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What Hindus can learn from destruction of Chinese culture by CCP

From our visit to China, it seems that the Western conversion of Chinese civilisation is over — or at least, it will be in a few years. Going by the rate of deracination in the Chinese people, it seems that the Chinese are fast losing their connect with their 4000-year-old civilisation and are now being reduced to being merely a cheap copy of yellow-skinned Americans who have no culture of their own left.

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Typical pre-marriage photo-ops in the Temple of Heaven, China

There is no better way to understand the direction where they are headed than looking at their marriage ceremony and photos. The above picture is a typical marriage photo in today’s China and it demonstrates the Westernisation of China pretty well. Notice that the Chinese have completely thrown out their own customs during marriage along with their traditional dresses, which have now been reduced to museums. The Chinese in the marriage setting are wearing Western dresses and the customs followed in their marriages are increasingly getting Westernised. It is increasingly common these days to see Chinese couples doing pre-marriage photo-ops in Western attire from Beijing to Paris, demonstrating that they have completely fallen to the consumerism and narcissism of the West. Soon, China will look like South Korea, which already looks like a yellow-skinned American state — where the only place you will find Chinese civilisation will be in their museums, with the young Chinese deracinated to the point that they don’t want to connect with their civilisation even on a special day like their wedding.

What makes the above picture even more telling is the fact that the place where the above photo was taken is the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. Even Beijing, which is the heart of Chinese civilisation, could not protect one of its most important civilisational symbols. The Temple of Heaven is a 600-year-old temple in Beijing used by Chinese kings to offer rituals and sacrifices to the Gods, thanking them for their bountiful harvest and for blessing their society. This temple, which was a spiritual and cultural icon of China just 100 years back, has been reduced to merely a glorified museum today — filled with card-playing old people and selfie-hungry young people jumping up and down at the sacrificial altar. Can you expect similar defilement and sacrilege of Rome or Mecca? No one notices how the Communists of China have destroyed hundreds of Pagan and Buddhist temples of China in the last 100 years. Thousands of years of civilisation and history being reduced to mere selfie spots fuelling narcissistic consumer culture. The Western-dressed wedding picture is just the last brick in the wall capturing the fall of Han identity and culture.

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Defaced statues inside Longmen Grottoes, China

The Longmen Grottoes of China are another example of the Talibanism of the Communist government under Mao. This is a 2000-year-old Buddhist site where locals destroyed most of the statues inside the caves during the “Cultural Revolution” under state pressure — except the large ones. The large statues survived only because of the superstition of the locals, whose fear that the gods would punish them if they destroyed the statues was bigger than their fear of the Communist state. This site stands today barely surviving, only because of the superstition of the locals. Once again this shows how eager the Communists were in destroying their own past. Recent news seems to suggest that the conversion industry is working on overdrive in China. Given how eager the Chinese have been in destroying their own culture and past, it is pretty safe to say that the Evangelicals will reap a rich harvest of souls from their soul-harvesting programmes in China. With no culture to fall back on, the Church has a much easier job in converting the Chinese.

One can already see a large number of Chinese people who are starting to use Western names like Peter, Jack, Steven etc. to please their Western masters. Though it appears as an insignificant issue on the surface, it is actually a very important step in losing your own identity when large numbers of people start doing it in your locality. This act of changing names to suit Western civilisation is another example of Western domination of Chinese thought and civilisation — who are all but Chinese in name only. Conversion to Christianity now is only a formality for Chinese people. Also, given how most Chinese are not yet fluent in English, this problem is going to get worse once most Chinese become more fluent in English than they are today. It will only speed up the process of deracination of the Chinese.

How is it relevant to us Indians?

The Chinese experience greatly teaches us the importance of rituals and traditions in preserving our identity. Christians and Marxists know this well and that is why they attack our rituals constantly — be it our Sabarimala temple, or be it our Mangal Sutra, or be it our Durga Pujas. Christians attack our rituals like Pongal, Onam and Durga Pooja and want them to be secularised to deracinate us — making it easier for them to convert us to their own rituals. Marxists want our rituals and traditions destroyed, sometimes even masquerading as Hindus (like CPM in Kerala organising Sanskrit and Vedic festivals, or CPM of West Bengal organising ‘secular’ Durga Puja) with intellectual pretensions about how rituals and traditions are backward and hold us back. But the truth is, they understand the power of our rituals and ceremonies much better than we do. They know that if we lose our rituals, traditions and ceremonies, we have nothing to fight for and would be ripe for harvesting by soul vultures.

So the question is — are we Hindus going to learn from the Chinese experience? Are we going to discard our rituals just as the Adarsh liberals today want? Or should we start preserving our culture by preserving our traditions and rituals? The choice is ours to make. But if you do choose the former, be prepared for our Tirupati Devasthanam, Kashi Vishwanath temple, Thanjai Big Temple, Mahabalipuram Temple and other cultural and spiritual icons and centres to be trampled by the next generation.

