Indian Woman Arrested for Slapping Army Officer in Viral Video

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Good Morning India...
The response of the Army Officer.
"Without any provocation from our side, the woman started hurling abuses and slapped me and my driver for 5-7 minutes. We were very angry but we did not utter a single word as we respect civilians, especially women," JCO Mahavir Singh said.

I read a lot of trolls against the Army from civilians and others, some ran like this ".

One woman slaps a fauji. Faujis cry on social media. She gets arrested. Faujis celebrating as if they captured ISLAMABAD. Faujis only proving they are jokers. Hundreds of faujis commit suicide due to frustration because of attitude of civil administration. Faujis relatives in connivance with civil administration marow their property. SUICIDES KILL MORE FAUJIS THAN PAKI TERRORISM
Road accidents kill more faujis than PAKI TERRORISM . Ie civilians killing more faujis than PAKIS
Faujis are such idiots that none of them takes up these issues and are busy celebrating arrest of one woman who slapped a fauji. This woman will apologise in court and get away.
And faujis will look like fools"

I have this to say to such fools:
I think all of you mistake a faujis patience as cowardice or foolishness, and tend to make fun of him. I can assure you none of us is foolish or Naive. Thank your stars that we have the patience of Job, a mythical biblical character. We have an immense and unyielding degree of patience and conviction, especially in the face of problems or difficulty. Quoting a reference to the biblical figure Job, whose absolute faith in God remained unshaken despite the numerous afflictions set upon himself, his family, and his estate by Satan. This field of work demands that you have the patience of Job.

If you're looking for immediate results, you're in the wrong profession. If it was otherwise the heads of criminal politicians and government officials would have rolled a long time ago. The buggers would not have known what hit them. Our veterans protesting at Jantar Mantar for OROP is a fine example. You know a whole lot of them are expert snipers, gunsmiths commandos and what have you. Had they not respected civilians and democracy, they could have made execution squads and made hits, No civilian fuckker would have known what hit them. All the criminal babus and politicians and the police who slapped and manhandled retired veterans at Jantar Mantar, would be wearing diapers to stop their daily diarrhoea from staining their trousers.

So be grateful and happy that we are there for this nation whatever civilians do, misuse us, deride us, or fool us. We always remember the oath which we administered to ourselves while passing out of the portals of The IMA Dehradun and ensured it was followed by every mother who wore a uniform of the Indian Army. Do not wake a "sleeping giant", do not provoke or arouse someone that is more powerful than yourself. "إياك أن توقظ الأسد النائم". If that happens there will be hell to pay my friends.

PMO asks Ministry of Defence to clear tourist litter in high-altitude areas

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Good Evening India….

I apologise to my civilian friends for this unacceptable bout of my anger leading to my writing this. Yet all of you should know what is happening with the glorious Indian Army and the extent to which these babus will go to demean them. This is a democracy otherwise the Kukris would have been out a long time ago. I request all of you to do your bit to restrain the PMO and the MOD from such antics, in which ever way you can, otherwise we the Indian Army may not remain fit to fight another war successfully.

PMO asks Ministry of Defence to clear tourist litter in high-altitude areas

THE PRIME Minister’s Office (PMO) has asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to ensure that waste left behind by tourists in high-altitude locations in the country is removed. Disclosing this here on Saturday, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said, “Many of these high-altitude bases are not reachable by tourists like you and me but still some tourists manage to get there. The junk left behind (by the tourists) never decomposes because of conditions prevailing there (read frozen human crap or shit, frozen piss, plastics, leftover food, food and water cans and what have you). So one of the objectives of the Swachhta Abhiyan for us would be to go to those high-altitude positions and clean them.”

Kargil and Ladakh areas of Jammu and Kashmir, and Sikkim in the Northeast see a large number of tourists every year. At many remote locations, there is negligible presence of civilian administration, and only the Indian Army is present in numbers. The Defence Minister was in Kasauli, a hill town in Himachal Pradesh, to award Open Defecation-Free (ODF) certificates to eight cantonments under the Army’s Western Command. These are Amritsar, Dalhousie, Dagshai, Ferozepur, Jalandhar, Jutogh, Kasauli and Subathu cantonments.

I think this is a babu chal. I do not think this is the Prime Ministers idea at all. I think all babus in PMO, MOD, and all other ministries should be herded together, moved out from their air conditioned offices, air lifted to Leh Ladakh, Sikkim parts of Nepal and further North, put under Army battalion Commanders and made to clean the frozen shit and piss of civilians with their hands, have them filled it in gunny bags and then flown back with it to New Delhi for disposal. Let them dispose it in their Lutyens Delhi thunder boxes and flush it down the drains of the capital.

The Indian Armed Forces are meant to be a fighting and protection force. While they need to do their bit to keep their area clean and hygienic, it is NOT their job to clean the mess created by tourists. Directing them to ensure the Swacch Bharat Abhiyaan is going forward by making them clean high altitude areas is NOT OKAY and is demeaning. Highly demeaning. I hope the Chief of the Army staff has balls big enough to take a bloody stand even at the expense of his “Naukri” aka job.

We wish the PMO, Defence Ministry and the Defence Minister of India to make a statement and cancel these directives.
If you reduce the Army to carriers of night soil, which was banned a long time ago and safaiwalas of this Nation (no excuses for whatever the conditions), this Nation is heading for trouble with a capital “T”.

This statement of the Raksha Mantri ““Many of these high-altitude bases are not reachable by tourists like you and me but still some tourists manage to get there”. What do you mean madam that some tourists manage to get there? It’s a multi million dollar tourist industry, who are we trying to fool. If so then ban all civilian movement out there, or arrest the buggers and make them clean their crap when they move down. Telling the Army to clean their poop is downright unacceptable.

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The proverbial pot of sins of these Babus and the Government is now at the point of overflowing as far as the Defence Forces of India are concerned. There is a likely hood of serious outcomes having local and world wide repercussions. These corrupt, criminal entities think that we are still an Army just out of Pickwick papers and will always do their bidding, irrespective of illegal and other injustices heaped upon us. 

