A RESPONSE TO MRINAL SUMAN'S RANTING ABOUT TRAITORS

(AT THE FOLLOWING URL :

http://www.sify.com/news/why-does-india-breed-so-

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Oh! how I wish Mrinal was not a veteran and that too an engineer officer. We have fought wars on the same side against the same enemy, May be, I have fought a few more wars than him. does it make me a bigger patriot, with bigger bragging rights? 

It is people like him who spiritedly, continuously and blasphemously chanted "Har har Namo, Ghar ghar Namo, Namo, Namo, Namo" in the run up to the last Parliamentary general elections. Most of them are, since, disillusioned. Not Mrinal for he is made of sterner stuff, the stuff all Parivarik people are made of. He is their mouth piece among us veterans who, within our life times, will most likely be witness to the total annihilation of the one institution that still commands respect of all our citizens, the Indian Defense Forces.

To him, just like his parivarik members, India is Hindu and Hindu is India, a Hindu Rashtra; damn be the Constitution of India. (COI). Swear by it, but all the time do everything to destroy it. Use the system to destroy the system. How else will their dream of a Hindu Rashtra come true !

How easily, just like his Goeblian colleagues of the Parivar, does he repeat proven lies to discredit before others, some of his ideological opponents, who are his fellow citizens.

First, let's deal with his honored clan. He, like the rest of us Indians, knows that their greatest ideologue prostrated himself before the British to beg mercy and be repatriated to the mainland. That ideologue of 'Hindu Rashtra' is their shining example of 'Patriotism'! Damn the COI, but still wear the 'mukhowta' of 'praise to its author', the Baba sahib, with whom I have the honour of sharing my birthday.

During the freedom struggle, when countless fighters laid down their lives by facing bullets or the gallows, his esteemed colleagues were cozying-up to the British. History of  India is a witness to their shamelessness.

I will not go over the events of partition for its pain and suffering, but after that, the Parivar started to dream big. For decades, the national diaspora treated them, despite their best efforts, as pariahs, but truly, they are made of sterner stuff. With just two seats in the Nation's Parliament, they plotted and planned, planned and plotted to polarize the Nation. Babri gave them their first big opportunity. They ceased it with both hands and never let it go. Damn be the COI. True Patriotism calls for it.

Their greatest lament : Why was the Country not declared a 'Hindu Rashtra' after partition. They had cozyed-up to the Brits but could not persuade them to divide the Nation into a Hindu & a Muslim one. And where would the Christians, the Sikhs, the Jains and the Buddhists have gone? Damn be the COI. True Patriotism calls for it.

And then came the greatest of all opportunities, the Parliamentary General Elections of 2014. The Parivar decided that half measures would not do and they had to go the whole hog. They had a ready made mascot, who had, twelve years before, proved his mettle. The founders of their political Party, their band wagon, were unceremoniously and mercilessly cast aside and the Parivar took over. No legal problems in an organization, registered as a NGO, taking part in political polarisation. Damn be the COI.  True Patriotism calls for it.

Pracharaks and ideologues were determinedly planted in key positions of the Govt. Even the bureaucracy was made to toe the line and make presentations to key members of the Parivar, in blatant violation of the 'Official Secrets' Act'. Which fool said that one had to follow it in letter and spirit to be branded as a nationalist ? Write your own version. Damn be the COI. True Patriotism calls for it.

The intolerance phase followed suit. One emotive issue after anotherVote for us or else .... Either for us or else an anti-national. Gaumata phase. Why only Gau? Every living being has a mata. Gandhiji regularly drank goat-mata's milk. The residents of the Thar Desert, drink Camel-mata's milk. The Laddakhis and the Tibbetians survive on Yak-mata's milk. Ban killing of all the matas or none. When you can damn the COI in every other way, why make fuss about only one issue? Oh!, how else will you be called a patriot !

The division of responsibilities followed soon, as decided by the 'Sir'. Speak in forked tongues. Confuse the Nation with the ultimate aim of Polarization. The head goes around the World proclaiming that Unity in Diversity was the real strength of India. Back home, his colleagues make every one chant Ram nam and Bharat Mata ki Jai. 

One day, the 'Sir' would say, "Every Indian MUST be taught to say, 'Bharat Mata ki Jai'" and next day say, "No one should be forced to say", but immediately, one of the seniors of the Parivar proclaims, "any one refusing to say, 'Bharat Mata ki Jai' should be shipped out of India". Damn be the COI. True Patriotism calls for it.

Why Mata? Why not Pita? Does the 'Vedanta', which Adi-Shankarachariya swore by, make any mention of 'Mata'? It refers to God as Pita. Why not 'Bharat Ki Jai'? Why 'Hindusthan Ki Jai', with its stress on 'Hindu'? Why not 'Jai Hind', with its stress on the geography of India? No; how else will they polarise the Nation emotively! Damn be the COI. True Patriotism calls for it.