March 22, 2016
The Entitled Middle Class Princess Syndrome

In a post-modern society characterized by low fertility and few kids per family, each parent acts as a kind and all-forgiving Dhritarashtra thus giving rise to an army of modern Duryodhanas. Bad behaviour is not only tolerated but in many cases encouraged by modern parents. Each kid is sold the story of being a special snowflake where the whole world is supposed to rotate around them. Thus begins the story of entitlement syndrome which follows Gen X from childhood to youth. Unfortunately, the world bites young boys hard and punctures their ego balloon once they grow up, where they are supposed to perform or perish. On the other hand their sisters turn out to be pretty lucky and their snowflake image only grows over time — which we will refer to as the Entitled Middle Class Princess (EMP) syndrome.

What makes middle class girls special is that not only are they treated like princesses by their family members but are fed the constant victimhood narrative associated with being a girl in a third world country like India. The only difference is that unlike their poor sisters they hardly face any hardships and live a life of luxury supported by their parents. The protected environment provided by the family ensures that most of their wishes are fulfilled with little to no effort. This point can be confirmed by the praise that most of these middle class girls have for their fathers — specially on how they care for them. Also, as mentioned above, unlike men who still have to go and face the heat of the bad real world, middle class girls get a free pass even in social life from school to college to work, where all efforts are made to assuage their ego and mistakes are overlooked thanks to the political correctness regime and the gender card.

Finally, due to the system of arranged marriages and dowry, women still retain the right to work or not work after marriage, unlike men who have no choice but to be the breadwinner of the family. Just look around yourself to confirm that there are hardly any men who are jobless and have a good wife, while there are many young women who prefer to opt out of the workforce and still get married to a rich or powerful man. The use of the gender card to shrug off each failure while getting rewarded for the smallest accomplishments — both at home and in public life — generates extreme narcissism which these women then carry into their marriages, thus building extreme expectations that are impossible to be satisfied by future husbands. Given this EMP syndrome plus the tough anti-dowry laws, marriages are becoming a bad deal for middle class men, who have to pay a high cost in case they want to divorce one of these princesses.

Case Study

Let’s look at one such case of Abhinandan, an upper middle class Hindu boy who married Shruti two years ago. All was going well for the 28-year-old orthopaedic surgeon before he agreed to marry the girl of his parents’ choice. The girl belonged to a political family with her father being a big shot in local politics. The marriage took place with the usual grandeur that defines current middle class marriages. The soft-spoken and friendly doctor knew that marriage would change his life completely but did not know that it would be the biggest mistake of his life.

The problem started soon after marriage due to Abhinandan’s devotion to his family, which was something that Shruti did not like. The more she tried to pull him away from his family the more he resisted it tooth and nail. The constant pestering by his wife led to constant but small friction between them in the beginning, which kept on growing over time. The issue finally escalated to the point where Shruti aborted their three-month-old foetus and blamed the guy and his family for beating her up and causing the abortion. The behaviour of Shruti was common knowledge for all friends and both families but in the end the girl’s parents decided to side with her. The final result was that the whole family was slapped with 498A on false accusations. To make things worse, Abhinandan’s younger sister — who was not even home — was blamed for forcing Shruti to abort the foetus. Given the mass abuse of 498A, it is not uncommon to hear such stories where entire families including women are punished to extract revenge.

You would think that it is just another story but given the image of Abhinandan, it has left a sour matrimonial taste among many of his friends and well-wishers to the point that many of them are considering not marrying at all, or not marrying middle class girls. If the trend continues, middle class working women would have a tough time getting married as a lot of men would start preferring poor women who don’t suffer from EMP. This trend is very similar to the one seen in western countries where white men are increasingly opting to marry Latino or Asian women who are not as narcissistic as their western counterparts. Similarly in India, poor girls have seen the hardships of real life and would appreciate the hard work of their spouses for their family instead of whining about patriarchy and oppression while watching TV and checking Facebook inside an air-conditioned house. Also, poor girls who have seen that real life is about compromises and not all wishes can be fulfilled are less likely to break marriages and slap divorce charges willy-nilly. Another factor in favour of poor women is that they are a lot more grounded in our culture and reality and actually love having children — which is a biological duty of the family — instead of whining about how difficult it is to have children and manage them.

All in all, if this trend continues, middle class women may find it increasingly difficult to find suitable grooms in the coming years. Of course, thanks to hypergamy, men and their families would have little problem with marrying below their social status, unlike girls or their families who would find it difficult to marry their daughters to someone they consider below their standards. You can ask around to confirm that it is already getting difficult for parents to marry off their highly successful daughters. If middle class girls and their families want to stem this trend and stop this rot, they need to do a serious introspection on whether pampering their kids is such a good idea — and if living alone with a cat like western women is better than adjusting to live with their husbands.

Finally, this is not a men vs women issue as it is the parents who are to be blamed for this mess in the first place. This is a problem faced by society as a whole, as the women reading this would quickly realize that they are likely to have a brother or son of their own to be affected by it in the future. Similarly, men who cherish their duty of being fathers and brothers should give it a good introspection as well. The west, having created permanent fault lines between men and women in their society, is now trying hard to replicate this problem in India — which has always valued Dharma over rights and cherished both men and women for their contribution to family and society as a whole.

