Eight anti-India Intellectuals and Academics you must be Aware of
1. Angana Chatterji
Books:
- Violent Gods: Hindu Nationalism in India’s Present; Narratives from Orissa
- Land and Justice: The Struggle for Cultural Survival in Orissa
Pronouncements:
- In Gujarat, Hindu extremists killed 2,000 people in February-March of 2002. Muslims live in fear there, victims of pathological violence. Raped, lynched, torched, ghettoised. A year and half later, Muslims in Gujarat are afraid to return to their villages, many still flee from town to town. Ghosts haunted by history. Country, community, police, courts — institutions of betrayal that broker their destitution. This is India today.
- Grassroots movements in resistance to the debacle of nation making are combating the sangh. Where Dalits, Adivasis and others are allied in subaltern struggles for land rights and sustenance, Hindutva intervenes, seeking to divide them. Grassroots democracy threatens upper-caste Hindu dominance and contradicts elite aspirations. To domesticate dissent, the sangh invigorates militant nationalism. In village Orissa, emulating Gujarat, the sangh works to create enmity between Dalits, Adivasis, Muslims and Christians. Progressive citizen’s groups have initiated opposition, including the ‘Campaign Against Communalism’ in Bhubaneswar.
- In Orissa, egregious infringements of human rights are taking place with the disintegration of Adivasi and other non-Hindu cultures through their hostile incorporation into dominant Hinduism.
- After being nominated Chief Minister of Gujarat in October 2001, Mr. Narendra Modi incorporated the teachings of Hindutva in his governance of Gujarat. According to a Times of India article, entitled, ‘In Modi’s Gujarat, Hitler is a textbook hero’, tenth grade school texts: ‘present a frighteningly uncritical picture of Fascism and Nazism.
- Controlling Kashmir requires that Kashmiri demands for justice be depicted as threatening to India’s integrity. India’s contrived enemy in Kashmir is a plausible one — the Muslim “Other,” India’s historically manufactured nemesis.
- Who are the Indian forces? Disenfranchised caste and other groups, Assamese, Nagas, Sikhs, Dalits (erstwhile “untouchable” peoples), and Muslims from Kashmir, are being used to combat Kashmiris. Why did 34 soldiers commit suicide in Kashmir in 2008, and 52 fratricidal killings take place between January 21, 2004 and July 14, 2009? Why did 16 soldiers commit suicide and two die in fratricidal killings between January and early August in 2010?
- Laws authorize soldiers to question, raid houses, detain and arrest without bringing charges, and to prolong incarceration without due process. They blur distinctions between military/paramilitary, “legality”/“illegality.” Citing “national security,” Indian forces in Kashmir shoot and kill on uncorroborated suspicion, with impunity from prosecution.
Career Summary
- In 1989, Chatterji became involved with the work of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA, “Save the Narmada Movement”).
- She is one of the leading lights of the radical Leftist outfit called Forum of Indian Leftists (FOIL), which supports violent and banned organizations that regularly carry out guerilla wars against the Indian state. As part of FOIL and its extremist offshoot, Friends of South Asia (FOSA) she advocated that the people of Kashmir to rise against the imperialist Indian state.
- She equates Islamic terrorism with local communal incidents. In her view the Kandhmal communal hostilities between Hindus and Christians prove the Hindu majority to be fascistic.
- She is the great-great-granddaughter of Gooroodas Banerjee, the first Indian Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta. Her formal education comprises a BA and a MA in Political Science. She also holds a PhD in the Humanities from California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS).
- Chatterji has served on human rights commissions, testified at briefings and hearings, including to United Nations Bodies, the European Parliament Human Rights Subcommittee, United Kingdom Parliament, and United States Congressional Commissions and Task Forces. She has provided expert testimony and affidavits to commissions, asylum hearings, and review boards, and conducted workshops and lectured at various universities and organizations internationally.
- Chatterji is the Co-chairman of the Research Project on Armed Conflict and People’s Rights at the Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership, University of California at Berkeley aimed at protecting people’s rights in situations of internal armed conflict in India.
- Chatterji co-founded the International People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian-administered Kashmir with Parvez Imroz in 2008 and served as Co-Convener from April 2008 to May 2012.
- Angana Chatterji was suspended from CIIS on 19 July, 2011 and on 25 October the CIIS Academic VP has recommended her termination. This was due to her links with Ghulam Nabi Fai, an ISI mole in the USA.
2. Romila Thapar
Books:
- Ancient Indian Social History: Some Interpretations, 1978
- Cultural Pasts: Essays in Early Indian History, 2003; Oxford University Press
- Cultural Transaction and Early India: Tradition and Patronage
- Dissent in the Early Indian Tradition
- Early India: From Origins to AD 1300
Pronouncements:
- Early India: “Some settlements in the north-west and Punjab might have been subjected to raids and skirmishes [by the Aryans], such as are described in the Rig Veda…
- “I do not see the medieval period as one where the Muslims are the conquerors. It was a period of creation of communities. Muslims came in various ways. They were traders, they were pastoralists, they were conquerors, they were missionaries, and they created different kinds of communities all over the subcontinent…The trauma of Mahmud of Ghazni’s raid on Somnath was never experienced at the time or even for centuries thereafter. This trauma has been appropriated from the reading of the British version of this event.”
Career Summary:
- After graduating from Punjab University, Romila Thapar earned her doctorate under A. L. Basham at the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of London in 1958. Later she worked as Professor of Ancient Indian History at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. In the past she has served as a visiting professor at Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the College de France in Paris.
- She was elected General President of the Indian History Congress in 1983 and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 1999. At present she is one of the members of the high profile Delhi Urban Heritage Foundation due to her proximity with Najeeb Jung, Lt. Governor of Delhi.
- Her standing and influence as a historian was largely based on repeating the discredited theory of Aryans invading India.
- She attempted to prove the non-existence of a temple in the disputed site of Ayodhya. She attempted to prove that in ancient India the Nastika savants were in constant loggerheads with the Vedic thinkers.
- Romila Thapar’s name prominently figures in the factual expose by Arun Shourie in his path breaking book Eminent Historians: Their technology, their line, their fraud. Her credibility as a scholar of ancient India came unstuck when Sita Ram Goel, Arun Shourie and similar scholars brought to light the fact that she does not know Sanskrit.
3. Father Cedric Prakash
Books : Yes, We Can! Book series. (Books on moral science)
Notable articles:
- Let Us Not Be Naive About Naveen Patnaik
- Can the election on April 16 in the Kandhmals ever be free and fair?
- Vibrant Gujarat: Lies, Half Truths and Illusions
- India: Gujarat Government Continues With Communal Agenda
- Gujarat Carnage: Seven Years On . . . Seven Major Concerns and More
The aforementioned articles are mainly about the Kandhamal violence and the Gujarat government then headed by Narendra Modi.
Pronouncement:
In June 2002, he testified before the US Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) in Washington. His testimony is very revealing, “In the name of the thousands of [Gujarat riot] victims…I earnestly appeal to you, to make all necessary interventions…” a clear case of an Indian citizen asking an alien nation to intervene in India’s domestic affairs in any manner it chose to intervene.
Career Summary
- Father Cedric Prakash is a Jesuit Priest of the Gujarat.
- He graduated from St. Xavier’s College in 1972.
- He worked full time with the AICUF (All India Catholic University Federation) in Chennai and then spent a year with the TAIZE community in France helping to prepare the World Council of Youth.
- He is currently the Director of PRASHANT, the Ahmedabad-based Jesuit Centre for Human Rights, Justice and Peace which he founded on October 2nd, 2001.
- Following the Gujarat Carnage of 2002, Fr. Prakash has been a vocal critic of Narendra Modi, often in collaboration with eminences like John Dayal and Teesta Setalvad.
- He was also associated with the US-based think tank, Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), which has a long history of promoting and influencing anti-India sentiments within several successive US Governments. As part of expanding this, it has managed strategic visits by Cedric Prakash—who also labels himself as a human rights activist—as a liaison for the Local Capacities for Peace Project at the Harvard University.
- Cedric Prakash was also invited to Luxembourg in 2002 and later, to London for discussions with the European Union and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the British Government.
Prakash has won several awards including:
- The Kabir Puraskar by the President of India in 1995.
- The Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Award by the Indian Muslim Council (USA) in June 2003.
- Chevalier de la Legion Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour) by the President of the French Republic in July 2006.
- Minority Rights Award from the National Minority Commission, Government of India in December 2006
- The Human Dignity Award from the Diocese of Ahmedabad in February 2010.
4. John Dayal
Notable books:
- Human Rights: A Close Look.
- Justice & Peace Commission, All India Christian Council: Gujarat 2002: untold and re-told stories of Hindutva lab.
- John Dayal : A matter of equity: freedom of faith in secular India.
Pronouncement:
When the US based advocacy group Policy Institute for Religion and State (PIFRAS) held a South Asia Conference, sponsored by “United Methodist Board of Church and Society and the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA” John Dayal, as a participant, had contended that “minorities could not count on the Indian state to protect them, or to prosecute crimes committed against them.”
Career Summary:
- Closely associated with the activities of the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC), which was instrumental in several nation-wrecking legislations.
- As a member of the National Integration Council, he gave a completely negative picture of Indian polity in his testament as a witness to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission (TLHRC)’s hearing titled “Plight of Religious Minorities in India” held on 4 April 2014 in Washington D.C.
- John Dayal also had a significant role to play in the NAC’s nefarious attempt at evolving a flawed and skewed Communal Violence Bill.
- The likes of John Dayal in a way condone and support external interference and interventions into the internal affairs of India, as long as their agenda is served. As the renowned scholar Dr. Anirban Ganguly notes, “The John Dayal types belong to that intellectual underworld – supported, sponsored, nurtured and protected by the Congress party.”
5. Vinay Lal:
Books:
- Empire of Knowledge: Culture and Plurality in the Global Economy
- The History of History: Politics and Scholarship in Modern India
- Empire and the Dream-Work of America.
- Introducing Hinduism
Pronouncement:
Labelled the Ramayana as a sectarian text that spoke of a clash between Shaivites and Vaishnavites because Ravana is a follower of Shiva and Rama is believed to be an avatar of Vishnu. He also dubbed the Puranas as sectarian texts.
Career Summary:
- He was a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at the National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku).
- Presently associate professor of history at UCLA.
- Earned his B.A. and M.A., both in 1982, from the Humanities Center at The Johns Hopkins University and wrote his Master’s thesis on Emerson and Indian philosophy.
- Studied cinema in Australia and India on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship before commencing his graduate studies at the University of Chicago, where he was awarded a PhD with Distinction from the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations in 1992.
- Was William Kenan Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University in 1992–93.
- In his blog titled Lal Salam (Red Salute, making no secret of his commitment to Communism), he describes himself thus: His views on American foreign policy and the pax Americana have earned him a place in David Horowitz’s book on the 101 ‘most dangerous’ professors in America today, while his critiques of extreme Hindu nationalism have made him a target of Hindutva venom in the US. These are reliable indicators, to his mind, that he is performing some useful public service, and that academics and scholars must remain vitally engaged in the wider public domain.