Like the British trained the old British Indian Army to think in terms of asking questions of their rulers as being very close to mutiny.. It is important to recall what happened to the finest Fighting Force in the world during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

The Defence Forces of India are the only entity which are not corrupt, do not ask for more than what they had been promised legally as terms of service conditions while joining. The Armed Forces do not have a majority of a bunch of criminals with registered cases for dacoity, loot, thuggery, rape and molesters roaming around in the garb of politicians ruling this country, where the EC and judiciary are afraid to ban them from elections for a lifetime.

These bunch of babus which form the GOI on which illiterate politicians and part time Ministers are dependant for running day to day governance, embezzling tax payers money are whittling away our Izzat (respect), facilities and what have you at every opportunity. 1857 in a different form is now in the making. Youngsters may not join the Army, the Navy or the Air Force looking at the state of affairs. In the near future there may be plenty of Sukhois but no pilots to fill the cockpit seats nor technicians to maintain them, or no naval personnel to sail the destroyers and submarines, or soldiers to man weapon systems and fight a ground battle.

This stark reality does not appear to bother this Nation nor its Government, which is so callous that it does not even appoint a Minister of Defence. This is the start, that a Senior Army Officer is on the way to lodging a case against the Babus and the GOI for reneging on the terms of service legally promised for citizens joining the Forces. What can be more shameful. Fit case for everybody concerned to drown them selves in a fistful of water.

"Attend now, my braves. I have mustered ye all round this capstan; and ye mates, flank me with your lances; and ye harpooners, stand there with your irons; and ye, stout mariners, ring me in, that I may in some sort revive a noble custom of my fisherman fathers before me. O men, you will yet see that - Ha! boy, come back? bad pennies come not sooner. Hand it me. Why, now, this pewter had run brimming again, wer't not thou St. Vitus' imp - away, thou ague!

"Advance, ye mates! Cross your lances full before me." Amen".

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Army officer’s legal notice to Centre over free ration

The Centre's decision to stop free rations to military officers in peace postings+ has sparked off a legal battle with a senior Army officer sending a notice to the government through defence secretary Sanjay Mitra, seeking a reversal of the order within 60 days.

Deputy Judge Advocate-General of Headquarters 12 Corps Col Mukul Dev has threatened to move court after this period if the order is not reversed. A copy of the letter is with TOI.

In his notice, under Section 80 of the Civil Procedure Code, Col Dev states that he joined the Army in 1988 after going through an UPSC advertisement/notification in a leading newspaper regarding the Combined Defence Services examination.

"Besides other terms and conditions of service clearly spelt out in the notification, there was the provision of free rations. There was no mention of the provision of cash in lieu of free rations. It was only after weighing all the conditions of service that I applied for a commission in the Army. It has now been intimated that officers of the Indian Armed Forces posted in peace areas won't receive any free rations with effect from July 1. They shall be paid a paltry sum of Rs 96.03 as ration money.

STOP THE TANK : A BATTLE TANK, DEVOID OF ALL ITS FITMENTS KEPT AS A SOUVENIR AT JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY

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Good Evening India….

This was a left hand side write up on the Editorial page of the Indian Express of 25th July which I reproduce below, author un-named. I think the heads, I mean the Intellectual, cognitive capabilities and the psychology of the thinking process of Seema Chisti and her editors requires to be examined. By cognitive I mean Psychological processes involved in acquisition and understanding of knowledge, formation of beliefs and attitudes, and decision making and problem solving. 

I think its time Seema Chisti and her cohorts in the IE, should be required to read Frank Dikötter’s masterpiece of historical investigation and be forever reminded of their complicity in one of the 20th century’s most criminal regimes. Frank Dikötter has helped throw back the shroud on this period of monumental, man-made catastrophe. With both narrative vigour and scholarly rigour, Mao's Great Famine documents how Mao Zedong's impetuosity was the demise of tens of millions of ordinary Chinese who perished unnecessarily in this spasm of revolutionary extremism.' - Orville Schell, former Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.

With the likes of these people at the helm of propaganda, who knows, we may be heading for such brutalities in another guise. It is time the citizens of this country woke up and paid put to these pseudo seculars, government basher pseudo intellectuals who garnish a loin of roast pork with cream and sugar icing and making it an art of shoving it down our throats.

Yes, this is intellectual Debauchery to its extremes.
It's at times good to air one’s views, it gets off your chest once and for all stuff that has come to mind that has a significance with how you think and your views and perceptions of life. It's also subliminally how you are as a person too, and that is probably the part or element of you that materialises in what you say and possibly what you'd rather keep to yourself, even though there's nothing wrong with giving that information out, it's just that it can throw signals about you that could be deemed negative, but that's the way it is.

Facebook and to some extent Twitter and others are the most popular areas of voicing one's opinion publicly, rants can include birthday bashes, general events, personal gripes, world and political comments, views on society at large, our work, or something we feel we can boast about to try and elevate our status somewhat, alternatively we can ramble on about something not so grand and try to solicit sympathy, there are other endless permutations linked to why we do things.

However when it comes to a National news paper of repute (hic!), it becomes more important to be more rational and neutral in the thinking which goes into editorials. After all news papers are read by scores of citizens Nationwide, and one way or the other there is always a subtle conditioning of perceptions, which always must be kept in mind.

Therefore I personally feel news papers should stick to reporting news and not sitting in judgement and moralising on issues.
Today, in our short lived throwaway society of cheap morals, high levels of mental health problems and instability, all avenues are open which we may take because it gives us some kudos or pleasure (and the type of pleasure is subjective here) in stating our case, it’s usually because we can and it's available and more open than being cloistered in a closed loop of internal congregants. However news papers like the likes of the IE and their Chief Editors like the Communistic government bashing Seema Chisti, take this Intellectual Debauchery to ridiculous extents.

If you read this statement below
“The university ought to be a safe haven for the freedom of thought where nothing except knowledge is sacred, and where questions are far more important than easy answers. The tank would be a conversation-stopper”. Further goes on to state, “That's serious stopping power, especially in a context in which public debate is already being conditioned by a pervasive militarisation, which romanticises symbols like flags and uniforms and demonises the critical faculty as anti-national”.
Nothing can be more Moronic.

There are nut cases galore in the domain of paid news but this takes the cake.

I reproduce the editorial from the IE.