March 13, 2016
AOL-NGT feud: Economic libertarians will sell-out culture

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The recent controversy on Art of Living event called World Culture Festival can be added to the bucket list of attempts to shower controversy on each and every Hindu event. It is a plain and simple case of media and leftist hitjob to challenge this event on environmental grounds when NGT stays quiet on grave environmental issues. The Yamuna bed was not only used to construct a big DTC bus depot during the last Commonwealth games but also hosts the Yamuna Bank metro station — not to forget the large number of illegal squatters on its floodplain. Given such huge transgressions, it is difficult to comprehend how a temporary event could have caused irreparable damage.

A large section of Yamuna floodbank is captured by land sharks right under the nose of NGT, which finally woke up from slumber but it was too late and the damage was done. WCF like event is not planned in a day and must have requested permission much before the inauguration, so it is highly unlikely that environmental considerations were not scrutinised beforehand. Since the issue came into highlight right before its inauguration, it gives a clear indication of ill-will on the part of NGT.

Also, given everything else being equal, finally NGT imposed a Rs. 5 crore environmental penalty. The question is — shouldn’t NGT have imposed this tax much before the event rather than use it as a stick to beat down Sri Sri? After all, neither AOL was building a permanent structure on the flood banks nor planning to stay there forever — unlike in the case of the DTC bus depot post Commonwealth games. The hypocrisy becomes even more intolerable after realising that for all practical purposes, Yamuna just represents a fancy drain now since Delhi hardly thinks twice before dumping its sewage into it. The real course of action should have been to levy an environmental tax on Art of Living depending on the cost to clean up the river post event.

Having understood the ulterior motives behind this hitjob, it now brings us to understand the support of this event by the supposedly self-proclaimed RW in India. Most of them are actually economic libertarians without much regard for cultural Hindu nationalism. It is in controversies like WCF that the true affiliations of the economic RW come out. This became amply clear by reading a piece by R. Jagannathan in SwarajyaMag — the magazine which carries “Read India Right” on its logo.

The crux of the argument presented by R. Jagannathan is as follows:

The annual Haj, where millions of devout Muslims travel from all over the world to congregate in Mecca, is probably the single biggest cause of religion-induced damage in the world in an ecologically sensitive desert zone. Our Kumbh Melas, Ardh Kumbhs and various spiritual congregations in many temples and fairs too do enormous damage. For example, the Hindu ritual of cremating our dead on the banks of the Ganga and immersion of our ashes in various rivers and seas is another factor in this ecological crisis.

Does this look any different from the leftists who raise the Dalit bogey while talking about any issue under the sky? Here Jagannathan also uses a similar template to mildly bash Hindu rituals by giving a small slap on the wrist of Hajj pilgrims in his first paragraph. This is not much different than PK putting up one or two offending scenes on Muslims and Christians while bashing Hindu rituals in the rest of the movie. By mentioning Muslims and Hajj, this piece too ticks the box to claim neutrality. It becomes amply clear later when the article says:

It is time to show that same creativity now by converting our cremation and other ceremonies to symbolic events with limited human damage to our rivers and the air.

It is highly non-scientific to blame cremation ashes as an environmental concern when most of the rivers are polluted by tanneries and other industries which dump massive chemicals into them, making them not only carcinogenic but also depleting precious oxygen content to kill all kinds of flora and fauna. All rivers in India are equally or more polluted than the Ganga, even those that do not have the same spiritual significance and hence no cremation dumping. It would have been sensible for him to ask for better checks and balances such as not dumping half-burned bodies into the river. But he took a typical liberal stand and demanded to change the whole rituals to suit the agenda of the new environmental fundamentalists. There is no reason to not believe that given human intelligence and efforts, the rituals cannot be done in an ecologically sensitive way. Sadly, the fact that rituals nurture a society is beyond the grasp of our self-proclaimed libertarians. The death of Hindu rituals will only mean the death of the civilization. This is very well known by the leftists and hence they carry out such hitjobs to kill the rituals to soften Hindus and de-racinate them — making them easy targets for western propaganda and evangelists. If you analyse carefully, it is the same underlying agenda which runs from the Jallikattu ban to the current controversy. Environmental fundamentalism is a new addition to the list of tricks being employed to kill rituals, and the economic RW is more than a willing accomplice in helping this agenda.

So what should be the message of Hindu RW to R. Jagannathan and his friends? Thank you guys, we understand the damage done to India by the socialist economic policies of Congress and we like your economic prescriptions. But if there is a clash between economic libertarianism and culture, Hindus will stick to their cultural roots. Economic progress by cutting down the Dharmic roots will be too big a cost for modernity.

The below picture from Adarsh Liberal perfectly sums up the leftist agenda to de-racinate Hindus — the question is should we now add R. Jagannathan to this list?

An Adarsh Liberal Hindu Festivals Calendar

— Adarsh Liberal (@AdarshLiberal), January 13, 2016

Originally published March 10, 2016 on Yuga Parivartan.

