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By CORRUPTION OF INDIA! on Wednesday, February 20, 2002 - 09:40 pm:

Rajiv Gandhi - the Bofors Brahmin !




One of the most sinister aspects of the Brahminist regime occupying Bharat is the presence of a highly corrupt Brahmin-run bureacracy. For the last fifty years, corrupt Brahmin officials and bureacrats have been systematically looting India of its wealth and resources. Corruption is openly practices without the least concept of shame. That this corruption exists at all levels of the elitist Brahmin-dominated bureacracy sometimes becomes apparent to the average citizen with the revelation of multi-crore scams. Sukh Ram, P.V. Narasimha Rao and Romesh Sharma are only some of the more famous corrupt Brahmins which have been involved in scores of scams - fodder scam, havala scam, land scam, urea scam - the never-ending list goes on and on. However, none of these scams comes close to the enormous $ 250 million Bofors scam, which involved Rajiv Gandhi, the Brahmin Prime Minster of India, and virtually all the top Brahmin officials in the bureacracy.
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Pandit Rajiv Gandhi the Brahmin, "Mr. Clean"
The True Grandson of Pandit Nehru
However, once the Brahmins were exposed, the Congress and its allies immediately started shouting that they were innocent and expressed grave indignance. Much consternation existed, that the scam had been exposed, that the "lowly", "filthy" abrahmanas had dared to question their Brahmin masters. This indignation follows directly from Vedic law. For, from his very childhood the Brahmin is taught as per his religious `holy' books that the Brahmin has the right to steal, extort and rob the "abrahmana" and the "dasyoo":

Manu VIII.416-417

"A Brahmana may confidently seize the goods of (his) Sudra (slave); for, as that (slave) can have no property, his master may take his possessions."

These verses were also taught to Rajiv Gandhi. Indeed, all of his actions follow directly from Manu and Vedic law. From his very birth the Brahmin is brainwashed into believing that he is superior to all other races, that he can rob them at will :

Manu.I.99-100

" Whatever exists in the world is, the property of the Brahmana; on account of the excellence of his origin the Brahmana is, indeed entitled to all ."

Thus, Rajiv Gandhi's actions were entirely in accordance with the `sacred' Vedas and Puranas. In organising the Bofors scam, Rajiv Gandhi was merely following his religion - `astik' Hinduism. In his eyes, and those of the rest of the Brahmins, he was committing no sin whatsoever. As long as the people he robbed and cheated were Sudras, everything was fine. That is why the Brahmins believe they can loot the world, and get away with it. Hence the indignation of the Brahmins at the affront caused to them. The persons working to expose the Brahmin conspiracy were immediately branded as "anti-Hindu", "anti-Brahmin", "ISI agents" or "Pakistanis". All journalists who published articles exposing the heinous corruption under Pandit Rajiv Gandhi were severely persecuted. At the same time, the Brahmins started to sabotage all investigations into the Bofors scam. Thus, they appointed Ramesh Chandra Sharma, Director of the CBI and another Brahmin, as head of the Bofors inquiry. He remained in this post for five years starting in 1991. It thus comes as no surprise that he "made little progress on the investigation." [ Earth Times, July 31, 1997 ] Why a Brahmin (R.C.Sharma) should be permitted to head the inquiry into the crimes committed by another Brahmin (Rajiv Gandhi) was a question censored by the Brahmin-Occupied-Media, with the very idea being erased from the minds of the common man. However, several years on, it is now clear to the entire world that Rajiv Gandhi was just another corrupt Brahmin :

http://www.dalitstan.org/journal/recthist/total/bof_brah.html


By PURE ARYAN BRAHMIN on Wednesday, February 20, 2002 - 08:39 pm:

TO CORRUPT FAITH IS ONE THING TO KILL AND RAPE WOMEN IS QUITE ANOTHER. SATVA TAMASA AND KARMIC TRAITS?

Milap Chand Dandia reporting for Tribune India
Jaipur, November 4

A religions hindu sanyasi, who had 100 concubines, was arrested here on Saturday on charges of murdering his disciple and dumping her body in a bid to destroy evidence of the crime.

The 73-year old guru, Jairamdas Gujar alias Ramji Maharaj, is the head of the Ramsnehi sect and has over a lakh followers in Jaipur. Four more persons have also been arrested in connection with the murder of Sudha Sharma.

Sudha Sharma, a local Hindu Mahasabha leader, who was a staunch devotee of Ramji Maharaj and was living with the leader in the math itself, disappeared mysteriously about two months ago. Though ramji lodged a report of her disappearance, in fact he himself had murdered her and dumped the body in a well some 40 km away from here. On a tip-off the police discovered her body from the well. After confirming that the guru had murdered Sudha, the police arrested him. Though he initially denied his involvement in the murder but finally admitted having axed Sudha to death.

ramji said Sudha had started blackmailing him as she was a witness to his illicit relations with some women disciples and she had even had in her possession some related photographs and voice tapes.

ramji told the police that he had been having illicit relations with at least 100 women. The women even considered it a pious act to offer their bodies in the service of Ramji Maharaj.

Such was the influence of Ramji that once he demanded the newly wed wife of the son of a disciple. She sent her daughter-in-law in his service and when she refused to surrender to him she was forced to obtain divorce. The son married again and then the new wife pleased Ramji.

It is alleged that Sudha insisted ramji to transfer his math in her name and once even threatened to expose his misadventures by calling a press conference and displaying audio video cassettes before media. Ramji, therefore, thought it fit to liquidate her for the safety of his prestige and on September 4, 2001, he killed Sudha


By THE REAL BRAHMIN on Wednesday, February 20, 2002 - 08:34 pm:

FUNDRAISING SCAMS IS ONE THING CONSPIRACY OF MURDER IS ANOTHER BY YOUR DUTIFUL SATVA TRAITED HIGH CASTE BRAHMINS -

http://www.cultsandsociety.com/csissueidx/toc2001.1/grprept2001.1_harekrishna/gr


Krishna Leader Indicted for Murder (p. 8) Three members of the Hare Krishna community in West Virginia, including founder-leader Keith Ham, 54, also known as Kirtinananda Swami Bhaktipada, were indicted by a federal grand jury last week, accused of conspiring to murder two dissident members of the sect in West Virginia and Los Angeles.
The U. S. Attorney in Wheeling said the government will attempt to seize the group's 4,000 acres of land and residences at its New Vrindaban community in Marshall County, alleging that they were purchased with $10.5 million obtained fraudulently.
The murders include the 1986 slaying of dissident ex-member Stephen Bryant and the 1983 killing of Charles St. Denis. Thomas Drescher is serving a life term for the latter murder.
The government also alleges that Drescher, who faces charges in California for Bryant's murder, was promised $80,000 by Ham to commit the murder and that of another community resident, Terry Sheldon.
The New Vrindaban community has been the subject of several other investigations, leading to the expulsion of the commune by the national leaders of the Hindu sect two years ago, and its leader a year earlier.
One count of the indictment, which followed a two-year investigation, alleges that Ham and three of the community's corporations violated racketeering statutes by investing the $10.5 million received from fundraising scams into property and buildings at their community. The indictment alleges that the accused used the mails fraudulently to solicit money from the public across the nation. They allegedly solicited funds for a school, but failed to tell those contributing that "children were sexually molested" at the school. Los Angeles Times, 6/2/90.


By STEALING? on Wednesday, February 20, 2002 - 08:31 pm:

TO STEAL FROM YOUR OWN TEMPLE IS TOTALLY WRONG

Hindu Temple Assets Frozen
A State Supreme Court judge has issued a restraining order against the 14,000-member Hindu Ganesha Temple in Flushing, preventing it from spending temple funds.
Judge Joseph G. Golia of the State Supreme Court in Jamaica ordered the temple not to use any assets, sign any contracts, or conduct any major expenditures unless authorized by temple membership. In 1997, the temple had assets of nearly $8 million. The temple owns several nearby homes used by priests and for religious lessons.
Six members sued under the state's Religious Corporation Law, which requires nonprofit religious organizations to follow their bylaws. The group accused the temple's board of trustees of concealing financial records not giving temple members a voice in spending decisions, information about meeting schedules, or meeting minutes, and neglecting to inform the members of major expansion projects.
"We deny all allegations," said the temple president. "I'm a strong believer in the Lord, and I have the fullest faith in him."
Source: "Judge Blocks Temple Funds," Newsday, 8/10/01.
http://foody.org/atheist/insanity0801.html#peanut


By CORRUPTION OF BRAHMINISM on Wednesday, February 20, 2002 - 08:30 pm:

DRUGS, THEFT, FRAUD AND BRAHMIN SADHUS

Past kumbh melas, with much smaller crowds, have been marred by panic stampedes and fights among rival groups of sadhus. Theft and fraud by disreputable or drugged sadhus have also been common.
This year, more than 1,000 religious and cultural organizations have set up shop, and dozens of tent cities have been erected along the riverbanks. The government has installed 5,000 telephone connections, 15,000 streetlights, 17,000 toilets, 1,000 fire hydrants, 100 miles of water pipes, a 100-bed hospital, 15 pontoon bridges and 200 police posts.


By SATVA TAMASA TRAITS on Wednesday, February 20, 2002 - 07:01 pm:

FRAUD AND BRAHMINICAL RACISM DISGUISED AS " SANATAN DHARM"

During the time of the Rajputs (from 7th till about the 12th c AD) the Brahmins in cooperation with the Rajputs devised the caste system to gain and maintain control over India. The Brahmins became the religious leaders while the Rajputs were the political rulers. In the 8th c AD Adi Sankara, a south Indian Brahmin, wrote an interpretation for the earlier theistic writings. However, he twisted the earlier theistic writings and developed an atheistic philosophy called Advaita based on monism and cycle of birth. Since the Brahmins controlled the religion, they used this philosophy to destroy the theistic faith of the Hindus. Two other interpretations written by other south Indian Brahmins arose to somewhat offset the startling error of Advaita. They were Vishishtadvaita by Ramanuja (11th c AD) and Dvaita by Madhva (13th c AD). However, these were incomplete and supported the caste system. The fullness of the truth is seen only in Saiva Siddhanta where Meykandar’s Siva Gnana Botham sets the standard for the truth.
The caste system is deceptively maintained by the philosophies of monism and cycle of birth. Monism (which leads to pantheism) brings a false sense of unity and hope by the deception that no matter what path is chosen, ultimately we will all end up in the same place. However this false sense of unity is soon disturbed by the social disparity which becomes apparent, and this is where the cycle of birth is utilized. It is taught that the one enjoying the higher status is due to his/her karma in the previous birth, and if one would presently follow dharma, i.e. Manu Dharma (the law of the caste system) in this birth, then he/she could also enjoy the higher status in their next birth. Interesting!


The vicious scheme of the caste system, also called brahminism, is still in practice today and many think that it is an ancient part of our culture. However, this is not so, the Dravidian culture is one of equality and love for all communities & nations. The so-called Aryans constitute about 12% of India’s population, and the rest who are Dravidians (the so-called Sudras and Panchamas) constitute 88%. Through the caste system Brahmins have maintained Political, Economic and Religious control over the Dravidians for the last 1200 years. Slowly the political and economic controls are changing today due to the democratic process, however, the religious control is preserved unfortunately by the constitution. The RSS and its sub organizations are working hard deceptively to preserve brahminism, and the religious wing of the RSS, the VHP, has continuously distorted historical facts concerning religion and culture in India to their advantage.


By the Brahmin on Wednesday, February 20, 2002 - 06:59 pm:

Many think that Hinduism with its millions of gods is the dominant animistic religion of the Hindus and the caste system is an integral part of their ancient culture. However this is not true since the ancient culture of India has been one of equality and love for all communities & nations. The caste system is about 1200 years old and is the taproot of racism (based on color) in the world societyFor instance why would Shakespeare write Othello (early 17th c AD) where a black North African man marries a white European woman if racism existed in his time?
It is commonly thought that Hinduism is the religion of the Brahmins, Kshatriyas & Vaishyas, and, the rest (apart from the religious minorities I’m sure) were animists.

Another common misconception today is that Hinduism is very ancient and that it is founded on the Vedas. For example it is commonly stated that ‘Buddhism was up against Vedic scriptures’, but, is there any evidence for this? The Vedas are written in the Grantha and Nagari scripts, and according to tradition Veda Vyasa, a Dravidian, compiled and gave written form to the Vedas. The Grantha script belongs to the southern group of scripts and Veda Vyasa being a Dravidian would certainly have used it. Since the earliest evidence for Grantha is only in the 5th c. AD, the Vedas were written rather late. What is more significant is that the Vedas have no relevance to the religion of the Hindus, namely Saivism and Vaishnavism.

The first evidence of Sanskrit is seen only in 150 AD and the neglect of Sanskrit by Asoka, if the language was in use, would be contrary to his practice since his inscriptions are even in Greek and Aramaic apart from Prakrit. In any Sanskrit literature such as the Vedas, Upanishads, Brahma Sutras or Bhagavad Gita,

Scholars define that while worship is universal, a religion requires literature, philosophy or theology. Before Christ, only two religions existed in India, Buddhism and Jainism, which were agnostic religions. The worships could be broadly classified as Dravidian worship, which is evidenced from the Indus Valley civilization, and the later Vedic worship of the Brahmin ancestors. The Vedic religion reflected in the RgVeda is mainly concerned with the propitiation of divinities associated with nature. The important were such gods as Indra, Varuna, Agni, and Surya, who later lost their significance. The Vedic worship songs existed in some oral form and were later compiled and given written form by Veda Vyasa, after the 2nd c AD since Sanskrit did not exist before that. Of all the religions and worships in India before Christ, we find that Buddhism and Jainism were the dominant religions and they were ethical agnostic religions with strong compassion for all creation, but no room for God. Also there was no caste system in India at this time and this is evidenced by Megasthenes.