6. Martha Nussbaum:
Books:
- Cultivating Humanity
- Sex and Social Justice
- From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law
- Plato’s ‘Republic’: the good society and the deformation of desire
- The clash within: democracy and the Hindu right
- The new religious intolerance: overcoming the politics of fear in an anxious age
Pronouncements:
- In India, the perpetrators of violence are not Muslims (who are usually poor and downtrodden, but not involved in perpetrating violence, except in the special case of Kashmir) but Hindus who sought ideology in Fascist Europe and who model their stance on European anti-Semitism of the 1930s.
- A Hindu nation is not a benign establishment like the Lutheran Church of Finland.
- The people who spoke Sanskrit almost certainly migrated into the subcontinent from outside, finding indigenous people there, probably the ancestors of the Dravidian peoples of South India. Hindus are no more indigenous than Muslims (The clash within: democracy and the Hindu right)
- What has been happening in India is a serious threat to the future of democracy in the world.
Career Summary:
- She is the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, a chair that includes appointments in the philosophy department and the law school.
- She also holds associate appointments in classics, divinity and political science, is a member of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, and a board member of the Human Rights Program.
- She studied theatre and classics at New York University, getting a BA in 1969, and gradually moved to philosophy while at Harvard University, where she received an MA in 1972 and a PhD in 1975.
- Her interest in India started while working for Amartya Sen with whom she shared an intimate relationship, a fact she herself has bragged about.
- Her views on Indian society are no different from the ones presented by leftist distortionists.
- She does not have any qualification or training in archeology, Sanskrit, geology, or metallurgy, yet writes with authority about the dating of the Vedas.
7. Vijay Prashad
Books:
- The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South
- The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World
- Arab Spring, Libyan Winter
- Uncle Swami: Being South Asian in America
Pronouncements:
- Modern Hinduism is fascism and racism. It is the origin of what we would call modern fascism. Based on a religious caste system that is Aryan in origin, it divides up the world into three castes, warriors, priests, merchants, and in a slave class, the Dalits or Untouchables.
- Between Hindus and Muslims there has not been an endless rivalry for social power. When Islam enters the subcontinent, it does not come in the saddlebags of the Ghaznis or the Ghouris, but amongst the rumble of goods brought by traders. Early conversions are not by the sword but by the merchants .There was killing, but that was as much for reasons of warfare and plunder as for reasons of God and tradition. An interested reader might want to look at the distinguished historian Romila Thapar’s superb book ‘Samantha: The Many Voices of a History’ (Penguin, 2005). …..There, Professor Thapar shows us that Mahmud Ghaznis destruction of the Shiva temple in 1026 was driven not so much by a fanatical religious belief but because his father, Subuktigin (sic), needed money to sustain his faltering kingdom in Central Asia. Now it is certainly true, as historian Mohammed Habib put it, that there was ‘wanton destruction of temples that followed in the wake of the Ghaznavid army…..An article on Hindu Holocaust (News India Times, Sept. 25, 2009)
Career Summary:
- Vijay Prashad is the George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies, at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
- Prashad is one of the founding fathers of the FOIL and is the author of several books regarding South Asia, and has often written articles and papers on US imperialism and capitalist hegemony and impacts of this across the world.
- In case of India he has often supported Kancha Ilaiah who made his academic repute by tossing out ill-informed interpretations of Indian mythology, presenting them as ‘Aryan-Brahminical’ conspiracies against the down-trodden, while simultaneously claiming to be a follower of the rationalist Ambedkarite school of thought.
8. Meera Nanda
Books:
- Breaking the Spell of Dharma and Other Essays
- Prophets Facing Backward: Postmodern Critiques of Science and the Hindu Nationalism in India.
- Postmodernism And Religious Fundamentalism: A Scientific Rebuttal To Hindu Science
- The God Market
Pronouncements:
- The roots of “Vedic science” can be traced to the so-called Bengal Renaissance, which in turn was deeply influenced by the Orientalist constructions of Vedic antiquity as the “Golden Age” of Hinduism. Heavily influenced by German idealism and British romanticism, important Orientalists including H.T. Colebrooke, Max Mueller and Paul Deussen tended to locate the central core of Hindu thought in the Vedas, the Upanishads and, above all, in the Advaita Vedanta tradition of Shankara. Despite the deeply anti-rational and idealistic (that is, anti-naturalistic) elements of Advaita Vedanta, key Hindu nationalist reformers – from Raja Ram Mohun Roy and Bankim Chandra Chatterjee to Swami Vivekananda – began to find in it all the elements of modernity. Vivekananda took the lead in propagating the view that the monism of Advaita Vedanta presaged the future culmination of all of modern science. Since modern science denied the role of any supernatural force outside nature, Vivekananda claimed that only Vedantic monism was truly scientific for it treated God as an aspect of nature and did not invoke any force external to nature…. (Prophets Facing Backward: Postmodern Critiques of Science and the Hindu Nationalism in India)
- The Hindutva literature is replete with glowing tributes to Hindu “renaissance”, which they claim to be similar to the European Renaissance that ushered in the modern age in the West. What they forget is that the Renaissance in the West re-discovered the humanistic and naturalistic sources of the Greek tradition that had been overshadowed by the Catholic Church – the Renaissance humanists rediscovered this-worldly philosophy of Aristotle and critical-realist Socrates over the other-worldly philosophy of Plato. The neo-Hindu “renaissance”, in contrast, re-discovered the most mystical and anti-humanistic elements of the Vedic inheritance – Advaita Vedanta – that had always overshadowed and silenced the naturalistic and scientific traditions in Hinduism and Buddhism. Neo-Hinduism is no renaissance, but a revival. There is no denying that the neo-Hindu “discovery” of modern science in ancient teachings of Vedas and Upanishads had a limited usefulness. Since they had convinced themselves that their religion was the mother of all sciences, conservative Hindus did not feel threatened by scientific education. As long as science could be treated as “just another name” for Vedic truths, they were even enthusiastic to learn it….. (Prophets Facing Backward: Postmodern Critiques of Science and the Hindu Nationalism in India)
- Far from being considered the crown jewel of Hinduism, yogic asanas were in fact looked down upon by Hindu intellectuals and reformers—including the great Swami Vivekananda—as fit only for sorcerers, fakirs and jogis…. “Not as Old as You Think… …nor very Hindu either. There is telling evidence to debunk this nationalistic myth”, Open The Magazine, Online Edition,
Career Summary:
- Meera Nanda is an Indian writer, historian and philosopher of science with a PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She was a John Templeton Foundation Fellow in Religion and Science (2005–2007).
- From January 2009, she became a Fellow at the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute for Advanced Study, in the Jawaharlal Nehru University for research in Science, Post-Modernism and Culture besides being a visiting faculty of history and philosophy of science at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali.
- The bulk of her writings is a critique towards any attempt to study Hinduism in the light of science. Interestingly as she was associated with the John Templeton Foundation, she did praise the Protestant work ethic whereas the notion of Practical Vedanta is criticized.
I give credit to the above listed people for standing up
Are these banned to enter India or Indian to leave again India ? These John Dayal like ppls must jailed under NSA for betraying the Got and Indian judiciary. Mostly Bong I can understand.
I want to smack the face of Vinay Lal
Such a list would always be incomplete without Arundhati Roy and Wendy Doniger. Education is a very lethal weapon in their hands.
I think we can add the following names to the list: Ms. Arundhati Roy, Harsh Mander (IAS), Professor Ram Punyani, Professor Shamsul Islam, and Professor Vipin Tripathi, who have been writing about hate-mongering politics.
How Arundhati Roy & Shoba De Name is not included. They are the Most Dangerous Anti Nationals India Had.
Unthinking support for everything Hinduism is also bad … see what has happened to Islam with Wahabism. A religion and culture that contributed a lot to the world has collapsed in on itself into mindless fundamentalism and allowed ignorant religious fools to interpret it to the world and the young. Hinduism has always had a rationalist flavour and supported argument and debate. So it would be a great mistake to raise the gates and block out thoughts that go against personal beliefs.
but you do agree that unthinkin attack is bad. And those who do so are not objective people. Do you?
The list of our detractors is very long. Unfortunately, many are Hindus!!!
Why and what should be done to counter these Marxist and / or jihadi psuedo secular and psuedo intellectuals.
There are many reasons for the long list of members of the anti-Hindu cabal.
1. The thousand years of foreign rule, especially the last 200 by the British, has caused much damage to the psyche of Hindus. Unfortunately, the work of the British continued even after independence under Nehru – Gandhi, even accelerated.
2.Under the Congress, all centers of power — government, bureacracy, judicial, media, academia, etc. have been penetrated by Marxist Jihadi.
3. Hindus have only recenly started challenging these vermins.
4. Hindu religion’s liberalism and openness has become a handicap. Common person with low intellect understands straight forward simplistic rules as provided by Islam and Christianity and as promoted by JIhadis, and Marxists.
5. Christianity and Islam both have substantial economic power — Christianity because of the superior economic system of the West and Islam because of petro dollars.
People can add more reasons.
The more important question is what to do.
1. Control media. Fund new media a la Fox News in the US. Promote every Hindu to use social media. (This is happening already.)
2. Hindus need to unite under BJP even if you have some disagreement. Remember what happened when Jaichand and Prthviraj split.
3. It is not enough to control the government. The process to free academia, media, etc. from the psuedo secular psuedo intellectual serpants has to start right away.
4. Educate your children. Most middle class educated Hindus are letting their children drift away from their religion. Teach them about your heritage and religion.
5. Stop being shy or polite in confronting the evil forces arrayed against Hinduism.
Please feel free to add.
These are the people who give India credibility. Great to know they still exist. Unlike the liars and fable mongerers who profess their fascist hindutva hate-mongering as progreys.
Why don’t we have historian Guha, Arundhati Roy in there?
They don’t have doctoral degrees. Their degrees are all doctored.
These die hard BJP supporters are the real anti-nationals in India today.
Any facts, analysis, logic, or you just shit and eat it and the process continues.
Yes, these people will tear the country apart. Divide and rule. Just like Pakistan and the British empire before that. We have to thank our stars that it was not BJP that ruled India for 60 years. Congress was corrupt and despicable, but BJP would have been a million times worse.
There is not 1 non-secular country in the world today that is not a shit-hole, and BJP’s main agenda is to make India non secular. Think about it.
USA is a ardent christian country. A non-christian can never become president of US.
Good joke. Obama was a Muslim. Most Americans are atheists and don’t give two hoots about religion.
lol go check obama’s wiki. Heck he and his family goes to church for every sunday mass. Half-baked fake allah’s lullah sucking chutiyas spouting any kind of non-sense they want.
I’m not a Muslim, idiot.
i see how you conveniently left out the portion where obama is a christian.
No body has written the name of barkha dutt she is also the one of the most dangerous person for the hindu society .
Prof Nivedita Menon of JNU, Meera Chandoke ExJNU Prof, Shiv Vishvanathan. How come the author has left out Irfan Habib, AG Noorani who writes extensively in ‘Front line’? The list is very long; all these years they have wielded their powerful pen to denigrate our Nations culture, tradition, our glorious past and our philosophy and worked as agents of external agencies who are out to damage our nation. They find fault only with Hindus, and all glory with the Church and Islam. Its time for us to expose these home grown anti-India forces.