March 10, 2016
Why Hindus need to infiltrate mass media

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One can charge Rajiv Gandhi with the usual stupidity and naivety that is now being associated with the Gandhi-Nehru family, but there is at least one action which should be credited to the then young Prime Minister of India. What did he do that now sets him apart from other Gandhi family members? It was not bringing computers to India as they would have arrived sooner or later. But it was the fact that he allowed screening of Ramayana on Doordarshan in 1987 to help propagate cultural values among Indians. Whether Rajiv Gandhi himself pioneered this Hindu revival is questionable given that his government first appeased Muslims in the Shah Bano case and only later turned to Hindu appeasement.

But Rajiv Gandhi is not important for this article. What is rather important is to understand the role of mass media in defining cultural values. No amount of public education or newspapers had achieved what Ramayana and Mahabharata achieved through one hour telecast every week for a few years. It rekindled a new life in the Hindu soul that was devastated from the slavery of past centuries. Not only did BJP — a non-Muslim-appeasing party — ride to power on this new Hindu renaissance, but it also led to bringing down of Babri Masjid and changing the passive Hindu bania image for some time. It was very well reflected in the opposition by the leftists who were taken aback by the popularity of these serials. The reaction of the then Director General of Doordarshan, Bhaskar Ghose — a leftist — makes it amply clear:

There was far too much ritual and not nearly enough story. He (Sagar) had used the worst extras he could get, because he was doing it on the cheap.

— Bhaskar Ghose, then Director General of Doordarshan

The leftists are masters at propaganda and know very well the importance of rituals in upholding cultural unity. Bhaskar Ghose — the father of Sagarika Ghose — tried every possible way to kill Ramayana halfway, but sadly for him the mass hysteria around Ramayana had grown out of control by then and was untameable by any official writ. The position of these epics in the Hindu psyche was further cemented by Mahabharat, which aired after Ramayana in 1988.

But why are these events from three decades ago relevant today? They are relevant because even though we have seen the rise of social media, most thoughts are still seeded by the culture as depicted in mass media. The left understands this well and has its foot-soldiers placed in all the high echelons of power. The outrage against appointing Gajendra Chauhan as chairman of FTII (Film and Television Institute) should be seen under this light. Although his appointment like any other appointment can be debated, the high-decibel campaign that was unleashed on him can only be explained by the heartburn of career leftists.

While Hindus are becoming increasingly assertive of their identity and the rise of Rajiv Malhotra and other scholars has given them the required intellectual firepower to support the Hindu cause, mass-media infiltration is going on at a snail’s pace. Intellectual discourse is very important but one can only disregard the influence of mass media at his own peril. Hindus had assertive scholars like Sitaram Goel and Arun Shourie even during the dark ages of early Congress rule, but Ramayana and Mahabharata played a much bigger role in awakening Hindus and building a consolidated Hindu voting bloc for the first time in India. Intellectual discussion will fail to realise its objectives unless it achieves active domination over mass media.

The domination of popular culture is not only important from the point of achieving current political objectives but also to create a sense of cultural unity and prepare future leaders. Popular culture created by mass media is the stepping stone towards developing an ecosystem which will then generate the next generation of pro-Hindu intellectuals. The role of Amar Chitra Katha and Panchatantra stories has been paramount in helping many grown-up Hindus to rediscover their roots after being brainwashed by leftist school books for years. The closest current example of such an effort to capture young minds is the animated series Chota Bheem, whose character is partially lifted from Bheem of the Mahabharata. India has an abundant treasure trove of literature to dig into, but the only problem is that this potential for generating popular mass media has not yet been exploited. Also, unlike Abrahamic religions, Hinduism does not sell victimhood and has many positive stories to tell — many superheroes who would give Batman and Superman a run for their money.

After having understood the benefits of infiltrating mass media, the only analysis that remains is to look at the current state of Hindu representation in mass media. While on the intellectual front one can boast about Rajiv Malhotra as one of the guiding forces, there are hardly any popular figures to recount on the mass media front. There are many right-leaning media personnel but most of them restrict themselves to economic libertarianism without much sympathy for Hindu identity. Zee News has finally started to push an alternate narrative on the news front but it is almost impossible to find pro-Hindu voices in the movie industry.

Anupam Kher is making a lot of noise lately but he plays by the rules of the left and does not command the same fan following as the Khans. Given the complete dominance of the Khans in Bollywood for the last two decades, does it come as a surprise that Hindus are forced to gulp down the insults to Hindu icons as in PK? The chanting of pro-Azadi slogans in JNU is the manifestation of this loose control that Hindus have had over the Muslim-left dominated popular culture, as amply demonstrated through movies like Haider. Bollywood is often called the national movie industry — but doesn’t it shock you that it hardly brings out any movies that can build national image or cement cultural identity? The stories about our martyrs are on an ignore list while the industry keeps pumping out inane trash glorifying mafias. Also, it is impossible to ignore the demographic damage done by the Khans as they have more or less succeeded in portraying the harmless nice Muslim guy image in popular culture, making girls swoon over Muslim men and become susceptible to love jihad.