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STOP THE TANK

JNU's VC peddles a dangerous idea. University must not
succumb to pervasive militarisation that threatens debate

M JAGADESH KUMAR, VICE-CHANCELLOR of Jawaharlal Nehru University,
has sought the help of General V.K. Singh to have an army tank parked on campus, to remind students of the sacrifices soldiers make. Would he like the tank to be armed with live ammunition to give the reminder additional force? Per formative, self-congratulatory patriotism remains the last refuge of the discredited, but the VC may well discover that a tank is poor armour against the objections of those who still remember that a university campus is an inappropriate venue for the valorisation of militarism.

Of course, the men and women in uniform deserve our respect and gratitude. But this should not be symbolically expressed at institutions of learning. Commemorative military hardware is displayed at institutions and in prominent places in several Indian cities, to remind citizens of the role of the military. That is where the tank belongs, in public spaces, not on campus, where it can only be a minatory presence attenuating debate.

Not so long ago, JNU was the epicentre of the battle over nationalism, and it would now seem that having run out of arguments, the VC wants to trundle in a tank as the last word. 

That's serious stopping power, especially in a context in which public debate is already being conditioned by a pervasive militarisation, which romanticises symbols like flags and uniforms and demonises the critical faculty as anti-national. Kumar asked for his tank at the first ever celebration of Kargil Vijay Diwas at JNU, which was attended by two NDA ministers. Two of the speakers at the function spoke in self-congratulatory tones on the "capture" of JNU, and looked forward to similar occupations of Jadhavpur University and Hyderabad Central University. These institutions, where the question of nationalism was debated energetically, stand on Indian Territory. The notion of occupying or capturing them is simply bizarre.

It is also sobering. The last time heavy armour figured prominently in campus life in South Asia was in East Pakistan on the night of March 25, 1971. General Yahya Khan's tanks rolled into Dhaka University as part of Operation Searchlight, beginning a massacre of intellectuals. Speaking of tanks on campus naturally recalls that terrible memory. The installation of a tank on an Indian campus would not snuff out the freedom to think quite as suddenly, but it would have an unhealthy effect on academic thought. Armour and academia just don't belong together.

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Amen…..

Call it by its name “India needs to legally reclassify hate crimes as acts of terror” Tanika Sarkar.My Comment

Good morning India…….

This JNU retired professor of History is at it again. I really pity Jawaharlal Nehru University who have harboured and continue to do so, such intellectual horrors of professors. They and their brethren neither have sufficient information nor depth of knowledge to really understand situations, yet sit in judgement and pass laughable comments.
Quote from her article reproduced below in the communist , government basher Seema Chistis news paper the Indian Express:

“Junaid, a young man, looking forward to Eid, was first abused and then brutally knifed to death while his brother lies wounded in a hospital. The cause? They are Muslims, hence beefeaters, hence Pakistanis, and hence easy and natural target for butchery. Note the logic: All beef eaters and all Pakistanis — and by extension, therefore, all
Muslims — are meant for slaughter.”
Fiction perpetrated by ex JNU pseudo seculars and anti nationals.

Facts which came up after investigation
“Junaid’s cousin Sanowar Khan said the conflict erupted because a group of around 15 men wanted to take over the seats where the four were sitting. The fight started because of seats and got worse because they passed communal remarks. They were carrying no meat with them.”
Statement from a co-passenger.
“An altercation took place between the three brothers and some 10 passengers over a seat. The passengers allegedly passed some remarks on the three brothers, who are Muslims, and residents of Khandawali village in Faridabad.”

The train was between Ballabhgarh in Haryana and Mathura when the passengers were attacked. Junaid (17) was stabbed to death, while his brothers Hashim (21) and Shaqir (23) were injured. The condition of Shaqir was “serious”.

One of the Muslim passengers told NDTV later that, “ the dispute started over seats in the crowded train but that the men who assaulted them used communal slurs and referred to them as persons who eat meat.”

So this irresponsible ex professor of this JNU has twisted facts and put them across to kindle communal hatred. She has also gone ahead to say that these hate crimes be reclassified as acts of terror. This is the state of the brains and intellect of our so called learned elders.
These certainly are hate crimes, no doubt about that. Yet are they crimes which can be labelled as acts of terror?

Does she really know the meaning of acts of terror?
Very briefly : Criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the public, a group of persons or particular persons for political purposes are in any circumstance unjustifiable, whatever the considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or any other nature that may be invoked to justify them. Premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against non-combatant targets by sub national groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience.
Terrorism is:
1. Ineluctably political in aims and motives. Violent – or, equally important, threatens violence.
2. Designed to have far-reaching psychological repercussions beyond the immediate victim or target. Conducted either by an organization with an identifiable chain of command or conspiratorial cell structure (whose members wear no uniform or identifying insignia) or by individuals or a small collection of individuals directly influenced, motivated, or inspired by the ideological aims or example of some existent terrorist movement and/or its leaders.
3. Perpetrated by a sub national group or non state entity.

Well these are not acts of terror, not by a long shot Madam Ex Professor of JNU.
Importantly, the root cause for people to lean towards hate crimes has to be eradicated. The prime cause which along with abject poverty is : Lack of Food and shelter, Lack of education, Lack of Financial and Physical Security, Unfulfilled Social needs and Self Respect.

Then why are these hate crimes being perpetrated by Hindus against our Muslim brothers? There has to be a reason. Let us look at some happenings after independence, which this ex professor should have and analysed before letting loose with her pen.

The Nehru-Gandhi pseudo royal family has faithfully preserved the anti-Hindu flavour of ‘secularism’ as handed down by the White colonial rulers who purposefully created an atmosphere that Hindus can be taken for granted. It was an exploitation of Hindu community’s tolerant and accommodative nature in which they were aided by self-serving congressmen like Nehru who proudly claimed that they were “Hindu only by birth” (which apparently latest research has proved wrong, but that they were Muslims by birth). No wonder, the ‘secularism’ of Congress – which open minded people call “pseudo-secularism” – started off with the “ignore Hindu and appease Muslim minority” mindset. It slowly turned anti-Hindu when they started calling Hindu organizations and Hindu leaders “communal” in order to corner minority votes.