‘A LIST OF THE 50 BIGGEST ENEMIES OF HINDUS (Dead or Alive)
by Francois Gautier June 13 at 6:05am
Hindus should at least know who are their enemies. Jews have shown us that to remember, helps to make sure that atrocities do not happen again. Let us not forget that the biggest genocide ever – is that of the Hindus – which has been calculated at 100 million victims, from the Hindu Kush to the Mumbai attacks of 2006.
This list, which is compiled without any hatred or malice, is not complete. I am counting on you to raise it to a hundred. If you think I missed someone, facebook it to me, with the name and two or three paragraphs on why you think he or she is an enemy of the Hindus.
It would be also interesting to compile separately a list of say, the ten or twenty biggest enemies of Hindus in the US (or UK, or Canada) that could be circulated worldwide and damper the activities of these people….
I have also made a hit parade of the ten countries that I feel are inimical to Hindus.
HERE THE LIST:
1. Thomas Babington, 1st Baron Macaulay. Played a major role in introducing English and western concepts to education in India. This was good and one cannot deny that English gives India an edge, say compared to China, in dealing with the West and conducting business. Yet, Macaulay had very little regard for Hindu culture and education: « all the historical information which can be collected from all the books which have been written in the Sanskrit language, is less valuable than what may be found in the most paltry abridgments used at preparatory schools in England ». Macaulay thus succeeded in fashioning a class of “brown Sahibs”, who thought and acted British. Today, much of India’s intelligentsia and Media stands proof that Macaulay succeeded: they look down on their own culture and analyse India through the western Prism
2. Indian National Congress. Few people know that the Indian National Congress was founded on 28 December 1885 by a Britisher, A.O.Hume. Its goals were to « allow all those who work for the national (read British) good to meet each other personally, to discuss and decide of the political operations to start during the year”. And certainly, till the end of the 19th century, the Congress, who regarded British rule in India as a “divine dispensation”, was happy with criticising moderately the Government, while reaffirming its loyalty to the Crown and its faith in “liberalism” and the British innate sense of justice”!!! Real nationalist leaders like Sri Aurobindo or Tilak, were side-lined by the ‘Moderate’ Congress’. Today, we find that the British succeeded in implanting an eternal love of the ‘White’ in the Congress, witness the sycophancy around Sonia Gandhi.
3. Jawaharlal Nehru. Nehru, writes French historian Alain Danielou, “was the perfect replica of a certain type of Englishman. He often used the expression ‘continental people’, with an amused and sarcastic manner, to designate French or Italians. He despised non-anglicised Indians and had a very superficial and partial knowledge of India. His ideal was the romantic socialism of 19th century Britain. But this type of socialism was totally unfit to India, where the conditions were totally different from 19th century Europe. The Congress has today made an icon out Nehru, which nobody has yet dared to touch, but as History will show more and more, Nehru did tremendous harm to India by initiating movements and patterns, which not only did vast damage in their times, but continue to survive and weigh down the Indian nation, long after their uselessness has been realized.
4. Babur. Do you know what Jawarlhal Nehru wrote about Babur the destroyer of the Ram mosque in Ayodhya? “ Babur did not like India and preferred to isolate himself in the exquisite gardens he had devised, with their geometrical design, their crossed canals, which evoked to him the rivers of paradise”. The truth is that Babur was probably the most ferocious Moghol emperor, indulging in unnecessary massacres and that he razed thousands of temples. His ultimate goal was the destruction and the enslaving of the Hindus. It is sad that today Indian History books do not mention his crimes.
5. Sonia Gandhi. It is a fact that Sonia brought discipline, order and cohesion into the Congress party. But the amount of power, that she, a non-Indian, a simple elected MP, like hundreds of others, possessed when the Congress was in power for ten years, should frighten us: a word, nay a glance of her was sufficient to trigger action by her entourage, using any means – witness how P. Chidambaram would have allowed Narendra Modi to be killed by a Israt Jahan, a known terrorist. Thus, the instruments of power had never been so perverted in India. The CBI blatantly and shamelessly quashed all injunctions against Quattrochi and even allowed him to get away with billions of rupees which he had stolen from India. Yet, without batting an eyelid, and with the Indian Media turning a blind eye, it went ruthlessly after Narendra Modi, the then Chief Minister of the most efficiently run state, the most corruption free. Sonia Gandhi continues to be a danger to Hindus, because if by some freak chance Modi loses in 2019, as Vajpayee did before him, Sonia will again become the empress of India.
6. The Pope. Christianity, unfortunately, is still clinging in the belief of a single true God, Jesus Christ, in spite of the feeble attempts at “Ecumenism” of the Church. In fact as church attendance is dropping drastically in the West, as less and less youth are willing to become priests and nuns and as the Church is shaken by paedophilia scandals, the Pope’s call “for the Evangelisation of Asia in the Third Millennium” is a clear indication that, like the Tobacco companies having less customers in the West, the Church is looking for new converts in the Third World ! It would be all right if the Church was playing by the rules of the free market, where there is a certain amount of fairness: “you see what advantages my religion is bringing you, compare it with your own and then feel free to chose”. But, sadly, the missionaries are using unethical means to convert the poorest of the poor Hindus in India: offering free medical treatment, free schooling, interest-free loans, even going as far as organizing “fake miracles” prayer meetings, as it is regularly done by American Preacher Benny Hinn. They do it in India, but they dare not do it in China, where freedom of religion is curtailed and any missionary caught proselytising is kicked out. Would Hindus dare convert Christians in France, for instance ? You are joking : there is not a single Hindu temple in France, as their construction has not been allowed and there is even a minister in charge of hunting down “sects” (meaning what is not Christian-oriented).
7. Rahul Gandhi. No doubt Rahul Gandhi is a decent, well meaning man, though totally ignorant of India’s culture and spirituality as his father was. But his ignorance makes him a dangerous man. Remember the Wikileaks cables, where Rahul Gandhi tells the American ambassador that Hindu terrorism was more dangerous than Islamic terrorism: “The bigger threat may be the growth of radicalized Hindu groups, which create religious tensions and political confrontations with the Muslim community”. It seems also that Rahul and his mother wanted to make an example of Colonel Purohit & Sadhvi Pragya to please their Muslim electorate and that direct orders were issued from 10 Janpath to get a confession out of him and Sadhvi Pragya at any cost, even torture.
8. The Communist Party of India. Very few people know that the communists refused to collaborate against the Nazis during the 2d World War, because Russia was then allied with Germany. Their attitude during the war with China in 1962 was also very ambivalent and today newspapers like the Hindu or Frontline are just mouthpieces of the Chinese points of view. Most Marxists in India are anti-Hindu as a principle (Marx was against religion) and their intellectuals are adept at Hindu bashing. Ata time when Marxism is dead all over the world, including in Cuba and China, India is the last refuge of communism. Though communists have a certain sincerity (they generally are not corrupt and live a simple life, contrary to many Indian politicians), it is not a gift to India, as they contribute very little to India’s growth, with their constant strikes and demands. Naxalism which is a great danger for this country is also an offshoot of communism.
9. Priyanka Gandhi. Nobody wants to bother Priyanka Gandhi as long as she leads her life, raises her children and is an Indian like another India. But in case her mother Sonia leaves India or something happens to her, Priyanka – and not Rahul – will be the natural choice of the Congress to take up the reins. Would Priyanka think and act differently from her mother, brother, father and grandfather ? Unlikely. She will think like a Christian and a westerner, not like an Indian and adopt Nehru’s misplaced socialist and popular idea’s, which have bogged down India in corruption and red tape. Plus her husband Robert Vadra, a man who multiplied his wealth by 600 in five years, is an albatross around her neck.
10. Barkha Dutt. Most probably Barkha started like a young and idealistic journalist. But the fact that she was married twice to a Kashmiri Muslim, must have influenced her mind. The power that came with NDTV, as it grew into the most sophisticated TV news channel, and her proximity to the Congress party, also went to her head. From a young journo, Barkha turned into a Hindu basher – you just have to listen to the Radia tapes to understand that. Also, woe to those who disagree with her in her interviews and programs, as she rudely interrupts them when she feels like it. There are also accusations of corruption against her and her boss Prannoy Roy.
11. Kancha Ilaiah . Known for his immensely controversial book, `Why I am not a Hindu’, Kancha Ilaiah, is a converted Christian, who hates Hindus, particularly Brahmins, whom he accuses of all the possible evils. This hatred makes him irrational. For instance he recently said that vegetarianism is anti-nationalism : “For me, my nation starts with eating beef. Unfortunately, we gave up eating beef and our brains are not growing now. There is no enough protein,”… How stupid can you be, when many westerners are now turning to vegetarianism ?
12. Aamir Khan. Once upon a time, Aamir Khan, benefited from the goodwill of all, Muslims as well as Hindus. His TV program on social issues, Satyamev Jayata, even raised his status to a crusader for human rights. Then slowly the mask dropped, and one could see that he was no different from the average Muslim, when it came to Hindus, the BJP and Narendra Modi. His reflection on ‘Intolerance ‘ and that his (Hindu) wife wanted to leave India, alienated him from many of his supporters. His anti-Hindu gurus film, like PK, created too a lot of enmity. Not a friend of Hindus.
13. Shah Rukh Khan. As Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh is also married to a Hindu, but raises his kids as Muslims, and whenever it suits him, plays the minority card (Pakistan invited him many times to settle there). What one should understand is that it is like elections in India: Aamir’s and Shah Rukh’s Muslim fan base in India is so huge, that they don’t really care about Hindus. In fact, playing a little anti-Hindu card, pleases their Muslim fans and does no harm to their image, as Hindus anyway never retaliate, even by boycotting their films.
14. Amartya Sen. This one is a deadly enemy of Hindus, much more than many, because he got the Nobel Prize, teaches in Oxford and is highly respected in the West. But make no mistake about it: Amartya Sen is a true Marxist and he rode his fame on the back of his false theories about poverty in India and in the West. It is a pity that the Congress Govt gave him the Nalanda University project for which he did nothing. He should become persona non grata in India.
15. Rajdeep Sardesai. Rajdeep is a nasty guy and not an honest journalist – witness the incident when he sat on a sting interview that showed the Congress paying bribes to BJP MLA’s to defect. He was also seen in his true light in New York, where he portrayed himself as a victim of a hard-line Hindu, whereas the video replays showed that in fact he was the aggressor. No doubt, Rajdeep is a personal enemy of Narendra Modi and has never hid his dislike of the BJP. There have been many rumours that his father, converted to Christianity late in life and that may have influenced Rajdeep, for he has definitely a Christian-Marxist view of India and Hindus.
16. Angana Chatterjee. Angana Chatterjee, is one of the most venomous anti-Hindu in the USA. The irony is that she is a Hindu herself and started in an association named after India’s avatar, himself a great defender of Hindus, Sri Aurobindo. You need to know that she is married to Richard Shapiro
who is Director and Associate Professor of the Grad. Anthropology Program at CIIS, also a very anti-Hindu body. In fact, Shapiro was barred from entering India in 2010. Angana and Richard are of course great defenders of the Kashmiri Muslims and attend every International Kashmir Freedom Conference (IKFC), which only gives the Muslim point of view and ignores the 450.000 Kashmiri Hindus who have become refugees in their own country.