So what is the way forward? Well, burning down theatres showing Haider or boycotting Dangal are only short-term measures. The real way forward is shown by S.S. Rajamouli through his epic Baahubali. There is no other recent movie which has portrayed Hinduism in such glory. Given how well it did on the Hindi box office despite being a Telugu movie clearly shows that people are fed up of watching old midgets sold as heroes by Bollywood. If Hindus need to mainstream their culture and make it cool, they need to get their hands dirty and churn out people of all artistic hues. They need more Rajamoulis as well as more Amish Tripathis. This movement which has been building up unconsciously for too long should be pursued at a much faster pace and given some covert state patronage. There is no reason to stop and get contented just by erasing the left agenda from school books. PM Modi — are you listening?

March 9, 2016
The Anarchist Kejriwal: Swaraj review
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Kejriwal, the demagogue, has left enough traces of his thought process in his short political career. He has evolved into a complete charlatan now when compared to his old days as side-kick of Anna Hazare. So it becomes super important to understand his thought process before he became the current megalomaniac — as reflected by his actions to publish full-page ads of his non-achievements in the glorious municipality of Delhi in local newspapers from around the country.

Kejriwal offered a glimpse of his thought process in the book called “Swarajya” that he published during his activist days. It is difficult to miss the naivety of the solutions offered by this technocrat. But it should not be a surprise, given his mediocre performance as a student at IIT. Although it is contested that he plagiarised the book from another author, since he did not mind publishing it in his name, we would take it as a reflection of his thought process on various issues.

1) He raises some important questions and narrows his focus on two:
- Decentralization
- Citizen control over everything
2) While the questions seem fine, the prescriptions are repetitive and a rehash of leftist ideology mixed with Gandhian utopia. So where does the book fail?
- Belief in the greatness of the super awesome village panchayats
- Distrusting each and every corporate action as if they are the only culprits — anti-capitalism in all forms
- Back to Gandhi’s idea of self-sufficient villages. In the beginning of the book, he highlights that villages should decide where they want to spend money rather than the centre and state government earmarking expenditure for various schemes like MNREGA, food security etc. Later he argues for giving even tax collection authority to the villages as well as decision on how to spend their funds.
This last point on self-sufficient communities is the crux of his book. But it raises fundamental questions:
- Are villages really an idealistic pinnacle that we should strive for? How would such a system take care of the “tragedy of the commons” problem?
- Would such a decentralized system build a modern India capable of taking on its numerous adversaries?
- Do we need a society with well-defined impersonal rules where things take care of themselves, or a system where villages and RWAs need to meet every week and vote on every trivial or big issue?
- Should we replace our one Constitution with thousands of constitutions specific to each community?
- India definitely needs rapid industrialization to bring people out of poverty. How would one achieve this with such a super-slow decision-making process in such a fragmented polity?
It is this last belief in anarchy that Kejriwal still carries around despite his numerous U-turns. Does it surprise you that he gave political space to Prashant Bhushan despite knowing his pro-militant stance on Kashmir? His support for Kanhaiya and Omar Khalid also highlights the same line of approach that he mentioned some years ago in his book.

Now coming to the final point. Does it make a good read? Definitely not — and specifically if you are planning to spend your money on it. It is just a rehash of old bankrupt ideologies. He was not even creative with the name and copied it from Mahatma Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj! But it is still important to know that Kejriwal had a bucket full of failed ideas about developing India even before he embarked on his political career. Now, coupled with his political ambitions, these ideas have become suicidal and get amply reflected in his support for extremists and secessionists in all states.

Verdict: Not worth your money. Read it for free if you must, to understand the anarchist mind behind the muffler and slipper.
March 6, 2016
Ishrat: Did Congress sell national interests

Forget about all the scams you heard during UPA’s regime. Coal, 2G and Commonwealth scams were undoubtedly bad for the exchequer but can you bucket them under national treason? No. Ishrat’s case would go down in the history of India as an outright case of treason committed by the Congress Party to bring down one political opponent called Narendra Damodardas Modi.

All norms were broken and all hell was let loose just to witch-hunt one single person. The entire political spectrum used MSM to go after Modi and ended up compromising national security. This was achieved by pitting one security agency against the other and destroying many lives and careers in the process. It would not be an exaggeration to say that Congress did not shy away from cutting a deal with ISI to bring down its political opponent. Encounters are not uncommon in India — why was this one case of Ishrat Jahan given so much importance? Who will pay for this treason? And the most important question — will Modi drop the façade of Mahatma Gandhi to finally charge the Congress for sedition and bring the case to its logical conclusion?

It is not about political witch-hunt but about setting the standards for the future and what India as a nation can tolerate. While Gujaral only dismantled the Indian deep assets in Pakistan, the Congress party under Sonia Gandhi took it to a completely new level by offering an open playground to ISI and compromising national security. The role of other parties in this case is not so clean either. We all need to question what forced Nitish Kumar to portray Ishrat as Bihar’s daughter or Brinda Karat to inaugurate an ambulance service in the name of a known terrorist.

