Comments on: Blasts? What Blasts?�Yeh to hota hi rahta hai�

By: v.c.krishnan

v.c.krishnan — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 07:17:48 +0000

Dear Sir,
What a set a fools we are. Why all this hype about this bomb blast in UP. It is just another Bomb blast to be discussed and then thrown away like a used Tampon or Condom. Why make a big fuss about it.
Look at it the PM does lose sleep over it. The “Secular media” has some more ads and moolah to make. More arguments for FDI in media. More freedom of expression. More work for the NHRC. More employment, more economic development, more relations with the developed nations!
What are we all taking. Make more money with this disaster! More cell phones, more internet traffic, more investment in broadband width. Look at the positive side.
Just like our freedom fighters got freedom from the tyranny of the British, a few more sacrifices from our “HINDU BRETHEREN” to unyoke ourselves from the cycle of poverty will be most welcome to the “SECULARS”.
I am disappointed that we are looking at the negative side of things instead of looking at the more positive economic development.
Jai Hind!! oops! I am sorry, JAI SECULARISM!!
Regards,
vck

By: B Shantanu

B Shantanu — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:02:58 +0000

Spot on Atlantean…Great comment.

Unfortunately putting nation above political agendas and vested interests is an alien concept for most political parties in India.

By: atlantean

atlantean — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:16:52 +0000

I completely agree with Raja Ram. It is useless to sit back, write articles and let life go on. We, the people of India, have to think:

Who are supposed to protect us?

Our MPs whom we vote into power and our security establishments.

Our security establishments have a dual nature – on one hand, they are quite adept at discovering money trails and hunting down sleepers and RDX consignments.

On the other, they fail repeatedly to get intelligence of the exact location and timing of bomb blasts.

However, there is another angle to it. Security agencies would have to be blamed for failure when they are given full powers and freedom to do their job. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. They have their hands tied by our “secular” government so that their pet votebank is not aggrieved.

Read Praveen Swami’s report. Its not that police were not ready. They actually knew everything. They got information in MARCH for God’s sake! They KNEW there were people in the city looking to strike at the right moment. The police wanted to do arrests in the old city area but our secular Congress AP govt. sad NO!

It is really unfortunate that basic security has been given second priority to making sure that the “feelings” of a particular community are not “hurt.”

What Congress doesnt know is that this is a very short term tactic. This might ensure votes from their pet votebank in the next election for making sure their “feelings” are not “hurt.” But the majority community is getting increasingly impatient and their feelings too are getting hurt.

All I’ll say is what Durgadas Basu says in his book “Introduction to the Indian Constituion”: The feelings of the majority community are no less important for the integrity and unity of the nation.

The Congress parties and its “secular” allies along with the “secular” media and the human rights groups ignore this simple truth. One can easily sense the public anger against all these elements and sooner or later, it is going to burst forth in some or the other way.

They now have a chance to come clean and put nation before their political agendas and vested interests. They ignore it at their own peril.

By: Indian

Indian — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:19:44 +0000

I too are feeling the same way as Mr. Diwakar. But we are paralysed and handicapped by our own emotions. We take care of this community(M) too much, as if it is our responsibilty to sooth them even if they kill our innocents. According to political(congress) agenda it is Hindu’s responsibilty to show tolerance, not Muslim’s as if they are guest in our country. Why guest don’t have any responsibilty towards host? if they are backward than due to thier own religion not because of India. It they are not comfortable in India(in matter of cases it seems they are not comfortable in USA, UK, Canada or may be on this Earth) they should go to places where they have fellow brothers. Why they didn’t leave India when partition was going on. Why they stayed in India. Sometime I feel untill now Hindus themselves are responsible for thier liberal and come beat me attitude. Actual fact is we (Hindus) are ruled by…in our own country, our nation and our own people has tamed us. I understand many Muslims are good too but they are not coming forward, its of no use to be good. Narendra Modi is roaring, but see how some hindus and so called secular leader are against him as if only because of him everything got mess. What about USA and UK. that means George Bush and Tony Blair is roaring because Narendra Modi had a meeting with them. They are too mad with this community. Forget India even european country has started discriminating them as they turned out to be traitors and betrayers.