After the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat, Sonia went to the extent of calling Modi “Maut Ka Saudagar”. This nasty trick to polarize Indian society on communal lines, however, stands exposed now. But it is a dangerous game of ‘vote bank’ politics in a democracy of 80 percent Hindus who, fortunately, don’t have the habit of looking at everything through religious lens – as Muslims habitually do. The rise of BJP is a serious blow to the communal politics of the entire ‘secular brigade’ whose ‘secular’ status has so far rested squarely on maligning BJP and Hindu organizations. Unfortunately the denizens of JNU still beat that same drum.

Consequences of Appeasement Politics:
Being the largest religious minority (14% of total population) the Muslim community has been the prime target of political appeasement. If the intentions were honest, with so many champions of their cause Muslims should have been the most advanced community by now. But the reality is just the opposite.

Indian Muslim community has traditionally excelled in a variety of professional skills and cultural activities and occupied a special place in the country, but groomed as ‘vote bank’ for decades. The community could not properly integrate into “new” national mainstream of ‘free and secular’ India. Simultaneously, it increasingly sank into poverty and hopelessness. Government funds for numerous schemes were generally siphoned off by the corrupt power brokers of the community. The ‘pseudo-secularists’ also started demanding “reservation” for Muslims in government jobs alongside dalits and other backward communities.

Now with this background of the last 70 years, Hindus about 80 percent, who are a majority in this Nation, have felt deprived of honest opportunity to good education, to Financial and Physical Security, so also for the fulfilment of Cultural and Social needs and Self Respect.
The present Government’s Policy of gauraksha has given this Hindu population, a very small number of the whole, a handle to vent out their frustration, sporadically, on Muslims. As days pass by this brutal venting has obtained alarming proportions.

However it will be wrong to call these acts as “Acts of Terror”, as described above. If one probes beneath this veneer of Society, one can still see Hindus and Muslims getting along fine. I would call it as an outstanding example of integration of diverse cultures. However it is the politicians of this country, who have themselves sunk into extreme depths of the cesspool of morass of their own poop and are now pulling down this great nation along with them. To get votes, power to become filthy rich, they would screw their own aunts, who are now corrupting society, which till yester years was a shining example of cultural and social integration. So also the Circumstances now prevailing world wide on the Muslim front are inflicting severe damage too.

So my dear Ex professor of History from JNU please do a rethink on these issues facing the nation. If you are a true intellectual, I expect you to find rational solutions to these problems affecting our Nations society. Just labelling these acts as acts of terror will not solve anything. Too long have these politicians and pseudo secular intellectuals mixed poison in the once harmonious society of this great Nation. It is now time to rejig from grass roots as far as India is concerned.

New Army For New India. My Comment on this pseudo Intellectual.....

Good Morning India....

I read this article, the first thing in the morning. Did contemplate a bit on it, thought of writing a blog comment then let it go. It appears everybody seems to be evolving and changing with the times including the Kashmiris, politicians, government. Yet this author expects the Army to remain like it was in Victorian times, or one might say in Pickwickian times.

I remember during my tenure in the J&K. Then there was no such thing as stone peltars or locally grown terrorists or anti nationals to that matter. It was mostly cross border terrorism or what ever. To cover their bloody deficiencies and lack of ideas to tackle the present devastating problem, it has become fashionable for the Sekulars, Human Rights people and politicians of all hues to criticise and bastardise the Army. Had the Major saab resorted to firing then what? Yes the Hurriyat and others of their ilk would have got an opportunity to yell, but then what?

The recent so called human shield has given rise to multi decibles of vile rhetoric. Specially from the Congress and the Bas****d Communists. They fail to realise or accept that, the still born baby came through Edwinas skirts during the Nehru Era at Independence and is strictly their problem and they should be the last ones to comment negatively, rather they should go hand in hand with the present GOI to find a solution to essentially a problem of their creation.

The Indian Army is also in a flux of change, trying out various means to tackle impossible situations within the impossible limits laid down by the royal Bottoms of the Judiciary and these bloody turncoats. As I stand in Major Gogois place, I realise the kind of tensions he must have gone through. Had he had a Prenomination of what his action would let loose possibly he would have acted differently.

Most probably a Jeep mounted MMG mowing down 200-300 stone pelters, terrorist supporters, separatists, a killing blood bath and rescued the poll officials and the CRPF personnel. That would have driven a lesson to the anti national separatists, terrorists, so also the Pakistani handlers on the other side. With the Special Powers Act no Court Martial or anything of the sort would be tenable. Jo karna hai kar lo (Do what ever you guys want to, I have done it, period).Yes there would have been a huge hue and cry, Human Rights buggers, NGO's the communists the congress topiwalas would have had a field day shouting from the roof tops. The criminal politicians would have instituted parliamentary committees, theJudiciary would have hit the roofs of their chambers, yet the lesson would have been driven home to the whole lot of stone throwers, instigators, separatist anti nationals, Pakistani handlers the whole lot. You buggers dont meddle with the Army or with an integral part of this country. We will do it every time. Ok you do not like it send us to barracks and sort out your dog crap which you have created since independence, the Army will not clean your poop.

Believe me Kashmir would be on its way to mending itself.

Remember the the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? At least 66,000 people were killed in Hiroshima, while 39,000 were killed in Nagasaki, totalling the deaths to about 105,000. Why did the allies resort to this? Interesting questions which these Communists and Congresse politicians might do well to read. Japan was not trying to carve out one of the US states for themselves either. Worthwhile to remember who suffered? The people they always do. Its time that these jokers realised that the Indian Army is tasked by the constitution to do particular things in a certain manner. It is not a side kick like the Bajarang dal, or the Vanar sena or the Bhim Sena or the Gau sena or what ever sena to be treated by politicians like toilet paper and thrown away after cleaning their poop. Time to drive home a lesson to these pieces of S***.

From the editorial page The Indian Express.

New Army For New India

Relationship between government, army and us is being rewritten, disturbingly so.