By BRAHMIN FRAUDS on Wednesday, February 20, 2002 - 06:57 pm:

From British Raj to Casteocracy

The Brahmanists came to power on the Congress elephant by deviously
converting the pre-independence political debate and struggle into a
communal Hindu-Muslim religious struggle. This was made possible by the
master stroke of Mahatama Gandhi - the Hindu nationalist cum holy sadhu
who made "Hindus" a 55% majority on paper in the 1920s upon getting the
Dalits or "untouchables" (20%) dubbed as "Hindus" by the British. This coup
moved the "Hindus" from 35% to a 55% majority in British India. In pre-independence India, Muslims were
25% Sikhs/Christians/Buddhists/tribals/etc. formed the remaining 20%.
This action, along with recognition of Congress as the sole political
representative of all Indians in national matters, was a payoff by the
British colonial authorities to the Brahmanist lead Congress and Gandhi for
loyal services rendered to Queen and empire in supporting their WWI war
effort; recruiting the "martial" communities (e.g. Sikhs, hindu jats, Rajputs,
Gujars of Saka-origin) of the northwest and Muslims to go fight for the
British Empire in Europe/middle east; subduing, opposing, infiltrating and
sabotaging other non-Congress/non-Brahmanist lead political parties and
independence movements organized at home (who saw British weakness during the war as an ideal opportunity).
The 55% fraudulent "Hindu pile" was little more than a political game of
Brahmanist politicians and political parties in Delhi while caste Hindus
would not eat/touch/marry/socialize or even worship with their "polluted"
Dalits (20% untouchables) in the 1920s. After this "victory on paper",
Brahmanist politicians, political parties, and organizations totally
communalized pre-independence politics along "Hindu/Muslim" religious lines
of "nationhood" to get on the road to empire and Delhi.
The British to their merit left Indians a functional parliamentary system
served by a small but efficient administrative system which did not
tolerate corruption. While glibly taking of egalitarian western political
philosophies, the Brahmanists quickly established a blubbering Casteocracy
with a mammoth political and administrative system under the banner of
pseudo-socialism. Almost all of the top decision-making and managerial
positions (95%) in the country's administration, bureaucracy, state-run
media, press, huge state-run economic sector, universities, army, police,
etc. have been stacked by Brahmanists who form 7% of Hindus. Under
Permit Raj and Swadeshi Economics, only the Brahmanist cliques have been allowed to invest and enter the new modern and profitable industrial and manufacturing sectors while the rest of Indians are tied to the plough, dwindling lands and the unskilled labor market.
Under Indian agrarian policies, ridiculous land ceilings of 18acres/household were set and agricultural prices have been historically set at 50% below prevailing world prices (Brahmanists are traditionally non-landowners and non-agriculturalists). Meanwhile, no such controls or ceilings were ever imposed on ownership of urban property and industries (requiring government permits/licenses for entry) and the industrial price index in India has been above the international industrial price index.
Over the past 50 years, such neo-colonialist policies have precipitated a massive transfer of wealth from the highly productive "Saka region" in the northwest (e.g. Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and western UP) into the hands of Brahmanists monopolizing the upper level bureaucratic machinery, the agro-industries and the wider industrial/manufacturing sector with which the agrarian sector exchanges production. The tremendous wealth generated by the "Green revolution" in the northwest has been siphoned-off through the state-run banking system and these savings diverted to fund the massive, inefficient, stagnant and corrupted state-run industrial sector where again Brahmanist managers and officials roost the nest.
Through unbridled corruption and criminalization of the state machinery in the post-British period, the political and governmental system has been quickly converted into a huge rent-seeking "milking cow" for the enrichment and exploitation of the "superior" Brahmanists (who prior to 1947 held little family property or wealth). Genocidal state terror and violence has been unleashed on the populations of every non-Hindu majority state in the Indian Union (e.g. Kashmir, Punjab, Assam, Manipur, Mizoland, Nagaland, etc.) and the "lower castes" and Dalits (untouchables) live under constant threat of random police violence and torture to keep them under submission and to discourage them from mobilizing politically.

This is the true hideous nature of the Casteocracy, imperialistically running the old British empire and motivated by the hegemonic, supremacist and racist socio-political ideology of neo-Brahmanism.
Unfortunately, Western opinion on events in India has been largely shaped by the Brahmanist viewpoint by virtue of their control over the governmental machinery/political system/academics/state-run mass media/press/etc. in India. Brahmanists have been extremely effective in propagating their historical and political mithya and propaganda and hiding, deflecting and scapegoating India's gruesome realities and the Casteocracy's failures and tyranny on their victims, lower castes and religious minorities.


By REAL HISTORY on Wednesday, February 20, 2002 - 06:56 pm:

the Brahmanist Empire

The India Union is in reality a model of a Casteocracy run by the 7%
Orthodox Brahminical Castes (OCs: Brahmins, Banias, Kayasths) or
Brahmanists who came to hijack the biggest chunk of the former British
Indian empire in 1947 and have been cleverly running the Brahmanist empire
under the ruse of "world's biggest democracy" for the past 50 years.

The Brahmins (3.5% of "Hindus") alone control over 70% of the top
decision-making posts in the political system, administration, judiciary,
army, police, press, media and academics (Statistics on composition from
1935 and 1985 have been published by Indian Journalist and Historian
Kushwant Singh). For example, in 1935, the 3.5% Brahmin caste group held
around 4% of the gazetted positions among Indians in the upper echelons of
the administrative machinery. By 1985, one finds that out of 3,300 Indian
Administrative Officers (IAS), 2,376 are Brahmins; from the rank of deputy
secretaries upwards, out of 500, 310 are Brahmins; of the 26 state chief
secretaries, 19 are Brahmins; of the 16 Supreme Court judges, 9 are
Brahmins; of 438 district magistrates, 250 are Brahmins; and so on in other
circles of power and policy in the Indian state.

Adding the remaining Brahmanical castes (Banias, Kayasths), the state power
of the Brahmanists jumps from 70% to almost 95%. The facts show that
Brahmanists control the top positions in India's political system,
administrative system, judiciary, press, media, army, etc. - and hence the
actions and policies of the Government of India (GOI). Intriguingly, the
Brahmanists did not control/rule even ONE single
Raj-dhani/administration/army in any country of southasia prior to British
Raj in the 19th century.
Some examples and persistent patterns of GOI policies and actions:
- Breaking agreements/promises on peaceful use of western atomic
technology to develop weapons of mass destruction (e.g. 1973, 1998;
Canada, US, France, Britain);
- Refusal to implement UN resolutions for plebiscite on Kashmiri;
- Vitriolic and belligerent Indo-Pak, Indo-China, Indo-Srilanka
relations;
- Creation of an extremely centralist, interventionist, and hegemonic
state after 1947 (contrary to "loose federation" promised earlier);
- Inability to solve political problems without state violence/genocide;
- Betrayal of "sacred and solemn" promises to Sikhs and Punjabis which
brought territories of East Punjab and Kashmiri into the Indian Union;
- State sponsored/organized approved killings of non-Hindu religious
communities under cover of "mob riots" (against Sikhs, Muslims);
- Army operation Bluestar/Woodrose in Punjab, attack on 38 Sikh shrines
including Golden Temple in Amritsar leading to killings of 105,000
Sikhs (US State Department estimates for 1984-93, see below);
- State oppression/genocide and army/police rule in all non-Hindu
majority states of Punjab, Kashmiri, Nagaland, Assam, Manipur,
Mizoland;
- Dismal record on human rights and perpetual police/army abuses of
Dalits and "backward castes" (80% of Hindus);
- Permit and License Raj economy designed to divert economic development
and wealth to benefit Brahmanist cliques by restricting private
investment in non-agrarian sectors to Brahmanists only ("Swadeshi
and Permit Raj Economics");
- After 50 years of Brahmanist imperial rule and pillaging, India is now
hovering near sub-Saharan Africa in terms of per capita income, mass
education, public health/hygiene.
- A criminalized and corrupted political/administrative system in which
criminals/politicians work hand-in-glove; . . . etc.

It is truly amazing that such a brutal, supremacist, corrupt and
criminalized Casteocracy has been created under the ruse of a "world's
largest secular democracy"!
It is worth noting that all these Brahmanical elites are "new elites". This
community did not have ruling-class status in any country of southasia when
the British began creating "India" during the 18-19th century. But one
wouldn't guess this from the hegemonic and supremacist historical and
social propaganda of neo-Brahmanists in which OCs, lead by the "learned,
wise, and revered Brahmins", portray themselves as the "rightful rulers" of
"their Hindustan" and Hindu flock.


By HISTORICAL FRAUD on Wednesday, February 20, 2002 - 05:04 pm:

Brahmin Historical Lies and Deception


Historical falsification was one of the main methods by which Brahmins annihilated non-Brahmin races throughout history. By erasing actual events and inventing false history the Brahmins succeeded in obliterating entire peoples from the map. The Yavanas, the Panchalas, the Koshalas, the Khazars, the Buddhists, the Saurashtras and countless other races have been annihilated, whilst the cunning Brahmins survived. This historical fraud has continued into recent times, with Kautilyan Pseudo-Secularist Brahmins and Hindutva Brahmins deliberately obscuring actual historical events, inventing far-fetched fantasies and ignoring archaeological facts. Here are some examples of the falsified Brahmin history taught across schools in South Asia :
No Sudra Holocaust : The Brahmins blatantly deny any Sudra holocaust, and even go so far as to deny that any Aryan invasions took place ! : " this view is gaining strength among the scholars in the country that India itself was the original home of the Aryans. " (P. 48, HSIB 1.)
No Brahmin Gold : The very existence of Brahmin Gold is denied. All the vast treasure hoards illicitly looted by the Brahmins are simply ignored. This is done so that the Brahmins shall not have to return all the Brahmin Gold they have looted from the indigenous Sudras.
No Aryan Invasion : Brahmins such as Pandit N. Rajaram are now teaching that there was no Aryan invasion. As per this bigoted view, the Indus Valley Civilization was Aryan, as was all science of India, whilst the Black Sudra hopped around in trees. This theory necessarily implies that the Sudra is of a `degraded' race, inferior to the `superior' `Sarasvati-Sindhu' Aryan.
Brahmin Taj : Pandit Oak the Brahmin claims that the Taj Mahal was a Brahmin temple ! Such lunacies are now part of official Hindutva history teaching.
Homer stole the Ramayana : The psycopathic pandits claim that Homer stole the Ramayana ! Such nonsense is now taught in Brahmin-Occupied India.
Evil Islam : All evils which the Brahmins enforced upon the indigenous populations such as Sati, Female Infanticide, Hijrahism and Devadasism, inventions that destroyed the very soul of India, are cunningly blamed on the Muslims. This is being done in order to fool the Indians into believing that the Brahmins were innocent angels who `protected' the nation and simultaneously exterminate the Muslims. Besides this, there is a whole list of historical frauds perpetrated by the Brahmins and their brainwashed idiotic followers. What good news for the faithful `savaran' (high-caste) Hindus, the loyal boot-lickers of the Brahmin tricksters ! These psycopathic pandits are now brainwashing little children with their monstrous lies and froth-mouthed venom. Please read the article, published by Secular India on Brahmin historical lies :

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Secular India, December 1998


In the Name of History

Examples from Hindutva-inspired school textbooks in India

by Nalini Taneja, University of Delhi
Communal historiography is quite old in India but the new additions reflect greater contemporary use in dividing society along communal lines. They are also stronger in the language and expressions used. Communal bias is woven into school textbooks with preposterous ‘facts’ in a way that can only have dangerous consequences for the educational standards in this country. In the name of curriculum reform there is an attempt to rewrite textbooks along communal lines on a scale that will submerge all secular interpretations in school level teaching. A whole generation would grow up with their collective memory of a shared heritage destroyed and with ideas and information that have no basis in reality. A successful implementation of these texts on a widespread scale will mean the triumph of unreason as well as a tremendous and sudden deterioration in the quality of education, where the minimum criteria of correct empirical data and a scientific temper and reason are thrown to the winds. Our children will be little suited to face the real world or the world of scholarship
These books already form an integral portion of the curriculum in the 20,000 or more Vidya Bharati schools and also the Shishu Mandirs. The introduction of these texts into the Government schools in the BJP ruled states has massively increased the number of children who are being being made victims of this second rate and poisonous ‘knowledge’ The take over of educational bodies from the highest levels to those determining the syllabi in schools, will carry this wave of fascist propaganda into the entire educational process. Coupled with other forms of popular education they could change our entire ways of looking at ourselves, and also propel our political visions along fascist rather than democratic lines.
We give below a sampling of these texts:


SOME GEMS FROM THE SANSKRIT GYAN TEXTS


Sanskrit Gyan texts are taught in Vidya Bharati schools and Shishu Mandirs. The recent RSS sponsored agenda paper on education that the Central Government tried to present before the Conference of the State Education Ministers suggested that these and similar texts be made compulsory for all schools.

The students are tested on dubious ‘facts’ such as:


Ram Janmabhoomi is the birthplace of Ram.

Iran was first settled by Indians (Aryans).

Homer adapted Valmiki’s Ramayana into an epic called Iliad.
Greek philosophers like Herodotus and Aristophanes were influenced by the Vedas.

The Egyptian faith was based on Indian traditions according to Plato and Pythagorus.

The language of the Native American Indians evolved from ancient Indian languages.

The cow is the mother of us all, in whose body Gods are believed to reside.

The Ayurveda is the finest medical system of the world, and it naturally evolved in India

Jesus Christ roamed the Himalayas and drew his ideas from Hinduism.