17. Teesta Setalvad. First it should be known that Teesta is a Hindu herself, who like Barkha Dutt, is married to a Muslim, Javed Anand. Javed, is General Secretary of Muslims for Secular Democracy, a virulent anti-Hindu organization. Using her organization Teesta Setalvad’s name has come to symbolize everything that is wrong with NGO activism in India. She has used any means to go after Hindus, particularly their leaders and specially Mr Narendra Modi. Unfortunately, Teesta has been repeatedly exposed for having indulged in unethical acts and has cases pending against her in courts for perjury. The truth is that Teesta Setalvad is a law unto herself & has total disregard for the rule of law or for victims. Her anti-Hindu agenda is her source of income from foreign agencies. She has taken the courts for a ride with her perjury and her acts of influencing witnesses. She has misused the lack of education and poverty of victims to file false affidavits to further her own agenda.
18. Aurangzeb. Aurangzeb was a monster not only to Hindus, but also to his own family: he beheaded his brother Dara Shikoh, who was the rightful heir to the throne, poisoned his own father, imprisoned his son…Yet, Romila Thapar, Harbans Mukhia and Bipan Chandra, once upon a time professors at the JNU in New Delhi, the Mecca of secularism and negationism in India, denied the Aurangzeb genocide on Hindus by replacing it instead with a conflict of classes. What are the facts? Aurangzeb (1658-1707) did not just build an isolated mosque on a destroyed temple, he ordered ALL temples destroyed, among them the Kashi Vishvanath, Krishna’s birth temple in Mathura, the rebuilt Somnath temple on the coast of Gujarat, the Vishnu temple replaced with the Alamgir mosque now overlooking Benares and the Treta-ka-Thakur temple in Ayodhya. … Thank God Shivaji Maharaj, a true Hindu hero brought him to his knees. Yet Shivaji is treated as a nobody in Indian History books and Aurangzeb like a stern but just emperor…..
19. John Dayal The most virulent and articulate Christian anti-Hindu, John and many other Indian Christian leaders and bishops, is not only practicing a Christianity which had its place 50 years ago in Europe (but is no more today, as Western Christianity is evolving), but are also re-embracing the old colonial missionary concept that Christ is the only ‘true’ God and that all ‘heathens’ Hindus have to be converted.
John Dayal is all the time lobbying in the West, particularly with the US Congress, testifying that ‘Christians are persecuted in India’, whereas actually
Christians have been the worst persecutors in the world, wiping out ruthlessly entire cultures, like those of the Aztecs in South America.
20. Irfan Habib, At last, Irfan Habib have been side-lined by the Modi Government! He and Romila Thapar ruled supreme for nearly 40 years in devising Indian school curriculum. Together they have falsified Indian History with total impunity and went after the Hindus full steam. Irfan Habib continued the legacy of his father, Mohamed Habiib, to rewrite the Chapter of Muslim invasions in India. Habib father and son’s books are based on four theories: 1) that the records (written by the Muslims themselves) of slaughters of Hindus, the enslaving of their women and children and razing of temples were “mere exaggerations by court poets and zealous chroniclers to please their rulers”. 2) That they were indeed atrocities, but mainly committed by Turks, the savage riders from the Steppe. 3) That the destruction of the temples took place because Hindus stored their gold and jewels inside them and therefore Muslim armies plundered these. 4) That the conversion of millions of Hindus to Islam was not forced, “but what happened was there was a shift of opinion in the population, who on its own free will chose the Shariat against the Hindu law (Smriti), as they were all oppressed by the bad Brahmins”…!!!
21. Ramachandra Guha, Outlook magazine’s favourite columnist, is a renowned Hindu/ Hindu gurus/Hindu culture hater, who like Rahul Gandhi, recently said that “Hindu fundamentalism is more threatening than Islamic terrorism”. He has written a number of books targeting Hindus and their spiritual leaders. Unfortunately, as many of these leftist intellectuals, he is fairly popular in the West and often quoted by western correspondents based in India.
22. Romilla Thapar. The most renowned Indian historian, who has links with all Indologists in the world, universities & India centers. As Rajiv Malhotra writes: “Hindu spiritual experiences are devalued by Romila Thapar, as pathological. She resorts to a quasi-scholarly speculation of racial hatred as existing in entire Indian traditions, demonizing the ‘other’, a technique to justify holding such people in contempt and even attacking them’. This is exactly the same thesis that is being spread today by Maoist insurgents working among remote tribes in central India, namely, that demons mentioned in Hinduism are actually references to tribal people ». Today even, most of the intellectuals, journalists and many of India’s elite have been influenced by that school of thinking and regularly ape its theories. Romila Thapar is a traitor to her own culture and society, for she is a Hindu.
23. N Ram & the Hindu newspaper. Long time editor of the newspaper the Hindu, who should be renamed the “Anti-Hindu”. N. Ram is a fervent disciple of Marxism and communist China. The magazine of the Hindu, Frontline, although well written, as the Hindu, perpetuates a dead ideology. Unfortunately the Hindu is still read by many in India, including westerners in the South of India.
24. Sagarika Ghose & CNN IBN, Rajdeep Sardesai’s wife shares his beliefs and hatred for the Hindus. It’s a tragedy that CNN IBN is so partial towards Hindus and sympathetic to anybody who is anti-Hindu. Why did CNN, a renowned western television, choose to partner someone who is against the majority community of their country?
25. Mamta Banerjee. It is said that Mamta Banerjee is a Kali worshipper and does regular pujas when she is alone in her house. Unfortunately Mamta has realized that she can get elected as West Bengal Chief Minister on the sole strength of the Muslim vote. She thus panders to them, turning a blind eye to the atrocities committed on the Hindus by the Bangladeshis refugees, who are given ration cards so that they can vote for Mamta. Sad also that she chose to say ‘Allah O Akbar’ when she just got re-elected. To what depths will Indian politicians sink to get votes? Hindus are becoming minorities in certain districts of WB, Assam or UP. That is a tragedy and something should be done.
26. Akbaruddin Owais. Proof that India is a democracy lies in the fact that people like Owais and his brother can not only rant against the Hindus and preach near secession, but also get elected. There has to be some limits to preaching hatred and separatism.
27. Geelani & other Kashmiri separatists. How can the Indian Government allow these separatists to openly visit the Pakistani embassy in Delhi or travel to Pakistan to take instructions from their masters? No country tolerates that kind of open separatism, be it France with Corsica, or even England with the faraway Falkland Islands, which geographically belong to Argentina. How to forget too that the Muslims chased out of the Valley of Kashmir 500.000 Hindus who had lived there for generations and had not done any harm?
28. Zakir Naik. Zakir Naik tried to hurt religious sentiments of Hindus by denigrating Shri Ganesh; that too, during the Ganesh Festival. He has given a challenge to Hindus, through the medium of ‘Facebook’ and ‘You-tube’, to prove that Shri Ganapati is a Deity. He also made an anti-Hindu statement that ‘If your God is unable to recognise his own son, how will he know that I am in danger’. By making such comments Naik has hurt religious sentiments of billions of Hindus. It has also created rage among members of Shiv Sena, BJP and various pro-Hindu organisations, Ganeshotsava Mandals and devout Hindus. Naik also went after Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in the famous debate.
29. Christophe Jaffrelot. This most famous French Indologist, paid by the French Government, who wrote many a nasty books on ‘Hindu fundamentalism’ and is most responsible for the bad image of the BJP in France. Funnily, he regularly comes to India to release the English translations of his books and is feted by the Press corps and gets all kind of laudatory reviews. So much for secularism in India_ Jaffrelot, Sanjay Subramanyam (who teaches in the prestigious College de France), and others in France – keep harping on India’s problems – castes, poverty, so called-Hindu fundamentalism, etc. I know for a fact that in France, it has an influence on the top bureaucrats and the politicians, as every time something important happens in India – elections, catastrophes, riots, etc, their slanted opinions are sought by newspapers radios and televisions.
30. NGO’s. NGO’s in India are most of the time anti-Hindus. 70% of them work on “woman empowerment”, or “uplifting” the villagers in tribal areas, which is good, but should be done in a neutral manner with friendliness to the Indian Govt. It is nowadays fashionable in India to always highlight the downtrodden condition of Indian women and their underprivileged place in Indian society. But no country in the world has granted such an important place to women in its spirituality and social ethos. And even today, behind all appearances – arranged marriages, submission to men, preference of male children in some rural areas (but girls are loved in India like nowhere in the world) – it can be safely said that very often, from the poorest to the richest classes, women control –even if behind the scenes – a lot of the family affairs: the education of their children (men in India are often “mama’s boys”), monetary concerns, and husbands often refer to them for important decisions. Countries such as France or the United States, who are often preaching India on “women’s rights” never had a woman as their top leader, whereas India had Indira Gandhi ruling with an iron hand for nearly twenty years; and proportionately they have less MP’s than India, which is considering earmarking 33% of seats in Parliament for women, a revolution in human history! But this obsession of NGO’s with women and village empowerment (usually they take one village and make it like a showcase, for the benefit of visiting donors from abroad) has completely eclipsed the burning issue that would require NGO’s attention with the tremendous amount of funds they attract from abroad : afforestation, as there are hardly any forest worth the name left today in India.
31. Karunanidhi. Karunanidhi and before him his mentor, Anna, exploited to the hilt he Dravidian theory. According to this theory, which was actually devised in the 18th and 19th century by British linguists and archaeologists, who had a vested interest to prove the supremacy of their culture over the one of the subcontinent, the first inhabitants of India were good-natured, peaceful, dark-skinned shepherds, called the Dravidians. Then, around 1500 B.C., India is said to have been invaded by tribes called the Aryans : white-skinned, nomadic people, who originated somewhere in Ural, or the Caucasus. To the Aryans, are attributed Sanskrit, the Vedic – or Hindu religion, India’s greatest spiritual texts, the Vedas, as well as a host of subsequent writings, the Upanishads, the Mahabharata, the Ramanaya, etc… And thus English missionaries and later, American preachers, were able to convert tribes and low caste Hindus by telling them : ” you, the aborigines, the tribals, the Harijans, were there in India before the Aryans; you are the original inhabitants of India, and you should discard Hinduism, the religion of these arrogant Aryans and embrace, Christianity, the true religion”. Karunanidhi also exploits this theory and he and Anna have made life for Tamil Brahmins so miserable that many left Tamil Nadu for Delhi or even the US
32. Wendy Doniger. This American Hindu hater, supposedly, a historian, says that “Rama thinks that sex is putting him in political danger (keeping his allegedly unchaste wife will make the people revolt), but in fact he has it backward: Politics is driving Rama to make a sexual and religious mistake; public concerns make him banish the wife he loves. Rama banishes Sita as Dasharatha has banished Rama. Significantly, the moment when Rama kicks Sita out for the second time comes directly after a long passage in which Rama makes love to Sita passionately, drinking wine with her, for many days on end; the banishment comes as a direct reaction against the sensual indulgence. Her latest book, ‘’The Hindus: An Alternative History’ was written intentionally to mock Hinduism.
