' personal savings going into anything. As long as any thought process, dissent, or discussion is peaceful, you need not worry yourself excessively about whether people toe your line or not.
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    Uday Kiran Reddy Lingala | 3 days ago
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    Excellent write!!! Govt should make a rule that Students who want to be in politics and not getting good grades should pay full fee for everything.
  • Mutlaq Abraham | 3 days ago
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    Very True, Balance Opinion and Analysis appreciated.
  • murali | 3 days ago
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    it is not only JNU, every institution, students can take political studies but studies only. Political parties should not be allowed to preach. See in IIT madras, getting subsidy from tax payers and using the institution to gain political recognition. Even faculty should not indulge in politics. Media should refrain from inviting such personnel.
    If you sepak against India , you are not a good citizen, You can criticize the government functioning, individual but supporting the terrorist delceared by UN is totally unacceptable and you will have to pay the price for it
  • Anonymous | 3 days ago
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    Very well said, Sri. Mohandas Pai. NDTV should publish more of the balanced views like this.
  • Pankaj | 3 days ago
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    Brilliant article ; while Universities and students should be free from ideological constraints of the society; they should remain accountable to it and primarily focus on education and not politics.
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    Lourduraj Ignacimuthu | 3 days ago
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    Mr. Pai is not in sync with what's happening in the country. He is a known supporter of Mr. Modi and he is the leader of the corporate support for Mr. Modi. So nothing new in what he says on the issue. His article just betrays that mind set.
  • alel tappu | 3 days ago
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    Mr. Pai, You know me personally. I always admired your wisdom. This article just adds to your awe.
    "Socially liberal and economically conservative" thick middle class - What an astute observation by Mohandas Pai! I wish EVERY political party understands this shift.
    It is also right for no ideology to capture campuses - like Right. It is also right that if a campus is eclipsed by an ideology - like Left in most cases - it should be un-clutched ASAP.
    You are right that the professors must be paid by the amount of research. 
    I'd also propose that the law makers and babus are paid pay rise by % of GDP rise of their electorate. 90% of Indian problems will be gloriously solved.
  • Anonymous | 3 days ago
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    Well said sir and now when their framework is being broken they crying foul 👏
http://www.ndtv.com/opinion/dear-jnu-students-we-fund-your-studies-not-your-politics-1277417
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The Left And Congress: The Pinnacle of Hypocrisy -- Jayant Chowdhury

February 17, 2016, 11:18 pm
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Jayant Chowdhury
Jayant Chowdhury is an avid observer of and commentator on politics and society in Bengal and eastern, including north-eastern, India.
17 Feb, 2016 The Left And Congress: The Pinnacle of Hypocrisy
It is supremely ironical that the Communists and the Congresswallas are, today, at the forefront of the movement to uphold liberal values, the right to dissent and democracy.
Two days ago, leaders of the CPI(M) and the Congress marched shoulder to shoulder through some streets of Kolkata to express their solidarity with those seditious students of Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) who had mouthed anti-national and even pro-Pakistani slogans last week.
The CPI(M) and the Congress leaders, after sputtering slogans against “Modi Sarkar” in self-righteous indignation, returned to their respective party offices—the CPI(M) state headquarters at Kolkata’s Alimuddin Street and the Congress office at CIT Road. At the Alimuddin Street office, the comrades would have looked up at the portraits of the stern-looking Lenin, Stalin and Mao and offered them a red salute. At the Congress office called Bidhan Bhawan (after former Bengal CM Bidhan Chandra Roy), the Congresswallas would have congregated in the hall where a large portrait of a smiling Indira Gandhi looks down on the retainers of her descendants and offered their obeisance to her.
What the comrades and the Congresswallas will not raise slogans or even a murmur of protest against is the repression and killings that their “deities” carried out. Lenin and Stalin, between themselves, ordered the executions of an estimated 35 million people and the incarceration of uncounted millions in the infamous camps in Siberia. Another Communist icon—Mao Zedong—was responsible for the deaths of an estimated 70 million people through starvation due to the famines he created, forced labour and executions. The Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia was responsible for the death of two million of the country’s seven million people.
Lleft to right: chairman Mao zedong; armed forces minister marshal n,a, bulganin; and stalin). (Photo by: Sovfoto/UIG via Getty Images)
Lleft to right: Mao, Bulganin and Stalin. (Photo by: Sovfoto/UIG via Getty Images)
Communist regimes across the world have been responsible for the deaths of an estimated 200 million people. Most of them were put to death because they were political opponents or were suspected to be political opponents. Many more have been incarcerated in horrible conditions and simply forgotten.
The atrocities carried out by Communist regimes across the world, and still being carried out in the impoverished pockets of the world like North Korea and Cuba where hide-bound Communists are still in power (China’s ruling Communists have long embraced their own version of capitalism) are too well-documented to bear repetition here. In comparison, Hitler killed an estimated six million Jews and it seems unfair that he is the only one vilified while Lenin, Stalin and Mao are revered.
Closer home, in West Bengal, the communists who ruled the state for 34 dark years from 1977 to 2011, murdered more than 60,000 political opponents (http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article2234.html), the rate of such murders being five a day! If they managed to do this in India which is a western-style parliamentary democracy, imagine what would have happened if the country was a Communist dictatorship.
Buddhadeb and Jyoti Basu/The India Today Group/Getty Images)
Buddhadeb and Jyoti Basu/The India Today Group/Getty Images)
Not just political opponents, even those without any political affiliations who were perceived to be against the interests of the Communists were exterminated. Here are some of the most horrendous massacres.
  • Marichjhapi: An island in the Sunderbans where East Pakistani Hindu refugees had settled against the wishes of the then Chief Minister Jyoti Basu; the island was surrounded by gunboats, supply lines cut off for weeks and when the starving islanders attempted to flee, they were caught and killed and the womenfolk raped before being shot dead in January 1979.
  • The Sainbari killings, where male members of a family of Congress supporters were beheaded in March 1970 by CPM killers who smeared the blood of their victims on the forehead of the widowed matriarch of the family after which she lost her mind.
  • The lynching of about two dozen monks and nuns of the Ananda Marg in Kolkata in April, 1982, by CPM cadres.
  • The massacres at Nanoor, where about a dozen Muslim farmers were killed in July 2000 because they were activists of the Congress.
  • Nandigram, where armed CPM cadres killed more than 15 people and maimed many more who were opposing the then Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government’s plans to take over their fertile farmlands for setting up a chemical hub 10,000 acres of prime in March 2007.
All these stand as irrefutable evidence of the Communists’ intolerance of opposition, political or otherwise.
In West Bengal, as in other Communist-ruled countries, the Communists committed gross human rights violations and trampled upon civil liberties at will. They subverted institutions and made the police force an adjunct of the party to do its bidding. They packed academic institutions and the bureaucracy with party faithful to propagate their ideology.
The Communists viewed everything through the prism of party affiliation and ideology. Political and other opponents were fair game for cleansing. The ones they couldn’t eliminate, they forced into submission or silence.
The Left Front, primarily the CPI(M), in West Bengal perfected the art of rigging elections right from the panchayat to the parliamentary levels. Not only were voters intimidated, known supporters of Opposition parties were barred from casting their votes and even polling agents of the Opposition parties were not allowed to enter the polling stations. The Left’s history in West Bengal, as in the rest of the world, is dark and bloody.
As for Indira Gandhi, she was singularly responsible for the darkest blot in the history of independent India—the Emergency. In the 21 months between 1975 and 1977, she jailed tens of thousands of opposition leaders, writers, journalists and intellectuals, suspended civil liberties and enacted draconian laws. Not surprisingly, she was a friend of the Communists, especially the Communist USSR whose stooges in the CPI were Indira Gandhi’s favourites.
Indira Gandhi was impetuous and high-handed, brooked no dissent even within her own party and treated even senior cabinet ministers as her inferiors. Her favourite son and anointed political heir, Sanjay, was responsible for the worst excesses during the Emergency like forced sterilizations and demolition of slums and other buildings in many parts of central India.
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Photo by Terry Fincher/Getty Images
It is, thus, ironical that the Communists and the Congresswallas are, today, at the forefront of the movement to uphold liberal values, the right to dissent and democracy. That they are the most ill-suited to do so, given the respective histories of their parties, is amply evident.
Communists and the Congresswallas wear the liberal mask when they are out of power; this mask is cast away as soon as they assume power. For them, the mask is a convenient prop to win the hearts and minds of the masses who are, essentially, gullible.
The Communists have no business to support JNU students till they denounce Lenin, Stalin, Mao and their other notorious icons whose hands are drenched in the blood of millions. They have no right to stage even one rally in support of democracy till they apologize for Marichjhapi, Sainbari, Nanoor and Nandigram and for the other killings and persecution carried out under Jyoti Basu’s and Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s watch.
The Congresswallas have no business talking about human rights and civil liberties till they denounce Indira Gandhi and apologize unconditionally for the Emergency.
It would be pertinent in India today to remember the warning of Roman philosopher, politician and constitutionalist Marcus Tullius Cicero:
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not as a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
There are many traitors in India, and they wear the mask of liberal values and democracy and attempt to subvert our democracy and our country. These traitors will have to be identified and guarded against.
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    Chilarai  15 hours ago
    You forgot to mention the slaughter of Sikhs by congress goons for which they are yet to pay.
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        SamiH  18 hours ago
        And dont forget the biggest evil of them all Hitler and Nazi were left wing socialists too.
        It's scary how the CPI and Congress worship these murdererous dictators like Mao, Stalin, Lenin and Indira Gandhi. No wonder CPI and Congress cant do debate and just end up killing their opponents.
        It is time to purge all communists and their sympathisers from India. Starting with Sitram Yechury, this uncout cockroach needs to be exterminated.
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          Shant Manav  14 hours ago
          Why doesn't Modi or his govt do anything about them left?
          Why they commit silly mistakes?
          Why know all and yet do nothing about it? 
          You have the power right? Why not use it?
          Well, Modi is preparing for WAR!
          Yes! WAR! Modi knew they were scum, when we knew them as opposition.
          He knew they were 'whoes', when we knew them as liars.
          He knew they were evil, when we knew them as immoral.
          And now when we know they are anti-nationals, Modi knows they are 'dead'
          Right now, any fight against the left will only turn out to be a see-saw game. But, in an emergency, with unfettered power, scum around the nation can be cleansed up real quick!
          HAR HAR MAHADEV!
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              Jitendra Desai  2 hours ago
              Other day one more RSS worker was hacked to death in Kerala - in front of his parents.No one is speaking freedom to life - in Kerala or in the country.But they want freedom to shout anti India slogans.Hypocrites all.But this time round, nation has found them out.More they indulge in such tomfoolery, more despised they become.
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                  ZGA  4 hours ago
                  Whataboutery
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                      Dharma Youdha  14 hours ago
                      Hitler tried to destroy communism.... but NOOOOO
                    http://swarajyamag.com/politics/the-left-and-congress-the-pinnacle-of-hypocrisy/
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                    Kisan Kalyan Mela, Sehore -- NaMo on Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (1:22:18)

                    February 18, 2016, 1:48 am
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                    Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses Kisan Kalyan Mela at Sehore in Madhya Pradesh & release guidelines for Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana



                    2.  15 minutes ago
                      Our dream is to increase the reach of the soil health card scheme: PM
                    4.  20 minutes ago
                      Per drop, more crop is what we are giving importance to: PM
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                    7.  27 minutes ago
                      Our start up India movement is not restricted to IT. There is scope for this in agriculture sector also: PM
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                    8.  30 minutes ago
                      We initiated several measures for sugarcane farmers: PM
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                    9.  33 minutes ago
                      When we talk about technology and a digital India, we see the welfare of the farmers at the core: PM
                    11.  34 minutes ago
                      We want to integrate technology in the agriculture sector. The age old wisdom & technology must meet: PM More
                    12.  35 minutes ago
                      Compensation to farmers has increased three fold: PM
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                    14.  38 minutes ago
                      I urge you to trust this scheme and join the scheme: PM
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                    15.  39 minutes ago
                      We have decided to integrate technology in this scheme, do proper surveys and ensure 25% of amount is paid immediately: PM
                    16.  42 minutes ago
                      Farmers were not joining the crop insurance scheme. Even estimates about this scheme were made through a few villages only: PM
                      Sanjay Dixit, IAS                       @Sanjay_Dixit
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                    18.  44 minutes ago
                      This scheme has the solution to problems the farmers face: PM on crop insurance scheme
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                    19.  44 minutes ago
                      Our first aim was to win the trust of the farmers: PM
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                    20.  45 minutes ago
                      When government of Atal ji changed the scheme was modified & the farmer started running away from crop insurance scheme: PM
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                    21.  46 minutes ago
                      When Atal ji was PM, 1st time such a scheme was thought about & an effort was made to change the lives of the farmers: PM
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                    22.  47 minutes ago
                      We are placing the guidelines of the crop insurance scheme, here, in the presence of the farmers of MP: PM
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                    23.  48 minutes ago
                      For the last two years the rainfall situation has not been good. Yet, farmers of India left no stone unturned in agriculture production: PM
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                    24.  50 minutes ago
                      For 4 years to win an award in agriculture, this is not a small thing: PM on MP's agriculture success under leadership of
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                    25.  51 minutes ago
                      The MP Government under did a lot of work for the farmers. Government & farmers worked together to script history: PM
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                    26.  51 minutes ago
                      A decade ago MP was not known for agriculture. But the farmers of MP, through their hardwork & innovation changed that: PM
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                    27.  52 minutes ago
                      I have come here to meet the farmers of MP: PM
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                    29.  53 minutes ago
                      Wherever I look, I can see people and only people. I thank the people for the blessings and enthusiasm: PM
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                    30.  54 minutes ago
                      When I was coming here, I saw so many buses were still on the way. Many of them wouldn't have been able to reach also: PM
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                      PM begins his speech at Kisan Mahasammelan, Sehore.
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                      म.प्र. में राजा, अँग्रेज़,काँग्रेस ने कुल साढ़े ७ लाख हेक्टेयर में सिंचाई की व्यवस्था की थी, हमने अकेले ३६ ला.हे. में व्यवस्था कर दी।: सीएम
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                    34.  1 hour ago
                      This crop insurance scheme will give full benefits to the farmers: MP CM
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                    35.  1 hour ago
                      Who had ever imagined such a good crop insurance scheme would come: MP CM

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                    National flag to fly in every Central University. NaMo, jeevema s'aradah s'atam.

                    February 18, 2016, 8:04 pm
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                    National tri-colour to fly prominently at every Central university orders Jeevema s'aradah s'atam
                    Press Information Bureau
                    Government of India
                    Ministry of Human Resource Development
                    18-February-2016 19:43 IST
                    Resolutions Unanimously Passed at the Conference of Central University Vice-Chancellors
                    The Union Minister of Human Resource Development Smt Smriti Zubin Irani chaired the conference of Central University Vice Chancellors at Surajkund (Faridabad) today. Following resolutions were passed unanimously at the Conference:

                    1. In order to optimize academic output of the student community, universities to institutionalize peer-assisted learning through an active mentoring system involving senior students and faculty.

                    2. To ensure a transparent proactive mechanism for grievance redressal of the university community, including students, staff and faculty, steps to be taken to appoint an Anti-Discrimination officer.

                    3. To increase cost-effective and transparent access to Higher Education Online Admission process to be commenced.

                    4. To increase Gross Enrolment Ratio to 30% in Higher Education, to increase access through starting classes in double shifts to overcome the infrastructure and human resource bottle necks.

                    5. In order to keep pace with the fast emerging knowledge society in the global world, new and innovative courses are proposed to prepare for the future needs of the nation:

                    a) Social Sciences and Humanities

                    (i) Applied courses in Foreign Languages

                    (ii) New Media and Youth

                    (iii) Inter-faith Studies

                    (iv) Dialogue of culture & Civilizations

                    (v) Women and entrepreneurship

                    (vi) Epidemiology & Public Health

                    (vii) Gerontology

                    (viii) Citizenship and value education

                    (ix) Diaspora studies

                    b) Science, Technology & Agriculture

                    (i) Nano-technology

                    (ii) Converging technologies

                    (iii) Applied Science & Maths

                    (iv) Farming Technology

                    (v) Rural Supply Chain Management

                    (vi) Renewable energy development

                    6. In order to ensure that no student is deprived of Higher Education due to language limitation universities to ensure instruction in English and an Indian language as applicable to the state.

                    7. To enable students to take correct personal and professional decisions, to implement a professional system of comprehensive guidance and counseling by experts.

                    8. In order to ensure a healthy, safe and congenial work environment for women, students, staff & faculty, institutionalize a suitable redressal mechanism and strengthen the existing system.

                    9. At a central place at every university, the national flag will be flown prominently and proudly.

                    10. To motivate students to be socially aware and responsible citizens and to inculcate a spirit of dignity of labour among the youth and commitment for social upliftment, village adoption programme already in place under Unnat Bharat Abhiyan be strengthened.

                    11. For ensuring transparency in and speedy delivery of services administrative Reforms coupled with e-governance to be taken up on priority.

                    12. One-week course on leadership and management at two select IIMs for V.C.s Pro-V.C.s and Registrars. 

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                    'We do not know why Umar (Khalid) is in hiding' -- his sister, Maryam Fatima in USA

                    February 18, 2016, 8:50 pm
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                    ‘ABVP orchestrated anti-India slogans at JNU event’

                    Umar Khalid is the JNU student accused of organising the Afzal Guru event. Maryam Fatima, the eldest of his four sisters, is a Ph.D. candidate in a U.S. university. She is in daily communication with her family in Delhi over the current situation. She agreed to answer a few questions over email.
                    Your family has received threats. Could you tell us the nature of these threats and how they were delivered? Has there been any other intimidation?
                    Last week after the Times Now and Zee News debates, my family was understandably agitated. My sisters wrote responses to the comments on the videos on YouTube clarifying my brother’s political position: what he wasn't allowed to say on TV himself, because he kept getting yelled at. They received threats soon after (rape and acid attack) as responses to their comments and as Facebook messages — including my 12-year-old sister who doesn’t even fully comprehend what’s happening. We’ve also come to know of posters in Munirka where a large part of the student population lives, posters calling for Umar’s death. This has us worried about vigilante attempts to lynch him.
                    Are you aware of Umar’s political views? He is reported to profess atheism. Is this something that has been discussed in the family?
                    Yes, the family has been aware of his communism and atheism from the very beginning. I see that that’s being used to portray a divided, broken family. But that couldn’t be farther from the truth. Yes, we had a difference of opinion. Our parents have been worried, as any believing Muslims would be. But Umar is still an integral part of the family and has always been.
                    My father’s interview on News24 is a testament to how much we respect him despite a difference in opinion. We were all together at a family function this January. Any attempts to say he had broken away from his family are ridiculous. It causes my parents anguish that he’s an atheist but it’s been enriching to have been part of a family like ours where we are respected as individuals capable of independent thought.
                    Umar is reported to have been organising a series of events around India that valourise Afzal Guru, a convicted criminal for crimes against the state. He is reported to have publicly expressed a desire for the breaking up of the Indian state. Were you and are you aware of these events and statements? What is your reaction to this?
                    The event on Feb 9 [was] like any other student-organised event on campus; the poster said that students were going to gather for a cultural evening of protest songs. This is not new either in JNU or elsewhere. As for the anti-India slogans raised at the event (especially crude and distressing ones like ‘Bharat ki barbadi’ and ‘tukde’), it is becoming increasingly evident that they were orchestrated by the ABVP and the organisers of the event didn’t respond to it. As for the Afzal Guru event itself, there is nothing wrong with questioning capital punishment; legal experts have raised this question a million times without it snowballing into a sedition case.
                    Why is Umar in hiding?
                    We don’t know why Umar is in hiding. We’ve not had any contact with him since right after the Arnab Goswami debate. We are really worried for his safety.
                    http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/abvp-orchestrated-antiindia-slogans-at-jnu-event/article8254155.ece?homepage=true
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                    Why is Umar Khalid in hiding? How hijabi becomes a cover to hide a face and manufacture a media lie.