In the text books distributed in Vidya Bharti schools the map of India is shown as including not only Pakistan and Bangladesh but also the entire region of Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet and even parts of Myanmar ( "punnya bhoomi Bharat" )
A SAMPLE FROM THE HISTORY TEXTS


These texts are being used in Shishu Mandirs and Government Schools in BJP controlled states.

Ancient history:


Rama and Krishna took birth here to destroy evil and defend justice, religion and Sarasvati, and god took birth here many times to make this land pure. India is referred to as Sone ki chiriya and jagadguru ( p 4 ,Gaurav Gatha (henceforth GG), the textbook for Class 4, Sarasvati Shishu Mandir, written in an extremely emotional and provocative style.)


Our land has always been seen with greedy eyes by the marauders, barbarous invaders and oppressive rulers. This story of invasion and resistance is our 3000 year long Gaurav Gatha . When this proud tradition actually began is difficult to say because no books were written at that time, but we believe that the first man was born in this land (p.8, GG)


To our ancestors these marauders were like mosquitoes and flies who were crushed (p. 8 GG)


Bacchus and Dionysis, among the earliest invaders, suffered such a defeat that feelings of terror ran in Greece(p. 9, GG) Darius had to face such a defeat that never could Iran raise its eyes towards India (p. 10 GG)


About 2200 years ago India’s trade was spread far and wide; foreign markets were filled with goods made in India. Heaps of gems and jewels and gold and silver filled the treasures People of the entire world used to look to India with greedy eyes (p.12 GG)


Mahapadma Nanda had so much wealth that if divided among the population, every person would get Rs. 50 lakhs each (p.13 GG)


Alexander’'s army was defeated at the hands of Puru and Alexander himself had to seek forgiveness (p.15 GG)


Then came Demetrius. The preaching of ahimsa had weakened North India. The Kshatriyas -- followers of the Vedic religion -- were feeling frustrated. The ruler of Magadha was a Buddhist. So he did not come forward to fight. But then was the country enslaved. Did the enemy become victorious in the birthplace of Bhagwan Rama? No, no (p. 31, GG)


Pushyamitra destroyed the Greeks. After this the people of Greece could not attack Bharat. Later they came only as refugees. As beggars they begged for their lives but never dared to look with proud eyes. The great man who destroyed the Greek power from its very roots was emperor Pushyamitra. India is proud of him even today. Every day we remember his name.(p. 35-37, GG)


Asoka advocated ahimsa. Every kind of violence came to be considered a crime. Even hunting, sacrifices in yajnas and use of arms began to be considered bad. It had a bad effect on the army. Cowardice slowly spread throughout the kingdom. The state bore the burden of providing food to the Buddhist monks. Therefore people began to become monks. Victory through arms began to be viewed as bad, Soldiers guarding the borders became demoralised. (p. 30, GG)


With the finds of bones of horses, their toys and yajna altars, scholars are beginning to believe that the people of the Harappa and Vedic civilisation were the same. (High School Itihaas Bhaag (henceforth HSIB)1, p. 43, history textbook for secondary schools, Government of U. P. revised in 1992 to suit the communal interpretations of Indian history. This book deals with the history of India from pre- historic times to 1526.)


Aryan culture is the nucleus of Indian culture, and the Aryans were an indigenous race. " But about the Aryans who were the builders of Bharatiya Sanskriti in Bharat and creators of the Vedas, this view is gaining strength among the scholars in the country that India itself was the original home of the Aryans."(P. 48, HSIB 1.) Archaeological and literary evidence does not support this theory.


Chanakya desired to "see the entire Bharat united into one nation."(P. 77, HSIB 1) Empire building is deliberately confused with nationhood.


In a revised textbook three lines have been interpolated which reflect an utter disregard for facts. These lines are "It is worth mentioning that inspite of such a large empire, Asoka had got his edicts engraved only in one script (Brahmi) and one language : Prakrti-Sanskrit. This symbolises the national unity of the times".


The entire period of Indian history from the death of Harsha till the 12th century has been described as the Rajput kaal (p. 168).


The qualities of ancient traditional self-pride, love of freedom, the feeling of pride towards Indian culture among Rajputs confirm the view that the Rajput race is the descendent of ancient Kshatriya families (p. 170 HSIB 1). That they had their ancestry in certain invaders is dismissed as a conspiracy of western historians.


Medieval history:


The religious factor was the predominant factor in policies and conflicts throughout the medieval period

Muslim rule in India was a foreign rule ( the reference is to the medieval period of Indian history when the rulers were Muslims, although factually even this is incorrect if one takes the entire country into account)

Lakhs of foreigners came during these thousands of years but they all suffered humiliating defeat. There were some whom we digested when we were disunited, we failed to recognise who were our own and who were foreigners, then we were not able to digest them. We were not able even those who for some compulsion had separated from us. Mughals, Pathans and Christians are today some of these people." ( Itihaas Ga Raha Hai for Class5 in Shishu Mandir schools)

Islam spread in India solely by way of the sword. The Muslims came to India " with the sword in one hand and the Qoran in the other. Numberless Hindus were forcibly converted to Islam on the point of the sword. This struggle for freedom became a religious war, Numerous sacrifices were made in the name of religion. We went on winning one battle after another. We did not let the foreign rulers settle down to rule, but we were not able to reconvert the separated brothers to Hinduism." ( Itihaas Gaa Raha Hai)

Arabs (barbarians) came to convert people to their religion. Wherever they went, they had a sword in their hand. Their army went like a storm in all the four directions. Any country that came in their way was destroyed, Houses of prayers and universities were destroyed. Libraries were burnt.. religious books were destroyed. Mothers and sisters were humiliated. Mercy and justice were unknown to them. (p.s.52-53 GG)

The second phase of the freedom struggle began with the invasion of India by Mahmud of Ghazni (Gaurav Gatha Class 4)

Mohammad Ghori killed lakhs of people, Visvanath Temple and Bhagwan Krishna’s birth place were converted into mosques. In turn he was killed by Prithviraj Chauhan ( p.s. 67-68, GG )

Qutb Minar was constructed by Samundragupta, and its original name was Vishnu Sthambha ( p. 73, GG ).

The `‘foreig'n’ ruler Muhammad bin Tughlak transferred his capital from Delhi to Deogiri in South India out of fear of the Hindu kings (p. 73, GG ).

When Peshava Madhav Rao came to the throne no one could raise his eyes. The English, the French and the Portuguese shivered; they presented gifts in homage in his court with their heads bowed. Delhi’s emperor was his puppet. Moghul power had ended. Nizam and other Muslim states with bowed heads sought his ( Peshava'’s ) refuge. The entire country was in a sense independent (p. 111 GG)

Due to the circumstances, it ( Islam ) gradually assumed the form of a military religion (`sainik dharma') and with the force of arms, with a lightening speed it advanced and became an international religion.( p. 184, HSIB 1)

Now the sword of Islam was transferred from the Caliphs to the Turks (p. 189, HSIB 1)

The aim of Mahmud of Ghazni and Mohammed Ghori in coming to India , apart from plunder was the spread of Islam in India (p.s. 190, 195, HSIB1).


Allauddin imposed 50% land revenue on the Hindus. ( p. 228 HSIB 1).


Hindus accepted turkish political supremacy only under compulsion. They retained their identity even while leading the life of insult and humiliation. (p. 260 HSIB 1).

Most of the Sultans adopted a policy of religious intolerance. They commited atrocities against hindus, demolished idols and temples.because of this the Hindus had surrendered to the Sultanate but they were always making efforts to destroy the Sultanate ( p.278 HSIB 1 )

The followers of Islam in this country whether they came as traders or as invaders-but with this country they could never establish full cultural harmony. One basic reason for their seperateness was the basic principle of their religion which is monotheism…there was continuous mutual struggle between the two cultures (p. 280, HSIB 1)

The indian society during the Sultanate period was divided into two main classes-ruling or muslim classes and ruled or non-Muslims of whom the Hindus were the majority) the majority of the population of the state was hindu but the Muslim class was patronised by rulers. Hindu was merely the payer of taxes . Inspite of being conquered in the political field, Hindus did not lose courage. To regain their lost independence, they went on raising their voices from time to time. Because of this historians have called it the "period of resistance". (p. 281, p. 283, HSIB 1)

In India the nature of the mussalman state was a religious state (p.282, HSIB 1)

By adopting jauhar vrat, women defended their religion and chastity.(p. 183 HSIB1)


Child marriage, jauhar, sati, purdah, jadu-tona and superstition were all due to the fear of the muslims (p. 284 HSIB 1)

The Babri Mosque was constructed after destroying a temple, which in turn stood on the exact spot where Rama was born.( High School Itihaas Bhaag 2, p. 146. This book covers the period from invasion of Babur to recent events)

The epithet intolerant is constantly used for Jahangir, Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb

The Qoran was the basis for the state policy of Aurangzeb, and whatever policy was adopted for running the Government was basically for promoting Islam ( HSIB 2, p. 119)

Destruction of temples and schools attached to them and the building of mosques in their place was a general policy with Aurangzeb .(HSIB 2 p. 120)


Shivaji and Rana Pratap were fighters for national liberation. All the ‘Hindu’ kings who fought for their kingdoms against the Moghuls are presented as such.

In the text books from Maharashtra, the medieval history of Maharashtra begins and ends with Shivaji. All other historical figures exist only in reference to him.
Modern Indian history:

About 190 pages of the book deal with the history of modern India, of which only 20 pages are devoted to the nationalist movement (HSIB 2), of which 3 pages are devoted to Dr. Hedgewar. Important nationalist leaders are mentioned incidentally in comparison. Quit India movement has ½ page, Jinnah is the villian.


Although there are 60 pages on the entry of the British and establishment of british rule, there is nothing that would promote an understanding of colonialism (HSIB 2)


Peoples movements find no place.


The book is full of factual errors, inconsistencies, and chronological lapses.


The Muslims are solely blamed for the partition of India.


The RSS as an organisation is presented as central to the Freedom Movement. Dr. Keshavrao B. Hegdewar is one of the tallest leaders of the freedom struggle. Statements of a large number of national leaders have been quoted in praise of the RSS.


In the section dealing with the movement against the partition of Bengal the name of Hegdewar has been added as a leader of the movement, the other names mentioned being those of Tilak, Aurobindo Ghose, Lajpat Rai and Bipin Chandra Pal.


In the context of the civil disobedience movement there is no mention of the Lahore Congress or Purna Swaraj.


The shishu mandir text book is worse on all these counts, and the RSS and its leaders are said to have removed the evils which hundreds of years of slavery had given…this Sangathan became an object of pride for the country ( p. 86 )


SUBSTANTIAL amendments and additions that suit the RSS ideology have also been made in grammar, literature and political science books for Classes IX, X, XI and XII in Rajasthan.

In one of the texts, "A New Collection of Poems and Literary Writings" (Nutan Gadya Padya Sangrah--the original title in Hindi), prescribed for Class IX, there are, among others, four articles, one each by Prof. Rajendra Singh (Rajju Bhaiya), RSS chief; Tarun Vijay, editor of the RSS weekly Panchajanya; K.C. Sudarshan, also an RSS ideologue; and Dr. Jalamsingh Ravlot of the Swadeshi Jagran Manch. All four articles were added this year.


In a textbook for Class XI, titled Political Science - An Introduction and Indian Political Thinkers, a chapter on Deen Dayal Upadhyay has been added. This 1998-99 edition describes him as a person who had deep respect for "ancient and highly sophisticated culture of India", who envisaged an "ideal Dharmarajya" and who was upset that "while designing the Indian Constitution, the natural and national values had been ignored." The 20-page section highlights his belief in "Akhand Bharat" which was all for dissolving the 1947 Partition and cites the occasion in April 1964 when he along with Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia conceived of a "Mahasangh" in which India and the partitioned countries (Pakistan and Bangladesh) would be included.


Rana Pratap’s heroic deeds are the subject of a poem in the High school Hindi syllabus. The poem Haldighati, written by Shyam Narain Pandey was banned in 1975 as it was found to incite communal feelings.


By BRAHMINISED FRAUD on Wednesday, February 20, 2002 - 05:03 pm:

WHO STEALS FROM THE POOR? AND THE TEMPLES NOW?

(transcribed from Nexus Magazine, Volume 7, Number 5, August-September 2000)

Sai Baba Exposed
Fraud, Fakery, & Molestation


A SHORT HISTORY OF SATHYA SAI BABA
Sri Sathya Sai Baba was born in South India, in the tiny village of Puttaparti, on 23 November 1926. His given name was Satyanarayana and his family name was Raju. On 20 October 1940, at the age of fourteen, he declared to his family and to the people of his village that he was the reincarnation of an Indian saint who had died in 1918, named Shirdi Sai Baba, and that he would henceforth be known as Sai Baba.

Sai Baba's ashram, built by his devotees close to the village where he was born, was inaugurated on 23 November 1950. It is called Prasanthi Nilayam (Abode of Divine Peace). It has been the gathering place of millions of spiritual pilgrims of various faiths from all over the world.

During the period 14-23 November 1995, the celebrations for the 70th birthday of Sathya Sai Baba took place in Prasanthi Nilayam. More than one million people, including the President and Prime Minister of India, assembled in Prasanthi Nilayam to pay homage to Sathya Sai Baba during these celebrations.
Today, the Sai Organization claims over 1,200 Sathya Sai Baba centres, spread through 137 countries around the world.