Written by Apoorvanand in the Indian Express

Amarinder Singh is part of the “mob” Pratap Bhanu Mehta wants the army to be wary of (‘The march to spectacle’, IE, May 29). That he has been heard by the army and the government is not surprising. Singh wanted a special medal for Major Nitin Leetul Gogoi, the army chief has obliged him. There is also no irony in Defence Minister Arun Jaitley seconding Singh in advocating a free hand to the army, said to be fighting a war in Kashmir. It is also not shocking that a chief minister, who swears by the Constitution and belongs to a “secular” party, places the army above the people when he says, “the Indian army should have an upper hand to be able to negotiate peace on terms that are favourable to the country”.

He forgets that it is for the elected government, not the army, to negotiate peace. This is the message we must read: Making the army supreme, unanswerable to parliament and the judiciary. The government recently moved the Supreme Court asking it to quash its order to investigate excesses committed by the armed forces in Manipur. This is not just about Kashmir — it is about a new India where the army would deal with people independently. We should have seen it coming when the army chief addressed the nation directly through AIR and Doordarshan on Army Day this year. This, a journalist friend felt, should be marked as a turning point for India. A new narrative is emerging in which the army is not only an institution known for its professionalism, but feared by the people, as a guardian is by potentially delinquent children.

Major Gogoi, in this new narrative, is a creative genius. He provides India with a spectacle of the humiliation of Kashmiris. The image of Dar was symbolic: Both hands of Kashmir tied by a brutal power. No bullets fired, no bloodshed, but we have not seen a more brutal picture of the humiliation of a human being in recent times. It was an act of double violence, on the man and his fellow villagers, turned into subjugated spectators.

That it did not shock us when Gogoi addressed the nation through the media after being decorated is a disturbing sign. Before him, and the current army chief, we do not remember any army officer addressing a press conference, not even after the Pakistan Army’s surrender in 1971, not after Operation Blue Star or the Kargil conflict. In all these, the army was the main actor. But it refrained from being seen as the director. It was always seen as following the civil authority. The present government is invoking nationalism to legitimise itself. It is trying to show it is the first government which backs the army. The latter is obliging by making the government’s nationalist agenda its own. Recently, the army vice chief and an air marshal participated in a government programme where offerings were made to the image of Bharat Mata, holding a saffron flag. They saluted and stood at attention when Vande Mataram was sung.

The army has been seen as a non-partisan force. In violent situations, people always sought it. But now, by allowing itself to align with a particular ideological version of nationalism, it is losing that neutrality. It suits the BJP to turn the army into a nationalist army. It is not for nothing that the image of dying soldiers is slammed onto students, artists or workers fighting for their rights.

Amarinder Singh is creating an atmosphere which legitimises a militarist, nationalist India, where the rights of the people are suspended perpetually as there would not be a time when the state is in absolute peace with all sections of its population. It is not only about Kashmir. Kashmir is only a cover.

http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/indian-army-against-kashmir-stone-pelting-new-army-for-new-india-4683374/

A CALL TO INACTION B. K. Chaturvedi (formerly from IAS)” My comments.

FROM HERE AND THERE…..
Good Morning India…..

When I read this article in todays Indian Express “ A CALL TO INACTION”
Punishment to former coal secretary will deter honest officers from taking decisions fearlessly
B. K. Chaturvedi (formerly from IAS)”

I wondered whether I was in Alice’s Wonderland or was the writer BK Chaturvedi out there, a former IAS Babu. I mean this gentleman is practically pleading that most of the babus or may be all, are as honest and pure as a new born baby’s pink bottom! This man, as he claims during his lectures at the Academy “Tried to instil the philosophy of uprightness, fair play and honesty and argued that the government always protected bonafide actions.” So also he keeps harping about these words “Bonafide” and "Honest Decisions” throughout his rambles on the Centre page of IE. What is Bonafide?
It means authentic, genuine, real, true, actual, sterling, sound, legal, legitimate, lawful, valid, unadulterated, unalloyed, proper, straight, fair and square; Informal / honest-to-goodness, legit, pukka.

Now if I apply my mind (which unfortunately resides in my knees due to my Army Service as many IAS babus claim) to the charges on which Shri Harish Chandra Gupta, the pseudo Raja Harish Chandra of today, as made out by his IAS friends, has been convicted and sentenced to jail by the CBI Court, Nothing appears "Bonafide" or "Honest Decision making" to me at all. I think the writer, this former IAS babu’s blood serum sodium could be off mark for such hallucinations or may be my sodium levels have fallen!!

Its one thing to not take money personally but is it OK to allow others to make money from your decisions? Can that be allowed? He may have wilfully allowed others to make money and became a pliant tool in their hands. Why did he not refuse to follow directives and if required resign, when the whole city of Delhi was aware that people were making money? This is a form of intellectual corruption to continue on such posts and to look for post retirement jobs. Does that not amount to corruption?

Whenever IAS people are caught and punished the entire fraternity raise a chorus of decision making in danger bogey. Left to me I would have scrapped these IAS and other Services a long time ago. There are better ways of managing a country than spreading and guarding the Poop of the British Raj.

Gupta has been charged under various sections including 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 409 (criminal breach of trust by public servants) and 420 (cheating) of IPC and under provisions of Prevention of Corruption Act. Some of the cases in which Gupta was summoned as accused by the court include those relating to alleged irregularities in allocation of Thesgora-B Rudrapuri coal block to accused firm Kamal Sponge Steel and Power Ltd (KSSPL) and allocation of Moira and Madhujore (North and South) coal blocks in West Bengal’s Raniganj area to Vikash Metal and Power Ltd.

He is also accused in a case of alleged irregularities in the allotment of the Amarkonda Murgadangal coal block to two companies of Jindal group and allocation of Brahmapuri coal block in Madhya Pradesh to accused firm Pushp Steels and Mining Pvt Ltd (PSMPL). While ordering framing of charges against Gupta and others in the case involving KSSPL, the court had observed that then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was kept in the dark by him. It said Gupta had prima facie violated the law and the trust placed on him on the issue of coal block allocations.