                    February 19, 2016, 12:21 am
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                      Never mind the cries of freedom, has disgraced free speech. My take in
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                    2.  2 hours ago
                      When was the conversion from atheist radical Left activist? This will now be the refrain in defence of Umar Khalid?


                      Umar Khalid is being targeted because of his name, because he is a Muslim, says Umar Khalid’s father
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                    3.  2 hours ago
                      Atheist can't be Jihadist. Media plugged that as defence. Now dad says Umar a Muslim. Media will plug that.


                      Umar Khalid's sister tells me: he didn't believe in Mohammed, where is the q. of Jaish-e-Mohd. Airs shortly on NDTV
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                    4.  2 hours ago
                      Honesty demands clarify whether she is a hijabi. Or else this is a manufactured lie.


                      Umar Khalid's sister: I'm hiding my face because we've been threatened w. rape, murder in name of Bharat Mata.
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                    5.  26 minutes ago
                      Show the evidence or it is a *manufactured* lie. As in a lie manufactured to foist an untruth.


                      She is not a full jihabi. Face uncovered. Covered only for camera. (Also its either 'manufactured' or 'lie' - not both)
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                    In which case unethical to peddle an allegation by a hidden face. It is a *manufactured* lie.

                     



                    Published: February 19, 2016 02:54 IST | Updated: February 19, 2016 03:25 IST  February 19, 2016

                    ‘ABVP orchestrated anti-India slogans at JNU event’

                    Umar Khalid is the JNU student accused of organising the Afzal Guru event. Maryam Fatima, the eldest of his four sisters, is a Ph.D. candidate in a U.S. university. She is in daily communication with her family in Delhi over the current situation. She agreed to answer a few questions over email.
                    Your family has received threats. Could you tell us the nature of these threats and how they were delivered? Has there been any other intimidation?
                    Last week after the Times Now and Zee News debates, my family was understandably agitated. My sisters wrote responses to the comments on the videos on YouTube clarifying my brother’s political position: what he wasn't allowed to say on TV himself, because he kept getting yelled at. They received threats soon after (rape and acid attack) as responses to their comments and as Facebook messages — including my 12-year-old sister who doesn’t even fully comprehend what’s happening. We’ve also come to know of posters in Munirka where a large part of the student population lives, posters calling for Umar’s death. This has us worried about vigilante attempts to lynch him.
                    Are you aware of Umar’s political views? He is reported to profess atheism. Is this something that has been discussed in the family?
                    Yes, the family has been aware of his communism and atheism from the very beginning. I see that that’s being used to portray a divided, broken family. But that couldn’t be farther from the truth. Yes, we had a difference of opinion. Our parents have been worried, as any believing Muslims would be. But Umar is still an integral part of the family and has always been.
                    My father’s interview on News24 is a testament to how much we respect him despite a difference in opinion. We were all together at a family function this January. Any attempts to say he had broken away from his family are ridiculous. It causes my parents anguish that he’s an atheist but it’s been enriching to have been part of a family like ours where we are respected as individuals capable of independent thought.
                    Umar is reported to have been organising a series of events around India that valourise Afzal Guru, a convicted criminal for crimes against the state. He is reported to have publicly expressed a desire for the breaking up of the Indian state. Were you and are you aware of these events and statements? What is your reaction to this?
                    The event on Feb 9 [was] like any other student-organised event on campus; the poster said that students were going to gather for a cultural evening of protest songs. This is not new either in JNU or elsewhere. As for the anti-India slogans raised at the event (especially crude and distressing ones like ‘Bharat ki barbadi’ and ‘tukde’), it is becoming increasingly evident that they were orchestrated by the ABVP and the organisers of the event didn’t respond to it. As for the Afzal Guru event itself, there is nothing wrong with questioning capital punishment; legal experts have raised this question a million times without it snowballing into a sedition case.
                    Why is Umar in hiding?
                    We don’t know why Umar is in hiding. We’ve not had any contact with him since right after the Arnab Goswami debate. We are really worried for his safety.
                    http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/abvp-orchestrated-antiindia-slogans-at-jnu-event/article8254155.ece?homepage=true
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                    Canada's Left-Wing Orientalists -- Tarek Fatah

                    February 19, 2016, 4:51 am
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                    Canada's Left-Wing Orientalists

                    by Tarek Fatah
                    The Toronto Sun
                    February 16, 2016
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                    Originally published under the title "The NDP are Hostages to the Niqab."

                    At first glance it seemed Thomas Mulcair, the leader of Canada's New Democratic Party (NDP), had seen the light and recognized his folly in defending the Islamic facemask, the niqab, in the October 2015 election. News headlines on Saturday quoted him as saying; "NDP dropped 20 points in 48 hours after supporting niqab."
                    For a fleeting moment I thought Mulcair had come to his senses and was admitting the gross ideological mistake – and intellectual dishonesty – of defending women's second-class status in society in the name of equal rights for all cultures, otherwise known as multiculturalism.
                    But I was mistaken.
                    Contrary to my expectations, Mulcair had no regrets about his fling with the Muslim vote bank. In fact, reading through his remarks, I realized the man was doubling down on his historic flirtation with right-wing Islamofascists, and was in fact wearing the niqab blemish with pride!
                    Left-wing orientalists see Muslims as a peculiar species, not yet ready for secular ideals.
                    There is something deeply rotten in the mind-set of Western social democratic politicians that can at best be described as 'left-wing orientalism' - a condition that permits them to see non-Whites from the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent as peculiar species, not yet ready for membership in the liberal or conservative yet secular arena where Western civilization has thrived for the last four centuries.
                    This illness of the mind is not specific to Canada alone. In fact, to witness its worst form one has to study Great Britain where author Kenan Malik wrote in 2005: "I witnessed the birth of political multiculturalism in Britain. It was in Bradford in the late 1980s when the left, shamefully, swapped secular universalism for ethnic particularism."
                    The author of From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy nailed it in his Prospect magazine essay where his diagnosis could very well delineate the difference we find between Ed Broadbent of the 1980s and Thomas Mulcair of 2016. Kenen Malik writes:
                    Where the "old left" of ... trade unions still looked to the working class as the agency of change, the "new left" found surrogate proletariats in the "new social movements"— third world liberation movements, feminist groups, campaigns for gay rights, and so on. Where the old left talked of class and sought to raise class consciousness, the new left talked of culture and sought to strengthen cultural identity.
                    In 2006, when I left the NDP after working tirelessly with them for 17 years, the reason was their infatuation with Islamists. Looking back I could've predicted the niqab debacle.
                    Writing in Toronto's NOW Magazine, I said my decision was not a rejection of social democratic values, but a refutation of the intrusion of religion in politics, specially if that religion was Islam. I wrote:
                    New Democrats don't have the stomach to stand up to those who would reduce our citizenship to one based on race or religion. I strongly feel that New Democrats, in accepting the parameters set by the religious right, have merely validated the right's divisive agenda.
                    I left with a heavy heart. "For more than a dozen years I have sported a CCF-NDP licence plate on my Benz with pride and in-your-face bravado. I had become accustomed to the reactions of passers-by and motorists - the middle finger far outnumbering the thumbs-up."
                    Today, I don't drive, nor do I vote NDP. It's not because I abandoned social democracy, but because the Dippers [NDP members] became hostages to the niqab and are proud of it.
                    Tarek Fatah, a founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress and columnist at the Toronto Sun, is a Robert J. and Abby B. Levine Fellow at the Middle East Forum.
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                    10 year Roadmap for development of Samskritam, Full text of Report (2016) to HRD Minister

                    February 19, 2016, 5:44 am
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                    The panel wants premier engineering and scientific institutes, including the IITs, to let students opt for internship in Sanskrit institutions for credit during the course of their study. (PTI)
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                    Premier engineering and scientific institutes run by the Centre, including the IITs, should have a Sanskrit cell to help students study ancient literature related to their fields, a panel set up by the education ministry has recommended.
                    The panel also wants these institutes to let students opt for internship in Sanskrit institutions for credit during the course of their study.
                    “If financial support is provided to such students their talent could be utilised in unravelling the scientific knowledge hidden in Sanskrit literature through small but focused projects,” the panel headed by a retired IAS officer N Gopalaswami has told the government.
                    Gopalaswami was the culture secretary and home secretary during the NDA government and was appointed to the election commission after his retirement. As the senior-most election commissioner, he was elevated as the chief election commissioner in 2006.
                    The panel – that was tasked with coming up with a 10-year roadmap for developing the language – recommended introducing Sanskrit as an optional language in undergraduate programmes and integrating it with other subjects.
                    In some ways, it is an unfinished agenda of the BJP-led government started by the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA. IIT Delhi had undertaken a project to introduce Sanskrit courses for undergraduate students.
                    The cell would facilitate study of science and technology in Sanskrit literature and inter disciplinary study of various modern subjects and its corresponding subjects in Sanskrit literature.
                    “Atharavaveda, Vaisheshika Darshana etc. are, it is acknowledged, the treasure house of scientific concepts which are hitherto studied from Science point of view. There are hundreds of works like Siddhanta Shiromani, Vriksha Ayurveda.., which are of great relevance in the context of research and innovation,” the Gopalaswami panel said.
                    The committee recommended the proposed cell offer various types of Sanskrit courses for the students in the campus for credits.
                    The panel also advocated setting up model Sanskrit-medium schools in every state.

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                    ‘is hamam mein sab nange nahin hai, yeh nangon ka hamam hai’. You are one of them - Vivek Agnihotri's open letter to Rajdeep Sardesai.

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                    Dear Rajdeep,
                    It seriously doesn’t matter to me what’s your self-image: Nationalist or anti-nationalist. I don’t even care what people think about you. I don’t even see a reason why an honest journalist needs to advocate his ideologies in a national newspaper’s op-ed page. I don’t even know how many honest journalists can get this opportunity of ‘self-promotion’ as most of them are vernacular, non-lutyens journalists, struggling to find news in scorching heat of India that exists outside of Delhi.
                    Since your article is based on an absolutely wrong premise, besides self-pity, I think, as a true nationalist, its my duty to correct it and put it in right perspective before your lie becomes the mainstream narrative.
                    You write:
                    “In the 1990s, the country’s polity was divided by secular versus pseudo secular faultlines; now, another divide, and frankly far more insidious, is sought to be created between ‘national’ and ‘anti-national’ forces.”
                    In the 1990s, the country was divided between haves and have-nots. That’s why the main theme was ‘Garibi Hatao’. As it still does. Then liberalization happened. With liberalization, India got divided on a new fault line. Ones who wanted to make a better livelihood by working hard and those who wanted to milk liberalization with corruption. Corruption requires middlemen, brokers, pimps and sycophants. Thus a group mushroomed, disguised in the garb of secularism and unfortunately you chose to become their voice. Indians have been secular for thousands of years. I hope you know, words like ‘religion’ and ‘secular did not even exist until the advent of Christianity. I am sure your grandfather must have told you that Hindu civilization existed even thousands of years before Jesus Christ.
                    ‘Secularism’ was a tool that corrupt Congress and the beneficiaries of its corruption used to protect ‘the ecosystem’ from millions of hungry, unemployed, exploited, oppressed but honest, hard-working common citizens. Secularism was invented to consolidate minority votes without isolating Hindus and without appearing to be a minority appeaser. With liberalization, came new multi-national businesses who wanted to overcome red-tapism and needed licenses whereas the ruling parties needed funds. Coincidentally, at the same time English news channels were also in red so they also needed funds. So news channels with power to make or break images needed money and corrupt Congress with money needed image. Thus emerged a new group – The Secular group.
                    Anyone who disagreed with their ‘Idea of (corrupt) India’ was labelled non-intellectual and thus the middle class, vernacular Indian who did not have the privilege to study in St. Xaviers, Christchurch, Doon, Scindia, Oxford or Cambridge was made to feel inferior in his own country. They were typecast as illiberal, regressive Hindus. Supporting Pakistan was seen as intellectual. Rejecting Hindu customs and traditions became an intellectual exercise. People who take pride in Hindu philosophy were systematically labelled ‘illiberal’. You were seen protecting, promoting and nurturing such voices.
                    Rajdeep, your grandfather must have also told you that everything that is traditional isn’t illiberal. Similarly, everything that’s rebellious in nature isn’t liberal. But Secular India had silenced the grandfathers of India. On TV channels, for sure. That’s how India was divided between organized and funded club members of a ‘Secular India’ and unorganized, simple, honest and truly secular Indians. They were denied entry into mainstream narrative of India. Nobody was talking for them. Nobody was listening to them. It was by design. You were one of the designers.
                    Since you love old Hindi songs you must have heard ‘Jiska koi nahin uska to khuda hai yaaron…’ and khuda listened to this hapless mass. A technological innovation came as their rescue. Social media happened. Of course, the secular brigade tried to monopolize it but the entry was open to all. It wasn’t a club. It was a platform. When so-called ‘smart trolls’ started exposing your secular club members of their lies and sinister intents, your wife tried to humiliate them and create further divide by labelling them as ‘Internet Hindoos’.
                    They weren’t Hindoos. They were Indians. They wanted to take pride in India. And you wanted to crush that pride. For that pride would have been counter productive to thekedars of ‘idea of India’. Two ideas, two Indias came out in open. One who loved India. And another who loved ‘idea of India. That’s how ‘nationalist’ and ‘anti-nationalist’ debate started. Nobody called you anti-national. You decided to ridicule nationalists. You started calling Modi supporters as ‘sanghis’, bhakts, and pseudo patriots, without even realizing that these people love Modi for he is a India Bhakt. They will drop Modi the day they doubt his integrity.
                    You misunderstood that Modi bhakts are also BJP, RSS bhakt. Your fundamentals were wrong. That’s why it took one evening of prime time for one of your ex-colleagues to demolish your game. Today you have become a victim of your own game. You have sensed that being anti-Hindu, anti-India is not paying dividends and it’s too late for you to be called nationalist. You don’t have credibility, and now it’s a matter of survival for you. If your grandfather was alive, he would have warned you that the race you, Arvind Kejriwal, Rahul Gandhi and friends are running ends only in a dark well. Where even penance doesn’t help.
                    Nothing can be a more resounding proof than the fact that today you have to use an op-ed page to publicly justify your ideological defeat with a vicious hashtag #IAmAntiNationalist
                     You write:
                    “Yes, I am anti-national because in a plural democracy I believe we must have a dialogue with Kashmiri separatists as we must with those in the North-East who seek autonomy. I will listen to student protestors in Srinagar or Imphal as I will to those in an FTII or a JNU.”
                    I would advise you have a dialogue with Arnab Goswami. With Subhash Chandra. Have a dialogue with Bhakts like me. With Internet Hindoos. Have a dialogue with the innocent Modi supporter who you had beaten up at MSG. But listening isn’t your agenda. If it were you, I would have listened to so-called trolls on twitter and understood why they are so angry with me. But you chose to whine all day about trolls and their abuse. If you can tolerate anti-India slogans I am sure you can also tolerate some abuse on your TL.
                    On your timeline thousands of ‘trolls’ keep screaming why you don’t show India’s growth story? Did you listen to them?
                    I want to have a dialogue with you. Listen to you. Understand you. But are you ready to invite me? To listen to my point of view?
                    Prosecute all those who break the law, incite violence, resort to terror but don’t lose the capacity to engage with those who dissent. The right to dissent is as fundamental as the right to free speech: shouting down alternative views, be they on prime time TV or on the street, is not my idea of India.
                    Forget Idea of India, first tell us what is India. Is Malda India? Are the states other than Delhi India? Are other CMs not Indian CMs? Is Ramchandra Guha the only Indian intellectual? Or the death of a journalist who was burnt for exposing corruption less secular than the lynching of Akhlaq? Or the turmoil, conflict, negativity, opposition, communalism, intolerance, awards wapsi… only themes of India?
                    Is Nemo the only dog in India?
                    If your channel is the only source of information, one would die believing India is Delhi. Modi its villain. Ramchandra Guha its Buddha. Kejriwal  its Christ plus Prophet. Those 5-6 panelists as Supreme Court. Regressive Hindus are killing innocent Christians, Muslims, Dalits, writers and now poor students. Rest of the population is starving without beef. And Sonia Gandhi never existed.
                    My grandfather told me a journalist’s only requirement is integrity. Integrity isn’t honesty. Integrity is the ability to tell the truth even when no one is listening. When was the last time you raised real issues of India? When was the last time you made your viewers hear a common man’s concerns. Hate Modi. Hate RSS. Hate Bhakts. Hate Hindus. But why this complete blackout of ‘Rest of India’. Do you work for ‘India Today’ or ‘Delhi Today’?
                    Yes, I am anti-national because I don’t believe in doublespeak on issues of nationalism. If support for Afzal Guru is to be seen as ‘sedition’, then at least half the erstwhile Cabinet in Jammu and Kashmir, where the BJP is in coalition with the PDP, would be held guilty.
                    I absolutely agree with your logic. And by that logic, and no doublespeak, you must also hold Arvind Kejriwal guilty for having partnered with Congress and Congress for partnering with Owaisi and Nitish for partnering with Lalu. Even you must be held guilty for partnering with corrupt and crony capitalist Ambani and your wife for partnering with your unethical enemy group: Times of India
                    What you have failed to understand is that ‘is hamam mein sab nange nahin hai, yeh nangon ka hamam hai’. You are one of them.
                     If the Kashmiri youth today see Afzal as someone who was framed, they should be challenged to a legal and political debate but can they be branded as ‘jihadists’ simply because their views are repugnant to the rest of the country?
                     You are again confusing issues. It’s not about Afzal. It’s about India. It’s about ‘India go back’. India ki barbadi’ ‘ India tere tukde honge’. It’s about that. Afzal, sedition law, FoE, Lawyers’ hooliganism etc are games journalists like you play to shift focus, confuse issues and keep the ‘ecosystem’ protected.
                    It’s about terrorism. It’s about alleged terror links of some students. It’s about supporting terror groups. It’s about terror funding. It’s about threat to India’s sovereignty. That’s why people are concerned. Leave sedition laws for the court. You tell us where do you stand? Without any buts. If you are seen protecting the rights of these allegedly terror-linked students, or seen spinning this news and covering them up, you won’t have to put any hashtag, because soon you will become a hashtag yourself – of all anti-nationals.
                     Yes, I am anti-national because while I am a proud Hindu who wakes up to the Gayatri mantra, I also like a well done beef steak, which, according to BJP minister Mukhtar Naqvi, is a treasonous act, enough to pack me off to Pakistan. I celebrate the rich diversity of my country through food: Korma on Eid, pork sorpotel with my Catholic neighbours in Goa during Christmas and shrikhand during Diwali is my preferred diet. The right to food of my choice is again a freedom which I cherish and am unwilling to cede.
                    Unfortunately, your understanding and definition of Hinduism is limited to Gayatri Mantra, beef steak and shrikhand.  The day you will understand Hinduism you will regret that you had to waste all your productive life to learn secularism, tolerance, inclusiveness, nationalism etc. when all this wisdom was available in your grandfather’s diaries.
                     Post-script: Last week, at the Delhi Gymkhana litfest, I suggested that the right to free speech must include the right to offend so long as it doesn’t incite violence. A former army officer angrily got up and shouted, “You are an anti-national who should be lynched right here!” When even the genteel environs of the Gymkhana club echo to such strains, we should all be very worried.
                    I don’t know much about club culture but I know one thing for sure: when journalists stop travelling beyond their studios to reporting facts, fighting over TRPs instead of truth, and using media to further their agenda or to defend and justify themselves, we should all be not just very worried but take time out to introspect.
                    The other day I was invited to a Times Now panel for an Arnab Goswami show where he was exposing the hypocrisy of Indian seculars and liberals. My views about Indian Secular gang are well-known and I expressed them frankly. Next morning, while walking in my park without a dog, a gentleman called me ‘bhakt’. Exactly like you do. Do you know, in Hindu philosophy, Bhakti is a human quality, attained only by honest people. He accused me of being critical of award wapsi gang who hate intolerant Hindus who support Modi and that too on a Arnab Goswami show who is exposing those who hate India and Modi who loves India and who has the support of Hindus who love India which is also loved by Modi…
                    If supporting India means supporting Modi and vice versa then I’d rather be called a ‘bhakt’ than being seen exchanging notes with terror support groups.
                    Yes, #IAmABhakt, of India
                    Vivek Agnihotri is a filmmaker, writer and columnist. His next film ‘Buddha In A Traffic Jam’ deals with Naxalism at India’s premier institutes.
                    Note: THis is a response to Rajdeep Sardesai's blog titled "Yes, I am Anti-national" (http://www.rajdeepsardesai.net/columns/yes-i-am-anti-national) exposing the hypocrisy and idiocy of this presstitute. 
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                    Poetry reading a cover for sedition. JNU deeper malaise -- Kanchan Gupta. Delhi police issue airport alert (Look Out Circular) against JNU students