33. Akbar. Akbar is one of the goody-goodies in Indian History books, like Ashoka because he was a Buddhist, that Marxist historians like to glorify. No doubt, Akbar was one of the better Mughal emperors, but did you know that when he captured Chittor on February 25, 1568, he ordered that the thirty thousand civil population be butchered, including women and children who has taken shelter in the fort ? Destruction of temples also took place on mass scale in Akbar’s reign and it is even said that he ordered that a mountain be made of the tufts of the Brahmins’ hairs..
34. Michael Witzel, Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard, Witzel must be one of the worst enemies of Hindus in the USA, as shown recently when he tried to prevent the removal of references to India, Hinduism in the curriculum followed by schools in California which parents of Indian origin found to be inadequate, inaccurate or just outright insensitive. Known for aggressively pushing theories forged by Left historians of the Romila Thapar genre that have been long discredited through scientific means, including DNA studies, this ‘linguist’ is known for promoting himself as a ‘historian’ in academic circles. His proximity to Left historians in India is no secret. Such is Prof Witzel’s contempt for Indians who live and work in the US that he has not minced words running them down as an ethnic group. On one occasion, he declared: “Hindus in the US are lost or abandoned people.”
35. Amnesty International. . Amnesty International, which has a large number of Pakistanis in its staff, has always been hostile to Hindus. I remember showing an exhibition on Kashmir in London at the prestigious Commonwealth Club. The south Asia Amnesty in charge, refused to come and see it – although the Club was just a stone throw away from Amnesty’s London office. What did the Kashmiri Hindus do that Amnesty considers them untouchable? And how come that the Muslims of the Valley who chased them by terror and made them flee their ancestral lands and homes are not condemned by Amnesty? It triggers a lot of questions about Amnesty’s impartiality…
36. Prannoy Roy (CEO of NDTV) No doubt, Prannoy Roy created one of the best TV channels in India, in term of content and professional quality, but from the beginning, NDTV’s slant was anti-Hindu. Why? Did you know that Prannoy is married to Radhika Roy, who is the sister of Brinda Karat, one of the leading lights of the communist party of India (CPI(M))? The sad thing is that many BJP leaders always run to NDTV, to be crucified by Barkha Dutt, Pranno’s second in command today.
37. P.Chidambaram. There are many questions asked today about the role of P Chidambaram when he was in power during the ten years of the Congress. As Finance Minister, he went after Hindus by clamping down on Hindu institutions that had the 100% yoga tax rebate; as Home minister, his role is even more dubious: he had cleared an affidavit in 2009 which described college student Ishrat Jahan as a Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist involved in a plot to assassinate then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi. About a month later, a second affidavit was filed in court in which all references to Ishrat’s alleged terror links were missing. Did Chidambaram, with the knowledge of Sonia Gandhi close his eyes on an assassination plot on the person of Mr Narendra Modi? As the Home Minister of India, it would be a crime.
38. Sitaram Yechury. Mr.Yechury is an intelligent man and a brilliant speaker – but he is an enemy of Hindus. He for instance went full steam against Mr Modi’s declaration of June 21 as International Yoga, which was supported by the UN General Assembly and which should not cause any problem, as yoga is a universal technique that is practiced all over the world, by millions of Christians. Oh, but the hitch is that Yoga is a Hindu invention – hence Mr Yechury’s hostility, who famously said: “under this BJP government’s aggressive global campaigns, India appears to be seeking a global positioning not on the basis of its internal strength, economic or otherwise, but on the basis of such ‘accomplishments’ as having the UN General Assembly declare International Yoga Day on June 21”.The fact that a senior communist leader in India fails to see the potential to leverage the acceptance and spread of Yoga across the world as a means to further India’s global influence and power is a testament to the monumental intellectual bankruptcy inflicting the communists in India.
39. Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa is still the worst publicity for India. No doubt, she did saintly work. This said, one may wonder: What did Mother Teresa really stand for? Was caring for the dying and orphaned children her only goal? Mother Teresa never attempted to counterbalance this negative image of India, of whom she was the vector, by a more positive one. She could have said for instance that she was worshipped in a country of 800 million Hindus. The truth is that she stood for the most orthodox Christian conservatism. There is no doubt that ultimately Mother Teresa’s goal was utterly simple: to convert Hindus to Christianity, the only true religion in her eyes.
40. Karan Thapar. Karan Thapar, who owns ITV, which unfortunately produces shows for BBC, is one of the most famous faces of journalism in India. Karan Thapar’s father was General Pran Nath Thapar COAS during 1962 war, and his aunt is Romila Thapar. Does that explain why Karan, though a decent man, is known for his anti-Hindu bias? Once he invited me on a program about the painter M.F. Husain, who as you know has depicted Hindus’ most revered Gods fornicating or even sodomizing each other. I had brought on the show photocopies of these paintings, a solid evidence of Husain’s hatred of Hinduism, but Karan refused that I showed them on camera. So much for ITV’s journalistic impartiality…
41. Javed Akhtar. Though Javed Akhtar came out recently against those who opposed saying ‘Bharat Mata Ki jai’, he is also known as a Hindu baiter. I remember him going full steam against Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and Hindu gurus in an Indian Today symposium a few years ago. Akhtar also repeatedly equated the Gujarat 2002 anti-Muslim riots to the Jewish holocaust. As one of his detractors said: “it is impossible to believe that Akhtar isn’t aware of the horrors at Auswitz or Sobibor to compare them with rioting in Gujarat”? Does Alhtar also ignore that 56 innocent Hindus, amongst them 32 women and children were burnt to death like animals in the Sabarmati Express at Godhra? And that this was the spark that ignited the riots? Again we see how anti-Hindus twist facts and truth…
42. Shabana Azmi. Aktar’s second wife, Shabana Azmi is a fine actress. Nevertheless she is also a Hindu baiter. When she was invited to the international film festival of Deauville in France, I read the numerous interviews where she kept harping about “Hindu fundamentalists”, and repeatedly lambasted the “Right Wing” BJP Government and accused them of turning a “blind eye” to the attacks towards India’s minorities, while portraying herself as a courageous social activist fighting for freedom of expression. She also only spoke “en passant” about Muslim fundamentalism. Again the old trick to either equate Muslim and Hindu fundamentalism, or even in the case of Azmi, Rahul Gandhi and others, to say that Hindu fundamentalism is more dangerous than the Islamic one. What a joke…
43. Akar Patel. Akar Patel, a subtle but redoubtable Hindu hater, is sadly the head of Amnesty International India (one can see there the perversion of Amnesty, to name a Muslim as its head in a country inhabited by 80% Hindus). Akar indeed always rants against Narendra Modi and the Hindu majority, saying: “one must be neutral.” but “we dissent against our own country, because dissent is patriotic”. However he adds: “Anyone opposing us (Amnesty International?), is morally deficient and a repugnant human being”. Akar Patel’s virulent hatred for the majority community is not masked. He wrote : “Most extremists in India are not Muslims , they are Hindu Maoists”.
44. Arundhati Roy. Cousin of Pranoy Roy, she was married to Gerard Da Cunha first and than to film maker Pradip Kirishen. Arundhati is a pure product of Christianity hiding under an intellectual mask plus hard-core Marxism. Apart from her first book the ‘God of Small things’, Arundhati never wrote again anything of value. She is most happy in the company of maoists, naxalites Tamil Elam and Kashmiri separatists. Roy famously said: “Kashmir has never been an integral part of India and the Indian Govt is at war with Maoists to aid the MNCs”. She also says Modi is promoting Brahmanism. After the “intolerance” debate , she returned her National award for screenplay.Nobody cared…
45. Father Cedric Prakash. This Indian Christian priest has been most active in betraying his own country in the US, amongst Congress parliamentary committees. In June 2002, he testified before the US Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) in Washington, so about the lack of religious freedom in India… . His is a clear case of an Indian citizen asking an alien nation to intervene in India’s domestic affairs.Fr. Prakash has been a vocal critic of Narendra Modi, often in collaboration with John Dayal and Teesta Setalvad.
46. Martha Nussbaum. A virulent anti-Hindu American, no doubt supported by Anjana Chatterjee and her ilk. Her pronouncement:
“perpetrators of violence are not Muslims but Hindus”, is proof enough of that. Her interest in India started while working for Amartya Sen,
with whom she shared an intimate relationship, a fact she herself
bragged about. Before the 2014 Parliament elections, Amartya Sen
had said that he wouldn’t like Modi to be the PM of India.
Martha does not have any qualification or training in archaeology,
Sanskrit, geology,or metallurgy, yet writes with authority about the
dating of the Vedas.
47. Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton has no great love for India and often leans towards Pakistan (her vice chairman of the 2016 election campaign is Huma Mahmood Abedin, of Pakistani origin). Maybe the numerous infidelities of her husband Bill, made her into a hard and cynical woman, but if she becomes President of the US, she will be no friend of India and Hindus. Her attitude towards Islam and Muslim fundamentalism is also ambiguous and she is probably closer to Obama’s views, than any other presidential candidate. You can expect continuing support, financial and in armaments to Pakistan if she is elected.
48. Medha Patkar. Another NGO, who very selectively targets only Hindus. Her Narmada dam agitation had one target only: Narendra Modi. Yet the dam has proved to be the biggest factor to Gujarat’s prosperity, bringing electricity, water, propserity to all, Hindus as well as Muslims. Medha was also involved in many movements that blocked Mr Modi’s visas in the UK and the US and that tried to stop him from becoming Prime Minister
49. The Mahatma Gandhi ? I put it with a question mark, as I consider him as a great soul indeed. But there are many who point out that
he never seemed to have realised the great danger that Nazism represented for humanity. Calling Hitler “my beloved brother”, a man who murdered 6 million Jews in cold-blood just to prove the purity of his own race, is more than just innocence, it borders on criminal credulity. And did not Gandhi also advise the Jews to let themselves be butchered?…His not condemning Muslims during the Khalifat movement when thousands of Hindus were butchered by Indian Muslims, or his indulgence of Jinnah, going as far as proposing to make him the Prime Minister of India, have not always earned him Hindu goodwill.
Gandhi’s love of the Harijans, as he called them, was certainly very touching and sprang from the highest motivations, but once more Gandhi took the European element in the decrying of the caste system, sowing the seeds of future disorders and of a caste war in India, of which we see the effects only today.
50. HINDUS THEMSELVES. Hindus, it must be said, are their own biggest enemies. They must be some of the most selfish and individualistic people in the world: rich Hindus never help their poorer brothers and sisters – that’s’ why the Mother Teresa’s and Sonia Gandhis are able to flourish in India. A Hindu abroad never acknowledges another Hindu, but pretends he or she does not exist. You can insult Hindus and their Gods and Goddesses as much as you want and nothing will happen to you. A billion Hindus have not raised a finger about the 450.000 Kashmiri Pandits who became refugees in their own country after they were chased out by terror from the Valley of Kashmir in the 90’s.. Hindus today don’t give a damn whether their children know about the Ramayana, the Mahabharata or the Bhagavad Gita, where every truth that needs to be known about life, after life, karma, dharma and soul is taught. Modern Hindu children do not go to temples, pray or know what is a puja. Hindus do not care to have colleges where Hindu values are imparted, like the Muslims have (Aligarh university for instance) The only one ever, the Benares Hindu University, should not be called ‘Hindu’, as nothing Hindu is taught there anymore.
