UPA-II: A treasonous misrule – Gautam Sen

Dr. Gautam Sen“The downfall of the Indian state is proceeding apace, a version of the phenomenon that is especially starkly evident across the Middle East today. The Anglo-Americans are engaged in mass murder and change regimes routinely to the bogus chorus of human rights’ violations. As far as India is concerned, the task of subverting its one relatively-unaffected institution, its armed forces, remains to be accomplished, though Manmohan Singh’s UPA II has made some determined progress in this regard as well.” — Dr. Gautam Sen

India-US nuclear reactor agreement.The Indian trait of being easily gratified and eager to please is a fascinating contrast to self-serving Pakistani truculence. Despite being bankrolled and armed by the United States over fifty years, Pakistan not only refused to play ball with US plans for Afghanistan, it used US-supplied weaponry to embark on a murderously effective counter-offensive against Western forces. It also mobilized its citizens against the US by instigating a relentless hate campaign. By comparison, India has lost no opportunity to prostrate itself to the US in apparent infinite gratitude for the Indo-US nuclear accord

The shameless United Progressive Alliance government now wishes to mortgage India’s energy security for the next generation by purchasing untried US nuclear reactors though superior contenders are available elsewhere. If prominent Indian politicians are not poised to receive consideration for this devastating betrayal, they are bigger fools than hitherto presumed. But pigs will fly first before such an opportunity fails to prompt Pharaonic enrichment of India’s elite. The alternatives to US nuclear reactors include domestic and international thorium ones that might allow India significant energy autonomy, its principal source of external vulnerability. 

India earlier also leapt into the Afghan cauldron and spent unconscionable sums for no obvious long-term gain. It was this unthinking and opportunistic policy impulse that prompted Pakistan’s 26/11 terror assault against Mumbai though no commentator was astute enough to recognize it as such. Evidently, India has also suspended belief, in an example of the triumph of hope over experience, by outsourcing Indian policy towards Pakistan to Washington. 

India China Face-offIn recent months, a schoolboy penchant for short-cuts and an entirely supine mind-set resulted in a sharp border rebuff from China. Indian initiatives along the Ladakh LAC, in response to calculated earlier Chinese belligerence, failed to adequately prepare for likely retaliatory countermeasures. The antecedent status quo would have been preferable to the humiliating political and legal setback for India of conceding to China, as it has evidently done. Further political and military consequences may follow as the Indian government is impaled on fiscal insolvency and its people lose their fighting spirit in despair. 

Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif is overshadowed by the army.A more immediate political denouement is looming large as US rapprochement with Pakistan unfolds below the radar. No, the US is not about to settle scores with Pakistan for being thwarted by it in Afghanistan and instigate a state of affairs to provide India regional victory on a platter. The ISI, like the Italian secret service, was created by the US in the context of the Cold War, and their relationship runs deep. The Pakistanis have no doubt reminded the US that its historic, global victory in the Cold War, in the aftermath of the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan, was facilitated by unstinting Pakistani support. Quite clearly, the outcome was of unprecedented importance to the US and its Western allies. Besides, only by having Pakistan on board can the US realistically hope to secure its residual interests in Afghanistan, as I have been warning since 2005. 

No doubt, the US is also aware that if push comes to shove, Pakistan’s professional and reliable military levies will do its dirty work in the Middle East, as the infamous Zia-ul-Haq did, as a mercenary commander, to crush Jordan’s Palestinian militants in 1970. In addition, the Saudi monarchy will surely have interceded on behalf of their cherished Pakistani co-religionists, who may be called upon to save them from the wrath of its own people. The recent dispatch of Pakistani Taliban military trainers to Syria to help unseat Bashar-al Assad of Syria is a clear reaffirmation that the Anglo-Americans never allowed their intimate historic ties with global Jihadis, as researcher Mark Curtis has affirmed, to deteriorate. Their Zaheer-Ul-Islamdisagreements over the future of Afghanistan are an isolated local difficulty and the larger usefulness of Islamists to Anglo-US policy remains intact. India counts for nothing by comparison. 

An even greater calamity that has now overtaken India is deep penetration of its national institutions and body politic by foreign intelligence agencies. The phenomenon always existed though the extraordinary scale of the Anglo-American infiltration of India has been revealed recently by massive leaks about US intelligence activities. Most frighteningly, ISI penetration of India at the highest levels of government and society is unmistakably perceptible. So successful has Pakistan’s ISI become that it is possible that they surreptitiously promoted the shocking warfare between Indian intelligence and investigative agencies through its Indian proxies. 

Revealingly, senior RAW officers are publicly denouncing the fabrication of evidence to distract attention from global terrorism, sponsored by the Pakistani ISI and funded by the Saudis, by blaming alleged Hindu extremists. Some of the falsehoods are brazen and there is not even an attempt by suborned Indian decision-makers to explain why their accusations against alleged majority-community perpetrators of terrorism are flatly contradicted by US agencies and the UN Security Council. 