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                    A professor reveals the subterfuge, worth a read, well done Makarand Paranjape:

                    How the event commemorating Afzal Guru took place in JNU
                    Fri, 19 Feb 2016-10:15pm , New Delhi , PTI
                    According to Makarand Paranjape it was done on a false pretext.
                    The February 9 event in support of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru at Jawaharlal Nehru University was carried out under a false pretext, according to a professor at the university.
                    "It was done on a false pretext. People who wanted to hold that event said they would conduct a poetry reading and that there would be seven people. It was called 'A Country Without a Post Office'. Instead it became a commemoration for Afzal Guru. So it was done on the false pretext," Makarand Paranjape, a member of JNU Teachers' Association, said. He said this while participating in the Sahitya Akademi's ongoing National Festival of Letters.
                    Paranjape was critical of the lack of action against the organisers on the part of the university over the use of such "subterfuge" and expressed surprise at the condemnation of the arrest of JNU Students' Union President Kanhaiya Kumar. "I am a member of JNUTA. No resolution was passed condemning that misuse, that subterfuge which was used but there was a condemnation of the arrest of a student? I am also very regretful that happened," he said.
                    He was speaking at a session titled, "Freedom of Expression" organised by Sahitya Akademi as part of its annual national seminar. He also questioned the absence of protests in JNU during the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from their homes and the recent lynching of a RSS pracharak in Kerala.
                    "I don't want to wash dirty linen in public but many people and their families were displaced and driven out of their homes in Kashmir. There were no protests in JNU when that happened. But to commemorate Afzal Guru there were protests. "Whether you accept capital punishment or not is a different issue. You are using the ideas of democracy and dissent to justify the commemoration of those who want to destroy the Indian democracy. So are we trying to say that when we do not 'tolerate' the commemoration, the deification of a persons such as Afzal Guru, we are being intolerant?" Paranjape asserted that it was important for the students at JNU, which is considered an institution of "national integration", to study and not do politics or they will be "neither here nor there".
                    "I tell my students, 'have you come to JNU to do politics or to study because in the end you will be neither here nor there. The cadres will be picked up and patronised but what about the majority of you from the middle and lower middle class who have to earn a living?" He claimed that most students spend four to five years in the university but don't attend classes because "attendance is not compulsory", and by the time the course ends they "are incompetent to face the world because they don't have any skills".
                    http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-jnu-professor-reveals-how-the-event-commemorating-afzal-guru-took-place-2179690
                    | Sunday , February 21 , 2016 |


                    Pheroze L. Vincent
                    Police are on the lookout for five JNU students who have been charged with sedition along with Kanhaiya Kumar who has been arrested.
                    Delhi police have described the five as absconders and said they were closely involved with the February 9 event commemorating hanged terror convicts Afzal Guru and Maqbool Bhat in which “anti-national” slogans were shouted.
                    So far, the five — aged between 25 and 30 — have been charged with sedition merely on the basis of the “aazaadi” slogans they allegedly raised. 
                    However, against the backdrop of the Union home minister suggesting that suspected 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed supported the JNU event, sinister theories have been swirling around the five students.
                    The five have been identified as Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya, Rama Naga, Ashutosh Kumar and Anant Prakash Narayan. The following pen sketches were put together on the basis of conversations with several JNU students and teachers.

                    Umar Khalid
                    • Former member of the now-defunct, pro-Maoist Democratic Students Union (DSU)
                    • Listed as one of the organisers of the February 9 event
                    Khalid traces his roots to Aurangabad in Maharashtra but was brought up in Delhi. His father, S.Q.R. Ilyas, is the president of the Welfare Party of India, a moderate political group active mainly among Muslims.
                    Khalid graduated from Delhi's Kirori Mal College before joining JNU in 2008. He is currently pursuing a PhD on the Adivasi history of Jharkhand at the Centre for Historical Studies (CHS).
                    Khalid was part of a hunger strike in JNU for eight days after Hyderabad varsity scholar Rohith Vemula committed suicide.
                    Khalid is known for taking radical Left positions on almost every issue. On the JNU campus, Khalid is popular among Kashmiri Muslims, across political affiliations, despite his views against headscarves and religion. The popularity can probably be attributed to his penchant for interacting with Kashmiris who are reclusive or nervous when they first come to Delhi.
                    Khalid never applied for a passport because of his ideological positions, despite an offer from a professor in Yale to study there for a semester. He is an atheist and is fond of convincing the religious to shed their faith.

                    Anirban Bhattacharya
                    •  Former member of the now-defunct, pro-Maoist Democratic Students Union
                    •  Listed as one of the organisers of the February 9 event
                    Known as Ban, Bhattacharya studied at St. Stephen's School in Dum Dum, Calcutta. He is said to be the first student of his school to make it to St. Stephen's College in New Delhi in 2004, for which a special assembly was held in his school.
                    Ban was considered the most soft-spoken of the DSU lot when the organisation was functional. Friends used adjectives such as "sweetheart", "loving", "empathetic" and "naive" to describe him.
                    In Delhi University, he is not known to have participated in any political activity. He was cultural secretary at St. Stephen's for a year.
                    "He wasn't passionate about social justice and had clear positions on reservations and the nuclear deal. In JNU, he started political work and took part in protests everyone else went to. I've known him for more than a decade and he has never spoken to me about Kashmir," a former roommate said.
                    Bhattacharya is fond of comics and John Grisham's novels. He also likes horror films. Like Khalid, he also is a PhD candidate in CHS.
                    He is academically inclined and considered one of the best students at CHS. Supporters of other political groups said they went to Bhattacharya for clarity on ideological debates on Marxism and Mao Zedong's thoughts.

                    Rama Naga
                    •  Current general secretary of the JNU Students' Union (JNUSU)
                    •  A member of the All India Students Association (AISA), backed by the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)-Liberation - a registered political party with MLAs in Bihar and Jharkhand
                    Naga is a Dalit from Boipariguda in Odisha's Koraput district. His father sells bangles on his bicycle and his mother is a day labourer. Odia TV channels ran news reports on him when he was elected general secretary last year.
                    A graduate from Vikram Dev College in Odisha's Jeypore, Naga is shy except when he is on the dance floor. In Jeypore, he gave tuitions to fund his studies.
                    His filmy dances during hostel and varsity cultural events drew crowds on the JNU campus. He's fondly called "Remo" after actor Vikram's character in the 2005 Tamil film Anniyan, which was dubbed in Hindi as Aparichit.
                    Now an MPhil scholar at the Centre for Political Studies, Naga joined JNU for his MA in 2012. He has earned scholarships ever since he joined JNU. His dissertation is on the movement against mining in the Niyamgiri Hills.
                    "He's shy yet articulate when he speaks. Students see him as a humble and hardworking guy who's always there for them when someone's scholarship is delayed or needs to be taken to see a doctor," said a PhD scholar who convinced Naga to join the AISA in 2013.
                    At the February 9 protest, he was heard requesting security guards to form a human chain to separate the ABVP and the Kashmir protesters.

                    Ashutosh Kumar
                    •  JNUSU president during the previous academic year
                    •  A member of the AISA
                    The son of a rail worker in Barh, near Patna, Kumar graduated from the Banaras Hindu University (BHU). He joined JNU in 2010 and was elected JNUSU president in 2013.
                    He is currently pursuing a PhD from the School of International Studies.
                    "In BHU, he wasn't in politics but was associated with a group that spoke out against discrimination in hostels by upper-caste students. He belongs to a backward class. Although his grandfather was a BJP worker, he joined the AISA during the campaign against the Lyngdoh committee recommendations during which JNUSU polls weren't held for four years, from 2008 to 2012," a former JNUSU president said.
                    Kumar is the go-to man of the campus on European and Russian cinema. He is believed to have stored every critically acclaimed film on an external hard drive. He is also a voracious reader of Hindi writers Uday Prakash, Phaneeshwar Nath Renu, Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Munshi Premchand and Gorakh Pandey.
                    He is said to be deeply influenced by Dalit writer Om Prakash Valmiki's autobiography,Jhootan.
                    Kumar and fellow-Bihari Kanhaiya are some of JNU's best public speakers.
                    At the February 9 event, several witnesses saw Kumar raising popular JNU slogans: " Khap se aazaadi, mahilaon ko aazaadi, Kashmir se Kerala tab sabko aazaadi." (Freedom from khap panchayats, freedom for women, freedom from Kashmir to Kerala.)
                    Sources said this was a common tactic used by political groups to draw a distinction between themselves and those who advocate separatism.
                    "The Kashmir activists were raising slogans of aazaadi. The AISA, which is opposed to separatism, was trying to hijack the slogan but raising their own aazaadi slogans. This is a common practice that is not frowned upon. However, TV news channels showed edited footage of Ashutosh to give the impression that he was asking for Kashmir's independence. He was there with JNUSU members to thwart a fight between the ABVP and the ex-DSU lot."

                    Anant Prakash Narayan
                    •  JNUSU vice-president during the previous academic year
                    •  A member of the AISA
                    A Dalit from Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh, Narayan joined the AISA in BHU. In 2008, he organised a seminar on Bhagat Singh in BHU where he invited author and former JNU professor Chaman Lal.
                    Permission for the event was cancelled at the last moment, allegedly under pressure from the ABVP which has made attempts to own the legacy of Bhagat Singh by changing his honorific from Shaheed-e-Azam (the greatestmartyr) to Shaheed Shiromani (sacred martyr).
                    Narayan went ahead and held the seminar at a classroom in the Hindi department instead of the auditorium that was initially allotted.
                    Lal, who had participated in the seminar, told this paper: "It is ironical that the British called Bhagat Singh a terrorist and charged him with sedition. Today, youths like those from JNU who read my works on him published by the government are being charged with the same section and branded as terrorists."
                    Currently pursuing his MPhil at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Narayan joined JNU in 2012 and became JNUSU vice-president in 2014.
                    His dissertation is on the legal debates on gender following the 2012 Delhi gang rape.
                    On the campus, Narayan is credited with leading an agitation that led to the sanctioning of three temporary hostels.
                    Hacked: The Facebook account of Kanhaiya, who is in Tihar jail, was allegedly hacked on Saturday. The profile picture and cover picture have been replaced, sources said.


                    Delhi police issue airport alerts against three JNU students

                    Written by Alok Singh | New Delhi | Updated: February 20, 2016 8:09 am
                    DELHI POLICE on Friday issued a look out circular (LOC) for three JNU students who they suspect were part of the group responsible for allegedly raising “anti-national” slogans on the university campus on February 9.
                    After conducting searches in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR), police are also considering announcing a reward for information on the three suspects, said sources.
                    Also on Friday, police detained a journalist from Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh, who they believe is a friend of one of the absconding students. The journalist was taken to Delhi on Friday evening and was being questioned, said sources.
                    Several teams, including the Delhi Police Special Cell, have joined the search for the students and have started questioning close friends of the students.
                    Police sources said Deputy Commissioner of Police (south) Prem Nath has written to the Foreign Regional Registration Office (FRRO) to alert airport authorities about the three suspects and prevent them from leaving the country.
                    Sources said the three suspects were among the main “conspirators” in organising the February 9 event inside the JNU campus, where the anti-India slogans were raised. The event was organised to protest the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.
                    According to a senior officer, police may even write to JNU V-C Jagadesh Kumar seeking permission to question at least ten more students who are suspected to have been involved in organising the February 9 event and are staying on the the university campus.
                    The police have also collected call detail records (CDR) from the mobile phones of the three students. Sources said calls were made and text messages sent from one of those numbers to other mobile numbers in Delhi and NCR after February 9.
                    In the sedition case linked to the event, police have so far arrested JNU students union president Kanhaiya Kumar, who is presently in judicial custody in Tihar jail.
                    Police have also recorded statements of 17 eyewitnesses, including university students, JNU security staff and staff members. There are at least eight videos collected from various news channels related to the incident, said sources.
                    The FIR was registered on the basis of footage aired on Zee News on February 10. Sources said all the videos were certified from TV news channels, which may be sent for forensic tests if needed.