Then the intolerance and coercion. Want to eat Beef, go to Pakistan. Don't want to say, 'Jai Mata', go to Pakistan. Criticise the Govt, be branded as an anti-national and seditious. Go to jail. Even the judiciary and of course all Indians, are made to believe the untruth by faking videos and marketing them as genuine. Damn be the COI. True Patriotism calls for it.

Faking videos has come to haunt the present Govt with the ISI giving it a dose of its own medicine in the form of a heavily doctored video of the confessions of a so called RAW spy. The Govt is protesting but the ISI is not listening, just the way this Govt refused to listen when almost the whole country protested the tested and proven fake Kanahiya videos. Even today the Govt is spreading lies about the anti-national activities of Kanahiya and his brood at JNU, based on the same fake and doctored videos 

Mrinal, unlike a veteran, has taken recourse to falsehood, when he says, "All Defense functions end with the resounding cry of, 'Bharat Mata ki Jai'". We in the Forces say, 'Jai Hind' between all ranks from OR to General. This is true Patriotism.

Personally, I wish my Hindu friends, with 'Ram, Ram'. That does not make me a Hindu; which any case is not a religion; it is a Community, like all others. I simply honour their belief in Ram. As an Indian First and last, I must honour the faith of all my fellow Indians. I, therefore, say, 'Satsriakaal' to Sikhs, (A Sardar was my room=mate in IMA); 'Alla Karim' to Muslims; but to members of my own Community, I say, 'Good morning/suprabhat', good AN or good evening. I am part of them and, therefore, do not have to call upon the name of 'Jesus' to prove my affinity. This is true Patriotism.

How many of Mrinal's adopted community of so called 'Bharat-Mata Premis can sing the whole National Anthem and Bande Mataram, with correct lyrics and tune? Has he ever tried to put  this hall mark of True Patriotism to test on his comrades? 

Who or what is bringing bad name to our Nation, revered for its saints, yoga, Buddha and the Mahatma, not for its Savarkars and Golwalkars. 

THE MADARSA STUDENT WITH HIS ARM BROKEN BECAUSE HE REFUSED TO CHANT, "BHARAT MATA KI JAI"

When innocents are brutalised and killed in the name of religion, 'gaumata abhiyan', false accusations of beef eating, it brings bad name internationally. When fake charges of anti-nationalism are levied with the help of doctored and fake videos against innocents, summarily locking them up, it brings a bad name to our Country internationally. When A serving soldier's parent is brutally murdered in his own house on trumped up charges, by a whipped-up mob led by Hindu fanatics, it brings bad name to India, that is Bharat. When people are openly threatened by Hindu fanatics in high places and the Govt simply looks on, it demoralises the citizens and causes havoc to the fair name of our Fatherland, the country of my forefathers for hundreds of generations. When the Govt goes back on its solemn promises to the defenders of the Nation and mocks at them for believing 'Election Jumlas', it not only slurs as a Nation, it also imperils its safety. This is called 'playing with fire'. When this Govt pulls at and pushes around peacefully agitating veterans, in full live view of the entire world, the world around us reacts un-favourably. When the Govts, not one but three, cock a hoop at its other constitutional arms, just  to please a Guruji, it does little to enhance the rule of law. Govt is in the dock, just like all the other law breakers, with the only difference being the side to which lawless power of the law, the police, belongs to. Need I say more Mrinal ?

Mrinal and many of his ilk, have deliberately equated 'Hinduism' with 'Hindutwa'. Hinduism is a Catholic, (Universal : Vishwam Kutumbkam), Philosophy; Hindutwa is an ideology. The two are like cake and chalk; water and oil; the former runs deep and silent; the latter floats shallow and is incendiary. Our 10000 years' culture has survived because the Philosophy always prevailed over the Dogma. Philosophy of the Vedas, not its rituals; philosophy of the Upanishads, not their rituals; and last but not the least, philosophy of the Vedant and Srimad Bhagwat Gita, with no rituals at all.

Did Gautam use force to make people prostrate before him and acknowledge him as the 'Buddha'? did any of the Rishis and Munis use force to propagate their teachings? What did Narad do to change the heart of a hardened dacoit and transform him into a Muni?

Let us not destroy the soul of our country with dogma. Let us do our damndest best to preserve that spirit which made Swami Vivekananda, address the people of a foreign country and of different faiths, on foreign soil as, "My sisters and brothers ...".

I have said it before and I say it again, Patriotism is NOT  to be worn on ones sleeves, It must burn bright in every Indian's Heart.