All attempts were made to silence the critics who tried to showcase the true story behind Ishrat. While journalists like Rana Ayyub were given free access to the power corridors of New Delhi, some journalists had to shell out money from their own pockets to uncover this truth.

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It would be a great dishonour to the martyrdom of brave Indian soldiers if such sabotage of national interests is allowed for petty political gains. The nation needs to stand together and ask questions from Congress and other political parties as well as demand a judicial inquiry so that these anti-nationals are brought to book and punished for their treason. No action will only push India one more step towards being a banana republic, where foreign powers are free to meddle into local politics and extract geo-political benefits.

March 2, 2016
Kashmir Solution: China Style
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India is a weak nation when compared to other similar nations which can boast a two trillion dollar plus economy. The weakness of India comes from the many internal fault lines that are nourished by the stupidity of Hindus, which is then camouflaged and deflected by blaming crooked politicians. This leaves India just slightly better than banana republics, which live and die every day of the year.

The RW outrage on the whole JNU debate revolves around the fundamental issue of Azadi (Freedom) for Kashmir. Imagine what would have happened if China were in charge of this particular problem. People might have got a chance to chant Azadi statements, but under few conditions. One, Kashmir would have been integral part of China and two, they would have raised these slogans outside China because China is not known to treat its dissenters well. Is Tibet still a disputed area? Yes — only if you listen to Dalai Lama’s speech, because for all other practical matters the Hans have settled the issue. Similarly they have settled the fate of Uighurs in Xinjiang.

On the other hand, Kashmir is still a boiling issue in India. Look at the below video to further boil your blood. It was shot during the recent militant face-off in Pampore:

This is #Pampore for you! Mosques playing Jihad Songs! “At crosshair of Blazing Guns / We Know We are On Target”

— SALAAR (@SalaarOfficial), February 22, 2016

The video seems pretty authentic and can be corroborated by other videos circulating on social media. For Kashmir watchers, it is not a new event. Looking at it one thing becomes clear — there is practically not much difference between Kashmir and Afghanistan, except that the Indian Army manages to keep these savages under control.

Before we digress, what would have been the Chinese solution to the Kashmir problem? China would have solved it the way they have solved the Tibet problem — by settling Hans in Tibet. There is no better way to decimate your enemy than to do a demographic war. China is not even a democracy but it understands this much better than India. Even Pakistan, which holds on to PoK, has shown much more muscle than India and has settled many non-PoK Pakistanis in the Shia-majority areas in Gilgit-Baltistan:

Since the 1970s, the Pakistani government has encouraged the settlement of Pakistanis in Gilgit-Baltistan in an effort to shift the demographic and ethnic balance in the region. Under the GBESGO, many of these settlers were given formal citizenship rights in Gilgit-Baltistan.

It is true that India inherited this mess from the stupid and naive policies of Nehru who wanted to bolster his international stature by taking the Kashmir issue to the UN. But the question is — why are we still debating it 70 years post-independence when we know UN resolutions mean nothing for real powers? Russia just enforced its mandate in Crimea while ignoring the economic and military muscle of entire NATO countries. India is no Russia, but Kashmir is not in Europe’s backyard either and is already under Indian control.

The strategy to settle the Kashmir dispute:
1. All the technocrats and experts will try to explain to naive Indians (i.e. Hindus) that Kashmir is a very delicate issue and should be handled with kid-gloves. India is following this model for the past 70 years and it has solved nothing. It has only emboldened the Islamists and led to the mass hunting of Kashmiri Pandits.
2. Just follow the China model — settle Hindus in J&K. Article 370 should not be quoted as an excuse or impediment. Indians have given ration cards to illegal Bangladeshis, so it can be done for its own citizens settling in Kashmir. Article 370 can even be used by the Indian government as a cosmetic measure to claim that India is committed to preserving Kashmiriat, while dissolving it by stealth.
3. Another policy to pursue is trifurcation of the state of J&K. Once trifurcated, Ladakh and Jammu can be completely integrated while Kashmir valley can be forced to pay for its tantrums.
4. Achieve complete military indigenization. In the above mentioned scheme of things, the most crucial aspect is that India cannot fight an entrenched war for too long if all world powers get together to undermine India’s efforts. An indigenous military industrial complex is essential to avoid any external influence in dealing with internal issues. This is achievable with a 10–15 year time frame.
Kanhaiyyas and Omar Khalids are only the symptoms of a deep underlying cancer — Kashmir — that the Indian state has ignored for far too long. No matter how much India tries, it is almost impossible to settle this issue peacefully. Sooner or later, India will have to confront the ugly Jihadi ideology of Kashmir, otherwise Afzal Gurus and Kanhaiyyas will keep popping up. Good thing is India does not have to look too far for inspiration — it can learn the lessons very well from its neighbour right across the Himalayas.
March 1, 2016
White Accountability

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Originally published at Amerika.org and republished here with permission.

As more people cast around various scapegoats in an attempt to explain how the West has fallen from the world’s premiere society to a laughable backwater, it is time to take responsibility and point the finger at the actual cause of our misery.