                    CRISIS IN JNU IS MERELY A SYMPTOM OF A MUCH DEEPER MALAISE

                    Sunday, 21 February 2016 | Kanchan Gupta | in Coffee Break
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                    The Left-liberal outrage and sanctimonious posturing at home and abroad notwithstanding, the idea is to fix a broken system that has been held hostage by the Left. The time has come to reclaim our groves of academe from those who thwart academic freedom and choke free thought with ideology
                    Last week, the Associate Editor of a Left-leaning news portal called me and requested an interview. My comments were sought on the still unfolding and rather unedifying Jawaharlal Nehru University saga.
                    I was sort of surprised. My political views and those on the JNU spectacle are not exactly unknown to the Editor of the portal. So why would she want to publish them? I was told the portal wanted to put out a contrarian position and assured that my replies would neither be edited nor hacked.
                    On that assurance I agreed to the interview. The questions were e-mailed to me. I was requested to mail back my replies, preferably late night or early morning. I sat up late into the night, framing my replies and sending them to the Associate Editor. The next morning I sent a revised paragraph. Both the e-mails were acknowledged.
                    A short while later, around midday, the Associate Editor called back to say her bosses had decided not to run the interview. Apparently first they wanted to cut off chunks and then just spiked all of it.
                    The Associate Editor, a decent person, was flustered and I did not wish to pursue the point. Also, ultimately it’s the Editor’s discretion to run or not run copy, even when it has been specifically solicited for publication.
                    But that does not prevent me from publishing my views and putting them in the public place for others. We may be living with the many terrors inflicted on us by the Commentariat, we have not yet become a Stalinist state. So here are the questions and my replies.
                    With reference to the JNU incident, do you think the Government overreacted? Are you content with the way the situation was handled?
                    The audiovisual evidence of what happened at JNU on February 9 suggests three things. First, it was not a spontaneous burst of misplaced or misguided student fervour. The slogans, ranging from “Kashmir ki Azadi” to “Bharat ki Barbadi”, had been scripted and rehearsed for the event. Second, the perverse celebration of the ‘martyrdom’ of two convicted terrorists, Afzal Guru and Maqbool Bhat, who were executed after due process of law, was intended to provoke a blowback given popular sentiments. Third, the organisers and participants of the event were clearly pushing the envelope by taunting the state and daring authorities to act against them.
                    The Vice-Chancellor and other officials were misled into believing that the event was no different from other such shows that litter campus life. It was titled “Poetry reading  the country without a post office”, whatever that means. It turned out to be nothing as innocuous as that. The banner at the venue read “Against the Brahmanical collective conscience, Against the judicial killing of Afzal Guru and Maqbool Bhat, In solidarity with the struggle of the Kashmiri people for their democratic right to self-determination”.
                    From ‘poetry reading’ to caste denigration, glorifying terrorists and promoting secession, it was a huge jump. The organisers had been intentionally deceitful. The university officials withdrew permission for the event after realising the mischief potential and likely consequences. Yet the students went ahead in a show of intended belligerence and defiance.
                    On Monday night news TV reported that the Intelligence Bureau has tracked questionable links between one of the student leaders and a Pakistan-based terrorist organisation. Apparently he has visited Pakistan too. I have no independent corroboration, but if students and young men and women can be picked up on similar suspicions or charges from lesser known institutions and corporate offices, there is no reason why JNU should get preferential treatment.
                    Given this backdrop, it was inevitable for the police to act. The JNU students union president, who was present at the venue, was arrested. The others responsible for the deed are absconding. This was not an anti-Government or anti-establishment protest, it was an anti-India demonstration. The state would have acted against anything similar anywhere else.
                    The traditional inviolability of a campus was violated by the organisers and participants of the event. A close scrutiny of the tapes that have emerged suggest call to action which could have only been call to violence. None of those responsible for the deplorable show (even the university acknowledges it was unacceptable) is a teenager. They are young adults fully aware of consequences, legal and otherwise, of separatism and terror glorification.
                    The police has done what is expected of it. The police has acted within its remit. Now it is for the courts to decide. That is the rule of law.
                    JNU has been the home of dissent and protest for decades. Where should the line be drawn by students?
                    What was witnessed on February 9 was neither dissent nor protest. It was unadulterated promotion of separatism, a call for secession. It’s all about crossing the proverbial Lakshman Rekha or, if that offends some people, it’s about crossing the Rubicon. That was done knowingly, intentionally. It’s all about reaching the tipping point. It was reached on February 9.
                    Frankly, nobody cares for silly protests and irrational dissent. That may entertain and gratify a clutch of wannabe activists and pretentious students, the outside world has no time for it. People lead real lives with real problems. They couldn’t care less for the make-belief concerns of JNU students. It’s only when youthful exuberance metastises into spiteful hate that people sit up and take notice.
                    Is the repeated intrusion of Government in universities justified?
                    If it is a tax-funded institution, yes. Academic institutions need and must have academic autonomy. That’s a sine qua non. Problem begins when academic autonomy becomes a cover for non-accountability. Let us not forget that these institutions owe their very existence, the teachers owe their jobs, and students owe their affordable campus life, to the millions of taxpayers of India.
                    The institutions really belong to them, held in trust by the Government. The taxpayers are stakeholders and they have the right to demand accountability from Government on how their money is spent. The Government, in turn, has the right to seek accountability from these institutions.
                    Sadly in India institutions resent accountability. Autonomy becomes a cover of convenience. We have reached a stage where autonomy has come to mean “Write me a cheque, don’t tell me what to do with the money.”
                    Take a look at the annual financial statement of JNU or any of the 120-odd institutions, including 46 Central universities, funded by the Union Government. It would tell you the extent of investment by we the people with shockingly low returns on that investment.
                    For more evidence look at Nalanda University. This has to change. If I do not have a say in how my tax money is spent, then sorry, you can’t have that money. I have the right to accountability, the Government is the vehicle through which I exercise that right.
                    Your comment on the sedition charges slapped on JNUSU president. Is that fair? Do you think this falls under the legal ambit of sedition?
                    Sedition is a complex issue. The law is written in black and white but several judgements have injected the law with shades of grey. Also, we must remember that sedition is a colonial era concept. There is natural resistance to the use of this law. Given the gravity of the charge of sedition, judges are cautious and the intelligentsia is reluctant to embrace it without raising discomfiting questions.
                    I am not too sure about the wisdom of using it as an instrument of law in today’s India. But that is my view, possibly a minority view given popular opinion which at the moment is extremely enraged and enormously hostile to what has happened at JNU. A far more useful debate would be possible in a calmer situation.
                    What will be the long-term impact / significance of this incident?
                    Campuses need to be cleaned of malcontent, both among students and faculty. This is universally acknowledged. Politicians admit the need to cleanse campuses, but that is in private. In public, they cynically misuse campus politics to further their own shabby and sinister agendas.
                    A college or an university is primarily meant for education, for knowledge dissemination and acquisition, for free inquiry and intellectual liberation. Which college, university or institute can claim, with any degree of honesty, to meet these standards? If the JNU fracas initiates the process of restoring the primacy of academic activity over debilitating activism, then that would be a huge achievement. But it is a big if. Let us see how this plays out.
                    I am not particularly bothered about Left-liberal outrage and sanctimonious posturing at home and abroad. The idea is to fix a broken system that has long been held hostage by the Left, held to ransom by the Left. The time has come to reclaim our groves of academe from those who thwart academic freedom and choke free thought with ideology.
                    A law introduced by the British to silence Indians is being used against our own. Isn’t that ironical?
                    I have addressed this point. The only other thing I would like to add is that sedition should not be viewed in isolation. The First Amendment in America enshrines free speech. The First Amendment in India, ushered by Jawaharlal Nehru, curbs free speech.
                    We had something as evil and diabolical as 66A till the Supreme Court struck it down. We still have 69A, the first cousin of 66A, on the statute books.
                    A country which imposes undefined reasonable restrictions on free speech, loses the right to agitate against a sedition law. A country whose Constitution promises not to discriminate on grounds of caste, religion and gender, and yet legitimises discrimination in the guise of a twisted definition of secularism, cannot afford to militate against a sedition law, irrespective of its vintage. My concerns are more fundamental and less fashionable.
                    Is our democracy so fragile that it needs a sedition law?
                    We are an ancient land but a young nation-state and a younger democracy. We have weaknesses that are debilititating. We face internal and external threats that are unique.
                    Unlike the US, we have sought to resolve issues of unity and integrity of the nation without taking recourse to a civil war. We have diversities that are seemingly irreconcilable. We have sub-nationalism that is constantly in conflict with the idea of nationalism.
                    We have identities, real and imagined, that are yet to be subsumed to a unifying national identity. We are the only nation without a national language that bridges regions and communities.
                    At some point in future things will settle down. Perhaps we will have Second Republic, a democracy that is truly robust and self-sustaining, strong and confident enough not to worry about sedition and secession. At the moment we and other nations live in challenging times, troubling times, unsettling times.
                    Let’s not forget that the US, the world’s oldest and most robust democracy, has felt the need for a Patriot Act to cope with the times. We, the world’s largest democracy, are trying to cope without a similar law — but the limits of moral persuasion are there for all to see.
                    Is it time to examine whether we need a treason law rather than a sedition law?
                    Laws do not a nation make. Loyalty does a nation make. And loyalty is something that comes from within, not because disloyalty fetches punishment. If you are not loyal to your motherland, if you are not true to the country that has given you your most precious belonging, your identity, what use is either a treason or sedition law?
                    (The writer is a current affairs analyst based in NCR)
                    1.  In reply to কাঞ্চন গুপ্ত
                    2.  Feb 18
                      Kanhaiya done, focus now shifts to crafting 'Umar is innocent' narrative. Await the scripted refrain.
                      Umar Khalid's father: if he chanted pro-Afzal slogans I don't condone it. But is it sedition ?
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                    3.  5 hours ago
                      Remarkable how swiftly the narrative changes. From 'Spare Kanhaiya, go after Umar' to 'Stop the Muslim Hunt'. Next?
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                      2.  6 hours ago
                        RP shares a letter that should be read for perspective on JNU.
                         
                        Prof B G Chakravorty ofJNU in 1996 wrote to than Registrar stating of anti national activities of Pak agents in JNU
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                      3.  6 hours ago
                        Herman is known as a compassionate cop. My grouse: He reads too much.
                        Killing of 2 CRPF Jawans is par for JNU's free speech advocates while Kanahiya and reporters' stress an unprecedented threat to democracy.
                     4 hours ago
                    Events in are symptoms of a much deeper malaise. How do we cure? My take.
                     Feb 19
                    Kavita Krishnan also runs a front student organization for Maoist terror groups. Yet favourite media star for lecturing us on human rights!
                    • S. Kumar  
                      Kanchan Gupta has called a spade a spade. Unfortunately for our country, his tribe is still small. May it grow. On the other side we have Barkha, Rajdeep, Vir, Karan, Sagarika, Shekhar, Ravish and hundreds more of presstitutes.
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                      • VKVikram Kumar  
                        The key words above being.. The protests are not anti government or anti establishment but anti India... I will accept freedom of speech if it is dissent against the government, but people who don't want to be loyal to India are free to leave.. If you cannot be loyal to the land that feeds you.. Then as an Indian I don't want you here..
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                        • SSridhar  
                          JNU students and teachers are Parasites . They are the Leeches , sucking Indian tax payer's blood . JNU is the den of anti nationals . JNU SHOULD BE CLOSED . USE THE LAND FOR CHILDREN'S PARK OR SOME HOSPITAL . INDIANS WON'T MISS JNU .
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                            An excellent expose, as usual.
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                          Jat chaos in Haryana

                          February 20, 2016, 5:02 pm
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                          ‘Shoot at sight’ orders in Rohtak

                          “The city [Rohtak in Haryana] is engulfed in smoke. We are scared to leave our homes. Today, we hid our cars because anything that is on the road is being burnt or damaged,” says Komal Singhmar, an intern at PGI, Rohtak, reacting to the agitation by Jats demanding reservation under OBC category.
                          Speaking in a shaky voice on the phone, Ms. Singhmar continues: “Stores have been looted and a mall nearby has been burnt. We can constantly hear glass breaking, people shouting and gunshots being fired.”
                          The curfew and ‘shoot at sight’ orders in Rohtak, some 70 km from the national Capital, have ensured that people remain indoors. “We are confined to our homes. The only people you see on the roads are those who are agitating. Petrol pumps have gone dry and there is shortage of LPG cylinders,” rues advocate Yogendra Dahiya, who practises in district courts.
                          The city, meanwhile, is virtually cut off and mobile phones work erratically. SMS and Internet services are down for the past five days. “We haven’t been able to get any groceries for almost a week. We don’t know how long we can manage,” Ms. Singhmar says.
                          What is worrying the locals is that anti-social elements are having a free run. Incidents of vandalism, looting and damaging public property have become common and the police and military personnel are not overtly visible to inspire confidence.
                          According to Mr. Dahiya, the agitation is leaderless. “It has, in fact, deviated from the real issue and become a chaos-causing agent. Youths have hijacked the agitation. They fuelled the chaos by expressing lack of faith in the khap and sangarsh samiti leaders. The government underestimated the situation and now it has gone out of hand.”

                          Printable version | Feb 21, 2016 6:28:44 AM | http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/shoot-at-sight-orders-in-rohtak/article8262624.ece

                          Jat agitation: Arson spreads despite Army, 6 more dead

                          Clashes in Kaithal; Rohtak youth won’t budge21 Feb 2016 | 2:09 AM
                          CHANDIGARH: Six persons were killed as violence spread to other parts of Haryana today. Armed mobs torched shops, public property and vehicles in Rohtak, Jhajjar and Jind despite the presence of the Army.

                          Jat agitation: Arson spreads despite Army, 6 more deadArmy personnel patrol a vandalised part of Rohtak on Saturday. AFP

                          Exams put off

                          • The Haryana Government has notified that the departmental exam for the posts of Assistant Commissioner/Extra Assistant Commissioner/Civil Judge which was to be held in twophases, from Feb 23 to 27 and then March 1 to 3, has been postponed.
                          • The Haryana Staff Selection Commission has rescheduled the written examination for filling various posts at Kaithal. It will now be held on March 20.
                          • The Central Teachers Eligibility Test scheduled for Sunday has been postponed across all centres in six cities of Haryana
                          Tribune News Service
                          Chandigarh, February 20
                          Six persons were killed as violence spread to other parts of Haryana today. Armed mobs torched shops, public property and vehicles in Rohtak, Jhajjar and Jind despite the presence of the Army.
                          Four persons were killed in Jhajjar. Two protesters were killed in Rohtak and Kaithal. But official sources put the toll at five. An official spokesperson said four persons died in Jhajjar when armed forces opened fire to quell arson and one person was killed in Kaithal.
                          Protesting Jats, who are demanding OBC status for reservation in jobs and educational institutions, blocked National Highway-1, cutting off Delhi and disrupting water supply to the national Capital from the Moonak canal. In Rohtak, there were reports of gas leak after a Vita milk plant was set ablaze. Residents in the vicinity were told to shift to other parts of the city.
                          Army holds flag march
                          Flag marches by the Army notwithstanding, arsonists had a field day, looting and setting shops and business establishments on fire and blocking roads and rail tracks. Two persons were killed and 10, including policemen, were injured in a cross-fire between protesters and Army personnel in Jhajjar. The injured were admitted to the Civil Hospital.
                          An unruly mob went on the rampage setting the Jhajjar police station, BDO office, PWD rest house, Roadways buses and PRO’s jeep on fire. The mob threw stones at the residence of Haryana Agriculture Minister Om Prakash Dhankar.
                          In Bhiwani district, protesters threw a petrol bomb at the Charkhi-Dadri depot in the wee hours. Two buses were destroyed. Fire engines were rushed and damage to more buses was prevented. At Hansi in Hisar, former minister Attar Singh Saini’s brother was shot at. His condition was said to be critical.
                          Choppers drop troops
                          As the protesting Jats last night dug up roads to prevent the troops from entering Rohtak, the Army today used choppers to drop troops at the Rohtak Police Lines. Army sources said all main roads leading to Rohtak from Delhi, Hisar and Jaipur had been dug up. Despite a flag march in the city, the protesters, mostly students on a dharna in front of the MDU gates, refused to budge.
                          The civil authorities had on Friday requisitioned Army troops for nine violence-hit districts. A school and the office of a newspaper owned by state minister Captain Abhimanyu was targeted by the protesters in Rohtak late last evening. A shopping mall was vandalised and a liquor vend looted and set afire.
                          A mob broke into the minister's house and set it on fire. The minister's family was airlifted to Chandigarh.
                          In Faridabad district, traffic on NH-2, also known as Mathura Road, remained disrupted near Prithla, Hodal and Bahin villages till noon.
                          Maruti halts operations
                          Maruti has stalled operations in its two units in Manesar and one in Gurgaon in view of the law and order situation. A tehsil building and a cooperative bank were set on fire in Fatehabad district.
                          The state DGP, Yashpal Singhal, a police station and a petrol station was set ablaze in Meham. He said while 13 columns of the Army had arrived and 10 more were being airlifted, 23 companies of the paramilitary forces were on the way.The DGP claimed that the situation had improved since yesterday. Meanwhile, the BJP high command has asked Birender Singh, OP Dhankar and Sanjeev Baliyan to negotiate with the Jats. Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, Manohar Parrikar, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley spoke with National Security Adviser Ajit Doval late last evening and reviewed the situation in the state.
                          Notice to K'shetra MP
                          A show-cause notice has been issued to Kurukshetra MP Raj Kumar Saini, who has been issuing statements against reservation for the Jats. Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has asked his MLAs to leave for their constituencies and speak with the protesters to end the impasse. The Chief Minister's CM's Barara rally, scheduled for Sunday, has been cancelled.
                          The Indian National Lok Dal has demanded President’s rule, holding the BJP responsible for the chaos.
                          Former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda has announced he will fast at Jantar Mantar tomorrow for "peace in the state." He claimed he wanted to go to Rohtak, but the district administration had denied him permission.
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                          Ganesha, Indus Script tradition. significance of hieroglyphs on Dholkal, Bastar, Chattisgarh Ganesha with metal chain and pine cone

                          February 21, 2016, 5:32 am
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                          There are two unique hieroglyphs on Ganesha seated statue of Dholkal, Bastar, Chattisgarh: The yajnopavitam worn by Ganesha is a chain of three stranded metal chain (iron or steel) wires. Ganesha carries on his left hand a pine cone.


                          Both hieroglyphs, together with the trunk of elephant in iconographs are related to metalwork catalogues of Indus Script corpora. Veneration of Ganesha dates back to Rigvedic times (See RV 2.23 sukta gaṇānāṃ tvā gaṇapatiṃ havāmahe kaviṃ kavīnām upamaśravastamam -- with translation appended). In the tradition of Bharatam Janam, gana are related to kharva, dwarfs as part of Kubera's nidhi; rebus: karba'iron'.


                          Evidence for Sivalinga is provided in other sites (Mohenjodaro and Harappa) of the civilization:

                          Tre-foil inlay decorated base (for linga icon?); smoothed, polished pedestal of dark red stone; National Museum of Pakistan, Karachi; After Mackay 1938: I, 411; II, pl. 107:35; Parpola, 1994, p. 218.
                          Two decorated bases and a lingam, Mohenjodaro. 


                          Lingam, grey sandstone in situ, Harappa, Trench Ai, Mound F, Pl. X (c) (After Vats). "In an earthenware jar, No. 12414, recovered from Mound F, Trench IV, Square I... in this jar, six lingams were found along with some tiny pieces of shell, a unicorn seal, an oblong grey sandstone block with polished surface, five stone pestles, a stone palette, and a block of chalcedony..." (Vats,MS,  Excavations at Harappa, p. 370).

                          A Terracotta Linga from Kalibangan (2600 BCE).

                          The two Dholavira pillars evoke the imageries of a festival which is celebrated even today by Lingavantas, particularly in Karnataka.

                          These pillars at Dholavira could be a depiction of fiery pillars of light as Sivalinga. (cf. Atharvaveda Skambha Sukta 10.7). 

                          Just above the pillars is an 8-shaped stone structure with Yupa, signifying a yajna kunda.



                          Veneration of S'ivalinga has been noted with the discovery of 6 sivalingas in Harappa, a terracotta S'ivalinga in Kalibangan, and two decorated bases with one S'ivalinga in Mohenjodaro.

                          Ganesha of Dholkal, Bastar is an emphatic evidence for the thesis of Sandhya Jain in her path-breaking monograph: 'Adi Deo Arya Devata- A Panoramic View of Tribal-Hindu Cultural Interface'. Ganesha is a defining hieroglyph/metaphor of the cultural history of Bharatam Janam. (Bharatam janam, 'metalcaster folk', an expression defining the identity of Bharatiya by Rishi Viswamitra in RV 3.53.12).

                          Hieroglyph: kariba 'trunk of elephant' rebus: karba 'iron' ibha 'elephant' rebus: ib 'iron.

                          Hieroglyph: dhāu 'strand of rope' Rebus: dhāv 'red ore' (ferrite) ti-dhāu 'three strands' Rebus: ti-dhāv 'three ferrite ores: magnetite, hematite, laterite'.


                          Hieroglyph: Ash. piċ -- kandə ʻ pine ʼ, Kt. pṳ̄ċi, piċi, Wg. puċ, püċ (pṳ̄ċ -- kəŕ ʻ pine -- cone ʼ), Pr. wyoċ, Shum. lyēwič (lyē -- ?).(CDIAL 8407). Cf. Gk. peu/kh f. ʻ pine ʼ, Lith. pušìs, OPruss. peuse NTS xiii 229. The suffix –kande in the lexeme: Ash. piċ-- kandə ʻ pine ʼ may be cognate with the bulbous glyphic related to a mangrove root: Koḍ. kaṇḍe root-stock from which small roots grow; ila·ti kaṇḍe sweet potato (ila·ti England). Tu. kaṇḍe, gaḍḍè a bulbous root; Ta. kaṇṭal mangrove, Rhizophora mucronata; dichotomous mangrove, Kandelia rheedii. Ma. kaṇṭa bulbous root as of lotus, plantain; point where branches and bunches grow out of the stem of a palm; kaṇṭal what is bulb-like, half-ripe jackfruit and other green fruits; R. candel.  (DEDR 1171). Rebus: kaṇḍa ‘tools, pots and pans of metal’.