Underlying the alarming penetration of India by the Pakistani ISI is India’s vote-bank politics, which has granted extraordinary latitude to terrorist activities. Some of India’s top elected politicians routinely and respectfully refer to the ideological mentors of terrorists by appending ‘ji’ after their names. One Indian chief minister visited Pakistan in order to advertise his political party’s magnanimity towards the assumed loyalties of their vote-banks. Indeed, they are inciting emotional attachments towards India’s sworn tormentor where little may have existed before. 

R.R. PatilIntrusive investigation to interdict terrorist plotters is well-nigh impossible in much of India as well. It is opposed by most ruling parties who live and breathe a treasonous Indian version of secularism. The impugning of the Batla House terror encounter by Indian politicians was an illustration of the degree of subversion of the Indian state by foreign interests. A few years ago, one of India’s most senior RAW officers lamented privately that the bombers who caused mayhem in Delhi during 2005 were given an official escort up to the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border. It was also shocking to learn from an apolitical senior bank executive of the sighting of Dawood Ibrahim in the Mumbai airport VIP lounge in 2003 in the company of Maharashtra’s most formidable politician. 

Politicians, officials, NGOs and media personalities openly associate with terrorist sympathisers even after their anti-national activities have been exposed by Indian security organizations. Numerous fraudulent human rights’ NGOs have been sponsored in India by foreign agencies specifically designated to undermine Indian security efforts. Family members of India’s ruling establishment are also known to be in contact with Pakistani missions in Europe. Useful individuals in India, high and low, are being discreetly gifted international credit cards issued abroad and payments due on them are settled in venues like Dubai and London by both foreign intelligence services and terrorist groups. Such bribery is virtually untraceable. 

Manmohan SinghThe downfall of the Indian state is proceeding apace, a version of the phenomenon that is especially starkly evident across the Middle East today. The Anglo-Americans are engaged in mass murder and change regimes routinely to the bogus chorus of human rights’ violations. As far as India is concerned, the task of subverting its one relatively-unaffected institution, its armed forces, remains to be accomplished, though Manmohan Singh’s UPA II has made some determined progress in this regard as well. This is why it is absolutely imperative to stop Narendra Modi becoming prime minister of India. He may have the temerity to resist the dismantling of India. — NewsInsight, 2 August 2013

» Dr Gautam Sen has taught Political Economy at the London School of Economics.

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  1. All traditional Dharmacharyas in maths do run vedapatshalas that also teach Sanskrit. Some of these schools are huge. And there are also private schools that teach Sanskrit. Karnataka appears to take the lead with even a Sanskrit radio station and one or two villages that use Sanskrit as a local language.

    Sita Ram Goel maintained that Sanskrit should have been declared the national language instead of Hindi. Not for religious reasons but because it is known all over the country and has a huge national literature. It would be a unifying language where Hindi has proved to be a divisive language. When he toured South India, he was able to easily converse with the Brahmin community who knew Sanskrit, as he didn’t know Tamil or Malayalam (he knew Sanskrit, Urdu, Bengali, Hindi (which he wrote a number of novels in), Punjabi, Farsi (Persian), some Arabic, Greek, and Latin, and of course English). He always regretted that he didn’t know Tamil.

    The government doesn’t promote Sanskrit in the universities because of its skewed secular policies, but this will have to change as the logical value of Sanskrit and its scientific applications become better known.

    A huge Muslim university is coming up in Tirupati town, so along with Sanskrit the locals will now have to learn Urdu. That aside, there are a few Muslim families in Tamil Nadu whose Hindu forefathers were forcefully converted to Islam, who still learn Sanskrit and do Veda parayanam. I have met one such family in Chennai. It was very interesting to see these men with caps and heavy beards chanting the Veda before Sri Devi during a Navarathri festival.

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  2. IS, Why not all Dharmaacharyyas form a non profit organization with a trust in India for Sanskrit studies without govt support. or support this one like the one below

    http://www.taralabalu.org/panini/

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  3. The Casanova referred to in Dr. Elst’s article is the sociologist of religion, José Casanova of Georgetown University, Washington, DC

    Dr. Elst says in the next paragraph: “On China and India, he (Dr. Casanova) introduced himself as a dilettante, a mere sociologist. Let us reassure him: nothing to worry about, with his sociological glasses on he would not stand out in a typical South-Asian Studies department. There, Sanskrit and classical studies are neglected and shunned (because deemed fostering “Hindu fundamentalism”) while the focus has shifted to studying social groups oppressing or oppressed by caste and other so-called evils of Hindu society. He proposed to concentrate on religion.”

    It is a good report and, as you say, thought provoking.