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, who alone with a few hundred men, stood his ground against the most powerful emperor of his times, has practically no place in Indian History books and is often described as a petty chieftain or even a plunderer. So is Maharana Pratap, the ONLY Rajput who fought against the Moguls and actually defeated Akbar in Hadilgathi.
Hindus who tend to merge and melt wherever they live – and in the process, lose some their identities and togetherness. And finally the most deadly and vicious intellectuals that we have reviewed above, are Hindus most of them. They are the ones that should be targeted, in a non-violent but firm manner.
Get some psychiatric help ma’am.
sit cool and think! they killed and raped your ancestors and thats why you consider yourselves one among them! it is time for ghar wapasi for you. think think think!
Dei thevudiya, Im not a pisslim.
COUNTRIES
1. China. After six decades of bitter experience at the hands of the Chinese, of double talk, betrayal and contempt, – India still gets hoodwinked by the Chinese You should also know that China still occupies one third of Ladhak, which it took during the 62 war, still claims for itself the whole of Arunachal Pradesh and has not only furnished Pakistan with its missiles (c/o North Korea), but has given them the know-how to manufacture nuclear weapons ?
How can Indians say that China is not a security menace to India ? Doesn’t he know also that according to the CIA, China has transferred one third of its nuclear arsenal to Nagchuka, 250 kms away from Lhassa, a region full of huge caves, which the Chinese have linked together by an intricate underground network and where they have installed nearly one hundred Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, many of them pointed at Indian cities ? The reason for this is that the Chinese, who are probably among the most intelligent people in the world, have always understood that India is their number one economic, military and nuclear competitor in Asia (remember how China blocks India’s accession to the UN’s Security Council, which France supports).
2. Pakistan. Pakistan is the continuing incarnation of those Muslim invaders who raped India from the middle of the 7th century onwards. Has anything changed: “their cry is still the same: “Dar-ul-Islam”, the house of Islam. Yesterday they used scimitars, today they have the atomic bomb; but the purpose is identical, only the weapons have evolved: to conquer India, to finish what the Mughal Emperors were not able to achieve”. To reason with Pakistan is useless, many conclude, “for once again they are only putting in practice what their religion teaches them every day -that ‘the Pagans shall burn forever in the fire of hell. They are the meanest of creatures’. Or ‘Slay the infidels, wherever ye find them and take them captive and besiege them and prepare them for all kinds of ambush’. Or again: ‘Choose not thy friends among the Infidels till they forsake their homes and the way of idolatry. If they return to paganism then take them whenever you find them and kill them’. All these quotations are taken from the Koran and are read everyday to the faithful by their mollahs.(Koran 98:51-9:5-4:89)
3. Bangladesh. In 1947, Muslims constituted only 70% of Bangladesh and Hindus, as well as Christians and Buddhists more than 30%, Today, Muslims are nearly 90 percent, making Bangladesh one of the largest Muslim countries in the world and Hindus, have shrunk to 7%. Successive governments have seized 2.5 million acres of land of the Hindus by using a racist law called the Enemy Property Act (renamed Vested Property Act by the secularists). Although finally this racist law was repealed, Khaleda Zia’s government has blocked its implementation (Country Report on Human Rights Practices – 2001, 2003, US Department of State).
Through the 5th and 8th Amendments of the constitution the BNP and JP governments, virtually transformed the once secular Bangladesh into an Islamic state. Apart from money laundering and providing terrorists sanctuary, Bangladesh’s madrasas have become major recruiting and training centres for militancy. A CIA study says that Bangladeshi villagers are increasingly getting sucked into terrorism out of livelihood. The very porous border between India and Bangladesh is used as an infiltration route of militants to India, including those going to Kashmir and to the Northeast. The Indian Intelligence Bureau estimates that twenty million Bangladeshis live illegally in India, with the greatest concentration in West Bengal and Assam and this is creating havoc to the social, religious and cultural fabric of the North-East. Chief ministers, such as Mamta Banerjee routinely give rations cards to these illegal Bangladeshis so that they can vote. IN West Bengal and Assma, Hindus have become minorities in certain districts are regularly beaten up, their temples ransacked, their women raped. Very few Hindus leaders have taken up their cause, save for Tapan Ghosh in WB.
4. Nepal. Sonia Gandhi, whose government was propped-up by communists, did great damage to India’s interests, such as helping a Maoist government come to power in Nepal, the only Hindu state in the world. Here is a wonderful country, with simple and friendly people, which is the only Hindu nation in the world, which is so similar in many ways to India, that there is no reason to be antagonistic to a country with which they have so much in common. Yet the erstwhile kings and now the Maoist leaders in power, are often been able to play a divide and rule game by using the Chinese and blaming India for all the ills of Nepal which as become a haven for Pakistani agents.
5. United States. The United States, seems sometimes to have an unconscious wish for a divided and weakened India. And did not Senator Galbraith say after the exploding of Yugoslavia that “India is next”? Right now, President Obama, whom the world hails as its savior of the moment, is putting immense pressure on India to negotiate with Pakistan and to do major concessions on Kashmir, which will endanger India’s integrity, as Kashmir is such a sensitive strategic state. The continuing propping up and arming of Pakistan, when its duplicity is so well document today, is also a mystery. One does not understand too how so many US Congress committees keep saying that there is no religious freedom in India, when there is actually more freedom here than in the USA. Luckily the Spratly Islands dispute has brought the US and India slightly closer. But there is still a long way to go before the USA really appreciates what an island of democracy and freedom India is in an Asia racked by Muslim fundamentalism, Christian unethical conversions and Chinese domination.
6. Afghanistan. India is making great efforts to befriend Afghanistan, so as to balance Pakistan’s efforts, which props up the Taliban. But as soon as the US fully leaves this region, Afghanistan will go back to its wild Islamic ways and target India again. It’s a pity that once Afghanistan was part of a great Hindu empire and at some times too Buddhist..
7. Sri Lanka. Extraordinary country that erstwhile Ceylon; God gave it everything: extraordinary climate, lush country, incredible diversity of races and religions, an easy-going and friendly people, who even welcomed its invaders. Yet the hate that the Sinhalese have for Indians is something to be seen to be believed. Again it is a hate which was fostered by their political leaders: Most Sinhalese presidents have become great adepts at using the hate-India carrot every time they get in trouble. And why should India be blamed for Sri Lanka’s ills? Was it India who discriminated for 40 years against the Tamil minority of Sri Lanka? Was it Indians who regularly prodded Sinhalese crowds to indulge in pogroms against the Tamils, thereby building-up a wall of hatred, so that today the Tamils in Sri Lanka cannot trust the Sinhalese anymore and want nothing but total independence? Today, the LTTE has been apparently wiped out, but make no mistake, the Tamil-Sinhalese divide will reappear under some form or the other.
8. England. When Mountbatten left India with the British flag, ending three centuries of colonization, he made sure that India was permanently divided by propping-up Pakistan and establishing a foreign policy of always putting India and Pakistan on the same foot – policy that was taken-up by the US and Europe. Hindus were the British colonizer’s biggest enemy, that is why they also propped up Sikhs, Christians and Muslims to divide India. The birth of Khalistan can be traced to the British. Finally the British looted Hindu India and stole million of priceless artefacts which are still found in British Museums.
9. Canada. Canada is a subtle enemy of Hindus, solely because it has a huge Sikh population. The Canadians allowed them to breed separatism which led to the Air India Kanishka tragedy. Even then the Canadian government continued to show leniency to the Sikhs and today Trudeau does the same by having a Sikh minister and many Sikh MP’s who are friendly to the Khalistani cause.
10. Norway. Norway has been a backer of the Naxalite movement and the LTT for a long time. These are mostly NGO’s and individuals, who often come to spend sometimes in villages of Andhra Pradesh or Bihar, to ‘uplift’ villagers, but have the tacit backing of their Government. It’s amazing also how Norway gives Peace Nobel Prizes to Indians that fit in their Protestant mould of thinking, such as and Mother Teresa, Amartya Sen or , and neglects real philanthrops, such as Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. – Francois Gautier
You mised many, I have a book of Romila and she has tried to cook the story but failed!!
How can you ignore SHELDON POLLOCK – he is the father of them all?
&
WHY are you not taking on SHELDON POLLOCK?
Thanks for this.
One completely off topic question.
Is there a reliable book o database where I can find Sanskrit names for mountains, rivers , seas of subcontinent > Since Pakistan and Afghanistan were part of Bharat, there must be Sanskrit names for mountains and rivers in these countries. e.g. Suleman mountains, Kirthar range, Makran rane etc.
Please let me know. I posted same question on Quora 2 months back, but did not get any answer as yet.
Varaha purana, Mahabharata etc.
Jambu, kusha , krauncha etc. for dweeps and lots
I agree with all comments that these prople are anti Hindu, pro separatists, funded by foreign funds etc etc etc. But where are right wind writers who can convey or debate convincingly on TV ? Only person I find of merit is Swapan Dasgupta. Most of the right wingers on debate are either illogical OR ineffective in communicating OR always defending. Because of cogent arguments presented by lefists an average person (which makes a huge percentage of Indian youth) is convinced.
Right wing eco system should develop fast at all levels, otherwise we will always be ranting.
I doubt that all these works are done by leftists mentioned here. To me they are just facade, real work is done by foreigh intellectuals. These people are just trained on this work. This is just a food for thought.
Dont forget the other haters of India and all things great about Indian Civilization–: Shashi Tharoor, Salman Khurshid, Amartya Sen, V S Naipaul, Sitaram Yechuri, Jyoti Basu, Barkha Dutt, Nidhi Razdan, Rajdeep Sardesai, Azam Khan, Mulayam Yadav, Sharad Pawar
WHERE ARE THE RIGHT WING WRITERS??? CAN YOU NAME A FEW? ALL INTELLIGENT AND BRIGHT PEOPLE JOIN LEFT WING AS LEFT APPEARS IMPRESSIVE AND THEY ALSO SHOW A SOCIAL CONCERN TO PROMOTE THEM MIGHTY. BUT ALL WE HAVE ON THE RIGHT IT PRACHI, RAMDEV, AND IDIOT FELLOWS. WHY ARE THERE NO INTELLECTUALS ON THE RIGHT SIDE ????????????????????
there are many. search for anti india civil service at youtube.
Follow Shri Rajiv Malhotra ji instead –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j84sUcOTBRM
These so called intellectuals will not fit into any society, culture and nation. They suffer from a deep sense of inferiority, due to which they have turned into arrogant writers. They suffer from terminal disease which causes Hypocritical Attitude, tendency Towards Blaming, Inappropriate Response To flattery, Negative Feeling About Life and much more.
Haha…Idiots,be willing to take criticism
From whom ? IDIOTS like you and these bigoted intellectuals
Bigot is a word reserved for Right wing retards.Probably you.
Hehe your statement is a text book example of bigotry but. .what else to expect from brain dead zombies of PaaP
Says the Right wing idiot 🙂
Idiot like you tries to think everyone is like him
Says the Right wing idiot 🙂
to an adarsh liberal retarde scum ?