                          Hieroglyph: కండె [ kaṇḍe ] kaṇḍe. [Telugu] n. A head or ear of millet or maize. జొన్నకంకి.

                          Rebus:Tu. kandůka, kandaka ditch, trench. Te.  kandakamu id.   Konḍa kanda trench made as a fireplace during weddings. Pe. kanda fire trench. Kui kanda small trench for fireplace. Malt. kandri a pit. (DEDR 1214). 
                          http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.in/2013/11/maize-and-pine-cone-meluhha-hieroglyphs.html

                          m0301 Indus Script Seal shows a trunk of elephant ligatured to a human face and other animal-related hieroglyphs.


                          That the veneration of Ganesha is a phenomenon traceable to the Bronze Age is signified by the remarkable hieroglyph-multiplex orthographically combining the trunk of elephant with the horns of a buffalo and a segment of the feline. This unique orthographic feature of Indus Script leads to the iconography of Ganesha with a human body and the head and trunk of an elephant


                          Material: terra cotta
                          Dimensions: 4.8 cm height, 5.4 cm width, 4.6 cm breadth
                          Harappa, Lot 800-01
                          Harappa Museum, H87-348

                          Elephant, trunk of elephant: kar-ibha, ib; rebus: karba 'iron'; ib 'iron'.
                          Une tête d'éléphant en terre cuite de Nausharo (Pakistan)
                          In: Arts asiatiques. Tome 47, 1992. pp. 132-136. Jarrige Catherine
                          http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/arasi_0004-3958_1992_num_47_1_1330

                          The elephant head ligatured with a buffalo at Nausharo is a curtain-raiser for the practice of ligaturing in Indian tradition for utsava bera 'idols carried on processions'. The phrase utsava bera denotes that processions of the type shown on Mesopotamian cylinder seals or Mohenjo-daro tablets are trade processions for bera 'bargaining, trade'. Thus, the processions with hieroglyphs may be part of trade-exchange fairs of ancient times. It is significant that the utsava bera of Ganesa is shown together with a rat or mouse -- as vāhana: ibha 'elephant' Rebus: ib 'iron'. mūṣa 'rat, mouse' Rebus: mūṣa 'crucible'.  Thus both rat/mouse and elephant face ligatured to a body, are Meluhha hieroglyphs related to metallurgical processes.

                          Dance step of Gaṇeśa shown on a sculptural friezed of Candi Sukuh:
                          Dansende Ganesha & geboorte van de walvis
                          Forge scene stele.  Forging of a keris or kris (the iconic Javanese dagger) and other weapons. The blade of the keris represents the khaNDa. Fire is a purifier, so the blade being forged is also symbolic of the purification process central theme of the consecration of gangga sudhi specified in the inscription on the 1.82 m. tall, 5 ft. dia.  lingga hieroglyph, the deity of Candi Sukuh. 
                          http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.in/2015/01/sekkizhar-periya-puranam-candi-sukuh.html
                          The scene in bas relief The scene depicted Bhima as the blacksmith in the left forging the metal, Ganesa in the center, and Arjuna in the right operating the tube blower to pump air into the furnace.

                          Candi Sukuh temple was consecrated by Bhre Daha in 1440 CE celebrating Bhima, an embodiment of the philosophy of life alternating between death and rebirth in an eternal cycle, a cosmic dance. King Kertanagara’s role in unifying Majapahit Empire, founded on Dharma-Dhamma is recorded in history. Some refer to Candi Sukuh as a temple venerating Tantrik Saivism as ‘Bhima cult’. Bhre Daha belonged to the tradition of royal purohita Bhagawan Ganggasudhi, associated with the royal house of Girindrawardhana. Gangga sudhi is rebus for kanga sudhi ‘purification by brazier, kanga’.

                          The dance step of the male torso of Harappa and the dance step of the elephant-headed Ganesa on Candi Sukuh frieze are explained in a remarkable hieroglyph on a Bhirrana potsherd and a Mohenjodaro tablet:
                          Dance-step in a cire perdue bronze statue, Mohenjodaro replicated on a Bhirrana potsherd. The red potsherd with the engraving resembling the Dancing Girl bronze figurine of Mohenjodaro, found at Bhirrana.
                          m0493Bt Pict-93: Three dancing figures in a row. Text 2843 Glyph: Three dancers. Kolmo ‘three’; meD ‘to dance’
                          Rebus: kolami ‘furnace, smithy’; meD ‘iron’


                          1000-yr-old Dholkal idol awaits survey report

                          TNN | Feb 1, 2013, 11.10 PM IST

                          RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh archaeology and culture department claims to have done a survey, on a unique discovery of 1000-year-old Ganesha idol, located on the zenith of Dholkal mountain in the interiors of Maoist hotbed south Bastar, in January this year. 


                          This age old six-foot idol of the 10th century was discovered by a local journalist in September 2012, following which the archaeology department had formed a committee, ensuring that a researched survey was conducted on the place.

                          Talking to TOI, in-charge curator (Jagdalpur) J R Bhagat, said: "The survey was done on January 17, but the report is not yet ready, it would be submitted to the department soon. He added that the idol is located at a height of 13,000 feet, amid dense forest. It is presumed that the idol was made long ago during the time of Nagvanshi dynasty in the 9th or 10th century. We have also found traces of early man and few of their stone weapons, which means the place hasn't had frequent visitors and remained isolated all these years, Bhagat said. 

                          According to Rajeev Ranjan Prasad, a local author and researcher, the idol is located on the zenith of a huge dhol shaped mountain, which seems like a place, impossible to reach. This place was discovered for the first time by an English geologist Crookshank in 1934 at the time when Bailadila mining was under survey.
                          After studying Crookshank's geological report of south Bastar, "I matched the historical evidences of the place and compiled the photographs. Though this idol is located high above, it remained unnoticed due to dense forest and tough routes.
                          Moreover, the Maoists dominance in the region, hushes away the population, Ranjan told TOI. He said that as the place is on the top of a mountain, about 13km high, it is a tough terrain to reach or to hang around for long. He said that evidences of ancient colonies existing around the mountain have also come to light. 


                          Researching for years now, Ranjan said that Bastar has many such places that need attention and conservation but due to lack of enthusiasm, they remain ignored. "There were many important idols, temples, which have been excavated off their existence or destroyed forever. The ancient place initially doomed with backwardness and now with Maoists, calls for attention and grooming from the government," he said.

                          Bastar has been considered a place of scenic beauty with thousands of archaeological and historical secrets hidden in its torso. "Few locals, who chance upon new findings, bring it to the notice of officials but many put a curtain, assuming that revealing it would disturb the ambience of their place with archaeologists, media and foreigners digging all over," an archaeologist remarked.
                          http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/raipur/1000-yr-old-Dholkal-idol-awaits-survey-report/articleshowprint/18296857.cms
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                          Ganesha. Pine cone on left hand. Provinience unknown.
                          Ganesh shrine. Patan, Nepal. ‪#‎‪info@3tnepal.com:
                          Ganesha. Patan. Nepal.
                          Ganesha, Hampi, Karnataka, India, by kimberlymunoz, via Flickr:
                          Ganesha. Hampi. Karnataka.
                          Jai Ganesha! At Umananda outside of Guwahati, Assam.:
                          Ganesha. Umananda. Guwahati. Assam.

                          10th century Ganesha idol discovered on Dholkal mountain
                          South Bastar, Dantewada, Chhatisgarh, India
                          RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh archaeology and culture department claims to have done a survey, on a unique discovery of 1000-year-old Ganesha idol, located on the zenith of Dholkal mountain in the interiors of Maoist hotbed south Bastar, in January this year.
                          This age old six-foot idol of the 10th century was discovered by a local journalist in September 2012, following which the archaeology department had formed a committee, ensuring that a researched survey was conducted on the place. (via indiatimes.com)


                          Ganesha idols from Barsur, Chattisgarh.
                          Khajuraho Temple in Khajuraho, India:
                          Ganesha. Khajuraho temple.
                          Shri Ganesh! - Ganesh in Kelaniya Temple, Sri Lanka:
                          Ganesha. Kelaniya temple. Sri Lanka
                          This beautiful Ganesha (Ganesh) statue, carved from teakwood, we found in Chiang Mai – North Thailand:
                          Ganesha. Teakwood. Chiang mai. North Thailand.
                          Chachoengsao, Thailand. World's tallest bronze Ganesh statue. (39 m):

                          Chachoengsao, Thailand. World's tallest bronze Ganesh statue. (39 m)

                          Ganesha and the Sacred Trees in Wailua, Hawaii. Photography by Craig Damlo.:
                          Ganesha and the Sacred Trees in Wailua, Hawaii. 
                          Sandstone Ganesha. Cambodia, 7th century. Cleveland Museum of Art.
                          Ganesha, Champa art from Vietnam
                          Skanda, Ganesha. Sanstone Danang, Cham Museum. Vietnam

                          Ganesha
                          Ganesha. Danang, Cham Museum, Vietnam

                          Arca Ganesha at rumah makan babi guling bu oka,ubud:
                          Arca Ganesha at rumah makan babi guling bu oka,ubud
                          A volcanic stone figure of Ganesha. Indonesia, Central Java, circa 9th century:
                          Ganesha. Volcanic Stone. Central Java. Indonesia. ca. 9th century.

                          Ganesh Statue In Bali Indonesia Temple:
                          Ganesha, Bali, Indonesia.
                          Shri Ganesh! - Vignaharta(Lord Ganesha) Bali Indonesia:
                          Ganesha. Bali. Indonesia
                          Lord Ganesha, Mohan Temple, Landa Bazaar, Rawalpindi.:
                          Ganesha, Mohan Temple, Landa Bazaar, Rawalpindi.
                          Thailand Ganesha Shrine Temple Hinduism:
                          Ganesha. Thailand.

                          Inscription on Vinayaka, Cambodia

                          Among the old inscriptions of the vinAyaka temples in the far-East are the following
                          1) The Angkor Borei inscription of 611 AD, which mentions the construction of a shrine to mahAgaNapati.

                          2) 660 AD the jayavarman II inscription describing a temple built to shrIgaNapati.

                          3) 817 AD inscription at Po Nagar in Vietnam of harivarman, the Champa King mentioning the temple built to shrI gaNapati (vinAyaka).

                          4) 890 AD inscription of yashovarman I mentioning the building of two tantric Ashramas for the worship of vinAyaka known as chandanAdri gaNesha (sandal mountain gaNesha).

                          The most mysterious inscription is from Prasat Prei Kuk shrine in Cambodia to vinAyaka built by king ishAnavarman I.

                          ya kaschid dAnavendra paraviShaya-haro nirjito nyena shaktyA
                          The chief of the dAnavas capturing others territory was conquered by the might of another
                          baddho vai sR^inkalAbhis chiram iha patito yaM stuva~N chaila-ruddhaH
                          bound with chains after having fallen here for a long time shut up in the mountain praises him
                          tan dR^iShTvA kinnarAbhish shatagaNasahitas svapnashoShe himAdrer
                          Having seen that, with a 100 gaNas and kinnaras, having woken up, from the Himalayan peak,
                          AyAto mokShanArthA~N jayati gaNapatis tvad-dhitAyeva so yaM
                          comes this gaNapati who for your welfare conquers for the purpose of liberating.


                          kandə 'pine cone' Rebus, signified metalwork: khaṇḍa. A portion of the front hall, in a temple;  kaṇḍ 'fire-altar' (Santali) kāṇḍa 'tools, pots and pans and metal-ware' (Marathi) 

                          लोखंड (p. 723) [ lōkhaṇḍa ] n (लोह S) Iron लोखंडकाम (p. 723) [ lōkhaṇḍakāma ] n Iron work; that portion (of a building, machine &c.) which consists of iron. 2 The business of an ironsmith.
                          लोखंडी (p. 723) [ lōkhaṇḍī ] a (लोखंड) Composed of iron; relating to iron लोहोलोखंड (p. 723) [ lōhōlōkhaṇḍa ] n (लोह & लोखंड) Iron tools, vessels, or articles in general.

                          S. Kalyanaraman
                          Sarasvati Research Center
                          May 6, 2015
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                          Temple de Serapis

                          Temple of Serapis
                          Temple of SerapisThis temple was built for the Egyptian merchants. It was located on the Commercial Agora near the western gate. There is also another entrance into the temple from the south-west corner of the Agora through stairs.
                          Artemis Temple
                          There are certain indications that suggest the temple was never finished fully. It is estimated that the construction of the temple was started in the 2nd century CE.

                          There is a statue found inside the temple made by using the Egyptian granite. Also some inscriptions found inside the temple indicate that the temple was constructed for those who believe in Serapis. In Ephesus Museum there is a monument on which the main Goddess of Ephesians, Artemis, and the principal god of Egypt, Serapis, take place together with garland as a symbol of peace.

                          It is well documented fact that Ephesus had a very strong commercial link with the influential port city of Egypt, Alexandria. During these ancient times Egypt was the biggest producer of wheat. They exchanged wheat with other commercial items from Ephesus and other Ionian cities.

                          It was converted to a church during the following Christian period. There are remains of a baptisterium in the eastern corner of the temple. 
                          http://www.ephesus.us/ephesus/temple_of_serapis.htm 

                          Temple of Isis, Pompeii. "the original building built under Augustan was damaged in an earlier earthquake of 62 CE...The cult of Isis is thought to arrived in Pompeii around 100 BCE." 
                          http://www.crystalinks.com/isis.html

                          A detailed archaeological excursus on the roots of the pine-cone and peacock bronzes in the Vatican is warranted to further substantiate the hypothesis of Meluhha metalwork.
                          The original pine cone. Pigna (Fir cone) is the name of the quarter of Rome where this bronze sculpture was found; it was part of a fountain and it spouted water from holes on its top. It was probably placed in front of a Temple to Isis in Iseo Campense; the gilded peacocks decorated one of the entrances to Hadrian's Mausoleum. The Egyptian lions were added by Pope Gregory XVI; they came from Mostra dell'Acqua Felice and were replaced by copies.  http://www.romeartlover.it/Vasi181.html

                          Pigna Vatican Museum Courtyard gilt bronze. Rome.

                          Originally a Roman fountain dating from 1st or 2nd century CE
                          The bronze pine cone (`Pigna`) at the Cortile della Pigna square. Peacocks from Hadrians Mausoleum (Castel Sant'Angelo) http://pictify.com/130116/pigna-vatican-museum-courtyard Pine cone at the Vatican, flanked by two peacocks.

                          It was at Campus Martius prior to it  being moved to the Court of the Pigna.
                          glyph-type symbols below the animal (Courtyard of the Pinecone)


                          One version of the pine-cone origins: "Publius Cincius Slavius, whose name appears on the base of the sculpture, built the Pine Cone statue that now resides in the Court of the Pine Cone (Cortile della Pigna) in the Vatican, in the 1st century AD. The piece was originally a fountain that resided in the Temple of Isis in Campo Martius next to the Pantheon. The site of the Temple of Isis is now occupied by the Biblioteca Casanatense but the area is still to this day called Pigna. The fountain is described as having water gushing from the holes in the scales of the cone similar to the Meta Sudans (the sweating rock that was also topped by a pine cone according to some) that still stands outside the Coliseum. The Pine Cone was then moved to the hall of St Peter’s Basilica in the 8th century in the time of Popes John VI, John VII or Zachary (Pope Zachary seems the most likely as he did more than the other two to “Christianize” Rome by building churches over the old Roman temples). One of them moved the Pine Cone from the Temple of Isis to St Peter’s Basilica (the original built by Constantine the Great) where it was covered by a baldachin (it is recreated in this state in the game Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood where it houses a Piece of Eden). In 1608, when St Peters was being enlarged to its present form the Pine Cone was moved to its current location by Pope Paul V...The bronze peacocks, however, were not part of the original sculpture but are thought to be originally taken from Hadrian’s mausoleum (now Rome’s fortress, the Castel St. Angelo)." http://thedailybeagle.net/2013/09/08/the-pigna-and-the-apollo-belvedere-two-treasures-of-the-vatican/

                          Another version of the pine cone origins:

                          [quote]The Huge statue known as the Pigna (pine) or the Fontana Della Pigna depicts a giant Pine Cone. It is located in St. Peter's, in an area called the court of the Pigna.The Court of the Pigna is the northern part of the grand renaissance Belvedere Courtyard that stretches between the Papal Palaces to the "palazzetto" which belonged to Innocent VII's . The courtyard was segmented into three parts after the construction of Sixtus V's Library and the Braccio Nuovo of Pius VII.  The present courtyard derived its name form the beautiful pine cone statue set into the "nicchone", borders on the south side with the Braccio Nuovo, and on the east it borders with the Chiaromonti Gallery. To its north you can find Innocent VIII's Palazzetto and on the west the galleries of the Apostolic Library are located.

                          The pine cone was cast out of bronze in the 1st or 2nd century by the sculptor Publius Cincius Slavius. He was identified as its creator because his name was written on the base of the huge pine. The Statue's height is almost 4 meters and on both sides of the pine cone there are bronze peacocks which are copies of the ones in Hadrian's tomb.

                          Before it was moved to its current location, known as the Court of the Pigna, the statue of the Pine was situated in the Campus Martius. This area is still known today as "Pigna" after this statue. At its previous location it was used as a fountain with the water pouring from holes pierced in the scales of the cone. At the 8th century it was transferred to the entrance hall of the medieval basilica of St. Peter. It was placed decoratively in the middle of the fountain covered by ornate baldachin. We know this because the statue was identified in Renaissance drawings of the hall. Eventually, during the construction of the current basilica, in 1608, the giant pine cone fountain was moved and situated in its current location.

                          This statue is a beautiful and ancient one and it's definitely worth stopping by and admiring it as it has been part of Rome's landscape for almost 2000 years! [unquote]

                          http://vatican.com/photos/gallery/court_of_the_pigna-p45
                          Technical information
                          Blessing genius Neo-Assyrian period, circa 721-705 BCE (reign of Sargon II)
                          Third gate of the palace of Sargon II, Khorsabad (ancient Dur-Sharrukin), Iraq

                          Bas-relief of gypseous alabaster
                          H. 4.09 m; L. 2.36 m; D. 0.75 m
                          Victor Place excavations, 1852-54
                          AO 19863
                          Near Eastern Antiquities [see: Musée du Louvre]

                          Blessing genius

                          Protective genii are supernatural beings who watch over humans or buildings and ward off evil spirits. This winged genius, along with one directly opposite, guarded the gates of the city of Khorsabad. It blessed all those who passed by it with water sprinkled from a pine cone.