It is fair to say that Sai Baba is a highly revered spiritual leader, whose life and message has inspired millions of people throughout the world to turn Godward and lead more purposeful and moral lives. The stories of his "miracles" are many and legendary in their telling and retelling. Scores of famous Westerners have added their own exciting synchronistic accounts of how Sai Baba saved them from certain death by "appearing" before them at crucial moments. Accounts of Sai baba-related manifestations and materialisations are also widespread, adding to the air that Sai Baba is literally the reappearance of God on Earth.
Unfortunately, this is where the fairytale ends.

A growing number of boys and men are coming forward with allegations of sexual harassment, sexual abuse and rape. And now that attention has been focused on the Swami, one finds many more accounts of faked miracles, suspicious deaths, massive financial fraud, weapons and explosives being found in the ashram, an assassination attempt, and yet more cases of paedophilia and homosexual abuse.

With news of these events and other incidents, the seeds of doubt have been sown in many minds. How is it that Sai Baba's own brother-in-law died of rabies? Why did Baba need to be hospitalised for a ruptured appendix and a broken leg? Why does he travel in Mercedes cars and require heavy protection? Why does Sai Baba have to wave his hand in circles before producing anything? Does his occasional transvestitism and derision for women really illustrate the male-female principle of the universe?

It is possible we will never find the real truth to many of the above rumours and allegations, with the exception of the sexual abuse cases. We have extracted the following accounts from just three of the many testimonies now emerging. We have also spoken to many former long-term devotees who have now left the organisation.

For those wishing to pursue this matter further, we suggest as a starting point that you get onto the Internet and visit http://www.myfreeoffice.com/saibabaexposed/ [that site has been closed and replaced by http://www.sathyasaivictims.com ].

Let me emphasize that this information does not reflect one or two disgruntled devotees "who did not get enough attention". It reflects the fact that many, many boys and young men have been sexually abused by someone in whom they gave their total trust. Their silence was maintained because the victims knew that no one would believe them.

I hope this article can rectify that situation somewhat.

- Duncan M. Roads (Editor)


TERRY GALLAGHER'S TESTIMONY
What began as a wonderful spiritual journey ended with total disbelief and bitter disappointment when we found out the truth.

Perhaps I should start at the beginning with a brief account of that journey. After reading a book called Man of Miracles, I set off for India (and Puttaparthi) with my wife and three young daughters, in an organised group for Christmas 1983.
What we found when we arrived in India was something I had been searching for all my life; people searching for their own spiritual truth, living in a community whose whole objective was that of improving self-awareness and achieving self-realisation through the teachings of a living guru- Sai Baba.

Adjacent to the ashram, and provided free of cost to the students, was a primary school for boys and girls, and various colleges for boys where spiritual teachings were incorporated into the normal academic disciplines.

We were all very impressed and motivated towards learning as much as possible about what Sai Baba had to teach us.

The celebration of Christmas came and went, after which our family was called for an interview with Sai Baba. As a result of this interview and what appeared at the time to be the most perfect environment for students and devotees to advance their spiritual lives, I made a substantial donation to the Central Trust to help them fund their educational programs.

Upon leaving the interview, I was told by Sai Baba that I should sit on the verandah of the mandir in the future, with students from the colleges and other devotees. As it turned out, this gave me the opportunity to meet people and observe events very closely that I otherwise might not have had the opportunity to do.

We all had mixed feelings when we had to leave the ashram and return to Australia- sad in having to leave, and joy in what we had experienced. We returned to the ashram again in 1985 for one month; and then in 1986 we stayed for seven months, at which time our daughters attended Sai Baba's school.
It was during this time that I began to observe things that made me question what I had experienced on previous visits. Having a scientific background, I began to observe a set routine that Sai Baba followed each morning and evening during darshan and, in particular, how he materialised vibhuti (holy ash).

I will never forget the look of anguish on Sai Baba's face when he came onto the verandah of the mandir early one morning and dropped two vibhuti pellets in front of me as he attempted to accept a rose from a college student. There was no vibhuti materialisation during darshan that morning!

In the months that followed, I observed how he transferred these vibhuti pellets from one hand to the other, using the letters he collects from devotees to disguise his movements. In the many interviews that followed, I also observed more than thirty instances of rings, "diamonds", japamalas, vibhuti containers, etc., all being produced by sleight of hand and deception.

At first I kept this information to myself. I reasoned that if this was what made people come to see Sai Baba, resulting in their becoming more spiritual, what harm could it do? Eventually I told my wife and children, who also saw through this "materialisation" trickery. It was the observations and information that followed from these initial findings that concerned me the most, especially those relating to students being sexually interfered with in grotesque ways by Sai Baba.
We returned to the ashram several times during the following years, making further observations and having these confirmed by college students and long-term devotees living at the ashram. During this time, I was the Central Coordinator for three years for the Sathya Sai Organisation in Australia.

It wasn't until 1993, following the (6th June) assassination attempt on Sai Baba, resulting in the murder of four college students and two assistants in the mandir, that we made our last visit to India.

The purpose of this visit was to find the reason why former students of Sai Baba's college would want to kill him, particularly when they had been given a free education!

The eyewitness accounts were horrific! After bursting into the mandir, four students found themselves trapped upstairs where Sai Baba was staying. Each was interrogated by police, then one at a time they were executed. The stench of death was everywhere.

I made further inquiries about Sai Baba having sexual relations with college boys and male students- some of these as young as seven years of age- and whether this was the reason for former students wanting to kill him. I was told, to my horror, that this was an acceptable Indian practice!

I felt sick, and just wanted to take my family and leave the ashram and India as soon as possible.

Before we did, we were called for an interview with Sai Baba, and we told him what we had experienced and been told.

Sai Baba made no comment on our accusations and was only anxious to know who had told us these details, requesting us to tell him several times! Having had dozens of interviews over the years, this was the most stressful and uncomfortable interview our family had ever experienced.

Sai Baba was tense and agitated, and his body language told us all that what we had found out him was the truth! We left the interview and returned to Australia.
The following years were very difficult spiritually; we concentrated on all the positive aspects we had experienced over the past ten years and found this comforting.

When we attempted to tell others about our experiences and the truth about Sai Baba, no one would believe us, except those who had also had similar experiences- and mostly fear prevents them from telling others.

It has only been in the past twelve months that former students and devotees of Sai Baba have begun communicating with each other, confirming experiences to be true and supporting each other spiritually and emotionally when necessary.
I now know the truth about Sai Baba and sincerely pray that others, too, will follow both their logic and intuition and also find the truth.

Terry Gallagher, Ex-Central Coordinator of Sathya Sai Organisation, Australia
(Source: Terry Gallagher's letter to Faye and David Bailey; The Quarterly, UK; www.myfreeoffice.com/saibabaexposed/)


HANS DE KRAKER'S TESTIMONY
I traveled to India extensively for a period of four years. During this period (1992-94) I had many (35) private audiences with Sai Baba.

I got to know him in 1988 through a friend in Italy who had passed on a book. After about four years, I made my first trip to India with my girlfriend, mother and father. The years that followed were making for some very intense years in my life.

Sai Baba, fairly much from the first private audience, had suggested to me and my girlfriend that we were to split up from each other for our own good. He did this in a very public and embarrassing way, purposely humiliating my girlfriend and myself. We had built a lot of "faith and mystery" around him and had by now accepted him as a God incarnate on Earth, the epitome of spirituality, the epitome of human divine spiritual expression.

There were many books written by people from all parts of the world that spoke about miracle after miracle. People had been cured from fatal diseases by virtue of touching jewelry "materialised by Swami". He "appeared" in front of people in all different parts of the world. Millions of people traveled to India to see "God on Earth". Millions of people came and cried upon his sight; some were cured of their illnesses, and some died in peace. Some left laden with trinkets or real golden rings, watches, pendants, all "materialised by Swami".

Sai Baba has been enjoying a lot of popularity in the West. He has a great ability to play with and communicate to large crowds of people. It is this particular power that allows him to manipulate people. It takes a Great Man not to abuse this power...

During these four years of travels to India, Sai Baba would perform a certain ritual each time he would call me in for a private audience or interview. He would ask me to take down my pants. He would then "oint" my umbilical area, testicles and penis with oil which he "materialised". After this ritual, he would ask me to pull up up my pants and tidy them up. I had heard of this ritual and it seemed to be "common knowledge" that this was done to balance the sexual energy or kundalini. I had never thought anything of it. When I was in Elementary School in Holland, the school doctor used to check and touch your testicles to see if you were growing properly. I likened this ritual to a visit to the doctor. It was just for a different purpose. Very unassumingly I continued to receive this treatment, convinced it was going to do me some good!

Each and every trip he would "materialise" trinkets, jewelry, vibhuti and oil. I noticed that he was particularly generous with the people that donated a lot of money or equipment for the various kitchens in the ashram. I did also notice that he would call in a lot of young guys out of the crowd, and never girls.

In one particular interview, I saw him take a ring from under the handkerchief that was on the armrest of his chair. I thought not much of it. I never really attached much value to the materialisations and knew that the receiver was going to be an ecstatically happy person... Shortly after, one of my friends in the group said to me: "Gosh, what a test! Swami wanted to show me that he did not materialise the ring, but that he took it from under his handkerchief! Isn't he funny! He is really testing us!" I did not give it any focus; I had never focused on these materialisations, and the thought of accepting that he was not actually materialising these objects was probably very unattractive, tough for my mind. I had also received a ring, two bracelets and a necklace, so I guess I had satisfied that desire!

Through the years I got more and more attention on a personal level from Sai Baba. This went accompanied with receiving VIP seating for doing work in the kitchen. As the crowds grew over the years, it became increasingly difficult to see "Swami" up close. There was a preferred seating area for people who worked in the kitchen, since they were not able to "do the lines". They often worked until 30 minutes before darshan. Arriving that late, they would always find themselves sitting in the back of the large crowd, so by getting this "reserved seat" they were able every now and then to have a close encounter with "the Master". These groups were organised in lines of two or three and rotated so that everybody got a fair chance. Although initially I was very much against this way of operating, I succumbed to my desire to get a close encounter with "the Master" and accepted a preferred seat the third time it was offered to me.

After two years I had become a "steady member" of a group that would travel to India three times a year to do volunteer work in the ashram. The group would cook food for up to 6,000 people around the festivals and various multi-religious celebrations (Christmas, Shivaraatri, etc.). The group would bring thousands of kilos of food at its own expense as well as a lot of industrial kitchen machinery, etc. There were many other groups that brought help in some form or shape, and it was beautiful to be part of this enormous "collective effort".

Our group had a place of its own. We did not have to wait in line and always had front-row seating. On some occasions (on festivals and celebrations), we were even allowed to sit on the verandah. We would always get to see "Swami" from up-close and feel very fortunate. The ego was certainly satisfied with this powerful position! So many people wanted to be close to him. Millions of people traveled to get a glimpse of him, and here we were right up front! It is incredible how the mind comes up with justifications when it suits our personal purpose.
In my last trip to India (November 1996), I arrived early from Australia and my friends from Europe had not arrived yet. The usual kitchen managers were no longer running the kitchen. Upon arrival, Sai Baba asked me to reopen the western canteen and start making food for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I collected a group of people and started working. (I was ordered/recommended by ashram management not to allow any Sri Lankans in the kitchen! All people I appointed were screened by the management.) Several days later, my friends from Europe joined me.

We had several interviews together. It was around 10 December that they left, except for one of my close friends. We spent some beautiful moments together. It was almost as if we were like the apostles around Jesus. We were moved even further ahead now and we were seated in the ashram management area, very close to the front. Sai Baba came to us every and each darshan and would have a chat with us. These were very special moments. We felt very privileged.
The day of my friend's departure, we were called in for an interview together. Sai Baba materialised another bracelet for my friend and for me. In this same trip, he had "materialised" (one of my friends was "tested" and saw him bring the object from a neighboring room) a jar of amrita, "divine nectar", with a spoon which he used to give us all a spoonful, after which he said: "From now on, no more bad karma and no more bad luck in your life. You are very special people; this is a privilege! There are so many people out there and you are the lucky ones!" When I asked him why, he said that all our hearts were pure and that there was no self-interest involved in the work we did (we had many power-struggles and quarrels over positions in the group, just like any other group of humans may have).
My friend had now left. I was by myself and was called in a few days after he had left. I went into the interview room and was given a private audience in a separate room. When in this separate room, he asked me how things were in Australia. He told me that he would give me everything: money, a house, a wife- everything!

He then signs mw to come closer and hug him. He then hugs me (I am on my knees and he is seated on his chair; there are no people present). He now turns his face and puts his lips on mine; my head is spinning and my mind is running at 500 kilometers per hour. I don't know what to do! My mouth tightens up, and I feel extremely uncomfortable and confused with this "perceived incarnation of God on Earth" trying to kiss me on and in my mouth! Sai Baba slaps me on my cheek and says, "Loosen up! With other people, not okay; with Sai Baba, okay." I am even more uncomfortable now and feel disgusted at the same time.

Sai Baba realises his and my predicament and decides not to continue. He now tells me again that he will give me everything, and stands up and tells me to do padnamnamaskaar. As I go on my knees and touch his feet with my forehead, he pulls up my arms and indicates he wants his calf muscles massaged.

Although very uncomfortable with everything that had happened, I still continued to listen to him. Many people knew how he liked having his calf muscles massaged and I had seen respectable men and women of all walks of life do the same thing...

He now takes my head and pushes it quite firmly into his groin... He then pulls up my arms and asks me to go higher and higher and higher... Now I am holding his buttocks and wonder what the hell my Divine Master is asking me to do! I let go my arms and now I am even more shell-shocked...

He pulls up his dress, presents me his half-erect penis and invites me to take up my "good luck chance": "This is your good luck chance."