By: B Shantanu

B Shantanu — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:29:46 +0000

Recieved from Shri Diwakar:
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Dear Mr. Shantanu,
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I stopped buying, and by extension, reading our very secular newspapers long back. A cursory reading of your article in “Hindu Dharma” tonight came as a refreshing breeze amidst all this secular heat.
I am reminded here of Shekhar Gupta’s “Walk the talk” with the Maharashtra CM after the Bombay blasts. The great Mr. Gupta repeatedly asks the CM whether and when the culprits would be nabbed, and the secular CM nonchalantly asserts “soon, very soon.” I have no doubt that the so-called culprits will be nabbed soon, very soon, because the police have been given a free hand to do so. They will then be arrested, charged, taken to court and, by the time they are sentenced 15 or 20 years hence, all will be forgotten and our secular brigade will then cry itself hoarse about the undertrials languishing in our jails for that long.
Now this nabbing and charging is the easy part, precisely why our great Mr. Gupta keeps asking about that. He does not, mind you, does not ask the CM whether he can guarantee that there will not be another blast. For that requires political will, arrests and preventive detention of poor, innocent Muslims. Even so soon after these blasts, when some 200 or 300 were nabbed and released after a day or two, I hear a Samajwadi Party leader say that if such things continue, twenty crore Muslims all over India will be out on the streets–enough I suppose to send shivers down the spines of our Karunanidhis, Laloos, etc., etc. Please note that I do not mention the names of that Italian carpetbagger–who for the sake of power sups with the man who was responsible for the LTTE running riot here during his earlier regime, and finally for killing her husband–or her lackey, the so-called prime minister.
I am talking here of the likes of Prashant Bhushan, the great fighter for the cause of human rights. When KTK Tulsi (I hope I got his initials right) says on TV that stringent laws beyond POTA are the need of the hour, Mr. Bhushan says No. They would be used to harass minorities, especially Muslims. For Mr. Bhushan a mere Act, which could lead to harassment of Muslims is intolerable, but bomb blasts that maim and kill hundreds of innocent Hindus are okay. Why blame Mr. Bhushan, when he is openly and avowedly wedded to a cause. No so our neutral anchors on TV. The moment the heat is on the Indian Muslim, all that the Congress/Communist/Samajwadi spokesmen have to do is to invoke the Gujarat mantra, and the frightened anchor, frightened of being accused as communal immediately shuts shop saying, “Yes, yes, the terrible Gujarat pogram, the draconian POTA.” Another anchor was more agitated at the visit of Narendra Modi to Bombay than at the blasts. Perhaps, only terrorists are permitted to visit Bombay. Another anchor, linking the blasts to Gujarat, traced the events from the killings there. No mention of Godhra, which, anyway for the secularists is at best an accident or at worst self-inflicted.
Here is some more good news. Soon this Paki-bashing will end. Sitaram Yechury has, I am told, written that the blasts are the results of our pro-American tilt. Soon, the self-proclaimed messiah of Indian Muslims, Mulayam Singh Yadav, will call for an end to this tirade against Pakistan, and it will end. After all, when blaming SIMI can anger Muslims, wouldn’t accusing Pakistan day in and day out irritate them, especially when elections to UP are on hand. Our secularists, who have been keeping quiet of late, will then have a field day. They only have to take a leaf out of Arjun Singh’s book ( he is supposed to have termed the attack on the RSS headquarters in Nagpur as stage-managed) and blame all future blasts as stage-managed, or the work of those who destroyed the Babri Masjid or were behind the Gujarat killings.
Cheer up Mr. Shantanu. Things cannot go on like this for ever. It needed a Pearl Harbour for the Americans to intervene in the Second World War, and again 9/11 to end the Taliban menace. It needed Hitler to invade Russia at the zenith of his power to destroy himself. And back home, it needed the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi to drive out the LTTE from our soil. Maybe, something like that will happen to drive out our secularists. Mind you, I am not saying something will happen to wake up our secularists from their slumber. I don’t believe they are sleeping, for they are not. They are wide awake. It is only the Muslim vote, which makes them look the other way.
Sorry for this long epistle, for I very, very rarely write about politics these days. Your heart-rending article provoked me to do so.
Keep it up.
Sincerely,