                          Description

                          A protective and blessing genius

                          The site of Khorsabad (called Dur-Sharrukin in antiquity), which was excavated between 1843 and 1854 by Paul-Emile Botta and Victor Place, yielded orthostats, carved slabs of stone that protected and adorned the bases of brick walls. This monumental winged genius, represented frontally, was placed in the inner passage of one of the city gates. Another genius was located directly opposite. Both stood immediately behind the pair of winged bulls with human heads that guarded the gate. Like other genii placed at certain entrances to the palace, this one has a protective role. However it also performed a blessing function: from the pine cone, which could be shaken, liquid drawn from a little bucket was sprinkled over the passageway and those who passed along it.

                          A monumental sculpture

                          This colossal figure carved in high relief depicts a winged, bearded genius, shown frontally as far as the waist and in profile below. He holds a pine cone in his right hand and a small metal vessel (or situla) in his left hand. The face, framed by a curly beard, is surmounted by a tiara adorned with two pairs of horns. Over the figure's short tunic is a fringed cape, which covers the right shoulder and left leg. Two pairs of wings emerge from the back and spread symmetrically on either side of the body. His arms and forearms are adorned with rings and bracelets. He wears sandals, which cover his heels. On the base of this sculpture is a game of tick-tack-toe, scratched into it in ancient times, probably by sentries passing the time while on duty at the gate.

                          Genii: between the human and the divine?

                          Genii, depicted as bulls with human heads, men with birds' heads, and winged men, figure prominently in Assyrian mythology. They are creatures endowed with powers superior to those of human beings, yet they are not great deities, although they are sometimes represented with some of their attributes, for example, the horned tiara here. These supernatural beings had the power to ward off evil spirits. The genius seen here had an essentially protective role: it defended the gates and walls of the city. However, it was also a blessing genius, which held holy water and sprinkled it on visitors with a pine cone. Genii are often depicted in Assyrian art, especially in ceremonial scenes where they are shown pollinating the sacred palm tree. [see: Mesopotamia | Louvre Museum]
                          http://www.geocities.ws/leinad.trotta/prophecies.html



                          Somnathpur, Halebid. Lakshmi. Divinity of wealth holding maize cob or pine-cone.

                          Hieroglyphs: kandə ʻpineʼ, ‘ear of maize’. Rebus: kaṇḍa ‘tools, pots and pans of metal’. Rebus: kāḍ ‘stone’. Ga. (Oll.) kanḍ, (S.) kanḍu (pl. kanḍkil) stone (DEDR 1298).


                          [quote] Detail of pine cone. Standard Inscription.Palace of Ashurnasirpal, priest of Ashur, favorite of Enlil and Ninurta, beloved of Anu and Dagan, the weapon of the great gods, the mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria; son of Tukulti-Ninurta, the great king, the mighty king, king of Assyria, the son of Adad-nirari, the great king, the mighty king of Assyria; the valiant man, who acts with the support of Ashur, his lord, and has no equal among the princes of the four quarters of the world; the wonderful shepherd who is not afraid of battle; the great flood which none can oppose; the king who makes those who are not subject to him submissive; who has subjugated all mankind; the mighty warrior who treads on the neck of his enemies, tramples down all foes, and shatters the forces of the proud; the king who acts with the support of the great gods, and whose hand has conquered all lands, who has subjugated all the mountains and received their tribute, taking hostages and establishing his power over all countries. [unquote]




                          Halebid."Maize breeders in India, China, United States, and Great Britain, who have seen extensive collections of the illustrations, concur...only sculptors with abundant ears of maize as models could have created these illustrations of maize"(Click to enlarge). Photo by Carl L. Johannessen.



                          ‘Maize’ and ‘pine-cone’ are two hieroglyphs depicted, respectively, on Indian sculptures at Somnathpur (Lakshmi, divinity of wealth) and on sculptures and reliefs of Ashur (Nimrud). Rebus readings are evidence of presence of Meluhha speakers in the Ancient Near East who participated in the bronze-age inventions of tin-bronzes and created the writing systems of deploying hieroglyphs together with cuneiform and Indus texts.

                          Hieroglyphs: kandə ʻpineʼ, ‘ear of maize’. Rebus: kaṇḍa ‘tools, pots and pans of metal’. Rebus: kāḍ ‘stone’. Ga. (Oll.) kanḍ, (S.) kanḍu (pl. kanḍkil) stone (DEDR 1298).



                          Hieroglyph: Ash. piċ -- kandə ʻ pine ʼ, Kt. pṳ̄ċi, piċi, Wg. puċ, püċ (pṳ̄ċ -- kəŕ ʻ pine -- cone ʼ), Pr. wyoċ, Shum. lyēwič (lyē -- ?).(CDIAL 8407). Cf. Gk. peu/kh f. ʻ pine ʼ, Lith. pušìs, OPruss. peuse NTS xiii 229. The suffix –kande in the lexeme: Ash. piċ-- kandə ʻ pine ʼ may be cognate with the bulbous glyphic related to a mangrove root: Koḍ. kaṇḍe root-stock from which small roots grow; ila·ti kaṇḍe sweet potato (ila·ti England). Tu. kaṇḍe, gaḍḍè a bulbous root; Ta. kaṇṭal mangrove, Rhizophora mucronata; dichotomous mangrove, Kandelia rheedii. Ma. kaṇṭa bulbous root as of lotus, plantain; point where branches and bunches grow out of the stem of a palm; kaṇṭal what is bulb-like, half-ripe jackfruit and other green fruits; R. candel.  (DEDR 1171). Rebus: kaṇḍa ‘tools, pots and pans of metal’.

                          Hieroglyph: కండె [ kaṇḍe ] kaṇḍe. [Telugu] n. A head or ear of millet or maize. జొన్నకంకి.
                          Allograph: Kur. kaṇḍō a stool. Malt. kanḍo stool, seat. (DEDR 1179). Rebus:Tu. kandůka, kandaka ditch, trench. Te.  kandakamu id.   Konḍa kanda trench made as a fireplace during weddings. Pe. kanda fire trench. Kui kanda small trench for fireplace. Malt. kandri a pit. (DEDR 1214).

                          [quote] Detail of pine cone. Standard Inscription.Palace of Ashurnasirpal, priest of Ashur, favorite of Enlil and Ninurta, beloved of Anu and Dagan, the weapon of the great gods, the mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria; son of Tukulti-Ninurta, the great king, the mighty king, king of Assyria, the son of Adad-nirari, the great king, the mighty king of Assyria; the valiant man, who acts with the support of Ashur, his lord, and has no equal among the princes of the four quarters of the world; the wonderful shepherd who is not afraid of battle; the great flood which none can oppose; the king who makes those who are not subject to him submissive; who has subjugated all mankind; the mighty warrior who treads on the neck of his enemies, tramples down all foes, and shatters the forces of the proud; the king who acts with the support of the great gods, and whose hand has conquered all lands, who has subjugated all the mountains and received their tribute, taking hostages and establishing his power over all countries.

                          When Ashur, the lord who called me by my name and has made my kingdom great, entrusted his merciless weapon to my lordly arms, I overthrew the widespread troops of the land of Lullume in battle. With the assistance of Shamash and Adad, the gods who help me, I thundered like Adad the destroyer over the troops of the Nairi lands, Habhi, Shubaru, and Nirib. I am the king who had brought into submission at his feet the lands from beyond the Tigris to Mount Lebanon and the Great Sea [the Mediterranean], the whole of the land of Laqe, the land of Suhi as far as Rapiqu, and whose hand has conquered from the source of the river Subnat to the land of Urartu.

                          The area from the mountain passes of Kirruri to the land of Gilzanu, from beyond the Lower Zab to the city of Til-Bari which is north of the land of Zaban, from the city of Til-sha-abtani to Til-sha-Zabdani, Hirimu and Harutu, fortresses of the land of Karduniash [Babylonia], I have restored to the borders of my land. From the mountain passes of Babite to the land of Hashmar I have counted the inhabitants as peoples of my land. Over the lands which I have subjugated I have appointed my governors, and they do obeisance.
                          I am Ashurnasirpal, the celebrated prince, who reveres the great gods, the fierce dragon, conqueror of the cities and mountains to their furthest extent, king of rulers who has tamed the stiff-necked peoples, who is crowned with splendor, who is not afraid of battle, the merciless champion who shakes resistance, the glorious king, the shepherd, the protection of the whole world, the king, the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced fierce and merciless kings from the rising to the setting sun to acknowledge one rule.

                          The former city of Kalhu [Nimrud], which Shalmaneser king of Assyria, a prince who preceded me, had built, that city had fallen into ruins and lay deserted. That city I built anew, I took the peoples whom my hand had conquered from the lands which I subjugated, from the land of Suhi, from the land of Laqe, from the city of Sirqu on the other side of the Euphrates, from the furthest extent of the land of Zamua, from Bit-Adini and the land of Hatte, and from Lubarna, king of the land of Patina, and made them settle there.
                          I removed the ancient mound and dug down to the water level. I sank the foundations 120 brick courses deep. A palace with halls of cedar, cypress, juniper, box-wood, meskannu-wood, terebinth and tamarisk, I founded as my royal residence for my lordly pleasure for ever.
                          Creatures of the mountains and seas I fashioned in white limestone and alabaster, and set them up at its gates. I adorned it, and made it glorious, and set ornamental knobs of bronze all around it. I fixed doors of cedar, cypress, juniper and meskannu-wood in its gates. I took in great quantities, and placed there, silver, gold, tin, bronze and iron, booty taken by my hands from the lands which I had conquered. [unquote]
                          New York city Art museum. Ashurnasirpal. Kalhu Ear-ring and pendant with a pine cone glyph
                          Pine cone glyphs adorn the side stools and is atop the ‘altars’ or ‘standards’. [quote]Description: The 'Garden Party' relief from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh. This carved stone picture hides a gory secret. King Ashurbanipal and his Queen are enjoying a party in their garden. Can you see the Queen sitting down facing her husband? A harpist on the left plays music while they eat and drink. But in the tree beside him is the severed head of King Teumann, a local ruler who had tried to fight against Ashurbanipal. The picture was on the wall in the royal palace, to warn any visitors not to try the same thing. It should also be noted that depictions of women are rare in Assyrian art. (Source: British Museum website) Date: c.645 BCE [unquote]
                          Assyrian Period, reign of  King Ashurnasirpal 11 (883 -- 859 BCE) Alabastrous Limestone Height 110.5 cm. Width 183 cm.  Depth 6.4 -- 9.6 cm. Miho Museum http://www.shumei.org/art/miho/miho.html
                          marduk pine cone, pine cone symbolism, pine pollen powder, pine pollen benefitsMarduk, winged, holding the pine-cone. Bracelet has safflower hieroglyph. Annunaki, Sumerian.
                          annunaki pine cone, pine cone symbolism, pine pollen powder, pine tree pollen, pine pollen benefitsPine cones helod by eagle-divinities flanking tree of life. The divinities also hold wallets.
                          Masonic cadueceus with pine cone.
                          pine cone staff of osiris, pine cone symbolism, occult pine cones, pine pollen benefits, pine pollen powderA pair of eagle-headed Annunak flanking a staff capped with a pine-cone.
                          Assyrian) alabaster  Height: 236.2 cm (93 in). Width: 135.9 cm (53.5 in). Depth: 15.2 cm (6 in). This relief decorated the interior wall of the northwest palace of King Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud. On his right hand, he holds a pine cone. Examples of reliefs of king ashur-nasir-pal II
                          The Egyptian Staff of Osiris, dating back to approximately 1224 BC, depicts two intertwining serpents rising up to meet at a pinecone. (Photo: Egyptian Museum, Turin, Italy).

                          Myths in Vatican to invent explanations for the pine-cone and peacocks and the context of Temples for Isis

                          Jenny Uglow has rendered a remarkable historical account. (Uglow, Jenny, 2012, The Pinecone, Faber & Faber). The book narrates the story of the builder Sarah Losh of the magical church in Wreay, near Carlisle, Victorian England. She was heiress to an industrial fortune. Everywhere in this church are pinecones, her signature in stone, making the church a rendering of the power of myth ‘and the great natural cycles of life and death and rebirth’. The book provides Sarah’s travel to Rome: “Death, as well as beauty, marched the streets. And the processions were matched by the panoply of symbols, on ancient columns and new buildings, in temples and market squares. Among these were plenty of pinecones: the Pope carried a carved cone on his staff; a pinecone fountain stood outside the old church of St Mrco, and the largest cone in the world, flanked by two peacocks, was found at the Vatican. This was the only original Roman fountain remaining in Rome, the Fontana della Pigna, dating from the first century AD, which had once stood next to the Temple of Isis in the Forum, spouting water from the top.”

                          ...
                          Isis was worshipped in the entire Greco-Roman world.

                          The Temple of Isis in Pompeii. The cult of Isis is said to have arrived in Pompeii ca. 100 BCE. (Nappo, Salvatore. "Pompey: Guide to the Lost City", White Star, 2000, p.89) “Its role as a Hellenized Egyptian temple in a Roman colony was fully confirmed with an inscription detaled by Francisco la Vega on July 20, 1765.” This was the second structure. Original structure under Augustan was damaged  in an earthquake of 62 CE. 

                          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Isis_(Pompeii)

                          Peacocks. Braccio Nuovo Museum, Vatican.

                          Pigna is the name of rione IX of Rome. "Pigna ("pine-cone") refers to a famous bronze sculpture of Roman origin, in the shape of a huge pine-cone. It likely acted as a fountain in the Baths of Agrippa, the first establishment of this kind opened in Rome (late 1st century BC), at the back of the Pantheon's site." 
                          http://roma.andreapollett.com/S5/rione09.htm 
                          Logo of the Rione.

                          "Pigna. There used to be a tradition, wholly unfounded, but deeply rooted in the Roman mind, to the effect that the great bronze pine-cone, eleven feet high, which stands in one of the courts of the Vatican, giving it the name c Garden of the Pine-cone,’ was originally a sort of stopper which closed the round aperture in the roof of the Pantheon. The Pantheon stands at one cornerof the Region of Pigna, and a connection between the Region, the Pantheon, and the Pine-cone seems vaguely possible, though altogether unsatisfactory. The truth about the Pine-cone is perfectly well known; it was part of a fountain in Agrippa’s artificial lake in the Campus Martius, of which Pigna was a part, and it was set up in the cloistered garden of Saint Peter’s by Pope Symmachus about fourteen hundred years ago. The lake may have been near the Pantheon." (Crawford, Francis Marion, Ave Roma Immortals, 1898, London, Macmillan & Co. Ltd., p.345) 
                          http://www.cristoraul.com/ENGLISH/BIBLIOGRAPHICA/HTML-Library/ROMANIKA/Ave-Roma-Immortalis.htm

                          "Composed of a large bronze pine cone almost four meters high which once spouted water from the top, the Pigna originally stood near the Pantheon next to the Temple of Isis. It was moved to the courtyard of the old St. Peter's Basilica during the Middle Ages and then moved again, in 1608, to its present location." -- Official history on the Vatican website.

                          The bronze peacocks on either side of the fountain are copies of those decorating the tomb of the Emperor Hadrian, now the Castel Sant' Angelo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontana_della_Pigna. The peacocks decorated the Mausoleum or the tomb of Hadrian erected between 134 and 139 CE. Copies of “Bronze peacocks” maybe from the Mausoleum of Hadrian. The originals are in the New Wing of the Chiaramonti Museum (Braccacio Museum)

                          Detail of the water holes on the bronze pine-cone.
                          Water holes on the pine-cone can be seen. 
                          http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?17959-Pining-for-the-truth

                          Thanks to Roger-Pears who found online on February 16th, 2015, the following copy of a drawing of the fountain, itself taken from Huelsen. (A. van den Hoek & John H. Herrmann Jr, “Paulinus of Nola, courtyards and canthari: a second look”, In: A. van den Hoek &c, Pottery, Pavements, and Paradise: Iconographic and Textual Studies on Late Antiquity, Brill (2013), p.45, fig. 13; C. Huelsen, “Der Cantharus von Alt-St. -Peter und die antiken Pignen-Brunnen,”, Romische Mitteilungen 19 (1904), 88-102. Plate 5a.  Online at Archive.org here.)
                          Water installation with bronze pine-cone in the atrium of Old St Peter's, Rome. Drawing by Cronaca (1457-1505). Uffizi, Florence, 1572.Water installation with bronze pine-cone in the atrium of Old St Peter’s Basilica, Rome. Drawing by Cronaca (1457-1505). Uffizi, Florence, 1572.

                          Further drawings in Heulsen article:
                          huelsen_fig3
                          Andrea della Vaccaria, “Ornamenti di fabriche antichi e moderni dell’alma citta di Roma”, 1600, quarto.

                          huelsen_fig2
                          Another image from a manuscript, Ms. Brussels 17872, fol. 56v, by Philipp de Winghe, and made around 1591-2.
                          http://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2015/02/16/the-fountain-of-the-pine-cone-outside-old-st-peters-in-rome/


                          Drawing of St.Peter's fountain by
                          Francisco de Hollanda (early 1500s)


                          St. Peter's fountain, in a pen drawing by anonymous (c. 1525) "Medieval chronicles such as the famous Mirabilia Urbis Romae (12th century) mentioned St. Peter's fountain among the city's noticeable features. The water gushed from hundreds of tiny holes on its surface...Scarce Renaissance drawings feature the fountain standing in the center of a square basin, covered by a canopy that rested over eight columns (originally they were four) and richly decorated with marbles of various types; in particular on its top parts were bronze peacocks; maybe from the mausoleum of Hadrian, which in the description provided by the chronicle are referred to as 'griffons' covered with a gold leaf...When St. Peter's was completely rebuilt (1506-1614), the fountain and the canopy were dismantled, and most of the precious materials were reused for other purposes. The only parts spared were the peacocks and the pine-cone, which around 1565 Pirro Ligorio set in the large niche of the Courtyard of Belvedere,, later renamed of the Pine-cone. The peacocks now on display in the courtyard are copies; the original ones, which still shine as gold (as the old chronicle says), are kept indoors, in the Braccio Nuovo (new wing) of the Chiaramonti Museum (Vatican Museums)." http://roma.andreapollett.com/S3/roma-ft1b.htm

                          Quote These pine-cones were a customary feature of the classic fountain, as the scales of the cone present natural and graceful outlets for the falling water. Symmachus’s fountain was one of the beauties of Rome in the days when the great Gothic King Theodoric ruled and loved the city. Three hundred years later it captivated the fancy of Charlemagne, crowned Emperor in St. Peter’s on Christmas Day, 800; and the fountain afterward erected before his great cathedral at Aix [now Aachen Cathedral] is ornamented with a huge pine-cone like the one which he and his Franks had seen in the exquisite fountain of St. Peter’s.