I am now on my knees facing his erect penis, being asked to perform oral sex. He stands there, and I think: Am I supposed to do this? Could I do this?
I then instinctively stretch out my right arm and put it on the part of his chest which hides his heart, and say: "I don't want this, Swami, I want your heart."
He now drops his dress and tells me: "Yes, yes, yes, of course you have my heart."

He now asks me to take my pants down, "discovers" my penis is not erect and tells me that that is how it is supposed to be!

"Swami is inside there, see; Swami is inside there."

Hell no! That is mine and mine! And you are certainly not in there, I thought.
He asks me to do a padnamnamaskaar again, and again he pulls up his dress. "This is your second good luck chance," he says.

I refuse and get up without saying anything.

I am now angry, confused and dazed. I feel burning! God just took a back door! A very clever manipulator and professional deceiver had just trashed the fundamentals of the past eight years of my life. I had abstained from any sexual activity because he had suggested it was good for my spiritual evolution. He had harassed and embarrassed my girlfriend and myself because of our difference in age, while he was hitting on someone 42 years his junior. He had told us to break up our relationship, and for what reason? So he could have a go?

In reality, I pulled the carpet myself from under a mental castle which I had built myself. I am responsible for that. He is responsible for abusing the good faith of people, their trust, to the point of putting their life on the line and actually losing it.
He asks me to keep this quiet, not to say anything to anyone.

I walked out of the interview room and ran to my room. I locked myself in. I blacked out until 6 a.m. the next morning (from 5 p.m. the day before).

A few weeks passed. There was a big power shake-up in the kitchen and I had no interest to participate in the whole situation any longer. I had a chat with the leader of the group because I had not been going to darshan any more.

My last day in the ashram, I talked to the leader of the group. She insisted that I tell her what happened. "So did he try to have sex with you?" was the question. Tired of it all, I told her what happened. This was the evening of 4 or 5 January, 1997. Immediately afterwards she had an interview with Sai Baba, by herself this time.

After she cam out of the interview room several hours later, I was summoned to meet with an elderly gentleman from Security, whom I knew well, with whom I had built a friendship. This gentleman looked very awkward and asked me if he could take my photo. I said "Of course"- not knowing what was happening, but understanding something had gone wrong. He was accompanied by two seva dals. One of them took a picture from the front and then asked me to turn to the side. When I asked my friend what was happening, he nodded uncomfortably and said "I don't know".

They then escorted me to the secretary of the ashram who told me I was ordered to leave as soon as possible. I had behaved improperly and had to leave. When I asked what the reason was, he commanded that I was not allowed to ask anything, and that I was only allowed to leave. "You are to leave the ashram. You are strongly advised not to hang around the village, but to go as soon a possible to Bangalore and catch the first flight out."

I left...

Hans De Kraker
Australia, 19 May 2000
(Source: letter to Faye and David Bailey, The Quarterly, UK)


JENS & GURPRIT SETHI'S TESTIMONY
I am giving you a thorough account of my traumatic experiences with Sathya Sai Baba and hope that this will help people understand what he is all about. All the details are the truth and can be seen as testimony. I could and would testify to the following in an open court.

I am thirty-five years old and have been interested in spiritual matters since my childhood. For a long time I worshipped Jesus and Padre Pio; then after reading Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi, I turned towards the yogic path.

In October 1988, I became an ardent follower of Sathya Sai Baba, and came to Puttaparthi for the first time in September 1989. Since then, I visited Puttaparthi regularly every year and was totally absorbed in the "aura" of Sai Baba. I was fully convinced of his avatarhood and became so devoted that I was thinking and contemplating all the time about him alone.

In 1989, I read Lord of the Air (Lion Publishing, Herts, UK, 1976) by Tal Brooks, a young male ex-devotee who wrote of Sai Baba's sexual abuse of him, but I did not believe, thinking "Tal only wants to decry Baba".

Over the years, I had hundreds of darshans but never an interview. In 1993, I became a little suspicious about Sai Baba's lifestyle and the activities in the ashram. Every year I could see costly new buildings and felt an increasing commercialisation was going on. In 1996, I was Sai Baba leaving the ashram in an expensive Jaguar and other costly cars like Mercedes and BMW of the big class. But I still believed him to be the Kali avatar of the age.

On 17 January 1996, I got my first interview and he was very kind, telling me nice things like "I will give you everything" as he touched and stroked my head. He said: "I know you're not sure about your life and future and so on. Also, unhappiness from women. I know, don't worry. Also, you have some bad thoughts, not good." Then he said: "I give you everything according to health, spirituality, and life. Everything. I give you infinite love. You and me will become one." I touched his robe and he put his hand on the top of my head, saying "I give you separate interview".

On 20 January 1996, I got the second interview. Already, days before, he had established a strange eye-contact with me, indicating the coming interview. My wife and I went to the interview and he acted very disappointed at seeing me together with my wife. He took me alone into the interview room and said: "She is diseased and much older than you. Please separate from her." I was really shocked, and replied: "She is attached to me."

I asked him to give her some spiritual instruction, which he readily agreed to do, but he had something else on his mind.

Without asking permission, he started kissing me on my lips for some time, and later asked me to open my trousers and he "materialised" some oil which he rubbed on the skin above my genitals. I felt very bad about all of this, but accepted, as I fully trusted Sai Baba.

The he took my wife into the private interview room alone, and told her: "Either you separate from the boy or I will throw you out of Puttaparthi!" He appeared wild and furious (my wife told me afterwards) and she shivered all over. When she reappeared in a very short time, looking red-faced and very scared, nobody dared ask her what had happened in there.

He saw me again some days later in darshan and asked whether I had separated or not. I said: "Not yet." He turned away and shouted, so all people could hear: "Bad, bad boy!" He was so aggressive and seemed to radiate such an aura of evil that I was really shocked. We immediately left and went to northern India for some pilgrimage.

This was a turning point, but after a time I decided to go once more to Sai Baba to clarify the matter. At the end of 1996, I returned to India and got an interview on 4 December... In the private room, the greedy old man kissed me again directly and continuously on my lips for about twenty seconds and gently stroked my back. My now I was certain that something was very wrong.
On 28 December, I was again called for an interview and he produced a golden ring which didn't fit well on my finger in spite of his blowing on it. In the private chamber he said "Come!", and again kissed me on the lips for some time as before. This time I resisted, and he gurgled: "Have no fear." I said: "I have no fear." Then he said: " This is a good opportunity; so many waiting for months and will not get." This baffled me. I'm sure people don't wait for mouth kisses in Puttaparthi.

Then his mood totally changed and I did have some fear. He commanded me to remove my trousers; he unzipped my fly and went with his right hand into my underpants. Sathya Sai Baba, "the divine", touched and massaged my genitals unasked. He expected some erection, but this didn't happen for I didn't feel any sexual excitement, no lust in the presence of a seventy-years-old man. I was really disgusted. Then he had the impudence to say: " It is very weak; don't waste energy." When I looked at him, I realised the truth about him and was shocked indeed. Soon afterwards, without another word, he sent me out of the room.

Back in Germany I did intense research on the Internet and came across an article from Jed Geyerhahn and was very relieved to have found somebody with similar experiences.

As I still had some luggage in Puttaparthi, I returned in [late October] 1999 to collect it, taking with me two Internet pages to discuss with some friends there. Unfortunately, a lady came into possession of the material and took it to the Puttaparthi police station. Then I went through several interrogations with the police there... [who] took my passport away... I had another appointment on 1 November with the police, which was the day I intended to go to Delhi, but without my passport it would not be possible.

On 20 October, late in the evening, two people whom I know and an unknown person came into our unit and one of them warned me that my life was in danger and I should leave immediately...

So we escaped and reached Delhi, and went immediately to the German Embassy. I got a travel document after telling them of my experience, and the embassy official said a protest note would be sent to the Indian Government. He told me such an act is illegal and they knew of similar cases...

I hope that this nightmare comes to an end; and I hope that by the grace of the Almighty, all people around the globe may know about the misdeeds of Sai Baba... He is a master- of deception.

Jens and Gurprit Sethi
Munich, Germany
(Source: Jens & Guprit Sethi's letter to Faye and David Bailey, The Quarterly, UK, www.myfreeoffice.com/saibabaexposed/)


By BRAHMIN CORRUPTION on Wednesday, February 20, 2002 - 05:01 pm:

http://www.sikh-history.com/sikhhist/events/nankana.html

HISTORY OF CORRUPT HINDU MAHANTS TRYING TO CONTROL SIKH GURDWARAS WITH FRAUD

Saka Nankana Sahib

In October 1920 A.D., a congregation was held at Dharowal, District Sheikhupura for reform in Gurdwara Nankana Sahib in which the leaders revealed to the gathering of devotees, the misdeeds being committed inside the Gurdwara. Gurdwara Nankana sahib was highly revered as it is the birth place of Guru Nanak, a city named Nankana Sahib came up around the Gurdwara which is now in Pakistan. At meeting ,it was unanimously resolved that the Mahant be asked to mend his ways. When Mahant Narian Dass was asked to reform himself, he started making preparations to oppose the Panth (Sikh community) instead. He did not feel it necessary to pay heed to the suggestions of the Committee. He was the owner of the estate attached to the Gurdwara with an income of one hundred thousand rupees besides the offerings of the Gurdwara. [] The Mahant recruited hooligans and rogues as paid employees to oppose the Sikhs. With the help of the government, he collected from Lahore, guns, pistols and other arms and ammunition. He brought and stored fourteen tins of paraffin. He got the Gurdwara gate strengthened and got holes made in it so that bullets could be fired through them. The Government was using every available weapon to make Akali movmement of Gurdwara reform, a failure.[] Mahant Narain Dass was one of the weapons in the hands of the Government and the Government wanted to make full use of him. As such, Mr King, the Commissioner of Lahore was extending every kind of help to the Mahant and had promised him in the future as well. The Mahant was dancing like a puppet in the hands of the Government. In the meeting of Parbhandak Committee at Gurdwara Khara Sauda on 17th February, 1921 A.D., was decided that two jathas (squads) one led by Bhai Lachhman Singh and the other by Bhai Kartar Singh Virk (alias Jhabbar) should meet at Chander Kot on the 19th February. From there they were to reach Nankana Sahib early in the morning of the 20th February to talk to the Mahant. Seeing the preparation of the Mahant, the Parbhandak Committee held a meeting in the office of Akali Patrika (News paper) on the 19th February in which it was resolved that squads should not be taken to Nankana Sahib on teh 20th February. Bhai Kartar Singh Jhabbar was present in the meeting. He was informed about the new decision and was told to inform Bhai Lachhman Singh and he took the responsibility to do so. Bhai Kartar Singh Jhabbar immediately dispathed Bhai Waryam Singh to Chanderkot so that other squad could be stopped. Meanwhile in accordance with the original programme, Bhai Lachchman Singh reached Chander Kot on the night of the 19th February with his squad of one hundred and fifty Singhs. He waited for the squad of Bhai Kartar Singh Jhabbar for some time and before the arrival of Bhai Waryama Singh with news to not to led squad to Gurdwara, Bhai Lachchman singh said to the Singhs of his squad, "When we have started for a good cause, we should not waste time." All members of the squad agreed. Bhai Lachhman Singh got a promise from the squad not to strike and remain peaceful come what may. After that the squad prayed for their success of their nobel resolve. When, after, the prayer, the Squad was about to move forward, Bhai Waryam Singh arrived. He showed them the letter about the new decision of the Committee. Bhai Tehal Singh Said, "Dear Khalsa, we have taken our resolve at the prayer (Ardaas)and cannot turn back now. It is imperitive for us to move forward." The squad as a whole moved forward following Bhai Tehal Singh. The Squad arrived at Nankana Sahjib on 20th February, bathed in the pool and entered the Gurdwara at 6 A.M. Bhai Lachchma Singh Sat in 'Taabiya' (Behind Guru Granth Sahib). The Mahant had got the news of the squad's arrival at Chander kot on the 19th February evening. He had gathered his men at night and briefed them about their duties. After the squad had sat down, the Mahant signalled his men to carry out the predetermined plan. The Mahant's men closed the main gate and started firing from roof tops. Twenty-six Singhs became martyrs to those bullets in the courtyard while another sixty or so sitting inside the Darbar Sahib became targets of bullets. When the Mahant's men saw no one moving, they came down with swords and choppers. Any Singh they found breathing was cut to pieces. At the sound of the gun-fire, Bhai Dalip singh and Bhai Waryam Singh who were sitting in the factory of Bhai Uttam Singh, got up and rushed towards the Gurdwara. [] When the Mahant saw them coming, he shot Bhai Dalip Singh with his pistol while his men cut Bhai Waryam Singh to pieces. They threw their bodies into kils where other bodies were also burning. When no Singh with hair could be seen upto the railway line, the Mahant asked his men to collect all the dead bodies, pour paraffin and burn them. The body of one alive singh was tied to a tree and burnt. At 9.15 a.m., Sardar Uttam Singh conveyed the news by telegram through Sardar Karam Singh Station Master at Nankana Sahib Railway station to the Governore of Punjab, commissioner, Deputy Commissioner, Superintendent of police and Sikh centres. Deputy Commissioner, Mr. Curry reached at 12:30 P.M. while Commissioner, Mr. King arrived at 9.30 P.M. They arrested twenty PAthans and locked the Gurdwara. City was handed over to Army which cordoned it to restrict any Akali movement to take over Gurdwara. Sardar Kartar Singh Jhabbar arrived with his Squad on 21st February. Commissioner informed him that if he tried to enter city with his squad army will open fire. Kartar Singh Jhabbar and his jatha of twenty two hundred Singhs did not listed to commissioner and kept on moving towards city. At end, Commissioner Mr. Curry handed over the keys of Gurdwara to Bhai Kartar Singh Jhabbar. At 7.30 P.M. on the 22nd february, the bodies were cremated according to Sikh tradition. An urdu newspaper called 'Zamindara' wrote in its editorial of 23rd February, 1921 A.D., "what more proof of shamelessness of muslims is required than that they have helped the Mahant. O, Shameless Muslims, isn't the cup of your shamelessness and impudence full as yet? You used your guns and swords against those who went to Nankana Sahib to perform religious duties. You are not fit to be called Muslims. You are worse than infidels." Mahant, 20 Pathans and other of his group were sentenced by British. Only Mahant and couple of Pathans got death sentence for this crime of more than 50 murders.