Assumes the Right wing idiot 🙂
You sleep for a week retard ?
Assumes the Right wing idiot 🙂
Says a leftie retarded scum
Assumes the Right wing idiot 🙂
Says a leftie retard
It is easy to be anti Hindu to gain fame! You do not have to be an intellectual, just a writer will do!
In Sanghi language, anyone having opposing views is antinational. However, the references and reasons given by calling them anti-national actually expose the Sangh and the fallacies it propagates in the name of religion and nationalism.
Makes me wanna throw up. Literally. Kudos to team of Indiafacts for exposing those intellectual scam artists.
Is there any website to look up all your arguments behind facts such as “Aryan Invasion”, Aryan-Brahaminical conspiracy etc being labelled as incorrect and not factual to build a better counter argument or is it all based on hearsay and assumptions !! Shouldn’t an alternate theory be presented with facts and details instead just shouting down others theory. All the people presented here have a wealth of education behind the theories they are putting up, so what they present looks plausible !!
Awesome
Please Share it.
WE ARE ASHAMED OF THEY BEING INDIANS……..
WICKED PEOPLE SUCH AS THESE EIGHT, WILL RECEIVE THEIR PUNISHMENT IN GOD’S GOOD TIME… GOD GIVES THEM A LONG ROPE TILL ONE DAY HE WILL HANG THEM BY THAT VERY ROPE…. THAT IS THE ESSENCE OF HINDU PHILOSOPHY- ALL “PAPIS” WIIL PAY THE PRICE …..
Down with such ‘Intellectuals (?)’ … They have ‘Vikruti’ which is due to their personal motives of ‘DurGunaas’ like ‘Kaama, Krodha,Loabha, Mada, Moha, Matsar’ etc….
You may be Christian missionary IF:
1. You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.
2. You feel insulted and “dehumanized” when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.
3. You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God.
4. Your face turns purple when you hear of the “atrocities” attributed to Allah, but you don’t even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in “Exodus” and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in “Joshua” including women, children, and trees!
5. You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.
6. You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes in the scientifically established age of Earth (few billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is a few generations old.
7. You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs — though excluding those in all rival sects – will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most “tolerant” and “loving.”
8. While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in “tongues” may be all the evidence you need to “prove” Christianity.
9. You define 0.01% as a “high success rate” when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.
10. You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history – but still call yourself a Christian
We need people like Rajiv Malhotra to counter it intellectually
add also WENDY DONIGER , the western academic in Indic studies
I believe they are all not born to their fathers…!
bastards
Great Work India Facts . Can you Create a same article on Anti – Hindu Jounalists : Dileep Padgaonkar , N Ram , Karan Thapar , Ashutosh , Barkha Dutt, Rajdeep Sardesai , Vinod (HT) etc. etc.
This has been known for a while. Include another ra$cal Pankaj Mishra as well. How to counter these given the support from powerful sponspring countries frpm west hijavkomg academics. #1 problem is Rich indian industrialists with tonnes of money and power are npt helping neither is BJP.
Angana Chaterjee is not a smart woman. She insulted me when I visited her at Integral Studies program where she presented to me terribly researched and terribly written articles. When I told her that I want good research on important issues, and not bad research on activism that is bad for activism and the reputation of the activist, she did not get it.
These are mediocre minds that lack self awareness, humility and honesty. She had her students write to me asking me to help her with her visa situation. I did not know her well enough or her activities for me to get involved in her visa situation. I wrote back apologizing for my inability to do anything. She is also very likely to bite the hand that feeds…including the State.
What shocked me is that while claiming to be a Leftie she got involved with a whole bunch of religious zealots. Unintelligent women like her are just looking for quick fame, cheap money and easy route to applause. She is slowly getting radicalized in the wrong way.
She is a nice Bengali girl who did not get “bad”…she just got mean and unfair. Very sad. I wish her well.
Amartya Sen , Ramachandra Guha , one christian troll commenting in the name of Ergo & many NGOs….
i entirely agree with mr parameswaranji. The intellectuals and like minded people must lead a counter offensive through right reasoning and enlightning the public through media. The long rule of the british imperialists followed by pseudo secularists of congress has destroyed the indian culture and values.
It is only recently that the bluff of these people is being called. The rest of the country needs to be vigilant towards these elements inimical to the country and keep challenging their versions of history by reference to contemporaneous evidence and past texts.
[…] directly from the same colonial narrative on caste. And a key member of the AICC is John Dayal who has a history of working against […]
Can you give me a email so I can contact you regarding a Workshop we want to conduct
some of these anti Hindus live in india then how comes Hindus havent taken anyone of them out should be the question.It just shows the cowardly behaviour of Hindus overall that anyone can do and say anything against Hindus and India and get away with it while hindus sit there moaning
Who is the author of this piece? Arun Shourie… If not then why is his name there in the image?
ignore these antinational fellow. that is best treat they deserve. now people know the truth.
The follies of Hinduism are self made and being realized today, it is actually varna and not caste.in a family a Brahman, Kshatriya, vaishya,shudra have equal chances to be born , varna is not determined by birth but qualities and action…where else can a man (arjun) question a god..if prophet or Jesus asks to kill the followers always killed blindly but only in Hinduism a god(krishna) was questioned and he had to sit and explain it to a human..liberals don’t worry about Hinduism it is the only religion which is inherently secular and does not address any specific community as compared to others. Nowhere it is mentioned and discriminated into believers and nonbelievers. People who don’t understand the essence of hinduism can go to hell for all I care.
And it is india which accomodated Parsis hounded and chased out by Mhslims from Iran. What does Romila have to say about islamisation of iran ?
Lol..alp vidho mahagarwaha
Actually I would also like to know the religious affiliations of these eminent historians. Some of them are obviously Christians while some have deceptive Hindu names but are actually converts
this info would provide a lot of explanation for hatred of Hinduism of these distortians.
Some of them are self loathing hindus. Mostly from Bengal. The land that gave Vivekanand and Aurobindo is now producing Hindu haters like Mahishasurs…(This demon’s every blood drop resulted in Mahishasur )
You know it is possible to be atheist?
sepoys are all over. Very hard for many Indians to be nationalist. These are the same people who are Breaking India nexus. Another list is people who wrote letters against Modi’s invitation to Wharton see this list- most of them are sepoys and part of Breaking India nexus http://goo.gl/OopnnG
Intellectuals are liberal, English speaking, anti national, and secular commies.
We should never listen to them.
in ‘we’ you mean brahmins?
We the true, real & patriotic Indians. The NaMo Army.
Pseudo Sickular CONgies call us bhakts.
So what?? Who India voted for NaMo so cut the crap
Let’s cool down Bhakta Mr Shah, all Indians can be some kind of Bhaktas! Hum sub Hindustani!
brahmins are non different from hinduism so don’t try to act like a smartass. most of jesus crazies on such blogs masquerede as ‘rationalists’ while themselves believing in 6 days creation stories,virgin birth,flat earth theory & whole lot of other bullshit..is that rationality?
and this what Hinduism and RSS teaches! They are the true casteless people!
We means cultural hidus nationalist ….!
There are four broad varnas based on people’s interest and/or qualification.
Brahmin-Kshatriya-Vaishya-Shudra
It might seem to you that this is linear and goes something like
Brahmin>Kshatriya>Vaishya>Shudra
But in reality it’s more like,
Shudra>Brahmin>Kshatriya>Vaishya>Shudra>Brahmin>Kshatriya>Vaishya
Let me explain. First of you need to consider that the Varnas were not meant to be dynastic, I could be a Shudra and my son could become a Brahmin if it suited his interests/skills. Or vice versa. I’ll get to that in a bit.
Here’s a brief explanation of these Varnas (castes).
Brahmin: A person who is intellectual (nerdy?) and chooses to be a religious/spiritual guide to society. Brahmins also included the mathematicians, strategists, scientists etc. (Such as Chanakya, Aryabhatta etc.). Brahmins were not allowed to earn money for a living (like the Vaishyas or Shudras) or to become rulers (Kshatriyas), so as to prevent concentration of power.
Kshatriya: A person skilled in warfare and wants to involve himself with governing the society. Kshatriya sect would include everyone from the King to the infantry foot soldier. A Kshatriya had to take the advice of Brahmins to make big decisions and in day to day governance. And a Kshatriya had to depend on Vaishyas and Shudras for rest of the jobs (business, food, labour, entertainment). He could not go against their decision. This was again so to ensure the prevention of concentration of power.
Vaishya: A person skilled in business of any type. Includes all sorts businesses from jewellery to selling clothes etc. A Vaishya was not supposed to teach religious lessons or involve himself with ruling. Again this was to prevent concentration of power as they already had a lot of money.
Shudra: A person skilled in arts. This included everything from artisans to farmers, from dancers to singers. Any intangible art form to your everyday blue collar jobs would be done by a person who would fall in the Shudra sect. You know, even today one can set the rules, one can do the administration, and another can handle the finances or scale up the business. But at the end of the day if he doesn’t have the man power, the business/society/country will fall the next instant. In that sense this sect would be integral for the development and sustaining of society.
But, we all know that today this word, Shudra has gained negative connotations because of the dastardly deeds done to people from this varna in the past by so called upper caste people. In practice the system failed horribly while in an ideal world the system works well. But the essence of it, one could argue is scientific. Remember, the students were taught in a Gurukul and anyone could choose their Varna based on their interest as well as their acumen. It was at no point supposed to be dynastical. A Brahmin’s son could become a Shudra, and a Shudra’s son could become a Kshatriya. However, overtime it was forced by parents and/or society. Perhaps the ayurvedic doctor (brahmin) thought his son would be better suited to be a doctor. And perhaps the sculptor (shudra) thought at least being a shudra would ensure his son a (safe) career. When you think about it, it’s not that different from parents today wanting their children to do Engineering or MBA. Or perhaps it had a more sinister origin, a collusion between the intelligentsia and/or the moneyed class and/or the ruling class to keep the (in terms of governance, business, rituals, sciences) uneducated farmers, artisans and labourers poor. The same way one could argue it happens today, rich getting richer and poor getting poorer.
Coming back to your question, who would you consider the most superior?
The one who has the most money aka Vaishya? Well he still has to report to a King and the nobility. So the Kshatriya, then? What with all the power and authority? Well, he needs to take guidance and strategies from a Brahmin and without that his kingdom will crumble. Ah, the Brahmin then? With all the spiritual and scientific knowledge of the time. Nope, he still has to beg for a living and mostly from the common folk, aka Shudras. So the Shudra is the most powerful then? Even a Brahmin has to beg from him? Nope, in turn he is employed by the Vaishyas.
Thus it’s not a linear gradation and it’d perhaps be very incorrect to call it the fourth Varna if you’re implying that it’s at the bottom of the hierarchy. It’s more of an interdependent coexistence.
This is what HH Paramacharya of Kanchi spoke. Great you told as it is.
i had copied it from Qoura.
Nice explanation
I have worked all my life with books (brahminical) but have always felt that I was by nature shudra (arts and crafts). I know exactly what you mean. My brother and sister are both in management and are by nature vaishya, with perhaps a touch of kshatriya, so the boundraries are not so clear cut there.
Looks like you believe in British imposed cast system. Still colonized??