                          http://www.garden-fountains.us/fount...rs-fountain/5/
                          One of the original bronze peacocks.

                          hellenismo: bronze peacock from Hadrian’s Mausoleum, now in the Vatican Museum…
                          One of the original peacocks now in Braccacio Museum. Two bronze peacocks are from Hadrian’s Mausoleum (tomb).
                          Bronze peacocks lent by Vatican to be shown in British Museum.  http://www.standard.co.uk/arts/walltowall-hadrian-7408277.html

                          The present Pigna in the Vatican seems to be a left-over from the original Basilica of St. Peter. The left-over may be two bronze artifacts: 1. bronze pine-cone in original; 2. replicas of two bronze peacocks originals of which ar kept in Braccacio Nuovo Museum. The question is: how did the two bronze artifacts, the pine-cone and the pair of peacocks get lodged in St. Peter's Basilica. Some answers and some conjectures are discussed.

                          [quote]“Bronze Pine Cone” signed Publius Cincius Salvio from the area of the Baths of Agrippa, maybe fountain in the Temple of Isis (Note: Possible location discussed in Annex A).

                          It was eventually placed in the atrium of the old Basilica of St. Peter.

                          It gave the name to the central neighborhood called Rione Pigna, where the Temple of Isis was originally located. [unquote] 

                          http://romapedia.blogspot.in/2014/10/vatican-museums-courtyard-of-pine-cone.html

                          One surmise is that the pinecone acted as a fountain in the Baths of Agrippa dated to 1st century BCE. 
                          http://roma.andreapollett.com/S5/rione09.htm

                          The surmise is based on the following evidence:
                          Pine-cone and sivalingas as a fountain of water found in a large archaeological complex dating back to the 3rd century BCE in largo di Torre Argentina of Palazzetto Venezia. 

                          Map of the archaeological complex: Largo di Torre Argentina, Rome, Italy

                          This complex had 4 temples dated to A) 3rd cent BCE (Temple of Juturna), B) 101 BCE (Fortuna Huiusce Diei), C) 4th or 3rd cent. (Feronia), D) 2nd cent. BCE (Lares Permarini) devoted to various divinities revered by Gaius Lutalius Catulus, Quintus Lutalius Catulus . Further excavations may perhaps explain the reason for the fountain with the pine-cone surrounded by 4 sivalingas. In Meluhha archaeometallurgical tradition, the sivalingas were stambhas or pillars of light/fire used as ekamukha linga in smelter structures and metalwork areas (as shown in Bhuteshwar relief).

                          Temple: खंडेराव [ khaṇḍērāva ] m (खंड Sword, and राव) An incarnation of Shiva. Popularly खंडेराव is but dimly distinguished from भैरव. खंडोबा [ khaṇḍōbā ] m A familiar appellation of the god खंडेराव. खंडोबाचा कुत्रा [ khaṇḍōbācā kutrā ] m (Dog of खंडोबा. From his being devoted to the temple.) A term for the वाघ्या or male devotee of खंडोबा.

                          Hieroglyph: खंडोबाची काठी [ khaṇḍōbācī kāṭhī ] f The pole of खंडोबा. It belongs to the temples of this god, is taken and presented, in pilgrimages, at the visited shrines, is carried about in processions &c. It is covered with cloth (red and blue), and has a plume (generally from the peacock's tail) waving from its top.
                          The cultural link of metalwork with Rudra-Siva iconically denoted by 1) orthographic variants of linga, 2) ekamukhalinga evidences of Ancient Far East and 3) the presence of linga in the context of a metal smelter in a Bhuteshwar artifact of 2nd cent. BCE is thus an area for further detailed investigation in archaeometallurgy and historical linguistics of Indian Sprachbund.


                          Bera UtsavBera Utsav is a regional festival celebrated in the Murshidabad district of the state of West Bengal. The annual event is organized at the historical and picturesque location of Lalbagh, which at one time was the home of the Nawabs and is located on the banks of River Bhagirathi. People throng the district of Murshidabad to witness this magnificent event.  The event is held on the last Thursday of the Bhadra month of the traditional Bengali calendar.

                          utsavá m. ʻ enterprise ʼ RV., ʻ festival ʼ MBh. [√sū] Pa. ussava -- m. ʻ festival ʼ, Pk. ucchava -- , °chaa -- , ussava -- , ūsa°, ōsa° m., K. wŏċhav, °ċhuwu m.; S. uchaü, och°, ocho m. ʻ feast given to brahmans ʼ; Or. ucha ʻ festival ʼ, osā ʻ festival, vow ʼ. dīpōtsava -- , mahōtsava -- .(CDIAL 1876) 9979 mahōtsava m. ʻ great festival ʼ MBh. [mahā -- , utsavá -- ]Pk. mahocchava -- , °hōsava -- , °hussava -- , °hūsava -- m.; P. mahocchā m. ʻ celebration, appointment of a new mahout ʼ; H. mahochā m. ʻ great festival ʼ, OG.mochava m.(CDIAL 9979)dīpōtsava m. ʻ festival of lights ʼ BhavP. [dīpa -- , utsavá -- ]
                          Pk. dīvūsava -- m. ʻ new moon of Kārtik ʼ; N. deusi ʻ festival beginning on the 5th day of Diwāli ʼ.(CDIAL 6359)

                          In the Vaikhanasa temple, the immovable (Dhruva-bimba or dhruva-bera) main idol that is installed in the sanctum and to which main worship is offered (archa-murti)   represents the primary aspect of the deity known as Vishnu (Vishnu-tattva). The other images in the temple which are worshipped each day during the   ritual sequences are but the variations of the original icon (adi-murti). These other forms are emanations of the main idol, in successive stages. And, within the temple complex, each form is accorded a specific location; successively away from the Dhruva bera.
                          Just as the Vishnu of Rig-Veda takes three strides (trini pada vi-chakrama Vishnuh), the main idol (Dhruva – bera) installed in the temple too takes three forms which are represented by Kautuka-bera, Snapana-bera and Utsava-bera.
                          The Kautuka –bera (usually made of gems, stone, copper, silver, gold or wood and about 1/3 to 5/9 the size of the Dhruva-bera)receives all the daily worship(nitya-archana); the Snapana-bera (usually made of metal and smaller than Kautuka)  receives ceremonial bath (abhisheka)  and the occasional ritual- worship sequences(naimitta-archana); and, the Utsava-bera ( always made of metal ) is for festive occasions and for taking out in processions . To this, another icon is added .This is Bali – bera ( always made of shiny metal) taken out , daily ,  around the central shrine when  food offerings are made to Indra and other devas, as well as to  Jaya and Vijaya the doorkeepers of the Lord ; and to all the elements.
                          And, on occasions when a movable icon is used for daily worship, special rituals, and processions and for food-offering, it is known as Bhoga-bera.
                          These five forms together make Pancha bera or Pancha murti.
                          And again it is said, Purusha is symbolized by Kautuka bera; Satya by Utsava bera; Acchuta by Snapana bera; and Aniruddha by Bali bera.
                          To put these together in a combined form:
                          • The main idol (Dhruva-bera) which is immovable represents Vishnu (Vishnu-tattva).
                          • Purusha symbolized by Kautuka-bera is an emanation of the Dhruva-bera. Kautuka-bera is next in importance, and is an exact replica of the Dhruva-bimba. it is placed in the sanctum very close to Dhruva bera.
                          • Satya symbolized by Utsava-bera (processional deity) emanates from Purusha represented Kautuka-bera. And, Utsava-bera is placed in the next pavilion outside the sanctum.
                          • Achyuta symbolized by Snapana-bera emanates from Satya represented by Utsava-bera. Snapana-bera receives Abhisheka, the ceremonial bath; and, it is placed outside the sanctum in snapana-mantapam enclosure.
                          • Aniruddhda symbolized by Bali-bera emanates from Achyuta represented by Snapana-bera. The food offerings are submitted to Balibera. And, it is placed farthest from the Dhruva-bhera residing in the sanctum.
                          These different icons are not viewed as separate or independent deities; but are understood as emanations from the original icon, Dhruva–bimba.
                          Symbolisms
                          The symbolisms associated with the four murtis (chatur-murti) are many; and are interesting. As said earlier; the four are said to compare with the strides taken by Vishnu/Trivikrama.  The main icon represents Vishnu who is all-pervasive, but, does not move about. When the worship sequences are conducted, the spirit (tejas) of the main idol moves into the Kautuka,-bera, which rests on the worship pedestal (archa-pitha). This is the first stride of Vishnu.Again, at the time of offering ritual bath, the tejas of the main idol moves into the Snapana-bera which is placed in the bathing-enclosure (snapana –mantapa). This is the second stride taken by Vishnu. And, the third stride is that when the Utsava-bera is taken out in processions. This is when the tejas of the Main idol reaches out to all.
                          In Marichi’s Vimana-archa-kalpa the five forms, five types of icons, the pancha-murti (when Vishnu is also counted along with the other four forms) are compared to five types of Vedic sacred fires (pancha-agni): garhapatya; ahavaniya; dakshinAgni; anvaharya; and sabhya. These in turn are compared to the primary elements (earth, water, fire, air, and space). And, the comparison is extended to five vital currents (prana, apana, vyana, udana and samana).
                          Further it is explained; the Vaikhanasa worship-tradition retained the concept of Pancha-Agni, but transformed them into five representations of Vishnu (pancha –murthi): Vishnu, Purusha, Satya, Achyuta and Aniruddha. And, that again was rendered into five types of temple deities as pancha-bera: Dhruva, Kautuka, Snapana, Utsava and Bali.
                          [The Vaikhanasa concept of five forms of Godhead parallels with that of Pancharatara which speaks of: Para, Vyuha, Vibhava, Antaryamin and Archa. Of these, Para is the absolute form, the cause of all existence and it is beyond intellect. Vyuha are the emanations from Para for sustaining creation. The Vyuha, in turn, assumes five worship-worthy forms: Vishnu, Purusha, Satya, Achyuta and Aniruddha. Vibhava represent the Avatars for destroying the evil, uplifting the virtuous and maintain balance in the world.  Antaryamin is the inbeing who resides as jiva in all creatures. And, Archa is the most easily accessible form; the form which protects the devotees and eliminates their sorrows. This is the form that is worshipped in the temples.]
                          Source: agnyāyatanaṁ and agnihotrahomaḥ colophon: punarādheyam 
                          http://muktalib5.org/VEDIC_ROOT/TEXTS/JOGLEKAR/JOGLEKAR-PDF/J0045.pdf

                          गणा f. N. of one of the mothers in स्कन्द's retinue MBh. ix , 2645 (cf. अहर्- , मर्/उद्- , व्/ऋष- , स्/अ- , सप्त्/अ- , स्/अर्व- ; देव-,महा- ,andविद-गण्/अ.) गण [p=343,1] m. a flock , troop , multitude , number , tribe , series , class (of animate or inanimate beings) , body of followers or attendants RV. AV.&c troops or classes of inferior deities (especially certain troops of demi-gods considered as शिव's attendants and under the special superintendence of the god गणे*श ; cf. -देवता) Mn. Ya1jn5. Lalit. &c a single attendant of शिव VarBr2S. Katha1s. Ra1jat. iii , 270N. of गणे*श W.a company , any assemblage or association of men formed for the attainment of the same aims Mn. Ya1jn5. Hit.m. a particular group of सामन्s La1t2y. i , 6 , 5 VarYogay. viii , 7


                          Source: http://muktalib5.org/VEDIC_ROOT/vedic_library.htm
                          ॐ गणानां त्वा गणपतिं हवामहे
                          कविं कवीनामुपमश्रवस्तमम् ।
                          ज्येष्ठराजं ब्रह्मणाम् ब्रह्मणस्पत
                          आ नः शृण्वन्नूतिभिःसीदसादनम् ॥
                          ॐ महागणाधिपतये नमः ॥

                          RV_2,023.01a gaṇānāṃ tvā gaṇapatiṃ havāmahe kaviṃ kavīnām upamaśravastamam |
                          RV_2,023.01c jyeṣṭharājam brahmaṇām brahmaṇas pata ā naḥ śṛṇvann ūtibhiḥ sīda sādanam ||
                          RV_2,023.02a devāś cit te asurya pracetaso bṛhaspate yajñiyam bhāgam ānaśuḥ |
                          RV_2,023.02c usrā iva sūryo jyotiṣā maho viśveṣām ij janitā brahmaṇām asi ||
                          RV_2,023.03a ā vibādhyā parirāpas tamāṃsi ca jyotiṣmantaṃ ratham ṛtasya tiṣṭhasi |
                          RV_2,023.03c bṛhaspate bhīmam amitradambhanaṃ rakṣohaṇaṃ gotrabhidaṃ svarvidam ||
                          RV_2,023.04a sunītibhir nayasi trāyase janaṃ yas tubhyaṃ dāśān na tam aṃho aśnavat |
                          RV_2,023.04c brahmadviṣas tapano manyumīr asi bṛhaspate mahi tat te mahitvanam ||
                          RV_2,023.05a na tam aṃho na duritaṃ kutaś cana nārātayas titirur na dvayāvinaḥ |
                          RV_2,023.05c viśvā id asmād dhvaraso vi bādhase yaṃ sugopā rakṣasi brahmaṇas pate ||
                          RV_2,023.06a tvaṃ no gopāḥ pathikṛd vicakṣaṇas tava vratāya matibhir jarāmahe |
                          RV_2,023.06c bṛhaspate yo no abhi hvaro dadhe svā tam marmartu ducchunā harasvatī ||
                          RV_2,023.07a uta vā yo no marcayād anāgaso 'rātīvā martaḥ sānuko vṛkaḥ |
                          RV_2,023.07c bṛhaspate apa taṃ vartayā pathaḥ sugaṃ no asyai devavītaye kṛdhi ||
                          RV_2,023.08a trātāraṃ tvā tanūnāṃ havāmahe 'vaspartar adhivaktāram asmayum |
                          RV_2,023.08c bṛhaspate devanido ni barhaya mā durevā uttaraṃ sumnam un naśan ||
                          RV_2,023.09a tvayā vayaṃ suvṛdhā brahmaṇas pate spārhā vasu manuṣyā dadīmahi |
                          RV_2,023.09c yā no dūre taḷito yā arātayo 'bhi santi jambhayā tā anapnasaḥ ||
                          RV_2,023.10a tvayā vayam uttamaṃ dhīmahe vayo bṛhaspate papriṇā sasninā yujā |
                          RV_2,023.10c mā no duḥśaṃso abhidipsur īśata pra suśaṃsā matibhis tāriṣīmahi ||
                          RV_2,023.11a anānudo vṛṣabho jagmir āhavaṃ niṣṭaptā śatrum pṛtanāsu sāsahiḥ |
                          RV_2,023.11c asi satya ṛṇayā brahmaṇas pata ugrasya cid damitā vīḷuharṣiṇaḥ ||
                          RV_2,023.12a adevena manasā yo riṣaṇyati śāsām ugro manyamāno jighāṃsati |
                          RV_2,023.12c bṛhaspate mā praṇak tasya no vadho ni karma manyuṃ durevasya śardhataḥ ||
                          RV_2,023.13a bhareṣu havyo namasopasadyo gantā vājeṣu sanitā dhanaṃ-dhanam |
                          RV_2,023.13c viśvā id aryo abhidipsvo mṛdho bṛhaspatir vi vavarhā rathāṃ iva ||
                          RV_2,023.14a tejiṣṭhayā tapanī rakṣasas tapa ye tvā nide dadhire dṛṣṭavīryam |
                          RV_2,023.14c āvis tat kṛṣva yad asat ta ukthyam bṛhaspate vi parirāpo ardaya ||
                          RV_2,023.15a bṛhaspate ati yad aryo arhād dyumad vibhāti kratumaj janeṣu |
                          RV_2,023.15c yad dīdayac chavasa ṛtaprajāta tad asmāsu draviṇaṃ dhehi citram ||
                          RV_2,023.16a mā na stenebhyo ye abhi druhas pade nirāmiṇo ripavo 'nneṣu jāgṛdhuḥ |
                          RV_2,023.16c ā devānām ohate vi vrayo hṛdi bṛhaspate na paraḥ sāmno viduḥ ||
                          RV_2,023.17a viśvebhyo hi tvā bhuvanebhyas pari tvaṣṭājanat sāmnaḥ-sāmnaḥ kaviḥ |
                          RV_2,023.17c sa ṛṇacid ṛṇayā brahmaṇas patir druho hantā maha ṛtasya dhartari ||
                          RV_2,023.18a tava śriye vy ajihīta parvato gavāṃ gotram udasṛjo yad aṅgiraḥ |
                          RV_2,023.18c indreṇa yujā tamasā parīvṛtam bṛhaspate nir apām aubjo arṇavam ||
                          RV_2,023.19a brahmaṇas pate tvam asya yantā sūktasya bodhi tanayaṃ ca jinva |
                          RV_2,023.19c viśvaṃ tad bhadraṃ yad avanti devā bṛhad vadema vidathe suvīrāḥ ||
                          r.s.i: gr.tsamada (a_n:girasa s'aunahotra pas'ca_d) bha_rgava s'aunaka; devata_: br.haspati, 1-5,9,11,17,19 brahman.aspati; chanda: jagati_, 15,19 tris.t.up; Anuva_ka III