By BRAHMIN FRAUDSTERS on Wednesday, February 20, 2002 - 04:59 pm:

FRAUD OF MANDIR MAN STEALING FROM POOR.
WHOS HIGH AND MIGHTY NOW?
Untouchable?
Millions of people worship Sai Baba as God incarnate. More and more say the Indian guru is also a pedophile.
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By Michelle Goldberg
July 25, 2001 | PUTTAPARTHI, India -- One of the most powerful holy men in India presides over the world's biggest ashram, Prasanthi Nilayam, or Abode of Peace, in a remote town located in a barren corner of Andhra Pradesh, a desperately poor state in a desperately poor country. The town boasts a shiny planetarium, two hospitals that treat patients for free, a college, a music school and immaculate, colorful playgrounds. Luxury apartment buildings are springing up on land that just a few decades ago was covered with ramshackle mud huts. And there's a brand-new airport to serve the wealthier devotees of Sathya Sai Baba, a 75-year-old south Indian man with a big bushy Afro and a warm smile.
Somewhere between 10 million and 50 million people worship Sai Baba as God incarnate, and they stream into Puttaparthi from six continents, sleeping in one of the ashram's 10,000 beds or at one of the town's many guesthouses. Meanwhile, the growing number of ex-devotees who decry their former master as a sexual harasser, a fraud and even a pedophile has hardly put a dent in his following, though their voices are getting louder.

"Sai Baba was my God -- who dares to refuse God? He was free to do whatever he wanted to do with me; he had my trust, my faith, my love and my friendship; he had me in totality," says Iranian-American former follower Said Khorramshahgol. What Sai Baba chose to do with him, Khorramshahgol says, was to repeatedly call him into private interviews and order him to drop his pants and massage his penis. Other former devotees contend Sai Baba did even more. No matter -- in this part of the world, faith is absolute. Believers don't refuse God, and they don't question him.
On Puttaparthi's outskirts, a Hindu temple has a statue of Sai Baba among its pantheon of deities, standing right next to Krishna. In the town, every conceivable surface is adorned with pictures of Sai Baba wearing an orange robe and a benign smile. There's a photo of him garlanded with fake pink flowers in my hotel room and a giant portrait behind the reception desk. Each afternoon, a speaker across from my bed pipes in music praising the guru. When I buy a pen to take notes, it has Sai Baba's smiling face on it.


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Days at the ashram revolve around an event known as "darshan," when Sai Baba walks through an open-air, pastel-colored hall (called a mandir) and shows his precious self to the assembled multitudes. It takes place once in the morning and once in the afternoon, and people line up for hours beforehand. Everyone is desperate to get in first, because sitting near the front means that Sai Baba might say a few words to you, accept a letter or even invite you into his special chamber for a private interview. Private interviews are the raison d'être of life in Puttaparthi. They're where Sai Baba does most of his famous materializations -- ostensibly conjuring up objects like rings, watches and necklaces from the air as gifts for the faithful.
The afternoon I went to darshan, I spent 45 minutes waiting in a line outside and 45 more minutes sitting cross-legged amid thousands of other worshipers on the marble floor of the mandir. There were almost as many foreigners in the hall, which can seat about 15,000 people, as there were Indians. Dozens of chandeliers hung from the ceiling, which was decorated with gold leaf. At the foot of the mandir was a stage, with a door leading into the guru's private interview room.
Just when the boredom was growing interminable, recorded music started up and a charge went through the crowd as necks craned for a glimpse of Sai Baba, a slightly frail figure wearing his customary floor-length robe and fluffy nimbus of black hair. He gave a little Princess Di wave as he walked from the women's side to the men's side (everything at the ashram is strictly segregated by sex) and then back again, taking some of the letters that were fervently offered to him as he passed. All around me women's eyes were shining, and some of the women rocked back and forth ecstatically. Sai Baba then exited the way he'd entered, and it was over -- in less than 10 minutes. An angelic-looking retired woman from Denmark told me she'd been doing this every day, twice a day, for three months.


By RSS FRAUD on Wednesday, February 20, 2002 - 04:57 pm:

http://srd.yahoo.com/goo/mandir+fraud/9/T=1014206028/F=e0d23f08e985c7575a9b102a2
sangh Parivar fraud on Indians
Temple decision: Reprieve or threat?
Vinod Sharma
(New Delhi, January 20)

THE LUNATIC fringe and the moderate wing of the Sangh Parivar were always suspected to be acting in tandem on the Ayodhya issue. But the final proof of it, if one was indeed required, lies in the decisions of the VHP-sponsored Dharma Sansad in Allahabad. At the end of the deftly orchestrated show, one is left wondering whether the Sansad was about dharma or politics? Should the assembled sants' and Dharmacharyas' resolve to start building the Ram Temple a year from now-- after March 12, 2002 to be precise --be interpreted as a threat when it actually amounts to a reprieve for the Vajpayee regime? "I am giving Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee an year's time to resolve the issue. After that, no matter what happens the Ram mandir will be built at any cost and no force on earth can stop us," thundered Mahant Paramhans Ramchandra Das, head of the Shri Ram Mandir Nirman Samiti and Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas, addressing the Dharma Sansad at Kumbhnagar. On the face of it, the VHP, amid the Sants' well-rehearsed outbursts, has secured for the BJP a temporary win-win situation. The temple tantrums are expected to enthuse the party's Hindutva vote-base without giving the NDA secularists any immediate cause for alarm. Coalition politics, after all, is the art of piece-meal existence. Barring perhaps the likes of Mamata Banerjee, who has to face the Marxists at the hustings in West Bengal a few weeks from now, other non-BJP partners in power might well wait until the NDA applecart gets closer to the March 2002 bridge. But that probably would be a trifle late. By then, the VHP and its band of sadhus would have sold enough opium (of religion) to secure a bridgehead in UP. Or such is their prayer to Lord Rama. In fact, the Dharma Sansad's schedule for taking up the Temple project is sweetly timed. The UP Assembly's term expires in April next year, barely a month after the expiry of the deadline the 'parliament of seers' has set for the Centre to clear roadblocks in the way of Ram Lalla's mandir at Ayodhya. Only the naive, therefore, would dissociate the Sansad's edict from the Parivar's political objectives in UP and other Hindutva-prone States, notably Gujarat, where the BJP has been rapidly losing base. The VHP's Allahabad jamboree has been a copy-book demonstration of what NCP leader Devendra Nath Dwivedi called "controlled" brinkmanship; a custom-built gameplan to carry forward the Parivar's agenda to secure power with popular base. The supreme irony of it all is that the arguments heard at the Maha Kumbh Sansad were heard earlier in Parliament. For instance, the parallel the sants drew between the proposed Ram Temple and the reconstruction of Somnath shrine, some 50 years ago, was a straight lift from the PM's Lok Sabha speech on Ayodhya. Only time would tell whether this queer political jugalbandi would meet the desired electoral denouement in UP and elsewhere. It’s not an ultimatum: Bangaru * I don't see VHP's decision as an ultimatum to the government. We can't change their (VHP's) language. They have been speaking in the same language for the last eight years. BJP chief Bangaru Laxman * They (Sangh Parivar) have been perpetrating fraud on the nation. This is one more attempt by them to mislead the people. Congress spokesman Anil Shastri * It (the VHP decision) is not a threat to the government. Neither it is to save any government. VHP leader Ashok Singhal * The move to gain time is evidently a ploy to save the government in UP and the Centre. M.I.H. Qureishi, founder member of All-India Muslim Personal Law Board * As several sadhus and Akhadas have boycotted the Dharma Sansad, it cannot be said that VHP is the sole spokesman for the general Hindus. Atahar Husain, secretary, Council for Minority Development * The decision makes it clear that the state assembly elections will be held on time, and the date has been fixed in such a way. The VHP plan is obviously motivated by political reasons. Zafaryab Jeelani, executive member, AIMPLB


By Anonymous on Wednesday, February 20, 2002 - 04:17 pm:

akali dal has turned into a brahmin controlled renegade association disguised as sikhs that works and collaberates with the bjp. akalis are not sikhs but puppets who work against sikhism. It is a well known fact the actual akalis were deposed in the late 70s and early 80s to be replaced with brahmin controlled puppets.

the point is very clear the ram raj theory has not worked practically for the people of india. It has smacked back in their face with brahmins taking all the money which is meant for development going into private hands under the code name of " defence".

rape of women ordered by your bal thackeray underthe guise of "ram raj" shows what this corrupt theory is.

what more proof do you need?


where are the satvic traits of the leaders that promised ram raj?


By Chanuakya on Wednesday, February 20, 2002 - 12:13 pm:

Stealing from the country is one thing but stealing from your own temples is another thing, look what the the high and mighty sikhs are doing now....it happens all the time in sikh temples..


By Can Sikhs do better? I guess not!! on Wednesday, February 20, 2002 - 12:01 pm:

Gurdwara committee accused of corruption
HT Correspondent
(New Delhi, June 1)

The National Akali Dal (NAD) president has accused the present executive body of the Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (GPC) of misappropriating crores of rupees received as offerings from devotees in Delhi gurdwaras.

Paramjit Singh Pamma, president of the NAD further alleged that the office-bearers of GPC had favoured relatives and friends with projects worth crores without going through the normal procedures. "

In once case Rs 2 crore has been advanced to a benami computer company to install computers in gurdwaras and other Sikh establishments. However, not a single computer is in place till date though the money has been paid even before satisfactory installation," said Mr Pamma.

According to Pamma, the Committee's deposits have been reduced to a mere Rs 56 lakh from Rs 680 lakh within two years due to mismanagement by the present committee members. He pointed out that Rs 30 lakh was shelled out ostensibly to help Guru Harkishan Public School, Punjabi Bagh tide over its losses. "This is strange considering that this school, till recently, was making a profit every year. How could it make such huge losses as to need Rs 30 lakh?" asked Mr Pamma.

It is alleged that the animosity between the supporters of Prakash Singh Badal, president of Shiromani Akali Dal and Gurucharan Singh Tohra group was responsible for the present state of the GPC.


By SATVA RAM on Tuesday, February 19, 2002 - 10:44 pm:

RAM RAJ UNDER BRAHMINS

Admiral (retired) Nadkarni also asked in his column as to why the BJP government recently approved another expenditure of Rs. 7,000 crores (over two billion US dollars) refitting a damaged 15-years old burntout Russian aircraft carrier given to India as a gift from Moscow and a squadron of naval aircraft for it which even Russia does not fly?

The answers are obvious. The corrrupt Russians are great bribe-givers and bribe-takers and are bigger crooks than the BJP coterie in Delhi. There was an under-the-table side 'deal' with Pundit Vajpayee's son-in-law Ranjan Bhattacharya!

No recent development in South Asia has proved the truth of the saying that; "a picture is worth a thousand words" than the horrible image in the Tehleka video tapes which showed a greedy-looking dhoti-clad BJP president, Bangaru Laxman, dropping a bribe - a wad of Indian currrency notes - into his table drawer. That image of a senior Indian politician pocketing a bribe, and saying he prefers US dollars, is going to be a permanent fixture of the Indian political scene and memory for a long long time to come.


By INDIANS on Tuesday, February 19, 2002 - 08:32 pm:

INDIA INDIANS USED AND ABUSED?

Randeep Ramesh
Friday February 15, 2002
The Guardian

This week will see the biggest test of democracy since George Bush managed to lose the popular vote and win the White House. The fourth largest electorate in the world - bigger than Brazil, Indonesia or Russia - is going to the polls and looks as if it might stem the tide of Hindu nationalism in India. After the best part of a decade, voters in state elections are likely to toss out the Bharatiya Janata party from its north India powerbases in Uttar Pradesh, Uttranchal and remove its allies in the Punjab.
The more hardline elements of the BJP and its affiliates, who emphasise Hindu rites rather than human rights, have exposed the limitations of the party's electoral franchise. The BJP's priorities have shown scant regard for the masses: it favours the few not the many. While undoubted economic gains have seen a fizzy entrepreneurialism emerge, India's impoverished citizens, who make up a third of the world's poor, have seen little progress. The interests of the higher castes have come to dominate parliamentary debate - where corporate deregulation, not social development is paramount. The media is dominated by consumerist concerns, and the legal system is often subverted, leaving the law as a tool for the rich to harass the poor.