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  4. “Even Casanova, unlike most Westerners, was aware that India discriminates against the majority”

    These above lines are very thought provoking by Koenraad Elst,

    http://koenraadelst.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/a-sociologist-on-religion-and-secularism.html.

    The paragraph below if from the above web site of the article “A sociologist on religion and secularism.”

    India’s secularism is no copy of Western secularism, based on keeping or creating a distance in the relation between religion and the state. Instead, it embraces religion, but tries to keep neutrality between the different religions. Except that it makes a distinction between the majority and the minorities, which get privileged in the Constitution, the laws and political practice, in order to protect them from the majority. Thus, a parliamentary majority involving non-Hindus imposed reforms on Hinduism but does not touch Muslim law. Even Casanova, unlike most Westerners, was aware that India discriminates against the majority.

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  5. Dear friends,

    The Supreme Court just boldly ruled to kick criminals out of politics — a landmark step to clean up Parliament! But now those same gangsters are trying to overturn these rulings. And only we can stop them.

    In any other serious democracy the Supreme Court bans would be a base line — politicians convicted of crimes should lose their seats and if you are in jail you cannot stand for election. Basic stuff! But according to reports, 30% of our parliamentarians have criminal charges against them. Some MPs are fighting back to cling to power and now the Attorney General is doing them a favour advising they change the Constitution. It’s our people power vs criminal politics – lets block them now.

    The AG’s Constitutional reform could happen in days. We can’t let this extraordinary chance to finally clean up Indian politics be wrecked by the crooks. Let’s massively support the Supreme Court and directly slam the Attorney General and MPs. Click now to sign this urgent petition to cast out the criminals — Avaaz will deliver it directly to all three arms of government:

    https://secure.avaaz.org/en/cast_out_the_criminals_3/?tTjxufb

    An incredible 30% of parliamentarians have some sort of criminal charges against them. They’ve managed to hold onto power because of a major loophole in the law and remain in office if they simply appealed a conviction within three months of receiving a guilty verdict. This new Supreme Court order means that anyone convicted from now onwards loses their seat immediately — making this a monumental step towards cleaning up the criminalisation of politics.

    Looking at the shameful disruptions of Parliament sessions on TV, it’s clear that parliamentarians love to debate and disagree. But when it comes to saving their skin, they are all united. An all-party meeting was called and all political parties have agreed to challenge the Supreme Court judgement. They are even considering a law that allows them to appoint judges of their choice — recklessly threatening our democracy even further.

    The politicians plans to keep the crooks are starting to be made public. So let’s blindside them now with a massive cry of support for the independence and activism of the Supreme Court — one of India’s finest institutions — and tell the Attorney General and Parliament to back off. Click below to create a media wave of support to clean up Parliament:

    https://secure.avaaz.org/en/cast_out_the_criminals_3/?tTjxufb

    Years ago Avaaz took on a similar battle in Brazil to help clean up its democracy, pushing forward a powerful bill to ban corrupt politicians from public office when everybody said it was impossible. India is a far older democracy and the world’s largest, with millions of people hoping for a change. Let’s get every citizen who cares to join this call to cast out the criminals!

    With hope and determination,

    The Avaaz Team

    ~~~

    More Information:

    Government may amend Constitution to counter Supreme Court ruling on convicted lawmakers (NDTV)
    http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/govt-may-amend-constitution-to-counter-supreme-court-ruling-on-convicted-lawmakers-403229?curl=1376015871

    Criminal Charges Raise Chance of Election Win (India Real Time)
    http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2013/07/30/criminal-charges-raise-chance-of-election-in-india/

    MPs, MLAs to be disqualified on date of criminal conviction (Hindu Times)
    http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/mps-mlas-to-be-disqualified-on-date-of-criminal-conviction/article4901596.ece

    Samajwadi Party takes lead to oppose Supreme Court ruling aimed at keeping criminals out of politics (India Today)
    http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/samajwadi-party-opposes-supreme-court-ruling-aimed-at-keeping-criminals-out-of-politics/1/291637.html

    In India, lawbreakers are lawmakers (Global Post)
    http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/india/130801/india-lawbreakers-are-lawmakers

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  6. we deserve this.no need to weep for our own faults.we are master of digging trenches for our own fall and feel very wise.india is no man’s land.both peoples and system are happy to vandalise it.

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  7. To say just for votebank there is treachery, is too polite and dangerously inadequate. All the pawns and pieces were placed in position even before the birth of truncated India. New pawns brought from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Italy, Urdubelt etc. were carefully choosen and settled at choking junctures as Hindus were unsettled in Assam, Kashmir, Andhra, Bombay, Tamilnadu, Kerala etc. Gujarat escaped and exposed the treachery through Modi, and this is the secret and root cause of Jehad of secularists against Nationalists Modis.

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  8. I wonder where Sonia is now and whom she is meeting !

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