Parakh had pushed for auctions to bring sanity to the allocations, Soren over ruled him. As Parakh’s successor, Gupta was willing to play along with the flawed system. Why did he not insist on conducting auctions, as Parakh did and why also did he not put it on record and on noting, this brilliant Babu, the epitome of Mahatma Gandhi as chorused by his brother officers?
Worse, during his term from 2006 and 2008 the coal ministry’s records went into shambles. Often presentations made by the prospective companies along with the file notes about the same made by the screening committee disappeared. This was pointed out in the damning audit report by the CAG under Vinod Rai, which led to the filing of the cases from 2012 onwards. So this is what Mr. Chaturvedi think bonafide means. I am sorry I may be wrong as I have admitted earlier my brain and knee are in similar locations so maybe I perceive differently!

The CBI and the courts held the lack of evidence was a clear indication of foul play. But Gupta and even Parakh claimed the absence of papers could not be held as the sole reason to prove it was. Yet as of now it is the perceived conspiracy that has got Gupta into trouble. The CBI special court has held that it is not just missing papers but a case where the company was given coal from the 30.76 million tonne block to only manufacture sponge iron but instead diverted the mineral to the markets, a case of malafide. Without the papers, in none of these cases it is possible for the ministry to argue that a transparent system of decision making was adopted.
Unfortunately the bulk of them happened during Gupta’s term from 2006 to 2008. Post retirement, he had joined the Competition Commission of India as a member but as the charges got closer home, he had to resign.

So Mr. Chaturvedi Saheb I think there is no need to defend the indefensible so also put IAS Officers in the line of God Almighty, now that will truly indicate a sodium imbalance. The Supreme Court has also taken a call so let us wait and see. Instead of defending your brethren, you are further damming them, by writing such editorials. I am sorry that you think that honest officers of the IAS (hic) will be deterred from taking “fearless decisions”, because of this pseudo Raja Harish Chanders conviction. Now that is a big laugh, which again makes me think of Alice in wonderland and the big rabbit. Why does this man not assume that his Raja Harishandra may not have been that. 

I reproduce the Article below:

A call to inaction
Punishment to former coal secretary will deter honest officers from taking decisions fearlessly

B. K. Chaturvedi

NEWSPAPER REPORTS INDICATE that a CBI court has found former coal secretary Harish Chandra Gupta guilty of corruption and criminal conspiracy in the allocation of a coal block. There are a large number of other cases waiting in the wings for his prosecution. All these imply some irregu-
larity in allocation and Gupta, as chairman of a committee which used to look into
these cases, is said to be responsible. Thiscase raises certain critical issues of governance. Whether this will encourage officers to take decisions fearlessly is now debatble. It takes away the protection enjoyed by honest civil servants.

When we joined the civil service more than five decades back, many situations were iscussed. A guiding principle was that if you are honest and act in a bonafide manner, there is nothing in our system which can cause you harm. The "mantra" of success was your acting in a bonafide fashion.

Later, as cabinet secretary, I had several occasions to address young officers. I tried to in still the philosophy of uprightness, fair play and honesty and argued that the government always protected bonafide actions. It is extremely worrisome that these guiding principles are now being torn to pieces and a new philosophy is emerging which does not distinguish between honest mistakes
and criminal actions.

Gupta is considered one of the country's most honest civil servants. He has been found guilty because there were some shortcomings in the application for the allotment of a coal block. All such allocations were made by an inter-ministerial committee in consultation with state governments.
The block was allegedly given in violation of the prescribed procedures. All coal block allocations have, since then, been cancelled and allocations are now made through
auctions.There is no charge that he, or other civil servants also convicted in the case, got any
advantage, benefit, money, property or financial gain or made any other gains, finan- cial or non-financial. It is difficult to understand a corruption case in which a guilty person has received no benefits or even planned to get them. What sort of criminal conspiracy is this where you neither get any advantage nor expect any benefit and yet you are held guilty for conspiring?

Administrative systems all over the world are based on the ability of senior officers,leaders of teams, to take risks. Such leadership invariably focusses on outcomes with members of the team acting together to achieve results. At times, in taking such decisions, mistakes are made. In the normal
course, these are reviewed and corrective action is taken. Even in the private sector, which many of us admire for delivering excellent results, some decisions don't work out. Such mistakes are a part of governance structures. With this case, we are sending a clear message: "Do not take risks. Just focus
on procedures." It is a recipe for disaster in a developing economy.

In the 1950s, public investment used to be predominant with private investment lagging behind. The major driver of economic growth is now the private sector. In fact, in the 1990s, there were amendments in the coal act to permit the allocation of coal mines for captive use by private power, cement and steel units. Initially, there was not much demand. As the economy expanded, demand picked up. Private investments increased simultaneously. This required a larger number of approvals from the government for coal blocks, iron ore mines, land, water and environment.

It is necessary for the courts to interpret the law on corruption in a way that is consistent with these new economic realities. The courts must appreciate that bonafide mistakes do not constitute a criminal offence. Our courts have very often used the process of judicial review for public good. Many fundamental rights of citizens today flow out of a very positive interpretation of our "right to life" provided under Article 21 of the Constitution. In fact, the right to education as a fundamental right was first construed from that article.

The current law on corruption suffers from two major problems. First, it does notrequire mens rea to find public servants guilty. This is a major requirement in laws on corruption in most countries. This is also a part of the UN Convention against Corruption Under section 13( 1 )(d)(iii) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, a public servant is guilty even if no advantage was asked for by him or accrues to him or there is no quid pro quo.

Second, the concept of public interest, in violation of which public servants are deemed guilty of corruption, is not defined in the act If a decision is taken which has immense economic benefits for the nation but is not consistent with previously announced guidelines, how should that be treated?

Wi th an expanding private sector, due to the large increase in economic activity, the possibility of mistakes by public servants has increased. Unless bonafide decision-making
is protected, we may be promoting a culture of indecision — a supine civil service will be busy passing papers from one desk to the other.

Not taking decisions is more harmful than taking the wrong decisions. While the latter can be corrected and the country can then move on to the desired direction, indecision evokes the story of the donkey who is said to have sat on the vertex of an isosceles triangle and died of hunger while not able to decide the shorter route to the base where
plenty of green grass was available.

By punishing honest civil servants like Gupta, we may be promoting a civil service which shuffles files from one desk to the other with no outcomes. Our nation cannot afford this.

The writer is former cabinet secretary and Member Planning Commission

Turning India into a land only for Hindus goes against our nation, writes ex-FS Nirupama Rao. My comments...