                          2.023.01 We invoke the Brahman.aspati, chief leaderof the (heavenly) bands; a sage of sage; abounding beyond measure in (every kind of) food;best lord of prayer; hearing our invocations, come with your protections, and sit down in the chamber of sacrifice. [Brahman.aspati = brahman.o annasya parivr.d.hasya karman.o va_ pa_layita_, the protector or cherisher of food,or of any great or solemn acts of devotion; he has other attributes in the text, as, gan.a_na_m gan.apatih, chief of the gan.as (inferior deities); jyes.t.hara_jam brahman.a_m, the best lord of mantras, or prayers: pras'asyam sva_minam mantra_n.a_m].
                          2.023.02 Br.haspati, destroyer of the asuras, through you the intelligent gods have obtained the sacrificialportion; in like manner as the adorable sun generates the (solar) rays by his radiance, so are you the generator of all prayers. [Br.haspati = Brahman.aspati; perhaps Br.haspati is of a more martial character; his protection is souhght for against enemies and evil spirits; perhaps, br.hata_m veda_na_m pa_lakah: br.hat = mantra, br.hato mantrasya, sva_min].
                          2.023.03 Having repelled revilers and (dispersed) the darkness you stand Br.haspati, on the radiant chariot of sacrifice, (which is) formidable (to foes), the humiliator of enemies, the destroyer of evil spirits, the cleaver of the clouds, the attainer of heaven.
                          2.023.04 You lead men, Br.haspati, by virtuous instructions; you preserve them (from calamity); sin will never overtake him who presents (offerings) to you; you are the afflicter of him who hates (holy) prayers; you are the punisher of wrath; such is your great mightiness. [Him who hates holy prayers: brahmadvis.ah = those who hate either the bra_hman.as,or the mantras or prayers].
                          2.023.05 The man whom you, Brahman.aspati, a kind protector, defend, neither sorrow nor sin, nor adversaries nor dissemblers ever harm, for you drive away from him all injurious (things).
                          2.023.06 You, Br.haspati, are our protector and the guide of (our) path; (you are) the discerner (of all things); we worship with praises for your adoration; may his own precipitate malice involve him (in destruction) who practises deceit against us.
                          2.023.07 Turn aside from (the true) path, Br.haspati, the arrogant and savage man who advances to injure us, although unoffending and keep us in the right way for (the completion of) this offering to the gods.
                          2.023.08 Br.haspati, defender (from calamity), we invoke you, the protector of our persons, the speaker of encouraging words and well disposed towards us; do you destroy the revilers of the gods; let not the malevolent attain supreme felicity.
                          2.023.09 Through you, Brahman.aspati, (our) benefactor, may we obtain desirable wealth from men destroy those (our) unrighteous enemies, whether nigh or far off, who prevail against us.
                          2.023.10 Through you, Br.haspati, (who are) the fulfiller of our desires; pure, and associated (with us), we possess excellent food; let not the wicked man who wishes to deceive us be our master; but let us, excelling in (pious) praises, attain (prosperity).
                          2.023.11 You, Brahman.aspati, who have no requiter (of your bounty), who are the showerer (of benefits), the repairer to combat, the consumer of foes, the victor in battles, you are true, the discharger of debts, the humiliator of the fierce and of the exulting.
                          2.023.12 Let not, Br.haspati, the murderous (weapon) of that man reach us, who, with unrighteous mind, seeks to harm us; who, fierce and arrogant, designs to kill (your) worshippers; may we baffle the wrath of the strong evil-doer].
                          2.023.13 Br.haspati is to be invoked in battles; he is to be approached with reverence; he who moves amidst combats, the distributor of repeated wealth; the lord Br.haspati has verily overturned all the assailing malignant (hosts), like chariots (overturned in battle).
                          2.023.14 Consume with your brightest (weapon) the ra_ks.asas, who have held your witnessed prowess in disdain; manifest, Br.haspati, your glorified (vigour), such as it was (of old), and destroy those who speak against you.
                          2.023.15 Br.haspati, born of truth, grant us that wonderful treasure, wherewith the pious man may worship exceedingly; that (wealth) which shines amongst men; which is endowed with lustre, (is) the means of (performing holy) rites, and invogirates (its possessor) with strength. [dravin.am citram = lit., various or wonderful wealth; in the Bra_hman.as it is interpreted as brahma varcas or tejas, brahmanical virtue or energy (cf. Yajus. 26.3; dravin.am = dhanam (Aitareya Bra_hman.a 4.11)].
                          2.023.16 Deliver us not to the thieves, the enemies delighting in violence, who seize ever upon the food (of others); those who cherish in their hearts the abandonment (of the gods); (they), Br.haspati, who do not know the extent of (your) power (against evil spirits). [Who do not know the extenf of your power: na parah sa_mno viduh = ye puma_msah sa_mnah sa_maya_t tvattah parah parasta_d anyadukr.s.t.am sa_ma yad raks.oghnam na ja_nanti, those men who do not know anything greater than the faculty of destroying ra_ks.asas, derived from you made up of that faculty; sa_ma vai raks.oha = sa_ma is the killer of ra_ks.asas].
                          2.023.17 Tvas.t.a_ engendered you (chief) amongst all beings, (whence) you are the reciter of many a holy hymn: Brahman.aspati acknowledges a debt to the performer of a sacred rite; he is the acquitter (of the debt), and the destoyer of the oppressor. [When you are the reciter: sa_mnah sa_mnah kavih, the reicter or another of every sa_ma, sarvasya sa_mnah ucca_rayita_ karta_si; or kavi refers to tvas.t.a_, further explained as the sage who created Brahman.aspati by the efficacy of the sa_ma: sa_mnah sa_ren.a tvam aji_janat; acknowledges a debt: r.n.acit stotr.ka_mam r.n.am iva cinoti, he takes the intention of the praiser as if it was a debt, or obligation; acquitter of the debt: r.n.aya is explained as the discharger or remover of the debt which is of the nature of sin: pa_paru_pasya r.n.asya pr.thak karta_].
                          2.023.18 When Br.haspati, descendant of An:giras, for your glory, Parvata had concealed the herd o fkine, you did set them free, and with thine associate, Indra, did send down the ocean of water which had been enveloped by darkness.
                          2.023.19 Brahman.aspati, who are the regulator of this (world), understand (the purport) of (our) hymn, and grant us posterity; for all is prosperous that the gods protect; (and therefore) may we blessed with excellent descendants, glorify you at this sacrifice. [Yajus. 34.58; vadema = may we declare or glorify you; or, let us speak, let what we ask be given to us;let it be enjoyed by us: di_yata_m bhujyata_m ucca_rayema].

                          Meaning:

                          1: Om, O Ganapati, To You Who are the Lord of the Ganas (Celestial Attendants or Followers), weOffer our Sacrificial Oblations,
                          2: You are the Wisdom of the Wise and the Uppermost in Glory,
                          3: You are the Eldest Lord (i.e. ever Unborn) and is of the Nature of Brahman (Absolute Consciousness); You are the Embodiment of the Sacred Pranava (Om),
                          4: Please come to us by Listening to our Prayers and be Present in the Seat of this Sacred Sacrificial Altar.
                          5: Om, our Prostrations to the Mahaganadhipati (the Great Lord of the Ganas).

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                          S. Kalyanaraman
                          February 21, 2016
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                          The weft and warp of JNU plot -- Ram Kumar Ohri, IPS (Retd). NaMo, nationalise kaalaadhan.

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                          THE WEFT  AND  WARP  OF   JNU  PLOT 
                          -         “Facts  don’t  cease to exist because they are ignored”--  Aldous Huxley

                          Ram Kumar Ohri, IPS (Retd)      

                                      For the last fifteen years the left-oriented academia of Jawaharlal Nehru University have been actively promoting and propagating the divisive politics  aimed at balkanization of India.  The Marxism-infected teachers and ultra-leftist parties like the All India Students Association (i.e. AISA), the Democratic Students Union (DSU) and  the  All India Students Federation  (AISF)  have been fuelling the fire of  divisive religious identity and  caste-based politics in an unabashed manner. 
                          Divisive and Communal Politics of Leftists
                                      Though in theory the Marxist debunk religion and berate the caste-based politics, in practice they have been following the strategy of crass opportunism in pursuit of  their power-grabbing ambition. They openly embrace the communal agenda of minorities and align with  regional outfits like the Samajwadi Party, Janata Dal United, Rashtriya Janata Dal, Hurriyet, et al, and espouse their cause. The lionizing of the killers of 76 CRPF Jawans in 2010, the communal-coloured support  of the  beef festival and encouraging the glorification of  Mahishasur in JNU by the leftist cabal were patently anti-national activities of provocative nature. The organizing of a pro-Afzal  rally in the JNU on 9th February 2016  was therefore a logical consequence of tightening of the grip of  Marxists and ultra-Islamic spies embedded in the prestigious educational institution.  Kanahiya Kumar and Umar Khalid  of the DSU, supported by Shehla Rashid Shora of  the AISA, were the prominent organizers of the anti-national function, deceptively organized as a poetry-reading session. They raised seditious slogans lauding ‘Bharat Ki  Barbadi’, ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ and ‘Nara-e-Takbeer Allah-hu Akbar’ for which Kanhayia was arrested while Umar Khalid and many others are absconding. The preliminary investigation revealed that Umar Khalid who happened to be the son of a prominent leader of SIMI had made 800 calls during a span of 8/9 days, including many to Kashmir, Bangladesh and gulf countries. He had visited a number of Universities and wanted to organize anti-national functions in 18 Universities. Interestingly Kanhaiya Kumar,  Umar Khalid and many of their ilk have found substantial support among media analysts, while the Delhi police has been showered with nasty verbal brickbats for arresting Kanhaiya Kumar ! We are indeed living in low-grade interesting times.
                          Heady Brew of  Communism and Islamism
                                      During the UPA rule the JNU  morphed into a weird educational centre dispensing the heady  mixture of  communism and  Islamism to innocent students of impressionable age!  A classic example of  the Janus like strategy is the dubious conduct of the Vice President of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union,  Comrade Shehla Rashid Shora. Despite being a leading light of the AISA of ‘Lal Salam’ fame, she had conveyed her greetings to the Muslim students of the JNU on the birthday of Prophet Muhammad in the year 2013. She shot into fame among Muslim students with that gesture showing her deep commitment to Islam. After arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar she has tightened her leadership grip by  addressing  a gathering of 3,000 students on 14th February, 2016, which culminated in a protest march.  A 14 minutes clip of her provocative speech was widely circulated on social media sites. According to an AISA watcher, Shehla  has emerged a fiery modern speaker who is likely to outmatch  the razor-sharp outpourings of  Asiya Andrabi of Dukhtran-e-Millat    -  albeitminus Andrabi’s  black veil !  Shehla is a modern and vivacious lady.  
                          Role of 25,000 Wahabbi Mullahs Visiting India
                                  Unfortunately  neither the  secularism-doped  analysts of India, nor the ‘unpaid’ and ‘paid’  column writers  have realized  that the Fifth Columnists and   Fellow  Travellers  planted by Pakistan   have  successfully laid a comprehensive siege to India.  During the UPA regime, led by the  ‘Muslims-Firster’ Dr. Manmohan Singh,  several Islamic outfits were allowed to spread the poison of  secessionist ideology.  A classic example  of  deliberately encouraging radicalization of  Muslims was the decision to allow nearly 25 thousand Wahabbi Ulemas and preachers from West Asia  to visit India in the year 2013.   In a secret note to the central government the  Intelligence Bureau  had  highlighted  that   25,000 Islamic scholars from 20 countries  had gone around eight Indian states, namely  Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Bihar, Maharashtra and Jharkhand.   They were allowed to   address nearly  twelve lakh (i.e.,1.2 million)  Muslim youth studying in 7000 registered Madarsas  and preach  to  them the  hard-line Islamic doctrines.  Their avowed goal was to spread  hatred against kaffirs  (read Hindus)  and motivate the faithful  for  implementing the Sharia law in India. 
                                     It is alleged that  some pro-Islamism  teachers and students from a few universities and colleges had met the visiting Islamic preachers to exchange notes.  Some of them had reportedly come from Kashmir valley to interact with the foreign Mullahs.   It needs to be investigated whether anyone from the JNU had met and communicated with the radical Ulemas who came from West Asia.
                          ISI’s Spynests in India
                                    In early 2004, a Mumbai-based strategic  Thinktank, chaired by Sundeep  Waslekar,  had  published a  book titled. ‘Cost of Conflict   Between India andPakistan’, giving details of the activities of the Inter Services Intelligence of Pakistan in India  - largely managed and monitored through  thousands of Madarsas (i.e., Islamic seminaries) spread across various States.  Waslekar’s research highlighted several sinister aspects of the fast-rising  network  of  the spies planted  across India by Pakistan to subvert and destroy the Indian nation (read the Hindu identity of India).  It drew attention to the virulent anti-national preachings in  most  madarsas  of  India encouraged by Pakistani agents.   Waslekar’s study  contained useful details of  the activities of  the  ISI  of  Pakistan,  presumably culled from   a leaked  secret  official White Paper  allegedly prepared  during the tenure of  Lal Krishan Advani who remained Home Minister throughout  the tenure of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).  
                                    Mysteriously the so-called ‘white paper’, originally tom-tomed  by L.K. Advani as a great expose` of  the rising crescendo of the ISI’s footprints in India,  never saw light of the day.  A fairly reliable source disclosed that one important reason for not publishing the ‘White Paper on the Inter Services Intelligence of Pakistan’ was the fear of losing Muslim votes which Advani  hoped to garner.    According to the Lutyen’s rumour mill, the former Home Minister  was allegedly warned  by a left-oriented adviser  about the adverse  fall out  on Muslim  voters if  the proposed White Paper  was made public. 
                          Mindboggling  Sweep  of  ISI Spynests in India.
                                    According to Waslekar,  by the  end of  2004 itself, the Inter Services Intelligence  (known as I.S.I.) had spread its tentacles all over India by establishing  sixty  Spying Centres across the country in which nearly 10,000 spies were employed.   And  most of  the ISI operatives were Indians. As many as nine States, namely Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Jharkhand were actively flooded by the ISI modules.  Call it an accident or a subtle design, if you will,  the  25,000 Maulanas from West Asia visiting India in 2013, too,  had majorly focussed on Madrasas in these nine States.  Waslekar has explained in his tome how   an effective network of  radicalization through Islamic seminaries has been spread across the country by the ISI.  
                           Sundeep  Waslekar  of  the Strategic Foresight Group deserves to be congratulated for candidly unravelling the  highly  informative narrative of  activities of  the  ISI  of across India.  
                          The latest discovery about  a super spy  codenamed  ‘Honeybee’ planted in India by the ISI has given a new twist  to the narrative of  Pro-Pakistani fifth columnists and fellow-travellers embedded  in Indian polity !   Interestingly the  news that a  super-spy Honeybee is aided by a retinue of  ‘chuhes’(i.e., rats) operating in India, was broken  by Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clarke in their scholarly book, The Seige.    It is amazing that the boast of  Major Iqbal of the ISI about the cleverly planted Honeybee in India, highlighted  two years ago by Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clarke, did not receive serious notice of  the Indian intelligence agencies. Incidentally the name of   the same  Pakistani  Major  Iqbal also figured prominently in the deposition made by David Headley  in  the second week  of  February 2016  before Justice G.A. Sanap of the Maharashtra Special Court.
                          To recapitulate, the well researched assessment of Sundeep Waslekar asserted  nearly  twelve years  ago (i.e., by the year 2004) the the  ISI  had  successfully  set up as many as  sixty  regular Espionage  Centres all over India in which nearly ten thousand   trained  spies were employed.   Well, that was a rough  estimate made  in 2004.  By now the number of  active  ISI-planted  Espionage Centres  in India is said to have more than doubled, while the funds allocated for espionage across India have  been increased five-fold by Pakistan.  These espionage centres   constitute   formidable  spynests  of   Pakistan’s  fifth columnists  whose  numbers are growing exponentially. The well-organised mini-rebellions in the JNU and Jadavpur Universities  emphasize the need to ascertain whether  the ISI of Pakistan has succeeded in setting up spynests in some Indian Universities for subverting the Indian nation.  
                          Battalions of  Fifth Columnists Visible Across India
                                    An  associate  of  Yasin Bhatkal, Danish Ansari, had admitted  in a statement that in  the year  2010   Yasin Bhatkal had told him that approximately 33,000 mujahideen  had been recruited by him  all over India and that his  close confidante, Waqas, was the outfit’s expert bomb-maker.1  The statement was got recorded under Section 164 Cr,P.C. before a Magistrate by the National Investigation Agency.  Yasin  Bhaatkal further added that the Indian Mujahideen proposed to take over India, but were  handicapped by shortage  of weapons.  If  Yasin Bhatkal’s  disclosure is true, his 33,000 jihadis constitute  a major internal threat to our national  security posed by aformidable army of  traitors whose single-minded  mission is to subvert India.2  To these may be added the 25,000 traitors who applauded  Akbaruddin Owaisi’s  sedition-laden  speech on 22nd December, 2012, at  Nirmal in Adilabad (erstwhile Andhra Pradesh)  and the roar 40,000  mobsters  of  the  Raza Academy who  started a riot on  11th August,  2012,  in Azad Maidan, Mumbai. 
                                    Apart from battalions and  brigades of  fifth columnists, Pakistan has also planted a huge  army of termites in the guise of fellow-travellers in the woodwork of  secularism-doped politicians and  ‘paid’ media. These Quislings constitute a dangerous  group  of  politicians-turned  traitors whose single-purpose mission is to subvert India and Islamicise the entire sub-continent.
                          Selig Harrison’s Warning  About Murky Role of Communists
                                      In a very  perceptive analysis about the future turns and twists in India's polity,  the  well known U.S. based strategic analyst,  Selig S. Harrison, had conveyed a dire warning  as early as 1960  in his book, ‘India: The Most Dangerous Decades’.  He had predicted that in the coming decades  due to machinations of  Indian communists  the centrifugal forces will gather momentum  which was likely to break  India  into a number of  states.   He prophesied  that the  Indian communists will  play a major role in balkanising India by  manipulating  the destructive casteist and  regional political outfits.    He persuasively argued that the growth of  regional parties will result in the emergence of  regional supremos whose  political careers will not depend on their loyalty to the Indian State. They will draw political power from their pretensions to satisfy the regional demands, even at the cost of harming the national interests. The communists will play a decisive role in eroding the Indian democracy.
                          In his well researched treatise Harrison had specifically marked out the communists as a major force seeking destruction  of  the unity of  India by fanning a divisive maelstrom.  Though Harrison's forecast about the communists trying to destabilize  India  by supporting the separatist and casteist political groups has been delayed by five decades,  just now his foreboding fears seem to be coming true. 
                                    Time has come for the  intelligence agencies to step up vigilance on radical leftist outfits and  associated  Islamic  groups who shouted slogans eulogizing ‘Bharat Ki Barbadi’  and ‘Nara-e Takbir Allah-hu-Akbar’ in the JNU on 9th February, which was  followed next day by  preaching sedition  at the Press Club of  India under the stewardship of  SAR Geelani and his henchmen. This diabolical conspiracy hatched in collusion with foreign elements must be thoroughly investigated and prised open to convey a timely warning to  the Indian masses about the malefic design of  the  communist outfits strutting across Indian Universities to  divide and destroy.  The slogan, ‘Jang rahegi, jang rahegi, Bharat ki barbadi tak’ shouted in the JNU  campus sums up the goal of communists bonding with Islamic radicals.
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                          References:
                          1.     Smriti Singh, Bhatkal wanted to carry out fidayeen strike in train with foreign passengers, Economic Times, New Delhi,   March 2, 2011
                          2.     Ibid. 

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