By IRONY on Tuesday, February 19, 2002 - 08:19 pm:

SACRED SATVIC BRAHMIN RAJ


Asian Age, Monday 30 August 1999 , p.1

Women 2nd class citizens in Hindutva Parivar

By Ravi Shankar
New Delhi: How does the Indian woman, seen through the eyes of the Sangh Parivar, appear? After rushing the "quintessential Bharatiya Nari" Sushma Swaraj to Bellary, two Cabinet ministers have made statements against Congress president Sonia Gandhi which have been attacked as demeaning to Indian womanhood.
A look at how the has BJP has viewed the role of women in Indian society before and since the watershed BJP rath yatra:
-- On wife-beating: Ms Mridula Sinha, president of the BJP’s Mahila Aghadi, in magazine interviews in April 1993: "Yes, it is often the woman’s fault. She can provoke the man to such an extent that he beats her. And, sometimes, the woman can be so ziddi. We tell the woman to try and adjust. After all, it is her family."
-- On polygamy: In January 1993, Swami Muktananda, while making recommendations on revising the Indian Constitution, was of the opinion that all restrictions in laws on the number of times a man could marry should be removed completely.
-- The practice of Sati: Swami Mukatananand also gave a clean chit to the practices of Sati and dowry, which he called "traditional Hindu practices " In October 1987, former BJP vice-president Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia, leading a pro-Sati march after the infamous Deorala incident, when Roop Kanwar was burnt alive in Deorala village in Rajasthan, said: "Sati is very much part of our tradition." On Religious restrictions: In January 1994, Swami Nishchalananda, the Shankaracharya of Puri, was presiding over a function that Arundhati Roychoudhury walked out of after the Swami protested at women being allowed to recite sacred texts. "I respect women too much to allow them to go and beg for alms in one garment, which is a prerequisite for the donning of the sacred thread," he is reported to have said. The sacred thread, in turn, is a prerequisite for the chanting of the Vedas.
Note: Two thousand years ago, in early Vedic times, women like Jayabala and Gargi held discussions at length on Vedic philosophy, which form part of philosophical texts. -- Women’s dignity: Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray has, in election rallies, made salacious references to women in public life. Among those he made remarks about were veteran Gandhian Ushabehn Mehata, socialist Mrinal Gore and the fiery CPI(M) leader Ahilyatai Rangnekar. -- Cultural policing: In Dehli, the Sangh Parivar demanded that girls should not be allowed to wear skirts ostensibly because of mosquitoes bites. In Calcutta, a similar decree was issued because wearing salwaz-kameez threatened centuries-old Indian culture. -- Landholding rights: In 1956, during intense debates in Parliament on the passage of the Hindu Code Bill, members of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the earlier incarnation of the BJP, had strongly opposed any changes that would grant rights to women to own agricultural property. -- Rajasthan fact-sheet: Before the Congress came back to power in 1998, the BJP ruled Rajasthan for eight years. A record of how women fared under saffron rule: * Gangrape and torture of Dhapu Bal of Utharna in Tonk district of the state by nine men. In June 1996, a gang raped her again. Her husband and son were beaten up with iron rods. * In September 1997, Naina Jogani, a devout Jain, was raped by a Jain monk in Bhinmal, Jalore. * Later in the same month, a young girl was gangraped by eight men in the J.C. Bose hostel of the University of Rajasthan in Jaipur. * Then chief minister Bhairon Singh Shekawat’s reaction to protests: "Why this unnecessary hue and cry over two rape incidents?" * Deputy chief minister Hari Shankar Babu’s reply on the floor of the Assembly: "The character of a woman and the destiny of a man are such that even Gods cannot say anything about them. Why talk of human beings?" * In April 1997, the son of the state transport minister threw acid on the face of a school-going girl. Despite large-scale protests, no arrests were made.


By SATVIC RAJ? on Tuesday, February 19, 2002 - 08:15 pm:

SATVIC TAMASA TRAITS PROOVES TO BE NOTHING BUT BULLCRAP!!!

The rape of four nuns in Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh, is a criminal and inhumane act - it is a blot on our culture. What is equally criminal and disgusting is its justification - unspeakably obnoxious - by Hindutvavadi [a Hindu nationalist ideology] leaders who maintain that Christian missionaries represent "anti-national forces working against Hindu interests in the country" and that the gang-rape was "a reaction to these anti-national activities." That means, plain and simple, if those who are not "patriotic" from the point of view of Hindutvavadis, it is perfectly permissible to rape their women. (It is high time patriotism is defined - a civilised nation cannot permit criminal acts in the name of "patriotism." It is also time to remember Dr. Johnson who said, "Patriotism is the last resort of scoundrel.")
This justification reminds one of what happened in Surat during the communal riots after the demolition of the Babri Masjid - large number of Muslim women were raped.


The justification referred to above reflects the Hindutvavadis’ intolerance towards minorities, their political reaction and social/religious barbarism - all these directly related to the philosophy and practice of fascism. The gang-rape of the nuns in Jhabua, it appears, is part of a larger plan to terrorise the Christian minority all over the country - attack on schools run by Christians and burning of copies of the Bible in Gujarat; attack in a convent in Jhabua; looting of a convent in Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh (UP); attack and desecration of a church in Meerut in UP; rape of a woman in a convent in Bandal in West Bengal. (Also, it may be recalled in this context that the killers of Sister Maria of Dewas in 1996 have gone scot-free - the state government did not go in for an appeal against the release of the accused.)

To give a couple of instances of this philosophy and mindset: The other day the führer of Maharashtra, Mr. Bal Thackeray, who has been indicted by the Srikrishnan Commission, thundered while addressing a Dussehra rally in Bombay, "Dare arrest me and the entire city will be in flames." When the Hindutvavadis came to power in Maharashtra in 1995, the führer’s first fatwa was that the "foreign nationals," Pakistanis and Bangladeshis be identified. "These 42,000 managed to have voting rights in the last elections, but this will not do," he had thundered then. The reference was to the Supreme Court judgement restoring the rights of Muslims to vote whose names were arbitrarily removed from the electoral rolls. This mindset is built on their being intolerant of minorities - the sole objective is being destruction of the weak and assertion of the strong; this is exactly what the practitioners of fascism in Germany and Italy did.


http://www.ahrchk.net/hrsolid/mainfile.php/1999vol09no03/816/


By HATRED? on Tuesday, February 19, 2002 - 08:13 pm:

RAM RAJ OF HATRED

The BJP joined with its Maharashtran-based ally, the Shiv Sena, in burying a public inquiry report that indicted the Shiv Sena-BJP coalition government of Maharashtra for instigating communal riots in Mumbai (Bombay) in 1992-93. Last summer the BJP state government in Delhi threatened to strip Christian churches of their religious status because of their use of wine in celebrating mass, and the leader of the VHP, an ostensibly non-political "service" organisation with which the BJP is allied, has publicly justified the rape of nuns in Madhya Pradesh.

http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/dec1998/ind-d03.shtml


By Horror on Tuesday, February 19, 2002 - 08:11 pm:

http://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fct/1997/imm-2451-96.html

MUMTAZ BADURALI KANJI and SHAIFALI KANJI
Applicants
- and -
MINISTER OF CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION
Respondent

REASONS FOR ORDER
CAMPBELL J.
This is an application for judicial review of a decision of the Immigration and Refugee Board (Convention Refugee Determination Division) dated June 20, 1996.
The applicants are citizens of India. Mumtaz Badurali, the primary applicant, is the mother of the minor applicant, Shaifali. The applicants base their claims on a well-founded fear of persecution in India on the grounds of religion, in that they are Ismaili Muslim, and membership in a particular social group, in that they are Indian women.
Apart from whether the Board made an error in respect of these issues, the Board made the significant finding that, after leaving India due to her fear of persecution the applicant returned there in 1983 and 1986, and, as a result, re-availed herself of the protection of that country. In its decision, the Board found that the circumstantial evidence that the returns provided negated any subjective fear of persecution the applicant had when she left, and this finding was key to denying her refugee claim. I intend to restrict my decision to set aside the Board's decision to this finding which I consider to be an error warranting a redetermination.
On the applicant's testimony, the Board found that up to 1983, the applicant had a well founded fear of persecution. In reaching this decision, the Board accepted the applicant's evidence of subjective fear, and in effect made the following findings of fact:
In 1979 or 1980, the claimant testified that she feared the Shiv Sena, a Hindu group. She and her sister were eye witnesses to a friend's abduction. This incident was not reported to the authorities as it was considered culturally shameful to the victims. She said these incidents happened all the time in Bombay, where the Hindu were in the majority and the Ismali [sic] Moslem in the minority.
The claimant stopped attending college when Hindu boys once tried to force their way into her house when her parents were not home. They tried to touch and rape her. Her screams and shouts came to her neighbour's attention and the boys ran away. She recognized these boys as members of the Shiv Sena because of their dark clothes, their appearance and facial features. The claimant testified that her father and brother did nothing after the attack. They feared that the Shiv Sena would retaliate against her family if they contacted the police.
It was general knowledge that retaliations happened frequently against families of persons attacked in this manner. The claimant could not remember any other specific incidents as it was a long time ago but knew that such kidnappings took place.
The claimant testified to the importance of having a male family member to protect her. On the day of her assault both her father and brother were at work. Her father died prior to her wedding and could protect her no longer.
In 1983, the claimant married and left India. She resided in Zaire until 1991. ...The claimants came to Canada on 21 July 1991 and made a Convention refugee claim the following month.
With respect to the reasons for her return to India, the applicant gave the following evidence in response to questions posed by her counsel:
Q. Okay. Now, knowing what life was like in Bombay, you left the country, got married ---
A. Yes.
Q. -- why would you return in 1983 to have your baby?
A. I went back to India in 1983 because of the baby. I went back for the delivery because it was my first child and I didn't know what to do and I was all alone. I didn't know what happened when you have a baby, when you have your first child so therefore I had to go back.
Q. When you went back in 1983, did you worry about your safety at the time?
A. Yes, you have to fear your safety there all the time.
Q. But you still went back?
A. Because I had to go.
Q. Why did you have to go?
A. Because I'm telling you about the delivery that I wanted -- I was going to have this baby.
Q. Why did you go back in 1986?
...
A. Because I was alone in Africa at that time because my husband used to travel a lot, doing his business, so I went back because I was alone and he was not living with me.
...
Q. So why did you go back to India, knowing what you've told us about the situation there and the Hindus?
A. I'm telling you this -- I told you this, that I was living all alone, I didn't have anybody -- I didn't have anybody over there... I just had my daughter and myself.
...
Q. ...What I want to try to get from you, Mumtaz, is why in 1986, did you go back to India? And you've told us a little bit about that; you were alone; your husband was on a business trip. But you still went back, knowing the situation in India.
A. Well, I want to say I went back because I was compelled to do that. I was -- I didn't have any other choice.
Q. Why were you compelled to go back?
A. Because in Africa my husband was not living with me, and I was living there all alone, with my little daughter, and I was afraid because there was no other person living around me and I didn't know what to do.
Q. Were you afraid to go back to India, though? I need to know that.
A. Yes, I was afraid to go back to India. I was afraid there, as well I was to return back to India, but I didn't have any other choice. I didn't know what to do.
Q. How long were you in India in 1986?
A. I think I stayed there for five (5) or six (6) months. And I stayed home.
Q. Did you go out at all?
A. No, I didn't go out anywhere.
[Application Record, pp.242-243]

With respect to this evidence, the Board made the following finding:
Having found that the claimant had a well-founded fear of persecution in 1983, the panel finds that by reavailing herself of the protection of her country of nationality by returning to India in 1983 and later in 1986, the claimant negated that fear.
The two bases upon which this finding could be made in law are that, the applicant falls within the exclusion clause of s.2(2) of the Convention refugee definition in the Immigration Act, and/or that her subjective fear of persecution no longer exists. Section 2(2) of the Immigration Act provides:
A person ceases to be a Convention refugee when
(a) the person voluntarily reavails himself of the protection of the country of his nationality;
(b) the person voluntarily reacquires his nationality;
(c) the person acquires a new nationality and enjoys the protection of the country of that new nationality;
(d) the person voluntarily re-establishes himself in the country that the person left, or outside of which the person remained, by reason of fear of persecution, or
(e) the reasons for the person's fear of persecution in the country that the person left, or outside of which the person remained, cease to exist.
[Emphasis added]
The problem I have with the Board's finding made on either basis is that it is unsupported by the evidence.
The principles that a judge must listen to the testimony in its entirety with an objective and open mind, and testimony given under oath is presumed to be true unless there are valid reasons to doubt its truthfulness, are fundamental to proper findings of credibility.1 In its decision, the Board did not make an express finding that it disbelieved the applicant's evidence with reasons for doing so, and accordingly on the face of the record, I can only conclude that the evidence was believed.
In her evidence, the applicant clearly states that she did not reavail herself of the protection of India, nor did she lose her subjective fear. This direct evidence contradicts and negates any possible finding to the contrary on the basis of the purely circumstantial evidence of her returns to India. I thus find that the Board erred in making the finding just quoted above.
Accordingly, I set aside the decision herein, and refer the matter back to a differently constituted Board for redetermination.
Douglas R. Campbell
Judge


By satvic brahmins? on Tuesday, February 19, 2002 - 08:08 pm:

By Burning Innocent Children Alive They Defend a Religion in Danger!