It is not The Jews, The Rich, or The Government (although that did not help). It is not corporate personhood or the fact that our democracy is not direct. Nor is it even the GOP, although they did not help either. We need to peel back all the layers and look to the core.

Our candidates are liars because democracy rewards lies. They offer a product which might be described as the illusion of peace of mind. This consists of a promise of a solution to some basic problem, a scapegoat to blame for the wider systemic failures, and a reason to consider yourself smarter or nicer than people who oppose this idea.

Leftists are the masters at this. They look at a ruined society and say that clearly the problem is that some have more than others. To support this they show you people suffering, counting on you to worry about what would happen to you in that situation. Then they trot out the studies that consider one factor out of ten thousand and use that to rationalize blame on a scapegoat. Then they say that only mean people could oppose this.

The GOP Establishment (GOPE) has another policy. It lets you know that liberals are insane and PC is bad, and then brings out the old familiars from the Reagan era: defense, Israel, the Bible and maybe even some outrage at abortion. They then say that only morally bad people would not want these things.

In either case, the audience is being manipulated like bulls at a bullfight, with one crucial exception: the audience wants it. They want to purchase peace of mind, and that requires simplistic solutions and blame, and then a reason to feel good even if they lose by calling the other team a bunch of weenies, moochers, meanies or incompetents. That raises the hands and gets the candidate into office.

Once in office, the candidate guffaws. In this system of checks and balances, made exponentially more powerful by two centuries of attempts to fix it, nothing can be done. The direction will not change; the question is only what flavor of compromise. So he goes back to the voters and blames the scapegoat again, but promises to try even harder next time, and the cycle restarts.

White accountability begins when we recognize that our problem has always been an internal war. Most people are bad; like our Simian forebears, they cannot control their urges, and one of those urges is the desire to tear down those above them. They form mass mobs and demand power, at which point the limitations of their abilities are revealed. But the first error was the crucial one, which is demanding that people who cannot make leadership decisions be called on to vote on those decisions.

Out of a hundred people, one is a natural leader with the mental capacity and moral character to see a complex thought through to its conclusion. The rest can fix cars, program computers, draw anime, etc., but that is because these tasks are narrowly framed. They do not have what leadership decisions require, which is a high tolerance for ambiguity when fitting thousands of details into a big, top-down picture.

White internal warfare has marked this country since its inception. The 1% who knew anything wanted to keep the franchise small, but the herd wanted power to make itself feel important. Its first gambit was to import lots of non-Western Europeans, all of whom tend to vote Left-leaning. At that point, it began systematically dismantling any sense of sanity in education, media, literature, art, music, government and society.

That process leads us to the present day. You will find lots of people offering you the pair of easy answer and blame, but all of these are lies. What went wrong was that we gave in to our inner evil and the Simian self-important beast that lurks beneath the surface in each of us. We dressed it up, in the way only clever white people can do, as enlightenment and empathy, but really, it was venality and license bubbling to the surface.

The situation has not changed. One in a hundred is capable of making these choices, but we have all one hundred choose, drowning out the leadership capable. We either put these natural leaders back on top and have them suppress the rest of the population, or we will be oppressed by the rest as they continue to choose sociopathic and simplistic illusion over reality.

Editor’s Note
The reason to republish this article is that it is closely related to the RW outrage in India. The JNU saga has hardly ended and we already have two new events catching the limelight — false history books in schools and the Durga-Mahishashur debate. The leftists have stolen a march over the RW all over the world while all that RW can do is engage in outrage, including their established parties. Does BJP in India closely resemble the GOP in the US? That would make a good topic for debate.

February 28, 2016
Reservations: The Brahamastra for Ghar Wapsi
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The Upper Caste rants against reservations just hit the crescendo with the recent Jat riots in Haryana, which caused massive destruction of public property. These rants are well justified and grounded in the libertarian thoughts which many of the Right Wingers have directly copied from the west. Sadly like all other borrowed ideology, the imitation is perfect and the libertarian cheerleaders have forgotten to tweak and adapt them according to local conditions. There is a huge momentum built around reservations based on economic inequality and doing away with caste-based reservations. Given how it is adopted blindly by many of the right wing Hindu intellectuals, it is utmost important to describe the one constitutional provision which has helped in consolidating Hindus more than anything else. While most constitutional provisions like temple control, RTE etc. are stacked against Hindus, only reservations is one tool which is favourable against the onslaught of Abrahamic religions. By the end of this article, we should be able to convince you why all Hindus should bury the hatchet against caste-based reservations for the next few decades and use it as an active policy tool to counter missionary activity through Ghar Wapsi.

Let’s go back to February 2015 to understand the importance of caste-based reservations, which Hindu organizations have ignored till now. The bench of Justices Dipak Misra and V. Gopala Gowda held that a person shall not be deprived of reservation benefits if he decides to “reconvert” to Hinduism and adopts the caste of his forefathers. The case was brought to court by an individual whose grandparents had converted to Christianity while he reconverted back to Hinduism and availed reservation benefits. This is what the Supreme Court had to say:

If a person born to Christian parents, who had converted to Christianity from the Scheduled Caste Hindu, can avail the benefits of the caste certificate after embracing Hinduism, there cannot be any soundness of logic that he cannot avail similar benefits because his grandparents were converted and he was born to parents who were Christians.