Good Morning India....

After reading this piece and understanding and becoming conscious of the underlying subtle nuances, which expect this Nation of Hindus to be tolerant of all other religions what ever the cost? Quote Nirupama "Growing up, we were taught to respect all faiths and to be tolerant of differences." Unquote. My question to her was did Christianity teach her that? Given that she went to a Catholic Christian School and College?

Quote "Today we Hindus demand “empathy” from the minorities in our country. A Muslim dairy farmer transporting a cow, even with a permit, is not showing empathy for the majority religion" Unquote. Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Tell me madam, did the Christians too ever exhibit empathy for the Hindu way of life during their rule over India? Why even today their agenda is conversion subtly and not so subtly. Not only in India but all over the world. As a matter of fact during my extensive travels in the African Continent, I found this breed of Christians to have subtly destroyed their religion, culture and the social systems of the native Africans. Preying upon poverty as a handle.

I had to comment and share my thoughts. I agree its a piece of good narrative yet yet yet......

Though a bit strong in its words, I try not beat around the bush.

Sometimes I do sympathise with people like Nirupama Rao, for they know not what they do. However the workings of their inner mind lie bared for the observant. I call this learned behaviour of attitudes and beliefs, which lead to a mire of subconscious intellectual and emotional feelings which we are at a loss to understand, and these dictate our thinking mind to respond and act.. I call it obtaining maturity out of religious wedlock.

Typically as I have experienced personally, I went to a primary school run by missionaries and then a second Senior Cambridge school for my final High School Education. Though this was not a Christian School per say, we had a compulsory "Divinity" period. (Later on I am told this period was made only for Christians) As it turned out I was more well versed in Christianity and the Christian way of life, that I used to ridicule my friends from local vernacular schools, who went to temples and rang a bell to wake up god to take his "Darshan".

I never really did get to the bottom of our Hindu way of life as practised at home. So much so that I used to laugh at stories told by our pandits at religious functions like Satyanarayan Pooja, Dashera pooja to name a few. Yet in the same breath would lap up ridiculous stories from the Bible as gods own truth. The religious upbringing in the Hindu way of life at home and the subtle and not so subtle Christian way at school, kind of bastardised my young mind between the two.

We see today the ridiculous extents this government is going to correct this anomaly. 

However they must understand that nothing can be done with the adult population, specially these pseudo Hindu intellectuals like me who have already become Bastardised between religions. What is now the need of the hour is to look after the members of the very young population which are in schools. To see that they are given proper non fanatic education in our Hindu way of life and to ensure that they are not influenced by these Christian missionary crusaders nor the Islamists. So also they be kept out of reach of criminal politicians who unfortunately own a majority of educational institutions. 

In fact I do not mind India being named as a Hindu nation, where is the harm in that? In fact I believe it will go a long way as far as religious tolerance is concerned, in that others will learn to live harmoniously within the parameters as dictated by a Hindu Rashtra. I am sure looking at the Hindu way of life, its tolerant principles of co existence this should not be too difficult.

We have to be more worried of our Nations future which lies in these young citizens than anti gau hatya brigades and Romeo squads. This is only scratching the surface of a far deeper shortfall. There will always be a running battle between the younger generation and the government in power. The generation gap will always be there. Fortunately our Hindu way of life, or the Sanatan Dharma, is tolerant to both so there is no need to get after the Kaccha Baniyan generation, as to how much body they exhibit in public, nor be the guardians of their virtues let them seek their inner selves within the flexibility of the Hindu way of life. Yet first it needs to be inculcated at a very young age. After all Darwins theory of evolution still holds for social and cultural evolution as it does for the physical. One cannot try to make a monkey from a homo sapien. Like these goons of Nav Nirman Sena, Gau Hatya Brigade, Romeo Squads and what have you, are trying to do........

Sanatana Dharma (which is loosely refered to as a Hindu way of life) is by its very essence a term that is devoid of sectarian leanings or ideological divisions. This is evident by the very term itself. The two words, "Sanatana Dharma", come from the ancient Sanskrit language. "Sanatana" is a Sanskrit word that denotes that which whichis Anadi (beginningless), Anantha (endless) and does not cease to be, that which is eternal and everlasting. With its rich connotations, Dharma is not translatable to any other language. Dharma is from dhri, meaning to hold together, to sustain. 

Its approximate meaning is "Natural Law," or those principles of reality which are inherent in the very nature and design of the universe. Thus the term Sanatana Dharma can be roughly translated to mean "the natural, ancient and eternal way."

When translated to English, Sanatana refer to Eternal, Perennial, Never Beginning nor Ending, Abiding, Universal, Ever-present, Unceasing, Natural, and Enduring while Dharma refers to Harmony, The Way, Righteousness, Compassion, Natural Law, Truth, Teachings, Tradition, Philosophy, Order, Universal, Flow, Religion, Wisdom, Divine Conformity, Cosmic Norm, Blueprint, Inherent \Nature, Law of Being, and Duty.

Sanatana Dharma do not denote to a creed like Christianity or Islam, but represents a code of conduct and a value system that has spiritual freedom as its core. Any pathway or spiritual vision that accepts the spiritual freedom of others may be considered part of Sanatana Dharma.

First and foremost, Sanatana Dharma is anadi (without beginning) and also a-paurusheya (without a human founder). It is defined by the quest for cosmic truth, just as the quest for physical truth defines science. Its earliest record is the Rigveda, which is the record of ancient sages who by whatever means tried to learn the truth about the universe, in relations to Man's place in relation to the cosmos. They saw nature — including all living and non-living things — as part of the same cosmic equation, and as pervaded by a higher consciousness. 

This search has no historical beginning; nor does it have a historical founder. This is not to say that the Rigveda always existed as a literary work. It means that we cannot point to a particular time or person in history and say: "Before this man spoke, what is in the Rigveda did not exist."

Turning India into a land only for Hindus goes against our nation, writes ex-FS Nirupama Rao.