A Christian missionary has been burnt alive together with his two children (aged 6 and 10 years) in Keonjhar, Orissa. The RSS and its mass fronts such as the B.J.P., the V.H.P. and the Bajrang Dal have expressed their joy over this event and are propagating the view that the missionary himself was responsible for these deaths as he had become a danger to the Hindu religion. His two innocent children are also being held responsible for this sin. In the name of religion fascist criminals are openly defying human values. Barring these fascist forces the entire country has been grief-stricken by these barbaric murders.
The Christians are not the only target of this violent campaign of the fascists. In fact their target is the whole country and the entire humanity. Sometimes by way of anti-Muslim propaganda and sometimes by their anti-Christian campaigns the common people are being terrorised. The brutal killings of 23 dalits in Bihar by the Ranvir Sena which has connections with the BJP was a link in this fascist campaign.
http://revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv5n1/burning.htm


By upper caste rape on Tuesday, February 19, 2002 - 08:06 pm:

Ram Raj? Ya Rape Raj by So Called satvic brahmin god men?


http://www.alternatives.ca/ceras/18/vhp.htm

VHP, since its inception, has contravened and trashed every objective of the United Nations Charter. Along with its ideological kin Shiv Sena (SS), Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Bajrang Dal (BD), Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), Hindu Jagaran Manch (HJM), Hindu Sanskriti Manch (HSM), and many more overt and covert formations, VHP has been engaged in anti-national, anti-social, anti-human crimes in the length and breadth of India. It has declared its intent to cleanse India of "foreigners", i.e. the minorities, viz., Christians, Muslims, and the tribal aborigines - the oppressed and deprived classes seeking to better their lot through education and enlightenment. It has bloodily quashed all attempts on their part to emancipate themselves, and continued its unremitting and unrelenting vendetta against them for having dared to claim a place under the Indian sun.
It has declared the murderers of Christians, Muslims, and aboriginals, "nationalists" and "patriots". It has sown terror and violence on an unprecedented scale throughout India and in the Indian diaspora. It has encouraged and instigated, arson, rape, trashing and demolition of churches and mosques, and cold blooded murders of the minorities " to teach them a lesson". It has sown disaffection among Indian people and spread hatred and bigotry in the name of Hindu religion, spouted venom against other religions, and avowedly resorted to low intensity genocide to eliminate the minorities from the Indian soil. It has defied court orders, and vowed to defy them in the future too. It was instrumental in having a 15th century historical mosque in Ayodhya razed in 1992. It has on anvil plans to raze 3500 mosques in the days ahead.


By rapes? on Tuesday, February 19, 2002 - 08:02 pm:

rapes?

http://free.freespeech.org/manushi/gallery/rss.html

In recent years, young people from so-called respectable middle and upper class homes have been encouraged to become leaders of looting and murdering brigades. Their success in mobilising large numbers of women to join in the violence, as well as to abet and encourage rape of Muslim women, as happened in Bombay and Surat in January to March 1993, ought to cause serious alarm.


By satva tatva traits on Tuesday, February 19, 2002 - 07:59 pm:

comparisons of rapes under hindutva

Sid Harth

Whereas, filthy Hindu pigs like Bal Thackeray abuse the law and still adamant about their denials that other commit crimes and they protect and preserve the law, Hindu society in general go on gangraping Dalit women. The crimes committed by the average Hindus and people like Bal Thackeray and Lal Kishenchand Advani go unpunished as the government refuse to enforce the laws to protect the innocent. Bal Thackeray's actions creating murder and mayhem are so huge that he should be hanged thousand times for each murder ordered by him. The filthy argument Bal Thackeray makes that if he is arrested and prosecuted, not punished the blame rests with the government and not him or his refusal to obey the law. It is more like a mass murderer warning the law that his punishment would cause more murders, hence in the cause of peace he be let lose to cause normal murders not to be prosecuted for the first reason. If prosecuted Bal promises more murders but when he is not prosecuted he still causes murders. He should be punished for not causing murders and forgiven for murders. If he is prosecuted for not causing murders he has no case to deny as he is not causing murders and wants to be free to cause murders.


By satvic god men? on Tuesday, February 19, 2002 - 07:56 pm:

In Delhi, Sikhs became targets of communal attacks in 1984; in Bhagalpur in Bihar, hundreds of Muslims were killed in one of India's worst communal riots in 1989; a few years later, the Babri Mosque was destroyed in Ayodhya by frenzied Hindu communalists (supported, openly and brazenly, by political parties such as the Bhartiya Janata Party, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the Shiv Sena), and later, thousands of Muslims were again targeted in Surat, Ahmedabad and Bombay. In each of these instances, Partition stories and memories were used selectively by the aggressors: militant Hindus were mobilized using the one-sided argument that Muslims had killed Hindus at Partition, they had raped Hindu women, and so they must in turn be killed, and their women subjected to rape. And the patterns were there in individual life too: a Muslim and a Hindu in independent India could not easily choose to marry each other without worrying about whether one or the other of them would survive the wrath of their families or communities; if such a marriage broke up, or for some reason ended up in court, you could be sure that it would be accompanied by public announcements, for example on the part of the judiciary, about those who had accepted the two-nation theory and those who had not.


http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/butalia-silence.html


By Anonymous on Tuesday, February 19, 2002 - 06:39 pm:

the congress could not find any charges to level against bhindranwala at any time if they did then he would have been arrested and tried and prosecuted. This goes to show the whole operation blue star had no justification


By Anonymous on Tuesday, February 19, 2002 - 06:30 pm:

if nobody was aquitted in the delhi riots this goes to show from lk advani the whole pogroms, golden temple attack were preplanned genocide to undermine a whole community for assimilation, yet had to make up excuses to get a preacher when they could not find any grounds. If he lived he would have prached the sikh faith where many would have become baptised changing the balance in favour of autonomy in punjab. if he is killed then that stops, hence the reason why they had to make up excuses to get him. If they wanted him to be tried and prosecuted why could they not evict him out? why could they not send in police when they an army in? why could they not arrest him and not demolish the sacred sikh shrine? hence history prooves the whole operation was planned to wipe sikhs out in the first place whilst trieing to make up cheeky excuses and blackening peoples names when in fact the brahmin casteocracy wants to keep its face clean white when it is smoldered in vile hatred. final evidence where is the proof that bhindranwala did any bad?


By Anonymous on Tuesday, February 19, 2002 - 06:22 pm:

1984 riots a greater shame, says Advani
TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2002 12:15:00 AM ]

NEW DELHI: Home minister LK Advani told the Liberhan Ayodhya Commission of Inquiry on Monday that killing of thousands of Sikhs in Delhi in November 1984 was of ‘‘greater shame and agony’’ than the demolition of Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992.

He also told the commission that the only way the Centre could deploy para-military forces against the wishes of a state government was through President’s rule. He reiterated he had not made or heard any objectionable slogan on December 6 in Ayodhya.

A local intelligence unit report said Advani had indeed made a speech on that day. But Justice MS Liberhan disallowed a question based on it.

When the commission’s counsel Anupam Gupta asked Advani as to why in an article he commended Kalyan Singh for ‘‘acting in exemplary manner’’, the home minister gave a long explanation.

‘‘I had in mind what I had seen happening in Delhi in 1984 when after Mrs Gandhi’s dastardly assassination, a whole community became a target of wrath. It seemed as if there was a general instruction not to use force. Result: 3,000 killed.

‘‘Yet no one owned responsibility. Ayodhya incident was a contrast. The chief executive gave in writing not to use force. So when he failed, he had to pay the price and quit.’’


By Anonymous on Tuesday, February 19, 2002 - 06:21 pm:

the indian army had no justification to invade the golden temple but began raping the women once they came in with their shoes on. hence the cover up reason to declare bhindranwala did bad when he only promoted soikhs to become baptised and live by the will of god. But you as a brahmin cannot understand what sikhism is about until you research into sikh scriptures and stop your lies.


By Anonymous on Tuesday, February 19, 2002 - 06:18 pm:

osama bin laden preached the killings of american and western civilians in his broadcast videos shown on cnn and sky tv. He blatently admitted on american tv his own people carried out sept attacks and that he planned it. where exactly has osama preached peace or love? even decent muslims do not stand up for him as he gave their faith a bad name. he may be a hero for afghans but he does not represent islam on the whole.

there is not one shred of evidence to suggest bhindranwala attacked women and promoted peace. It does not make any sense to the point damn illogical defeating the object of preaching.
Bhindranwala is geared into preaching from the age of 6 one who called for a hindu to be a true hindu a muslim to be a true muslim a sikh to be a true sikh who tells sikhs to give up narcotics and pray, tells sikhs never to harm women innocents poor or elders then why would he go against that? further more what evidence is there to suggest that?


By Chanuakya- The Empire Builder on Tuesday, February 19, 2002 - 05:04 pm:

Osama teaches peace and love for entire mankind. he preached about God and equality and him or his forces never attacked a women just like Bhindranwale!


By Anonymous on Tuesday, February 19, 2002 - 04:20 pm:

IS CASTE REALLY THE MOST HIDDEN UGLY FORM OF THE WORLDS RACISM IN TODAYS WORLD?


By caste? on Tuesday, February 19, 2002 - 04:54 am:

The Caste System

About 1500BC, nomadic warriors known as Aryans appeared in northern India. The warriors were from Central Asia, but managed to overcome the Himalayas by finding lower passes in the mountains, such as the Khyber []Pass in Pakistan. The Aryans conquered the Dravidians of Central India and imposed their social structure upon them.
The Aryans divided their society into separate castes. Castes were unchanging groups. A person born into one caste never changed castes or mixed with members of other castes. Caste members lived, ate, married, and worked with their own group.
At the top of the caste system were the Brahmin - the priests, teachers, and judges. Next came the warrior Kshatriya (KUH SHAT REE YUHZ) caste. Farmers and merchants comprised the Vaisya (VEEZ YUHZ), and the Sudras, was composed of craftworkers and


By poverty on Tuesday, February 19, 2002 - 04:51 am:

state of india under brahmin jokers-

Thursday September 6 2:27 PM ET
By NIRMALA GEORGE, Associated Press Writer
NEW DELHI, India (AP) - At the end of a network of dusty lanes in Trilokpuri, a suburb on the outskirts of the Indian capital, a scavenger lugs home a plastic bucket of water for her family. It is dusk, and Birum and her two daughters have spent the day collecting used plastic bags from rotting waste in city dumps. The mother and daughters are filthy and hungry - yet they cannot bathe or cook with water from a tap near their home.
``That's the tap for the upper castes. We are not allowed there,'' the 33-year-old Birum says as she sits on the dirt floor making bread on a coal-burning stove. Although water is supplied by municipal authorities, the few public taps in this shantytown of nearly 10,000 people are divided along caste lines. Taps for the lower castes are nearly a half-mile away, and the water barely trickles. Birum is a Dalit, the lowest rank in India's 3,000-year-old caste system, a pernicious practice that discriminates against nearly a fourth of the country's billion-plus population.
The caste system was described in Hinduism's ancient sacred text, the Rig Veda, as a social order intended to maintain harmony in society. It divides people into four main castes, but there also are those outside the system, the ``untouchables,'' who now call themselves ``Dalits,'' literally ``broken people.'' Though discrimination based on caste has been outlawed since India's constitution was adopted in 1950, the practice pervades society.
And while admitting efforts to end caste discrimination have not been implemented as rigorously as they should, the Indian government wants to keep the matter out of the international spotlight. The government sent an official delegation, including many Dalits, to the U.N. World Conference on Racism in Durban, South Africa. But India also worked to keep caste discrimination off the conference agenda. Condemning the caste system would equate ``casteism with racism, which makes India a racist country, which we are not,'' Omar Abdullah, India's minister of state for foreign affairs, said in Durban.
Ruth Manorama of the National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights disagrees with government assertions that the caste system does not amount to racism. ``Discrimination against the Dalits and lower castes is similar to racism, only it's more vulgar, more horrendous,'' she said. ``No one can deny that millions of Dalits suffer the worst forms of discrimination.'' Dipankar Gupta, a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, accuses India of a double standard for not wanting caste to be discussed in Durban, saying:
``India is ready to discuss racism so long as it is in other countries, but not caste in its own backyard.'' Indian officials describe caste as an internal problem that can only be cured by implementing - and strengthening - anti-discrimination laws. Ranjana Kumari, a women's rights activist, supported the Dalits' complaints but questioned the wisdom of looking to an international conference for help. ``It should not become a stick for the international community to beat India with,'' she said. Human rights activist Swami Agnivesh says much of the discrimination in the caste system results from the actions of Brahmins, the priestly caste.
``Over time, this system was corrupted by the Brahmins to preserve their superiority and to ensure that people were available to do menial jobs without rising up in revolt,'' he said. Dalits long have done onerous work for low pay. They clean out public toilets, skin dead animals or labor to pay their forefathers' debts. After independence from Britain in 1947, India launched an affirmative action plan to wipe out caste distinctions, setting aside places for Dalits in universities, government employment and legislative assembly seats.
But these moves only benefit about 3 percent of the nearly 240 million Dalits. In the cities, caste distinctions become blurred. The anonymity of urban life - taking buses and working in offices and factories - helps push caste to the background. But in rural India, where nearly 75 percent of Indians live, caste dominates where people live, who they can marry and the work they do. Dalits cannot enter temples used by high-caste Hindus.
Indian newspapers carry daily stories of atrocities against Dalits or young couples being killed, sometimes by relatives, for daring to love someone from another caste. Dalits rarely file complaints with the police. ``Who can we complain to? And what will happen when we return to the village? I tell my sons, just keep quiet. This is a curse on our lives,'' said 71-year-old Kishan Chand. Chand's son Mahesh, a road sweeper, says Dalits must organize and use their political power. ``We have the numbers, which is why the politicians come to us when elections come round,'' he said.
Dalits once were left out of India's power structure. But in the past three decades, they have gained a political voice and a share of prominent public office. India's president is a Dalit. So is the speaker of the lower house of Parliament. ``But that has no bearing on the situation of the Dalits. This is like saying Indira Gandhi was India's prime minister. Did that change the plight of Indian women?'' asked Kumari, the women's rights activist.
While the media debate rages, the Dalits in Trilokpuri shrug at the notion of change. ``My mother did scavenging. I am a scavenger. I don't see my children doing anything else, whatever the politicians may say,'' said Birum. ``This is our caste.''


http://aad.english.ucsb.edu/docs/georgesept62001.html


By Dhanabhai Patel on Tuesday, February 19, 2002 - 04:06 am:

these brahmuns do not care about gujrati hindus they only want their kursi and money from india. Damned greedy alms begger rascals get them out of power! India for the indians! we need a real party that stands for all indians.

jai shri mahaprabhu