This decision has now removed the inter-generational gap between conversion and reconversion within the fold of Hinduism to avail reservation benefits, thus opening the way for Hindus to win the demographic battle stacked against them. With this single decision, the Supreme Court has given the Brahmastra to fight both the menace of aggressive Evangelization efforts in India as well as high Muslim fertility. Extending the right of reservation to those who converted generations ago will give the massive carrot which can be dangled in front of Muslims as well as Christians to get them back into the Hindu fold.

As expected, this decision caused massive heartburn among the sickulars of the country. Sad thing is most of the people on the Hindu Right have overlooked the benefits of this one policy in countering the Abrahamic religions. The cry for substituting the current reservation policy from caste to economic status is getting louder each day. Also, there has been an active policy push by Christian organizations to extend quota benefits to Dalit Christians and Muslims. While Hindus have more or less ignored this issue, this constitutional disparity has been an important topic for atrocity literature published in the west:

The loss of constitutional privileges upon conversion, however, serves as a serious impediment to their freedom to choose their religion. Additionally, most Dalits are ultimately unable to escape their treatment as “untouchables” regardless of the religion they profess. The introduction of anti-conversion legislation in several states has further made religious conversion extremely difficult if not impossible. Finally, Dalits may become targets of forced “reconversions” to Hinduism by sangh parivar groups.

Since the Church feeds on poverty and deprivation, the reservation policy has been one policy tool which has blunted their advances in many parts of the country. Just to connect the dots, one can look at the history of activism by Arvind Kejriwal, who started his career by protesting against reservations under the banner of Youth for Equality. The massive funding he gets from foreign organizations is enough to explain the reasons behind his earlier stand and whether he was executing the agenda on behalf of foreign masters.

While people protesting against reservations cannot be faulted completely, they are actually helping the agenda of the missionaries. The recent Jat and Patel agitations had the undercurrent of either extending reservations to their communities or completely removing them. Seen under the light of missionary propaganda, it is not a mystery why these protests are mainstreaming the idea of removal of caste-based reservation.

What is the way forward?
1. For the benefit of India and to maintain Hindu demographic superiority, it is essential that Hindus do not fall for the current attempts to remove the caste-based reservations in favour of reservations based on income. Keeping the Hindu dominance under reservation is only possible under caste-based reservation as changing it to income will completely change the rules of the game.
2. No matter how much the Muslims or Christians cry over discrimination, they cannot avail caste-based reservations on a massive scale due to theological equality provided under Islam and Christianity. Since the Constitution already acknowledges it, it has made the task simple for Hindus.
3. Hindu organizations should use it as an active policy tool to get jobs for reconverted Hindus and blunt the monetary advantage of Abrahamics.
4. The quota level can be increased from the current ad-hoc 50% level set by the SC to higher levels so that there is healthy competition within the quota and an increased pool of better candidates. What most people forget is that increasing the quota is also another way to dilute quota benefits. Tamil Nadu model can be extended to the rest of India to actively squeeze the benefits available to people from other religions, while improving the quality of quota-based candidates.
5. This policy should be maintained till India achieves middle-income country status, when it would completely blunt the conversion business of evangelists. No surprise, the Church has made so many attempts to keep Indians poor and marginalised. If used well for the next 2–3 decades, this single policy can completely recover the losses made by Dharmic religions in India.
6. Rather than asking for implementing no-conversion as a state policy, Hindus need to actively use reservations as the carrot to dangle in front of Muslims or Christians and increase their numbers before it is too late. No-conversion will effectively block any reconversion back to Hinduism. Given the massive state benefit through reservations for reconversion, Hindus should not advocate for a no-conversion policy.
February 26, 2016
Church appoints a convicted paedophile as bishop in South India/TN

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Covering up scandals is the most important job of the Church, right behind the job of spreading the message of Christ. Given the lack of spiritual training and forced celibacy practised by the Church, it is no surprise that a lot of pastors turn to abusing kids and women. The sad thing is the media usually works alongside the Church and usually buries these stories deep down.

The recent cover-up is in the case of pastor Joseph Palanivel Jeyapaul from the Catholic Church of South India. According to a report by The News Minute:

After serving a shorter prison term, Jeyapaul returned to India a few months ago. And in a move that has shocked child rights activists in the state, the Roman Catholic Church of Southern India has now lifted the suspension against him. He was sentenced to a shorter term in jail based on a plea bargain, with the condition that he does not get back to ministerial duties or get in contact with children.

There is no media outrage in India nor any reports on how the South Indian Church decided to reinstate a convicted paedophile as a bishop. This will only put the life of Indian children at risk as well as their dignity. This incident just showcases the power that the Church wields in India as no one else would have gotten away with the act of reinstating a paedophile. This only shows how big the rot is and the influence of these missionaries in India. Hindus need to be wary of such subversive ideologies.

Originally published February 25, 2016 on Yuga Parivartan.

February 25, 2016