Just giving yourself a name rationalist does not make you so, RSS as I have found out over the years never questions the sir name but press upon calling by first name , so to bring up Brahaminism.in this debate is sheer ignorance upon your part.
Secular Commies? Hinduism is the root of secularism, it is in you without you knowing it! We must have conviction and passion, but We can’t afford to be Taliban!
hahahha
not pc, politically correct, is anti-india? .. no room for varied opinions? aiyo..
I can’t access the damage these leftists have done to India from 1947 on wards..where Nehru was the biggest brand ‘nehruvian’ JNU etc..these Marxists ripped apart already distorted History to suit their leftists ideology..The more dangerous part of it is that even the present generation is being conditioned by that left leaning education..It will take years to change this wrong notions. I think only BJP can change it but as I said it will take some decades..
BTW Angana Chatterji is married to that Kashmiri Barsheet Peer
No, the one married to Kashmiri Sepratist is Anannya Vajpaiee- another anti-Hindu sepoy.
Angana chatterji is married to Richard Shapiro.
Angana Chatterji is the daughter of Bhola Chatterji (1922–1992), a socialist and Indian freedom fighter and Anubha Sengupta Chatterji. She is the great-great-granddaughter of Gooroodas Banerjee, a judge and the first Indian Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta. She grew up in the communally-tense neighborhood of Narkeldanga and Rajabazar in Kolkata. Her family included mixed-caste parents and grandparents, and aunts who were Muslim or Catholic.
Chatterji moved from Kolkata to Delhi in 1984, and then to the USA in the 1990s. She retains her Indian citizenship and is a permanent resident of the United States.[4] Her formal education comprises a BA and an MA in Political Science. She also holds a PhD in the Humanities from CIIS, where she later taught anthropology.[1] Her husband is Richard Shapiro.
No, the one married to Kashmiri Sepratist is Anannya Vajpaiee- another anti-Hindu sepoy.
Angana chatterji is married to Richard Shapiro.
Angana Chatterji is the daughter of Bhola Chatterji (1922–1992), a socialist and Indian freedom fighter and Anubha Sengupta Chatterji. She is the great-great-granddaughter of Gooroodas Banerjee, a judge and the first Indian Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta. She grew up in the communally-tense neighborhood of Narkeldanga and Rajabazar in Kolkata. Her family included mixed-caste parents and grandparents, and aunts who were Muslim or Catholic.
Chatterji moved from Kolkata to Delhi in 1984, and then to the USA in the 1990s. She retains her Indian citizenship and is a permanent resident of the United States.[4] Her formal education comprises a BA and an MA in Political Science. She also holds a PhD in the Humanities from CIIS, where she later taught anthropology.[1] Her husband is Richard Shapiro.
It is not noble to criticize mixed marriages. The world is becoming small as we grow. There are so many mixed marriages in Indonesia and other places. We do not gain anything by following puritanical attitude that turned people off. Be inclusive and adhere to lofty ideas!
You didn’t get the point. This discussion is not about mixed marriages.
Its about ideological warfare launched against Hindus by hardcore Muslim and Christian fanatics.
Speaking truth as it is, is a bad idea in the world that is becoming small?
Perfect correction.
Analyze a bit before commenting on public posts? Kinda off shows your intelligence. it was never about mixed marriages. Its about the anti-hindu stance.
Analysis is for critics and analyst, here people comment how they feel of what they understand. These Public platforms are not monitored, take it or leave it as they are.
Ok carry on n expose your stupidity 😀
Angana Chatterji & Pakistan ISI’s Mary:-
From FBI files and Hindu American Foundation’s letter:
On March 15, 2011, the FBI complaint asserts that Dr. Fai sent an email to his ISI contact “advising him that an individual referred to here as “Mary” would be testifying in front of a UnitedNations working group. Mary is a human rights activist.”
On March 26, 2011, Dr. Fai emailed his ISI contact with information describing “Mary’s” testimony at the U.N. working group. Although the identity of “Mary” has not been revealed, Ms. Chatterji did in fact testify and provide a written submission to the United Nations Human Rights Working Group in Mexico City, Mexico in March 2011 and statistics provided in a subsequent report by the working group correlate identically to a reportauthored by Ms. Chatterji.
The list is incomplete without the nobel laureate dr senseless.
Great compilation. They follow the tradition initiated by “historians” of Religion of Terror during invasion of India, later day invaders i.e Religion of Imperialism found it useful to propagate the myth to keep “Hindus” subjucated.
Some more additions – Ram Puniyani, Mahasweta Devi, Arundhati Roy, Sandeep Pandey, Praful Bidwai, Anand Patwardhan.
can we create a interactive database with visualizations like ( data.gov.in) to access the trends ( hate speeches, anti india/hindu conferences , books, interviews) ? It would be interesting.
Agree.. absolutely needed
A small but significant correction. It is Suzanne Arundhati Roy.
LoL
On the movie front, there are countless hate-anything-that-is-Indian — Mahesh Bhatts, Khans, and Kamals — masquerading as super-hero-do-gooders, hiding under a thin veneer of showmanship, atristry and abusing the freedom-of-expression guaranteed to them by the State.
These have more contacts with the common-folk on a daily basis than the ‘intellectuals’; we must be wary of them too – by banishing them from our thoughts the moment the curtain draws down in the movie halls.
Also add Jyotirmaya Sharma to the hall of shame.
What about Rajdeep Sardesai, Burkha Dutt and Arnab Goswami???
And Rana Ayyub, Malini Parthsarthy.
They are jerks but not to this level. These people have crossed the limits. They are denying the existence of a unique identity for Hindus.
Praful Bidwai is on way to meet his creator as we speak
Also the likes of half-baked scholars like Vamsee Juluru, Rajiv Malhotra, Dinanath Batra et al
Ok that’s assuming you are fully baked. You have any books to show how well baked you are? At least monographs or essays ? Then you can talk.
you are quartered-baked pseudo- scholar:-)
Why dont you answer the question? Are you true Reddy or a rice bag convert like YSR?
He cannot answer but he is definitely a self hating Christian.
kitni tatti khayi hai West ki be Bhosa**ke
Tu itna Chutiya kyoon hai bay?
bhai, you are #1 chutiya. You supported psedo-scholars like Juluri, Rajiv Malhotra or Dinanath et al…
Madarchod, even your mother hates you after you forced yoruself upon her.
Rajiv Malhotra a ‘half-baked scholar’ !!!!! … .. ha ha a .. ha h a.. llol…
shows how much baking you have been through !
You are so clueless really !
So much that he has lost his balance.
they chose to ignore sheldon pollock. despite sandeep web criticzing seminal work of Rajiv malhotra. hahaha… how the indian fools…work against dharma and let their egos and OUTSIDERS rule!
True.. Sheldon Pollock alongwith Wendy Dongier should be there on the top of the list.. but may be the emphasis was on Indian blacksheep (with exception of Martha ji)
Some persons like these find no better way to boil their pots; one has noway except tolerate such dirt; by the way there must be some ‘intellectuals” who write the opposite with equal or better “erudition’ one likes such TEN also to be presented /described on the lines of tarkashastra requirement of vada and prativaada
It is not just these persons, it is the entire eco-system of TV channels, Newspapers etc which are controlled by these people and people with same philosophy that is the threat.
The sad part is that we have not been able to create and nurture and institutionalize a counter narrative. There is no counter to JNU, the loyolas , stephens, donbosco’s etc, we only have incoherent organizations like Bajrang Dal, Ram Sena , VHP etc. These organizations do more disservice to our cause than good.
Unless and until we are able to develop a counter eco-system (as done by the right in US) we cannot oppose these people and what they represent.
I do not think the Modi Govt and the Sangh Parivar have the vision and intellectual depth to create such a system. There lies our tragedy.
So, what are you doing about it , Sir ?
Communicating! Interesting how ideas come about!
Your one comment is sufficient to explain how “disconnected” you are with the ground.
I would however encourage you to start this mighty exercise from the scratch (esp since you allege nothing is done by Sangha).
I am follower of Sangh, but what n s parameswaran highlighting is very different. there is no proper media mouth piece for sangh which should compete with main stream media. Sangh is to gain popularity among lower caste people and also at high middle class public. Sangh need to be coordinating with all the main peethadipatis etc. All these things should be done. There is already single control for other religions. I should say that all other entities like bajarang etc should merge with RSS. have only one.
Merging does not help. RSS is a high level organization that unites Hindus, but not against any group or religion. Don’t be surprised if you found them accepting nationalist Hindus and Muslims!
Uniting Hindus? How many Dalits have so far been made priests in mainstream temples? That would be one of the barometers of Unity
@ Samester try Tirupati which is training next generation of Dalits for its priests.
Any more questions?
Try temples in Tamilnadu. You are ignorant.
Rajiv Malhotra is bringing in a movement of change vis a vi the academic situation but the govt. must do what the govt. must do.
Single control = Single point of failure. Essence of survival of Hinduism is decentralized power. It is like Internet. It cant go down easily.
You are correct ps ji that the reason for Hindus’ survival today is the ‘decentralization’ as unfortunate as that is 🙁
Hindus can’t get ‘united’ today because … no sooner than they do the forces out there are ready with hammers in both hands to divide and rule them as in ‘Aarakshan’.
Hi suchitra, decentralization of authority does not imply lack.of unity. Decentralized but united in thoughtt, intent ansd spirit is what is needed. That’s how hinduism.thrived. To better understand this watch chanakya serial – the older one from 90s.
What you are suggesting is absolutely correct, must be done as soon as possible.
Reading Swami Vivekananda’s Complete Works (all 9 volumes) would be a great start in countering leftist distortionists of the likes of Meera Nanda atleast. The others have their arguments fall flat on their faces either way.
Governments are governments and cannot do what society must do on its own.
Governments can certainly further (or not) a cause or an agenda based on its own ideology. This is where society comes in and with the help of social media it is easier than ever to do this 🙂
What if Govt blocks society ? Look at hindu temple control by Govt. Churches and mosques operate free of govt control. As a result temples can have muslim or xtian appointed by Govt controlling Hindu temples. The fact that no Hindu protests this arrangement is astonishing. Why Ghar wapsi is criticized while conversions are allowed by mozies and xtians of hindus ?
A big part of the problem is the sold pimp media.
But yes what past governments did wrong must be corrected by the present one.
Agreed Media is big problem.
Nicely summarized n s parameswaran. I believe Modi has some guts and thoughts to do this.
Modi surely has the guts but is not taking any chances at least currently with a sure possibility of derailing development.
Right.. Modi/Smriti not doing anything at the moment
An important link connecting the top down Modi Sarkar and the bottom up Sangh is what is the need of the hour today. They both ubiquitously stay on defensive for littlest moves. What is needed to set the tone is an intellectual base. But as you correctly point out they both don’t get the need for one and keep justifying their own reason de etre.
n s parameswaran ji
We do not have counterparts of ‘JN’U, the loyolas , stephens, donbosco’s etc,’ because Hindus have not been allowed to build EVEN an elementary school having Hindu education 🙁
Modi, RSS and Sangh lack sophistication and means to encounter the Left. Modi sings development mantra but sadly lacks Hindu protection vision.
I AGREE