I am a Hindu by birth and by enduring faith. The house that I was born into that my grandfather built, had no special puja room — but the plaster of Paris statue of a flute playing Krishna, the Ravi Varma oleographs of a Lakshmi rising from a lotus with elephants trumpeting their joy at her presence, the veena-playing Saraswati, and our special deity Lord Guruvayurappan, with beautiful Kartikeya and his "vel"(spear) and his vehicle, the peacock made up the pantheon of our isthtadevatas.

On my trips to my "native place" as we say in Indian English, I remember how every evening, the vilakku (bronze lamp) was lit with cotton wicks we lovingly made, dipped in gingelly oil, and brought out to the verandah of the tharawad (Hindu matrilineal family) house, with the heralding word: "Deepam" (lamp) repeated two or three times, quietly, with deep reverence. We would greet the sight of this burnished lamp and its brave, bright flame in a prayerful namaskar with bowed heads in a moment of blessed quietude, as imaginary and heavenly angels murmured in the dusk of a tropical Kerala garden around us.

Wherever we lived as children travelling the length and breadth of India with my army officer father, my homemaker mother would gather us three sisters together at dusk to say our prayers after she had lit the little vilakku that graced a small corner of the bedroom, auspiciously positioned.

We sat down cross-legged on the bare floor, put our hands together in prayer, and recited our Om Namashivaya, and sang a few bhajans including Gandhiji's favourite "Raghupati Raghava". We must have sung with youthful fervour and reasonable harmony because in one of the towns we lived in, the neighbouring Malayalee Catholic family with whom we shared a wall, the Pereiras, would listen tell my mother how much they loved our “evensong”. Them being Christian, and our being Hindu did not matter in those simple days.

I went to Catholic school till I finished high school and to a Catholic undergraduate college after that. I read Bible history as a young girl and was equally fascinated with the stories of Moses, N the Ark of Noah, and the life of Jesus as I was with the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. 

Growing up, we were taught to respect all faiths and to be tolerant of differences. We grew into self-confident Hindus, secure in our faith and respectful of our Christian and Muslim classmates and friends.

In this recalling of memory, I am reminded of the saying that "the past is another country". Where is that far-off land? What starship are we voyaging on today? Today we Hindus demand “empathy” from the minorities in our country. A Muslim dairy farmer transporting a cow, even with a permit, is not showing empathy for the majority religion, an NRI friend said recently. India is a Hindu nation he added and the minorities should respectfully acknowledge this and adjust to this basic reality.

Ensconced in the United States, I do not believe he had any doubt in his mind that Hinduism should constitutionally be India’s national religion. Having lived in Sri Lanka, I was reminded of the manner in which that island country made Buddhism its state religion, with its Buddhist clergy being the most powerful source of authority in the land, and all the momentous repercussions of that approach for civil society and the Sri Lankan minorities.

Is India a wounded civilization? If our religion as Hindus has survived intact despite the depredations of conquest and empire over the last millennium, then are we not prepared to face the next with the steadfastness of faith and the confidence that Hinduism with its capacity for tolerance and accommodation can create the India of our dreams? Are we instead, intent on moulding our lives on the basis of religious militancy and a fundamentalist interpretation of belief? Are we intent on the subjugation of our religious minorities so that they conform to what our idea of their place in our society should be?

Pepita Seth, the English woman who has become a Hindu, and made Kerala and particularly Guruvayur her home, has a passage in her book, Heaven on Earth: The Universe of Kerala's Guruvayur Temple, that eloquently sums up how I define my being Hindu:

“In northern Malabar there is a Theyyam deity, Kshetrapalan, the guardian of temples, who once demolished a semi-ruined shrine and built a mosque to give a growing community of Muslims a place of worship. This, in essence is a sharing of cultures and spaces, even as the other is respected. This fineness shows India’s profoundly pluralistic dimension. It is beyond me to suggest what can be done, political will being what it is. The great hope is that our children can, at an early age, be shown what is common to us all, that with opened minds they come to recognize that this will give them a share of the wider whole. As India is railed against for the dreadful things that now too often happen, it can help to recognize that the other side of the coin exists. And that I have been lucky to experience it."

India’s is a map of many migrations. She speaks to both East and West, those twins of history, when she demonstrates the fact that labels like Hindu, Muslim, Christian are no more than starting points. We are a blended nation. Our long traditions, our languages, our home states, these cultural geographies have blurred and indistinct boundaries, interrelated contexts of meaning. There are many echoes, spirits and voices that inhabit our gardens. Separation and distinctiveness are not their defining features. Human life is not about separation but about connection.

Gandhiji drew inspiration from the devotional traditions of Hindu faith as expressed in the ideals of the religious poets and preachers of rural Gujarat, as also from Thoreau and Tolstoy, and even Christianity. He wove these influences into his life and made them work in a manner that was magnetic, riveting and resoundingly powerful. There is power in his example. The Indian answer to the question “who am I” which is “I am that” or Tat Tvam Asi, signifies a oneness with all creation. The Chinese saying: There is me in you, and you in me bridges divisions of race or creed. The Sanskrit word, Viswabodh or, awareness of the whole world, should apply in everything we do.

It was Rabindranath Tagore who, when he spoke of the idea of India, which as he emphasised was not just a geographical expression, (“I love my India, but my India is an idea and not a geographical expression”), stressed the assimilative outlook, the irreducible diversity that characterised the civilization of India. In a similar way, life in my home state of Kerala has been largely marked by the tenor of coexistence between Hindus, Muslims and Christians. Each community left the other to come to terms with his God in his or her own fashion and in the words of the writer Krishna Chaitanya, realising that difference here in no way militated against close cooperation in activities that ensured the livelihood of all.

The great twentieth century poet in Malayalam, Vallathol, a Hindu, wrote a narrative poem on Mary Magdalene which is treasured by the Christian community both for its spiritual high notes as well as its sheer beauty. The story of Genesis is seen integrated with the Hindu myth of origin of the churning of the primeval ocean by the gods and demons. This is the true symbiosis that India should seek to treasure and to preserve.

Today, at evensong, even as I celebrate my being Hindu, I pray for India. I pray for peaceful coexistence, and for us to conduct our lives as citizens of a great and grown-up nation. Let us not leave our destinies to the vagaries of fate, or the tyranny of the closed and confined mind.

The author is a former Foreign Secretary of India